Chapter 40: You're a good person

  The sky was bright, Lin Zi had finished his work and went downstairs after washing up.

  On the second floor living room, Zhang Beibei sat quietly on the sofa, while Tong Feifei knelt beside her with a small backpack, asking about her well-being.

  Qin Yue, dressed in a professional suit, looked youthful and radiant. Seeing Lin Zile come, she smiled: "Yanzi went to work at Minghua yesterday and didn't dare be late, Li Mingcheng had already sent her to work ahead of time. I took Feifei to kindergarten on the way, so Beibei is handed over to you."

  Lin Zi thought to himself that this family was indeed busy, no one was idle, and even the new person who had just arrived couldn't avoid getting involved. He waved his hand and said, "Alright, I'll make sure to safely send BeiBei to school."

  Qin Yue nodded and hastily carried Tong Feifei downstairs. The latter waved at the two, saying: "Goodbye Uncle Lin, goodbye Aunt Bei."

  The two of them naturally waved goodbye to him, and Lin Zixian asked somewhat strangely afterwards: "Where did Yun Nan go? Why did Qin Yue send Fei Fei to kindergarten?"

  "It's always busy for Yunuo in the morning, she has to go elsewhere to sell breakfast at the Nanhuo store. Every day, she has to get up very early, although it's hard work, but that's when the Nanhuo store business is best and also Yunuo's most important source of income to make a living. Feifei can't wake up so early since she goes to kindergarten, usually I send her to school on my way, when I'm off work at home, others will take turns helping... My foot is sprained, so today Yueyue sent Feifei." Zhang Beibei explained.

  Lin Zi nodded thoughtfully and understood why Tong Yunan had slipped out of the house alone before dawn, it was all for the sake of making a living.

  Thinking of this, she couldn't help but furrow her brow slightly. Tong Yunan's beauty was indeed enough to move the hearts of most people. If someone with ill intentions were to take notice of her, it would only be a matter of time before something happened. On a day that hadn't yet dawned, a woman walking alone in the dark could easily become embroiled in trouble, and no one might even know about it.

  It's not that his mind is dark, but he deeply knows that beauty is the original sin, and those who don't do good deeds will never be scarce anywhere.

  "Lin Ge, when are we leaving?" Zhang Beibei reminded weakly.

  Lin Zi suddenly came back to his senses and said with a smile: "Let's go, let's go, are you ready?"

  Zhang Beibei immediately slung the bag on the sofa over her shoulder, patted the books in the bag, and indicated that she was ready.

  Lin Zixian reached out and helped her up from the sofa, smelling the girl's virgin fragrance, feeling her body tense up in his hands. Lin Zixian secretly smiled to himself, a graduate student who was still an innocent young woman, but she knew how to take care of herself.

  When going down the stairs, it's a bit troublesome. Lin Zile looked at her struggling to jump on one leg and comforted himself, saying "I have no private thoughts!"

  Zhang Beibei let out a cry of surprise, finding herself already being held around the waist by Lin Zixian. She struggled for a moment, asking him to let her go. Lin Zixian said, "Don't move around, I'm not taking liberties with you."

  Zhang Beibei was immediately startled like a small quail, her body trembling in his arms, not daring to move at all.

  Carrying such a young girl was no effort at all for Lin Zishan, and he easily carried her into the courtyard, placing her on the stone bench under the grape arbor.

  Then he found a rag, wiped the bicycle clean and pushed it out of the yard. He turned around and came back in, hugged Zhang Beibei who was tense all over her face and put her on the back seat of the bicycle. He locked the iron gate, got on the bike and started to leave with Zhang Beibei.

  However, he soon stopped at the exit of the alley, with one foot on the ground supporting the bicycle, his eyes slightly condensed.

  The old street usually looks deserted, but at this time it is the peak of rush hour, and people are coming and going in a lively atmosphere. The entrance to the small grocery store had set up a breakfast stall at some point, and Tong Yunan was busy non-stop amidst the steaming smoke, quickly finding change and collecting money as she sold each portion of breakfast food, occasionally wiping away the sweat beads on her forehead with her sleeve, no matter how busy she was, she would always greet every customer with a smile, because this is her livelihood.

  Zhang Beibei, who was sitting in the back seat, sensed something and stretched his head out from behind, first glancing at Tong Yun's breakfast stall, then sneaking a peek upwards to observe Lin Zixian's expression, finding that his profile looked somewhat solemn.

  The bicycle started again, slid to the front of the breakfast stall and stopped. Linzi got off the bike, turned back to instruct Zhang Beibei to sit firmly, then propped up the kickstand of the bicycle, took advantage of the empty space at the breakfast stall, and came to the front to take a look. There were buns, steamed buns, flower rolls, cha siu bao, fried dough sticks, soy milk and so on.

  Tong Yunan was about to ask the guest what he needed, when he looked up and saw that it was Lin Zixian. He also saw Zhang Beibei sitting on a bicycle, and naturally knew that he had come to take Zhang Beibei to school because she had sprained her foot.

  Her face dimmed slightly, and she bit her lip softly, saying: "Do you want to eat something?"

  She wasn't ashamed because she ran a small stall, but because she lived under the same roof as everyone else and often received their help, yet couldn't return the favor.

  The people in the Sakura Snow apartment building all pass by her breakfast stall on their way to work or school. These people generally don't cook their own breakfast, thinking it's too much trouble. Everyone knows she's struggling financially, so they want to support her business, but Tong Yunan wouldn't accept their money, and everyone feels embarrassed eating for free, so in the end, they all make excuses to eat breakfast with soup, trying to avoid buying from her stall, so as not to be awkward.

  Tong Yunan knew everyone was kind-hearted, but she also had self-respect. Although she didn't say it out loud, in her heart, she really felt very uncomfortable.

  Lin Zi Xian had a very casual expression, sticking his head out at the breakfast stall and looking around, chuckling: "Yu Nan, I didn't expect you to also sell breakfast! So does that mean I'll have free breakfast from now on?"

  "Ah!" Tong Yunan was slightly surprised and quickly opened all the steamers, eagerly and warmly inviting: "What do you want to eat?" She casually pulled down a paper bag.

  She wanted to help everyone as much as she could, even if it was just a tiny bit, but due to her limited ability, it had almost become an extravagant hope in her heart.

  Lin Zi said with a straight face, "One bowl of soy milk, two roasted buns, two meat-filled buns, and one fried dough stick."

  Tong Yunan nodded repeatedly and quickly packed the food he wanted to eat and handed it to him. Then, his eyes looked at Zhang Beibei, who seemed to want to say something but hesitated.

  However, Lin Zile has already spoken out what she wanted to say, and directly called out to Zhang Beibei: "Yun Nan is treating us to a meal, not eating would be impolite, I'll help you order today." Turning her head, she said to Tong Yun Nan: "She's just a girl, maintaining her figure must be her top priority, she wouldn't dare eat like me with abandon. Just get her one baozi, one shaomai and a cup of soy milk, that's enough, anything more would be wasteful."

  Tong Yunan was teased by him into a smile, nodded and packed the things he said in a paper bag. Lin Zixian took it over, helped to hand it over to Zhang Beibei's hands, saying: "Let's eat here, otherwise I'm not convenient to ride a bike, let's finish eating before going on the road! Anyway, there is still time, your legs are not convenient, just sit on the bicycle and eat! Are you afraid of damaging the lady's demeanor?"

  Zhang Beibei shook his head dazedly, and Lin Zixian turned around and glanced inside the small South Store again, pointing inside and saying: "Yunan, give me the small stool that Feifei used to paint." He really wasn't polite at all.

  Tong Yunan immediately smiled and handed him a stool, continuing to greet other customers.

  Lin Zi Xian sat at the entrance of the small shop and ate without any restraint, elegance had always been something he could take or leave.

  Zhang Bei was still a bit embarrassed at first, but when she saw Lin Zixian eating with relish and Tong Yunan occasionally stealing glances at her with an increasingly cheerful smile, this kind of laughter from the heart was something she rarely saw in Tong Yunan's eyes. She felt a subtle movement in her heart and immediately also started eating freely.

  After finishing eating, Linzi, who was sipping soy milk, suddenly stretched out his hand and said: "Yun Nan, I'm not full yet, give me another fried dough stick."

  "Yu Nan, I also want a doughnut." Zhang BeiBei shouted out. Lin ZiXian slightly hesitated, looked at her fleeting guilty expression, and the corner of his mouth curled up with a smile, thinking that this girl was quite clever.

  Tong Yunan smiled and handed two fried dough sticks to the two of them. After they finished eating, she also took the initiative to hand over paper towels.

  With a wipe of his mouth, Linzi lit a cigarette and mounted his bicycle. He gave Tong Yunan a simple wave goodbye and said, "I'm off!"

  "Be careful on the road!" Tong Yunan shouted from behind.

  The bicycle swayed and walked through the streets, and Zhang Beibei, who was sitting on the back seat like a gourd, suddenly spoke out: "Lin brother, you are a good man!"

  "Hmm... I'm quite handsome and don't look like a bad guy at all!" Lin Zi, who was riding his bicycle, chuckled and said with a smile: "You're originally a good person, no need to say that."

  "No! I was talking about just now... Yu Nan sister... I know you did it on purpose." Zhang BeiBei said with a sly smile from behind.

  Lin Zi raised an eyebrow and sneered: "A little girl with uneven eyebrows, what do you know?"

  As soon as this was said, Zhang Beibei's face turned red in an instant. She immediately thought of the scene where she wasn't wearing underwear yesterday and was seen by Lin Zixian. Because everyone's body is different, hers really didn't have hair down there. Lin Zixian was just making a casual remark, but Zhang Beibei misinterpreted it and her face turned red like a monkey's butt. She cursed: "Pervert!"

  "Look, just now you said I was a good person, and now you're scolding me as a rascal. Women are indeed quicker to change their faces than to turn the pages of a book." Lin Zixian let out a long sigh and said, "As someone once said, 'It's hard to deal with women and petty people...'"

  In front of the traffic light, a row of small cars stopped, Linzi leisurely pedaled his bicycle carrying Zhang Beibei across the road. A pair of bright eyes suddenly stared at him from inside a nearby car.

  Qiao Yun, sitting in the car, did not expect to see Lin Zilei, who had been absent for many days, here. At first, she thought she was mistaken, and straightened her back to stare at the window outside, carefully identifying him. The man who brought a beautiful woman with his bicycle looked like a bad guy at first glance, and it couldn't be anyone else but Lin Zilei.