Chapter 98

When Ye Shiyuan stepped into the castle again, he clearly felt that the feeling here was different from before.

In previous years, the castle was always empty and cold, with no popularity at all. People working and living here were all serious and in a hurry, and they didn't dare to stay in front of Lin Pei for a long time.

but now......

"It's really a lucky star." He smiled and shook his head, climbed up to the second floor, saw the door of the master bedroom half-closed, didn't think too much, just pushed the door and walked in.

"Patriarch, Xiaodong, I'm here-"

He looked at the two people sitting on the sofa, closed his mouth, and showed a sour expression on his face.

"...Mr. Ye, why are you here at night?"

Lin Xiaodong was startled, and quickly jumped off Lin Pei's lap. The boy's lips looked strangely reddish under the light, and the shiny, soft touch was soft and moist, and slightly swollen, like the color of a ripe peach.

Lin Pei, who was sitting on the sofa, pursed his lips, tidied up his messy clothes, and frowned at Ye Shiyuan who was standing at the door: "Say, what's the matter?"

The implication is: if there is no important thing to report, you are dead.

Ye Shiyuan's body froze, but he still said bravely: "Patriarch, we caught one of the mercenaries who attacked you back then."

Although they were all covered at the time, Ye Shiyuan still remembered the physical characteristics of the leader in the middle of the melee, especially his voice, which sounded very Spanish. After some investigation, I finally successfully closed the Internet today and arrested the person.

"What's the result of the interrogation?" Lin Pei asked.

Ye Shiyuan: "This person has obviously received torture training. It is estimated that he is a veteran of a certain country. We sent a psychologist to help the police to interrogate him for three hours. He still refused to reveal the identity of the employer."

Lin Pei's face darkened: "Then continue the trial until he is willing to say it. This kind of mercenary is always working for money, how much loyalty do you expect from them?"

The man was obviously annoyed. If Ye Shiyuan couldn't handle such a simple matter, he would really doubt his subordinate's ability.

"But Patriarch," Ye Shiyuan said sternly, "although we didn't ask about the mastermind of the attack, we inadvertently gained a very crucial piece of information... about their team's mission goal."

He came over and said a word to Lin Pei softly.

Lin Xiaodong, who was beside him, suddenly widened his eyes. He also heard that key person's name, and he could even hear it often on TV news. He turned his head to look at Lin Pei with a dignified face: "Is this a big deal?"

Lin Pei nodded slowly.

It is true that this matter has nothing to do with the Lin family, but once they succeed, the entire upper echelons of the country will be shaken. Especially the person they caught was just a small leader in the entire mercenary team - just a small leader can cause a heavy loss to the security of the Lin family, not to mention a large group dispatched in full force?

"It just so happens that the person is not in Beijing recently. It is estimated that there are politicians from other countries secretly funding such a big operation," Lin Pei thought for a moment, then raised his head and asked, "Who else knows about this matter except you and the interrogators. ?"

"No more." Ye Shiyuan shook his head, "Don't worry, I will have all the insiders under control as soon as I know the news, and I will never let the information leak out."

He pushed the wheelchair over and helped Lin Pei sit up with Lin Xiaodong.

"You should rest first," Lin Pei looked at Lin Xiaodong, his serious expression softened a little, "I'll come back to accompany you after I go to the study to deal with things."

The boy said helplessly, "I'm not a three-year-old anymore."

But whether in the eyes of Ye Shiyuan or Lin Pei, Lin Xiaodong is just a child.

After a winter of evaluations and assessments, Lin Pei finally defied all opinions and decided to accept Lin Shun as his heir, and began to consciously teach her some ways to deal with things. Lin Xiaodong often sees girls with ponytails in the study, standing by the desk and asking men questions in a low voice.

This keen girl also seemed to have noticed the unusual relationship between him and Lin Pei. After a few days of low, she quickly adjusted her mood and began to work hard with the goal of being the head of the family.

Lin Xiaodong really wanted to take a photo of the report that Lin Shun wrote to Lin Pei after staying up late, and the photo was pasted on the faces of the old-fashioned old men in the Lin family who shouted "women can't be in power", so that they could see if their level was worthy of evaluating this fourteen. year old girl.

But he also knew that this time was different from the past. Even if Lin Pei consciously wanted to exercise Lin Huan's ability, he would never let her participate in it.

Therefore, Lin Shun, who was rarely at ease, simply came to him.

"When are you going to college?" The girl sat on the steps at the entrance of the castle, looking at the busy workers and flower farmers in the garden, and asked with some regret, "When you go to college, I guess I will be alone in the castle. It's going to be boring."

"How could that be, aren't there supervisors and them?" Lin Xiaodong casually nibbled at the chocolate in his hand, and gave Lin Shun a piece by the way, "You can still go to Lin Pei, don't look at him like this, I actually like it very much. with children."

Thinking of the patriarch's handsome yet indifferent face, Lin Shun couldn't help shivering.

"Forget it," she said with lingering fears. "I have to spend a lot of courage every time I ask him a question. I really don't know how you can chat and laugh with him."

Lin Xiaodong thought for a while: "...is there?"

When he and Lin Pei were together, they were either bickering with each other, or fighting with each other, and...cough, in short, there was no time for chatting and laughing at all.

"The university I went to is not far from here anyway, and it takes less than two hours to drive there." He stretched his waist, put his hands behind his head, and lay lazily on the steps basking in the sun, "How about you? I remember that you seem to be taking the high school entrance exam this year."

Occasionally, when the tutor was away, Lin Shun would take the homework book and ask him questions. Unfortunately, Lin Xiaodong even let the system fool most of his homework, and even the knowledge of junior high school had already been forgotten. In order not to mislead others, he also bought a bunch of junior high school teaching aids to make up for it, which made Lin Pei feel low pressure for several days and smelled of vinegar all over his body.

"By the way, I still have a paper that I haven't finished yet!"

Unexpectedly, this sentence reminded Lin Shun, and the girl patted her head angrily, standing up and running away before she could even say hello.

"...It's nice to be young."

Lin Xiaodong sighed and let out a long sigh. Under the bright sunshine, a salted fish slowly turned over.

"This child is really." Ye Shiyuan on the second floor saw this scene through the window, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

But soon he restrained his smile and continued to deal with this incident with Lin Pei, contacting relevant personnel and investigating various forces... They now have too few clues to form evidence, even if they say it. Someone will believe it.

"But the head of the family," Ye Shiyuan couldn't help but ask, "Are we really going to go into this murky water? Politics... Even the Lin family, if you make a wrong move, it will be doomed."

"It's no longer a matter of whether or not we want to go into the muddy waters," Lin Pei raised his head from behind the thick intelligence materials and looked at him calmly, "Why do you think the mercenary who refused to name his employer would be killed when he was killed? Telling us about it so easily? Do you really think he just 'accidentally slipped it'?"

Ye Shiyuan was startled.

"You mean," he said in a hoarse voice, "someone is plotting against us, deliberately trying to get Larin's house into the water?"

"Nine times out of ten."

Lin Pei knocked on the armrest, pondered for a moment, and decisively ordered: "Instruct those Lin family members who have been out on business recently to pay attention, especially those who are abroad. It's best to come back first recently."

"clear."

This summer is coming earlier than usual.

The green curtain wall in the castle garden has been completely removed. In the greenhouse, the thriving sunflowers have not yet reached the flowering season, but a few flower trays in full bloom can already be seen. Lin Xiaodong, who had been looking forward to a winter, started gearing up, and was ready to show off his skills when they matured.

Throughout the summer vacation, he had nothing to do, so he planted flowers, green onions and garlic on the terrace of the castle, contracted the ingredients of onion, ginger and garlic for the entire cafeteria, and brought Lin Huan together to catch rabbits and birds in the forest around the castle. , euphemistically called "revisiting the joy of childhood", but the teacher in charge of teaching the little girl etiquette was very angry.

But even if the teacher complained to Lin Pei, it would be of no use. Lin Pei's indulgence towards Lin Xiaodong in this regard can be said to have reached an outrageous level.

All the toys left in the castle as rewards were all cheap for Lin Xiaodong, and thousands of pieces of collectible souvenirs filled the room. After being poisoned by SpongeBob SquarePants, Lin Pei not only did not hate this yellow square as others thought, but even after Lin Xiaodong's college entrance examination results came out, he personally invited a band to the castle hall to sing him a song SpongeBob's theme song...

After learning about this, Ye Shiyuan couldn't help sighing: How can there be such a pampered child in the world.

But Lin Pei didn't think he was being coddled, and Lin Xiaodong wasn't his child. For his behavior, the man behaved very calmly - it's just right to spoil his wife, is there anything wrong?

Of course, Lin Pei didn't dare to say this to Lin Xiaodong in person.

After all, he still has the "handle" to be pinched by the teenager.

"I hate this posture," Lin Xiaodong would always clasp his shoulders tightly with ten fingers, while biting his lower lip as he asked him, biting his lower lip in the dead of night, "it's just... Human, when will you stand up?"

In this regard, Lin Pei has nothing to do. Although he likes it quite a bit, not only can he see the handsome face of the young man with a faint blush, but also the dazed look that is both bold and shy, with a lost spirit, which always makes him feel unbearable. However, the form is stronger than the human being. After experiencing the experience of accidentally throwing someone on the bed and being lonely and cold, Lin Pei finally learned to behave well.

When he heard similar complaints later, he could only coax the boy in his arms in a good voice, and then go to the gym the next day to work out his arms...

As a result, he found that when he saw his freshly baked abdominal muscles, Lin Xiaodong's eyes suddenly burst into a frightening light, and the enthusiasm that night almost made Lin Pei flattered.

"Dear, darling," the boy turned sideways, fondled his abdominal muscles affectionately, and confessed enthusiastically, "I knew that you would never leave me if you love me so much."

Lin Pei, who was leaning on the bedside and thinking about life: "..."

Although this sentence is indeed said to himself, why does he always feel that something is wrong?

When the last chill on the ground was blown away by the warm wind, finally, the sunflowers in the castle garden bloomed.

This sunflower is different from all other flowers. It is born to be bright. The golden yellow petals are stacked in layers, crowded in one place, and the tall flower stems seem to grow until the sun. All are facing the direction of the sun, swaying with the wind, like a undulating golden ocean.

When Lin Xiaodong came back from school on weekends, he would often take out his large drawing board and move it to the edge of the garden. One painting would last an afternoon.

The sunflowers in his paintings are always bright, vibrant, and full of fiery power. After the paints on the paintings are dry, Lin Pei will carefully collect every painting, good or bad. Lin Xiaodong once thought about taking a few to sell for money, but after being resolutely opposed, he had no choice but to give up the idea.

Because the sunflowers gradually matured, and the garden also attracted a large number of birds to steal the sunflower seeds, Lin Xiaodong spent a whole day making a scarecrow, but the effect was not great.

In the end, he was so angry that he simply put on a straw hat and stood in the flowers pretending to be a scarecrow. Whenever a thief bird dared to approach, he would immediately "resurrect" and scare them away.

Sitting in a wheelchair, Lin Pei watched from a distance the youth wearing a straw hat in the sunflower bushes running back and forth with energy, and a deep smile could not help but raise the corners of his lips.

In other words, a few years ago, even in his dreams, he never imagined that he could have such a happy life.

"Sooner or later, all your hair will be plucked out!"

Lin Xiaodong pressed the straw hat on top of his head and pointed at the group of crows who were still hanging in the air and scolded.

The crow quacked twice, and the unpleasant voice seemed to be mocking.

Don't look at the ugly crows, their IQ is one of the best among birds, and there is another point, that is, they are special, very, and extremely vengeful. If you hurt a crow and let it run away by accident, then you are finished. It has been reported abroad that a man accidentally injured a crow's wing with a mousetrap, and since then The crows in a radius of several kilometers are all day and night outside his house. As long as he and his family drive out the door, they will peck wildly, and even go to his car and the roof to poop desperately, and finally make a family. People were so devastated that they had to move out of the place.

"What are you doing with a group of beasts," Lin Pei couldn't help laughing when he saw the young man walking over cursingly, "I'll ask someone to tie up a few scarecrows and put them in the flowers."

"It's useless at all! These crows are about to go to the sky!" Lin Xiaodong complained, his eyes fell on the wheelchair under the man, and he said clearly, "Is it time for rehabilitation? Forget everything that bothers you."

After several months of rehabilitation, with the help of the equipment, although Lin Pei was still unable to stand up on his own, he could walk slowly without the aid of a handrail. Occasionally, Lin Xiaodong got up late in the morning on weekends, and he could still see a man with a device strapped to his leg, walking slowly in the corridor like an astronaut landing on the moon - to be honest, although he didn't say it, it gave people the feeling Kind of creepy indeed.

Lin Pei knew just by looking at the expression on the boy's face that he was wandering the world again. The man coughed and said helplessly, "I've finished today's exercise, I'm just here to remind you, don't forget the banquet tonight."

Both Lin Pei and Lin Xiaodong are people who like quietness, but behind them there is the entire big family of the Lin family, so communication is naturally indispensable. Lin Pei had been suspended for a long time after he was injured before, but now his body is gradually recovering, and the banquet will naturally be restarted.

"I've put the dress for you in the bedroom, remember to go back and take a shower and put it on again." Lin Pei said, "and the stylist and makeup artist, don't let them wait for you for too long."

"I still need makeup..."

Lin Xiaodong sighed.

In this world, his [One-Click Dress Up] skill is almost useless, which not only makes Lin Xiaodong feel distressed for so many points he exchanged at the beginning.

He came out of the bathroom and found that Lin Pei had prepared him a young white suit with an iris flower on his chest, which looked very coquettish.

And it took more than an hour after the modeling was done.

Lin Xiaodong was leaning against the wall and playing Xiaoxiao, rubbing his shriveled belly. He was at a celebrity banquet where he was talking and laughing, but he was thinking about asking the chef to make one more small meal for him later. Lamb chops.

Can't you get enough of this dim sum at the banquet?

However, this was indeed the first time he had seen so many guests in the castle. Lin Xiaodong glanced at it and found that there were at least hundreds of guests, but he did not recognize any of them. So he lowered his head with confidence and continued to play with his mobile phone.

"Everyone, please be quiet."

Ye Shiyuan's voice came from the front, and with the slight movement of the wheelchair, he pushed Lin Pei to the front of the crowd.

In order to attend the banquet, Lin Pei also changed into a straight black suit. Although the man was sitting in a wheelchair, his back was straight, and his aura was no less than that of any standing guests present.

He took the microphone handed over by Ye Shiyuan and gave a brief speech, which was nothing more than about the development of the family in the past two years, expectations and blessings for everyone, and so on. Although this banquet could not be regarded as a family banquet, most of the people present were members of the Lin family, like many of the parents of the sixteen children at the time were among them.

Lin Xiaodong was bored, so he simply found an opportunity to sneak out of the hall and ran to the terrace alone to get the air.

The originally empty terrace was now surrounded by a circle of various flower pots. After the castle chef repeatedly pleaded with Lin Pei to let Lin Xiaodong stop planting that stunted onion, ginger and garlic, he had no choice but to regret giving up the self-sufficient one. Thought, and planted other flowers instead.

The moon and stars are sparse tonight, and the weather is just right. He leaned against the railing and counted the stars with his head up.

The stars on the outskirts of the city are much clearer than those in the city, and the crooked moon is reflected on the lake in the distance, rippling with the evening wind.

I don't know how long it took, just when Lin Xiaodong was worried about whether he had counted 468 or 486, there was a sound of pushing the door behind him--

"squeak"

Lin Xiaodong turned around, saw the man pushing the wheelchair over, and asked him with a smile, "Are you bored?"

"Yeah." Lin Xiaodong narrowed his eyes and pouted, "This kind of banquet might as well take you to a night market for a teppanyaki meal."

Lin Pei gave a low laugh: "I knew you were greedy. Don't worry, I have already instructed the back kitchen to make supper, and I'll let them serve it later."