I'm afraid I'm not interested in love

Chapter 382 "Growing Pains"

Chu Qingmian grabbed his wrist and headed towards the school gate.

Her nervous attitude made Su Chengyi start to reflect on whether he had been a little harsh on her.

Although the murder weapon was a razor blade, it was sharp but not lethal enough.

However, in order to cover up the small bite mark, he struck out very steadily and harshly, like a samurai from the Sakura Kingdom fighting in a gladiatorial arena, so that the wound is still a little painful.

The two of them had their own thoughts and walked against the crowd to the intersection. Su Chengyi saw an unexpected person.

Uncle Gao, who was wearing a suit and leather tie, was leaning against the Maybach's car door with his arms folded. He insisted on wearing his semi-permanent sunglasses even though it was late at night.

Uncle Gao's tense face relaxed a little when he saw him approaching, and he nodded slightly.

"Uncle Gao."

Seeing him, Su Chengyi was a little happy and smiled slightly.

Su Chengyi was really afraid that he would see any clues.

"Isn't it necessary?"

In addition, his professional skills are also excellent, and the car drives smoothly and steadily. As for the part-time job of a bodyguard, it goes without saying that this man is super strong just by standing there.

"Get in the car and get in."

"Well, let's talk in the car."

But what can be expected is that he and Chu Qingmian will probably be busy with their own affairs this summer vacation.

Uncle Gao had a look of helplessness on his face, but he could only obey the command, turned around and opened the trunk.

On the other hand, I was a little lucky that I had come up with such a trick to hide the truth.

Hearing the word "wound", Uncle Gao immediately turned his face, with probing eyes.

He pulled down his mask and moved closer to show Chu Qingmian.

However, at this time, Uncle Gao obviously did not investigate further in the direction of suspicion.

He probably thought he had been beaten.

"Then we have to deal with it. What if there are scars?"

"What the boss means."

He just confirmed that the source of the wound would not be a fight or someone else's deliberate handiwork.

"Trunk trunk!"

For Su Chengyi, Uncle Gao's identity is not simply "the driver and bodyguard of the eldest lady's family", but a reliable elder who makes people feel safe.

Chu Qingmian obviously regarded Uncle Gao as a real uncle. This guy would only behave like a childish child when he was dealing with people close to him.

Moreover, he is taciturn and will not talk nonsense with you.

"Stop pretending to be cool if you are tall and tall at night!!"

He asked questions at the right time.

"Look, the wound has actually healed."

After feeling relieved, Uncle Gao withdrew his eyes.

Su Chengyi breathed a sigh of relief.

And the reason why he consigned his Aston Martin to the capital was actually for this reason.

If you just get lucky and don't do anything, even if you can deceive the eldest lady, you won't be able to deceive Uncle Gao who happens to be in the capital.

"Why did Uncle Gao come to the capital too?"

Uncle Gao turned the steering wheel, and then realized that this answer was too perfunctory, and added:
"Miss's school and Xingxing Entertainment are both here. It's not convenient to run around here, so you just asked me to come over."

Su Chengyi leaned behind the car and tried to stop him.

Uncle Gao looked at the wound through the rearview mirror and looked very oppressive.

The X1 studio has officially started operations, and it’s unclear what the situation will be like in the future.

Su Chengyi coughed and quickly explained:
"I accidentally scratched my razor. The one I received in the hotel was disposable and it didn't work very well."

In fact, by the first half of his sentence, Su Chengyi had already guessed the following part.

Under the same cold appearance as 007, he is actually careful and gentle towards others.

Miss Chu rummaged around in the trunk and brought out a portable medical kit.

inside the car.

He rarely treated anyone with such a positive and good attitude, so even someone as cold as Uncle Gao had to cooperate with him by twitching the corner of his mouth in a symbolic gesture before turning around and opening the car door.

Chu Qingmian reached out and took off Uncle Gao's semi-permanent sunglasses.

For Su Chengyi, it is certainly the same for Miss Chu.

An experienced person like him would know exactly what was going on at a glance.

Chu Qingmian hugged a pile of medical supplies and glared at him angrily.

After all, both of their first projects are in full swing, and the beginning is always the hardest.

"Hey, don't move."

Chu Qingmian poked his face as a warning.

Su Chengyi lowered her eyes and looked at the cotton swab dipped in liquid in her hand.

"I didn't move, why are you shaking?"

"I'm not shaking! I guess Uncle Gao was swaying while driving."

Uncle Gao in the front row was inexplicably taking the blame: "."

Taking advantage of these words, Chu Qingmian finally dropped the cotton swab in her hand.

The soft cotton tip was dipped in purple liquid and applied to the wound, giving it a cool feeling.

Not painful, but a little itchy.

"Where to eat?"

Su Chengyi couldn't help but speak to restrain the urge to scratch his chin.

"My dad said there is a restaurant with pretty good Japanese food. Go try it."

"Your dad is here too?"

Su Chengyi's tone was very alert.

"Of course not."

Chu Qingmian applied it as if painting, making sure that no part was missed before putting down the cotton swab.

"He does want to come."

The eldest lady angrily put the cotton swab into the paper bag.

"Su Chengyi, you don't know what I went through last night!! It's all because he said he was an old classmate, and I can't refuse his dinner party.

The director also said he wanted to invite me to play golf. Please, do I look like I can play golf? ! "

Chu Qingmian looked helpless.

"Hmm, it doesn't look like that."

Su Chengyi objectively commented that she looked like the type who would shake herself when swinging.

After completing the treatment task, Chu Qingmian came closer and took a closer look at his face again.

After applying purple potion, the wound looked more conspicuous.

She looked at it for a while, then looked away and muttered:

"Su Chengyi, how old are you? Why can't you even shave? You almost lost your appearance.

Besides, aren’t they all electric shavers now? They’re so safe. "

"got used to."

Su Chengyi's words were not a lie.

The first time he shaved was around his sophomore year in high school.

At that time, Yang Liu and Su Zelang had already divorced, and he had been living alone for a long time.

In my previous life, I had a much worse relationship with my parents, and had almost no contact except for things like paying tuition.

Occasionally, when Su Chengyi looked in the mirror while washing up in the morning, he suddenly noticed a few sparse beards sprouting on his face.

He was stunned for a moment and realized that this was a symbol of puberty, the result of the beginning of male hormone secretion.

It's actually not obvious. If you don't look carefully, you can't actually see it.

But he happened to discover it again.

As a patient with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, Su Chengyi struggled with beard issues almost all day long.

So when it came to cutting it off, he went to the supermarket to buy a razor after school that night.

In order to save money, I bought an old-fashioned manual razor, the kind of antique where you need to install the blade yourself.

By the way, I had an idea and took away the shaving foam sold nearby.

This is thanks to Su Zelang. Su Chengyi has a vague memory of his shaving in his mind.

When he was young, Su Zelang regarded himself as a romantic and handsome boy, and he always attached great importance to that face. This was one of the important reasons why he was able to catch up with Yang Liu. But now he doesn't care at all and has become an ordinary greasy uncle.

After returning home, Su Chengyi read the instructions carefully, then blindly and confidently started to rub foam on his face, and then started directly.

The result is of course tragic.

It is completely different from mathematical formulas that can be applied without thinking. In manual tasks such as shaving, the role of instructions is very limited.

And Su Chengyi was stubborn. Even though his face felt burning pain, he didn't stop and finished shaving himself.

In the end, of course, I was grinning in pain and couldn't sleep well all night.

When you get up to go to school the next day, you are facing the cold winter wind again. It feels like someone has been slapping your ears with a steel ball used for cleaning pots.

Now that I think about this incident, Su Chengyi still remembers it fresh.

However, with the lessons learned this time, he learned this skill, so that in his previous life, he was still accustomed to using a manual razor until he was almost thirty years old.

After listening to Su Chengyi's explanation, Chu Qingmian's burning fire of education was immediately extinguished.

Instead, compassion began to overflow.

If Uncle Su could grow up with Su Chengyi, he could teach him.

He doesn't have to mess around at home alone and get his face hurt.

And this must be just the tip of the iceberg in an entire adolescence without parental presence.

Chu Qingmian suddenly felt that she understood why he acted like everyone owed him money all day long.

In the most sensitive and fragile period of adolescence, no matter what happens, you have to face it alone. He is very good if he doesn't grow crooked.

Although he looks a bit stinky now, that's just because he looks fierce, at least he is kind-hearted.

Miss Chu, who felt sorry for Su Chengyi, did not realize that she actually grew up alone like this.

Chu Yuanjiang was a good father, but he was busy with work and couldn't do what he wanted; not to mention Wei Peilan, who completely disappeared from Chu Qingmian's life for a long time after she was diagnosed with postpartum depression.

There are many people in the family, and many of them treat her sincerely, but there is no blood relationship. In the final analysis, it is an employment relationship, and there is a subtle distance between them.

When Chu Qingmian was a child, ever since she learned to walk, her favorite thing was to run around in the big house wearing shoes that squeaked when she stepped on them.

It's like he's fighting the air, trying to gain a lot of presence.

As she ran like this, she grew up slowly, and puberty came quietly.

Although many things are covered in psychology classes, in fact they are very general and can only give people a corresponding concept.

But when you actually experience it yourself, you will still be confused and confused about the situation.

So when Chu Qingmian had her first menstrual period, she thought she was terminally ill and even secretly wrote a suicide note.

This includes the ownership of her pile of dolls with names such as "Nicole", "Anna", etc., and her great wish to donate all the New Year's money over the years to children in mountainous areas.

Afterwards, the nanny aunt discovered that she was consoling her attentively, saying "Oh my lady, our lady has grown up" on the surface, but secretly she and the pastry chef aunt laughed together for a long time.

But now, Su Chengyi just glanced at her and knew what this guy was thinking. He immediately reached out and pinched her cheek flesh to block her radiating sympathy.

"Stop it, Miss Chu."

Chu Qingmian blinked her eyes and successfully concealed her emotions, looking quite well-behaved.

It doesn't matter, she thought.

Those lonely days are over and they have all grown up.

That's just the "growing pains" of adolescence.

They will be with each other for the rest of their lives, and that's enough.

There was a bit of traffic jam on the road, and the journey that was originally scheduled to take half an hour had not arrived yet after driving for more than an hour.

The two people in the back seat chatted one after another.

Su Chengyi was used to her unrestrained thinking and didn't care that many of her questions were answered incorrectly.

For example, out of nowhere, the topic changed from tomorrow's eight-morning class to her childhood nanny.

"You said the person who took care of you when you were a child was not the aunt you are now?"

The person in his arms buried his face in his chest and said "hmm".

"Auntie is gone."

"Why did you leave?"

With the treatment given by the Chu family, no one would take the initiative to resign, Su Chengyi thought casually, smelling the fructose scent in her hair.

"Because Auntie has other things to do, and Auntie herself has children."

Chu Qingmian answered even more quietly.

Uncle Gao, who was sitting in the driver's seat, listened to the conversation between the two, his eyes darkened under his sunglasses.

He had watched Chu Qingmian grow up, so he naturally knew what was going on.

When she was a child, Chu Qingmian was clingy and prone to crying. Naturally, she relied heavily on the aunt who had taken care of her since she was a child.

But the nanny is just a nanny. The Chu family pays the salary, and she pays some care and attention.

The young lady likes her, so the reward from the Chu family is naturally generous. I thought she would be more dedicated to her responsibilities because of this, but in the end she quit.

When she proposed to resign, the Chu family expressed understanding, but hoped that she could stay for a while to give the young lady a buffer period to accept new people.

But such a request was also rejected.

She may have feelings for the young lady, but not much.

Once you make enough money, you will naturally leave.

How could Chu Qingmian, who was only three or four years old at that time, know this? She only knew that the aunt who could sing lullabies to lull her to sleep was leaving and would never come back.

It was really sad for a while.

Since then, Chu Qingmian may have learned to treat money and feelings separately, or maybe not yet.

Uncle Gao glanced at the red navigation route and thought back with a sullen face.

It was probably when the young lady was in the second grade that she ran out of money and the nanny actually found her again and begged her old employer to accept her again.

Of course, he ended up being driven away by Butler Han with a cold face.

The nanny refused to give up and actually squatted in front of the school, wanting to play the emotional card with the young lady directly.

Uncle Gao knew that if he allowed her to achieve her goal, the young lady would be soft-hearted. Even if she was not allowed to come back to work, he would definitely help.

So this possibility is prevented directly from the source.

The lady has a kind heart, but there are many cruel people around her.

Never give the person who hurt her a second chance to get close to her.

"You must have been crying for at least two weeks."

Su Chengyi asked.

When Miss Chu was a cub, she must have been a tearful slime.

Uncle Gao retorted silently in his mind as he turned the corner and entered the mall.

——It’s two months.

Obviously he was only forty months old at that time, but he spent one-twentieth of his time grieving over this.

"No."

Chu Qingmian said hard.

"How long is that."

"Um"

Su Chengyi originally thought she was reminiscing, but he didn't wait for a response for a long time. He lowered his head and found that she had fallen asleep in his arms.

Only then did I realize that her eye circles were green. She must have been very busy recently, and she didn't sleep well last night because she had to catch a flight.

In my impression, the squad leader is always full of energy, like a little sun.

It seems that there are few times when I am so exhausted.

At this time, the Maybach turned into the parking lot, and the colorful lights of the mall were reflected through the car window.

Su Chengyi raised his hand to block the beam of light from falling on Chu Qingmian's face and disturbing her dream.

Growing pains.

Growing pains.
Su Chengyi thought that in the medical definition it is explained as physiological pain caused by the rapid growth of long bones in adolescence and the uncoordinated growth and development of local muscles and tendons.

But people often talk about "youth pain literature," so growing pains don't just refer to physical pain.

It is rare that both literature and medicine use the same word to describe it.

At the age when growth is the fastest, those unsolvable confusions and confusions suddenly emerge from the bottom of the heart, and the spirit and soul collide and rise again and again.

All this is embodied in the flying white test papers, the sound of the bell and the sound of chalk rubbing against the blackboard, the mist in the morning and the street lights at night.

Adults may think it's hypocritical, but only those who are experiencing it or have just experienced it can understand such feelings.

But that's okay.

Su Chengyi thought this, and his eyes fell on the shadow cast by Chu Qingmian's lowered eyelashes on his face.

You don't need to be taught how to use a razor. People who should leave will leave sooner or later. Adolescence is like a long and moist drizzle, and growing pains will stay in everyone's eighteen years old.

(End of this chapter)