Life in siheyuan era

Zhou Zhiyuan proved his innocence by recreating the scene. The little boy who lied was educated by his father and admitted his mistake to Zhou Zhiyuan.

However, Shen Lanyin refused to apologize to Zhou Zhiyuan; they were enemies.

Zhou Zhiyuan called himself "Your brother" and even called her "Little brat." Placing his backpack between them was a blatant act of contempt, and he even put a pair of "highly myopic glasses" on her.

The conflict between the two had reached an irreconcilable state, and Shen Lanyin seized every opportunity to retaliate against Zhou Zhiyuan.

Since she failed to retaliate this time, she would continue to look for opportunities. Having made up her mind, she glared at Zhou Zhiyuan, turned around, and walked out, with Hao Zhiwen hurriedly following.

Zhou Zhiyuan glanced at the burly figure outside the door, confirming that he had come in vain.

Fang Xiang waited outside the library, wanting to invite Shen Lanyin to dinner, but Shen Lanyin only wanted to go home and find Shen Lanbo. If she couldn't win, she would go home to find her parents; she hadn't grown up.

After making this deduction, Zhou Zhiyuan smiled slightly and heard Zhao Yongmei ask in surprise, "Isn't she your cousin?"

Zhou Zhiyuan sighed and replied, "She's been disciplined too strictly and is taking the opportunity to retaliate."

"How can anyone retaliate against their cousin like that?" Zhao Yongmei said indignantly.

Lou Xiao'e then asked in surprise, "She's your cousin?"

Shen Lanyin often came to the library to read, and Lou Xiao'e was deeply impressed by her. She never expected her to be related to Zhou Zhiyuan.

"I wish I could ignore her!" Zhou Zhiyuan exclaimed.

The two's conversation completely dispelled Lou Xiao'e's doubts. With Zhao Yongmei as a witness, Zhou Zhiyuan was indeed Shen Lanyin's cousin.

However, she understood the principle that even an upright official finds it difficult to settle family disputes, and outsiders should not interfere in matters between cousins. So, she changed the subject, "What are you going to do in the children's reading room?"

Lou Xiao'e's change of topic was what Zhou Zhiyuan needed.

With the service desk empty, he would have to wait for the librarian to complete the book borrowing procedures. He wanted to use the waiting time to look at picture books.

But he couldn't say that. Instead, he blurted out, "I'm investigating investment opportunities..."

At this point, he stopped talking, looking regretful.

Lou Xiao'e immediately asked, "Investing in what?"

Zhou Zhiyuan immediately replied, "Who said anything about investing?"

"You did."

"You just said it."

Lou Xiao'e and Zhao Yongmei corrected him together.

At this moment, he could only smile wryly, look around, and seeing that no one was paying attention to them, turned back and whispered, "I'll treat you two ladies to dinner, just in case the walls have ears."

Zhao Yongmei said embarrassedly, "Isn't that inappropriate?"

Lou Xiao'e immediately replied, "It's okay, he's my neighbor."

Zhou Zhiyuan added, "It's just a simple meal, nothing inappropriate about it."

Zhao Yongmei hesitated for a moment and accepted the invitation. "I'll have Xiao Huang cover for me for a while."

After a while, they walked out of the library together and entered a well-established wonton restaurant, finding a secluded place to sit down.

At this time, Shen Lanyin walked angrily into her own gate.

Zhou Zhiyuan's deduction was very accurate. Shen Lanyin rejected Fang Xiang's invitation and went home to find Shen Lanbo, rushing into the dining room and shouting angrily, "Brother, you must break off all ties with Zhou Zhiyuan."

At this time, Shen Lanbo was sitting at the dining table, drinking a bowl of millet porridge. Hearing Shen Lanyin's voice, he looked up at her, a faint smile on his face.

Zhou Zhiyuan had made his move, which was good news.

Fang Nan got up to untie her scarf, saying softly, "Take off your coat, sit down, and talk properly."

Aunt Liu was about to get up to help her take off her woolen coat, but Chen Shuying stopped her, saying, "Sister Liu, let her do it herself."

Then, turning to Shen Lanyin, she said, "Listen to your Sister Nan, go take off your coat and come over to eat. We can talk slowly."

Turning to Fang Xiang, who was behind Shen Lanyin, she said, "Fang Xiang, go to the kitchen and get your own rice. Don't trouble Aunt Liu."

Chen Shuying's three sentences were directed at three different people.

Shen Lanyin listened obediently, turned around, walked out of the dining room, took off her blue woolen coat, put on a blue sweater, and walked back into the dining room. She looked at the bowl of millet porridge that Fang Xiang had ladled for her, sat down, and said angrily, "Zhou Zhiyuan is a rogue."

At this time, her attitude was completely different from her usual coldness.

Hearing her indignant voice, Shen Lanbo still smiled slightly, but in his heart, he gave Zhou Zhiyuan a thumbs up. To make Shen Lanyin so angry meant that he had struck hard. He, who didn't like to use his brain, must have used all thirty-six stratagems.

Shen Lanbo was happy, but Chen Shuying said in a deep voice, "Don't just label people."

Fang Nan asked softly, "What did he do?"

"He's a rogue..." Shen Lanyin said, suddenly remembering something. Zhou Zhiyuan, who had run to the children's reading room, had nothing to do with being a rogue. In her anger, she had been abrupt and hadn't thought it through beforehand.

"He's very childish..." She could say this, but it wouldn't achieve her goal.

At this time, she needed to reorganize her words. Taking a light breath, she said coldly, "Zhou Zhiyuan is very rude. He publicly said 'look up' at the hospital, wanting to use my family's influence to climb up. How can my brother still treat such a person as a brother?"

She used two things to hold onto one theme: Zhou Zhiyuan was a rogue, thereby gaining the support of Chen Shuying and Fang Nan.

She had hope of succeeding and was pleased to see Chen Shuying and Fang Nan both look at Shen Lanbo.

But Shen Lanbo didn't look at them. Instead, he looked at Fang Xiang and asked lightly, "Where did you see Lanyin?"

"The library," Fang Xiang answered honestly.

Hearing Fang Xiang's words, Shen Lanyin immediately turned to look at him, her phoenix eyes sending a clear signal, "Don't talk."

But Shen Lanbo wouldn't give her a chance to send signals, continuing to ask, "What rogue things did Zhiyuan do?"

"I don't know..." Fang Xiang replied casually, "I just arrived at the library door when I saw a group of people coming out, discussing some 'recreating the scene' game. Then Lanyin and Hao Zhiwen came out."

Fang Xiang spoke the truth, focusing on the fact that Shen Lanyin and Hao Zhiwen were together. To be able to say this sentence, he wouldn't shut up according to Shen Lanyin's wishes.

In his imagination, Shen Lanbo was against Shen Lanyin being with Hao Zhiwen and should express a clear opposition at this time.

But he was disappointed. Shen Lanbo didn't pay attention to Hao Zhiwen, still saying lightly, "Recreating the scene is a game that Zhiyuan often plays. Lanyin, tell us, how is this recreating the scene game played?"

Shen Lanbo wanted to know the specific situation, but Shen Lanyin would definitely not say the cause and effect. With Fang Xiang present, she was very passive. Fang Xiang was full of jealousy and had shown it when he saw her walking out of the library with Hao Zhiwen, so he would definitely not stand on her side and speak.

They were childhood friends, and Shen Lanyin understood Fang Xiang's character. She wouldn't be surprised by Fang Xiang's question at this time, "What happened just now?"

Hearing his question, Shen Lanyin regretted it. On the way home, she was only concerned with being angry, riding her bicycle all the way quickly, forgetting to coordinate with Fang Xiang before returning home.

Having not made prior preparations, she could only keep her mouth shut at this time.

Shen Lanbo slowly said, "Around nine o'clock, Zhiyuan sent me my backpack. I asked him to go to the library to see if anyone was bothering Lanyin and to act accordingly."

Shen Lanbo first made his attitude clear: Zhou Zhiyuan was sent by him.

Then he continued, "I understand Zhiyuan. He does things impulsively, but he adheres to the rules. When he says 'I am your brother,' he definitely doesn't mean to take advantage of you."

At this point, Shen Lanbo was a little regretful, but matters of the heart were really not something he could control, and Zhou Zhiyuan didn't have any intentions in that regard either.

His immediate priority was to resolve the conflict, not to let Chen Shuying have any opinions about Zhou Zhiyuan.

At this time, he wanted to talk about that scene on the battlefield, but he temporarily changed his mind.

Shen Lanbo believed in Zhou Zhiyuan's personal charm and hoped that his family would accept him because they liked him, not because of gratitude.

Gratitude is one thing, liking is another, and because liking due to gratitude, it's unknown what that is?

So, Shen Lanbo said a few words, picked up his rice bowl, and slowly drank his millet porridge.

These past few days of recuperation had restored his strength, and he deeply understood the principle that haste makes waste. His actions and words became increasingly deliberate.

Seeing that Shen Lanbo was no longer speaking, Fang Xiang continued to ask, "They said you were 'highly myopic.' What exactly happened?"

Fang Xiang was curious, but Shen Lanyin would definitely not answer this question.

Seeing that she was determined not to speak, Chen Shuying asked in a deep voice, "What happened? First recreating the scene, then highly myopic. Explain clearly."

Since Chen Shuying asked, Shen Lanyin couldn't help but speak, "The highly myopic thing was said by Zhou Zhiyuan..."

In her narrative, she had to put a label on Zhou Zhiyuan, "He is very childish."

Putting on this label was indeed based on facts. Zhou Zhiyuan ran to the children's reading room to snatch picture books from children and was labeled a book snatcher by the children.

This was a fact. Zhou Zhiyuan couldn't deny this fact. He was very childish.

While closely adhering to this theme, she also had to try to select things that were beneficial to her to say in her narrative.

When she went downstairs, she heard the children shouting angrily and curiously walked into the children's reading room, finding Zhou Zhiyuan fighting over a picture book with a five- or six-year-old boy.

The result of speaking out to stop him was that all the surrounding children ran over, surrounded Zhou Zhiyuan, labeled him a book snatcher, and wanted to send him to the police station.

So, Zhou Zhiyuan used conspiracies and tricks, using the recreating the scene game to trick two little boys into proving his innocence.

In the end, he even retaliated against her, saying she was highly myopic.

After deleting and modifying, Shen Lanyin closely adhered to the theme of childishness and generally narrated the entire process.

This speech was carefully calculated. The narrative process couldn't be stopped. She had to turn her thinking into a computer. After a narrative, she felt quite tired.

She felt that her narrative was very successful, but she overlooked one thing: Shen Lanbo understood Zhou Zhiyuan.