Re-engraving the Spring - Chapter 54

T/N: This is double update. Please read chapter 53 first if haven’t read that yet.

Lu Ming opened his eyes and Chi Qiu closed his eyes abruptly.

Lu Ming asked, “Can’t sleep?”

Chi Qiu had no choice but to open his eyes and squirming out: “En…”

Lu Ming let go of his hand: “Want to talk?”

Chi Qiu lowered his eyes and didn’t know what to say. Normally, he liked talking to Lu Ming the most. But today, Chi Qiu kept his voice muffled, not knowing what to say.

At the end, after a long hesitation, he asked Lu Ming, “Can you make dried flowers with me tomorrow? You have given me a lot of roses. I want to make them into dried flowers so that they can be kept in the room for a longer time.”

“I don’t know how to make dried flowers.” Lu Ming had no interest in this, but if Chi Qiu wanted to do it, he could do it, “I need to learn a little.”

“Aunt Zhang taught me, it’s easy.” Seeing that Lu Ming agreed, Chi Qiu was full of confidence, “I can teach you.”

Lu Ming responded: “Okay.”

“Lu Ming.”

“En?”

“There are a lot of roses at home, you should buy less.” Chi Qiu thought in his heart, and said happily, “I have nowhere to put it.”

“Okay.”

“Lu Ming, you’ll get tired if I keep sleeping on your arm.”

“Not tired.”

“Then if I sleep until morning, your arm will hurt…”

“Waiting for you to fall asleep.” Every time, Lu Ming waited for Chi Qiu to fall asleep before he would pull his arm out. Otherwise, if he really let Chi Qiu sleep on his arm until morning, his arm would probably have been crippled countless times.

Chi Qiu was inexplicably worried: “I won’t sleep on your arm anymore, you can take it back now.”

The word ‘take’1so I’m not sure how is this 拿 sounds subtle so I searched and here’s the explanation. 拿 (CQ used this take) focuses on the action of carrying or picking up an object, particularly in one’s hands, while 带 focuses on bringing or taking things with you, i.e. having something whilst moving. Anyway, it’s mentioned that with 带, the sentence is a request for something to be taken to another place. 拿 on the other hand, is simply to hold something without necessarily going anywhere. was very subtle.

Chi Qiu put his head on his own pillow and slept with Lu Ming’s arm in his arms. He muttered something here and there, completely forgetting that an hour ago, he was still crying.

He was so coaxing, so coaxing that even Lu Ming would forget that an hour ago, Chi Qiu was still crying.

Lu Ming seemed to be a little sleepy. In the middle of Chi Qiu chatter, his voice was getting deeper and deeper, like the moon falling outside the window, falling on the side of Chi Qiu’s ear: “Got it.”

“Lu Ming?”

“…”

“Lu Ming, are you asleep?”

“…”

Then since Lu Ming was asleep, Chi Qiu felt that he could do whatever he wanted.

So, he began to ask Lu Ming, obviously in a timid tone, but also seemed to be very domineering: “You have to love me like this forever, okay?”

“…”

“Good night.” Chi Qiu kissed him, “Thank you for comforting me today.”

The next morning, Lu Ming woke up earlier than Chi Qiu.

Chi Qiu slept late yesterday and naturally woke up late in the morning. Lu Ming didn’t wake him up. Instead, he tucked the quilt for him, and got up first.

At seven in the morning, Lu Ming went out for a morning run for half an hour. When he came back, Chi Qiu was still sleeping. Lu Ming went into the bathroom to take a shower; the sound of the water was not loud, so Chi Qiu was not woken up.

At half past seven, Lu Ming sat at the dining table and ate a plate of sandwiches and drank a glass of milk. He looked at the roses he brought back in vases in the living room and got up to pick one up.

Aunt Zhang came over to collect the plates and reminded Lu Ming: “Mr. Lu, isn’t there an abandoned greenhouse in the backyard, why don’t I find someone to clean it up? Look, this living room is going to be crowded if we put more roses.”

“No need.”

Chi Qiu said last night, buy less, and Lu Ming was very obedient.

Aunt Zhang didn’t know about their conversation. So seeing Lu Ming seriously looking at the roses, she thought she had said the wrong thing and awkwardly glanced at the living room full of roses.

As a result, as soon as she turned around, Lu Ming suddenly asked her, “Aunt Zhang, do you know how to make dried flowers?”

“Yes.”

“Can you tell me the steps first?” Lu Ming’s temperament had always been like this, belonging to the ‘prep first’ style.

When Chi Qiu woke up, the clock was pointing at a quarter past nine in the morning.

He touched his side and found that Lu Ming was up early. He got up in a hurry, and after taking a shower, he looked in the mirror and looked at his eyes, which appeared to be somewhat swollen. He cried for so long last night and stayed up late…To exaggerate, Chi Qiu’s face today was more than a little haggard.

He washed his face several times with cold water before walking out of the bedroom.

Smelling the fragrance of roses, he found Lu Ming and Aunt Zhang in the front yard of the villa. They had already gone ahead and sorted out the roses, trimming them to the right length.

Aunt Zhang got up, “Sir, you’re awake, what would you like to eat for breakfast?”

Chi Qiu looked confused, holding the door frame and asked, “What are you doing?”

Lu Ming patted the broken leaves on his hands, “Preparing to make dried flowers, you eat some breakfast first.” He walked over and looked at Chi Qiu’s eyes, “It’s swollen.”

“Is it very swollen?”

“Not really.”

Chi Qiu, not knowing what he thought, blurted out: “Is it like a frog…”

Lu Ming did not know how to answer for a moment, to say it was similar, that was also possible.

Seeing that Lu Ming stopped talking, Chi Qiu thought he felt that it might be really similar and became anxious: “Is it really similar?”

“No, not similar.”

In order to put Chi Qiu’s mind at ease, Lu Ming went to make a pot of tea during the time Chi Qiu was eating breakfast. He took out the brewed tea leaves and put it on the place where Chi Qiu’s eyes were puffy: “15 minutes.”

This was the local method that Lu Ming knew when he was a child, and it was taught to him by his classmates. Every time his mother Lu You cried all night, her eyes would be swollen the next day, and Lu Ming would use this method to reduce the swelling. Somehow, Lu Ming didn’t forget this memory.

Right now it helped.

In the meantime, Lu Ming continued to go to sort out the roses placed in the front yard. Chi Qiu sat on the sofa and touched the tea leaves stuck to his eyes, feeling so strange. He wanted to rush to sort out the roses with Lu Ming, but he was afraid that his appearance would make the hourly worker cleaning the front yard laugh.

Fifteen minutes became extremely long.

Chi Qiu saw Lu Ming standing in the front yard and started answering the phone. Things at work seemed to be too busy. Chi Lanyan was like this, so was Lu Ming. Chi Qiu seemed to be used to waiting.

After a while, Aunt Zhang walked to his side and looked at Lu Ming who was answering the phone. She took out two tickets folded together from her apron pocket and put them into Chi Qiu’s hand, “Sir, these are the tickets in Mr. Lu’s suit pocket. Mr. Lu seems to have forgotten them.”

Fortunately, the hourly worker checked his pockets before cleaning the suit.

It was just that recently Lu Ming was quite busy, and Aunt Zhang put the tickets in Lu Ming’s study several times, but Lu Ming didn’t care. This morning, when the hourly worker was cleaning the study, he found these two tickets under the curtains. It must have been blown by the wind.

Aunt Zhang said, “I still have to go buy some vegetables. Just now, I was delayed because of sorting the roses out with Mr. Lu.” Seeing that Lu Ming was inconvenient at the moment, she asked Chi Qiu, “Sir, I will give you the tickets first. ”

Chi Qiu squeezed the smooth paper ticket in his hand and nodded: ” I’ll tell him later.”

Through the floor-to-ceiling window in the living room, Chi Qiu saw that Lu Ming’s phone call was still going on.

Out of curiosity, Chi Qiu took advantage of the fact that Lu Ming’s back was to himself and picked up the tickets to look at them. He found that they were actually tickets to Lu Fengshen’s painting exhibition; there were two of them.

When Qiu first saw the tickets for the exhibition, he looked at them for a long time, and his heart was stirring. At the same time, he also checked the information on the Internet and found that only invited people could go to this type of art exhibition; ordinary people generally couldn’t enter.

But who would invite a blind person to a painting exhibition?

Chi Qiu put the tickets aside in despair, and after thinking about it carefully, Lu Fengshen gave Lu Ming two tickets, didn’t that mean he wanted to invite himself to go with him?

He silently deleted his search history, put away his phone, and waited with anticipation.