Lin Mu shifted his gaze away and took a deep breath. “Yeah, I’ll have to try it too.”
The little Ginseng took Lin Mu’s hand and walked into the house with a skip in his step.
While Lin Mu was eating, the little Ginseng climbed onto a stool beside him, holding a tablet with a serious expression.
Lin Mu took a bite of the congee with meat and glanced at the screen. “Sweet and sour ribs?” he mumbled.
“Yeah!” The little Ginseng lifted the screen excitedly. “They said that you have to eat something sour in the summer to stimulate your appetite!”
Lin Mu gazed at the sun, which would be scorching in just half an hour, and raised his hand to touch his head.
By the end of June, the weather had grown increasingly hot. Even the occasional breeze carried a wave of heat, and anyone moving around would start perspiring. The little seedlings on the heads of all the little monsters in his house, including himself, were reluctant to emerge.
With the rising temperatures, several rooms on the first floor of the house needed to be ventilated to cool down.
Lin Mu thought about this and felt that this weekend wasn’t long enough.
He quickly ate his breakfast, giving a pat to the little Ginseng’s head and ruffled the dog all over, “I have something on today, you two stay safe at home and remember to hide if anyone comes over.”
The little Ginseng responded with a quiet “okay.”
Milky tilted his head slightly and flicked his ears to signal his understanding.
Lin Mu gazed at Milky affectionately, couldn’t resist planting a big kiss on the dog’s forehead, and then carried the pot of Rhododendron. With that, he hopped on his little electric scooter and departed from the house.
Yan Xuanjing, who had been kissed, froze for a very long time. It wasn’t until a warm breeze wafted in through the open doors that he regained his senses. He gently lifted a paw to touch the spot where he had been kissed.
The little Relaxed Emperor smelled nice.
It carried the fragrance of milk-scented shower gel, mingling with the natural aroma of plants and trees that was unique to a Relaxed Emperor.
Yan Xuanjing’s tail tip curled slightly, and he couldn’t help but flatten his ears as they tingled when brushed by the breeze.
Oh no.
The fox spirit placed his paw down, fell silent for a moment, and began to wonder if that old fox had enjoyed such treatment this week.
— If he had enjoyed such treatment, he would wait until that old fox was sound asleep and then proceed to shave off all his fur.
Lately, Yan Xuanjing had come across a few shaved dogs when he ventured into the human town.
Extremely ugly.
Extremely suitable for that disrespectful old fox.
From afar, the old fox sensed an unsettling shiver down his spine, causing all the fur on his body to puff up.
Which trash wanted to conspire against the great me!
Yan Gui raised his head and looked around alertly, but didn’t notice anyone.
He frowned and placed the matter aside for the time being, and jumped over the resorts power grid as he followed the Di Wu’s faint aura, going around the humans to find him.
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Lin Mu had limited knowledge of such matters. The one thing he was certain of was that, no matter how hard he worked, he couldn’t afford even a small attic in this district.
He stopped at the entrance of a yard and rang the doorbell.
The courtyard door swung open, and Lin Mu positioned himself out of the way. He securely locked his small electric scooter and entered the yard, carrying the Rhododendron.
The one who came to open the door was a lackadaisical man wearing a nightgown.
This gentleman was one of Lin Mu’s regular clients, with a surname of Zhao, in his early forties. He had successfully taken over his family’s business and made it prosper.
He didn’t have many hobbies, but one of his pastimes was nurturing flowers. However, due to his busy work schedule and lack of expertise in tending to plants, he had lead a lot of plants to death. Eventually, he let Lin Mu help him raise his latest flower until it budded, before sending it to him.
“Uncle Zhao, I brought the Rhododendron.” Lin Mu said.
“Great, great, great.” Uncle Zhao looked at the Rhododendron that Lin Mu was holding and was extremely happy. He wanted to take it from him, but was afraid that his clumsiness would damage it.
“I’ll bring it to the viewing room for you.” Lin Mu said.
Uncle Zhao rubbed his hands together, “great!”
Lin Mu carried the flowerpot and placed into to the big boss’ viewing room.
The viewing rooms of the affluent differed greatly from Lin Mu’s modest greenhouse. The viewing room was divided into several rooms according to different needs, and every room was heated to a constant temperature. Even if it wasn’t in the season, there were still many flowers in bloom in the viewing room.
Lin Mu placed the Rhododendron in a suitable constant temperature room. In this room, he noticed several pots of orchids and some very familiar peonies that he had previously delivered to this client.
Among them was the purple peony he had raised that his big boss specifically ordered. It was known for being easy to raise, and he had delivered it some time ago. Now that the flowering period had ended and the flower was wilting, he couldn’t help but feel his heart hurt.
Uncle Zhao trailed behind him, followed his line of sight and gave a dull ‘ah’.
Lin Mu went in closer to look at it, and felt that it could still be saved.
As part of his standard practice, every time Lin Mu delivered flowers, he would help the big bosses take care of the flowers for free. This time was no exception.
Lin Mu slowly fiddled with the plants in the viewing room one by one and Uncle Zhao followed behind him, earnestly learning what to do.
He wasn’t a stranger to this scene, Lin Mu couldn’t help but feel that it wouldn’t ultimately make a difference.
After all, once the big boss went out on a business trip and came back to the viewing room, he’d likely have forgotten how to care for these plants.
Lin Mu cut the last flower branch, and just as he placed down the tool, he suddenly heard a noise at the main gate. “Uncle Zhao, I think I heard the doorbell,” Lin Mu said.
The viewing room was far from the house and the main door, and Uncle Zhao didn’t hear anything.
“Then I’ll go check.” Uncle Zhao felt that this time round, he had definitely remembered how to take care of these flowers and plants, so he pushed open the door of the viewing room and went straight for the main door.
Lin Mu also followed behind him, planning to leave at the same time.
Uncle Zhao opened the door and a figure came in like the wind. He looked like he was in a hurry, and his mouth shot out the words, “Old Zhao, Old Zhao, help me to transfer my paintings. The old man is coming to confiscate them!”
He froze for two seconds, but didn’t respond to the person who rushed in. Instead, Uncle Zhao turned his head to glance at Lin Mu then took back his gaze and gave a warning glance at the person who had rushed in.
The man followed his gaze and looked towards Lin Mu, then suddenly froze.
Lin Mu also froze. He looked at the man for a while, then looked at Uncle Zhao and nodded his head towards the two of them. “I’ll be going first,” he said calmly.
Under the silent gaze of the two men, Lin Mu walked out of the yard and left on his small electric scooter.
With Lin Mu’s departure, the two middle-aged men in the yard exchanged troubled glances as they processed the situation.
“No, why didn’t didn’t you tell me that Xiao Mu was here?” Lin Hongsheng took the lead in speaking.
Uncle Zhao, who had no intention of taking the blame, snorted dismissively, “oh? You’re calling him Xiao Mu now? I haven’t seen you take care of him for so many years.”
Lin Hongsheng choked, then took out a cigarette as he quietly whispered, “how could I? That old man’s keeping an eye on me everyday after his retirement.”
“Humph, coward.” Uncle Zhao scolded, “two brothers aren’t even as brave as a young lady, useless!”
Lin Hongsheng blew out a puff of smoke but didn’t offer a rebuttal.
Within the three Lin children, Lin Xueji, the second child, was indeed the most courageous one.
Their father had a strong desire for control.
In the past, the eldest brother, Lin Hongkuo, had excellent physical fitness and was selected by the national team and wanted to get involved with sports. The old man had directly broken his legs and forced him to study business.
Lin Hongsheng, the third brother, grew up with his sister and liked to draw. His brother and sister pooled together the money they had saved from their work and quietly provided it to him to support his art education. After that old man discovered it, all three siblings had been beaten up and made to kneel for one night, then Lin Hongsheng was forced to go and study politics.
Lin Xueji, their older sister, was the only one who consistently resisted their father’s control. Every single time her hobby of fiddling with flowers was suppressed by their father, she would confront him.
The Lin family’s children had no pocket money, but Lin Hongkuo’s mind was flexible, and he borrowed some money from his classmates and made some small business, saving money to support his hobbies and his brother’s hobbies.
The eldest brother felt that he was doomed, but his younger brother and sister still could fight.
In the end, during high school, Lin Xueji was brought out by their father on several occasions to set up a betrothal, and became so angry that she changed the business studies that her father had filled up the form with and went straight to botany.
She also didn’t plan to take business studies after university and followed her mentors into the wild everyday, escaping from her blind dates quite a few times. She ran and ran, until she ran back with a kid.
Afterwards, there wasn’t any afterwards.
The two Lin family brothers didn’t even get to see their sister a last time, let alone attend her funeral.
Every time the brothers wanted to go and see their nephew, they had to do so secretly.
“What’s the point of living your days like this?” Uncle Zhao asked.
“It doesn’t mean anything, and we’re just waiting for the old man to die.” Lin Hongsheng smoked a cigarette and sighed, “okay, don’t speak about these anymore. If you had such a father, you wouldn’t be in a better situation than to me.”
Uncle Zhao stopped talking, and turned to help Lin Hongsheng move all the paintings in his house over.
Lin Mu exited the community, stopped on the side of the road and froze for a long time, then found his phone and sent a message to Mentor Tan, asking him if Uncle Zhao was a customer he had introduced.
It was rare that the reply came so quickly, and it said that he didn’t know him.
But when Uncle Zhao first found him, he said he was introduced to him by Old Tan.
Lin Mu took in a deep breath and pressed his lips together. His mood was rather complicated.
That man who looked like he had a good relation with Uncle Zhao, according to blood relations, was his uncle, Lin Hongsheng.
Lin Mu thought of Uncle Zhao’s reaction and looked at Mentor Tan’s reply on his mobile phone.
He wasn’t stupid. At this point, he understood who had introduced Uncle Zhao, who had always taken care of his business, to him — one could even say he took extra care of him under somebody’s request.
But Lin Mu couldn’t understand.
When his mother had left, other than his grandfather, his two uncles didn’t even appear.
Now, they were acting like some sort of good people.
“……”
How annoying.
Lin Mu placed his cell phone back in his pocket and stopped thinking about the matter as he silently rode back home on his small electric scooter.
Lin Mu’s mood wasn’t great.
The little monsters were squatting together, and they looked as Lin Mu greeted them very calmly, then went up the stairs without any expression. They turned to each other and finally pushed Milky to the front.
The Ginseng Baby cheered for him in a childish tone, “go Milky! He raised you for a so long, just for this day!”
The potato who looked like a young boy said in a very serious tone, “previously, when I watched a video, humans said that fluffy things would help with healing emotions.”
“That’s right, that’s right!”
“Lin Mu’s also half a human.”
The two mimosas said one by one and in sync.
Yan Xuanjing turned to look at the four little monsters, and walked up the stairs under their eager looks.
Then, Lin Mu mercilessly shut him out of his mother’s workshop.
“……”
Milky looked at the door that almost hit him on the nose, went silent for two seconds and turned to go down the stairs.
Looks like Milky was useless.
So Yan Xuanjing had to be called in to save the scene.
The author has this to say:
Milky: I’ll save myself.
Lin Mu’s grandfather who I won’t bother to learn the name of, may I speak with you? ^^
Thanks for the chapter!