The Way is Simple.

Since he was a child, Lin Jian had always been cold and aloof no matter who he got along with, and seldom showed such an intimate gesture to others, so when he crouched down beside Shen Ke and pulled one of his fingers to call out to him, Shen Ke really froze.

Lin Jian tilted his head, black eyes in the warm yellow lamp shadow as if glazed, Shen Ke did not speak, he then gently shook the finger he pulled, the muzzle is close to comfort and appeasement, soft and gentle: "Do not be sad ah."

Shen Ke sat up from the recliner and after a moment couldn't help but let out a chuckle, rubbing the top of his hair with his unencumbered hand with a laugh in his voice, "Comforting me?"

Lin Jian nodded his head in acknowledgement.

"Little ragamuffin ......" Shen Ke lost his smile and patted the seat next to his own, "Stop squatting and sit here."

Lin Jian got up from the floor, sat down next to him, and Shen Ke naturally withdrew the fingers he had clutched in his hand.

"Nothing sad." Shen Ke pinched his brow, with a little self-deprecating smile, "Just a little bit of pain in my heart, and as a result, I let the children look at the joke, tsk ......"

Lin Jian was quiet for a moment, shook his head and whispered, "But, every adult was once a child."

There was another long period of silence.

Shen Ke's eyes look out from the door of the center hall, the moon is bright tonight, rhinestone stars floating in the diaphanous sky, the light is dazzling but gentle, a long time, he said softly, "Children can choose the way they want to go, do what they want to do strong, but adults are not the same."

Lin Jian turned to him, "What's different?"

Shen Ke laughed a little, "Adults have to choose the path to take and do what needs to be done."

Suddenly, her heart felt like it was stuffed with a sponge that had been filled with water, sour and stuffy, Lin Jian exhaled heavily, as if to refute his statement: "Why? You originally taught me that everyone is an independent individual, should have the unique ability to think, the ability to judge and the ability to choose, without objective interference, do what you really want to do, live the life you want to live, become the person you want to be."

Why? Why does all this not apply to Shen Ke?

"Remembering so well ......" Shen Ke was stunned for a moment, then his eyes were colored with traces of laughter, "How old were you when I taught you this?"

Lin Jian didn't expect him to ask this and subconsciously answered, "Ten."

"Tch, time flies ......" Shen Ke There is a release after exhaustion in his eyes, "I'll teach you one more thing today, just listen to it, and you don't have to remember it so well... ..."

"What?"

Shen Ke says, "Trade-offs."

"Everyone experiences trade-offs in their lives, whether they are children or adults, behind every choice is a game of trade-offs, children can do whatever they want, but adults can't because ......" Shen Ke paused before saying. "To weigh the cost."

The moonlight was gentle, the stars were brilliant, Lin Jian looked at Shen Ke's profoundly contoured side face, and after a long time, he silently averted his eyes and said in a low voice, "I see."

"Why are you so sad?" Shen Ke laughed, the tone of his voice was one of relief, "Don't think so much at a young age, you're only fifteen, there's a long road ahead, there's countless possibilities for you to choose from, and-"

Shen Ke raised his hand and patted him on the back of the head, adding, "Adults do what needs to be done in order to be able to give children the freedom to choose what they want to do."

Just like when he was young, he was never like the children of those families, forced by the elders to throw into the colorful and bizarre social circle of the upper class, Shen Zhangqian and his wife were extraordinarily lenient with him, want to do what you want to do, and never forced to do what you do not like.

He did not have to be exposed to his dislike of the you and me, did not have to be tired of the world, so Shen Ke was able to embrace his aspirations of the clouds and forests, living at will for twenty years.

And likewise, when the weight of Shen's burden came down on him without warning, he was duty-bound to return the favor.

Lin Jian looked at him fearfully, "You ......"

"Xiao Lin God, there's no need to have so many worries, as I originally said, it's no problem for you to do whatever you want with me, you can do whatever you want, and you can say whatever you want - Little Uncle will give you a bottom."

Little Uncle ......

The heavy emotions accumulated just now, touched or not, shocked or not, with this voice with a smile "little uncle", slowly evaporated ...... Lin Jian blinking eyes, behind the ears slowly rising heat, the original beautiful eyes slightly narrowed, like a blush The original beautiful eyes slightly narrowed, as if blushing, under the pretense of threatening.

Shen Ke smiled and said, "How many years have I not heard you call me that? Let's see,......, the first time I called out to someone was when I was in fifth grade, right? Big summer after swimming lessons back and eat ice cream, the result of gastroenteritis fever, the home doctor prescribed medicine also refused to eat well, anxious Pei sister round and round ......"

In the end, Pei had no choice but to contact Song Zhi and ask him to tell Shen Ke, and when Shen Ke arrived home in the evening, Lin Jian's face was flushed red, and when she saw him coming back, she actually skimmed her lips and called him "little uncle" in an aggravated manner.

Lin Jian: "......"

"The second call is the graduation of the first year, you make your own decision to find the teacher said to skip a grade, do not read the second year directly on the third year, jumping exams are examined before I told me, afraid of my anger, come up first shouted a 'little uncle' blocking people ...... tsk , how did I not see that you are still so afraid of me, you this - hey, go where ah!"

Lin Jian can't listen to it anymore, the stupid things he did as a child was Shen Ke as if he was counting his family's treasures, the thin red behind the teenager's ears spread to the contour of his ears, and coldly stood up and walked away.

"Hey--" Shen Ke busily laughed and followed, joining him out of the side building and heading out of the garden, "Why are you still angry? No, shy?"

Lin Jian: "......"

"Not so much God Lin ...... "After so many years, Shen Ke's ability to tease the child has become more and more skillful, "Why don't you try shouting twice more? You'll get used to it if you yell it a few more times, and I don't mind."

"......" Lin Jian head did not return, tone hard, "do not like to take advantage of you that cheap."

The moon is as clear as water, the night breeze, those deep in the heart of the desire or, after the helpless choice of disappointment, seems to be with the night of the evening moon breeze disappears without a trace. A week later, Shen's Group held a general meeting of shareholders, all shareholders signed the resolution to change the company's legal representative, and the day after the group board of directors, Shen Ke was formally elected chairman of the Shen's Group, took over the huge business empire burning baton.

Lin Ma didn't feel that this summer vacation after the midterm was any different from the usual, except for the fact that he didn't need to go to school every day, and he had more free time to himself all of a sudden.

He still had the same routine, woke up on time every day, read and practiced writing, when he was bored, he went to the bookstore and bought a set of tutorials for each subject of the first year of high school, and did problems at home, and when he felt like it, he would also go to the mountain, and fiddle with some of Shen Ke's flowers and plants, in the past two years, he learned a lot of flower and tree cultivation skills after Shen Ke, although it was not quite a professional, but it didn't really matter, after all, even if he really hurt any plant accidentally, there was still Shen Ke to fix it. After all, even if he accidentally hurt a seedling, Shen Ke would be able to fix it.

Shen Ke said that he would take him horseback riding in the summer vacation, but Chairman Shen had a lot of work to do, and Lin Jian only had half a month's vacation left, so he couldn't find the time. Lin Jian doesn't care, in his opinion, these are just trivial matters, he has already got enough, he is contented enough, and he doesn't dwell on the smallest details.

As a result, one night during the weekend, Lin Jian was a little obsessed with practicing calligraphy, and did not pay attention to it until one o'clock in the middle of the night, he returned to the bedroom from the study, and was already ready to go to bed, but just as he lay down, he heard the door slam, and knew that it was Shen Ke's return, so he got up from the bed again and unscrewed the bedroom door.

"Still awake?" Shen Ke asked, turning back as he stood in the foyer to change his shoes.

"About to go to sleep." Lin Jian leaned against the doorframe and rubbed his brow, glancing at the clock in the living room and asking, "Why are you back so late?"

Lin Jian was an extremely light sleeper, a habit he developed at a very young age in his "home", where even the slightest movement across the living room would wake him up. When Shen Ke realized this, he seldom came home in the middle of the night, probably because he was afraid of disturbing his rest.

Shen Ke changed his shoes and entered the house, stood in the doorway of Lin Jian's bedroom, and said with a smile, "After catching up with the work arrangements two days in advance, I'm not going to the office tomorrow, so I'm back."

Lin Jian slightly straightened his body, and Shen Ke realized that the little ding dong, which was only a little above his waist, had actually grown so tall.

"Is it a business trip?" Lin Jian asked.

"No." Shen Ke, who was feeling a bit relieved that my son was growing up, sighed and laughed, "A business trip is not as important as your birthday."

Lin Jian mulled it over slowly and suddenly his eyes widened.

Yeah, his birthday is in mid-August, which isn't tomorrow.

When Lin Jian was in his hometown, he had almost no concept of "birthday", after all, in that family environment, no one would remember what month and day he was born, and the children in his hometown were so rough that even He Zhou and He Xi, not to mention him, didn't seem to make much of a special effort to celebrate their birthdays.

But since coming to the Lin family, every year, someone celebrates his birthday.

"I ......" Lin Jian paused, "I forgot all about it."

"You just don't remember it." Shen Ke brushed his palm over the back of his head and gently swirled the man around, "Go to bed, go back to the mansion tomorrow for your birthday, then take you horseback riding."

Lin Jian was pushed into the house by him, whispering as he walked, "...... you still remember ah."

"When have I ever forgotten what I promised you." Shen Ke rested his finger on the overhead light switch and watched him lay back on the bed before saying, "Close your eyes, the lights are off."

Lin Jian closed his eyes very cooperatively, and then heard a soft "pop" as Shen Ke turned off the light in the room.

Lin Jian rolled over in the darkness and quickly fell asleep.

Early the next morning, Auntie came over to make breakfast for Lin Jian, and when she entered the door, she actually saw Shen Ke standing in the kitchen, fiddling with two small greens, she was shocked and immediately changed her shoes and ran over.

"Mr. Shen, today you are at home ah ......" Auntie stared at Shen Ke hands on the two about to be "gripped bald" vegetable heart, asked in fear, "What are you ...... doing? "What are you ...... doing?"

Shen Ke didn't turn around and replied in a natural tone, "Pick vegetables and cook a noodle."

"......" Auntie couldn't bear to try and take over, "still, it's better if I do it ......"

After all, Shen Ke's picking his own vegetables is really quite a "baloney" thing to do.

"Nothing." Shen Ke smiled, not the slightest bit self-conscious about his own behavior of "destroying the dishes with a hot hand", "It's the kid's birthday today, so I'll make him some birthday noodles." After thinking about it, he laughed to himself, "By the way, I want to make up for not knowing how to use the dishwasher."

Finally, Shen Ke slowly and methodically plucked out three tender, green choy sums, poured a bit of what he thought was the right amount of oil into a non-stick pan, tossed the choy sums in with panache, didn't even use a spatula, and turned the pan upside down twice, after which he clattered and added half a pot of water, and then finally put on the lid.

The whole routine was done in an appropriate and eye-pleasing manner, and Auntie stood by and watched in awe.

The lid is closed and does not go away, the big tall man of eighteen meters leaned towards the edge of the kitchen cabinet and looked at the white glazed ceramic pot with his eyes hanging down in the clouds.

Auntie sweated, "You ...... what else you haven't done, I, I I'll just do it."

"Nothing else." Shen Ke's expression was rarely focused, "Wait for the water to boil and put down the noodles."

Auntie: "......"

And do you know how much pasta you can put in this large pot of water?

Apparently, Shen Ke didn't know.

After the water boiled, Mr. Shen moved with agility to open the lid of the pot with one hand, and with the other hand picked up a large packet of longbeard noodles with eggs that had been prepared long ago, and poured them all in with a swift and swift movement.

All of it, poured, in.

Auntie: "......"

It's a sin!

"Mr. Shen, the noodles will be ready to eat in a few moments after they've been put into the pot ......" Auntie worded hesitantly, racking her brain to get this "kitchen killer" off her home turf. "I'll take care of the rest ......"

"Uh-huh." Seeing the dragon's beard noodles cooking in the pot in a thick white broth, Shen Ke nodded in satisfaction and ordered as he walked outside, "Make something else, children are growing up, so don't have enough to eat."

Auntie: "......"

What a stomach that must be.

Lin Jian slept late last night and very rarely overslept in the morning, waking up only when it was almost eight o'clock, only to see Shen Ke sitting at the dining table as soon as he opened the bedroom door, lifting his chin at him, "Hurry up and go wash up, come over for dinner."

"Oh."

Not wanting to keep Shen Ke waiting, Lin Jian quickly washed up and came out of the restroom, walked to the dining table and was dumbfounded.

The table was surrounded by seven or eight dinner plates holding toast salad eggs and fruit, while right in the center was an oversized porcelain tub full of ...... uh, I think it was noodles?

This big basin occupies almost half of the table, Lin Jian can't help but recall, if I remember correctly ...... this porcelain basin seems to be the one that auntie usually used to wash cabbage ......

Lin Jian pulled back his chair and sat down in front of Shen Ke, pointing to the pot of ...... well, noodles ...... and confirming, "This is ...... "

Shen Ke laughed a little, actually personally got up to give him with a big soup spoon ...... uh, scooped a bowl, placed in front of Lin Jian, said with a smile, "I do, birthday boy, give a face?"

Lin Jian: "......"

The birthday boy picked up the chopsticks in his hand, hesitated for a moment, then switched to a spoon, scooped up a pile, and brought it to his mouth.

"......"

Meanwhile, Shen Ke, sitting across the table, smiled and said, "Happy birthday, kid." And then, as if he were a first-time chef needing feedback on his experience, he followed up with, "Was it good?"

"......" Lin Jian, blinded by this "Happy Birthday", swallowed the "batter" that he had forgotten not only the salt, but also any seasoning, and replied maturely, "It's delicious. "Batter" and replied maturely, "Yummy."

Shen Ke gave a "hmmm" and nodded, contentedly picking up his coffee cup, "If it's good, eat more."

Lin Jian hesitated and asked him tentatively, "...... won't you have a bowl?"

Shen Ke took a sip of her coffee, picked up the sandwich on the plate that looked like it came from an aunt, and waved it at him, saying understandingly, "Shoumian is an exclusive perk for the birthday girl, so I'll just eat this."

Lin Jian: "......"

Row.

The birthday girl thanks you.

They and the Shen family mansion side of the fixed is lunch, eat breakfast time is still early, Lin Jian go to the study to do questions to kill time, and Shen Ke and in the study on the outside line to deal with official business, almost to the noon time to go out together.

Shen family residence is quite large, the birthday banquet venue was set in the "Kai Xuan Hall", both family dinner, the guests are still the Shen family relatives, Shen Ke's aunt Ai Jia also accompanied her parents to the scene, over the years Lin Jian and she did not see a lot of times, the original naive and lively little girl has grown into a graceful young lady.

Lin Jian and Shen Ke entered, greeted the elders politely, and when they reached Ai Jia, they called out softly, "Sister Ai Jia."

"Hey? This is not the right generation, is it?" Ai Jia looked at her aunt Shen Zhangqian with a smile, then pointed at Shen Ke and said, "You call my aunt grandpa, and you call my cousin little uncle, so how come you're a sister to me? Shouldn't I be a little aunt?"

Elders do not pay attention to jokes between juniors, Lin Jian also heard that she was just teasing and joking, so the corners of her mouth pursed slightly, said with a light smile, "Let's talk about each other, or Miss Sister."

Shen Ke's sister-in-law, Cong Lin, asked in a warm voice, "Xiao Jian is going to be a senior in high school, so which school is our little scholar going to?"

Lin Jian said, "First grade."

"That's just right, now he's really Ai Jia's schoolmate." Cong Lin instructed her daughter, "Xiao Jian is younger than his classmates, so you have to know how to take care of him when school starts."

"What schoolmates ah, he jumped one grade, the beginning of the school year and I are senior, okay?" Ai Jia's arm raised to hold Shen Ke's arm, smiling and pouting, "But I've been studying in the junior high school section of the first middle school for three years, I know my way around the school - when the school year starts, I'm sure you'll take good care of him, and then you'll have to ask for a reward from his little uncle!"

The crowd couldn't help themselves, Shen Ke flexed his hand and flicked Ai Jia's forehead, laughing and teasing, "What kind of messed up seniority are you talking about?" He then promised, "Behave yourself and I'll buy you a doll."

"Lin Jian!"Heavy .BJD Wa Slave Girl Jia first froze, and then quickly let go of Shen Ke, in a lightning fast momentum to Lin Jian pressed to the seat: "In a moment want to eat what to tell sister, I will give you to clip the food, sis from today onwards will be serving you alone! Sister will serve you alone from now on!"

Lin Jian good-naturedly went along with her and laughed along with everyone else.

Has been so many years, even if he came to the Shen family because of that indefinable "favor", but a few years, this family treats him like a relative, giving him everything, but also far beyond the ordinary warmth of the family.

At the beginning of the luncheon, since Shen Zhangqian had difficulty moving, Cong Wan personally brought out the cake cart and said to Lin Jian, "Xiao Jian, this is your eighth birthday at home, and you'll be going to high school after summer vacation, and you'll be going to college farther away, but no matter how far you go in the future, you must come home for your birthday. Be sure to come home, and we hope to spend every birthday with you in the future."

Lin Jian eyes sparkling, pursed lips can not speak, only heavy nodded yes.

Shen Zhangqian sat in the wheelchair, raised his hand, Lin Jian subconsciously lowered his body, the warm and broad palm fell on his shoulder, Shen Zhangqian said: "Today in the Qixuan Hall for your birthday, but also a good sign, I hope that our little Jinyang and Qixing, Hongxuan Fengshu, more and more good! "

Lin Jian can not say thank you, after all, compared with such years of love and care, those two words are really light, can only slowly in Shen Zhangqian support in the wheelchair pedal legs crouch down, tilted his head and promised: "I will ...... wait for me to grow up, in future ...... I'll take care of you."

The last course was served and the feast began. Lin Jian knew that Shen Zhangqian was a vegetarian, so he moved the plate of double mushrooms to him. Shen Ke unintentionally glanced at him and thought of the scene where Lin Jian was lying on Shen Zhangqian's lap. He couldn't help but come over to him and asked him in a low voice, "Changing the dishes again and saying that he would take care of the old man in the future, is our little Jian so understanding?"

Lin Jian gave him a "what else?" look in return. look.

"Tsk." Shen Ke let out a laugh, "How come I don't see you this sweet with me?"

Lin Jian said, "I ate two big bowls of pasta in the morning and it was already the highest level of thoughtfulness, but the words came out as, "You're also in your sixties?"

Shen Ke asked with an unimpressed smile, "You took care of me when I was in my sixties?"

"......" Lin Jian held his chopsticks in sudden silence for a split second before whispering softly and solemnly into his ear, "It will."

Just as you grew up with me, I would like to stay with you and all those who cherish me and warm me, and watch the seasons blossom and the years wither.

After lunch, Lin Jian talked with Shen Zhangqian for a while, then Shen Ke went upstairs and called him, saying that he was going to the racecourse. When he came downstairs, Ai Jia asked a question and immediately said that he would like to be a part of the birthday girl's honor, and go for a walk twice.

Shen Ke thought about it and packed the two smaller ones together.

Horse farm opened in the suburbs, an hour's drive from the city center, after arriving a few people first went to change clothes, who expected just out of the changing room, ran into a familiar face.

Cheng Youjun, Shen Ke's childhood friend and high school classmate, refused to go home to inherit the throne after graduating from college, and set up his own software company, which finally came to fruition after a few years of suffering, and is considered to be one of the leading companies in the industry in these years.

Lin Jian has seen Cheng Youjun a few times before, this person also do not know what the problem, look at the instrument is a good appearance of unrestrained, every time the nephews prefer big nephews grow up nephews short to tease him, half of the IT elite men's steadiness are not.

As expected, Cheng Youjun came out from the door of the locker room and froze for a moment when he saw them, and then, with an "ouch", he immediately jogged over and shouted, "Brothers! I'm in!"

Shen Ke smiled and peeled him off his body, asking, "Mr. Cheng is so free today?"

"I'm accompanying my girlfriend." Cheng Youjun waved his hand in a serious manner, "In Mr. Cheng's heart, career is not worth mentioning in front of love." After saying that, he turned his gaze and saw Lin Jian next to him, "Ouch! My great nephew!"

"......" Lin Jian woodenly and very politely nodded his head in greeting, "Hello Mr. Cheng."

"Hey not ...... what is the situation of our children?" Cheng Youjun pushed Shen Ke's arm with his elbow. Cheng Youjun elbowed Shen Ke's arm, "Not called uncle even if, this is still with me 'always' on?"

"Don't take advantage of our kid, calling you Cheng Youjun is always polite." Shen Ke slapped Cheng Youjun's shoulder and pushed the man outside, "Go, run two laps of the obstacle course and let you kneel down and shout at your father."

The two groups met on the lawn, Cheng Youjun gave a short introduction to both sides, and a couple of trainers came over with their respective horses.

"Lin Xiaobai" is twelve years old, just past his prime, and his muscular ability is declining, but when he sees Lin Jian, he still rubs his head gently against the side of his face as he did when he was a child, showing warmth and intimacy.

At the beginning, several people rode their horses for a few laps in the sand, and after getting acquainted, Ai Jia said she wanted to run on the slopes. Cheng Youjun's girlfriend, a very elegant lady, was glad to hear that she was going with her, and Lin Jian, who has been studying horsemanship for many years and for whom the slopes are not difficult, decided to go with them after some thought.

After all, Shen Ke is busy with his daily work and it's rare for him to come out for a break, so he doesn't want the other guy to always be looking out for him.

There was a long distance between the two grounds, through a wood, and the countryside was so pleasant that the three men rode through it at an unhurried pace.

On the way, Cheng Youjun's girlfriend curiously asked Ai Jia, who was next to him, "I see that you two are about the same age, and you're called Mr. Shen's brother, so is Lin Jian his younger brother?"

Ai Jia said, "No, I'm only a year older than Jane, but I'm a generation older."

"......"

Lin Jian can't deny it.

The imperial beauty was really surprised, surprised Lin Jian looked at Lin Jian, Lin Jian thought she was going to ask why or the relationship between the family, did not expect the beauty threw off the long hair under the horse cap, said to Lin Jian, "Then we also each talk about each other, you or call me sister, by such a handsome younger brother called aunts or aunts, I am prone to doubt the life. life."

Lin Jian couldn't hold back his laughter and nodded his head yes.

On the other side, the staff was checking the venue's obstacles, Cheng Youjun waited for a while with boredom, and suddenly said to Shen Ke: "Dude, what do you think of my girlfriend?"

"Hmm?" Shen Ke gave him a puzzled look, "You're asking me that, and it's giving me a little bit of inappropriate speculation."

Cheng Youjun froze for a moment, then reacted with a laugh and cursed, "Fuck off! I'm asking you what you think of her as a person."

"Pretty good." Shen Ke laughed, "More than enough for you."

"That's a must." Cheng Youjun said, "I just love the thrill of being with someone I don't deserve."

Shen Ke was speechless, "What's wrong."

"Hey ......" Cheng Youjun sighed in disappointment and leisurely said, "It's a joke when it comes out of your mouth, but it's only solid when it comes out of my mom and dad's mouth. "

Shen Ke raised his hand and ran it through the horse's mane, "What do you mean?"

"Literally." Cheng Youjun shrugged, helpless, "But my parents say the opposite of you."

Shen Ke mused for a moment, understanding.

"My girlfriend is actually very good." said Cheng Youjun, "After graduating from a famous university, she joined my company as a programmer. Cheng Youjun said, "brand-name university graduates, after graduation into my company, from the programmer to start, step by step to the department head, our company several large projects, she is responsible for the completion of the individual ability is quite strong, we are together for more than three years, she is independent and self-reliant, basically did not spend much of my money ... ... you say such a good girl is not hard to find. ...Do you think it's hard to find such a good girl?"

Shen Ke nodded, unable to disagree, "It's remarkable that girls work harder as programmers than boys."

"Right, in fact, from the time she was a programmer to write code I noticed her, no way, who let her beautiful it, the results have seen her write the program, crikey, I just found that I superficial, people code written more beautiful, the company up and down all know, I chased after her for more than a year, and finally it was hard to catch up with the hands of the easy one me."

"Not ...... what exactly are you trying to tell me?" Shen Ke laughed good-naturedly, "Complaint? Show love?"

"Listen to me, do not interrupt." Cheng Youjun said, "As a result, when it comes to my parents, it turns out that people have ulterior motives, put a long line to catch a big fish, saying that people are just rushing to my family business, only to cheat a brainless second generation like me, hey brother--" Cheng Youjun pointed to himself, "Do I look like a man? Youjun pointed to himself, "Do I look like you?"

"......" Shen Ke looked at him with complicated eyes and didn't say anything.

"Fuck, I get it." Cheng Youjun laughed in anger, "I am sometimes a little stupid, but I have never been confused in the big things, my own girlfriend what kind of person, so many years I still do not understand it?"

Shen Ke nodded, "So? You're having a bad day in love and you want me to go to Uncle Cheng's place to be your lobbyist?"

"That's not necessary." Cheng Youjun waved his hand, "Despite the ups and downs, a brother still rides the waves and goes forward, and if things go well, you'll be able to have your engagement drink after the first of the year."

Shen Ke was speechless, "Then what do you mean by fooling around with me?"

"Ahem, I bar ...... I just want to say ......" Cheng Youjun rode a little closer and whispered, "Close to the vermilion is red you understand right? You see, my girlfriend is so good, then her girlfriends and so on, isn't it also surely not wrong? I tell you, she has a good sister--"

"Stop." Shen Ke narrowed his eyes slightly and gave him a scrutinizing look, "Dare you wait for me here? You sang me half a day of one-liners, but in the end you went around in circles just to introduce me to your girlfriend?"

Cheng Youjun pleaded, "It's not that I'm afraid of directly saying you're annoying!"

"It's late, it's already annoying."

"Hey hey hey! It's not a big loss for you to see each other. If you can't, it's not bad to get to know one more friend." Cheng Youjun followed his advice, "Besides, you're already twenty-seven, so Uncle Shen and Auntie Shen aren't in a hurry to rush you?"

Shen Ke was silent for a long time and whispered, "Don't have that kind of free time."

"You've got to have it!" Cheng Youjun refused to give up, "If you told me this last year, I would still believe you, but nowadays it's not the same as in the past, the change of the chairman of the Shen Group was on the headlines of the financial news a few days ago - Chairman Shen, after the establishment of the business, we should also think about starting a family, right? "

"My parents didn't even worry about this for me, why are you so anxious?"

Cheng Youjun do not eat his loss of this set, anyway, so many years are also used to, tirelessly said: "The emperor eunuchs are not anxious, brother for you anxious ah, and you this person, it is suitable to find a gentle like water girl, delicate and softly smile at you, loss of words to see if you can still say.... ...Hey just right, my girlfriend's best friend-hey shit!"

Shen Ke didn't let him get away with any more nonsense, seeing the staff withdraw from the field after the inspection, lifting his foot to kick Cheng Youjun's horse's ass, and then pulling up the reins himself, the two horses scurried out almost at the same time!

Shen Ke lowered his body, his lean and slender body tensed its strength, the hot wind brought up by the high speed brushed past his ears, and in the moment when the steed jumped over the horizontal wooden obstacle, the broken hair in front of his forehead was lifted up by the strong wind, revealing his handsome and sharp eyebrows.

Cheng Youjun slightly behind him two steps, at this point actually refused to give up: "Not you really do not consider it? Hey so good a girl ...... crouch that will not you are not interested in the girl, waiting for brothers to introduce you to the young man it!"

Shen Ke simply ignore him, skillfully driving the horse over a set of three horizontal logs, Cheng Youjun's tone has changed from disbelief to alarm: "Crap really fake ah? Although the young man is not impossible, but you this is very bad ride ah ...... hey fuck, brother you so many years do not fall in love, it is difficult to ...... is not to me have any meaning right!"

Shen Ke: "......"

A lap of the obstacle course ran down, Shen Ke calm and relaxed, only slightly see gasping, Cheng Youjun up and down breath, but also ate a mouthful of sand.

The staff handed over pure water, Cheng Youjun rinsed his mouth, pointing at Shen Ke's fingers slightly shaking: "What do you mean you don't say anything, I guessed it?"

Shen Ke glanced at him, thought it was funny, and deliberately asked, "Guess which one? Is it liking the lad or having a crush on you?"

Cheng Youjun shivered and did not dare to talk casually.

"Don't worry." Shen Ke handed the staff the horse rope, took a couple sips of water, and casually joked, "I just really like the lads, and I sure as hell don't beat you to it."

Cheng Youjun was not convinced again: "Why? What is it about me that you don't like?"

Shen Ke let out a "tsk", "You don't have anything I like."

Cheng Youjun: "What?"

Shen Ke: "Brains."

"......"

While talking, Lin Jian and the three of them slowly paced over from the other side of the hill, and when they saw their girlfriends, Cheng Youjun immediately changed from a brainless president to a brainless large family dog, begging bitterly for a hug and a sticker.

Cheng Youjun's girlfriend pushed him in amusement, "Don't make a fuss, there are still kids around."

"It's okay, it's okay." Ai Jia immediately smiled and made her position clear, "High school students, you've reached the age where early love is the most appropriate, you're not a child."

Lin Jian was just introduced to obstacle course two years ago, and was looking at the re-sanded course with some desire to try, Shen Ke saw his thoughts and walked next to "Lin Xiaobai" and asked, "Run a lap?"

Lin Jian nodded his head and dismounted, ready to change Shen Ke's favorite horse into the ring.

Just then, Cheng Youjun's girlfriend raised her hand and rubbed his chin, asking with a smile, "What were you chatting about just now, why did you get sand in the corners of your mouth, you ran with your mouth open?"

"Don't mention it, I'm sorry!" said Cheng Youjun. Cheng Youjun said, "I was introducing our Chairman Shen to someone, but in the end - watch out!"

Shen Ke's horse is a pure-blood Hanoverian, tall and strong, Lin Jian did not know whether it was lost in thought or not paying attention, when mounting the horse suddenly slipped, did not step on the stirrups, half of his body straight from the back of the horse in the air and fell down!

In a heartbeat, Shen Ke was one step ahead of the others, wrapping one hand around his waist, passing one hand under his armpit, and firmly embracing the upper half of his body, steadily encircling the man in his arms!

The heart beats were so intense and disorganized, thumping against the chest, that for a moment they couldn't tell each other apart.

Lin Jian raised his head in shock, his hasty and panicked sight did not belong to him, and finally landed on Shen Ke's left ear, and in his rapid heartbeat he realized in a daze that there was a very small mole like a grain of rice on the back of Shen Ke's ear, and that they had never embraced each other so intimately, and so they had never noticed it.

Shen Ke maintains his hold and is clearly startled as well, slowing his voice for a moment before lowering his head slightly and asking, "Is everything okay?"

Warm breath fell on the side of Lin Jian's face, he smelled Shen Ke body has a very light aquatic woody fragrance, mixed with a little bit of cold cool end notes, like the cold sea water mixed with the smell of mint.

That's Shen Ke's go-to men's perfume.

Lin Jian quickly returned to his senses, pursing his lips and shaking his head.

Shen Ke, then relieved, set him down and asked in a low voice with a frown, "What were you thinking about?"

"Nothing." Lin Jian's eyes drooped, his mind swirling with unaccountable annoyance, "I accidentally stepped out of the air."

After such a small accident, several people did not want to stay any longer, and the original topic of discussion was also dropped. After parting outside the stable, Shen Ke first sent Ai Jia back to her home, and then drove Lin Jian back to his home.

Lin Jian all the way to silence, forehead against the car window, watching the neon night scene in front of the eyes of the fast receding, the heart of the interrogation but the intermittent.

Cheng Youjun said that he would introduce Shen Ke to someone at the racecourse, did Shen Ke say yes? In fact, Shen Ke is already 27 years old, although in the family of the rich and powerful, there are many young men who have not started a family at this age, but ...... not having a family does not mean that they do not fall in love, so even if Shen Ke said yes, it would not be surprising.

So what kind of person would it be? What would it be like to stand shoulder-to-shoulder and arm-in-arm with Shen Ke?

If such a person really appears, is ...... it possible that Shen Ke will have less time to go home? Or ...... will the original two of their happy home, will one day suddenly become a "family of three"?

Lin Jian could not imagine such a picture. For seven years, he had long been used to living alone with Shen Ke, and he couldn't imagine that one day, Shen Ke would bring back a beautiful girl and stand in front of him, saying, "This one will be called Little Auntie".

He was even less able to accept the sudden intrusion of a third person into what had been a quiet life for two people.

Or - if Shen Ke really has a girlfriend, is it inconvenient for him to live in that garden house? Should he go back to Shen Ke's mansion and leave the time and space to Shen Ke and the girl, so that he would not be inconvenienced?

In fact, Shen Ke such a person, if you make a girlfriend, must also be a all aspects of the outstanding girl, kind-hearted, gentle and quiet, or cute and lively, dynamic and interesting. This kind of girl, will not care about him as a child raised in the family, "Hatchet", but ...... as long as the thought of once belonged to the two people's stable time will be suddenly broken, Lin Jian heart still rise up a burst of unspeakable, delicate The first time I saw him, he was in the middle of the night, and he was in the middle of the night.

Besides, who could be worthy of a man like Shen Ke?

Lin Jian meditated in his mind for a long time, and finally came up with an answer that shocked himself -

No one ...... in his heart, there is simply no one who can match Shen Ke.

When I got home, Auntie had already made dinner and left. Lin Jian enters in silence, changes his shoes, and goes to the bathroom to take a shower.

The teenager's white and thin body stood in the water flow, the warm water washed down, Lin Jian researched all the way to the brain to rest for a moment, and then felt a little pain in the left upper arm, lifted his arm and looked sideways, only to find that there was a little abrasion on the lower part of his left arm, it should have been the time when he fell down from the horse in the afternoon and accidentally rubbed against the metal bar of the saddle.

Lin Jian didn't care and put on his bathrobe and walked out of the bathroom, only to see Shen Ke sitting on the sofa in the living room on the first floor, with the family's medical kit in his hand.

Seeing him out, Shen Ke lifted his chin, "Come here."

Lin Jian froze for a moment, not realizing that something he didn't even care about at the time was seen by Shen Ke.

The iodine solution didn't hurt when it was rubbed into the wound, it was just a little bit silky and cool, Shen Ke frowned slightly and whispered, "I forgot to mention earlier that I should have let you wrap it up before taking a shower."

"Nothing, just a little skin." Lin Jian hesitated for a moment and suddenly asked, "Are you going to fall in love?"

In the end is a young man's heart, the heart of the words hidden more, it is inevitable that there are accidental overflow of time, but finished he regretted, and tightly pursed lips, hanging eyes do not look at people.

"...... What are you thinking about." Shen Ke obviously did not expect him to suddenly ask this question, but only looked slightly stunned, and then returned to normal, turning into the usual lazy tone at home, "The birthday is not yet over, how come the IQ is still not advancing, but regressing?"

But ...... what is this attitude? Did not admit but also not denied, ambiguous but more Lin Jian upset.

He seemed to be desperately seeking an affirmative answer, whether it was all good or not, as if the only way to find an outlet for the panic and uncertainty that was clogging up his heart was to hear it from Shen Ke's own mouth.

"Then you--" Lin Jian gathered his courage again, but just as he spoke, Shen Ke's cell phone rang.

Shen Ke threw the cotton swabs into the trash basket, got up and picked up the phone, it should be a business matter, after hanging up the phone, Shen Ke turned back to him and said, "I have to go to the office, will you have dinner by yourself?"

Lin Jian opened his mouth, the unfinished words were stuck in his throat, but he could no longer save up a solitary courage, and after a moment, nodded his head.

He watched in silence as Shen Ke went back to his room to change his clothes, went downstairs, and changed his shoes in the foyer, while before he left the door, Shen Ke suddenly turned back and said to him with a smile, "I've prepared a birthday gift for you, it's in the study, Song Zhi just sent it over this afternoon, go and take a look yourself?"

After Shen Ke left, the room was quiet all of a sudden. Lin Jian sat on the sofa for a while longer before getting up and heading for the second floor.

Shen Ke gives him a birthday present every year, a limited edition watch and a model car that all boys dream of, but for some reason, Lin Jian is particularly eager to know what Shen Ke has given him this year.

Walking into the study and turning on the light, Lin Jian looked up and froze.

On the floor of the study stood a framed piece of calligraphy, the strokes of which were strong and powerful, but where they ended, they were all free and easy, and Lin Jian recognized at a glance that these four big words came from the pen of Shen Ke---.

The Way is Simple.