h4Chapter 484: Chapter 484/h4

    From Feng City to Beijing, taking the high-speed train is quite a long trip.

    They set out in the morning and didn’t arrive until it was almost time for dinner. They had to eat lunch on the train.

    Prepared meals on trains are never too delectable, but they were lucky to have Jing Qiao.

    The backpack that Song Boyuan had been carrying earlier was filled with meal boxes, all prepared by Jing Qiao.

    "Wow, omurice! I love Auntie," Zhao Xiaole eximed with joy upon seeing the cartoon lunchbox filled with tomato sauce-adorned omurice.

    If Su Lu didn’t feel that she should maintain some decorum, she would have wanted to shout out her love for Xiao Qiao too.

    Because... this girl was so virtuous she even made braised dishes for the lunchboxes! Braised dishes, oh, braised dishes!

    It was simply delightful. Su Lu was very tired and fell asleep quickly after eating.

    Children are always excited on a train, so they were bugging their aunt to y with them, which really just meant walking around in the carriage.

    Bo Jingshen and Song Boyuan weren’t sleepy, so they chatted casually about business matters.

    Su Lu slept through this backdrop of conversation for a long while.

    Until Zhao Xiaole could no longer resist and quietly climbed onto her,ying on top of her and hugging her.

    Su Lu smiled without opening her eyes.

    Holding Su Lu, Zhao Xiaole’s voice was soft and sweet as he drew out the word, "Mommy—"

    "My sweet baby," Su Lu also hugged her son tighter, "Tired from ying?"

    "Tired," said Zhao Xiaole, "Why are you always sleeping?"

    "I’m tired."

    "What did you do?"

    "I..." Su Lu finally opened her eyes and nced sideways with irritation.

    She saw the teasing smile on the man’s face beside her.

    Su Lu said, "Ask Ah Shen and he’ll tell you."

    Zhao Xiaole turned his head to look at Bo Jingshen.

    Bo Jingshen reached out and scooped him up, "I’ll hold him, don’t tire out Su Xiaolu."

    Zhao Xiaole still looked at him eagerly, waiting for an answer.

    Bo Jingshen then leaned in and whispered something into his ear. Su Lu didn’t know precisely what was said, but she saw father and son giggling together, and then Zhao Xiaole stopped probing further.

    Tired, it didn’t take long for Zhao Xiaole to fall asleep on Bo Jingshen’s chest.

    Bo Jingshen, holding his son, also closed his eyes to rest for a while.

    Jing Qiao had been ying with Zhao Xiaole and was also a bit tired, quickly falling asleep as well. When Su Lu looked over, she saw Song Boyuan take a nket from his bag, shake it out gently, and carefully cover Jing Qiao with it.

    Yet he himself appeared to be not the slightest bit sleepy, taking aptop out of his bag, opening it, clicking through documents, and swiftly immersing himself in work.

    Su Lu felt that Song Boyuan had it pretty tough too.

    His life seemed to consist only of work, and Jing Qiao.

    Nothing else.

    He seemed to have no hobbies at all.

    A relentless working machine.

    Su Lu thought about it, initially nning to take out her tablet to do some illustrations but then feeling toozy, she just gazed out at the rapidly retreating scenery outside the window and casually browsed on her phone.

    That’s when she saw a message from Shen Xun.

    The message was quite simple.

    X: "What time are you arriving? I’lle to pick you up."

    Su Lu had just seen the message and quickly texted back the arrival time.

    After a while, Shen Xun replied.

    X: "That’s a pretty long time. Flying would be so much faster."

    deer: "Bo Jingshen has a fear of flying."

    X: "You’re really thoughtful towards him."

    Although the exchange was all through text messages, Su Lu could almost feel her brother’s thick jealousy seeping through the screen.

    deer: "I care about you too, you know."

    X: "Then tell me, how do you have my interests at heart?"

    deer: "Believe it or not, I came back to Beijing for you."

    X: "Oh, I don’t believe that."

    X: "Don’t tell me you n on not bringing Xiao Le back for kindergarten?"

    deer: "Summer vacation isn’t over yet."

    X: "Alright, I have a meeting to attend. Once it’s over, I’lle get you."

    Su Lu didn’t text back. She thought about it for a moment and then opened Su Zhe’s chat, thought again, and closed it.

    Then she fell asleep again and by the time she woke up, they were almost in Beijing.

    Zhao Xiaole was still fast asleep, snoring as hey in Bo Jingshen’s arms - he probably wouldn’t wake up even once they got off the train.

    Su Lu whispered to Bo Jingshen, "We’re almost there. I’ll carry the stuff, you just hold him. Let him sleep a bit longer."

    Bo Jingshen nodded, then thought for a moment and whispered, "Let Xiao Song carry it."

    Xiao Song was right there, reaching for their luggage on the rack when he heard Bo Jingshen’s words.

    Xiao Song’s movements paused for a second, then he conveniently took their luggage down and shouldered it for them.

    Stepping out of the station exit, they saw Shen Xun waiting. He must havee straight from the office after his meeting, dressed in a crisp suit.

    But he looked like he lost weight. Not exactly haggard, but thinner for sure.

    Seeing theme out, Shen Xun smiled and waved to Su Lu.

    Bo Jingshen was actually a bit nervous upon seeing Shen Xun. Although this uncle seemed to have epted him, he still felt some tension.

    Su Zhe was one thing, but Shen Xun had actually gotten physical with him.

    Shen Xun’s gaze lightly swept past Bo Jingshen, seemingly not paying him much attention, and quickly rested on Zhao Xiaole, whom he was holding, then reached out his hand.

    Bo Jingshen let him smoothly take Zhao Xiaole from his arms and then watched helplessly as his uncle used his beard stubble to cruelly wake up his son.

    Bo Jingshen: "..." What the hell, that’s crazy!

    But Zhao Xiaole wasn’t angry. Though slightly unhappy at being rudely awakened, as soon as he saw it was Shen Xun, he was instantly overjoyed, "Uncle! Uncle, I missed you so much!"

    Then he nted kisses all over Shen Xun’s cheeks.

    Su Lu watched her son and couldn’t help but think, sometimes she really found her child amazing. How did he manage to make every elder in the family love him so?

    After a while, she just went with the flow.

    After all, if the child could even charm Song Boyuan, was there really anyone in the world he couldn’t handle?

    Just as Su Lu was thinking this, Shen Xun’s remark reminded her. Shen Xun said, "Why did you suddenlye back? You couldn’t be nning to return for the old man’s birthday, could you? He really isn’t looking forward to seeing you."

    Su Lu thought, oh right, there was someone Zhao Xiaole couldn’t win over - the old-fashioned patriarch of the Shen family.

    "It’s not out of the question," Su Luughed and looked at Shen Xun, "Isn’t he always disapproving because I had a child before marriage and he looks down on Xiao Le’s unclear origins?"

    Speaking, Su Lu patted Bo Jingshen’s shoulder, "Here, today I’ve brought the story of Xiao Le’s origins with me."