"Huh?"

Tao Xinyi suddenly turned her head and looked at the station names scrolling on the bus sign. After two stops, she suddenly woke up.

When the bus arrived at the next stop, Tao Xinyi hurriedly ran off and looked at the unfamiliar things around her blankly. She looked at Lu Ming like a child who had done something wrong and said, "What a bad luck. Where is this?"

Lu Ming looked at the place name written on the platform and said: "Jinhu Road. It's okay. You can definitely go home with me."

Jinhu Road is just a small station. There is no billboard on the platform, only a sign. There are no shops around, only green belts and roads, and there are very few pedestrians.

There are only two options before them. One is to wait for the bus opposite and take the bus back to the missed stop, and the other is to take a taxi.

But Tao Xinyi suffered from severe motion sickness, so Lu Ming immediately chose the second option, which saved her from having to change trains twice.

It may be that the location is too remote, the traffic on the road is very sparse, and you can only see buses passing by occasionally, and even private cars are rarely seen. It may be that you accidentally arrived near the suburbs.

Lu Ming was not familiar with this place, so he could only walk back with Tao Xinyi according to his memory. He couldn't help but miss the future navigation APP and taxi-hailing software APP.

As they walked slowly, a gust of breeze blew in their faces, and the "rustle" of leaves rubbing against each other came to their ears.

Tao Xinyi's symptoms of motion sickness were relieved a lot. She caught a glimpse of a park not far away and a green lake. She said with a little surprise: "Jinhu Road, there really is a lake here. Let's go and have a look!"
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"Okay, but aren't you in a hurry to go home? It's getting dark."

Lu Ming stretched out his hand to brush the hanging wicker and turned to look at her. His stomach actually made a "gurgling" sound at this moment, and the originally romantic and ambiguous scene became a little funny.

"You're hungry, and it's already past six in the afternoon."

Tao Xinyi couldn't help but laugh. She took out a bag of bread and mineral water from her handbag and handed it to Lu Ming. She raised her eyebrows proudly and said, "I have bread, eat it!"

"Why do you carry bread with you?"

Lu Ming took the bread, tore open the package and took a bite. The flour taste was very bland and not too sweet. Today, they just came out to visit Li Xingzhou, why did Tao Xinyi bring bread and water?

"Because, this is my dinner." As she said that, Tao Xinyi lowered her eyes, took out a dorayaki from her handbag, and nibbled on it: "This is my lunch."

"Most of the time I am alone at home. If I don't want to cook, I just eat bread. Sometimes I will sit under a tree with the bread. It is best to be an old tree with lush branches and leaves and a thick trunk."

Lu Ming felt that Tao Xinyi was very sad, so he walked over and rubbed her head.

He can't help her solve family problems now, so he can only wait for the future before making plans.

"Let's go to the park. Lin Xuan will eat with you at school. You can ask me to eat with you after school."

Tao Xinyi nodded silently, and pretended to reach out to comb her hair casually. When she touched his fingertips, she quickly separated them. She opened her mouth several times to say something, but closed it again.

The park is much more lively than the sidewalk. There are many old people walking by the lake, and some old people are dancing in the square in a slightly open area. The high-pitched dance music of "Moonlight over the Lotus Pond" by Feng Huang can be heard in the distance.

They were walking along the lake, watching the sky gradually darken and the reflection of the bright moon appearing on the water.

Lu Ming occasionally became interested in making a splash, bent down to pick up a stone, adjusted his posture, waved the stone with a wave of his hand, and nine water splashes popped out, startling birds to fly across the shore.

"I haven't done it for many years, so I feel a little rusty. It turns out that I remember being able to make more than a dozen splashes."

"Wow! You're so awesome!" Tao Xinyi looked at Lu Ming with some surprise, her eyes eager to try: "I haven't tried yet, please teach me."

"Okay."

Lu Ming taught Tao Xinyi how to do water splashing. He didn't stop until she could throw three or four water splashes and her arms felt a little sore. He walked back and chatted with her, gradually losing track of time.

In the end, they didn't take taxis home until after nine o'clock in the evening.

It was past ten o'clock in the evening when he got home. Lu Ming opened the door and saw Meng Ruohua sitting on the sofa with a straight face. The TV was not turned on, and she turned to look at him.

"You told me you were going to see a classmate, but did you say that it lasted from ten o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock in the evening? Did the male classmate look at you for so long?"

The calm tone concealed murderous intent, suppressing the old mother's anger.

Lu Ming didn't answer for a while. He didn't know if his father had told his mother what he had discovered. He might have spoken rashly just to fight without fighting, and remained silent. He didn't know his mother's attitude towards him and Tao Xinyi.

But based on common sense, the vast majority of parents will be opposed, even the very liberal Lu Guofu does not agree.

Besides, in the final analysis, he and Tao Xinyi have nothing to do now. If they have anything to do with each other, it will be a matter of the future.

Seeing that his son didn't talk to him, Meng Ruohua became even more angry. He slapped the table and shouted: "Do you know how worried your mother is about you! If you don't go home in the middle of the night and don't take your mobile phone with you, how can I know where you went to play! I am

God!"

"I understand if you want to play after the midterm exam, but don't you have a computer at home? Isn't it good for you to play games at home? You have to go to an Internet cafe to play!"

In Meng Ruohua's eyes, her son only sees games, and such things as falling in love, which require enlightenment, are simply not possible for her son.

After seeing that the blame was taken by Yu Yuxi, Lu Ming immediately walked down the steps: "Mom, I won't do this again next time, I promise."

"Oh, I've heard your promise too many times. Just bring your phone with you next time."

Meng Ruohua stood up, took out his flip phone and handed it to Lu Ming, saying tiredly: "When you were a sophomore in high school, you went to the Internet cafe to stay up all night. Your mother stayed up all night and asked you everywhere where you were."

Lu Ming took the warm phone and must have held it in Meng Ruohua's hand for a long time, seeing the bloodshot eyes in her eyes.

Guilt crawled into his heart, gnawing at his flesh like an insect, stinging painfully.

To be honest, when he accompanied Tao Xinyi to the park, he forgot that he was eighteen years old now. He suddenly forgot that he was still under the care of his parents, thinking that he was at the age of twenty-eight and had no one to control him.

Lu Ming kicked the phone into his pocket: "Mom, I'm sorry. I've grown up, don't worry about me."

"Yes, you have grown up. At least you know you won't stay in an Internet cafe all night."

Meng Ruohua's tone was a little resentful, but her face improved a lot. She took out the remote control and turned on the TV and watched the palace drama with gusto. Before her son came back, she couldn't watch the TV at all, so she turned around and asked, "Why don't you watch it with your mother?"

Knowing how to watch TV is also relaxing."

Watching the convoluted conversation between two women in palace attire on TV, Lu Ming had no choice but to refuse and went back to his room to study, but sometimes got distracted.

Will she be questioned by her parents when she returns home?
Chapter completed!