Our Entire Family Has Secrets [Transmigrated] - Chapter 41
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The physical education class on Monday afternoon is a kind of relaxation for the people in Class 7.
Generally speaking, they will get at least 30 minutes of free time.
Boys and girls gathered together in groups, playing their own games, and having a lot of fun.
Among the more than 40 people, it seems that only Yuan Bozhu is unhappy.
But no one noticed his unhappiness.
Because his expression was as calm as usual, his lips were straight and his eyes were fixed in a certain direction, as if he was in a daze and quiet.
The two people around him were not quiet.
“Brother, do you want to go to the canteen to buy water!” Qin Rui actively invited him.
Lin Shuanghuai stood up consciously: “I’ll go buy it, what does Ah Zhu want to drink?”
Yuan Bozhu didn’t say anything.
It’s not that he deliberately ignored Lin Shuanghuai.
It’s just that since noon, there is no need to respond to anything Lin Shuanghuai said.
Because…
“Wow! I didn’t expect you to be so polite! OK, go buy it for us, I want to drink Coke!” Qin Rui said arrogantly.
Lin Shuanghuai ignored him and looked at Yuan Bozhu, saying, “I’ll buy you a sports drink. You just ran, so you still need to replenish some water. Azhu’s classmates drink mineral water.”
Qin Rui: “Why should I drink mineral water? I want to drink Coke. Thank you!”
Lin Shuanghuai said with a smile, “Coke kills sperm. You look like you have kidney deficiency. I’m thinking about you.”
“Are you looking for trouble? Are you looking for trouble?” Qin Rui was so angry that he jumped up and down.
Lin Shuanghuai pulled Yuan Bozhu’s sleeve and said, “Azhu, your classmate has a bad temper.”
Yuan Bozhu glanced at him and suddenly didn’t know what to say.
Qin Rui shouted: “You are playing me! Brother Yuan, you have to recognize his true face! This person is a typical two-faced person. I heard that he not long ago also-”
“Classmate Qin Rui.” Lin Shuanghui opened his eyes innocently and said, “Why are you so hostile to me? I just came to Class 7 today, and you moved all my books out of the drawer. Now you are maliciously slandering me in front of Azhu… Did you hear some rumors? I think we can have a good chat.”
“Humph.” Qin Rui slapped his thigh, “Don’t pretend to be innocent. I know you are very cruel.”
Lin Shuanghui bit his lip, looked at Yuan Bozhu, and said pitifully: “…I don’t.”
Yuan Bozhu has always known that Lin Shuanghui is good at controlling his expressions. He is used to pretending to be perfect and people can’t find fault with him.
But it’s the first time I’ve seen him pretending to be pitiful.
Maybe Lin Shuanghui had just learned this trick and was a little unfamiliar with it.
He squeezed for a long time but couldn’t squeeze out a tear, just staring at Yuan Bozhu.
Yuan Bozhu sighed and stood up.
Lin Shuanghui followed him nervously.
Yuan Bozhu stretched out his hand and pressed it on his shoulder. He could immediately feel that Lin Shuanghui was tense all over, and his slightly raised chin was trembling.
However, this kind of physical contact was very short.
Yuan Bozhu only glanced at Lin Shuanghui, and he knew that Lin Shuanghui understood what he meant.
He was tired of the noise and wanted to be alone for a while.
Then he let go.
Lin Shuanghui was indeed very good at reading his eyes, and did not follow him again, but there was a little disappointment on his face.
Qin Rui was happy to see Lin Shuanghui being humiliated.
He jumped up and was about to follow him with a smile: “I knew my brother Yuan had sharp eyes. How could he be fooled by your pretense? Humph!”
However, before he ran to the front, Yuan Bozhu glanced at him coldly:
“Don’t follow me.”
The two of them watched Yuan Bozhu walk to a quiet corner of the playground quietly.
They really didn’t follow him. However, when Yuan Bozhu was far away, Qin Rui was ready to attack Lin Shuanghui.
He turned around and exposed him:
“Were you so friendly when you kicked your brother into the sea?”
Lin Shuanghui also put away the smile on his face.
He rubbed his eyes tiredly and looked up at Qin Rui, but he had no intention of arguing with Qin Rui.
He just asked, “Where did you hear that?”
“Several of my groups have already exposed your black history!”
“What black history?”
“You blinded your brother, you kicked him into the sea, and…”
Qin Rui counted on his fingers, then paused, perhaps because he felt that the next sentence was particularly impolite, and swallowed it back, pouting uncomfortably, and said, “Anyway, I know everything you have done.”
Lin Shuanghuai was not angry because someone spread rumors about him behind his back. Instead, he asked Qin Rui with interest, “Do you believe everything others say?”
Qin Rui choked.
Of course, he didn’t believe all the gossip.
At first, he heard that Lin Shuanghuai was the illegitimate son of the Chen family, but he didn’t believe it.
Later, it was rumored that Lin Shuanghuai was the second young master who was expelled from the family, and he didn’t believe it either.
There are messy gossips in the circle every day, and Qin Rui just looks at the pictures for fun and never takes it to heart.
Until one day, a photo was posted in the group, saying that Lin Shuanghuai kicked Chen Jin into the sea, and Qin Rui believed it a little.
But he was also skeptical.
Because Lin Shuanghuai had such a good image in school, it was hard for him to imagine how sinister and vicious Lin Shuanghuai was.
The first time Qin Rui felt that Lin Shuanghuai was a little dangerous was when he learned the cause of death of Lin Shuanghuai’s mother.
But to be honest, this matter was far away from him, and Qin Rui didn’t take it seriously at the time.
Until that day, his father called him from thousands of miles away and asked him to visit the eldest son of the Chen family in Qiancheng when he had time, because their family had some business dealings with the Chen family, and his father had no time to fly back, so he asked his son to help.
Qin Rui went to see Chen Jin.
He saw Chen Jin’s blind eye up close – because he fell into the sea, there was no protection, and the artificial eye was broken by the waves, and the doctor took it out and readjusted it.
Qin Rui saw the empty eye socket by chance.
He stiffly gave flowers and said some auspicious words.
Chen Jin knew at a glance that he was scared, and sneered, “Are you scared? In the first few years after I became blind, I dreamed of my eyeballs exploding every day. Thanks to my good brother. I heard that you are also from Qiancheng No. 1 Middle School, you’d better stay away from him.”
When he returned that day, Qin Rui had a nightmare. He dreamed that his eyeballs exploded.
But after this incident, Qin Rui was very generous and gradually felt less afraid.
He just felt that Lin Shuanghui had a complicated life experience and it was best not to contact him.
But things did not go as he wished. He finally made a friend, and this Lin Shuanghui actually had the same goal as him.
“Don’t worry about whether I believe in gossip or not. I’ll tell you one thing clearly,” Qin Rui announced without talking to him about those useless things, “I am the best friend of Brother Yuan, you stand aside!”
Lin Shuanghui stared at him for a long time, which made Qin Rui get goose bumps all over his body, and he took two steps back inexplicably.
Then, Lin Shuanghui suddenly laughed: “Why do you say you are his best friend? Are you worthy?”
There is a big banyan tree in the southwest corner of the playground. In summer, many students will come here to cool off.
But recently, the weather in Qiancheng has changed drastically, and this place has become a corner that no one cares about.
Yuan Bozhu was finally able to calm down.
As for quarreling, Lin Shuanghui and Qin Rui are not that noisy, but Yuan Bozhu is not used to it.
He is not used to having people following him wherever he goes, not used to having people who claim to be his friends standing shoulder to shoulder with him, and not used to watching Lin Shuanghui and Qin Rui fighting for him – as if he is such an important person.
Yuan Bozhu would rather believe that Lin Shuanghui and Qin Rui, two classmates with good relationships, were frustrated by him, and developed a stubborn curiosity, and worked hard to make friends with him.
He also doesn’t want to conclude that these two people really want to make friends with him out of an emotion he doesn’t understand.
Because the former is obviously easier to deal with.
Then came the voice of a cat, “Meow…!”
Yuan Bozhu looked up to see the big orange cat sleeping on a tree.
The moment it noticed him approaching, it puffed up its fur.
Yuan Bozhu thought it might not come down, so he reached out.
However, the big orange cat leaped away and landed a few meters in front of him before quickly running off.
Yuan Bozhu watched it disappear around the corner and slowly retracted his hand.
It seemed the world was trying to warn him that he didn’t belong here; every time these little animals saw him, they ran away.
He had tried to suppress the power of his death aura, but they didn’t respond well.
It felt like a bug—though he had many bugs, as long as they didn’t affect his life, he didn’t worry about changing anything.
The leaves trembled slightly.
Were there more cats?
Yuan Bozhu looked up, only to see a black crow.
Its plumage was a dull black; if it weren’t for Yuan Bozhu’s keen eyesight, no one would have noticed it.
One second, two seconds.
Nearly two minutes passed, and the crow remained there, showing no intention of leaving.
Its eyes blinked unnaturally, and its head turned as if monitoring everything.
Yuan Bozhu frowned slightly.
He felt a presence and looked toward the horizon, where suddenly a swarm of crows appeared.
The classmates on the playground curiously looked up, some taking out their phones to snap pictures, while class monitor Qin Jiao remembered his responsibilities and noted down the names of those using their phones.
“How strange, so many crows; it feels ominous…”
“Forget about the crows, look at that cloud! It’s going to rain!”
The gym teacher, sitting nearby and playing on his phone, glanced at the sky and said, “Alright, let’s gather. Before it starts raining, we’ll take attendance and then head back to the classroom.”
The presence of the crows only piqued everyone’s curiosity; no one truly understood any deeper meaning behind them.
During roll call, Yuan Bozhu noticed that Lin Shuanghuai and Qin Rui hadn’t returned. His expression hardened, and he grabbed the arm of a nearby person and asked, “Have you seen Lin Shuanghuai?”
This was the first time Yuan Bozhu had actively spoken to this classmate, who appeared startled by his deep and cold tone, stammering, “I… I don’t know.”
At that moment, the teacher, having finished taking attendance, also inquired, “Where are the two missing students?”
Someone said, “I saw them go behind the teaching building. Qin Rui was red-faced, like they were arguing!”
“Lin Shuanghuai has such a good temper; how could he be arguing?”
“Who knows? Qin Rui seems a bit explosive today.”
Everyone secretly glanced at Yuan Bozhu.
They had all witnessed the “open conflict” between Lin Shuanghuai and Qin Rui today, but no one understood their true intentions.
After all, it couldn’t really be just to fight over the title of “best friend of Yuan Bozhu,” could it?
Ridiculous.
Before the teacher called for dismissal, Yuan Bozhu had already strode toward the back of the teaching building.
Once he reached a secluded spot, he didn’t hesitate, using one hand to form a hand sign before casting a barrier.
However, this barrier couldn’t last too long.
The larger the barrier, the more energy it required.
Yuan Bozhu didn’t know how to explain this theoretically, but the fact was that when he expended too much of his energy, his aura could be detected like that of other rare beings.
He had tried before.
The day after he planned to place a barrier around everyone in his family to conceal their auras for life, Yuan Qifeng and Yuan Wanjiao sensed something was off.
But at that time, they didn’t suspect him; they thought a powerful figure was lurking in the shadows to harm them, making those days at home very tense for them.
Now, Yuan Bozhu could skillfully manage this balance—knowing how to use his power and when to pull back without being detected.
The barrier was cast above the entire school; once the flock of crows couldn’t sense the energy field and left, he would retract the barrier.
The corner was less than three meters ahead, and Yuan Bozhu could already hear the argument between Lin Shuanghuai and Qin Rui.
But he stopped.
“No! He’s my brother-in-arms! He saved my life; he’s my only brother!” Qin Rui was straining to keep his voice down, but it was still loud.
In contrast, Lin Shuanghuai’s voice was calm and gentle:
“He saved me too. Twice.”
Lost!
The word popped into Qin Rui’s mind, and he quickly slapped his forehead—he couldn’t give up!
“He helped me celebrate my eighteenth birthday! He told me happy birthday!” Qin Rui huffed.
Lin Shuanghuai’s birthday hadn’t arrived yet; this was a guaranteed win!
Yet Lin Shuanghuai smiled coldly and said, “He’s been to my house.”
Qin Rui gasped, taken aback for a moment before struggling to respond, “He… he accompanied me to an interview and had drinks with me! He even saw me home!”
Lin Shuanghuai replied politely, “I’ve been to his house.”
“No!” Qin Rui clutched his heart, disbelief etched on his face. “…When did you two get so close?!”
Lin Shuanghuai smiled silently, allowing him to guess.
He was completely defeated!
In this competition of closeness, Qin Rui could no longer retort.
He couldn’t stand upright and accuse Lin Shuanghuai of having no qualifications.
The one lacking qualification now was him!
But Lin Shuanghuai generously offered a suggestion: “Why don’t we stop this pointless argument? I never intended to be friends with him.”
Qin Rui scoffed, suddenly energized, and asked Lin Shuanghuai, “See? You’re showing your true colors! You’re not genuine with Yuan Bozhu! Tell me—if you don’t want to be his friend, why are you trying to steal his desk mate and cling to him? What’s your motive?”
Lin Shuanghuai shrugged, unreservedly responding, “I like him.”
Qin Rui’s voice cut off abruptly.
His breath halted.
He stood there, stunned, for a long moment before retracting his neck and quietly asking, “What do you mean?”
“I don’t want to be his friend,” Lin Shuanghuai explained with a smile. “My goal is to be his boyfriend. You understand, right?”
Qin Rui plopped down onto the ground.
He got it, but it left him dumbfounded.
A strange wind blew, rustling the leaves.
Soft footsteps mingled in the sound, gradually fading until they disappeared.
Lin Shuanghuai’s hearing had improved remarkably. He could clearly catch that faint sound.
Yet his smile only deepened, unrestrained.