The Most Random System

Chapter 1237: Chapter 546: If This Doesn’t Count as Love_2

Bai Bufan saw Lin Li still being enigmatic here, but he didn’t rush to ask and just frowned.

"No need for that, I figure around noon or in the afternoon, I’ll still take you home. It would be too cruel to take away the chance for your parents to have New Year’s Eve dinner with you." But Lin Li waved his hand, indicating Bai Bufan didn’t need to do so.

"Take me back? And then pick us up again in the evening? Huh?" Bai Bufan was even more confused when he heard this, "What exactly are we going to do?"

If he could still be taken back home by noon or the afternoon, then the travel radius shrank significantly, making some of Bai Bufan’s previous speculations instantly impossible.

Lin Li got out of the car and opened the trunk.

"Here’s a little hint, I won’t say more than that."

Looking at the variety of fireworks and firecrackers in the trunk, Bai Bufan frowned, "Firecrackers? What’s this, taking me to blow up a dog bowl?"

Bai Bufan directly ignored the fireworks, after all, playing with fireworks in broad daylight made little sense.

"You didn’t get what I was trying to express," Lin Li smiled mysteriously, satisfied with Bai Bufan’s reaction, "If you can’t make use of the opportunity given, then there’s nothing I can do. Now, let’s get going, time is pressing."

"...Alright." Having come this far, Bai Bufan didn’t mind anymore. After getting in the car and seeing Lin Li set off, he continued to ask, "Are we going to pick up Qu Wanqiu now?"

Lin Li glanced at the "Three People and a Dog" group chat, the latest message still being his own, and shook his head:

"Forget it, the three of them haven’t woken up yet. They probably stayed up late last night, and being woken up is unpleasant, we should be considerate.

Bufan, think about it, if you were woken up at 8 AM on New Year’s Eve by a lunatic calling, and without any warning, made to go out for no reason, you probably wouldn’t be in a good mood, right?"

Bai Bufan: "..."

It turns out the "if" is if I were woken up at 8 AM on New Year’s Eve by a lunatic call?

Phew, thankfully Lin Li said this was just an "if"!

Otherwise, Bai Bufan would really think this had actually happened!

"Lin Li, you’re really a kind man."

Bai Bufan smiled warmly, his smile as warm as ice.

"By the way, Lin Li, if, and I’m just saying if, if there’s a driver focused on driving and a knife suddenly stabs into the driver’s lower body from the passenger seat, would the driver be in a good mood?"

Lin Li didn’t speak, just turned on the sound system:

"If I were a DJ, would you love me, mom? Would you love me?"

"If I were a DJ, would you love me, dad? Would you love me, dad!"

"Damn it!" Bai Bufan cursed with a laugh and then yawned again, "How long is the drive going to be, can you at least tell me that?"

"About twenty minutes fast, half an hour slow."

"So, are we heading towards Xiling?"

Glancing at the current direction, Bai Bufan rubbed his slightly sore cheeks from yawning, half-closed his eyes, and lowered his voice slightly:

"Half an hour, huh? That’s long enough for a nap. Lin Li, stop the car, I’ll switch to the backseat and sleep for a bit, wake me when we arrive."

"Wow, you’re really okay with sleeping alone in the car I’m driving? Bufan, I truly feel your trust in me, OKOK." Lin Li was very touched.

Hearing this, Bai Bufan couldn’t help but laugh, moved with the mindset that he might sleep forever, shuffled to the backseat, took off the slightly warm jacket due to the car’s heater, used it as a blanket, and curled up to sleep.

...

"Squeak!"

The harsh sound of tires skidding on the ground and the uncontrollable inertia almost threw Bai Bufan off the back seat.

"Uh..." Jumping up from the seat, bumping his head on the back of the front seat, Bai Bufan woozily asked, "Lin Li, what happened?"

Lin Li’s drowsy response came, "I don’t know, brother, I just woke up too, seems like there was an accident."

"Oh, unlucky, what on earth..."

Bai Bufan: "..."

Bai Bufan blinked, sensing his brilliant intelligence swiftly seizing the high ground.

"Hey, Lin Li, wait a minute." Bai Bufan gradually became expressionless ☉_☉, "Who did you say just woke up?"

"Come on, Lin Li, tell your ’big dam’ (big boss), who exactly just woke up???"

Bai Bufan suddenly recalled a phrase.

— As a seasoned driver with sixteen years of experience, safety awareness is very strong, I never dare to sleep when someone else is driving, I must sit in the passenger seat and watch them to ensure safety, only when the steering wheel is in my hand, am I able to comfortably take a nap.

"It’s not our fault, someone drove their car into a tree and hit us, they’re fully at fault."

Lin Li shook his head, and with his voice clear from awakening, immediately clarified the responsibility.

"Tell that to the insurance!" Bai Bufan cursed with a laugh.

The reason he could still laugh now was naturally because Bai Bufan found out there was no obstacle in front of the car, obviously, the sudden brake was just Lin Li messing with him.

Glancing at his phone, it was already 8:43, about half an hour since they left, so he leaned towards the window:

"Are we there?"

"Yes, get out of the car." Lin Li nodded, turned off the engine, and unbuckled his seat belt while answering.

"Wait," observing through the window, and with his brain gradually resuming normal operations, Bai Bufan noticed the scene outside seemed familiar—"Isn’t this under your building, Lin Li? Are you going up to get something?"

"Sort of, let’s go." Lin Li nodded, urging once more.

Despite the full of question marks in his head, the loyal dog Bufan still got out of the car, walked up the staircase he had climbed several times before.

Upon reaching the corresponding floor, Lin Li used a key to open the door.

"Back already?"

The voice of Wu Min approached from the master bedroom.

Wu Min was no longer in bed, not only was the master bedroom door open, but the window curtains inside were also wide open, making the light extremely bright.

"Yeah, yeah," Lin Li nodded, swiftly changed into slippers and handed a pair of guest slippers to Bai Bufan: "After all, as we discussed yesterday, can’t let you work alone."

"What exactly did you go out for—eh, is this... Bufan?" And when Wu Min noticed that it wasn’t just Lin Li who returned, but also Lin Li’s ’acquaintance’, she was surprised.

"Hello Auntie." Bai Bufan greeted politely, while feeling a vague sense of foreboding.

Because at that moment, Wu Min had sleeves on both arms, and was holding a rag.

Soon, Bai Bufan’s unease came true—

"Hello, hello, Lin Li, why did you suddenly bring Bufan home to play?" Wu Min immediately greeted back, then looked at Lin Li in confusion.

"Who brought him home to play? I’m using him as a laborer," Lin Li immediately waved his hand, "The pre-New Year cleaning is tiring for just the two of us, might still be unfinished by noon, having an extra laborer helps a lot, with a mileage cost of just one whip per hundred kilometers."

Then Lin Li tossed the two sleeves and a rag stacked beside the dining table to Bai Bufan, who stood like a minion with a blank face at the entrance, and frowned with disdain:

"Bufan, why are you dressed so splendidly today, looking like it’s New Year’s.

If during the cleaning later it gets dirty, you’ll complain to me, luckily I have plenty of old clothes here, you can wear them, hurry up and go change in the bedroom.

Your hair is a shame too, looks like you washed it today? Be careful not to get it covered in dust later~

Alright, alright, don’t just stand there, get moving! Go work! Go work!"

Faced with Lin Li’s clapping-like urging, Bai Bufan stood at the entrance for a long time, finally covered his face with the clean rag in hand, shoulders trembling, and laughed.

However, the laugh was a bit somber.

After a while, the rag was lowered, revealing Bai Bufan’s face with a faint smile.

A gentle voice came out, and the rhythm of the words was extremely slow:

"Lin Li—

Oh, what you mean is, on the morning of New Year’s Eve, you woke up by at least 7:30, drove urgently for half an hour to another town, bombarded a pure and innocent boy who had slept for less than six hours with WeChat and phone calls, willingly waited downstairs for half an hour, and finally coaxed him to your house under the guise of a surprise, just to have an extra laborer for the New Year cleaning at home, right?

Even promising to drive him back home by noon or afternoon, making such a big detour, spending an estimated three extra hours, just for this, right?"

Bai Bufan’s smile was very standard, but not sincere.

Lin Li’s smile was not standard, but very sincere OvO: "He’s worth it."

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