My distant aunt passed away and left me a huge inheritance. But the condition for inheriting it was to raise her autistic grandson. 1 "How much?" I asked the lawyer. He pushed up his glasses and stated a number I couldn't refuse. "Real estate not included," he added. My eyes lit up. I patted my knees, dirty from moving packages. "Deal. I'll sign." "Miss Chen, do you accept the additional condition?" "Raising a person? With this much money, how could I not?" Lawyer Wu said discontentedly, "He is not an ordinary person. You might need to understand this group of people with such problems carefully." I thought for a moment: "Okay, let's meet first." At noon the next day, I arrived at the agreed location a few minutes late. The team leader at the company exploited employees for a long time. The number of interns he scolded to tears in a team was countless. If it weren't for earning money to pay off debts, I would have run away long ago. 2 As soon as I arrived, I saw Lawyer Wu from a distance. He pointed to a flower shop not far away, looking slightly helpless: "He's over there. Go over and I'll tell you." I walked into this ridiculously large flower shop with him. It was more like a small botanical garden than a flower shop. "Luke loves plants. His major abroad was also botany. You must remember that his only interest and hobby is plants." I was surprised: "You mean he can also study?" Lawyer Wu looked at me speechlessly: "He is autistic, not stupid." I nodded awkwardly. Lawyer Wu reminded me: "If you can't make him accept you as family, you will lose the right to inherit the estate." "Then what is the standard for measuring his acceptance of me?" "He is willing to live with you." Lawyer Wu tirelessly stated the precautions. My gaze was suddenly attracted by a figure in front. 3 The person was tall, thin, and pale, with clear black and white eyes, very pure, looking intently at the potted plant in front of him. Sunlight fell on him through the transparent skylight, plating a layer of fine light. He stretched out his slender fingers and tapped the leaves. "Are you sick?" His voice was very soft. "Is it him?" I asked Lawyer Wu. He held his glasses and nodded cautiously. "Luke, your little aunt is here." I hurried to wave my hand: "I'm not much older than him. Just call me by my name." But obviously Luke was more familiar with Lawyer Wu. Without raising his head, he repeated: "Little Aunt." I tentatively walked up to him: "Like this tree?" He seemed not to hear me speaking, just gently stroking the leaves, like healing the tree. When leaving the flower shop, I bought that potted plant and gave it to Luke. When he took it, he said thank you very softly. According to the contract agreement, I took Luke to live with me. After successfully passing three months, I would be able to obtain the entire inheritance. 4 The apartment I rented wasn't big, but living for two people was completely fine. Besides, it was close to where I worked, so I never thought of moving out. Luke was obviously very restrained coming to the new environment. The only things he said to me were "Where is Grandma" or "Where is Uncle Wu." I didn't hide it from him: "Grandma passed away. Uncle Wu is busy. You will live with me from now on, okay?" He didn't speak. I thought he agreed. When I came back from work, he was gone. I was so anxious that I didn't even change my shoes and was about to go out to find him. Suddenly I heard movement on the balcony. I walked over and looked. He was shrunk in the corner of the balcony, hiding behind the flower stand. He sat quietly on the ground, like a silent plant. I pushed aside the dense spider plants. He subconsciously raised his head, his eyes clear. I breathed a sigh of relief: "Time to eat." 5 He didn't get up, only asked me: "Where is Grandma?" "Passed away. Did you forget?" After a good while, he blinked: "Grandma passed away." "Come out, eat first." He hid further inside, covering his ears forcefully. "Don't like here, want to go home." Helpless, I coaxed: "Send you home after eating." He hesitated and dawdled for a good while before coming out. Lawyer Wu said Luke had been treated and grew up abroad since he was ten years old, and needed some time to adapt to domestic life. At the dinner table, he ate half a bowl of rice anyway. I breathed another sigh of relief. This feeling was very wonderful. He was like a rare plant transplanted to my home, and I was just a novice craftsman who needed to regulate all elements well to ensure he could survive. After all, he was really my money tree. 6 "Awesome." I touched his head praisingly. He didn't reject it and also touched his own head. His hair was fluffy and soft, just like the touch of Taxus chinensis (Chinese yew). The Taxus chinensis was the potted plant I gave him. After eating, he put the bowls into the kitchen, then turned back and looked at me. "What's wrong?" "There is no dishwasher here, but Auntie puts the bowls in the dishwasher." I rolled up my sleeves: "It's okay. Go play." He stood at the kitchen door looking at me for a good while before walking away, alive like a rich young master who had never seen poverty life. When I finished cleaning up the kitchen, he was talking to the potted plant to himself. I approached while mopping the floor. Listening carefully, he was repeating the characteristics of this type of plant. The professional terms he said made me confused. After he finished speaking, I tried to talk to him: "Are you talking to it?" "I am talking to you." "Got it. I'm listening." He seemed a little happy, squatting in front of the spider plants to talk again. Could hear that he was very familiar with the habits of these plants. When I finished mopping the floor, he got up and said: "Little Aunt, I want to go home." 7 "Don't you want to live with me?" "I live with Grandma." "Grandma passed away. She let me take care of you. You will live with me from now on, okay?" He got anxious upon hearing this: "No good. Don't want Little Aunt." I rubbed my forehead. Problems just after getting home. "I want to go home." He repeated stubbornly. I had a brainwave, pointing at a few half-dead flowers and plants on the windowsill. "What will happen to them if you leave? No one helps me take care of them, they will die." He was stunned, his expression a bit tangled. I squatted in front of him, put my palms together very sincerely. "Help me take care of them, okay? Please." "When they bloom, I will go home." Listening to this meaning, he agreed to stay. 8 I catered to his likes and arranged the home into a botanical garden. Plants were the medium for communicating with Luke. After getting along for a month, he at least got used to my existence. Luke was quite talented in raising flowers and plants. My jasmine on the balcony that never bloomed actually developed many flower buds. He could even know what time period the flowers opened, sitting by the balcony waiting in the middle of the night, and shaking me awake as soon as the flowers opened. I rubbed my sleep-filled eyes and was pulled by him to look at the flowers. When Luke was happy, his eyes would shine with sparkling starlight, and those eyes became more lively. "Does Sarah like flowers?" He asked me. Since I told him my name, he would take turns calling. "Like." I yawned. "There are many, many flowers at home. Uncle Wu said someone helps me take care of them, but I want to go home." He was talking about the home abroad. Luke had a three hundred square meter greenhouse there. "I'll accompany you back when I have holidays." He didn't refuse me this time and smiled and said good. 9 Returning home from work this day, the neighbor grandmother's eyes looking at me were incorrect. She shook her head, sighed and walked past me. My face was full of question marks, and the door was pushed open. Qin Kaiyang looked at me with sarcastic eyes: "Okay you Sarah Chen, broke up less than two months ago, and brought a wild man home?" I pushed him away. Luke was bringing dishes to the table. "Little Aunt, time to eat." I gave Qin Kaiyang a slap backhand: "You fucking let him cook?!" Qin Kaiyang covered his face and roared: "Fucking I cooked! He insisted on serving!" 10 At the dinner table, it fell into a weird silence. After a good while, I opened my mouth: "Give me back the key." "Enough heartless you." Qin Kaiyang folded his arms, looking up and down at Luke, "He is a relative from Chen Zhendong's side, can count as your nephew?" "If he can find me, it counts." I said. Qin Kaiyang knew I was a reorganized family. Chen Zhendong was my stepfather. His business failed and he died of a heart attack, leaving a buttload of debts. Qin Kaiyang twitched the corners of his mouth: "It's fine you pay debts for Chen Zhendong, but still pick up such a big burden to carry, are you out of your mind?" "You don't understand." This is not a burden, it's a money tree. He shouted: "I'm preparing to study abroad, leaving in a few days." I was expressionless: "Congratulations." "I said I want to study abroad and you have no reaction? Don't you want to keep me?" Before I spoke, Luke suddenly said: "Don't want him to stay."
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