Like wind

After taking out his homework, Lu Lin watched the sun slowly set, turned on the desk lamp and continued writing.It was almost seven o'clock and Huarou arrived home.

"I'm back." Hua Rou, who knew her son was at home, greeted her.

"Thanks for your hard work."

"Have we not seen each other for a long time? Linlin?"

Hearing his mother call him by his nickname, Lu Lin felt very helpless. "um, yes……"

"Did you study hard?"

"Have."

"You have to know that I have worked very hard for you to study, so study hard."

"Ah."

"How about the half-term exam?"

"Into the top 50."

"Okay, after that——" Hua Rou, like ordinary parents, will pay attention to their children's situation at school, and the next step is the private part.

"did you miss me?"

"Of course there is."

"Come on, let mom hug you." Lu Lin's face froze, this was the time when his mother's maternal love was the most overflowing.She would also force herself to squat down, pretending to be the height of a child to be hugged by her.

Forget it, anyway, Lao Laizi still wants to entertain relatives at such an old age, it doesn't matter if I am so young... Lu Lin comforted himself in his heart, lowered his head and gave his mother gentle touch over and over again, the feeling of Hua Rou's hand touching it was the same Qiu Yu was very different.

His is pampering and possession, while hers is comfort and care.There is an essential difference between the two.

"Hair feels just as good." Hua Rou said, the reason why she loves Lu Lin so much is because she feels that she owes too much to this child.She can only express maternal love in all the ways she can think of.

"It's all the same."

"It feels like shampooing, cough! Cough! The shampoo has changed."

"Mom, are you coughing?"

"No." She finished speaking shortly, the syllable at the end of the sentence obviously changed a lot, and she covered her mouth with her hand.

"It's hard to cure a cough in winter."

"Don't worry, I'm in good health, even if—cough! I'm sick, just take medicine."

"Do you think you are still sick? You have a cough like this!" Lu Lin finished speaking a little angrily, and went to the desk and opened the drawer to look for medicine.But there was nothing left inside, it was empty.

"Mom, where are those medicines?"

"Basically they've been eaten." Hua Rou said normally.

Lu Lin didn't hear the meaning behind Hua Rou's words, "Oh, then I'll go out and buy some."

"It's not easy for you to come back once, shall we go out to eat tonight?"

"Forget it, let's do it ourselves to save money."

"Linlin is really sensible, then I'll cook." Hua Rou smiled, put on her apron and got into the small kitchen.Lu Lin took his wallet and went out.

After closing the door and walking down the stairs, Lu Lin heard a continuous coughing sound behind him, and couldn't help thinking to himself, the chance of getting sick is too high now, isn't it?

After the door was closed, Hua Rou covered her mouth and coughed desperately, her lungs almost spewed out along the esophagus, a fishy-sweet smell filled her throat, and she swallowed her saliva.

"I don't know, I can stay with you for a few more years..."

The nearest pharmacy is at least one kilometer away from my home. Not only is it difficult to walk, but there are no buses.Lu Lin walked quickly on the street with few pedestrians, wanting to buy medicine as soon as possible and go home to his mother.

Actually, the medicine will be finished, it seems that it is really intolerable.He thought over and over what Huarou said just now, and felt something was wrong.

Will the medicine run out?

Even if the mother really suffers from many kinds of diseases, the dose is not so large that she will eat all of it, right?In Lu Lin's memory, that drawer contained medicines for treating colds, reducing fever, pain relief, cough relief, and diarrhea.

Now whether to buy another set for preparation or just buy what Hua Rou needs, Lu Lin is temporarily undecided, because he was too hasty when he left and only grabbed a few banknotes.

A rough estimate is more than 100, which is only enough to buy a few boxes of antibiotics.

Forget it, let's solve the urgent task, Lu Lin thought, and then quickened his pace.

When he finished buying the medicine and walked into the door, he smelled a strong scent of oil.

That is my favorite braised pork.

When Lu Lin was young, Huarou didn't make much money, but the little Lu Lin who wanted to eat meat was always acting like a baby, so he had to go to the vegetable market to buy the kind of fat meat that was one point thin and nine points fat and cook it for him at home.Heat up the pot, put the meat in, stir-fry the oil first, collect the lard, then add soy sauce, rock sugar, star anise, etc. to cook, and finally stew a bright and shiny soup.The fat meat that was originally white and greasy has been cooked so that it melts in the mouth, and the soup is wrapped in it with an attractive luster.Since then, Lu Lin has fallen in love with large pieces of fat meat. The stewed crispy texture and rich soup are mixed with rice. I don't know how delicious it is.The leftover lard residue can be cooked with a handful of chopped green vegetables and soft tofu, which is sweet and delicious.

This habit is still preserved till now.

"I bought the medicine, go eat it after dinner." Lu Lin yelled into the kitchen while slipping on his shoes.

"Got it, cough! I'm different from you again."

"Mom, why don't you love yourself?"

"There's a lot of oily smoke in the kitchen, I'm choking on it." Hua Rou coughed several times with this lie. "You go do your homework first."

"Okay." Lu Lin, who knew his mother's physique, didn't bother anymore. She was just not in good health in winter, and she would get better after that.

Of course, this is Hua Rou's one-sided words for Lu Lin.

Seeing her son's return, Hua Rou speeded up the cooking and was splashed with oil many times during the process.In the cold weather, her hands were burned with a few small red spots, but she didn't make a sound, it would be bad for Lu Lin to hear her.

"It's time to eat." Huarou reminded Lu Lin while setting the tableware.

"Here we come." After responding, he went to the kitchen to help serve the dishes.

Tofu soup with lard residue, vegetables, braised pork, and stir-fried lettuce are all Lu Lin's favorites.Huarou finished it in half an hour.

Spoon a spoonful of soup, pour it on the rice and mix well, and Lu Lin ate the rice directly with the spoon.Hua Rou, who was still filling the soup, was slightly dissatisfied.

"Drink soup before eating, so as not to choke later. Also, eat more vegetables and supplement vitamins." Like ordinary parents, she will also remind Lu Lin of many small details.

"Know it."

"You don't want me to pretend for you, do you?"

"Just pretend." Lu Lin said to his mother with his mouth full.

"You child is really getting more and more unruly, how did I teach you?"

"It doesn't matter at home anyway."

"It doesn't matter, I'm used to it at home, but I can't change it outside."

"It's okay." Lu Lin, like every child, enjoys the unique love of his mother at home, and has some little willfulness that he doesn't have outside.

"I don't want you to be an uneducated child."

"Don't worry, it won't."

After eating, when Lu Lin was about to clean up the dishes and wash them, Hua Rou interrupted him.

"Go do your homework, I'll do the laundry."

"The homework is almost done, there is not much."

"Then you go to preview, the end of the term is coming, you have to study hard."

"Okay." Hua Rou half pushed and half pushed him out of the kitchen, so Lu Lin had no choice but to sit back at the small table to review.

Amidst the splashing water in the kitchen, one or two coughs could be heard from time to time.At first, Lu Lin felt that there was nothing abnormal, but as Hua Rou's coughing frequency did not improve after taking the medicine, he was a little worried. Every time his heartbeat was consistent with the sound of coughing, it fluctuated up and down.

"Mom, do you want to go to the hospital?"

"Why do you go to that kind of place? It's just a minor illness, and it's not like you don't know."

"It looks like you have pneumonia..." Lu Lin listened carefully to the sound of her coughing, and there was an obvious bellows sound coming from her lungs.

"You're nervous, go do your homework." Hua Rou chased Lu Lin away again.

One day many years later, he recalled the day when he came home from high school, filled with emotion.

My mother became ill from overwork, and the culprit was myself.

When did her body become so poor?

Which winter begins, she will have a period of pain that lasts more than ten days and falls ill in bed without the strength to get off?

When did she start to gradually hide things about herself?

It turned out that my mother started to arrange all this very early, just to let myself study hard and have nothing else to do.

She often tells herself that she has no skills and can only earn the minimum salary by manual labor. Don't be like me when you grow up, you must master a professional knowledge.

At that time, I still seemed to understand.

But now I really understand.

At night, because I live in an old-style building, the sound insulation is poor.Lu Lin could clearly hear the coughing gradually subsiding in the mother's room next door, and he let go of his hanging heart.

He rested his hands on his head, and he didn't want to go out with Qiu Yu tomorrow. With his mother like this, wouldn't there be no one to take care of him when he went out?

How did she survive those days when she was not around?The pain was so great that he couldn't even get up on the bed to pour himself a cup of hot water, and slowly walked to the desk and opened the drawer to swallow the pills scattered all over the floor.Lu Lin couldn't bear to imagine those scenes again, and the corners of his eyes were already wet with tears.

It turns out that my own life needs someone to carry such a burden for me.Someone has to pay a lot for this kind of ordinary life.

What right does he have to waste time?Hanging out with Qiu Yusi?Can he help himself?

The carefree campus life covered up the originally indifferent reality, and it was only now that I was torn apart bloody by myself, and I saw its ferocious minions.A deep sense of powerlessness lingered all over his body, but Lu Lin did not choose to go to Qiu Yu for comfort.

Qiu Yu made up a dream for Lu Lin, in which Lu Lin sat with him in a high-end restaurant for dinner, wearing the bright and bright clothes he bought, noble and elegant.

Lu Lin in reality is just like an ugly duckling, different from being led by Qiu Yu to enjoy the life on the cloud in the dream, now, what he has to face is the most realistic reality.What he needs most is time, the love Qiu Yu gave him is not the most useful, at most it is used for comfort.

In fact, Qiu Yu, who has no source of income, is likely to be inferior to Lu Lin.All his so-called love has a material basis, without money, it's nothing.If he is financially independent, he can borrow some money from himself to ease the situation, but does he have money to borrow from himself?

Maybe he will say that everything about him is his own, but he always likes to automatically filter hidden conditions.

The property of Qiu Huan and his wife will be given to him.

Fate did not give Lu Lin time to complain, and he knew this very well.The consciousness that I had since I was a child is now playing a role.If you live with Qiu Yu next semester, you won't have to study at night, and there will be no access control time.In this way, I can go out to be a tutor, and the income of doing this is much higher than selling things.However, adhering to the fact that no matter how small a mosquito's legs are, it is still meat, Lu Lin did not give up any chance to make money.

Of course, this is all for later.It took many years for Lu Lin to wake up from his youthful dream and regain the courage to face reality.

When I woke up in the morning, there was no coughing sound from Huarou for a while, maybe the medicine had taken effect?Lu Lin thought.

On the dining table were soy milk and steamed buns that were still warm, and a white note with familiar writing on it.

I go to work, remember to eat breakfast, cherish the time, love your mother.

It was only then that Lu Lin remembered that today is Monday, but it is just a school holiday, and normal companies still wait until the first day to take a holiday.Hua Rou went to work in the morning, no wonder she didn't hear her cough.

Thinking of this, Lu Lin sighed, wondering if his mother recovered from her illness.

After breakfast, Lu Lin sat obediently at the table to review.After memorizing politics and history, I started to memorize the new English words, waited until I had memorized 20 words, and then went to do the math review paper; waited to get the answers right, and then went to memorize Chinese... Lu Lin had already arranged a study plan and has always been self-disciplined He is a good role model.

Not necessarily if Qiu Yu was present.

"Beep beep beep beep." Something was vibrating on the hard material, and Lu Lin heard a strange sound, so he put down the Chinese book in his hand to look for the sound source; it turned out to be his mobile phone.

Two words are displayed on the small screen:

Qiu Yu

Why is he texting himself at this time?While thinking, he turned on his phone to watch the content.

I will pick you up tomorrow.

Lu Lin thought for a while, then quickly typed back with Jiugongge.His is shorter than Qiu Yu's:

No time.

Almost a few seconds later, Qiu Yu could feel his angry fingers pressing on the phone screen when he saw his reply.

If you don't go, you have to go!

Before he put down his phone, he saw Qiu Yu's demonstration-like reply, and the corners of his lips curled up playfully.Start pressing the keyboard quickly.

If I say no, I will not go.

And the people on the other end seemed to have been prepared, and Lu Lin soon saw the reply.

you wait for me.

He burst out laughing, thinking that Qiu Yu was extremely cute at this moment.Then put down the phone and continue the unfinished trip in Shushanli.

After cooking for nearly two hours, he looked at his watch and went to the kitchen to open the refrigerator to see what ingredients were still in it, and prepared to cook and send it to Hua Rou.

Is it because she eats out that her health is so poor?Take advantage of the time to make something healthy at home.Lu Lin glanced around and took two eggs first.

If you're coughing, what should you eat...Looking at the few things in the small refrigerator, Lu Lin picked out spinach.Then start boiling water.

There are quick-frozen foods in the freezing layer, which are used as spare materials and are not considered at all.Lu Lin found a pack of crystal shrimps. The black guts had disappeared from the bluish-white shrimps. It looked like it had been processed.

Put the spinach cut into two sections into the pot and put the water aside. Lu Lin poured golden camellia oil, light soy sauce and a little sugar into the iron bowl and mixed well. A few drops of cooking wine.The rice cooker next to it began to emit milky white steam, and the rice inside seemed to be ready soon.After Lu Lin finished cooking the spinach, he unwrapped the shrimp bag and took some, put it back in the refrigerator with an airtight clip.

Sprinkle some black pepper and salt, and then grab it with your hands to make it tasty; the secret to the delicious smooth egg is actually very simple, you don’t need to add a lot of oil to fry it together, just mix the egg liquid and water starch.

The sizzling sound of the egg liquid entering the oil pan was very pleasant. Lu Lin put down a handful of shallots and let them embed into the egg cubes before they were set.Not long after, when the eggs in the pot were half-cooked, Lu Lin poured in the shrimps and stir-fried them together. The tender yellow eggs, green onions, and bright red shrimps were visually conveying delicious signals.After finishing all these, Lu Lin went to deliver food to Huarou.

When he cooked for his mother, he always thought it was a kind of repayment.My mother gave herself care and care when she was a child, and now she wants to do something for her who is sick.

In layman's terms, this is family affection.But Lu Lin would rather admit that it is a material reward than define it by family affection, because family affection cannot be defined.If a relative talks about love every day, it will only appear hypocritical and awkward.

But cooking for Qiu Yu is willing, hoping to get his praise and love, but cooking for mother seems like a responsibility and obligation.

Why can I tell Qiu Yu that I love him so much?Want to give him everything you have, but you can't tell your mother?

Human emotions are really complicated.

Walking downstairs to her company, Huarou looked at her son who brought her meals in surprise, and patted his head caressingly and said.

"I only have you in this world."

After hearing this, Lu Lin's nose was sore, because it seemed that he was not only accompanied by his mother.

"Have you eaten yet?"

"No, I'll eat it when I get home." Lu Lin lied.

"Then go back quickly."

"Ah."

There is still leftovers from the rice cooked just now, let's mix it with last night's braised pork sauce later, Lu Lin thought about it.

He also solved it in the same way at night, but he passed by the vegetable market on his way home and bought half a catty of plump green clams, and fried them for Hua Rou's dinner at night, plus a plate of green vegetables.

The first day of the holiday passed quickly, neither he nor Hua Rou had the habit of watching TV, and went to bed on time at ten o'clock.

Like people living in remote areas, they work at sunrise and sunset without contact with the outside world; they don’t have New Year’s greetings at midnight, they don’t spend New Year’s Eve with important relatives, and they don’t talk on the phone to share the New Year’s Eve. The laughing point of the year's show.

They are alone, when the New Year's bell is ringing.