cold flame

"It's raining again." There was a pattering sound outside, and Gao Wenxuan walked to the window and said softly.

Lin Mo looked in his direction, the sky showed a leaden gray corner in the glass window, the other party stood in front of the window, the sharp face was still the same as before, but the soft expression revealed invisible loneliness.

The two people in the room are looking out the window together at this moment, just like many summer rainy afternoons back then, but the most important girl in their each other's lives is no longer lazily lying on the bed, talking and laughing with Yanyan to accompany them to spend a leisurely and relaxing time. It's time.

At the dinner table, the two families naturally talked about the trivial matters of each other's work, and they were so familiar that they didn't look like they hadn't seen each other for a long time. They seemed to have completely forgotten the days when the two families could get together.

The topic extended to life. Lin Mo, who had been eating silently next to him, became the object of attention. Gao's mother, whose hair was neatly coiled behind her head and with elegant makeup, said with emotion, "It's been a long time since I saw Momo. This child has grown taller." Less, more and more handsome."

Mother Lin responded with a smile while scooping up soup for Gao Wenxuan, "It would be great if he could dye his messy hair back to black."

"All the young children nowadays are like this. This is called personality. I think it looks pretty." Gao's mother saw Lin's mother handing the bowl full of chicken soup to her son, and said: "Our Wenxuan is also thanks to your care. I am usually busy with work, and I seldom eat with him at home."

"Where is it, Wenxuan has helped us a lot in the past few years, and I can't wait for him to come here to eat with us when he has nothing to do."

When we talked about work, it occurred to me that Lin Mo had just graduated from university and returned home. Father Gao followed Lin Mo's concerns and asked, "Have you found a job? Where do you work?"

Without waiting for his father to answer, Lin Mo reached out and picked up a piece of sweet and sour hairtail in front of him, and replied casually, "I found it. I'm working in a bar."

Father Lin coughed dryly, with a displeased face on his face, "I told him not to go to work in this kind of place, but he went anyway."

Gao's father obviously didn't expect the vice principal's son to work in a bar after graduating from college. He, who has always been rigorous and old-fashioned, felt that it was not appropriate, but Gao's mother was used to it, and said with a smile: "Children are relatively independent at such a young age. It's fine to exercise outside by yourself, Momo is a music student, right? I have a friend who runs an art training center, do you want to..."

"Mom, you said that it's up to people to decide for themselves." Gao Wenxuan interrupted.

"Didn't I give a suggestion to add more choices? Your Aunt Su's art center is a national chain brand, and you may not be able to get in if you want to get in, but if Momo wants to become a teacher there, I will definitely let her recruit you in." .”

Lin's mother couldn't wait for it, so she quickly asked, "What's the name of the training center? Is it far from our home?"

"I don't want to go." Lin Mo said blankly.

Gao Wenxuan smiled and said to Gao's mother who quickly covered up the embarrassment, "If he doesn't want to go, let him go. It's okay to play for a while."

Although he was helping Lin Mo solve the entangled problems in front of him, he was still a little dissatisfied with him directly blaming his work as "playing". He glanced at Gao Wenxuan, who responded with a soft smile.

Seeing this, Gao's mother smiled and said: "You two, the relationship is still as good as before. I often heard Wenxuan mention Momo before. Now that Momo is back, I have to take care of him like my younger brother."

"Of course." Gao Wenxuan replied.

Lin Mo continued to eat his own meal without saying a word. The lunch passed between the two families eating and chatting. After the meal, Gao's father and Gao's mother sat down for a while, and then left one after another. Gao Wenxuan came to Lin Mo's room before leaving. the door.

"Aren't you going out this afternoon?"

"Yeah." Lin Mo didn't have much interest in playing, and it happened that he could stay at home with his parents when it rained. Since he went to work, he had indeed spent much less time with his family because of the jet lag.

"There are some things in the courtyard that need to be busy these days, and I can't pick you up at night for a while."

"Understood." Lin Mo replied in a low voice while sitting at the desk.

"Remember to tell me when you get home from get off work."

Lin Mo asked subconsciously, "Why did I tell you?"

Gao Wenxuan raised his eyebrows, and said unhurriedly, "Didn't I just say that I want to take care of you like a younger brother."

During the intermission, Lin Zi, uncharacteristically, did not go to those drinking buddies to laugh and strike up a conversation, but took a glass of water and stood next to Lin Mo to drink it. Hearing the sound of mineral water sliding down his throat, Lin Mo asked curiously : "Why, have you changed your sex? What you drank today wasn't alcohol."

Lin Zi didn't take it seriously, and said with a smile: "I always get tired of drinking."

"Seeing that you have been looking into the corner of the stage these days, who are you looking for?" In fact, the number of times is not many, and each time it is swept away, but the two are closest to each other on the stage, so they are inevitably caught. Lin Mo caught it once or twice.

"What do you want to say?" Lin Zi put the half-drinked water on the small table next to him.The body turned around to face Lin Mo.

Lin Mo shrugged, and lit a cigarette for himself as if he had nothing to do with himself: "Even if you tell me, you won't want to hear it."

He could see that Lin Zi was not as cruel and ruthless as he had shown towards Xu Yan, nor was he even as ambiguous and gentle as he was with other targets and his ex. He paid a little more attention, but lost a lot of unrestrained casualness. .

These may not mean anything, maybe it is really like what Lin Zi said, he and Xu Yan are people from two worlds, but only he himself knows how to define "world" and what kind of meaning it is.

Lin Zi smiled, approached Lin Mo and held his shoulder, and said in a very casual tone: "We'll go to another place for a drink after get off work."

"Row."

It was still in a joking tone, but it was a rare invitation in advance. Lin Mo knew that the other party really wanted to go somewhere for a quiet drink. Anyway, he was fine after get off work.

Thinking of getting off work, I can't help but care about that person.I ran over to say that I have something to do in the past few days, and it has been almost a week now. Of course, Lin Mo didn't call him every day to report the time to go home, but the other party would occasionally call to ask a few words on the way home, just to say something simple trivia.

The rest of the days were text messages, and they were all when Lin Mo was lying on the bed and about to go to sleep. It seemed that Gao Wenxuan was really busy, but it didn't matter. Lin Mo felt that the only good thing was that he was getting used to going home alone.

After the end, Lin Zi quickly packed up his things, waved to Cai Cong and the others with his guitar on his back, put his hands in his trouser pockets and walked out of the bar door with Lin Mo side by side, and within a few steps, he saw the figure of the boy under the street lamp .

Xu Yan stretched his head and looked around from time to time, with the corners of his eyes downcast as if afraid of missing something. The dim light stretched his thin shadow very long, making him look a little lonely on the road without people.

It wasn't until he also saw Lin Zi that his round eyes became bright and energetic, because there was no table in front of him as a cover, and at this moment his hands were so nervous that he didn't know where to put them, grabbing the corners of his clothes.

"Senior!"

"Why are you here?" With both hands still in his trouser pockets, Lin Zi seemed ready to leave after asking.

Xu Yan looked at him seriously, and replied, "Didn't you tell me not to go to the bar, I'll wait for you here..."

"Is something wrong?"

"A few days ago..." Xu Yan plucked up the courage to continue, "Thank you senior for sending me home! I've caused you trouble."

"It's okay, are you done thanking you? I'm leaving."

"Senior." Xu Yan stretched out a hand to grab the corner of Lin Zi's clothes, his bright eyes were timid, and there was a bit of anticipation, "We...are we dating?"

Lin Zi frowned and said, "Acquaintance? Are you kidding me? I just saw my juniors from the same school get drunk and send them home."

"But, you hugged me that day! Just after I confessed my love to you, you hugged me..." He hesitated and forced himself to repeat the last sentence.

"It was you who were drunk and leaned on me."

Xu Yan shook his head quickly, "No, you took the initiative to hug me! You clearly treat me..."

Lin Zi narrowed his eyes, "I treat you? What happened to me?"

The large black T-shirt made Lin Zi's expression more stern, and seemed to have stabbed Xu Yan, he was speechless, and then said helplessly and sadly: "Lin Aoyu, why can you accept those who don't really like you?" People, but they just want to reject me? Am I really that bad?"

It was the first time for Lin Mo to hear Lin Zi's real name. Standing beside him, he couldn't help sighing. Such a chivalrous name really didn't fit Lin Zi's image at all. No wonder everyone called him by his nickname.

Only Xu Yan still remembered his full name, and when he read it from the other party's mouth, Lin Zi's heart was slightly shocked by the sadness and despair in his words. For a while, he seemed unable to answer the other party's question. What's wrong?

Seeing Lin Mo standing beside him in a blink of an eye, Lin Zi pointed and said, "I like him like this."

Xu Yan's eyes widened.An expression of disbelief: "He's not on your team..."

Before he finished speaking, Lin Zi pulled the people around him, quickly kissed Lin Mo on the lips, and said lightly, "It's not anymore."

"Fuck" I didn't expect to be robbed while watching a play, Lin Mo cursed in a low voice, then turned to stare at Lin Zi.

To my surprise, Xu Yan didn't continue to ask questions persistently, nor did he run away in a hurry, but just seemed to be frozen in place, motionless, with only big teardrops falling down his fair cheeks, he blinked. Blinking her wet eyelashes, she loosened her grip on Lin Zi without any strength.

Lin Zi didn't say anything, he cast a look at Lin Mo and left, Xu Yan seemed to have lost his soul, and went home in the opposite direction after Lin Zi left, Lin Mo looked at the back of walking while wiping tears, thinking Did he listen to what he explained just now?

Reluctantly turning around and preparing to go home alone, Lin Mo saw a familiar figure standing on the opposite side of the street. The shadow of the street lamp happened to cover the expression on the other's face, which suddenly made Lin Mo feel a little at a loss.