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The impact of Shao Yan's news on Liu Xia even surprised Liu Xia himself. In the past few years, except for the emotional experience when An's family bought electric fans and mosquito nets, he almost never thought of Shao Yan, so he heard Mao'er's words similar to When he complained about Shao Yan, he didn't seem to be able to understand his uncomfortable mood.

But he is really uncomfortable, from the heart, inexplicably lost, inexplicably stagnant.

Mao'er felt Liu Xia's mood was gloomy, but he didn't know how to comfort Liu Xia about this matter. The best friend my uncle had always cared about came to Rongze but refused to meet with my uncle. I haven't experienced it before, so I don't know what Liu Xia's specific feelings are, but I can be sure that it will not be so good.

Fortunately, today he happened to have a secret weapon that could make my uncle happy. He was glad he didn't tell his uncle before going out.

After taking a bath and watching Liu Xia drink a large bowl of rock sugar mung bean soup, the cat shamelessly lay on Liu Xia's back and asked him to carry it into the bedroom.

Liu Xia put him on the bed: "After my birthday this year, I have to wear trousers after taking a shower. The chicken will itch when it rubs against the back."

The cat said "Why? Don't wear it", then jumped out of bed, ran to the beautiful new desk, opened the drawer, took out a stack of things and clapped them in Liu Xia's hands: "Look, four letters, and One from Professor Huang!"

Liu Xia and Huang Youguang have been keeping in touch with each other, but Huang Youguang is busy with work, so he doesn't always answer every letter from Liu Xia, Liu Xia is very happy every time he receives a letter from him.

Sure enough, Liu Xia became excited when he saw the letter, picked up a stack of letters and looked at the envelopes side by side: "It's so evil, every time they come together, tsk, didn't the boss ask him to add money to the post office? "

Mao'er pushed Liu Xia: "Sit on the bed and read. I like to read your Professor Huang's letter. It's very interesting."

The two of them leaned against the head of the bed, starting from Yun Jian's letter, which was the thinnest to the touch, and read it one by one.

Yun Jian had a big quarrel with his parents, and left home in a way that everyone thought was running away from home, but he himself refused to admit that he was running away from home, and rented a house with a few friends who liked dancing like him. I want to resign, I want to go abroad, I want to dance professionally, I want to wander around the world, I want... Anyway, I just don’t want to do my current job.

Liu Xia said: "This guy is not only deranged, but also living and returning. He has joined the work and actually learned from middle school students, playing tricks of running away from home. He is full and deserves to be beaten."

Mao'er put Yun Jian's letter back and patted it aside: "That's right, let him come to our house and try it in front of grandma. After making a fuss, fifty soles will come up on his butt. I guess he will have nothing wrong with him once."

Opening Zhang Fusheng's overweight letter, in addition to the four full sheets of letter paper filled with various anecdotes and anecdotes about Zhang Qiaoqiao's little princess, there are also five photos of various poses.

Zhang Fusheng's love and pride for his daughter can't be contained in his big heart, and it looks like it's going to be overwhelmed.

It's a pity that Brother Zhang was overwhelmed by the joy of being a father, and he forgot that Liu Xia had already practiced parenting, a high-end profession full of fun and challenges many years ago, and it has been more than ten years now In his eyes, Zhang Qiaoqiao's clever and cute tricks are the best in the world.

Hmph, no matter how clever Zhang Qiaoqiao's little girl is, can she still be smarter than my big cat?No matter how cute it is, can it compare to a little toe of my big good cat?

The cat nodded in agreement.

But——, Liu Xia squinted his eyes, looking at the ugly girl in the photo with a chubby smile and squeezed her eyes until there was only a slit left: "Why can she eat so much fat?"

Mao'er immediately backed away from Liu Xia: "Don't compare me to her, grandma has already said that she is fat like milk, and it will disappear as soon as weaning, just like Fat Xiaoxuan."

Liu Xia was still not reconciled, so he finally pulled Mao'er to him, squeezed his arm, and then touched the fat girl's lotus root-like little arm in the photo: "Oh, my uncle's biggest failure is I haven't fed you fat for more than ten years."

Mao'er neatly tore open Hei Deqing's letter and stuffed it into Liu Xia's hands, took the photo of the fat girl and put it on the writing desk: "If I am so fat now that my eyes are squeezed and I can't see the way, you still have Is the mood sighing here?"

Liu Xia took out another photo from the envelope: "Why don't you lament me?"

"Crying!" Mao'er snatched the photo and looked at it first: "Crying and not letting me eat meat, eating, urging me to lose weight... Oh - shit, big beauty, uncle!"

Liu Xia took the photo over and said, "What are you talking about? Uncle is handsome... oh, she is really a beautiful woman, no wonder your Uncle Hei smiles so sincerely! Look at that grinning mouth, the beauty is not shallow He, the girl in red, Gone with the Wind, is the one who overwhelms the country and the city."

Maoer confiscated the photos, put them in a pile with Zhang Qiaoqiao, and handed the letter to Liu Xia: "What Gone with the Wind? Where is the beauty of the country? At most, it is Xiaojiabiyu with thick eyebrows and big eyes, dressed in a more fashionable style."

Liu Xia shook the letter open, smiling more sincerely than Hei Deqing, showing his big white teeth: "Baby cat, your novels are not in vain, and your idioms are getting more and more sophisticated, just open your mouth."

Mao'er read the letter on his shoulder: "Of course, who am I? Yushu Linfeng is a five-good handsome guy who is full of knowledge, what a few idioms are nothing!"

Liu Xia commented while reading the letter: "Cut, what's the matter, what's so good about going to the Demon Capital in summer? Aren't you afraid of dying from the heat?"

"It's still a conscience, and I haven't forgotten our brother's seven-day tour of the magic capital."

"Colleagues are still pure, who has nothing to send photos with their colleagues to their best brothers? Guys who deceive themselves and others, cover their ears and steal their bells, think we are all lack of understanding." He recently studied the idiom dictionary with Mao'er, and he was a bit overnourished.

"This guy's life is really good. He is assigned such a good unit. He usually doesn't have much outside work, and his bonus is stupidly high. However, he is still not as high as his uncle, but Lao Hei has never been short of money. His father's mine is now making more money every day. How much money, your Uncle Hei can now be regarded as a nouveau riche boy, it's awesome to say."

"Miss me? Coal sunspot, just pretend, you miss me, why don't you come to see me? Come back to Yuancheng and get off the bus, it's over, why don't you just take another bus!"

The cat asked puzzledly: "Uncle Hei's family is so rich, why does he still go to work? Don't you always think that if you earn enough money, you can live at home?"

Liu Xia pointed at the little guy's head: "A man's sense of social existence, life value and ideal, understand? I'll give you 100 million, and you won't be allowed to leave the house all day long. What are you doing?"

The cat objected: "What I'm talking about is your ideal, isn't it that if you earn enough money, you can do nothing and concentrate on being full? Why doesn't he think so when he already has money? He still has to go to work every day."

Liu Xia thought for two seconds, and said very discouraged: "Because he has more ambition, ideals and ambitions than me."

Mao'er succeeded in narrow-mindedness, and laughed happily: "Wrong, because he doesn't have a handsome boy like me who is unique in the world, and his family is not attractive to him, so he has to go to work in the unit to waste his boring years." !"

Liu Xia thought for a while, then pulled the little guy over and rubbed it in his arms: "Haha, it's true, every day when I think of a big cute cat waiting for me at home, I wish it would get dark soon, so I will You can call it a day and go home. Old Hei is so pitiful. There is nothing but coal dust in the house.

Baby cat, you are learning and selling now, and you are very flexible. "Beyond Eight Hours" seems to be much more useful than "Selected Compositions for Middle School Students". I will invite Wu Xiaolin to eat mutton skewers someday, thank you. "

Huang Youguang's letter was as humorous as ever. He asked Liu Xia when he planned to take his postgraduate entrance examination. He said that as long as he thought that he might never have the opportunity to take a big class with only one student, he felt that life was much less fun. He hoped that Liu Xia would go back. One more time to fulfill his wish.

He mentioned Xie Renjie in his letter, saying that when they had dinner together the day before yesterday, Xie Renjie still felt sorry for not being able to keep Liu Xia in their unit. Even Xie Chanyu said that it was a pity that a person like Liu Xia returned to a small county. ,

Xie Chanyu also said that if she had the chance, she would definitely come to the Central Plains to see what kind of paradise on earth Rongze and Liujialing were, which Liu Xia never forgot;

And Liu Xia's little nephew named Mao'er, she wants to see how smart and cute he is, so that Liu Xia can give up the chance to stay in the big city that others dream of for him.

The cat said to the letter very arrogantly: "This handsome guy is as smart as he is, as cute as he is cute, come and see! Hmph, I will take my uncle to Kyoto in the future and buy him the best one." The house, let him concentrate on eating in it.

Stay with you and go to work as a coolie in the big valley every day! "

Liu Xia put away the letter, and earnestly taught his baby who tended to deviate from the three views: "Good cat, first, although it is an indisputable fact that we are smart and cute, we can't say it ourselves, and we will be accused by others of being arrogant, complacent and immodest." ;

Second, the lofty ideal of my uncle’s desire to be full and full can only be established by adults like my uncle, not for children; As a life ideal, this ideal is really too noble.

Your short-term ideal should be to improve your composition to the level where the teacher didn’t give you a passing grade because of your handwriting. The lofty ideal is yet to be determined, understand? "

Cat giggled: "I don't understand."

Liu Xia slapped him resoundingly on the buttocks: "Little smelly cat, if you don't understand, go cut a big sandy watermelon, and you'll understand after half a bite."

The cat jumped out of bed, hugged a big watermelon and ran out: "Oh, oh, eat watermelon, big watermelon, sweet and sweet, after eating today, I think about tomorrow..."

Regarding Shao Yan, Liu Xia's mood was not what Maoer thought, he forgot or improved after reading a few letters from good friends and teachers. On the contrary, he not only had a deep feeling for the reason why Shao Yan left without saying goodbye Doubt, and my heart is even more uncomfortable.

Six years ago, he was only 15 years old, he had never experienced anything, so he easily believed the words in the text message Shao Yan left him, and now

In retrospect, Shao Yan's reason really does not stand up to a little scrutiny.

If Shao Yan didn't know where he went, he had to search all over the campus. It made sense to say that he was afraid of delaying time, but the fact is that it was Shao Yan's suggestion that he go to Wang Zhanjie to make up lessons in advance. It took less than 5 minutes to go to Wang Zhanjie's office, and maybe 10 minutes was not enough to write that letter, right?

No matter how simple the room Shao Yan lives in, it is a place where he has lived for more than two years, and he has all kinds of daily necessities. Shao Yan told Liu Xia that he has always been inactive at home and does nothing. Even the pantyhose socks were washed by his mother, and Shao Yan's dirty sheets and pillow covers were brought back to the original city to prove this point.

Well, Shao Yan was unlikely to clean things up that day. His mother was alone in the room. Even with the help of a driver, it would take at least 10 minutes to clean up. Isn’t this enough time for Shao Yan to say goodbye to him face to face? ?

So Liu Xia can now draw a definite conclusion: Shao Yan left in such a hurry because he was unwilling to leave his address, or to keep in touch with him in the future.

This conclusion made Liu Xia feel uncomfortable.

He now has several good friends in the work unit, Wu Xiaolin and Du Tao, as well as two brothers from the Chu family who although they don't see each other often, they get along very well when they meet occasionally, and there are also brothers who care about each other even though they don't meet each other A group of brothers in dormitory 219,

However, Shao Yan was different from them.

They are all people Liu Xia met when he had family or brothers to rely on, or when life went smoothly.

After Liu Hai left, Shao Yan stayed with him all the time when Liu Xia was the most fearful and helpless in life and emotions, and was squeezed by the pressure of study and the prospect of exams, and his life was the bleakest. By his side, encourage and infect his people with a cheerful and optimistic attitude.

Shao Yan is a rough person, optimistic, open-minded, carefree, and often forgetful, a bit of a young master's habit, before Liu Xia occasionally lived in his rented house, he hadn't even brushed a pair of shoes.

But after Liu Xia went to live with him, he always remembered to plug in the electric stove in advance in winter, and in summer, when Liu Xia occasionally woke up from a nap, there was always a basin of clean and cool water waiting for him.

Shao Yan's English is always the first in his grade, but when he was with Liu Xia, Liu Xia spent much less time tutoring him in chemistry than he and Liu Xia spent learning English together.

In Liu Xia's 21 years of life so far, high school life is his least favorite experience, but time has passed, when he can recall that life with a relaxed and happy mood, all the good and happy memories in those three years , Most of them have the shadow of Shao Yan.

But such a person who had been with him for more than two years and wanted to be his seventh brother in the last farewell letter actually made up his mind to never get in touch with him, how could Liu Xia not feel uncomfortable?

He really wanted to know what he had done to make Shao Yan feel unsympathetic to him, or to say he hated him so much.

After wandering around the temporary parking spot by the national highway with Maoer for three days without seeing anyone like Shao Yan, Liu Xia questioned his character in the letter to Liu Ling.

Liu Ling replied:

Silly boy, all the thoughts of Shao Yan when he left were all your inferences or imaginations. You think that such inferences are well-founded, but if you look at the evidence from a different angle, you may come to the opposite conclusion Woolen cloth.

You preconceived that Shao Yan deliberately didn't leave you his mailing address because he didn't want to have any contact with you in the future, so when you think about all his actions now, it is in line with your conclusion.

But you overlooked one of the simplest and most intuitive questions: If Shao Yan didn’t want to keep in touch with you because he hated you, under the circumstances at that time, he could have packed up his things and walked away. What about a letter?He has already decided not to have any contact with you. Is it necessary to give you any explanation?

There are also electric fans, mosquito nets, and most importantly, the house he rented. The location of the house he rented was so good, and it was the eve of the college entrance examination. Months can easily charge a few bucks more.

From what you and the third brother told me, what I saw was: before Shao Yan left, he did the best that his friends could do for you at that age and in that situation.

Are you embarrassed to doubt a friend who treats you like this?

So, I agree with what you said that he deliberately did not leave you a mailing address, but I think he has another reason, which has nothing to do with you. It should be that his family has encountered some major changes temporarily, and things in the future , he couldn't be sure, so he chose to cut off contact with you temporarily.

As for the fact that he could easily find you but has never found you, I think the reason why he left without saying goodbye still exists.

Yaoer, in the future you will know that there are countless ways that a person may be in trouble, and what you see with your own eyes may not be the truth, not to mention that you are just speculating!

Fifth Brother has met many, many people over the years, not to comfort you, Fifth Brother tells you that you are the best boy I have ever seen - the best son, the best brother, and the best uncle.

So I know that in the hearts of your friends, you must also be their best friend.

Shao Yan used to be your best friend. For unknown reasons, he may not be able to see you temporarily, or you may never see each other again in this life. All guesses and doubts are meaningless. All you can do now is to pray that he is here The distance is well.

I believe that if Shao Yan still remembers you, he will definitely think the same way.

Liu Ling

Below Liu Ling's name are a few lines of Chen Zhenbei's words.

Yaoer, most of the time, you give up not because you are not good enough, on the contrary, more often, it may be because you can't ask for it, or it may be because you cherish it too much, so you can only carefully keep it in your heart and cherish it.

Don't doubt yourself, just because you are Xiaoling's younger brother, I already feel honored to be his comrade and best brother.

Chen Zhenbei

199*, 7, 28

Liu Xia read the letter again, and asked Mao'er, "How do you think uncle?"

The cat hugged his neck sideways, rubbed his face with his own enough, and then said: "You are the best and best uncle, all the good people in the world are not as good as you."

Liu Xia rubbed the little guy's hair into a mess, and said, "Stinky kitten, flatterer." Then he sighed softly and said, "Maybe it's really like Fifth Brother said, praying that Shao Yan will be safe no matter where he is." Had a good time."

Liu Chuan took Liu Ling's letter and glanced at it roughly, "You didn't have these flirtatious thoughts before, I think you have grown up, and you have a little leisure time recently, so you just listened to the wind is the rain and imagined here.

You can get married at the age of 22, and you haven't even had a crush on a girl so far. No wonder you will come up with so many unfounded charges for yourself after hearing Zheng Jianping's words that don't have a shadow. It's purely idle.

I see you, either hurry up and find another private job, or find a girl to fall in love with, if you want to stay idle like this, I still don’t know what you have come up with! "

The cat immediately turned around and protested to Liu Chuan: "In such a hot day, I won't let my uncle go out to work anymore, and everyone else is resting. My uncle is a celibate. If he doesn't get married, who will he fall in love with?" ? Is it Uncle?"

Liu Xia nodded: "Yes, third brother, you are too cruel. You want to send me to someone else just because of my occasional depression. Are you still my real brother?"

Liu Chuan patted the folded letter on his head: "You occasionally get depressed, don't you know that the cat has been worrying about you a lot these days? How could such a smart mind get into such a corner?

How could Shao Yan leave in such a hurry if it wasn't for some serious incident at home?At that time, it was time for you to take the college entrance examination, and I didn't want to make you think about it. I didn't expect that after so many years, you would learn how to be the heroine of Qiong Yao.

Shao Yan didn't come to see you, it must be because of his difficulties. It's normal for classmates and friends to go their separate ways after graduation. I haven't seen anything like you. It took six years to realize it, and then started to feel sad!What do you think your nerves are made of to reflect at this speed?

I'm busy with my second brother's divorce recently, and I don't have time to care about your youthful feelings. Don't be so sentimental like a young girl, and let the cat worry about you. He's a little older, don't you coax him every day Make him happy, but let him coax you, do you think you should fight? "

Liu Xia laughed and rubbed his chin against the cat's nose: "Baby cat, let's go eat braised mutton tomorrow, just the two of us, and don't ask some bad brother to go, okay?"

Liu Chuan couldn't laugh or cry, he was about to hit Liu Xia on the head with his fingers, when the pager he put on the table rang, he picked it up to look at it, and said to Liu Xia: "I'll go to your reception room to make a call, the two of you Let's eat first."

Liu Xia and Mao'er said at the same time: "It's okay, we'll eat together when you come back."

It took almost 10 minutes for Liu Chuan to come back. Both Liu Xia and Mao'er could clearly see the calm and cold expression on his face.

Liu Xia asked: "Whose call? What happened bro?"

Liu Chuan calmly sat at the front of the dining table and picked up the bowl, and said with a sneer: "As expected, neither Nana nor Dengke belonged to the second brother, and that bitch Liu Dongju dared to make trouble with the second brother. Think whoever screams louder is justified, you damn thing!"

Liu Xia and Mao'er stared at each other in astonishment: "Neither of them..."