don't force me

Lin Tingan blinked and asked, "Dad... what do you want to say?"

Lin Yi patted his son reassuringly: "It's okay, what Dad means is that studying is your own business, and you can't always bother others. You also said that Xiaoxuan is the head of the student union and the head of the club, and she has to host New Year's party...you see how busy they are."

Lin Ting'an glanced at Du Xuan, he knew all these things, and he was very worried all the time, but he couldn't bear to reject Du Xuan, because he didn't spend much time with each other every day.

Ah, how tangled and sweet love is.

Du Xuan said seriously: "Uncle, I'm not actually doing the work alone. It won't take a lot of time for everyone to cooperate with each other. I can arrange my own time well."

"Uncle also knows that you can do it. I heard from Xiao An that you did very well in the exam this time, and you won the fifth place in the four subjects." Lin Yi sighed, "If Xiao An has your self-consciousness, I will dream with his mother." I'm going to wake up laughing."

"So you see, I can take care of both." Du Xuan hurriedly distinguished.After finishing speaking, he lowered his head in frustration, always feeling that his "can't-wait enthusiasm" was a blatant demonstration of what was going on between Lin Ting'an and him.Also, whose child is so crazy about learning?

Lin Tingan looked at Du Xuan with a smile or not, his eyes were both teasing and sweet.

Lin Yi looked at the two children hesitantly, and finally smiled: "Xiaoxuan, if you can take care of both, I certainly welcome you to help Xiaoan. Not only welcome, but also very grateful. I'm just worried that it will affect you. study and life."

Lin Tingan breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and wiped off his cold sweat secretly, almost frightened to death: "Father, I won't delay Du Xuan."

Du Xuan: "In fact, Lin Ting'an supervised me every time I took the exam. When I was in the third year of junior high school, he was quite strict with me."

"Oh?" Ji Dong became interested, "What does he care about you?"

"He wanted me to be a 'grand slam' with a single win in all subjects."

"Haha", Lin Yi laughed loudly, "Lin Ting'an, you have a really thick skin."

Amidst the laughter, this topic was gently dismissed, but Du Xuan felt a shadow in his heart.After returning to Lin Tingan's room, he asked, "Why did your father think of this?"

Lin Tingan shook his head suspiciously: "Who knows, I was also taken aback at first."

Du Xuan said: "Tonight my dad also said something very strange." He learned Du Jiancheng's words to Lin Ting'an, and the two of them figured out what the words meant.

Lin Tingan sat on the chair: "I think, they definitely don't know about our affairs."

Sitting on Lin Tingan's bed, Du Xuan hugged a pillow in the shape of an airplane and said, "Of course, if I knew about it, we'd already be fighting."

Lin Tingan: "How about I ask my mother?"

Du Xuan thought for a while: "That's fine, I'll ask as well, I always feel a little baffled."

Lin Tingan glanced at the closed door, climbed onto the bed and knelt down in front of Du Xuan, and asked with a smile, "Why are you here tonight?"

Du Xuan: "It's annoying to stay at home."

"You won't be bothered coming to my place, will you?" Lin Tingan was triumphant.

"It's not annoying, it's just that I'm dizzy." Du Xuan rubbed the pillow in her hand in distaste, "Can you keep less planes in the room, I'm about to have a fear of heights."

Lin Tingan leaned over, leaned on Du Xuan's ear and said, "Are you dizzy by me?"

Du Xuan rushed over and pressed Lin Tingan on the bed, twisted his arm and said, "Uncle is right, your skin is really thick."

Lin Tingan laughed out loud.

On the morning of the 31st, the party was held in the auditorium.

Du Xuan was wearing a black dress, looking extremely handsome. Lin Tingan was fidgeting underneath. He really wanted to stand up and said loudly: That, my boyfriend.

The more it is like this, the more he can understand why some people like to show affection.It turns out that the original intention of showing affection is not to embarrass me that I have a lover, but the original intention of showing affection is: look, look, how worthy of embarrassment Lao Tzu's lover is.

After the party, all grades will disband on the spot and leave school.Lin Tingan waited for Du Xuan at the entrance of the auditorium. After waiting for almost an hour, he saw Du Xuan running out with his clothes on.

"Why are you so slow?"

Du Xuan said apologetically, "I talked to my classmates for a while."

Just as Lin Tingan was about to help Du Xuan take the dress, he heard someone on the stairs shouting, "Wait, Du Xuan."

Lin Tingan raised his eyes and looked over, hey, looks familiar, isn't this the hostess?

Du Xuan smiled awkwardly, then turned around and asked, "What's the matter?"

The girl hadn't removed her make-up yet, she was wearing a tube top-style dress, and she walked down with small heels: "I finally finished my work, Teacher Song suggested that we have a meal together to celebrate, and it's time for lunch."

After finishing speaking, she glanced at Lin Tingan, who was wearing a junior high school uniform, and said hesitantly, "This is...your friend?"

Du Xuan nodded: "Yes, I still have something to do, so I won't go to dinner with you, please tell Teacher Song for me."

The girl pouted: "But, Teacher Song specially asked me to call you."

Du Xuan: "I'm really sorry."

The girl glanced at Lin Tingan, her face full of displeasure, which was in stark contrast to Lin Tingan's complacent expression.Du Xuan glanced at Lin Ting'an, and felt that the boy's expression was indeed unworthy of beating.

On the way home, Lin Ting'an asked, "Isn't it okay for you to reject Teacher Song so much?"

Du Xuan glanced at him: "Okay, stop pretending, look at how proud you are."

Lin Tingan immediately said with frowned eyebrows, "Does she want to chase you? Hmph, sibling love."

Du Xuan said, "Don't worry, there will be no one else."

Lin Tingan immediately patted his chest and said, "Me neither."

A string of English letters came to Du Xuan's mouth. Du Xuan endured it and didn't ask. He told himself in his heart: Trust Lin Tingan and don't restrain him too much.

Don't be the kind of person you hate the most, Du Xuan warned herself.

According to Lin Ting'an's plan, the three days off on New Year's Day are all for fun. After all, he just got No. 16 in the class.Du Xuan played with him for two days, Zhou Man's face was so gloomy that water could drip.

"The final exam is less than a month away. How long are you going to play, Du Xuan? I said you can't get too close to Lin Tingan."

Du Jiancheng coughed: "Xiao Xuan, Mom and Dad will invite your Uncle Lin's family to have dinner tomorrow, so you and Xiao An shouldn't run too far."

Du Xuan was startled, he had actually forgotten the meal, and Zhou Man's face was even more ugly.

The dinner was held at a restaurant not far from the community. Du Jiancheng was very good at ordering, and it seemed like a common meal. The per person per table was less than two hundred. It was definitely not cheap, but it was not a luxury either. Face will not appear too "ulterior motives".

Lin Tingan sat beside Du Xuan and asked in a low voice, "What do you mean?"

Du Xuan shook her head: "It has nothing to do with us, you eat what you eat, what else do you want to eat?"

Lin Tingan glanced at the table, and gave a thumbs up quietly: "Your father is very good at ordering, and it suits the southern taste."

Du Xuan sneered inwardly, eating out for ten out of twelve months in a year, if he didn't know how to order food, it would be "for nothing".

As the host, Du Jiancheng presided over the whole meal, talking about various topics, from North and South food to customs, from Japanese cars to German cars, from the Belt and Road Initiative to the US-Japan joint military exercise.The starting point and ending point of each topic will fall on the work, but never go deep into it, just click a sentence and pull it apart.Du Xuan got annoyed after listening for a while, and Lin Tingan and Lin Tingan concentrated on eating spicy crabs.

Over there, Ma Jing kept praising Du Xuan to Zhou Man. After being humble as usual, Zhou Man sighed, "Xiao An is so nice, smart and lively. My family Du Xuan is a little shy, but I like him like Xiao An." Being active, Du Xuan doesn't talk to me very much every day when I go home."

Ma Jing: "When children grow up, they would rather tell their friends than their parents about some things. Alas, they will be independent in the end. Now let them go and let them choose which way to go. That's good. Lao Lin and I don't care much about Xiao An, as long as the child doesn't learn to be bad."

After hearing this, Zhou Man said lightly: "Isn't this still independent? You must need the experience of adults to help them check it out. "

After hearing this, Ma Jing thought to herself that you were just about to plan for Du Xuan where to retire, but in the end she just glanced at Du Xuan and changed the topic.

After a meal, only two of the six children were full.

Taking advantage of Du Jiancheng's checkout, Ma Jing went to the car and took out a bag and handed it to Du Xuan: "It's New Year's Eve, Auntie has a gift for you."

Du Xuan could tell it was a pair of shoes from the packaging, and quickly waved her hand: "Thank you, auntie, don't be so polite, I don't want it."

Lin Tingan grabbed the bag and stuffed it to Du Xuan: "Following that, I also have a pair, we both have the same style." After speaking, he winked at Du Xuan, couple shoes and so on are totally fine.

Du Xuan glanced at his father in embarrassment, and Du Jiancheng frowned: "Little Ma, you are being too polite, what are you doing?"

Ma Jing said seriously: "Xiao Xuan always takes good care of Xiao An. I always wanted to thank Xiao Xuan, but I didn't find the opportunity. Auntie didn't know what you like. Xiao An said you must like this one, so I bought it. Don't dislike it. If you don't want it, Auntie will be embarrassed to ask you to help Xiaoan again in the future."

Du Jiancheng immediately stretched his brows, and said with a smile: "Little Ma, you are so polite. Children play well and have a good relationship. It is right to help each other, right Lao Lin?"

Lin Yi was called out unexpectedly, but he said calmly, "Yes, helping each other is a courtesy."

When Du Jiancheng heard the words "reciprocity", a look of disappointment flashed in his eyes.He said, "Xiaoxuan is quick to thank Auntie."

Du Xuan held the shoe box and bowed slightly to thank her.

Lin Tingan hurriedly urged him: "Quickly open it and see if you like it, I really like this one."

In the shoe box is a pair of NikeFreeRNFlyknit. The colorful flying lines make the black upper more colorful and rich in layers.Du Xuan liked it very much at first glance, but he hesitated for a moment and whispered, "Auntie, these shoes are very expensive."

Ma Jing patted the box and said, "It's for you, don't care if it's expensive or not, as long as you like it."

Du Xuan turned her head to look at her parents, and always felt that there was a strange look in her parents' smiling eyes.

The next day was about to start school, so Lin Tingan obediently followed his parents home.Ma Jing and Lin Yi went back to the bedroom, Lin Tingan tiptoedly eavesdropped at the door of the bedroom with a glass of water, the voice inside was not very clear, only a few fragmentary sentences were heard intermittently:

Ma Jing said: "Let's do this for now. This pair of shoes will be a gift. I think the price is about the same. Don't meddle in Du Jiancheng's affairs. It's too messy here. If he doesn't tell you, just pretend to be an idiot. It had nothing to do with you."

Lin Yi said: "I don't want to get involved in their affairs, but look at Lao Du's attitude... well, I was worried about affecting Xiaoxuan, a very good child. Speaking of which, we still owe him... Xiao An, this unfulfilling little bastard."

Ma Jing: "You can't say that... In short, don't let the child get involved in these messy things."

Lin Yi said: "Tell me, are we being too loose with Xiao An? I think other people's children are very strict. This is the third year of junior high school."

Ma Jing hummed: "There is still one semester left, I will keep an eye on him from now on, the second model was guaranteed to be within 120."

……

Lin Tingan was so frightened that he rolled back into his room.

Ma Jing did what he said, and Lin Tingan felt that he had suddenly jumped from the third year of junior high school to the third year of high school, so that he didn't have time to hold Du Xuan's hands after school every day.

Lin Tingan lamented: "Mom, I leave school at six o'clock, and I'm on duty to ask questions. It's normal to get home a little after seven o'clock. Why do you insist that I be home before 06:30?"

Ma Jing said: "You can't be on duty every day, right? If you have any questions, ask your classmates during the day, and go home after evening self-study to do your homework and review your homework. Don't wander around outside."

"I didn't mess around, I came back with Du Xuan every day."

A look of embarrassment flashed across Ma Jing's face, and she said: "If you are with Du Xuan, you should come back earlier, there are so many homework in the first year of high school, don't keep delaying your brother Xiaoxuan's return home, he also has to do homework when he goes home. It's not that you don't know how strict his mother is with him...Actually, if I have strict demands on you like your Aunt Zhou, you must..."

Lin Tingan cried and ran back to his room, closing the door tightly.

During the next day's exercises, Du Xuan grabbed him and said, "There are still two weeks of final exams. Don't forget that you are going to be in the top [-] of your grade."

Lin Tingan was so terrified by this chain of violent blows that he only had the strength to nod his head.

Du Xuan said, "Our agreement is still valid."

"What agreement?"

"You are in the top [-] of the grade, you can kiss, um, give me a kiss."

This time Lin Tingan did not cheer excitedly, he glanced at Du Xuan: "Last time I didn't make the top fifteen and you didn't even kiss me, you perfidious villain."

"Wow, it's amazing, you've made remarkable progress." Du Xuan said, "You can actually use idioms."

Lin Tingan kicked Du Xuan, pointed to the front of the playground and said, "Go back and do your exercises."

Two weeks passed in a blink of an eye, and Lin Tingan headed to the high school to inspect the high school building. He raised his chin and proudly looked at the overwhelming photos of Du Xuan on the bulletin board:

Grade No.2 Du Xuan

Du Xuan won the single subject of Chinese

Du Xuan wins in English

Du Xuan wins in a single subject of history

Du Xuan wins in chemistry

Du Xuan wins in single subject of politics

Lin Tingan squinted his eyes to look at Du Xuan's photo. He still handed in a passport photo, which should have been taken when he was a freshman in high school. There was a faint smile on his brows and eyes, and his gentle expression almost overflowed.Lin Tingan looked around, there were people coming and going in the corridor, but no one paid special attention to him, so he took out his phone, took two steps back, and took a picture of the entire announcement list.

Du Xuan, can we have a "Grand Slam"?

Du Xuan returned home and reached out to her mother: "Mobile phone."

"Are you in the top three?" Zhou Man said happily.

"second."

"Good son!" Zhou Man went to the bedroom and took out the mobile phone, "but keep it, if it is out of the top ten, I will confiscate the mobile phone."

Du Xuan nodded indiscriminately, and just wanted to go back to the room and send Lin Tingan a WeChat message. Zhou Man said, "I enrolled you in mathematics and physics classes during the winter vacation. You should hurry up and narrow the gap. Physics is still relatively poor."

Du Xuan nodded calmly. All of this was expected. Anyway, Lin Tingan also had to go to English cram school, which was just right.

He returned to his room, turned on the phone after charging it, and the first thing he did was to send Lin Tingan a WeChat message: Come out and let me kiss you.

Lin Tingan quickly replied: Come to my house, my young master wants to kiss you well.

Du Xuan locked the screen and ran to Lin Tingan's house without touching the ground.

Lin Tingan dragged Du Xuan back to the room, and closed the door behind him: "I want to kiss you."

"Are you in the top fifteen?"

"Ninth." Lin Tingan said triumphantly, "Grade No. 80 Second."

"So powerful?" Du Xuan pinched Lin Tingan's face, "You're going to be a bully."

Lin Ting'an pulled Du Xuan's hand away, and hugged Du Xuan's shoulder: "Let me give you a hug, hey, it's finally a holiday."

"What kind of vacation is it?" Du Xuan put his arms around Lin Tingan's waist, "there are remedial classes during the winter vacation."

"I'll go to the remedial class with you." Lin Tingan raised his head, "I'll talk about that later, it's not important, the important thing is that I want to kiss you now."

Du Xuan pinched Lin Tingan's chin and moved closer.

There are five weeks of winter vacation, two weeks of remedial classes, and two weeks of early start of the third year of junior high school, leaving only one week for the Spring Festival holiday.The Spring Festival has always been the busiest time for the Du family. There are so many relationships and dinners that Du Xuan has to attend. Du Xuan firmly refuses to participate.Du Jiancheng thought for a while and said: "That's fine, or you can go to your Uncle Lin's house for dinner, and your mother and I will go to someone's house to pay New Year's greetings and give something away."

Du Xuan tentatively asked Zhou Man: "Dad and Uncle Lin have a good relationship?"

Zhou Man snorted: "They all belong to the same unit, so the relationship is of course good."

Du Xuan asked, "Didn't you let me play with Lin Tingan?"

Zhou Man clicked his tongue impatiently: "You take care of yourself, don't play crazy with him, your goal is different from his."

Du Xuan heard the evasion in Zhou Man's words, so she had to swallow her stomach full of questions.

The gifts Du Jiancheng prepared for the Lin family were not insignificant, two boxes of seafood and one box of tropical fruits. Zhou Man made some calculations and said, "It's more than 1000, almost."

Du Jiancheng took another bottle of red wine from the wine cabinet: "Okay, that's it."

Du Xuan felt particularly embarrassed. This is no longer considered a New Year's gift between neighbors, right?The calculating face of his parents made him feel ashamed.

"Mom," Du Xuan protested, "this...isn't it?"

"You play with yourself, don't talk too much about these things." Zhou Man paused, pointed to things and said, "Xiaoxuan, you have also seen how expensive these things are, mom and dad do these for better future But if you can get into a good university, your starting point will be higher than others, and in the future, only others will give you gifts, so you don’t have to worry about it.”

Du Xuan immediately didn't want to go to Lin's house anymore, he felt very sick.

Zhou Man waved: "Let's go, let's pay New Year's greetings to your Uncle Lin."

Du Xuan procrastinated to the Lin's house, and Lin Yi couldn't help frowning when he saw these boxes.

Du Jiancheng said a set of auspicious and happy New Year's words, and Zhou Man added: "Xiaoxuan troubles you every day, I'm really sorry."

Lin Yi: "Old Du, you are too polite. What's the trouble? Besides, we also like Xiaoxuan very much."

Du Jiancheng took a sip of tea: "Zhou Man and I are a bit busy during this time, and we don't have time to take care of our children. You know, Lao Lin, that this project is at a critical time, and I really can't even go home after working overtime. "

"Don't worry, don't worry," Ma Jing said, "Let Xiaoxuan come to my house, I will watch the two children do their homework, and I will also make dinner."

Du Jiancheng didn't answer Ma Jing's words: "Speaking of which, Lao Du, do you think our project is a bit tricky?"

Lin Yi said: "Your brother has the most right to speak. I am a technical person, so I can only say that I have no problem here."

Du Xuan winked at Lin Ting'an, and the two found a reason to go back to the room.

"I feel so embarrassed," Du Xuan ruthlessly rubbed the airplane-shaped pillow, "I can't bear the gift-giving."

Lin Tingan said: "Then you can stay at my house for a while, come down to eat every day, and just eat these back."

Du Xuan raised her head: "Lin Ting'an, I find it very annoying, it's all these messy things every day."

Lin Tingan sighed, walked over and took Du Xuan's hand: "Don't bother, those have nothing to do with us."

Du Xuan closed her eyes and said, "I want to run away as soon as possible, as far away as possible."

Lin Tingan was taken aback: "What are you doing, running away from home?"

Du Xuan shook her head: "That's not what I meant, I just..." He paused, and said to Lin Ting'an, "I always feel that sooner or later I will be driven crazy, I'm already going crazy."

"Du Xuan..." Lin Tingan called out softly, and put his arms around him, "Don't do this, it will be fine."

"No." Du Xuan shook his head, "As long as I don't follow the route they designed, as long as I don't meet their standards, I will never get better."

Lin Tingan was silent.

Du Xuan said: "I can understand that they are doing it for my own good, but I can't accept it."

Lin Tingan gently kissed Du Xuan on the lips: "You are already amazing, really. You don't even know how tiny the two girls in our class are... Humph."

"What do you think?"

"I like you, everything."

Du Xuan hugged Lin Tingan tightly, and did not speak for a long while, the two children were quietly leaning against each other in the room.The cold winter north wind whistled outside the window, sporadic firecrackers crackled, and the bright red paper-cut window grilles on the windows of Lin’s house were full of joy.

But Du Xuan didn't want to leave Lin Tingan's embrace, he felt that only this place was warm, listening to Lin Tingan's heartbeat, he felt at ease.

Du Xuan said, "Lin Ting'an, I won't follow their route."

Lin Tingan: "You can go wherever you like, anyway, I will accompany you."