don't force me

The braised pork stewed by Ma Jing is really fragrant. It is chopped and added with some coriander and green pepper, and sandwiched in the hot sesame seed cakes. Du Xuan can't wait to eat even the scum.

Lin Tingan asked: "Will it still be like this in the future?"

Du Xuan nodded: "She said she didn't agree with me studying medicine, but this matter is too important to me, and I don't want to regret it later...I don't want to listen to her about this matter."

"If you can't be persuaded, don't persuade. Anyway, aren't you ready to use the trick again in the third year of junior high school?"

Du Xuan sighed: "But I still think it would be better if she could understand and accept it? But it seems too difficult now."

"What did your father say? He also firmly opposes it?" Lin Tingan asked.

Du Xuan glanced at Lin Ting'an, and said irrelevantly: "Can you help me ask Uncle Lin, is their unit particularly busy recently?"

"Shouldn't be busy," Lin Tingan said. "Recently, my dad comes home earlier than my mom. If it weren't for the fact that his cooking is so bad, my mom would have asked him to make dinner."

"Really?" Du Xuan's heart sank, and a cold pain spread.With a glimmer of hope, he asked, "Uncle Lin is in technology, and my dad is in management. Is it possible that he is not busy and my dad is busy?"

Lin Tingan glanced at Du Xuan and said, "What's wrong with your dad? Very busy? Always working overtime?"

Du Xuan nodded: "My mother is very angry about this. You know my mother is very strong. She was angry for a long time when my father failed to get promoted last year. So if my father is really busy with work , she shouldn't have such a big reaction."

Lin Tingan was startled by the subtext, and hesitated for a long time before saying: "Don't think about it, Uncle Du is in charge of a team, and there are so many important things to do."

Du Xuan recognized the comfort in these words, shook her head and asked, "Tell me the truth, what is their work like under normal circumstances?"

"In their job, the technical post is usually busy and the management post is idle; if the management post starts to be busy, the technical post will have to work 24 hours a day." Lin Tingan said honestly.

Du Xuan lowered her head, Zhou Man's sharp "don't mention him to me" echoed in her ears last night.He shook his head, trying to get rid of some terrible thoughts, and forced a smile.

Lin Tingan couldn't bear to say: "Actually, it's also possible that uncle is going to have some new project. If that's the case, he will be very busy."

Du Xuan said "hmm" without saying a word.For some things, it is useless to speculate, but it will make the two parties more and more alienated.Lin Tingan always said "you have to tell me something", this is not just talking, but the greatest sincerity that a person can give to his relationship.

When two people get along, what could be more valuable than opening your heart to each other?Du Xuan thought, Lin Ting'an is a sensible person when it comes to relationships.

Lin Tingan glanced at Du Xuan's face, and said tentatively, "Don't worry, I'll go back and ask my dad, Uncle Du may be really busy."

Du Xuan said "thank you" softly, but she didn't have any hope in her heart.He really doesn't know what his father is busy with every day, but there is one thing he knows very well, that is, according to Zhou Man's temperament, if something really happens, she will neither want nor redeem anything. A matter of no room for change.

Maybe it was Du Jiancheng's recent abnormal performance that bothered Zhou Man even more, or maybe it was Du Xuan's sentence "I would rather repeat my studies than learn finance" that hit Zhou Man. Large-scale quarrels occurred one after another; while the relationship between mother and child returned to that indifferent but relatively calm state.

Once, Du Xuan tentatively said: "The schedule of the biology competition has been released. I have to train two weeks before the Spring Festival. I will be in school for three hours in the morning and three hours in the afternoon every day."

Zhou Man said coldly, "Got it."

Du Xuan added: "I really can't arrange the time, I only signed up for one mathematics improvement class."

Zhou Man only said: "You can figure it out."

Of course, these are not heart-warming and inspirational words, but they are Zhou Man's major concession to Du Xuan's study.

Du Xuan cherished this short period of stability, but he also knew that this must be the eve of the storm, he just didn't know when the thunderbolt would fall.

Lin Tingan immediately noticed that something was wrong with Du Xuan. Normally, Du Xuan was in a bad mood because he was angry or nervous, but recently he felt that Du Xuan was always in a state of "fear". He vaguely knew what Du Xuan was worried about, but he didn't know. How to comfort him.

Lin Tingan said to Du Xuan; "I asked my father, and Uncle Du has indeed been talking about the project recently."

Du Xuan smiled: "As far as I know, this project has been discussed for two months."

"Ah... two months." Lin Tingan muttered and couldn't continue.

Du Xuan looked up at the gloomy sky. It was cold in winter, but it didn't seem so bad.If the wind is strong enough, the cold will at least bring clear skies.Du Xuan was never afraid of a difficult process, he was only worried that such a difficult process would be endless.

If it's really irreversible, then so be it.

Entering December, Du Jiancheng was not the only one who got busy. Lin Tingan was notified to add a month of winter training.In contrast, he complained endlessly, not because he thought the training was hard, but because he simply couldn't stand winter training. As a southerner, winter in the north is a nightmare.

But Du Xuan was very happy to hear that: "Winter training is not for all members, but for the first team. The absolute main force of next year's city competition, Lao Hu will definitely want you to be the main force."

"I don't have time to do my homework anymore," Lin Tingan muttered, "Ms. Xu is going to talk again."

"Looking at what you said, it seems that you attach great importance to homework." Du Xuan said jokingly, "Aren't you..."

"Don't talk about the experimental class!" Lin Tingan said fiercely.

"Changed your mind?" Du Xuan said with a smile.

"No." Lin Tingan scratched the back of his head, "I just think that if you learn like this, I can't be too bad."

"When I first liked you, you were even worse than now. I didn't dislike you at that time, let alone now. After all, you are also in the experimental class."

"Don't use aggressive tactics, it's useless to force me! Young master, my face is as big as a playground." Lin Tingan groaned.

"Just do your best," Du Xuan said with a smile, "Honestly speaking, all I ask of you is not to leave the experimental class, remember what I promised."

"I remember it, but I don't want to lose face?" Lin Tingan rolled his eyes, "Besides, I just won a special prize two days ago, and then followed the countdown of the monthly exam grades, and I was out of the experimental class at the end of the semester. Ugly."

Du Xuan smiled, with unconcealable pride in her smile, as if she had completed a masterpiece.

Lin Tingan snorted: "You say you, what are you doing this science and technology week? It makes me very stressed to death, and I am nervous all day long for fear of embarrassing you. Doesn't this force me to work hard?"

"Isn't this good? Some people say that you have strong limbs and a simple mind. You see, you have twice as many fans now as before."

"Then are you under any pressure? Are you worried that I will be snatched away?" Lin Tingan said with a hippie smile.

"Ah, worry, worry to death, what should I do?"

"Keep worrying, this way you will be more stressed, and it will only be better for me." Lin Tingan said triumphantly.

"What else can I do?" Du Xuan asked, "Sun Rui already calls you Young Master An."

"He was jealous. He was jealous that it took me only one year to beat him for nine years."

"Is he straight?" Du Xuan smiled and squeezed his neck, Lin Tingan squinted his eyes in comfort.

"Du Xuan, I never asked you, are you crooked?"

"Of course, otherwise why would I like you."

"Have you ever liked a girl?"

"Nope, what about you?"

"Neither have I." Lin Tingan sighed, "I always thought that I had a high vision and looked down on those vulgar fans. Who knows..."

Du Xuan wrapped her arms around Lin Tingan's neck, twisted his chin, raised his head and kissed him.

Whether it is or not, in short, the person I like is him, and the person he likes is me.

Winter training started in December. For a whole month, they were on the playground when there was no wind or snow, and in the gymnasium when the weather was bad. The entire track and field team was turned into a pile of rotten leaves by Hu Kun.

Song Yang hung on the horizontal bar, blushing and complaining to Lin Tingan: "I'm going to die, I'm going to die."

Lin Tingan sat on the cushion to rest, and sighed: "Be patient, don't you want to participate in the city competition?"

"It's not a question of whether you want to or not," Song Yang said, "You said that we are special students with such low grades in school, and we are usually scolded when we take the exam. We must hurry up when we finally catch up with something that shows our face. .”

Song Yang suddenly laughed: "We can't compare with you, you are a young aviation genius."

Lin Tingan raised his chest proudly.

"But the little genius exam is still in the same exam room as us."

"... Sun!" Lin Tingan jumped up and kicked Song Yang.

Hu Kun on one side glanced at his watch, blew the assembly whistle, routinely reprimanded him a few words "too lazy" and then left.Song Yang shouted from behind: "Lin Tingan, are you going to eat iron plates?"

Lin Tingan shook his hand and ran into the high school building in an instant.Du Xuan has already packed her schoolbag and is listening to English with headphones.Lin Tingan hugged Du Xuan from behind: "Let's go?"

"Let's go." Du Xuan took off his earphones and took out a thermos from his schoolbag. "Drink? Milk tea, hot."

Lin Tingan unscrewed the lid and took a deep breath: "A cup of milk tea and two bowls of rice, I've been running all night for nothing."

"Don't give it to me." Du Xuan reached out to snatch the cup, Lin Tingan quickly ran away, stood aside and said with a smile on his face, "I'll drink it, it's just cold."

The two walked and chatted about winter training. Lin Tingan kept complaining about the cold. Du Xuan asked, "Are you hungry? Let's go get something to eat?"

"Are you okay coming home late?" Lin Tingan asked, "You have been training with me recently."

"It's okay. Anyway, I'm studying at night at school. My mother has already checked with the teacher. She... has a lot of troubles recently, and I don't want to go back and make her suffer."

"Still no progress?"

Du Xuan nodded: "I haven't been able to talk to her recently, she is in a particularly bad mood, and she gets angry easily when she says anything casually."

"Then don't talk about it." Lin Tingan touched his stomach and changed the subject, "I'm really hungry after what you said. Just now Song Yang said to eat iron plates. Let's go eat grilled squid."

"That calorie is five bowls of white rice." Du Xuan said with a smile, "Otherwise, let's run back after eating and burn it for you."

"No!" Lin Tingan said with great integrity, "I even want to take a taxi back."

"You're so lazy!" Du Xuan said while taking out her wallet, "Why haven't you gained weight yet?"

"Two squids, four mutton skewers and four ribs." Lin Tingan said salivatingly.

The two walked back with their mouths full of greasy food, and Du Xuan saw the car parked in his parking space from a distance: "Hey, my dad came back quite early today, it's just...nine o'clock."

"I don't know how to answer what you said." Lin Ting'an gave Du Xuan a hand, "Let's go, it's a good thing to come back early."

The two stopped together as soon as they reached the second floor, and the sound of quarreling from the third floor echoed in the corridor.Du Xuan couldn't help cursing: "Fuck!"

Lin Ting'an took Du Xuan's hand: "Go to my house for a while."

Du Xuan stared at the stairs, his face was full of dark clouds, and he couldn't suppress his anger.

"Du Xuan?" Lin Tingan asked hesitantly, "You go to my house..."

Before Lin Tingan finished speaking, Du Xuan shook off Lin Tingan's hand and jumped up the steps in a few steps. He was trembling with anger, and he poked the key two or three times before he put the key into the keyhole.

As the door opened, the quarrel suddenly became louder, and even Lin Ting'an heard Du Chengcheng shout angrily: "Zhou Man, you idiot, leave me alone."

Following Du Xuan, he shouted, "Stop making noise!"

Du Xuan's voice seemed to be an order, and Lin Tingan rushed upstairs. No matter what it was, he couldn't let Du Xuan face it alone. Even if he was not qualified to meddle in other people's family affairs, he was always qualified to protect Du Xuan.