silent age

As the pet of Lin Heng, the darling of the family, Karen is undoubtedly the little darling of everyone in the family.

Karen goes out for a walk twice a day, and goes to the Moon Lake Sculpture Park in Songjiang District once a week.Among them, if Lin Heng didn't take it out for less than three times, it would make trouble.

In the whole family, it is the only creature that Lin Heng loves so much.

It can be said to be Bai Sihuan's honor to be able to take a bath in the same bathroom as it.

The decoration of the bathroom on the first floor is simple, there are not many decorations, the vases placed are not antiques, the mirror is a round mirror inlaid with Swarovski crystals, and the paintings hanging on the wall are less than 10 yuan.

I heard that the bathroom in Cheng Sutang's room is full of valuable antiques, such as Tang Dynasty royal vases, mirrors used by imperial concubines in Qing Dynasty, and paintings written by Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty in a thin gold body.

The bathroom on the first floor is a place Cheng Sutang would never step into. The usual use of this bathroom is to bathe the dog, but now there is an extra Bai Sihuan.

Karen asked two servants to coax her to apply shower gel in the large square bathtub, and Bai Sihuan soaked in the round bathtub behind the screen. The water sprinkled with bath powder was light blue, and dried flower petals were floating on the water.

The dog in the big bath behind the screen is barking, and if you look over the screen, you can just see the oil painting hanging on the wall.

Bai Sihuan looked down at his open palm, which still held the peanuts that Lin Siying gave him.

"Do you still eat peanuts when you take a bath at your house?" Lin Heng walked around the screen and asked a question that made him at a loss.The peanuts in his hand were neither eaten nor held, and it was quite embarrassing for a while.

Lin Heng grabbed the peanuts in his hand, threw them into the trash can, and put the fruit plate in his hand on the horizontal wooden board next to the bathtub: "You should eat this when you take a bath."

Sliced ​​bananas, strawberries and watermelon flesh are neatly arranged on a plate.

Bai Sihuan didn't move.

Lin Heng said displeasedly: "Take it yourself, do I still have to feed you?"

Bai Sihuan reached out to pick up a piece of watermelon and ate it.In his impression, watermelon at [-] yuan per catty is the cheapest in summer and the fruit they eat most often. Bananas at [-] yuan per catty are only eaten occasionally. Strawberries in a small box of more than ten yuan per catty in the supermarket. Barely touched.

Out of politeness, he only dared to pick the cheapest fruit first.

This watermelon is not at all the same as the ones he usually eats, it has a special sweet taste.

Lin Heng came over and asked, "Is it delicious?"

Bai Sihuan nodded, swallowed a mouthful of watermelon, and asked timidly, "Where... where did you buy it?"

He didn't know how hard it is to buy black-skinned watermelons that are only produced in Hokkaido, Japan. He only thought about such delicious things, and he had to let his mother and younger brother taste them later.

His question made Lin Heng amused: "Buy whatever you want, you can eat it anytime you want."

Bai Sihuan didn't dare to ask anymore, Lin Heng saw that he didn't touch anything else, so he asked him to eat bananas and strawberries.

This time Bai Sihuan was a little bolder and picked a piece of strawberry to eat.

Lin Heng stood up and looked down at him and asked, "What's your name?"

Bai Sihuan swallowed the strawberry, his lips turned red after chewing the strawberry: "Bai Sihuan."

Lin Heng sneered and said, "Little San even chose a coquettish name."

Hearing these words, Bai Sihuan's face froze, as if a thorn had been stabbed into his heart.

In fact, he didn't quite know what "little three" Lin Heng meant, but when he walked in the door and saw Cheng Sutang, he recalled his mother's complaints in front of him in the past, saw their big family, and how many years older than himself. The year-old Lin Siying seemed to understand that he was a shady person, and his mother was also a shady mother.

Lin Heng was not polite to him, and exposed Bai Sihuan's identity more directly than his own mother.

Bai Sihuan retracted his hands into the bathtub, and stopped eating the fruit Lin Heng gave him. He curled himself up in the bathtub, lowered his head to hide the emotions that were inadvertently revealed.

"Do you know why my dad asked you to come back?" Lin Heng didn't notice Bai Sihuan's strange emotion at all, and continued his proud declaration, "Because you are a son, and a son cannot be raised outside. If you are a daughter, My dad won't care about your life or death. But of course, letting you live here is the most benevolent, don't expect our family to accept you. "

Give me a bite of candy, and give me another slap.It was many years later that Bai Sihuan discovered that this was Lin Heng's style of dealing with others.Or to be precise, the style of treating him.

The son cannot be raised outside.

This is the only Lin family rule that Cheng Sutang is willing to give way to Lin Huan, and it is also because of this rule that Lin Huan dares to take this step with Cheng Sutang.

Two days later, Bai Sihuan saw his biological father, Lin Huan, whom he had never met.

Lin Huan, who boldly took him home without telling Cheng Sutang, didn't show much enthusiasm when he saw him.He just touched his hand and said, "Are you so old? Okay, okay, you can live here with peace of mind from now on. If you need money, you can ask your Aunt Cheng to get it. Your Aunt Cheng is rarely at home, so you can also get money from old Pei." , Eat and drink, just tell them."

Having said those two sentences, Bai Sihuan hadn't seen his father for at least two months.

As Lin Heng said, the Lin family had done their best to bring him back, and he still couldn't eat and drink. He ate with the housekeeper and servants on weekdays, and he was still dressed in the clothes brought by the family.

He didn't want to stay here either. He said several times that he wanted to go home, but the housekeeper and servants ignored him, but Cheng Sutang said to him from afar: "If you really want to go home, won't you go back by yourself? Do you not know the way?"

Bai Sihuan ran out by himself before, but was dazzled by the busy traffic and lights in this bustling area, he really couldn't recognize his way.I asked several passers-by where the old alleys were. People here said that there are so many alleys in Shanghai, and there are several famous alleys. They could name them all, but no one really knew about the old alley that Bai Sihuan was talking about.

The original home was not returned, and the person was lost. In the end, Lin Siying found it on the street and brought it back.

Lin Heng, who was too late to move his chopsticks at dinner that day, rolled his eyes when he saw the person coming back and said, "I will definitely cause trouble for people."

Bai Sihuan curled up and wanted to go back to the room, but Lin Siying pulled him with a smile and said, "Mom is not here today, let's have dinner at the table together."

Receiving this grand invitation, Bai Sihuan was momentarily taken aback, and followed Lin Siying, wanting to sit next to Lin Siying.

She didn't want Lin Siying to sit next to Lin Xianyan, leaving no room for him.

Seeing his awkward appearance standing beside Lin Siying, Lin Heng became angry for no reason, patted the place next to him heavily and said to Bai Sihuan, "Sit here."

Reluctantly, Bai Sihuan walked over and sat next to Lin Heng, feeling uncomfortable eating the meal.

After the holiday, the Lin family completed the school transfer procedures, and Bai Sihuan and Lin Heng went to the same middle school.This year he was in the second year of junior high school and Lin Heng was in the first year of junior high school.

Lin Siying was studying in the capital, and when he went back to school after the holidays, Bai Sihuan felt very reluctant.

This eldest brother is the only one who has given him warmth in this family.I still remember the night when Lin Siying brought him home, he touched his head and said, "My name and yours are the proof that my father and your mother have loved each other. Siying, Sihuan, you see, we are brothers." .”

Thinking of this, Bai Sihuan secretly wiped away tears.The only family member he could rely on was gone, and even he could only secretly grieve.

On the eve of the start of school, Cheng Sutang kindly gave Bai Sihuan a bicycle, so that Bai Sihuan could go to and from school by bicycle in the future.Lin Heng has a special car to pick him up, and Cheng Sutang doesn't like others to squeeze into a car with Lin Heng.

Every time before Lin Heng goes out, the servant will personally apply caviar skin care products on him.In Bai Sihuan's eyes, just like gold and jewelry need constant care, Lin Heng has received such meticulous care since he was a child, so he can always be bright and sparkling.

The school was not far away, so Bai Sihuan would leave after chasing the car dedicated to picking up Lin Heng a few times.

Bai Sihuan once naively thought that if this car was willing to go to the old alley once, he would definitely remember the way home.

But no one would want to go to such a place at all, let alone the treasure car specially escorting Lin Heng's jewel.The place where Bai Sihuan came is a corner forgotten by the world. The people in it, with their mediocre life and fate of being powerless to resist, gather together there and take root. They will never sprout, they will only rot.

Bai Sihuan may not know how many people are jealous of him to the point of madness, how many people want to have such an opportunity like him.But he wanted to go back to that quiet soil and be a withered seedling that would never germinate.

The new school was completely different from the old school. Bai Sihuan expected that he would look out of place. Apart from studying in class and going home after class, he didn't have any communication with his classmates. As expected, he didn't make any friends.

The food in the cafeteria was very expensive, and he never asked "family members" for money. Lin Huan only said that he was short of money and asked Aunt Cheng to get it, but he himself never gave him a dime. Naturally, Cheng Sutang couldn't give Bai Sihuan any money. All of his savings were the 50 yuan his mother threw to him when he left home, and a card that Lin Siying gave him before leaving.

He doesn't know how to use that card, and 50 yuan can't afford a meal in the cafeteria. He can only buy a steamed bun one morning, divide the steamed bun into two portions, eat one in the morning and one at noon.

He thought he could go home for dinner, but when he got home, the servant didn't leave any food for him, thinking that his dinner would be settled at school like Lin Heng.

He didn't dare to say anything, and divided the steamed buns into three portions every day, one in the morning, one in the middle of the night, and one in the evening.

The classmates in the cafeteria eat fish and meat, Bai Sihuan is afraid of embarrassment, and has never eaten steamed buns in the cafeteria.Every time I dared to wait until I was the only one left in the classroom, I took out the steamed buns I had hidden tightly and ate them.

Once I fainted in the classroom and was sent to the school hospital. The school hospital gave me a drip, saying that it was due to insufficient blood sugar, malnutrition, and a bunch of other problems.

Who is his family?After asking his class teacher, he found out that his guardian is Lin Huan, and he and Lin Heng are brothers from the same father.

Everyone is stupid.

After he woke up, Lin Heng stood beside him and looked at him coldly: "Won't you ask for money if you don't have money? Don't you know how to talk when you can't afford food?"

Lin Heng's tone always made Bai Sihuan feel that he was blaming himself.

Of course this jewel in the palm of the hand won't understand the inferiority complex and timidity of Bai Sihuan who comes from a poor family.

It is impossible for him in his life to understand the feeling of helplessness and panic when begging for a meal from the "family" is met with blank stares and indifference.

Bai Sihuan pulled the quilt over his head to block the piercing light of the man in front of him.He thinks that the bed is his shelter, even for a short time.

Lin Heng sighed anxiously, scolding him for not being able to say anything, but just shrinking himself into a ball, like a bitch.

Listening to his scolding, Bai Sihuan didn't poke his head out of the quilt, the white in front of his eyes gradually blurred, he blinked, retracted his tears, and gritted his teeth to endure the next minute and every second.

Bai Sihuan knew in his heart that no one here welcomed him at all, he just didn't understand, since these people didn't like him so much, why did they bring him to this place and make him endure such punishment.

Lin Heng asked Bai Sihuan to go to the cafeteria to eat with him every day, but Bai Sihuan didn't want to come, so Lin Heng asked his little follower to carry him to the cafeteria.

At the dining table, Bai Sihuan sat across from Lin Heng, and Xiaohua sat next to Lin Heng.

Every day there are beautiful girls who want to come to have dinner with Lin Heng, but every time the school belle takes the lead, as time goes by, no one has the courage to take the school belle's position.

Except for Cheng Sutang, Bai Sihuan had never met a woman who could make up before, let alone a girl who just graduated from junior high school in front of him could do it.

He couldn't see the nude makeup on Xiaohua's face, he just wondered how anyone around him could be as beautiful as the stars on TV.

"Why does he keep looking at me?" The school beauty who was always looking for something to chat with Lin Heng noticed Bai Sihuan's gaze on her, and deliberately mentioned this matter as if she wanted to attract Lin Heng's attention.

Lin Heng, who had never liked to talk to this school beauty, stopped his chopsticks and asked Bai Sihuan: "Why do you keep looking at her?"

Bai Sihuan lowered his head as if admitting his mistake, and ate quietly.

Lin Heng didn't intend to let him go: "I'm asking you something."

Bai Sihuan whispered, "She is beautiful."

Being called beautiful by such a person, Xiaohua felt disgusted, and the disgusted expression on her face couldn't be more obvious.

Lin Heng sneered and said yes, he knew how to speak his mind and made progress.

He picked up a spare rib from the bowl and threw it to Bai Sihuan, asking him to eat more, just like throwing a bone to Karen as a reward, he almost patted his head and said "Good boy".

Xiao Hua acted like a baby to Lin Heng: "Why do you only pick him but not me? I won't eat."

Lin Heng didn't even look at her: "If you don't want to eat, just leave, please stay?"

The school belle hummed twice pretending to be emotional, and still sat next to him to eat.

Once Lin Heng came late, Bai Sihuan didn't dare to move his chopsticks first, and sat on his seat waiting for him to come.

The school belle arrived first, looked around and saw that there was no one around, slammed a lunch box on the table, and said to Bai Sihuan in a warning tone: "Are you annoyed by sitting with us every day? You have a little self-knowledge, okay? Look at yourself." De Xing, sitting here eating with us every day, who do you think you are! Do you wink?"

Bai Sihuan wanted to explain: "It's because..."

The girl was eloquent, and she didn't give him a chance to explain: "Who cares what is your reason? Don't you see that Lin Heng and I don't like you very much? This is where he and I are. Why are you sitting between us?" Position? There are grades in this society, do you know? Not every position can be afforded by you!" Upon hearing the sound of approaching footsteps, the school beauty suddenly turned a smiling face, and said to the people behind Bai Sihuan, " Lin Heng, are you here? Come and tell him, let him stop sitting here, this is obviously ours..."

Before she finished speaking, the lunch box on the table had been turned upside down on her head, and the sauce was flowing down her long black hair.

Lin Heng seemed to be responding to her "social class", and said blankly: "Let him go? It's up to you? Do you know that he is my brother."