silent age

On the day Bai Sihuan left, Lin Siying sent him out.

Probably out of comfort, Lin Siying said to Bai Sihuan gently: "This home looks like a home, but it's actually a dragon's pond and a tiger's den. It's good to be able to leave here."

His elder brother is the last person in the Lin family who is willing to give him tenderness.

Bai Sihuan was in a daze, and nodded his head "Yes", wondering if he really listened to what he said.He couldn't help thinking in his heart, Lin Heng didn't believe him, Lin Heng hated him, maybe he would never see Lin Heng again.Wouldn't it be nice not to see him?

For the Lin family, he had never liked it before, but Lin Heng was the one he said he liked, and he really liked it from the bottom of his heart.Even if he knew it was wrong at the beginning, he couldn't restrain his feelings.But now, no matter whether it is right or wrong, there is nothing, and he no longer has to worry about what to do.

For the first time, Bai Sihuan felt that the road back to the alley was so long. He didn't take a car, and wandered around, as if he was looking for his own shelter.

It was completely dark, and the lights of the houses on both sides were turned on one by one.The road ahead was empty, and it was only at this moment that he realized that after walking this road for so long, he had always been walking alone, and no one had ever accompanied him.

It wasn't until dawn the next day that Bai Sihuan walked back to the alley, his legs were so sore that he hadn't rested all night, and his body was a little numb.

The aunts in the neighbor's house came out to dry their clothes, and when they saw Bai Sihuan coming back in disgrace, they were all surprised and gloated.

"Isn't this the young master of the Lin family? He's back?"

"He's really good now. I heard that he is the number one scholar. I'm surprised. How can a number one scholar come back in such a state of embarrassment?"

"Oh, a rich family like the Lin family cares about whether the champion is the champion or not, and I don't know if the champion is really the champion. With Bai Ying's mouth, she can talk nonsense. Your husband didn't do it last time. Defrauded her of thousands of dollars?"

"Speaking of this, I will get angry. I think what kind of mother will teach what kind of son. This young master is probably just like his mother. He cheated his stepmother for money, so he was kicked out."

"So do I see."

The aunts pretended not to see Bai Sihuan, and continued to gossip about him.

Bai Sihuan is used to being gossiped by his neighbors. His mother is not good at life and often offended the neighbors. When he went out when he was a child, these neighbors liked to vent their anger on him. There was once a woman who became more and more angry when she scolded, and even beat her with a broom. he.

At that time, I was still young and didn't know how to resist. When I went home and told my mother, my mother was so angry that she gritted her teeth and scolded that woman for being shameless, but she didn't care about the injuries on his face and body.

After a long time, he got used to bearing all this alone, no matter how others scolded him, he didn't feel much.

Back at the door of the house, before entering the house, I heard my mother swearing in Shanghainese in the house from a distance.

It seems that Bai Yuancheng came back, and his mother scolded him for not going home for several days, and even went to Lin's house.

Bai Yuancheng let her scold her for a while, and then said with a smile: "Mom, although I sneaked to Lin's house, I brought these back for you..."

Bai Ying's tone suddenly changed: "Wow, how can there be so much money? Where did you get it!"

"Those people surnamed Lin gave it to me!"

"They'll give you so much money?" Bai Ying clearly didn't believe it, "Tell me the truth, how did you get it!"

Bai Yuancheng laughed a few more times, and said cheerfully: "There is a cellar in the grand palace of their Lin family, and there are many valuable things in it. Those people said that Mrs. Lin didn't want them all, so I thought, since they don't want them, I will It doesn’t matter how many pieces you get, right? When you help them clean up the garbage, the money is all considered as a reward for helping them clean up the garbage. Although, I didn’t let them know about this process, but the meaning is almost the same, right? "

At this time, Bai Sihuan pushed the door open and entered, looking at Bai Yuancheng coldly.

Bai Yuancheng's mouth was half opened, his original complacent posture was gone, he turned his head and coughed in embarrassment.

Seeing the eldest son come back suddenly, Bai Ying was surprised for a while, then frowned and asked, "You? Why are you back?"

"Brother killed his dog and was kicked out." Bai Yuancheng said in a calm voice.

Before Bai Ying could take the surprise, something even more surprising happened.

Bai Sihuan rushed forward and punched Bai Yuancheng directly!

After living for so many years, Bai Sihuan never took the initiative to beat anyone, the first time he beat someone was that scumbag Liu Sheng.

To Liu Sheng, he was angry, but to Bai Yuancheng, he was heartbroken.

He didn't feel sorry for Bai Yuancheng for framing him, but felt sorry for his younger brother, whose conduct has become so corrupt at such a young age!

He even blamed himself, even if he had taught this younger brother a few more words before, this younger brother might not have become like this.

Bai Yuancheng was stunned for three seconds. After he was stunned, he touched the corner of his mouth, saw a smear of red on his fingertips, and suddenly burst into tears: "Why are you beating me! You are useless when you are kicked out. I vent my anger! Mom... I'm bleeding!"

"Why are you beating your brother!" Bai Ying immediately jumped up after realizing it, hugged Bai Yuancheng in her arms, and scolded Bai Sihuan, "Your brother will bring me money back, what about you? You will only come here Suck my blood! How dare you beat your brother! Even if I, Bai Ying, owed you in my previous life, you have paid back all these years, right? You still want to take back your brother's life now, don't you! Even if this small temple of our Bai family can't accommodate a big Bodhisattva like you, you can go back to your Lin family as the young master!" She held Bai Yuancheng's face and exhaled distressedly, "Good boy, it doesn't hurt, let mom see ah!"

Looking at this scene, Bai Sihuan felt a sudden chill in his heart, and he couldn't say a word anymore.

On the day when Bai Sihuan filled out his application form, Bai Ying didn't ask any questions, but said coldly: "It's the same everywhere, anyway, I can't afford your tuition fee, why don't you go back to Lin's house and beg them to take you in again?" Or you can find a way to make money yourself."

After hearing his mother's words, Bai Sihuan didn't feel much fluctuation.When I think about it, this place seems to have nothing to miss.

The teachers at the school called him many times, hoping that he could apply for a better school.After much deliberation, he finally chose Jiangcheng University.It was just a naive thought that maybe he would have a little hope in his life if he went to a foreign country.

Bai Sihuan did not spend the last days before going to university at home.He found a part-time job, saved some money, and together with what Lin Huan and Lin Siying gave him before, he managed to scrape together the tuition and miscellaneous fees for the first year of school.When it came time to register for the semester, he dragged his luggage, booked a train ticket, took the train, and headed to that strange city.

Class 1 of Civil Engineering Department of XX, Bai Sihuan, class No. 1.

Bedroom 3, Building 101, No. 1 bed.There are five roommates, from all over the world, with very different personalities.

The impressions of his roommates and classmates are nothing more than excellent grades, taciturn, and difficult to approach, and there is no more impression of him.

As far as his appearance is concerned, he is obviously very handsome, but he always has a sad face, as if his parents died since he was a child and his family can't get rid of the pot.There are always three or two pieces of clothes, plain and simple, not very outstanding.Therefore, people around him know that he is good at reading and loves to read, but they don't know much about him or get in touch with him.

There is a man named Tian Zhicheng in their dormitory, he is a bit domineering and talks a lot.Seeing that Bai Sihuan is easy to bully, he always likes to take advantage of him.Bai Sihuan often took his things without his consent, asked him to borrow money and whether he paid it back, Bai Sihuan didn't care much about these things.

But the more this was the case, the more this Tian Zhicheng seemed to love to bully him.

Other people in the dormitory came to talk to Bai Sihuan, telling him not to endure Tian Zhicheng's anger all the time, they almost couldn't stand it anymore.

Bai Sihuan just replied "ah" in a daze?

He didn't seem to realize that he was already indifferent to all the people and things around him. He was numb to what others did to him and what happened to the outside world.

I don't know from which day, he has been deeply trapped in certain specific pains and cannot come out.I always think of a lot of bad things and have a lot of bad dreams.I always think of the first kiss that Lin Heng gave him on the grass in the racecourse that sunny winter.

The world around me seems to be black, white and gray, and even these people are like strange characters walking around in a mime, only the grass in my memory is colorful.

The people in the dormitory shook their heads when they saw that their kind advice was not flattering, and they stopped caring about him.

In the middle of the night, Bai Sihuan turned on the desk lamp and buried himself in the questions. Tian Zhicheng picked up the glasses case from the upper bunk and threw it at his head.With a thud, Bai Sihuan's head hurt.When those people sleeping on the bunk heard the sound, they felt pain for Bai Sihuan.

"Why don't you let people sleep? His mother loves to study so much, why doesn't he live in the library?" Tian Zhicheng cursed angrily.

In fact, Tian Zhicheng has been playing with his mobile phone, not sleeping at all, but seeing Bai Sihuan studying hard every day, he feels angry.

Bai Sihuan didn't say much, just said "I'm sorry", closed the book, turned off the desk lamp, and slowly climbed into bed.

He lay on a bed less than one meter wide, opened his eyes and looked at the dark ceiling, smelling the smell of sweat floating in the air. After a while, Tian Zhicheng's thunderous snoring sounded beside his ears.

Suddenly remembered something, Bai Sihuan took out his mobile phone, hid in the bed and glanced at the date, his heart pounded, he grabbed the phone tightly, as if an idea was born in his heart.

Early the next morning, Bai Sihuan tiptoed up, went out, closed the door, came to the gate of the dormitory building, took a deep breath, and mustered up the courage to call Lin Heng's phone number.

The sound of waiting for the phone to be connected seemed to involve Bai Sihuan's heart, and every time it rang, his heart would beat with enthusiasm.

The phone rang for a long time before the other party picked it up: "Hello?"

Bai Sihuan's fiery heart suddenly turned cold, the voice belonged to the housekeeper.

"Is it Young Master Sihuan?" Seeing that Bai Sihuan hadn't spoken for a long time, the other party took the initiative to speak.

Half a second later, Bai Sihuan said, "Well, it's me. Can...can you let Lin Heng answer the phone?"

"Is there something wrong?"

"Today is Lin Heng's birthday, I want to say happy birthday to him."

The person on the other end of the phone was silent for a while, and then said, "Wait a moment."

This "wait a moment", waited for about 5 minutes, and after 5 minutes, the person who answered the phone was still the housekeeper: "Sorry, Master Heng is busy right now, so I can't answer your call."

"Huh? Is he busy? Then I'll..."

"He doesn't want to listen to your calls in the future either!" Before Bai Sihuan could finish speaking, the housekeeper interrupted, "Master Heng still has something to convey to you.

"...What do you say?" Bai Sihuan had a vague premonition.

The butler's voice was without any emotion, like a machine, and said coldly: "He said, 'I was wrong with you, it was wrong with men, it was wrong between brothers, it's because you are a high-achieving student , don’t even understand the truth.”

Bai Sihuan felt that his cooled heart suddenly seemed to be pierced by a thorn, trembling with pain.His lips also trembled, and asked: "Is this his original words?"

"The original words, not a single word." The housekeeper added what he wanted to say, "Master Sihuan, the family members turned a blind eye to the matters between you and Master Heng before, and no one told Mr. Madam I’ve said it before. Do you think it’s because everyone doesn’t want to meddle in their own business? No, it’s because everyone knows that Master Heng is a person who knows how to measure. He knows what to be serious about and what to play with.”

"..." Bai Sihuan's body was a little stiff, and even his words froze in his throat.After a while, I said, "Oh."

After hanging up the phone, Bai Sihuan stared at the phone in a daze.

It turns out that he once struggled so painfully, suppressed his emotions so hard, and suffered such piercing pain. For Lin Heng, it was just a "just for fun".

Brother... How funny, brother, yes, they are wrong, but does Lin Heng know that they are not brothers at all.