silent age

Since Lin Heng fed Xiaohua's hair that day, Xiaohua never appeared at this dinner table again.

Only when Bai Sihuan and Lin Heng were eating, the dinner table was unusually quiet.Bai Sihuan always only eats quietly, and it is difficult to hear him make a sound while eating, let alone hear him speak actively.

Lin Heng is very picky eater, so if there is something in the lunch box that he doesn't want to eat, just give it to him.

Every time he finishes this action, as if a fixed formula, a "thank you" will come out of Bai Sihuan's mouth.

Probably because he wanted to hear more about his voice, Lin Heng liked to give him small pieces of food every once in a while.His "thank you" sounded on time and on time every time.

Later, at the school dinner table, eating didn't seem to be necessary for Lin Heng, but hearing the "thank you" was.

Several times, Lin Heng unknowingly piled all the vegetables in his lunch box to Bai Sihuan, and then bought a new one himself.

Once Bai Sihuan really couldn't eat and vomited, Lin Heng was startled, and blamed himself for not seeing his reluctance, cursing: "If you can't eat, don't eat, why force yourself so much?"

Bai Sihuan covered his mouth, blushed like the bottom of a steamer, and whispered "I'm sorry" several times.

"There's nothing to apologize for!" Lin Heng's anger was halfway through, and his guilt softened him rarely, "... Forget it, let's go, go and drink some water."

"This table..."

"You don't need to clean up."

Lin Huan and Cheng Sutang are busy with work and rarely stay at home on weekdays. Lin Siying is studying in the capital. Lin Xianyan secretly enrolls in an art class and runs out every day at noon to learn painting.

In this big palace-like house, apart from the housekeeper and servants who clean it every day, there are only Lin Heng, Bai Sihuan and a dog.

One day, Karen ate bad food and was sent to the hospital. The veterinarian said that he had to stay in the hospital for observation, and Lin Heng was not allowed to take him home.

That night, when Bai Sihuan had just put on the quilt and wanted to go to bed, Lin Heng opened the door and came in without saying hello, and climbed directly into Bai Sihuan's bed: "Karen is not here, I don't want to sleep by myself, go to sleep."

Before Bai Sihuan could say a word, Lin Heng occupied most of the bed.

Lin Heng looked at his room, which was smaller than that of Lao Pei, and asked with a frown, "Why is your room so small? The quilt is also thin, and it smells musty." After smelling the smell of the quilt, Lin Heng's face was written all over. dislike.

Bai Sihuan sat up and said, "Shall I go get yours?"

"No, let's get some sleep and lie down."

Bai Sihuan lay down obediently again.He moved to the side, hoping to make Lin Heng sleep more comfortably.

As soon as he moved an inch to the side of the bed, Lin Heng said, "Do you want to fall? Come to sleep."

Bai Sihuan's body stiffened slightly, and he moved towards him again.

Lin Heng touched his thin body, frowned, reached out and touched him: "It's not like I didn't give you food, why are you still so thin?"

"Hey..." Bai Sihuan curled up, the places on his body touched by Lin Heng turned red, and the blush reached his ears.

"What's it called? What's wrong with touching it twice?"

Bai Sihuan bit his lip, clenched his fists until his knuckles turned white.

Probably seeing Bai Sihuan's embarrassment, Lin Heng didn't touch him anymore, and put his arms around him, yawned and said, "I don't have as much flesh as Karen, so it's really uncomfortable to hold him."

Bai Sihuan thought to himself, he was at best a temporary substitute when Karen was not around.

Karen stayed in the hospital for half a month, Lin Heng slept with Bai Sihuan for half a month, and Bai Sihuan served as a substitute for half a month.

The day Karen came back from the hospital coincided with the school's third monthly exam this semester.Lin Heng came to look for him in Bai Sihuan's class, called him out and said, "Go and help me with the exam."

Bai Sihuan was stunned: "Huh?"

Lin Heng said: "I don't want to take the exam, I miss Karen, I have to go home and look for her."

"But I have to take the exam too..." Bai Sihuan plucked up his courage and said something slightly rebellious.

"Your grades are so good, they won't do anything to you if you miss the exam once." Lin Heng didn't give him a chance to refuse, picked up his schoolbag, turned around and left, "That's it, I'm leaving."

The day after the exam, Bai Sihuan was called to the principal's office.At that time, Lin Heng was teaching in the classroom, and accidentally caught a glimpse of Lou Bai Sihuan walking into the principal's office on the opposite side of the window. Their math teacher glanced at it and reminded Lin Heng with a smile: "Student Lin Heng, please listen to the class carefully. It doesn't matter to you."

That matter has nothing to do with him.Lin Heng thought this was the funniest joke, but Bai Sihuan, who was being used as a gun, didn't even have the chance to hear this joke.

The surveillance video of the day of the exam was continuously played back on the TV in the principal's office, and Bai Sihuan waited for his trial with his head down.

There were two teachers sitting in front of him, one was Bai Sihuan's head teacher, and the other was Lin Heng's head teacher.

The principal sitting in the middle is on the phone, and there is a leader on the other end of the phone, demanding to collect his good grades this year.With a bit of educative elegance and a bit of courteousness in the official market, he spent 7 minutes to get the other party to hang up the call with satisfaction.

After the principal ended the phone call, he glanced at Bai Sihuan, glanced at Bai Sihuan's usual report card twice, and looked at the test paper and answer sheet that Bai Sihuan took for Lin Heng for 3 minutes.

"The school doesn't need to punish you." The principal lit a cigarette, took a puff comfortably, and seeing Bai Sihuan's surprised expression, he talked about the conditions, "Well, next month there is a key high school that will have a self-enrollment exam. You Sign up to try it out."

Bai Sihuan's class teacher said in surprise: "Principal, he is only in the second year of junior high school!"

The principal ignored Bai Sihuan's head teacher and waved to Bai Sihuan: "Okay, you go out first."

After Bai Sihuan went out, the voices of the three people in the principal's room came intermittently.

The principal said to the two class teachers: "Go and empty out the bad places in the third year of junior high school, and find some better ones in the second year of junior high school. Come on, don't you know? The real grades in the third year of junior high school will be good this year. There are only a few of them, not enough for the higher-ups... I think the one in your class is not bad, let him try, this kind of opportunity is not available to everyone, if you persuade him, he will go."

After the headmaster went out, Bai Sihuan still hadn't left.When he saw him, the principal was taken aback for a moment, then came up to pat him on the shoulder and said, "Give our school a good grade, ah."

Lin Heng saw Bai Sihuan again that day after school.

Lin Heng felt that it was a rare time to come up to care about him: "Did they do anything to you?"

"It's nothing." Bai Sihuan's reaction was rather evasive and indifferent, and he didn't really want to continue this topic with Lin Heng either explicitly or secretly.

Lin Heng frowned and asked him, "Are you blaming me?"

Bai Sihuan shook his head hurriedly: "No."

"Why don't you talk to me like that?"

"The garage is closing and I have to get the car quickly."

"You take the car home with me today." Lin Heng reached out to grab Bai Sihuan's arm.

Bai Sihuan stepped back indiscriminately: "Your mother doesn't like other people driving home with you. I'm leaving."

"Bai Sihuan!"

Bai Sihuan pretended not to hear his voice, and trotted away.

They were silent with each other at the dinner table on the second day, they were silent with each other at the dinner table on the third day, and a girl appeared at the dinner table on the fourth day, chatting and laughing with Lin Heng.

Different from those girls who stuck together in the past, this girl was invited by Lin Heng to have dinner with her.

I heard Lin Heng mentioned at home before that he had a lot of fun with a girl recently, and that girl had a temper like a fierce kitten, and he liked it very much.

Bai Sihuan listened to their laughter, lowered his head even tighter, and ate food faster, it seemed the same with or without him at the dinner table.

It is rare for Lin Huan and Cheng Sutang to be at home together.When her parents were around, Lin Xianyan didn't dare to go out secretly to learn painting, and spent all day learning etiquette and rules by her mother.

When Cheng Sutang was at home, Bai Sihuan always avoided as much as he could.The madam said that seeing him would bother her. According to the madam's words, he had to learn to leave when he saw her.

Lin Huan was in the study that day and asked the housekeeper what the whole family was doing.The housekeeper said that the whole family was drinking afternoon tea in the sun room, and the young master even brought a female classmate to play at home.The second young master hid in the room and did not come out.

Lin Huan asked Lao Pei to call Bai Sihuan to the study.

Seeing Bai Sihuan coming to the study, wearing old clothes that didn't fit in the house, and looking timid, Lin Huan rarely paid thousands of dollars out of his own pocket, so that he could go out and buy a few more clothes when he was free.

Afterwards, he patted the back of his hand and said earnestly, "Your Auntie Cheng is usually a knife-mouthed bean curd, so don't avoid her because of this, she will feel uncomfortable instead. When you see her, smile more and call Aunt Cheng." Well, after a long time, she will naturally feel that you are better."

After Lin Huan finished speaking, he handed him a pack of Lushan Yunwu tea that was just baked today: "You give this tea to your Aunt Cheng, remember to say a few more nice words, go."

Bai Sihuan brought the tea to the sun room. It can be said that this pack of tea was brought at a very bad time. Cheng Sutang's afternoon tea today is Western style. There is a pot of coffee and four layers of English desserts on the table.

Cheng Sutang chatted with the housekeeper while drinking coffee, and Lin Xianyan sat next to her and listened to her talk. Before she drank coffee and ate dessert, Lin Xianyan dared not touch anything on the table.

Lin Heng and the female classmate who had a temper like a kitten were teasing Karen by the flower basket. Bai Sihuan quickly walked up to Cheng Sutang, called "Aunt Cheng", and handed her the tea in his hand, saying that his father wanted to give it to her. .

Cheng Sutang glanced at the Western-style tea on the table, and then at the tea in Bai Sihuan's hand, her eyes were cold and disgusted, she didn't take it, and she didn't speak.

Bai Sihuan stood there stiffly, at a loss.

At this time, the female classmate was tired of playing, and she sat on the ground and said to Lin Heng: "Your dog can't bite people, I like dogs that can bite people."

"Who said it can't bite? Karen, go bite him." Lin Heng pointed to Bai Sihuan.

After hearing the order, Karen rushed over and bit Bai Sihuan's leg. Bai Sihuan screamed in fright, and spilled the tea leaves in his hand, all on Cheng Sutang's body.

Karen bit Bai Sihuan's calf and didn't let go, Cheng Sutang gave him a blank look, and asked the housekeeper to help her pick out tea leaves.

Bai Sihuan held back his tears and wanted to ask the people around him for help, but seeing the expressions of the people around him, he held back the words he wanted to ask for help.

Lin Xianyan ran over and patted Karen on the back to ask him to let go, but Karen still clenched his teeth so tightly that blood seeped out of Bai Sihuan's trousers, and he still did not let go of his sharp teeth.

The female classmate laughed and said: "Your dog is too obedient. I still don't like it. My dog ​​never listens to me. When I let it bite, it doesn't bite, and when I don't let it bite, it bites." Biting everywhere."

Lin Heng snorted and said, "You are the only one who likes disobedient dogs. If my dog ​​doesn't listen to me, I would have kicked him out a long time ago. Karen, come back."

Karen let go of Bai Sihuan, and ran back to Lin Heng with her tongue out.

Lin Xianyan rolled up Bai Sihuan's trousers, saw two rows of neat tooth marks and oozing blood, got angry, stood up and cursed: "Heng, are you going too far?"

Before Lin Heng could speak, Cheng Sutang, who had just picked out the tea leaves on his body, scolded back: "Why are you scolding your brother? After eating so much of the Lin family's food for nothing, he will turn his elbows out!"

Lin Xianyan, who had never resisted her mother, finally couldn't stand her mother's connivance and protection this time: "It's obviously wrong for him to let the dog bite people, why can't I teach him!"

Before Lin Xianyan finished speaking, Cheng Sutang poured a cup of coffee over.

Bai Sihuan quickly pulled Lin Xianyan back, and the hot coffee splashed directly on Bai Sihuan's face.

The scene fell into silence, only the sound of coffee dripping on the ground.

Bai Sihuan's entire face, up to his collarbone, turned red as if he had been boiled in boiling water. Only he knew how painful it was, but all the time, all his pain would only be swallowed in his stomach.

The female classmate was excited to see this good show, and she smiled and pulled Lin Heng to say a few words about her impressions.

Lin Heng shook off her hand, took a step forward and opened his lips just as he was about to say something, Lin Xianyan took Bai Sihuan's hand and walked out without hesitation: "Let's go."