Pendulum Rider

Time flies and the Spring Festival of 2018 will soon be ushered in. I still remember the night in early November last year when Lin Jiayi was attacked by the heart stealer Guiye. After the incident, Tomato stopped a taxi on the street and sent him back to A certain research base in Jiading District, after he got off the car, he finally knew where his workplace was.

As soon as he stepped into the gate of the institute, he was taken by a man named Violin to check his physical condition. Lin Jiayi truthfully stated that he had no impression of his previous memories, but Violin confiscated his mobile phone and various electronic devices. He stayed in the institute like a prisoner for nearly a month, but after this month, he still failed to awaken his memory. Until December, he was finally allowed to leave the institute. During this period of examination, He learned about his daily work, which was mainly to use the power of the Yuehua Stone Pendulum to deal with some incidents caused by blood clans who were doing evil in Shanghai.He also asked whether the violin knew the password of his salary card, and the violin asked him: no?You forgot even this?Your password is the cell phone Jiugongge input method, and the numbers in the initials of your name.

So, as soon as Lin Jiayi left the research institute, he went to the ATM to check his card balance.Lin Jiayi took out a few pink photos of Grandpa Mao, then went to a nearby Japanese-style curry house and ordered a beef curry. Recently, he ate relatively lightly. The institute stipulated his daily food intake and the types of food, which became more and more serious. It made him feel that his current state was that he had just been released from prison and was finally able to let go.

Since the house after the fire hadn't been renovated, Lin Jiayi had no place to live, so he had to go to seek refuge with the prince. The prince didn't ask him where he went this month. Maybe the other party thought he went to work and it was inconvenient to use his mobile phone.

Lin Jiayi charged his long-unused mobile phone at the prince's house, and then he noticed that many people had sent him messages, and he was too lazy to reply one by one, so he posted a status of "the person has been resurrected" in the circle of friends. There is no extra text, not even punctuation marks, but within a few minutes, I received a lot of likes from people, which is really inexplicable.

After that, Lin Jiayi didn't take any job, and stayed at the prince's house for a few days with nothing to do.On a Sunday in December, his biological mother actually came to him. I don't know how the biological mother found out that he was at the prince's house.The biological mother invited him to live with her in Huangpu District again, but Lin Jiayi still found an excuse to refuse, so the biological mother left the gift she brought and went back alone.

That night, another person came to visit. The prince was slightly taken aback when he opened the door, and then asked, "Master, why are you here?"

"I have something to do with Lin Jiayi." The visitor was a foreign man with blond hair, blue eyes, and wheat-colored skin.

"what's up?"

"Aren't you going to let me in?"

"Come in." The prince prepared a pair of slippers for guests.

After the man changed into the indoor slippers, he walked to the living room. He saw Lin Jiayi sitting on the sofa. Although the TV was on in front of him, Lin Jiayi's attention seemed to be on his mobile phone.

The man walked around in front of Lin Jiayi, and when Lin Jiayi caught a glimpse of a strange figure out of the corner of his eye, he raised his head and looked at the stranger with a little confusion.

So, the man introduced himself and said, "My name is Yukito Tachibana, and my father and your father are acquaintances."

"So, I have indeed heard my dad say that his friend from the Orange family gave him a sum of money to help him open the restaurant. So, what do you want me to do?"

"At first, your father asked me to move to my place temporarily if you had no place to live, but now I want to entrust you to do something for me. I will go back to Kyushu recently, and my family adopted a There is no one to take care of the child, and your boyfriend has to go to work during the day, so you can help take care of the bear while he is at work."

The amount of information is a bit large, Lin Jiayi collected his thoughts, and then replied: "But I have never raised a child, what if I lead him to death?"

"Originally, when we had something to do, we would leave it to Lilith to bring it, but now Lilith also has something to go out, and you moved here temporarily, just to help watch him, and no one else can be relied on."

"If I remember correctly, we met for the first time, right? Then how do you know I'm reliable?"

"The first point is because you are the son of my dad's acquaintance. The second point is that we are college alumni, so we have a closer relationship, and we don't have to worry about you messing around with my boyfriend. The last point is that you may know later .”

Hearing this, Lin Jiayi fell silent. He thought about it in his heart. Anyway, he has nothing else to do recently, so it's okay to help out. However, he has no experience in raising children. If something happens to him, he Are you still responsible for this?

"Please." Tachibana Yukito said sincerely, "I will pay you an extra fee. Anyway, there is only one child, and I won't be too busy. My boyfriend will come back as soon as possible after get off work. You usually live Guest room."

"Okay." Lin Jiayi agreed very uncertainly.

The prince who heard the whole process of the conversation between the two asked, "Are you ready to go now?"

"You pack your luggage now and come with me." Tachibana Xingren said to Lin Jiayi, and answered the prince's question by the way.

In fact, Lin Jiayi did not have a lot of luggage, and many clothes were burned in the fire, so he used the salary of the red and blue gang to buy some replacement clothes at Uniqlo near the prince's house, so he borrowed a small travel bag from the prince , put all the clothes in it.

On the way to Huangpu District, he never thought that he would live in Huangpu one day. His biological mother always invited him to live in Huangpu, but he never agreed. Maybe he will meet his biological mother or Lu Xilin, speaking of it, Xie Lulu, a senior in senior high school, is also in Huangpu, go see her when you have time.

Later, when Lin Jiayi saw Xiongzi at Ju Xingren's residence, he found that he could already talk, run and jump, and he was not short.

"How old is he? Why don't you send him to kindergarten? Ask me to take him?"

"He is 2 years old now, and the teachers in the nursery school think he is annoying."

After seeing the stranger, the bear boy came up curiously, and asked Lin Jiayi in a small voice, "Who are you? Why did you come to Baobao's house?"

"My name is Lin Jiayi, and I will live here to play with you from today on."

"I see, the baby's name is Tachibana Haozhi, and the baby has two fathers, isn't it annoying?"

Before Lin Jiayi could answer, Ju Haozhi noticed a figure walking towards him, so he rushed over excitedly and threw himself into the man's arms: "Papa, look, Dad brought a little friend back for the baby .”

"This young master is called Bai Yibo." The man named Bai Yibo greeted Lin Jiayi while stroking Tachibana Haozhi's head.

"I'm Lin Jiayi, please take care of me." Lin Jiayi's tone was rather reserved. He felt that the person in front of him was a little familiar, and he didn't know if he had met somewhere.

"You can relax, anyway, we will be a family in the future."

"Eh? What do you mean?"

"It's nothing, Master Ben will take you to the guest room."

In this way, Lin Jiayi stayed in the house of the person he met for the first time. In the afternoon of the next day, Bai Yibo took Ju Haozhi to the airport to see him off. After saying goodbye to Ju Xingren, they returned home and found that Lin Jiayi was reading a book in this new residence. time.

"This young master will take a rest next time, let's take you to the surrounding area to familiarize yourself with it. Haozhi will be taken by you during the day tomorrow."

"It feels very stressful to be alone."

"It's okay, he'll sleep when he's tired from playing, just get used to it."

"Speaking of which, I have always had a question, which family's young master are you? Why do you always call yourself 'Young Master Ben'?"

"Ben Shao's family has a little money. This self-proclaimed word is just used to it. When I go to work, I still change it to 'I'."

"What industry are you in?"

"Psychological counselor, but I only accept female patients. If you want to consult, I can make an exception to receive you."

When Bai Yibo was talking, Lin Jiayi had been staring at the other person's face. The other person was fair-skinned and delicate. At the same time, he possessed masculine fortitude and feminine softness. His appearance could be scored as 99 points, and if he was more than one point, he might be proud.

"You look very young, don't tell me you are born after 95."

"This book is from October 90."

"You are also in October? I am on the 10th." Lin Jiayi suddenly felt a sense of intimacy.

"Ben Shao is on the 25th, since I told you, remember to prepare a birthday present for Ben Shao next year."

"But I don't know what you like."

"Ben Shao likes to go to bookstores, especially foreign language bookstores. You can just send books."

"No wonder I saw a lot of foreign original books on the bookcase just now, and found a lot of comics."

"One set of comics was drawn by Ben Shao's friend who is a cartoonist."

"Ah." Lin Jiayi whispered, "I suddenly remembered, I have a friend who worked as an assistant for your cartoonist friend, and his cartoon heroine was drawn based on you, no wonder I saw you last night I always feel like I've seen you somewhere when I was there."

"Did you just remember now?"

"Papa, baby wants to go out to play." Tachibana Haozhi lost his patience, he didn't like adults ignoring him while chatting, so he tugged at the corner of Bai Yibo's clothes, urging him to take him out.

So, the three of them went out together, and Bai Yibo took Lin Jiayi to get acquainted with the surrounding shops a little bit. For dinner, the three of them ate at the Italian restaurant Salia. Bai Yibo rarely goes to such cheap restaurants. , because it is more popular, there are too many people, and the surrounding area is very noisy.

There are quite a few groups of girlfriends with their own children in Salia's store. Perhaps in the eyes of others, Lin Jiayi and Bai Yibo are also very similar to girlfriends. It is very common for two women to bring their children, while two men bring their own children. Children are conspicuous.

While they were eating, Bai Yibo told Lin Jiayi some things to pay attention to the next day, such as Tachibana Haozhi's nap time, let him go to the bathroom before the nap, and even if he begs you, don't make milk powder before going to bed, because recently Weaning, the snack after nap is in the refrigerator, Bai Yibo will prepare it early in the morning, just heat it up in the afternoon and eat it...

Lin Jiayi listened with a dazed expression on her face. Both are born in the 90s, and their experience in raising children is much different.

Afterwards, Lin Jiayi’s nanny and tutoring life lasted for more than a month. She told stories in the morning, and then used various cards to teach Tachibana Haozhi to recognize characters. After taking a nap for a few hours, wake up and have a snack, then play with toys or go out to an open place to exercise, until Bai Yibo comes home from work.

***

On the eve of Valentine's Day in the West, when the three of them were having dinner at home, Bai Yibo said, "Young Master Ben will be resting at home tomorrow. If you have a date, go, and Master Haozhi will be brought to you by Ben Shao."

But in fact, Lin Jiayi didn't make an agreement with the prince to go out, so he said, "I don't have any arrangements."

"Then let's go to the classical music concert with Ben at night, and you can call your boyfriend over."

So, the prince, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, rushed to Huangpu District on Valentine's Day. The three of them went out together with Tachibana Hiroshi. They attracted passers-by to stop and watch. Two men with children are rare enough. What's the situation with these three men going out with their children?Could it be that the child was abducted from somewhere?

When they came to the concert venue, they found that there are also many modern people who like classical music, and many of them seem to be young couples born in 95. They came to the concert on Valentine's Day.Tachibana Hiroshi started snoring as soon as he listened. The snoring and the sound of the musical instrument were in harmony with each other, especially rhythmic.

In the middle of the concert, the prince said that he was going to the bathroom, but he never came back. He also sent a text message saying that he had something urgent.The prince often had emergencies on the way of dating, which was commonplace for Lin Jiayi, so he didn't pay much attention to it.After the concert, Bai Yibo hugged Haozhi who was still asleep, and Lin Jiayi carried his bag with them, and they went back to the residence together.

The day after Valentine’s Day is New Year’s Eve, Bai Yibo seems to be planning to take Haozhi back to his home for the celebration, but for Lin Jiayi, who raised him with non-Chinese parents, the Spring Festival has no special meaning, so he doesn’t He thought about going home to reunite with his family, so he planned to go to the prince's house for a meal on New Year's Eve, but just as he was about to go out to the subway station, he received a call from his biological mother, who asked him to go home for dinner, and Lu Xilin also agreed. present.

Lin Jiayi stood there tangled for a long time, and the other end of the phone remained silent waiting for him to answer. After some time, Lu Xilin snatched the phone and said, "Your entanglement is really bad, don't hesitate, let you come and do it." Come on, you are here and let me have a good meal."

"Then I still won't come."

"I tell you to come and you come." Lu Xilin is still so domineering. If the two genders are switched, the other party will definitely be the domineering president that many girls love. Lin Jiayi, who has always been hesitant, needs such a domineering president. People make decisions for themselves.

In recent years, there have been fewer and fewer people setting off fireworks during the Spring Festival, and Lin Jiayi has long since passed the age when he wanted to play with small fireworks, so after he came to the blood-related Lu's house for the New Year's Eve dinner, he settled down They stayed at their house to watch the Spring Festival Gala. The dishes on the table were put away, and a lot of snacks such as melon seeds, fruits, and candies were put back on the table. Their family also carefully made tea for the guests in special tea cups , instead of disposable plastic or paper cups.

Although the 64-inch LCD TV in the living room was turned on, the guests chatted with each other while nibbling melon seeds, and occasionally glanced at the TV to express their views on the Spring Festival Gala program.Lin Jiayi felt that he was not in the same world as them, so he stared at the TV, and sometimes he would only say a few words when he was asked a question. Some relatives saw him at his grandfather's funeral last year, and they were unable to speak at that time.

Among the relatives, a few elementary school students in the lower grades came upstairs after setting off small fireworks downstairs. They gathered around the table, greedily grabbed a lot of candy with both hands, and then hid in the room to play computer again. , They also referred to Lu Xilin and Lin Jiayi as aunt and uncle, which were not used to Lin Jiayi who had lived with Lin Gonggui and Clara since childhood and had no relatives.

However, what made him most unaccustomed was being asked by a group of relatives whom he had just met not long ago if he had a girlfriend and when he planned to get married, which made him feel like being asked about his privacy by a stranger.

Lu Xilin lied on his behalf: "Jia Yi's girlfriend is studying in Germany, and the wedding will be held in Germany in the future, so you can go if you want."

"It's so far away? Is there a banquet in China?"

However, the biological mother, who knew the truth, did not expose them, so when the relatives asked how the little girl looked and if she had any photos, she did not say much.The relatives felt bored, and the topic quickly turned to Lu Xilin, asking how her work in the hospital was going, and how she was mistaken for her boyfriend, Prince, whom they saw at the funeral.

After a few perfunctory words, Lu Xilin found an excuse to take Jiayi for a stroll nearby, and the two of them fled together.

When he came outside, Lin Jiayi took a big breath of fresh air. There were a lot of people smoking in the room just now, which made him feel a little difficult to breathe.

Outside the house, the sound of fireworks can be faintly heard, maybe other places in the community are setting off small fireworks.

"It's been a long time since I've been alone with you." Lu Xilin said.

"It seems so."

"I heard from my aunt that your house was burned? Have you found the cause of the fire?"

"The investigation said it was a short circuit or something, I don't know too much."

"Then have you been staying at the prince's house recently?"

"No, I recently stayed at a friend's house, also in Huangpu."

"No wonder you came here so fast today, where is Huangpu?"

"A community near Fuzhou Road."

"Should we go to KTV to sing now?" Lu Xilin changed the subject.

"I'm already suffocated indoors, and I don't want to go to a small confined space anymore."

"Speaking of which, what work have you been doing recently? Did you quit your job in Jiading?"

"I recently worked as a tutor in Huangpu."

"Is it your friend's tutor?"

"Ah."

"..."

There was no topic between the two, and the atmosphere suddenly became a little awkward. In the past, when they were not talking in college, it was not as awkward as it is now. Both of them were racking their brains to think about the topic, but after they spoke together, they fell into a trap again There was silence.

It took a long time before Lu Xilin broke the silence: "How did you spend Valentine's Day yesterday? You really spent it with the prince, right?"

"I went to a concert with my friends, and the prince left after hearing half of it."

"Could it be that four people are on a double date? Wouldn't it be embarrassing for you after the prince leaves?"

"Actually, that friend's boyfriend is on a business trip abroad, and he brought his adopted kid with him."

"Adopted? What's their situation? Are they gay?" Lu Xilin thought that the "friend" Lin Jiayi was referring to was a married woman with children, but she didn't realize something was wrong until she heard the word "adopted".

"That's it."

"Sure enough, they are one type of people."

"Do you have any prejudice against homosexuality?"

"No, I'm used to it."

After that, the two fell into silence again. They were walking aimlessly in the community. Lu Xilin suddenly poked Lin Jiayi's waist with her elbow.

"It's so boring, let me hit it a few times." Lu Xilin said, and then hit Lin Jiayi's back hard a few times.

"You are really enough, why do you always like to hit me?" If Lu Xilin was a man, Lin Jiayi might be ready to fight back.

boom!

Lu Xilin suddenly stopped, and she slowly fell to the ground clutching her side abdomen with a distorted expression.

Lin Jiayi couldn't figure out what was going on for a moment. Could it be that it was a gunshot just now?No, it is illegal to possess private firearms in the country, maybe fake fireworks went off?Or was it an attack from the blood clan, just like when I was attacked by Ghost Leaf on the Bund before?

Lu Xilin's painful moans brought Lin Jiayi back to his senses. He quickly squatted down, and with the help of the dim light beside the road, he checked Lu Xilin's side abdomen, and saw that her clothes were not damaged. Immediately, Lin Jiayi lifted her There was no sign of bleeding from a corner of the clothes. Could it be that some kind of shock caused internal injuries?

"are you OK?"

"No... very good." Lu Xilin gritted her teeth and said.

Afterwards, Lin Jiayi carried Lu Xilin back to her home, startled the relatives who were chatting, and asked what happened. Lin Jiayi and the others also wanted to know what happened just now.They made the excuse that Lu Xilin had sprained her ankle and wanted to go back to her room to rest, which reassured the relatives.