Tsinghua University

The little landlord was about to leave with his schoolbag on his back, when he suddenly saw the tenant running over.Because of the wind, the hat on his head kept falling back, exposing the green stubble on his forehead.

"What's the matter?" Seeing Shen Tinglan running in a hurry, Zhang Pengpeng stood up and opened the store door for him.

"I have something to do." Shen Tinglan slapped 420 yuan on the counter, "I'll give you the rent and haircut money."

"Yo, this is new." Zhang Pengpeng smiled, "It's the first time I've met you who rush to give money like this."

Although the little landlord didn't know why Shen Tinglan did this, he didn't ask why.With a population of 14 billion in the whole country, there will always be a few strange people who ask me to meet.

He took off his schoolbag and opened the zipper, took out a light blue folder from inside and handed it to Shen Tinglan: "Look, it will last for one month, if it suits you, sign it."

Shen Tinglan read it carefully twice, and after making sure there were no mistakes, he picked up a carbon pen and wrote down his name.Then the small landlord will sign with the seal, and it will take effect.

There were two copies of the contract, Shen Tinglan felt at ease after getting his own.He noticed that the small landlord's name was "Jiang Susheng".Similarly, the little landlord also saw Shen Tinglan's name.

Shen Tinglan was hungry, and he was still thinking about the warm meat buns in his heart. After taking the contract, he hurried out the door.

The purpose of Jiang Fusheng's visit to the Hardware Building today was to collect the rent, and when Zhang Pengpeng had a stomach ailment and went to the toilet, he helped him look around the store for a while.Now that Zhang Pengpeng is back, he will continue to knock on doors to ask for rent.

Jiang Fusheng had just taken two steps when he kicked something under his feet and made a soft "crash".Looking down, it was a key ring made of a photo.

Jiang Fusheng bent down to pick up the key fob, and saw the photo clearly.Its background is an amusement park, in which there is a woman with peach cheeks and almond eyes, holding a beautiful boy of eight or nine years old by her right hand.

The boy smiled happily, his facial features looked like Shen Tinglan's.

Jiang Fusheng looked at Shen Tinglan in the photo, and suddenly felt that his eyes resembled Cuicui in "Border Town".Although Cuicui is only a character in a novel, no one knows what she really looks like.But for some reason, Jiang Fusheng felt that Shen Tinglan and Cui Cui resembled each other, they both had a pair of extremely spiritual eyes.

"What?" Zhang Pengpeng leaned over to look, and she stretched out her hand, "It should have fallen out accidentally when he was taking out the money. It's not on your way to collect the rent. I'll pay him back later."

Jiang Fu heard the words but put away the small pendant. For some reason, he really wanted to see Shen Tinglan again, so he quickly said, "No, I'll just give it to him."

"Tsk tsk tsk, okay, I don't bother to make another trip. Come on, the future richest woman will not send you off, hurry up and study." Zhang Pengpeng sat behind the counter and began to read. The title of the book is very long: "Becoming the next A Ma Yun, Ali Mama at Four A.M.

"Stop daydreaming, sister Pengpeng!"

"Salted fish have to have dreams, even if they can't come true, they still have to be happy."

Hearing her answer, Jiang Fusheng laughed twice, picked up his schoolbag and left the barber shop.

At nine o'clock in the morning, the warm sun shines on every street in the South Bridge District, and there seem to be stars hidden on the snow-covered road, twinkling and twinkling.

Shen Tinglan bought two meat buns and went to a nearby supermarket along the way.Shen Qingyi didn't tell him how long he would live alone in Binhai. In order to save money, he planned to learn how to cook by himself.

When he got home, he ate the steamed stuffed bun first, and then imitated his grandmother, choosing the small rapeseed clumsily.Then, put the cleaned dishes on the chopping board.

Shen Tinglan chopped for a while, washed the pot, and started cooking according to the tutorial from Baidu.

Thus, Dark Cuisine was born.

The range hood in the kitchen didn't work well, and the whole room was filled with the smell of heaven, which made people cough.

"Boom boom boom——"

At this time, Shen Tinglan heard a knock on the door outside.He remembered Zhang Pengpeng's reminder, wiped his hands, and asked vigilantly, "Who is it?"

"It's me, Lan Lan." A woman's voice came into the room through the door. She is from Suzhou, and her Mandarin is not standard, but it has a bit of Wu Nong's soft language charm, which is surprisingly nice.

Shen Qingyi's arrival surprised Shen Tinglan. He sent her his location on WeChat, but he didn't expect her to come so soon.

Shen Tinglan opened the door and called out, "Mom."

Shen Qingyi nodded slightly, without speaking, walked into this small apartment, and closed the door behind her.Her feelings for Shen Tinglan were very complicated, and she couldn't even say that she liked her.

Shen Tinglan's father's name is Xie Zhirong, and Shen Qingyi and his college classmates met at the school's New Year's Eve party.At that time, Xie Zhirong was young and handsome, he could play the accordion well, and he had a sweet mouth, so he was very popular with girls.When he pursued Shen Qingyi, he just sent a bouquet of flowers and sang a sweet song by Teresa Teng, and she gave up her heart.

The two have been in love for four years, and their relationship is very good, and there have been almost no quarrels.It's a pity that Xie Zhirong, who played Liang Shanbo for many years, finally revealed Chen Shimei's true nature two months after graduation.

Xie Zhirong broke up with Shen Qingyi and chose to marry a rich lady.And at this juncture, Shen Qingyi found out that she had that bastard child.

She once wanted to kill the child, but she couldn't bear it.After several hesitation, I decided to give birth to the child.

Shen Qingyi hoped that she was pregnant with a well-behaved girl, so she had chosen the name "Shen Tinglan" early on.Taken from "Yueyang Tower", "An Zhi Ting Lan, Yu Yu Qing Qing", it is a very dynamic sentence.

However, things backfired and she gave birth to a boy.

Shen Tinglan also became Shen Tinglan.

As Shen Tinglan grew up day by day, Shen Qingyi disliked him more and more.One of the reasons is that it adds a lot of trouble to her work, and she doesn't have so much time to take care of her children and face gossip from her colleagues.Another reason is that Shen Tinglan looks too much like Xie Zhirong, even many small habits are the same.

So, she sent him to grandma's house, and only went to have a look when she was free.

Ten years passed like this.

When Shen Qingyi thought that she was going to make do with this for the rest of her life, she didn't know where Xie Zhirong found out her address, and came to her door earnestly.

The poor boy back then has transformed into the boss of several listed companies, and he is already a successful person.Xie Zhirong said that he and his wife were about to divorce and wanted to pursue Shen Qingyi again.

The white rose that I had once had turned into sticky rice, and I thought of the cinnabar mole on my heart again.

Shen Qingyi did not refuse.

After so many years, she is no longer a girl who can give her sincerity just because of a flower and a song.Pure love and the resentment of being abandoned have long since disappeared over time, leaving only an empty soul, instinctively pursuing material life.

She came to Shen Tinglan today to tell him about it herself.

The smell of the food in the room hadn't dissipated yet, Shen Qingyi frowned and sat on the small sofa in the living room.Shen Tinglan found a clean glass and poured a cup of hot water for Shen Qingyi.

Shen Qingyi just glanced at it, but didn't drink.She looked up at Shen Tinglan, and said slowly: "Your father and I have started again. He is very concerned about reputation. We plan to take you to live with us after everything is settled."

dad.

This word was unfamiliar to Shen Tinglan.

He knew about Shen Qingyi and Xie Zhirong, and before coming to Binhai City, he guessed that Shen Qingyi had found a stepdad for him.It's just that I didn't expect it to be Xie Zhirong, and I couldn't understand how she would make such a decision.

"Why?" Shen Tinglan's voice was a little annoyed.

"No reason." Shen Qingyi said calmly, "Who doesn't want to live a good life? He is still your biological father."

She stood up, took out some money from her bag and put it on the small tea table, "You're going to school the day after tomorrow, so go find a teacher named Yang Wenyu, and I'll send you his phone number later."

"Are you leaving?" Shen Tinglan asked quickly.

"Well, is there anything else?" Shen Qingyi paused.

"No." Shen Tinglan laughed at himself, turned around and dumped a plate of fried rapeseed into the trash can.

Shen Qingyi just glanced at him, then silently closed the door and left.

Shen Tinglan was the only one in the room again. He was sitting on the sofa, full of thoughts, his mind was in a mess, his throat felt like a big stone was blocked, and he couldn't breathe.

"Boom boom boom——"

The knock on the door sounded again, and Shen Tinglan was very irritable, and shouted out: "Who is it!"

The voice of the little landlord came in: "I, Jiang Xusheng."

Shen Tinglan raised his head and let out a long sigh of relief. He knew he couldn't vent his anger on unrelated people, so he opened the door with his slippers on, suppressed his voice, and said to Jiang Xusheng, "Is there something wrong?"

Jiang Fusheng looked at him carefully, and suddenly realized that it was not the Shen Tinglan in front of him who was similar to Cui Cui, but the eight or nine-year-old Shen Tinglan in that photo.

For a moment, he couldn't figure out why there was a strange sense of separation when they were all the same person.

He was curious about him.

"Your things." Jiang Fusheng realized that he was impolite, quickly lowered his head, took out the key locket and handed it to Shen Tinglan.

Before Shen Tinglan could say thank you, he turned and left.

Shen Tinglan closed the door and stared at the key lock seriously for a long time.He remembered that this photo was taken on his eighth birthday and was one of the few photos he took with Shen Qingyi.

He put away the key fob, feeling empty in his heart, turned on the old-fashioned TV in the living room, and chose a funny show to watch.

There was constant laughter in the show, echoing in the small room of less than [-] square meters, it seemed very lively.

I don't know how long it took, but Shen Tinglan fell asleep listening to the cheerful laughter.In a daze, he dreamed of when he was seven or eight years old.

That year, Shen Tinglan lived with his grandparents in the family compound of their unit. The adults were busy with work, and the children lacked discipline. They were like a group of wild monkeys on the mountain, messing around.

Neighbors are talking about his parents, and these malice from adults can easily affect children.At that time, Shen Tinglan was still thin and small, and was often bullied.Sometimes the newly bought toys are broken, and sometimes the snacks are stolen.

Shen Tinglan felt aggrieved and would run home to complain to her grandma.After hearing the reason, grandma just sighed and told him to avoid contact with those bad kids.

After coming and going, Shen Tinglan stopped talking about these things to his family.He especially hoped that his father would suddenly appear one day and teach those bad boys a good lesson.

Of course, the disappointment of this expectation multiplied over time.Especially after Shen Tinglan knew what kind of person her father was, this feeling became qualitative.

It was about eleven o'clock in the afternoon when he woke up.The funny program on TV has long been finished, and now the cartoon "The Story of Lei Feng" is being broadcast.

The modeling of the character that seemed to come from the underworld gave Shen Tinglan a headache, so he simply turned off the TV, got up and went to the bathroom to wash his face to get rid of sleepiness.

Suddenly, a certain fragment of the dream reappeared. In the narrow corridor full of sundries, Shen Tinglan was cornered by several boys.The ceiling above his head was a bit damp, a dim light was on, and a tattered spider web hung beside it.

The boys who were half a head taller snatched a handful of candies from him, looked at him with their chin up, and made mocking voices:

"Why are you staring at us, don't you agree?!"

Shen Tinglan turned on the tap and poured cold water on his face.He raised his head to look in the mirror, and smiled softly to himself:

"I don't agree."