senior [rebirth]

When Lin Xi hung up Xu Hanlai's call and rushed into the hospital, he found that Li Rende had disappeared in the crowd.

He searched for a long time but couldn't find it, and even wondered if he had hallucinations just now.

But it's impossible, Lin Xi thinks he should be right.

Because Li Rende cannot speak, his upper body always tends to lean forward when standing, as if this can make up for his lack of speaking when communicating with others, and bring him closer to the other party.

In the previous life, Lin Xi hated Li Rende's habit of lacking a sense of boundaries very much. Li Rende also stiffly corrected it after he noticed it, so Lin Xi was deeply impressed by this.

He should have read that special stance correctly.

And when the word Li Rende was associated with the hospital, it always gave Lin Xi a very bad feeling.

So he walked around the somewhat crowded hospital lobby, and after confirming that he couldn't find anyone, he frowned and lowered his head and took out his phone.

Subconsciously, he wanted to continue sending messages to Li Rende, but when he touched the keyboard, he suddenly remembered something, turned his fingertips, and dialed Li Rende's phone number.

––Because of being unable to speak, most of the time no one calls Li Rende, and Lin Xi is the same. Over time, he has almost forgotten that Li Rende can also be called by phone. Although he can’t speak, the ringtone is always can hear.

Lin Xi waited patiently when the phone was dialed. At first, neither of the two Li Rende answered it. It was not until the third screen began to count the seconds, and at the same time there was a tap on the other end of the phone.

Lin Xi felt relieved.

Although he hadn't called Li Rende much in the two lives, after all, he had lived together for so many years, and he still had a little understanding of the fact that Li Rende answered the phone with a light tap.

Lin Xi suppressed his breathing that was not smooth after running into the hospital just now, and asked, "Uncle, are you outside now?"

There was a quick click over there, followed by a pause of two seconds, and three quick clicks in succession.

Lin Xi didn't know why, just by this rhythm, he could think of Li Rende gesturing in a panic and asking "what's the matter" because he was afraid that something would happen to him.

The corners of his lips smiled unconsciously, and after thinking for a while, he said straight to the point: "I'm near Mancheng Park, I seem to have seen you just now, I want to ask if I saw it wrong, if I see it right, we can go back together."

After holding his breath, Lin Xi's voice was clear, and Li Rende on the other end obviously heard it, but he hesitated for a few seconds before lightly tapping twice.

"No."

Lin Xi took a light breath.

The background sound on Li Rende's side was very noisy, and people could vaguely hear the voices of people talking and the occasional yelling of horns. The latter was exclusive to the hospital. Lin Xi was almost sure that he had read correctly just now.He touched his cheek with the tip of his tongue, and when he was thinking about whether to ask directly, he heard a female voice from the other end.

"Hey No. 32, where is No. 32? Why did you run away as soon as you came in? Is No. 32 there? If not, the next one--"

Before the voice fell, Lin Xi heard a mobile phone shaking from the other end, and before he had time to speak, Li Rende buttoned the phone again, and then hung up the phone directly.

Two minutes later, a message came back to Lin Xi's phone.

"Xixi, I have something to do outside; you go back first,"

Lin Xi looked at the text message and sighed softly.

After Li Rende came to Lin's house, he has always been cautious towards Lin Xi.His education level is not high, knowing that Lin Xi doesn't like him, he always likes to dig his mind on some small details.For example, there will never be typos or typos when sending text messages. If there are, then Li Rende will definitely send another correct one.

In other words, every message he sent to Lin Xi must have been checked repeatedly before being sent out. Lin Xi had not received any message with typos and typos for a long time from Li Rende.

what happened?

Lin Xi was restless, unable to put down the cell phone in his palm for a long time.

... Li Rende can't even speak, is it okay to communicate with the doctor?

Xu Hanlai took a taxi to Mancheng Park, searched around, and finally found the child on the stone steps in front of a closed shop next to the hospital.

The child hasn't raised much in the past month, and is still small, nestled into a ball on the stone steps, with an unhappy expression on his face.

Xu Han came across the road, looked at him from a distance under the street lamp, then slowly approached, and stood still in front of Lin Xi.

When the child in ecstasy noticed his shoes lifted his head, Xu Hanlai asked, "Where's the cake?"

This man's appearance really has no dead ends, even wearing a very simple black t-shirt, his fair skin is still very bright under the illumination of street lamps at night, matching his obsidian eyes, and when talking to children The self-conscious smile makes people unable to take their eyes off at night like daytime.

Lin Xi paused, then hesitantly took the cake box beside him, and said nervously: "It's been a long time, it might not taste good."

Xu Hanlai leaned over to take it, and said a little happily: "It's not good, you tricked me?"

Lin Xi's face became hot, and his brain, which was still thinking about Li Rende's question just now, was suddenly aroused by the senior's casual words.His complexion changed, he looked more lively than before, and then said: "I'm not lying, it's just that it may not be as delicious as when it first came out... You don't have to eat it if you don't want to."

Xu Hanlai didn't speak, he took the box apart on his own, then took another step back, and slowly squatted down in front of Lin Xi.

He was much taller than Lin Xi, and when he squatted down on the flat ground, he was just at eye level with the child sitting on the stone steps.

Lin Xi looked at the drooping eyelids and slender eyelashes of the senior in front of him, and unconsciously clenched his hands, feeling a little unaccustomed to him being so close to him.I could smell the scent of grass and trees on his body, brought over by the evening wind.

"Is it sweet?" Lin Xi saw Xu Hanlai holding the cake he made with one hand, and with the other hand he used the spoon he gave to gently cut a piece, and then asked casually.

After a day of baptism, the cake has lost even the tattered appearance caused by the lack of tools at the beginning, and almost collapsed in half.Lin Xi felt embarrassed looking at it himself, and thought that it was not unreasonable for the senior to say that he was "cheat" before, but when everyone came, Lin Xi could only bite the bullet and rub his hands: "It should be quite sweet. "

Then I saw the senior look up at him, as if he saw his embarrassment, smiled very gently, and sent the spoon with the cake in his hand to his lips: "Then you have a taste?"

Lin Xi: "..."

I don't know if it was too dark at night, the senior didn't grasp the distance too well, the cake and spoon brought forward directly touched his lips, Lin Xi's cheeks and ear tips quickly turned red under the dark night.

Being so close to Xu Hanlai, he couldn't even find a way to cover up his reaction.Subconsciously, she was about to retreat, but she was frozen in place under Xu Hanlai's smiling gaze.

"Hurry up, your hands are tired." Then I heard Xu Hanlai's voice gently urging in front of me.

Maybe the night was dark enough, Lin Xi guessed that the senior should not have seen his flushed cheeks, otherwise there would be nothing strange in his eyes.So he forced himself to calm down, and then thought about the cake in front of him for a long time. He felt that it was a boy, and it seemed strange that he refused to eat it. He could only bite the bullet and pretend to be Liu Hao's upper body, and ate the cake with a big mouthful. up.

Xu Han looked at the child's sudden ferocious movements, as if he knew what he was thinking, and was overjoyed. It took him a long time to ask the child who couldn't swallow the cake when he laughed, and asked, "Is it sweet?"

Lin Xi: "... sweet."

Then hurriedly said: "I also brought a few extra spoons, senior, I will change them for you..."

Xu Hanlai half stood up and sat next to him: "No, trouble, that's it."

Lin Xi: "..."

At nine o'clock, Mancheng Park was still lively. Square dancing had already become popular in this era. From the corner of his eyes, Lin Xi caught a glimpse of the senior eating the cake with the spoon he used. He couldn't hold back, and scratched hard Hot to itchy ears.

Because of his sexual orientation, Lin Xi has always kept a distance from men, and it is absolutely impossible to share tableware.But this time was different, the other party was a senior, and the senior didn't mind him, so Lin Xi felt that he probably needed to turn a blind eye.

After all, it seems that straight men really don't pay much attention to these things. If he wants to be around his seniors, he has to pretend to be a little bit.

"What did you go out for today?" Lin Xi was thinking about the [-]th bend of the mountain road, when he heard Xu Hanlai who was next to him bite the cake and asked casually.

Lin Xi didn't like to lie, and he didn't like to lie to Xu Hanlai. What's more, in his opinion, there was nothing unspeakable about today's experience, so he told Xu Hanlai one by one.

Of course, Li Rende's family affairs were omitted as a matter of course.

"Want to sell cakes?" Maybe it's because of his good tutor, or maybe because of his personality, Xu Hanlai never asks some embarrassing questions.Whether it was lending money to Lin Xi to buy materials in the supermarket at that time, or lending money to Lin Xi to buy hamburgers after the game, or now.

Xu Hanlai would never ask Lin Xi if he was short of money.

Although Lin Xi doesn't mind the current situation of poverty in his family, he still appreciates this kind of consideration.

He nodded: "Well, if it doesn't sell, maybe I will go to work in summer vacation."

Lin Xi didn't hesitate much when he said this. Although he now knew that Li Rende's disappearance might have nothing to do with the economic situation, in Lin Xi's concept, the family was still short of money at this stage, so it was not wrong for him to go to work.

And if something really happened to Li Rende...the family would definitely be short of money.In other words, no matter what angle you think about, Lin Xi feels that his part-time job plan cannot be stopped, and he very much hopes that he can successfully sell cakes. After all, the income in this way will definitely be much higher than that of summer jobs.

"Sell this?" Xu Hanlai pushed the cake in his hand.

Lin Xi nodded: "There can be others."

Xu Han raised his eyebrows: "Oh."

Then he seemed to think for a while, and said: "The day after tomorrow, isn't it tired after running all day today? Take a rest tomorrow, and call Liu Hao after returning to school the day after tomorrow, let's discuss it."

"...Brother Hao?" Lin Xi was taken aback.

"Well, it's better to have him here." Xu Han came to answer.

Lin Xi is not stupid, he has a lot of experience in this area, he can probably imagine what Xu Hanlai meant, but.

"Not so good? This is too troublesome for you, and..." And Lin Xi wanted to earn as much as possible during the two months of summer vacation, which meant that he had better be able to work continuously during these two months.

It's not bad for someone to help, but they are all classmates. Lin Xi feels that he may not be qualified to ask Liu Hao and his seniors to accompany him to spend such a busy summer vacation with him.

"No trouble." Xu Hanlai took another bite of the cake, then said with a smile, "Didn't you say you will help me for free?"

Lin Xi choked up, and then heard Xu Hanlai continue: "Also, according to the gossip, Liu Hao has recently taken a fancy to a limited-edition sneaker."

Lin Xi: "..."

He knew what the senior meant.

Passers-by came and went under the neon lights, and the loud music of the square dance could be heard in the distance. Lin Xi thought for a while and asked in a low voice, "What about you, senior?"

A pair of sneakers, he can earn Liu Hao no matter what in a summer vacation, and there is a high probability that there will be more, but what about the seniors?With the Xu family's situation, Lin Xi didn't believe that the seniors would be short of money.

When he finished speaking, Xu Hanlai who was next to him glanced at him, turned the fork in his hand, and thought of something, squinted his eyes and said, "I'm also interested in some things recently."

Lin Xi was surprised: "Can't you buy it directly?"

Xu Hanlai shook his head: "Almost."

Lin Xi suddenly became serious. He just thought that although Xu Hanlai would probably not be short of money given the situation of the Xu family, if the conflict with Xu Zhewen last night worsened the relationship between the senior and the Xu family and affected the senior's allowance money, then the possibility of lack of money is established.

Lin Xi frowned, thinking that what the senior wanted should also be included in his plan, he calculated in his mind for a long time, and then asked cautiously: "Is it very expensive?"

Xu Han came and said lightly, "It's quite expensive."

Lin Xi immediately put on a serious face: "I see."

Then he has to sort out some more plans, and give more to the seniors at that time, even if it is divided from his own share, it must be that the things the seniors are interested in are more important.

Seeing the serious look on the child's face, Xu Hanlai had fun for a long time, but without poking him, he just swallowed a mouthful of the cake slowly, and said, "Is it just because of this incident?"

His voice was soft, and it sounded like he was just asking casually, but because of his question, Lin Xi thought of Li Rende in the hospital again.The little face that had been brought to life just now because of the conversation with Xu Hanlai suddenly became depressed again.

He sat here for a long time without squatting until Li Rende came out. He didn't know what was going on, so he gently grabbed his hand and asked in a low voice.

"Senior, do you believe in the butterfly effect?"

The child's voice was too low, Xu Hanlai couldn't hear clearly at first: "Huh?"

"A butterfly flapping its wings in South America can cause a hurricane in North America." He originally thought that the senior's dream would only change his relationship with the Xu family, but what happened tonight suddenly reminded him of another terrible thing. things.

Is it possible that the senior's dream has changed more things in the dark, and what happened to Li Rende, who was healthy until Lin Meiling's death in the previous life, in this life?

And this dream that he thought was perfect, might it have been a long time ago hidden bitterness.