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The wontons Cheng Xi mentioned are still some distance away from the outer street. You have to go down a stone staircase and go around eight times before you see the low eaves of the breakfast shop.

The owner of the shop has already left the stall. In the half-person-high soup pot, the fragrant soup is boiling. The owner is a pair of elderly people in their 60s. The grandfather is chopping the stuffing, the grandmother is making wontons, and the small breakfast stall is hidden Under the overlapping eaves of the residential area, a warm yellow lamp is lit on the stall, like a lonely boat in the endless night.

"Morning, boss." It was rare for Cheng Xi to take the initiative to greet him like this. Even in Nan Zhongyuan's restaurant, he would just sit in the restaurant and order directly, and he didn't even pay for it after eating.

When the old man saw Cheng Xi, he immediately smiled: "Why is it so early today?"

"It was my birthday yesterday, I went out to play with my classmates, and I just came back." Cheng Xi dragged two benches away, sat down by himself, took two pairs of chopsticks, broke them apart, and gave Lin Yu and himself a pair, familiar with the road, obviously coming many times.

"Don't play so late on your birthday. Finish the soup first, and wear it so thin, you will catch a cold..." The old man rambled, took two spoonfuls of soup with a big spoon, put them in a porcelain bowl, and the old woman put down her hands Wontons, brought them over.

The thick soup made of big bones and many medicinal materials, with hot mist, is served in a white porcelain bowl, which makes people feel warm when they look at it.

"Thank you." Lin Yu politely thanked the grandmother.

The old lady just smiled kindly, and gestured to Lin Yu, signaling him to drink the soup quickly.

Lin Yu lowered his head to drink the soup, the fog rose up, and the glasses were fogged up. He quickly took off the glasses, wiped them clean, and when he put them on again, the old grandma was smiling and gesturing to Lin Yu, Lin Yu looked blank.

"She said you look good." The old man explained to Lin Yu, pointing to his throat.

Only then did Lin Yu realize that the old lady was dumb.

By the time Cheng Xi finished drinking the soup, the old lady had wrapped more than a dozen wontons. The small wontons were placed in the bamboo plaque, like fat ingots. Although the old lady couldn't speak, her hands were quick. Put it in the palm, add a ball of filling, pinch the wonton skin with your fingers, and turn it lightly, and a beautiful wonton is completed.

Lin Yu stood beside, watching intently.

The old grandma wrapped seven or eight in a row, then suddenly raised her head, smiled at Lin Yu, pointed at the wontons, and gestured to him.

"She said to let you see, this is lotus wonton, this is Yuanbao wonton, this is chaoshou..." The old man adjusted the sauce, watched the old woman's gestures, and explained to Lin Yu: "The old woman likes you very much... "

Two bowls of wontons were served, Lin Yu's was fresh meat stuffing, Cheng Xi's was freshly chopped shrimp stuffing.

The thin wonton wrappers are wrapped with delicious meat fillings. The wonton wrappers spread out like clouds in the soup, and the soup is full of umami. Happy thing.

After taking two bites, the old grandma suddenly came over with a bowl and handed it to Cheng Xi. There were two poached eggs in the bowl, obviously freshly boiled and still steaming.Keep gesturing to Cheng Xi, telling Cheng Xi to eat quickly.

"Children have to eat eggs on their birthdays," the old man explained.

Cheng Xi even ate obediently.

"Wonton is delicious." Lin Yu sighed with emotion in a low voice: "You should tell Nan Zhongyuan, he said that he likes to learn all kinds of food."

Lin Yu didn't hold any grudges about the leaflet distribution incident - he didn't know why Nan Zhongyuan bullied him at all.

"Nan Zhongyuan can't learn it." Cheng Xi exposed Nan Zhongyuan's shortcoming: "He can only learn the dishes, but he can't learn the tricks."

"But Nan Zhongyuan's food is also delicious." Lin Yu defended Nan Zhongyuan.

"The dishes made by a real chef should make people feel warm, and they don't care whether they taste good or not. Nan Zhongyuan is too rigid about his skills."

"Warm?" Lin Yu was confused: "Does it mean that the dishes are very hot?"

"Forget it, you'd better eat wontons."

After eating the wontons, the sky was getting brighter, and Lin Yu followed Cheng Xi to the school.

"They are from Fujian and have no children." Cheng Xi said suddenly.

Lin Yu was taken aback.

"Depending on each other." The only adjective he could find.

The sky is almost dawn, and soon it will be a new day. Office workers, migrant workers, bosses, breakfast shop owners, drivers, doctors...all have to start their daily lives and find their own in this city of 2000 million people. position, running around for a living.In such a city, everyone is just one of many beings.If you have no family, no friends, you are a rootless duck.With you or without you, it makes no difference to this city, this world.Only in this vast sea of ​​people can we truly live if we depend on each other for life with those around us.

Cheng Xi's dormitory was still the same, with stuff all over the floor, he threw the key into the entrance and turned on the light.

This is Lin Yu's second visit.

"You take a bath first. If I wash first, I'm afraid you will fall asleep." Cheng Xi rubbed Lin Yu's hair, and took out the pajamas he wore last time: "If you want to drink, you can get it yourself, and you can get the computer password." knew."

It's clearly the second time here, but Cheng Xi's tone is like an old friend.

Lin Yu took a shower and came out in pajamas.Cheng Xi went in to take a shower, and Lin Yu folded all the clothes he threw on the ground, then picked up the basketball and put it in the equipment box, and tidied up the belt.

When Cheng Xi came out, the floor of the room had been tidied up to create a large space, and Lin Yu was squatting on the ground, trying to restore the car model that he took apart.

Cheng Xi threw the clothes in his hand on the ground, and rubbed Lin Yu's head with a smile: "Are you a snail girl? Xiaoyu..."

Lin Yu was working hard to assemble the engine and ignored him.

Cheng Xi sat down beside him and continued to harass him.

"Why weren't you so virtuous last time..." Cheng Xi picked up the model that had already been put together and looked at it: "This can all be put together."

"Last time I came here for the first time." Lin Yu replied seriously: "My mother said that when you go to someone's house for the first time, you should be polite. But this is my second time here, so I can organize things."

Cheng Xi has gotten used to Lin Yu's logic of always being unexpected, so she went to take out the quilt and make the bed by herself.

"Old rules, you sleep on the bed." Young Master Cheng poured himself a glass of beer and threw Lin Yu's bag aside: "Since it's the second time, can I see what's in your bag."

Lin Yu jumped up and quickly snatched the bag back.

Cheng Xi laughed out loud.

If he knew that Lin Yu's bag still contained the "emergency items" prepared by Lin's mother, he would have laughed more happily.

Lin Yu was lying on the bed, the room was very dark, only a little fluorescent on the ceiling light switch, Lin Yu heard the sound of Cheng Xi turning over, he knew Cheng Xi was not asleep yet.

"Cheng Xi, what are you doing?"

"Think about things." Cheng Xi is a strange person. He obviously looks more cynical than anyone else, but he is not a person who doesn't think about things. He doesn't want to, which means he doesn't want to think about it.

Lin Yu turned over and moved to the edge of the bed.

"Cheng Xi, are you afraid of death?"

Cheng Xi rested her head on her pillow and turned her head to look at him.Bai Xiaoxu said he was a rotten person, but he was not. At least rotten people could not be as calm as him when Lin Yu asked such a question.

"Why do you ask that suddenly?" Cheng Xi smiled at him in the dark.

Lin Yu suddenly felt relieved.

He lay back.

"When I was in elementary school, one night when I was about to fall asleep, I was lying on the bed thinking about the problem, thinking about what my dad was doing in the laboratory, and thinking about it, I was suddenly afraid. Because I suddenly figured it out, it turns out that there are many things in this world. Everyone is an independent individual with their own thoughts. They see the world from the same perspective as me. I am just one of 60 billion people. Everyone is living a life that I cannot see. separate lives, so if I die, the world will still go on, humans will still multiply, and I will disappear, not only my body, but also my mind, my consciousness will dissipate, and there will be no me in this world This person, I no longer exist."

"and then?"

These questions, speaking out, are just ordinary words, but when you lie in bed alone in the middle of the night, thinking about them, you will feel creepy. This is probably the difference between humans and animals. Humans have self-awareness, not just It's instinct.

"Later I went to ask my father," Lin Yu said, "my father is a chemist. He told me that throughout the ages, everyone will die. Confucius died, Newton died, and Einstein died. We will die too. One day we will die. But, before we die, we will have decades of life, unique lives, we will have our own minds, and we will be able to do whatever we choose, art, literature, or science, no one Can stop you. He said that he also thought about this problem when he was young, so he decided to be a scientist. He wants to trace the origin of this world, where time comes from, and where life will return. One day, human beings We will find the essence of this world, and then suddenly see the light. Just like we discovered the solar system, the galaxy, the speed of light, and quantum physics, we will eventually find the answer to life. And this process of finding the answer is a process that generations of people use their lives to pave the way. The thing that supports us in our pursuit of answers is called faith. It has nothing to do with money, country, nation, or even life and death. With faith, you won’t be afraid of death.”

Cheng Xi raised the corners of his mouth in the darkness.

"So you studied physics?"

Lin Yu nodded silently.

"However, my mother's answer is different from my father's."

"When I asked my mother, my mother was collecting ancient paintings. She told me that what my father said was only the answer of some people. This part may have a very high talent when they were born, which can support them to have faith. And work hard for it. But most of the 60 billion people in this world are just ordinary people. They all live in the rules of society. Fear of death, parents accompany you for half your life, children accompany you for half your life, but in this world, there is one person, that person will accompany you for the whole life, you will grow up, you will meet her, you will fall in love, you will get married, and your lives will be together Through, the only life she has, will be entrusted to you to live with you, and you will be the same. You will live together, grow old together, and finally face death together. Just think about having someone to accompany you, in fact Death isn't so scary anymore."

Cheng Xi didn't speak.

If Lin's father's answer is just a scholar's belief, then Lin's mother's answer is already great wisdom.

Xiaoyu who grew up in such a family should naturally be dazzling and excellent.

"I'm not afraid of death anymore." Lin Yu turned his head and looked seriously at Cheng Xi in the darkness: "Are you still afraid of death now?"

Cheng Xi smiled.

He didn't change the subject, nor did he play tricks.

"I was afraid before," he patted Lin Yu's head, "I don't seem to be afraid now."

"I seem to have forgotten to say...Happy birthday, Cheng Xi."

"Good night, little fish."

"Good night, Cheng Xi."