Professor Lin's middle-aged love

Although it has entered winter, the first snow has not yet fallen, and the air is dry and cold, and it hurts to scrape a layer of skin on the face.

Lin Yuxi raised the window and turned on the warm air in the car, but her fingertips holding the steering wheel were still as cold as ice.

Driving from the villa area to the campus of University A, along the way, Lin Yuxi was in a state of confusion, her lips were tightly pursed, and the lines on her face were tightened, revealing a cold and sharp look.

She suddenly recalled in her mind that her daughter had called her when she met Joyner that night, and her tone was a little bit uncomfortable. When she went home to find Lin Shan, the other party's words were hesitant and secretive.At that time, she felt that Lin Shan seemed to be hiding something from her, and wondered if there was a conflict with Ning Caixuan.

Analyzing it now, it probably has something to do with that painting.

In fact, the school is over now, and Lin Yuxi guessed that her daughter should be preparing for the exam in the self-study room at this moment.The car turned into University A, and after the car stopped in the teacher's parking area, she took out her mobile phone and sent a message to her daughter, asking her to come to her office.

Entering the office, Lin Yuxi fidgeted, turned around and poured a glass of warm water on the table, wringing her hands together, at a loss.

"Dong dong dong." There was a knock on the office door, and Lin Yuxi raised her head suddenly, her heart beating faster, "Come in."

The voice is slightly hoarse.

"Mom, why are you here?" Lin Shan sat down on the chair in front of the table with her schoolbag on her back, lowered her head, took a bag of buns from the drawer on the right, and opened it, "I'm so hungry."

"Drink your saliva first, to get rid of the cold." Lin Yuxi pushed the water glass on the table towards Lin Shan, and urged.

"Oh."

Lin Yuxi frowned and stared at her daughter's every move. Seeing that she was fine as usual, Lin Yuxi was slightly relieved.

Swallowing the last bite of the bun, and taking another sip of water from the cup, finally regaining some strength, Lin Shan raised her head and remembered to ask her mother why she came here.

"Mom, what do you need from me?"

"Well, there's something wrong." Lin Yuxi struggled with her words, pressed her slender fingers on her bag, and said in a deep voice: "I helped you clean up the room today, and I accidentally found a painting you put in the drawer ..." Lin Yuxi paused as she spoke, she raised her eyes, and she caught Lin Shan's dazed expression, and a trace of panic flashed in the other's eyes.

"Mom didn't deliberately want to spy on your privacy, but your drawer was unlocked, and I was thinking about putting your pens in it, so I happened to find that painting." Lin Yuxi clenched her purse strap tightly with her fingers, looking There was only panic on the daughter's face, her heart trembled, and a bad premonition welled up in her heart.

"So... can you tell mom, where did you get that painting?" Lin Yuxi's eyes were deep, fixed on Lin Shan's body for a moment, nervous and worried.

"I..." Lin Shan didn't know that there was such a person as Meng Hao, so she was worried about her guess when she saw this painting. The mother and daughter had their own worries, and the air was a little frozen for a moment.

Lin Yuxi held her breath, frowning and waiting for her answer, the air was so quiet that she could almost hear her rapid heartbeat.

Lin Shan lowered her head, not knowing how to explain.But she knew that there was no way to get rid of deception. Although her mother was always considerate, she hated deception and lies.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Shan opened her lips and said, "Ning Caixuan found it from the storage room."

"Storage room?" Lin Yuxi was stunned for a moment, but didn't realize the result for a moment.

"Yeah." Putting down the schoolbag on her shoulders, Lin Shan felt relieved and said with a long sigh of relief: "Xuanxuan said that she saw her mother rummaging in the storage room that day, holding a stack of paintings in her hand, and seeing Xuanxuan She felt that her mother was hiding something from her, so she sneaked into the storage room after Aunt Zhou left, and found this painting somewhere." Lin Shan said so much in one breath, briefly After a pause, he continued: "I saw that the woman in the painting looked like my aunt, so I asked Xuanxuan for it."

After the sound fell, Lin Shan stared at Lin Yuxi with eyes as fresh as black grapes, covering up the speculation in her heart.Maybe she's just overthinking it?If she said it, it would arouse her mother's suspicion, and it would be bad if it caused an emotional conflict between her mother and Aunt Zhou Mo.

Thinking of this, Lin Shan pursed her lips and said nothing.Seeing that Lin Yuxi only frowned and lowered her head, seemingly lost in thought, she couldn't help but ask, "Mom, are you okay? That painting... Is there any problem?"

"Huh?" Lin Yuxi returned to her senses, raised her hand to brush away the strands of hair that fell down her cheeks, and said, "It's okay, that painting is what my aunt looked like when she was young. I saw that painting in your place, and thought it was my aunt." An old friend of mine gave it to you."

"Oh." Seeing Lin Yuxi's haggard face, Lin Shan guessed that she had something to hide from her, but she knew it was not the time to ask.

"Shanshan, it's noon, let's go to the cafeteria to eat. The final exam is important, and the body is also important. Don't stay up late at night to study, and make sure you sleep well." Lin Yuxi regained her composure and raised her head to tell her daughter.

"Mom, won't you accompany me to the cafeteria for dinner?" Lin Shan was wearing a white down jacket, which was bulging, but made her face small and tender.

"Mom still has something to go back, so go by yourself." Lin Yuxi stood up, holding the leather bag in her hand, which contained the heavy painting.

"okay."

After Lin Shan left, Lin Yuxi frowned and fell into deep thought again.

This painting was actually found in the storage room of the Zhou family?

Could it be that Zhou Mo's sister and her sister are old acquaintances?Zhou Ying, Ying.

None of the letters are M.

Who is this M?

Raising her hands to her forehead, she sat back on the chair again, leaning her elbows on the table. She felt as if she had entered a dead end and was in a mess.Lin Yuxi looked up and saw the dead branches outside the window swaying in the cold wind, the sky was gray, cold and desolate.

The heating was not turned on in the room, and Lin Yuxi was a little stiff from the cold after sitting alone for a while.Swipe open the phone to find out Zhou Ying's contact information, landed on the string of numbers with her fingertips, hesitated for a moment, and finally clicked on it.

"Hello, Yuxi." The phone rang for a while before being answered, Zhou Ying's gentle voice came, Lin Yuxi clenched her lips, and it took a while before she called out, "Sister."

***

On the road, the cold wind whipped up the dust on the ground. Lin Yuxi drove at a steady speed. When the car stopped in front of a teahouse, Zhou Ying had already arrived ahead of schedule.

Because she didn't have lunch, Lin Yuxi felt dizzy when she got out of the car. She stretched out her hand to hold the car door and waited for a while before she managed to stand still.

The private room is filled with a faint woody aroma and the honey aroma of black tea, which is refreshing.A square wooden table with fine grain was placed in the middle, and Zhou Ying was holding a sand pot to wash tea, with an elegant manner.

"Sister." Lin Yuxi knocked on the door and came in, calling out in a gentle voice.

"Here you come? Come and sit down quickly, drink a cup of tea to warm yourself up." Zhou Ying raised her head to look at the person standing at the door, only to see that the other person's face was cold and pale, and her lips were a little purple. She guessed it was blown by the cold wind, and couldn't help but Urge her to come in quickly.

"Is it cold?" Zhou Ying asked softly as she handed a cup of tea to Lin Yuxi.

"Well, it's a bit." Putting the purse aside, Lin Yuxi responded with a smile.

"Didn't eat, did you? Let's fill your stomach with some dim sum first." There were several plates of delicate dim sum on the table, and Zhou Ying specially ordered it for Lin Yuxi. She remembered that Lin Qingshu liked peach cakes very much. I don't know if Lin Yuxi is Like her sister?

like the same?

Thinking of this sentence, Zhou Ying was slightly startled, and stopped suddenly when her fingertips touched the porcelain white plate.

"Thank you, sister." Lin Yuxi looked down at the small plate of peach cakes, took a small piece and put it in her mouth. The strong aroma of walnuts spread on the tip of her tongue. She closed her eyes, as if recalling something. passed away.

"Is there something wrong with you looking for me today?" Zhou Ying guessed that it must be a more serious matter, otherwise Lin Yuxi would not have chosen to meet at a teahouse instead of at home.

Taking a sip of tea, Lin Yuxi said slowly: "There is something...I need to confirm with you."

Looking up at her, Zhou Ying re-boiled the tea, and white mist came out from the lid of the pot, and green smoke curled up.

Bowing his head and taking out the neatly folded painting from his bag, Lin Yuxi pursed his lips and unfolded it, laying it flat on the table. There were a few light creases on the drawing paper.

Glancing at the all-too-familiar portrait from the corner of her eye, Zhou Ying's hand holding the bamboo spoon trembled, and she looked up at Lin Yuxi for a long time.

"Sister knows my sister, right?" After a moment of silence, Lin Yuxi asked in a gentle voice after Zhou Ying calmed down.

Her eyes lingered on Zhou Ying's face, seeing that her skin was like snow and her temperament was cold.She should be the woman I met when I went to the cemetery with Shanshan to visit my sister's grave.His eyes fell on the pair of sunglasses on the table, and he paused for a few seconds.

She also wore a pair of sunglasses that day.

Seeing that Zhou Ying was silent, Lin Yuxi didn't force her to answer, she already had the answer in her heart.In this way, can the other party help me solve some doubts about my sister?

A little bit of anticipation overflowed from the bottom of his eyes.

Lin Yuxi looked at the winter bamboo outside the wooden window with her eyes, firm but not frightened.She half recalled: "That's what my sister looked like before she got married. She used to have long black hair." The air was silent for a while before Lin Yuxi whispered, "But in order to sell some money, she cut her long hair gone."

"Afterwards, she left home to work elsewhere..." Lin Yuxi's eyes were moist and slightly flushed.

"Father owed a lot of gambling debts. We kept moving and had no fixed place to live. The debt collectors came to trouble us when they couldn't find my father." Lin Yuxi clenched her fingers unconsciously as she said, when she was still studying , my sister resolutely dropped out of school and went to work in other places. While thinking about repaying the family's debts, she supported her education.

She was reluctant to let her sister work so hard alone, thinking that she would drop out of school and work with her sister to earn money, but her sister stopped her sharply.

Lin Qingshu once said: "It is enough for one daughter of the Lin family to be ruined. There are three of them, mother and daughter, and there must be someone who is good enough to stand up for them and not be looked down upon all the time."

For her sister, Lin Yuxi has always felt guilty, so when her sister was tortured by illness, she has been taking care of her personally, hoping to see a turn for the better.

Unfortunately not.

Zhou Ying listened to Lin Yuxi's story in silence, thinking of that hard-working woman, her heart ached.

silly woman.

She lowered her eyes, and her long and thin eyelashes concealed the light in her eye sockets.

"What kind of work she is doing outside, whether it is bitter or not, my mother and I don't know." Lin Yuxi pursed his lips and took a deep breath, "After the New Year, I followed her secretly I wanted to see her life at the station, but my sister found out. She scolded me severely, blaming me for not studying hard, for using these crooked thoughts, and for failing her."

"She just doesn't want me to follow her and see her real life. But I know she must have a hard life." Lin Yuxi choked up.

After hearing Lin Yuxi's words, Zhou Ying suddenly realized.So their life is so difficult?No wonder... No wonder Lin Qingshu had a part-time job while working in their family.In fact, they didn't need to work so hard at all, Lin Qingshu was the benefactor of their Zhou family, and they always thought that they could repay this kindness.

But Lin Qingshu back then said that the Zhou family had already helped the children in the mountains to build schools according to her wish, and would also give subsidies to those children every year.She knew what it was like to want to go to school but had no ability, and she felt the same way when they lived in the mountains.Lin Qingshu hoped that those children would not give up their dreams like herself.

To put it bluntly, it was the Zhou family who gave those children hope to pursue their dreams. As for that insignificant kindness, the Zhou family had already repaid it.

Lin Qingshu has always been such a stubborn woman who wanted to be strong, she obviously couldn't bear the burden on her body, and she still had to resist.

Stupid woman.

Zhou Ying blamed her, and felt pain in her heart, which couldn't be worse.

"My mother and I were always worried about her, until one day, she came home suddenly and told us that she was going to get married." Lin Yuxi raised her hand and squeezed the cup tightly. The hot tentacles scalded her fingertips and her Frozen heart.

The author has something to say: Emmm, are the facts really what they think and see?The plot is predicted, so stay tuned.whee