old friend book

"What are you doing?"

Lin Yanqing walked over step by step.

He stepped over the three-inch high courtyard threshold, walked around the fake stone forest all over the courtyard, and followed the familiar voice of children, step by step.When he got closer, he asked in a gentle voice.

It was the back of a young boy, the owner of the back was wearing yellow and white sleeves and loose beige pants, squatting on the ground with his knees bent, waving something in his hands all the time, like a little boy sitting on the ground smoothing his fur orange cat.

It's just that the kitten didn't seem to have enough fur, and was pricked by something, crying out in pain.

"Ahhh—brother, don't come here!"

Lin Yanqing stopped with his left foot just as he stepped forward.

"what happened?"

"I have a black ball growing on me!"

"What black ball?" Lin Yanqing thought for a moment, not knowing what he was talking about.Thanks to Lin Yanqing's good eyesight, he saw the so-called "black ball" at a glance, and opened his eyes slightly in an instant.

"Nonsense!" Lin Yanqing stepped forward.

"It moves in my hand!"

The little boy stood up while talking, stomping and pulling the little black bug on his arm.The ant also seemed to be frightened by him, and hurriedly avoided the extremely huge palm for it, and walked around the round arm several times in a few seconds.

"Help! Brother, help!"

Lin Yanqing had already walked in front of the little boy, grabbed his thin pole-like arm, and swept the ants back to the ground with a "swipe".

There was no longer the feeling of being crawled on his body, and the little boy was no longer afraid, and his eyes shone with tiny gleams.

"Oh, it's okay, brother is amazing!"

"Stop talking! Turn around." Lin Yanqing frowned and scolded him for being ignorant, and then looked at the person carefully to confirm that there were no more ants or other insects before letting go.

Glancing, he saw a small hole under the bricks in the corner, and counted a few ants coming in and out of it, gathering towards a piece of bread crumbs on the side.This piece of bread should have been torn off by the little boy and placed there, but it is about the size of a fingernail, so it is indeed a huge thing for a tiny ant.It takes a lot of strength and strength for them to transport it back to the distant cave.

The little boy got into Lin Yanqing's capacious windbreaker, buried his face in, and rubbed his head to act like a spoiled child.

It was just spring, and the air still smelled damp, but the little boy didn't seem to be afraid of the cold. He only wore a pair of sleeves, and squatted in a small cold corner, staying for an entire afternoon.

Lin Yanqing wanted to push him away, but the arms around her waist were also tightly hugged, and she couldn't push him away no matter what.

"I am cold."

The boy said in a muffled voice, and sneezed as if in time.

"You deserve it, I told you not to wear a coat." Lin Yanqing tightened the windbreaker to block the spring wind that traversed in all directions.

In the yard where the birds were singing in the Spring Pool, the boy's clear and loud laughter was especially obvious.

"Don't laugh!" Lin Yanqing knocked his head lightly.But the little boy immediately said "Ouch" and held his head, his eyes were misty, for fear that the other party would not know how fragile he was.

Lin Yanqing ignored him: "Let me ask you, did you skip your homework again?"

The boy knew that his brother was serious, so he curled his mouth and let out a "hmm" in a nasal voice.

Lin Yanqing sighed softly when he heard the words, and his tone slowed down accordingly.

"There are all kinds of fun and beautiful things at home, but you are interested in these little bugs. I don't know how many times I have been bitten, and I can't learn to restrain myself. I really don't know what you, a young master, think."

The boy looked at the ant nest on one side, curled his lips: "Little bugs are interesting, everything in the house is cold, not fun at all."

Lin Yanqing touched his head and rubbed off the yellow mud on it: "If you play with this, you won't be afraid that your father will punish you for copying books if he finds out?"

As he said, there was tenderness in his brows, which could be seen at a glance.

"What are you afraid of? Dad isn't here now. Only my brother and I are here!" The boy threw himself into Lin Yanqing's arms, grinning happily.

"Brother won't tell Dad!"

Ripples appeared in Lin Yanqing's heart: "You just believe that, I won't tell the truth?"

"Because my brother is the best brother in the world, my brother alone!" The warm sunshine danced on the little boy's hair, "I want to be with my brother forever!"

He said it almost without thinking, as if he had been preparing for a long, long time, waiting for this moment to speak boldly, as if saying that sentence completely was an instinct engraved in his genes, as if they had been born to each other from birth to death. Tail, they should rely on each other to survive.

Lin Yanqing's mind was a little confused, but he quickly noticed something was wrong.

The crisp child's voice echoed in my ears: "Brother, I love you!"

"What did you say?" Lin Yanqing had a splitting headache, let go of the other's hand, and turned to cover his head.

He added: "Lin Yanqing, I love you."

The person in front of him said it again, but what he spit out with his lips and teeth moving was a more mature and stable youthful voice.Lin Yanqing opened his eyes, and the man also blurred with the scenery, turning into a tangible thick fog, in which a familiar but tall figure was vaguely reflected.

"No..." Lin Yanqing raised her voice and asked again, "What did you call me?"

"I say……"

The voice gradually became blurred, Lin Yanqing listened carefully, and the next second he froze in place.What he heard extinguished the urgency to find the answer in his heart.

"I seem to remember saying that my child, Lin Ziyan, can't play with these low-level things. Why are you always disobedient?"

Compared with the previous two, it was a more stable and deep voice, full of magnetism, which revealed a deep deterrent force between the lines.

That was the voice of his father - Lin Zifen.

However, that voice was a nightmare for Lin Yanqing.It was when she scolded him harshly when she was a child, and it is also when she greets him warmly now.

"Ah Qing, why are you standing there?" Lin Zifeng was over half a century old, but because he paid attention to exercise, his appearance and demeanor were not greasy at all, and he could even be said to be as good as anyone in the workplace.He smiled slightly and stretched out his firm arms towards Lin Yanqing.

"Don't stand there stupidly, come here and let me hug you."

Lin Yanqing didn't move when he heard the words, or he couldn't move at all. His body, during the nightmare, never belonged to him.

Lin Zifeng smiled elegantly and gently: "You are so disobedient, you will be punished if you are careful."

He walked up by himself, stared at the other person's eyes, looked at the deep dark green pupils inside, and looked in deeply: "Your eyes are still as beautiful as ever, every time I look at them, I think of the dark green pupils in the Norwegian Black Forest. A swamp shrouded in dense fog, once trapped, cannot extricate itself."

He put his hand on the opponent's cheek, and used his thumb to stroke from the corner of the eye, along the lines of the lower eyelid to the end of the light-colored eye.

The touched place suddenly started to hurt, Lin Yanqing closed his eyes in pain, and said softly for a while: "...I am not a mother."

However, his jaw hurt first, and then his entire face was pinched by a pair of big hands, and he was forced to lift it up.

"What are you talking about?" Lin Ziyan's eyes widened in disbelief, and he looked at the face that resembled him almost madly: "The father touched his son, just wanting to get closer to him Ah! You are very much like your mother, but what do we say and do now have anything to do with your mother?"

He seemed to have thought of something again, and said in an exaggerated tone: "Ah——, could it be... Ah Qing, are you thinking wrong?"

He deliberately stretched the tone of the words very long, thinking that everything made sense, so he continued talking on his own, with the madness that could not be concealed between his eyebrows.

"Ah Ching has grown up, so she should have this need. It's normal, and there's nothing to be ashamed of."

Such a frank and direct humiliation came from a father.Lin Yanqing's face became paler, his upper teeth were neatly arranged, he bit his lower lip tightly, and kept silent, but he still couldn't block the man's voice.

The tinnitus became more serious, but Lin Ziyan's unsavory remarks could still penetrate directly into the ears, causing echoes in the cochlea.

"But you hinted at me so tactfully," Lin Zifeng said, "I can't help but put you in a golden cage!"

The carved golden silk cage was the cage he left for Lin Yanqing, and it was the catastrophe that ruined Lin Yanqing's eternal life.

……

Lin Yanqing turned over from the bed almost reflexively, his mind was still not clear, and he exerted too much force, followed by a strong sense of imbalance.He subconsciously supported the bed board under him with his palms so as not to fall to the floor.

He sat up and the first thing he did was gasp.

"Ah, ahh-"

The almost soft sigh that vented, climbed out intermittently from the throat and nose, hung weakly in the thick air, piled up like a heavy mountain, blocked the mouth and nose, and made breathing more difficult.

So every sound that followed was naturally weakened and slowed down.

He was held in someone's arms, and he regained consciousness for a moment, belatedly recalling the moment when the door panel was pushed open and hit the white wall just now, followed by vague words, and the hard sole of the shoe was indiscriminately Scratching the ground, a person broke in, stroked his sweaty back, and whispered something in his ear.

Firm and gentle.

"Yanqing, don't be afraid, I'm here."

Lin Yanqing got into the man's skirt, like a stranded fish, following the support of the waves to return to his hometown by the cloud, as comfortable as a fish in water.

He seldom showed such an intimate gesture, even a baby who was still in its infancy, would lie down on the side when he was full, and ignore the person who fed him.

"You are such a ruthless kind." When his mother told him about this, the eyes of the crescent moon were filled with mist.

The Lin family's ruthless species, one is, two are, and three are too.

And when he grows up, the once tall people are slowly shrinking, the short people are still small, and the people of the same age are busy for themselves, and there is no one who can let him get into his arms. His temper and his identity as the young master of the Lin family did not allow him to do so.

And that gentle voice was still saying to him: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, it's all over..."

Lin Yanqing didn't answer, her silver teeth were about to be crushed.He had to admit that he hated himself for being like this.

——The third day of the countdown——

Gu Xun went to a cake shop with Lin Yanqing on his back.

To be honest, the Great Plains is sparsely populated, so he didn't have much confidence to find a cake shop here, and it was indeed the case.

But he did, and asked about a cake shop from the wife of a hotel employee.

He took the address he got and rushed there in a hurry.Fortunately, the place is not far away and not remote.

The hostess entertained him warmly, her expression was full of excitement: "Oh, it's been a long time since I saw anyone from my hometown!"

She told Gu Xun that she was also from southern China.When I was young, I went to Russia and saw her man at the red light market, so I stayed.She only went back once, with a seven-year-old child and a baby in her arms, just like a housewife.

Her father was strong all his life, and he couldn't tolerate such a stain in his family, so he drove her out directly.Since then, she has never left Russia.

She is about 50 to [-] years old. Her husband makes a living by doing business and fishing, and there are two children who are studying in college. The small house has been sheltered from the wind and snow for several years.

"Hahaha, I'm not proficient in Mandarin, so don't blame me." She smiled and put on her blue apron, "What kind of cake do you want? I can make it for you, and I only charge you for the cake, but You have to prepare things yourself..."

Gu Xun lowered his eyes slightly with emotion: "Just teach me how to do it, and I will pay you three times the price."

"Ah, it doesn't take so much..." The hostess stared in surprise and hurriedly stopped.

"You misunderstood," Gu Xun said with a warm smile, "I'm in a hurry, and I'm going to pick up the cake tomorrow, and this is the money I paid for urgent needs."

The hostess breathed a sigh of relief and calmed down a little.

Now that they had said so, they didn't dare to procrastinate, and started preparations that day.Making materials, making a base, baking, when Gu Xun tried it for the first time, he almost made egg whites all over the kitchen.However, time was tight, and they studied until very late before finally making a decent cake base.

The hostess smiled and comforted him: "Don't worry, don't worry, try again tomorrow and you will be proficient."

——The second day of the countdown——

Lin Yanqing returned to her usual deserted appearance, but she just likes to be in a trance, and often stares at her mobile phone.Every time Gu Xun leaned over, he would switch the phone back to a black screen, as if there was some shady secret in that black box.

He is really like a highly alert black cat, even though he can't see it, he can still catch all the movements around him.

Whether it was the heaviness of the leather shoes stepping on the wooden board, the lightness of the hem of the clothes blown by the breeze, or the silence after Gu Xun deliberately changed into a pair of cotton-soled slippers, he could feel it.

Gu Xun really didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

"Yanqing, let's eat an apple." Gu Xun held a plate of peeled and arranged fruit, poked a piece of fruit with a toothpick and sent it to his mouth: "What are you looking at?"

Lin Yanqing took a bite, and the sweet juice filled his mouth: "Look at your phone."

"What's in the phone?"

"Don't tell you."

They are located in a small town full of Russian style. They rented a small hotel. The location is very good. When you open the tea-colored curtains and look out from the inside, you can see layers of classic wooden houses with pointed roofs, row upon row. On a piece of ice and snow.

There are stretches of birch forests and simple cabins. If you look farther away, you can see the end of the pure color where the sky and the earth meet, and the unfathomable and dream-like Lake Baikal, like a precious sapphire. Only a small corner was exposed, and the rest was hidden in the trees, and it grew into a flower.

He was so good-looking, and he was good-looking in everything.

Gu Xun couldn't think of any other adjectives.All emotions seemed to return to the most primitive form, discarding unnecessary embellishments and peeling off the core, he burned the decayed heart with a fire.

Gu Xun still wanted to laugh.

"My real self is here, what are you doing looking at those photos?"

Lin Yanqing was stunned, then looked up at him naively: "I'm not looking at the photo..."

The rest of his words were all choked in his throat after hearing the teasing sigh of the other party.

"Stop being so sentimental!" Lin Yanqing kicked him with little force, and his bare ankle was glowing red and warm in the twilight, which attracted the other party's even more uncontrollable smile.

He spends more time in the bathroom talking to himself in the mirror, barely audibly.

Gu Xun was really afraid that something would happen to him, so he moved a small bench outside the bathroom and sat there, staring at the white ceiling above his head, asking questions every once in a while, and breaking in when he didn't hear a response.

Lin Yanqing was startled when she heard the sound of unlocking the lock: "What are you doing here?"

Gu Xun wasn't shy at all, when he heard the response, he stepped back and closed the door.

"If you don't answer me, of course I will come in to see what you are doing."

"Rogue!" Lin Yanqing gritted his teeth and threw a piece of soap at the back of the person. The soap hit the closed door, masking the deep laughter of the person behind the door.

"You can't come in again!"

Gu Xun said, "Okay."

So Lin Yanqing never dared not answer his words.Even when he was taking a shower, he would prick up his ears and listen smartly, for fear that he would do something embarrassing in a hothead.

——The first day of the countdown——

He was surprisingly active.

When the sky was still dark, he got up early, washed up carefully, and walked slowly to the head of the bed against the wall, spread out the clothes that Gu Xun had put beside him last night, and touched the clothes on top. Fold over to the front and pull it over the body.

The process is relatively long. If someone with a little patience comes to do this, it will be abandoned after a few strokes.

Fortunately, Lin Yanqing has a lot of time.

He opened the window, and the air that poured in stopped and swirled in the room, changing from dry and cold to a little clammy and stuffy.A thin layer of thin sweat emerged from his forehead, and was wiped dry by the fur collar and broken hair when he put on clothes again and again.

Gu Xun followed his wish and brought him to the town of Listvyanka.

That is where the Angara River flows into Lake Baikal.

They rented a car first, and then walked into the town when they reached the edge of the town.

They just walk around.Along the way, they met many enthusiastic people.Meeting from a distance, waving hello, and then leaving by mistake is the most common way of life for locals.

"Маленькаякрасавица, тыпришлаодна?" A tall man greeted him.

Lin Yanqing raised her head with a dazed expression: "Hello...?"

He stretched out his hand towards the man, but was grasped and put it into the warm pocket of the man.

Lin Yanqing turned her head to the right even more puzzled.

Gu Xun squinted his eyes and raised his eyebrows slightly: "Онмой."

"О,брат, расслабься! Простохочешьсказатьпривет." The man immediately withdrew his firm arms, and turned to cover his stomach. He laughed for a long time, as if he was waiting for Gu Xun's reaction.

“Мнененравитсяпозволятьнезнакомомучеловекуприкасатьсякнему.”

Gu Xun spoke softly to the man, but the other party laughed even more mercilessly.

The two talked to each other from time to time, and they seemed to have a very happy chat. The man didn't end the conversation until the car was about to start.

"Ладноладно!" The man breathed a sigh of relief, and walked towards the empty seat in the back seat, "Твойлюбовникпрекрасен!"

When the man's voice disappeared completely, Lin Yanqing asked, "What did he just say?"

"He said..." Gu Xun warmed his hands and put on the gloves again.

"You are really not afraid of the cold."

Lin Yanqing was stunned for a moment, and then there was a small hook on the corner of her mouth.

"You're really not bothered."

Listvyanka is very small, with only one main street, with the town on one side and Lake Baikal on the other.

It took them nearly three hours to walk along Main Street, which only took twenty minutes.

Gu Xun explained to Lin Yanqing one by one what he saw around him.Talk about the rows of golden ginkgo trees on the hillside at the back, the old man on the seat in the front courtyard with his head raised to bask in the sun, and talk about a few beautiful gulls that occasionally pass by at low altitude in the blue sky.

Gu Xun took his hand and pasted the old and mottled tree patterns on the trees.

They had been on the train, the old-fashioned steam train, avoiding the houses in the town, and weaving along the edge of the green mountains, dust floating in the empty carriages.

Wear it to Baikal, who is thinking about it.

"Can I go over there for a stroll?" Lin Yanqing asked.

"Ah."

Gu Xun followed subconsciously.

"Don't come," Lin Yanqing smiled back and stopped the person behind him, "I can do it alone."

In fact, just now, he heard someone call Gu Xun, and when Gu Xun answered, his tone was full of surprise.

"You have your own things to do, go get busy first."

Gu Xun couldn't figure out his thoughts.But the cake shop is not far away, just turn around the corner in front and walk a short distance.

"Be obedient, you go back first."

"Then be careful, don't trip over anything." Gu Xun paused, and added another sentence.

"Don't go too far."

—I'm afraid I'll never find it again.

"..." Lin Yanqing was silent for a while, and then grinned, the smile was deeper than before, and more pure than the lake water under the floating light.

"Don't worry, I know the way home!"

He breathed a sigh of relief, and slowly disappeared into the sunlight at the sea of ​​clouds.He is like a child without fear, drifting away from what he wants.

The windbreaker jacket, which Gu Xun pulled tightly for him, is now stretched out again. The sea breeze hits the dark coffee sweater in gusts, looking for any gaps that can allow it to slip in, and pour in the white skin that has never seen the sun for a long time. The skin blows the hem to the ground.

The future was uncertain, the sunlight gradually stained his figure, Gu Xun quietly raised his arm, and he could cover Lin Yanqing tightly with one hand.

Through the rare clarity between his fingers, he arbitrarily eliminated the brilliance of the sun, until that insignificant person became smaller and smaller, turned into a line, a point, and finally there was nothing left.

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Is Lin Yanqing such a thin person?

Gu Xun was thinking about this question over and over again, or in other words, he was completely entangled in this question, his mind was entangled like a thread, in a mess, but it seemed to be lying there peacefully, no one was using it. time, it does not need to be unwrapped.

"Ah, what's wrong with you, you look so bad!"

Probably even Gu Xun himself didn't know what kind of lost soul he was now.He touched his cheek: "I... am I in a bad state?"

"Yes! I was shocked the first time I saw you. Look at you, your whole face is drooping!"

The hostess pushed the mirror in front of him, went to the counter to take out the things, and kept babbling.

"Did you stay up late last night? You young people really don't listen to advice. My son is the same way. No matter what, he doesn't want to go home early. He likes to play until late!"

Gu Xun lowered his head: "It should be because I went to bed late."

"How about that, I'll make you a bowl of soup first." The hostess frowned and looked at him distressedly, "Today is your lover's birthday, so I can't meet her like this..."

"No, he won't be home until very late." Gu Xun turned his head to look out the window, the street was empty, "I brought the cake back, and I'll tidy myself up."

He smiled and said, "He must be happy to see you."

Gu Xun stood guard at the intersection with an exquisitely packaged cake.

The cakes he made himself were really ugly, they were completely different from the ones in the store, and they attracted innocent greetings and jokes from passers-by.He responded politely one by one, and stayed where he was until the sunset and the stars ended.

Gu Xun didn't prepare a gift.

He thought, if this gift is not given to Lin Yanqing, it should be regarded as owed first, and he will return it to him when he comes back and will not leave.

Lin Yanqing is afraid of the cold.

Gu Xun secretly rejoiced that Lake Baikal hadn't snowed or frozen in early October this year.Otherwise, how could that small windbreaker block the cold and icy air.

Gu Xun left the holy land in Russia.

He returned to Gu's house and took care of all the business at home.Not long after, he took over the position of the old chairman and managed the company's affairs in an orderly manner. With his support, the Lin family slowly began to make a comeback.

The wife he was going to marry back at the beginning of the year ran away without leaving a trace, and became a point of discussion after dinner. Some people said it was her fault, while others said it was his fault.

Gu Xun mostly laughed it off, and hid the truth of all public opinion in the SMS records of the mobile phone.

"I never miss an appointment." ——by Miss Wen.

Gu Xun got hotheaded, and on the grounds of "expanding the family business", he picked a place in the backyard of the mansion, covered a mountain, and rented someone to manage it in his spare time.

Times have changed, and the desolate mountains and islands are full of flowers.

He sold red roses to a crazy lover in love, calla lilies to a sincere friend who was like a brother, and dogwood to a wanderer who was feeling homesick.Fortunately, the flowers are doing well and business has been good.

He also has his own piece of land, which is not big, only three or four acres, across the eaves and bridges, and has been well maintained with a greenhouse for a lifetime.

"Nothing lasts forever."

Lin Yanqing said so.

How did he call him back then?

At that time, he wrote three words on the dim paper, and then?

Then, he heard his sleeves slide across the table, knocking over the ink on the ground, and hugged the black figure tightly.

——I planted hibiscus flowers all over the mountains and plains, the wind beat the leaves, and it snowed heavily in Xuanyun.

"Lin Yanqing, the flowering season is coming soon, you should go home."