brave and coward

"Linlin, let me check your luggage...why do you bring these sets of old clothes again? It's not that mom wants you to compare, but you go outside and pay attention to your image, don't look like a nerd, in case you feel like You are such a bully...you come with me to get your hair trimmed at night, the bangs are so long, don't you poke your eyes? Why do you say you have to cover most of your face all day...Why did you put a four-piece suit in it again! "

"Pay attention to your tone, Dean Lin, and you're shooting. Lin Lin smiled, looked at the camera, and showed it to your grandma."

Hua Lin showed a standard obedient smile at the DV in his father's hand, and waved his hand: "Hi, grandma...Mom, I'll just bring one set."

His mother was picking things out of his suitcase, and she had already pulled out the four-piece suit on the bed.

Hua Lin tried to save her: "What if I forget the bed? Let me keep the taste of home."

His mother resolutely refused: "You only have your own smell on your four-piece suit, which is equivalent to smelling yourself. Oh, you are alone, and your luggage is too heavy to carry. And you are always reluctant to part with this or that, This is a disease that needs to be cured."

While talking, he took out the mouthwash cup and kettle that Hua Lin had secretly stuffed in, continued to flip through, and sighed helplessly, "I ask you, classmate Xiaohua, did you bring me and your dad's high school uniforms with you?" What's the point?"

Xiao Hua looked sadly at the two sets of school uniforms far away from his suitcase: "I miss you better."

"Dean Hua, just take care of your son, he's almost an adult, my god." His mother wiped her face, feeling very sad.

Dean Hua was also very speechless. After thinking for a long time, he discussed: "Why don't you just bring one set? It's good to wear as a sportswear. It's a simple style. Anyway, it's the bottom of the closet at home."

Before Hua Lin's mother could speak, Hua Lin, who was carrying water, was the first to object: "You can't treat one more favorably than another, I want both of you."

His mother said blankly: "I beg you, don't even think about one, and you can't bring a set."

Hua Lin looked at her aggrievedly, his mouth was about to be pouted into 3, but dean Lin didn't look up at him at all, and took out a box of chewing gum from the suitcase.

Hua Lin hurriedly said, "Mom, this is a gift from me to Uncle Xue!"

His mother finally looked up at him, very helpless: "Is there no chewing gum to buy in Germany? Why do you always bring a bottle of chili sauce?"

Hua Lin seriously analyzed: "Uncle Xue doesn't eat spicy food."

His mother rolled her eyes, lowered her head and continued to paw, while comforting: "Don't worry, your kindness is appreciated by Uncle Xue...Don't tell me that this box of chocolates originated in Germany and was imported to China. You have to bring them from China. Go to Germany to give you Uncle Xue. Even, you have already eaten half a box."

Hua Lin plausibly said: "You and Dad don't eat anything, wouldn't it be a waste to leave it at home?"

His mother held his forehead weakly: "You are going abroad to study, not for an outing. Can you keep everything simple?"

His dad chimed in: "Lin Lin, your mother is right. Your Uncle Xue watched you grow up, so he won't argue with you about gifts or not. The important thing is that you have to listen to him when you go there. , don't trouble him."

Hua Lin saw that the small fan that had accompanied him through the ups and downs of the three years was taken out by his mother, and he was very sad in his heart, but when he thought of seeing Uncle Xue, he became excited and looked forward to it again.

"Uncle Xue"'s full name is Xue Younian, and his background is hard to hear: he is the illegitimate child of his father's affair with a student.

The student tried to use his son to force the palace, but failed. After seven years, he finally gave up and threw the child at the door of Xue's house on a torrentially rainy night, and she disappeared since then.

Xue Younian's father didn't dare to take his son home, and he couldn't just leave him alone, so he asked his good friend, Hua Lin's grandfather, and said cheekily: "You see, your Shicheng is about the same age as Younian, let him Let's live together, it's nice to have a brother, ah."

Hua Lin's grandfather sighed and shook his head, agreeing.

Hua and Lin are family friends and neighbors. Hua Lin's parents are childhood sweethearts, and later Xue Younian, who is similar in age, is added. The three of them are almost inseparable. A love triangle between a man and a woman, including Hua Lin's father himself.

Hualin's father has liked his mother since he was a child, and based on this premise, he fully demonstrated the creed of "the first to win the moon" and "the first to strike first"——

In kindergarten, he would always be vigilant and squeeze other boys away from Hualin's mother so that he could hold hands with her.

When he was in elementary school, his classmates shamed him for always being with her. He must like her. She quickly denied it and tried to clear it up, but he knocked back all her efforts with a few words: "Yes, so what? What's none of your business? Are you full? Have you finished your homework? Are you ready for the final review? Can you beat me and Lin Zao in the exam? You are the only one who talks nonsense, so you should worry about your final exam results, silly. Speaking of which, Do you like Lin Zao? Staring at her every day? Ang? Do you think she cares about you? Ang?"

In junior high school, he took his (feeling) strong competitor Xue Younian to the small playground, hooked his shoulders, winked, and said earnestly: "Younian, do you have someone you like? Forget it, this is your privacy. Inquire, I mainly want to tell you that I like Lin Zao, I think she and I are a perfect match, and it would be unacceptable not to be together! I even thought about the name of my child with her, and I tested her a bit , she’s shy! Not angry! Just shy! Do you know what I mean?! Lin Zao treats you as her own brother! Me too! Don’t think too much about it! Ang! Remember! Brother! Brother! You But don't fall in love early, and concentrate on studying! Puppy love affects grades!"

In high school, I officially confessed to having a puppy love.

After graduating from university, he stalked and got a certificate.

Looking at the entire timeline, he didn't give any other men a chance.

Xue Younian blessed them both well from the beginning to the end, without showing any strangeness.

Until Hua Lin's parents got married and gave birth to Hua Lin, Xue Younian was still in close contact with them.

Hua Lin was very clingy to Xue Younian when he was a child.

Parents don't want to spoil their children, but Xue Younian dotes on Hua Lin very much, almost responding to every request, and there are many "little secrets" that only the two of them know about Hua Lin's parents.

When he was in Hualin Elementary School, Xue Younian was employed by a well-known European medical university and never returned to China.

Hua Lin listened to his parents talking in private, saying that Xue Younian was trying to avoid Xue's family.

Xue Younian's excellence made his half-brother jealous, and he made trouble every day, until Xue Younian promised to live abroad for a long time.

……

Three days later, Hua Lin, who was forced to "change his appearance", was welcomed by his family to the airport, passed the border alone, and boarded the plane. The journey went smoothly.

He put on a blindfold and fell asleep, and when he woke up, the plane was already circling over Europe.

After the plane landed, Hua Lin followed the other passengers out of the customs and saw Xue Younian at a glance.

Xue Younian is almost exactly the same as he remembers, wearing silver-rimmed glasses and a three-piece warm gray vest. He has a petty bourgeois gentleman's demeanor. He looks very elegant. Ruyu" eight characters.

Hua Lin smiled and called, "Uncle Xue!"

Xue Younian had just finished pointing the way for a stranger, when he heard a familiar yet unfamiliar voice calling him, he turned his head and saw the young man dragging his suitcase towards him, bright and colorful, passionate, passing through the airport The bustling crowds coming and going here seem to have traveled through the years.

His smile stagnated for a moment, and so did his heartbeat.

Hua Lin ran up to Xue Younian and greeted excitedly: "Uncle Xue, I'm Linlin, Hua Lin!"

Xue Younian has returned to his usual warm smile: "I almost didn't recognize it, I've grown up."

Hua Lin acted like a baby to him: "Impossible! Unless you don't remember what my dad looks like anymore, everyone says that I look more and more like him. Haha, I want to tell him that you don't remember what he looks like!"

Xue Younian took his suitcase: "It's not very similar." Then he said, "Your mother sent me a recent photo of you, which doesn't look like you now."

Speaking of this, Hua Lin couldn't help but sigh: "My mother insisted that I cut my hair and wear invisibility. I came here to study, not to participate in a beauty pageant..."

Hua Lin followed Xue Younian, didn't look at the road, and concentrated on expressing how the three of them missed Xue Younian, and incidentally complained about his parents and interesting things in recent years, wishing he could tell everything in detail in one breath.

Suddenly, Xue Younian stopped and said, "Wait a minute."

Hua Lin nodded and followed him, only to find that the two had walked to the door of a flower shop.

Xue Younian quickly came out of the flower shop, holding a small bouquet of delicately wrapped white roses in his hand, and explained: "I was late when I came, and I was afraid that I would miss you leaving customs, so I didn't have time to buy them." He handed the flowers to him , "Give it to you, use it to welcome your arrival, I hope you will be fulfilled and happy every second here, and get beautiful memories that will last a lifetime."

Hua Lin immediately "wow": "Send me?!"

Xue Younian looked puzzled: "What's wrong?"

Seeing his innocent and calm appearance, Hua Lin quickly relieved himself, and convinced himself: No one stipulated that roses must be given only when they are in love. My hospital has grown a bunch of them, and some people give them to teachers on Teacher’s Day. I am so fussed. Would it be a bit embarrassing, as if I have never seen the world...

Therefore, Hua Linqiang took the flowers calmly: "Thank you, Uncle Xue."

Hua Lin hugged the flowers and got into Xue Younian's car, happily touching the phone: "I'll show it to my parents, haha!"

Xue Younian looked at the road ahead, and said with a smile: "Your parents are afraid that you will learn to be bad here, and even more afraid of being spoiled by me. These days, they threaten me every day, telling me to be strict with you, beyond the necessities of life. You are absolutely not allowed to buy things, otherwise I will deprive you of my short-term guardianship."

Hua Lin exclaimed, "Flowers count too?"

"Maybe it's a harbinger or a beginning that I didn't listen to what they said." Xue Younian joked, "Or else, give it a try?"

"...Forget it, adventurism is not advisable." Hua Lin put away his phone resentfully, curled his lips, and rolled his eyes slyly, "Uncle Xue, we will keep it from them, and when they ask in the future, we will say You have always been very strict with me, and refused to give me pocket money, and refused to let me buy new clothes and shoes. I told them that I suspected that you embezzled my living expenses, and you said that you were just afraid that I would learn bad things and cause trouble. The illusion that we are not compatible!"

Xue Younian laughed while driving, and when he was waiting for the traffic light, he turned his head to look at Hua Lin who was in the passenger seat, stretched out his hand to stroke his hair, and said dotingly, "Okay."

Hua Lin acted like a baby: "I knew that Uncle Xue treated me the best!"

Xue Younian gradually lowered his gaze from his bright and clear eyes to his lips, which were more delicate than blooming flowers, quickly retracted them, and continued driving.