brave and coward

During the meal, Hua Lin didn't speak. It was Xue Younian who was talking about industry news and anecdotes. He was a talkative man. The same thing was said dryly by others, but he said it differently.

Hualinte adored him when he was studying, and felt that such a person was not perfect, at least the closest to perfection.

Who knew that such a gorgeous robe was full of lice when it was lifted up. ①

The knife and fork in Hua Lin's hand squeaked on the plate, the sound was not loud enough to attract the attention of others, but Xue Younian heard it, and his voice stopped immediately, looking at Hua Lin's face.

Hua Lin didn't look at him, just said: "Eat."

Xue Younian shut up.

Hua Lin thought it was very funny, really, Xue Younian's behavior made him feel both ridiculous and sad.

A person with excellent conditions had to dig into the horns and mess up the life that should be good for himself and others.

When he was about to finish eating, Xue Younian asked, "It's still early, can I invite you to watch a movie?"

Hua Lin asked, "Is there anything worth seeing recently?"

No.Xue Younian had checked it a long time ago, and the recent releases are all popcorn movies.

He picked the highest-grossing movie—mainly because the director of this movie was a friend of Hua Lin's, and it was considered a hit.

After hearing this, Hua Lin said calmly, "If you are really free, you can help the sanitation workers sweep the road."

Xue Younian: "..."

What Hua Lin meant was that he looked down on this movie and felt that there was no need to watch it.Speaking of which, when Hualin was studying abroad, Xue Younian and him watched mostly classic old movies, even if they watched new movies, they must be well-known. They have very similar tastes in this regard.Hua Lin always complained to Xue Younian about his parents' bad taste.

However, Mingming Hualin and Wendong have watched a lot of messy movies, including cartoons and bad movies of the year. Dai Xiaojing's commercial blockbusters are already pretty good.

Xue Younian actually doesn't quite understand what Hua Lin's feelings for Wen Dong are.He didn't deliberately belittle Wen Dong, but from an objective point of view, Wen Dong is also very vulgar, and he and Hua Lin are not in the same world at all.Many things that Hualin and Wendong do together can be said to be Hualin's downgrading to accommodate Wendong.

And love should come from the high spiritual resonance between the two, isn't it?

What does Wendong use to resonate with Hualin?Those little tricks of playing around, teasing people, and making people happy?

Even though Wendong was only used as a spare tire, Xue Younian thought he was unqualified, but Hualin just liked him.

Xue Younian couldn't understand this question. He even wondered if it was just because Wen Dong was young that he was sexually attracted to Hua Lin. This was the most straightforward answer and the only logical answer he could understand.

Xue Younian hid these thoughts and said with a smile, "Then let's go for a walk by the river."

Hua Lin directly refused: "I have an operation tomorrow, and I want to rest early."

"Okay. I'll take you back after dinner." Xue Younian said.

Hua Lin returned home, came out of the shower and found a missed call from Wen Dong, and sent a message asking him what happened tonight.

what's the situation?To save the world, of course.

Hualin typed "None of your business", hesitated for a while, deleted it, threw away the phone, meditated with legs crossed, and cultivated his body.

As long as he doesn't cultivate it, he is likely to violently fight the scumbags around him in a life-and-death duel.

(except him, his father, Shen Weixing, and Lu Bei) Men, no, tsk tsk.

After a while, one of the bad guys called again.

Hua Lin thought about it and accepted it.

"Brother Lin," the scumbag said with a caring tone, "what's going on?"

"We got back together." Hua Lin replied simply, while getting out of bed to spray water on several pots of succulents on the windowsill.

"Stop playing," Wen Dong laughed anxiously, "What's the reason? Tell me what's going on, multiple people have multiple ideas."

Hua Lin said impatiently, "What's the reason why you can get back together with your ex?"

Wen Dong said: "Is that your ex? You said he was a pervert, but I don't believe you still took the initiative to jump into the pit."

"I'm really a person who knows it's a pit and jumps into it with my eyes open. Don't you know this?" Hua Lin asked.

Wen Dong was silent for a few seconds, and said, "Brother Lin, don't do this with me. I know you didn't do this to annoy me. What's the matter with you?"

Hua Lin refrained and said, "Don't do this with me. What are you doing here? The Lover has come to the Purdue world again? I don't feel good about being caught by someone else? What's the problem? , there is a sea without one. I am still angry with you, who are you?"

Wen Dong smiled wryly, "Brother Lin——"

"He was my first love. I separated from him because of a misunderstanding. Now that the misunderstanding is resolved, we get back together. Isn't that rare?" Hua Lin said, "Don't make up your mind, the truth is as simple as that. A person with such rich emotional experience can't understand this kind of thing, right?"

"I--"

Hua Lin interrupted him: "Are you sure you want to waste your phone bill and my precious time?"

"What did he threaten you, or did you discover something?" Wen Dong frowned and asked, "Is it related to the missing Dr. Luo? Has Dr. Luo heard anything?"

"I don't know what you're talking about. It's okay to hang up." Hua Lin said.

"Brother Lin!" Wen Dong sighed, "If you want to use this method to investigate him, there is really no need, you might as well ask Mr. Lu to help find Yu—"

"Can you stop being so narcissistic?" Hua Lin asked, "You don't think others will choose you between you and Xue Younian, do you?"

"Don't talk about—"

"It's you who changed the subject, Wen Dong, for the sake of Shen Weixing's sake, I don't want to say something to you, I don't want to say it badly, but if you insist, I have to say it. Wendong, I'm really annoyed by your ghostly appearance, flirting with your sister, keeping your sister's fish, crazy, you are more weird than Dai Xiaojing. If Xue Younian is perverted, you will be more perverted than perverted. "

"Pro-"

"Hang up, don't harass me."

Hua Lin took care of the flowers and plants, and was about to go to bed when the group became lively, discussing the first snow of the year that just fell.

He echoed a few words in the group, and then stole the photo of Chuxue taken by Shen Weixing and sent it to Xue Younian.

Xue Younian replied to him almost instantly: I saw it too, I just wanted to show you a picture.You have not rest yet?

Hua Lin didn't even bother to type with him, so he spoke directly: "I remember the clam and lobster porridge you made before was delicious, and I suddenly feel hungry."

Xue Younian still typed back to him: I'll do it now, and I'll bring it to you for breakfast tomorrow, okay?Dried scallops have no time to soak.

Hua Lin continued to speak: "I don't want to eat tomorrow. Forget it, go to bed."

Xue Younian quickly replied to him: I will prepare it in a while and send it over.

Hua Lin said: "My parents are at home, don't come up, just call me from a newsstand outside my community, I'll get it, and look at the snow scene by the way."

Xue Younian: Well, good.When you come out, pay attention to the cold and warm.

Hua Lin ignored him, put his number into the blacklist, then went back to the group to boo a few words, then turned off the lights, got into the quilt and fell asleep.

Dried scallops should be soaked one night in advance, and now it is too late, so we have to skip it.If you don't add it, it will lose some umami, but it's not a big problem.It's also not easy to get fresh clams and lobster at this time, but that's not a problem either.

Because, Hua Lin can't really eat.Xue Younian guessed that he had blocked himself and went to sleep.

At 01:30 in the morning, Xue Younian was standing by the newspaper kiosk with his thermos bag in hand, making a phone call that he knew he would never get through.

The snow is getting bigger and bigger, the temperature is dropping suddenly, and the wind is also strong, but these are not important.

Xue Younian stood silently in the wind and snow, like a lifeless stone sculpture.

Neither Xue Younian nor Hua Lin mentioned this matter again, as if it had never happened.

The only thing that proves it ever existed is Xue Younian's thermometer: he had a low-grade fever.

He explained it to Hua Lin on the phone, and apologized that he couldn't go to the appointment for dinner today.

Hua Lin didn't reply, so he checked the time, and went straight to Xue Younian's residence - the building opposite after work.

He entered the apartment he rented recently, set up his binoculars, and peeked at the windows of Xue Younian's house through the gap in the curtains.

The building is not too far away, the quality of the binoculars is very good, Hualin can see clearly, Xue Younian is wearing a nightgown, with a fever-reducing patch on his forehead, sitting on the bed, with a blanket on his legs, and a "lazy desk" , I was using a laptop, sneezing and blowing my nose from time to time, as if I was really uncomfortable.

These are not important, what is important is that the computer screen...is completely black.Xue Younian used a privacy film!

Hua Lin watched until ten o'clock in the evening, watching Xue Younian make a salad, read a book for a long time, made a few phone calls, and used the computer for a while.

He was about to throw away the binoculars and go home when he suddenly saw Xue Younian draw the curtains of the bedroom.

After a few minutes, the curtains were opened, and Xue Younian changed into his usual clothes for going out.

But Xue Younian didn't go out. He sat in the living room and read a book for a while, then got up and opened the door to welcome a guest.

This guest Hua Lin knew, his surname was Sun, he was a senior in the industry, the vice president of the Provincial Children's Hospital, and the two of them didn't have much contact.

Xue Younian and Vice President Sun belong to the same generation, so it is not surprising that they know each other. It is reasonable for a friend to visit when he is sick, but it is also reasonable for the Vice President to visit patients in the middle of the night because he has too many things to do.

However, after the two chatted for a while, Vice President Sun gave Xue Younian a thick document bag, and after Xue Younian opened the document bag and took a look inside, he took out something that looked like a check and handed it to Sun Younian. Doctor... this doesn't seem so normal.

In fact, Vice President Sun's maintenance is considered to be okay. He is not bald or fat, and his clothes are not dirty. In the crowd, he can even use his temperament to surpass many young men.But compared with Xue Younian, there is still a big gap.

Although Xue Younian was ill, his demeanor was still very generous and confident. On the contrary, Vice President Sun's situation was not very good, and he flinched inexplicably, as if he couldn't hold his head up in front of Xue Younian.

In this way, coupled with the fact that there is a gap in appearance, the visual age difference of the peers has been directly increased by more than ten years.

Hua Lin fell into deep thought.

A day later, Hua Lin knew a secret of Vice President Sun—in fact, it might not be a secret. Hua Lin just went around the neighborhood of Vice President Sun's house, and easily passed a group of people who seemed to be walking with children. Gou Shi, the middle-aged and elderly people who gathered to gossip, knew that Sun Haoyu, the son of Vice President Sun, had an accident.

There are gossip that Sun Haoyu embezzled a huge amount of public funds to chase Internet celebrities. People don't know if he caught up with them, but anyway, Sun Haoyu later demolished the east wall to make up for the west wall, borrowed usury to fill up the public funds, and then he couldn't pay it back, and the debt collectors caught up with him.

It stands to reason that Vice President Sun should directly report to the police that there are illegal loans here, and you should arrest them quickly, but his family has a certain social status. He is a vice president, and he is very afraid that things will affect his personal image if things get big.

Being pinched seven inches like this, Vice President Sun had no choice but to admit it and pay back the money for his son, and sold a house.

But Sun Haoyu is really a sinful person to collect debts from his parents. Not long after, the debt collectors came to his door. This time he said that he failed to chase him, and he was hit hard and became addicted to gambling.This is a bottomless pit.

When Wendong received Hualin's call, he was really surprised.Although he was convinced that Hua Lin must have deliberately pretended to be reunited with Xue Metamorphosis and uttered those harsh words to himself for deep reasons, but since Hua Lin had already said what he said, even if it was for the sake of face, he would not regret it so quickly... Hua Lin has always been concerned about saving face.

"Brother Lin." No matter what was in his mind, Wen Dong's tone was as if nothing unpleasant had happened, very natural, after all, he was not stupid, no matter how he got there, just walk down.

Hua Lin cut to the chase: "Wendong, do you still have contacts in the gambling circle?"

Wen Dong choked for a rare moment, then laughed, jokingly said: "Brother Shen is next to you, let you attack me suddenly, and set me up? Is he having nightmares again? You let him be normal."

"I'm serious, I'm not teasing you." Hua Lin's tone was very serious.

Wen Dong stopped joking and said, "Know some people. What do you want to do?"

Hua Lin said: "Help me inquire about something, but you must keep it secret and keep a low profile, so as not to draw people's attention."

"You said."

"There is a man named Sun Haoyu, Bai Gaohao, Yu Yu. His father is the vice president of the Provincial Pediatric Hospital. He owed a lot of debts from gambling recently. I want to know the specific causes and consequences." Yes, he spent money chasing after an Internet celebrity named Qingqing Letu, I remember you seem to have connected live with this Qingqing Letu? Do you know each other?"

Wen Dong said, "I know her. Then let me test her tone."

Hua Lin said, "Yes."

Wen Dong smiled: "Then can I know a little bit of the truth?"

Hua Lin was silent for a few seconds, and said: "Sun Haoyu is my elementary school classmate, I haven't seen him these years, but I remember him, he shouldn't have done these things. I know that people may change after so many years, but...but I It doesn’t feel that way.”

Wen Dong said: "What I want to know is what does this have to do with Xue Younian."

Hua Lin said: "You should check it first, and then we'll talk about it after you find out."

Three days later, Hua Lin saw what he found at Wendong's house.

Wen Dong fried a plate of French fries and put them on the coffee table, refilled Hua Lin's glass of iced Coke, then sat on the carpet at his feet, stretched his neck to look at these documents, and asked, "What do you see?"

"I see that you will be high sooner or later." Hua Lin said.

Wendong laughed, looked back at Hualin with his face up, and said, "Don't you know there is a saying, 'I have decided to eat what I like and live a short life'②, hahaha Ha ha!"

"..."

While despising him, Hua Lin picked up a toothpick and forked French fries.

This is indeed not healthy, but it can reap happiness. He needs to replenish the energy of happiness now. After all, negative emotions can also affect life span.

The author has something to say: ① Adapted from Zhang Ailing's "Genius Dream" "Life is a gorgeous robe, full of lice."

②From the anime "Gintama" Sakata Gintoki.