young friends come to meet

With only two street lights in the small park, Ye Kai and Yin Congnan played a game of ball in a daze in the winter night.In the end, there was no telling who would win.The two of them were panting and sweating profusely. They spread their thick coats on the ground and lay down on them.

The dim light dazzled Yin Congnan's eyes, and he covered his face with his arms.After he couldn't see anything, he could only hear Ye Kai panting next to him.He asked, "Are you happy?"

Ye Kai gave a soft "hmm", "It's a pleasure."

Then he heard Ye Kai turn over from the side, Yin Congnan took away the arm covering his face and saw Ye Kai stretch out his hand to him.He sat up, passed his hand to Ye Kai, and was pulled up by Ye Kai.

"Go home, it's too cold outside, don't catch cold." Ye Kai finished speaking, picked up the coat on the ground, and patted the soil on it.

"You came here just to play ball with me?"

Ye Kai shook his head, "I'm here to apologize to you."

"Why apologize? For running away today?"

Ye Kai glanced at Yin Congnan quickly, turned his head away, and nodded.

Yin Congnan was confused by him. "Did you already plan to run away?"

"Correct."

"The senior engineer told you?"

Ye Kai was surprised, "How do you know?"

"Because you ran away today, Gao Gong stayed and worked overtime to teach two young apprentices how to read blueprints. I happened to meet, so I chatted with Gao Gong."

Ye Kai scratched his head embarrassingly, "I'm sorry Gao Gong."

"Yes." Yin Congnan also picked up his clothes from the ground, "If you want to apologize, you have to apologize to Gao Gong, not to me."

"I will apologize to Gaogong tomorrow." Ye Kai paused, "But I'm sorry to you too."

Yin Congnan smiled, "No, the only one you are not sorry for is me."

Ye Kai raised his eyebrows as if he didn't understand.

Yin Congnan didn't explain, but patted his arm, "It's all at my house, come in and stay for a while."

Ye Kai hesitated for a moment, then nodded.

He hasn't been to Yin Congnan's house for a long time.Every time I come here I can't help but see what changes here.

Yin Congnan adds things to the house a little bit these days, and now he feels like home.He poured a glass of water for Ye Kai from the kettle.

Ye Kai held it, and slowly blew on the mouth of the cup, "Have you rearranged the living room?"

Yin Congnan said, "Yes. It is arranged according to the previous layout of my house."

Ye Kai nodded, "Very good. It looks much more comfortable than before."

Yin Congnan leaned on the cabinet where the kettle was placed, looked at Ye Kai who was sitting on the opposite chair, and said, "My dad used to read newspapers there. When my dad went to the study, my mom read novels here."

Ye Kai looked down at himself, and suddenly felt that he had taken over Yin Congnan's parents' territory, and felt uneasy.

Yin Congnan smiled, "You sit in your seat, I just remembered."

Ye Kai then sat down obediently again, carefully drinking the water in his hand.After a while he said, "You occasionally tell me what your family used to be like, and some little things about your parents before. I'm quite envious of you."

"Really?" Yin Congnan looked around his rearranged living room, and he did often recall the happy times before.Although the days are far away, every time I think about it, it is still clear and fresh, as if the happiness of the family is frozen in this house and will never pass away.If we only talk about the past in this house, not only Ye Kai, but even himself will envy the happy self back then.

He looked at Ye Kai, and suddenly remembered what Gao Gong had just said to him.

"I never heard you talk about your parents."

This sentence was somewhat unexpected to Ye Kai.He never thought that Yin Congnan would be curious about him, but thinking about it from another angle, it is really unusual for a person to live with his uncle instead of his parents.He put the water glass in his hand on the tea table next to him, and then looked into Yin Congnan's eyes. For some reason, his brain became hot, and he asked Yin Congnan, "Do you want to know?"

Yin Congnan was a little flustered by him.Although he really wanted to know, he seemed not ready to hear Ye Kai's secret at this moment.

"It's okay, it's okay if you don't want to say it."

"There's nothing I can't say. It's just that I haven't told anyone else. Except Gao Gong, none of my classmates and colleagues know about my family."

Ye Kai's father used to be colleagues with Gao Junyou. Before the establishment of the Light Industry Machinery Factory, they worked together in another machinery factory.Ye Kai's father likes to drink and gamble. Everyone knows that his reputation is not very good, and he only married him when he was not young.But the strange thing is that such a person has a pair of skillful hands and a good brain.The year Ye Kai's father became a level [-] welder, Ye Kai didn't remember much.But because of his bad habits, the factory didn't give him any benefits.He was not convinced, and after scolding the leader and his colleagues, he almost offended everyone in the factory and squandered his wages.Ye Kai's mother really couldn't live with this person, so she left Ye Kai, divorced Ye Kai's father, and went to another place.Until one day, Ye Kai's father stole steel from the factory and sold it. Someone saw him and called the police.

"When he came out, I was about to go to junior high school. I lived with my uncle and aunt all those years, and then I just stayed there."

In the few years when he was just out of prison, Ye Kai's father knew that he would come to see Ye Kai occasionally, and he wanted to do his best as a father. However, Ye Kai had no contact with him for so many years, and he was very strange to this father, and he did not care about his discipline. convinced.Because he is a prisoner who has been released after serving his sentence, he is always looked down upon at work.After a while, Ye Kai's father simply broke the cans and smashed them. The little salary was used to buy wine and drink, and then he stopped working.

"One day, my uncle didn't see my dad for several days. When he went to look for him in the small house where my dad lived, my dad was already lying on the ground and died of drunkenness."

Yin Congnan watched Ye Kai calmly finish talking about the past, and felt an inexplicable pain in his heart.He would rather Ye Kai cry at this time than such a heartbreaking calm.He walked up to Ye Kai, stretched out his hand, put it on his head, and gently stroked his hair.

Ye Kai looked up at Yin Congnan, and asked him, "Do you know who was the one who caught my dad stealing and called the police?"

Yin Congnan didn't speak.

Ye Kai still said this person calmly, "It's a senior engineer."

Yin Congnan's hand touching Ye Kai's hair froze, and slowly let it go.

Gao Junyou actually got off work early that day, but after get off work, he went to a friend's house with another worker, and passed the factory on the way back to his home after dinner.The two of them wanted to take the path by accident and crossed the grass outside the factory.It is not easy to ride a bicycle on the grass, so they pushed the bicycles forward.Gao Gong was dazed to see someone moving things in the grass, and another worker told him not to mind his own business.But at that time, Gao Junyou was young and energetic, and he insisted on catching this sneaky guy. If he stole something from the factory, he couldn't let him go.Gao Junyou asked his workers to call the police, and rushed up to hold down Ye Kai's father who was dragging a piece of steel in the grass.

"Although Gaogong accepted me as an apprentice and treated me like his own son, I never called him 'Master' like Haozi and the others. I knew there was nothing wrong with Gaogong. My father was a bastard who broke the law. Ji, he deserves to go to jail. I also know that Gao Gong helped me and took care of me in the factory because he felt guilty for me. He once told me that if he didn’t see my dad that day, Maybe my dad and my life will be different. But he can’t ignore it when he sees it. But I always have a knot in my heart, and I can’t say that ‘Master’.” Speaking of this, Ye Kai even laughed at himself He smiled generally, "Am I too..."

"No." Yin Congnan immediately denied, "You don't need to push yourself. Gao Gong doesn't care what you call him. No matter whether you call him 'Gao Gong' or 'Master', your mentor-student relationship will not change."

Ye Kai nodded, "Yes. I will never forget Gao Gong's kindness to me."

Ye Kai sat on the chair with his head down. From Yin Congnan's perspective, he could only see his slightly bowed back and the back of his head with messy hair.Ye Kai's past is far more difficult and heavy than Yin Congnan imagined, but he is very heartwarming, and Ye Kai is willing to tell him all this.Maybe Yin Congnan can't help Ye Kai break the knot in his heart, but he is willing to be by his side and be a good listener.Ye Kai rarely confides in his heart, maybe it's not because he doesn't want to say it, but because he doesn't know who to talk to.If he becomes someone Ye Kai is willing to confide in, he will feel happy, even honored.

"Should I not run today?" Ye Kai suddenly raised his head and asked Yin Congnan, his eyes were full of uncertainty.

Yin Congnan thought for a while and said, "The Ye Kai I know is not someone who will regret it."

Ye Kai shook his head, "I don't regret it."

"But you are absent from work for one day, and this month's bonus is gone."

"When it's gone, it's gone."

"Since you don't care so much, why should you run?"

Ye Kai stood up from the chair, looked at Yin Congnan, held back for a long time and said, "I'm afraid you will be disappointed in me. Since I started working, you are the best person to me except Senior Engineer."

In a word, Ye Kai was ashamed to say it himself.

Yin Congnan looked at his flickering eyes, but he was very frank, "Today, whether you came to the stage generously to accept the honor, or you ran away under the watchful eyes of everyone like you are now, I will not be disappointed. Because Ye Kai I know is like this. Just do what you want, always know what is right in your heart, and don’t care about other people’s opinions. You can bear all the consequences and take responsibility. I used to wonder whether you are individual heroism or Treating honor as dung, or simply wanting to fight against authority, I have thought a lot. But when I saw you running out of the venue today, I figured it out. No matter what reason you don't want this' Excellent employee', I can understand, because Ye Kai is this kind of virtue."

Ye Kai was stunned for a moment when he heard the last sentence. This was the first time he heard Yin Congnan utter such indecent words.He laughed, "You actually called me 'virtuous'!"

The two laughed loudly, making this small house full of happiness and warmth again.