Don't love, don't spend money

The flight from Los Angeles, USA to Beijing, China takes 13 hours.

The plane rose rapidly and broke through the clouds, and there was a huge roar in my ears.Lin Xiao gritted his teeth, feeling the 16-hour time difference shortened a little amidst the continuous roar.

The game company where he practiced in the United States hoped that he could stay after graduation, but Lin Xiao resolutely rejected the high-paying job and only wanted to return to China.

Everything slowed down on the plane. Lin Xiao explained two math problems to the high school girl next to her, discussed English grammar, and then went out to queue for a toilet. When she came back, she put away the U-shaped pillow and put on the blindfold. After sleeping for a while, the stewardess came over with a drink cart.

"The gentleman in front, please adjust the seat back."

"Ma'am, please use your orange juice slowly."

"May I ask what you would like to drink, sir?"

This standard cadence is empty!

Lin Xiao pulled down the blindfold abruptly, looked at the time, and found it hard to believe that only 20 minutes had passed.

He didn't download the offline video in advance and didn't take the book with him. Coincidentally, the player in front of him was also broken.If it were another man, he could still glance at the stewardess and make up various pictures in his brain as an adjustment, and make a request from time to time while chatting to satisfy his hunger and thirst.

But Lin Xiao can't.

He is not interested in women.

The Sudoku in the newspaper is also at the kindergarten level, which is boring.

Lin Xiao asked for a cup of coffee, and now he, who had always sneered at instant coffee, could only settle for the second and second, because he ordered another cup after drinking one cup.

After a period of inexplicable irritability, Lin Xiao tried to open the magazine on the plane again, trying to find something interesting from a lot of boring advertisements.

As soon as he opened the magazine, his gaze froze, and the restlessness he felt just now disappeared instantly.

It is an exclusive interview with a character. The attached picture shows a reporter holding a microphone and interviewing a philanthropist. The camera is facing the philanthropist and only captures the reporter's profile.

The little girl next to him tilted her head and said, "This big brother is so handsome."

"Well, quite handsome." Lin Xiao said, staring at the side face in a daze, he felt as if he had seen it somewhere before, and then glanced at the reporter's name—Cheng Xun, and he was sure he didn't know this person.

When getting off the plane, Lin Xiao slipped the magazine into his bag and stuffed 20 dollars into the front bag.

After landing, Lin Xiao opened WeChat, and a lot of news popped out. Except for a few messages sent by his roommate Ding Yinuo when he was in school in the United States, they were almost all unnutritious conversations in various groups and garbage pushes from various official accounts. One was sent by father Lin Fengwan.

- Urgent business trip, maybe three months. 138xxxxxxxx, surnamed Cheng, he will pick you up, the key is with him.

Lin Xiao curled his lips. As his father, work is always more important.

In fact, it is the same to take a taxi to go back by yourself, but because of Lin Feng's late work, their family moved to this city from another city a year ago, and he has been abroad for more than a year. I don't have the keys yet.

After picking up the luggage, Lin Xiao dialed this phone number. While waiting for the connection, he was adapting to the land again.

There was a high-spirited Northeast dialect coming from the front right. He looked over and saw a stylishly dressed savage chick next to a well-mannered boy, who kept flattering him in Cantonese-style Mandarin.

Behind the couple was a man in a long black trench coat.He held a cup of coffee in each hand, and then put the coffee in his right hand on top of the coffee in his left hand, making a two-story building, and then took out his mobile phone from his pocket.

Almost at the same time as he connected the phone, Lin Xiao could see his side face clearly, which perfectly coincided with the side face in the magazine on the plane.

How should I put it, the same windbreaker Lin Xiao saw someone wear it a few days ago, and it looked like pajamas, but it was changed to the person in front of him, that is Xu Wenqiang from Shanghai Bund.

fuck!

Lin Xiao just wanted to use these two words to express his mood at the moment.

His dear motherland, on the first day of his return, gave Haoda a welcome gift.

Lin Xiao pressed the phone and walked over, put away the excitement just now and said, "Hello, I am Lin Xiao, the son of Lin Fengwan."

The man nodded: "Cheng Xun, your father asked me to pick you up."

Just as he nodded, Cheng Xun's hand holding the two-layer coffee cup was a little unsteady, and the coffee cup on top shook.

But Cheng Xun quickly brought them back to balance, then raised his head and asked Lin Xiao, "Do you want coffee?"

Starbucks bought one, got one free, so I grabbed a cup, Cheng Xun just asked casually, if Lin Xiao didn't drink it, he wouldn't be too much if he drank both cups.

"Thank you." Lin Xiao said.He directly took the upper floor of the second-story building, and just brought it to his mouth, Cheng Xun immediately handed over another glass, "I just drank that one."

But it was too late, Lin Xiao's lips were already stained with coffee powder. Although he was not in a hurry to have an indirect kiss or something, if he took another cup, he couldn't be cheeky to take the kiss with his own saliva on it. Cup to go back.

"Flat White? It tastes good." Lin Xiao said and took a big sip.

"Can you taste it in one sip?" Cheng Xun was a little surprised.

"Yes," Lin Xiao smiled and took another big sip, shaking the coffee cup lightly, "My love."

Standing there, Cheng Xun drank another glass of Flatiron in one go, threw the empty glass into the trash can, and turned to Lin Xiao and said, "It's also my love."

"Do you also like coffee?" Lin Xiao asked.

"It's not drinking," Cheng Xun corrected him, "It's drinking, coffee lasts."

When Cheng Xun couldn't write a manuscript, he relied on coffee for inspiration.

Cheng Xun took the luggage cart and walked forward with the direction. As they walked side by side, Lin Xiao kept looking at this familiar face from the corner of his eye and fascinated him. At the same time, he was also curious about the relationship between this person and his father. Relationship, it should be the driver who came to pick him up, but this option is ruled out first.The only person who can safely hand over the keys to the house is a close friend or... a lover.

The lover is also ruled out. If so, how big is his father's heart? After all, it is the first time the son and stepmother meet, so they can't be so hasty and don't say hello at all.

The car is parked in the outdoor parking lot.The autumn sun is still bright and warm on people.They passed by a few people who were contributing to the city's smog, smoking cigarettes.One second Lin Xiao was still talking with his mouth open, and the next second a gust of wind blew out of nowhere, and the chaotic black smoke rushed to his face.

Lin Xiao was choked upright.He walked away quickly, and stopped in front of him where the air quality was slightly better, followed by a violent cough, as if he wanted to cough out his lungs.

Cheng Xun originally wanted to touch a cigarette, but when he saw this, he withdrew his hand. He stood there watching Lin Xiao cough for a while, but he didn't want to stop, so he stepped forward to pat him on the back, and asked, "Are you okay?" ?”

Lin Xiao finally calmed down slowly: "It's nothing, but the cough is quite serious."

Seeing that Cheng Xun was stunned, Lin Xiao hurriedly said, "Don't worry, it won't be contagious."

Cheng Xun also hurriedly said, "I'm not worried about this either."

He asked Lin Xiao to stand in the sun for a while, went to the trunk to find a few grapefruits, undressed the grapefruits in a haphazard manner, scattered the grapefruit peels to every corner of the car, and then sniffed and smelled them, although he could not completely Suppress it, but it's better than a car full of smoke. After doing this, I beckoned to Lin Xiao and said, "Get in the car."

Lin Xiao got in the car, thanked him politely, and was moved by his meticulous behavior towards the other party. At the same time, he was also thankful that the fragrance of grapefruit somewhat covered up the smell of cigarettes, otherwise he was afraid that he would be addicted to cigarettes.

Cheng Xun inserted the key and stepped on the accelerator when a call came in.Lin Xiao had no intention of eavesdropping, but the sound effect of the mobile phone is too good, and the voice on the other end of the phone is high-pitched, so the whole conversation can be heard clearly, word for word.

Before Cheng Xun could speak, he said in a strange voice: "I heard you asked me to redo it?"

"Yeah." Cheng Xun replied listlessly.

"Which picture?"

"All."

"Redo? You're not sending it to the factory today?"

"I'll give you a day and deliver it tomorrow."

"Then give me double money, and you let me do the picture after the fucking one, and you use me as a donkey?"

Lin Xiao chuckled a bit, this man seemed to be pulling him so hard that he even scolded himself.

Cheng Xun's voice suddenly rose several degrees: "Dream, you! The pictures drawn by kindergarten kids are better than your PS. Your imagination is like shit, and dogs won't eat it!"

After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone with a snap, and the two female junior high school students in the front left turned their heads abruptly. Lin Xiao looked at him suddenly, but Cheng Xun switched back to normal state in an instant, pinching his brows and tilting his head slightly, saying: "No Excuse me."

"No, sorry, I should say it," Lin Xiao is really a little embarrassed, and usually doesn't like to trouble others, no matter what kind of friendship Cheng Xun has with his father, this code will always cause trouble to people, " I'm sorry to trouble you today, if you're busy, I can do it myself..."

Cheng Xun waved his hand: "It's okay, I'll take you back first."

"Didn't you rest well?" The moment Cheng Xun put down the handbrake, Lin Xiao raised his hand and pressed it, put the handbrake back on Cheng Xun's hand, and said softly, "Let me drive, use the navigation."

Cheng Xun stared at him.

Lin Xiao unbuttoned his seat belt, took out his driver's license from his bag, shook it in front of Cheng Xun's eyes, then straightened his seat and said, "Don't worry, you have good driving skills, come here for a while, handsome guy, don't pull any more." His face is full, and his eyebrows are almost twisted into Chinese knots."

Lin Xiao's villa is in the suburbs towards the airport. It's not very far away, but it's a bit congested when you get off the highway, and you drove for more than an hour.

He thought that they would have some sporadic pleasantries along the way, but Cheng Xun had kept his head down since he answered the phone, suppressing many of the questions he wanted to ask.

For example, is it a friend of his father's relationship?Or, what to do?Are you having trouble at work?

Or... are you single?

Lin Xiao turned his head to look at the road and found that Cheng Xun had fallen asleep. Taking advantage of the red light, he gently put down the sunshade, turned up the temperature of the air conditioner, put on headphones to listen to the navigation, and stepped on the brake lightly. , try to let him sleep more peacefully.

After arriving at the place, Lin Xiao didn't wake him up, but sat quietly in the car and looked at the handsome face beside him for a while.Half of Cheng Xun's face was buried in his collar, and the long black eyelashes were dotted with sunlight, moving slightly every once in a while, like the wings of a dragonfly.

That thought flashed in my mind again, as if I had seen it somewhere.

Cheng Xun turned over on the chair, and seemed to be in an uncomfortable position. When he woke up, he looked sideways at Lin Xiao and asked, "Why didn't you wake me up?"

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "Seeing that you slept soundly, do you want to go to my house and continue sleeping?"

"No need," Cheng Xun subconsciously took out a cigarette from the box, saw Lin Xiao frowning and stuffed it back, "You go in first, I'll smoke a cigarette."

Lin Xiao got out of the car and took his luggage and found that Cheng Xun had also come down. He walked over and said "thank you".

Cheng Xun was leaning on the car door, playing with a lighter in his hand, and was putting a cigarette in his mouth and holding it.I thought to myself why this child still hasn't left, he can't wait for a cigarette to relieve his emotions, and he also needs a few minutes of quietness.

"That...you haven't given me the key yet." Lin Xiao said.

The author has something to say:

Lin Xiao: I seem to have seen you somewhere.

Cheng Xun: Don't lie to yourself, that's love.