God said I would meet you

Little cousin: "..."

His first reaction was: his brother is talking about a girlfriend.

Good guy, no wonder you are smirking at the phone, the feeling is chatting with the little one.But Zhang Xinli...the name doesn't sound like a girl, but modern society is becoming more and more diverse, and no one stipulates that girls must be called XX Fang or XX Si. Maybe people have such personalities.

The little cousin thought about Lin Jinyu's character, and felt that his guess was very reliable. His cousin really looked like the kind of girl who would like girls with more personality.

People have the nature of chasing gossip, and he couldn't wait to share this explosive news with others. However, when he looked up, his younger uncle was talking happily with his grandfather about ancient theories, and his elder brother was busy giving the news to others. My daughter braids braids... Everyone in the family has something to do, but he is the only one who is idle.

No wonder everyone urged him to hurry up and start a family... Now that even his little cousin has a girlfriend, he is the only one left who is single!

The little cousin was very heartbroken. Ten seconds later, Lin Jinyu came back. He put glutinous rice wrapped in red dates and lotus root flour balls on the coffee table, and asked everyone to eat.

The little cousin squinted at him and whistled a frivolous whistle.

Lin Jinyu: "?"

The little cousin pulled him over and jokingly said, "Tell me the truth, what's new?"

Lin Jinyu was a little baffled, he said, "What's the new situation, what are you talking about?"

"Still pretending to be stupid with me," said the little cousin, "They are all college students, how normal is this, and they are still hiding it."

"What am I hiding?" Lin Jinyu was confused, completely unable to understand: "What are you talking about?"

The little cousin lowered his voice and said: "What are you hiding from me? Honestly tell me when you are talking to someone? You don't have a lot of brains, and you are still in Deyun Society. Don't tell me that Yue Yunpeng sent you a message Say 'I miss you'."

Lin Jinyu's brain froze for a second, and at that moment, the hall brother braided her daughter's hair, leaned over and said, "What are you talking about?"

The little cousin said; "Oh, let me tell you, you don't know, he..."

It was too late and then too soon, Lin Jinyu swung his arm over, clamped his little cousin's neck with his elbow, and then moved towards her side with all his strength, using a "Brothers are good" movement that stuck him in the second half of the sentence Swallowed the words: "I didn't talk about anything else, just the postgraduate entrance examination, employment, and other messy things." He smiled brightly: "It's a cliché, bro, spend more time with grandpa and the others. I'll talk to my little cousin about something." Without waiting for him to reply, he pulled out his mobile phone and walked to the balcony with his little cousin in his arms.

His father looked up and saw that he had left the radiator on and wanted to go to the balcony to get some air. When he asked why he was there, Lin Jinyu said without turning his head, "Have a cigarette together."

As soon as the temperature dropped a lot after stepping out of the glass door, the little cousin broke free from under his hands and said, "Why are you like a middle school student hiding from the dean, there is no need."

"Well, brother," Lin Jinyu anxiously walked a few steps, and finally leaned on the balcony railing, and said, "I'm not in a relationship."

"You liar," the little cousin was sure in his heart and firmly believed, he said with a smile, "You have also learned how to hide your beauty in a golden house. I saw her send you a message, tsk tsk tsk, it's disgusting."

Lin Jinyu turned on her phone and glanced at it, feeling a little anxious, and said, "I really didn't..."

But he couldn't explain that message, it couldn't have been sent to him by his dear old father to show his father's love.The little cousin said: "Is it because we haven't talked for a long time, and we haven't stabilized yet, so we don't want to tell our family. What's the matter, let's see if Chengdu is completed."

Lin Jinyu said, "Don't tell other people."

"You don't have to tell," said the little cousin, "but at least let me know, let me take a look, and help you get acquainted."

I just want to show you, just in case you will be surprised and look down upon... Lin Jinyu said: "It's just... we haven't been together for long, wait, wait until I get along for a while, don't say anything, don't tell anyone!"

The little cousin felt that he had overreacted, why he was so resistant to talking about a girlfriend, but he still had to follow the wishes of the person involved, so he said: "I really don't understand you, you are not a high school student anymore, it's a good thing , your parents are glad to know."

Lin Jinyu thought of his father... Hehe, forget it.

He repeatedly told the little cousin not to speak out, but the little cousin agreed, and Lin Jinyu opened the door to go back. As soon as he stepped through the door, he bumped into his father. Lin Huainan said, "Would you like to come back? Didn't you say you smoked? What are you talking about?" .”

"It's nothing." Lin Jinyu walked past his father: "It's freezing, I'm going to turn on the heat."

The little cousin kept his promise and said nothing. When it was time for dinner in the evening, the family sat at the table and exchanged glasses. Lin Jinyu and a few cousins ​​accompanied his grandfather to drink and listen to the old man.

As usual, Grandpa asked them one by one about their recent situation, or the same things, the old people always like to say the same things, and he had said these things to Zhang Xinli before.

However, some new topics have been added this year, and that is the lifelong event of their unaccounted-for grandson.The whole family will participate in this kind of topic at the beginning. Fortunately, this time, there is an older little cousin who is on top of it. The main firepower is concentrated on him. Lin Jinyu is just a leader, but even so, he still hears one or two. big.

The little cousin is also bothered by this topic, but the elders care about you, and you can't do anything about being a junior, so you can only listen with a smile.

"It's not small," said the whole family, "it's time to think about it if you're interested."

Little cousin: "Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm)" to little cousin:

"When will you bring me back to meet you? If it doesn't work, let's do it first."

Little cousin: "Oh oh oh oh oh."

Lin Jinyu buried his head in eating his meal, when the phone buzzed in his pocket, it was Zhang Xinli telling him that he was here.

The little cousin was caught in the fierce artillery attack, and he caught a glimpse of Lin Jinyu looking at his mobile phone, and his heart suddenly became sour. This little guy pretended to have someone, and left himself as the topic here... He can guarantee that as long as the whole family knows Lin Jinyu If there is a partner, the topic at the dinner table will definitely make a 180-degree turn immediately. This year, no one will talk about him as a lonely old man.

But I promised him not to say anything just now, and now I can't go back on my word... Although he still didn't understand what there was to hide.

"I said..." Although he can't say it outside, it doesn't prevent him from insinuating sideways and blurring the point. The little cousin said, "Why do you just ask me, brother Xiaoyu?"

Mother Lin said: "He's still studying, there's no rush, we'll read it after work."

No matter what they said, Lin Jinyu went in his left ear and out his right ear. His mind had already flown to the station, and he even started 3D modeling in his mind, constructing the road Zhang Xinli was going to take one by one, and calculating the total distance. Divide that by the traffic speed to get the countdown time until the two meet.

The little cousin said: "Oh~ you really are not in a hurry, right Xiaoyu?"

Lin Jinyu said, "Huh? Uh, I'm not in a hurry, not at all."

"Oh, but it's almost too soon." The little cousin couldn't understand Lin Jinyu's anxiety when facing this topic. In his heart, Lin Jinyu didn't want to say it, most of it was out of a shy psychology of being in love not long ago, and he was a bit "half push and half" , "If you want to refuse, you will welcome", so he still holds the pipa half-hidden, giving people a strong sense of hint: "Graduate tomorrow, just get it back now, oh, maybe you don't have to wait until graduation , ready-made... right?"

Lin Jinyu was startled by seeing her little cousin's smiling face, and said bravely: "...who knows, I'm really not in a hurry for this kind of thing, but brother, hurry up."

He brought the topic back to his little cousin, put the leftover bones into a bowl by himself, and said, "Well, I've finished eating, I have something to go out for."

Lin Huainan said: "Sit down for me and talk to grandpa for a while, everyone is here, why are you so rude."

Lin Jinyu was in a hurry, he wished he could move instantly.Mother Lin said: "The whole family is here, where are you going?"

"Let's go to the street and have a look," Lin Jinyu said, "It's hard for me to go back to Shanghai, I don't want to watch the Spring Festival Gala, I want to go out to set off fireworks."

At that time, fireworks had not been completely banned in the urban area of ​​Shanghai, and there would be beautiful light shows on the Bund during the countdown to the New Year.

The eldest brother's daughter is three years old this year. When she heard "Watch Fireworks", she immediately clapped her hands and said, "I want to watch fireworks!"

The New Year's Eve dinner was eaten, and the little great-granddaughter clamored to watch the fireworks, and the grandfather said: "Just watch it, let them all go, they are all only children, cousins ​​are equal to brothers, and I don't see them a few times throughout the year. It would be nice to have a chance to play together.”

The hall brother is not interested in fireworks at all, he just wants to soak wolfberries in the thermos to keep healthy, he said with a bitter face: "Please forgive Dad, it's so cold, can you not go outside to blow the cold wind?"

The child refused, and the little cousin said, "It's okay, I'll take her there."

Lin Jinyu didn't like to take care of children, so he couldn't care less about it now. He pulled his little cousin, said "bye" and went to the door to put on his shoes. The little cousin led the child and followed Lin Jinyu.

It was getting late, Lin Huainan drove the car over, took them to the Bund, and told them to come back early.

Lin Jinyu sent a message to Zhang Xinli, telling him that she was on the Bund, and walked forward as soon as she got off the bus.The little cousin said from behind: "Go slowly! What are you doing in such a hurry!"

Can Lin Jinyu not be in a hurry, he can't wait to take off, the current limit has already started, Zhongshan East is full of cars, and it is almost impossible to walk, only a few meters away is the traffic police and armed police to maintain order, and the 6 and 7 with the big ocean clock The night scene lights outside the three iconic buildings, No. 9 and No. [-], are all lit up. In the night, the row of buildings seems to be plated with gold.

The little cousin asked him: "You are walking all the way, where are you going?" He said: "Watch the lights later?"

Lin Jinyu said, "Well...Little cousin, let me tell you something, um...my classmate is nearby, I have to go find him, will I join you after watching the lights?"

"Student?" The little cousin felt strange: "This is Chinese New Year, why does a classmate come to you instead of staying with parents during Chinese New Year?"

"..." Lin Jinyu stroked her hair: "Well... just... classmate, soon after returning home, his parents are busy, so I'll play with him."

There is no way, if he wants to move freely, he must inform, otherwise the little cousin will definitely look for people all over the world, and maybe he will call home.

The little cousin looked at him for a long time, recalling that he was always looking at his mobile phone before, and suddenly smiled: "Please tell me the truth, is that mysterious 'she' here?"

Lin Jinyu: "No..."

"To be honest, if you talk nonsense again, I'll call home and report," said the little cousin, "There's nothing to hide. Although I'm a few years behind you, there shouldn't be a generation gap, right? Say it."

My cousin insisted on asking, and as time passed, Lin Jinyu thought about it, and could only say: "Okay, yes, you can do it for your convenience, and let me go." He said: "Don't tell my parents !"

"Little bastard, I really guessed it right," said the little cousin, "Yes, you are so charming, and people will come to you from thousands of miles to find you during the Chinese New Year, unlike Uncle and his family, who still go back to their mother-in-law's house in order to get back to their mother's house for the New Year. During Chinese New Year, there will be a big fight every year..."

"Hey, what a big deal..." Lin Jinyu said, "Well, it's settled like that, then I'll go first."

As soon as he turned around and turned 45 degrees, he was dragged back by his little cousin: "Come back! Where are you going? You have to tell me clearly, and where is your girlfriend? I have to see See you!"

"What are you doing seeing him?" Lin Jinyu thought to himself: Absolutely not.

"You are my cousin, and you came out together, so I have to take responsibility," said the little cousin, "It's not that I object to you going to accompany your girlfriend, but you must report it to the police, otherwise something unexpected will happen to me later." How do you explain it?"

"There can be no accidents, no accidents," Lin Jinyu said, "In broad daylight, the world is bright..."

"The reason why an accident is called an accident is because you never thought it would happen." The little cousin said, "Hurry up, take me to meet, make a face-to-face meeting and leave a phone call, otherwise you don't want to slip away."

"..." Lin Jinyu had a big head, at this moment his phone rang, and Zhang Xinli asked, "Where are you?"

"I'm here..." Lin Jinyu looked around, moved a little away from his cousin, and replied, "The one in front of the monument... But don't come here, I have something to do... Where are you? I Let's find you."

Zhang Xinli said an intersection, Lin Jinyu looked at his cousin, who looked at him with great interest, and had no intention of giving in: "Here you are? Hurry up when you arrive, it's far away, it's so cold, you can't let him stand in the wind .” Saying this, he was about to leave.

Lin Jinyu was in a dilemma and restless. His cousin had already walked several meters towards the street, and there were people all around him.

There wasn't much time for him to think, Lin Jinyu suddenly raised his head and shouted, "Wait!"

The cousin turned to look at him, Lin Jinyu signaled him to come back first, and followed her to the railing by the river for viewing.

The little niece was attracted by the red and green lights on the opposite bank, and she leaned over to look at it. Lin Jinyu wanted to speak but dared not, and kept wanting to speak but stopped talking, which made him pluck his hair in annoyance.

"What's the matter?" The little cousin now has a question mark on his forehead: "Tell me, why are you so hesitant."

Zhang Xinli was still waiting for him. He had just arrived in Shanghai, and he didn't know if he had eaten yet, so he would blow the wind for a second longer... Lin Jinyu scratched her head until she was going bald, and finally made up her mind, took out two cigarettes, Order it for yourself and your little cousin.

Anyway, there is always something to face, and it would be good to have a drill in advance.

The little cousin couldn't figure out what he was going to do, and looked a little puzzled, Lin Jinyu said slowly: "Actually..." He took a deep breath: "I am indeed in a relationship, but I don't have a girlfriend."

"What?" The little cousin didn't understand at first: "What do you mean..."

"I said I don't have a girlfriend," Lin Jinyu looked at him and said, "...he is a boy, my boyfriend."

……

The Huangpu River is full of waves, and from time to time there are cruise ships with lights on the river, and the white air exhaled by people is like a mist.

For maybe half a minute, no one spoke between them.

After a long time...a long time in Lin Jinyu's perception, the little cousin said: "Cousin, you mean...you are in a relationship with a boy?" He asked: "You mean...you are gay? Are you kidding me?"

Probably everyone thought it was a joke the first time they heard it, Lin Jinyu said: "It's not a joke, it's true."

"..." The little cousin didn't know what to say, he opened his mouth and closed it again.

Lin Jinyu knew to give him some time to digest, so he didn't speak for a while, and then he said after a while: "What do you think about... this kind of thing."

This is the first time he has come out of the closet. Lin Jinyu is very disturbed. He also wants to hear other people's opinions. When his family and friends really know that he is dating a boy, what will they do? idea?

"Opinion?" The little cousin seemed to be in a daze and didn't fully recover: "What is your opinion... I don't know much about this aspect. You know that I graduated from engineering. I have heard of it, but I haven't been in touch with it. In this regard..." He said again: "Brother, are you really kidding me?"

"Is it hard to accept?" Lin Jinyu slowed down a bit now, but he was not as nervous as when he was about to say something at the beginning. He took a puff of cigarettes, not daring to look at his cousin, turned around to look at Jiang Mian, and said : "It's okay, but... that's the truth, I'm done."

"You..." the little cousin asked, "Does uncle know?"

"I don't know," Lin Jinyu said, "That's why I told you not to say it."

The little cousin remembered the few words he said at the dinner table to divert the firepower. If the time machine really existed, he would definitely sit back and sew his mouth shut.

"Don't tell me, I'm sure I won't tell you." At this time, the panicked person turned into a little cousin: "Brother, I really didn't expect you to be..."

Lin Jinyu said, "What a coincidence, I didn't expect that either."

The brothers were relatively silent.

"No, no, no, no," after a long time, the little cousin thought about it, and suddenly said: "You can't do this, since you have made this thing clear, you have to plan carefully, what to do now, what to do in the future manage."

"I will," Lin Jinyu said, "give me some time."

"You didn't," the little cousin was surprisingly serious at the moment: "Although I... just... I don't know much about this... It's not that I don't understand it at all. I have heard some of it through hearsay, but you..." He said: "You are too careless. You must not let grandpa know about this matter, but you don't seem to care at all. Even if I am so sloppy, you can see one, two, three. Think about it... As for the elder brother and the younger uncle Auntie, you can figure it out yourself."

Lin Jinyu looked down, and he recalled all kinds of things after he came back, his mother's inquiries, unprotected mobile phone notifications, mobile phone passwords that were too easy to guess... The little cousin was right, he was too careless.

This is a serious and important event, far bigger than he thought. Thinking of the reason why his father sent Zhang Xinli away three years ago... Lin Jinyu finally regained his composure from the state of being in a relationship. He said: " ……you're right."

The little cousin couldn't say anything else, but repeatedly confirmed to Lin Jinyu whether he was really serious, and told him to think twice before acting, and the words went round and round.

"Don't ask me again, I've asked myself these questions more times than all of you have asked me combined." Lin Jinyu said, "Thank you, cousin, I know it's hard for most people to accept , but I just... that's it."

"Actually, it's not that bad..." The little cousin wanted to comfort him, but he couldn't say it out loud: "I don't discriminate against this thing... Well, although the society is more open now, most people's ideas are still that I am Don't discriminate and respect this thing, but only for others, and they don't care what they do, but if it's your own child, then..."

Lin Jinyu actually heard this kind of view, and he interrupted his little cousin, saying: "Okay, I know you want to comfort me, but there is no need..." I respect you, but if it is my son, I'll break his leg', well said, wake up, that's not respect, it's discrimination...and it's useless, because unfortunately most people have sons or daughters."

The little cousin couldn't refute, and finally had to say: "Anyway...you think about it again, I'm not your parents after all, so..." He said: "I can only say, no matter what, you are my cousin. younger brother."

Lin Jinyu was a little moved by the last sentence, he said, "Do you want to meet him?"

"What?" the little cousin said, "No, no, no, I haven't had much contact...and I still have to take my little girl, so it's not good for her to see, she already knows how to talk, and it's easy to slip up when I go back."

Too……

Lin Jinyu glanced at the time, almost twenty or ten minutes had passed, and he said, "Then... shall I go first?"

"Okay..." the little cousin said: "Remember to go back together, don't be too late, you call me."

"Okay," Lin Jinyu said, "Brother, thank you."

"Thank you, my cousin," said the little cousin, "Go."

Lin Jinyu went down the steps, looked back as she walked, and finally waved goodbye to him when she reached the monument. She put on her sweater and hat, tightened her neckline, and blended into the crowd.

It was really cold on New Year's Eve. Most people walked towards the river, wanting to countdown and watch the lights together. Lin Jinyu walked hard against the flow of strange people. He bumped a lot of shoulders and almost lost his shoes. , but still go against the flow of people.

When he was approaching the street, he started calling Zhang Xinli. When he was talking to his little cousin, Zhang Xinli called him, but he was not free to answer.

The beeping was not too long, and after connecting, Lin Jinyu said, "Hey, where are you? Well, I'm sorry, I just had something to do, so I didn't answer the phone because I got stuck." He was afraid that Zhang Xinli would be angry: "I'm now I'm going to find you, just stand where you are..."

There was no word on the phone, Lin Jinyu turned up the voice to the maximum, and could only vaguely hear Zhang Xinli's slow and even breathing: "Hello?" He said, "Are you... are you angry? thing……"

He suddenly stopped talking.

Zhongshan East Road is extremely wide, and the bright street lights and night scene neon lights make this place feel like daytime even at night.Not far away stood an armed policeman on duty, with his back straight and his green military uniform without a single wrinkle. The flow of traffic and people was maintained in an orderly manner by them.

Lin Jinyu stood still at the intersection of traffic lights, looking silently at the pedestrians and the person diagonally across the road through the noisy vehicles.

The sound of breathing on the phone stopped, Zhang Xinli's lips moved, the surroundings were so noisy and noisy, but Lin Jinyu could only hear his voice: "...I have found you a long time ago, is that your brother?" Zhang Xinli was in the cold wind Looking at him from afar, he said, "Happy New Year's Eve, Xiaoyu."