blowing clouds

All the emotions before Chen Xiyang came, are now replaced by boredom.

The room was filled with a strong smell of traditional Chinese medicine. Chen Xiyang suspected that the black spots on the wall were the traces of the smoke from boiling the medicine. When he walked in slowly, he saw a thin old man who looked like a skeleton struggling to sit up from the bed. His eyes trembled, his lips trembled and he took his father's hand.

Uncle Lin raised his head and looked at Chen Xiyang, his cloudy eyes finally became brighter: "This is your son...you are a great boy, he is taller than my son!"

Chen Li turned his head to signal, and Chen Xiyang approached with a blank expression, and sat down on the jet-black armchair beside the bed: "Hello, Uncle."

"Okay..." Uncle Lin coughed and groped on the bed, and finally handed a crumpled cigarette case to Chen Li, "Take a cigarette."

Chen Li chuckled lightly: "No, I quit these years."

Uncle Lin was stunned for a moment, and then smiled wryly: "It's okay to quit, I have really suffered for you these years, I went to your house a few times when I was still healthy, and wanted to follow you to see you, but my brother and sister refused to agree, hey... ...Just come out, I'm afraid I won't be able to see you again."

"Don't say such unlucky things." Hearing Lao Lin's breathing sound a bit difficult, Chen Li helped him half lean on the pillow, and helped him tuck the quilt, "What's wrong with your body, why is it worse than mine? "

Lao Lin gasped for breath with a wry smile: "What's going on, your life is bad, you were also implicated by me... Based on the results of the diagnosis two years ago, it is said that there are only a few years to live."

"You can't give up," Chen Li became serious, "I've read a lot of news and newspapers these years. Our country's medical technology is developing, and it's no worse than Laomei. Go to a big hospital and take a good look. If you are short of money, our former group of old buddies can help you."

"Seeing a doctor is a crime..." Lao Lin smiled weakly, "My room is too dilapidated, and I don't have anything to entertain you, Aji, come and get the money, and go buy some fried noodles and wine."

"Hey, don't eat, don't eat! I can still come to your house to cause trouble, let's have a good chat..." Chen Li hurriedly got up and gave way, glanced at Lin Ji who walked in and then looked at his son, "You Go out and play with Aji, you young people have something to talk about, I will talk to you, Uncle Lin."

After inhaling the medicine for a long time in the house, his mouth was bitter. Of course, Chen Xiyang was happy to leave this gloomy environment, but with a dull personality, he would not be able to play well with a peer he just met. Beside the brick and soil, he was in a daze looking at a small crop of leeks. Not long after, there was the sound of rubbing clothes behind him.

The wilting leeks are really nothing to admire. After looking at them for a long time, Chen Xiyang finally turned his head lazily, and found that Lin Ji had carried the laundry tub to the shade in the yard at some point, and his movements of rubbing clothes were extremely skillful. His hands were strained and soaked, and they looked brighter red than a washboard.

Looking at the other party's mechanical movements, Chen Xiyang's thoughts also began to empty.I heard that the other party dropped out of school to take care of his father. Doesn't it mean that he doesn't need to do his homework anymore... No, I'm in the summer vacation after the college entrance examination, and I don't have the burden of homework either... The weather is really hot, and at least my hands are cool when washing clothes... Father? It's time to get up and leave, it's too boring here, it's better to read a book at home...

The sound of Lin Ji standing up and pouring water brought Chen Xiyang back to his thoughts. Seeing the dark color spreading on the limestone floor, and quickly returning to its original appearance under the scorching sun, Chen Xiyang opened his mouth wide and yawned.

It's a pity that yawning wasn't contagious in this silence, and Lin Ji's quick movements didn't seem sleepy at all. After setting up his clothes on the clothesline made of waste wires, he quickly took out the deformed torch from behind the kitchen door. She picked up a few briquettes from the pile of briquettes in the corner and put them into the coal stove, and shoveled the gray-brown waste into the dustpan along the way.

Working with thin arms and thin legs is really awkward, Chen Xiyang looked at the other party, and couldn't imagine what he would look like if he was clumsy.

Just when Lin Ji was hesitating to cook a meal for several people, Chen Li came out full of excuses.

"Okay, I should go back. I'll come and see you when I have time. Don't get out of bed like this. Take a good rest! Let's go."

After leaving the door, Chen Li saw Lin Ji head-on, couldn't help but sighed, and patted him on the shoulder with admiration: "Good boy, take good care of your father, let's go."

Lin Ji didn't make much concessions, nodded and walked into the kitchen again.Chen Xiyang followed his father's footsteps and left. After walking out of the gate, he turned his head and took a look. Through the bamboo curtain at the kitchen door, he and Lin Ji looked at each other again.

Even through the bamboo curtain, the other party's black eyes are still beautiful, like a cat.

On the way home, Chen Li's interest was obviously not as high as when he came here, his steps were slow, even his back that was always stretched was a little soft, and his expression was straightforward to tell about his depression.

"Dad," Chen Xiyang walked up, "Is Uncle Lin's illness very serious?"

After looking at his son with complicated eyes, Chen Li sighed melancholy: "His illness, to put it bluntly, does not depend on the level of the doctor, but depends on whether God is willing to let him live... Hey, sometimes good people are more unlucky than bad people."

Chen Xiyang pursed his lips and said nothing.

Chen Li, on the other hand, seemed to be talking, and sighed again and again: "In my impression, Lao Lin is a very energetic person. When I saw him for the first time today, I thought I had made a mistake. Really... your mother is really worrying about others, I Seeing Lao Lin will only cherish our current family more, how can we be as messy as before."

After silently walking for several steps, Chen Xiyang said slowly, "Dad, that's called worrying."

"You boy," Chen Li shook his head and smiled, "Just know what I mean."

His father's smile didn't reach the corner of Chen Xiyang's mouth. He raised his head expressionlessly, squinted his eyes to look at the still vicious fireball in the sky, and remembered the old sentence in the textbook, "You can see the sun clearly with your eyes open". look straight at?Does this really hurt your eyes?

When the father and son arrived near their home, they were rushing to get off work. Pedestrians with bags, young people on bicycles, including a small number of yellow vans that solicited business while walking, gathered together. Different people seemed to have the same destination. walking in the same direction.Shops and restaurants on the side of the road can't wait to set up pale yellow plastic chairs to attract business, making the already narrow streets even more stretched.In fact, those chairs were originally white, but after a long time, everything will leave traces of erosion.

Chen Xiyang looked at the large chairs and thought to himself, it would not be easy if time wanted to completely erase something, but his father looked around and expressed emotion. He was philosophical: "There are so many cars..."

When entering the house, the owner of the bungalow was holding a cattail leaf fan at the door to enjoy the shade. Chen Li greeted him enthusiastically, but he just nodded indifferently, but Chen Xiyang ignored him directly, which was considered a victory.

Lu Yan has already prepared dinner, which consists of porridge, pickled vegetables, and half a heated fish.After seeing the father and son came back, she began to pack her things and planned to go out: "Today is the eighth day of the lunar calendar, there will be a meeting, and I will go out to the stall with Sister Liu."

As mentioned earlier, in addition to working at the grain and oil station, Lu Yan would also do some small business in her spare time, and of course she would not miss such a good day like a rally.

Chen Li hummed, and he got up immediately after sitting down: "Let my son eat the fish, and the rest will not be afraid of cold, I will accompany you to the stall."

"You?" Lu Yan paused, staring at her husband for a long time, a little relieved and unwilling, "It's good for you to have this kind of heart, but you are a big man, you'd better find a stable job and go to work. It is not a long-term thing to eat ashes and set up stalls on the street."

Chen Li smiled: "That's wrong, it's a business after all, as long as you do it well, become bigger and stronger, and rent a shop, you can be a proprietress!"

"When you think about it, you can come with me. Don't feel tired." Lu Yanduo pulled a towel and threw it to him, "Wipe your sweat with it."

For a boy of Chen Xiyang's age, eating alone will not feel any loneliness, and it is even a bit comfortable. After a simple meal, he opens the window and sits directly on the table, enjoying the cool, while taking advantage of the fact that the mountain has not yet set. Sunshine read Mr. Jin Yong's novels.

The effect of enjoying the cool air was negligible, Chen Xiyang's vest was soaked quickly, but he was immersed in the sea of ​​words, until the reddish-brown sunset was gradually replaced by drowsiness, he reluctantly put down the books that were about to fall apart, rubbed sore eyes.

Chen Xiyang almost spent the rest of the holiday in this way. Every day he spent his spare time reading books, he hardly went out, let alone visited the Lin family, but he always had those dark eyes that he could never forget, especially his father. When he came back to Lin's house again and again, when his face became more and more serious, he couldn't help thinking, would those eyes also show sadness?

On the first day of school, Chen Xiyang finally put on a slightly more formal outfit, but it was nothing more than a pair of clean clothes that were whitishly washed.Carrying big bags and small bags, he stepped into the brand new campus accompanied by his father.

Although it is only a local junior college, in Chen Li's eyes, this group of heads is full of cultured people. Like his son, they are the hope of the motherland. The spacious campus and dense tree shade are far beyond his imagination. The original university campus so beautiful

Compared with the smiles on everyone else's faces, Chen Xiyang was a little too calm, but Chen Li, who was careless and reunited with his son not long ago, didn't notice anything unusual. He just looked around like grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden. He nodded again and again.

Some parents of students with affluent families travel lightly, and they can spend money to buy conveniences near the campus, but more people are like Chen Xiyang, carrying several bags and wishing to move their homes. People can't move an inch.

No one maintained discipline, and Chen Li wandered around with the crowd, intending to help his son with something but had no way of doing it. Fortunately, although Chen Xiyang was taciturn, it would not be difficult to handle the admission matters. Chen Li silently followed behind him, although it was unavoidable. It was crowded everywhere, but he looked at his son with more and more satisfaction. Anyone who saw this scene would think that he was a good father.

After finally arranging everything and entering the dormitory, Chen Li also broke out in sweat. While wiping the sweat off the back of his hand, he looked at the shady dormitory: "It's not bad to live in summer, but it's cold in spring and winter, and the humidity is high. Remember to cover up with more quilts, if it’s really not possible, squeeze between classmates.”

Chen Xiyang looked at the bed. Although the steel frame was inevitably rusted, it still looked very solid. After hearing his father's joking suggestion, he silently shook his head.

They entered the dormitory relatively early, and there was only one black and short roommate who sat alone on the bed in the corner and flipped through a book. Seeing that the two children ignored each other, Chen Li smiled wryly, and grabbed the coarse sheet from Chen Xiyang's hand: "It's my job to make the bed." Let me show you what I'm good at!"

When he reacted, Chen Xiyang took on his father's serious expression, as if he was doing some scientific research. At this moment, Chen Xiyang's state of mind was indescribable. After going to school for so many years, he finally had someone to help him make his bed.

After tidying up the miscellaneous things, there were not many roommates in the dormitory. Facing his son who had been silent all the time, Chen Li got up and looked at the others: "Why don't I go back first? I have to prepare things for the evening stall."

Chen Xiyang nodded silently, then added after a pause: "Well, Dad, let's go."

"Come back on the weekend," Chen Li smiled and walked away. After walking a few steps, he turned his head. "If the school is not strict, you can come back if you want to."

There was a lot of noise in the hallway, and you could even clearly feel the vibration of your footsteps. As soon as Chen Li left the dormitory door, he disappeared like a mud cow into the sea. Chen Xiyang looked at the rest of the dormmates, closed his eyes and lay on the bed, and used his thoughts to expel them. with enthusiasm.

In a daze, the heat of the dormitory and the noise in the corridor seemed to be far away from him, replaced by the alley in front of him, the familiar fat figure, the heavy panting, and the vague cry for help.

Chen Xiyang stood up suddenly. Due to his height, he almost hit the board of the upper bunk, and his hair was pressed down.

The one who just entered the door was startled by his expression, and slowly took off the headphones of the Walkman: "Brother, are you okay? Haha, don't be so excited if you have a premonition that a handsome guy will appear."

This room is full of stuffy gourds, this person is probably the most cheerful person in the whole dormitory, but Chen Xiyang doesn't care about this, the nightmare just now has been forgotten by him, and the thoughts in his mind at this moment are the other party's The eyes are so beautiful, just like Lin Ji.