Rising like the sun

"I broke up with her, it's... a complete breakup."

Lin Zhiye was lying on the back seat, looking at the dead tree tops that kept passing by outside the car window, and gave a faint "oh".

"I know you've been to her."

"What role can I play? Her parents don't want to see you."

"……I know."

Meng Sheng sent a photo of a large table of New Year's Eve dinner, and said: Guess which dish I made.

Lin Zhiye raised the corners of his mouth, too lazy to type, so he voiced and said, "Remember to hello Mengmeng."

Meng Sheng replied: "Follow the order."

"Meng Sheng?" Lin's father paused, a little embarrassed, "I will see your grandparents, and your uncle later, so don't mention your relationship with him."

"If they don't mention it, I won't say it."

"You can't even mention it, or say you're in love with a girl. You're the only boy in our family..."

"Well, it's about to end, what should I do." Lin Zhiye chuckled.

"As long as you're happy, I don't care."

As soon as I stepped into the old house of my grandparents in the town, I was greeted by a strong smell of oily smoke, and several very greasy meat dishes were already placed on the table.

Lin Zhiye began to miss that bland stomach-nourishing cookbook.

"The company has been busy until yesterday, there is no way, haha." Father explained.

"Sales director, isn't there a lot of year-end bonuses?" The eldest aunt, who was celebrating the New Year at her natal home, asked her father with bright eyes.

Of this big family, only his father is considered "promising", the only doctor in the town, married the daughter of his mentor, and successfully transformed from technology to sales director... I heard from my grandparents that when he brought his mother back, almost the whole The town is boiling, and it is said to be an inspirational story. The neighbors often use him to educate their children: Only by studying hard can you marry such a wife.

During the meal, Lin Zhiye seldom spoke, but the topic kept coming to him.

"The leaves are getting more and more handsome."

"All the best genes of our old Lin family have been gathered in Ye Zi."

"Follow his father, be smart."

"I will follow my mother." Lin Zhiye said calmly.

There was a moment of silence at the table, and then other topics were discussed lively.

After a while, the aunt said: "Yezi, please persuade your father, it's time to take a step forward."

"Where are you going?"

The aunt froze for a moment, "Just look forward."

Relatives were unaware of the tense relationship between Lin Zhiye and his father because he didn't move around often.

"Didn't you say to bring Xiaoyao back?" Grandma asked Father.

The aunt quickly added: "That girl is so nice, marry her back quickly, and she can have a second child."

Lin Zhiye frowned slightly, staring at his father.It seems that the woman came back with him?

"we broke up."

"Hey, how did you divide it? Isn't it always good?"

"...Her family disagrees." The father's voice trailed off, "I won't say anything."

"What does it mean to be good all the time?" Lin Zhiye put down his chopsticks, and asked preoccupiedly, when a second kick outside the window suddenly exploded in the air,

The aunt who had always been talkative suddenly fell silent.

Lin Zhiye slowly swept over everyone's faces, "It seems that you all know that the two of them have not broken up, only I was kept in the dark."

"Let's not talk about it," my father began to smooth things over. "We'll have dinner, and we'll be watching the Spring Festival Gala later."

"My mother, have you ever respected her?" Lin Zhiye's hands trembled slightly.

"The living still have to look forward." The aunt said in a relaxed tone.

Lin Zhiye stood up slowly, and the chair made a harsh sound on the tiles.

"You guys eat, I'll go out for a walk."

"Ye Zi, where are you going?" Father leaned forward, also wanting to get up.

"I'm going to my boyfriend's house." Lin Zhiye smiled slightly, put on his coat, "The kind of boyfriend who has slept with him before."

"Brother, what's that sister's WeChat?" Meng Zhuo asked Meng Xing seriously, holding up his phone and watch.

I mean Li Qing...Meng Xing ate melon seeds and hugged his younger brother on his lap, "You really have a crush on him?"

"I want to chase her." Meng Zhuo vowed.

"You are really promising, let's pick one in the kindergarten first."

"I just like big sister."

Father Meng and Aunt Man laughed together, "Stop wetting the bed first."

"I can tell you her contact information, but if she doesn't reply, you can't keep harassing her, understand? Her brother will beat you up."

Meng Zhuo nodded sensibly, "Hurry up, I want to celebrate the New Year with my eldest sister."

Meng Xing smiled and helped him add Li Qing's WeChat account, unexpectedly she quickly passed the friend application.

"Happy Chinese New Year, sister, do you remember me? I'm Meng Zhuo, and I'm 6 years old this year."

Li Qing actually replied to him very quickly, saying in a gentle and soft voice: "Hello, my name is Li Qing, and I am 18 years old."

Meng Zhuo hid in the bedroom with a blushing face, and said as he walked, "Sister, how should you write your name? I can't imagine it."

"Xiao Meng, who is your girlfriend? Do you have any photos?" Aunt Man asked with a smile.

"Ah, she's not very photogenic, I don't have a picture of her..."

"Study hard and strive to go to the same university as others."

Meng Sheng nodded to his father again and again, "I'm trying my best, but it's very difficult."

As soon as the voice fell, Lin Zhiye called.It's almost midnight, and it seems to be New Year's greetings.

"Yezi, Happy Chinese New Year, what are you doing?"

"...I'm downstairs at your house."

Meng Sheng straightened his back, "Huh? I'll go downstairs to find you." After speaking, he hurriedly put on his clothes.

"What's the matter?" Aunt Man asked.

"It's Lin Zhiye, and it's likely to be at odds with the family again, so don't ask me later!"

Meng Xing rushed downstairs, looked left and right, but did not see Lin Zhiye.Where did you go?Meng Sheng had no choice but to search on the right side first, and tripped over something while walking, it turned out to be two human legs!

"Ah!!" Meng Sheng yelled, and then found Lin Zhiye lying in the snowdrift.

Meng Sheng knelt down beside him, "Why are you lying here? I thought it was a corpse..."

"Lie down with me for a while."

Meng Sheng simply lay down beside him and held his hand without asking why.

"In the past, my dad and I were very close, because my mom would be a little emotional..." Lin Zhiye stared blankly at the peaceful night sky.Different from the excitement of the town, setting off fireworks and firecrackers has long been banned here.

"Yezi, don't you really want to play basketball too? Dad will play with you for a while, don't tell mom!" - Lin Zhiye likes to hear his father say that the most.

He held Meng Sheng's hand tightly, "I used to think he was the most understanding father in the world. But I still like to let my mother go to the parent-teacher meeting. I like the way my classmates are amazed when they see her."

"I just look at the pictures and I'm in awe."

"...Why did he say that he is single," Lin Zhiye muttered to himself, "Why?"

"Why don't you ask him?"

"Why should I listen to those excuses?"

"Because you want to know."

After a moment of silence between each other, Meng Sheng had a bold idea, turned over and pressed on Lin Zhiye, held his head and kissed him.Surrounded by ice and snow, the two kissed passionately in the snowdrift.If it weren't for the fear of catching a cold and passers-by, Meng Sheng would really like to work hard here.

After kissing again and again, Meng Sheng and Lin Zhiye lay in the snow and chatted, no one noticed a short and thin man appeared in front of the building.He circled around like a walking dead for a while, pulled his neck and shouted: "Xiaoman, give me another chance, Xiaoman! I've changed, I've changed my mind, really! I, I'm clean now!"

Meng Sheng's complexion changed drastically, and he got up from the snow, "Grass, you still dare to come!"

The man was stunned when he saw Meng Sheng emerging from the snowdrift.

Lin Zhiye also got up and stood behind Meng Xing, frowning at Aunt Man's ex-husband.He is not only thin, but also dry. He should be in his early 30s, but he looks like a withered tree trunk, and his eyes are like two pools of turbid smelly water, lifeless.His facial features are very regular, and he has probably been handsome before.

The man backed away timidly, but soon approached Meng Sheng brazenly, "Brother, do you have any money on you? I haven't eaten for several days..."

"No, get out!" Meng Sheng squinted at him in extreme disgust, "Who is your big brother!"

The man's face was wrinkled and huddled together, and he smiled obsequiously: "For those who celebrate the new year, give me some. My wife is your stepmother, and I'm also your half father..."

"If you don't shut up again, I'll beat you!" Meng Sheng stepped forward a few steps, as if wanting to grab the man's collar, and then withdrew in disgust, "Beating you dirty my hands."

The man suddenly bypassed Meng Sheng and went straight to Lin Zhiye, with a rotten breath, "Handsome guy, do you have any money on you? Lend me some, and you must pay it back!"

Lin Zhiye backed away in surprise, Meng Sheng kicked on the side of the man, "Grass, stay away from him!"

The man covered his waist, knelt on the ground as if begging, and kowtowed to them in turn, "Give me some, it's Chinese New Year, give me some, I'm going to starve to death..."

Lin Zhiye couldn't bear it, but found that Meng Sheng's expression was always in a state of extreme disgust, as if he would spit it out in a second. He had never seen this expression before.How could this withered man be so disgusted by the gentle and kind Meng Sheng?

The man knelt on the ground and howled to the sky, "Xiaoman, Xiaoman, I was wrong, I changed it, really!"

"I'll count to three, and if you don't roll, I'll break your leg!" Meng Xing was disgusted and angry, looking for someone everywhere, and finally found half a brick.

The man was discouraged, got up and staggered away, his back like a malnourished grasshopper.

Meng Sheng breathed a sigh of relief, looked at Lin Zhiye, and returned his gentle smile, "Is it disgusting to you? Humans are no different from animals when they reach this point."

"Is he..." Lin Zhiye asked hesitantly.

"A junkie," Meng Sheng spat out three words in disgust, "He used to be a painter, so he has some talent, otherwise Aunt Man wouldn't have taken a liking to him."

Lin Zhiye frowned and nodded, "That's it."

"For the sake of fun, you can give away your wife and children, not to mention those sneaky things... I feel sick when I mention him, let's go, go upstairs, how did you come here?"

"Take a taxi and give the driver a thousand."

"So dark?"

"Of course, the ones that celebrate the Chinese New Year are more expensive."

Going upstairs, Aunt Man said enthusiastically, "Are you hungry? I'll cook dumplings for you."

"Thank you, Aunt Man." Lin Zhiye didn't refuse, he was really hungry and cold.

Meng Sheng said from the side: "Cook more, Aunt Man, I'm hungry too."