Rising like the sun

Originally, everything was fine today.

Meng Sheng got up from the floor and made milk oatmeal and egg pancakes.Then he went back to the bedroom and flicked Li Yu's forehead hard, then went around to the other side, and planted several loud kisses on Lin Zhiye's face, "Get up, Ye Zi."

Li Yu covered his head and complained: "Treating lovers is as hot as summer, and treating brothers is like autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves."

"Hey, since you reconciled with Teacher Li, your speech has become more and more level."

They crowded the bus to school as usual, had lunch and chatted as usual.If Lin Zhiye hadn't suddenly told Meng Sheng that he was going home for a "surprise inspection", they would have come back to do their homework, feed the fish, rubbed Lin Mengmeng as usual, and come here before Li Yu came back.

"You don't need to ask for leave to accompany me." Lin Zhiye said to Meng Sheng on the way to Naples Garden by taxi.

"You told me everything, don't you just want me to accompany you?"

"Okay, you hit the spot." Lin Zhiye smiled slightly.

"Why did you suddenly go back at this time?"

"I saw from the monitor that my dad came back at noon, and then the woman also came. I had to catch them off guard with a sense of urgency."

Recently, Lin Zhiye went home suddenly several times at night. If he wore a red armband with his menacing appearance, he would look like the director of the neighborhood committee.

Meng Xing remembered that when he was very young, he watched an old drama "Sister Ma, The Idle Man" on TV, so he silently nicknamed Lin Zhiye in his heart: Big Brother Lin, the Idle Man.

Every time Meng Sheng was worried, he was afraid of encountering any big scene that would be unsightly.But fortunately, Father Lin and the woman have always kept a distance between men and women.Of course they had kissed each other, but they had never met before, Meng Xing thought.How could Lin Zhiye not think of things that he could think of?The so-called inspection is just to put on a show, to make myself feel better, and to make the couple feel better.

Lin Zhiye gently opened the anti-theft door and walked into the house, looked around, and met the woman who just came out of the kitchen.She had a cup of coffee in her hand and almost spilled it because she was startled.

"Student Lin, you are back."

Lin Zhiye didn't want to talk to her at first, but he still let out a "huh".

Meng Sheng also nodded to her, thinking: I wonder if her parents know that her daughter is hanging from this "old tree" again.

Father Lin was reading a book in the study, and when he saw Lin Zhiye came back, he asked in surprise, "Are you asking for leave? Didn't you ask for leave to call your parents?"

"I'm very close to the class monitor, and we have excuses."

"I asked for leave normally, Uncle Lin." Meng Xing said to Father Lin.

Because only one hand can move, Father Lin had no choice but to put the book on the table, and then went to stir the coffee, "The company is not busy today, and I am a little tired, so I will come back first."

Lin Zhiye went around to the master bedroom and found a blanket on the floor with a summer quilt and pillows on it.He returned to the study, leaned against the door, and said to the woman who was sitting beside his father not far away, "Did you stay here last night?"

"Yes, I, I forgot to put it away."

"Oh." Lin Zhiye waved his hands irritably.

Meng Sheng took a bottle of Coke from the refrigerator, sat on the sofa in the living room and downed it in one gulp, fixed his eyes on Lin Zhiye.I saw him wandering around the house a few more times, then took out the key to the piano room from his schoolbag, opened the door and walked in.

Meng Sheng thought for a while, got up and followed.That magnificent beauty, the female version of Lin Zhiye, smiled at him through the photo frame from all directions, making him feel extremely ordinary.

It had been a while since the door was opened last time, and the grand piano was covered with a thin layer of dust.Lin Zhiye found a new rag, wiped the piano and piano bench, and then sat down.He raised his eyes to look at Meng Sheng, and then moved to the side.

Meng Sheng sat down next to him, "I know how to play "Little Star"."

Lin Zhiye smiled slightly, lifted the cover of the piano, "Then try it."

Meng Sheng stretched out his thick right index finger, randomly found a white key and started to "click", and a piece of "Little Star" with no sense of rhythm and stuttering sounded.

"The star looks drunk."

Lin Zhiye immediately demonstrated a standard piece of "Little Star", and then played another piece without getting enough.It was that familiar piano piece again... the one he heard after seeing Lin Zhiye go berserk for the first time.

Where else have you heard of it... Meng Sheng looked at those ten slender fingers, and suddenly felt his balls tighten.

He recalled that night after school last fall, when he accompanied Li Yu to the pet store, he was beaten by Lin's father.Then, the other party's cell phone rang, and it was this one, that's right.

"What's this called?" Meng Xing asked.

"Bach's "Goldberg Variations", this is my mother's favorite passage."

Meng Sheng casually said, "This is your dad's cell phone ringtone, have you heard it?"

The sound of the piano stopped abruptly, and Lin Zhiye's fingers were hanging on the keys, like a broken puppet.

"...When he is at home, the phone is always vibrating or on silent." Lin Zhiye's ten fingers slowly clenched into fists and landed on his lap, "What's the use of remembering? It's just for peace of mind."

If nostalgia could bring people back from the dead, then this universe would have been overwhelmed long ago.

Probably summoned by the sound of the piano, Father Lin, holding a coffee cup in his left hand, walked slowly into the piano room, admiring the photos on the wall.Take a sip of coffee with every step you take.He was so focused that he collided with Meng Sheng who had just got up, spilling coffee all over his chest.

Meng Sheng hurriedly took the coffee cup, scolding himself in his heart for always being in a daze, "I'm sorry, Uncle Lin, is it hot? I wanted you to sit down..."

"It's okay." Father Lin gently pinched the shirt on his body and shook it. Just as he buttoned his hands, he seemed to remember something, turned and walked towards the door.

"Is there anything shady about you?" Lin Zhiye raised his voice sharply, "Take it off here."

The woman heard the voice and wanted to enter the piano room, probably remembering the miserable scene of being dragged out by Lin Zhiye's hair, so she stopped at the door and looked at Father Lin with concern.

Father Lin's expression was hesitant and embarrassed at first, and then suddenly became calm, as if he had figured out something.When he struggled to unbutton the shirt with one hand and peeled off the shirt, Meng Sheng felt short of breath and his scalp was numb.

As far as a middle-aged man is concerned, his figure is considered good, but the long and narrow scars on his abdomen make him have no time to pay attention to other things.These scars are densely arranged like piano keys, some are new and some are old, the latest one is still light red.As for whether there are any below the belt, it is not known.

Lin Zhiye suddenly opened his eyes wide and was stunned.In his memory, his father, who was always a gentleman and refined, had never been shirtless, never bathed outside or swam. Who would have thought that such a body could hide such things?

"Uncle Lin...are you an underground worker? Have you ever been tortured?" Meng Xing covered his mouth and asked cautiously, "Or have you been on the road?"

The woman outside the door looked familiar, standing quietly.

Lin Zhiye's eyes moved from those scars to his father's face, and his voice was hoarse, "Why, how did you get hurt?"

Father Lin let out a sigh of relief, lowered his head halfway, and looked at his scar tenderly, "It's a commemoration."

"commemorate?"

"Your mother, everything must be perfect... She was raised in the palm of her hand, and she never suffered until she encountered this problem of yours. When she gave birth to you, she couldn't give birth, so she went to a caesarean section, leaving scars on her stomach .She has a scar constitution again... like someone tore a hole in the best silk. This is a disaster for her, almost dying of heartbreak, you cry all day and night, and she cries too , Scolded all your grandma and grandma away.

So, when you were full moon, I stood in front of her and cut a gash on my stomach with a kitchen knife, which was much longer than hers, and the blood flowed all over the ground... She stopped crying and just stared blankly I finally got a smile on my face.

When you were one year old, I stabbed myself in the stomach again, and you looked at me and cried.I told her that what she suffered that day, I will suffer every year until I die. "

Father Lin pointed to the latest pale red scar and smiled wryly, "I added this to myself when you celebrated your birthday this year."

Lin Zhiye stood up from the piano bench, wanted to get closer to his father, then slowly backed away and sat down again.His face was full of astonishment, and he was so overwhelmed that he put his fist on his lips and repeatedly bit a knuckle, which was almost broken.

Meng Sheng was numb from head to toe, and he touched his newly grown hair in panic, thinking that it would be wrong to go, and it would be wrong if he didn't go.This is a private matter of Lin Zhiye's family, logically he shouldn't be onlookers.But when he wanted to get out of the room, he had to tell Father Lin, "Uncle, please let me go."

In the end, he chose to squat down beside the piano legs, watching this drama of family ethics develop in the direction of the horror drama he fears most without saying a word.

"Yezi, do you still feel that I don't love her anymore?"

"Then why are you..." Lin Zhiye looked past his father and looked at the woman outside the door.

"I just wanted to chat with an ordinary and optimistic girl who was completely out of my life, but your mother found out. At that time, I really didn't think about it, but she didn't believe it. As long as everything is a little imperfect, She couldn't bear it. I was pushed by her, and after a few arguments, she slammed the door and left...I did such a wrong thing to her. "

Meng Sheng couldn't see Lin Zhiye's expression, he could only see his shoulders trembling slightly.

"I know how capricious she is, but isn't it your own choice? Don't you know it when you chase her desperately?"

"That's right, I chose it myself! As long as I'm happy with her, I'm happy, but—" Father Lin stopped, his facial features gradually twisted into a ball, his breathing became short of breath, and the scar on his abdomen rose and fell, "But——"

"But" for a long time, did not say anything else.

Lin Zhiye stood up abruptly, punched the piano keys, and shouted hoarsely amidst the sudden sound of the piano: "But she is still dead! You have been very kind to her, and it can't make up for this mistake!"

"Not only did she drive drunk, but she also drove under the influence of drugs." Father Lin's tone suddenly calmed down, as if he had unloaded a mountain.

These words were like a grenade, causing Lin Zhiye to sit back on the piano bench paralyzed.His mind went black and white for a while, and suddenly turned his head to look at Meng Sheng.This is the only thing he can't tolerate about this optimistic and bright silly big man, and this is also the thing he hates the most.

Sure enough, the expression on Meng Sheng's face was the same as when he met Aunt Man's ex-husband.It was an extreme disgust, like eating a fly, or just learning that a waiter spit on a dish.

Lin Zhiye's tears flowed down uncontrollably, "Impossible, I don't know anything about it!"

"She pierced her thighs, how do you know... Probably, you got it when you first entered junior high school. She said that only the world of nothingness can have the perfection she wants."

Lin Zhiye pressed his eyes with his palms, but still couldn't hold back his tears.Your mother is not as perfect as you think, that woman said so.

"I'm about to be driven crazy by your mother, but I love her. Until today, at this moment, or until a certain day in the future, I dare say that I love her more than my own life." Father Lin said calmly After finishing, he turned and looked at the woman standing outside the door, "I'm sorry."

The woman just smiled lightly, as if she heard someone say that the weather is good today, "It's okay, I know."

Meng Xing, who had been squatting next to the qin's legs, looked around at the photos on the wall, feeling that impeccable face gradually distorted into an abstract painting.He suddenly stood up and rushed towards the door, pushed Father Lin away, ran into the bathroom, and poured all the Coke he drank just now into the toilet, including his lunch.

After vomiting, he slipped away as if fleeing from the murder scene.

Hearing the slamming of the security door, Lin Zhiye knew that something in Meng Sheng's heart had been collapsed by him.My father said a lot, for example, my mother went out to study several times, and she was detoxified in a private hospital, but it still didn't work.For example, before her accident, he had made up his mind to send her to compulsory drug rehabilitation.

"Don't ask your grandma and grandpa, they don't know."

"Your name is right, we have always loved each other."

Lin Zhiye sat blankly in the piano room, recalling his father's last words.

He had always believed that the home was being knocked down from the outside, not from the inside.I don't know how many hours passed, and the sky gradually darkened, and he was relieved.His mother's secret broke his heart, but the fact that they loved each other glued it together.

He stood at the door of the study for a while, his father was chatting with the woman, he didn't go in to interrupt.After that, he didn't want to care about anything.He just wanted to go back to Meng Sheng, have a good talk with that stupid guy about it, and then have a hearty fight.

Contrary to Lin Zhiye's expectation, Meng Xing was not at home, did not reply to messages, nor answered the phone.This made him can't help but start imagining the scene of breaking up.

After lying in the dark for more than an hour, Li Yu came back and left again.Meng Sheng did not return overnight, and did not come to school the next day.

During lunch, Li Yu told Lin Zhiye: "He's gone back to the barber shop. He said he was very tired. I think he will soon be unable to bear the initiative to find you, and he can't do without you." Then I went to take care of Li Xin.

One of Li Xin's eyes was swollen, her cheekbones were bruised, and the corners of her mouth were broken. The head teacher jumped up and down in a hurry, and even called Li Xin's parents several times, warning them not to beat the child again, it would delay their studies.

First he beat his old classmate violently, and then he came out violently. Although Li Xin was still as calm as Mount Tai, as if he was not the one who was beaten, Lin Zhiye knew that this friend who was as calm as a stone had completely fallen.

On the third day, there was still no news from Meng Province, as if the world had disappeared.After school, Lin Zhiye went to bed early, hugged his pillow and smelled it all night, and it became embarrassingly hard.Lin Zhiye didn't want to solve it by himself, so he just kept going.In the middle of the night, I really couldn't stand it, so I had to solve the problem manually in a strange way.