I'll Have My Seatmate Beat You

After stepping on the boat for an hour, Lin Xiaobin's belly was digested.Wu Yuan looked at the time and said, "Let's dock, it's been an hour."

It was past five o'clock, and the sun was a little smaller.

When the four of them landed, Wu Yuan answered the phone and said, "It's right here at the Nanhu Cruise Ticket Office."

"Is anyone coming?" Gu Qinan asked.

Wu Yuan winked at Lin Xiaobin, and said, "No, I'll take something, you can find a place to sit down and wait for me. Buy me a bottle of drink, I want vitamin C!"

The three of them walked tens of meters forward, bought drinks from the drink vending machine in the park, and found a small gazebo to sit down.

Nanhu Park has a long history and has been renovated once in recent years, so the cruise ships and pavilions in the park are quite new and clean.Lin Xiaobin sat down carelessly as soon as he walked in.

The gazebo is next to a big banyan tree. The banyan tree just covers the sun, so it is very cool inside.

After a few minutes, Lin Xiaobin suddenly said seriously: "Xiao Nanzi, I suggest you close your eyes at this moment."

Gu Qinan was dumbfounded.

Unexpectedly, Zhan Ming also said: "Close it, just for a while."

Gu Qinan obediently closed his eyes, and heard Lin Xiaobin mumbling.

"Hey, what's the matter with you, I told you to close your eyes and you didn't listen, but you listened when Brother Zhan said..."

Suddenly there was no sound.

"Happy birthday Xiao Nanzai! I just sang in Chinese, and now I will sing in English~"

Gu Qinan opened his eyes and saw Wu Yuan holding a birthday cake with a "16" candle stuck in it.Lin Xiaobin and Zhan Ming stood beside him, and the three of them began to sing the happy birthday song in English.

"Happy birthday to you~Happy birthday to you~"

In the midst of his busy schedule, Lin Xiaobin had to take out his cell phone to continue shooting videos.

"Okay, let's make a wish." Wu Yuan put the cake on the stone table in the gazebo, "Blow out the candles after making the wish."

Gu Qinan was surprised, still in a state of bewilderment, but hurriedly made a wish and blew out the candles.

Lin Xiaobin sighed: "Fuck! How silly to sing with a birthday cake in broad daylight!"

Zhan Ming made a movement of zipping his mouth shut: "Shut up."

Lin Xiaobin saluted: "Okay!"

Gu Qinan was very moved. Looking at the three of Zhan Ming, he felt many emotions.

He once thought that he was the most failed person in the world, without a single friend.Not to mention friends, there is not even a classmate with a good relationship, who can stand up and speak for him.Is he really a failure in life, that's why so many people hate him?

Seeing his moist eyes, Zhan Ming panicked, "Don't cry."

Lin Xiaobin also panicked: "You are crying, passers-by should think that we three big guys are bullying you, a little sheep! Did you see the security guard in the park under the banyan tree? I suspect he is going to call the police!"

Gu Qinan was amused.

Wu Yuan said: "Cut the cake, cut a bigger piece for Lin Xiaobin, and gag him."

Wu Yuan handed the cake knife to Gu Qinan.

Gu Qinan didn't pick it up, took out wet tissues from his bag first, shared one with each of them, wiped his hands twice before taking the cake knife to cut the cake.

Zhan Ming got used to it, and wiped his hands consciously.

Wu Yuan and Lin Xiaobin were in a daze, Gu Qinan said, "Hurry up and wipe your hands."

Lin Xiaobin sighed while wiping: "Xiao Nanzi is really virtuous, and he also pays attention to hygiene. Brother Zhan likes your tablemate who pays attention to hygiene."

Then Lin Xiaobin began to tell how Brother Zhan's deskmate who didn't pay attention to hygiene was punched unconscious by Brother Zhan and threw the whole desk.

Zhan Ming: "...Stop talking."

Gu Qinan's eyes widened: "Really? Brother Zhan would be so angry?"

Lin Xiaobin: "...What misunderstanding do you have about your brother Zhan's temper?"

Gu Qinan took a bite of the cake with a fork and said naturally, "Brother Zhan has a good temper!"

The three of Zhan Ming: "..."

Lin Xiaobin: "Submit!"

Four people finished a six-inch mango mousse cake, the cream with mango jam was sweet and fragrant.This creamy birthday, together with the golden sunset in Nanhu Park, remained in Gu Qinan's memory.

After clearing away the cake boxes and other garbage, the four of them waved goodbye, made an appointment to go out to play together during the summer vacation, and then went home.

Zhan Ming accompanied Gu Qinan to take the bus.

Just after leaving the park, Zhan Ming's cell phone rang.

Zhanming's mobile phone is a cheap and ordinary model with serious sound leakage.He had already turned down the volume of the call, but the person on the opposite side kept yelling, and the boulevard outside the park was very quiet, so Gu Qinan could hear him clearly.

"Your teacher called me to ask me, where did you go again? Did you go to work? Cutting class for part-time work? Are you so short of this money? Is our family not giving you food?!"

Zhan Ming pulled the phone slightly away, frowning.

Before he could speak, the indiscriminate bombardment began again.

"What did you tell the teacher at school?! You came to ask me last time why you have been working part-time. What do you mean, I took your money? I forced you to make money?"

Gu Qinan was stunned by such a straightforward and embarrassing questioning.

Zhan Ming replied coldly: "I didn't say anything."

Unexpectedly, the other side was even more furious.

"Didn't say anything?! Didn't say anything, so why is everyone asking about your part-time job? The neighbors upstairs and downstairs are asking, your teacher is asking, and the third uncle is also calling to ask. They all look like me. Bullying you and oppressing you! I don't want to make things too harsh! Only you know how much money your grandma left for you!"

Zhan Ming stopped in his tracks, the expression on his face disappeared, and he looked very scary.Gu Qinan could feel that Zhan Ming's mood became very bad.

"Don't you know how much money you left? You took away the card and the money." Zhan Ming said.

Gu Qinan suspected that he had heard wrong.

"Did your grandma just leave you a card? Who knows? An old man, with no expenses, has saved money for so long, only more than 2 yuan? I don't believe it! Your sister and brother don't have any, why should you keep it?" Give you a person? The old man has passed away, I don’t want to talk about it anymore. Don’t go outside to talk nonsense, and don’t go to work outside and let others blame our family!”

Zhan Ming asked: "If I don't work part-time, will you pay my college tuition?"

Roaring at the other side: "What university do you study? What school can you get into with that score?!"

After he finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

Zhan Ming stood by the side of the road for a long time, so long that Gu Qinan wondered if he would cry.

But no, Zhan Ming just kept expressionless, kept silent, and kept clutching the phone.

Gu Qinan was a little scared, he stretched out his hand and tugged at the corner of Zhan Ming's clothes.

Zhan Ming didn't respond.

Gu Qinan whispered, "Brother Zhan..."

Zhan Ming came back to his senses, looked at Gu Qinan, and seemed to realize where he was.He looked at his mobile phone, remembering that it had serious sound leakage, and asked, "Did you hear that?"

Gu Qinan nodded first, then realized that it was Zhan Ming's privacy, and quickly shook his head.

Zhan Ming patted his head and said, "Let's go."

Gu Qinan followed Zhan Ming, and as he walked, he grabbed Zhan Ming's clothes and said, "Brother Zhan, come to my house! Come to live in my old house, it's vacant now, I'll go with my parents Say, they will definitely agree! It's just a little far from the school..."

It's not a little far, it's very far.There is no direct access to the subway, you need to transfer to the bus.

Gu Qinan whispered more and more, then suddenly thought of something else, and said loudly: "You should rent a house near the school, don't live with them, it's too annoying!"

Zhan Ming suddenly sat down beside the sidewalk against the fence, put his head in his hands, bent his knees and buried his head in it.

Gu Qinan was startled, knelt down and asked him: "What's wrong? Brother Zhan, what's wrong with you?!" As he asked, he reached out to touch his head and forehead.

Zhan Ming grabbed his hand, pulled him against his head, and said in a muffled voice, "I'm fine, calm down."

"Calm down?" Gu Qinan was puzzled.

"Don't calm down, I'm afraid I will rush out to destroy public property and beat people." Zhan Ming said in a muffled voice, his head still buried between his knees.

But Gu Qinan couldn't feel his anger, only felt deep sadness and depression.

Gu Qinan kept his hand on Zhan Ming's head, gently.

After a while, Zhan Ming said, "Go home first."

"No."

Zhan Ming was silent for a while, still didn't raise his head, and said, "I'll be fine after a while, you go home first."

"No."

"Be happy today, don't let me spoil your mood." Zhan Ming said.

Gu Qinan didn't know what was going on, his heart was sore and soft.

Brother Zhan is like a big homeless dog, squatting on the street with nowhere to go.

For the first time, Gu Qinan felt that it would be great if he had a house, and he could take Brother Zhan home.No matter how low his EQ was, he knew that Brother Zhan would not be able to go back to his parents' house with him.

"Go and stay at my house for two days." Gu Qinan finally said.

Zhan Ming didn't answer.

Gu Qinan gently hugged his head, not caring about the eyes of passers-by, and pressed his face against it.

"Your hair is so short and prickly." Gu Qinan said.

Gu Qinan's cell phone rang, so he could only pick it up.It was his parents who asked him where he had been and urged him to go home.He went home immediately and hung up the phone.

It's six o'clock, but it's still light.

Summer days are long.

The evening wind blows off a banyan leaf and falls on Zhan Ming's head.

Gu Qinan picked up the leaves and patted Zhan Ming's head.

Zhan Ming touched his head countless times, this was the first time he touched Zhan Ming's head, after all, he couldn't touch it normally.

"It's so thorny." He said, "I celebrate my birthday today, you have to listen to me. Come home with me for two days, brother."

Zhan Ming let him touch his head, and said in a low voice, "It's my uncle who called."

Gu Qinan guessed it.

"When my grandma was dying, she gave the house to my uncle and asked him to take care of me. She told me in private that I was a child, and I couldn't keep the house if I gave it to me. Over the years, she took me with her, the only thing she had to retire All my money was spent on me, and she didn't take care of my cousins. Before I left, I couldn't let my uncle's family complain, so I gave them the house. It's an old house anyway, not worth much."

Gu Qinan felt that it seemed that Brother Zhan had spoken such a long word for the first time.

However, he would rather Brother Zhan not talk so long, and still be that cool Brother Zhan.

"Grandma secretly gave me a card with 5000 yuan in it. She was afraid that my uncle would not pay my college tuition, so she secretly gave me this money. She asked me to eat more when I went to college. Don't save money."

Zhan Ming was a little choked up, but soon disappeared, and returned to a calm tone.

"The card was discovered by my aunt. My uncle took the account book and went to the bank to take it in the name of the guardian. But they suspected that my grandma gave me more than one card."

Gu Qinan murmured, "How could this be..."

Zhan Ming raised his head, his eyes were only disappointed, utterly disappointed.

"I don't understand. Once my grandma passed away, everything changed. My dad died when I was two years old. I have no memory of him. I don't know where my mom is. After my dad died, she left. , never came back. Grandma, uncle and I are my closest relatives. My uncle was not like this before..."

Zhan Ming's uncle, when Zhan Ming was young, often bought him toys.My cousin has some, and my uncle will buy one for him.During the Chinese New Year, my aunt would buy clothes for him, saying that the old man didn't know how to buy children's clothes, so she would do the shopping.

Toys and clothes only cost a few dollars, Zhan Ming didn't understand at that time.

Without touching the deepest interests, everyone can live in peace.

When grandma passed away, the uncle's family suddenly began to settle accounts.How much did grandma spend when she was sick and hospitalized, how much was the old house sold, how much would it cost to have one more exhibition, and how much was left.

More and more complaints.

Why should the old man's pension be spent on Zhan Ming alone? Their two children are also the old man's grandchildren, and the old man never cared about it at all.

When my aunt found Zhan Ming's bank card, her emotions reached the point of explosion.

The cousin and cousin have nothing, and the old man secretly left money for Zhan Ming!She has been married to Zhan Guoqiang for more than ten years, and she has never had a relaxing day.Raising the two children by herself, the mother-in-law never helped, and only took care of Zhan Ming's grandson.She bears it, because Zhan Ming has neither father nor mother, can she argue with him?But now that the old man is gone, he entrusts Zhan Ming to them, asking them to provide him with food, clothing, schooling, and secretly leave money for him!

Even Zhan Ming felt that what his aunt said made sense.

But they took the money away, still doubted him, didn't trust him, and asked him to hand over the rest of the money.

"Xiao Nanzai, today is your birthday. After you hear this, forget it. Don't affect your mood." Zhan Ming rubbed his face and stood up, "I'm not the same as when I was a freshman in high school. Back then, I was very angry and fought everywhere. , want to vent. Not now, I have accepted the reality. No one is particularly hateful, this is life."

"And I can only accept it, because they are the only family I have left." Zhan Ming looked at the gradually lit street lights and said, "I have to go back."

Because there is nowhere else to go.

Zhan Ming left, turned his back to Gu Qinan, and waved his hands, as if he was still the tall and cool brother Zhan.

But Gu Qinan had an urge to group Brother Zhan into a small one, put it in his schoolbag and take it away.Take it back home and give him a warm lamp, a soft bed, and a happy home.