Laws of Spirit Recycling

The sound of their quarrel was separated by a door panel. Yu Yan and Lin Zonghai, who were silent in the room, naturally listened to every word.

Seeing that the lights outside were still on and there was no movement, Lin Zonghai sighed and said, "Go and comfort him for me."

When Yu Yan went out, he saw Lin Aoyu sitting on the sofa, smoking a cigarette with his back arched and his head hanging, with a low and dull look.

"Xu Yan ran out at this time, aren't you worried?"

Lin Aoyu glanced at him, and said: "As long as he makes a phone call, no matter what time of day, his driver will come to pick him up in time."

Yu Yan pondered, "You don't need to quarrel over such trivial matters."

"Didn't you try your best to get us to break up before? Why are you trying to persuade me now?" Lin Aoyu raised his lips and smiled, "No matter what, this is a matter between me and him, and no one else needs to intervene."

Yu Yan said bluntly: "It was your father who asked me to comfort you."

"Him?" Lin Aoyu smiled mockingly, "That's even more unnecessary."

"After all, I'm also your father, so you hate me so much?" Lin Zonghai suddenly appeared and scolded.

Lin Aoyu ignored him, looked at him expressionlessly, put the cigarette in his mouth, and didn't seem to want to speak.

This move obviously angered Lin Zonghai even more. He approached and said, "Do you know why I have always disagreed with you being with Xu Yan? Because you are people from two worlds. Given his family background, even if I don't stop you, you will It's also hard to go on. The gap between two people is too big, so what if you like each other? It's all new for a while, and the values ​​and your future life direction are destined not to bring you together smoothly."

Lin Aoyu's smile deepened, but his eyes were sharp and cold, and he said with deep meaning: "Are you talking about me, or yourself?"

"What do you mean?"

Lin Aoyu flicked the cigarette ash and said, "It means that I finally know the reason why you abandoned that person. It turned out to be because of the gap between rich and poor. Dad, you are so cowardly, you make me look down on you."

"You bastard!" As Lin Zonghai said that, he wanted to rush over and hit his son, but he couldn't touch his body, so he slapped him in the air, his face livid with anger.

Lin Aoyu was calm and composed, and took the time to extinguish his cigarette, "I knew it a long time ago, and I'm more certain after seeing your reaction."

"What do you know?! You don't know anything!"

"Really?" Lin Aoyu stood up, striding towards his father's bedroom.

Yu Yan and Lin Zonghai followed him in, and saw him pull out a tin box from the last drawer of the desk, and opened it to reveal basic thin books. Lin Aoyu directly toppled the box down, and the book fell straight onto the bed, and there was a A stack of folded letter paper.

Those letters were placed at the bottom of the book, and they were pressed flat and smooth, but the yellowed paper body was like dry leaves, which confirmed the traces of time.

"What are these?" Lin Aoyu raised his eyebrows and looked directly at his father with a complicated expression. "In these years, how often have you not read letters one by one in the middle of the night? Once Mom left, you thought it was because she couldn't suffer with you ? No, it's because she found out that you've always had someone else in your heart."

Lin Zonghai said solemnly: "Have you contacted your mother?"

"Yes, otherwise I wouldn't know about it. When I didn't know about it before, I blamed her for leaving us without saying anything, and for failing to fulfill the obligations a mother should have. But later when I knew about this , I only hate you. Why do you still miss others when you have a wife and children? On the surface, you are always thinking about the family, but in fact, you have betrayed my mother in your heart. You hurt her and the one who gave birth to you Girl, the wife who has been with you for more than 20 years!"

Before he finished speaking, Lin Zonghai took a step back and said, "I hurt her...I hurt her..."

"No matter how much I persuaded my mother, she refused to come back. She said she didn't want to see you, and she insisted not to attend the funeral even after you died. What kind of disappointment is this for you? And you still misunderstand her and think she thinks you are poor I just left, and I think she was even more chilled. Bankruptcy, poverty, and hard life are nothing, but you are the one who really broke up this family."

Lin Zonghai said sadly: "I know that no matter what you say now, you will never forgive me. Dad only asks you for one thing. Help me and your mother... say sorry, I never thought of letting her down."

Lin Aoyu said coldly: "Do you think she will still trust you?"

"It's fine if you don't believe it...as long as she lives better than me." Lin Zonghai sighed and picked up the scattered letters: "These letters are all written by an old friend. After marriage."

"After more than [-] years of marriage, is it still thinking about others?"

Lin Zonghai asked instead: "Have you read the contents of the letter?"

"Only read one."

"Forget it, it's already this time, it's nothing to tell you..."

It's the vernal equinox, the blue sky is thousands of miles away, a few crumpled cotton balls are thrown on the blue flannelette, the low pressure seems to be not far from the top of the head, and the warm wind is coming, blowing those few clouds to follow behind. .

Lin Zonghai stepped on old cloth shoes and walked towards the sparsely populated grassland with a half-length hoe on his shoulders. The village was quiet and peaceful in the afternoon, with only a few long chirps of birds floating on the ridges of the fields.The spring is long, and the adults who are planting and raising seedlings have not yet woken up from their naps. Lin Zonghai, who has been doing farm work all morning, should have been recharging his energy at home, but he thought of the mothers who were about to give birth in the pigsty. Pigs, knowing that the dried pigweeds they had prepared were not enough, so they got up early to cut some fresh weeds during their lunch break.

When Miss Qiushou gets married, a few more pork and meat dishes will be served at the banquet, which can be regarded as earning some face.Nowadays, it is necessary to feed the piglets at home well, and the fattened meat is also a good appetizer or two.

Thinking about this matter in his heart, his steps unknowingly accelerated, and the dust raised up fell one after another, covering his rolled-up trousers with a layer of dust.Lin Zonghai found a place, and found that most of the grass here had been mowed, and the roots of the grass were exposed like a flat head, so he continued to walk in.

While scraping through the dense haystacks, he was cutting some weeds that hadn't been hoeed. In addition to the rustling, he heard the voices of a few boys talking. He took a few steps forward and saw the grass beside the weeds. Three boys a few years younger than himself stood in the open space, surrounded by another thin boy.

The crooked man standing in the middle said loudly: "I've said it several times. If you want to mow the grass, go to the next village. This is not where you came from!"

The seemingly thin boy questioned firmly: "Why? This is not your family's land."

"This is where we come every day. You finished mowing the grass. What shall we mow?"

"There's so much grass, I can't cut it all by myself."

The chubby boy next to him said: "Anyway, you cut so much, we bring back so much less grass every day, causing us to be scolded by our parents, and we have to run so far to fill a basket, it's all because of you!"

The crooked man smiled, "Why are you talking so much nonsense with him? Just ask him to return the grass to us."

The fat boy smiled at the other boy who didn't speak, and stepped forward to take out the grass that was placed in the bamboo basket next to it. The thin boy who was squeezed hurriedly ran up to snatch it, "This is mine! You can't take it away!"

"Go away!" The crooked-mouthed man was a bit taller than him, and easily pushed him to the ground with both hands, "Don't get in our way anymore, I'll be annoyed when you see you, a dwarf, let you go The other places are to give you face, anyway, you go to school again, so what's wrong with running a little more?!"

The boy lay down on the ground covered in ashes, and Lin Zonghai recognized him as Xiao Liu who was often bullied in the same village.Xiao Liu's surname is Liu. No one knows what his name is. They only know that this child has many brothers. Cai Cai, as thin as a stick, looks like he hasn't eaten well or dressed warmly, and he's alone among peers who are all taller and stronger than him.Those boys of the same age saw that he was weak and easy to bully, and always found fault with him, and heard that there was no one in his family, so they treated him even more unscrupulously as a soft clay figure who was rubbed and flattened.

Lin Zonghai was not familiar with their family, and he had no friendship with Xiaoliu. Seeing him being bullied with outnumbered enemies at this moment, he couldn't bear it. He wanted to step forward to help him out, but saw a dog wandering around Xiaoliu. The yellow dog suddenly rushed up to the man with the crooked mouth and barked furiously for his master.

"What are you barking for? You dead dog!" the crooked-mouthed man took a step back, baring his teeth and barking at the dog.

Seeing him retreating, the yellow dog barked more urgently and fiercely, resounding on the empty flat ground.

The crooked-mouthed man squinted his eyes, picked up the hoe behind him and shook it, and said boldly: "You dare to scare me? I'll hoe your teeth and I'll see what you call it!"

"Big yellow!" Xiao Liu was originally pulling her own bamboo basket, but when she noticed that the yellow dog might be in danger from the sharp weapon in the man's hands, she immediately rushed to hug it.

"Stop!" Lin Zonghai stepped out of the grass and stopped the hoe from falling towards Rhubarb.

"My surname is Lin, what are you doing here? This kid has robbed us, and we'll teach him a lesson, don't be a hero!" Before Lin Zonghai could speak, the crooked man warned.

"Little Wai, what are you talking about? It's obvious that you are robbing other people's things. I just saw it."

Lin Zonghai was a few years older than them, not to mention his height, but his strong figure from long-term farm work had to make these boys fearful.Xiao Wai has never seen anyone stand up for Xiao Liu whom he despises, so he said stiffly: "He took our place first and mowed the grass! Now we just ask him to return the weeds."

"Your names are not written on this land, why is it still under your control?" Lin Zonghai put down the hoe in his hand and said with a smile: "Return the things to others, lest I go to your house to reason."

Xiao Wai glanced at the other two companions, hesitating whether to stop now, taking advantage of their stalemate, Xiao Liu grabbed the bamboo basket still in the opponent's hand, picked up the hoe on the ground, and prepared to leave.

"Don't let him run away!" Xiao Wai reacted and shouted, he hasn't shown Xiao Liu any color, how could he just let him run away?

They reached out to catch Xiao Liu, who was carrying a bamboo basket, but Rhubarb, who was protecting his master, jumped forward and bit him. "Ouch!" The fat man let go of his companion with a cry of surprise.

"Big Yellow, run!" As soon as the words finished, Xiao Liu and the yellow dog had already run ten feet away.

The thin figure quickly disappeared from sight, Xiao Wai spat, swearing angrily, turned to Lin Zonghai and said: "It's none of your business, why do you care so much!"

"It hurts me to death!" The fat boy covered his arms, looking like he was about to cry but had no tears.

Lin Zonghai said: "If you don't see any blood, just go back and ask your family to apply some medicine. Next time, don't cause trouble just because there are too many people. Isn't this land full of grass? The stolen things may not be more fragrant."

"Hmph! I'm too lazy to be with you, what a fucking bad day today!" Xiao Xiao squinted and led the other two away unconvinced.