Roommate split personality how to do?
Chapter 1 Heard about Yu Xiaoyu's logic, but still felt speechless.
Even more powerful.Haha, I'm also making trouble for myself.What else can I do besides being her brother?If she finds out that I'm not her big brother and gets hurt in the future, she probably won't even want to see me in person.I don't want to part with it...not to mention I don't want to see her sad. "
Because of Jiang Yiyou's words, it became more difficult to speak to Fu Lin.
Unlike Fu Lin, Jiang Yiyou may not be Fu Song, which is relatively easy; but different from Fu Lin, his own brother is actually dead, which is not so simple.
Jiang Yiyou and Fu Lin still get along like brothers and sisters. Cheng Yan can tell that Fu Lin really regards Jiang Yiyou as his elder brother and relies more and more on him, and the two are getting closer.
Sometimes Cheng Yan would think, he helped to conceal the news of Fu Song's death, who did this help?
Fu Song gave up healing for the sake of Fu Lin and his mother, and Fu Lin should know about his sacrifice.Cheng Yan had inquired that the homeless who died in Jiangcheng these years, if no relatives could be found, the government would intervene and be buried in a cemetery.Even if Fu Lin couldn't find where Fu Song was buried, she should go to pay homage to him.The smile she is showing to Jiang Yiyou now should be for Fu Song.
But is the person who occupied the magpie's nest happy again?
Once Cheng Yan knew Jiang Yiyou's feelings for Fu Lin, he could see the shadow in that smile.All of this was clearly not what that person wanted.
The closer you get, the harder you endure.
Jiang Yiyou is like the nightingale singing to a sharp thorn.One day, he will be tortured until the last drop of blood is drained from his heart.
As for Fu Lin, she is undoubtedly happy now.However, no one's happiness should be based on lies.Sooner or later, she will know the fact that Fu Song is dead, and then she will not only be sad, but also feel guilty for admitting to the wrong person for so long.
And Cheng Yan and Li Dongxing, if they continue to keep this secret, they will all become liars.
Cheng Yan thought that his junior would not accept this approach.He has a more sense of justice than Cheng Yan.He actually acquiesced in Jiang Yiyou's decision to pretend and didn't tell Fu Lin the truth immediately.
"Secret love is too bitter." Li Li replaced Li Dongxing and said to Cheng Yan, her eyes were red and she pressed her heart, "It hurts so much, we can all feel it."
So Cheng Yan interpreted this as Li Dongxing's sentimentality in order to take care of Lili, so he didn't expose Jiang Yiyou.
The stalemate continued until yet another night when they went drinking at Dionysus.
"What about the winter trip? Still busy?" Mu Mu pushed Chengyan while chewing olives, "Aren't you torturing him too much? You don't know how to restrain yourself, and you always make him overworked."
Cheng Yan gritted his teeth: "...be careful with your wording."
Indeed, since listening to Jiang Yiyou's confession last time, Li Dongxing hasn't been to the bar again.Only Cheng Yan knew the reason.The younger brother is an honest person, and he really feels unable to face Fu Lin.
Neither of them told Mu Mu of this.With the relationship between Mu Mu and Fu Lin, she would never be considerate of Jiang Yiyou, and maybe she would think that he was taking advantage of Fu Lin to take advantage of him and make another big fuss.
Today Jiang Yiyou is teaching Fu Lin to play the guitar.Although he was still holding hands, Jiang Yiyou seemed to keep a certain distance deliberately.Fu Lin was originally wearing a thick shirt, but because it was inconvenient to pluck the strings, he took off the shirt and put it aside.A quarter of an hour later, she got up to go to the bathroom. Jiang Yiyou picked up the shirt from the stool and accidentally knocked the wallet in her front pocket to the ground.
Jiang Yiyou picked up the wallet, walked to Cheng Yan's table, and sighed: "She refuses to ask for salary."
Mu Mu didn't find it strange: "You are her own brother, she thinks what is hers is yours, and it is right to help you."
Jiang Yiyou glanced at Cheng Yan, he was really suffering and couldn't tell.
Cheng Yan suddenly looked at the wallet and asked, "What is this?"
There is a piece of paper with a white border exposed outside the wallet, which looks like an old photo.
Like a ghost, Jiang Yiyou opened the wallet.
Cheng Yan was right, it was indeed a photo.
Both he and Jiang Yiyou were taken aback.
"Hey you two, look at other people's things so hard, put them away quickly!" Mu Mu glared over, trying to grab the wallet.
"Okay, don't look at it, there's nothing to see." Cheng Yan hurriedly closed Fu Lin's wallet and pressed it on the table, "But you didn't say it, Fu Lin's is her brother's, and her brother has a look. No nothing."
Having said that, he pressed the palm of the wallet, but he kept sweating.
Just because that photo is a group photo of two people. In the photo, the little girl about ten years old is seven or eight points similar to Fu Lin today; Jiang Yiyou beside him seemed far away.
☆、Where is brother going ([-])
The boy in the photo has a long and narrow face, with a handsome face, and a pair of red phoenix eyes exactly like Fu Lin.Jiang Yiyou has a typical face with Chinese characters, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and the outline even has a bit of Western abstruseness, which is not too popular.No one would think that the boy and Jiang Yiyou are the same person by looking at the photo.Appearance is largely determined by genes. Even if time passes, as long as there is no external force, one person will not completely become another person.
The boy in the photo is Fu Song, and Fu Song is definitely not Jiang Yiyou.With just one glance, Cheng Yan can be sure.He glanced at Jiang Yiyou and Fu Lin who were chatting and laughing, and felt that the two looked less and less like each other.Originally, they were convinced that Jiang Yiyou looked exactly like Fu Song, but now they saw that he had nothing in common with the Fu brothers and sisters except that he was taller than ordinary people.Then why did Fu Lin be convinced at a glance that Jiang Yiyou belonged to Fu Song?Especially since she clearly carried a photo of her own brother.
Suddenly, Cheng Yan remembered what Fu Lin's roommate said.Fu Lin had also misidentified his elder brother once before, and that man also had a common feature.Tall, he is also tall.Men over 1.9 meters are not seen everywhere on the street. Could it be that after Fu Lin came to Jiangcheng, he only saw two?
Cheng Yan had a hypothesis in mind.
Knowing that Fu Song doesn't look like him, Jiang Yiyou is equally confused.He no longer insisted on pretending to be Fu Song.
"If Fu Lin really has the problem I suspect, then it is also a disease, and she needs to be treated in time." Cheng Yan told him privately, "It's time for her to know the truth, it's good for both of you."
Jiang Yiyou agreed.
The next day, Cheng Yan called Fu Lin to the laboratory.He needed to verify his conjecture first, so that Fu Lin could understand her own situation and accept the facts she was told next.He didn't clearly state the purpose of coming to Fu Lin, he only said that there was an experiment and he wanted Fu Lin to cooperate.Fu Lin was naturally very willing to help, he had no doubts about Cheng Yan's words, obediently changed his clothes and lay down in the MRI scanner.
Cheng Yan sat outside the shielded room, looking at a row of monitors in front of him.Fu Lin's task while lying in the scanner was simple, he just showed her a set of pictures of different faces.Those pictures are of men and women, old and young, all different.A monitor showed Fu Lin's brain imaging.The image is constantly changing and transmitted to another computer in real time.Cheng Yan wrote the program for analyzing the data overnight, so that he could simultaneously decode Fu Lin's brain activity when he looked at the faces.
The experiment lasted about an hour.
Fu Lin is a conscientious and patient person. She performed better than many of Cheng Yan's subjects, with minimal head movement and extremely high data quality.After the experiment was completed, Cheng Yan finished the scan and released Fu Lin from the MRI machine.
Fu Lin got up from the cot, shook his neck, and said to Cheng Yan with a smile, "Brother Cheng Yan, am I okay?"
"Very good." Cheng Yan nodded, "Hurry up and change."
Fu Lin changed back to his clothes, walked to Cheng Yan's side, and was naturally attracted by the brain scan on the screen.
"Is this my brain?" Like everyone else, she couldn't help exclaiming when she saw her brain appear on the screen at first glance.She stared at the three views, touched the back of her head involuntarily, and murmured: "It's really ah, the back of my head is pointed. My mother said it was squeezed out when I was born. Haha, when I was young, my brother hugged it." Me, I still like to rub my head all the time, saying that the pointy ones are really ugly, so I have to wear braids to block it for a long time."
"If you like, I can print a copy for you and take it home as a souvenir. Now that 3D printing technology is popularized, everyone can collect a model of their own brain." Cheng Yan said as he moved the chair beside him. When he got closer, he asked Fu Lin to sit down, "Look, in fact, every part of your brain has been scanned just now. From these images, you can see different areas of your brain." Cheng Yan moved the mouse to change the scan coordinates, motioning Fu Lin to look. "This is the occipital lobe, which is responsible for visual processing. You were just looking at something, so this has been active as well."
Fu Lin looked at the brain area marked orange, and asked a little excitedly: "Brother Cheng Yan, this, can you tell what I was thinking just now when you are outside?"
Cheng Yan looked up at the screen responsible for data processing, and said, "It's not that amazing, but the existing technology can indeed do part of the so-called mind reading. For example, when you look at pictures on it, every time you see a different Pictures, your brain will have a different response. Through this one-to-one correspondence between external stimuli and internal activities, we can find a rough classifier, which is equivalent to mastering the response mode of a certain area of your brain. Then, based on your recorded brain responses, we can infer inversely what you just saw, whether it was a letter X or a letter Y."
Fu Lin half-understood, and let out a soft "wow".
Cheng Yan didn't expect her to fully understand.He said this, at best, just to let Fu Lin understand what he was going to say next.
The computer made a soft "ding" to remind the program of analyzing the data that it had finished running.Cheng Yan glanced at the results and realized that his thinking was completely correct.
Perhaps for the first time, he was not delighted that the experiment had produced the expected results.
"A Lin." He turned to Fu Lin with the printed result picture, "Do you always feel that you can't distinguish other people's faces? Especially... young men's faces?"
Fu Lin was stunned.She looked away from the novel brain images, and twisted her hands together in her lap.After a few seconds, she asked softly, "Brother Cheng Yan, what does this mean?"
Cheng Yan first handed one of the pictures to Fu Lin, pointed to a bright spot on the brain, and said, "This is your left fusiform gyrus. As I just said, each area of the brain has a division of labor. This part is the area that specifically reacts to human faces. Your reaction is a little weaker than that of ordinary people, but it’s not without it. It’s just..."
He handed the second picture to Fu Lin.
Fu Lin took the graph and looked at the ups and downs of the histogram, without any clue.
"This is the decoding result when you look at the face picture." Cheng Yan pointed to a few of the histograms for comparison, "For women, your decoding is basically normal. That is to say, you can distinguish the length of two women. But here... for men, especially young men, you can hardly decode the different facial features. Ah Lin, just by looking at the faces, you can't tell who is who between two young men."
Fu Lin grasped the two pieces of paper tightly, with panic on his face, and said, "No, how is this possible? Brother Cheng Yan, did you make a mistake? I'm normal, my brain is fine, I can't recognize it Can't recognize..."
She grabbed the hair at the back of her head and shook her head slightly.Judging from the uneasiness in her eyes, she had vaguely guessed the purpose of Cheng Yan's words.
Cheng Yan seemed to expect her to deny it, sighed, and picked up the next three pieces of paper.
"Look at this picture first." What he held in his hand was a printed face of a young man with no beard, hair, clothing or other features. "Have you seen it clearly?"
Fu Lin widened his eyes and nodded.
Cheng Yan put down the piece of paper, took out two at the same time, held one left and one right in front of Fu Lin, and asked, "Which face did you see just now?"
On the paper were the faces of two bald, beardless young men.
Fu Lin's eyes widened even further, and his brows were slightly frowned: "I, I..." She bit her lower lip, her fingers seemed to be curled up, and ten seconds later she hesitated to point to Cheng Yan's left hand. The one you're holding.
Cheng Yan put down the paper in his hand and said softly, "Wrong."
Fu Lin was stunned, and suddenly stood up, wanting to get the two pieces of paper, and said, "I just misread it, let me choose again..."
Cheng Yan pressed her forearm and shook his head.He looked towards the door and raised his voice and said, "You can come in."
The door was pushed open.
Li Dongxing stood outside with a man.The man was tall, with medium-length hair, and wearing a denim jacket.
"Brother!" Fu Lin yelled and wanted to run over. Halfway through the run, as if realizing something, he stopped abruptly and turned his head to look at Cheng Yan.
Cheng Yan stood up with his hands behind his back, and facing the closed door of the lounge, he said, "You come out too."
The door of the rest room opened, and a man came out of it. His height, hairstyle, and clothes were all very similar to the man behind Li Dongxing.
Jiang Yiyou looked at Fu Lin with a complicated expression, and called out, "A Lin..."
Fu Lin looked at him, then at the person at the door, he understood somewhat, and slowly lowered his head.
The man standing at the door took off his wig and coat, threw them into Li Dongxing's hands, and said, "Senior Brother Li, is there nothing to do with me? I have an appointment to play in the afternoon, so let's go first."
His voice is completely different from Jiang Yiyou's. He sounds like a young boy in his twenties, with a layer of conspicuous pimples on his square face. People, besides, Fu Lin and Jiang Yiyou are already so familiar.
That boy was found by Li Dongxing all morning.Cheng Yan came back from the bar yesterday and told Li Dongxing about the photos in Fu Lin's wallet.Li Dongxing understood what Cheng Yan wanted to do. Early this morning, he asked the students in his class to look for the students on the basketball team. He chose the one whose figure was closest to Jiang Yiyou, gave him the prepared wig and coat, and took him to wait. At the door of the laboratory.
This is the last step of Cheng Yan's experiment.
Until now, Fu Lin had to accept this reality.
She did not recognize her brother's face.And Cheng Yan tried so hard to prove this to her, it could only be because of one thing.
"A Lin, I'm sorry... I lied to you." According to the agreement, Jiang Yiyou will tell the truth by himself, "I'm not Fu Song, not your elder brother."
Fu Lin's shoulders shook.
She still lowered her head, no one could see her expression, only she could be seen trembling from neck to shoulder blades.
"My elder brother... is he gone?" After a long time, she said softly.
No one expected her to say it herself.
Cheng Yan glanced at Li Dongxing, and Li Dongxing said, "A Lin, senior brother and I went to inquire about your elder brother a few days ago. He disappeared six years ago."
Fu Lin said, "I know, he's gone."
Her voice was hoarse and empty, like the wind blowing over rough bare rock in a valley.
"Jiangcheng is so big, I ran all over three years ago, how could I never find it?" She said to herself slowly, "One day I ran the last street, it was already dark, I was tired and Hungry, I sat on the ground, and finally burst into tears. At that moment, I knew that my brother was gone. If he was still there, he would have been ignoring me, seeing me like this, ignoring me? I used to As long as he sheds a tear, he will be very distressed. He would rather suffer and suffer than see me suffer a little bit. If the elder brother can't come to see me, then he must be gone. This thought came to my mind, suddenly I thought, why should I stay here? I looked up at these strange streets and thought, there is no big brother in this city, I have to go, I don’t want to study anymore. I just stood up, walked and walked, almost to the overpass I saw a lot of cars, but I didn't want to stop, I was still going. Then someone pulled me. I don't know who pulled it. I turned my head and saw people in the crowd. A shadow. The man was very tall, just like the big brother. I thought it was my big brother, and my big brother is still here! I ran over to chase him, but I ran a few streets, but still couldn't catch him. But I am determined to stay, and I will continue to find my eldest brother."
overpass?Isn't that where Fu Song disappeared last?
When Cheng Yan thought of it, his heart skipped a beat. He didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but he was still shocked by this hidden coincidence.
"Actually, I know... I know that the elder brother I've been looking for all these years is just a shadow. I just don't want to believe... I don't want to believe..." After Fu Lin finished speaking tremblingly, she kept raising her hand to wipe her eyes, but she was still standing Don't move, maybe since she decided to stand up that day, she will never fall down casually.
Jiang Yiyou walked over silently, wanting to hug Fu Lin as usual, but didn't dare. He stretched his hand half way and then lowered it, and said in a shy voice, "A Lin, I'm still here."
Fu Lin didn't look up, but when she heard this, she turned around, hugged Jiang Yiyou just like when they first met, and buried her head in his chest.
☆、Where is my brother going ([-])
Fu Lin's symptoms are similar to those of normal facial agnosia, but not exactly the same.Her left fusiform gyrus function was nearly intact.She recognized everyone else's face except the young man's.
When Mu Mu learned the truth afterwards, he first scolded Cheng Yan bloody, accusing him of deceiving his senior sister and abducting his junior brother, which is really a heinous crime.Afterwards, she touched her face and said with emotion: "Oh, it's good that Ah Lin can still recognize my face, otherwise, wouldn't all her compliments about my beauty be taken seriously?"
Lili followed suit and sighed: "Unfortunately, Sister Fu Lin is destined not to appreciate my beauty."
Cheng Yan endured it, not revealing that she didn't even have her own face, so where did she come from for her beauty?
The structural scan showed that Fu Lin had no brain damage, so her problem was most likely psychogenic.Li Dongxing thought it might be because she subconsciously knew about Fu Song's accident, but she couldn't accept it subjectively, and forced her to continue looking for her brother, thus suppressing the activity of the low-level sensory cortex.Mistaking Jiang Yiyou's face for Fu Song's face may also be a kind of hallucination.If she can go through the diagnosis and treatment of a professional psychiatrist for a certain period of time, she should be able to get better and really see that Jiang Yiyou is Jiang Yiyou, not Fu Song.
Fu Lin accepted this opinion.After paying homage to Fu Song at the cemetery, she said she would gladly register at a mental health center.
In a blink of an eye, the end of the year was approaching, and Jiangcheng University had its winter vacation, so Cheng Yan and the others had a lot of leisure.
Mu Mu returned to her hometown as soon as she was on vacation. According to her, Wang Shasha hadn't given up yet, and had been wandering around the school for half a month, desperately creating various encounters.As soon as he found out that Mu Mu was about to go on summer vacation, he even sent text messages to Mu Mu every three days, asking her to watch a movie today, and asking her to go to the suburbs to collect scenery the next day, and he refused to stop for a day.Mu Mu couldn't take it anymore, in order to avoid police harassment, she didn't dare to delay to buy a high-speed rail ticket, and claimed that her urge to go shopping with her mother had never been so urgent.
They can no longer go to the bar for entertainment for the time being.Fu Lin took Jiang Yiyou back home. It is said that the ticket was bought a month ago, but when it really came home, Jiang Yiyou's identity was no longer that of the eldest brother who had been reunited for a long time.Cheng Yan asked him if he had fulfilled his wish to be promoted to boyfriend?It was rare for Jiang Yiyou to be a little shy, and he only said that every step counts. Fu Lin didn't mind that he kept it a secret for so long, and he was still willing to be friends. He was already very happy.He strongly requested to accompany Fu Lin home this time. He thought that if the old man saw that his daughter was being taken care of, it would be easier for the old man to accept his son's accident.
Cheng Yan never had any plans for vacations, he went to Xiaohonglou or the laboratory every day as usual, ran data and read books, it was the same as not having a vacation.
Li Dongxing once asked him where he planned to celebrate the New Year.
Cheng Yan flipped through the book and replied, "Where else can I be? My home is right here."
Li Dongxing asked, "Where are your uncles and aunts?"
Cheng Yan didn't respond: "They didn't even fly back to China for Christmas, so they wouldn't be interested in coming back to me."
He always suspected that his parents were so busy that they even forgot to have a son.
Before Cheng Yan went abroad, he often spent Chinese New Year with Xu Mowen.Xu Mowen has been single all these years and has no relatives. He is also a master who has nowhere to find someone to reunite during the reunion festival.When it was Chinese New Year, he made a match with the left-behind child Cheng Yan, went out to have a good meal on New Year's Eve, and had a symbolic meal of dumplings on the first day of the new year.Their way of celebrating the New Year with clear soup and little water continued until Mu Mu appeared.
In the first year Mu Mu became Xu Mowen's student, he went to his teacher's house to pay New Year's greetings on the third day of the Lunar New Year, and found that the teacher was not at home.I went to Xiaohonglou to see that Xu Mowen was indeed in the office, accompanied by a high school student with a stinky face.At noon, the big and small sat in the office, holding plastic lunch boxes, eating wontons.As for why he ate wontons, Mu Mu learned from Cheng Yan that it was because the teacher didn't remember to go to the supermarket to buy dumplings until New Year's Eve, and the quick-frozen dumplings were sold out by then, so he had to buy a few boxes of wontons and come back.
"Anyway, they look similar, and they taste the same." Cheng Yan swallowed a wrinkled quick-frozen wonton, and dropped an objective comment.
Mu Mu said that this was too shabby and he couldn't stand it, besides, southerners don't eat dumplings at all during Chinese New Year.Her family lives in the neighboring province of Jiangcheng, so she called home and asked her mother to send an expedited courier, bringing Xu Mowen and Cheng Yan a bunch of rice cake balls with smoked fish feet, plus a pair of Spring Festival couplets. on the door of the room.
When Cheng Yan went abroad, he would no longer be able to eat smoked fish rice cakes, but he would still be bullied by Mu Mu from a distance, and had to post Spring Festival couplets on the bedroom door.Mu Mu even considered forcing him and Xu Mowen to watch the Spring Festival Gala video with her on New Year's Eve.Later, because the expressions of Xu Mowen and Cheng Yan were too indifferent, she had no choice but to give up, and let the two uninterested men go to read the documents while the other did the questions.
This year Mu Mu went home early, and he didn't forget to leave the prepared Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters, and the two left behind must be pasted at the door of the laboratory.She also said that after the posting was completed, Cheng Yan and Li Dongxing would stand on both sides of Fu to take a group photo and send it to the teacher.He imagined himself and his younger brother posing for a photo with the word "Fu", Cheng Yan felt a chill, and rejected the proposal on the spot, hoping that Mu Mu would show mercy when he was eating and drinking at home. He completely forgot about the two of them.
When Cheng Yan thought that this year could pass away so peacefully, on the day of the New Year's Eve, Li Dongxing suddenly asked Cheng Yan embarrassedly early in the morning if he would like to go visit relatives with him.
Cheng Yan thought about it, who else could Li Dongxing's relatives be besides that vicious aunt's family?He immediately agreed. On the one hand, he also wanted to see how divine the woman who was as vicious as the stepmother in the Grimm's fairy tales was. On the other hand, he also wanted to support his junior brother.
It was a cloudy day, and it was extremely cold.Cheng Yan put on his coat and wrapped the scarf. Seeing Li Dongxing put on the black crow down jacket again, he frowned, and took out a light gray coat from the closet that he hadn't worn for a while. Alright, ask Li Dongxing to replace it.
Li Dongxing couldn't hold back his words, so he had to wear his clothes.
The two of them took the New Year's goods bought by Li Dongxing and took the bus to a tube building in the old city.
This tube building looks quite old. There used to be a kindergarten outside, but it has been evacuated long ago. There are only a few painted toy wooden horses left in a messy pile in the open space in front of the door. There are a few dressed like balls. A child is riding on it and playing.
Cheng Yan stood on the path for a while, and asked Li Dongxing, "Did you live here before?"
Li Dongxing shook his head: "I used to live in the family compound next to it, but it was demolished later. At that time, I was already in middle school, and my uncle and aunt moved here."
Cheng Yan frowned: "What a coincidence, I seem to have lived nearby when I was young."
Li Dongxing said in surprise, "Really? Where did the senior brother live?"
Cheng Yan: "Forgot."
His family used to live here, and his mother and Xu Mowen told him about it, so he didn't remember it at all.For him, the only home in Jiangcheng is the apartment opposite Jiangcheng University.
The residents in Tongzilou are quite a few locals, and those who celebrate Chinese New Year stay in Jiangcheng. The narrow corridors are filled with the aroma of food.There is not even an elevator in the building, and the voice-activated lights are just decorations. In addition to the sky, the corridors are pitch-black, and the stairs feel greasy. I don’t know if there are vegetable sticks or something else.Cheng Yan followed Li Dongxing to the sixth floor, and quietly rubbed the soles of his shoes on the last step, but when he turned around, he almost bumped into a one-meter-long spider web hanging from the corner of the wall.
Glancing at Li Dongxing, who was becoming more and more silent along the way, Cheng Yan's sense of morality prevailed. It was rare for his cleanliness to break out, and he didn't complain at all. The hem of his clothes scratched the years of grease stains on the yellowed tiles on the balcony wall.
Li Dongxing stopped at the door of the last room at the end of the corridor.
Before he knocked on the door, a woman came out. She was holding a basin in her hand, which contained black lacquered medicine residue, and was about to pour it out. When she saw Li Dongxing, she was taken aback.
"Dongxing?" She cried happily, raised her rough hand, and grabbed Li Dongxing's arm, "Isn't this our Dongxing? Look, we're getting a little more airy after not seeing you for half a year. Old Li, Dongxing came to see us." Already!"
While she was talking, she enthusiastically pulled Li Dongxing into the house, and as Li Dongxing walked inside, he turned around and called Cheng Yan: "Auntie, I came here with my senior brother."
My aunt poked her head out, saw Cheng Yan, narrowed her small triangular eyes, looked Cheng Yan up and down a few times, and smiled brighter on her fat round face, beckoning, "He Brother, it’s cold outside, so come in quickly.”
Cheng Yan looked at the face of the ordinary woman in front of him, and found that there were not many traces of acrimony, and it was difficult to connect with the numerous evil deeds revealed by Li Dongxing.
In fact, the house is not much warmer than outside.There is no floor heating in the old tube building, let alone the air conditioner. Even if the owner seems to try to block the cold wind by filling the space with messy debris, it still has no effect.There are only two rooms in this house, the kitchen doubles as a utility room, and you can see the bedroom as soon as you walk in the door.The curtains were drawn, drowsily blocking the strong smell of medicine in the room.
There was a little movement from the direction of the bedroom.A man shouted in a hoarse voice, "Winter Walk? Is Winter Walk here?"
Li Dongxing pushed open the half-covered door, walked to the bed, bent down, and called out, "Uncle."
The man on the bed was pressed under several colorful quilts, looking thin and shriveled.Li Dongxing could barely be seen on his withered face. He should have been a handsome man when he was young, but now all his advantages have disappeared with the destruction of his health.He stretched out a hand that was also thin, grabbed Li Dongxing's arm, and said with a smile, "Dongxing, you've lost weight again."
Li Dongxing held his uncle's hand in turn, and said in a low voice, "Uncle, I'm not thin, I'm fine. My senior brother came with me, you see, he usually takes good care of me."
The uncle glanced at Cheng Yan, smiled, pointed outside and said, "Sit down, Dong Xing, let your brother sit down quickly. Do you want to eat oranges?"
He took out a small orange that was as dry as his face from the bedside of his bed, raised his neck and looked at the door, seeing that Aunt Li Dongxing wasn't looking this way, he quickly stuffed it into Li Dongxing's hand, softly "shh "He said, with a secret smile on his face.
Li Dongxing held the orange tightly and said in a low voice, "Thank you uncle."
"I don't have anything good for you." The uncle sighed, staring at Li Dongxing with his cloudy eyes, and lowered his voice, "You are not allowed to send any more money home."
Li Dongxing: "Uncle, that money is for your medical treatment."
The man on the bed shook his head firmly, grabbing Li Dongxing's hand and refused to let go.
Li Dongxing had no choice but to agree vaguely, and comforted his uncle a few more words, put his hands back under the quilt, and came out of the room.
"Dongxing, are you leaving now? Don't you want to stay for a meal?" Aunt Li Dongxing asked as she walked out of the kitchen.
"No, we still have something to do." Li Dongxing led Cheng Yan out of the house.
Holding the spatula, my aunt hurriedly chased it out. When she got to the door, she closed the door first, took Li Dongxing's arm, and whispered, "Dongxing, um, it's the Chinese New Year, and money is a bit tight..."
Li Dongxing said helplessly, "Auntie, most of my monthly research grants have already been sent to you."
The woman raised her eyebrows when she heard that there was no money to be made, and she changed into another person in an instant: "Little bastard, you can afford new clothes, but you don't have the money to treat your uncle? Little heartless, how do you think your uncle's illness came about? It’s not because you are tired. Old Li’s family is also considered unlucky, and all luck has been lost to you..."
Li Dongxing hung his head and said nothing, letting her scold him.
She cursed and cursed, noticed that Cheng Yan was watching, finally took a break, raised her hand to caress Li Dongxing's collar, and said in a different tone: "Dongxing, I know you are a good boy. This is not your uncle Is the illness really costing too much money? Our family has nothing, I have been with Lao Li for most of my life, and I really don’t want to part with it...Your lord has a lot, what did my aunt do to you before, you hate me It’s okay, you can hit me, please help your uncle again?”
As she spoke, she wiped away her tears. Li Dongxing was also a little surprised when she saw her, and was stunned, not knowing what to say.
Cheng Yan stepped forward, without saying a word, and stuffed an envelope into the woman's hand.
My aunt pinched the envelope, and immediately understood, sniffed, and said, "Thank you, brother, thank you, brother."
"Brother?" Li Dongxing was in a hurry, and pulled Cheng Yan's arm, wanting him to get the money back.
Cheng Yan remained indifferent, put his hands back into his pockets, and said, "I'm a junior, so I should give some gift money to elders for New Year's greetings."
"Oh, what a young man who can talk." My aunt pulled up her dirty apron and wiped her face, pulled Li Dongxing's hand, and pushed Cheng Yan's side, "My Dongxing is following senior brother, and Lao Li and I are at ease, rest assured."
Cheng Yan didn't bother to pay attention, nodded at the woman, took Li Dongxing's hand and left.
On the way downstairs, Li Dongxing hurriedly said, "Brother, I'll get the money next month..."
Cheng Yan: "There's no need to pay it back. It's what I want to give."
Li Dongxing frowned: "No."
Cheng Yan sighed, patted him on the shoulder, as if to pat off the smell of oily smoke left by the woman, and said, "Then remember, when the time comes, pay it back together with the rent, will it work?"
To save this kid from muttering that wearing his clothes and using his clothes to live in his house is like being taken care of by him.
Li Dongxing said "Okay" and then said: "I think her tears are sincere. There are some... pitiful."
That woman had at least devoted herself to his uncle all these years.The mouth was a bit broken, but his uncle was seriously ill, and she didn't make any trouble, so she diligently waited on the bedside.
This is probably why he didn't really stop Cheng Yan from giving her money.
Cheng Yan understood how he felt.
That woman was almost Li Dongxing's greatest enemy since he was a child, but now this enemy has suddenly aged and become vulnerable, and even begged for mercy. It's real.
"I'm sorry." Li Dongxing apologized again suddenly. He stood at the door of the building and looked at his toes. "I didn't want you to see this."
Maybe it was because his uncle was dying, and he wanted Cheng Yan to meet his only relative in the world.It may also be because he wanted to take Cheng Yan to find a place close to home to spend a year.
Cheng Yan knew that his junior brother definitely didn't want to betray him.
This tube building is dark and that room is cramped, but Li Dongxing who came out of such an environment
Because of Jiang Yiyou's words, it became more difficult to speak to Fu Lin.
Unlike Fu Lin, Jiang Yiyou may not be Fu Song, which is relatively easy; but different from Fu Lin, his own brother is actually dead, which is not so simple.
Jiang Yiyou and Fu Lin still get along like brothers and sisters. Cheng Yan can tell that Fu Lin really regards Jiang Yiyou as his elder brother and relies more and more on him, and the two are getting closer.
Sometimes Cheng Yan would think, he helped to conceal the news of Fu Song's death, who did this help?
Fu Song gave up healing for the sake of Fu Lin and his mother, and Fu Lin should know about his sacrifice.Cheng Yan had inquired that the homeless who died in Jiangcheng these years, if no relatives could be found, the government would intervene and be buried in a cemetery.Even if Fu Lin couldn't find where Fu Song was buried, she should go to pay homage to him.The smile she is showing to Jiang Yiyou now should be for Fu Song.
But is the person who occupied the magpie's nest happy again?
Once Cheng Yan knew Jiang Yiyou's feelings for Fu Lin, he could see the shadow in that smile.All of this was clearly not what that person wanted.
The closer you get, the harder you endure.
Jiang Yiyou is like the nightingale singing to a sharp thorn.One day, he will be tortured until the last drop of blood is drained from his heart.
As for Fu Lin, she is undoubtedly happy now.However, no one's happiness should be based on lies.Sooner or later, she will know the fact that Fu Song is dead, and then she will not only be sad, but also feel guilty for admitting to the wrong person for so long.
And Cheng Yan and Li Dongxing, if they continue to keep this secret, they will all become liars.
Cheng Yan thought that his junior would not accept this approach.He has a more sense of justice than Cheng Yan.He actually acquiesced in Jiang Yiyou's decision to pretend and didn't tell Fu Lin the truth immediately.
"Secret love is too bitter." Li Li replaced Li Dongxing and said to Cheng Yan, her eyes were red and she pressed her heart, "It hurts so much, we can all feel it."
So Cheng Yan interpreted this as Li Dongxing's sentimentality in order to take care of Lili, so he didn't expose Jiang Yiyou.
The stalemate continued until yet another night when they went drinking at Dionysus.
"What about the winter trip? Still busy?" Mu Mu pushed Chengyan while chewing olives, "Aren't you torturing him too much? You don't know how to restrain yourself, and you always make him overworked."
Cheng Yan gritted his teeth: "...be careful with your wording."
Indeed, since listening to Jiang Yiyou's confession last time, Li Dongxing hasn't been to the bar again.Only Cheng Yan knew the reason.The younger brother is an honest person, and he really feels unable to face Fu Lin.
Neither of them told Mu Mu of this.With the relationship between Mu Mu and Fu Lin, she would never be considerate of Jiang Yiyou, and maybe she would think that he was taking advantage of Fu Lin to take advantage of him and make another big fuss.
Today Jiang Yiyou is teaching Fu Lin to play the guitar.Although he was still holding hands, Jiang Yiyou seemed to keep a certain distance deliberately.Fu Lin was originally wearing a thick shirt, but because it was inconvenient to pluck the strings, he took off the shirt and put it aside.A quarter of an hour later, she got up to go to the bathroom. Jiang Yiyou picked up the shirt from the stool and accidentally knocked the wallet in her front pocket to the ground.
Jiang Yiyou picked up the wallet, walked to Cheng Yan's table, and sighed: "She refuses to ask for salary."
Mu Mu didn't find it strange: "You are her own brother, she thinks what is hers is yours, and it is right to help you."
Jiang Yiyou glanced at Cheng Yan, he was really suffering and couldn't tell.
Cheng Yan suddenly looked at the wallet and asked, "What is this?"
There is a piece of paper with a white border exposed outside the wallet, which looks like an old photo.
Like a ghost, Jiang Yiyou opened the wallet.
Cheng Yan was right, it was indeed a photo.
Both he and Jiang Yiyou were taken aback.
"Hey you two, look at other people's things so hard, put them away quickly!" Mu Mu glared over, trying to grab the wallet.
"Okay, don't look at it, there's nothing to see." Cheng Yan hurriedly closed Fu Lin's wallet and pressed it on the table, "But you didn't say it, Fu Lin's is her brother's, and her brother has a look. No nothing."
Having said that, he pressed the palm of the wallet, but he kept sweating.
Just because that photo is a group photo of two people. In the photo, the little girl about ten years old is seven or eight points similar to Fu Lin today; Jiang Yiyou beside him seemed far away.
☆、Where is brother going ([-])
The boy in the photo has a long and narrow face, with a handsome face, and a pair of red phoenix eyes exactly like Fu Lin.Jiang Yiyou has a typical face with Chinese characters, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and the outline even has a bit of Western abstruseness, which is not too popular.No one would think that the boy and Jiang Yiyou are the same person by looking at the photo.Appearance is largely determined by genes. Even if time passes, as long as there is no external force, one person will not completely become another person.
The boy in the photo is Fu Song, and Fu Song is definitely not Jiang Yiyou.With just one glance, Cheng Yan can be sure.He glanced at Jiang Yiyou and Fu Lin who were chatting and laughing, and felt that the two looked less and less like each other.Originally, they were convinced that Jiang Yiyou looked exactly like Fu Song, but now they saw that he had nothing in common with the Fu brothers and sisters except that he was taller than ordinary people.Then why did Fu Lin be convinced at a glance that Jiang Yiyou belonged to Fu Song?Especially since she clearly carried a photo of her own brother.
Suddenly, Cheng Yan remembered what Fu Lin's roommate said.Fu Lin had also misidentified his elder brother once before, and that man also had a common feature.Tall, he is also tall.Men over 1.9 meters are not seen everywhere on the street. Could it be that after Fu Lin came to Jiangcheng, he only saw two?
Cheng Yan had a hypothesis in mind.
Knowing that Fu Song doesn't look like him, Jiang Yiyou is equally confused.He no longer insisted on pretending to be Fu Song.
"If Fu Lin really has the problem I suspect, then it is also a disease, and she needs to be treated in time." Cheng Yan told him privately, "It's time for her to know the truth, it's good for both of you."
Jiang Yiyou agreed.
The next day, Cheng Yan called Fu Lin to the laboratory.He needed to verify his conjecture first, so that Fu Lin could understand her own situation and accept the facts she was told next.He didn't clearly state the purpose of coming to Fu Lin, he only said that there was an experiment and he wanted Fu Lin to cooperate.Fu Lin was naturally very willing to help, he had no doubts about Cheng Yan's words, obediently changed his clothes and lay down in the MRI scanner.
Cheng Yan sat outside the shielded room, looking at a row of monitors in front of him.Fu Lin's task while lying in the scanner was simple, he just showed her a set of pictures of different faces.Those pictures are of men and women, old and young, all different.A monitor showed Fu Lin's brain imaging.The image is constantly changing and transmitted to another computer in real time.Cheng Yan wrote the program for analyzing the data overnight, so that he could simultaneously decode Fu Lin's brain activity when he looked at the faces.
The experiment lasted about an hour.
Fu Lin is a conscientious and patient person. She performed better than many of Cheng Yan's subjects, with minimal head movement and extremely high data quality.After the experiment was completed, Cheng Yan finished the scan and released Fu Lin from the MRI machine.
Fu Lin got up from the cot, shook his neck, and said to Cheng Yan with a smile, "Brother Cheng Yan, am I okay?"
"Very good." Cheng Yan nodded, "Hurry up and change."
Fu Lin changed back to his clothes, walked to Cheng Yan's side, and was naturally attracted by the brain scan on the screen.
"Is this my brain?" Like everyone else, she couldn't help exclaiming when she saw her brain appear on the screen at first glance.She stared at the three views, touched the back of her head involuntarily, and murmured: "It's really ah, the back of my head is pointed. My mother said it was squeezed out when I was born. Haha, when I was young, my brother hugged it." Me, I still like to rub my head all the time, saying that the pointy ones are really ugly, so I have to wear braids to block it for a long time."
"If you like, I can print a copy for you and take it home as a souvenir. Now that 3D printing technology is popularized, everyone can collect a model of their own brain." Cheng Yan said as he moved the chair beside him. When he got closer, he asked Fu Lin to sit down, "Look, in fact, every part of your brain has been scanned just now. From these images, you can see different areas of your brain." Cheng Yan moved the mouse to change the scan coordinates, motioning Fu Lin to look. "This is the occipital lobe, which is responsible for visual processing. You were just looking at something, so this has been active as well."
Fu Lin looked at the brain area marked orange, and asked a little excitedly: "Brother Cheng Yan, this, can you tell what I was thinking just now when you are outside?"
Cheng Yan looked up at the screen responsible for data processing, and said, "It's not that amazing, but the existing technology can indeed do part of the so-called mind reading. For example, when you look at pictures on it, every time you see a different Pictures, your brain will have a different response. Through this one-to-one correspondence between external stimuli and internal activities, we can find a rough classifier, which is equivalent to mastering the response mode of a certain area of your brain. Then, based on your recorded brain responses, we can infer inversely what you just saw, whether it was a letter X or a letter Y."
Fu Lin half-understood, and let out a soft "wow".
Cheng Yan didn't expect her to fully understand.He said this, at best, just to let Fu Lin understand what he was going to say next.
The computer made a soft "ding" to remind the program of analyzing the data that it had finished running.Cheng Yan glanced at the results and realized that his thinking was completely correct.
Perhaps for the first time, he was not delighted that the experiment had produced the expected results.
"A Lin." He turned to Fu Lin with the printed result picture, "Do you always feel that you can't distinguish other people's faces? Especially... young men's faces?"
Fu Lin was stunned.She looked away from the novel brain images, and twisted her hands together in her lap.After a few seconds, she asked softly, "Brother Cheng Yan, what does this mean?"
Cheng Yan first handed one of the pictures to Fu Lin, pointed to a bright spot on the brain, and said, "This is your left fusiform gyrus. As I just said, each area of the brain has a division of labor. This part is the area that specifically reacts to human faces. Your reaction is a little weaker than that of ordinary people, but it’s not without it. It’s just..."
He handed the second picture to Fu Lin.
Fu Lin took the graph and looked at the ups and downs of the histogram, without any clue.
"This is the decoding result when you look at the face picture." Cheng Yan pointed to a few of the histograms for comparison, "For women, your decoding is basically normal. That is to say, you can distinguish the length of two women. But here... for men, especially young men, you can hardly decode the different facial features. Ah Lin, just by looking at the faces, you can't tell who is who between two young men."
Fu Lin grasped the two pieces of paper tightly, with panic on his face, and said, "No, how is this possible? Brother Cheng Yan, did you make a mistake? I'm normal, my brain is fine, I can't recognize it Can't recognize..."
She grabbed the hair at the back of her head and shook her head slightly.Judging from the uneasiness in her eyes, she had vaguely guessed the purpose of Cheng Yan's words.
Cheng Yan seemed to expect her to deny it, sighed, and picked up the next three pieces of paper.
"Look at this picture first." What he held in his hand was a printed face of a young man with no beard, hair, clothing or other features. "Have you seen it clearly?"
Fu Lin widened his eyes and nodded.
Cheng Yan put down the piece of paper, took out two at the same time, held one left and one right in front of Fu Lin, and asked, "Which face did you see just now?"
On the paper were the faces of two bald, beardless young men.
Fu Lin's eyes widened even further, and his brows were slightly frowned: "I, I..." She bit her lower lip, her fingers seemed to be curled up, and ten seconds later she hesitated to point to Cheng Yan's left hand. The one you're holding.
Cheng Yan put down the paper in his hand and said softly, "Wrong."
Fu Lin was stunned, and suddenly stood up, wanting to get the two pieces of paper, and said, "I just misread it, let me choose again..."
Cheng Yan pressed her forearm and shook his head.He looked towards the door and raised his voice and said, "You can come in."
The door was pushed open.
Li Dongxing stood outside with a man.The man was tall, with medium-length hair, and wearing a denim jacket.
"Brother!" Fu Lin yelled and wanted to run over. Halfway through the run, as if realizing something, he stopped abruptly and turned his head to look at Cheng Yan.
Cheng Yan stood up with his hands behind his back, and facing the closed door of the lounge, he said, "You come out too."
The door of the rest room opened, and a man came out of it. His height, hairstyle, and clothes were all very similar to the man behind Li Dongxing.
Jiang Yiyou looked at Fu Lin with a complicated expression, and called out, "A Lin..."
Fu Lin looked at him, then at the person at the door, he understood somewhat, and slowly lowered his head.
The man standing at the door took off his wig and coat, threw them into Li Dongxing's hands, and said, "Senior Brother Li, is there nothing to do with me? I have an appointment to play in the afternoon, so let's go first."
His voice is completely different from Jiang Yiyou's. He sounds like a young boy in his twenties, with a layer of conspicuous pimples on his square face. People, besides, Fu Lin and Jiang Yiyou are already so familiar.
That boy was found by Li Dongxing all morning.Cheng Yan came back from the bar yesterday and told Li Dongxing about the photos in Fu Lin's wallet.Li Dongxing understood what Cheng Yan wanted to do. Early this morning, he asked the students in his class to look for the students on the basketball team. He chose the one whose figure was closest to Jiang Yiyou, gave him the prepared wig and coat, and took him to wait. At the door of the laboratory.
This is the last step of Cheng Yan's experiment.
Until now, Fu Lin had to accept this reality.
She did not recognize her brother's face.And Cheng Yan tried so hard to prove this to her, it could only be because of one thing.
"A Lin, I'm sorry... I lied to you." According to the agreement, Jiang Yiyou will tell the truth by himself, "I'm not Fu Song, not your elder brother."
Fu Lin's shoulders shook.
She still lowered her head, no one could see her expression, only she could be seen trembling from neck to shoulder blades.
"My elder brother... is he gone?" After a long time, she said softly.
No one expected her to say it herself.
Cheng Yan glanced at Li Dongxing, and Li Dongxing said, "A Lin, senior brother and I went to inquire about your elder brother a few days ago. He disappeared six years ago."
Fu Lin said, "I know, he's gone."
Her voice was hoarse and empty, like the wind blowing over rough bare rock in a valley.
"Jiangcheng is so big, I ran all over three years ago, how could I never find it?" She said to herself slowly, "One day I ran the last street, it was already dark, I was tired and Hungry, I sat on the ground, and finally burst into tears. At that moment, I knew that my brother was gone. If he was still there, he would have been ignoring me, seeing me like this, ignoring me? I used to As long as he sheds a tear, he will be very distressed. He would rather suffer and suffer than see me suffer a little bit. If the elder brother can't come to see me, then he must be gone. This thought came to my mind, suddenly I thought, why should I stay here? I looked up at these strange streets and thought, there is no big brother in this city, I have to go, I don’t want to study anymore. I just stood up, walked and walked, almost to the overpass I saw a lot of cars, but I didn't want to stop, I was still going. Then someone pulled me. I don't know who pulled it. I turned my head and saw people in the crowd. A shadow. The man was very tall, just like the big brother. I thought it was my big brother, and my big brother is still here! I ran over to chase him, but I ran a few streets, but still couldn't catch him. But I am determined to stay, and I will continue to find my eldest brother."
overpass?Isn't that where Fu Song disappeared last?
When Cheng Yan thought of it, his heart skipped a beat. He didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but he was still shocked by this hidden coincidence.
"Actually, I know... I know that the elder brother I've been looking for all these years is just a shadow. I just don't want to believe... I don't want to believe..." After Fu Lin finished speaking tremblingly, she kept raising her hand to wipe her eyes, but she was still standing Don't move, maybe since she decided to stand up that day, she will never fall down casually.
Jiang Yiyou walked over silently, wanting to hug Fu Lin as usual, but didn't dare. He stretched his hand half way and then lowered it, and said in a shy voice, "A Lin, I'm still here."
Fu Lin didn't look up, but when she heard this, she turned around, hugged Jiang Yiyou just like when they first met, and buried her head in his chest.
☆、Where is my brother going ([-])
Fu Lin's symptoms are similar to those of normal facial agnosia, but not exactly the same.Her left fusiform gyrus function was nearly intact.She recognized everyone else's face except the young man's.
When Mu Mu learned the truth afterwards, he first scolded Cheng Yan bloody, accusing him of deceiving his senior sister and abducting his junior brother, which is really a heinous crime.Afterwards, she touched her face and said with emotion: "Oh, it's good that Ah Lin can still recognize my face, otherwise, wouldn't all her compliments about my beauty be taken seriously?"
Lili followed suit and sighed: "Unfortunately, Sister Fu Lin is destined not to appreciate my beauty."
Cheng Yan endured it, not revealing that she didn't even have her own face, so where did she come from for her beauty?
The structural scan showed that Fu Lin had no brain damage, so her problem was most likely psychogenic.Li Dongxing thought it might be because she subconsciously knew about Fu Song's accident, but she couldn't accept it subjectively, and forced her to continue looking for her brother, thus suppressing the activity of the low-level sensory cortex.Mistaking Jiang Yiyou's face for Fu Song's face may also be a kind of hallucination.If she can go through the diagnosis and treatment of a professional psychiatrist for a certain period of time, she should be able to get better and really see that Jiang Yiyou is Jiang Yiyou, not Fu Song.
Fu Lin accepted this opinion.After paying homage to Fu Song at the cemetery, she said she would gladly register at a mental health center.
In a blink of an eye, the end of the year was approaching, and Jiangcheng University had its winter vacation, so Cheng Yan and the others had a lot of leisure.
Mu Mu returned to her hometown as soon as she was on vacation. According to her, Wang Shasha hadn't given up yet, and had been wandering around the school for half a month, desperately creating various encounters.As soon as he found out that Mu Mu was about to go on summer vacation, he even sent text messages to Mu Mu every three days, asking her to watch a movie today, and asking her to go to the suburbs to collect scenery the next day, and he refused to stop for a day.Mu Mu couldn't take it anymore, in order to avoid police harassment, she didn't dare to delay to buy a high-speed rail ticket, and claimed that her urge to go shopping with her mother had never been so urgent.
They can no longer go to the bar for entertainment for the time being.Fu Lin took Jiang Yiyou back home. It is said that the ticket was bought a month ago, but when it really came home, Jiang Yiyou's identity was no longer that of the eldest brother who had been reunited for a long time.Cheng Yan asked him if he had fulfilled his wish to be promoted to boyfriend?It was rare for Jiang Yiyou to be a little shy, and he only said that every step counts. Fu Lin didn't mind that he kept it a secret for so long, and he was still willing to be friends. He was already very happy.He strongly requested to accompany Fu Lin home this time. He thought that if the old man saw that his daughter was being taken care of, it would be easier for the old man to accept his son's accident.
Cheng Yan never had any plans for vacations, he went to Xiaohonglou or the laboratory every day as usual, ran data and read books, it was the same as not having a vacation.
Li Dongxing once asked him where he planned to celebrate the New Year.
Cheng Yan flipped through the book and replied, "Where else can I be? My home is right here."
Li Dongxing asked, "Where are your uncles and aunts?"
Cheng Yan didn't respond: "They didn't even fly back to China for Christmas, so they wouldn't be interested in coming back to me."
He always suspected that his parents were so busy that they even forgot to have a son.
Before Cheng Yan went abroad, he often spent Chinese New Year with Xu Mowen.Xu Mowen has been single all these years and has no relatives. He is also a master who has nowhere to find someone to reunite during the reunion festival.When it was Chinese New Year, he made a match with the left-behind child Cheng Yan, went out to have a good meal on New Year's Eve, and had a symbolic meal of dumplings on the first day of the new year.Their way of celebrating the New Year with clear soup and little water continued until Mu Mu appeared.
In the first year Mu Mu became Xu Mowen's student, he went to his teacher's house to pay New Year's greetings on the third day of the Lunar New Year, and found that the teacher was not at home.I went to Xiaohonglou to see that Xu Mowen was indeed in the office, accompanied by a high school student with a stinky face.At noon, the big and small sat in the office, holding plastic lunch boxes, eating wontons.As for why he ate wontons, Mu Mu learned from Cheng Yan that it was because the teacher didn't remember to go to the supermarket to buy dumplings until New Year's Eve, and the quick-frozen dumplings were sold out by then, so he had to buy a few boxes of wontons and come back.
"Anyway, they look similar, and they taste the same." Cheng Yan swallowed a wrinkled quick-frozen wonton, and dropped an objective comment.
Mu Mu said that this was too shabby and he couldn't stand it, besides, southerners don't eat dumplings at all during Chinese New Year.Her family lives in the neighboring province of Jiangcheng, so she called home and asked her mother to send an expedited courier, bringing Xu Mowen and Cheng Yan a bunch of rice cake balls with smoked fish feet, plus a pair of Spring Festival couplets. on the door of the room.
When Cheng Yan went abroad, he would no longer be able to eat smoked fish rice cakes, but he would still be bullied by Mu Mu from a distance, and had to post Spring Festival couplets on the bedroom door.Mu Mu even considered forcing him and Xu Mowen to watch the Spring Festival Gala video with her on New Year's Eve.Later, because the expressions of Xu Mowen and Cheng Yan were too indifferent, she had no choice but to give up, and let the two uninterested men go to read the documents while the other did the questions.
This year Mu Mu went home early, and he didn't forget to leave the prepared Spring Festival couplets and blessing characters, and the two left behind must be pasted at the door of the laboratory.She also said that after the posting was completed, Cheng Yan and Li Dongxing would stand on both sides of Fu to take a group photo and send it to the teacher.He imagined himself and his younger brother posing for a photo with the word "Fu", Cheng Yan felt a chill, and rejected the proposal on the spot, hoping that Mu Mu would show mercy when he was eating and drinking at home. He completely forgot about the two of them.
When Cheng Yan thought that this year could pass away so peacefully, on the day of the New Year's Eve, Li Dongxing suddenly asked Cheng Yan embarrassedly early in the morning if he would like to go visit relatives with him.
Cheng Yan thought about it, who else could Li Dongxing's relatives be besides that vicious aunt's family?He immediately agreed. On the one hand, he also wanted to see how divine the woman who was as vicious as the stepmother in the Grimm's fairy tales was. On the other hand, he also wanted to support his junior brother.
It was a cloudy day, and it was extremely cold.Cheng Yan put on his coat and wrapped the scarf. Seeing Li Dongxing put on the black crow down jacket again, he frowned, and took out a light gray coat from the closet that he hadn't worn for a while. Alright, ask Li Dongxing to replace it.
Li Dongxing couldn't hold back his words, so he had to wear his clothes.
The two of them took the New Year's goods bought by Li Dongxing and took the bus to a tube building in the old city.
This tube building looks quite old. There used to be a kindergarten outside, but it has been evacuated long ago. There are only a few painted toy wooden horses left in a messy pile in the open space in front of the door. There are a few dressed like balls. A child is riding on it and playing.
Cheng Yan stood on the path for a while, and asked Li Dongxing, "Did you live here before?"
Li Dongxing shook his head: "I used to live in the family compound next to it, but it was demolished later. At that time, I was already in middle school, and my uncle and aunt moved here."
Cheng Yan frowned: "What a coincidence, I seem to have lived nearby when I was young."
Li Dongxing said in surprise, "Really? Where did the senior brother live?"
Cheng Yan: "Forgot."
His family used to live here, and his mother and Xu Mowen told him about it, so he didn't remember it at all.For him, the only home in Jiangcheng is the apartment opposite Jiangcheng University.
The residents in Tongzilou are quite a few locals, and those who celebrate Chinese New Year stay in Jiangcheng. The narrow corridors are filled with the aroma of food.There is not even an elevator in the building, and the voice-activated lights are just decorations. In addition to the sky, the corridors are pitch-black, and the stairs feel greasy. I don’t know if there are vegetable sticks or something else.Cheng Yan followed Li Dongxing to the sixth floor, and quietly rubbed the soles of his shoes on the last step, but when he turned around, he almost bumped into a one-meter-long spider web hanging from the corner of the wall.
Glancing at Li Dongxing, who was becoming more and more silent along the way, Cheng Yan's sense of morality prevailed. It was rare for his cleanliness to break out, and he didn't complain at all. The hem of his clothes scratched the years of grease stains on the yellowed tiles on the balcony wall.
Li Dongxing stopped at the door of the last room at the end of the corridor.
Before he knocked on the door, a woman came out. She was holding a basin in her hand, which contained black lacquered medicine residue, and was about to pour it out. When she saw Li Dongxing, she was taken aback.
"Dongxing?" She cried happily, raised her rough hand, and grabbed Li Dongxing's arm, "Isn't this our Dongxing? Look, we're getting a little more airy after not seeing you for half a year. Old Li, Dongxing came to see us." Already!"
While she was talking, she enthusiastically pulled Li Dongxing into the house, and as Li Dongxing walked inside, he turned around and called Cheng Yan: "Auntie, I came here with my senior brother."
My aunt poked her head out, saw Cheng Yan, narrowed her small triangular eyes, looked Cheng Yan up and down a few times, and smiled brighter on her fat round face, beckoning, "He Brother, it’s cold outside, so come in quickly.”
Cheng Yan looked at the face of the ordinary woman in front of him, and found that there were not many traces of acrimony, and it was difficult to connect with the numerous evil deeds revealed by Li Dongxing.
In fact, the house is not much warmer than outside.There is no floor heating in the old tube building, let alone the air conditioner. Even if the owner seems to try to block the cold wind by filling the space with messy debris, it still has no effect.There are only two rooms in this house, the kitchen doubles as a utility room, and you can see the bedroom as soon as you walk in the door.The curtains were drawn, drowsily blocking the strong smell of medicine in the room.
There was a little movement from the direction of the bedroom.A man shouted in a hoarse voice, "Winter Walk? Is Winter Walk here?"
Li Dongxing pushed open the half-covered door, walked to the bed, bent down, and called out, "Uncle."
The man on the bed was pressed under several colorful quilts, looking thin and shriveled.Li Dongxing could barely be seen on his withered face. He should have been a handsome man when he was young, but now all his advantages have disappeared with the destruction of his health.He stretched out a hand that was also thin, grabbed Li Dongxing's arm, and said with a smile, "Dongxing, you've lost weight again."
Li Dongxing held his uncle's hand in turn, and said in a low voice, "Uncle, I'm not thin, I'm fine. My senior brother came with me, you see, he usually takes good care of me."
The uncle glanced at Cheng Yan, smiled, pointed outside and said, "Sit down, Dong Xing, let your brother sit down quickly. Do you want to eat oranges?"
He took out a small orange that was as dry as his face from the bedside of his bed, raised his neck and looked at the door, seeing that Aunt Li Dongxing wasn't looking this way, he quickly stuffed it into Li Dongxing's hand, softly "shh "He said, with a secret smile on his face.
Li Dongxing held the orange tightly and said in a low voice, "Thank you uncle."
"I don't have anything good for you." The uncle sighed, staring at Li Dongxing with his cloudy eyes, and lowered his voice, "You are not allowed to send any more money home."
Li Dongxing: "Uncle, that money is for your medical treatment."
The man on the bed shook his head firmly, grabbing Li Dongxing's hand and refused to let go.
Li Dongxing had no choice but to agree vaguely, and comforted his uncle a few more words, put his hands back under the quilt, and came out of the room.
"Dongxing, are you leaving now? Don't you want to stay for a meal?" Aunt Li Dongxing asked as she walked out of the kitchen.
"No, we still have something to do." Li Dongxing led Cheng Yan out of the house.
Holding the spatula, my aunt hurriedly chased it out. When she got to the door, she closed the door first, took Li Dongxing's arm, and whispered, "Dongxing, um, it's the Chinese New Year, and money is a bit tight..."
Li Dongxing said helplessly, "Auntie, most of my monthly research grants have already been sent to you."
The woman raised her eyebrows when she heard that there was no money to be made, and she changed into another person in an instant: "Little bastard, you can afford new clothes, but you don't have the money to treat your uncle? Little heartless, how do you think your uncle's illness came about? It’s not because you are tired. Old Li’s family is also considered unlucky, and all luck has been lost to you..."
Li Dongxing hung his head and said nothing, letting her scold him.
She cursed and cursed, noticed that Cheng Yan was watching, finally took a break, raised her hand to caress Li Dongxing's collar, and said in a different tone: "Dongxing, I know you are a good boy. This is not your uncle Is the illness really costing too much money? Our family has nothing, I have been with Lao Li for most of my life, and I really don’t want to part with it...Your lord has a lot, what did my aunt do to you before, you hate me It’s okay, you can hit me, please help your uncle again?”
As she spoke, she wiped away her tears. Li Dongxing was also a little surprised when she saw her, and was stunned, not knowing what to say.
Cheng Yan stepped forward, without saying a word, and stuffed an envelope into the woman's hand.
My aunt pinched the envelope, and immediately understood, sniffed, and said, "Thank you, brother, thank you, brother."
"Brother?" Li Dongxing was in a hurry, and pulled Cheng Yan's arm, wanting him to get the money back.
Cheng Yan remained indifferent, put his hands back into his pockets, and said, "I'm a junior, so I should give some gift money to elders for New Year's greetings."
"Oh, what a young man who can talk." My aunt pulled up her dirty apron and wiped her face, pulled Li Dongxing's hand, and pushed Cheng Yan's side, "My Dongxing is following senior brother, and Lao Li and I are at ease, rest assured."
Cheng Yan didn't bother to pay attention, nodded at the woman, took Li Dongxing's hand and left.
On the way downstairs, Li Dongxing hurriedly said, "Brother, I'll get the money next month..."
Cheng Yan: "There's no need to pay it back. It's what I want to give."
Li Dongxing frowned: "No."
Cheng Yan sighed, patted him on the shoulder, as if to pat off the smell of oily smoke left by the woman, and said, "Then remember, when the time comes, pay it back together with the rent, will it work?"
To save this kid from muttering that wearing his clothes and using his clothes to live in his house is like being taken care of by him.
Li Dongxing said "Okay" and then said: "I think her tears are sincere. There are some... pitiful."
That woman had at least devoted herself to his uncle all these years.The mouth was a bit broken, but his uncle was seriously ill, and she didn't make any trouble, so she diligently waited on the bedside.
This is probably why he didn't really stop Cheng Yan from giving her money.
Cheng Yan understood how he felt.
That woman was almost Li Dongxing's greatest enemy since he was a child, but now this enemy has suddenly aged and become vulnerable, and even begged for mercy. It's real.
"I'm sorry." Li Dongxing apologized again suddenly. He stood at the door of the building and looked at his toes. "I didn't want you to see this."
Maybe it was because his uncle was dying, and he wanted Cheng Yan to meet his only relative in the world.It may also be because he wanted to take Cheng Yan to find a place close to home to spend a year.
Cheng Yan knew that his junior brother definitely didn't want to betray him.
This tube building is dark and that room is cramped, but Li Dongxing who came out of such an environment
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