soul mate

After dinner, Lu Yunqi watched Qin Zhen and his son drink a whole pot of bayberry wine, and was startled.Father Qin's face was a little drunk, and he spoke with a stupefied tone, but Qin Zhen didn't change his face, and he could chat with Mother Qin freely.

Protected by Qin Zhen, Lu Yunqi only drank the small half of the glass and didn't drink any more wine. However, after the meal, the stamina of the wine came up, and his head was still a little dizzy.Qin Zhen let him sit on the sofa to rest for a while, and then peeled an orange to sober him up. When he felt better, Qin's mother packed up his things, settled Qin's father, and led them out together.

Going for a walk after dinner is an unshakable rule of Qin's mother. Qin Zhen will go home with his mother whenever he has time. This time, together with Lu Yunqi, the three of them lined up on the road that is not spacious , From a distance, it actually looks a little imposing.After walking for a while, Qin's mother pulled Lu Yunqi to the front, leaving Qin Zhen behind so as not to block the way of others, so Qin Zhen could only follow slowly, listening to her mother's greetings to Lu Yunqi.

"Xiao Lu is from City A?"

"Ah."

"Will you not get used to coming to our ravine?"

"Why? It's pretty good here, the air is much better than in the city." Lu Yunqi replied, "Auntie's dishes are also delicious, much better than my mother's."

Mother Qin smiled and shook her head: "Where? It's just some simple home cooking."

Lu Yunqi said, "My mother can only cook noodles and quick-frozen dumplings."

Mother Qin pointed at Qin Zhen: "Same as him?"

Lu Yunqi smiled and nodded: "Yes."

It was past nine o'clock when they returned home from their walk. Qin's mother went back to bed after taking a shower, and let the two of them sit in the living room and watch TV.Seeing that Qin's mother had finished washing, Qin Zhen turned to Lu Yunqi and asked, "Go take a bath first?"

Lu Yunqi|Nodding, Qin Zhen took him to the bathroom and briefly explained how to use the water heater.

After Lu Yunqi finished washing, Qin Zhen handed him a dry towel and a hair dryer, and took his pajamas to take a bath.After taking a shower, there was no one in the living room, only a small light was still on in the aisle, Qin Zhen turned off the light, and walked back to his room familiarly.

The light was on in the room, Lu Yunqi sat on the bed and was still awake, Qin Zhen walked to the other side of the bed, reached out to touch Lu Yunqi's hair after getting on the bed.

"Why don't you sleep? Can't you sleep?"

Lu Yunqi turned to look at him, hesitated for a while before asking: "...Does your father dislike me?"

Qin Zhen froze for a moment, then chuckled: "What are you thinking about? Just because of drinking tonight?"

Lu Yunqi bowed his head and acquiesced.

Qin Zhen explained: "My dad is like this. He likes to pull people to drink. My mother often said that he was reincarnated as an alcoholic. If you don't drink well, drink less. Don't spoil him. He won't be upset because of such trivial things. I like you."

Hearing what he said, Lu Yunqi finally felt slightly relieved. Qin Zhen turned off the big lights in the room, leaving only a small lamp beside the bed, and asked, "Sleep?"

Lu Yunqi yawned, nodded and shrank into the quilt, and put his arms around his waist.

When Qin Zhen woke up the next day, the seat beside him was already empty. He rubbed his eyes and walked out of the room, and sure enough, he saw Lu Yunqi in the kitchen.Qin's mother came out with a plate containing four fried eggs, and when she saw Qin Zhen, she said, "Are you up? Just go and wake up your dad, and we'll have dinner later."

After Qin Zhen finished washing, he went to his parents' bedroom to wake up Qin's father, and the family sat at the dining table to have breakfast.Father Qin picked up a fried egg and put it in his own bowl. After looking at it for a long time, he asked Lu Yunqi, "You made this?"

Lu Yunqi nodded anxiously, almost wanting to put down his chopsticks and sit upright to wait for Qin's father to comment.

Qin's father slowly took a bite of the fried egg, as if tasting it slowly, Qin's mother glanced at him angrily, and he said with a smile: "It tastes good!"

Lu Yunqi breathed a sigh of relief.

The next day, Qin's mother was going to the supermarket to do some shopping, so Qin Zhen and Lu Yunqi naturally wanted to work as coolies.Qin's father asked a friend to borrow a car, and Qin Zhen drove Qin's mother and Lu Yunqi to a nearby supermarket.

During the eleventh holiday, the supermarket was naturally crowded with people. Lu Yunqi took the initiative to push a shopping cart, and followed Qin's mother with Qin Zhen.There are many things in the supermarket that are on sale. The two of them accompanied Qin's mother to look at the shelves one by one. It didn't take long for the shopping cart to be full of things.

When they walked to the fresh food area, they met Sun Jing and Qian Ning.Sun Jing was pushing a shopping cart, and there were a lot of things piled up in the cart. They stopped in front of a row of vegetables. Qian Ning held a cabbage in his hand, and seemed to be asking Sun Jing for his opinion.

"Come to buy new year's goods?"

Qian Ning looked up to see them, and smiled on his face: "Ah, what a coincidence, you are back too! Aunt Qin is good." Then he turned around and saw Lu Yunqi pushing a shopping cart, and was a little surprised: "Little Lu also Come!"

Sun Jing also said hello to Mother Qin: "Aunt Qin."

Mother Qin nodded with a smile: "You guys are here to buy things too!"

Qian Ning's eyes lit up, and he handed the cabbage in front of Qin's mother: "Aunt Qin, help us choose a cabbage! Sun Jing and I are not very good at choosing."

"Okay." Mother Qin took the cabbage in his hand with a smile, and stood in front of the cabbage shelf and began to pick and choose.Qin Zhen glanced at the items in Sun Jing's shopping cart and asked, "Why are you back this year's November?"

Qian Ning replied: "My mother always called us to come back and take a look, and she came back. What about you? Did you bring Xiao Lu here to meet your parents?"

Qin Zhen nodded, and asked again: "Auntie will let you go out to buy vegetables?"

Qian Ning elbowed Sun Jing beside him: "Isn't he still here?"

Mother Qin quickly took two pieces of cabbage in her hand and asked Qian Ning, "Xiao Ning, do you want a bigger one or a smaller one?"

Qian Ning took the smaller one: "This one is fine, thank you Auntie!"

Qin's mother waved her hands with a smile. Qian Ning and Sun Jing had almost finished shopping, so they pushed the shopping carts to the cashier first.Qin's mother continued to walk forward, just as Lu Yunqi was about to push the cart to follow, Qin Zhen stretched out his hand: "Let me come, one person pushes half of the way."

Lu Yunqi wanted to say something, but Qin's mother noticed that the two of them hadn't followed, so she turned her head and waved to Lu Yunqi: "Xiao Lu, come and help me pick apples."

Lu Yunqi hurriedly walked over.

Qin's mother stood in front of the apple stand and told him some fruit picking skills while Lu Yunqi listened carefully. Qin Zhen slowly pushed the cart and walked over, just in time to hear Qin's mother praise Lu Yunqi in satisfaction: "You Much better than Xiaozhen, I don’t know how many times I’ve taught him before, but he just can’t learn it, and there are not many fruits I bought that are edible..."

When Lu Yunqi looked up and saw Qin Zhen, Qin Zhen unnaturally shifted his eyes to other places.

At noon, Lu Yunqi helped Qin's mother to cook. After the family had finished their lunch, Qin's mother waved them away: "Xiaozhen, take Xiaolu around the county, don't stay at home all day."

Qin Zhen led Lu Yunqi out the door, but he didn't know where to go when he reached the gate of the yard. After thinking about it, he turned around and asked Lu Yunqi, "Is there anything you want to go to?"

Lu Yunqi thought for a moment and replied, "Can I visit your old school?"

"of course."

Qin Zhen's elementary school in his hometown is County No. 10 Middle School, and his junior high school is the County No. [-] Middle School next door. His study is not far from where he lives, and he can walk there in [-] minutes.At this time, there were not many students in the school because of the holiday, and No. [-] Middle School still retained some boarding students from nearby towns to study at the school, but No. [-] No. [-] Middle School was empty, even the gates were closed tightly.Qin Zhen led Lu Yunqi around a corner, and sure enough, he saw an open side door in a hidden corner, and led someone in through the side door.

In fact, there was nothing to visit in the school. The two of them walked around the playground and looked in front of the teaching building.

"This building was newly built a few years ago," Qin Zhen said. "The old classrooms have been demolished."

Lu Yunqi|Nodded, took his hand and walked around the campus for a while, the warm sunlight shone on them through the gaps between the dense branches and leaves of the old pagoda tree.

Lu Yunqi said: "This tree looks very old."

Qin Zhen nodded: "It was here when I was a child."

They walked near the root of the tree, but saw someone had carved words on the bark.The characters were crooked and ugly, mottled because of the peeling bark, and they could only be vaguely recognized as the names of two people, with a heart drawn in the middle.

Qin Zhen couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "The children of today..."

There is a doorman guarding the No. [-] middle school next door, and registration is required when entering. Qin Zhen filled in the column of "visiting Teacher Ye Yun" on the reason column. The doorman came over and took a look, and said, "Ah, come to see Teacher Ye! It's time to retire!"

Qin Zhen was a little dazed, and the guard waved at them: "Are you former students? If you want to see it, go in and have a look!"

After so many years, some places in the school are still the same, but some corners have changed.Qin Zhen led Lu Yunqi around the campus, feeling that this place was both familiar and strange.On the bulletin board in front of the teaching building, there is a slightly faded "Roll of Honor", recording the results of the senior high school entrance examination and college entrance examination of this group of students who graduated in June this year. Lu Yunqi stood in front of the bulletin board and looked at it for a while, then turned his eyes to Qin Zhen, Qin Zhen didn't wait for him to speak, and said, "When we graduated, there was no tradition of posting honor rolls."

As he spoke, his gaze swept across the campus, filled with emotion.

The row of magnolias in front of the teaching building is much thicker, with luxuriant branches and leaves, and the vigorous growth under the tree is not the winter jasmine in memory, but another unknown shrub; the teaching building It is still the same, the walls have experienced countless wind and rain, and they have become very old. The office building that stood next to the teaching building has disappeared, and a small garden has replaced it.

——Time was unwilling to pass away alone, so when he left, he also quietly took away some other things, and it was not only these flowers and plants and this campus that were changed by time.

Qin Zhen's gaze fell back on Lu Yunqi, feeling at ease for some reason.Seeing that he stayed there for a long time, Lu Yunqi asked worriedly, "What's wrong?"

Qin Zhen shook his head and smiled at him: "It's nothing."