Growth pain

As an out-and-out outsider, Lu Shining relied on his relationship with Yuan Sen to sit in a high-profile position, so the price he paid would naturally be much higher, and he would have to endure double the torment. past.

When Yin Hao talked, he poured out baskets and baskets, and Pei Twenty, who was sitting next to him, seemed taciturn. He stopped talking after saying hello to Lu Shining, and occasionally picked up his mobile phone to send a few voice messages to talk about work matters.But even Zhao Shengnan, who is like a marginal person, can occasionally insert a sentence or two.

Lu Shining kept silent the whole time and fed himself up before the topic was brought to him.

It was Su Yunle who discovered it first, "Hey, the little deer didn't talk much."

Lu Shining immediately picked up a wisecrack, "Because I have to eat enough to have the strength to speak."

Su Yunle smiled, and ran her slender fingers over her shoulder-length hair.She has a mature charm unique to women.Naturally, Yuansen and Yuansen are a good match, and there is absolutely no such thing as unworthy.

Lu Shining picked up the smooth and tender egg custard with chopsticks, and picked it up a second time before picking it up.There was an extra hand beside him, and he scooped up a large piece with a male spoon and put it into his bowl.

"Why are you so dazed?"

"I'm not in a daze."

This was the second time Lu Shining retorted, and there was a kind of stubbornness in the answer, and he quickly restrained himself, moved his chopsticks back to poke the surface of the egg custard, "Thank you."

Yuan Sen hardly moved his chopsticks, or he was full before Lu Shining came. He listened to a few jokes from his school days, and occasionally added a few words.Su Yunle is also a complement, and there is an invisible tacit understanding between the two.

Lu Shining positioned himself in the ranks of those who don't need to spend money to eat and drink, and felt much better instantly. He ate all the dishes he liked and didn't like in the past, and he didn't stop until he felt a heavy satiety in his stomach.

He didn't regret agreeing to Yuan Sen to come here.

Yuan Sen also said earlier that this is punishment.

"Why don't you sit together?" Lu Shining had time to ask questions, meaning he wanted to escape as soon as possible.

"Why are you sitting with him?" Su Yunle's answer was not what he wanted, and neither was the following sentence. "I'd rather talk to you."

Today you can challenge how hypocritical human nature is.Lu Shining then obediently said: "Okay, what does Sister Yun Le want to tell me?"

Su Yunle was delighted with this title, and the smile on her face was bigger, "I don't know if you remember, this is not the first time we met."

She was brewing a surprise and leaned forward.Lu Shining stepped back instinctively and bumped into Yuan Sen's shoulder.

Yuan Sen was not interested in the topic of the two of them, he didn't know who he was avoiding, he sat with Lu Shining but kept a certain distance, and the distance shortened a little bit during the conversation.

The first thing Lu Shining said when he turned his head was: "Otherwise, I'd better move."

"Why?" Yuan Sen's tone was impatient, "Where else do you want to go, just sit down."

Lu Shining had no reason to accept the anger that had nothing to do with him, so he didn't say anything more after hearing this.Until Su Yunle said: "I used Yuan Sen's mobile phone to call you."

Lu Shining didn't say a word at first, but after a few seconds he suddenly realized, "It's Sister Yun Le."

Yuan Sen suddenly sneered behind him.

Lu Shining didn't turn his head and continued, "Actually, I can hear it a little bit. You call me Xiaolu."

"Really." Su Yunle recalled, and said in a joking tone, "He put you on the top and gave you a remark of Xiaolu. I thought it was a girlfriend, but it turned out to be a boy in the picture, which shocked me."

Yin Hao stopped talking there, and heard Su Yunle talk about it, "Sister-in-law must have been interested in Brother Yuan at that time."

"No." Su Yunle denied while looking at the man behind Lu Shining, "We were really friends back then."

"Who will believe it?" Yin Hao raised his glass while saying, "Brother Yuan."

Yuan Sen: "Drink it yourself."

Yin Hao drank it himself, and looked a little drunk.

After a short period of silence, Zhao Shengnan suddenly said, "Sister Yun, I still have something to do at home, otherwise..."

"What are you doing, Nan Nan, everyone speaks well, don't be ignorant." Su Yunle said a little intimacy to Zhao Shengnan, not an ambiguous atmosphere between men and women, but more like an elder's lecture to a younger generation.

Lu Shining didn't care about this weirdness.Yuan Sen kicked his chair leg, he turned his head and saw the man looking at him with interest, the meaning of which was self-evident.

Even when the lie was exposed, he sat still and asked, "Why are you kicking me?"

Yuan Sen half leaned on the back of the chair, sitting casually, tilted his head and said in an airy voice, "Xiaolu, liar."

Lu Shining gave him an extremely calm look.

Well, cheating, so what?

Yuan Sen laughed to himself.

Lu Shining had noticed it as early as when Su Yunle called "Little Deer" for the first time. The light reflected in his eyes through the phone screen that night was enough for him to remember it for a long time, one year, two years... This is the sixth year.

Yuan Sen only knew that he lied but didn't want him to remember why.

It's silly enough and good enough.

The relationship between them is maintained by this layer of window paper that cannot see through the light.

After that, it was the daily life of the men at the wine table, chattering all over the world, and the most talked about things were when they were in school.

Lu Shining's face was flushed, and he looked drunk. When he went to the bathroom, he saw his face in the mirror. It was like the red rouge applied by a woman on his cheeks, and even the corners of his eyes were red.He turned on the faucet and splashed tap water to gain a brief sobriety and cool himself down by the way.

He wasn't in much pain.

The most painful time was endured alone, and everything before his eyes was just a picture that he had imagined but had no time to see with his own eyes.

Even worse, he thought. At the age of 17, it is barely a part of puberty, and cranky thinking is the last ray of youthful exhaust left in this world by teenagers in this period.It's mostly outrageous, absurd and unreasonable.

So one afternoon, after finishing his homework, Lu Shining lay down on his desk and thought—maybe in a few years, he will receive a wedding invitation, with Yuan Sen's name written in the groom's column, and it doesn't matter who the bride is.But if he is not beautiful enough, he will be sad, and if he is a beautiful woman, he will be sad too.

He looked miserable as if he was going to attend Faxiao's wedding tomorrow, sniffing at the exercise book full of handwriting, and continued to imagine that one day in the future, he would confess to Yuan Sen nonchalantly, "Ah yes, I liked you once" .

Turning around, Yuan Sen called out, "Xiaolu, do you want to eat watermelon?"

"Will you bring it to me?" he asked quickly, turning his head away from his sadness.

Yuan Sen first came over and patted his head, once and for all, as if weighing a watermelon.

"All right, ancestor, I've brought all the dishes to the living room for you, are you still a few steps away?"

As a teenager at the end of his youth, Lu Shining must say unreasonably: "You've brought it to the living room, are you still a few steps away from the room?"

Yuan Mori stopped patting the watermelon.

Not convinced.

It's ready to cut watermelon.

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Lu Shining raised his head, and there was another person in the bathroom mirror.

Yin Hao has a formulaic smile on his face, a standard smile commonly used in the workplace, but speaks very down-to-earth, with a Northeast accent.

"Little brother." He said, "Your brother and sister-in-law had some conflicts."

"Hey, they've been together for three or four years, and they've been on and off." Yin Hao lit a cigarette, took a sip, and understood what was going on without saying anything.

With water still dripping on Lu Shining's face, he raised his hands to rub his feverish ears.The two came out of the bathroom and sat back in their seats, Yin Hao winked at him.

Lu Shining couldn't help thinking that this person was really similar to Zhang Lei, with the same warm heart.There is no way to express his excess enthusiasm with cold words, only at this moment.

"Did you quarrel with Sister Yunle?"

This was the first thing he said on his return.

Yuan Sen was playing the Snake game on his phone with his head down.The games that are unlikely to actively appear on the smartphone should be downloaded by himself, and a long strip crawls across the screen.Hearing this, he didn't raise his head, "Since when did you get so close to her, you call her sister?"

When he couldn't hear the sarcasm in the other party's words, Lu Shining said: "That's a quarrel."

Yuan Sen put the phone back in his pocket, turned to look at him, "Can you leave this alone."

Before Su Yunle came back from the bathroom, Lu Shining turned his head and looked at the man seriously.

"Okay, it's your girlfriend and not mine."

Yuan Sen nodded at him, Lu Shining picked up an egg roll and put it on the plate.The egg rolls are delicate and lovely, and taste a little fishy.

"Don't worry about it like them." Yuan Sen added, "Don't turn your elbows out."

Half of the egg roll has been eaten, and a strange fishy smell spreads in the mouth, and the sweetness of the ketchup can't be neutralized.

Lu Shining knew that Yuan Sen always treated him differently from others.

He will not forcefully ask others not to meddle in their own business, and will not bluntly say "you have to face me" to others, but he wants to ask Lu Shining like this, to tell him directly.

This special is commendable, and it also nails him to delusion and cannot turn back.

My understanding of growing pains is a kind of pain that grows along with growing up.

Even if the bones are painful, but not so painful, and the muscles are sore but not so sore, these pains can be tolerated.And can only endure.

It’s just that when I wake up at night, I still feel: If only it didn’t hurt so much.

Then the next day when I fell asleep with the pain, the pain disappeared, and I felt again: It’s actually nothing.

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