Atypical crematorium of Lint's help and family owner

longing and longing

Lin Zhen met Li Zhenbai for the first time when he just turned 13 years old.

At that time, he was still in No. [-] Middle School in City B. No. [-] Middle School was an ordinary public junior high school and the nearest public school to the Wang family.

However, Wang's villa is located in the northern suburbs of City B, and it takes more than an hour to drive to No. [-] Middle School.

No. [-] Middle School had a dormitory where he could live on campus, but Lin Shui was only five years old at that time and was still in kindergarten. If Lin Zhen was not at home, the only person who could take care of him at home was a nanny.

Wang Dexing doesn't stay at home every day, saying that he is busy with work, but Lin Zhen has seen the ambiguous messages in his mobile phone.

This year, Lin's mother had passed away for two full years. No one would say anything about Wang Dexing's remarriage at this time. So tolerant of men.

But Wang Dexing himself didn't want to, he would rather mess around outside than marry one back home.

There is no other reason, his eldest son Wang Zheng disagrees.

Wang Zheng was in the third year of private Tong Gao High School at the time, and his grades would not have allowed him to enter the best local elite school. It was Wang Dexing who asked people to find connections and spent a lot of money to get him in.

Wang Dexing doted on Wang Zheng very much, almost giving him whatever he wanted, even if Wang Zheng pointed to his nose and shouted: "You are not allowed to find me a stepmother again, I will chase one after another, and the future property of this family will be mine. Why spend it on others!"

Wang Dexing just smiled lovingly, nodded repeatedly and said: "Yes yes yes, I will give you everything!"

He didn't treat anyone badly in his life, but he was really qualified to treat his first wife and his eldest son.

When Lin's mother was alive, he pretended to be a good husband. When he left and got the property, his face changed faster than that of Sichuan opera.

Sometimes Lin Zhen wondered who was more pathetic, Lin Shu or himself.

Before Lin Shui was sensible, his father had already treated them coldly like this, almost never enjoying his father's love.

And Lin Zhen himself had received so-called paternal love for a few years when he was young, even though Wang Dexing had already been heavily biased towards Wang Zheng at that time.

But after all, he still cared about his wife and the Lin family's thoughts. After his mother passed away, Lin Zhen realized that he couldn't even get a smiling face with Wang Dexing. The most hated enemy.

Even an adult may not be able to bear this sense of gap, let alone the young Lin Zhen, which made him suffer for several years.

He began to think that he had done something wrong, which made his father very disappointed in him, and he also had the idea that maybe it was just because his personality was not lively and cute enough to please adults.

It wasn't until many years later, when he grew up, that he realized that "marriage" was the deepest scar in Wang Dexing's heart. This scar could even cover up Lin's mother's love and friendship for him, and the Lin family's cultivation of him. And sacrifice, the love he should have had for his own child.

Just because Lin Zhen and Lin Sui didn't have the surname Wang is already the biggest sin.

Lin Zhen had to take care of Lin Shu, the nanny was hired by Wang Dexing, he took his money, and listened to his words, but Wang Dexing didn't care about these two sons, and the workers would look at the boss's face the most, if Lin Zhen Regardless of this young brother, Lin Shu is too pitiful.

Lin Zhen fed and drank Lin Shu every morning, hurriedly packed the small schoolbag for his younger brother, and carried him to the bus that didn’t come every half an hour. Send my younger brother to a kindergarten near No. [-] Middle School, and then run to my own school.

It was early summer, on the roadside in the early morning, there were dewdrops on wild flowers, and there was the fragrance of flowers in the air.

But Lin Zhen had no time to see or smell it. It was exactly two stops from the kindergarten to No. [-] Middle School, and it might be too late to wait for a taxi. He was reluctant to take a taxi, so he had to run all the way to the school.

At noon, Lin Zhen went to the school cafeteria to have a quick lunch. He usually only ate a steamed bun and a bowl of soup, and occasionally a vegetarian dish. Attend class.

After school in the afternoon, Lin Zhen was going to do a two-hour odd job at an audio-visual club near the school, selling and tallying goods for the owner who went home to eat and pick up the children.

After work, he ran back to the private pick-up station near the kindergarten, where he hugged Lin Shu who had been waiting for him until he burst into tears, and coaxed him to go to the side of the road to wait for the bus that didn't know how long it would arrive.

At this time, Lin Zhen often prepares a small snack for Lin Shi, or a piece of dried sweet potato, or a small piece of cheese. He never gives Lin Shi a big bag of snacks, one is because eating too many snacks is not good for his health. The other one is that such a young child always makes troubles in the car. He has to use this to appease Lin Shi. If he eats too much or enough, he can't be coaxed anymore. If he buys new snacks, he has no money.

The bags of snacks are all in the desk hall of his school, and each opening is tied with rubber bands. Lin Zhen has never tasted a single bite.

Wang Dexing gave the two brothers the necessary living expenses, such as their books, tuition, meals at school, basic necessities of life, food, housing and transportation, but it was limited to this.

Wang Zheng had a special car to pick him up and drop him off to school every day since he was a child, and later he had to live in the private Tong Gao High School. He didn't have to go back and forth every day, but he had to use a car to pick him up on weekends and Mondays.

But Lin Zhen and Lin Sui didn't get this kind of treatment. Their money was only enough to take the bus, and they only had enough money to go to the cafeteria for meals.

Lin Zhen can accept the harshness in life, but Wang Dexing always hints that he will only provide for the two brothers.

Wang Dexing said this at the time: "I read reports that children abroad leave home when they are old enough to work to support themselves. In this way, children should be released to exercise in order to become talents.”

Having said that, the 19-year-old Wang Zheng still asks him for pocket money every week when he goes home, and he never gives more than less, which is extremely generous.

Although Lin Zhen was only 13 years old at this time, he already understood to some extent that he had to think about himself and his younger brother, that money should not be spent indiscriminately, and that money should be saved for the future.

In case Wang Dexing drives them out of the house when they are full, legally speaking, he is not guilty of any crime.

When it was getting dark, Lin Zhen returned to the villa with Lin Shui in his arms. It was already past dinner time. He went to the kitchen to cook something for his younger brother. After eating, the two brothers went to wash and tidy up. Two stories, lull him to sleep.

After that, Lin Zhen went back to his room, took out his books, did his homework, recited the questions, and wrote the papers.

After finishing all these, he went to Lin Sui's room to cover him with a quilt, packed his small schoolbag, filled the small water bottle, prepared the clothes for the next day, and checked whether the teacher had left anything in the notebook for the next day. After everything was done, such as things or notices requiring parents' signatures, he went to the kitchen downstairs to prepare breakfast for the next day. They set off too early, and the helpers at home would not deliberately wake them up early to cook for them.

In the middle of the night, Lin Zhen lay down on the bed tiredly, and was finally able to sleep.

Lin Zhen's life was like this when he was a teenager, he revolved around his younger brother, studies, part-time job to earn money, save money with his fingers, deal with his father and brother... and so on.

He had no friends and was not close to his classmates because he didn't have the time or money to hang out with them.

His classmates said that he was a noble and stingy young master. There was food in the desk, and he would be anxious and upset if someone brought a bag to eat. Who among the classmates would eat something delicious when they saw it.

Seeing him working in an audio-visual club is just a way to experience life. No one knows that the life he leads is not even comparable to these classmates from ordinary families.

As soon as he opened his eyes every day, what Lin Zhen saw was the trials and tribulations of life that could not be seen at a glance.

The bleakness of his youth made his face seem to be forever covered with a layer of gray mist.

Lin Zhen, who was in this state, was selected by the teacher as an outstanding student representative to participate in exchange activities at the private Tong Gao High School.

If it weren't for this trip, Lin Zhen might have lived like this for the rest of his life. After all, no one told him that life can be beautiful.

However, he met someone who was enough to change his life.

Although Wang Zheng went to school here, Lin Zhen never came here once.

Under Wang Dexing's deliberate action, Wang Zheng and his two younger brothers were not close. After all, when they were young, they bought hamburgers for Wang Zheng secretly. No one else did. Growing up under such circumstances, not only was it impossible for Wang Zheng to get close to his two younger brothers, but he also regarded them as a burden and a competitor for family property.

The private Tonggao campus has an excellent environment, and the area it occupies is several times that of No. [-] Middle School in City B.

In addition to the magnificent teaching buildings and student halls on the campus, student dormitory buildings and canteens are also beautifully built. In addition to these, there is also an ice rink that can host standard ice hockey or figure skating events. The championship swimming venues, golf halls, fencing halls, etc., even provide paid equestrian training services for students who are interested and have financial strength.

As for other extracurricular courses such as various musical instruments, art, dance, etc., the hardware and software are extremely complete.

Here, Lin Zhen participated in the class meeting of the friendship class.

Ordinary school class meetings are organized by teachers, and students speak. Occasionally, parents from various industries outside the school will participate to popularize professional knowledge to children.

The class meeting of Tonggao High School that Lin Zhen participated in had a structure similar to that of No. [-] Middle School in City B, but the people invited were completely unexpected.

The classmates who were traveling with Lin Zhen looked at a certain famous football star that they often saw on TV. They were so excited that they desperately raised their hands to speak.

After the class meeting, we also won a group photo and autograph.

In Tonggao's historical memorabilia exhibition hall, Lin Zhen saw the video and photos of the school's sports meeting held in the well-known national stadiums in City B this spring, and saw the photos of the students participating in the recording of TV programs as special reporters. I saw photos of them visiting the headquarters of Lianhe Guo as outstanding student representatives...and so on...

Li Zhenbai, who made him unforgettable at first sight, once studied in such a school and was the most outstanding graduate of his class. His photo is hung on the top row of the photo wall of outstanding graduates in the exhibition hall. The small characters below read: 200X outstanding graduates, 200X-XX outstanding student union chairman, XX national prize winner...

When Lin Zhen passed by these photos, he should have seen that photo, but he never thought at that time that he would be deeply entangled with this person in the future.

After visiting the exhibition hall, it was time for lunch break. The teacher organized them to have lunch at Tonggao Cafeteria. The cost of a meal here was at least ten times that of Lin Zhen’s usual lunch, but the dishes were indeed rich and delicious.

Tong Gao's students sat around them in twos and threes, dressed in exquisite and beautiful school uniforms like those in idol dramas, which made them look out of place in their traditional blue and white sports uniforms.

They chatted about things like the stock market, funds, and chips. The school has established a virtual financial environment for them to try to invest. It also cooperates with world-renowned computer companies to allow interested students to participate in the process of technology and chip development. middle.

Lin Zhen’s classmates were chatting excitedly about the star who just took a photo together, and then extended to the star’s colleagues, and then went to gossip about a certain star’s celebrity girlfriend.

Until this moment, Lin Zhen's heart was only slightly fluctuating, and he didn't have any special thoughts.

After dinner, a few good friends will take advantage of the lunch break to look around the campus. There are many beautiful plants planted in some corners of the campus, and some animals such as deer, rabbits, and black swans are raised. But they can't see these, and if there is no special event, they will not be able to enter Tonggao's gate at all, so they all want to cherish this opportunity to go around.

Lin Zhen didn't want to meet Wang Zheng, so he didn't go with him. One of his classmates said strangely: "Our young master Lin is used to seeing big scenes, so it's not uncommon for him to join us and other mortals."

Another classmate nudged the man with his elbow, smiled awkwardly at Lin Zhen, and a group of people left in a lively manner.

Lin Zhen doesn't feel sad, he has long been used to not getting emotional feed from other people, and never expects anyone, so he won't be disappointed.

He sat down on a bench next to the pasture used as an equestrian training ground. Not far from the entrance of the cafeteria, there were several tall boys and girls standing there. One of them was not wearing a school uniform and was taller than the others. , with a slender figure and especially long legs, he wears a simple white shirt on his upper body, linen trousers on his lower body, light brown buckskin loafers on his feet, and a brown belt watch on his wrist. I can't see the brand clearly from a distance. This hand is holding a notebook of the same color, and a black pen is stuck in the leather.

This group of people was standing together and talking, and it seemed that they were discussing something, although the tallest boy didn't speak much.

But it was obviously the center of the group. Everyone looked at him from time to time when they spoke, and their attitude was obviously respectful when facing him.

When others spoke, he just smiled politely and distantly, occasionally nodding his head in approval.

He looks good, Lin Zhen thought.

But that's all.

Lin Zhen turned his head back, raised his head and basked in the sun with his eyes slightly squinted, no longer paying attention to that side.

Just at this moment, a gust of wind blew past at the right time, and the large flakes of lingxiaohua that covered the red brick wall beside it swayed gently with the wind, and the fragrance diffused.

Not far from the entrance of the cafeteria, the small group suddenly fell silent, because the boy in the center of the group suddenly looked over the heads of these people and looked in the direction of the wind.

In the muggy weather in the afternoon of early summer, the southwestern wind blew across the endless green wheat field outside the campus, creating layers of uninterrupted wheat waves. Listening carefully, you can faintly hear the interaction between the wheat leaves. The subtle rustling sound of friction is like nature whispering to human beings, and also like some kind of unspeakable romantic but depressed mood.

The smoked wind with the scent of wheat was filtered by the wheat fields, and then blew through the fences around the campus, softly penetrating through the gaps between the iron railings painted in creamy white, like day stalkers who are good at camouflage, they Breaking through the hard and closed boring cage with the shape of flowing water, they gather together inside the railings, blowing over the bricks and tiles in the school, rubbing against the skirts of the students' trousers, tossing so that the big tree and the vines clinging to it are all After they couldn't stop, they finally exhausted their strength. Before they completely dissipated, they used their last strength to gently, softly and mischievously lifted the forehead hair of the slender boy at the entrance of the cafeteria.

The boy blinked, and the south wind completely passed away. He lowered his eyelids, his eyelashes cast shadows under his eyes, and his expression seemed sad for a moment.

It wasn't until another boy beside him said something, and several people laughed, that boy raised his eyes and quickly glanced at the direction of the south wind, and then turned his attention to the people in front of him, curling the corners of his mouth and smiled.

Later, many years later, Lin Zhen met Li Zhenbai many times, some as a brother who gave a speech in the campus auditorium, and some who returned to China occasionally and were introduced to the people present as the future successor of the Li family at a business reception. I suddenly met him in a bookstore who was leaning against the window reading a book, and he who was looking at his father's tombstone in the cemetery to appease the weeping family members...

Lin Zhen accidentally discovered that his mother and Li Zhenbai's father were buried in the same cemetery.

Among so many "one-sided" meetings, he was most impressed by Li Zhenbai's first meeting.

He was wearing a white shirt, and his youthful handsome and delicate face was slightly raised, his gaze was gentle, looking at the wind that turned and disappeared.

For many years, when Lin Zhen felt that it was difficult, when he missed his mother and brother who stayed at home in a foreign land, when he was alone in the bathroom of the shared apartment and cried secretly, he would always I remembered the scene I saw at the entrance of Tonggao High School cafeteria many years ago.

Not for anything else, just because at that moment, he and him who didn't know each other cherished the wind that soon disappeared in the bustling campus with people coming and going.

Li Zhenbai spends most of his time abroad and cannot see him often, but Lin Zhen can always get news about him either actively or passively. After all, he is the son of the famous Li family in City B.

He knows that he has excellent grades in famous foreign universities and is highly valued by professional professors;

Knowing that ENERGY's overseas branches are flourishing under his management, occupying a place in the local car sales;

Knowing that he has been commended by the local Guohui as an outstanding Chinese...

Lin Zhen was still too young when he first met him, and he vaguely took Li Zhenbai as his role model in his heart.

He no longer let his father arrange the life and future of himself and his younger brother. He began to think of ways to fight for the interests of the two of them. He used the law and the word-of-mouth of the people around him as weapons to negotiate with his father and obtained enough funds.

His attitude towards life has undergone a huge change, becoming active and positive, optimistic and upward.

He no longer went out to work, but used that time to improve himself and learn useful knowledge beyond textbooks. That's when he started practicing Sanda.

In the beginning, he didn't have much direction, he was too eager to improve himself, he took various courses such as singing, dancing, piano, calligraphy, etc., and the school courses were getting harder and harder, until later, he was so tired that he fainted Instead, when he woke up, he saw Lin Shi's face full of tears.

At this time, he began to reflect, began to do subtraction, focused on a few of them, and would not let himself be overloaded except for ensuring his health and spending time with Lin Shuai.

Lin Zhen is only a half-grown boy, he will be tired, but what supports him to walk all the way is the vague figure in his heart.

It wasn't until later that he got a full scholarship and was admitted to Tonggao High School. There, he realized that he had been subconsciously chasing Li Zhenbai's footsteps, looking for traces of Li Zhenbai's life and study in this school.

It wasn't until then that he realized for sure that he fell in love with Li Zhenbai.

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In the study room on the first floor of the Li residence, Li Zhenbai was lying on the carpet, coughing twice. He stretched out his hand and pushed away the folder that Lin Zhen had just thrown onto him, ignoring the documents that were already scattered all over the floor.

He had a dull pain in his back and the back of his head, but it wasn't serious. After all, Lin Zhen's body was much thinner than his, and the force of the shoulder fall was not enough. In addition, the carpet was thick enough to absorb most of the energy of the collision.

Lin Zhen's footsteps sounded in the corridor as he ran away quickly, and Li Zhenbai heard him shouting while running: "Come on, come on, you and I fell unconscious in the study!"

Li Zhenbai put his wrist on his forehead and smiled helplessly, but only for a moment, his expression gradually tightened, and a gloomy glint flashed in his eyes.

That night, Steward Fang called Dr. Du and gave Li Zhenbai a simple examination. After confirming that there was only a slight collision injury, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Zhen followed suit, serving tea and pouring water, washing hot towels, and asking about his health, no one could find fault with him.

It's just that when others didn't notice, he looked at Li Zhenbai with a searching and worried look, and when he made eye contact with him, he quickly moved away sullenly.

Li Zhenbai didn't pretend that he was worried about his back injury, but Lin Zhenbai was worried because he was afraid that he would expose his lies in public and punish him.

After everything was done, Dr. Du left, and Li Zhenbai was about to rest. Lin Zhen quickly left Li Zhenbai's bedroom like a rabbit, and went back to his own room.

In the middle of the night, Li Zhenbai was almost awake from the alcohol. He got up from the bed, put on his nightgown, and went to the balcony again. It hangs obediently inside the window, and never escapes the window, blowing with the wind.

Li Zhenbai shook his head, walked back into the house, picked up the landline phone and dialed a number: "Hey, it's me. Tomorrow, I will install an air conditioner for the young lady's bedroom. The power should not be too high. If it blows too much, it will hurt your body."