River City Story

When the rainy weather in Xicheng finally came to an end, at the end of June, on a sunny day, Lin Yan took a shower and sat upright at his desk.He stared at the admission ticket for a few minutes, wiped the water off his fingertips, picked up the phone and started to check the scores.

Without the task of reading and studying quantitatively, his life during this period was a bit chaotic.I always sleep until 10 o'clock in the morning before waking up. When I come back from the restaurant at night, I take a shower and fall back to sleep.Before Zhao Sheng personally notified him, he almost completely forgot about the college entrance examination results.

Lin Yan searched the past subject by subject, and the emotionless mechanical female voice made his originally calm heart a little excited.After listening to the total score, he sat quietly for a long time, and when there was a sudden sound of a motorcycle outside, he exhaled a long breath as if awakened.After he calmed down, he picked up his phone again and sent text messages to He Zhengxi and Lu Chi.

He did pretty well in the exam this time, not much different from the mock exam, so it's not too big of a problem to let go and apply to a few prestigious schools.Zhao Sheng helped Lin Yan list his university and major, and helped him plan together.But Lin Yan suddenly became less interested in these things, as if after completing a task, he could stay out of it.

"You kid, can you be more responsible for your own life?" Zhao Sheng knocked Lin Yan on the head with the application guide.

"Whatever." Lin Yan stretched his hands and feet and sat on the chair in the office. "I don't have a favorite major. You can choose one for me."

Regarding Lin Yan's answer, Zhao Sheng hated iron and steel, "With your score, you still have a lot of choices. Are you dazed by happiness or what? You look so smug, be careful of being envied by other students !"

Lin Yan laughed. He flipped through the application guidebook for a long time, and asked Zhao Sheng, "The ones who can make a lot of money after applying, the average salary is higher, and the money comes slowly. I don't want any bullshit feelings and hobbies." , Find someone with bright job prospects and potential for development.”

Zhao Sheng thought to himself, this kid has completely fallen into the eye of money and can't get out, he resignedly took a pen to draw a circle and introduced them to Lin Yan one by one, and taught him earnestly: "Your grades, although not a top scorer, are already quite excellent , the school and the street will give you bonuses." He tapped Lin Yan's head with a pen, and continued: "No matter where you go to school in the end, or what direction you study, as long as you work hard and don't fool around, you will always succeed. .If you have a chance, you still have to take the postgraduate entrance examination. I am a master's degree. You can go and get a Ph.D. and show me. Don't think about getting rich overnight. At the beginning of the last century, you were not allowed to go up the mountain to be a bandit?"

"That must be a high-level intellectual bandit with a brain." After Lin Yan finished speaking, he rubbed his fingers and asked with a smile, "How much reward can I get?"

"Community streets are generally [-]. Our school may not be sure. It depends on where you report."

"Give me more than 1!"

"Can I hang a string of copper coins around your neck?"

"Can't it be exchanged for gold coins..."

Lin Yan actually didn't care which university he went to, and he didn't have any obsession with whether he could get a bonus. Saying these words is nothing more than a habit.He was seldom serious in school, and with Zhao Sheng and Cai Xusheng, he was always in a state of gag.If he had to say that the things he was more concerned about and contradictory during this period of time were also related to his studies.Lin Yan very much hoped to apply for a relatively pure major, even if it is unpopular.He hopes that his college life can be as simple as possible. Physical fatigue is nothing, but mental fatigue is the worst.What's more, he would definitely not be able to take advantage of the matter of going to the top universities to choose the best major.

There is also the big problem of He Zhengxi.Lin Yan wanted to make a call to He Yi and ask, how could you teach He Zhengxi to be like this with a family of high IQ talents.But after thinking about it, it is impossible for them to cause the problem unilaterally.After struggling for a long time, Lin Yan's sense of identity as the eldest brother expanded infinitely. No matter what, he had to get He Zhengxi back.

In the end, he placed his first choice and second choice in Yancheng.Lin Yan didn't intend to tell He Zhengxi about this in advance.He thought it would be a little surprise or something, and the Huairou policy should be used when necessary, otherwise the two brothers would pinch each other when they met, what's the matter?

After chatting with Zhao Sheng, when he was about to leave the office, Lin Yan returned, took out a delicate envelope from his schoolbag, and put it on the desk.

"What?" Zhao Sheng raised his head and looked at Lin Yan.

"love letter!"

Zhao Sheng pretended to be frightened: "This is a rejection."

Lin Yan smiled: "The meal card is a huge sum of money for repaying your kindness, and you cannot refuse it."

"You student is really..." Zhao Sheng smiled helplessly, "It's time to talk about etiquette!"

After registering for school and major, Lin Yan has nothing else to be busy with. He is still active in the restaurant wholeheartedly, and still works as a small part-time job to make up classes when he has time.It's just that the subject of the supplementary lessons has changed from Qi Xiaotiandou to Qi Xiaotiandou's cousin.

In the summer vacation after the college entrance examination, other people go to the countryside to fish for shrimps and dig loach, and travel to other places for a walk, and very few people come out to work.Lin Yan is eager to replenish his savings, and he stays away from any form of spending projects.

Even on the afternoon when the acceptance letter was mailed to the old ancestral hall, Lin Yan was still busy preparing dishes in the back kitchen of the restaurant. The little brother at the post office saw that there was no one at home, so he called him directly.

"Just stuff it in the crack of the door!" Lin Yan said, "I can't go back until night."

"How can that work! You are too student-minded, I will ask my colleagues to take you to the place where you work!" The little brother hung up the phone after shouting this sentence very excitedly. After more than an hour, Lin Yan got the belongings My own big hard-shell envelope.

He calmed down his expression as much as possible, jumped under the faucet in a few steps, washed his hands back and forth twice, and then secretly tore off the sealing line.

"It seems that I'm still a mortal." He muttered in a low voice, then pinched the corner of the notice to look at it a few times, then quickly stuffed it back, and collapsed on the chair for a while.

At the beginning of August, according to Lin Yan's request, He Zhengxi returned to Xicheng with his report card in his hands.Lin Yan only said on the phone that the notice had arrived, but did not say where it was sent from.The two of them found a shop near the airport and drank two large bowls of ramen in a huff, before Lin Yan wiped his mouth and handed the tightly packed portfolio to He Zhengxi from his schoolbag.

"What?" He Zhengxi wiped his hands and took it.

"Look for yourself!" Lin Yan got up and asked the boss to add noodle soup.

"Mysterious..." He Zhengxi twisted the string around, "Let me see, don't just confess your love."

"There is something wrong with your brain!" Lin Yan shouted.

"I'm fine. I took the first place in the exam again this time, and I'm better than you." He Zhengxi stopped his hands and said in a chattering voice.

"Fuck you, why don't you hurry up and dismantle it for me."

"Oh……"

He Zhengxi pulled out the envelope from the file bag. He saw the name of the sender of the letter at first glance, and immediately stood up excitedly, "This is...the admission notice?" He Zhengxi took a sip of the noodle soup, Excitedly danced around in the store, "Damn it! How many times do I have to rely on it?! Polytechnic University? Damn it! Unexpectedly!" After he shouted this sentence, he rushed back to the opposite side of Lin Yan like the wind, and opened the door carefully. After reading the entire envelope, he said with sparkling eyes, "Is it for me? It's for me! Absolutely, I know!"

Lin Yan scolded with a smile: "You know what a fart!"

He Zhengxi raised his chin: "I know you, are you a fart?"

Lin Yan put his hand on his forehead, "Damn, I'm too lazy to talk about it."

"Hey..." He Zhengxi poked the back of Lin Yan's hand, "Brother, you are really my dear brother."

"These words are like the lines of a TV series, and they have a very carefree feeling."

"What do you mean?"

"It doesn't mean anything, understand?"

"If you want me to understand, I will understand."

He Zhengxi didn't intend to continue to argue with Lin Yan, he had basically never won in this kind of matter.What's more, with the notice in front, who would care about a sarcasm?His whole body floated up, until he returned to the old ancestral hall, he was still floating in the air and never came down.

My brother chose the university in Yancheng, and my brother even took it as a surprise and hid it until the two of them met!what does that mean?Of course my brother cares about me!

Sure enough, he is still a silly child, a little thing can make him happy, Lin Yan thought with a smile.Although he looked silly, he himself was in a very happy mood. As long as He Zhengxi didn't make mistakes and find fault with him, Lin Yan felt that such a little surprise was worth it.

"I have to go to the restaurant. If you are free, you can go out for a stroll. Although Linshui Street has not changed, there are still new things in the city." Lin Yan said to He Zhengxi pushing his bicycle.

"It's really free. I finished my homework at home. I brought a few books to preview, but I don't want to read them yet." He Zhengxi walked to the gate with the hem of his T-shirt swinging, grabbed Lin Yan's handlebar, "I'll drive you there."

Lin Yan stared at He Zhengxi's clean and straight teeth, feeling dizzy for a while. He locked the door in a daze and nodded, "This car has been around for many years, will it be crushed?"

"We're not fat, how could it be bad?" He Zhengxi patted the back seat of the car, "Come on!"

Lin Yan walked over, and just about to lift his foot, he said: "You ride first, and I will jump on it."

He Zhengxi continued to pat the back seat, and said firmly to Lin Yan: "You get up first, and I will ride again."

Lin Yan stepped up hesitantly, frowned and said, "Be careful, don't bump your brother's life."

"It's really broken, can I fix it for you?" He Zhengxi snickered twice.

"I don't believe it, it's probably irreversible if it's broken..." Lin Yan said anxiously, then his buttocks swayed, and he quickly reached out to help the back seat, "Hey! God, you don't want to be so fast at the beginning!"

He Zhengxi smiled and said: "Don't be afraid, watch me perform a drift for you!" He lifted his foot and accelerated a few times, the small broken bicycle wobbled and flew more than ten meters away with a wavy line, and he pressed the bell Gotta clank.He Zhengxi played for a while and said: "This kind of bell sounds much better than the trumpet."

Lin Yan hummed behind him and said, "Don't keep playing with that, it's annoying."

"Then I'm about to start officially!" He Zhengxi whistled, but he didn't pedal a few times before suddenly braking the car.Lin Yan didn't pay attention, and knocked his forehead on He Zhengxi's back. He stuck out his head: "What's going on?"

"Your restaurant...where is it?" He Zhengxi turned his head and asked blankly.

"I don't know where, why did you volunteer to ride?" Lin Yan slapped He Zhengxi's back, "Just ride along the way, and I'll tell you before turning the corner."

"Okay." He Zhengxi flicked his bangs, kicked the pedals, and shouted heartily, "Let's go! Head towards the restaurant!"

Lin Yan grabbed the back seat tightly and yelled, "I*!! Slow down!!!!!!"

The two people's journey was full of dangers and attracted many people watching, but they finally arrived safely.

Lin Yan locked the car weakly with trembling hands at the back door of the carport, pointed at He Zhengxi tremblingly and said, "I call you big brother."

He Zhengxi stared at Lin Yan's shaking fingertips for a while, raised his hand to catch it and rubbed it twice, and said very seriously: "Next time, I will slow down, why are you shaking so much?"

"Your brother, I was in a car accident when I was young. Forgot? I'm afraid of running around on the street." Lin Yan threw the car keys to He Zhengxi and said while pushing the restaurant door, "Come and help me for a few days , just short of people."

"It sounds like you are the little boss of this shop." He Zhengxi said after following Lin Yan.

"It would be great if I were a small boss." Lin Yan walked all the way, greeted his colleagues one by one, quickly changed into his uniform in the locker room, and threw an apron to He Zhengxi, "Tie it on, help with the dishes or Stand at the door to greet guests, and choose by yourself.”

"Okay." He Zhengxi sat on the chair, looked Lin Yan up and down, held the apron in his hand without moving, and did not make a choice.

"Don't want to do it?" Lin Yan adjusted his bow tie in the mirror and turned his face away.

He Zhengxi returned to God and said: "Yes, why don't you." He stood up with a low eyebrow and pleasing to the eye, stretched out his hand to grab Lin Yan's waist, and said with a smile: "It looks good."

Lin Yan quickly took two steps back: "What are you groping for, after changing jobs!"

The two brothers walked out of the dressing room one after the other, and the proprietress immediately came up to them, tsk-tsk-tsk-tucked around the two of them, and said angrily, "All the beautiful people in this world are gangsters."

Lin Yan smiled and pushed He Zhengxi forward, "Xiao He, He Zhengxi, he can do almost anything, you can tell him whatever you want."

"Okay, hurry up and replace me. You laughed all morning, and your face became stiff." The proprietress said.

"No problem." Lin Yan briefly explained He Zhengxi's affairs, and went to the counter to stay there as usual.He Zhengxi stood and listened to the proprietress's words, while observing Lin Yan.The uniforms of this restaurant are not very design sense, ordinary style, but Lin Yan wears them very neatly and docilely, and he is much more energetic.Lin Yan had his hair cut during this period, his bangs were a little shorter, and the back of his ears was trimmed very neatly. His whole body exuded a verdant aura, full of vitality.

nice.He Zhengxi squinted his eyes and thought deeply.

"You two brothers seem to like to be in a daze." The proprietress said suddenly.

"Ah?" He Zhengxi turned his face, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

The proprietress patted him on the shoulder, "I can tell, if you don't like this job, I'll take your brother's job."

He Zhengxi immediately refused: "No! I don't dislike it. I'm happy to be with him."

The proprietress tilted her head and looked at He Zhengxi for a while, then laughed, "It's really rare to see a younger brother like you, just stay there and don't cause trouble."

He Zhengxi immediately stood at attention and swore, "We will never cause trouble!"

Under Lin Yan's casual operation, He Zhengxi became a member of the restaurant, and even did the work of welcoming guests quite formally for more than ten days.During this period of time, he also fully realized the hardships of part-time work. Being a welcome boy is a difficult job. Compared with having a comfortable face, IQ and physical strength are more important.After such an experience, it seems that going to school is more comfortable.But he is still happy, because he can be in the same space with Lin Yan, busy and rest together.Lin Yan's appearance of serious work made him intoxicated.

And the more intoxicated it was, the faster time passed, but fortunately, this time was different from three years ago.

"You'll have to resign in a few days, right?" He Zhengxi stretched his legs and said to Lin Yan who was strolling over.

"Tomorrow is the last day, I will go to Yancheng with you after work, are you satisfied?" Lin Yan raised his lips.

He Zhengxi: "Satisfied, very satisfied."

"Even if you don't tell me, I'm going to quit, and it's not easy for you to persist. It's not easy. When I first started doing it, I always had cramps at night." Lin Yan squatted down and gave He Zhengxi pinched his calf, raised his face and said with a smile, "This muscle is not bad."

"When we go to Yancheng, I'll take you to exercise." He Zhengxi stretched out his hand and pulled Lin Yan up, "Brother, you should try not to work part-time in your freshman year, or I will ask Lao He to help you find something easier. A part-time job with a good salary.”

Lin Yan rubbed He Zhengxi's hair: "There is no problem with the tuition fee, but Uncle Xu still needs to spend money in prison, so he has to think about his future affairs. The bigger the city, the more opportunities there are, so don't worry about it for me. "

He Zhengxi nodded his head reluctantly, he wanted to say something else, but in the end he changed the topic.

"Shall we visit Uncle Xu next week?"

"Yeah." Lin Yan lowered his eyelashes, "I'm not used to it. I used to go there once a month, but I have to watch the holidays in the future. I feel like an unfilial son."

"He'll understand."

"...Well. I'm not worried about him at all. He's messing around outside, so I don't dare to leave in peace."

"Haha, I understand, Uncle Xu is a god." He Zhengxi said with a smile.

At the end of August, the brothers visited Xu Shenxian in prison, had a few farewell meals with Lu Chi's family, and soon it was time to leave.

"Your classmate named Cai Hengyuan didn't come to harass you?" He Zhengxi asked while sitting on the edge of the bed, turning his ankle.

"Harassment, what kind of messy words." Lin Yan stuffed two photo albums into his bag, stood up and said: "He seems to be going abroad, and it may take a year or two to come back. Teacher Chen must not be willing. This summer vacation It's impossible to get out."

"Oh, okay." He Zhengxi didn't have any troubles on his face, but he felt a little happy in his heart, "Brother Bowen said, let's go back and call him. He and Song Rui invited us to dinner."

"Calling Feng Bowen Brother, and calling Song Rui by his first name, isn't he afraid of getting angry?" Lin Yan packed his suitcase and leaned on the desk to drink water.

"Song Rui loses his temper, he doesn't look like someone in his 20s at all." He Zhengxi curled his lips, "He's not as mature as you."

"You middle school student, saying that a college student is immature is quite awesome."

"Brother Bowen is the same as Song Rui's father." He Zhengxi changed his mind, glanced at Lin Yan carefully from the corner of his eye, and changed his wording directly, "No, Brother Bowen is like Song Rui's boyfriend .”

Lin Yan was stunned for a moment. He twisted the water glass and patted He Zhengxi's head, "What nonsense are you talking about? Don't say that in front of them."

"It doesn't matter to them, maybe they are happy to hear it..."

He Zhengxi reached out and grabbed Lin Yan's arm, looked into Lin Yan's eyes solemnly, and asked, "Brother, what do you think? Would you be unhappy if you were told that? If a man likes you, you how to think?"

Lin Yan was grabbed by He Zhengxi, his expression was normal, and he said calmly as if he had expected it a long time ago:

"you like me?"

"What... what?"

He Zhengxi felt dizzy after hearing this question, and didn't know how to answer it for a while.

"Do you like me?" Lin Yan continued to ask with a smile.

"I... I, maybe... I... hi... hi... like you." He Zhengxi was incoherent with excitement.

Lin Yan laughed twice after hearing this, and said, "Da Cabbage is really a smart person." He leaned on the back of the chair and pressed his forehead, "I didn't believe it at first, but I didn't expect it to be true."

He Zhengxi frowned, and quickly asked, "What did Cai Xusheng say?"

"You don't eat screws anymore?"

"What did Cai Xusheng say?"

"He told me that your brother absolutely likes you. I didn't believe it, so I gave it a try."

"Oh." He Zhengxi's expression returned to normal, "Then you know now, what next?"

Lin Yan tilted his head, "Then what?"

He Zhengxi let go of Lin Yan's arm, and began to stroke Lin Yan's shirt, "Do you feel dangerous? Or disgusted? Not used to it?"

"You are my younger brother. I don't think my younger brother is dangerous, let alone loathe it. We've lived together for so many years, why aren't we used to it?" Lin Yan squeezed He Zhengxi's hand that continued to move in, " But if you keep going, I might just give you a kick."

"Then, doesn't this still feel dangerous, annoying, and unaccustomed?" He Zhengxi backed away resentfully, extremely depressed.

Lin Yan said, "I'm good enough for you, don't push yourself too far."

"Understood." He Zhengxi put his head on Lin Yan's lap, "Then when will you accept me?"

"It's hard to say." Lin Yan touched He Zhengxi's head back, as if he was touching a ladle or something else.

"You...you are really calm." He Zhengxi snorted and said angrily.He thought that Lin Yan would panic, or push himself out in disgust, or at least blush, which is always the case in comics.But he didn't expect that his elder brother was a straight ball player, and he was as steady as Mount Tai.

Lin Yan shrugged his shoulders with a smile, "Why should I not be calm? You like me, not I like you."

He Zhengxi clenched Lin Yan's pants, and said in a muffled voice, "Then you have to give me a time limit, tell me, when will you accept it?"

"Why should I respond to your likes? Middle school students shouldn't think about this."

"Half-children are human too! You have to respect me!"

Lin Yan sneered after listening, "I remember three years ago, a child said to me hoarsely that self-esteem is worthless, and now he begs me to respect you?"

He Zhengxi raised his face and said angrily: "You hold a grudge! Forget about it quickly, don't mention it again!"

Lin Yan shook his head and said, "I don't have amnesia, it's the brain's operation, can you manage it?"

"Whatever you want..." He Zhengxi was immediately discouraged, and he lay back on Lin Yan's lap again, muttering in a low voice, "I really like you."

"...Five years later, if you can still say such words without any hesitation, I will think about it again."

Lin Yan's steady voice came slowly from above, "You are still in middle school, you will go to university in the future, you will continue your studies, you will have your own job, and you will definitely be able to meet many different people." He squeezed He Zhengxi's ear, "At that time, if you still think I'm better, then fine."

"Really?" He Zhengxi asked with bright eyes.

"Maybe." Lin Yan replied with a smile.

"Damn! I've never seen a brother like you!"

"You think I've seen a brother like this?"