River City Story

"It's the first time I've left Xicheng after growing up so big." Lin Yan stood in the waiting hall and looked at the hurried crowd around him, his words and expressions were full of emotion.

"Reluctant?" He Zhengxi asked.

Lin Yan took two steps back and sat down on the chair, "It's okay, just a little embarrassing."

"Sigh?"

"Well, yes. Sigh." Lin Yan pushed the suitcase out and pulled it back, "You think, there are still a few people we know well in Linshui Street? Lao Jiang is long gone, and then you go to Yan Old man Xu is even better, reporting directly to the prison. There is also Lao Li, who was taken back to his hometown by his nephew at the beginning of the year..."

"Where's Uncle Lu? I haven't seen him this time."

Lin Yan shook his head, "I don't know. Didn't Daji be rectified? After it became a market, he had to pay 4000 yuan in rent every year, so he left with his family behind him. I guess he's had enough time."

"It's a pity, how many clothes we have worn through him." He Zhengxi was also a little emotional, "By the way, what about your classmates, Chinese cabbage, where did he go to school?"

"He has his own plans. He is still in Xicheng and won't leave."

Lin Yan stared quietly at the wall clock in the hall for a while, and after a long time, before the two of them squeezed into the crowd of passengers and got on the bus, Lin Yan suddenly spoke again.

"There is a good saying, everyone is a passer-by. There is no way... I feel sad, reluctant, and can't let go, but I still have to go."

"Well, maybe." He Zhengxi replied vaguely.

I will not be a passer-by in your life, I will spend my life with you.He Zhengxi wanted to say this to Lin Yan.But he hesitated a few times, and swallowed the words back.As Lin Yan said before, in a few years, maybe in a few years, he will be more confident.

There was also a mother and son in the same sleeper car as them. Lin Yan liked to play with the little girl very much.He was born as if he could coax children, nursery rhymes, origami, and storytelling, he did it well, even more lively than usual, and the expressions on his face were much richer.This kind of richness is different from the richness of playing and joking in school, with a pure childishness, as if returning to a younger age.

He Zhengxi propped his head, watching very engrossed.

When he first came to the old ancestral hall, Lin Yan also did these things for him, but very few. At the age of 7, he has passed the age of being lulled to sleep by nursery rhymes and stories, not to mention that Lin Yan's story reserves are worrying, and he always likes to tell legends about ghosts and ghosts, and he thinks he tells them well.Not at the moment, he actually told the little girl a foreign fairy tale seriously.

Half a day after the train passed by, the four of them had a simple meal and gradually became sleepy. Lin Yan climbed to the upper bunk before He Zhengxi, and was about to rest. When he was about to close his eyes, He Zhengxi suddenly stood up , the two of them were almost face to face.

"What do you want to say? If you are worried, we will work in two shifts." Lin Yan yawned, his eyes were red.

"No, I have a question." He Zhengxi said.

"You speak."

"Where did you learn those little tricks to coax children?"

"Um……"

Lin Yan rubbed his eyes and thought hard for a few seconds: "I can't remember, maybe someone taught me when I was young."

"Oh, then you have a good rest." He Zhengxi retracted his head after speaking in a low voice, and sat down on the lower bunk to read a book. He was not used to strangers in the space between himself and Lin Yan.

Lin Yan slept for more than two hours. When he woke up, he looked towards the lower bunk. He Zhengxi stared at the book straight.He smiled in a low voice, stretched out his hand and patted the shoulder below, scaring He Zhengxi into a shudder.

"Brother, are you awake and don't sleep anymore?"

Lin Yan climbed down the small ladder and sat next to He Zhengxi, "You sleep, I'll watch."

He Zhengxi muttered and shook his head: "I don't want to sleep..."

"It's still early, it's hard not to get enough sleep."

"Then don't go up, just sit here." He Zhengxi slammed his head on Lin Yan's shoulder, "I sleep like this."

"You are really my ancestor." Lin Yan rubbed his hair, "Being a child, this is it, I won't sing you some shit lullaby."

He Zhengxi put his arms around Lin Yan's waist, "I don't need to sing, I can fall asleep right away."

"Stop talking nonsense, I can go up if I don't sleep."

"I'm already asleep!"

He Zhengxi slept in a lot of latitudes during this sleep. In short, when he opened his eyes again, the scenery outside the car window had completely changed to the surrounding areas of Yancheng. Houses of different heights.

"Hurry up, it's almost here." He slowly sat up and said in a nasal voice.

"I can really sleep. If you don't know, you went to the construction site to move bricks last night." Lin Yan said, "Sit down first when you wake up, and I'll go to the bathroom.

"Oh." He Zhengxi nodded in a daze.

After Lin Yan walked out of this section of the carriage, the young mother on the opposite side said, "You two brothers have such a good relationship."

"Yes." He Zhengxi scratched his hair embarrassingly.

"When you were asleep, your brother didn't dare to move, probably because he was afraid of waking you up!"

He Zhengxi stopped what he was doing: "It's...that's right."

"That's right! Boys of this age are rarely so careful. The eldest son of my family will only grab candy from his younger sister!"

"Oh... oh, haha!" He Zhengxi felt a little embarrassed when he heard the woman nagging and praising Lin Yan, and he smirked unconsciously for a while.

"This looks really simple and honest." Lin Yan leaned against the door and said with a smile, his forehead was wet, "You also go to wash your face and tidy your hair by the way. Look at the messy hair standing up on your head. See." He took out a comb from his small backpack and handed it to He Zhengxi.

"You comb it for me." He Zhengxi stretched his upper body and stretched out his head.

"Crush your hair? I'm free enough!" Lin Yan scolded with a smile.

"Hey, it's fierce again, I'll do it myself!"

After He Zhengxi tidied up the messy bird nest and returned to the carriage, the two played with the little girl for more than half an hour, and the train was about to arrive at the station.

"It's amazing, I don't get motion sickness! From now on, I'll take the train when I go out," Lin Yan said excitedly, stretching his waist.

"Don't, don't, can we take a flight next time? I'll pay for it." He Zhengxi said quickly.

"You pay?" Lin Yan glanced at He Zhengxi and sneered twice, "It seems like you can make a lot of money."

"I will be better at making money than you in the future!" He Zhengxi felt unconvinced.

"What's the matter, don't you want to be a doctor? Have you made up your mind to start receiving red envelopes in advance?" Lin Yan said with a smile.

"There are so many red envelopes, you are biased. But recently, I am not so enthusiastic about the profession of doctors." He Zhengxi walked out with his suitcase, "Oh, I won't tell you, anyway, you can always Block all my answers."

"Wait!" Lin Yan yelled, "The Polytechnic University has to change the direction, you old resident don't know the way?"

He Zhengxi yelled without looking back: "Go back to my house first! I prepared a gift for you!"

"Hey, my brother is amazing, he can even prepare a gift for me!" Lin Yanmai strode to catch up, and put one hand around He Zhengxi's shoulder, "Come on, tell me, what is the gift?"

"Anyway, it's what you need, you'll know when it arrives." He Zhengxi was mysterious and proud.

"Cut!" Lin Yan raised his leg and kicked him, "Look how you've been made!"

The two of them dragged their luggage out of the train station, and after going around for a while, they found the subway entrance.

"You're almost an aborigine, and you're still lost." Lin Yan spotted an empty seat on the subway, and immediately pulled He Zhengxi and ran over, "Hurry up, sit down first."

He Zhengxi's arm was grabbed by Lin Yan, and he felt a little joy in his heart. He pulled Lin Yan's hand down in the direction, "You sit down first."

"Okay, then I won't be polite." Lin Yan leaned back in his chair and looked at the carriage full of passengers and heaved a sigh of relief.Although he is not afraid of communication, but in an unfamiliar environment, if he insists that he is not nervous, it is naturally a lie.

I am going to live in this city for four years, or even longer, and I am a little dazed, but also faintly excited.His eyes fell on the billboards flying past outside the window, and a sense of steadfastness gradually emerged in his heart.

He Zhengxi stood in front of Lin Yan holding the handrail, he could see Lin Yan's hair whirling when he lowered his head.It's a perfect direction. According to the old man in the family, his eldest brother must be a sensible and obedient type.He Zhengxi stared at it for a few minutes, then couldn't help but raised his hand to touch his own, it was a little crooked, it didn't seem to be all right.

Just as his thoughts were racing, Lin Yan's hand suddenly stretched out, and He Zhengxi stepped back subconsciously.

"Why are you retreating?" Lin Yan raised his face and said, "There is a thread on the trousers."

"Huh? Oh, I didn't pay attention. I thought you were going to do something."

Lin Yan smiled obscenely: "What can I do, do you think something is not suitable for children?"

He Zhengxi took two steps back firmly, "I am a positive young man, sunny, cheerful, and handsome."

"It sounds like the root is red. It's hard to say what's going on inside." Lin Yan pinched the end of the thread, stood up and stretched his arms, "Sit down, I'll stand for a while."

"We'll be there soon." He Zhengxi said while supporting his schoolbag.

"Do you want to transfer to the bus?" Lin Yan turned his head to look at the route map, and found that he didn't know him, so he turned back helplessly.

"No, it's only a 10-minute walk away, it's very convenient."

Not long after He Zhengxi sat down, his eyes began to drift unconsciously to Lin Yan again.He scanned all the way from the ankle, calf, thigh, crotch, waist, chest, neck, facial features, hair... Even if he took a car all the way and squeezed into a cake in the crowd, except for some wrinkles on the corners of the clothes, Lin Yan's whole body Still clean and meticulous.Even in Yancheng, a bustling city where young people gather, he still stands out.

He Zhengxi observed carefully for a long time, when his gaze circled to the tip of Lin Yan's ear, he suddenly bumped into the gaze from the side, it was a girl.

The two looked at each other silently for two or three seconds. He Zhengxi slowly curled his mouth, raised his head, hugged Lin Yan's waist innocently and said, "Brother, I'm so tired..."

"Tired? That's right. You probably didn't rest well on the way. I think there are still a few stops. Don't worry, just close your eyes and sleep." Lin Yan stretched out his hand to rub He Zhengxi's temple, and leaned forward a few centimeters.

"Well, then don't move, let me hold you for a while." He Zhengxi said in a muffled voice, and then quietly pulled a smirk at the girl, who frowned and looked away.

The two hugged in an extremely twisted and eye-catching posture for more than ten minutes in the car. When they got off the subway, the people next to them looked at them strangely.

"The crowd must think that we did something shameful just now." Lin Yan said in a low voice.

He Zhengxi twisted his neck, and smirked at Lin Yan, "Brother, you are very big now."

"Then it's better for me to be serious?" Lin Yan raised his eyebrows.

"No, it's better not to be serious, anyway, you are not a serious person anyway." He Zhengxi said while dragging the suitcase.

"That's right!" Lin Yan said, "It's not the burden of life that bastard hides all my indecency!"

He Zhengxi laughed loudly: "Long live the unscrupulous!"

"Long live!"

They fought all the way to the gate of He Zhengxi's residential area. Standing outside the gate, Lin Yan looked up at the residential area covered by green trees in front of him, dragged his backpack uncomfortably, and said, "I feel like you The temperament of the family may not fit me very well."

"Your temperament is much better than this shabby neighborhood, let's go."

"A shabby neighborhood? Your father will beat you to death."

"This house my grandfather bought, he can't afford it."

"Oh, your grandpa will kill you."

He Zhengxi's house was a small duplex, and when everyone was busy, there was no one in the huge space, which seemed a bit empty.Lin Yan passed the cardboard boxes and branches and fallen leaves at the door, and walked into the living room. There were a pile of potato chip packaging boxes and drink bottles on the coffee table. He turned to He Zhengxi and said, "Your house was ransacked by some bandit?"

He Zhengxi scratched the back of his neck embarrassingly, "There are many things in the hospital, Lao He often lives in the dormitory, and my mother is working on a project... I'm the only one left."

"Then where are your grandparents who love Sun Ruming? Don't you have an aunt who cooks at home?" Lin Yan put down his luggage, took an empty shopping bag from the table, and bent down to collect the garbage.

"Auntie won't be back until school starts, and she's been on summer vacation." He Zhengxi ran to the kitchen and got a broom out. Before he could walk over, Lin Yan stretched out his hand to signal him to stay away, "Smell that smell Son! Rinse it clean and put it on the balcony to dry before using.”

"Is the vacuum cleaner okay?" He Zhengxi asked.

Lin Yan finished collecting the things on the table, walked around to He Zhengxi's side, poked his head to look at the kitchen, retched, and almost vomited, "Hurry up, open the window, and return the vacuum cleaner! This floor needs to be wiped well. You I really can't understand whether the skills learned in Xicheng have become subordinate... You really came here to be a young master. Just like you, what's the use of taking the first place in the exam? I was shoveled out by the hostess as garbage!" Lin Yan sighed and nagged for a while, and finally said helplessly, "Don't stick around, go wash the broom first, and then find me a bag of detergent or washing powder or soap powder. Come here, get a bucket, fill it with water, get an old sheet, a rag, my God..."

He supported his temples, and looked up at the ceiling speechlessly, "You don't ask me to be a guest to give you gifts, you ask me to work for you as a part-time worker."

Xiao Lin's part-time worker worked up and down in He Zhengxi's house for more than three hours, and generally cleaned up the few rooms that were needed, and then he took a thorough shower before he felt comfortable.

"You are really awesome. I won't say anything. I'm too lazy to say it. Hurry up and make a room. I'm so sleepy." Lin Yan sat on the sofa and panted heavily.He went out to drive the car at night, waking up from sleep all the way, and finally arrived at the place, and had to do his best to clean up for others. At this time, he was so tired that he could see Duke Zhou with his eyes closed.

He Zhengxi took his head out of the refrigerator, excitedly: "Sleep in my room, my room is clean!"

Lin Yan leaned on the sofa and blinked, "What are you thinking? Is there a conspiracy?"

"How could it be? I'm very simple and honest. If you say five years, it's only five years." He Zhengxi said seriously.

Lin Yan shook his head and got up, ready to go upstairs, he yawned and said to He Zhengxi: "You remember to go out and buy some green vegetables, you can't eat potato chips anymore."

"I try my best!"

"Anyway, it's not me who will be out of shape by then."

"...I won't eat any more."

He Zhengxi lived here for three years, but he didn't go to the vegetable market much. He remembered that Lin Yan liked fish and sweet and sour pork ribs.After wandering around a few stalls, there was nothing to buy after lunch time, and He Zhengxi also felt tired, so he simply went to the outside shop and ordered food to take home.

When passing by the property center with food and drink in hand, the doorman happened to stroll over.

"Xiaohe is back?"

He Zhengxi nodded, "Well, you haven't changed shift yet?"

The little brother said: "Just as I was leaving, I saw Dean He's car just now, what a coincidence!"

"My dad?" He Zhengxi glanced at the food in his hand.

What's going on, he's planning to have dinner with Lin Yanxin...

Saying goodbye to my little brother in a hurry, He Zhengxi moved back home with his head down, rubbing the soles of his shoes, and when he reached the door, he reluctantly was about to take out his keys, when the door opened from the inside.

"It's pretty clean, your brother is here?" He Yi said.

He Zhengxi: "Well, are you eating at home? I've bought some food."

He Yi hesitated at the door for a few seconds, and finally backed away, "Okay, I just wanted to chat with you guys, I haven't seen you for a few years."

Can you continue to play a dedicated dean who doesn't care about his family? !He Zhengxi shouted silently.

"I have to say, your brother is really amazing." He Yi took off his coat and hung it up again, and changed into a pair of slippers. "It's not easy to make your chicken coop look like you."

"Anyway, it's called a dog's den, no matter how bad it is for a cow's house or a donkey's house, and reject the chicken house! Our whole family lives here, and you are scolded into it!"

He Zhengxi went to the kitchen, dug out several soup bowls, poured the vegetables in the lunch box into them, dug out the plastic wrap, wrapped them up one by one, and put them on the cooking table.

"Don't eat now?" He Yi asked.

"My brother hasn't woken up yet, wait until he wakes up to eat." He Zhengxi took a kitchen paper and wiped away the splashed fish soup neatly.Lin Yan's cleaning made the kitchen almost reflective. He felt that if he got dirty again, he might be cleaned up severely.

"Think about the position of my own father." He Yi didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

He Zhengxi tilted the corner of his mouth, raised his chin at He Yi and said, "It's not that my father is better than my father. You don't understand a role model in the world."

"Brat!" He Yi stretched out his hand and his brain collapsed.

Lin Yan slept for a long time and didn't wake up. He Yi waited and waited, hungry.He Zhengxi showed great mercy and personally cooked a bowl of noodles for this miserable old father.He Yi ate and drank enough, drove back to the hospital, and in the evening, he rushed back diligently, no matter what, he had to have dinner with the two children.

To this, He Zhengxi was speechless.

Lin Yan was trapped by a chaotic dream.He dreamed of his parents.It was raining, and they stood at the entrance of the Xicheng Welfare Institute with miserable and helpless expressions on their faces, their clothes were torn, and they held a child in their arms, shouting repeatedly: "Xiao Yan, hurry up!" Come and have a look, this is your younger brother, your real younger brother."

Kohiko?Brother?

Lin Yan stood there without moving.Why add a small before my name, how good is our relationship?He Zhengxi was the only younger brother of his.He didn't want to recognize the one in their arms.

He resisted without saying a word, but the other party still yelled relentlessly.

After a long time in chaos, Lin Yan felt as if someone was calling him behind him. He turned his head and opened his eyes against the rain with difficulty.

"It's you..." There was fresh and clean air around, and it wasn't raining.

"Dream?" He Zhengxi asked.

"Hmm." Lin Yan raised his hand to brush his sweaty bangs, and muttered softly, "So I'm sweating."

He Zhengxi handed him a towel and said, "Lao He is back, waiting for you to eat together."

Lin Yan woke up immediately, "Ah? Why didn't you call me earlier! Damn!" He quickly got up from the bed and went straight to the bathroom.

"Why are you so nervous? It's not an important task..." He Zhengxi said in a low voice.

"I figured it out." Lin Yan ran out, closed his eyes, his face was dripping wet, "You are really not big or small."

Because of He Yi's presence, the topic of the dinner chat was quite serious.He seriously inquired about Lin Yan University's major and future plans, and even gave many detailed and useful suggestions.Lin Yan listened very attentively. Originally, Xu Jialin should have said these words to him, but Xu Jialin's mouth was determined not to say these words.He Yi was willing to speak, and Lin Yan was very grateful.

He Zhengxi held his rice bowl and listened silently at the corner of the table, hearing that the food was almost stale.

"Let's talk about these things later, let's eat quickly, such a formal conversation at the dinner table will affect digestion." He said with his finger on his chin.

"Okay, I'll stop nagging, let's eat first." He Yi smiled helplessly.

"I like to hear it very much. You can tell me more in the future." Lin Yan picked up the bamboo chopsticks.

"Children of your age, there are too few who can listen to their parents seriously. Zhengxi can't do it. He has too many ideas of his own."

"Is there anything about me that worries you?" He Zhengxi took a sip of soup indifferently.

Lin Yan stretched out his leg and bumped him, "How do you talk?"

He Yi waved his hand: "Don't worry about him, that's it, no one can care about it." After speaking, he looked at Lin Yan again, "I have something else to tell you."

"Huh?" Lin Yan straightened his body and put down the bowl.

"Zhengxi also mentioned this to me some time ago," He Yi stood up and walked to his briefcase, took out a transparent file bag from it, and handed it to Lin Yan.

"This is...?" Lin Yan took out a tissue and wiped his hands, then picked up the file bag, "Medical examination?"

He Yi said: "Yes, before school starts." He pointed to Lin Yan's ear, "See if there is any way, and then give up if it is impossible."

"It's not necessary." Lin Yan pinched the file bag and said, "I just had a physical examination before the college entrance examination, and I am very healthy."

"Can the physical examination for the college entrance examination be called a physical examination? You have to do a formal physical examination, I guess you must be malnourished!" He Zhengxi interjected.

Lin Yan turned his head and glared angrily: "I'm just busy with part-time work. You're making it sound like I'm very fragile. The pressure to prepare for exams is high. There are too many people in the class who are thinner than me."

He Zhengxi was about to speak again, but He Yi was worried that the two brothers would quarrel, so he quickly raised his hand to signal him to pause, and explained: "It's okay, everyone in the family has regular medical checkups, and I couldn't reach you when you were in Xicheng before. Now that you are here, everyone takes care of each other, which is normal. And this kid, he insisted on being with you." Afterwards, He Yi tried to squeeze out a gentle expression, and added: "It's not that you are not in good health , to be prepared.”

Lin Yan had no choice but to agree in embarrassment.