River City Story

"I don't think you were thinking about anything serious just now." Lin Yan crawled out from under the table with his head covered in ashes.He had been nurturing in the alley where migrant workers lived in Linshui Street all year round, and with He Zhengxi beside him, his son's voice was almost the same as that of the locals.

"Then what do you think I'm thinking?" He Zhengxi pushed the mirror frame and replied calmly.

Lin Yan looked at the middle school boy who was already half a head taller than him, and suddenly felt a little apprehensive.He Zhengxi didn't know which tendon was wrong recently, so he got a pair of glasses without lenses to wear. At first glance, he looked like five people and six people.If Cai Xusheng was there, he would definitely say that He Zhengxi is a real scum. He said before that Lin Yan looked like a scum, but it was obvious that He Zhengxi's image was more refined and scum.

Everyone has some complex faces, crying at A, smiling at B, kneeling and licking at C, but He Zhengxi's complexity is exponential.When the face of a fool is shining brightly, there may still be a hundred cool guys hidden inside, and a hundred cool guys have to independently differentiate into a thousand personalities.Although it was slightly exaggerated, He Zhengxi was indeed extraordinary.

"I'm too lazy to guess you. Do you have a lot of homework? There are tables and chairs on the second floor." Lin Yan said while grabbing the broom.

"Not too much, I will write it when I go to study with you at night." After He Zhengxi finished speaking, he stretched out a hand to Lin Yan. Lin Yan immediately dodged and took two steps back, "You want to Crossing secular boundaries?"

He Zhengxi hesitated for a moment, then he laughed, not quite like a high school student.

"Brother, it's time for me to ask you what you're thinking!" He quickly stroked the crumbs off Lin Yan's hair, took out a pack of wet wipes and stuffed them to Lin Yan, "Your hair is stuck, I just want to Just help you get rid of it."

Lin Yan said awkwardly: "Then you are really careful."

He Zhengxi tilted his head with an innocent face.

Lin Yan stretched out his hand to bow to him and said, "Eldest young master, if you have time, you can help the young one to look around the store. The old man at the door, oh, the old man at the door has already run away. You can help him for a while, stand at the door and stick around." That's it, the big girl and the little daughter-in-law will definitely love you."

He Zhengxi put on a posture and waved his hands: "That's okay, I reluctantly accept it."

The business hours of this bookstore are relatively short, closing when the sun goes down, and there is no night shift.At 7 o'clock in the evening, Lin Yan locked the shutter door, pulled He Zhengxi to sort out the goods for more than half an hour, and was ready to leave.

"You're the only one who works in this shop? Tallying, cleaning, cash register... and takeaway as well?" He Zhengxi counted on his fingers, "Aren't you tired?"

Lin Yan rolled the sleeves of his blouse over his shoulders and stepped into the car, "What's the trouble? The hourly wages are very high. The key is that the owner of the shop has a good personality. I just entered school, so it's not easy to find a suitable part-time job that I can trust. .”

"...Anyway, no matter what you do, you don't feel tired." He Zhengxi stepped into the back seat, "You also said that you are a big girl and a little daughter-in-law. Obviously you are too, and you are loved by old men and women."

"That's called charm, understand? You, no, you still have to practice." Lin Yan said while riding, "However, at your age, it doesn't matter if you don't practice. They say you want to be young, and you still have enough time to be wanton. "

He Zhengxi leaned on Lin Yan's back and didn't speak for a while.The wind in Yancheng's early autumn night was a bit cool, and He Zhengxi could feel Lin Yan's temperature through the cloth.Just now, he miraculously discovered that he was no longer as repulsed by the word "your age" as before.

Back at school, Lin Yan pushed the bicycle into the shed and locked it, turned around and glanced at He Zhengxi who had been silent all the way, and asked with a smile, "Did you not eat enough at night? Is the dirt at the door of the bookstore enough to eat?"

"I ate two, and it's still the deluxe set meal. Do you think I'm full?" He Zhengxi said helplessly.

"Then why are you pretending to be deep?" Lin Yan said, "As long as the stomach is full, other problems are not a problem."

"Sounds reasonable."

"It's broken without reason."

He Zhengxi wanted to laugh a little, Lin Yan always said admonitions, even if something was wrong, he couldn't find anything to refute.

"Let's go, I wonder if we can get a good seat in the study room." Lin Yan raised his leg and kicked He Zhengxi's knee.

"Can you be gentle with your brother..." The tone was quite dissatisfied.

Lin Yan tried his best to roll his eyes in the dark night, and sighed, "You are the only one in the world who can make me waste my energy by kicking and scolding me."

He Zhengxi immediately felt a little pissed on his head, he secretly laughed for a while, feeling very happy.

On Friday night, there was no one in the study room at the school. He Zhengxi was tall and mature. When he entered the door, he followed Lin Yan with his head held high and his chest held high. He blended into the self-study army fearlessly and naturally.

He Zhengxi worked hard on the papers, Lin Yan concentrated on taking notes, the classroom was quite quiet, the two spent two hours ignoring each other, and they didn't even go to the bathroom.It wasn't until there was a sudden noise outside that He Zhengxi turned his head away from the physics exercises.

He pushed Lin Yan's arm and asked in a low voice, "Do I have to go?"

"So fast?" Lin Yan covered the pen cap and glanced at the phone, "Okay, let's remove it."

Walking out of the teaching building, He Zhengxi mobilized his whole body muscles and stretched earth-shatteringly.

"I have to say that the atmosphere in your university is great. From now on, I will come to you to do my homework every weekend."

Lin Yan: "Then you have to put your tail away and don't cause trouble. If you are caught by the housekeeper, you can't confess me."

"I must say that my brother Lin Yan brought me in." He Zhengxi turned his neck and said.

"Stupid." Lin Yan yawned, "I'll be under the dormitory in a while, be smart."

He Zhengxi was not afraid of those things at all, under the sincere and sharp gaze of the dorm aunt, he still walked in majesticly, without changing his face, as if he was indeed a student here.

Lin Yan brought his handsome brother back to the dormitory, shocking the other three.

"Wow! You brought someone back! Who is this?" Cui Chen smiled and winked at Lin Yan with a pot in his hand.

"Put away your obscene and dirty thoughts, and please keep your precious footwashing water away from me."

After Lin Yan finished speaking, he dragged He Zhengxi in front of him: "My brother, He Zhengxi, he is quite sensible, and he won't cause you any trouble."

"You two are indeed brothers, you both look good." Yu Li said with a smile.

"It's my brother after all." Lin Yan pinched the back of He Zhengxi's neck, turned his face and said, "There is a bathroom in the dormitory, you use my things to wash."

Facing Lin Yan's approaching face suddenly, He Zhengxi felt a few waves in his heart. With an oh, he carried Lin Yan's basin into the bathroom like a log.

"Your brother must have hurt the hearts of many girls." Cui Chen leaned over and said meanly.

"That's called being favored by many girls, okay! This level of education is really amazing, and the school will lose face." Lin Yan said with disgust.

"Honestly! So handsome, he must have fallen in love early." Cui Chen persevered.

"No, he is very obedient and spends all his time studying and basketball."

"I don't believe it. The grassroots of our previous school changed two girlfriends a month, and told the family that he was studying hard."

"My younger brother is the No. 1 high school in the whole school, and any messy person is not qualified to compare with him." Lin Yan handed the bag in front of Cui Chen: "Here is the paper that I just finished, you can read it, I guarantee it No more than half of the questions are wrong."

Cui Chentsk commented: "Brother Kong, I didn't run away."

Lin Yan already knew what his younger brother meant, so he raised his chin at Cui Chen and said, "Is my younger brother worth it? Let me ask you if you accept it or not?"

Cui Chen cupped his hands: "Shut up!"

"Is it good enough?"

"Excellent! Number one in the universe!"

"How much better than your school grass?"

"Eighty thousand times! Let's do it!" Cui Chen cried.

"Almost." Lin Yan nodded with satisfaction.

Standing under the shower head, He Zhengxi rubbed the soap foam all over his body and grinned, wishing he could rush out immediately, hug his brother and have a bite.

Lin Yan is like this, he usually looks gentle and easy to talk, occasionally he is not serious, but when he is serious, he is quite difficult to deal with.

He Zhengxi remembered one incident. When he was in the second grade of elementary school, a stunned young man came to his class, who would quarrel with anyone at the same table, and once got into a fight with him directly.The two were beaten up on the podium, their noses were bruised and their faces were swollen. The teacher wanted to find the parents, but couldn't get in touch with Xu Jialin, so he had to call Lin Yan from the junior high school to the school.In the end, within a few days of turning around, the stunned young boy suddenly fell on the way home, his knees and forehead were all scratched, and he didn't come to school for a few days.At that time, He Zhengxi only felt happy, and didn't think about it at all. Later, the child apologized to He Zhengxi privately with red eyes, saying that he would never fight with him again, and hoped that his brother would show mercy.It was only then that He Zhengxi realized that it was Lin Yan who helped.

The most amazing thing is that before Lin Yan put away his fists and left, he specially gave the boy a pack of chocolate beans as a gift, saying it was to soothe his wounded heart.

As He Zhengxi thought back, the smile rippled from the corner of his mouth to his entire face.

"It's okay to be silly, it's a skill." Lin Yan suddenly poked his head in, "Have you brought underwear?"

"Why didn't you knock on the door!" He Zhengxi jumped a few steps barefoot, "I'm so frightened..."

"Yo, wilted?" Lin Yan looked at He Zhengxi's lower body, "Isn't this very energetic?"

"That's because I'm unstoppable, and my recovery speed is astonishing!" He Zhengxi turned around, rubbed his hair and said.

"If you really have this speed, then you must have taken some kind of medicine." Lin Yan stretched out a finger to poke He Zhengxi's itchy flesh, "I'm asking you, did you not bring underwear, I didn't find it in your schoolbag. wear mine?"

He Zhengxi shrank back with a smile and said, "Okay, is the size suitable?"

"what?"

"It will be tight." He Zhengxi added.

"Damn, forget it if you don't wear it, it's a match made in heaven with you." Lin Yan slammed the door of the bathroom.

He Zhengxi quietly leaned on the crack of the door and listened for a while, after confirming that Lin Yan had really left, he stretched out his limbs and took a shower generously.Lin Yan came in suddenly just now. For a while, he didn't know where to cover up first, but now he suddenly realized that they are all men, and they don't lose their flesh at a glance. What's the use of covering up?But I still feel a little bit embarrassed.

Classmate He, what's the future? When we were young, the two of us took a bath in a big basin. What's the matter as we grow back?

He sighed silently in the bathroom, rinsed off the soap bubbles on his body, took out the trousers from the clothes basket, and planned to change into them first, but just as he raised his eyes, he saw the new underwear hanging on the rack.Four corners, grey, normal style, no logo, not flamboyant at all.Didn't run away, Lin Yan's.

He Zhengxi happily stretched out his two long legs to put on his brother's underwear, and his heart was once again filled with the emotion called slamming.At this moment, it is suitable to go out and launch dozens of kicks into the night sky.

He walked unsteadily to Lin Yan's bed, smiling very kindly.

"Mom, you look creepy with such an expression about to fly into the sky." Lin Yan stretched out his hand and pushed him away, "Baby, move your lord first, I'll make the bed..."

"Brother!" He Zhengxi stretched his head forward.

"Ah? What?" Lin Yan stopped pulling the sheets, and rubbed He Zhengxi's wet hair, "How old are you, are you acting like a baby with me? Have you wiped your head?"

"Brother, hey!"

He Zhengxi's head was turning back and forth in Lin Yan's arms like a drill bit, and the three people in the dormitory were stunned.

"Is this using my clothes as a towel?" Lin Yan pinched his face, "Okay, why are you giggling? You don't lay eggs, so you can only fry some chicken rice crackers and chicken thighs while the meat is still tender. of……"

"Wait, wait! You can shut up!" Cui Chen interrupted Lin Yan's narration, "I wanted to go to the cafeteria to buy a fried chicken leg at night, but I was a step late and missed it!"

Hearing Cui Chen talk about food, Lin Yan remembered that there was a Mid-Autumn Festival dinner.He took the opportunity to ask about this matter, Yu Li and Cui Chen didn't go home, no matter what, but Su Lihang's whereabouts have been mysterious.

"Are you going to live a two-person world? There will be a chance to be together again in the future." Lin Yan said.

Su Lihang unexpectedly did not refuse: "I'll go, just order the hot pot restaurant near your event venue."

"Why do you have to choose that one?" Lin Yan asked.

"I know their boss. When the time comes, you don't need to bring your wallet. You can eat as much as you can. It's best to bankrupt them." Su Lihang said through gritted teeth.

Cui Chen grinned, and asked Lin Yan silently: "Have you broken up in love? Or do you have a grudge with that boss?"

Lin Yan also mouthed back to him: "How do you know he's broken in love?"

Cui Chen: "I saw him drop his phone!"

Lin Yan: "Prodigal son, throwing a bowl is better than dropping a mobile phone. Thousands of dollars are wasted!"

Cui Chen: ...I'm not talking about falling.

"I know what you two want to say." Su Lihang said suddenly.

"Oh! Then have you lost your love?" Cui Chen asked loudly, and Lin Yan, who was in the lower berth, closed his eyes in pain.

"I've never been in love, what a shame." Su Lihang said angrily.

"Where's the girl downstairs on the first day of school?" Cui Chen didn't feel the emotions of her roommates at all, and continued to heat up.

"That's the younger sister of an acquaintance. She happened to pass by and just asked me to have a meal."

"Then I still have a chance."

"There's a fart!"

Lin Yan and He Zhengxi were leaning against the head of the bed side by side, listening attentively to the bickering between the two above their heads, while Yu Li on the opposite side had already covered the blanket and lay straight on the bed, entering a state of selfless sleep.

"Your dormitory is pretty fun." He Zhengxi said in a low voice.

Lin Yan smiled and lowered his voice: "At the end of the day, I can just relax before turning off the lights. Everyone is busy at other times. Don't look at them like this, one can compete with the other. I'm afraid I won't get the scholarship at the end of the year .”

He Zhengxi put the soles of his feet on Lin Yan's insteps, stroked them back and forth, and said, "Brother, you're fine."

"Don't believe your brother's nonsense, he was No. 1 in the class for a small project some time ago." Su Lihang looked at them quietly.

"You two stopped arguing?" Lin Yan raised his face and asked with a smile.

"It's not interesting." Su Lihang also leaned against the head of the bed, "I feel that college is quite boring."

Lin Yan especially wanted to say, you are purely idle, and if you find something to do, all your illnesses will be gone.He himself is like this. Only when he is busy can he feel that he has a real sense of being alive. Once he is not busy, he will be useless.

Lin Yan, who was like a spinning top, directly handed over He Zhengxi to Yu Li, and spent two-thirds of the two full days on the weekend at the real estate event.He and Zheng Qifeng are both comprehensive posts, like bricks, and they will go to the top wherever there is a shortage of people.Zheng Qifeng looks more reliable than in the phone and photos, he speaks and acts more calmly, and has a tall and straight figure.During the event, they had to wear uniforms, white shirts, and black trousers. Zheng Qifeng put the cheap uniform on his body, and it was as if he had arrived at the reception.

"Hurry up and hook up some rich people and let them buy a house! What's the percentage of the commission?" Lin Yan leaned in front of the real estate model, trying to put on a special professional face.When there are no guests, he always likes to find something to chat with.

Zheng Qifeng: "You know what I'm thinking, but you still persuade me to find a rich woman?"

Lin Yan: "Recognize the reality. The Lin Yan you like is completely different from the real Lin Yan. I am a petty citizen among petty citizens. Small. The family is poor and there is an adoptive father in prison, which is not worthy of your liking at all."

"I am because of you..."

"Is it because of my face?" Lin Yan turned his head and looked serious, "I only have one face left, oh yes, my grades are not bad, but I will definitely change my appearance in ten or twenty years. what?"

Zheng Qifeng's chest heaved deeply a few times: "I still won't say it, I'm a little angry."

"Look, you can get angry if you just chat casually. From now on, if you don't look up and look down, what kind of quarrel might become..."

Coincidentally, a customer passed by, and Lin Yan immediately nodded and bowed respectfully to see him off.

"Is this a refusal?"

"Calculate."

"It's heartless." Zheng Qifeng said.

"You like me, and it has nothing to do with me."

"Chocolate, and poetry, you have accepted them for three years." Zheng Qifeng was quite strong.

"You didn't sign it either. If you knew it was you, you would have rejected it a long time ago, and I haven't even eaten a bite of chocolate." Lin Yan said, turning his ankle.

"Then who ate it?"

"I was going to give it to my uncle. He is in prison, but you know, you can't bring food there now, so I forcibly gave it to the prison guards."

"Ok."

"Well, I'm sorry... I didn't plan to develop a relationship with anyone." Seeing that there were fewer people, Lin Yan went up to greet the supervisor, grabbed Zheng Qifeng and walked outside, and said seriously, "My family's conditions are not good, and I study and work part-time. It's the first one, understand?"

"What if I'm a woman?" Zheng Qifeng asked relentlessly.

Lin Yan still shook his head: "It has nothing to do with gender, and I didn't look down on your sexual orientation. I really don't want to look for it, including anyone."

After being quiet for a few seconds, Zheng Qifeng spoke again and said, "I have liked you since I entered high school. That morning, we were the ones who walked through the front door. You and your brother were chatting on the school bench at that time. There are a lot of things. Maybe 'like' just doesn't make sense. When I saw you laughing, I immediately felt that I was finished." He recalled, "Actually, those poems were found by Sun Linlin. I edited it again, mainly because I feel that people write more passionately, and I don’t have a literary talent, so I can’t write.”

His expression was so formal that Lin Yan was a little speechless. He couldn't think of how to respond to Zheng Qifeng's so-called fiery emotion.

"Why do I feel like I'm being unkind again?" Lin Yan hid under the parasol awkwardly, "But no matter what, it's absolutely impossible not to tell you clearly, you should change someone you like as soon as possible, really. "

"Hey, it's nothing serious. I've been here for three years in high school, so I'm still afraid of your words?" Zheng Qifeng threw a bottle of mineral water to Lin Yan, "I didn't expect to be really with you, just getting to know each other like this Not bad. It's okay to be friends, right?"

"I'm not that strict, as long as you don't write love letters and give things away." Lin Yan drooled, turned his head to look into the distance, and the sky was gradually smeared with blue and red colors.

At five o'clock in the evening, after finishing the last shift and receiving two days' salary, the two hurried to the hot pot restaurant.

"Really, I think I have flat feet." Lin Yan shook the soles of his feet, "This foot must weigh ten catties now."

After hearing this, Zheng Qifeng stopped suddenly.

"Let's go? Why stop?" Lin Yan turned around in confusion, and before he realized what was going on, his ankle was held by Zheng Qifeng.

"What are you doing?" He bouncing up and down to stabilize his figure.

"Let me show you your feet." Zheng Qifeng lowered his head to take off his shoes.

Lin Yan was frightened: "Don't, don't, don't, I can't bear it!"

"Wait a little bit, I have experience, I can press it for you, it's very effective." Zheng Qifeng fixed Lin Yan's foot, and started to move on his own. After pressing the left foot, he switched to the right foot, methodically.Lin Yan didn't feel comfortable, only felt the pain as hell.

"This must be a dead end." He grinned and shook his foot, "Why don't you give me a steel nail!"

"My coach taught this before, he understands this very well, don't worry."

"That was really hard work..." Lin Yan bent down to put on his shoes, and Zheng Qifeng's hand was still pinching his other foot. Before standing up, Zheng Qifeng didn't know whether it was a lack of calcium in his brain or something, and stretched out to the sole of his foot Scratch twice.

"Are you flirting? Brother, it's itchy!"

Lin Yan stood up to run, but Zheng Qifeng's foot was still in Zheng Qifeng's hands. Seeing his reaction, Zheng Qifeng deliberately scratched him a few more times.

"Hahaha! No, no, I'm most afraid of this, please!" Seeing the opportunity, Lin Yan put on his shoes, jumped out nimbly, and said with a smile, "I really can't think of it, you are too black-bellied."

Zheng Qifeng said helplessly: "I'm only doing this to you. Do you think I'll press anyone's feet? Impossible."

"No," Lin Yan hiccupped with a smile, "Why are you scratching the soles of my feet? People who come and go must think we are very strange. Really, don't look at me like this, in fact, I have a very thin skin!"

As he spoke, he accelerated and took two steps forward.Zheng Qifeng looks quite honest and steady, but who knows that he can play the trick of surprise, coupled with the spirit of perseverance, who can bear it.

He rubbed his arms that had been blown by the cold wind, and ran towards the hot pot restaurant with his head shrunk. When he was about to enter, he looked up and saw the electric poles on the side of the road.

"Are you here so early?" Lin Yan walked over, "Does autumn mean winter in your place? It's suddenly so cold."

He Zhengxi turned his face away with a cold expression.

"Yo, who messed with you?"

"Brother, what were you doing with that man just now?"

The author has something to say:

I am revising and revising, and I feel that I don't know which version is the final version of the revision, and my brain is ruined.

Thank you for reading the text and favorites.

The weather is so warm recently, which is my favorite season.