River City Story

On the last day of the long vacation, at six o'clock in the morning, the air was filled with coolness.Most people huddled under the covers as much as possible, and prayed devoutly that the time would slow down a little bit, and a little bit slower.

At this moment, classmate He Zhengxi was still immersed in the dream of Lin Yan wearing Little Red Riding Hood and calling him sweetheart, a thin quilt was pitifully sandwiched between his legs, rubbing back and forth, like rotten vegetable leaves.

With a toothbrush in his mouth, Lin Yan pushed open the door of He Zhengxi's bedroom with one hand, and opened the window to take a breath.He woke up He Zhengxi who was groaning, eyes closed and giggling, "It's agreed to go to the morning market, get up quickly, and get that worm-like thing on the sofa by the way."

"Get up..." He Zhengxi opened his eyes and sat up, looking at Lin Yan's wet face, which vaguely overlapped with Little Red Riding Hood. : "You seem to be handsome again."

"Did you sleep stupidly?" Lin Yan sprayed out a few grains of foam, "My face is always on the way to become handsome."

"No." He Zhengxi shook his head, and a hair near his hair swayed back and forth, "I think you seem to be less gentle, Ling...a lot sharper." It's too eye-catching, He Zhengxi thought worriedly, in the future, rivals in love The number will increase.

"Isn't that great? It shows that I'm growing up." Lin Yan muttered as he shouted toothpaste, "Too gentle is the holy father."

"It's very charming now." He Zhengxi gave a thumbs up, "Even the foam on the lips is very charming."

"You'd better get up."

"Do you want to buy breakfast?"

Lin Yan brushed his teeth and walked out, saying, "Ask that kid, I can eat whatever I want."

"Oh." Taking advantage of the tendency of stretching, He Zhengxi jumped to the end of the bed and grabbed the corner of Lin Yan's clothes with one hand. Lin Yan followed his hand and retreated weakly, "I have a mouthful of toothpaste foam for you. bed."

"It's okay." He Zhengxi put his head on his lower back, falling into a dazed mode.

Lin Yan spat twice into the toothbrush bowl, and said, "From childhood to adulthood, every time you do this, I feel like you are my father and mother."

"Hmm..." He Zhengxi replied in a muffled voice.

Lin Yan stood beside the bed, the skin behind him was under the heat of He Zhengxi's exhalation, the two of them were one in front of the other, neither of them spoke. (slightly 34 words)

After a while, He Zhengxi gradually calmed down. Lin Yan wiped the toothpaste stains that were about to dry on his mouth, and said helplessly: "It seems that the way of waking you up in the future must be more humane, otherwise countless children and grandchildren will day-to-day relief may be affected."

"Hmm..." He Zhengxi tightly wrapped his hands around Lin Yan, "No, this is very good now, I really like it."

"You really are endless." Lin Yan broke He Zhengxi away, walked out, and went to the bathroom to wash his mouth and face.When I came back, I passed the sofa and saw that Lin Cong was still asleep, but his posture had changed a few times, such as lying on his back, in the dark, Chang'e flying to the moon, Dunhuang flying into the sky, etc.

"Another carefree and rebellious middle school student." Lin Yan shook his head and sighed softly.His gaze swept across Lin Cong's sleeping forehead covered with a layer of sweat, and his vigorous sleeping face, slightly flushed, with a stupid expression, full of youthful air.His facial features are indeed similar to Lin Yan's, but fate has tricked people. Lin Yan does not have the courage and mobility to wander around the city with 8000 yuan in his schoolbag.

If I can live again, can I be more presumptuous?

Absolutely don't think so, Lin Yan shook his head that suddenly became muddled, went back to the bedroom, closed the door, and sorted out his emotions.

Be sober, Lin Yan, he whispered to himself.

"There is no possibility of living again, we can only live this time seriously."

Not long after, there was a noise in the living room, and it was He Zhengxi who was yelling at Lin Cong to get up.Lin Yan shook his head helplessly and smiled, walked back to his desk, turned out this document and looked down seriously.

He Zhengxi, who was not awake, took Lin Cong, who couldn't open his eyes, and the two of them went downstairs staggeringly, left the community, and went shopping in the market.The beef that Lin Yan ordered He Zhengxi to buy was at the outermost stall of the market, and there were many customers.

As soon as Lin Cong stepped into the vegetable market sleepily, he was woken up by the long queue, "Damn it, there are so many people!" He turned his head and begged He Zhengxi, "Let's change."

"It's no use pretending to be pitiful with me, this is the one we need." He Zhengxi stood at the end of the line in a dignified manner, and said, "Go to a stall nearby to buy green onions and ginger."

"I feel like Brother Lin knows how to live." Lin Cong was full of longing.

"Otherwise? Are you waiting to starve to death!" He Zhengxi frowned and growled, "Hurry up and buy it!"

Lin Cong remained motionless: "I won't go."

He Zhengxi suppressed his temper, gritted his teeth and said, "You don't understand your situation of being 'under the roof'? You don't even want to buy an onion?"

Lin Cong spread his hands, stuffed two hundred-yuan bills into He Zhengxi's pocket, and said innocently, "I don't know how to choose. This is the second time in my life that I have come to the vegetable market."

He Zhengxi was full of disbelief: "What about the first time?"

Lin Cong thought hard for a while, and replied, "Probably when I was very, very, very, very young? I don't remember it anymore."

He Zhengxi nodded: "Young master who grew up spoiled."

Lin Cong cut, and poked Lin Yan's shirt, "I guess, your family should not be far behind, don't mention me."

He Zhengxi tilted his head: "How can you see that?"

Lin Cong said with the tone of someone who came here, and said: "Your outfits add up to twenty thousand, and I'm not blind."

After hearing this, He Zhengxi rubbed his sleeves in shock.

Since returning to Yancheng, his grandparents helped prepare his clothes. As for the price, he really didn't pay attention.Now that Lin Cong said that, he wanted to take it off immediately and never wear it again.He Zhengxi lived a frugal life with Lin Yan since he was a child. Let alone clothes worth 2 yuan, as long as the item exceeds [-] yuan, he will be blacklisted by Lin Yan as "deadly expensive and not worth buying".But such a rule was only applied to Lin Yan himself. To He Zhengxi, he has always been very generous, spending money on food and clothing, and has never been wronged.

They are obviously not brothers, why should they treat me so well.Now that I like you, it's really not my fault.

He Zhengxi's nose suddenly turned sour.During Lin Yan's high school entrance examination, the pair of shoes he wore for the physical examination had two circles of stitches made by a cobbler. Even so, he still spent money to buy new sneakers for He Zhengxi.

Calculated, this kind of life is indeed not leisurely and rich, but Lin Yan never complained in front of He Zhengxi.He is always joking, studying hard, saving money, living hard, trying to be nice to his younger brother, trying to be nice to Xu Jialin...

The yelling of the butcher shop owner got closer and closer, and He Zhengxi came back from his memory.

"What's wrong with you?" Lin Cong raised his head, his eyes were innocent, "Unhappy?"

"Come on, I haven't woken up." He Zhengxi pushed away the troubled face.He couldn't really express his temper when facing someone who was somewhat similar to Lin Yan.

"I haven't woken up yet, but I'm looking forward to Big Brother Lin's dumplings." Lin Cong stepped back, took out his mobile phone and started playing a small game, the brisk music beat the surrounding air.

The two were immersed in their respective worlds for a few minutes, when someone walked towards He Zhengxi with two bags of meat.

"Brother Xiaohe, right?"

He Zhengxi straightened his back and nodded, "Are you?"

"That's good!" The man hung the meat on the mini electronic scale and showed it to He Zhengxi: "This meat was ordered in advance by your brother Lin Yan yesterday afternoon. The whole piece, a total of three catties."

He Zhengxi thanked repeatedly, took the meat, and took out his pocket to pay.

"No, no, he has already paid the money." The butcher said.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work." He Zhengxi thanked the other party again.

When the people walked away, he stuffed the three catties of meat into Lin Cong's arms, and went to pick green onions by himself.

He sighed while walking, and couldn't help but return to Lin Yan.Lin Yan can always devote his mind to these trivial and extremely casual things, it has nothing to do with emotional intelligence, it is natural.

In his long life with Lin Yan, He Zhengxi has been treated favorably by this trait countless times, and now, he has become addicted to it and cannot extricate himself.He didn't even allow Lin Yan to put his mind on other people, he only wanted to enjoy it for himself.The difference is that from August to now, his feelings for Lin Yan seem to have changed.Unknowingly, in addition to instinct and dependence, there are more things like companionship and understanding.

On the way back, he was still arguing with Lin Cong.He Zhengxi disliked Lin Cong's ripped cropped trousers and his scorched yellow hair flying wildly in the wind, and even more disliked him for not dipping his fingers in onion water.

What kind of magical family would breed such waste? !

"None of your business." Lin Cong replied brazenly.

He Zhengxi has nothing to do with him.

His own life skills are not bad, and Lin Yan has never been a bear, so now, he doesn't have any good feelings for Lin Cong, an older bear child who is rare to meet.He felt that he was so stupid, why did he have to reach out to help, and just watched the group of people beat the little rascal until he was paralyzed.

This is not a brave act, it is a big trouble.

When he returned, Lin Yan was still reading in the bedroom, and the living room was still quiet.He walked into the kitchen, put away the shopping bags, and took a porcelain plate to put the fried buns.On the way to the outside, Lin Cong reached out to grab one to eat, but He Zhengxi glared back.

"I'm starving to death, what are you doing!" Lin Cong shook his fist at He Zhengxi.His arms were too slender, and he waved them like an extended matchstick, which made He Zhengxi laugh.

He also waved his fists and said, "It's none of my business if you're hungry, if you stay here, you have to behave yourself. If my brother doesn't come out, you don't even want to eat a bite."

Lin Cong retreated slowly, collapsed on the sofa, and said, "Brother Huan, you two don't even have the same surname, and you don't even look alike. You say brother on the left and brother on the right." Show weakness, like the minion behind the boss.

Lin Cong was young, but he had mastered the art of making people angry very well, and he could step on He Zhengxi's explosive point in every sentence he said.

"Are you looking for a beating?" He Zhengxi stood by the dining table, looking at the flowing forest.

"You dare to beat me up? If you beat me up, Brother Lin will teach you a lesson." Lin Cong was confident.

He Zhengxi thought the same, he set the dinner plate, and planned to go back to the bedroom to calm down and catch his breath.It's just that Lin Cong's rough and casual nerves didn't receive the signal that He Zhengxi was about to explode at all. He smiled and turned over his mobile phone, pretending to be disobedient, and lowered his head to send messages and chat with his friends.He Zhengxi was tired of his attitude, but after all, it was in a rented room, so it was not good to make trouble, and He Zhengxi was not willing to let Lin Yan get angry.

It’s just that Lin Cong was still chattering nonstop. After a bunch of useless nonsense, he nonchalantly moved his mouth that was almost exactly the same curvature as Lin Yan’s, and said, “Really, I’m more like Brother Lin than you. younger brother."

After finishing this sentence, Lin Cong didn't speak any more, he chatted with his friend to the point of excitement, and couldn't spare any time to continue to stimulate He Zhengxi.A few minutes later, Lin Cong, immersed in the joy of chatting, suddenly felt a tearing pain in the back of his neck.He was lifted up with his head between his legs, dragged all the way to the balcony, like a herbivore being held in the mouth by a cheetah, and the whole process took less than five seconds.

"You are breaking the law!" Lin Cong hangs half of his body outside the window. Below is the rusty iron fence around the neighborhood. A row of small iron points that are not very sharp but will surely be poked to death if they fall directly hit Lin Cong's tender face. .He shivered tremblingly, realizing that he really couldn't wear ripped clothes this season.

Without saying a word, He Zhengxi fixed him on the window sill with a cold expression to dry.Except for the rebuttal at the beginning, Lin Cong sniffed his nose the whole time. He didn't know whether it was because he was afraid or stubborn, or because he was frozen, but he shut up anyway.

He hung on like a salted fish for two or three minutes before being dragged back.He Zhengxi threw him into the corner of the balcony like throwing trash.

"If I become stupid, can you afford it?!"

Lin Cong left the window, and immediately regained his energy.

He Zhengxi crossed his arms and said condescendingly: "Then I'll take you home, kill you, soak in formalin, and put it in the basement. There is a whole row of biological specimens made by me, you should feel honored."

Lin Cong got up on his hands and feet, and said, "I didn't expect you to be a pervert, a gentle scum, you are too freaky, disgusting."

"Those are great words, I'm honored."

He Zhengxi picked out his ears, thinking to himself that I have been immune to your words since the second year of junior high school.He smiled and said: "Be more honest with me in the future, although this 'later' is only a few days away."

Lin Cong snorted, thinking that He Zhengxi might not be out of his mind, so he was afraid and wanted to laugh at the threats.Under such circumstances, he unilaterally used the mentality of being evenly matched, and forced himself to think that he had won the round.For the rest of the time, the two of you stared at me and I stared at you, standing at attention and competing with each other until Lin Yan came over.

"You two, can you stop being like cockfights? You can't even be friendly for a second?" He leaned over and looked at the balcony, then turned to He Zhengxi and said, "Clean up the mess on the ground and water the flowers."

"Oh, good!" He Zhengxi went to get the mop with a smile on his face.

What Lin Yan said was a mess, he was referring to the messy footprints on the ground, apart from this, there was really nothing else.

The mean-mouthed young man Lin Cong was surprised at the speed of He Zhengxi's face-changing, but he turned his head around and decided not to be shrewd.This place is very comfortable to stay in, quarreling is better than being at home, you have to keep some morals, or you will be kicked out.

After breakfast, the three of them brought out the materials and made dumplings around the dining table.Lin Cong didn't know how to do it, and Lin Yan taught the skills carefully and patiently.He Zhengxi sulked with a sullen face, the dumpling skin was pitiful, he rubbed it so badly.

"The face is longer than a donkey." Lin Yan tapped the chopping board with a rolling pin.

He Zhengxi raised his head and said to Lin Cong: "What about you, your face is longer than a donkey's."

Lin Cong looked up at him blankly, then lowered his head again, he was concentrating on creating the pleats of dumplings.

Lin Yan rolled the dumpling wrapper skillfully and quickly, like a delicate machine.While kneading the dumplings, He Zhengxi observed Lin Yan's hands working together, and his mind was immediately relieved and his eyes filled with love.

When the second curtain was wrapped, Lin Cong suddenly turned to the air and said, "You look like an idiot."

There were three comrades present, Lin Yan kept his head down, and no one was worthy of being an idiot. It was obvious that he was speaking to He Zhengxi.But who is He Zhengxi, can he punch Lin Cong in front of Lin Yan on such a beautiful morning?impossible.He didn't want to be whipped by Lin Yan's rolling pin, and he didn't want to lose the good chance to kill 30 dumplings stuffed with beef.So He Zhengxi smiled slightly, and crushed Lin Cong's feet under the dining table.

At 10 o'clock, the doorbell rang, and He Zhengxi got up to open the door.

"Brother Song Rui, Brother Bowen, just in time, there are dumplings!"

Song Rui: "Wow, I haven't seen you for a few days, and I'm being serious again. What's your name? Didn't everyone call me by my name before?"

"I'm not sensible." He Zhengxi replaced them with disposable slippers.

"Tsk! Lin Yan is a clean freak." Song Rui bent down discontentedly to untie his shoelaces.

He Zhengxi stood beside the shoe cabinet, but smiled and said nothing.

"Your messy design workbench needs to be tidied up." Feng Bowen popped his head and said to Song Rui.

"Just shut up!" Song Rui changed his shoes, washed his hands, and went straight to the dining table, holding Lin Yan in his arms and shaking him desperately, "I told you that there must be something delicious to come to see you today."

"You are really a genius." Lin Yan praised with a thumbs up covered in flour.

"You are on the right track." Song Rui dragged a chair to one side, "You are 18 times stronger than Feng Bowen."

"I'm too wronged." Feng Bowen came over to greet Lin Yan.When I was about to sit down, I noticed the bushes next to me making dumplings.

"Who is this?" he asked.

Asked by Feng Bowen, Lin Cong raised his face uncomfortably.

"Ouch! Low profile version of Lin Yan!" Song Rui exclaimed.

Lin Yan: "Don't be so exaggerated, it's just a little resemblance." He was worried that Lin Cong would feel uncomfortable when he was said that, so he told He Zhengxi: "Take Lin Cong with you, and then go outside to weigh the beef and come back. Help make stuffing."

"Okay." He Zhengxi should be straightforward.

Song Rui was very interested in the existence of Lin Cong, so Lin Yan briefly told him what happened.

"It's not easy for you, one or two, I will treat you as a parent and work hard!" Song Rui said.

"Adolescence, it's normal to have some problems." Lin Yan pushed the rolled dumpling wrappers in front of Song Rui, "If you want to eat, help."

"You're cheating this week, I did the design of your cooking classroom for free!"

"I don't know who doesn't want money for life and death. They say it's just a practice. In the end, they received two free meal coupons for the whole year."

"...I can't say enough about you." Song Rui squeezed the dumpling wrapper, and pushed it in front of Feng Bowen, "You come."

Feng Bowen immediately rolled up his sleeves and got up to take off his coat.

Lin Yan raised his eyebrows with a look of "You're really good".

Song Rui pulled a piece of dough and squeezed it in his hands, and said, "Mature and more attractive than your little wolf dog."

Lin Yan was stunned for a few seconds before he realized, "Don't make such a joke, I'm not."

Song Rui divided the dough into small balls and said casually, "That's not sure."

Lin Cong didn't know how to pick beef, so he followed He Zhengxi to observe and study the whole time. On the way back, he said, "Both you and Brother Lin are great."

He Zhengxi: "Huh? Just now I was a villain."

Lin Cong: "If you are willing to take me in, I am definitely not a bad person."

He Zhengxi: "You are too naive, now the bad guys pretend to be more like good guys than good guys."

Lin Cong said depressedly: "My parents also said that I was naive, that I was childish, and that I didn't know the blessings in the midst of blessings."

He Zhengxi applauded approvingly: "Uncle and aunt are very accurate in seeing things."

Lin Cong sighed softly, and decided to change the subject, "By the way, why did you send us out to buy meat?"

He Zhengxi: "It's not enough to eat, what else can I do."

"It's in the refrigerator." Lin Cong pinched his chin and thought about it for a while, "Actually, I don't care what other people say about my looks, anyway Brother Lin is very handsome."

"Hey, your dual quotient is not very low, I thought you were an elderly mentally handicapped child."

Lin Cong ignored He Zhengxi, he yelled at the sky, and shouted: "I envy you all! I envy you!"

"Envy, you can only envy anyway." He Zhengxi pointed to himself, "After all, you, Brother Lin, are, I, dear, brother."

"Whatever you say, I'm invulnerable." Lin Cong threw things up and down for fun.

He Zhengxi chuckled: "What?"

Lin Cong stopped what he was doing and handed it to He Zhengxi, "Dough, do you want to play?"

He Zhengxi couldn't hold back the nerves in his legs that were about to move, so he went up and kicked Lin Cong's butt firmly.

"What are you doing?!"

"Fuck, you're so old, you're still wasting food! Such two big chunks! How did you make it? Do you know how many poor people there are in the world! If my brother knows, he can break your neck !"

Lin Cong raised his hand and touched the back of his neck, which seemed to be in pain, and shrank his head and said, "I was wrong."

He Zhengxi: "Aren't you invulnerable?"

Coincidentally, at this moment, Song Rui was being held down by Lin Yan as he was handling the piece of dough that he had kneaded into a pile of small balls.

"Where's your humanity?" Song Rui complained tearfully, "Back then you were a cutie, but now you've become a vicious stepfather!"

Lin Yan smiled: "Stepfather? Who do you call father? Uncle Song is in Xicheng, don't let yourself down."

"Ah! I'm just making dumplings. Don't pinch my arm with your fingernails. You are not human! I demand human rights!" Song Rui struggled.

"Then you take care." Lin Yan let go of his hand.

"Then you take care." Song Rui turned his head.

"Why is it me again?" Feng Bowen was extremely innocent.

"No, I don't have anything to eat at noon." Song Rui rubbed his arms, "Don't you want me to suffer this meal for nothing and not even have a bite of food?"

"...Then I will take care of it."

When He Zhengxi and Lin Cong returned home, for some reason, they felt that the atmosphere in the room was unusual, very classical and extremely philosophical.

Feng Bowen, a high-achieving student in the first graduate school, is carefully holding tweezers and huddling in a corner of the dining table, like a scholar who is dedicated to medical experiments, carefully and meticulously...making dumplings.

The size of a fingernail, it must be stuffed with meat, mini dumplings.

He Zhengxi almost wanted to kneel down on the spot, hold Feng Bowen's thigh tightly and learn from it.

This is really a guiding light on his way of chasing love!Good senior!