Chentan's Memories

No.20 Second Rebate

Guessing that Tang Yushu didn't wear good clothes—seeing his arms and head struggling in the new cotton robe, Lin Lang couldn't help rolling his eyes.

But then he couldn't help laughing again.

"You idiot—you will break if you hold on any longer." Lin Lang scolded.

But this sentence was meant to ridicule Tang Yushu, and the gentleness in the tone that blurted out even surprised him.

Lin Lang felt that he must be sick...

She simply took a few steps forward to help him put the clothes on smoothly, and then unbuttoned the front for him: "Do you like it?"

Tang Yushu moved away those dark eyes, but refused to look directly at Lin Lang, and just nodded abruptly.

"This is a birthday present for you..." Lin Lang refused to look at Tang Yushu, and walked around to the bronze mirror to check his clothes.

Tang Yushu was surprised: "How do you know?——My birthday..."

"I..." Lin Lang's mouth always runs faster than his brain, and he paused for a long time before continuing to speak vigorously: "...but a person who has walked the Silk Road."

"...What does that have to do with this?" Tang Yushu was puzzled: Could it be that Tang Yushu's birthday was written on the Silk Road?

Just now, I only care about passing the words along, and I really didn’t consider the smoothness of logic-but at this moment, if I say "it was written in the contract we signed before we opened the restaurant, I remembered it carefully at that time", but it seems a bit unreasonable. subtle.

right!That's how it should be described - "subtle".

I don't know when it started, all the interactions with Tang Yushu became a little strange - not an uncomfortable emotion, but a little uncomfortable.As for the reason, Lin Lang felt that even with his own level of wisdom, he still couldn't figure out the cause and effect.

Lin Lang felt that he must be sick...or maybe...maybe crazy.

So Lin Lang frowned as if he had been demolished: "Ah, are you bothered by asking so many questions... Are you ready? I'll take you to play when you're done..."

"I'm getting dressed, help me see—" Patting the clothes on his body, Tang Yushu stood upright, with a smile on his face like a child who didn't know anything about human affairs.

Lin Lang wanted to take a glance at Tang Yushu, but he couldn't take his eyes off Tang Yushu when his eyes stayed on Tang Yushu's body - the tall body itself was wrapped up by a slightly looser tailoring, making it look extraordinarily wide.The end of the trousers ends above the ankle bone and is wrapped by a solid cuff. With a pair of sturdy leather boots, there is always a hint of leanness.

Duan Shang, who was too selfless for a while, was awakened by Tang Yushu's sentence "Lin Lang?", pretended to clear his throat, and put on a flat expression: "You look like a dog-I didn't realize that you are still like this before." Energetic..."

"Really?" It was considered a compliment... Tang Yushu simply understood, and asked contentedly, "Where will you take me to play?"

Lin Lang took a long breath to make up for the breath he forgot just now: "...to Jinling."

"Really?!" The silly big man was extremely happy, which made the corners of Lin Lang's mouth rise a little.

The two of them just looked at each other for a moment before Lin Lang came to his senses again—he's always been delirious lately, as if he had been seduced by some god somewhere—it's really not a good omen.

As expected, Tang Yushu was a master who had never seen money before. He only knew that the journey from Chentan to Jinling City was expensive, but unexpectedly it was ridiculously expensive—"Three yuan per person? But it's only a one-way journey, so why bother?" Two people?"

Lin Lang was too lazy to spend this time at the post station, and had already flown into Jinling City, so he stopped Tang Yushu and said to the post station groom: "Three qian is three qian, let's go!"

"Wait hazi——" Tang Yushu was so stubborn that he pulled up Lin Lang's sleeves and walked out of the post station: "We won't take the car. I went there once before, and I have already remembered the route—this time I Take you to Jinling, let's take the path—faster than a carriage."

Lin Lang quickly took his hand out of Tang Yushu's hand: "How do you plan to get there?! Can't you walk?"

But Tang Yushu turned his face so high that he sold it: "Just trust me, let's go to the West Market—it's less than one mile from here, I'll go find my brother and take us there!"

Lin Lang was skeptical, but he couldn't resist Tang Yushu's strength, so he involuntarily led him away from the station with his shoulders folded.

On the one hand, Lin Lang felt that this posture was awkward, but on the other hand, he blushed and did not resist, obediently bearing Tang Yushu's thick arms on his shoulders, his heart beating extremely fast in his chest.After a while, he muttered in a low voice: "...we can afford six qian."

"If you can afford it, you can't."

Lin Lang turned his head to look at Tang Yushu - but because he was too close, he could only see his sharp jaw line; along and down, there was a line of powerful muscles extending from the corner of the mandible to the front of the collarbone. His steps moved rhythmically; looking back at his face again, the eyes that were staring straight ahead were closed by the projection of the brow bone, but still reflected a sliver of bright skylight.

The expression in those eyes became stubborn, and it did have the demeanor of a shopkeeper who is in charge of his own affairs.

Then for some unknown reason, he lowered his tone by three points, as if he was a little timid about something, Lin Lang asked in a low voice: "You still have... where are your brothers..."

Tang Yushu was slow-tempered, so he couldn't hear the slight sourness hidden in the question, so he just patted his chest and said: "—You will know later!"

The two walked to a mule and horse shed in the West Market just like that.With Lin Lang waiting here, Tang Yushu pushed open the gate of the fence and stepped into the yard, not forgetting to turn around and wink at Lin Lang.

Lin Lang's iconic white eyes: What's the point of selling, it's best to scare me.

Not more than half of "The Difficult Road to Shu"——

From the end of the other side of the road, there was a sound of a man's full of arrogance, followed by the bright crack of the whip cutting through the air, and with a neighing, a black horse with four hooves on the snow turned out.

And the person sitting on the horse is Tang Yushu.

For a moment, Lin Lang felt that all the strength in his whole body had been frightened.He just stood there blankly, watching the man on the horse leaning forward and looking at him with a smile. He came all the way, and finally stopped in front of him slowly.Immediately, the young man was heroic, like a bamboo horse returning home from a battle in a legendary storybook. He stretched out an arm for his support, and said neatly: "Get on the horse——I will take you to Jinling."

(Lin Lang: awsl)

"...First, we have to go around Tongshan Mountain to enter Moling, and then go north along the Huai River, and enter Jinling Mansion from Tongji Gate. The postmen and the others take the main road, so it takes a little longer, about three or four hours-but we You can take a small path, go directly through the mountains, and you can get there in two and a half hours at the earliest..." After talking about the itinerary plan at length, the two of them have already wandered out of Chentan.

Lin Lang was sitting on the horse's back, holding the thin layer of cloth around Tang Yushu's waist with both hands: "So...you secretly raised a horse outside?"

Tang Yushu laughed after hearing this: "Is it a big tiger? - a big tiger is a cub born to a mare that was captured after I won the war - so in calculation, my 'brother' is more important than asking you for help." Much earlier."

"Then you're going to open a hot pot restaurant with you big tiger!" After Lin Lang lost his temper, he felt that he was being unreasonable.

Tang Yushu didn't think he was being unreasonable, and patiently explained: "It was originally planned to be raised in the yard, but there was no shed in the yard. When I first came, I was fostered in Xishi... Later you came, and you don't want to see me. You also drew a dividing line, you like to be clean, but you always dislike me...so you didn't dare to build a shed in the yard, let alone bring the tiger back..."

"... Oh." After listening to this introduction, I felt that Dumb was wronged because of himself: "Then... if you want to take it back, it's not impossible—the west wing is on the inner side. Can I build a shed?"

"Is it really possible?!"

"Yes." Lin Lang nodded.

After confirming the permission once, Tang Yushu was overjoyed, and said again: "In the morning, I was by the pool in the middle of the yard, and I was looking at the gray line you drew at that time. You probably didn't expect it at that time. One day we will The two partnered up to open a restaurant, and even begged for help, you eat the rice I cooked, and I wore the clothes you washed... Who was it at that time, and said to me with grinning teeth: "During these two months, don't talk to me casually, Don't even try to be friends with me...'Hey! I was wrong, I was wrong, don't pinch me...'

After Lin Lang's weak attack stopped after his begging for mercy, Tang Yushu laughed for a long time, and finally stopped with a long sigh, and stammered to the people behind him: "I... I saw... you... wrote a lot of... my name on the paper... do you now... think I'm pretty good..."

After the words were out of my mouth, I felt that the whole face was turned red by a surge of hot blood, and it even spread to the ears and itchy.After a while of silence, Tang Yushu felt that the redness had spread to the back of his neck - I hope Lin Lang didn't notice the change in himself, so he just ignored the reckless question just now.

But after a while, Tang Yushu became angry at the person behind him who had been keeping quiet all the time—not angry, but anxious—anxious because he expected to get an answer but couldn't ask for it.

Feeling ashamed by Lin Lang's noncommittal silence, he simply closed his eyes and gritted his teeth, and only exhorted in a low voice, "Hold tight", then pulled the reins, whipped the whip and shouted "Drive——" Tiger immediately rushed out sensible.

Lin Lang was forced to quickly put his arms around Tang Yushu's strong waist.

It was already night when we stayed, and the city of Jinling was still full of lights.

The atmosphere between the two became more subtle because of Tang Yushu's abrupt question, so they didn't speak any more along the way.When Lin Lang went to the counter to choose a room, Tang Yushu followed the inn's handyman to tie up the horse in the backyard.

While standing in front of the stairs waiting for Tang Yushu, Lin Lang was introduced by the waiter at the inn: "Our shop features sulfur hot springs, do you need to boil water for you now?"

Lin Lang gave a perfunctory "Oh" and fixed his gaze on the place where he finally waited until Tang Yushu stretched his legs and stepped over the threshold.

Quickly withdrawing his gaze, Lin Lang turned his head to Xiaoer and said, "I can do it, you can ask him..."

The waiter nodded, and then greeted Tang Yushu: "Do you need to open the hot spring water for you now?"

Tang Yushu, like Lin Lang, gave a perfunctory "oh", but he didn't know what was going on in his mind.

After regaining his senses, he said to Xiao Er: "I can do it, you can ask him..."

Xiaoer smiled wryly: "Otherwise, the two sons... discuss it first?"

Lin Lang turned and went upstairs, and said to Xiaoer, "You should ask him..."

Xiao Er followed Lin Lang up, while guiding Tang Yushu upstairs: "This..."

"Then open..." Tang Yushu finally gave a clear answer.

After soaking in the hot spring pool for a full quarter of an hour, Tang Yushu felt that the atmosphere could not go on like this. He cleared his throat and took the initiative to talk: "Is...is it very expensive here?"

Lin Lang sat with his knees bent, his arms wrapped around his legs, and his posture was like a child who was a little shy.Hearing Tang Yushu's words, he rolled his eyes: "I messed up your life's event, so I don't have to pay you anything..."

Seeing that Lin Lang was still willing to roll his eyes at him, Tang Yushu's hanging heart relaxed. After laughing "hehe" a few times, he stretched his legs under the water: "It's okay, I didn't plan to marry a wife at first. .”

Blunting "Really?" The anxiety was too obvious, Lin Lang hurriedly coughed a few times in order to save face.

"Really." Tang Yushu was not smart enough to guess Lin Lang's emotions based on Lin Lang's actions, but nodded seriously, that serious expression seemed to be a life-and-death oath.

Tang Yushu is really cute.Lin Lang thought so at the moment.

After doing the calculations last night, Lin Lang suddenly felt that even if the restaurant's accounts hadn't improved all his life, he didn't seem so afraid anymore.

Old people like to say "never forget your original intention", Lin Lang thought about it, but he didn't think it was necessarily the case.

——I have to bring up my original intentions. At that time, I was in a hurry, and I only wanted to surpass my father, get rid of his control, and make a business that made a lot of money every day, so that I could turn around and show off to my father... This original intention is worth cherishing Keep it forever?

It seems unlikely.

Many times Lin Lang thought about one thing, if this restaurant, one day he would lose something - what is the most unacceptable thing to lose?

Lost your yard?

It doesn’t seem to be terrible, it’s not like I’ve had a hard time, two people eat bran and swallow vegetables together, and after a while, they can earn money for renting the yard—it’s really a big deal, and I also set up a stall in front of the God of Wealth Mansion, no it’s okay ?

Lost fondue?

360 lines, you can make a living by doing any kind of business - I heard that there is a down-and-out scholar in Chen Tan, who earns money to marry a wife by writing letters, petitions and other documents for others on weekdays.With my own knowledge, if I go to Chen Tan's academy to seek a job, maybe I can also become a teacher.

But once he thought that it was Tang Yushu who lost, Lin Lang couldn't go on planning.

Thinking rationally, without Tang Yushu, he would not be unable to survive.It's just that this stupid guy is too smart, so he set a big trick for him: obeying his orders all day long, and spoiling him.

Lin Lang didn't dare to think: the world is vast, where can I find such a person - I have something delicious to save for him on weekdays, and I have to tell him about the interesting things, so that I can survive the knife for him Knife; I haven't seen much of the world, but all the good things I have seen are given to him without reservation.

Lin Lang was a little worried for a moment——Tang Yushu will sooner or later become someone else's, although even now it doesn't belong to him alone.

Thinking of this, Lin Lang suddenly opened his mouth and asked Tang Yushu: "If one day, there will be a girl who will take you away - what kind of girl will that be?"

"Why do you ask me this lately..." Tang Yushu's face was flushed red from the hot spring water: "You are smart and clever."

Lin Lang thought for a while: "Hua Liangxu?"

Tang Yushu shook his head: "No...it's not that smart...you need to be more agile."

Lin Lang thought for a while: "Bai Shuci?"

Tang Yushu shook his head again: "...not really."

Clever and smart, but also capable and nimble...Lin Lang thought for a long time but couldn't think of a candidate; after thinking about it, he felt irritable again, and simply stood up, walked out of the pool, wrapped his robe and walked away.

Tang Yushu also stood up, too violently making the water splash.

Lin Lang turned his head and glanced at Tang Yushu, only to see Tang Yushu staring at him closely with two dark eyes.

He couldn't help but stop his eyes on a drop of water on Tang Yushu's chin, and then drifted downstream as the water drop slipped, quickly slicing across every inch of dark skin exposed to the water—for some reason, Lin Lang's nose suddenly felt a little bit Sour—he has an impulse: if there is power to reverse time, he is even willing to use his thin body to block all the swords that have pierced his flesh and blood for this person in front of him.

He had an urge to rush over and hug him.

But he resisted the urge, and only took his eyes away from Tang Yushu forcefully, and turned back.

"where did you go."

"I'm going back to the house."

"Then I will go back with you."

"You soak first—you soak for a while longer. I really want you to go back with me, but...you soak first..." Putting down the nonsense, Lin Lang covered his face with a towel and wiped it walk away.

Tang Yushu had no choice but to say "oh", and then obediently squatted back into the pool after the oh.

Lin Lang thought of Tang Yushu, and also thought of the old dog he picked up in Gaochang country when he was 14 years old.

When walking the Silk Road, I stayed in Gaochang for more than a month.Only those who do business there can speak Chinese. The young Lin Lang was usually bored by himself, but one day he rescued a dying black big dog on the street—just like Tang Yushu, his body was covered with scars.

Just out of childish compassion, I gave it a handful of water to feed it, and the dog seemed to be attached to me, and since then it has silently surrounded me and never walked away.

Lin Lang called it "Da Yu", and it didn't have any special meaning, it was just the poem he was reciting at that time - "The dragon is near the outside of the king's city, Yu Cong Lin Lang embraces the Xuan Gai" - Yu Cong Lin Lang, that's all.

On weekdays, when Dayu opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue, it seemed like he was laughing.

Whenever Dayu laughed, Lin Lang would bend down to hug him.But the dog is too big, and the 14-year-old Lin Lang is not tall enough, and eventually he will not be able to stand still, and one person and one dog will sit crookedly on the ground.Then Lin Lang would laugh out loud.Dayu was also normal, with his mouth open and tongue sticking out, even though he didn't know why Lin Lang was laughing, he was only happy because of Lin Lang's happiness—so it became a game that only belonged to Lin Lang and Dayu.

Sometimes, Lin Lang was bullied by Gaochang children for fun because of his language barrier.At this time, Dayu would rush out and howl at them for a while, until they were scared away, and then came back to rub Lin Lang's leg with his head.When Lin Lang reached out to touch its head, it was happy again, with its mouth open and tongue sticking out, laughing and happy because of Lin Lang's tears.

But Dayu was too old, and the journey was too difficult.

On the day he returned to the Central Plains, Lin Lang was persuaded by his uncle Zhang Qian with the condition that "if you don't take Dayu with you, when you pass Longyou, I will buy you a luminous pearl that is exactly the same as the one that your mother brought when she was alive"; After being placed in the carriage, Dayu kept wagging his tail and smiling at Lin Lang before the carriage started to move.

It doesn't know anything about his mind, but only knows to surround him, follow him, and drive away all those who hurt him.

Dayu chased Lin Lang for a long distance, but he still couldn't catch up.

In Lin Lang's sight, the figure of the big dog chasing his car gradually became smaller than a sesame seed due to the distance, as if a gust of wind on the Gobi Desert would blow it down.

Looking at the black shadow, Lin Lang's crying eyes were blurred. He just leaned his head out of the window and shouted at the reluctant figure: "Silly dog ​​- go back!"

It didn't understand, but it thought it was Lin Lang calling it, so it ran and walked on the Gobi with all its strength, until it collapsed on the ground with all its strength.A hill away, Lin Lang could still hear its howling "uh".

For some reason, Lin Lang recalled the situation when he had to go back to Jinling arguing every time he suffered a little setback.

The eyes of Tang Yushu, who always pulls himself, neither saying a word nor letting go, are exactly the same as Dayu.

You feel that he is helpless, and you feel that he is really reliable.

When Tang Yushu returned to the room, the lights were already off.He tiptoed and slowly pushed the door open, and then slowly turned around to expel the light outside the door from the space where Lin Lang slept peacefully.

Before he could turn around, he felt a hug coming from behind.

Then tears dripped down his bare back.

Tang Yushu was a little overwhelmed, but matched the other party's emotions, staying still and letting him hug her from behind.

"I'll give you another gift - I'll give you a table character, a single character and a feather, would you like it?"

"it is good."

"I will call you Tang Yu from now on, you have to agree."

"it is good."

"I can give you everything, and I won't abandon you again, and don't go away with others, okay..."

"it is good."

"... Don't worry, I won't go anywhere..." Tang Yushu bravely held the arm of the man around his waist with both hands, and squeezed it lightly to show his certainty.

He said to him: "Where are you, I will go with you."