In Lin Yiyang's coat and on his T-shirt, his smell was like a tranquilizer, gradually calming down her heart.
He let go of Yin Guo, and saw that the tip of her nose was red, and her eyes were still red: "It seems that she has opened up and looks better. I didn't dare to recognize her directly when she came out."
I know he's talking nice things, but it's still useful.
After the two of them looked at each other for a few seconds, his eyes slid over her red forehead. He had just hugged her tightly and pressed her tightly, and then turned to the brothers behind her.
Jiang Yang smiled behind Yin Guo and said, "Talk, we've met a few times before, it's not new."
"That's right," Wu Wei echoed, "It's An An, I haven't had a chance to meet him since I came back from the United States. And Lin Lin, haven't you seen her?"
Lin Lin folded his arms, and glanced at Lin Yiyang through these big men: "It hasn't changed much, okay, I'm done reading it. You continue."
Everyone laughed and took the initiative to make time for the young lovers to talk.
Only Chen An'an calculated for them seriously: "The schedule is so tight, you and your sister-in-law haven't met much, have you?"
Chen An'an regarded Yin Guo as her sister-in-law in her heart, and went to see Yin Guo after she finished speaking.
"Well, I haven't seen him much," Yin Guo said, "I haven't seen him as many times as my brother."
This year, Lin Yiyang was on the field, and she was also on the field, like in two parallel worlds.
Athletes like them, similar to F1 racing cars and golf, have their own set of competitions and sponsor systems. Their life is to sign up and participate in as many competitions recognized by the association as possible to earn bonuses and points.
Snooker and Nine Balls are not the same association, one is the United Kingdom, the other is the United States, and they are not the same standings, they are completely different systems. So what competition he participated in had nothing to do with Yin Guo.
The only overlap between the two is that he also plays nine-ball, but Lin Yiyang also participates in the nine-ball competitions in the United States, as well as the regional competitions of the local states. These competitions have nothing to do with Yin Guo, just like her participation in domestic and provincial competitions is internal and not external.
Of course, there will also be complicated mixed competitions, usually there will be problems such as disapproval by the association, not included in points, poor management, too low prize money, etc. Lin Yiyang and Yin Guo are already ranked very high in the world rankings, and they basically don’t participate These kinds of games.
However, now that Lin Yiyang has returned to China, if there is a big competition that needs to represent the country, there is still a chance to train and compete together. It depends on whether they can both join the national team.
That's all for later.
…
Jiang Yang arranged a car to pick them up, and everyone left the airport together and went to the underground parking lot.
The elevator was full of people, and Sun Yao was pushing a big luggage cart up. Lin Yiyang saw that this posture was about to overload, so he took Yin Guo to get down the elevator.
In fact, Yin Guo can only take him to the parking lot. The club also has a night shift driver who wants to take her home. As long as there is no game, no matter how late she arrives, she cannot spend the night outside.
She was still thinking about it when everyone got in the car, but before the elevator finished, she saw her cousin waiting there.
Why is he here
This year, Meng Xiaodong hired a coach overseas, conducted closed training and competitions, and did not return to China. Yin Guo not only did not see Lin Yiyang, but also did not have the opportunity to meet his cousin. Seeing him suddenly appear, it was rare to wear casual clothes, standing under the elevator, and was startled.
This is more than three o'clock in the morning.
The unique smell of gasoline mixed with water vapor in the parking lot permeated the surroundings. Yin Guo felt that his cousin was not looking at her and Lin Yiyang, but behind her. She looks back.
It turned out that Lin Lin and Chen An'an didn't squeeze up either, and followed behind them, after more than a dozen elevator steps, they also followed. Lin Lin was tall among girls, about the same size as Chen An'an. Yin Guo first saw her in the venue for the competition in Hangzhou, and she was quite impressed.
At that time, Yin Guo's first thought was: No wonder there is the saying of "Shuanglin" in Dongxin City, they all have faces that people can never forget once they have seen them. Years have accumulated, and when you praise them for their good looks, you feel that the words are too thin, and there is also temperament in it.
When Meng Xiaodong was looking at Lin Lin, Lin Lin didn't dodge. He smiled slightly and asked him, "Come to pick up your sister?"
"Yes," Meng Xiaodong was looking at her, "how are you? Physically?"
"fine."
Seeing Meng Xiaodong frowning, Yin Guo took an extra look at Lin Lin's waist. She was reminded by her cousin's eyes and noticed that Lin Lin was wearing a white lambskin jacket with high waist and short sleeves. A section of skin is loomingly exposed, but you can't see it unless you look closely.
She thought to herself that in the story that Lin Yiyang and Wu Wei told that morning, they must have omitted important things.
But after that glance, Meng Xiaodong stopped paying attention to Lin Lin and made a gesture of walking away in a hurry.
"If you don't leave, your mother is going to call me again," Meng Xiaodong explained to Lin Yiyang. "I asked the driver of the club to pick her up. I was afraid that the driver would see the flight number and find out that the time was wrong, and then he would slip up. coming."
Obviously Meng Xiaodong wanted to make it clear: he came for his sister.
Before Lin Yiyang could answer, Lin Lin said lightly, "You're an older brother, so it's normal to come to pick you up."
"Yes," Meng Xiaodong said slowly, "it's normal."
At the end of this sentence, Meng Xiaodong and Lin Lin had no more communication.
The hasty conversation between the two caused the air pressure in the surrounding area to drop rapidly.
It seems that they should be the protagonists today. Lin Lin returned from overseas, and Meng Xiaodong came to pick him up...Yin Guo and Lin Yiyang became the foil instead.
When she thought of going home soon, she didn't have time to appreciate the clues between her cousin and Lin Lin. She held Lin Yiyang's palm with her fingers and explained to him: "My family doesn't let you stay overnight, so you have to go back."
Although it is estimated that it will be dawn when we leave the airport at this time, but the rules cannot be broken.
Lin Yiyang made video calls with her every now and then, and found out that she lived at home except for the competition, so he didn't think it was a surprise. He said to Meng Xiaodong, "You two have a chat."
After speaking, he took Yin Guo's hand and led her to the driveway a little further away.
There is no corner to avoid people in the underground parking lot of the airport. Except that the traffic flow of cars and people will be reduced by half in the middle of the night. It is the same as in normal days. At most, the two of them avoided Meng Xiaodong and the others and whispered a few words.
Yin Guo looked at Lin Yiyang's hair, it grew a little longer, and when he went back to celebrate his birthday, he shaved his head and looked like a person often seen in prisons in American dramas. I'm feeling better now.
But after thinking about it, that hairstyle is more in line with his nature, but it feels too inconsistent when playing in a shirt and trousers.
Lin Yiyang hid it very deeply at the beginning, and after getting in touch with him a lot, Yin Guo can clearly feel his aura, which is the sophistication and flamboyance left in his flesh and blood after growing up in various street places. It took him many years to cover his temperament under layers of books, but the nature is hard to change, and there is still the fresh man underneath.
She quietly pulled the zipper on his clothes and slid it down, seeing the white handwriting Saint Laurent on the black short sleeves. As expected, the white one that she gave him this year was in her suitcase, and she always carried it with her.
"What are you doing?" he asked knowingly, "you pull my zipper when no one is around?"
Being ashamed and flustered by what he said, I wanted to fix him up again, but I heard him say again: "Don't mention me to your family, give me some time."
"I never mentioned it, and my brother told me to hide it first," she said softly, "I was afraid that you would get angry, so I didn't dare to tell you directly."
Before he finished speaking, his face was held in both hands, smashing all the thoughts that he hadn't said yet. When the eyes of the two met, Yin Guo's heart beat as if he had never been intimate with him. He held his face so simply and looked at each other, and his breathing was very light. very light.
In the right lane, a car passed by, and another one, and the smell of car exhaust became stronger.
His face got closer: "Can I see you tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow, the family will go to visit the grave together, and there are many people here."
After a while of silence, there was pressure on his forehead, he pressed his forehead to himself, and he lowered his head to speak.
In the end, he didn't say anything, let alone do anything, just smiled.
Later, when Yin Guo and his cousin got in the car, when they were wearing their seat belts, they were still thinking about Lin Yiyang's last move, wondering if what he said was not very good. In short, the last smile seemed to be so low that he had never seen before.
But since I got to know Lin Yiyang, every day, there are more subtleties that are unfamiliar and have never been seen.
Meng Xiaodong didn't like to chat while driving, and Yin Guo and Lin Yiyang left in a hurry as soon as they saw each other, not in the mood for chatting, and the car drove unhindered on the airport expressway. After a while, she thought of a practical question and asked Lin Yiyang on WeChat.
Fruit in the forest: Where are you tonight
Lin: I rented a place and haven't cleaned it up yet, so I'll go directly to make do with it tonight.
Lin: Everyone is here, probably not sleeping.
Fruit in the forest: Do you want to drink
Lin: Not necessarily.
Fruit in the forest: drink less.
Thinking of the last time she got drunk, she still had lingering fears.
Lin: Good.
Lin Liguo: I just saw you, and I was very nervous, as if we were just together.
Lin::)
Lin: Same.
"Boss..." Suddenly there was a voice in the car, it belonged to Meng Xiaodong, he held the steering wheel, turned on the turn signal, and left the airport expressway, "Did I tell you about me?"
Yin Guo heard from Wu Wei that Lin Lin's nickname was "Zong Zong", and she thought that only people in Dongxin City would call it that, like only a few of their brothers would say "Frustration".
"No." She also couldn't lie to Meng Xiaodong.
Meng Xiaodong fell silent, and Yin Guo looked at him quietly.
"Want to ask?" Meng Xiaodong actually invited her to ask, as if he wanted to talk.
"Why did you dislike Lin Lin at the beginning?" Yin Guo asked what was in his heart when his cousin started, "They told me. Otherwise, I wouldn't even know you still have this paragraph. "
Meng Xiaodong was silent for a long time, so long that Yin Guo thought he would not answer.
"It's not just this paragraph," Meng Xiaodong said, "I've talked about it three times."
three times? three girlfriends? There is also Lin Lin chasing him
Why didn't there be any leaked news? Since it's girlfriends, we can't hide everything, and it's not a bad thing to be seen. No one mentions it during the holidays at home, and there is usually gossip between relatives in private.
"Three times it's the boss." Meng Xiaodong finally said.
So my cousin's first love was Lin Lin? Still divide and combine three times
She was aroused with a strong desire to explore, and the man who was driving didn't plan to say any more. Still, someone can always ask.
The moment Yin Guo unlocked the phone, Meng Xiaodong saw her careful thinking: "Want to ask Lin Yiyang? He doesn't necessarily know, and I guess no one in Dongxin City knows." Since her cousin said so, she couldn't ask her face to face, Came home with doubts.
Meng Xiaodong sent her to the door of his house, and when the car was gone, she went to find Lin Yiyang.
Fruit in the forest: I'm home, are you there
Lin: Soon.
Fruit in the forest: Did you know? My brother just told me that he and Lin Lin are on good terms.
Lin: I know.
Lin Liguo: My brother said you might not know.
Lin: I ran into it once.
Lin Liguo: It seems that you told Wu Wei last time that you don't know if my brother likes Lin Lin
Lin: Are you very interested in their affairs
Lin Liguo: After all, it’s my brother. It’s the first time he’s told me about himself since he was young. My heart hurts just now.
Lin: Meng Xiaodong has his own life.
Lin: Put your mind on me.
This sounded like she was jealous, Yin Guo thought she was overthinking.
Lin Yiyang followed up again.
Lin: My wife has always cared about others, and the taste is not very good.
…
***
Lin Yiyang jumped out of the commercial vehicle.
The sneakers stepped on this land, facing a row of darkened shop fronts on the commercial street. On the left is a milk tea shop, the glass windows are covered with photos of various big cups of milk tea, discounts and promotions, and on the right is a gold shop.
How old is it? I went to other provinces for the college entrance examination, and I didn't think about coming back two years after graduation. Except for a short time to go through various procedures before studying abroad, I have no intersection with this place. It's almost ten years.
"This staircase is connected to a hotel, which used to be an old-fashioned hot pot restaurant," Jiang Yangzai said. "The prime location is better than ours in Dongxin City, but it's a bit smaller. The second and third floors are all yours."
In fact, it is not small. It is larger than the ball room on the basement floor of the Washington Youth Hostel, with two large flat floors.
It's just that it was Jiang Yang who said this, and the brothers who got off the car were also the mainstay of Dongxin City. Compared with that place, they were still a lot inferior.
"It's ok." Sun Yao raised his head, visually inspected the width of the floor, and sighed, "Brother Yang can do it, once he returns to China, he will become a big business."
"It was rented, not bought." Lin Yiyang said.
In the early morning, there was no one around. The corridor is very narrow, and there are bags of decoration waste that have not been transported away, broken bricks, and broken cement. It is impossible to tell whether the floor was paved with bricks or cement in the past, and newspapers are spread in a mess. The position of the elevator door has not been installed yet, and there is a boxy black hole in Hei Bulongdong.
The whole building is being re-subletted and renovated.
Lin Yiyang went up the stairs, walked to the second floor, and reached the gate. The red-painted gate was simply hung with an old-fashioned big black lock.
Lin Yiyang took the key from Jiang Yang, opened the lock, and shook the heavy lock twice in his hand: "This thing opens as soon as you pry it. Is it hanging for display?"
Jiang Yang smiled: "It's just a decoration, in case someone comes to use the ground floor as a free house to live in. There is nothing in it."
It was indeed as Jiang Yang said, when the door was opened, there was nothing inside.
The previous hot pot restaurant was moved away, but everything that could not be moved remained, such as the wooden tables and long chairs embedded in the walls, and the decorative red painted pillars.
"Why don't you just open a hot pot restaurant, it's all ready-made." Wu Wei joked behind him.
Lin Yiyang smiled, and looked at everything in front of him in the morning light from the row of windows on the left. He already had the positions of the billiard table, bar, cue rack and billiard chairs in his mind, and even where his room was. .
"Call all the brothers back," Lin Yiyang took a step forward, and said to Wu Wei behind him in the dusty room, "Those who didn't get along well."
From the goal club in the second grade to the freshman in the senior year, he has not only these few brothers around him, but there are only a few who are really talented and able to make a difference, just a few every year. Most of the people who come to the ball club are children with poor grades. The big waves washed the sand and turned into gravel, which sank to every corner of the city.
Wu Wei and Lin Yiyang talked about brothers who didn't play well, and they both still liked billiards and didn't want to give up, he remembered them all. Remember it all.