In the early morning of the next day, she left home at 5 o'clock, thinking that Lin Yiyang should be sleeping and suffering from jet lag, so she didn't contact him.
Busy in the morning, when I was going down the mountain, several cars that came together were stuck in the middle of the road. Yin Guo was originally behind her mother's car to accompany her grandmother, but she didn't drive for half a day, and the old man became more and more confused. "Xiaoguo, get out of the car and change your little aunt to the car. Grandma will be unwell in a while, so she can watch." Mom made a new arrangement.
Yin Guo had no choice but to get out of the car and change seats with the little aunt.
In fact, she understood that her mother had other meanings. The little aunt was taking the car of Uncle Li's house. As soon as the two switched, she and Li Qingyan got into the same car. Let her sit from the beginning, she avoided suspicion. This time there is no hiding.
I sent a message to Lin Yiyang, but didn't reply.
Are you still jet lagged
Li Qingyan had the same training schedule as Meng Xiaodong, and he hadn't seen her for more than a year. Yin Guo chatted with him casually about training, and said while the adults couldn't hear, "Don't tell your parents about me."
Li Qingyan didn't understand at first, and took a deep look at her two seconds later: "He is currently ranked so high in the world, what are you afraid of?"
Yin Guo didn't want to go into details about Lin Yiyang's past, but just as her aunt went downstairs and asked her to pick seafood together, she slipped away.
She and her aunt went to the glass water tank on the first floor to watch the crabs.
Behind her, suddenly a pair of small hands hugged her left leg. Her heart skipped a beat, and when she looked back, she was a little girl about two years old, smiling at herself with big eyes flashing.
It was so cute, she knelt down and looked at her, two pairs of big black eyes looked at each other.
"What about your family?" she asked.
A pair of dark red sneakers appeared in front of her: "Here."
Yin Guo is still thinking that there are people with the same voice as him in the whole world, or that he misses him so much that he has a slight resemblance to him. But when I looked up from the black slacks, and then up from the short sleeves, I saw his surly face that made it impossible to look away...
She could hear her own heartbeat, right next to her ear.
The surface is very calm, as if it is unfamiliar, but the torrential water is rushing down like a mountain torrent, crashing into the surrounding boulders indiscriminately, and almost washing away all the strength with the silt.
Their eyes met, and she felt a momentary dislocation of time and space.
Every time I think there will be no more unexpected things, but he can always appear at impossible times, or to ordinary people, this is just a chance encounter, but when she pinches her fingers, she even becomes sore from surprise .
Her eyes were on his face: "Your relative's?"
"My brother," he bent down, picked up the little girl, and let her sit on his arm, "just pointing here, asking her who she likes, she ran over by herself."
Lin Yiyang pinched the little girl's face casually: "I didn't stop it."
With a newly shaved cropped head and the tattoos under the sleeves rolled up, he was already attracting attention in this crowded restaurant, and he was hugging a soft and cute little girl.
He really has the ability to make people fall in love at first sight, at any place, at any time, Yin Guo thought inappropriately: If the two met today, would she be chasing him back
Lin Yiyang is quite useful, his girlfriend is staring at him like this.
He also woke up in the morning and decided to shave his head downstairs temporarily because Yin Guo touched his hair at that time in Washington's apartment and said that the cut was suitable for him. nice.
Seeing them talking, my aunt pointed out a few things, showed them to the waiter who took the order, smiled, and nodded friendly to Lin Yiyang, guessing that Yin Guo ran into an old classmate. People who have been studying all the time take advantage of this, and it is not obvious that they are six years older than her.
"Are you here? Are you passing by?" Yin Guo saw that his aunt had reached the water tank at the end, so she felt relieved to talk to him.
"Sweeping the grave," Lin Yiyang said, "Give it to my parents."
The last time I came back was three years ago.
There are several mountains connected here, many gardens and good Fengshui. Every Ching Ming Festival, 60 to 70% of the people from the nearby big cities would come from a long distance, so it was not surprising for him to say that.
It's not hard to guess why he found it here. Either Meng Xiaotian or Meng Xiaodong may ask. The relatives are all there, just pretend to be casual and ask the uncles and aunts for a few words.
"I wish I had said it sooner," Yin Guo said softly, feeling sorry, "so that I can buy flowers for your parents."
Lin Yiyang smiled.
That's not necessary, he just told his parents that he will take her there next year.
The two spoke a few words, but no one could hear them.
My aunt didn't know much about it, so she took a special look and thought, Yin Guo has never had a boyfriend, so if she really looks for her from around, this seems to be okay. At least she is top-notch in appearance, that little girl... Now college students seem to be able to get married on campus, and if they don't, they can also have children on campus.
Within a minute, my aunt wrote thousands of words of Lin Yiyang's inspection report in her head.
Here, the little girl suddenly wanted to open her arms to hug Yin Guo, but Lin Yiyang immediately pulled her back. Yin Guo was softened by the little girl: "Give me a hug."
"That little arm and leg of yours, you still hug her?" Lin Yiyang pinched her wrist calmly, no one could see it from this angle, it happened to be a blind spot between the two of them, the little girl and the water tank.
The two met at the airport yesterday, and they were in that familiar feeling of separation again. It wasn't because of a relationship problem, but because I hadn't seen him for a long time, and when I saw him suddenly, my skin and blood were clamoring that this person was my love, but I always felt strange.
Now he is holding her hand, as if reminding her that she should regain her senses, this is your boyfriend.
The hot fingertips slid across the back of her hand: "I'm free to contact you."
He said it sanctimoniously because he saw her aunt approaching.
Yin Guo felt his fingers inserted into his own, clenched it tightly, and said nonsense, "Do you still have my phone?"
"Yes." He smiled, laughing at her good acting skills.
Finally, let her go.
The little girl wanted to hug Yin Guo all the time, but failed, seeing Lin Yiyang hugged her back, she cried with a groan.
Now Lin Yiyang is in the same boat. The last time he coaxed the child was more than ten years ago. The father who coaxed the little girl even threatened and beat him. He is really inexperienced in coaxing the little girl. He whispered something in the little girl's ear, and the little girl cried even harder.
Very good, I thought it was harmonious just now, but the contrasting cute one, one big and one small, now looks like a hooligan who abducted a child.
"This person is quite nice, is that his child?" Auntie asked.
Yin Guo shook her head and touched her hand: "He just graduated and is not married yet."
The little girl's crying gradually subsided, and Yin Guo sent a message to ask him while going upstairs.
Fruit in the forest: What did you say to the child? crying so much
Lin: Say little aunt doesn't like you, let me carry you away.
Fruit in the forest: ...
Lin: Just like you, without teasing.
When she and her aunt came back from ordering, there was only the seat next to Li Qingyan left. Everyone deliberately let them sit next to each other.
Ever since Lin Yiyang appeared, she was restless, afraid that he would run into her mother.
I didn't expect what I was afraid of.
The waiter quickly brought several people up, and the first one to appear was Lin Yiyang who was holding the little girl. From this angle, Yin Guo and Li Qingyan are the easiest to see the stairs, and they can see Lin Yiyang first.
He specially put on a coat before going upstairs to cover his flowery arms.
Yin Guo and Li Qingyan saw him at the same time, Li Qingyan was stunned for a second.
"Qing Yan knows you?" someone asked.
"Yes..." Li Qingyan replied briefly, "He is very familiar with Brother Meng and has met."
"So it's not Xiaoguo's classmate?" Auntie said with a smile, "Downstairs, he also talked to Yin Guo."
Yin Guo's mother looks at Yin Guo.
"We met in New York," Yin Guo said as briefly as possible, not to lie, so as not to cause more trouble in the future, "He watches the game."
There was no domestic coverage of the New York game...fortunately, no one at home saw it.
His table took a seat.
Yin Guo saw Lin Yiyang picked up the teapot and poured a cup of tea.
After that, she just watched him walk towards her table... When he arrived at the table, he didn't look at Yin Guo, but instead held up his teacup and smiled politely at Yin Guo's mother.
"Teacher Wu," Lin Yiyang said, "seeing that you are here, I thought I would come to say hello according to my seniority."
A short silence.
Yin Guo's mother looked at Lin Yiyang, smiled and said, "Today is a family matter, so there is no need to come here to say hello."
"It should be," Lin Yiyang stood by the table and looked at Yin Guo's mother. He saw not only her mother in his eyes, but also the ups and downs of the past events on the field that year, like respect, emotion, and also Apology, "In the past, I did a lot of wrong things on the field. I would like to thank Mr. Wu for allowing me to make a decision and give me a chance to come back."
"You shouldn't thank me, Xiao Lin," Yin Guo's mother told him, "The one who should thank you most is your teacher. He is almost seventy years old, and he went to the association to plead for you. I can’t bear it. And Teacher Wang, he has never blushed with anyone at work, his eyes were red backstage that day, and he also interceded for you later, but he still regrets your retirement.”
Lin Yiyang was quiet for a while, then nodded: "You are right."
He lightly raised the glass in his hand, there was more than half a cup of Pu'er tea, just poured.
"I'm driving today, so I won't pour wine." Lin Yiyang's voice was a little lower, his throat seemed to be blocked by something, whether it was everything in the past, or the emotion that was brought up again today. Drink it down.
She had never seen Lin Yiyang who talked about scenes, never seen him like this.
Yin Guo watched him drink this cup of tea, as if drinking the strongest wine, it passed through his throat, and he felt a burning tingling sensation in his chest.
After Lin Yiyang finished drinking tea, Yin Guo's mother nodded slightly, and the greeting was over.
The adults at the table chatted a little more about Lin Yiyang because he came here specially to offer tea.
The man in charge of Lin Yiyang's table in that game was a male referee, who had a good personal relationship with Yin Guo's mother, and Yin Guo often called him Uncle Wang when she saw him. Yin Guo's mother was the chief referee. She was not at the table at first, but later ran over. Lin Yiyang had already finished fighting with the referee, and left the opponent behind.
"Under the current environment, he might be suspended for three years." Mom looked at Yin Guo, "Your Uncle Wang is a person who cherishes talents. He is very happy to hear that he is back."
"Did he really play match-fixing?" Li Qingyan's father asked suddenly.
"No," Yin Guo's mother said fairly, "One thing is one thing. He was suspended for charging the referee."
"Xiaodong has a good relationship with him?" Grandma murmured worriedly when she heard this.
"It's not necessarily good," Yin Guo said, "We're all colleagues, we just know each other."
"Actually, he is now," Yin Guo, who had been silent all along, said, "he has always played the game according to the rules, so there is no bad news."
"Don't talk about it, it's all outsiders' business." My sister said.
"And—" she still wanted to reverse the situation, at least not to be one-sided, "I talked to him about billiards in the United States, and he really liked it."
"Didn't I let you talk about it?" Sister Yin Guo turned dark.
Yin Guo was pushed back by her sister, she wanted to say more, but she had no position, and was extremely depressed.
Just feeling bored, I ate two mouthfuls of food.
Her family is a reorganized family. One brother and one sister were brought by their parents, and she was the only one born by their parents. The elder brother and sister are children of two divorced families when they were teenagers. They were not close to her. She didn't understand when she was a few years old. Parents know, they will think of the two elder children as pitiful, they brought them here, and the light reprimand is over. So the relatives here have long been accustomed to seeing the two sisters getting along.
"Okay, okay, let's talk about something else." Some relatives began to smooth things over.
Li Qingyan's father saw that Yin Guo was in a low mood, thinking it was her sister who was fierce, and signaled his son to pick up a chopstick of her favorite stewed vegetables, but Lin Yiyang saw the chopsticks from a distance.
***
Later, Lin Yiyang went downstairs and never came up.
After everyone finished eating, his younger siblings were still there, and Yin Guo's family members were chatting after the meal. Yin Guo couldn't sit still any longer, so he asked for his mother's car keys on the pretext of going to the car to get something and ran off.
She circled back and forth a few times, walked to the open space for parking behind the restaurant, passed through several cars, and was suddenly thrown a stumped cigarette butt in front of her feet. She looks back.
It turned out that he opened the trunk of the off-road vehicle to shade the sun and leaned against the edge of the trunk to smoke. No wonder he just passed by and saw no one.
"Looking for me?" Lin Yiyang asked.
Ask knowingly. Yin Guo kicked the cigarette butts to a small pile of cigarette butts and cigarette boxes next to him with his toes. He reckoned that this was a place where the kitchen likes to gather together to smoke, and they consciously threw it here for regular cleaning.
Yin Guo stepped on the gravel and came to him: "Never reply to WeChat."
With his face held in both hands, he asked, "What do you want me for?"
Yin Guo instinctively grasped his waist with both hands, wanting to grab something. This piece of land was uneven, with gravel all over the place. When her lips were kissed, the gravel under her feet was still pressing down with the weight of the person. The gravel scattered under your feet, making a rattling sound...
Lin Yiyang's breathing was hot and heavy, burning on her face, he clung to her tongue vigorously, hugging her in a small shadow created by the trunk lid. After a while, the hot and humid lips subsided a little: "Why do you want me?" Yin Guo's face was rubbed twice by his palm, and his lips were blocked by him again.
Someone in the back kitchen came out to smoke. When the two chefs in white coats handed cigarettes to each other, they took a look here and saw the young couple who were having a hot fight.
Lin Yiyang is rarely like this, he doesn't let go when people look at him, and he doesn't let go no matter what.