It was pouring rain on Chunlin Street in the morning.
The rain poured on the floor-to-ceiling windows of the cafe along the wind, and it passed by for a while, isolating the inside and outside of the store into two worlds, and whoever looked at it was blurred.
The sky was so dark that it was as gloomy as the early hours of the morning at 8 a.m. The cafe was brightly lit, but the customers were few and far between. The boss yawned one after another, beckoning the clerk to deliver meals to the table by the window.
"Good morning, a cup of strong black coffee, and a cup of hot chocolate." The waiter put down the contents of the tray, "two pine nut meringue pie, one fried meat and vegetable rolls, and a cup of hot milk. , I'll send it to you later."
"Good morning, thank you." Lin Yuan was obviously familiar with this place and said hello to the waiter.
It was rare that he didn't wear a white coat today, he only wore a beige jacket and jeans. He looked much taller and younger than before, and he looked a little unaccustomed to it.
"I could have gone back to sleep this morning," he said to the two sitting across from him with drooping eyelids.
The waiter was far away, and the places where they were sitting were empty, and the rain could overwhelm their voices, and no one could hear them except themselves.
"This seems to be the time you ordered, Dr. Lin." Yan Suizhi reminded, stirring the black coffee with the silver spoon in his hand.
Lin Yuan seemed to be infected by the store manager and yawned several times.
He wiped the physiological tears from the corners of his eyes, and his eyes flicked back and forth between Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan, and said, "I was working on a research report and slept late, how come you two have not slept all night? similar."
While talking, the waiter came again with a tray, "Honey milk, hot."
Professor Yan Da started talking nonsense without blinking, "I'm because the cat in the yard next door has been making noise all night. It's too noisy."
However, the cat next door has been dealt with humanely for a long time, and it is not good enough. If you know that you have been slandered like this, you must scratch someone's face.
Yan Suizhi made up a random reason and started to harm others, "As for why Teacher Gu didn't sleep well, I don't know."
Gu Yan glanced at him, directly intercepted the black coffee he was carrying, put the cup of honey milk in front of him, and explained to Lin Yuan lightly: "The residents upstairs are not stopping, disturbing sleep."
Yan, the resident upstairs, Suizhi: "… "
How could Lin Yuan understand their riddles, and he nodded sympathetically after hearing Gu Yan's words, "Understood, the guy upstairs probably plays basketball at home every day and doesn't even lay carpets."
The waiter finally came again and put down a small portion of fresh fruit presented by the restaurant.
"Okay, if you have anything else you can call me by ringing the bell. I won't disturb you. Have a nice meal." He nodded and left.
Until it was confirmed that there would be no more idle people approaching, the three of them tacitly rushed to the topic.
Lin Yuan said, "Before we chat, I need to confirm—"
He pointed his finger back and forth between Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan, "Between you, you know everything you should know? There's nothing to avoid? I need to have a count, so as to know how far this chat can go. ."
The word was "you", but it was Yan Suizhi who was actually asking.
Yan Suizhi did not shy away and said with a smile: "There is nothing to avoid, he can listen to what I can."
Lin Yuan nodded, "Okay."
In fact, his questioning just now showed his identity and position. First, he did know some things. Second, he was not opposed to Yan Suizhi and Gu Yan, and even considered them for them.
Yan Suizhi honestly took a sip of honey milk and asked, "Is your gene modification done by you?"
Lin Yuan: "It's me."
"So you got me out of the hotel, and you kept this smartphone? Including the fake identity, the asset card bound, and the one-way shuttle ticket?"
"Not at all."
"What do you mean?" Yan Suizhi questioned, "Is there anyone else?"
Lin Yuan took a sip of hot chocolate and finally regained his spirits. He let out a sigh of relief and said, "It's actually like this—"
"At that time, there was an elder who was my former teacher. Please ask me to help you with this." Lin Yuan said, "Actually, I didn't really want to mess around in the muddy water at first. Especially if it is not registered and authorized, it is easy to make mistakes."
"Then why did you change your mind later?"
"Because I know it's you who needs to be corrected." Lin Yuan said.
This sounded very strange, Yan Suizhi began to look at Lin Yuan again, "Did we know each other before? My memory of human faces should not be bad, but I really don't remember you."
"I really don't know you, but I knew you a long time ago." Lin Yuan said, "because of my brother."
"Your brother?"
"It's not my brother, to be exact, it's the son of my old family. His mother is a distant relative of my mother."
A relationship that can't be farther away, apart from the same last name, can't find any similarities.
Lin Yuan's deepest impression of the pair of neighbors was that there was always an endless quarrel, the house was always jumping, and the sound of dishes smashing could be heard every few minutes. At that time, Lin Yuan himself was still in middle school, and he traveled between two o'clock every morning and evening by express rail. Ten times I came home, at least eight times I would pick up the neighbor's son in the corridor.
At that time, the child was at most five or six years old, sitting on the stairs and crying.
He heard the neighbor's quarrel through the password door. Lin Yuan couldn't force the crying child into the door, so he had to take it back to his house. Give some snacks, give some toys, and the child will slowly become happy.
The more times he received it, the child almost became his half-brother, even his parents said so.
But the Lin Yuan family did not live there for a few years, and they moved out after living there for a few years. It was impossible to move with the neighbors. In the following years, Lin Yuan's chances of seeing his younger brother suddenly decreased.
The relationship is gradually estranged, and there may be no intersection in the future.
At that time, Lin Yuan always thought so.
As a result, within a few years, he heard that something had happened to the old neighbor's house.
The male host encountered a crisis after middle age, and his alcoholism became more and more serious. What was originally a noisy relationship gradually developed into a hands-on, more serious each time. In order to protect his mother, his ten-year-old son was always beaten and kicked together.
"I met him a few times, and he had wounds all over his face, which made people uncomfortable." Lin Yuan said.
During that time, he had more contact with that younger brother. He tried to deal with many wounds for him, and slowly he became a skilled worker. At that time, he was just about to go to university, so he simply chose to study medicine.
In Lin Yuan's first year at university, the younger brother was 13 years old. His mother couldn't bear it anymore and rushed into the kitchen during a brutal beating and took a fruit knife...
"You took over his mother's case." Lin Yuan looked at Yan Suizhi, "You may not remember what happened many years ago."
Over the years, Yan Suizhi has taken on too many cases, big and small. Before Lin Yuan mentioned it, Yan Suizhi really didn't remember such a case. After listening to him mention a few words, it was a little vague. 's memories.
"I have an impression." Yan Suizhi said.
"If it wasn't for you, his mother's situation would have been very troublesome at the time." Lin Yuan said, "After that, my younger brother admired you very much, but he was very shy and embarrassed to tell others, so he always talked to me, and even He said that in the future, he will also study Fa in college.”
Yan Suizhi smiled: "Have you learned?"
Lin Yuan shook his head gently, "No, he has a hereditary disease, you know, this is not uncommon in the area of Helan Star. At that time, the success rate of gene modification surgery was not as high as it is now, as a treatment method. It's still very immature, and it's not uncommon to die on the operating table."
Yan Suizhi was slightly ecstatic for a moment, then lowered his eyes and said "um", "It's quite a lot."
When the younger brother passed away, Linyuan University had not yet fully graduated, and he was working as an intern in the hospital, and he had not yet set a clear direction. Since then, he's been nailed to the Gene Building.
But no matter how he learned, no matter how he perfected his genetic equipment, and how he could improve the success rate of surgery, the child who once made his family feel distressed is no longer there.
"That's why I'm willing to swim in muddy waters." Lin Yuan's tone was gentle but firm, "My little brother is a bit stupid, he always told our family that good people are rewarded, and he always said the same to you later. He has been in the hospital for a long time these years. Now, for me, I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing. I see a lot of life and death, and there are accidents and man-made things. I become numb. Because there are too many, I actually believe that sentence. Or it is not belief, but hope. I hope that good people will have good rewards... So how can I stand by and watch you. "
"thanks."
"That's not necessary." Lin Yuan said, "I am a little selfish, but I hope you don't mind too much."
Yan Suizhi didn't react: "What selfishness?"
"Your pseudonym, I used my brother's name selfishly."
"Your brother's name?" Yan Suizhi recalled with a vague impression, "I remember your brother is not called this, am I wrong?"
"I remember correctly, his original name was Sheng Ye. Later, it was changed to his mother's surname, and he was in the same family as my mother. The surname was Ruan."
Yan Suizhi understood.
Hearing Lin Yuan's original intention, he suddenly remembered the scene of the first meeting in the wine city, and he was a little emotional, but also a little angry: "Not to mention, the acting skills are really good, when I burned my foot and went to your clinic, you It was like he didn't know me at all."
Lin Yuangan smiled and waved his hand, "I don't have that acting, I'm not pretending, I really didn't recognize it. The effect of genetic modification is not the same as the failure, there will be no immediate response, and it will take a few days to buffer the process. You left after the correction, and you really don’t know how you will look after the correction is completed.”
In the wine city that day, he really didn't recognize who Yan Suizhi was.
It was when he clicked on the patient's diagnosis and treatment form on the light brain that he saw the name "Ruan Ye", and then suddenly realized who the person in front of him was.
It's easy to feel misunderstood at that moment...
It was as if he and his younger brother Ruan Ye had only become estranged from each other and had not seen each other for many years. He was busy with work, while Ruan Ye continued to grow up quietly along the lifeline where he could not see. Then, on a certain morning or afternoon in a certain month of a certain year, the lazy sunshine crawled into the consultation room along the window, and he happened to receive a young boy who came to see a doctor. He might have a little ailment, but he would be fine in three or five days, and it would be harmless.
He would look at the name on the medical sheet for a moment, then laugh and say, "Long time no see, I almost didn't recognize you."