"Ah Chu, when you came back from playing basketball at noon, you mentioned that child who was born on the same day as you, is it real or fake?"
Zhang Guoqing cooked the dinner, and when it was almost dinner time, Lin Fang also calmed down, and asked Yan Chu curiously while eating.
"It's rare to meet a child born in the same year, the same month, and the same day as you. It's quite a fate."
Lin Fang added, suddenly thinking whether this would make her feel guilty, she quickly lowered her head to scoop up a bowl of soup, and then pushed the soup bowl in front of Yan Chu.
"Drink more soup, your father's other dishes are not very good, but the skill of making soup is pretty good."
She pretended to be a loving mother, and Yan Chu accepted everything according to the order.
"Yan Jinyu and I don't know each other well, but today we met in a basketball game. He is Yu Haikuo's cousin from No. 2 Middle School. This summer vacation seems to be just to play here. I guess he will go back in a few days. Alright."
Yan Chu took a sip of the soup, and did not forget to praise his father's craftsmanship.
Zhang Guoqing didn't take this conversation between mother and son seriously. There were too many children born on the same day in the same year. He remembered that when Lin Fang gave birth, the three delivery rooms in the hospital were full.
"Yu Haikuo!"
Lin Fang raised her voice a bit, yes, that woman's surname is Yu, and Yu's family is now her own son's natal family.
"Yan Jinyu, which Jin is it, which Yu?"
Over the years, Lin Fang forced herself to pretend that nothing happened at the time, because she knew that once she knew about her son, she would feel heartbroken, even though she knew that she had so many emotions that she couldn't help herself.
Let her son call that woman mother, who knows how sad she feels.
But she endured it for so many years, and finally couldn't help it anymore. After hearing about her own son from Zhang Chu, she couldn't wait to know more.
"Mom, why don't you ask who Yan is? Do you know what his last name is?"
Yan Chu didn't answer her question directly, but suddenly asked a question inexplicably.
"No, how could I know which Yan his surname is, but this surname has few homonyms, so there are only a few choices left and right."
Lin Fang didn't expect her son to ask this question, and explained quickly.
"Oh, Yan is Ri'an Yan, and Jin is the Jin of Jin Yu next to the word Wang. As for Yu, it is Yu with two horizontal and vertical hooks, and it is also Yan Jin Yu's mother's surname. The combination of these names means that he is his father. The crystallization of mother's love, I hope he can be like a beautiful jade, with virtues and talents."
Yan Chu smiled at Lin Fang: "It seems that his parents' relationship seems to be very good?"
His words and smile were like a knife that went deep into Lin Fang's heart.
Yan Jinyu, Yan Jinyu, every time she uttered this name, her longing and jealousy became more intense.
It's just pain and pleasure torturing each other.
"That classmate still tells you this?"
Zhang Guoqing didn't realize that something was wrong with his wife. Instead, he couldn't help but smile because of his son's explanation of the name. Parents can choose such a name for their child, at least they still have a good relationship when they get married. It doesn't look like him.
Hey, let’s not mention it, the more I think about it, the more sentimental I get.
Now that the child has grown up and is sensible, and can understand his father, he has nothing to ask for.
In the first twelve years, Zhang Guoqing really devoted his heart and soul to this son. Even though he later found out that the son was not his own, he had spoiled him for so many years, and the fact that the child was innocent, he would never treat Lin Fang's complaints were added to the child.
These years, because his son defended his mother for no reason, he was a little sad, but these sadness disappeared after his son's performance these days.
Zhang Guoqing thinks this is quite good, no matter who the son's biological father is, being kind is always inferior to raising kindness. Ah Chu called his father for nineteen years, and this is his own son.
"Ah Chu, you see that you are also very destined. Why don't you invite him to our house for a meal before that classmate leaves our Pinghai City, and it would be good to make another friend."
Lin Fang interrupted Zhang Guoqing's words, her son would not stay in Pinghai for too long, she wanted to see her own flesh and blood up close, even if it was just as the parent of a classmate, she was satisfied.
"It's not a close friend. You didn't hear Ah Chu say that the kid only played one basketball game with him, and he's still a cousin of a No. 2 Middle School student. He won't have any contact with us Ah Chu in the future."
Zhang Guoqing felt that Lin Fang was just looking for trouble for nothing, two people who had nothing to do with each other, suddenly asked his son to ask if he would like to come to visit him, how embarrassing for him.
"What do you know!"
In the past, Lin Fang was gentle and gentle. Even when she was angry, she would cry silently by herself, or she would put down the dishes heavily, or close the door heavily, to let the other two in the family know that she was suffering now.
He had never spoken so loudly like now before, Zhang Guoqing didn't even react for a while, the chopsticks kept the motion of picking up food, and looked at her with his mouth open.
"I was thinking, it's always good to have one more friend, and Yan Jin—"
Lin Fang didn't want to be called by that name, she paused: "And isn't that classmate Yan from Yanjing? In case our son's university is in Yanjing in the future, it's always good to make a local friend in advance."
She slowed down her voice and said softly.
This reason is barely valid, but Zhang Guoqing still doesn't think there is a reason why people should come to his house. Both he and Lin Fang studied in Yanjing University, but because their hometowns are in Pinghai, so after getting married and giving birth After the child, he chose to return to his hometown.
The two of them are relatively familiar with Yanjing. Zhang Guoqing thought that his son would go to university in the future, and he would definitely accompany his son there. At that time, he would be able to be his son's guide, but he didn't know that more than ten years had passed. Yes, the changes in Yanjing are not big, if the time comes to lead his son to the wrong way, then he, a father, will be embarrassing.
Zhang Guoqing diverged his thinking, and immediately left Lin Fang's abnormality behind.
"I'm not familiar with Yan Jinyu, and he might not come to our house as a guest."
Yan Chu gave Lin Fang an ambiguous answer: "But Mom, you are really a little strange today. You never cared about my making friends before. I brought Cheng Sheng to my house before, and you thought it was too troublesome to greet guests."
He looked at the opposite woman suspiciously, only to see that the pupils of the other party shrank slightly, a little unnaturally avoiding his gaze, as if concentrating on eating.
"Cheng Sheng and you are so familiar, you don't need mom to entertain you, that classmate Yan is different, besides, he was born on the same day as you, don't I think you are destined."
Lin Fang wondered if she was in a hurry, and it seemed that she had to slow down a bit, so as not to arouse the suspicion of Zhang Guoqing and Zhang Chu.
"Ah Chu, if you really don't know that classmate well, don't go out and ask someone to come to your house. If he refuses, you will lose face, but if you really want to make friends with that classmate, then Just go and call someone, and tell Dad in advance when the time comes, and Dad will pack some good food for you back."
Zhang Guoqing made a final decision. Lin Fang wanted to say something, but her lips moved. Since her abnormality had already attracted suspicion, she did not speak.
*****
In the end, Lin Fang still couldn't wait for her own son. When she finally couldn't help asking Yan Chu about Yan Jinyu's recent situation one day, she learned from Yan Chu that the other party had left Pinghai City and returned to Yanjing. news.
For this matter, Lin Fang got angry with Yan Chu for more than ten days, and when she was at home, she treated her son as an invisible person.
Zhang Guoqing is busy with work, and it is common to work overtime for commission, so he did not notice this situation.
It was Lin Fang who saw that his son did not bow his head to her as usual this time, and realized that he still needs to rely on this son to maintain this marriage, so he endured his grief and indignation, and unilaterally reconciled with Yan Chu.
Most of the summer vacation has passed in the blink of an eye, and Yan Chu, as a prospective senior high school student, also started the school's early tutoring courses.
He didn't even know how many times he was facing the college entrance examination. Yan Chu took the review materials for the third year of high school and felt that if he published an autobiography about his experience in the college entrance examination now, it might be sold out.
"Zhang Chu, I heard that you were rejected when you confessed to Zhao Xinhan? What's the matter? Didn't Zhao Xinhan act like you had a good impression of you before?"
In the tense third year of high school, only this bit of sex news can serve as a daily adjustment, especially the protagonists of this sex news are the school grass of No. 1 Middle School and the school belle of No. 2 Middle School, which makes the masses of melon eaters curious.
So as soon as school started, before Yan Chu's chair was warmed up, some boys who had a good relationship with him on weekdays hurried over to ask about it.
"Well, I thought so before, but it might be our illusion. People don't care about me at all."
Yan Chu didn't think it was an embarrassing thing to be rejected, so he explained to the gossip crowd beside him while putting all the books in his schoolbag on the desk.
"It's good to ask clearly now, if there is an annoying matter, you can still focus on the college entrance examination."
Yuanshen's temperament is such that he is neither arrogant nor impetuous. He talks more with familiar people and less with strangers. In the eyes of others, he is a bit indifferent. Only those who are familiar with him know that he is a temperless person. Good old man, this temper is probably also tempered by Lin Fang.
Since he was sensible, the boy who loved his mother to help with the housework, how could his temper be so bad, that is, he encountered more things later, became more and more extreme, and just got into a dead end.
Now Zhang Chu has many good friends. After studying in the same class for two years, everyone knows each other's temperament. In addition, the original body plays basketball well. Whether it is among boys or girls, he is very popular. high.
He is also considered to be an excellent person. With the level of education he can receive, it is a pity that he is compared with the children carefully cultivated by two big families. It seems that he is inferior to the other party in every way, which is also a tragedy. , if he makes the wrong mistake, maybe he can still live his life happily like an ordinary person.
"Impossible. She acted like she was interested in you before, and if she was really not interested in you, don't accept it when you brought her milk tea and breakfast. When we made fun of you two Also explain earlier, if you really don't have that kind of thought, you shouldn't hang you in vain for more than a year, everyone has made it so clear, can she still say that she doesn't know that you like her?"
A girl in the class who had some affection for Yan Chu, but had never shown it, said sensitively, and her words were seconded by many students.
"I used to think that way too. Didn't you realize that the school belle of No. 2 Middle School was very close to Yu Haikuo before? It's just that Yu Haikuo has never liked her. She is eating what is in the bowl and thinking about what is in the pot. Take us Zhang Chu is using her as a backup."
This explanation hit the nail on the head. I was worried that the "spare tire" Zhang Chu himself was still there, and I was afraid that he would feel uncomfortable after hearing this. After saying this sentence alone, everyone remembered it in their hearts, but they didn't say it outside.
"Okay, people just don't like me, what kind of spare tires are not spare tires, spreading such words will not be good for Zhao Xinhan's reputation, so don't say it in the future."
Even at this time, Yan Chu was still speaking for Zhao Xinhan, which made those who were close to him a little uncomfortable, wondering if he hadn't let go of Zhao Xinhan, a duplicitous woman.
"You think too much, I really let it go, from now on, Chinese is my queen, mathematics is my concubine, English is the concubine of virtue, chemistry is the concubine of virtue, physics is the concubine of Shu, biology is my concubine Hui , there are so many concubines, I'm too lucky to be pampered in time, I really don't think about any emotional matters anymore."
Yan Chu made a joke and diverted everyone's attention.
"English is an imported product, no matter what, I have to give it the position of imperial concubine. It also shows my greatness."
Cheng Sheng interjected a sentence on the sidelines, and how to arrange concubines for several courses became the center of the topic. Everyone talked and laughed, and put the unpleasant things aside for the time being.
But the conversation just now was also remembered in everyone's hearts. Zhao Xinhan, the once highly sought-after No. 2 Middle School belle, at least in Yan Chu's class, became a joke playing with emotions.
*****
The same scene also happened in No. 2 Middle School. Compared with Yan Chu, Zhao Xinhan's treatment was not so good.
Originally, there were a lot of comparisons between girls, and many people were dissatisfied with Zhao Xinhan, the school beauty who was selected by boys. Now that she has finally caught her, they are still trying their best to promote her.
And because No. 1 Middle School and No. 2 Middle School are separated by a road, Yan Chu, the head of No. 1 Middle School, is quite popular among the girls of No. 2 Middle School. Zhao Xinhan hung Yan Chu for so long, until Yan Chu decided to speak clearly. Only then did he come out to explain that he had no intention of developing beyond friendship with him, and immediately became the green tea in the hearts of those girls who were obsessed with Yan Chu's face.
It's just the beginning of school, and Zhao Xinhan can clearly feel some girls pointing at him behind their backs, as well as some sarcastic and contemptuous eyes.
Needless to say, boys, some of them are insensitive to these things and don’t care about them, and some of them have sympathy. These grades are not good, and the looks are not good.
Except for some of Zhao Xinhan's diehard loyalists who used to belittle Yan Chu to help Zhao Xinhan clear her name, her popularity plummeted in just one summer vacation, which Zhao Xinhan did not expect when she refused Yan Chu's confession.
Fortunately, they are still students, and now they are indeed facing a huge study pressure in the third year of high school.
Even the scumbags of No. 2 Middle School faced many art exams during the year, and at most they just chatted while studying.
Zhao Xinhan lay dormant in aggrieved state, but she felt more and more resentful towards Yan Chu in her heart. A man like that should have some self-knowledge, what right does he have to be with her.
What annoyed her even more was that she managed to find out something about Yu Haikuo's cousin, and when she officially established him as one of her other half's goals, the other party had already left Pinghai City and asked her to get in touch with him even further. None of the opportunities were found.
*****
"Dad, this is my classmate Zhang Chu and Cheng Sheng, from No. 1 Middle School."
Because they didn't know each other in those two games, Yu Haikuo, a top sports student who has always been a fan of those academic bullies, unexpectedly made friends with Yan Chu and Cheng Sheng.
Firstly, it was due to the sympathy between them in the exchange of skills, and secondly, Yu Haikuo felt that these two high school bullies from No. 1 Middle School were not like the ones he knew, because they looked down on these scumbags because of their good grades, and it was very pleasant to chat. , Come and go, the relationship is getting closer and closer.
Even though studies are tight now, a group of people always meet to play once every two or three weeks. Today is because Yu Haikuo showed off his basketball and sneakers signed by Dan Qiao at home with them. Cheng Sheng is a loyal fan of Dan Qiao. Yan Chu is about to come to open his eyes.
Cheng Sheng knew that Yu Haikuo's father was the deputy mayor of Pinghai City, and he had seen such a high-ranking official on TV. Originally, he thought that Yu Haikuo's father should be very busy, and even Yu Haikuo himself said that his father Every day, I am not condolences to the grassroots people, or on the way to condolences to the grassroots people. I rarely stop at home. I don’t know that there is a chance that they will run into each other, and I have a face-to-face meeting with the deputy mayor.
Cheng Sheng couldn't help shrinking his neck, a little scared.
"Don't be nervous, uncle doesn't eat people."
Yu Jinjiang was obviously used to how his son's friends looked when they saw him, so he made a joke to help ease the atmosphere.
He was a handsome man when he was young, but he might be a waste of time to be an official. After entering the 40th mark, the amount of hair on the top of his head was decreasing day by day, and he did not take less tonic, nor did it improve.
No matter how well maintained the old handsome man is, as long as the top of his head is bald, he looks a little funny. Therefore, when he goes out for business on weekdays, Yu Jinjiang always wears a wig. If he wears it for a long time, he will feel uncomfortable. At home, Yu Jinjiang came here however he felt comfortable.
Now it looks different from the newspaper, Deputy Mayor Yu of the Mediterranean Sea, coupled with his humorous words, Cheng Sheng really relaxed a lot.
"This classmate looks familiar to me."
Yu Jinjiang's eyes turned to Yan Chu, and he noticed that the other party had never been nervous from the beginning, as if he was an ordinary parent of a classmate.
He admired the other party's psychological quality, so he couldn't help but pay more attention to him.
Looking at it, I could see a strange feeling, as if he had seen the person in front of him before.
"Dad, do you feel the same way? My cousin said the same thing before. Do you think he looks a lot like you and your little uncle? Do you think people who look like you are similar? Does that count?" A different public face?"
Yu Haikuo asked his father with a playful smile.
Both his father and little uncle belonged to that kind of personable, gentle and handsome man, at least that's true in the photos when he was young, and Yu Haikuo's own aesthetics also think that such a man is more beautiful, but it's a pity that his nephew followed his uncle, he They look more like his uncle, both of whom are born with dark skin and have a taller and stronger physique.
"Nonsense."
Yu Jinjiang smiled and glared at his youngest son. Since he usually favors this youngest son, he didn't say anything serious.
However, the youngest son's words also reminded him that the boy in front of him is indeed a bit similar to himself when he was young, especially the nose, the slightly raised hump in the middle of the nasal bone, is almost exactly the same.
Those eyes followed his brother-in-law's, peach blossom eyes, and the moles under his eyes are exactly the same, but one is on the left and the other is on the right. Speaking of which, his nephew's eyes are also like his father's, and they are all in the same position. side.
Maybe all good looks are similar, Yu Jinjiang made a picture of Yan Chu's appearance in his heart, let the children do their own things after saying a few words, don't care about him, and then sat down intently. Watching the news in the living room, putting what happened just behind my mind.
*****
"Yan Dong, this is the medical examination report of you, your wife and the young master."
The Yan family will go to the designated hospital for physical examination twice a year, because Yu Tong doesn't care much about these things, and every time the physical examination report comes out, it is directly brought to Yan Jibei's company.
"Um."
Yan Jibei raised his head, took the three documents from the secretary, and put them in a locked drawer beside him without opening them for inspection.
After handing over the documents to Yan Jibei, the secretary reported his unfinished itinerary and left.
After the secretary left, Yan Jibei took out the three documents from the drawer, put them into the shredder beside him, and then continued to concentrate on his work.