The next day, the meeting was held at the base as usual.
After Gao Jianhong talked for a while, he felt that Zhu Yun was a little absent-minded.
"What's the matter, is there a problem?"
"Ah?" Zhu Yun recovered and shook her head, "No." She looked to her side, "Where did Li Xun go today?"
Gao Jianhong: "I don't know. He called me in the morning and said that something happened today, and the base let me take charge today."
something
Is it related to the woman from yesterday
Zhu Yun didn't want to be distracted, but couldn't help thinking about it.
"Come on, let's continue." Gao Jianhong stretched out his fingers and ticked Zhu Yun's face.
Li Xun all escaped from today's class. After the afternoon class, Zhu Yun came to the base and found that Li Xun had returned. He was still nestling in the stool to write programs, and everything was as usual.
Zhu Yun sat down and asked casually, "Where did you go today?"
Li Xun: "Go for a stroll in the city center."
Zhu Yun: "City center? What are you doing there?"
Li Xun glanced at Zhu Yun, and said sarcastically, "Why, the princess's competition is safe, and you have the energy to study other things?"
"..."
Who cares about you, you are the number one in debt.
Zhu Yun snorted in her heart and turned to do her own thing. She accidentally saw a bag at Li Xun's feet, which seemed to be from the central stadium...
In the evening, Gao Jianhong asked Zhu Yun to go to dinner together. On the way, he was still thinking about the details of the competition. "It seems that many people have done the analysis of malicious programs in previous sessions. Should we get something new?"
Zhu Yun said: "Okay, but there are only a few major directions in the security competition, or from the hardware—" After a pause, Gao Jianhong asked, "What's wrong?"
Zhu Yun looked towards the campus gate, and there seemed to be a person standing across the road.
"Zhu Yun?"
"Uh..." Zhu Yun opened her mouth, and Gao Jianhong said, "Let's go, what do you want to eat, go outside?"
Zhu Yun: "No, just eat at school and then go back to work."
Gao Jianhong smiled, "Don't be so anxious, take it easy, I'm not Li Xun."
They walked to the cafeteria, Zhu Yun lowered her head all the way, counting the bluestones on the ground, Gao Jianhong didn't listen to a word. Finally, the moment she stepped onto the steps, Zhu Yun stopped.
"That..." Zhu Yun called Gao Jianhong, "I remembered something, I have to go back to the dormitory."
"What's the matter?"
Zhu Yun talked nonsense, "My mother asked me to send her something, but I accidentally forgot. You don't have to wait for me, eat first, and see you at the base tonight."
"Oh well."
Gao Jianhong went into the cafeteria by himself, and Zhu Yun came to the school gate in three steps in two steps.
Are you there
Are you there
Are you there
Zhu Yun searched around, and finally found that figure at the door of a dessert shop on the opposite road.
In fact, at this distance, it is really difficult to see a person clearly. Zhu Yun can be recognized mainly by her extremely soiled clothes.
She pretended to be passing by, walked past the woman, and when she passed by, she glanced around from the corner of her eye. The woman had a sallow complexion and poor skin. She was carrying a large bag, her shoulders were slumped, and she looked very tired.
After Zhu Yun walked over, she turned the bow of the boat and walked again.
After walking like this three or four times in a row, Zhu Yun stopped, and finally looked in the direction of the campus, making sure that there was no sign of Li Xun, so she headed towards her.
"Ouch!"
Zhu Yun bumped into the woman from behind and apologized again and again: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry!"
The woman also seemed to be taken aback, but immediately reacted, "No, nothing."
Zhu Yun: "I'm so sorry, I was thinking about things in my head, and accidentally..."
The woman shook her head: "It's okay."
She has a strong accent, but lacks the strength to speak. She is emaciated and worried.
Zhu Yun chatted as usual, and asked tentatively: "You are carrying so much luggage by yourself, do you come from another place?"
"What? Oh... yes, yes, from other places."
"Are you here for a tour?"
"no… "
"Then what are you doing here?"
The woman's response was very slow, and it took several seconds for Zhu Yun to hear the answer every time she finished asking a question.
"...I'm here to find my brother."
Zhu Yun took a second to analyze this sentence, and then her heart exploded instantly.
younger brother!
younger brother! !
It turned out to be my brother! ! ! ! ! ! !
Zhu Yun looked at the woman's face again.
After she said this, Zhu Yun realized that this woman was actually very tall. Zhu Yun's standard height was 1.68 meters, which was still half short in front of this woman. If you look carefully, this woman's face is actually okay. Although the temperament is very earthy and the skin is poorly maintained, the foundation is still OK...
Moreover, those inner pair of phoenix eyes...
Zhu Yun was a little scared.
For some reason, she didn't feel this way when facing Li Xun's various fashionable girlfriends and busty exes.
But the one in front of him was Li Xun's sister.
She is his relative.
Zhu Yun's memory is not bad, she still clearly remembers how Zhang Xiaobei threatened Li Xun back then. His household registration is rural, but the school cannot contact his family members...
He didn't go home during Chinese New Year.
Judging by Li Xun's attitude towards this woman last night, he must have a bad relationship with his family. If I act recklessly, Li Xun will know, and I don't think it's a joke.
Zhu Yun pondered whether to retreat as if she had never seen her before.
The woman still lowered her head. There were old-fashioned shabby cloth bags piled up beside her, covered with dust, and she was still carrying a big bag in her hand. She was tall but really thin, standing alone on the side of the road, exhausted.
Zhu Yun couldn't bear it, this was his sister after all. She pointed to the coffee shop beside her and asked, "How about going to sit for a while?"
The woman quickly waved her hand, "No need."
Zhu Yun: "I happen to be waiting for someone, let's go inside and wait together."
"It's really unnecessary."
Zhu Yun tried her best to put on the kindest and most sincere smile in her life. In the end, her face was almost stiff, and she finally persuaded the woman to go to the coffee shop.
This coffee shop is not low-grade on College Street. The waiter is a part-time student with a snobby eye. Seeing a woman's dress and a pile of luggage, she has a bad face.
"We have the minimum consumption here."
Zhu Yun had never heard anyone speak to her in such a tone in her life, and she was so surprised that she almost splashed the coffee from the next table on her face.
The woman lowered her head: "Let's forget it... I'll wait outside."
"Come on, sit down first." Zhu Yun pushed the woman into the seat and ordered two cups of coffee.
When the coffee was served, the woman refused to drink it. She kept her head down, not daring to touch anything.
Zhu Yun tried to find something to talk about.
"That... what's your name?"
"Li Lan."
Also surnamed Li.
"You and your brother are biological?"
Li Lan shook her head.
"Cousin?"
Still shaking his head.
…
Zhu Yun changed her mind: "How long have you not seen him?"
Li Lan's voice was very low, "It's been a long time."
Zhu Yun asked a few more questions, and found that Li Lan's movements were getting smaller and smaller, and finally it was almost silent. She observed carefully and found that Li Lan's shoulders were shaking slightly, as if she was crying.
"Are you OK."
Li Lan: "It's okay."
She looks so sad.
Zhu Yun hesitated and took out her phone. "Is your brother from our school? What's his name? Maybe I know him. I'll help you find him."
"No." Li Lan immediately refused, she raised her head, her eyes were reddened. "Don't look for him, he doesn't want to see me..."
There are so many things he doesn't want to do, how can everything go his way.
"It's okay, just see each other."
"No, really don't, he will be angry!"
Seeing Li Lan's obedient look, Zhu Yun felt very annoyed. She frowned, and didn't plan to make any further preparations, so she asked a straight-forward question—
"Aren't you brothers and sisters? What kind of enmity is there? Why can't we meet? He hates you so much?"
Li Lan's face turned pale instantly.
ya ya ya...
Broken Broken! Only then did Zhu Yun come to her senses, and remedied: "I didn't mean that, that is, I think—"
"He should hate us." Li Lan murmured, covering her face with her hands, "He's right not to want to see us..."
what's the situation
Zhu Yun slowly stirred up her emotions, guiding her to let her guard down.
It seems that Li Lan usually has few people who can talk about these topics. Facing Zhu Yun, a kind stranger, she relaxes a little bit.
Zhu Yun was terrified when she heard Li Lan tell the story of the past. It's not that the content of the story is so magnificent, it's just that the protagonist in it is Li Xun.
She peeped into his secret without his permission.
She wanted to stop too, but couldn't.
Li Lan and Li Xun's hometown is in a land of fish and rice. Zhu Yun has heard of it. There is a famous lake there. Looking at the mountains and rivers in the distance, it is a rural area, but it is beautiful.
Zhu Yun thought to himself, water and soil nourish people, no wonder his skin is so delicate.
Li Lan's education level is low, and she can't express herself clearly when she talks a lot.
But the most important thing in storytelling is emotion. From Li Lan's stumbling narration, Zhu Yun heard too many emotions buried in those simple years.
Li Xun came to Li Lan's house when he was six years old. Before that, no one knew of his existence.
Li Lan's father, Li Chengbo, was originally a farmer. Later, he caught up with the tide of the times and started a foreign trade business. He was famous for a while and even opened a factory. At that time, the factory was quite large and had many employees. Li Xun's mother was one of them.
According to Li Lan, Li Xun's mother was very beautiful, which was an extremely flamboyant beauty that was different from the factory workers around her. Although she is also poor, she lives a very fashionable life, making the most beautiful clothes and listening to the hottest band tapes.
She was criticized a lot in the factory, and she didn't care about the gossip behind everyone's back.
Li Chengbo quickly noticed this special woman. He concealed that he had a family and started throwing rose branches to Li Xun's mother.
Judging from Li Xun's appearance, Li Chengbo was very handsome, tall, youthful and vigorous.
She fell in love with him easily and became pregnant with Li Xun.
Li Chengbo has a very common mentality of the older generation in rural areas, patriarchal. At that time, Li Xun's mother was judged to be a girl by the doctor in the small clinic, and Li Chengbo asked her to kill her. Li Xun's mother refused to say anything, and she was eight months pregnant and left the factory.
Later, Li Chengbo's business failed, and he returned to his hometown with nothing, and his temper became moody.
Li Lan was only five years old at the time, the youngest in the family, with three older brothers. Li Chengbo didn't like her and often beat and scolded her. Because her mother was afraid of her father, she didn't dare to be too intimate with her. Li Lan has been doing the heaviest work ever since she was a child, using leftovers from her brothers for everything.
Later, Li Chengbo became addicted to playing cards and drinking too much, and the house was full of smog every day, and everyone had a bad temper, except Li Lan, because there was no one in this family she could lose her temper with.
When she was ten years old, Li Xun's mother brought Li Xun to the house.
Li Lan was still young at the time, so she didn't know what the arrival of their mother and son meant. She was just very happy, because she was not the youngest in the family anymore, and maybe she could get angry at Li Xun in the future. But the reality is cruel. Li Lan soon realized that the new brother was more powerful than the three brothers combined.
Don't talk about bullying, just walk close to him, and he will come back fiercely.
But Li Xun's arrival is also good for Li Lan, that is, she is no longer the punching bag of her brothers and mother, and they have new goals. They even pulled Li Lan into a camp for the first time, and they were unanimous to the outside world.
In the past, the whole family was tortured by the alcoholic Li Chengbo, and suddenly the food chain extended to another section, which can be seen in the lives of Li Xun's mother and son. Li Lan's mother treated the uninvited guests with a toughness she had never experienced in her life. Li Xun's mother was okay, but Li Xun's attitude in giving back to them was even worse. Li Lan's mother became more and more angry.
Not enough, since the arrival of Li Xun's mother and son, Li Lan's mother has something to do every day, and her life is much more lively than before.
Even with such a life, Li Xun's mother insisted on staying. At that time, she was already seriously ill, and she had no family to rely on. If she didn't come here, the six-year-old Li Xun would have no way out in the future.
Fortunately, Li Chengbo was quite satisfied with his new son, and Li Lan's mother didn't dare to be too presumptuous if he spoke.
Li Xun's mother tried her best to let her son integrate into the family, but things backfired. Li Xun never looked them in the eye. For this reason, he was bullied by his three brothers, and they didn't take his arrogance seriously at all.
Li Lan does laundry and cleaning until very late every day, and often everyone else has gone to bed and she hasn't finished her work yet. She had seen several times that Li Xun's mother persuaded her child under the moonlight to change his temper, saying that it was no longer the time for the two of them to live outside, and that he had to get along well with his brothers. Li Xun never responded, and his mother beat him when she said she was in a hurry. He was so wronged that he cried, but he still refused to agree.
Li Lan's heart softened, she always felt that they were not as hateful as her family said, and she sympathized with them.
Li Lan began to help them secretly. At that time, Li Xun's mother was seriously ill, and the pain was so painful that she couldn't sleep at night. Li Lan secretly made porridge for her while the family was asleep, and took care of her to rest.
She gradually fell in love with Li Xun's mother. Li Xun's mother made her a skirt out of the simplest fabrics. It was the first skirt in her life. She also listened to the tapes of the band, Li Lan was unsurprisingly obsessed with this trendy thing, and went to find them almost whenever he was free.
Li Xun is not very good at taking care of others, and he is at a loss for his mother's illness. Li Lan criticizes him like a sister: "You have to listen to your mother." She knows the three brothers best, and they like to bully the stubborn , just follow them and they will get bored in no time.
She kindly tried to persuade her, but unfortunately Li Xun ignored her. Li Lan said angrily, "This is your mother's wish!"
Li Xun glared at her, "No way!"
Unable to communicate, Li Lan ignored him.
Later, Li Xun's mother passed away.
She was very miserable when she left. She was so sick that she lost her human form and shrunk into a ball. Her appearance was so terrifying that Li Lan's mother didn't bother them for a few days.
It was late at night when she left, and Li Lan was also there. Li Xun probably knew that his mother was dying, and cried so much that he couldn't bear to live. When he was dying, his mother took his hand and mechanically told him to integrate into the new family and live a good life in the future. Looking at such a mother, Li Xun finally nodded and agreed to her last request.
This should have been her long-cherished wish, but for some reason, the moment he really said "yes", the mother raised her dry hand high, grabbed his back, and took him Infinite nostalgia and unwillingness.
"No..." She said to her son with the last strength of her life, "Li Xun, you must not be like them."
Li Xun gritted his teeth when he heard this, buried his face deeply in his mother's palm, and promised her, "Got it."
Mother left safely.
Li Lan stood aside and watched, she didn't know how to describe her mood at that time, it was the first time she had accepted another kind of emotional relationship different from this family.
She began to do everything possible to help this younger brother who never called her sister.
Later, Li Xun started to go to school. There were very few schools in their hometown. They were all together in elementary school and junior high school. Li Lan's eldest brother had already graduated, and his second and third brothers were all in junior high school. Li Lan only went home to help out after three years of elementary school. live.
Since Li Xun started school, Li Lan found that his brothers bullied Li Xun even more ruthlessly. She didn't know where they got angry, as if Li Xun was a sworn enemy.
Li Xun never complained, but he was just a child after all, so he endured it if he couldn't beat him. It didn't take long for his whole body to be covered in bruises.
The brothers secretly tore his books, threw his schoolbag, and created every opportunity to prevent him from going to school, but no matter how injured Li Xun was, no matter how rotten the books were, Li Xun never missed a day of class. And he has also learned not to read when his brothers are around.
Therefore, when night fell, under the tile lamp in the small courtyard, besides Li Lan who was washing clothes, there was another Li Xun who was reading.
Once Li Lan asked him: "Why do you like reading so much?"
Li Xun replied angrily: "It seems that you can understand what I said."
His attitude towards her is still as bad as ever, or he has strong hostility towards the whole family. But Li Lan didn't care anymore. Anyway, there were many people who treated her badly, and she felt that Li Xun's cruelty was not the real one.
She took care of him in silence, washing and cooking for him, and helping him distract his brothers.
Days passed, and one night, Li Lan was surprised to find that Li Xun hadn't come out to read a book. She found Li Xun in the debris pile in the backyard. He had been clutching his ribs. Li Lan asked him what was wrong, and he also Not answering.
It was only later that Li Lan found out that Li Xun had been admitted to the only "key class" in that crappy school that was not bad. This class was in the North Building, a certain distance from where Li Lan's brothers went to school.
But the key class had to pay an extra part of the tuition, and it was impossible for Li Lan's mother to pay Li Xun, so Li Xun didn't make it in that class, and he returned to the previous place.
The brothers were very happy, Li Xun had a conflict with them again, they happily beat him up, his ribs were broken.
Li Xun didn't go to the hospital. Li Lan treated him briefly, and secretly saved up money to buy ribs stew for him.
When Li Xun was able to stand up, he took the initiative to talk to Li Lan for the first time - he borrowed money from her.
Li Lan didn't have any money himself, but Li Xun didn't care. He yelled at her, and Li Lan cried out of anxiety. In the end, he lied and begged his mother for some money.
Li Xun got the money and went to the county seat alone. When he came back, everyone including Li Lan was shocked. He dyed his hair into pure gold.
Hair dyeing was not yet popular in that era, especially such exaggerated colors, which were even rarer.
Because of such a maverick hair color, Li Xun suffered more bullying, and even Li Chengbo lost his temper. When Li Chengbo got angry, the whole family huddled in the corner, and no one dared to go forward.
Several times, Li Lan felt that his father was going to beat Li Xun to death...
But until the end, Li Xun still refused to admit his mistake, nor would he dye his hair back.
Over time, everyone got tired of beating and scolding, and got used to it.
So, the little boy back then used this simple and childish way to prove that he was different from others.