Yang Duole was waiting at the school gate with his schoolbag on his back. The Lin family driver who came to pick him up and Lin Qinhe had arrived for a while, but Lin Qinhe had not come out yet.
After waiting for another two or three minutes, Yang Duole finally saw Lin Qinhe coming.
"Brother Qinhe, what are you doing back in the classroom? The head of the group wanted you to continue playing the piano just now."? Yang Duole followed Lin Qinhe to the parking lot.
"Something fell out of the classroom." Lin Qinhe said.
"What is so important?" Yang Duole asked subconsciously, but he glanced at Lin Qinhe's expression and knew that Lin Qinhe didn't want to answer him.
After all, they grew up together and knew each other too well, and although he and Lin Qinhe had a good relationship, he had never been able to ask what Lin Qinhe didn't want to say.
The two drove back to the Lin family's villa. A tall woman in a long black dress was waiting at the door. She had black shoulder-length short hair. When she saw the two of them getting out of the car, she showed a faint smile.
"Mother Luo!"? Yang Duole rushed over and hugged Luo Zhengyin, his voice was very sweet.
Luo Zhengyin is Lin Qinhe's mother and a famous pianist in Wenhua City. She called "Lele" first, hugged Yang Duole with a smile, then looked at her son and asked, "Qinhe, what's wrong? After school so late today?"
"Something's delayed." Lin Qinhe carried his and Yang Duole's schoolbags, changed his shoes and walked into the house.
Luo Zhengyin sighed slightly. In addition to playing the piano like her, this son is more like his father, and he is cold and alienated to most people, even in the face of relatives, he is never warm.
She didn't ask any more and said, "Let's eat first."
The food on the table is very rich, and it is naturally made by the nanny at home. Luo Zhengyin has always cherished his hands.
After the three were seated, Yang Duole talked to Luo Zhengyin about the school while eating, and Luo Zhengyin responded with a smile, while Lin Qinhe hardly spoke when he was eating.
In fact, in Lin's family, he did not say anything when eating. Lin Qinhe's grandfather Lin Weiliang was the secretary of the Municipal Party Committee of Wenhua City. Group, mainly engaged in real estate.
Lin Zeshi is Luo Zhengyin's husband, but Lin Zeshi usually works in other places and rarely goes home.
"Lele, you have been promoted to class 1 now, have you sat next to Qinhe?"? Luo Zhengyin asked.
Yang Duole has been in the same class as Lin Qinhe from kindergarten to junior high school, but after Wenhua No. 1 Middle School was divided into classes based on grades, the two were no longer in the same class. In the past year, Yang Duole studied hard, and Lin Qinhe was not in the same class. He also tutored a lot, and finally became a classmate again in the second year of high school.
Since the final results came out, Yang Duole has been talking about being at the same table with Lin Qinhe after school starts.
Yang Duole pouted, glanced at Lin Qinhe on the side, and said to Luo Zhengyin in a complaining and coquettish tone: "Mother Luo, Brother Qinhe has another tablemate."
Luo Zhengyin was a little surprised. She knew that Lin Qinhe had never been at the same table because he didn't like being too close to people and had physical contact. Even if she was his mother, the two would never be as close as she and Yang Duole.
"Is it a former classmate?" Luo Zhengyin couldn't think of anyone other than Yang Duole who could accept Lin Qinhe to sit next to him.
Yang Duole hurriedly said: "That's not it, didn't you and Uncle Lin fund the remote live class in Qingshui County? Now the first place in Qingshui County has come to our class, and the head teacher asked the new classmate to sit next to Brother Qinhe. "
Luo Zhengyin was a little stunned. In addition to the government's coordination, the remote live class in Qingshui County did have funding from their Lin family, but she did not understand the specific funding details.
Knowing that Yang Duole wanted to sit next to Lin Qinhe, she said, "Isn't your class free to choose the same table? When you change seats next time, Lele, you can just change with that new classmate."
Lin Qinhe, who had been silent for a while, suddenly said, "No need."
Luo Zhengyin and Yang Duole were stunned at the same time.
Yang Duole was a little angry, and said sullenly: "Don't you think that Tao Xi hates me a little? I don't want you to be friends with him."
He could clearly feel Tao Xi's hostility towards him. Although he didn't know why, he was always someone who didn't like him, and he wouldn't like it either. Li is also inexplicably wary of Tao Xi.
Lin Qinhe is his best friend. If he becomes friends with Tao Xi, he will feel betrayed.
Luo Zhengyin guessed that Tao Xi was Lin Qinhe's tablemate, but she didn't know what to say about the conflicts between children, so she didn't speak.
Lin Qinhe put down his chopsticks, and his voice was cold: "Lele, not everyone has to do as you wish."
The atmosphere in the restaurant was stagnant for a moment.
Luo Zhengyin rarely heard Lin Qinhe say such heavy words to Yang Duole. She always loved Yang Duole as her own child, and subtly made Lin Qinhe love Yang Duole as much as she did.
She had to ease the atmosphere and said: "Don't talk about it, Lele, I bought the new game you mentioned last time for you, and it has been installed on the game console. Let's play with Qinhe later."
There is a special entertainment room at home, where you can watch movies and play games. Last year, for Yang Duole's birthday, he also bought a whole set of VR game equipment, although Yang Duole got bored after playing it a few times.
"I don't really want to play anymore, Mama Luo, I went to take a nap." Yang Duole put down his chopsticks and left the restaurant, obviously still sulking.
But Luo Zhengyin was not too worried, the child's temper came and went quickly, just coax a few words.
Lin Qinhe also stood up, but was stopped by Luo Zhengyin: "Qinhe, talk to your mother."
Luo Zhengyin rarely calls herself a mother in front of Lin Qinhe. If she does, it usually means a little pleading.
Lin Qinhe looked down at his mother and didn't refuse: "Okay."
The mother and son came to a studio on the second floor. This studio was very large, but there were no painting tools, but there were many paintings on the wall, most of which were obviously by the same person.
Luo Zhengyin took a cup of coffee, walked to a painting, looked at it for a while, and said with a smile: "Today, when I heard Lele talking about Qingshui County, I suddenly remembered this painting. I wonder if the real scene there will look like a painting. It's as beautiful as it is."
It was an oil painting. In the painting, there was a clear stream winding in the mountains. The peach blossoms on the riverside were like rosy clouds, and the peach blossoms on the stream drifted away. The painting is quiet and peaceful, with a small "sui" character written in the lower right corner of the painting.
"You can go and have a look." Lin Qinhe said indifferently. He also looked at the painting, but he seemed to be looking at another thing through the painting.
Luo Zhengyin sighed slightly, his expression was a little gloomy, he walked away a few steps to look at a few other paintings, talking about business: "Lele's father came back recently, so Lele is not in a good mood, he is still a child, far less than you. Mature, don't get angry with him."
Lin Qinhe was silent for a while and asked, "How long has Uncle Yang been back?"
Luo Zhengyin frowned, and didn't seem to want to mention this person, and said coldly: "Two or three days, so I asked you to bring Lele back, their father and son would have to quarrel when they met, and they would also make Uncle Fang's house uneasy. ."
Yang Duole grew up in his grandfather Fang Zuqing's house and Luo Zhengyin's house since he was a child. His father, Yang Zhengming, was engaged in the medical business. In his early years, he was busy with his career and hardly cared about Yang Duole. In recent years, he suddenly wanted to have a good relationship with his son. In Grandpa Dole's house, only Luo Zhengyin never dared to come here.
"You don't know. Last time, Yang Zhengming brought a new lover back, and he looks good... Well, Lele saw it anyway, and Lele was happy for a long time."
Luo Zhengyin saw disgust in his eyes and lowered his head to take a sip of coffee.
Lin Qinhe knew what his mother had left unfinished. Yang Zhengming had been decadent for two years after Fang Sui's death. After being scolded by Fang Zuqing, he started his career. Although he has not been married for so many years, he has been in constant love in recent years. Fang Sui's shadow.
After all, it was a matter of the previous generation, so Lin Qinhe couldn't say anything.
Luo Zhengyin didn't continue this topic, she walked to a children's painting, and after watching the meeting said with a smile: "You and Lele both learned to draw when we were children, but unfortunately you are always impatient, Lele wants to learn but always He couldn't draw well either, and finally gave up, he really doesn't look like his mother in that regard."
At the end of the sentence, Luo Zhengyin's tone became a little darker, and his eyes were far away.
Lin Qinhe looked at the painting that Yang Duole painted when he was eight years old. The painting showed a child holding the hands of his parents. The mother had long black hair and a paintbrush in her hand. All three of them were happy. smiley face.
He walked to the painting with peach blossoms and flowing water again, looked at the painting and said, "Not everyone has to have her shadow. I don't, neither does Lele."
Just like this villa, if it wasn't for his pollen allergy, the garden must be full of the woman's favorite white roses.
Luo Zhengyin was stunned and did not speak for a long time.
Tao Xi went out to the school in the afternoon. He entered a bookstore near the school and was going to buy English listening tapes because Lin Qinhe asked him to go back to practice English listening.
Tao Xi has a repeater that he bought in the first year of junior high. The buttons are a little bit ineffective, but it can barely be used.
However, he searched the bookstore and couldn't find any audiobooks with tapes until the owner of the bookstore asked him, "Classmate, what kind of treasure are you looking for?"
"I want to buy tapes for high school English listening training." Tao Xi said.
The bookstore owner was an uncle in his early forties, wearing a pair of plastic slippers, and said with a surprised expression, "Which one still uses tapes to listen to English listening?"
Tao Xi was stunned, what would you use without a tape
The boss glanced at the school uniform that Tao Xi was wearing, and said, "Don't you Wenhua No. 1 Middle School can't use electronic devices? They all use mobile phones or tablets. You can listen to them at any time. The tapes are so inconvenient."
As he said, he took out an English listening book from the bookshelf and pointed it to Tao Xi: "If you buy the book, it will give you a download URL and QR code of the audio file, and you can download it by scanning it with your mobile phone. "
Tao Xi remembered the wireless earphones that Lin Qinhe often wears, and said at a loss: "Okay, I'll go and look at other teaching materials first."
Just as he was about to turn away, he was pulled by the boss: "Hey, wait, I'll go look in the warehouse, maybe I'll find the backlog of tapes."
The boss searched for a while and finally found the listening tapes and books that were not sold out a few years ago. He patted the dust on them with his hand, and said with a smile, "Actually, I also think tapes are better, and students can't help it when they use their mobile phones. If you want to play games and chat, who knows whether you are listening to English or songs?"
Tao Xi nodded. Just as he was about to take out the money to buy it, the boss waved his hand and said, "I gave it to you, but I was going to lose it."
Tao Xi didn't want to take it for nothing, and the two pushed it several times. Finally, Tao Xi bought some other teaching aids from the bookstore before accepting the free listening book and tape.
He returned to the empty bedroom and took out the old-fashioned repeater. At that time, he had saved money for breakfast for a long time to buy this repeater. After buying it, he carefully put stickers on it and wrote his name, for fear of being attacked. The man took it, which was his only electronic device other than the electronic watch.
After pressing the power button several times, the repeater slowly started to work. He put the newly purchased tape in, plugged in a broken earphone, and was relieved when he heard the sound.
After doing English listening for an hour, Tao Xi did the difficult questions in the newly bought teaching aids according to the focus of each subject that Lin Qinhe planned in the morning. If he didn't know much, he framed the question numbers, and then folded the pages. , waiting for tomorrow's lunch break to ask Lin Qinhe.
Thinking that Lin Qinhe would give him counseling at noon the next day, Tao Xi couldn't help laughing softly while lying on the table. There was no one in the bedroom, but he seemed to be afraid of being heard.
Just like when he was a child, Guo Ping would occasionally bring a lollipop to Tao Le when he came back from town. It's been in the purse for a long time, and I take it out from time to time to take a look and smell it, for fear that Tao Le will see it and go.
Aside from going out in the evening to buy a casual cake to eat, Tao Xi spent the afternoon and evening studying in his dormitory, and he even wore half a pair of headphones to listen to 9 pounds and 15 pence before going to bed at night.
Originally thought that after studying for a day, he would have no dreams all night, but he had a dream at night, dreaming that during the day he was sitting in the classroom watching Lin Qinhe help him correct his papers. Suddenly Lin Qinhe's phone vibrated and he connected After a while on the phone, he said, "Okay, I'll take Tao Xi home later."
Then they took the bus home together. The car drove for a long time. Tao Xi was thinking about why it was not there. The car finally stopped. He and Lin Qinhe got out of the car and took a look. It turned out that it was not Lin Qinhe's home, but It is the Qingshui River in Taoxi Bay.
Peach blossoms are in full bloom on the spring hills, there are countless peach blossoms on the stream, and there are oriole on the flowers.
He invited Lin Qinhe to sit at his house halfway up the mountain, but Lin Qinhe frowned and said, "I don't like it here." Then he turned and left.
He chased after him with all his strength, shouting how I cut down the peach tree, but he couldn't catch up like a ghost hit the wall.
After waking up, Tao Xi felt as if he had run for two hundred miles, and drank several sips of water.
The author says:
Don't worry, it will be sweet