During the Spring Festival holiday in 2005, they went home together, Tan Ruikang took Lin Xi back, and Zhao Guogang invited everyone to a meal. This time Shu Yan finally came, Lin Xi's personality is very cheerful, she has something to say to everyone, and she maintains just the right courtesy with Shu Yan, but does not show excessive closeness.
Everyone was very happy during the banquet, only one person from Yuanyuan felt that this scene was really ridiculous—
One by one, each of them is wrong, each thinks his own way, and because of the reason of face, he reluctantly wants to get together, sitting in front of such a big table, don't you feel awkward
Humans are a bunch of fake animals.
According to rational thinking, Yuan Yuan knew that he should have a smile on his face, participate in their topics, chat about current hot events, talk about the future and life, everyone is pretending, at least he should give Zhao Guogang a face and pretend. Instead of being like a depressed patient, without saying a word, sitting in the corner with a dead mother's expression, destroying such a beautiful picture of family reunion.
It was expected that Zhao Guogang deserved to be unlucky, knowing that calling him here would make the atmosphere very stiff, so he couldn't help but call him together.
He laughed while thinking about it.
Zhao Guogang said: "What is the baby laughing at?"
Yuan Yuan said: "I didn't laugh, I am happy."
Zhao Guogang smiled and said, "Where's your girlfriend? Why don't you let her come back together?"
Yuan Yuan: "She has something to do at home. I'll bring it back during the summer vacation."
Zhao Guogang said: "Xiao Xi doesn't need to worry about work. If you want to come to Shenzhen to work in the future, my uncle will introduce you to work."
Lin Xi smiled and said, "I have to ask my family what they mean. My parents are only my daughter. Thank you uncle first."
After taking a few bites and ordering food, Yuan Yuan took out a picture book, sat and looked down, saying less than five sentences from beginning to end. His presence was abrupt and out of place, and if it wasn't for him, maybe the four of them would have gotten along much better.
"What book to read?" Lin Xi's voice was very soft, and she leaned over and asked with a smile.
"The Story of Bugua, it's a few meters away." Yuan Yuan replied in a low voice, "I'll go first when I'm full, you guys can eat slowly."
Tan Ruikang and Zhao Guogang were both stunned, Zhao Guogang had to say: "Let's settle the bill, everyone go back to rest early, in a few days Ruikang, take Xiaoxi to the Window of the World to play..."
Tan Ruikang said, "Xiaoyuan, wait, let's go back together."
Zhao Guogang went to checkout, Tan Ruikang went to drive, Lin Xi picked up the bag and chatted with Shu Yan for a few more scenes, tied the scarf, and stepped forward to hold the distant hand.
The two went downstairs and stood in the cold wind. Zhao Guogang also went to drive, and Shu Yan stood at the other end of the steps, staring at the bustling night outside in a daze.
"Guess what she's thinking?" Yuan Yuan asked Lin Xi in a low voice.
"Well..." Lin Xi said with a smile, "Don't guess what a woman is thinking."
"She must hate me even more now. I just broke up with me after a meal." Yuan Yuan whispered.
Lin Xi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "By the way, do you feel a sense of accomplishment now? Brother, sometimes I really don't know what to say about you..."
Yuan Yuan said: "They can obviously continue to eat, why bother?"
Lin Xi said: "I have a few high-quality relatives in my family, and I don't want to talk to them every year when I go back to eat. But I definitely don't dare to be like you."
Yuan Yuan said: "So you are very mature, I am immature, you are all adults, I am still a child, and now my dad is probably thinking, I will never grow up."
Chery QQ drove over, Yuan Yuan whispered, "You will sit in the front row later."
Lin Xi said, "It doesn't matter, isn't it the same?"
Yuan Yuan said: "No, you listen to me, otherwise the woman will have something to say when she goes home."
Lin Xi nodded, sat in the passenger seat, and sat in the back row far away. Tan Ruikang turned his head and said, "Xiaoyuan, you..." As he said, he met Lin Xi's innocent eyes.
Yuan Yuan laughed together with Lin Xi, Tan Ruikang was stunned, and Yuan Yuan said, "Let's go, go home."
On the same day, Tan Ruikang sent Yuan Yuan home first, and then sent Lin Xi to the hotel.
Yuan Yuan thought that Tan Ruikang might not be back today, so he went to take a bath and read a book while lying on the sofa. Lin Xi is not in Shenzhen for the Chinese New Year. She will go back to her own home in a few days. It is estimated that she will spend the Spring Festival with Tan Ruikang.
Yuan Yuan originally wanted to send Tan Ruikang away and let him go to Lin Xi's house for the Spring Festival.
At half past eleven, Tan Ruikang came back.
Yuan Yuan said: "I thought you would not come back."
Tan Ruikang said, "come back to sleep."
Yuan Yuan said: "Didn't you have that with her?"
Tan Ruikang shook his head, did not speak, and seemed to be in a bad mood.
Yuan Yuan said: "What's wrong? We quarreled again?"
Tan Ruikang said, "No."
It must have been a quarrel. Yuan Yuan knew that Lin Xi and Tan Ruikang would also quarrel, and he had met at least three times. Sometimes they come to Yuan Yuan together and don't speak to each other. Lin Xi chats with Yuan Yuan, leaving Tan Ruikang aside.
Sometimes, Lin Xi suddenly came to look for Yuan Yuan to play, and Tan Ruikang sent text messages everywhere to find someone, and Yuan Yuan only knew when it was sent to Yuan Yuan's mobile phone.
Another time, Tan Ruikang and Yuan Yuan said, "Your sister is angry, and coaxing her to ignore me, what should I do, how do you coax Qingqing when she is angry?".
Quarrels are quarrels, but Lin Xi has never scolded Tan Ruikang in front of Yuan Yuan, nor dragged Yuan Yuan into the water, nor did Yuan Yuan take the initiative to ask her, not to get involved in their relationship issues, and to let the flow take its course.
Yuan Yuan is very easy to coax, as long as he can make him feel that the other party is sincerely apologizing, he will usually forgive him. But Lin Xi was different. She always thought that the process of quarreling made her feel bad. She had to find something happy to do to make her feel better, and she would say anything when she felt better.
As for why they quarreled, it was not clear in the distance. It is estimated that there are different reasons each time.
That night, Lin Xi didn't call to ask if Tan Ruikang was home, and Tan Ruikang didn't call her either. Yuan Yuan felt that it was very serious, and reminded Tan Ruikang, Tan Ruikang said, "It's alright, you can't let her pettiness always go away, don't worry about it."
Tan Ruikang went to bed after smoking a cigarette. He drove Lin Xi to the airport the next morning. He came back in less than half an hour. He was still asleep in the far distance. He heard noises from outside, so he came out and took a look in a daze, seeing that Tan Ruikang was in a bad mood. , sitting at the table in a daze.
"She left first?" Yuan Yuan said.
"Well." Tan Ruikang said.
Yuan Yuan thought that he deserved it, what kind of love he was talking about, but he didn't make fun of himself, he deserved it, Tan Ruikang had a love quarrel, and seeing him depressed, Yuan Yuan felt a little happy when he saw Tan Ruikang being bullied.
However, rolling around on the bed, Yuan Yuan still felt bad, so he called Lin Xi.
"Sister." Yuan Yuan said.
Lin Xi: "Sister is back. I'll bring you delicious food when school starts. Don't tell your brother that he doesn't have any."
Yuan Yuan said, "Don't quarrel, my brother is a nice guy and is crying in the living room."
Lin Xi: "Yes, yes, as far as you think he is good in everything. Your brother's bad temper is also used by you. He will cry? The sun is coming out from the west."
Yuan Yuan smiled and said, "He cares about you very much, why are you angry?"
Lin Xi: "Well, it's useless to just say it or not to do it. I don't care about it. My sister is on the plane. I'll talk about it later."
Yuan Yuan hung up the phone and went to ask Tan Ruikang what was going on.
He vaguely expected Tan Ruikang and Lin Xi to break up, but this thought was too much, and sometimes Yuan Yuan wanted to slap himself a few times. Lin Xi was so good to him, how could he want them to break up
Tan Ruikang was in a bad mood during the winter vacation, and he didn't call Lin Xi. He bought a gift for Lin Xi on Taobao when he was online, and asked the store owner to write "Don't be angry, I love you" in the remarks.
The gift was an electric toy monkey beating gongs and drums. This is completely Tan Ruikang's style. Yuan Yuan thought that Lin Xi would turn on the switch, and when the monkey was spinning around in a frenzy, it would probably be out of breath.
Yuan Yuan told Tan Ruikang, Tan Ruikang couldn't help laughing and laughing. After seeing the picture of the monkey, Tan Ruikang called Lin Xi on the day he confirmed the receipt, so the two made up again.
Yuan Yuan thought to himself that he was an idiot, both bitter and idiot.
In 2005, Qingqing moved to the Zhuhai campus. He went to class alone, had meals, finished class in the summer vacation, and finished the last subject in the summer vacation. When the cicada started to tweet, the topic changed from play and study to internship, and when looking for a job, the big Four will come.
Nearly half of his classmates went for summer internships. Far away did not get good grades or bad. The internship unit introduced by the teacher was not his turn, so he did not take the initiative to ask.
Tan Ruikang was going to an auto assembly plant in Dongguan for an internship, while Lin Xi went to a Japanese company with an internship form.
After the distant sixth grade, I sent a text message to Tan Ruikang and packed up and went home.
When I got home, I was still neat and tidy, and the floor was spotless. After staying at home for a few days, I went out to sit in the CMB and wandered aimlessly.
He got out of the car at the gate of No. 3 Middle School and wanted to go back to see his alma mater, but the alma mater had changed a lot. The new school gate was renovated in a grand style, the playground was also changed, the basketball court was covered with a layer of glue, and the glue was covered with plastic. Cloth, the entire teaching building has been painted once, and new bracket windows have been installed.
He stood outside the railing to see that this was not the alma mater he knew, and all his memories were gone.
He went to the milk tea shop at the gate of the school to buy milk tea. The girl behind the counter was still the same girl. After five years, she no longer looked like the green one she had when she was young.
Yuan Yuan was walking on the road drinking milk tea, walked into Carrefour at the entrance of a community, and was going to buy some instant noodles, snacks, etc. to go back.
He was pushing a cart to buy in front of the shelves, and saw a man pushing the cart too. There was a child sitting on the shopping cart. The child was clean and cute, with small arms and legs sticking out of the cart, calling for Dad, pointing The colorful candies on the shelves let him buy them.
Zhao Guogang said: "When did you come back? Didn't you say you are still taking the exam?"
Yuan Yuan looked at the child and said, "I have already finished the exam, I didn't tell you. Is this your son?"
Zhao Guogang said, "My name is brother."
The child called Brother Sheng, Yuan Yuan smiled and pinched his face. He wanted to use his hands a little harder, but after thinking about it, the child was right.
Zhao Guogang bought a pack of colored lollipops for his youngest son and a pack for Yuan Yuan, one for each person.
Zhao Guogang: "Break up? Why do you look like you have a grudge against someone?"
Yuan Yuan said: "Well, we broke up."
Zhao Guogang said: "Find another girlfriend? Your uncle Xie always wants to marry your daughter and introduce her to you?"
Yuan Yuan said, "Is it beautiful? Don't if it's too beautiful."
Zhao Guogang said: "It's not very beautiful, but he is knowledgeable and has a temperament."
Yuan Yuan: "Isn't it beautiful, let alone."
Zhao Guogang: "..."
Yuan Yuan laughed and said, "I don't want to get married."
Zhao Guogang: "You don't want to get married? When will Dad be able to hold his grandson?"
Yuan Yuan said: "You have no right to say this, now, let him get married, it's not too late to have a grandson when you are in your sixties."
Yuan Yuan gestured to Zhao Guogang's youngest son.
Zhao Guogang disapproved and said, "You are still young, and when you are old, you want to get married."
Yuan Yuan said: "Well, I always don't grow up. Let's end this topic and talk about something else. It's not good to quarrel later and cause him to cry. Children's hearts are very fragile, and it is easy to leave shadows."
Zhao Guogang said: "China's guiding ideology is Confucianism. The reason why 'benevolence' is called 'benevolence' is because it represents two people. And people, as independent individuals, are shown through the relationship between people. Know Why are you always treated as a child? You didn't start a family, you got married, you didn't grow up in the eyes of your parents, you were a child, you didn't count as an independent person. You only counted when you built a whole family After truly leaving their parents' home and going to society, they have completed the step that must be taken by adults. Only parents can rest assured."
Yuan Yuan took the can and said, "Go to the NND Confucian guiding ideology, moderation, prudence, and dual use. Everything goes to his grandmother. Go as far as you want. If you don't want to change the subject, I'll go first."
Zhao Guogang: "How is your brother and his girlfriend doing?"
Yuan Yuan said, "It's okay, he didn't say anything about her. My sister-in-law is very nice."
Zhao Guogang laughed and said, "My sister-in-law has called me."
The two father and son pushed the car, passed the car selling soda, and said far away, "Let's change the subject, how have you been recently?"
Zhao Guogang said: "It's okay, that's it."
Yuan Yuan said, "My company wasn't poached by that woman, right?"
Zhao Guogang smiled and said, "I didn't get poached, but Dad lost some money by investing in stocks."
Yuan Yuan said: "How much did you lose?"
Zhao Guogang: "Not much."
Far away: "Have you bottomed out?"
Zhao Guogang pondered for a while and said, "On June 6, the lowest point in the history of the Shanghai stock market was 998 points."
Yuan Yuan: "You didn't sell it, did you?"
Zhao Guogang: "Sold part of it."
Yuan Yuan smiled and said after a while: "Look, Lao Tzu is right, the extremes of things will be reversed, the negative pole will be positive, and the opposite will move the Tao. When Confucius sees Lao Tzu, he should respectfully ask him for advice and send him two geese. Why don't you believe in the patriarch and go to believe in the younger brother?"
Zhao Guogang smiled and did not argue with Yuan Yuan.
The two lined up at the cash register.
Zhao Guogang: "I'll come."
Yuan Yuan: "Well, come on, I'm not married anyway, Confucius said I'm not human."
Zhao Guogang just bought the order, came out with the child in one hand and snacks in the other, and said far away, "Let's go."
Zhao Guogang said, "Dad will take you home."
Yuan Yuan said, "I know the way myself."
Yuan Yuan stopped a taxi and got in the car to go back.
His summer vacation was very boring. When Tan Ruikang came back in mid-July, he still watched TV and chatted with him. He talked less far away. He lay down and read books in silence for a long time. Call up.
"Xiaoyuan, don't you contact Qingqing?" Tan Ruikang said.
"Break up." Yuan Yuan said, "I plan to rent a house next semester and move out by myself."
Tan Ruikang: "Break up?! Why didn't you tell me?"
Yuan Yuan smiled and said, "She went to the Zhuhai campus, and I don't think I like her very much. Unlike you, the relationship is always good, so we parted."
Tan Ruikang said: "She... did you do anything to other girls? What did she say when they broke up?"
Yuan Yuan smiled and said, "She said, 'Oh, bye, come out and play together when you have time'."
Tan Ruikang: "..."
Yuan Yuan said: "We haven't opened a room before, don't worry."
Tan Ruikang nodded and said, "That's good, keep yourself clean."
Yuan Yuan hummed and said, "I have always been very clean."
This is the end of the story about Yuan Yuan's love. A few days later, Tan Ruikang said, "Xiao Yuan, how about we go out and rent a house together next semester?"
Yuan Yuan said: "Forget it, Qingqing and I are reconciled, we don't need anyone to accompany us."
Tan Ruikang: "reconciled again?"
Yuan Yuan: "Yes, she misses me again. I think I still like her, so I made up."
Tan Ruikang: "..."
"Okay." Tan Ruikang lost his temper.
A few days later, Tan Ruikang said, "You guys are reconciled, don't you... Can you make a phone call to chat?"
Yuan Yuan: "Oh, I think we still don't fit, so we broke up again."
Tan Ruikang: "Are you kidding me! Is it fun to toss with my concerns?"
Yuan Yuan laughed, looked at Tan Ruikang from behind a book, and sighed after a long time.
"Don't worry about it." Yuan Yuan said: "You have to take care of everything, since you came to my house, you have taken care of me in everything..."
Tan Ruikang: "..."
Yuan Yuan said: "I'm not saying this is bad, brother, I love you very much, but you are like this... How do I grow up? Can you give me some independent space? I also have my own life."
Tan Ruikang was quiet for a long time, and then said, "Brother, you have grown up, and you have changed a lot in the past few years."
Yuan Yuan didn't answer and continued to read his book. Two hours later, Tan Ruikang asked, "Brother, what are you reading?"
"The book of Jimmy." Yuan Yuan said, ""Photobook", look at it, it's very beautiful."
Tan Ruikang got up, threw the book to him, and went back to take a nap.
Far away, he may no longer need Tan Ruikang to teach him tutoring in this life. He already knows how to study by himself. Tan Ruikang has passed CET 4 but not CET 6. Lin Xi will accompany him to review English when he comes back from summer vacation. She lives in a classmate in Shenzhen. Home, from time to time come to play at a distant home.
He plans to rent a house on Changzhou Island after returning to Guangzhou, spend the last year there, and then leave Guangdong Province to find a city in the north to live and work, leave here completely, and start a new life.
In August, Tan Ruikang came back from buying vegetables, washed his hands and prepared to cook, Lin Xi chose vegetables on the dining table, came out of the room far away, and said, "Dad."
Tan Ruikang stood in the kitchen and replied, "Say."
Lin Xi laughed, and Yuan Yuan could not laugh or cry, realizing that he was calling it wrong. He called Tan Ruikang in the kitchen as a father all day long. It was purely a habit.
"Grandma, who do you like." Lin Xi gestured to the super girl voice on TV watching far away: "Someone has a nosebleed again."
Yuan Yuan has always been called this exclusive title by Lin Xi, and he doesn't mind anymore, saying: "Every time this is done by the host like a disability rating conference... I think Zhou Bichang is good."
"She's from Shenzhen. It's said to be from Xinghai next door." Lin Xi smiled and said, "Have you seen her when you were selling milk tea? Do you also wear black-rimmed glasses?"
"I seem to have seen her." Yuan Yuan looked at Zhou Bichang and his opponent PK on stage, and said, "But she shouldn't be from our South Campus... Let me see?"
"Sing if you want... sing loud..."
"Who do you support?" Yuan Yuan asked.
"Jiangying Zhang." Lin Xi smiled, "Her English songs are very good."
"I think her arm is thick..." Yuan Yuan said, Lin Xi smiled and raised her arm to show him, "It's as thick as mine."
"What's the matter?" Tan Ruikang laughed in the kitchen: "Xiaoyuan, what did you just tell me?"
Yuan Yuan said straight to the point: "Oh yes, how much money do we have
Tan Ruikang said, "what's the matter? What do you want to buy?"
Yuan Yuan said: "How many, you say first."
Tan Ruikang frowned and said, "First say what you want to buy."
Lin Xi got up and went to the balcony to collect the clothes, and said far away, "Tell me how many you have first."
Tan Ruikang came out of the kitchen, sat at the table, and said, "There are two hundred thousand."
Yuan Yuan said: "Give me ten thousand."
Tan Ruikang said: "It's okay to give it to you, but you have to make it clear first what you want to use it for."
Yuan Yuan said, "Didn't you say before about stock trading that I will manage the money in the future? I can manage the money for you now."
Tan Ruikang said with a smile: "How can I have my own money? It's all your money. I haven't moved a penny left by my aunt. I'll transfer it to you in the afternoon. Can I make money?"
Yuan Yuan said: "You care so much. If you can't make money, won't you give it to me?"
Tan Ruikang didn't say anything, and replied: "Well, you have the final say, I will transfer it to you in the afternoon."
I went out to open a new account, transfer money, transfer 10,000 yuan to a new card, and do a third-party custody.
He opened the stock account, made a big wisdom, his breath trembled slightly, he placed an order first, and chose a stock that Zhao Guogang liked a long time ago, and bought a hundred shares.
"Xiaoyuan still trades stocks." Lin Xi smiled.
Tan Ruikang said outside: "He is very powerful."
Yuan Yuan said, "You haven't seen me before and you know I'm amazing. Do you want to teach you?"
Lin Xi said, "You say, I will learn."
Yuan Yuan slowly taught her to look at fundamentals, price-earnings ratio, etc. After talking for a long time, he finally said: "Actually, I can't speculate. Those who really know how to speculate can make money in the bear market. I just watched my dad buy stocks when I was a child, and I was curious to follow it. Learn. Only when everyone is making money, can we, half-understood rookies, follow suit."
Lin Xi smiled and said, "When I went back from the summer vacation, my mother, my aunt, my uncle, and the others were all saying that it was a miserable loss."
Yuan Yuan replied, "Yes, did your mother buy it before?"
Lin Xi smiled and said, "No, she was bullied by others, saying that it's a low point. What stocks are you buying, can I tell her for her to take a look at?"
Yuan Yuan nodded and said, "Even my dad lost it. It's really a low point, but a low point doesn't necessarily mean that you can make money. Let's take a look. Don't tell her now, wait until I find out what's going on."
"How much did my uncle lose?" Tan Ruikang asked.
Yuan Yuan said: "A few million."
Lin Xi and Tan Ruikang were both startled, and the sound of a shovel falling to the ground came from the kitchen. After looking at it for a while in the distance, he said, "Okay, leave it for now, and look at it in a few days."
So don't care.
The summer vacation is over, the stock market is still half-dead, and everyone is starting to look for a rainy day. He went to the living area of Changzhou Island far away, and the house he rented with Tan Ruikang was still there when he was a freshman. He went to the property and asked the owner's phone number. The landlord is a Hong Konger. The last tenant just left for the summer vacation, and he rented it out of the distance without a word.
The house is a mess, and I don’t know how many people have lived there. The windowsill is thick with dust. I bought an air conditioner in the far distance, cleaned the room, put all the beds on it, and changed everything that can be replaced. I sat at home and started to sit in a daze. .
The birthday present that Yuan Yuan gave to Tan Ruikang this year was a pair of white gold wedding rings of his own design.
"What are you giving me this for!" Tan Ruikang was dumbfounded.
Yuan Yuan said: "Take it, you can get married after graduation. For the sake of the ring, don't waste it. I designed it."
Lin Xi occasionally came over to help Yuan Yuan water the flowers, three people, each with a key.
Yuan Yuan sometimes feels that this is also good. His feelings for Tan Ruikang are much weaker. Too strong and too bland are not a good thing. It is best to maintain a middle state, so that neither hurts others nor hurts himself. Lin Xi has done her best. She takes care of Yuanyuan almost meticulously. Every time she buys something for Tan Ruikang, she will buy an identical copy for him.
Far away can hardly tell whether she is in love with herself or with Tan Ruikang.
She is like a dutiful big sister, gentle and tolerant, Tan Ruikang is like a father and Lin Xi is like a mother.
On November 20, Yuan Yuan was in a daze at home. The time he spent with Tan Ruikang and Lin Xi gradually decreased, so little that he felt a little sorry for himself, but they still came to see him as always, and Lin Xi would clean his room. , pack up the curtains and take them back to their dormitory to wash.