Ding Ji didn't know how Lin Wuyu would feel when he heard the name.
When he heard the word "Lin Zhan" on the phone, he felt out of breath for a while, his hands were shaking a little, he stood on the balance bike and swayed twice, almost fell, and he held the shelf with his hand. fall.
"Be careful," a staff member gave him a look, "if you can't stand still, get down."
"I'm sorry," Ding Ji didn't care about buying water anymore, so he leaned forward, quickly passed through the shelves, left the supermarket, stopped at an empty wall in the corner, and then confirmed it again, " Are you Lin Zhan?"
"What's your relationship with Lin Wuyu?" Lin Zhan didn't answer, "A classmate or a friend?"
"Friend," Ding Ji said, "I don't belong to the same school as him."
"Which school is he?" Lin Zhan asked immediately.
Ding Ji paused: "Affiliated middle school, he belongs to the middle school..."
"Why is he looking for me?" Lin Zhan didn't wait for him to finish, and then asked again.
"I don't know what to say, you should ask him," Ding Ji said, "but your parents asked him to find you this time."
"Yeah." There was just a simple answer.
Ding Ji felt that his palms were all sweaty. Looking for Lin Zhan was like looking for a ginseng doll in the forest. If he saw any traces, he had to be careful, for fear that he would run away if disturbed.
He is now afraid that he will say something wrong and make Lin Zhan no longer appear.
"What did you just say that Lin Wuyu is in the attached middle school?" Lin Zhan returned to the previous question.
"Study God." Ding Ji said.
"Really." Lin Zhan said.
Ding Ji heard him give a low laugh, so he hurriedly took the opportunity to add: "He is the No. 1 national champion in the college entrance examination this year, with a score of 732."
"So powerful." Lin Zhan said.
"I'll give you his number," Ding Ji said, "you give him a call..."
"No first." Lin Zhan rejected him outright.
Ding Ji was stunned, not knowing what to say for a few seconds.
He didn't know if it was because he said something inappropriate that would make Lin Zhan, who took the initiative to call, refuse to communicate directly with Lin Wuyu.
"Thank you." Lin Zhan said again.
Ding Ji became anxious when he heard this sentence, is he going to hang up
"Wait a minute, wait a minute..." He said in a series, "If you don't contact Lin Wuyu, why are you calling? Do you know the current situation of your family? You know what happened to Lin Wuyu because of your life. Days! You haven't seen him in ten years, and you don't want to know him..."
"I don't like to make phone calls." Lin Zhan said.
"Then why are you calling me!" Ding Ji was angry.
Lin Zhan's tone was very calm: "Am I still going to interview you?"
Ding Ji opened his mouth and said nothing.
"I know where Lin Wuyu lives now." Lin Zhan said.
"How did you know?" Ding Ji suddenly became nervous, "Did you follow him?"
"No," Lin Zhan said, "I thought you were following me."
"Then is this number yours?" Ding Ji asked, "Can I tell Lin Wuyu your phone number?"
"Yes." Lin Zhan said.
But it may not be accepted, Ding Ji judged.
"I'll find him after I think about it," Lin Zhan said, "thank you."
Before Ding Ji could speak again, he had already hung up over there.
Ding Ji was stunned for a few seconds while holding the phone, and then he dialed Lin Wuyu's number tremblingly.
busy.
"Ah—" Ding Ji turned around and immediately sent another message to Lin Wuyu.
He didn't dare to mention Lin Zhan's name, for fear that Lin Wuyu's work would affect his mood.
"Then I don't have to go there tomorrow," Lin Wuyu stood at the door of Shaxian and called, since Ding Ji reminded him that he could go to Shaxian to eat two bites, he would come over and eat two bites every time he came back, "In the end, if the ingredients are not enough I'll do one more run, and I feel like enough is enough."
"I also feel that there are quite a lot of angles," said Sister Ling over there. "Then you can rest first. If the materials are not supplemented, I will pay you the final payment in the past two days."
"Thank you, sister." Lin Wuyu said.
"Are you waiting for food again?" Sister Ling asked.
"Yes." Lin Wuyu smiled.
"Brother Ben said to prepare some snacks for you..." Sister Ling laughed, "Okay, you can go eat, and I'll contact you when I figure it out here."
"Okay." Lin Wuyu responded.
After hanging up, the phone rang again.
It is estimated that it is Lao Lin. He calculated that the notice should be coming soon in the past few days.
He went into the store to get a packaged soup and a box of steamed dumplings, and clicked on the news while walking into the community.
- call me right away
It's Ding Ji.
Lin Wuyu glanced at the time, at four o'clock in the afternoon, what can happen at this time
He dialed Ding Ji's number, and before he heard the bell, he picked it up over there. Ding Ji's voice was a little out of breath: "Lin Wuyu! What are you doing now?"
"Just got back from work," Lin Wuyu was stunned, "what's the matter?"
"I just got a call from Lin Zhan." Ding Ji said.
Lin Wuyu stopped abruptly: "Lin Zhan?"
"Yes, the phone number I left! He called!" Ding Ji's voice increased a lot, and he sounded a little excited, "The mask we saw that day must be him!"
"What did you say?" Lin Wuyu asked.
"I didn't say too much, he just asked what our relationship was and why we were looking for him," Ding Ji said in a series, without giving him a chance to interrupt, "I told him that you are the national champion of the high school attached to God! He was very happy but I said give him your number and he doesn't want to…”
Lin Wuyu felt that his breathing was not smooth, and he couldn't move while standing at the gate of the community.
A car honked its horn behind him, and he reluctantly walked away, entered the gate, and sat down on a broken chair thrown by someone on the side of the road.
"Why didn't he?" he asked, feeling his throat tighten.
"I don't know, he said he doesn't like calling! I'll find you when I think about it. I said can I give you his number. He agreed, but I listened to him, and he may not answer if you call," Ding Jiyu Su chug like a machine gun, "Listen to me, Lin Wuyu, he must live nearby, he must be very close to you!"
"Why?" Lin Wuyu sat up straight.
"He said he knows where you live." Ding Ji said.
"He followed me?" Lin Wuyu looked around subconsciously.
"That's what I asked too, he said no," Ding Ji finally calmed down a bit, "There is one important point, he said, I thought you were following me, think about what this means!"
"He thought I lived here because he found where he lives." Lin Wuyu immediately reacted.
"Yes," Ding Ji said, "except for the subway entrance, we must have met him on the way to the subway entrance from the community, but we didn't find it, but he saw it."
"And it should be after meeting at the subway entrance," Lin Wuyu said, "otherwise he won't have an impression of us."
"That's right, it must be so," Ding Ji said, "How can you still think so neatly at this time?"
"It's alright, but at this time, I don't care about experiencing your flattery." Lin Wuyu said.
"What flattery, I'll slap your ass directly..." Ding Ji stopped halfway, and quickly answered, "I'll send you his phone number."
"No need," Lin Wuyu said, "I won't fight even if I hold it."
"...Okay," Ding Ji said, "don't you like making phone calls too?"
Lin Wuyu smiled: "It's not me who ran."
"Then pay attention to the people around you for a while, maybe you will meet again," Ding Ji said, "maybe he will find you."
"Maybe he has never thought about it," Lin Wuyu said, "don't care, just do whatever."
"Do you want to tell your parents?" Ding Ji asked.
"No," Lin Wuyu thought for a while, "Let's talk about it when he thinks about it, did you tell him about my mother's illness?"
"No, he didn't talk about the phone call for two minutes," Ding Ji said. "He only asked you which school you were in and why you were looking for him, without mentioning your parents."
"Got it," Lin Wuyu stood up, "Ding Ji."
"Huh?" Ding Ji responded.
"Thank you." Lin Wuyu said.
"Thank you for what?" Ding Ji asked.
"Thank you for putting your number in." Lin Wuyu said.
"What's there to be thankful for," Ding Ji tutted, "By the way, in case, right?"
"Well." Lin Wuyu nodded.
He will give up a lot of things, whether it's self-protection, or it doesn't make sense, or even habitually not holding too much hope for certain things, he just wants to deal with the things he can fully grasp to the maximum extent. Ding Ji is different, except for the title of little prodigy, he doesn't seem to give up anything.
What a cute chick.
I want to slap someone's ass.
I don't know what to think...
Lin Wuyu didn't sleep soundly all night, because he couldn't sleep soundly, so he would be hungry. When he woke up from hunger for the third time, he glanced at the time, it was half past three in the middle of the night.
He sat up, turned on his phone, and tried to look at it, and found that several takeaways were still open. He ordered two burgers, two pairs of chicken wings, and a cup of lemon tea.
It took half an hour for the takeaway to arrive. He got up and went to the living room to get a lollipop.
This thing is not very hungry, but it can deceive.
He sat on the sofa with a lollipop on the tip of his tongue, wrapped it around, pointed the stick to the right, wrapped it, and pointed the stick to the left, but he was not as flexible as Ding Ji, after all, he had practiced for more than ten years.
The stomach growled.
He sighed, opened his Moments, and looked around, trying to distract himself.
But I saw that the latest circle of friends was just posted by Ding Ji.
- Get up, yawn and go back to sleep
After he finished laughing, he couldn't help but glanced at the time on his phone again, making sure it was half past three.
His fingers had already landed on the screen, and he opened Ding Ji's dialog box, but in the end he withdrew and put the phone aside.
By now Ding Ji should have finished yawning and was ready to go back to sleep.
Even if you haven't slept, it's not appropriate to send a message now.
When Ding Ji accidentally slapped his butt, he felt Ding Ji's embarrassment before he had time to be embarrassed.
It's better to control things like chatting late at night.
Even if he really wants to find someone to talk to now.
No, he really wants to chat with Ding Ji right now.
Fortunately, the delivery boy saved him from the fire and called him more than ten minutes in advance.
"Can you come downstairs to get food?" the little brother asked.
"There is an elevator, you don't have to climb the stairs, just take the elevator up." Lin Wuyu said.
"Can I put it in the elevator and you can call the elevator up?" the little brother asked again, "I'm afraid it's not safe."
"Who are you afraid of being unsafe?" Lin Wuyu let him say stunned.
"Me." said the little brother.
"...Okay," Lin Wuyu reluctantly stood up and went out the door, seeing the elevator on the first floor, "put it in the elevator, I warn you, don't follow people in, if you come up, I will immediately robbery."
The little brother laughed: "I'm sorry."
"It's hard work." Lin Wuyu pressed the elevator.
In the middle of the night, the empty elevator slowly came up, stopped, opened, and there was a pocket of hamburgers...
Lin Wuyu stared at the elevator door, not knowing why he had the illusion that when the elevator door opened, Lin Zhan might be standing inside.
The elevator door opened.
There was only a pocket of hamburgers inside.
He sighed, picked up the hamburger and went back into the house.
In the next two or three days, Lin Wuyu felt a little uneasy. Ding Ji felt even more uneasy than him. He called several times a day and asked Lin Zhan if he had contacted him.
"No." Lin Wuyu answered the same every time, but he could feel that the same answer slowly brought some emotions.
was disappointed.
He hoped to find Lin Zhan, and hoped that Lin Zhan could come to him.
Even when entering and leaving the community every day, he would look around very carefully, hoping that if he glanced over, he would suddenly see Lin Zhan.
But for three days, Lin Zhan still has no news.
"Why don't you just call and ask," Ding Ji said, "I'll call, I'll ask him what it means, if you think about it, don't fucking harass people, just throw the phone over and talk about it. It's not chasing girls who stop playing hard-to-get."
Lin Wuyu let him have fun, and when he laughed, he felt suddenly relieved.
"The notice is coming soon," he changed the subject. "Which one of our notices will arrive first?"
"Mine," Ding Ji said, "when receiving the award, the third place goes up first."
"When you receive it, remember to take a video for me to see," Lin Wuyu said, "I have to wait for Lao Lin to send me the notice before I can see it."
"I'll take it for you," Ding Ji said, "and then just bring it over."
"Aren't you afraid that I will trouble you if you lose it?" Lin Wuyu asked.
"I have to lose it," Ding Ji said. "Can I lose it casually? I'm not Liu Jinpeng."
Lin Wuyu couldn't help laughing and said, "No, the name Liu Jinpeng is very used in your family. Anyone who wants to say anything has to take Pengpeng out to cover it."
"The usage rate of Little Immortals is also very high now," Ding Ji said with a smile, "When my grandma is bragging about you, the bragging capital will become stronger."
"Let grandma come over for National Day," Lin Wuyu said, "I'll take her to play for a few days."
"I think so too, my aunt also wants to go," Ding Ji said, "Let's have a look then..."
Lin Wuyu was pondering where he could go by then, when he suddenly heard a "ding dong" sound, he was stunned: "What sound?"
Then there was another sound.
Ding dong.
"Your doorbell!" Ding Ji responded, "Someone rang the doorbell!"
Lin Wuyu stood up abruptly.
"Maybe it's Lin Zhan?" Ding Ji said over there, "There's a cat's eye on your door, go and have a look."
"Yeah." Lin Wuyu walked quickly to the door, walking very lightly without making a sound.
Leaning over to the cat's eye to look outside.
A young man stood outside the door.
Wearing a baseball cap, half of his face is covered, only the tip of his nose and mouth can be seen.
Lin Wuyu's breathing was a little out of rhythm. He lowered his voice to the phone: "It seems to be him."
"It seems?" Ding Ji was a little puzzled, "Lin Zhan shouldn't have changed, right? Can't you recognize it?"
"I can't see clearly," Lin Wuyu said softly, "he's wearing a hat..."
As if hearing him speak, the person outside the door suddenly raised his hand, took off his hat, put his hand to the side of the cat's eye, and came over: "Lin Wuyu, open the door."
Lin Wuyu quickly pressed his hand on the cat's eye: "It's him."
"Open the door!" Ding Ji was very anxious.
"Well," Lin Wuyu responded, "I'll call you later."
"Okay." Ding Ji said.
Lin Wuyu hung up the phone, took a deep breath, and opened the door.
The person standing outside the door was much clearer than what he could see from the cat's eyes.
This face hasn't changed much, and he can still recall his distant memories in an instant, and it can overlap with the face that he has deliberately no longer remembered in an instant.
After a short and long silence, Lin Zhan spoke first: "You're nothing like when you were a kid."
"You're still... the same," Lin Wuyu hesitated for a while and stepped aside, "Come in?"
Lin Zhan didn't say anything and walked into the room.
Lin Wuyu closed the door and stood beside the coffee table.
I don't know what to say, and I can't even correctly judge my mood at this moment. My brain seems to be emptied, and the only information I can read and write is the current one.
After a while, he walked to the water dispenser, picked up the cup and took a glass of water: "I wanted to call you..."
"I know you can't fight, that's how you were when you were young," Lin Zhan walked to the window and looked outside, then pointed to the front, "I live there."
"What?" Lin Wuyu was stunned.
"I can see you with a telescope," Lin Zhan said. "Draw the curtains at night, who knows if there are other perverts."
Lin Wuyu glanced at him: "Others?"
"Well, take a peek at my brother with a binoculars," Lin Zhan said, "it feels quite perverted."
Lin Wuyu didn't speak, and looked in the direction, not knowing what Lin Zhan was talking about.
Lin Zhan didn't introduce him any more, just looked out the window silently.
Lin Wuyu looked at his profile in the corner of his eye.
It's not exactly the same as his childhood memories. Most of Lin Zhan's faces in his memories are from the angle he looked up at.
And now, he is half a head taller than Lin Zhan.
"The kid who came with you last time, Ding Ji," Lin Zhan said, "says you are the national champion in the national college entrance examination this year."
"Well." Lin Wuyu suddenly felt a little embarrassed.
In front of anyone, he will not feel embarrassed because of this champion. He has nothing to be ashamed of. He is the champion, and he has this confidence.
But this person is Lin Zhan.
This person is "your brother".
This is the root cause of his constant denial and neglect since the day he had memories...
It was a memory that he locked into a corner and did not want to recall it, but it was also the only affection he had ever felt and relied on.
"Actually," Lin Zhan turned to look at him, "not very surprised."
"Huh?" Lin Wuyu looked at him.
"You've been very smart since you were a child," Lin Zhan said. "You're very smart. I told them both that you are a genius."
Lin Wuyu smiled.
Lin Zhan tilted his head and looked at him for a while, then stretched out his arms to hug him, and said softly, "I'm sorry, Xiaoyu."