Out of the Civil Affairs Bureau.
Lin Luxiao drove to the suburban drug rehabilitation center to pick up Lin Qi. There were no cars along the road, and the trees on both sides were rushing. A song, "Ordinary Road" was playing on repeat in the car.
Nan Chu sat on the co-pilot, lowered his head and squeezed the red book in his hand. He still felt that everything was like a dream. The two of them were still arguing a few days ago.
Lin Luxiao was driving the car seriously. Seeing her in a daze, he turned his head and glanced at her. Compared with Nan Chu, he was calmer.
Receive the certificate calmly.
Didn't look that excited either.
"Open the box in front of you." Lin Luxiao said without emotion, looking ahead.
Nan Chu lowered his head to touch the handrail in front of the position, "This?"
He glanced and nodded.
Nan Chu pushed it away, and there was a small box with a square shape inside.
"take it out."
Nan Chu obediently followed suit, squeezed the boxy thing in his hands, and realized that it should be a pair of rings, before he could say anything, he opened it happily, couldn't wait to put it on, and stretched out his slender hands to look left and right.
The style is quite simple, compared to her previous ones, maybe this one is more ordinary, but it always looks different to her, looking up for a long time, she feels that this ring is perfect for her, as if it was originally on her body .
Nan Chu smiled and said, "How do you know the size of my finger?"
Lin Luxiao controlled the steering wheel without turning his head, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "I don't know what's on you?"
The vehicle is driving alone on the driveway, lengthening the memory of the years.
Nan Chu remembered that when he had just issued the marriage report, Lin Luxiao liked to play with her fingers whenever he had nothing to do. At that time, he wondered if he had any quirks, such as controlling his hands like himself.
At that time, I didn't think about it carefully, I always felt that this person should be controlled by hand, or every time she used her hands, she seemed to be more excited
Thinking about it this way, I'm being wretched.
No one spoke after that.
Lin Luxiao had never talked much, and now that he got married, he wouldn't talk much more than before.
The car soon stopped at the entrance of the drug rehabilitation center.
Lin Qi has a clean and simple stubble, is dressed in black, has a tall and thin figure, and is carrying a small black bag in his hand. His skin glows white under the sun, which is the complete opposite of his brother.
Compared with the gloomy before, people look healthier.
Seeing Lin Luxiao's car, he walked over, bypassed the front of the car and went straight to the co-pilot.
I was dumbfounded when I opened the door.
"Nanchu?"
Nan Chu smiled at him, and then heard Lin Luxiao beside him say indifferently, "You sit in the back."
Lin Qi nodded, "Oh."
When Lin Qi got into the car, Nan Chu looked at him quietly through the rearview mirror. Although he looked much healthier, he was silent, but he looked more transparent.
Until the car stopped at the entrance of the alley, the three of them didn't say a few words.
Lin Luxiao went to park the car. Nan Chu and Lin Qi got off at the intersection. Lin Qicai looked at her and said, "You and my brother?"
Nan Chu shook the red book in his hand: "I just got the certificate."
Lin Qi's jaw was about to drop.
It wasn't until Lin Luxiao came from behind and slapped him on the back of the head that he realized that it wasn't a dream.
"gone."
After finishing speaking, I went to the depths of the alley.
The alleys are marked with the old traces of the years, passing through the window grilles, and the long river of time can be seen in the eyes.
In the Hutong courtyard, there is a bronze gate engraved with the traces of childhood. This is the first time Nanchu has come here. I heard that all the authentic old Beixun people live here, and they retain the old Beixun Hutong culture.
Nan Yueru's ancestral home was in Changnan, and later became famous and settled in Beixun for a long time, and then stayed abroad all year round.
This is where Lin Luxiao grew up.
This made Nanchu very curious to explore everything, trying to find some traces of him.
When the three of them entered, Lin Qingyuan was playing chess with his old friend, and Secretary Zhang arranged a table of food inside.
"dad."
I don't know who called first.
Lin Qingyuan's Luozi's hand stopped in the air, and he followed the reputation. When he saw Lin Qi, his face still sank unconsciously, and he turned his head to look at Nan Chu, and he relaxed a little.
"come in."
However, the moment Nan Chu saw Lin Qingyuan, some things gradually became clear in her mind. She seemed to have seen him before, but she forgot where she had seen him, and she couldn't remember it after thinking about it for a long time.
Instead, Lin Qingyuan spoke first, "Little girl, have you forgotten me?"
Memories from her childhood flooded in, and she said in surprise, "You are Uncle Lin?!"
Lin Qingyuan smiled: "You're still called Uncle Lin?"
Nan Chu bowed his head in embarrassment, and said in a low voice, "Dad."
She had never called her father before, and she was startled when she kept shouting, probably because the wording was too unfamiliar, and she felt a little awkward all of a sudden. Lin Qingyuan knew it all too well, and let out a low laugh to hide her embarrassment.
Then, he patted the chair beside him, "Come and sit for a while."
Nan Chu glanced at Lin Luxiao who was beside him, and the latter said, "Go and sit for a while, I'll go to the kitchen and have dinner later."
Nan Chu nodded obediently.
She obeyed Lin Luxiao's words, which made Lin Qingyuan feel that the girl was too obedient. It was the first time he had met Nan Chu. When he was a child, the girl was not good at speaking, she pretended to be old, and she was not at all lively and innocent like a girl of that age.
This is also the reason why he disagreed at first, girls are too gloomy and prone to extremes, although beautiful is beautiful, but life is definitely not comfortable.
But after all it is...
Later, when he thought about it, if Lin Luxiao really liked her that much, he wouldn't bother.
Nan Chu sat down and heard Lin Qingyuan ask, "Is your mother okay?"
"fine."
Lin Qingyuan looked at the girl from the side, he was so obedient, he shook his head with a smile, "You didn't tell your mother about Lu Xiao, did you?"
Nan Chu bowed his head, not wanting to hide it from him, so he hummed.
After all, Lin Qingyuan is also an old fox, with a heart like a mirror, nodded, continued to play chess with the opponent without changing his expression, but said to Nan Chu: "When will you help me invite your mother to dinner?"
Nan Chu: "Okay."
"When will Lu Xiao leave?"
"Night train."
The old man nodded, "Lushan is a place to train people, I heard you went up to find him?"
"I went there a year ago."
One old and one young, sitting together and chatting softly, outside is dusk, green branches withered, the picture is quite harmonious.
Lin Luxiao took off his coat and threw it on the sofa, then went into the kitchen to find Secretary Zhang.
Secretary Zhang joked a few words with a smile: "This is married, people will look different."
Lin Luxiao leaned against the door frame with folded arms, lowered his head and smiled, "You think too much."
There was a fish stuffed in the pot, and the hot air was simmering on the pot cover.
Secretary Zhang took a spoonful of soy sauce and said, "How much time has passed. The director just told me yesterday. I always remember that you are still half a child, and you will have a daughter-in-law in a blink of an eye. Hurry up, strike while the iron is hot, and add a baby. While the director is still healthy, I can help you hug the child."
Lin Luxiao shook his head and smiled helplessly.
"When I was young, you urged me and Lin Qi to study hard, take college entrance examinations, and go to the military academy. You urged me to find a girlfriend quickly. I won't look for it. When it's over, you urged me to find a job and work. , you are urging me to get married, and now, after getting married, you are urging me to have a baby. You have been urging me all the way, let me take it easy?"
Secretary Zhang shoveled at him, "You'll be a good boy if you get a bargain!"
In fact, even though he had just obtained the certificate, he and Nan Chu had been separated for a year, and they were both strangers to each other. Although they were trying their best to cooperate with each other's habits, they could still feel that they were like Two broken boards, tried hard to put together, but because of years of polishing, no matter how they glued together, there was always a corner missing, and a piece was missing, and it was no longer the tight-fitting board before.
Just like yesterday.
Halfway through the phone call, neither of them knew what to say. They held the phone in a daze for so long and no one spoke, and finally hung up in a hurry.
Another example is just now in the car.
He was driving, and Nan Chu lowered his head to play with his mobile phone.
The two of them went to scoop up the water on the glove box without even looking at the same time. There were two bottles of water, but both of them reached for the same bottle, and their hands happened to touch each other.
Both of them subconsciously lowered their heads to look at it. They were silent for a moment, and then retracted their hands at the same time in the next second.
The atmosphere was once awkward.
This is not a newcomer who has just received a certificate. The two of them did more extraordinary things than this when they were not in love.
But it just feels strange.
This is left over from this year, and this kind of estrangement cannot be eliminated in a short time.
Both parties are trying their best to cooperate with each other, trying to prove that nothing has changed, but they both know in their hearts that the feeling is futile, like quicksand at the fingertips, which cannot be grasped.
All he can do now is to comply with all her demands.
As for the child, even if she is pregnant now, and he is not around, no matter how she considers it, it is inappropriate.
Lin Qingyuan was really happy tonight, both sons were there, and with his beautiful daughter-in-law, it was rare for Secretary Zhang to stay for dinner.
Picking up the chopsticks and adding the dishes, the words added a little bit of jealousy: "It's still you guys who have a lot of face, no matter how much I keep him, Secretary Zhang refuses to stay with me for dinner. It's rare that you can leave your son to eat with us today , It’s true that my old face is still in your favor.”
Secretary Zhang smiled, "Where did you say, my son is hard to control, how could Lu Xiao and the others be obedient when they were young, and they went to the house to expose the tiles without looking at them for a day."
During the banquet, it was fun to chat and make trouble.
Nan Chu was also amused, and couldn't help but put a piece of fish into her husband's bowl, "Eat more?"
Lin Luxiao ate the chopsticks for the meal.
Lin Qingyuan and Secretary Zhang glanced at each other, and the atmosphere was quiet for a moment. Lin Qi blurted out: "Sister-in-law, my brother doesn't eat fish..."
Nan Chu was stunned, the pictures from the past flooded out one after another, but she couldn't remember whether he ate fish or not, the two of them spent little time together, and every time they went out to eat, Lin Luxiao ordered her all love to eat.
She only remembered that he didn't seem to be picky about food.
It turned out that he didn't eat fish.
Well, I made a note of it.
Just as Nan Chu was about to stretch out his chopsticks to pick up the piece of white fish and eat it by himself, Lin Luxiao stuffed it into his mouth and said calmly, "Don't listen to his nonsense."
Lin Qi: ...
Lin Qingyuan coughed dryly, and glanced at Secretary Zhang, who also smiled, looking back and forth - tsk tsk tsk, you have changed your problems that have not been corrected for decades.
Don't mention fish when I was young, but Lin Luxiao basically wouldn't touch anything that smelled fishy.
I have been beaten and beaten, and I have been hungry and hungry, but I am very stubborn, and I will not eat if I don’t eat.
Lin Qingyuan let out a long sigh.
It was eight o'clock in the evening after dinner.
Lin Luxiao came out of the kitchen after washing the dishes, and went to pick up the coat on the sofa. Secretary Zhang came from the other side, and he asked casually, almost blurting out: "Where is my wife?"
Secretary Zhang pointed to the study room, "I'm chatting with the director inside."
Lin Luxiao looked back at the closed door, turned around and went to the door to smoke.
When Nan Chu came out, he just finished smoking one, bent over and twirled it into the flower bed beside him, "Are you done chatting?"
Nan Chu nodded, and walked behind him, her tall back reflected her petite body, which fit her very well.
He lowered his head and glanced at Nan Chu's white and tender slender wrist with an extra ring of emerald green bracelet, knowing it well, he didn't ask what to talk about, and went directly to drive, "Let's go, I have to go to take you home."
…
The car drove to Nanchu downstairs.
Nan Chu was not in a hurry to get out of the car, unfastened his seat belt, sat for a while, and said, "I haven't paid the final payment for my house. It's a simple decoration, and there are still some furniture. I can move in after buying it. When will you go on vacation next time?" , I'll wait for you to come back and buy together?"
Lin Luxiao lowered the car window and lit a cigarette, "You decide, my vacation is hard to decide, your house is about to expire, don't delay." After finishing speaking, he dusted off the cigarette ash, and took out his key from the box , "I'm newly married, if it's really not possible, you go to live in my place first, everything inside is open."
Nan Chu took it and felt that the key was hot.
"Well, can I make a phone call over there?"
Lin Luxiao glanced at her, "I'll call you when I'm not too busy."
"Okay. I'll wait for your call."
She lowered her head, thinking about a lot of things to explain on the road, but couldn't think of them all at once.
Seeing her silence, Lin Luxiao said again: "If you want something, you can go to my dad or Secretary Shen Mu, Liu Zhang, and I have explained everything."
Not a confession.
Before leaving, he visited Shen Mu and Da Liu, and told them about their marriage.
The two probably haven't recovered yet.
He leaned on the seat, with one hand idly on his lap, the other hand hanging out of the window, with a cigarette between his fingertips, and he put it next to his mouth to take a puff from time to time, looking lazy.
"Is there anything else you want to say?"
Nan Chu shook his head, always feeling empty in his heart, obviously the two of them were in love, but felt that there was not enough energy left.
Lin Luxiao turned his head inadvertently and found that she was staring at him.
The moonlight lightly sprinkles the ashes behind, the shadows of the trees are heavy, and the wind is like dancing.
With a thought.
He pinched the cigarette, stretched out his long hand to grab the back of her head, and leaned over to press her on the co-pilot for a kiss.
Nan Chu panted softly, Lin Luxiao breathed hot air in her ears, kissed her all the way from the base of her ear to her neck, supported her face with one hand, pressed her thumb on her cheek, and pierced her four fingers into it. her hair.
For such a long time, the one thing that hasn't changed is his kiss.
It seemed to crush her violently.