chasing deer

The next day, Lin Shen took Xiaoxi to go shopping and bought him various food and clothing items. He bought seven or eight pieces of clothes alone, all of which were brand names. He spent more than 1 yuan and transferred them to his bank card. The 5000 yuan was just money, and Xiaoxi was happy to call Lin Shen his father.

After the two finished shopping, Lin Shen took him back to the school dormitory to pick up his luggage, and then sent him to the coach station. He made an appointment to meet on the fifth day of the new year, and Xiao Xi took the bus back to his hometown and left.

After seeing Xiaoxi off, Lin Shen was about to drive back to the apartment on Xinhua Road. Just as he started the car, the cell phone in his bag rang.

"Hey, Mom, what's the matter?" Lin Shen asked.

Mother Lin said on the phone: "Xiao Shen, what are you doing? Are you busy today?"

"Not busy." Lin Shen replied, "I sent Xiaoxi to the coach station just now, and he is going back to his hometown today."

"Xiaoxi?" Mother Lin asked suspiciously, "Who is Xiaoxi?"

Lin Shen said casually: "My partner, have you forgotten? Didn't I tell you before?"

Mother Lin: "..."

There was no sound on the phone, so Lin Shen asked, "Mom, what do you want from me?"

"Oh... I just want to ask you, can you come back for dinner tonight?" Mother Lin came back to her senses and said softly, "You haven't been back for two weeks, and Mom misses you a little."

Lin Shen now lives alone in an apartment on Xinhua Road. He doesn't usually go to his parents' place. First, he can't stand his mother's nagging. Second, it's the most important thing. He doesn't want to see his father's picky attitude towards him. As soon as he heard his mother's words, he wanted to excuse himself because he was too tired to refuse, but the last sentence that "Mom misses you a little bit" immediately touched the softness deep in his heart.

"Okay, then I'll be there at 5 o'clock." Lin Shen said.

"Okay, okay, then mom will make your favorite braised pork ribs today." Mother Lin said happily.

Hearing the braised pork ribs, Lin Shen instantly remembered the time when he and Yao Lu had lunch in the school cafeteria.At that time, I thought he was too thin and didn’t like to eat meat, so I bought two servings of braised pork ribs every time, and gave him another one forcefully, and then sat across from him, secretly admiring the way he ate ribs, and Gentle and well-behaved, extremely cute.

Thinking of this, Lin Shen became hardened. He rubbed his face vigorously, and said perfunctorily, "Okay, that's fine. I have nothing else to do and I'll hang up first."

Lin's mother said yes, and told him to drive carefully, and then hung up the phone. Lin Shen threw the phone aside, leaned on the back of the chair and sighed, stared at the windshield numbly, and went back to his home after the reaction subsided. After resting, in the evening, I drove to my parents' home in a suburban villa.

As soon as she entered the door, Mother Lin greeted her immediately, and said with a smile, "Xiao Shen, are you back? The meal will be ready soon, let's sit in the living room for a while."

"My dad is here?" Lin Shen asked.

"The study is upstairs." Mother Lin replied.

Lin Shen changed his shoes and went into the house, sat on the sofa in the living room, picked up the remote control to change channels in boredom, and finally stopped on the children's channel, where "SpongeBob SquarePants" was playing, he threw the remote control aside, and picked up the TV on the coffee table. Peanuts, while eating with hands, while bored watching the square sponge on TV.

After a while, Lin's father came down from upstairs, walked to the sofa and sat down, Lin Shen immediately said: "Dad!"

Father Lin nodded and said, "Are you back?"

Lin Shen: "Yes."

After the two exchanged polite and distant greetings, they each fell silent, and the atmosphere was extremely cold.

Father Lin sat on the sofa and read the newspaper. He glanced at the TV from time to time. After watching for a long time, he couldn't understand. He saw a pointed head and a cube that looked like cheese. So I glanced at Lin Shen and found that he was staring at the TV screen, laughing happily.

Father Lin: "..."

After hesitating for a moment, Father Lin coughed, and then asked, "Is your work closed now? Have all the workers left?"

"Well, it stopped last month." Lin Shen looked at the TV and said casually: "It's too cold, and the workers have gone home for the New Year."

Father Lin asked again, "When will work start?"

Lin Shen replied: "It will be March."

"Have all the workers' wages been paid?" Lin's father said, "Don't engage in the arrears of wages!"

Hearing this, Lin Shen immediately glanced at him, and said displeasedly, "How could it be! I have to pay the workers' wages first even if I sell everything else! Dad, is that how I behave in your eyes?"

"How do you talk? What is low work!" Father Lin raised his voice and scolded, "I just asked this casually, why do you have to think in a bad way?"

Lin Shen opened his mouth, intending to argue with his father a few more words, but then thought about it and found it boring, so he raised his eyebrows at him, indicating that you don't always miss me like this?Then continue watching TV and ignore it.

After a brief silence, Father Lin continued to ask: "How is the project payment received? How much is owed to you?"

Hearing this, Lin Shen's expression changed, and he replied, "Take half of it back, and keep the other half, saying that you won't be able to give it to me until June." Father Lin hummed, Lin Shen thought for a while, and then Said: "Dad, come back and say hello to Uncle Li for me, and ask him to give me a message, can you pay me the money sooner?"

"So short of money?" Father Lin asked in surprise.

"Well, what do you think." Lin Shen complained: "Bills are being collected everywhere at the end of the year, and the little money that Party A called me was given to me to pay the suppliers, and I paid for the wages of the workers myself! When I start work after the new year, I have to use money everywhere. I borrowed 30 yuan from Xu Ze and haven’t paid it back. If I really have to wait until the end of June, I have to go to the northwest wind!”

Lin's father immediately agreed: "Okay! I will tell Lao Li tomorrow and ask the other end to settle the money for you as soon as possible!" Then he asked: "Are you short of money now? Why don't you start with me and your mother?" How about getting some? Pay back Xu Ze's money first, it's not a problem to be in debt all the time."

"Don't worry about paying it back, Xu Ze doesn't care!" Lin Shen said casually, "Even if I don't pay it back, he won't fart!" He glanced at his father as he spoke, and mocked: "You always disliked him when you were in school. He, don't let me play with him, didn't expect him to open a foreign trade company now, and do it so well? Don't say I owe him 30, even if I owe him 100 million, he doesn't care!"

Father Lin: "..."

Being squeezed by his son in this way, Father Lin couldn't think of any words to refute for a moment, so he could only say that you knew what was in your mind. Lin Shen hummed, turned to watch TV, and stopped talking. Father Lin also had nothing to talk about, so Picking up the newspaper, the two of them each sat in a corner of the sofa, one reading the newspaper expressionlessly, and the other watching TV absent-mindedly.

Mother Lin cooked the meal and greeted the father and son to the table. It was a rare reunion for the family of three. Mother Lin was very happy and was busy helping Lin Shen serve dishes, wishing to give all the delicious food on the table to her son. I had to hold up the bowls piled high and try my best to finish them.

"Xiao Shen, today you said you were going to send Xiaoxi back to your hometown." Mother Lin took a piece of pork ribs to Lin Shen, and asked tentatively, "You... have you changed your partner again?"

Lin Shen replied casually: "No change! It's been more than a year, didn't I tell you before?"

"But I remember, the previous one wasn't, um..." Mother Lin thought for a while, and said, "What is it called Yi?"

Lin Shen put down his chopsticks, and said seriously, "Mom, you misremembered, that one is Cheng Yi, who is my other partner, and this one is Zhu Xiaoxi."

Mother Lin: "..."

Mother Lin groaned, nodded in embarrassment, recalled for a moment, and suddenly said: "I remember, the one you mentioned earlier is called Zhu, Zhu..." He hesitated for a while, and was embarrassed to say Xiaoxi's real name, He said vaguely, "That Xiao Zhu, is this Xiao Xi?"

"Yes! That's him!" Lin Shen said, "Any college student from an art school is a sophomore this year. Xiaoxi is his stage name. Many students in their school give themselves their entire stage name."

"Hehe!" Father Lin sneered a few times, and then mocked: "Now even the students of private universities have the nerve to call themselves college students?"

Lin Shen immediately rolled her eyes, and just about to refute, Lin's mother quickly changed the subject and said, "Xiao Shen, you should go home on the 29th? Don't wait for New Year's Eve, it's too late."

"Yes, yes." Lin Shen agreed.

Mother Lin asked again: "How long will you stay at home? Do you have any plans for the New Year?"

When Lin Shen heard the words, he immediately thought of the incident in the fifth day of the first day, so he replied: "I'm going to the class reunion in the fifth day of the first day, and I'll go back to my place when it's over."

"A class reunion?" Mother Lin was a little surprised, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "Is it a class reunion in No. [-] Middle School?"

"Affiliated high school." Lin Shen said.

Father Lin and Mother Lin: "!!!"

In an instant, the atmosphere at the dinner table dropped to zero, Lin's father and Lin's mother felt awkward, and didn't know what to say for a while, Lin Shen turned a blind eye and continued to eat, and after a long time, Lin's mother cautiously said: "Ah, then you, then you……"

Lin Shen sensed his mother's intentions in an instant, and immediately interrupted: "I don't know if he will go or not!" After a brief pause, he laughed again: "I haven't seen him for more than seven years, and he has long forgotten that I am a child. What's going on, so what if you don't go? Why do you care about this?"

Mother Lin was so embarrassed that she said awkwardly, "No, I didn't want to ask."

The three of them finished their meal in silence. After nightfall, Mother Lin begged Lin Shen to stay overnight, but Lin Shen had no choice but to agree and stay.

Lying on the bed, Lin Shen stared at the ceiling in a daze, thinking that at the dining table just now, the meaning of her mother's question was obvious. She just wanted to know whether Yao Lu would go to the class reunion, and maybe she was still thinking about how to make the two of them build up again. Contact, thinking of this, Lin Shen smiled self-deprecatingly, thinking that it was you who drove people away back then, and now you are the ones who want to reconcile the two, what an irony!

Lin Shen still remembered that on the day his mother broke him, he and Yao Lu were at home, and Yao Lu was giving him a lecture.

Before that, because he helped Yao Lu get ahead, he stabbed Wu Ke and got into a big disaster. As a result, he didn't go to school for a few months. Yao Lu felt guilty, so he brought the copied papers and notes every weekend, and came to his home to make up lessons for him. It was also during that time that they confessed their love to each other.After the winter vacation, Lin Shen went back to school, and his test scores were very satisfactory, while Yao Lu continued to study with him at home.

At that time, as long as the two of them were in the room, Lin Shen would lock the door, but he was careless that day and forgot to lock the door. At that time, Yao Lu was teaching him chemistry papers for more than 2 hours, and he was so tired that his mouth was dry. , he let Yao Lu rest for a while.

"Lu Lu, let's stop talking, let's take a break." Lin Shen rubbed his shoulders for him.

Yao Lu nodded and said, "That's fine, I'm exhausted and thirsty."

Lin Shen leaned over and asked with a smirk, "Thirsty? Shall I feed you some water?"

"Ah?" Yao Lu looked at him in bewilderment, and Lin Shen sealed his lips the next moment, and Yao Lu's eyes widened immediately.

"Hmm..." Yao Lu whimpered from being kissed, but Lin Shen showed no mercy, hugged him hard, kissed him inside and out for a long time, and then reluctantly let go, and said, "Are you still thirsty?" Yao Lu shook his head in a daze.

Seeing his petrified and silly appearance, Lin Shen felt very cute, loved him madly, wished he could swallow him in his stomach, so that he could belong to him forever.Lin Shen looked at him fascinated for a moment, pinched his face lovingly, and whispered, "I suddenly want to change my name."

"Ah?" Yao Lu was a little surprised, and asked, "Change your name? What?"

"Hmm..." Lin Shen rubbed his chin, pretending to think, and smiled after a while and said, "Change my name to Lin Mali."

"Why?" Yao Lu asked puzzled, "Is there any special significance?"

"Because..." Lin Shen said, took his earlobe and bit it lightly, and said in a low voice, "A deer knows its horsepower, and it takes time to see people's hearts."

"You..." Yao Lu's face turned red to the ears, he looked at Lin Shen, and after a brief pause, he said angrily, "Rogue!"

Lin Shen immediately laughed and said: "Okay! Then I will show you the rogue now!" Then he pressed Yao Lu on the back of the chair and sealed his lips domineeringly.

"Xiaoshen, I..." Mother Lin suddenly pushed open the door and entered.

Crash--!The plate shattered into pieces, and sliced ​​oranges rolled all over the floor.

Yao Lu pushed Lin Shen away, stood up, and looked at Lin Mu in horror. Lin Shen stood up suddenly and stood in front of Yao Lu. Lin Mu trembled all over, almost lost her voice, and stood there for a full minute. , and then tremblingly said: "You, you, what are you doing?"

"Mom, calm down." Lin Shen said.

Mother Lin looked at Yao Lu, then at Lin Shen, and asked tremblingly, "Xiao Shen, tell me, what's going on?"

Lin Shen rubbed his face vigorously, and said calmly, "Mom, I like Yao Lu, and he likes me too. We are in a relationship."

"You're talking about... no, Xiaoshen, I don't understand." Lin's mother said incoherently, "You two? Boys? Falling in love?"

"Yes, Mom!" Lin Shen said seriously, "Yao Lu and I are in a relationship."

As Lin Shen said, he turned to look at Yao Lu, and saw that his face was completely drained of blood, he was biting his lip fiercely, trembling all over, his eyes were full of horror, and his heart ached, so he reached out to wrap his arms around his shoulders, and gently squeezed I squeezed to show appeasement.

Lin's mother stared at Lin Shen's hand on Yao Lu's shoulder, she was shocked and said in disbelief: "Xiao Shen, you, you are..." She couldn't say the next word, so she swallowed, Taking a deep breath to calm myself down, he continued, "Are you... gay?"

"Mom, I don't know." Lin Shen said, "I have never liked men, I only like Yao Lu, and he happens to be a boy, so I don't know if this is considered gay."

Hearing Lin Shen's words, Mother Lin's mind was buzzing as if struck by lightning, and she said to Yao Lu tremblingly, "Lu Lu, no! Yao Lu, can you go now? I want to talk to Xiao Shen. Speak alone."

Yao Lu nodded, turned around and began to pack his things, shivering while doing so.

"Mom!" Lin Shen glanced at Yao Lu, frowned and said, "I'll take Yao Lu home first, and I'll talk to you when I get back."

"No! No!" Mother Lin kept shaking her head and said, "Xiao Shen, you can't go! Let Yao Lu go by himself!"

"Lin Shen..." Yao Lu put on his schoolbag and whispered, "I can go home by myself."

"Wait a minute!" Lin Shen told Yao Lu, and then said to his mother, "Mom, I can't let Yao Lu leave by himself like this. What if something happens to him?"

"What could happen to him?!" Mother Lin suddenly broke down and shouted: "What about me? I'm the one who's going to have an accident! You leave it to me!"

Lin Shen was quiet for a while, and said: "Mom, I'm sorry, I have to send him back! He is in a very bad condition now, and I can't let him go away like this." Then she pulled Yao Lu up and left. She grabbed Lin Shen and begged, "Xiao Shen, don't go, talk to mom."

"Mom, I'll be back soon." Lin Shen pushed her hand away and comforted her: "It's fine if I leave for a while, please calm down and talk about it when I come back."

Lin Mu's hand was forced to let go, Lin Shen pulled away, took Yao Lu's hand and left quickly, Lin Mu looked at their backs, and tears welled up uncontrollably.