never far away

Teasing Tuantuan yawned big, leaning on Lin Wei, "Dad, I want to sleep."

Lin Wei held him in his arms, "Then let's go back and say goodbye to uncle."

"Goodbye, Uncle Xiao'an." Tuantuan braced himself up and asked again, "Can you still come next week?"

Lin An smiled, "Yes, you are welcome anytime." After he finished speaking, he inadvertently saw Lin Wei's eyes cast over him, he was slightly startled, and quickly looked away.Tuan Tuan felt relieved, and slowly fell asleep in his father's arms. Lin An opened the door for them. Lin Wei walked to the entrance, and suddenly stopped, looking straight at him.

Lin An was at a loss and wanted to hide, but there was no way to hide.

"Grandma found you?"

Lin An froze for a moment, then nodded.

"She said that you will come to the main house for a banquet on the ninth of next month."

"Well... yes." Lin An mustered up the courage to look at Lin Wei, "I'm sorry, but you don't think... it's suitable, so I won't go." I didn't want to go at first, and I knew what kind of rumors I would suffer.

Lin Wei didn't have any expression on his face. Compared to a few years ago, he is now aloof and handsome, with a kind of extravagance. "I have no objection." He seemed to feel that it would be inappropriate to continue, so after changing his shoes, he said one last sentence before leaving, "Goodbye."

After closing the door, all the energy in his body seemed to be relaxed. Lin An leaned against the door, covering his face with some discomfort.After so long, he still couldn't see through Lin Wei's thoughts. It didn't seem to be revenge, but it couldn't be that there was no love left.

Because he is so indifferent to himself now.

The decoration design drawing was sent to Lin Wei's mailbox, and the reply was only four words - it's all up to you.Lin An was stunned for a while, resigned to his fate and stopped asking. He took time to go to the scene after get off work, and quickly corrected the inappropriate places. He only hoped that he could do a better job so that Lin Weiyi's family could live comfortably in the future.

The size of that house is not bad for ordinary people, but compared to the financial resources of the Lin family, it is only ordinary, and the location is not a prime area.When Lin An entered for the first time, he was still a little apprehensive. He opened the door with a feeling of spying on Lin Wei's life, and then checked one by one.

The walls of the rough house were gradually painted, the floor was laid, the doors and windows were installed, and the furniture was slowly added.Electrical appliances and the like are not under the company's business management, so Lin Wei asked the secretary to transfer a sum of money directly to Lin An's account, and asked him to buy it himself.Lin An became interested, and while looking up information on the Internet to see which brand has a good reputation and high cost performance, he went to the Electric City to see the real thing, and it took almost two weeks to buy all the things.

After the house was finished as a whole, Lin An took a lot of detailed pictures and sent them to Lin Wei, who replied "Very good".Lin An looked at these two words for a long time, feeling happy, as if he was affirmed, and at the same time felt that he was cheap. He obviously still liked Lin Wei, but he still tried his best to build a good house for him, hoping that the three of them could live together. comfortable.

After locking the door and getting on the bus to go home, I saw another familiar figure at the door, it was Li Sifei.

He was holding a cat in his arms, leaning against the corner of the wall, looking a little pitiful.When he saw Lin An, his eyes lit up, "An'an..." Guigui in his arms also gave a timely "sight".

Lin An paused a few steps away from him, "Why are you here?"

"I followed you when you got off work yesterday... but I didn't mean any harm..." Li Sifei's voice was a little weak, "It's just that I'm moving, and I can't take care of it these days, so I want to put it here with you. It's convenient for you ?"

"Okay." Lin An took Guigui over, and Li Sifei handed him the bag on the ground, "Its cat food and toys are here."

"Where are you moving? Do you need my help?"

"is it okay?"

"Tomorrow I'm free on Saturday, and it's just my turn to take a weekend break." The company has shifts to work on Saturdays, and only Sundays are regular holidays.

Li Sifei laughed, "That's great, the place I just moved to is not far away, it's near here." He lowered his head slightly, "An'an, I'm sorry, I made it difficult for you before, and I will keep you accountable Look at it together, my behavior in the past few years has really burdened you a lot, but don’t worry, I will slowly return the money to you, and I promise not to buy things indiscriminately and follow suit.”

"You don't have to pay me back."

"I have to pay it back." Li Sifei hurriedly said, "I have found a job now. I am teaching children to draw in a training institution. I will start working next Monday. I will also do online drafting together. I won't be lazy any more."

Lin An smiled, "That's good."

Li Sifei saw him smile, and smiled too, showing a few small white teeth, "It's getting late, I'll go back and pack my things first."

"be careful."

Early the next morning, Lin An ate breakfast, fed the cat, and rushed to the previous residence.Li Sifei has already packed all his things, because the furniture and electrical appliances were all ready-made when renting, so he didn’t buy many big-ticket items. Lin An found that Li Sifei’s cabinets full of famous brands were not in the packed cardboard box, so he asked curiously , Li Sifei said lightly: "It's all been resold, and fortunately my fans helped me solve a lot, so it was handled so quickly."

"Would you like it?"

"What's there to be reluctant about?" Li Sifei stared at him, "I can't be reluctant if you leave me..." He seemed to feel that it was inappropriate to say this, so he quickly stopped talking.

The two packed up all their things, moved them downstairs, and called a car to take them to their new residence.Li Sifei's newly rented house is a single room with a small area. There is only a simple bed in the room and nothing else.Lin An felt uncomfortable looking at it, "Do you want to change to a better place? I paid my salary yesterday, and I still have a little money."

"No, I paid the deposit."

Lin An stopped talking, and the two of them cleaned the house and put the things back in silence.But there is no furniture after all, most of the things can only be packed in cardboard boxes.At noon, the two found a noodle restaurant outside to eat beef noodles. Li Sifei suddenly asked him, "Do you have any plans for tomorrow?"

The next day was the [-]th, and Lin An had a headache, "I'm going to a banquet..."

Li Sifei became interested: "Banquet? Where is it? I've lived with you for so many years, and you haven't been to any other banquets except your company's dinner. Is anyone in your company going to get married?"

"No." Lin An took a sip of the noodles, and explained with some difficulty, "It's my... brother... the banquet over there, his wife came back, so a welcome party held at their home..."

"Oh." Li Sifei looked at him incomprehensibly, wanted to ask more details, but held back.He suddenly said, "I haven't been to that kind of occasion, I kind of want to go, can you bring me?"

Lin An was stunned for a moment, and quickly refused, "It's my first time going too... I don't know what will happen, how about next time?"

Li Sifei smiled and nodded, "Okay."

Back home, Lin An took out a can and fed Guigui. Thinking about what happened tomorrow, he felt uncomfortable all over.Because moving is manual labor, his body was sticky and sweaty. After taking a shower, he opened the closet and saw his lackluster clothes, only to realize that he didn't even have a decent set of clothes.

He took out the suit he bought for the interview from under the box, put it on and stood in front of the mirror to take a picture, because it was not custom-made, the waist was a little big, the sleeves were a little long, and the fabric was so-so, it looked cheap.But when he thought of going there, he would also become a talking point and laughing stock of others, so he laughed at himself.

What good is it to wear well?In the hearts of others, he will always be Xiaosan's son.

Isn't dressing like this just in line with your identity and life?

No longer entangled in the question of what to wear, Lin An changed out of his suit, put on comfortable home clothes, and then began to cook dinner.Just after washing the rice and steaming it, the doorbell rang, and he hurried to open the door, wondering who would come at this time.

There was a courier outside, holding a package with a pen and asking him to sign for it, Lin An asked in astonishment: "Is it wrong? I haven't bought anything recently."

The courier took a step back to confirm the house number, and then asked, "Lin An, right? The number is 159********?"

"Yes."

"That's right, you sign it quickly, my car is still downstairs, it's not locked, I'm afraid it will be stolen if I'm too slow."

Lin An quickly signed and closed the door. He weighed the things in his hands suspiciously, and they were quite heavy.After opening the bag, there is a boxy carton inside. After opening the carton, there is a well-packed suit.

The color of the suit is smoky gray with dark lines, and the texture is very good at first glance. There are also white shirts, ties, tie clips, and belts inside. They are all complete sets without logos.The tie clip is silver, very simple style, with a diamond inlaid on it.

Lin An looked at all this in surprise. Although he had never bought famous brands himself, he had seen a lot of Li Sifei's stuff, so he naturally knew that this set of things was worth a lot.He didn't know who would send this gift, but there were only three people who knew the address here, Zhao Shu, Li Sifei, and Lin Wei.

It can't be Li Sifei, he has no money recently.

It should not be Zhao Shu, he didn't know that he was going to the banquet.

The remaining possibility, even if it is impossible, can only be the only answer.

Lin An thought for a long time, and didn't even bother to cook, so he ate a few mouthfuls of food in a hurry with the pickles in the refrigerator, took out his mobile phone and mustered up the courage to edit a text message and send it to Lin Wei. ——Is the suit a gift from you?

The message was quickly responded to—hmm.

Lin An's heart trembled, and various thoughts mixed into his mind for a while.

Why did he give himself a suit?what does he mean?Do you want to accept it yourself?What does it mean to accept?Can I refuse?If you refuse, what will the other party's attitude be...

His mind was so messed up that he couldn't figure out what to do, but he didn't even dare to ask such a simple question as "Why are you doing this?"Finally, he finally settled down and replied, "Thank you."

There was no further reply, which made him relieved.