Silent Hearts

Lin Mu sat cross-legged in front of the makeup mirror, he was only wearing a Lin Chao suspender skirt, the person behind him got him a wig net bag, bent down, and carefully put it on his head.

Lin Mu gestured to the mirror in sign language: "It's too hot."

Lin Chao pouted, and quickly moved his fingers: "You have to wear it when it's hot, or else the wig doesn't fit well, and it's easy to see."

Lin Mu rolled his eyes, he muttered that girls are really troublesome, and was scalped by Lin Chao.

Lin Chao squinted her eyes, her white fingertips were like two sharp thin blades, and she signed in sign language slowly: "I can understand what you are talking about, little liar."

Several relatively large communities in the East District hold a mutual aid and exchange conference for special groups every month. Lin Chao refused to go again after going there a few times. At first, Lin Mu thought that someone was bullying her, but later she found out A few weeks ago, I privately accepted the invitation to instruct chess, and the time just happened to hit the time with the Mutual Aid Club.

Because of this incident, Lin Yanlai and Jiang Wan held a family meeting. Lin Chaogang was scolded by Lin Mu, and put his arms around his chest with a stinky face.

They are a pair of fraternal twins, but surprisingly they look alike. Lin Chao fell to the ground a second earlier, but it was Lin Mu who cried first. A month later, Lin Chao was diagnosed with congenital deafness.

After Lin Yanlai and Jiang Wan experienced the most painful early stage of diagnosis, they began to run around for the eldest daughter's illness, but the results made the other two even more desperate. A househusband who taught himself sign language, took care of his daughter Lin Chaoshun and brought up his youngest son.

The first sentence Lin Mu learned when he was two years old was to call Lin Chao "sister".

A year later, Lin Chao called him the first "little liar" in sign language. The reason was that Lin Mu stole all the nougat that Lin Yanlai made that day, and he even lied to Lin Chao's father that he didn't make it.

Under normal circumstances, Lin Chao needs to go to special education schools since elementary school, but because of Lin Yanlai's credit, except for being unable to hear and speak, her learning ability in all other aspects is no worse than that of any child.

So my elder sister stumbled and went to the same school and the same class as my younger brother. After attending four semesters, Lin Chao began to learn Go formally.

Lin Mu also learned together for a while at first, but after half a year, he was impatient and gave up.

Lin Chao got angry with him because of this, and kicked his younger brother under the bed in the middle of the night to prevent him from sleeping.

Lin Mu was so sleepy that he took out a small flashlight from under the pillow and shone it on his sister.This has been a habit for many years. Lin Chao can't speak, and if he wants to find Lin Mu at night, his younger brother has to prepare a flashlight and watch her sign language in the dark.

"Why don't you learn it?" The white light of the flashlight gently shone on Lin Chao's delicate face. She had a serious face, like a little adult.

Lin Mu half-closed his eyes, and drew out his hand to quickly gesture: "I'm always with you, what's the matter, no boy wants to play with me, shame on me."

Lin Chao pursed his lips, probably because he was really angry, kicked Lin Mu under the blanket several times, turned over at last, and ignored him again.

From that time on, Lin Chao no longer went to and from school with Lin Mu. She only attended classes for half a day, and Lin Yan came to take her to the chess academy to play chess after lunch.

But Lin Mu didn't make many friends. He went to and from school by himself, and occasionally went to the chess academy to deliver meals to Lin Chao.

"Little liar." Lin Chao gestured to his younger brother during a meal, "You said you want to make other friends, where are your friends?"

Lin Mu was lazy, he propped his face with one hand, and stroked back and forth with the other: "You are so annoying, go play your chess."

Lin Chao passed the amateur [-]th dan exam when he was almost in junior high school. In the first year after Lin Mu entered high school, Lin Chao won the professional dan dan match with a record of [-]% victory and became a professional chess player. .

But Lin Yanlai and Jiang Wan still felt that they could not completely give up the culture class, so they pretended to send their daughter to Lin Mu's current high school, which is also the only Kunqian No. [-] Middle School in the Eastern District that has special education classes. .

Another year later, Lin Chao Dingduan was upgraded, and she changed to a bigger chess academy to hone her chess skills, but she didn't want to accept such jobs as chess instruction.

"You're not full yet." Jiang Wan is usually busy with work, but she absolutely cares about her daughter's affairs. With her, Lin Chao is the kind who holds it in her hand for fear of falling, and holds it in her mouth for fear of melting. "Guiding chess is working, and there is no shortage of money at home. What are you doing to pick up this job? What do you want to buy? Tell your mother."

Lin Mu couldn't hold back, laughed angrily, and said while gesticulating: "What does she want to buy? She's just free!"

Lin Chao kicked him under the table, signing quickly in sign language: "You're so annoying!"

Lin Yanlai didn't quite agree, took off her glasses, and gestured lightly: "You still have an exchange meeting in the community every month, so you have to go."

Lin Chao was not happy, and his gestures were a little forceful: "I am completely different from those people, why should I communicate? Just because I have a disability certificate?!"

Lin Mu frowned, and signed to her: "Who do you look down on?"

Lin Chao sneered, and quickly counterattacked: "It's you who look down on me!" After speaking, he got up and went upstairs without looking at the shocked expressions of Lin Yanlai and Jiang Wan.

Lin Mu was so angry that his head would explode. He stood up and wanted to catch up, but was stopped by Lin Yanlai.

"Don't rush at your sister." Jiang Wan blamed him, "Don't speak so harshly."

Lin Mu was dizzy with anger: "Who is talking too much? Why do we look down on her? Which of us? Ah?"

Lin Yan took a look at him, and Lin Mu suddenly stopped talking, and stood there alone like a dumb firework.

Lin Yanlai put on her glasses again, thought for a while, and said, "If she wants to play guiding chess, she can do it. Think of another way to communicate."

The siblings slept in separate rooms after graduating from elementary school. Lin Mu stood at the door of Lin Chao for a while, and was hit in the face by a flying pillow as soon as he opened the door.

"Little liar." Lin Chao raised his middle finger at him, "You actually sued in private."

Lin Mu threw the pillow back and signed with a serious expression: "Be honest, have you been bullied in the new chess academy?"

Lin Chao rolled her eyes, and she gestured: "I just don't want to go to the exchange meeting."

Lin Mu asked, "Why?"

Lin Chao raised her hand halfway, and turned it around, like drawing a flower, she pouted with a willful expression: "No reason, I just don't want to."

To be honest, Lin Chao's makeup skills are really good. Although Lin Mu is taller than his sister, high school students don't have time to train muscles. His overall body is very thin, and his siblings have the same fair skin. With slender hands and feet, Lin Chao's suspender skirt was worn on Lin Mu's body, except that the chest was a little empty, and there was almost no sense of disobedience.

"Should I wear a bra?" Lin Mu asked.

Lin Chao took out a new bra and shook it maliciously: "Wear this."

Lin Mu: "..."

The two thin lumps of lean flesh on his chest were squeezed together by Lin Chao, and he struggled to carve out the shape of the "breast". Lin Chao found sun protection clothing for his younger brother to wear, and finally tied a ribbon around his neck. .

"Okay." Lin Chao made an OK gesture.

Lin Mu raised his chin slightly in the mirror, and he curled his lips, both disgusted and embarrassed.

Lin Yanlai and Jiang Wan didn't know why the eldest daughter suddenly wanted to go to the exchange meeting again, but when a phone call came, saying that she had arrived, the parents were obviously caught off guard.

"It's here..." Jiang Wan still didn't quite believe it, she confirmed, "It's really here?"

The teacher at the exchange meeting had a loud voice, and Lin Yanlai who was on the phone could hear clearly: "Here we are, student Lin is very obedient, but he doesn't like to communicate with everyone very much, I will pay attention."

"I don't like to communicate with people" is true. Jiang Wan really couldn't figure it out, so she could only give a few more words in doubt. After hanging up the phone, Lin Yanlai suddenly asked casually, "Where's Lin Mu?"

Jiang Wan was still thinking about her daughter, waved her hand casually, and said, "Probably where to play, who knows, just leave him alone."

Lin Mu was sitting in the last row of the classroom. He was so hot that he felt drowsy, and he had to restrain himself from raising his legs. Actually, there were not too many people at the scene, except that he seemed to know each other, and occasionally there were a few people who were also deaf. The dumb members tried to communicate with him, but they gestured back and forth for a while, and then they gradually didn't know what to say, and in the end it was Lin Mu sitting alone again.

During the break in the middle, Lin Mu was so hot that he couldn't stand it, so he sat outside under the shade of a tree in the playground, and finally he was able to raise his legs and relax for a while.

But just for a while, another ignorant person came over.

Lin Mu moved his feet together reluctantly, he tilted his head, and the mottled shadow of the tree fell on his face, squinting at the person coming.

"Hello." The boy who struck up a conversation was tall, and looked much stronger than Lin Mu. He was a little dark, but his facial features were good-looking. His sign language was stumbling, and he obviously hadn't learned it for a long time. Kind, "Are you hot?"

Lin Mu made a brief comparison of "it's okay" and didn't care if the other party understood it or not. He sized up the boy and made sure that he was not mentally disabled or had obvious external defects.

"My name is Lu Rong." The boy obviously didn't know how to sign his name. He clumsily raised up his little finger, index finger and thumb, clasped the other two fingers into his palm, and placed them on the side of his temples, shaking slightly. shake.

Lin Mu wanted to laugh, he did the same gesture, and said in sign language: "This means 'deer', an animal."

Lu Rong understood. He seemed a little embarrassed, and stood beside him dryly. After a while, he made the same sign language again: "Are you hot?"

Lin Mu looked at him and couldn't help showing a smile. He stretched out his hand, waved his five fingers, and touched his forehead lightly twice.

"I'm not hot now," he said.