don't let me go

"Fruit?"

"Lin Guozi? Why are you in a daze?"

"Lin Guo!" This was the third time Duan Xu called Lin Guo, he frowned slightly, and tapped on the table with his knuckles curled up, his tone was heavier than the previous two times.

Only then did Lin Guo come back to his senses, and looked at Duan Xu blankly, "Brother, I, I was in a daze just now."

Duan Xu put down his pen and asked, "Did something happen?"

"No..." Lin Guo responded subconsciously first, and then explained in a panic: "I am, I heard something recently..."

Seeing that Duan Xu's expression became worried, he quickly waved his hand again, "It's not my business, it's someone else's business."

Duan Xu didn't pay much attention when he heard that it was someone else's business, he just asked: "Did someone gossip with you?"

Lin Guo lowered his head, "Forget it...for sure."

He is very nervous now, he is afraid that Duan Xu's next sentence will be "what gossip"?

Fortunately, Duan Xu was busy, as long as it was other people's affairs, he didn't have the extra leisure time to ask about it. He told Lin Guo "don't let the person overhear when you gossip with others" and then started studying again.

After a few minutes, he slapped his head, "Forgot, I just wanted to ask you to boil some water for me."

Lin Guo walked in with a steaming water cup and asked casually, "Brother, do you have a cold?"

Duan Xu said: "No, the cost of catching a cold is too high, drink more hot water to prevent catching a cold."

Lin Guo understood his phrase "the cost is too high".

Duan Xu looks thin, but in fact he has always been in good health and rarely suffers from illness. He just has a fever once a year, usually at the beginning of the year, which is the coldest time of the year.

For a high school student who is sprinting for the third year, a cold will undoubtedly slow down the progress. Duan Xu's parents have prepared cold medicine in advance to prevent it, and even various vitamins.Duan Xu tends to forget things when he is busy studying, and Lin Guo stares at his food.

Lin Guo was thinking, if he had to leave and Duan Xu took care of himself alone, would he forget to take his medicine?

This worry lingered in his heart for a long time, until he suddenly thought that Duan Xu's mother said that day that when he left, she would move in to take care of Duan Xu.

Mother's care must be the most considerate and thorough. Although Lin Guo has never experienced it, he still understands this truth. What else should he worry about?

What he should worry most about is how to find a cheap house as soon as possible and move out earlier so that Duan Xu can work hard for his Tsinghua University and Peking University with peace of mind.

This is the best for Duan Xu, it must be.It's just that when he thinks about not being able to see his brother every day...he can't be happy at all.

He didn't know whether his emotions were normal or not. Originally, he thought that all his feelings for Duan Xu were reasonable. Duan Xu treated him well, and Duan Xu was his brother, so he couldn't do without Duan Xu.

But since he learned a new term, a new group, a new element in his world, he began to doubt.

Especially when the store manager's daughter asked him "Do you like boys", he found himself unable to answer.

I don't know if it's because he still can't understand the word "homosexuality" accurately, or because... Duan Xu's face is always flashing in his mind.

It is difficult to find a cheaper house around Duan Xu, even if Lin Guo's requirements for the house can accommodate people.

Ten days passed in a blink of an eye, and Duan Xu's mother called twice to remind her. The second time, she was a little impatient, and suggested that if Lin Guo couldn't find it, he could go back to the original place. Anyway, the broken house is still there. It is not rented out, and the rent is very cheap.

Lin Guo had a natural fear of that place. Lin Jianyi was afraid when he was alive, and he was even more afraid when he was dead.

He didn't want to step in there.

What's more...it's still so far away from Duan Xu.

After a long time, Duan Xu seems to have noticed it, so he took time out at night to ask Lin Guo what he's been up to lately, and the classmate said he kept seeing him running around.

Lin Guo hesitated and couldn't speak, and only said that he was helping others.

Doing things for yourself...does it count as doing things for others?he thinks……

Duan Xu thought he was running errands for others, so he didn't ask any further questions.

When Duan Xu's mother called for the third time, her attitude had dropped to freezing point, "Lin Guo, Auntie knows that you don't want to leave, but you brother Duan Xu has treated you so well all these years, you can't disturb him when he needs quiet most, You should know how important the future is to children in a family like ours." At first, the tone was rather tactful.

Lin Guo is not good at words, and he couldn't explain his current situation for a long time, so he inadvertently annoyed Duan Xu's mother, and the voice on the other side immediately became sharp——

"Lin Guo, you don't need to find such an excuse to lie to me. You are just a white-eyed wolf. You don't think about our family's kindness to you. Now you only care about your own self-interest. Don't you have a monthly salary?

Isn't it appropriate to take it out to pay the rent?Your father didn't give you money since you were a child, so I understand if you pick something.

But you are supposed to live by yourself, it is Duan Xu's kindness to let you live in our house for so many years, you must not understand this truth, right? "

Lin Guo knew it was serious.

He must move out immediately.

A few days ago, someone told him that there was an area where the price of houses was low. They were old houses, all of which were bungalows.

At first, Lin Guo was reluctant to go there from the bottom of his heart, that place was far away from Duan Xu, and also far from his work place, and there were a lot of bad things going on around him, he had listened to the customers in the shop talking about it over the years. .

But after Duan Xu's mother finished speaking, he suddenly thought of what life he had lived in the past.

Even the gangsters and homeless people in that area are probably more comfortable than his life back then.

What does he care about?It's just that Duan Xu has allowed him to live so well these years, allowing him to see the sun.

But he can't forget that he is in the abyss just because he has seen the sun, he should belong to the abyss.

The landlord is an old lady with a cigarette in her mouth all the time, with a swollen face and looks very unfavorable. When she saw Lin Guo, a pretty kid with an honest face, came to visit the house, she sneered and asked him in a voice that was not old: "So Come here as a kid?"

It can be seen that she has a very clear understanding of the residents of her house.

"I have no money." Just these three words, after Lin Guo finished speaking, the landlord never asked him again.

Money is such a treasure.

It was settled quickly, the landlord asked him when he would come to live, Lin Guo wanted to say tomorrow, but Duan Xu's mother's voice sounded in his head at the right time, he gritted his teeth and said, "Today..."

Landlords like this are not uncommon, and most of them have already slept on the streets.

She waved her hand, "Then clean it yourself, and give me 500 yuan for this month first."

Although Lin Guo has never rented a house, he has seen the basic process, "Is there no contract?"

The landlord sneered again, "Go out and ask, who here can understand the contract? Who has the money to file a lawsuit?"

She took away the 500 yuan he just took out from Lin Guo's hand, then turned around and gave him the key.

Lin Guo stood in a dark room smelling the smell of dust in a daze, when he heard the landlord was stopped and asked, "Is this house rented out?"

She said, "I can't rent my house anymore?"

The man smiled apologetically, "It's just...he just left for a few months, and you rented this place...This, this is not suitable."

So she asked: "Then I won't rent it, and you will pay me the money on a monthly basis?"

Lin Guo could roughly tell from his voice that the landlord put the 500 yuan on that person...or his face, and slapped him a few times.

The insult was extremely strong, but the man didn't respond at all. He didn't even say a word because he couldn't answer the question.

After the landlady left, his sigh came clearly to Lin Guo's ears.

The people at the bottom are living here, living the hardest life, and maybe playing the worst role in society.

He's moving here, and now he's going back to pack his things.

He suddenly longed to see Duan Xu.