The Spring of Prince Syndrome

"Baby, Dad is gone." Zhao Guogang came out of the room, smelling of cigarettes all over his body.

Yuan Yuan handed him a folder and said, "There is this one, you forgot it at home."

Zhao Guogang took the folder without looking at it, put it in his bag, thought for a while, took it out again, and said, "Call Uncle Lin, ask him to come over at night, and take it to my company by the way."

Yuanyuan took the folder into the room indifferently. He knew that Zhao Guogang was afraid that Shu Yan would find it, and it would be safest to send it to the company first. He also knew what his father meant, what should be given to you will be given to you, don't say anything.

"Don't mess with my room." Zhao Guogang smiled, poked Yuan Yuan's head with his finger, and said, "Dad is coming back to live here, and he will be back in a few days."

Yuan Yuan hummed, Zhao Guogang stood at the door, let out a sigh of relief, and said, "Shu Yan."

Shu Yan got up, forced a smile at Yuan Yuan, and said, "Xiao Yuan, come to my house when you are free. I have given your brother the address. Don't stay at home all the time during the summer vacation."

Xiao Yuan said lightly: "Okay, we will leave in a few days, we won't go to Happy Valley, let's get together again when we come back."

Zhao Guogang opened the door and walked out, as if he wanted to say something, the four of them walked through the corridor and sent Zhao Guogang and Shu Yan to the elevator, Yuan Yuan suddenly said, "Auntie."

Shu Yan smiled and said far away: "There are a few things I want to remind you."

Zhao Guogang frowned slightly, Yaoyuan's words were obviously a sign of finding fault, and when he was about to speak softly, Yuanyuan said again: "First: My dad usually doesn't sleep deeply, and he is used to sleeping alone, he is easy to wake up in the middle of the night, and his voice is quiet at night point."

Shu Yan smiled knowingly, and replied: "Understood."

Yuanyuan said again: "Second: Don't let him drink tea on an empty stomach in the morning. Third, he always comes home late at night, remember to remind him to eat supper, he often drinks, and after vomiting, he goes to bed hungry. not good."

Shu Yan said with a smile: "He won't go home too late in the future."

Yuan Yuan raised his eyebrows to look at her, and replied after a long time: "Oh."

With a ding sound, the elevator door opened, and Tan Ruikang pressed the door open button. Zhao Guogang let out a long breath, turned around and looked at his son, raised his left hand slightly, but Yuanyuan didn't give him a chance to hug himself, and said with a smile: " Dad, I wish you happiness and come back when you are free."

The elevator door closed, and Zhao Guogang unloaded the burden of being a father and left the distant home.

That afternoon, Tan Ruikang said, "Xiaoyuan, when shall we go back?"

Yuan Yuan lay on the dining table, feeling bored in doing anything, he said, "Whatever."

Tan Ruikang spread out a passbook and three cards on the table, and now there are only the two of them at home.Income and expenditure, life and so on have to be discussed.

Yuanyuan never had any plans for money. If Zhao Guogang hadn't left, he might not have any plans in his life, spending as much as he earned.But now I can't do anything about it, so I have to cheer up and look at these money-saving things one by one.

"Why are there so many?"

Tan Ruikang picked up a card and said, "Uncle said that the money in this card was saved for you to go to university and go abroad when my aunt was still alive. My aunt saved it for five years. After she passed away, my uncle did as she said. Every month, I deposit a few hundred to 1000 yuan in it, saying it is your education fund. Now it is transferred to your name, and this card is in your name."

Yuanyuan vaguely remembered that Zhao Guogang had mentioned this matter. If this was the case, they would be much better off studying.

Tan Ruikang asked: "Can you control it reasonably?"

"Forget it." Yuanyuan said boredly: "You can help me take care of it."

Tan Ruikang said: "Then let me keep it for you first?"

Yuanyuan hummed, the passbook was 2 yuan left by Tan Ruikang's parents, and two cards were given by Zhao Guogang. tuition and living expenses. Each account has 6 yuan, [-] tuition fees, and [-] living expenses."

Yuan Yuan said, "Don't move these two."

"Well, I don't think it can be moved." Tan Ruikang said: "I wanted to return it to my uncle just now, but he refused to accept it."

Yuan Yuan: "Don't pay him back, let's talk about it later."

12 is not a small sum of money, if it is returned to Zhao Guogang, Shu Yan might have to keep it.

"I saved this one before." Tan Ruikang was very depressed. Yuanyuan was worrying about not having enough money, but Tan Ruikang was worrying about too much money, and said, "I want to return it to my uncle, but he won't accept it. Hey..."

Yuan Yuan asked, "How many?"

Tan Ruikang said: "Since I lived with you, I saved [-] a month when I was in school, nine months a year..."

Yuan Yuan couldn't help being moved, and said, "There are tens of thousands."

Tan Ruikang said: "Well, more than 4 yuan. What should I do with this money?"

Yuanyuan compared his own living expenses, and suddenly found that he had spent so much money!In the future, if there is no one million, don't say anything about repaying Zhao Guogang.

Yuanyuan said: "Send it, hey, if it doesn't go to waste, don't spend it. If you save it, you will spend it for his youngest son. What are you saving?"

Tan Rui was overjoyed and said, "Then..."

"You are in charge of all the money, and you are in charge of the house." Yuan Yuan said, "If I want money, I can ask you to get it."

Tan Ruikang said: "Well, if you want money, you can ask me to get it. I will take care of all these for you."

Yuan Yuan had a thought, and said, "Either take some money to speculate in stocks by the way."

Tan Ruikang licked his lips and remained silent for a long time. Yuan Yuan knew that Tan Ruikang was afraid of losing money, so he said, "Now is not a good time, let's have a look."

Tan Ruikang nodded, and the two began their days as the official heads of the family.

The next day, Tan Ruikang went to buy a train ticket, and the two of them went to buy new clothes. They tidied up and went back to their hometown to burn paper for Tan Ruikang's parents. Look at the dead parents.

This time, I don’t have much to worry about when I go back to my hometown. I feel free to stay for a few days. Yuan Yuan longed for freedom since he was a child, but he was always under the control of Zhao Guogang. Tan Ruikang decided to pack everything.

When he returned to the county seat, Yuanyuan was surprised to find that the place had changed a lot, and it was much more prosperous than when he first came here three years ago.Internet cafes have opened up, and there are many more restaurants. There are fewer tractors in the past, and electric vehicles have begun to become popular.

"It is said that there are policies in the province." Tan Ruikang said: "It is supporting the development of my hometown."

When they returned to their ancestral house in their hometown, there were still a lot of bricks piled up at the entrance of the village, and they asked far away, "Is this going to be built too?"

Tan Ruikang said with a smile: "This should be someone else's own family marrying a wife to build a house. Come, you take this."

distant:"?"

Tan Ruikang opened the door, took a bamboo pole and hung up firecrackers, Yuan Yuan couldn't help but be speechless.

boom!boom!There was a loud crackling noise, and gunpowder smoke filled the front of the house, which immediately alarmed the neighbors, and they all went out to see.

"We are admitted to university!" Tan Ruikang said with a smile: "Come back and set off firecrackers."

Wow, there was a sensation in the village. There hadn’t been a college student in the village for several years, and the neighbors came to congratulate them one after another. Tan Ruikang insisted on not accepting red envelopes, and said with a smile: "Enough is enough. My father told me to remember to invite wine. Today I and Xiaoyuan invites everyone to drink."

The Tan family's children and nephew are admitted to university, which is a national key university!After the news spread, Yaoyuan received a lot of food, but insisted on not accepting red envelopes.That day, Tan Ruikang went to hold a banquet to fulfill his father's last wish during his lifetime. The neighbors from all over the place came and invited three tables.

The next day, Tan Ruikang took Yuan Yuan up the mountain again, and burned the copy of the notice on his parents' grave with a smile, Yuan Yuan still stood aside and said: "You burn the original, if you have the ability to burn the original too."

Tan Ruikang smiled while shaking his head. For such a big man, he looked like a monkey. He poured wine and burned incense, and bowed three times.He let out a long breath.

"Dad, Mom, Xiao Yuan's father..."

"Don't tell them." Yuanyuan stopped Tan Ruikang and said, "It will make my dad sleep in peace later."

Tan Ruikang laughed loudly, sighed, and said, "The Tan family is your uncle's family, and it was originally your uncle's family that was in charge of this matter... Hey, it's useless for my brother, so I can't talk about it."

Yuanyuan touched the head of Tan Ruikang who was kneeling in front of the grave, and said, "Isn't this an adult? My uncle's family can only manage until fifteen or sixteen years old, don't think about it, let's go."

Yuanyuan knows that Tan Ruikang always blames himself for this matter. It is true that according to the customs in almost all parts of China, when the father remarries, the mother's natal family should have a man who speaks out. .But Tan Ruikang was the only one in the Tan family, and the only cousin passed away. Tan Ruikang lived under the fence, eating Zhao Guogang's and using Zhao Guogang's, so it was normal for him to be speechless.

In fact, this is not a big contradiction. In the end, Yuan Yuan used an unsolvable method and solved it by himself.

Tan Ruikang borrowed a bicycle and drove Yuanyuan, with his feet spread out and riding on the back seat of the car, the imprint of the bicycle wheel curved to and fro, forming an S on the country road.

"Can you do it—!" Yuan Yuan said.

Tan Ruikang said with a smile: "It's ok, I haven't ridden for a long time, and I used to bring my classmates to school! Don't worry."

Yuan Yuan said, "Where are you going?"

Tan Ruikang: "Is it okay to go to my junior high school teacher's house? If you are afraid that you don't want to go, you can find an Internet cafe to surf the Internet. I will come out to pick you up after chatting."

Yuanyuan said: "It's okay, let's go together."

They came down from the mountain, turned another path, and went to the edge of the county town. Tan Ruikang said again: "I heard that there are wolves in this mountain."

Yuanyuan said: "I guess it will be gone in a few years."

Tan Ruikang nodded and said, "I hope my hometown can develop and build a resort or something. Then our house and land will be worth a lot."

The two went to Tan Ruikang's junior high school teacher's home to announce the good news.The head teacher is a man in his thirties, who taught Tan Ruikang's class for three years. When he was young, he often played football with half-children and had the best relationship.

"Teacher, hello teacher." Tan Ruikang bought a pack of cigarettes and a bottle of wine and sent them to the homeroom teacher.

"Old... Hello, teacher." Yuan Yuan smiled awkwardly. It was the summer vacation, and the head teacher was still preparing lessons. When he saw Tan Ruikang coming, he immediately said: "Ruikang! I knew you could be admitted to the university! Come on." , Let the teacher see which one it is!"

Tan Ruikang introduced Yuanyuan to him, and said with a smile, "I wanted to take the Tsinghua University exam, but I missed the exam by three points, hey."

Yuan Yuan thought you should be seduced, Tan Ruikang talked and laughed loudly with his head teacher, and when his wife returned from buying wine and snacks, the two had a lively conversation in the living room.Yuan Yuan was listening, and suddenly remembered that he never went back to see the teacher.

The relationship between teachers and students in big cities is very different from that in the countryside as a whole. Various values, news, and the education system are more standardized. Teachers receive salaries from civil servants, teaching and educating people. Teacher's special affection.When he was in junior high school, he also knew that Zhao Guogang gave their homeroom teacher shopping cards and red envelopes, in order to save Yaoyuan from being scolded in class. After a long time, every time Yaoyuan graduated, his relationship with the homeroom teacher was nothing to worry about.

On the contrary, some teachers who were particularly kind to Yuanyuan have not yet confiscated Zhao Guogang's gifts.

When I was in junior high school, there was an English teacher who was a special grade teacher—an amiable old lady. She liked Yuanyuan very much in the first grade of junior high school, and praised him in front of the whole class for his standard and fluent English and a large vocabulary.Yuanyuan also likes him very much. This kind of encouragement is very important, which made him interested in English in the third year of junior high school, forming a virtuous circle and learning better.

And the shadow of being punished by the physics teacher to stand for half a class in the first year of high school is that the whole high school hates physics a little bit.

"Dad, dictate to me!" said the youngest son of the homeroom teacher.

Yuan Yuan said, "I'm here, you've only been learning English since the third grade?"

He went over to the small folding table, dictated to the child, and taught him to look up words in a foreign language dictionary, saying: "You can develop the habit of explaining English words with English sentences. Let me tell you, guess what?"

While dictating to the child, he listened to Tan Ruikang talking about the past with his class teacher.

It turned out that Tan Ruikang's father was seriously ill, and Tan Ruikang did not go to school after graduating from junior high school.A year later, the homeroom teacher came to his house. At that time, there was only one old lady left in the Tan family. The homeroom teacher told her that Tan Ruikang had good grades and that as long as he studied hard, he would be admitted to university.Never let him drop out of school.

After hearing this, grandma ran to the town and called Zhao Guogang. After Tan Ruikang studied for another three months, he took a pile of tattered luggage and boarded a long-distance bus to the southern country.

Tan Ruikang has no woman in his family, and his father went to a stone factory to make money. As a result, he has no one to take care of him for a long time, and his clothes and socks are never repaired. Fortunately, he studied very hard and did not spend the whole junior high school with others.

"Pink." Yuan Yuan said: "Pink, let me see what is written in your textbook...God, you can't mark it like this."

Yuanyuan turned to the front, and used an eraser to erase all the Chinese pronunciations under the English words in the children's textbooks. What's the matter? Can you read it?"

Yuanyuan taught him all his previous teachings, and made another table, comparing the Chinese pinyin with the different words in the International Phonetic Alphabet in detail, looked into the child's eyes, and said: "After you know how to read, replace them. Going up, including 'θ', 'ε', and 'α', they are very similar. Do you understand?"

The child nodded, and said far away: "Too smart. Children nowadays are all smart."

The child smiled shyly, and remarked the phonetic symbols of the words.

The class teacher said in the living room: "...you can persist in yourself in the big city, and it is not easy to not get lost in the fast-paced life. If you say you go to high school, I think so. Why don't you go to a vocational high school to learn a craft..."

Tan Ruikang laughed heartily in the living room and said, "I was also very confused when I first arrived. Fortunately, my uncle is a very powerful person. He started from nothing in the 80s..."

"...Xiao Yuan gave me a lot of help..."

That day, Tan Ruikang and Yuan Yuan stayed at the head teacher's house for dinner, and the head teacher opened a new bottle of wine, and Tan Ruikang's face flushed from drinking. After eating until ten o'clock in the evening, Tan Ruikang said: "Teacher, we are going back."

The head teacher said: "Sleep here, I'll set up a bed, and the two young men will squeeze together."

Tan Ruikang hurriedly said: "No, no, I want to go back, the house is not cleaned up, and the door is not locked when I come out in the morning."

Yuanyuan and Tan Ruikang went downstairs, and Tan Ruikang agreed to visit the teacher after graduation, and happily collected the two poetry collections that the teacher gave them.

Yuan Yuan: "Is it okay to drink and drive?"

Tan Ruikang shouted: "No no no! I'm not drunk yet! Come up come up!"

Yuan Yuan sat in the back, kicking his feet on the ground, holding the car seat with both hands, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, seeing Tan Ruikang's staggered appearance, and said, "Forget it..."

Tan Ruikang got angry and said, "It's okay! Let's take a shortcut and go back! Go through the mountains... through!"

The summer night wind was cool, and Tan Ruikang rode his bicycle like a juggling monkey, swaying back and forth, stopping after a while, and signaled for distance and so on.

distant:"?"

Tan Ruikang went over to support the tree and vomited violently.

distant:"……"

After Tan Ruikang pissed, he became more awake, and came over to signal Yuanyuan to get in the car.

The dark clouds covered the starlight in the sky, and it was pitch black all around. I don’t know what was calling in the distance, and the buzzing of insects all around stopped. On the dark road, the mountains were like fierce beasts baring their teeth and claws in the dark.

Yuanyuan was a little scared, so Tan Ruikang rang the car bell twice, and the ding ding sound spread far away.

"Xiaoyuan, are you afraid of ghosts?" Tan Ruikang asked

Say.

"No...not very afraid." Yuan Yuan is indeed not afraid. This is near the hill where grandpa and grandma are buried. The ancestors have spirits, so what are you afraid of?He is just afraid of snakes and robbers.

"Don't be afraid." Tan Ruikang said drunkenly, "Brother protects you."

Yuanyuan laughed, thinking of an iron rod in Tan Ruikang's schoolbag when he was in junior high school.

Tan Ruikang sighed again and said, "Xiaoyuan, I'm sorry for you."

Yuanyuan said: "What are you talking about. No, what did you do to apologize to me? Tell me quickly!"

Tan Ruikang shook his head and thought for a while, and suddenly a gray figure rushed over from the side of the road, throwing their bicycle to the side!

"Little..." Before Tan Ruikang finished speaking, the two of them fell down the hillside with their bicycles.

There was a burst of mad barking, the roar of the dog resounded through the night sky, Yao Yuan hit the stone directly, and there was a loud noise in his head, and then Tan Ruikang hugged him tightly. There was burning pain, and I heard a burst of mad dogs barking.

"Wang-wang-"

A big black dog half the height of a person rushed down from the top of the slope!

At the same time, the two rolled down a nearly 30-meter hillside and hit the ground with their heads. Yuan Yuan only felt severe pain in his muscles and bones, and he was about to vomit blood from the fall.But his head hit Tan Ruikang's elbow, not the ground directly.

Yuanyuan was thrown with stares in his eyes, and shouted: "Tan Ruikang! Tan Ruikang! Brother!"

Tan Ruikang turned over and vomited violently, Yuanyuan was about to pull him up, suddenly there was another bark, the black dog chased him down, with a dangerous hog sound in his throat, Yuanyuan realized fear instantly, is this dog a mad dog? !

Its eyes were blinded on one side, and it slowly bent down.

"Fuck!" Yao Yuan cursed, and after the fear disappeared, he became almost uncontrollable manic. The dog rushed over, picked up a stone without looking at Yuan Yuan, grabbed it and threw it at the dog!

The black dog went berserk immediately after being hit by this blow, and took a step back when it landed, showing its thick white teeth, growling depressingly towards Yuan Yuan, Yuan Yuan roared again: "Get out!"

Yuan Yuan grabbed a fist-sized gravel, with fear in his eyes, the dog immediately barked again, Tan Ruikang vomited all over the floor, struggled to get up, the vicious dog seemed to be stimulated again, barked wildly, and rushed towards Tan Ruikang!

"Get out!" Yuan Yuan slapped the dog hard with a stone, hit the dog's head, and slammed into its mouth, and the dog rolled on the ground in pain, Tan Ruikang said: "Go! It's a mad dog, don't let it rub! "

The dog had gone mad, Tan Ruikang couldn't help coughing violently, and said far away: "I can't climb up!"

The slope was too steep, and the dog jumped down again. Tan Ruikang grabbed Yuan Yuan's arm and dragged him to another direction. Yuan Yuan had never experienced such a thing in his life. They both ran very fast. The heart was about to pop out of his mouth, the mad dog chased him all the way, Yao Yuan staggered and almost fell, and was pushed into a wooden house by Tan Ruikang.

"Go in!" Tan Ruikang shouted.

The two fell in, and the dog jumped up frantically, barking at Tan Ruikang.

Yuan Yuan couldn't help yelling, Tan Ruikang rushed forward and put his shoulders against the door tightly, clamping the black dog's head in the crack of the door, Yuan Yuan grabbed whatever he picked up and hacked at the door, the mad dog backed out , Tan Ruikang slammed the door and bolted it, and with a bang, the two were locked in the darkness.

Yuanyuan collapsed, and they fell to the ground gasping for breath.

In the darkness where you can't see your fingers, the wooden house is very narrow.

"Xiaoyuan... Xiaoyuan... are you okay?" Tan Ruikang groped over and touched Yuanyuan's hand, and the two hugged tightly.

Yuanyuan panted and nodded, buried his head on Tan Ruikang's shoulder for a while, felt the warm liquid on his neck, startled, and said, "Are you bleeding?"

"There is a hole in the ear." Tan Ruikang tremblingly said: "Is the lighter still there? Let me see you."

Yuan Yuan trembled and took out the lighter, and Tan Ruikang took it. After a soft sound, a faint flame jumped between the two of them.

Tan Ruikang's left face was covered with blood, they looked at each other quietly, he put his palm on the distant side face, looked at him seriously, and murmured: "It's okay, you're fine, you're not disfigured."

His face was covered with blood, his eyes looked into the distance without blinking, his eyebrows, his eyes.

The two watched quietly, and both could feel each other's burning breath. Tan Ruikang felt relieved, closed his eyes, laughed, and said, "It's okay, it's okay."

Tan Ruikang's handsome smile seemed to ignite the fire in Yuanyuan's heart. At that moment, Yuanyuan didn't know why he wanted to move his face closer and kiss his lips.

He held his breath, and suddenly remembered a sentence he read many years ago——

——Love doesn't know where it started, and it goes deeper and deeper.