Year after year

It was the delicate Xiao Xun who first discovered that something was wrong with Ying Hengnian.

At the end of July, Wen Qian returned to the team, and the rhythm of Kazuya was no longer tight with the addition of a helper.After lunch, Xiao Xun went to the warehouse to put the apron away, and met Ying Hengnian who was carrying the bag.

"Brother Ying."

Ying Hengnian nodded to Xiao Xun as a greeting.

Xiao Xun took off his apron, and said hesitantly: "Brother Ying, can I, can I ask you something?"

"Sure." Ying Hengnian was not in a hurry to leave, he put on his backpack, "What's the matter?"

"Did you...have you quarreled with the boss?" Xiao Xun's voice became softer and softer, "Well, I see you, you haven't talked much recently."

"yes."

"Yeah... that, I'm not nosy, I know you are all very good people, I just don't want you, um, to have conflicts, ah no, to be unhappy or something." Xiao Xun continued, "Maybe I was thinking too much, I..."

"We're fine, there's no problem." Ying Hengnian was a little nervous, was he so obvious?

"It's just a bit hot recently, so I don't have much energy. We're fine." Ying Hengnian made an excuse, "It's you, when are you going to go back to study?"

"Well, it will take a few days." Xiao Xun was distracted by the important matter on his mind, "School will start next month, I want to finish this month before we talk about it."

"It will be fine once the family communication is over." Ying Hengnian pushed open the door, "Your family... cares about you very much."

Xiao Xun said "ah" to Ying Hengnian, and looked up again, Ying Hengnian had already left.

As the owner of a shop, Lin Yu always has a lot of work to do, and without Ying Hengnian's gags, his work has gone much smoother. The slow-witted he attributed all this to Wen Qian's return.

As for Ying Hengnian, Lin Yu just felt that his anger had subsided a lot recently and he was doing well.

The hot summer is one of the few peak business seasons in a year. Lin Yu must seize this time to make more money, otherwise he will lose money if he fails to pay the rent at the end of the year.The busy life made him forget about Huang Xiaoqi's return. Even though he saw her in the newspaper from time to time, Lin Yu didn't care much.

Love, hate, and hatred are not as important as making money.

But the reality is that money will not come to you automatically, love and hatred will.

When Huang Xinzhi came to Heye, Lin Yu didn't recognize him at once. His uncle looked much thinner than he remembered, as if he only had a handful of bones left.

When Huang Xinzhi saw Lin Yu, he grinned and showed his yellow teeth: "Yu Yu, how are you doing recently?"

Only then did Lin Yu realize that the skinny man in front of him was his prodigal uncle.

"Uncle, why are you here?" There were fewer customers after 12:30, Lin Yu straightened up and closed the refrigerator door, "Didn't you go to Myanmar to run the mahogany business?"

"Well, let's talk about this later, the furniture business is not easy to do."

Oh, that's what it means to lose again.

"Uncle, have you eaten yet? I'll cook two dishes for you?" Lin Yu reckoned that if Huang Xinzhi had eaten, he wouldn't have come over to order the meal. "What wine to drink?"

"You can order the dishes as you like. For the wine, give me a bullet, I have to drink less, and I have something to discuss with you later." Huang Xinzhi was not polite, "Give it to other tables first, I will last alright."

Lin Yu made pickled beef and braised peppers for Huang Xinzhi.When he came out to serve the dishes, Huang Xinzhi was dragging Ying Hengnian to vent his bitterness, talking about the depression of the real economy and the fierce competition in the furniture market.

"Xiaoying, you don't know, there is a rich woman in the villa complex in Yuxi who originally said she would buy goods from me, but she was fooled by the decoration, thinking that Thai logs are better, no, I will return my goods immediately." Huang Xin patted the table, angrily, "The goods I brought her are all custom-made, where can I find another one when she leaves?"

"Is there no breach of contract in your contract?"

"Oh, little brother, this is as simple as you think. Our furniture market is all about business with acquaintances, understand? It's all friends who introduce friends, custom-made."

Ying Hengnian smiled and said nothing.

Huang Xinzhi, if you say it well, he is always messy, but if you say it bad, he is very affectionate.When Grandma Lin Yu was pregnant with Huang Xinzhi, the one-child policy was strictly enforced, so she had to flee to other places overnight to raise her baby, and did not dare to come back until he was three years old.Grandma Lin Yu was very fond of this son who had been born with great effort. She wanted the stars not to give the moon's favor, and in the end she pampered a second generation ancestor.It doesn't matter if it's in a big family, it's enough to give some money to eat and drink. I'm afraid that if I'm here, the Huang family is just an ordinary family with a small family.Huang Xinzhi, whose heart is higher than the sky and whose fate is thinner than paper, is determined to make a fortune. After so many years, he has not made much money and has lost a lot of money.

After Lin Yu's mother Huang Xiaoqi left with her first love, the Huang family stopped seeing Lin Yu's father, whether it was because of guilt or other reasons.But Huang Xinzhi was different, he still came to Lin Hua every now and then, as if nothing happened.

It wasn't until Lin Hua was hospitalized that Lin Yu knew why Huang Xinzhi stayed.

"Yu Yu, don't you really hate uncle?" Huang Xinzhi and Lin Yu sat on the benches in the aisle outside the ward. Huang Xinzhi took a cigarette with a tired face, and after seeing the "Do Not Smoking" sign on the wall, he put it away again. Sticking the cigarette to the ear, "Oh, uncle also thinks that he...is a jerk."

Lin Yu didn't say a word, Lin Hua's illness came too fast, one second he was still in the warm as spring room, the next second he appeared in the center of the raging storm, Lin Yu hadn't digested the chaotic reality yet.

"Your father won't let me tell you that your uncle and I are sinners." Huang Xinzhi turned his head to look at Lin Yu in school uniform, "Your mother...my sister will marry your father to pay off my debts."

The young Lin Yu didn't understand why Huang Xinzhi said this to himself today, uncle is a fool, right?He thought, I already have so many things to do, why do you still want to catch up with this excitement?Can you tell me in a few days?

Lin Yu wanted to yell and want Huang Xinzhi to leave now, but he couldn't, he was too tired.In the third class in the morning, he was called out of the classroom by the head teacher, and then came to the hospital without stopping.When the employees found out that Lin Hua had collapsed, they sent him to the hospital, collected money to register and pay the bill, and left one after another when Lin Yu arrived.After the CT scan, Lin Hua was still in a coma. The emergency doctor saw that it was pitiful for Lin Yu to be alone, so he borrowed the bed in his duty room for him to sleep in.

Lin Yu was stumbled by the chaos of the day, and no one noticed that Lin Yu didn't say a word after arriving at the hospital.

"I'm... useless." Huang Xinzhi opened his briefcase and took out a black plastic bag, "Here's 5 yuan in it. You should pay for hospital expenses first. When your father had an accident, Lao Zheng and I Having said that, you don’t have to worry about the store, Lao Zheng will take care of the staff for you—and also, your dad is just in a coma and will wake up, so don’t lose your face.”

Huang Xinzhi put the money on Lin Yu's lap: "Take it well, the hospital is burning money. Uncle only has so much for the time being, if you don't have enough money, ask uncle for it."

"Uncle is the only nephew like you."

Huang Xinzhi is sometimes very smart, for example, he has hidden something now——

Lin Hua's cancer is already in the third stage.

"I made braised hot peppers for you, do you want anything else?" Lin Yu walked to the table, turned his head and dismissed Ying Hengnian, "It seems that there is not enough rice, Ah Nian, you can steam some more."

"Don't, it's good to sit and chat." Huang Xinzhi was a little bit sad when the audience left. It had been a long time since he had listened so attentively to his speech.

"Eat yours." Lin Yu opened the chair and sat down opposite Huang Xinzhi, "Just tell me, why come to me when you have time?"

"Uncle can't come if he wants to?" Huang Xinzhi took a pickle with his chopsticks, "This pickle is very good!"

"I'll pack a can for you later." Lin Yu didn't want to keep going in circles with Huang Xinzhi, "Just tell me what you have."

"This..." Huang Xinzhi took two mouthfuls of rice, swallowed it, and said, "Let me first declare that I don't want to come, but you can't stand it, you know?"

"Say."

"It's your mother's."

The air froze for a few seconds, Lin Yu instinctively wanted to avoid this topic, he stood up and said, "Uncle, eat first, I still have things to do."

"Hey, don't go." Huang Xinzhi pulled Lin Yu back, "How you do it is up to you, but I will pass on the word."

"Okay, you go on."

"I sent you WeChat your mother's phone number, um, I gave her yours too. Then, she wants to see you." Huang Xinzhi glanced at Lin Yu's expression, "Go to Yayuan to meet her the day after tomorrow."

"I'll think about it." Lin Yu didn't plan to go, what he thought about was just an excuse not to go.

"Don't, Ayu." Huang Xinzhi was anxious, "How can you say that she is also you—"

"What do we have to talk about?" Lin Yu didn't want to waste time on this matter, "We have nothing to talk about."

"Yu Yu—"

"Okay uncle, eat slowly, I will think about it, I have to go to work beforehand." Lin Yu pushed Huang Xinzhi's hand away from his arm, "You can tell her the exact words."

Huang Xinzhi sat back, but the taste of the food was not as good as before the conversation.

Business is empty at night, and the customers are gone by eight o'clock.Ying Hengnian was cleaning the floor in the kitchen and delayed the meal time. When he took the rice bowl to the table, only Lin Yu was left to eat.

Ying Hengnian enjoyed Lin Yu's time waiting for him very much before, but now it has become a torment.

Ignoring all kinds of carelessness that shouldn't be there and concentrating on eating has become a difficult task, especially for people like Ying Hengnian who follow his heart.

Don't talk, just don't talk.Ying Hengnian lowered his head to avoid eye contact with Lin Yu, and ate seriously.

Well, today's cauliflower is so delicious.

"Ying Hengnian, have you recently..." Lin Yu suddenly spoke, and Ying Hengnian almost choked in shock, "What's the matter?"

"Huh? Me?" Ying Hengnian replied vaguely, opened his mouth only to realize that he hadn't swallowed the meal, and after swallowing the meal with difficulty, Ying Hengnian replied, "No, I'm fine."

"Oh, that's it." Lin Yu also felt that he was a bit abrupt. Before, it was Ying Hengnian who raised the topic to chat with him, but now it was his turn to find the topic and he was a little lost. Where should he start?

"I just saw that you went back in a hurry these days, so I asked." Lin Yu smiled awkwardly, "It's fine, it's fine."

Looking at Lin Yu with an awkward smile on the opposite side, Ying Hengnian thought that if he didn't make an announcement, then people wouldn't feel that he left abruptly.

"Actually, my family is..."

"Old Ying, you are indeed here! Zhao Yue, come here, this is here, my god, I drove for five hours today and I am starving to death!"

A familiar voice came from outside the door, Ying Hengnian thought to himself, forget about starving these two bastards.