Love you No.17 years

Lu Ming walked out of the train station and took a deep breath of the not-so-fresh air.

The sky in his hometown is still as dark as ever, and he hasn't been back here for more than two years.

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He only carried a travel bag and was wearing a simple white T-shirt; his hair was a little long, but he didn't bother to take care of it.As soon as he walked out of the train station, he hurriedly took out his cigarette, but after seeing something, he put the lighter back into his pocket.

Lu Ming was 22 years old at the time. He was more than 1.9 meters long, with a strong physique and strong muscles;

The vendors who were about to come forward to solicit customers retreated one after another when they saw him, Lu Ming was already used to it.His "hooligan temperament" seems to be innate, even if there is no expression on his face, just his eyes can make people stay away.

Lu Ming brushed back his slightly curly black hair, and wiped away the exhausted expression of a sleepless night.Walking towards him was a young couple, and there was a sweet sleeping baby lying on the man's shoulder.

"Xiao Ming."

A woman named Huai Ya embraced him with her arms wide open.She has a gentle face, long hair hanging down her shoulders, looking at Lu Ming as if she was looking at a child, gentle and full of pity.

Lu Ming was a little helpless by this gaze, and said with a wry smile: "Sister, long time no see."

The man next to him smiled and grabbed his shoulders.His name is Xiao Zhenghan, Huai Ya's husband, he seems to be not much older than Lu Ming, but the child on his shoulder is already two or three years old.

"The journey was tiring," Xiao Zhenghan said, "Is it tiring to sit on the train all night?"

"It's okay," Lu Ming said lightly, "It's lying down anyway... the little guy is already this big? The last time I saw him he was just that big, right?"

Lu Ming compared with one palm, Xiao Zhenghan patted the child's buttocks: "Yes——come, Xiao Yu, meet your Uncle Lu Ming."

Xiao Yu slowly woke up from her father's shoulder, opened her eyes, and in front of her was Lu Ming's "fiendish" face——

Xiao Yu cried "Wow".

Lu Ming: "..."

He remembered that he seemed to have been disliked by children.

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The three came to an elegantly decorated restaurant for lunch.With an unlit cigarette in his mouth, Lu Ming propped his elbows on the table, looking boredly at the hotel lobby.

I haven't been back for several years, and there is such a restaurant in my hometown, he sighed in his heart.

Huai Ya poured tea for him, and looked at him with pity.Lu Ming scratched his messy hair and said, "Sister, why do you keep looking at me like this? - Do I look weird?"

"It's not surprising, he's very handsome. It's just that you don't know how to take care of yourself... When I first met you, you were a juicy boy, why are you so messy now..."

"I... When did I become 'Shui Lingling'..." Lu Ming stroked the stubble protruding from his chin, dumbfounded.

"I'll take you to have a haircut after dinner in a while?"

"No, I think this is fine..."

After Xiao Zhenghan came back from ordering, he also stood by Lu Ming's side: "Big man, what's the point of being rough? — Xiao Yu, stop playing. Uncle Lu Ming will be your piano teacher in the future. Call me Teacher Lu."

Xiao Yu was sitting on her mother's lap and was playing with plastic paper intently. When she heard this, she raised her eyes and happened to be able to see Lu Ming's eyes across the table——

Then the child shrank back in fright.

Lu Ming smiled and took a sip of his tea.

"I didn't agree to be your son's teacher," Lu Ming said with a mature tone, "And what kind of piano does such a young child learn? Are you too impatient?"

"It's not that I'm impatient," Xiao Zhenghan said, "This kid likes music and has talent—how about letting Xiao Yu sing a song for you? We never taught him anything, but his pitch is surprisingly good."

"That's not surprising, there are genes from both of you..."

"Xiao Ming, are you planning to live in the urban area?" Huai Ya changed the subject, "Not going back to your father—"

"Why should I go back when the others are gone?" Lu Ming said gruffly, and took another sip of water, "I don't want to see those relatives, it's annoying."

"It's fine if you don't go back," Xiao Zhenghan said, "I've got someone to clean your new house for you, and the piano has also been moved in. When I was looking for someone to tune it yesterday, Xiao Yu was playing on tiptoes, what do you say?" Can you not let him learn early..."

Huai Ya glared at him, Xiao Zhenghan looked embarrassed, and Lu Ming looked down at the scene and smiled.

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Both Lu Ming and Huai Ya studied at a normal university in the eastern part of the motherland. Lu Ming studied piano, and Huai Ya majored in vocal music.Xiao Zhenghan was in the school next door to them. He and Lu Ming were fellow villagers.

Xiao Zhenghan is considered a half-baked in music.He played rock and roll with a few brothers from a non-major background, and he made a name for himself at a young age. He was the most popular among young people at that time.

But his greatest achievement was "abducting" Huai Ya.The two settled down in this small town surrounded by mountains, and Lu Ming returned to his hometown after graduation.

Anyway, it's the same for him anywhere, since there are two old friends here, life shouldn't be too boring in the future.

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He was holding a water glass, his eyes were surprisingly lonely.Seeing his appearance, Huai Ya opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but Xiao Zhenghan stopped him in time.

"...that's the temperament of an artist," Xiao Zhenghan said in a low voice, "and he's such a big man, do you still worry about him like a child?"

Huai Ya stared back with gentle eyes, Xiao Yu on her lap suddenly coughed.

Lu Ming's gaze regained focus, and he smelled a smell of smoke coming from behind him.

He touched the man next to him with the back of his chair, and changed into a fluent dialect: "Don't smoke, fellow? There are children here."

The man squinted at him, and didn't intend to pay attention to it, and turned back to continue drinking and bragging with others.

Lu Ming stood up without a word, his burly figure immediately cast a huge shadow on the top of the man's head.

Xiao Zhenghan hurriedly got up and wanted to hold him back, but the man sitting next to him looked up and silently put out his cigarette...

Lu Ming didn't say anything, and sat back.

"Xiao Ming really..." Xiao Zhenghan wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, "Is my temper much better now? I don't like to fight anymore."

Lu Ming hummed in his throat.Thinking back to his four-year university career, he had only fought with Xiao Zhenghan alone. Who told his band to "beat gongs and drums" downstairs in his dormitory at that time?disturbed his lucid dreams...

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Not far away, a waiter noticed the tense atmosphere just now, and hurried over to serve tea and water for the two tables.At this time, a middle-aged man who looked like a boss strode into the lobby, and the waiters nodded to him, and then the man noticed Xiao Zhenghan's table——

"Old Xiao!" Xie Qun walked over with a red face, "Why don't you say hello when you come to my restaurant for dinner? - Come, come, Xiaoer, this table is free - Order whatever you want today, I treat you!"

"How can this work?" Xiao Zhenghan stood up with a polite smile on his face, "I just brought a friend here to eat something..."

"Oh? Friends? Did you just return to Pingcheng today?"

Xie Qun noticed the luggage at Lu Ming's feet, and wanted to come over to be polite, but as soon as his eyes moved to his face, he froze there.

"Huh?" Xiao Zhenghan noticed his expression, "You... know each other?"

Lu Ming recognized Xie Qun from the moment he entered the door.At this moment, Lu Ming sat motionless on his seat, and had no intention of getting up. He expected that this man would not want to say anything to him.

"Um, no, I don't know..." Xie Qun's expression was a little evasive, and he said, "Then what...you guys are delicious! I have to go to the back kitchen to see, they seem to have something to do with me... Excuse me first, please eat and drink well, everyone, eat well and drink well..."

Xie Qun hurried away, Xiao Zhenghan sat down in a daze: "Xiao Ming, do you know him?"

"Huh? It's not acquaintance."

"What is 'not counting' knowing..."

"Is he the owner of this restaurant?"

"Yes, he lives next door to my house. He's about to move recently... He just started his business in the past two years, but he's doing very well. Look at this store, it's very profitable. I heard that he plans to open a chain."

Lu Ming slowly sipped his tea, and noticed a small hand stretched towards him on the table, trying to grab the chopstick wrapping paper he threw aside.

He squeezed the wrapping paper into the shape of a caterpillar, teasing the child on Huai Ya's lap like a puppy.

Then he thought of something, smiled secretly, and said, "This kind of person can actually become a boss..."

"What's the matter?" Xiao Zhenghan looked at him worriedly, "You really know each other? ——You didn't fight him before, did you?"

"Ah."

"what?"

Lu Ming's memory suddenly returned to four years ago, he really punched that man in the face...

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It was the summer vacation after his college entrance examination, and he was driven back to the countryside by his father who was still alive to help his relatives with farm work.

Relatives in the country are very different from those in the city.The folk customs here are simple and the air is fresh, and he likes staying here very much.

But it was said that he was here to do farm work, but no one dared to instruct him, the "eldest young master"——Lu Ming's father is a well-known "black boss" in the counties around Pingcheng. He was walking on the streets of the county since he was a child, and he would meet him from time to time. Dad's "horse boy" bowed his head to greet him.

And Lu Ming doesn't know what the family does, and his father doesn't seem to want him to inherit the "family business".

He has learned piano since he was a child, read comics, and is literary and comfortable, although the appearance is almost printed out of the same mold as his "black boss" father.

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He sat on a tree behind the house to enjoy the shade, leisurely flipping through comic books.The summer in the countryside is too violent. Once the heat in the afternoon evaporates, there is nowhere to hide, and the sun is so intense that people dare not open their eyes.

He sat in the tree for a long time.Here is under a mountain wall at the back of the house, with a rare shade.He ate and drank for free at a relative's house for more than a month. Being strong and strong, he offered to do some farm work, but his great-grandpa loved his "pianist" hands so much that he didn't let him do anything.

But I can't practice the piano here... He thought about the day when he would go home, covered his face with the comic book, and planned to squint for a while.

At this time, there was a sound of cautious footsteps not far away, it seemed that a small person was walking towards this side.

The visitor's shoes made a slight sound when they stepped on the dry and broken branches. Lu Ming opened one eye and found that it was a child in his teens.

He has seen this child.The house next door was doing funeral things. Many distant relatives came and brought many annoying little devils. This child was one of them.

Lu Ming hates little ghosts, so he usually hides here when the children are awake, but he didn't expect someone to break into his "secret base" suddenly.

But Lu Ming took a closer look and found that this boy was the quietest one among the group of little ghosts, and he seemed to be the oldest, probably in his early ten years old.

The child was well-dressed and clean, with fair skin and a handsome appearance. He wore a pair of thin-rimmed glasses at a young age, and had an unusually quiet and well-behaved temperament.

This one is not bad.Lu Ming turned over and thought with satisfaction.Maybe the child was too disturbed, so he hid here.

Lu Ming narrowed his eyes and looked down, but the child didn't notice him.I saw him holding a thread-bound book in one hand and some paper towels in the other. He found a big rock and wiped it carefully before sitting down.

"Hi." Lu Ming suddenly called out, making the child jump up in fright.

The boy stared at him motionless, terrified.At that time, Lu Ming didn't look as flamboyant as he did later, but his facial features were sharp, his temperament was deep, coupled with his huge body for a child, no wonder he would scare people.

But I just shaved this morning... Lu Ming rubbed his chin and thought.Even if he can't be called "sunshine and fresh", at least he isn't a "strange sorghum", right? ...

Lu Ming squeezed out a friendly smile, and said, "I'm reading here too. The tree is my place, and the tree is yours—don't tell your brothers and sisters, okay? Otherwise, they will definitely have to Come to 'grab the territory' with us."

Such a big child should understand what he said.Lu Ming looked at him nervously for a few seconds, then saw the child nodding, and sat down under the tree again.

"What's your name? Is your surname Xie too?" Lu Ming said again.The family name next door is Xie, so he should be from Xie's family too.

The child ignored him, and didn't even look up. Lu Ming got bored and reopened the manga.

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For the next few days, the child came to read under the tree on time.Lu Ming was still lying carelessly on the tree, flipping through his comic books with his long legs crossed.

The child sat quietly under the tree, not as noisy as his peers, but Lu Ming never managed money, which made him a little depressed.

Who told Dad to inherit this "violent look" to him?The children in the neighborhood are afraid of him, and I guess this one is too.

The two stayed together for several days, but they never said a word, and Lu Ming never asked his name again.But sometimes when Lu Ming fell asleep, he would make moderate snoring noises, and the child always looked up at him at this time.

——Lu Ming naturally wouldn't know.

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The funeral affairs of the neighbor's house went on for half a month, and finally when Lu Ming was about to leave, they had just removed the tarpaulin roof in the yard.

The day before Lu Ming set off to go home, he couldn't sleep.The summer nights in the countryside are very lively, with the singing of cicadas and frogs, meeting each other under the vast starry sky.

He walked out of the stuffy room, thinking that he might as well go to the tree to watch the stars for a while.Unexpectedly, as soon as he turned to the house, he found lights flickering in the toilet of the neighbor's house not far away, and there were faint cries and cries for help from there.

He woke up instantly when the breeze blew.Lu Ming listened attentively, it was a child!

So he rushed over.