Mid-Levels Farm

Lin Yijin bid farewell to Sheng Leilei and Chu Ruozhuo, called a surrogate driver, and went back to the Lin family's villa.Just after entering the room, I saw Lin Yiyu sitting on the sofa with an e-book watching boredly, and an old movie from many years ago was also playing on the big screen opposite.

Seeing him coming back, Lin Yiyu stood up and said softly, "Brother."

Lin Yijin didn't see it, didn't hear it, took off her windbreaker, walked directly through the hall, and went upstairs.

Lin Yiyu looked up at him, and asked him after a while of silence: "Dad called you back and said you didn't answer the call. He asked you what are your plans when you return to China? The company can arrange a job for you."

Lin Yijin took a few steps upstairs, and looked down at Lin Yiyu: "I have found another house, and I will move out tomorrow." I never thought about going back to Lin's house, but there are still some things my mother left for me. Things need to be taken away, and no one lives in this house.Lin Ruofei and Lu Xiaozhu are still abroad with their daughter. While Lin Yiyu is a graduate student, she has entered the Lin family's construction company and began to assist Lin Ruofei in managing the company's affairs.

He should never have met anyone. Lin Yiyu probably rushed over after hearing about his sudden return from the driver or the nanny.

Lin Yiyu opened his mouth, saw Lin Yijin turned his head, but went into another room... That was not Lin Yijin's room, his room was the best, the most spacious, and the most complete, even though he hadn't been back for many years.

That was Xuan Xiaodong's former room. He once ordered the housekeeper to pack all the things in it into a travel bag and drive him out of the Lin residence.

In fact, there was nothing in it—but no one lived in it anymore, and everyone tacitly avoided that room.

Lin Yiyu already remembered the person he met that day, he slightly raised his voice, and asked Lin Yijin, "Did you see him?"

Lin Yijin's hand rested on the doorknob, paused for a while, then turned to look at Lin Yiyu with an almost sinister expression: "Do you know where he is?"

Lin Yiyu flinched slightly from his cold gaze, and finally raised his eyes: "I just saw him at the Sheng family's banquet a few days ago."

Lin Yijin held the doorknob tightly, and said coldly, "Don't bother him."

Lin Yiyu plucked up her courage: "It's better if you don't bother him anymore?"

Lin Yijin gave him a cool look, and pushed open the door, but Lin Yiyu slightly raised her voice: "I didn't tell my parents."

The corner of Lin Yijin's mouth was raised slightly, showing a disdainful smile: "Just talk, who cares?" He entered the door and closed it behind his backhand.

In the small room, although the daily housekeeping is still cleaning, it is still full of the smell of no one.

He turned on the light to illuminate the small room, even when the two of them were in love, he seldom came to his room, Xuan Xiaodong always passed by.

He walked over slowly, sat in front of the table, tried to trace the past in this room that had been erased long ago, but found that he couldn't remember any impression, he couldn't think of that young man sitting here, living quietly Becoming an invisible person, he couldn't think of his daily life, he couldn't think of how much pressure he faced in the end, to leave here.

However, the vivid Xuan Xiaodong who I saw only recently, standing in the countryside, seems to be covered on the yellowed old photos, replacing the melancholy and loss of the past.

He lay on that somewhat narrow bed, trying to substitute the perspective of the young Xuan Xiaodong sleeping on this bed, the branches outside the window were swaying, and the moon was shining brightly.

Lin Yiyu in the hall outside the door stared at the room, thinking of Xuan Xiaodong whom he met that day.

He has been living abroad since he was a child, and he didn't even know that he had a half-brother. He didn't know him until he returned to China for the first time. His mother introduced vaguely: "This is your brother Xiaodong."

Xuan Xiaodong was also alienated when he saw them, as if they were just strangers living in the same house, he was always quiet and taciturn, but he knew that his elder brother cared about him, and at that time he was full of desire With the approval of the elder brother, I was a little jealous of why the elder brother was obviously better to this brother Xiaodong, and he even tutored him in his homework. Big brother's precious high school review time.

But Lin Yijin obviously enjoys it and never tires of it.

It was only later that he realized that the truth was like that.

The day of the incident was too chaotic. The eldest brother and his father had a big fight and ran away from home. The biological mother cut her own pulse and committed suicide. The younger sister saw a heart attack in shock. .

Angry, he asked the housekeeper to pack Xuan Xiaodong's luggage and drive him away.

The scene of that day is still fresh in his memory. Xuan Xiaodong stood at the bottom of the stairs, looked at him, with the usual silent expression, looked down at the luggage bag, said nothing, raised his hand, turned his head and left .

He actually looks like his mother, he has half the same blood in his body, and he drives him away.

Afterwards, he also regretted his impulsiveness, but after his parents finally returned from the hospital, they never mentioned this matter again, as if there had never been such a person in the family, and he was not punished for driving him away.

Xuan Xiaodong just disappeared.

Until he saw him again a few days ago, calm and calm, indifferent but powerful, he didn't say a word to himself, as if he had never met.

And he who has grown up has also learned to think. When Xuan Xiaodong was with Lin Yijin, it was obvious that Lin Yijin was the one who took the initiative, but in the end it was Xuan Xiaodong who left and carried everything. All this is not so fair, even if Lin Yijin The family has raised Xuan Xiaodong for many years.

Parents have been with their two brothers and sisters abroad all the time. This support is nothing more than paying tuition and living expenses. Lin Yiyu knows that this is not worth mentioning to the Lin family. His monthly pocket money is enough to support ten ordinary children. Other people's children.

For such a long time, it doesn't seem strange that Lin Yijin and Xuan Xiaodong developed feelings together.

With the appearance of Xuan Xiaodong, Lin Yijin, who had been abroad for many years and seemed to have broken with her family, suddenly returned. Has the peace of their family been broken again?

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In such a quiet night, Xuan Xiaodong was also immersed in memories. After all, the visit of an old friend during the day still had some influence on him.

The memory of that night when he was driven out is so vivid. His half-brother looked down at him with the eyes of a mouse in the sewer, and said unfeeling words, like a red-hot iron whip on his back.

At that time, he was also full of fear and weakness. In fact, he hoped that someone would come to keep him, but no, the house was so quiet that it seemed that all the housekeepers, drivers, and nannies had disappeared. In fact, they just silently obeyed the little master's order.He has always known that his younger siblings are different from himself, and they are the legitimate masters of the family, although they are indeed related by blood.

That night he left step by step the home he had lived in since he was seven years old. He tried his best to please everyone, hoping to please everyone, but it still couldn't change the situation that he was a misfit outsider, and he didn't Thinking that one day I finally left this family in such an embarrassing and embarrassing appearance.

He went out to find an Internet cafe and booked a private room. After spending the night, he could still see Lin Huaijin's harsh thin lips, his mother's red eyes from crying, and his younger brother's disgusting words in his dream.

After that, he spent a month in an Internet cafe, and then went to find a summer job delivering food.

From beginning to end no one came to him.It shouldn't be difficult to find him, he registered with his ID card in the Internet cafe he usually goes to, but no one looked for him, as if his departure was the perfect ending of the story.

Many years later, he knew what a "pleasing personality" was. He searched the Internet and saw a sentence of annotation: "People with a pleasing personality always try to please others endlessly and expect that others will never come. s return."

He didn't know at that time that the reward would never come.

Xuan Xiaodong put the glass beer mug filled with ice cubes under the faucet of the beer barrel beside him, and when he turned on the faucet, ice-yellow beer liquid poured out, and the mouth of the glass was filled with white and delicate foam.

A large watermelon was just cut open on the table, with bright red elite sand flesh. On the grill next to it, the half-fat thin slices of lamb kidney were slightly curled and sizzling, sprinkled with cumin, salt, pepper and white sesame seeds, fresh and clean Wrapped with seaweed leaves and put into the mouth, it is just fragrant, crispy on the outside and moist on the inside, with a bright taste.

It's a pity that Mr. Sheng is not here.

After eating barbecue, Xuan Xiaodong took a big sip from the beer mug. The fresh, slightly sweet and wheat-flavored iced wine slipped into the esophagus, bringing a slightly tipsy feeling and making him feel happy.

He put his legs high on the balcony railing on the back of the bamboo chair, looked at the night sky in the distance, and wondered what day Mr. Sheng would come back.The smell of roasted meat in the air permeated the flat and wide terrace. Xiaobu lay down on the terrace and dozed off, while Xiaohei had fun running back and forth on the terrace by himself.

Behind the back-shaped tile-roofed house where he lived in this small farm, a row of houses was built as a warehouse. The roof of the warehouse was built with a flat roof, which is an excellent balcony. If you want to dry something on weekdays, you can dry it here. Then take it downstairs and put it in the warehouse.Sometimes when you are in a good mood and want to eat some barbecue or something, you can also put a barbecue grill on the balcony, put a reclining chair, and listen to music, which is the life of a fairy.

The dark blue velvet sky is dotted with stars, the Milky Way hangs down, everything is silent on the mountain, and the mountain wind is rustling. In the distance, there seems to be light gold stars flowing in the grass on the treetops. It is the fireflies fluttering in the grass, but the car is faintly heard in the night wind. the sound of.

He was startled, sat up straight and looked around, only to see a long white car driving up from the bottom of the mountain. In the dark night sky, it sliced ​​through the darkness like a silver-white fish piercing the water surface. The corner of his mouth Suddenly he couldn't help but tilt up, and Sheng Wuyu drove back by himself.