Safe range

◎You don't have to tell me this, tell Lin Ye. ◎

Thinking about playing e-sports games with Yu Huan until midnight last night, and having a fight on the sofa for a while, it was already 3 o'clock in the morning when I lay in bed.

Yu Huan reached out for a glass of water, took two sips and handed it to Lin Ye, took out his phone from under the pillow, saw a text message from an unknown number, glanced at Lin Ye who was teasing the cat, and tapped on the keyboard to reply.

Unknown number: What time are you free?

Yu Huan: I am free in the afternoon.

Unknown number: OK

Lin Ye lifted the quilt and got up, filled the dog's food bowl with some cat food, "I want to buy some cat food for the dog this afternoon."

"You remember to buy a cat." Yu Huan said in a hoarse voice.

A moment later he added: "You just took it to the shower."

Lin Ye turned around wonderingly, and the shirt that was already hanging on his shoulders slipped off, "Aren't you going with me?"

"Then you clean up the house?"

"I'd better go to the pet store."

It is not so much Yu Huan who cleans up, but rather a sweeping robot. At first, Maozi lingered on it, but was tempted by Lin Ye's snacks, "Then I'm leaving."

"Ah."

A BMW car with three 1s ending in it was parked at the corner of the community, and Lin Yao successfully found the address according to Yu Huan's description.

Lin Yao put down her handbag, looked around the apartment and said, "He lives here?"

"Here's the place where he likes the ginger sofa." Yu Huan got up and went to the kitchen, "Do you drink water or tea?"

Lin Yao was slightly taken aback, "Water will do."

In her memory, this was the second time she saw this boy, and she didn't have a deep impression of him.Maybe it was just because he was pleasing to the eye, or maybe it was the first time Lin Ye brought someone home, anyway, Lin Yao didn't care much about these things.

Lin Yao walked around the living room. There were blue and white paired mugs on the coffee table, and the litter box was placed by the wall. Standing in the center of the living room, she could vaguely see the raised corner of the beanbag sofa.

She is not very busy at work these days. When she looked in the mirror last night, she found that her nasolabial folds had worsened again, and her complexion was not as fair and bright as before. She sat in front of the mirror and touched her wrinkles. Suddenly, she missed Lin Ye so much. .

She heard the clinking of cups on the coffee table, her eyes were full of guard, she looked up and saw Yu Huan standing opposite her and said, "I paid him, you can rest assured."

Lin Yao smiled lightly, "Didn't you see anything?"

Yu Huan gave a "hmm" and turned his head to look out the window, "Otherwise, I can't go out."

Lin Yao's smile froze on her face, and she sighed after a long time.In fact, her method of educating Lin Ye at the beginning was free-ranging, but in the end it became uneducated and irresponsible. She blamed herself, even surpassing Lin Ye's share to herself.

"Do you think I treat him as if he is not my own son?"

"I thought about it."

"I'm very sorry for him."

"You don't have to tell me this, you tell Lin Ye."

Lin Yao opened her mouth, she felt that this man was playing on the edge of her patience, but she felt that what he said was very reasonable.She could basically imagine how wronged Lin Ye was when he mentioned his mother in front of this person.

Yu Huan turned the chair around, bowed his body, put his elbows on his knees, and tried to be as parallel as possible to Lin Yao's eyes.Seeing Lin Yao sitting quietly for a long time, he said again: "I know you have your purpose, you want to train him to be a businessman, and hand over the entire business territory to him after you retire."

"Yes." Lin Yao came to her senses, put the water glass to her lips and said, "He is good at math."

Yu Huan pushed his eyes on the bridge of his nose, and heard Lin Yao, who was frowning, say: "He has been smarter than others since he was a child. Every time he sends me the test scores and how the teacher praises him, I will take the time to read it, but—— —”

Yu Huan was very calm, "But you still ignored him."

Lin Yao raised her eyes, subconsciously wanting to refute, but Yu Huan said again: "It's not that he is sensitive, it's that he has low self-esteem."

Silence spread between the two.Yu Huan was not polite, and every sentence he said hit Lin Yao's pain.She recalled that time when she beat Lin Ye, she was also so tense.

He said: "He loves you, but he is also afraid of you. He hopes that you can spend more time with him and sit at home to have a meal in peace."

Lin Yao couldn't see any expression on her face. After a while, she answered, "He asked you to say this?"

"No, it's me."

"When you sent me a message this morning, he was lying next to me." Yu Huan paused, and said straightforwardly: "He didn't take the college entrance examination, and he did well in the special admission exam. In fact, his hard work has always been for Let you take a look at him, he wants to prove that he is not inferior to others, because he thinks that you will think highly of him only if he works hard.”

Lin Yao's hand on her knee twitched.

At a certain moment, she wanted to ask Yu Huan, what kind of life did Lin Ye live during the few days when Lin Ye ran away from home and had no news.But she immediately realized that Lin Sa had mentioned that Yu Huan didn't take much class in order to find Lin Ye.

And then, her memory started playing like a movie clip.She finally knew why Lin Ye would go to war with her because of one person, and finally knew why Lin Ye chose to rent a house.

How ridiculous, as a mother, she seldom paid attention to Lin Ye's growth, and while confessing in her heart, she controlled her thoughts.

She wanted to shake hands with Lin Ye to make peace, but it seemed unrealistic, she could only choose to ignore it, or propose to sever the relationship between mother and child.

Lin Yao stared at the key pendant on the coffee table in a daze, and after a while took a deep breath and said, "Aren't you afraid that I'll slap him again?"

"I'm afraid." Yu Huan said, "I'm surprised that you can accept Lin Ye's nonsense. In your eyes, he is an uncontrollable lunatic other than a son of blood."

"When I found him, he cried and told me to rent a house." Yu Huan smiled slightly and said, "I got the apartment key from home the next day, and the moment I got the key, I was thinking , he can finally have a place worthy of his nostalgia."

Lin Yao couldn't help but said, "He wants more than that."

"I don't think you know what he wants. When he talks to other people, he always talks about me, saying that I am his boyfriend." Yu Huan smiled, clasped his fingers and said: " Auntie, I will do my best to give him a home if you can't, and I will make up for him in those years when you were late."

Lin Yao's nose felt a little sore.

After a long time, she picked the cup with her fingertips and said in a deep voice: "Then why don't you think about how outsiders see you."

"I don't care what they think. Neighbors in the neighborhood will discuss how promising their son is when they get together, and whoever's next door is going to have a divorce. It's inevitable that these parents' short stories will not be used as after-dinner conversation."

Lin Yao no longer had the desire to argue.

Yu Huan looked up at her, and said, "I don't have any high hopes for him, and I don't expect him to buy a lottery ticket to win any special prize one day, and I don't think being with him is so ridiculous."

What kind of life does Lin Ye like?It means that you can ride a motorcycle in the evening, you can do things without worrying about the faces of others, you can laugh unrestrainedly, and you can do whatever you want and let your own thoughts go.

It has never been a step-by-step and grievance. In the past ten years, Lin Ye's birthday wish has changed from "first in the exam" to "happy".

Yu Huan said: "It took a lot of courage for him to take that step. I don't want him to have no one to accompany him. My parents always call him Xiaoye, remembering what he eats and what he doesn't. I will go out for a walk with him from time to time."

He was silent for a few minutes, got up and refilled Lin Yao's glass of water, "It's not to show off too much, in fact, as long as you are willing to talk about these most common things, Lin Ye must be very satisfied."

For a moment, Lin Yao wanted to ask Yu Huan for the exact address of the pet shop, and she wanted to drive to hug the child she had ignored for more than ten years.Maybe it was because of the silence for too long, she knew why Lin Ye became like this, but she still couldn't say sorry.

Yu Huan's prudence is as far as he can speak. Even if his youthful nature makes him do some impulsive things, he still knows how to restrain himself.

The second Lin Yao sat back in the car and turned the car key, she looked up and saw Lin Ye's back in the rearview mirror, wearing a white T-shirt, smiling down at the cat in the canvas bag.

Is that boy really Lin Ye?She felt as if she had made a mistake.

She remembered Lin Ye's obedient appearance a year ago, maybe he was really passively protecting himself, giving people the impression that this child is timid by nature.But this seems to be a bit different from Lin Ye in her plan.

The sound of the Didi horn on the road brought her back to her senses, as if she hadn't seen Lin Ye smile for a long time.She stared at Lin Ye's back for a while, then started the car and drove away from the community.

Lin Ye went back to the apartment and knocked on the door. It was expected that he didn't see anyone else in the apartment with his probe.

"Have you been here?" Lin Ye asked after closing the door.

"Yeah." Yu Huan said, "You know?"

Lin Ye smiled helplessly, and put his arms around Yu Huan's neck, "I chose her license plate number, so it's hard not to see it."

Yu Huan didn't want to embarrass Lin Ye too much, so he simply said frankly, "We chatted for more than an hour."

It is definitely not an ordinary person who can make Yu Huan speak so many words. Lin Ye thought in his heart that his mother was somewhat capable.

Lin Ye saw Yu Huan's gradually deflated expression, and said with a muffled smile, "Don't worry about it, my mother is like that, you explain the truth to her and let her understand it by herself. , just remove this hurdle and regard it as the past.”

Yu Huan gave him a blank look, how could he say that about his family.

"It's useless for you to roll your eyes and kill me," Lin Ye pierced his son in front of him. "This is a bit too much, but it's also true."

"The fact is that you inherited it, too."

"Which point?"

"If you don't get through it, just pretend that you have made it through."

"Hey!" Lin Ye wrapped his hands around Yu Huan's arms and dragged him onto the sofa, "I have to talk to you today."

"say what?"

"Talk about whether genetics has anything to do with personality."

Yu Huan leaned back against the pillow and raised an eyebrow at him, "It wasn't like this when you discussed genetics with me last night."

Lin Ye shook his head with a "huh", and tapped his right hand again and again on the palm of his left hand. His earlobe was so red that it exploded, but his face was not panicked at all. "Genetics can only be learned by practicing it."

"Then what mystery have you discovered?"

"It's too early to fall in love."

Yu Huan shook his head, "You don't have to choose even if it's late."

Lin Ye folded his hands behind his head, looked up at the ceiling and smirked, "Then I have at least one, very, very enviable object."

Although Yu Huan knew very early on that Lin Ye valued him more than himself, when he heard Lin Ye admit it, he still felt that he was covered with gold leaf by Lin Ye's love.