Glued up by my father's nemesis

Li Sheng Dynasty, Jianye 21 years.

The scorching heat fades away for a season of autumn, but this autumn is hotter than usual.

The busy pier by Peishui was crowded with people.

Qi Jingsi was wearing a coarse cloth waistcoat, squatting on a stack of sacks, gnawing on the dry steamed buns in his hands, and he could see the firm muscles of the boy's forearms rolling slightly during his movements.

He opened his clothes wide, and the honey-colored skin on his chest was exposed in the air, covered with a fine layer of sweat.

The midday sun was just dazzling.

"Did you see that dead sleeve today?"

The one who spoke was Ma Wu, a porter who was fighting sacks at the wharf with Qi Jingsi; he swallowed a mouthful of dry food, and pushed his crutches against the people around him.

"I didn't see it." Another porter beside him chewed his dry food and replied vaguely, "I don't think anyone came today."

Qi Jingsi's face was livid, and he slammed the half steamed bun in his hand to his feet, and jumped off the pile of burlap.

The cloth shoes stomped heavily on the ground, stirring up a cloud of dust. Just now the two porters who were whispering were squatting aside, nibbling dry food, and now they would eat a mouthful of ashes.

"Qi Jingsi, are you sick!" Ma Wu got up impatiently and said, "Didn't you see you were eating?"

"I didn't see it." Qi Jingsi looked down at Ma Wu condescendingly, "I just saw such a big steamed bun, and I can't stop your stupid mouth!"

"What are you in a hurry for?" Ma Wu stood up, raised his head not to be outdone, and smiled jokingly, "I didn't say that Lin—"

That word was still in Ma Wu's throat, and he was kicked to the ground. Qi Jingsi just didn't allow him to say that name.

The workers who were resting at the side heard the commotion and surrounded them, and hurriedly pulled Qi Jingsi away.

"Child from the Qi family! Stop the fight!" The porter who was talking to him just now hurried up to persuade him, "You are also reasonable, we are really not talking about Lin Yu—"

"Bah!" Ma Wu was also helped up by several other porters. He spat at his feet cursingly, and shouted unconvinced: "What reason are you talking to him? When did he talk about it?"

He said that he turned his head and stared at Qi Jingsi angrily again, "So what if I said it today, did I wrong him? Lin Yu did those dirty things, so we can't say it!"

The people who pulled Qi Jingsi were all strong men who had been working hard under the sack on the pier all year round. Three or five grown men refused to hold the boy in front of them, and the crowd quickly scuffled into a ball.

*****

"Little Uncle——" Qi Jingsi opened the courtyard door and smelled the familiar aroma of food. He habitually strode towards the house while shouting, "I'm back!"

"Jing Si is back?" Lin Yu was wearing an apron, holding the hot dishes just out of the pan with one hand, and lifted the cotton curtain in the kitchen with the other, and said with a smile, "Go and clean your hands quickly, the dishes will be ready soon." .”

"Hey!" Seeing Lin Yu, Qi Jingsi immediately turned her back guiltily, and casually put the smock over the waistcoat on the back of the chair, "I'll fetch water now."

"The sun is already setting. Put on your clothes as soon as you enter the house—" Lin Yu stretched her neck and shouted at Qi Jingsi's back, with a smile still hanging from the corner of her mouth, she shook her head helplessly.

When the food was served, Qi Jingsi set up a small stool, buried her head in the bowl, and desperately picked up the rice in the bowl.

Lin Yu took off her apron and sat down, looking at Qi Jingsi with some doubts in her eyes.

"What did you do today? Why are you so hungry." He picked out a piece of lean meat from the plate and put it into Qi Jingsi's bowl, "Don't just eat fast, be careful not to choke."

With something in her mouth, Qi Jingsi said "um" twice, and poured all the food Lin Yu had picked into her stomach.

Lin Yu carefully looked at the child he brought up, no matter how he looked at it, he felt something was wrong; he leaned forward and stared at Qi Jingsi, and finally saw the young man's browbones.

"Fighting again?" he asked.

Qi Jingsi slowly put down the bowl and chopsticks in his hand, sneaked a guilty glance at Lin Yu, and saw his little uncle's gentle smile tucked into the corner of his mouth.

"Little uncle..." He called softly.

"Don't call me." Lin Yu sat back on the small stool, picked up the chopsticks and put another piece of meat in Qi Jingsi's bowl, "You won the fight today, even though you lost the lottery, you can still sit at the table Call me 'Little Uncle'; if you lose the fight tomorrow and call me again, how can I tell me where to find you?"

"Then my fists are harder than theirs!" Qi Jingsi hurriedly raised her head to look at Lin Yu, and immediately lowered her head guiltily at the worry in Lin Yu's eyes, "It's all them...too much... ..."

"Really?" Lin Yu sighed softly, "You don't let others say 'no' to me, as long as someone mentions Lin Yu's name in front of you, it is a sin—"

"Jingsi." He said earnestly: "Are 'they' going too far, or are you being too sensitive?"

Qi Jingsi didn't answer, but turned her head away from Lin Yu unconvinced.

"I wanted to hide some things from you, but you are going to grow up after all, you should have the right to know; now I can't hide it even if I want to..."

"Stop talking, I don't want to know." Qi Jingsi interrupted Lin Yu, he turned his head to stare at Lin Yu, "Whether you have blood relatives or not, you are my little uncle and Qi Jingsi's only relative in this world."

He had no father or mother since he was a child, and was brought up by Lin Yu. On the surface, Lin Yu said that he was Qi Jingsi's biological father's distant cousin, but in fact...

What it actually is, Qi Jingsi doesn't care.

Back then, a child without a father or a mother seemed to be born with a sense of insecurity. He loved to cry all night since he was a child. It can also be regarded as coaxing children to sleep.

As far as Qi Jingsi could remember, she grew up lying on Lin Yu's chest and listening to that nursery rhyme.

Later, when he was a few years old, Lin Yu cleaned up the room for him and slept alone. Knowing that he was afraid of the dark at night, Lin Yu left him an oil lamp every night; he was also afraid that the light would make him sleep poorly, so he always slept in the middle of the night. Wait until he is fast asleep and come quietly to turn off the light.

Although his surname is not Lin, the name "Qi Jingsi" was given by Lin Yu.

That was the first time Lin Yu taught him to speak. Unlike other children, the first word he opened his mouth was not "Daddy" or "Aniang", but "Uncle".

It was Lin Yu who held his hand and taught him to walk; when he cried out in fright when he changed his teeth for the first time, he told stories to comfort him all afternoon.

He didn't care who Lin Yu was, he only knew that Lin Yu was his only relative in this world.

Lin Yu's expression didn't change much when he heard that, he turned around and took out an envelope from the corner cabinet by the wall, and gently placed it on the dining table.

He is always like this, with a faint smile and a slight anger.

Qi Jingsi picked up the bowls and chopsticks on the table again, clamped the vegetables in his hands, and planed the rice with great mouthfuls; he didn't even look at the letter.

Lin Yu covered his face and coughed lightly, "Your father sent another letter urging you to go to Beijing."

Father?

Qi Jingsi didn't think there was such a person in her life.

Back then when he was still a baby, his mother hanged him by the neck. As for the so-called "father", he had never met.

Beginning at the beginning of the year, that strange man was possessed by some kind of demon and sent letters one after another, saying that he was going to pick him up to study in the capital city of Beijing.

Qi Jingsi thought, I am seventeen, what kind of book do I read?

He picked up the cold soup bowl in front of him, drank it in one gulp, put down the bowl and said: "I've finished eating, let's go to the kitchen to clean up first."

After all, he got up and went to the kitchen.

"Jing Si." Lin Yu stopped the person who had already walked behind him, but he didn't look back, but just stared at the envelope on the table, "What are your plans?"

"My home is here—" Qi Jingsi turned around and looked at Lin Yu's thin and straight back, and said affirmatively, "I'm not going anywhere."

"Yeah." Lin Yu lowered his head and put away the envelope on the table, and the smile on his face crawled back to the meaningless, "So take it easy, and the school will start in the next year, you fool I can’t take back my lost thoughts.”

"I won't go to school after this year." Qi Jingsi turned around and took out a fire pocket from the corner cabinet, and lit the oil lamp on the small table.

"The treasurer Zhao of the East Street pawn shop is recruiting a man. I have made an agreement with him. I will go to him as an apprentice in the next year. Learning account bookkeeping is also a craft. He will start a small business in the morning, and he will be able to support our uncle and nephew. .”

"No." Lin Yu rarely looked at Qi Jingsi sternly, "You have not reached the top yet, so your studies must not be neglected; if you still regard me as your elder, uncle will not allow this."

"Uncle..."

Qi Jingsi wanted to argue something more, but was interrupted by Lin Yu's rapid coughing.

"Where's the medicine?" He got up quickly and walked quickly to the kitchen, "I'll get it for you."

"No, no need..." Lin Yu tried his best to swallow the salty rusty smell in his throat, and quickly got up to stop him. He opened the kitchen curtain and saw that Qi Jingsi had already held an empty medicine jar in his hand.

"Where's the medicine?" Qi Jingsi carried the empty jar and buried her face in the darkness of the kitchen, "I just asked the foreman on the pier to pay you for your wages two days ago, and you promised me to go see the doctor to get the medicine."

"Where are the medicines?"

The whole of Pei County knew that the Qi family's boy had a bad temper, and he would get angry at any point, but Qi Jingsi seldom spoke to Lin Yu in such a tone.

Lin Yu knew that sooner or later he would not be able to hide it, so he simply said calmly, "It's Shu Xiu who will go to school after you."

"I don't like reading!" Qi Jingsi lifted up the medicine jar in her hand, but still gritted her teeth and put it down—

Not willing to smash it.

There is only such a jar of decocting medicine at home.

"I've grown up!" He put down the pot in his hand and shouted at Lin Yu: "I can feed the two of us!"

"Jingsi..." Lin Yu stepped forward, raised his hand and rubbed Qi Jingsi's hair, like smoothing the fur of a young animal whose hair was blown.

He looked up at the young man in front of him who was already a head taller than him, and said softly: "Your father connected you with the best academy in central Beijing, and the master of the academy was once your teacher today, and he is a very good gentleman." .”

"It must be difficult for your father to reserve such a seat for you, so you should go and have a look, okay?"

The burrs on Qi Jingsi's body were smoothed away inch by inch by Lin Yu. He lowered his head, feeling the grievances and fears in his chest welling up from the corners of his eyes.

"Little uncle wants you to study, not to become an official, let alone to be rich, but you are still young, you should read some words of saints, know some etiquette, you can't always be so frizzy .”

Lin Yu took Qi Jingsi's arm and sat back at the table, slowly said: "If this is the case, your mother will know, and she will blame uncle for not teaching you well."

"In a few years, when you will be an adult, uncle will not stop you from doing what you like; but you are still a child now, so let's listen to uncle for the last time, okay?"

Except for a name, Qi Jingsi didn't know anything about what kind of father was.

Is it tall, is it short, is it fat, is it thin?

His home is obviously here, why would he want to live with a stranger he doesn't know.

"Little uncle, is this going to drive me away?" He looked up at Lin Yu, his long eyelashes covered with mist, "What if I don't go?"

"Then I'll send Shu Xiu to the teacher in your school tomorrow." Lin Yu's expression was still very calm, and his voice was also very soft.

Qi Jingsi still stared at Lin Yu, gritted his teeth and asked, "What about your medicine?"

"It's not a serious illness at all." Lin Yu turned his head away from Qi Jingsi's eyes, and buried half of his face in the shadow that the oil lamp couldn't reach, "It's just the morning and evening chill in autumn, no matter how bad it is, next spring will be the same OK."

"Will it be alright?" Qi Jingsi's throat was already a little choked up, "You said the same thing last winter, when—"

"You haven't coughed up blood yet."

Lin Yu's sideways face twitched slightly, and his fists under the table clenched the green shirt at his hand, "Now that you know, you should go back to your father quickly, why do you stay here and trouble me?" .”

"Little uncle..." Qi Jingsi tugged at Lin Yu's cuff like she did when she was a child, "I can take care of you."

Just like you have taken care of me these 17 years.

The oil lamp was burning with a weak flame, which was trembling when blown by a gust of wind, unable to illuminate this impoverished home.

The corners of Lin Yu's eyes were wet, he hurriedly got up and turned his face away, his words were cold, "Since you already know that you are not related to me by blood, not because of relatives, but you have troubled me for more than ten years, isn't it enough?" ?”

After saying that, he got up, opened the curtain and walked into the front of the inner room, saying: "You go."

"Little uncle!" Qi Jingsi called out to Lin Yu's bedroom again, "I'm leaving—"

"Are you going to exchange those beam repairs for money?"

The house was silent.

After a while, Lin Yu came out of the room again. He went straight to Qi Jingsi's room, turned his back and said, "I'll pack some things for you."

*****

A reply letter arrived in Beijing, half a month later, a brocade-covered carriage stopped outside the narrow alley where Qi Jingsi lived.

He and Lin Yu's residence is said to be the old house left by his grandfather's generation. On cloudy days, it leaks rain, and when it's sunny, it's windy. Such a gorgeous carriage can't drive into the narrow alley at all.

Lin Yu brought a few servants into the house to remove Qi Jingsi's small luggage, and then hid in his room, closing the door and never coming out again.

Qi Jingsi stood at the door and bowed deeply, opened his mouth and called softly: "Little uncle..."

There were only a few suppressed coughs from the room in response to him.

With him by his side, Lin Yu had to endure even a cough.

"You wait for me to come back."

He said the last sentence very softly, turned around and walked out of the old house.

The author has something to say: finally open the article!

As a reminder, this article has a slight attempt at group portraits. There may be some foreshadowing in the early stage, and the pace may not be fast enough, but it will reach a climax within ten chapters, so give it a chance!In the next chapter, Gong will start his life as a dandy, and the protagonist Shou will appear at the end, so don't make a mistake~

Shuxiu (shùxiū): It was originally dried meat, but it was later used as a gift for respecting teachers in ancient times, which is equivalent to tuition fees.

This is already Ayu's fourth story involving conspiracy and court affairs. Although they all focus on emotional lines, I want to write a relaxed one in the next book.

The next chapter is a healing campus essay "Talk and My Deskmate Chasing Me", which is still the main essay, and the core of two-way redemption remains unchanged.

Suspected of being arrogant and arrogant, a school bully and a school bully (Ding Jinyu) x warm talkative pseudo-stupid scum, little sun suffer (Ming Xi)

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Because being dependent on others since childhood, transferring schools has always been the main theme of Ding Jinyu's life; until the second year of high school, he finally returned to his childhood hometown as he wished.

For the sake of a stable life in the next two years, he decided to restrain his temper this time and be a transparent person in school, but he didn't want to...

On the first day of school, he almost beat someone at the door of the principal's office.

It doesn't matter if you break the merits, the key is that some people misunderstood that the purpose of the attack was to help him, what a coincidence——

This "he" also became his deskmate.

His new tablemate is Ming Xi, with a warm smile and dimples, but he talks too much——

It looks like flowers in a greenhouse.

Ding Jinyu keeps a respectful distance from his new tablemate who is destined to be different from him, but he doesn't want to...

The new tablemate is chasing after him!

An accident caused Ding Jinyu to be displaced again, and he moved into Ming Xi's house by accident.

Alone since he was a child, he had already turned himself into a lone wolf with a strong sense of territoriality, but before he knew it, Ming Xi's warm smile like the sun climbed onto his window sill.

Ming Xi was different from what he usually saw.

So Ding Jinyu became anxious.

Ding Jinyu pinned Ming Xi to the tree trunk, the street lamp passed through the sparse tree shadows, and the lone wolf bit its prey by the neck.

Ding Jinyu's eyes were as red as blood, "Mingxi, I warn you, I'm gay, you'd better stay away from me!"

"Coincidentally, Ding Jinyu." Ming Xi looked up at Ding Jinyu, dimpled in laughter, "Then can I chase you?"

Some people are still like the scorching sun even in the dark.

He healed his whole life with his childhood, and also healed the childhood that others needed to heal with his whole life.