Glued up by my father's nemesis

"Little uncle! How much did you drink just now? Are you still awake?" Qi Jingsi suddenly felt as if he had drunk a lot, his whole body was hot, and his lips trembled when he spoke; he dragged Lin Yu aside in embarrassment, He whispered: "Our house only has two bedrooms..."

"I know." Lin Yu still looked calm, "Squeeze with me and give up your room to Xiaoyan for a night's rest."

"How can this be done!" Qi Jingsi immediately retorted.

"Why not?" Lin Yu's voice was still gentle and the tone was gentle, as if he was saying a matter of course, "You have been sleeping on your uncle's chest since you were a child, why didn't you stay in the middle?"

"Then... just, just your single small wooden bed..." Qi Jingsi stood up straight and raised her chin, immediately taller than Lin Yu by a head, "Does it have to be squeezed?"

"That's true." Lin Yu looked up at Qi Jingsi, smiled and said, "Your room is more spacious, so you and Yan Fei can squeeze together."

Qi Jingsi was so frightened that he almost left his feet off the ground, "That's even worse!"

"Little uncle." Yan Fei, who had hung his head and said nothing for a long time, finally stepped forward when he saw this, and bowed politely, "Yan Fei is already very sorry for bothering you all night, so don't bother."

"What's the trouble?" Lin Yu took Yan Fei's hand and helped him up, "How can uncle let you walk alone at night in the middle of the night?"

"Then..." Qi Jingsi took two awkward steps forward and said, "Can't I send him back?"

"Only two days ago, I complained about my uncle's partiality—" Lin Yu said with a smile, "I can't let Yan Fei go out alone in the middle of the night, but can I let you come back in the middle of the night alone?"

"You should still be worried about him!" Qi Jingsi said angrily, "Who in Pei County sees me wants to go around, what can I do?"

"Is that the plan to come back as a gift to uncle on the first day of the new year?" Lin Yu's eyes became more serious, "Our house is full of men, and there is no girl who hasn't left the court. What are you doing?"

After Lin Yu finished speaking, she covered her lips and coughed twice, Qi Jingsi's face was flushed, she sighed hard, turned and went into the back room——

It's a tacit consent.

He didn't know how long he lay on the bed when he returned to the house, panting heavily with his forearm on the pillow, staring blankly at the gauze above his head, until his forearm was a little sore and numb from the pressure, finally I saw that the flickering light by the crack of the door was completely extinguished.

This is Lin Yu going back to the room to rest.

His heart beat instantly.

Every breath seems to be stuck with the beat of the heartbeat, like the rain that will never stop, blah, blah——

The spring rain at Yulin Academy, the torrential rain in the back alley of the academy, and even the rain at the gate of the Peixian government office with icy bits in it all seemed to be mixed together at this moment, blah, blah——

Desperately hit him.

The night was so quiet that he could hear the sound of raindrops.

The rain is mixed with the folk song with the unique echo of the cave.

He didn't know how long time had passed, he just felt that every breath seemed as long as a lifetime; but there was no movement at the damn door that he was staring at.

Yan Fei seems to have disappeared from this house again.

Qi Jingsi got up after taking two deep breaths, and slowly opened the door——

Outside the door, Yan Fei hugged a quilt, and stood quietly by the door, with his head down, motionless, as quiet as if he had stopped breathing.

All the lights in the room were extinguished, only a small candle behind Qi Jingsi, accompanied by the clear moonlight, fell on Yan Fei's delicate face.

Yan Fei was so quiet, even his slender eyelashes were full of tenderness, as silent as a statue of suet jade.

Qi Jingsi could hear her own heartbeat, as if even Yan Fei could hear it.

He slowly raised his eyelids, looking at Qi Jingsi with fragile and stubborn eyes.

Qi Jingsi let out a long breath, and confirmed that the person in front of him was Yan Fei who he was most familiar with, no matter what the situation was, he was always gentle, but never bowed his head.

He took the quilt from Yan Fei's hand, and turned sideways to make room for the door to enter the room.

When Yan Fei entered the room, he just stood silently in the room, without making a sound from the beginning to the end, and the former eloquent Zhuangyuan Lang became completely dumb.

"Why are you standing there?" Qi Jingsi spread the cotton wool that Yan Fei brought in on the floor, and said reluctantly, "Master Zhu is not here, did you come in to punish him?"

Yan Fei still didn't make a sound when he heard the words, and only walked lightly to Qi Jingsi's side.

"Go to sleep." He bowed and took Qi Jingsi's hand, "I'll do it."

There was a cold touch on the back of his hand, Qi Jingsi didn't know how long Yan Fei had just stood outside the door.

With a trembling of his fingertips, he shook off Yan Fei's hand, "Go to bed."

After a long time, Yan Fei still bowed and stood by his side, everything seemed to be still, he added in a low voice, "It's cold on the ground."

Not only did Yan Fei not leave, but he also squatted gently beside Qi Jingsi after hearing this, his left hand covered the back of Qi Jingsi's hand again, obviously so gentle, yet seemed to carry an irresistible force, just like his voice ——

He looked at Qi Jingsi sincerely, "It's cold on the ground."

Qi Jingsi didn't seem to know where she was for a moment, so she was led by Yan Fei's hand, walked to the side of the bed and sat down.

He was stunned by the bed, but Yan Fei turned around and hugged the mattress on the floor again.

Yan Fei gently pushed Qi Jingsi's shoulder to make people lie down, and then gently covered him with a quilt, and then stepped into the inner side of the wooden bed and lay down.

Qi Jingsi saw that there was a space of one person's width between the beds, as if they were walking in the rain with an umbrella that day, he heard Yan Fei softly say——

"Jingsi, happy new year, good dreams."

Qi Jingsi couldn't have a good dream, nor could he sleep soundly. He kept his eyes open all night until he looked out of the window with a pale belly.

He looked at Yan Fei's direction from the corner of his eye all night, wondering if Yan Fei would be able to sleep soundly, if he would have good dreams, he only knew that the silence around him seemed to be that there was no one else.

*****

After tossing and tossing all night, when Qi Jingsi opened his eyes again, the bed beside him was already completely cold, and the mattress that Yan Fei brought in yesterday was neatly folded and put aside.

He took two deep breaths, he couldn't tell whether it was disappointment or secret joy, he just felt a little bit lost in his heart.

"Uncle."

He pushed open the door and saw Lin Yu sitting in the main room drinking tea, so he called out sleepily.

"Why don't you have a lot of energy on the first day of the new year." Lin Yu complained, but his voice was still very soft, "I steamed the rice cakes and warmed them in the kitchen drawer over water. Son, it’s a good fortune for those who celebrate the Chinese New Year.”

Seeing Qi Jingsi standing by the door in a daze, with his head down, not making a sound or moving, Lin Yu sighed softly.

"Yan Fei is gone." He put down the teacup and looked at Qi Jingsi, "Did you bully other people's children last night?"

"I didn't!" Qi Jingsi hurriedly explained.

"Leaving early in the morning anyway." Hearing this, Lin Yu picked up the teacup again, "When I got up, he was already fully dressed and waiting in the main room. When he saw me coming out of the room, he went up to salute and bid farewell to me, and then left gone."

"I think the yamen is busy." He added another sentence while talking.

After hearing this, Qi Jingsi didn't say anything, just nodded and turned to enter the east kitchen.

Qi Jingsi didn't know how busy the yamen was, he didn't know what he needed to be busy on the first day of the new year, but slowly, he seemed to have to believe that the yamen might really be busy, because Yan Fei never showed up again.

After the first month of the lunar year, the beginning of spring will not be far away. Because she was worried that Lin Yu would bring up the matter of going to the academy again, Qi Jingsi spent every day on the pier. The workers all made fun of her. Young is good, and one person can support three people. Even the foreman gave him extra wages.

Only Qi Jingsi knew that even after he finished work, he didn't dare to go home, because he was afraid that Lin Yu would let him go to the academy again; Go to the wall of Zhang Huangbang, or simply go directly to the back alley of the county government office.

Fortunately, although Lin Yu's body is not in good shape, it is not in bad shape, except that he is always a little haggard; maybe it is because he is really mentally weak, or maybe he can see that Qi Jingsi is avoiding him, and he never mentioned the academy again. thing.

The days are like this, and it is summer in the blink of an eye.

Regardless of whether Qi Jingsi is going home or not, Lin Yu always has to go back to his room to do some work after using it late every day; if he is idle, he is also idle. Qi Jingsi is deeply afraid that one day Lin Yu will ask him about studying again, so he always wants to save more money. When I am free, I go to a busy restaurant in the county to be a temporary helper.

He went to help as usual today, but he overheard the dinner guests saying that the imperial envoy from the county had already left.

"Little Qi—"

Seeing that the diligent and clever work on weekdays has broken the third plate in a row tonight, the proprietress of the restaurant finally couldn't help it.

"If you don't feel well, why don't you go home and rest? You are usually hardworking, but today—" The proprietress looked at the broken tiles on the ground distressedly, "Aunt Hong doesn't care about you anymore, it's up to you I paid for your busy work tonight."

Qi Jingsi wandered home like a walking corpse, he felt that he didn't think of Yan Fei at all, but his mind was empty, and even his steps were light and light.

Lin Yu was busy in front of the desk in the room, and when he came out to pour water, he saw a figure sitting in the unlit main room.

"Jingsi?" He called out tentatively.

"Little uncle." Qi Jingsi responded wearily.

"Why did you come back so early today? Didn't you say you went to the restaurant to help? There was no movement at all when you came back. What happened?"

Lin Yu continued to ask questions, but found that Qi Jingsi was staring blankly at the square-sized place under her feet, as if she couldn't hear anything.

He seemed to understand something suddenly, smiled and nodded, walked to the corner cabinet in the main room, took out the torch and lit the oil lamp on the small table.

"That kid Xiaoyan hasn't come for quite a while." He walked up to Qi Jingsi and sat down, and poured a cup of hot tea for each of them, "You have time to pass a message for uncle, saying that uncle has stewed fish head soup for him to taste taste."

"He's already—" Qi Jingsi didn't take the teacup that Lin Yu handed over, but when he raised his eyes to stare at Lin Yu, he suddenly realized that his eyes were filled with fog, "Let's go."

Once upon a time in Beijing, he was the only son of an invincible Shangshu. People around him looked down on Yan Fei, thinking that the little blind man smelled of money; no matter how rich Yan Chengli was, he was not from the scholar-bureaucrat class, and his son could not be rich, And Qi Tongfu climbed up to Wen Chaoli, Qi Jingsi no matter how bastard he was, he was also a child of a noble family.

At that time, even if they were in the same academy, they seemed to be in two worlds.

But once the sky and the earth changed——

Yan Fei Sanyuan Jidi is already the hottest champion of the new department. Once a carp leaps over the dragon gate, he has crossed the threshold of the only road from the common people to the scholar-bureaucrat; Qi Tongfu said that the loach should rot in the mud. As if his words had come true, he fell back into the mud by the Peishui River.

It seems that there are two worlds between them from the beginning to the end, everything has changed, and it seems that nothing has changed.

Yan Fei is gone, as long as he returns to Beijing, there may be more than thousands of mountains and rivers between them; Qi Jingsi only needs to look at Lin Yu in front of him, and he will know that the pressure of those families, the prejudices of the world, what kind of barriers are there? It is not easy to cross.

"I know." Lin Yu quietly placed the teacup that Qi Jingsi refused to take in front of him, "So I didn't tell you to invite him—"

"Every time I ask someone to come over, this time you also go to see Yan Fei."

"Little uncle..." Qi Jingsi looked at Lin Yu in surprise.

"He's gone to Ting County, so he must be very busy." Lin Yu smiled softly, "I'll buy some fresh fish tomorrow morning and come back to make soup, and you will send it to Xiaoyan after you go to the pier to ask for leave."

"The child is too thin. He left his parents for the first time at a young age, and he doesn't know how to take care of himself. I don't know what he has been tossed about in Wuting County in the past two months."

Qi Jingsi was noncommittal, but the hand that slowly picked up the teacup couldn't stop shaking.

He had heard people talking at the pier that something seemed to have happened in Ting County recently, and it was said that many people had died.

Although the rumors were inevitably exaggerated and untrue, his heart was still tight.

From the moment he knew Yan Fei was gone, he kept reminding himself of how many insurmountable obstacles and distances there were between them, but he just wanted to say something to himself——

Forget it.

But at the moment when hope was ignited, I finally couldn't let go.

A few days ago, when Lin Yu was busy working until midnight and refused to sleep, he went to Lin Yu's room to look around, and accidentally saw a Buddhist scripture on the other's desk.