Lin Xi sat on the bed for a while, but Du Mingyue urged him to take a bath several times outside.

It's getting late.

Lin Xi took the clean clothes and went to the bathroom.

It may be that after class, Lin Xi was driving back again. Lin Xi was a little tired. After taking a shower, he returned to the room. He took a book and went to bed, and fell asleep before turning two pages.

He didn't know how long he had slept in a daze, the bedside lamp was still on, the light was a bit dazzling, and he didn't sleep well.

In the dream, he seemed to have returned to the winter when he died.

……

"You dare?"

"You dare?"

"You don't dare! You have to dare to come to the door, and be careful not to have your old bones broken by someone's great-granddaughter!"

There was another ping-pong-pong sound from the opposite door, even those with poor hearing could hear it two doors away.

Lin Xi lives alone, and his cousin's family lives opposite.

My cousin passed away a few years ago, and the children all moved out due to various reasons of work or study, and his widowed son, who is over 70 years old, also lives alone.

Uncle and nephew being neighbors can be regarded as a companion.

But recently Lin Xi, the nephew, probably entered the old rebellious period, and talked about evening love with an old lady in her 80s.

This time it was a big blow, his grand-nephew and great-nephew all disagreed, and came here every day to fight wits and courage with the old man to persuade him.

No need to guess, today's drama is probably starting again.

"Why don't I dare, don't stop me, I'll move now! True love is invincible! I don't believe it!"

Lin Xi heard this sentence when she opened the door, and looked up to see the three generations of old, middle-aged and young, and the three men who seemed to be carved out of the same mold were pulled together.

"Tang uncle."

"Grandpa."

"Grandpa."

As soon as they saw Lin Xi, the three of them immediately stopped and stood up obediently.

Lin Xi has been used to the style of her cousin's family all her life, so she only said: "Speak well, don't disturb the neighbors."

As usual, he would walk downstairs twice a day to relax his muscles and bones.

It wasn't until the old but tall figure walked into the elevator that the three of them were arguing again.

"Dad, look at your age, can you stop tossing about? You have lived opposite my grandfather for so many years, why haven't you learned anything about him?"

"That's right, that's right, look at the elders of other people's families, how outstanding they are, they are full-score elders! Grandpa, you have a maximum score of 59, which is not enough to pass."

"The two brats are not big or small, and I have a crutch! Watch me break your legs!"

Lin Xi finally couldn't hear the voice behind her as the elevator door closed.

After the winter solstice, the weather is getting colder and colder every day, and in a blink of an eye it will be April Nine, the coldest season of the year.

Coupled with the cold air going south, it can freeze the whole person.

Lin Xi walked around slowly, the road was frozen, slippery and difficult to walk.

I met several acquainted neighbors, and everyone saw him and said a few words to him with concern, and then told him to go home early, lest he fall.

The elderly are the most vulnerable to falls.

Under everyone's worried expressions, Lin Xi didn't leave for too long, and returned home in a good manner without going out again.

Live alone, eat alone, watch books or TV alone, and sometimes talk to myself.

When the sun was at its hottest at noon, he sat on a deck chair on the balcony and basked in the sun for a while.

The room was exceptionally quiet, except for the gradual slowing down of the old man's breathing.

It was so quiet that even time stood still.

When Lin Xi closed her eyes, she could feel the coldness on her skin, just like every winter, and each winter seemed to be colder, longer, and more deadly than the previous winter.

I endured it year after year until I couldn't survive it anymore.

……

He opened his eyes suddenly, and saw the white walls of the room in front of him.

The chill emanating from his bones receded like a tide as he woke up.

The bedside lamp was still on, Lin Xi pressed the phone and took a look.

October 2022, 10, at 1:38.

call.

It turned out that those memories were just a dream, not that rebirth was just his dream.

Lin Xi reached out and touched his forehead, there were fine beads of sweat on it, and it felt damp and cool.

But the weather is still a bit muggy this season.

Picking up the book that had fallen on the quilt a long time ago, Lin Xi got up from the bed.

He felt a little thirsty, and got up to go to the kitchen to pour himself a glass of water.

That dream seemed to cast a layer of veil on Lin Xi's memory, so that everything he saw was filtered by time.

Both familiar and unfamiliar.

Their current house has not been changed for a long time. It is more than 140 square meters, and it is big enough for a family of three.

This house was also lived by his parents until the two old people passed away, and finally it was vacant.

Lin Xi drank half of his glass of water, the door lock of the house slammed lightly, and then his father Lin Yongheng came back reeking of alcohol.

Returning late and getting drunk again.

Lin Xi frowned. His father, Lin Yongheng, looked quite strong now, and was a middle-aged man with high spirits. In fact, he passed away quite early from liver cancer, and he experienced a lot of pain when he left.

Lin Xi saw his dad now, and was about to go over to have a few words with him, when the door of the master bedroom suddenly clicked open.

Du Mingyue walked out in a flash, wearing a moon-white nightgown, without any sleepiness on her face.

"What time is it? I just came back now. I called you a few times. How many times do you count?"

Du Mingyue's voice was cold, her eyes were only on her husband, she didn't even see her son next to her.

Lin Yongheng was stared and questioned by his wife, but he didn't say a word, and went to the bathroom after changing his slippers.

However, his complexion had already darkened, and his dangling steps were also corrected.

It is estimated that it is seven or eight percent drunk, not to the point of being insane, and I know not to quarrel with my wife at this time.

Du Mingyue, who didn't get a response, became even more angry, and he followed her husband's steps.

"Talk, did drinking make you deaf or dumb? Do you know that you have a family, and your wife and children are waiting for you to come back? If you can do this, don't come back!"

When the woman got excited, her voice became very shrill, piercing her eardrums in the middle of the night.

Lin Yongheng was obviously also aroused by this questioning, but he still held back and explained: "Didn't I call you to explain to you before I went out, today's drink is inevitable, our former vice president is going to retire, Thanks to him for my promotion, why don't I thank him and send him off? This is a normal entertainment, can you stop making trouble for no reason?"

But obviously, Du Mingyue didn't listen to this explanation at all, and she didn't want to stop talking at all, but was even more reluctant.

"Now I'm the one making trouble for no reason again? Just drink with your vice president, can you drink until now? How can I not know your virtue? Just find an opportunity to run outside, and I don't know which vixen I'm going to meet!"

Seeing that Lin Yongheng was about to go into the bathroom, Du Mingyue reached out and grabbed his arm. This was not enough. The sharp nails immediately scratched Lin Yongheng's short-sleeved arm with bloodstains.

"You are crazy!"

Lin Yongheng, who had been drinking, also burst into anger under the urging of alcohol, he stretched out his hand to push Du Mingyue in pain.

Du Mingyue was not willing to let it go, her heart was still full of anger, after being pushed, she immediately pushed back.

The couple immediately wrestled together.

Lin Xi held the water glass with a blank expression.

The scene in front of him opened up his dusty memories again. His parents, who seemed to outsiders to be very compatible and loving, were actually the same as his life from beginning to end.

It turned out to be riddled with holes.

Putting the water glass away, Lin Xi was going to persuade the person away first.

The couple who were surrounded by anger saw their son, but they didn't care at all, and they didn't have the slightest intention to restrain themselves. They were still exactly the same as before.

Continue to immerse themselves in their quarrel.

For so many years, the discord between the husband and wife has already been fully exposed in front of the son.

They have long stopped whitewashing the peace.

"You stop arguing!"

Lin Xi stopped, but no one listened to him at all.

He stepped forward to pull his father. Lin Yongheng was 1.8 meters tall and a bit strong. Lin Xi couldn't pull him away by himself.

After trying several times to no avail, Lin Xi turned to fuck her again.

The couple was arguing to a climax, accusing and swearing without stopping for a second, pushing and scuffling, and the whole living room became their battlefield.

Various decorations and small things were smashed to the ground, and the LCD TV hanging on the wall was almost knocked off.

Lin Xi's strength was still good enough to match his mother Du Mingyue, he finally intervened between the two of them and dragged them away.

The two scolding people were finally panting heavily, unable to touch each other again.

"Mom, calm down!"

Lin Xi tried to bring his mother back to the room, but Du Mingyue didn't want to, she was still cursing Lin Yongheng.

"My surname is Lin, when I married you, you didn't want money, you didn't want a house, and you didn't have a house. What else do you have besides a good-looking face? Everyone advised me not to marry you, but I I just believed your nonsense and thought that you would treat me well! Do you have a conscience when you treat me like this now? I am all for this family, but you are fine, and you treat all my sacrifices as fakes?"

"Yes, I had nothing at the beginning, but now I have tried my best to let you live a good life? You are worse than your little sisters, classmates, and any of them. Now you live in a big house and drive Good cars, don’t they all fall from the sky?”

"Yes, you are now powerful and rich, so you don't pay attention to people at all! You are tired of me, yes, the old woman at home is not as young, beautiful and well-behaved as the goblin outside. obedient!"

"Tell me! Where did you come from, you little goblin? You are suspicious all the time. Who am I not sure about? You can tell someone! There must be evidence for sentencing!"

The two quarreled furiously.

These extremely familiar words stimulated Lin Xi's countless unpleasant memories to surge up at the same time, and he only felt the nerves in his temples beating violently.

"That's enough, shut up all of you!"

The author has something to say:

Adjusted the rhythm, put this part here... Lin Xi is a bit miserable...

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