Lin Ran slept until midnight, and her stomach was overwhelmed. After getting up, she went to the bathroom and vomited. After vomiting, she finally felt better.

After he got back to bed, he lost his sleepiness and turned on his phone, only to find that Lu Mingting still hadn't responded to his messages and calls.

In sharp contrast to this is the high school class group, chatting in full swing, everyone has already made an appointment for the time and place to meet during the winter vacation, and also talked about Huang Xinzhi's illness, Lin Ran thought about it and filled in the solitaire at the party. own name.

Later, Lin Ran closed his eyes in a daze, dreaming strange dreams over and over again.In his dream, he was still a high school student. He didn’t dream that he knew nothing about exam questions like others, but dreamed that he was running on the playground, and others passed him lap after lap, but he used No matter how hard I try, I can't accelerate...

When he woke up again, his forehead and back were covered with cold sweat. Lin Ran opened the curtains and found that it was finally dawn.

After he washed up briefly, he got up and went to look for Lu Mingting where he lived, and when he passed by the roadside breakfast shop, he even brought him delicious small wontons for breakfast.

He stood outside the attic where Lu Mingting lived, and he couldn't knock on the door or make a phone call, but he could vaguely hear the cat's meowing in response.

Lin Ran was tired from standing, so she simply sat on the steps at the door to take a rest, the ground was very cold, Lin Ran curled up into a ball, buried her head in her knees, and hugged herself.Four years ago, the great feeling of being abandoned and betrayed came to my heart again, and there was a pain of tearing again after a wound that had been healed for a long time.

Suddenly, someone's footsteps gradually approached, Lin Ran raised his head, and when he realized that it was Li Yao, the light in his eyes that had just lit up went out instantly.

Li Yao stretched out his hand to pull him up, and asked curiously, "Lin Ran, what are you doing sitting here? Don't you know that Xiao Lu has left?"

Lin Ran was taken aback, and immediately asked, "He left, where did he go?"

Li Yao first sighed, then took out a key from his bag, opened the door, and found a seat for Lin Ran to sit down, while he added cat food and changed the water for the little orange cat.

The little cat seemed to be hungry for a long time, and immediately began to eat and eat.Li Yao asked Lin Ran, "Lin Ran, why do you look so ugly? I'll get you a cup of hot water."

Lin Ran held him back and said, "No need, tell me quickly if you know what's going on."

Li Yao: "Actually, I don't know much about the situation. I saw that he was quite happy yesterday morning, and went to the market to buy some ingredients and made dumplings. I guess he made them for you. It's all thanks to you, otherwise I wouldn't even know his craftsmanship is so good."

"But after he went out for a while and came back, his face changed, and he looked depressed. Then he seemed to answer the phone again. Probably the old man in the family was sick. You know that the winter weather is very difficult for the old man. It's been... Not long after, he entrusted Lin Keke to my care, took a change of clothes and left."

Lin Ran was still puzzled after listening, and asked, "Then why didn't he tell me? Why didn't he say goodbye and didn't answer my call?"

Li Yao looked at him and fell silent.

At this time, Lin Keke seemed to be full, and quickly walked to Lin Ran's side with provocative cat steps, immediately touched his feet like porcelain, and began to lick his fur obsessively.

Lin Ran reached out and touched the little fat cat's head, then asked, "Then do you know where he went?"

Li Yao shook his head and said, "I don't know that, you should know that Xiao Lu is a cool person, he cherishes words like gold, and we don't know where his hometown is." He looked at it and kept sticking to Lin Ran "Lin Ran, do you want to take the kitten away?"

Lin Ran lowered her head and rubbed Lin Keke's head. It immediately turned over and showed him its soft belly with confidence. Lin Ran was really reluctant.

Lin Ran hesitated for a while, and said, "I'm going back to my hometown soon, and it's inconvenient to take it with me by plane. Could you please take care of it for a few days?" After that, Lin Ran took the initiative to leave a phone number for Li Yao, add WeChat, He also sent him a big red envelope, asking him to take good care of Lin Keke.

Lin Ran didn't know how he walked around most of the city and returned to his school like a walking dead. He didn't cry, he just felt tired and full of mind.

It was only when he returned to the dormitory that he realized that his down jacket was soaked, and the wet clothes stuck to his body made his body as cold as his heart. It was only after he came back that he discovered that the city had just fallen Big rain.

He opened the curtains, and the rain and snow kept ticking outside the glass window. Through the rain, Lin Ran could vaguely see the young couples on campus who hadn't left yet, their sweet figures cuddling together in the heavy rain, It made Lin Ran feel a little envious and a little sad in his eyes.

Lin Ran didn't know if he was broken in love again. He really wanted to regard the events that happened during this period as a dream, but the details of those hugs, kisses and lingering were a bit too real, and it still hurts when he thought about it .

But Lin Ran thought that he would go home at noon tomorrow, he couldn't be sick, he couldn't let his mother see what he was like now.

So Lin Ranqiang cheered up and told himself: "Lin Ran, you are no longer 17 years old, you are now an adult, you must be strong."

Lin Ran took off her wet clothes, adjusted the water temperature of the water heater to a high level, and took a hot bath for a long time.It was as if tears were dripping down my face with the water from the shower, and even I didn't realize that I was crying.

But no matter what, after taking a hot bath, Lin Ran felt his body warmed up a lot, and he finally came back to life.He used a small electric cup to boil thick ginger soup for himself, which was spicy and choking, but he forced himself to drink it.

When Lin Ran woke up the next day, she felt very lucky that she didn't have any cold symptoms.The second fortunate thing is that he didn't change his WeChat background and avatar due to his different moods like he did when he was young, and he didn't post those cloudy circle of friends anymore.

Otherwise, I don't know how to respond to those relatives and friends who care about me.

So, after all these years, he has grown up after all.Lin Ran laughed at herself on the subway that took the direct line from school to the airport.

After Lin Ran got off the plane and returned home, Li Meijin noticed at a glance that her son was too sickly and thin, and it seemed that his mental state was not very good.

She touched Lin Ran's face distressedly, and said, "Don't you eat? Are you useless for the living expenses given to you every month? Why do you look so bad?"

From then on, she and Aunt Zhong, the nanny, devoted themselves to the kitchen every day, researching and developing the meals her son likes to eat. Lin Ran had to force himself to eat more every time because he was afraid that his mother would be unhappy. He felt a kind of sweet burden. .

The day before Huang Xinzhi's surgery, Li Meijin asked Lin Ran to go to the hospital by herself because of an urgent matter at school.

Lin Ran saw many familiar faces in the ward, and of course there were also many unknown faces.It is not difficult to guess that these should be Lao Huang's former students.After all, Lao Huang has been a teacher for more than 20 years, and has always been the smallest and most tiring official in the world-the head teacher, and he is serious and responsible. It can be said that he is full of peaches and plums.

There were almost a dozen students, surrounded by Lao Huang's hospital bed.Lao Huang's spirit is not very good, but because of the arrival of these students, he managed to cheer up and sit with his pillow.

The wife sat aside and shed tears silently while peeling apples for everyone.Lin Ran didn't expect that after only a few years of separation, Huang, who had always been chubby in his impression, would become so thin all of a sudden, with a haggard appearance and even lost a lot of hair.

It turns out that I really answered that sentence, men don't grow old slowly, men grow old in an instant.

Too many people came to visit, Lin Ran didn't say a few words to the teacher, but he didn't leave after visiting like others, but stayed and waited for Li Meijin who was late.

The people were almost gone, and the ward finally became quiet.

Lin Ran supported Huang Xinzhi who was not in good condition to lie down, and advised him to take a good rest.Then I chatted with the teacher's wife in the ward.

Lin Ran is a relatively empathetic person, but even so, he still feels that everything he says now is pale, and it sounds like standing up and talking without back pain.After all, he hasn't really experienced the experience of leaving a loved one.

Huang Xinzhi's daughter is only 12 years old. Lin Ran used to see her often in the teacher's circle of friends. The girl with ignorant eyes may not understand what life and death are, but she was severely manipulated by fate.

The teacher's wife said that her daughter would come to see her father in the ward after school, and she whispered to Lin Ran, "For fear of affecting my daughter's entrance examination, I didn't tell him about my father's real illness. Mom, don't tell me."

Lin Ran agreed in a low voice: "Okay."

Huang Xinzhi coughed on the bed: "Actually, don't think of her too fragile. I don't think she is a flower in a greenhouse."

Teacher's wife: "Let's not talk about it. I'm afraid she won't be able to accept such a cruel thing for such a young child."

Huang Xinzhi sighed, and continued: "Man, it's just that I didn't push it to that point. Lin Ran, didn't you have a boyfriend named Lu Mingting before?"

Hearing the word "Lu Mingting" from his mouth, Lin Ran was still surprised that Lao Huang could still think of him at such a moment, and remembered that he was his former "boyfriend".

Lin Ran smiled awkwardly, and agreed, "What's wrong with him?"

Huang Xinzhi may have a bad throat, coughed twice, and continued: "That kid is really suffering, but he is actually a very kind boy. He will come back to see me every winter, and he still remembers to bring gifts."

Lin Ran thought, no way.He comes to see you every year, but he doesn't remember to drop by to see me?

Looking at his puzzled expression, Lao Huang continued: "That kid doesn't talk much, but his thoughts are written all over his face. He came to me just to get some news about you through me."

Lin Ran coughed in embarrassment, with sweetness in his heart, but arrogantly denied: "Teacher, are you sure you didn't make a mistake? Did he come back here to see some relatives on his mother's side?"

Huang Xinzhi glanced at him meaningfully, and said, "Lin Ran, the teacher is old-fashioned, but he is not a fool. This child is quite affectionate. But I didn't expect to be so long-lasting."

Lin Ran didn't quite understand what the teacher meant by "long love".

Huang Xinzhi asked again: "Which school in the capital did Lu Mingting get into?"

Lin Ran: "Sports University."

Huang Xinzhi: "That's right. After the college entrance examination, I received a call from him just after you filled out your volunteer application. a place."

It turned out that it was not an occasion to meet Lu Mingting in the same city. Lin Ran received too much information today. He asked, "Mr. Huang, do you understand what you are talking about now?"

Huang Xinzhi asked back: "Xiaoran, why didn't he come today? You have been admitted to a university in a city, and you are not together yet?"

Lin Ran shook his head sadly.

"Xiaoran, the teacher did something wrong before, and I always feel sorry for you." Huang Xinzhi may have been agitated, and coughed violently, and he couldn't breathe when he saw it, so his wife hurried to call the doctor.

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I will write a Xiaolu perspective later, does anyone want to read it?

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