After the final exam of the third year of high school, it was another make-up class. On the day before the New Year's Eve, Zhou Jinye felt the taste of the holiday.
The grades have already been released. In the past few months, he has almost become numb in the exams. Although his progress has been slow, his scores have been rising.
According to this trend, he should be able to be admitted to the school he wants to test.
Amidst the cheers, Zhou Jinye calmly stuffed a thick stack of test papers into his schoolbag. It is estimated that two-thirds of the winter vacation time was spent doing the questions.
Because Lin Juexiao has something to do today, he wants to go back by himself, so Zhou Jinye is not in a hurry. By the time he finishes packing, half of the people in the class have left.
The weather was already very cold, and Zhou Jinye stopped riding a bicycle and took the bus home.
When he got home, he first boiled a pot of water in the thermos, and then filled the cat food and dog food. The phone rang suddenly. Zhou Jinye looked down and looked a little surprised.
Lin Juexiao doesn't usually call over, and he always sends WeChat messages when he has something. Through the phone, Lin Juexiao's voice sounds a little distorted.
"Hey, Jinye?"
Zhou Jinye was stunned, and subconsciously responded, "I'm here."
Lin Juexiao's voice was like a stuck tape, and he paused and said, "Just... Yuchen called today. I, let you go home for dinner with him, your father is here, are you going?"
After a few months, Lin Juexiao also saw that Zhou Jinye and Zhou Yuchen should really not get close, but for Zhou Jinye's consideration , he still hoped that the two of them could get to know each other better.
Zhou Jinye held the phone and didn't speak.
The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and he took it for granted that he would spend it with Lin Juexiao.
But in fact, he has his own relatives in this city, and Lin Juexiao also has his own.
When the winter vacation came, Zhou Yuchen was free, and his father, whom he didn't remember at all, came back, he must have to go home.
Although Zhou Jinye felt that Lin Juexiao only called home here.
"Drip-drip--"
The water in the thermos jumped to the highest temperature, and after the alarm sounded, hot steam came out of the spout.
Zhou Jinye was scorched by the heat, he came back to his senses and looked down at his fingers.
He gave a nonchalant "um", which sounded the same as usual.
Lin Juexiao rushed home before night. He came over specially to send Zhou Jinye to Zhou Yuchen's place, but when he got home, Zhou Yuchen said he came to pick up Zhou Jinye again.
The winter clothes are thick, even if the third year of high school only takes eight days off, Zhou Jinye still packs the whole suitcase.
He really likes black, and he wears all black again. The long down jacket is very sculpted, but it looks even taller when worn on Zhou Jinye.
Zhou Jinye's hair grew a little longer, and it covered his forehead worthy, his clean brows and eyes were exposed, and his well-defined eyelashes drooped lightly.
When Lin Juexiao opened the door, he happened to see Zhou Jinye standing at the entrance with a suitcase, Kang Kangzheng reluctantly wrapped around his feet.
Zhou Jinye had no expression, but Lin Juexiao felt inexplicably aggrieved.
"What?"
Zhou Jinye stared at him for a long time, without covering his eyes, before he muttered: "...It's okay."
He said it was okay, it was something.
Zhou Yuchen was coming soon. Lin Juexiao didn't change his shoes at all. He blocked the door and asked, "I don't want to go with your brother?"
"..."
"Uncle Zhou seems to want to see you." Lin Juexiao sighed. , "But it's fine if you don't want to go back."
He knew that Zhou Jinye had a cold temper and didn't talk much to anyone he knew, not to mention that he and Zhou's father had never met, and Zhou Yuchen was a heartless man.
Although this is their family's chores, after all, he has taken Zhou Jinye for so long, and he has long regarded him as his own younger brother, and he doesn't really want him to be uncomfortable.
To his surprise, Zhou Jinye said instead, "I'll go back."
He didn't want to embarrass Lin Juexiao.
Zhou Yuchen's horn also sounded right downstairs, and the position on the fifth floor was barely audible. After a few beeps, Zhou Yuchen probably lost his voice because he was afraid of being scolded.
Zhou Jinye dragged his suitcase and walked to the stairs.
But his footsteps stopped abruptly, he let go, and the suitcase rolled on the concrete floor, almost falling.
Zhou Jinye walked in the direction of Lin Juexiao. He opened his arms and hugged Lin Juexiao. In order to keep out the cold, he wore a cotton mask on his face.
A muffled voice came from under the mask: "Brother, I'm leaving."
Lin Juexiao was stunned by this unexpected hug. When he reacted, Zhou Jinye's back had disappeared at the turn of the corridor. mouth, leaving only the sound of the suitcase being lifted and lowered.
He stood at the door for a while, then changed his shoes and walked back into the house.
The door closed with a "click--" sound, and Lin Juexiao bent down to change his shoes, ready to put them in the shoe cabinet.
Zhou Jinye only brought a pair of shoes back, and there were several pairs of his leftover sneakers in the shoe cabinet, all of which were very clean.
Lin Juexiao paused, put his shoes aside, and said to himself, "So sticky?"
Without Zhou Jinye, the family was half empty in an instant.
Lin Juexiao was used to living alone. When Zhou Jinye first moved in, he got used to it for a while, but now Zhou Jinye is suddenly gone, and it's a little quiet.
Lin Juexiao thought for a while, and was about to pack up and go home.
But there were four pets at home, and it was inconvenient for him to bring them home, so he searched the pet store that was still open and put them back in foster care.
I drove the car home by myself, the way home was a bit long, and the co-pilot was also missing a person. It seemed that I was not used to everything.
Lin Juexiao smiled and shook his head, feeling a little baffled.
Zhang Huiying was quite surprised when she saw him, because he originally promised to come back tomorrow, but in the next second, Zhang Huiying smiled happily: "Why did you come back?"
She looked behind her again: "Jin Ye, didn't you bring it back with you?"
Lin Juexiao said while changing his slippers: "He's home."
"That's right, I still have to be with my family during the Chinese New Year." Zhang Huiying said, she asked again, "Then What about Ping Ping?"
Unlike An An, Ping Ping was brought back by Lin Guoyuan from a friend's house when Lin Juexiao was ten years old, and it can be said that he grew up with Lin Juexiao.
Pingping is also very sticky to him. After he graduated, he simply took Pingping out with him.
Lin Juexiao smiled and said, "Don't worry, I sent it to the pet store, it's very reliable." "Where's
my dad?"
"You came just in time, your dad just went shopping." Zhang Hui Yingdao, "I'm going to call him and ask him to buy more food to come back."
Lin Juexiao followed his parents to a reunion dinner on the New Year's Eve. When he returned home, he suddenly thought of Zhou Jinye again.
By the time he lay down on the bed after washing up, it was already past eight o'clock, and Lin Juexiao simply called Zhou Jinye.
Zhou Jinye answered the phone very quickly, as if he had been waiting for his call. When Lin
Juexiao saw the call was connected, he asked with a smile, "What are you doing?" His voice was mixed with the child's voice, and the voice just after the voice-changing period was still a little hoarse, "I'm playing with the child." With
a simple sentence, Lin Juexiao could hear his impatience.
He laughed silently a few times: "Is it cute?"
Zhou Jinye said indifferently, "Not cute."
He took the toy that the boy next to him accidentally dropped on him, and Zhou Yuchen was still roaring piercingly. them, let them stop arguing.
Zhou Jinye simply went to the balcony. As soon as the door was closed, his ears became clearer. He complained to Lin Juexiao in a low voice: "They are so annoying."
Lin Juexiao laughed happily and became even happier: "You may have been so noisy when you were a child. "
Impossible." Zhou Jinye denied without hesitation, "I've never liked to talk since I was a child."
He has regarded his lack of talk as an advantage.
Lin Juexiao's fingers holding up the phone trembled slightly with a smile, and he said "um" in a perfunctory manner.
Zhou Jinye's ears were a little itchy because of his smile, and he stopped talking.
The air was quiet for a few seconds before Lin Juexiao opened a topic and asked: "Is it alright at home ?
"
He also prepared gifts, and kept greeting him while eating.
But it was this diligence that made Zhou Jinye feel uncomfortable all over. He didn't know Father Zhou very well. His mother never let him see Father Zhou before, or maybe it was because Father Zhou never came to see him at all.
He has no emotion for this belated fatherly love.
Lin Juexiao realized something was wrong later, and said, "Have you got the red envelope?"
Zhou Jinye said, "I have."
He didn't want it, but he didn't refuse, and still accepted a few.
Hearing this, Lin Juexiao suddenly said, "Then I'll give you a red envelope, okay?"
Zhou Jinye refused, "I...don't."
Lin Juexiao couldn't resist saying, "Wait for me."
He has always been negotiable, and his attitude is rarely that tough. Lin Juexiao walked out of the room and went through the red envelopes left in the drawer. He held the phone between his shoulders and roughly estimated the time: "You come down in about ten minutes."
Zhou Jinye didn't respond at first, and after hanging up the phone, he realized that Lin Juexiao was coming to find him.
Lin Juexiao told him to come down after ten minutes, but Zhou Jinye could hardly control his legs, and ran downstairs before he even had time to put on his coat.
He didn't run much, but his heart beat a little faster.
Zhou Jinye knew that it was not because of strenuous exercise, but simply because he wanted to see Lin Juexiao.
On such a cold day, he only wore a thin sweater, but he couldn't sense the chill inexplicably. Zhou Jinye lingered nervously beside the street lamp, struggling to think about what he should say later.
When Lin Juexiao arrived, he only saw a tall and thin boy standing under the street lamp, even wearing a pair of slippers under his feet, and his exposed ankles were red with cold.
He frowned and ran over, only to find that Zhou Jinye's eyes were very bright, like dotted with scattered stars, as if seeing him was something extremely surprising.
Lin Juexiao shook his head, took Zhou Jinye's cold hand, and instructed: "Why don't you even wear clothes?"
Zhou Jinye touched his nose and said, "Forgot."
Lin Juexiao pulled him into the car, and then Taking out a brand new red envelope from his pocket, he smiled and said, "Put out your hands."
Zhou Jinye subconsciously stretched out his numb palm.
"Jinye."
The weight of the red envelope on the palm of the hand is very light, but it seems to have smashed a huge meteorite in Zhou Jinye's heart.
With the built-in lights on in the car, the car is very old, and only one bulb is still on, and it seems a little difficult to even illuminate the cramped space.
"New Year's money." Lin Juexiao said with a smile, "every year is safe."
He could directly transfer the WeChat red envelope, but Lin Juexiao felt that it was less meaningful. Only by handing the wrapped red envelope to the person who wanted to give it seemed to fulfill its meaning.
"Put it under the pillow when you go to bed at night, so you can have a safe year."
Zhou Jinye's breathing was slowly extended, he relied on the deep darkness, and looked at Lin Juexiao openly, his eyes seemed to be on Lin Juexiao A dazzling diamond is set on it.
This is Lin Juexiao's blessing to him alone.
He is alone.
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The next chapter starts to push the emotional line