Recap
But Jin Linkun didn’t. Jin Linkun felt that this matter was worthy of delay: “When I take a bite of the cake, I want you to take a bite of the steamed buns.”
“We met for the first time last year today. We can’t even spend our first anniversary together.”
“You helped me cook a table of dishes, and then went home alone, waiting for me at home.”
“He was the only one in the house, and he only had a pot of garlic sprouts and two tufts of grass. It is dark and silent…”
Yu Sheng felt that the scene he described was a bit too far from reality, so he couldn’t help but interrupt: “Wait a minute, why is it so dark? Can’t I turn on the light and play some music?”
Jin Linkun became even sadder: “He’s so lonely that he needs the company of music.”
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Ever since the two of them got together, Yu Sheng found that the reasons his heart softens began to become more and more inexplicable.
Even though he knew that this person was talking nonsense again, Yu Sheng still paused, and immediately couldn’t bring himself to step out leaving this person behind.
Jin Linkun is still feeling lost, but his boyfriend, who is said to be so lonely he has to play music to keep himself company, had turned around, pulled him over, and stuffed something into his hand.
Jin Linkun looked down and saw it was a pen.
The traditional Parker brand, with marble blue tips, is heavy in the hand, and it feels a little warm when held.
“Correct that handwriting on yours.” His boyfriend’s tone is still harsh, but his ears were a little red for some reason, “Your teacher sent a text message saying that you are always writing in continuous strokes.”
Jin Linkun was slightly stunned and coughed slightly: “It’s not that I can’t help it, it’s that our teacher insisted that I write a message on the blackboard to my classmates for my senior year…”
Thinking that Yu Sheng might see it when he came to their class, he carefully wrote on the blackboard.
As a result, he didn’t know anyone.
The teacher of his class felt that he couldn’t help but join the lines. His classmates all thought that this was probably some kind of mysterious abstract art work. Some people also speculated that it was a code for communication between the God of Learning and the Palace of Knowledge.
The idea of secret codes has spread very widely. Recently, more and more people have come to pay their respects. Sometimes you can find two bottles of Coke and a few bags of crispy noodles underneath. It is said that they are sacrifices for trying to summon knowledge.
Jin Linkun felt that they were probably crazy.
Although the misunderstanding was quite big, he didn’t expect that his child would actually remember it in his heart.
The pen is so beautiful that you feel comfortable holding it in your hand.
Thinking of the love words that Liang Yifan and the others shared in the space two days ago, such as “When you are in love, you should share a pen together” and “I hold the pen just like I hold you”, Jin Linkun looked at Yu Sheng’s hand, his heart moved: “Is it nice to use? You can use it for me for two days first…”
“It works, I’ve tried it.” Yu Sheng nodded, “The ink is good, it doesn’t smear or rub, and it’s no problem to use it to write on the answer sheets.”
Jin Linkun: “…”
My boyfriend is too pragmatic and sometimes is not suitable for maintaining a romantic atmosphere.
Yu Sheng was not aware of his romanticism at all, and felt that the birthday gift should be enough to appease Jin Linkun. He pulled him over, raised his arms and rubbed his hair: “Okay, you pack up, I’ll leave first – —”
Before he finished, there was suddenly a slight click of the door unlocking.
There was still an hour before the flight landing time that Ms. Li sent to her son, so the sound of unlocking the door at this time is particularly strange.
In fact, the people outside the door seemed to be very cautious. Apart from deliberately trying to minimise the sound of the door unlocking, they did not even hear the sound of a conversation.
Jin Linkun instinctively opened his arms and covered the person behind him: “Did you ask someone to come?”
“No.” Yu Sheng knew that Jin Linkun’s parents were coming back, so he didn’t let a group of people come over to cause trouble, “A thief?”
Jin Linkun also thought it was possible, so he quickly turned off the light and pulled him behind his back: “Then don’t stand in front. If you break them, we will have to pay for the medical expenses.”
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Yu Sheng felt that there seemed to be something wrong with his way of thinking.
When he was about to speak, the final click of the lock being unscrewed was heard, and the door had been pushed open by a crack.
Two figures came in from the door quietly.
Jin Linkun had just turned off the lights in the living room, and couldn’t see clearly in the darkness. He vaguely saw a huge suitcase and two travel bags.
The two of them usually lived at Yu Sheng’s house, and Jin father and mother travelled all year round. No one from the Jin family came back all year round, so maybe they are some thief who wants to take the opportunity to steal things.
Yu Sheng grabbed his wrist and both of them squatted behind the sofa together. He wanted to stand up and take a look, but was dragged back by Jin Linkun.
Both of them were nervous. Jin Linkun held his hand and wrote on his palm.
-Careful.
-Don’t be impulsive, we don’t know if they brought anyone else.
The guy was only halfway through writing the word “anyone” when two figures had already entered the room.
“Do we have to enter like this?”
In addition to being much more mature, the low-pitched male voice has the same tone as Jin Linkun: “What if my son secretly brings someone home?”
Jin Linkun: “…”
Yu Sheng: “…”
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“Don’t make a sound.”
Ms. Li leaned against the wall and lectured her husband in a low voice: “This is called a birthday surprise. If you don’t come in like this, what’s the point of changing the flight time?”
Jin Linkun pulled the person he brought back to squat behind the sofa and pressed his forehead. He felt a little headache.
He did think about taking Yu Sheng to meet his parents, but it was definitely not like this.
His parents had rescheduled their flight and came home to scare him. He grabbed his boyfriend and crouched behind the sofa to assess his combat effectiveness compared to the suspected thieves.
The child squatted beside him and did not move or speak. Jin Linkun was a little worried about his mental condition, so he raised his hand and waved it in front of Yu Sheng’s eyes.
Yu Sheng seemed quite calm. After coming to his senses, he lowered his head, grabbed his hand and started writing.
Jin Linkun watched him write the words “your house’s” and then quickly write “window” one stroke at a time. His hands quickly grabbed his hand: “No, friend, this is the fifteenth floor… “
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When the overhead light was turned on, facing their son squatting behind the sofa and the boy his son had secretly brought back, the two parents, Jin father and mother, who had sneaked into their home an hour in advance, became dignified at a speed visible to the naked eye.
“Is this Yu Sheng?”
Ms. Li loosened her neat hairstyle and nodded towards Yu Sheng with a smile: “Good boy, get up quickly.”
As soon as she got off the plane, she was so anxious to come back that she startled her son. Ms. Li was still dressed in an elegant women’s suit, and her hair style suddenly became gentle and homely. She calmly raised her hand to straighten the hair on her temples: “We just landed, and on the way I was in such a hurry that I didn’t have time to clean up…”
Jin father: “…”
Jin Linkun: “…”
Ms. Li remained dignified, glanced at her son without stopping, and majestically sealed the mouths of the two male members of the family.
Yu Sheng stood up behind the sofa and straightened his clothes subconsciously.
He actually didn’t pay much attention to how Mr. Jin and Ms. Li entered the door just now.
After realising that the person who came in was not a thief, but Jin Linkun’s father and mother, his mind became a little empty, and the rest of his thoughts halted.
Jin Linkun was standing on the edge of the seat and watched helplessly as his child blushed all the way from the top of his head into his collar at lightning speed: “Auntie, uncle, hello.”
“Hello to you too.”
Ms. Li look extremely gentle and greeted him with a slight smile: “Sit down quickly. Are you here to celebrate your friend’s birthday? You are so sensible.”
“Mom.” Jin Linkun finally found an opportunity, interjected, and blocked Yu Sheng, who was about to become boiled, behind him, “Maybe you and dad don’t have a deep impression, in fact, you gave birth to me in the early morning 6938 days ago.”
“…”
Ms. Li paused: “Is your birthday the day after tomorrow?”
Jin Linkun looked at his parents’ schedule at that time and knew that things would not be as sweet as Yu Sheng’s guess of “accompanying him through midnight”, so he nodded.
“Technically it’s tomorrow, it’s past twelve now.”
Jin’s father leaned over from behind him and added to his wife who had already booked a flight: “December 6th is the anniversary of the discovery of the disappearance of neutrinos in nuclear reactors…”
Yu Sheng stood behind Jin Linkun and looked at the family of three in front of him, his heartbeat still not slowing down.
While Jin Linkun was talking to his parents, a hand reached out from behind, fumbled around twice, before taking his hand and holding it.
The hand he held in his is cold.
Jin Linkun held his hand without letting go, and pull him behind him, still talking calmly to his parents: “It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter when the gift arrives. I’m still looking forward to you and dad’s birthday gift… …”
Ms. Li found it difficult to understand: “We have all come back to celebrate your birthday. Isn’t this your birthday present?”
The family ties are gone.
Yu Sheng calmed down after a while, listening to the cross talk between Jin Linkun and his parents, and then felt that his thoughts were finally clearing up a little.
Jin father and mother knew their son better than he thought. Even though he had deliberately lowered his skills closer to Jin Linkun’s level, they still recognized the plate of sugar-stewed tomatoes made by their own son at a glance.
No one reached out with their chopsticks to touch the pitiful plate of tomatoes. Their chopsticks dangled around the dining table, eating vegetables and drinking soup.
Yu Sheng couldn’t sit still and wanted to help reheat the soup. Ms. Li led him to sit down with a smile: “Let him do it, Xiao Sheng, talk to aunt for a while.”
Jin Linkun was sent to reheat the soup while Jin father and mother chatted with him for a while while putting vegetables in his bowl.
Contrary to Yu Sheng’s imagination, Mr. Jin and Ms. Li were not as wild as they were when they met, and the questions they asked were the most ordinary and trivial concerns.
How old are you? How hard is it to study? Are you under a lot of pressure now that you are in your senior year of high school? What school and major do you want to go to in the future?
What do you like to eat and what do you like to play?
What are your usual hobbies?
Yu Sheng had never answered these questions before. He answered meticulously and his ears were so red that they almost felt hot: “I’m eighteen. Studying is not hard. It’s quite interesting.”
“Everything is okay, potato chips… tomato-flavoured potato chips are delicious.”
“The school hasn’t decided yet. We’ll have to think carefully before deciding.”
“Normally – we do homework, yes, we will do it together.”
“We still have weaknesses to make up for, so we can help each other when we study together.”
Regarding school matters, he actually had some plans in his mind, but Jin Linkun had not yet decided on it, so he did not make a clear decision.
Anyway, it’s not too difficult for them to decide which school they want to go to together.
“That’s great.” Ms. Li nodded with a smile, “We must balance work and rest, we can’t just study. Who doesn’t want to have friends who they can just play around with?”
Jin Linkun came back from heating the soup. He looked at his child’s straight shoulders and back, which were unconsciously tensed, and his chest softened silently. He put the soup in his hand on the table: “Mom, we both have a good time.”
Ms. Li had never seen such a well-behaved and soft child, and seeing her own child, she felt spiteful, she said, “Sit over there. This doesn’t concern you.”
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Ms. Li’s prestige in the family is absolute. Jin Linkun failed to save his good friend who he have lots of fun times with. He briefly talked about science and politics with Mr. Jin while topping up the whole family’s bowl with soup.
They chatted while eating, and the meal lasted for an hour.
Jin father and mother hurried all the way home, and they were already a little tired at this time. Yu Sheng looked at the time and was about to get up and pack things. Ms. Li held his shoulders and pushed him back to the sofa: “No hurry, sit down for a while.”
It wasn’t that he was in a hurry, the main thing was that Jin Linkun had already started to clean the table up proactively.
It’s not that Jin Linkun doesn’t have a heart for doing housework. In fact, he actually likes doing housework. However, people always have something they are good at and things they are not good at. His talent in this area is probably completely inversely proportional to his IQ.
Yu Sheng is a little worried that their family would have neither leftovers nor plates tomorrow, so he couldn’t help but look back.
Mr. Jin is very open-minded and sat down calmly amid the sound of the plate breaking: “It doesn’t matter, success is gained through failure again and again.”
Yu Sheng looked up and heard a second crisp sound.
Mr. Jin probably felt that his son was one step closer to success, so he nodded happily. He turned around and pulled the suitcase, taking up a set of Chopin’s original hardcover music scores signed by a master, and asked him to hand them over to Jin Linkun.
“He heard that we were passing through Poland and he asked for it by name.”
Mr. Jin smiled and reached out to touch the boy’s head with his hand: “You two often play together?”
Yu Sheng didn’t expect that his parents would know this, and the heat that finally cooled down rose again: “Sometimes…he plays very well.”
“Jin Linkun learned piano when he was a child.”
Mr. Jin has a good memory and recalled the past with a bit of nostalgia: “One day he suddenly came back and shared his tears with us, saying that this was not big enough or handsome enough to chase other children who play the piano, and that he had to learn to be cool.”
Yu Sheng: “…”
It has to be said that the entire Jin family’s way of thinking is really unique.
As a pneumatic keyboard instrument driven by compressed air, the pipe organ is indeed larger than a piano, and it draws too much attention.
Mr. Jin was an enlightened father. He fulfilled his son’s wish at that time and took Jin Linkun out of the piano class and sent him to the church to learn the organ.
Seeing the corners of the boy’s lips raised, Ms. Li felt that she could not just let her husband tell stories in front of the child. She could also tell them herself, so they sat down on the sofa together: “Jin Linkun was particularly afraid of the dark when he was a child and did not dare to sleep by himself.”
“We took him to see a doctor. It is said that he can conjure up more than 50 kinds of scary monsters in his mind, and he can also describe each one.”
Ms. Li is a little proud when talking about the past: “The doctor didn’t sleep well for several days and refused to see him anymore.”
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Jin father and mother chatted with Yu Sheng for a while. Both of them talked about the dark history of their son’s past for a long time. When he was about to take a rest, Jin Linkun finally succeeded in rescuing a few plates, washed them and put them on the shelf to drain, wiped his hands and returned to the living room.
“Is the guest room ready?”
Ms. Li is very satisfied with her son’s rapid improvement in housework: “It’s the first time Yu Sheng comes here. Change the pillows and bedding. You can use the one in the closet.”
He never thought that the two of them would sleep in separate rooms. Jin Linkun subconsciously wanted to reject, but Yu Sheng elbowed him in the ribs.
“…” Jin Linkun opened his mouth: “Right away.”
“It’s too much trouble to clean out the guest room.”
Mr. Jin understands boys’ personalities better and has his own opinion on the matter of keeping another child overnight: “It’s better to let Xiao Sheng stay in his room and let him spend the night in the living room.”
Yu Sheng couldn’t help but look back at Jin Linkun: “…”
His parents worked hard to be strict and loving all night long, and finally found a common ground. Jin Linkun was even a little touched, and pulled on Yu Sheng’s sleeves: “It’s okay, our sofa is quite spacious.”
The sofa in their living room is specially designed for the two men of the Jin family to sleep on. Mr. Jin took this into full consideration when he bought it. He bought the sofa in a foldable style, which can be turned into a bed, which is quite comfortable to lie down on.
If you sleep on the sofa, it is actually easier to visit the other room than if you sleep in the guest room.
All you have to do is to pretend to go into the bathroom and accidentally walk through the wrong door.
Jin Linkun is obviously much more interested in sleeping on the sofa than the two of them sleeping in separate rooms. He took the box of Chopin’s original music scores as a gift and returned to the bedroom with satisfaction.
Time flew by so fast, it was almost early morning after dinner, and the sky outside started to get a little brighter.
Jin father and mother went back to their room after a long night’s flight, washed up and got ready to rest.
Yu Sheng was also urged by Jin Linkun to wash up. After changing his clothes and coming out of the bathroom, he found that Jin father is still guarding the door.
“Do you—want to use it?”
Yu Sheng was still not used to getting along with Jin parents. He instinctively stood up straight and turned sideways to make way for him: “The faucet leaked a little. I tried to fix it and it was better than before. Maybe I need some tools. Tomorrow, I will-“
Jin father smiled at him and waved for him to come over: “No, Xiao Sheng, come here.”
Yu Sheng hesitated for a moment and then walked over.
Jin father took out a box of Lego from his suitcase for him: “Take it back and hide it carefully.”
Yu Sheng was stunned for a moment, not sure whether he should reach out and pick it up.
Jin father looked up and saw that neither his son nor his wife had come out. He waved to him again and hid the box of Lego in Yu Sheng’s arms.
Jin Linkun actually didn’t specifically talk about Yu Sheng to them.
Most of today’s children have sexual needs and will block their parents in their circle of friends. Jin Linkun is also a teenager who has just reached puberty. Of course, like most teenagers, he does not give them permission to enter his circle of friends.
But their son is different from other people’s sons.
Although their son has blocked them, he changes his WeChat name almost every day.
All they have to do is to open up his circle of friends, and the change of the WeChat name is easy to see at a glance.
It’s impossible not to pay attention.
Jin father has witnessed a series of evolutions of his son’s WeChat name after Once Upon a Mountain, and he even knows his son’s friend a little better than the average parent.
Although he didn’t know much about the world of children, he always wanted to bring back some gift to give to the boy who made their son willing to stand up again after the accident a year ago.
“Jin Linkun is not good at puzzles. Ever since he made the original puzzle of a train into a skyscraper when he was a child, and we couldn’t help laughing, he has refused to have this.”
Mr. Jin had read several books on child education, and paid great attention to the cultivation of his son’s self-esteem. He deliberately lowered his voice a lot, and then continued to expose his son to the child he brought back: “You take it back into your room, secretly put this puzzle together, then agitate him…”
Jin Linkun flipped through the music book in the bedroom for a while, preparing to go out to see if Yu Sheng needed any toiletries, leaving a way for himself to his room.
Opening the door gently, a muffled voice could be heard coming from the living room.
Jin Linkun paused for a moment, quietly opened the door a little, and looked at the sofa in the living room.
Mr. Jin whispered, adjusted his glasses, and the eyes behind the lenses curled up. He raised his hand and rubbed his child’s hair.
Then he rummaged around in his pocket for a while, pulled out a candy, and quietly stuffed it into Yu Sheng’s hand.
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