Chapter 160
Lin Bingwei was still afraid of Lin Xiaohan.
Although he really wanted to recognize his grandson, and take Yi Yi out to play, buy him delicious and fun things, watch him smile happily at him, and hear him call him grandpa in a clear voice.
But he didn't immediately create opportunities to get close to Yi Yi or try to secretly improve his relationship with Yi Yi. He would only go to see him when he couldn't stand the loneliness anymore.
Just watching from a distance, I feel happy in my heart, and the smile fills the frown at the corners of my eyes.
But after every moment of happiness, I inevitably feel more lost and lonely.
His lovely grandson.
I can see it but I can't hold it.
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is another bustling day throughout the world.
What he envied most about such days was the happy family life with many children and grandchildren, so Lin Bingwei did not go home after get off work in the evening, but came to Tianxian Temple alone again.
But today he waited for a long time and didn't see Yi Yi come out.
Several children who had eaten his candy before still remembered him. When they saw him playing in the alley with lanterns, they greeted him and asked him if he hadn't said Happy Lantern Festival to them today.
He chatted with the children with a smile.
Then he asked, "Where is the boy named Yi Yi among you?"
Several children said to him at once: "Just now, he went out with his grandma, grandpa, father and mother. They must have gone to the lantern market to see the lanterns."
After that, a child asked again: "Are you here to look for Yi Yi?"
Lin Bingwei smiled and replied: "Yes, I am Yi Yi's grandfather."
Another child said, "You are lying. Yiyi doesn't have a grandfather. He only has a grandparent. And Yiyi doesn't even know you. How can someone not know his own grandfather?"
Another one also felt something was wrong: "If you are Yi Yi's grandfather, why haven't you been here before?"
Lin Bingwei showed embarrassment on his face, and said with a forced smile: "I was too busy with work before, and never found time to come. Now that I am not busy at work, I have time."
The child replied, "We will be busy next. We will start school tomorrow."
Lin Bingwei followed up with another question, asking where these children went to school.
I asked about the school and also asked about each person's grade and class.
After chatting with the children for a while, he took them to a nearby store and bought some snacks for them. Then he didn't go back home, but went straight to the restaurant to have dinner.
He didn't stay after dinner at the restaurant.
After all, when Tang Haikuan and his family came back with his eldest grandson, the whole family, young and old, were having a great time together, and he felt even worse when he saw it.
Not long after Lin Bingwei left, the Tang family's car entered the alley.
The car drove outside the yard, stopped and turned off the lights. The family got out of the car happily. Wu Xuemei, Chuxia and Yiyi each held a lantern in their hands and walked into the yard chatting and laughing.
It’s getting late, and Yi Yi needs to go to bed early.
So when I got home I didn't do anything else. I just washed up and prepared to go to bed.
In the east room.
Han Qing, Wang Cuiying, Han Lei and Li Lan also finished the Lantern Festival, washed up and went to bed.
Han Qingtian and Wang Cuiying were old and had already fallen asleep.
Han Lei and Li Lan were not asleep.
They turned off the lights, lay down on the bed, and chatted for a while.
Li Lan sighed and said, "Ten or twenty years ago, every family in the hutong lived a similar life. No one was better or worse. Anyway, food, clothing and daily necessities were distributed by the state based on the number of people, so no one could expect too much. In the past ten years or so, as society has developed, some are poorer and some are richer. Who could have imagined at that time that the Tang family could live the way they do now?"
Then he looked at Han Lei and said, "Have you heard that his family is building a five-star hotel? How much do you think it will cost? At least several million, right? Several million can fill a few sacks, right?"
Han Lei said calmly, "What's so hard to imagine? Chu Xia got into a good university, so her experiences are different from ours. From the moment she got into university, she was no longer on the same level as the rest of us, and the things she did were things we couldn't imagine or understand."
Li Lan sighed again, "What do you think if San'er had ..."
Han Lei interrupted her with a click of the tongue, not letting her continue. He looked at her and said, "What era is this? Stop talking about those trivial things."
There's really nothing else to mention.
He is now rich and has a happy family.
And no one knew where his third son had gone.
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After the Lantern Festival, the winter vacation for primary school students is over.
School started the next day. Chuxia and Lin Xiaohan were too busy with work to spare time, so Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei took Yi Yi to school together.
There are no classes in the first two days of school, and parents take their children to school to pay tuition and get new books.
After completing all the preparations, classes officially started on the third day, Monday.
After breakfast in the morning, Yi Yi just put on his school bag when a child at the second gate called him, "Hurry up."
Yi Yi immediately ran out with her schoolbag and went to school with these children.
These children are all elementary school students, but none of them are in the same grade as Yi Yi.
When they were leaving the alley, the older child suddenly looked at Yi Yi and asked, "By the way, Yi Yi, do you still remember the old man who gave us candy during the Chinese New Year?"
They nodded one by one, "I remember."
Another child continued, "He came again on the night of the 15th. Guess what he said to us?"
Yi Yi continued the conversation and asked, "What did you say?"
The older child said, "He came to see you. He said he was your grandfather."
Yi Yi didn't believe it and just said, "Don't talk nonsense, I don't have a grandfather."
Another child said, "We said the same thing, but he said he is your grandfather. He said he was too busy with work to visit you before, but now he has time."
Yi Yi thought about it and said, "I don't believe it."
If he really is his grandfather, then he doesn't want such a grandfather.
Although he is young, he does know everything. He knows things that everyone in the alley knows. His grandfather only likes his other son, not his father, and he has long since abandoned his father. Previously, his grandfather's other son committed a crime and was arrested.
He has never seen a grandfather in his life, so he doesn't want one to suddenly appear now.
The children were not very interested in these things, so they just let it go after saying these few words.
When we got to school, we separated and went to our own classes.
After class and school, we go home together.
When school was over in the evening, several children gathered together at the school gate as usual.
Yi Yi is in the first grade now and is the first to finish school. After she gets out of school, she waits at the school gate.
While waiting, he casually glanced at the road, and when his eyes swept across the street, he suddenly saw the grandfather that his friends had talked about in the morning.
Lin Bingwei didn't see Yi Yi during the Lantern Festival, and he has been feeling empty these past two days.
He came to school today as he was free, thinking that he could take advantage of the time after school to see Yi Yi and also take a look at what he looked like at school.
Unexpectedly, Yi Yi also saw him.
The moment their eyes met, he couldn't help but feel joy in his heart. He smiled at Yi Yi and waved his hand twice at Yi Yi.
In the end, Yi Yi did not respond to him.
Not only did she not respond to him, she also quickly averted her gaze, turned around, and left her back to him.
“…”
Lin Bingwei's mouth corners unconsciously drooped.
He stood across the street for a while.
He thought to himself that since Yi Yi had already seen him, he should know who he was, so he might as well take this opportunity to go up and talk to him.
After thinking this, he went across the road.
Just as he reached the middle of the road, he suddenly saw a few children coming out of the school gate. They walked up to Yi Yi and greeted him, "Tang Yi, you haven't left yet?"
Lin Bingwei didn't react at first.
Then I heard Yi Yi answer: "I'm waiting for my friends to go together."
He suddenly realized what was happening and was stunned. His face gradually became confused and his brows furrowed.
Then, before he could react, groups of children suddenly came out of the school gate.
After waiting for his friends to meet one by one, he went home with them.
Lin Bingwei reacted and hurriedly followed.
When he was about to catch up, he called out, "Iron ball!"
The boy named Tieqiu turned around when he heard the voice.
Seeing Lin Bingwei, he quickly pulled Yi Yi who was standing next to him and said to her, "Your grandpa is here."
Yi Yi ignored him and continued walking forward, "I said I don't have a grandfather."
Tieqiu then turned around and said to Lin Bingwei: "Yi Yi says you are not his grandfather."
Yi Yi didn't want to pay any more attention to this matter and quickly ran away.
When the other children saw him running, they all ran with him.
The school was not far from Tianxian Temple. Usually, they would walk, play, and buy snacks at the same time, and it would only take them more than ten minutes to get home. In this way, they would only need to run for a few minutes to get home.
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei were picking vegetables in the yard to prepare dinner. When they saw Yi Yi running in through the second gate breathlessly, they hurriedly asked him, "What happened? Is someone chasing you?"
Yi Yi paused to catch his breath and said, "An old man insisted that he was my grandfather."
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei were stunned for a moment when they heard this, then they stood up together and went outside.
They went out to the alley, and Yi Yi followed them out.
Not long after I got to the alley, I saw an old man with gray hair coming over. He pointed at everything and said, "Grandma and grandpa, that's him. I don't know him, but he insisted that he was my grandfather."
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei held their breath.
When Lin Bingwei approached, Tang Haikuan looked at him and asked, "What do you want to do?"
Lin Bingwei followed and was also exhausted and out of breath.
He looked at Tang Haikuan and said, "I'm his grandfather, what can I want from my grandson?"
Then he waved his hands at Tang Haikuan, looking extremely angry about something, "I have nothing to do with you two, and you don't have to bother me. I'll talk to Lin Xiaohan when he comes back."
Tang Haikuan and Wu Xuemei didn't want to care about him at all.
Seeing him say that, the two of them ignored him and took Yi Yi back to the yard.
Lin Bingwei stood there to catch his breath, then turned and went into the restaurant to eat noodles with soybean paste.
After eating the noodles, I came out and waited for a while, and finally Lin Xiaohan and Chu Xia came back.
Seeing Lin Xiaohan walking towards the gate of the courtyard, he went over to stop Lin Xiaohan and said to him, "I have something to ask you."
Lin Xiaohan and Chuxia haven't seen Lin Bingwei for a long time.
Compared to the last time I saw him, he, like Lu Fangying, now had a head full of white hair. Both the aura he exuded and his eyes and face looked much older.
Lin Xiaohan looked at Lin Bingwei for a while and said, "Let's go in and talk."
Lin Bingwei didn't want to say it outside, and he couldn't say it even if he was asked to.
Seeing Lin Bingwei's sudden tone, Lin Xiaohan roughly guessed what he might be going to say, so he didn't let Chuxia go to the west room with him.
He took Lin Bingwei into the west room alone.
He turned on the light and closed the door, then turned around and sat down at the table and asked directly, "What's the matter?"
Lin Bingwei didn't beat around the bush. He stood in front of Lin Xiaohan, looked at him and asked, "What's Yi Yi's name?"
Lin Xiaohan looked into Lin Bingwei's eyes and answered, "Tang Yi."
He had heard it right!
Lin Bingwei was so angry that he didn't know what to do.
There was no way to suppress it, so he suddenly used all his strength to slam the table, almost breaking it apart.
After the photo was taken, he then yelled, "Are you crazy?!"
Lin Xiaohan suddenly laughed out loud.
Seeing him like this, Lin Bingwei became even more angry.
He couldn't suppress it anymore, so he asked again with his chest heaving, "It was his family's idea, right? He didn't have a son, so they let Yi Yi take his family name, right?!"
Lin Xiaohan stopped smiling.
He looked at Lin Bingwei and said, "It was my idea. I registered the household registration without their knowledge."
Lin Bingwei just felt his whole head buzzing.
He couldn't understand Lin Xiaohan's words at all, and frowned tightly: "Why are you doing this?!"
Lin Xiaohan stared at him and said, "Because I don't want my son to have your last name!"
When he said the last three words, his eyes were cold and he emphasized every word.
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