Chapter 10: Transfer
The car was turned off and Lin Yu sat inside, watching the wipers swing left and right and the rain splashing on the glass front window.
He felt a little absent-minded the whole day. He scratched his hair in annoyance, picked up his umbrella, got out of the car and locked the door.
Passing by the stone table under the residential building, I saw that the pomegranate tree, which was originally lush and leafy, was completely drenched by the heavy rain.
There were a few lonely fruits scattered on the stone table. The half-green and half-red pomegranate fruits were mercilessly blown off the branches by the heavy rain before they had time to grow.
Lin Yu held up his umbrella and stared at the scene for a moment before recalling a poem he had read before: "How can I resist the strong wind at night?"
Then he sighed, "Why do I become so melancholy?"
Looking up, the water droplets on the umbrella fell along the edge onto his forehead and shoulders. He stared at Chen Wan's house.
But all he saw was darkness; there were no lights on in her house.
In the past, Chen Wan always turned on the balcony light, because the street lights in the old community were not bright. The old bulbs flickered dimly, making the road dim and unclear.
Lin usually has to use his cell phone to light up when he goes upstairs.
But after meeting Chen Wan, she would leave the balcony light on for Lin Yu to use for lighting.
"Are you asleep so early?" Lin Yu was a little surprised and took out his cell phone to send her a WeChat message.
Xingyunliushui typed a string of "Did you sleep? How did you do on the test today?"
But I still didn't send it. My typing hand paused and I deleted the message completely.
In the future, she and I will just be neighbors, neither too close nor too distant. Keeping a proper distance is the best way to protect her.
But why do I feel a little lost?
Lin Yu was stunned for a moment. The damp and hot wind, carrying the smell of dilapidated moss in the corridor, blew into his nose, and he sneezed unconsciously.
Then he came to his senses and laughed at his own unnecessary actions and helplessness.
After I got home and took a shower, I casually opened Weibo and browsed it. All I saw were reposts of my little niece Zhou Xixi’s koi fish.
"If you don't like this post, all your good luck will go away!"
"If you don't forward this message, bad luck will come to you!"
"If you don't comment on this, good luck will keep you away!"
Lin Yu pinched his brows and sent a WeChat message to his niece, "Zhou Xixi, what are you doing?"
Xiaoyuxixi: Uncle, please give me a triple click. I have a monthly exam the day after tomorrow and I need to accumulate good luck!
Not stupid but lucky:??? What is a one-click triple combo?
Lin Yu was completely confused by this new term. As a person born in the 1990s, was the gap between him and those born in the 2000s so huge?
Xiaoyuxixi: Just forward, comment, and like all of this in one go, and then I’ll have good luck! Otherwise, you, my little uncle, will have bad luck!!
Lin Yu saw her message and didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He hunched his back slightly and wiped his hair while replying to her, "You are using moral kidnapping on the Internet. If others are unlucky, your luck may not be good either."
An emoticon of a fat orange cat crying loudly was sent over. Zhou Xixi said that she had no choice but to say that the person involved was regretting it very much.
Life is not easy, and I sigh.
Lin Yu looked at the crying orange cat on the screen, but suddenly remembered that Chen Wan also liked to use cat and dog emoticons.
I swiped my phone to check the date, and before I knew it, the college entrance examination was the day after tomorrow.
On the other end, Zhou Xixi was still begging Lin Yu to click three times in a row. Lin Yu had no choice but to forward it to her and sent her a small red envelope, asking her to do well in the exam.
After finishing the last bit of work at hand, Lin Yu turned off the lights and lay on the bed, looking bored at the lucky koi. The colorful koi were being forwarded widely.
As the college entrance examination approaches, students are happy to forward this mascot with good meaning.
Lin Yu subconsciously clicked on Chen Wan's circle of friends. It was blank. The background wall was a white cat curled up in front of a pomegranate, looking very cute.
Chen Wan is a person who is indifferent to the ways of the world, so she has never posted any updates. Her circle of friends is clean, just like her.
Thinking about how my little niece was so anxious about the exam in a month, would she, a college entrance examination candidate, be very anxious too?
Lin Yu began to recall what he had done in the few days before the college entrance examination, hoping to sort out some useful experience for her.
However, it was almost ten years ago when he took the college entrance examination, and looking back it really seems like a long time ago.
Moreover, he has always been carefree. A week before the college entrance examination, he even made an appointment with his good friend to go out and play World of Warcraft.
Thinking of the auspicious koi fish that Zhou Xixi forwarded, he was stunned. In a trance, he remembered that when he was taking the college entrance examination, his mother seemed to have given him a so-called lucky charm.
Because he was very careless about the college entrance examination, Lin's parents saw it and were worried. They estimated that with his careless attitude, it was uncertain whether he could even get into a second-tier university.
So Lin's mother went to Tanzhe Temple to pray to the gods and Buddha and asked for a lucky charm for him. Unexpectedly, Lin Yu's final college entrance examination results were very good, far exceeding the first-tier line by more than 50 points, and he was admitted to Minzu University.
He passed the assessment for national defense students and his academic career went smoothly. Mother Lin treated the lucky charm as a treasure and kept it at home.
Lin Yu has always scoffed at such feudal and superstitious behavior.
However, Chinese idealism is very magical.
Left eye twitching means wealth and happiness.
Right eye twitching is a disaster. Go away with your feudal superstition.
Lin Yu lay on the pillow with his elbows, hesitating for a while, and decided that it would be better to believe it.
He didn't consider that his parents were already asleep at this time and called them directly.
As expected, Ms. Li Ying was disturbed from her sweet dream and became extremely irritable. "You little bastard, do you know what time it is?"
Lin Yu covered his earphones and said weakly, "I know I'm wrong, please calm down, Madam."
Father Lin took the phone and said in a kind tone, "Yuzi, why are you calling so late?"
Hearing the words "Yu'er", Lin Yu raised his hand and rubbed his forehead, feeling a little embarrassed.
He cleared his throat and lowered his voice, "Dad, is the lucky charm I asked for during the college entrance exam still at home?" He added, "If it is, please send it to me tomorrow. Use SF Express, the faster the better."
After listening to this, Father Lin glanced at his wife and said, "Yuzier asked for the lucky charm he had when he took the college entrance examination and asked us to send it to him."
Li Ying, who was standing nearby, heard the term "Gaokao" and laughed at him, "Why, you want to repeat your studies and start over?"
Lin Yu smiled and said, "Yeah, I'm now struggling to decide whether to apply to Lanxiang or New Oriental."
Ms. Li Ying snorted, "If you go to New Oriental with your cooking skills, the chef will be pissed off. If you meet a Cantonese chef, he'll be so angry that he'll make you into clay pot rice. Do you believe it?"
Lin Yu had been scolded by his mother more than once or twice, and he was used to it. He laughed and said, "Seriously, I need it urgently. Please send it to me tomorrow, postage payable."
It was a rare occasion for his son to call and make a request, so Dad Lin had already gotten up to look for the lucky charm.
"Didn't you say it was feudal superstition at the time? Why are you using it again?"
"I sent it to someone else to bring good luck. My neighbor's daughter is going to take the college entrance exam, so I wanted to send her some luck." Lin Yu leaned against the headboard of the bed, looking at the heavy rain outside the partition door, and chatted with his mother from time to time.
"Oh, but your cousin also asked me for this. Xixi has a monthly exam, so she also asked to borrow it."
Lin Yu said slowly, "No, this little girl always tries to cram at the last minute."
He thought of the three self-serving and detrimental Weibo posts Zhou Xixi had posted, and complained, "If she got it, she would want to take away all the good luck of others."
Li Ying thought about it and laughed, "Xixi, that girl, always gets weird when it comes to exams."
After giving a few more instructions, Lin Yu said that it was getting late and advised the two elders to go to bed early.
Then Lin's mother nagged him for more than ten minutes, and he hung up the phone in disappointment.
Father Lin wrapped the lucky charm in an exquisite box and wrote a note and stuck it on the head of the bed, fearing that he would forget it tomorrow.
Li Ying laughed at him, "You're taking this too seriously."
Father Lin pushed up his gold-rimmed glasses and smiled innocently, "It's rare for a child to ask us to do something, so we have to be considerate."
Li Ying nodded and sighed, "Ever since this kid was transferred south, he's been in a rush every time he comes back to celebrate the New Year. I saw him holding his phone on New Year's Eve, sending messages, deleting, deleting, sending, and sighing."
After finishing speaking, Li Ying went over these words in her mind again. After weighing them for a moment, she looked at Lin's father with a look of sudden realization and said, "Do you think our son is in love? I've never seen him so attentive to anyone before."
Father Lin didn't follow her thoughts. "Isn't this just a lucky charm?"
How can everything be related to dating? Comrade Lin Mao, the old straight man, doesn’t quite understand.
Li Ying rolled her eyes at him, her face full of a look of disbelief. "This is called revealing true feelings in subtle ways."
Father Lin uttered an "oh" twice and yawned, "But my son said this is for the neighbor's kid."
"Maybe it's just a case of borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha. Maybe our son has a crush on that kid's sister?" Li Ying said excitedly, "I think it's possible!"
Looking sideways, I saw that Father Lin was already fast asleep.
“…”
Lin Yu solved a small problem, but he still couldn't sleep and tossed and turned.
Outside the window, thunder and rain accompanied by non-stop noise made him even more upset.
I went to the kitchen to drink some ice cola, opened the refrigerator door and saw that it was empty.
Because I usually eat at Chen Wan's house, his refrigerator has been "alone" for a long time.
I had no choice but to put the water into the electric kettle and prepare to boil some water.
Thinking about it carefully, Lin Yu felt that his day was really quite miserable.
After a while, the pot began to bubble, and the hot steam looked like a cloud under the lamp.
Lin Yu took a glass of water, rummaged through the drawers and found a bag of dried lemons, and soaked it in the water.
The lemonade appears very clear under the light, like holding a glass of dim amber.
Lin Yu added a spoonful of honey and thought that the air indoors was stuffy, so he went to the balcony to get some fresh air.
But I saw a chandelier dimly lit on the balcony next door, which was blown back and forth by the wind and rain, and the light was flickering.
Chen Wan sat in the dim light, silently looking at the falling rain.
She was like a moon immersed in stagnant water, damp and pale, as if the shadow would be shattered by the wind.
Lin Yu was startled, and his hand holding the cup clenched tightly. He called out tentatively, "Chen Wan, what are you doing?"
Thoughts: Because I was basically in the hospital last week, and I really didn't get the heart to write. Secondly, I found that a lot of the emotions in this work were emphasized by me, but because the plot is really short, and Chen Wan and Lin Yu are, after all, a kind of emotional sustenance in my heart, I hope to be able to write more beautifully and deeply, but it is really too scattered. I am practicing my writing skills. I have figured out the difference between the two people so far. It is probably a two-way throbbing. I am also at a loss. Is it too fast? It feels like there is no plot and it is very monotonous. Every time I think about it, I feel frustrated because the updates are slow and there is no plot. Except for the typos, this article really has no merits. Oh.
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