When Lin was eight years old, Ji Shanhai was twenty-six years old.

This year she was in the second grade of elementary school.

Lin Xiaonian is still busy in the dark, but fortunately, Lin has learned to take the bus to and from school by himself.

"Uncle Ji, I'm back!"

Lin Tian and night carried a small schoolbag and jumped on his back to push open the door of the house, and tore off the red scarf tied around his neck in three or two times.

"Coming back?"

Ji Shanhai walked out of the kitchen wearing a blue apron with a jingle cat, the apron that Lin picked out for him when they went to the supermarket together.

He dipped his hands with water, but instead of putting it on his apron, he turned back and drew a kitchen towel.

"Wash your hands and eat. ”

Lin Tian Ye happily "um", the water in the bathroom rattled for a while, she ran out with wet hands, and jumped to the edge of the dining table in three or two.

Ji Shanhai pulled out a tissue for her a little helplessly: "Wipe your hands first." ”

The dinner was very rich, braised crucian carp, stewed tofu with baby cabbage, blanched broccoli, lotus root pork rib soup, meat and vegetarian matching, three dishes and one soup, and a big table was filled.

Ji Shanhai served the rice in her small bowl, and then gave her the most tender piece of meat on the fish's belly.

Lin bit the tip of the chopsticks day and night, and spoke vaguely while eating: "Uncle Ji, we measured our height at school today, do you know how tall I am now?"

"Eat slowly, you'll be choked," Ji Shanhai replied to the question, and then followed her words: "How high?"

Lin Tianye raised his chopsticks high and jumped like a little fool: "I'm one meter two!"

Ji Shanhai's height is 1.83 meters.

He thought about it in his heart, one meter two, almost to the waist.

He nodded, and then used a small spoon to dig out a piece of meat on the edge of the gills and put it in Lin Tianye's bowl: "Eat more." ”

Eat more and grow up faster.

Ji Shanhai silently added in his heart.

......

Time passed like a stream, Lin Xiaonian was still busy, and the years began to leave traces on this young girl's face.

She had just turned twenty-eight years old, but she had already begun to have gray hair.

Ji Shanhai and Lin spent more time together day and night than she spent with Lin Xiaonian.

They went shopping and went to the supermarket together, and Ji Shanhai carried her through the streets and alleys of the city, buying her beautiful little dresses and colorful ribbon bows like a doting father. Lin held his little finger day and night and picked the blue apron with a jingle cat print.

"Is this your daughter?" the shopping guide at the children's clothing store half-squatted down to touch Lin Dayye's soft hair, "The child is so cute." ”

Ji Shanhai neither affirmed nor objected, and took the child in front of him without a trace.

The shopping guide withdrew his hand quite discerningly, and sighed awkwardly: "I have a child at such a young age......"

Lin doesn't need to be picked up from school day and night, and she can take the bus to and from school at a young age, but she can't cook.

Ji Shanhai didn't let her into the kitchen.

Even though the range hood in the kitchen had been repaired and the light bulbs had been replaced with new ones, he still wouldn't let him.

But it doesn't matter, because every day when Lin pushes open the door of the house day and night, kicks off his shoes and tears off the red scarf, Ji Shanhai will wear the blue apron of the jingle cat, shake his hand and come out of the kitchen and tell her, the meal is ready, go wash your hands.

Ji Shanhai is very good at cooking, he can make flowers with light home-cooked side dishes, sweet and soft biscuit cakes, hairy crabs in autumn and Jiwei shrimp in summer.

When the school organized an outing, he also made the bento in Lin's canvas bag, with seaweed sticking to the rice balls to make cats, carrots carved into flowers, and rabbit apples in the top grid of the lunch box.

Lin Tian and night in the envious eyes of the children, "ahhhh

Ji Shanhai seems to know everything.

He will cook all kinds of delicious food, play the piano and paint, and he will also hold a pair of scissors to cut her bangs when Lin Tianye's bangs are piercing her eyes, and the length of the trimmed Qi bangs is just right to the eyebrows, which is more beautiful than the master in the barbershop.

He can do just anything.

"Day and night, come here. ”

Lin sat down obediently on the small bench in front of the mirror day and night, Ji Shanhai tied a bib around her neck, then wet her hair, pinched the broken hair in front of her forehead and cut her bangs.

"Close your eyes. ”

She obediently closed her eyes, her long eyelashes flickering like butterfly wings, and she heard the small "click" of scissors lingering in her ears.

If only Uncle Ji were her father.

This is what Lin Tianye's birthday wish has been since he was three years old, and he tirelessly repeats the same request to the heavens every year.

She wanted Ji Shanhai to be by her side all the time.

"Don't move. Ji Shanhai said softly, his voice was low, so good.

Finely shredded hair fell on her cheeks, tickling.

The ghost made the god worse, and Lin shouted crisply day and night: "Dad." ”

Ji Shanhai was startled, and went down with scissors to cut out a gap.

He straightened up, holding Lin Tianye's face and looking at the bangs on the little girl's forehead that had become uneven because of his mistakes.

"What did you say?"

The child repeated inexplicably: "...... Father. ”

Ji Shanhai put down the scissors, squatted down and looked directly into her eyes.

"Day and night, don't call me Daddy. ”

Lin kept his mouth flat and didn't speak.

"I'm not my father," Ji Shanhai told her in a rare and serious manner, "Remember, I'm not your father." ”

The birthday wish didn't work at all, and the wish she had made for five years was like a colorful soap bubble in the sun, which was "snapped" by Ji Shanhai at this moment.

Lin Tian let out a sullen "oh" and nodded tearfully.

......

If Ji Shanhai knew what kind of chain reaction his sentence "Don't call me Dad" would cause, then he must ......

No, he'll still say the same thing.

But when he received Lin Xiaonian's call, he was still startled.

"Mr. Ji, I'm really sorry to bother you, are you free now......" Lin Xiaonian's voice was hurried, and some of the preambles did not match the afterword, "Is it convenient to go to school......"

"I really can't leave here, so I have no choice but to call and disturb you......"

Ji Shanhai put down the report he was reading in his hand: "Don't worry, speak slowly." ”

"Is there something going on day and night?"

Lin Xiaonian's voice on the other side of the phone was almost crying: "The teacher at the school called me and said that he had beaten people and bled day and night. ”

Ji Shanhai picked up his suit jacket without hesitation and strode out of the office.

"Got it, I'll go right over. ”