Chapter 1: Encounters
The rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River is always lingering and sticky, and the thin hair-like rain lines cover the entire sky, as if trying to paint a splashed landscape picture.
There was a faint mist in the distance, which brought a hint of coldness, Lin Yansheng couldn't help but shiver, and stretched out his hand to close the window.
"Why is it closed? The room is very stuffy, open for air. Behind her, a boy lay on the wide desk, looking up at her back and muttering.
"I'm cold. Lin Yansheng said lightly, put a coat on his body, sat down by the bay window, and continued to look at the album in his hand.
"Cold?" the boy rolled his eyes in disbelief,
"I'm sweating from the heat. β
"You think everyone is like you. The door was pushed open, and a tall boy walked in, his eyebrows indifferent, and he looked at him coldly.
"Yan Huan, hurry up!" the boy suddenly came to his senses,
"Come and tell me about it. β
"Why don't you let my sister tell you?" Lin Yanhuan said impatiently, he came in to get a book, but he didn't want to waste his time on anything else.
"Your sister thinks I'm stupid!" Mu Yi screamed, almost leaning out of the table to try to grab Lin Yanhuan's arm.
Lin Yanhuan frowned, looked at him unhappily several times, and finally lost in the noisy shout, walked to Mu Yi and stood still, bending down to look at the questions on the test paper.
Lin Yansheng looked at the scene in front of him, and couldn't help laughing, thinking to himself, this is true, it seems that Mu Yi is still very self-aware.
She looked at the two people in front of her, both of them were generally tall, one was as enthusiastic as fire, the other was as cold as ice, two people with such distinct and different personalities could get along harmoniously, and there had not been a real quarrel for more than ten years.
Maybe it's because they're very different from each other, but they give birth to some complementarity, if they're very similar, it's not good to get along deeply, just like her and her younger brother, the two have similar temperaments, although they are sisters and brothers, but they have never been like two polite ordinary friends, they can't love each other as intimately as others, and they can express their feelings to each other to the fullest.
They have always been introverted, even their parents, maybe this personality is one of them
"Sickness" will be transmitted to each other. And Mu Yi seemed to them to be a person in another world.
Lin Yansheng's impression of him is the most obvious
"Bad temper". His temper is very inexplicable, sometimes he comes and goes, sometimes he forgets his revenge overnight, and sometimes after several years, others forget that he still thinks about it, as if the hatred has taken root and sprouted in his heart, and has grown into a big tree.
However, although he is a little short-tempered, he is very good to people, and he never stingy with his heart, whether it is with his heart or with things.
Lin Yanhuan often laughed at him for being one
"Fool" is easy to be deceived, but Lin Yansheng knows in his heart that Mu Yi is smart, he just disdains to hide his inner thoughts.
He is not afraid of heaven and earth, he is not afraid of being deceived, he is not afraid of being bullied, he will say whatever he has in his heart, love and hate are always very obvious.
Lin Yansheng occasionally envies this character, thinking that it may be overconfidence that leads to the development of this character, but even if she is envious, she still feels that this character is too impermanent, excessive, and a kind of consumption to others and herself.
So, how did they know each other when they were so different? It stands to reason that such people should be two people, and the probability of even recognizing each other is not very large.
But in this world, probability has always been a matter of luck, God sees that you are having fun together, so let you put together and play a play for his old man to take a good look.
The impermanence in this world is even more impermanence than the impermanence of people's hearts, and sometimes it makes people feel very magical.
Lin Yansheng's parents are both university professors, and the two have similar personalities, both love flowers, birds, landscapes, and travel, which can be called a pair of fairy couples on this campus.
Lin Yansheng's father's name is Lin Shengming, and his mother's name is Shen Jingyou, both of whom are descendants of scholarly families, and the children they have cultivated are also as indifferent and art-loving as they are.
Shortly after the summer of that year, Lin Yansheng was only six years old, and her parents took her and her four-year-old brother out to sketch.
The family of four drove to a reservoir on the outskirts of the city, which was sparsely populated and much quieter than in the city.
Shen Jingyou laid a cloth sheet on the grass, and placed a lot of food and drink on it. Looking back at her husband and two children, who were busy working on the drawing paper, she couldn't help but smile lightly, and looked down at the book intently.
It was most of the day, when the sun rose in the middle of the sky, that she raised her head, twisted her sore neck, and when she looked back at them, she was nowhere to be seen.
Shen Jingyou suddenly felt a little panicked, and hurriedly stood up, looking anxiously ahead. In the distance, she saw her two children standing side by side on the shore, while her husband dived into the water, occasionally showing his head out to breathe.
Shen Jing didn't have time to think about it, she hurriedly ran towards them with a step, and when she reached the shore, she grabbed the bodies of the two children and shouted into the water: "Sheng Ming! Sheng Ming!" She shouted several times, Lin Shengming probably heard her shout, peeked out of the water, and winked at Shen Jingyou.
His arms were wrapped around his chest, and a small, jet-black head was faintly visible in the curved arc.
He turned and swam towards the shore, and soon came ashore. Before Shen Jingyou could ask, he saw a weak, feeble body with closed eyes sliding from Lin Shengming's arms onto the grass.
She exclaimed, hurriedly bent down to take a closer look, pressed her hands on the child's chest and squeezed hard, and after about half a minute, the child finally spit out water in his mouth and breathed heavily.
"Oh my God. Shen Jingyou sat down on the grass and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, it was found in time, otherwise it would not have been saved. Lin Shengming half-propped himself up, breathed a sigh of relief, glanced around a few times, and said,
"I don't know which family it is, and this parent is too careless. β
"It's okay, it's okay. Shen Jingyou turned her head to look at her children, for fear that the scene in front of her would scare them.
As a result, I only saw Lin Yansheng's face showing a little concern, but Lin Yanhuan still had a straight face, turned around and walked towards his drawing board, picked up the paintbrush, sat down and started painting again.
Shen Jingyou smiled and asked her daughter,
"Didn't scare you, did you?" Lin Yansheng shook his head, pointed to the child and asked, "Is he okay?"
"The water is all spitting out, what else can happen. At a distance of two meters, Lin Yanhuan's slightly alienated voice came.
Shen Jingyou glanced at her husband and couldn't help but smile. They waited in place for a long time, only to see a pair of men and women panicked looking for this side, and when they saw the child wearing Lin Shengming's wide coat and sitting on the cloth sheet drinking milk, they exclaimed at the same time, almost stumbled over, and took the child into their arms.
"Oh my God! Where did you go!, but it scared me and your father!" the woman said in a panic, she looked up at Lin Shengming and his wife, and there was a little wariness in her eyes.
Compared with women, the man was much calmer, and he confirmed that there was nothing wrong with the child, so he looked at Lin Shengming's family, frowned and asked, "My sonβmy sonβ"
"Overboard. Lin Shengming smiled generously,
"But it's okay now. β
"Overboard?" the woman screamed again, looked down again and hurriedly looked at her son, and once again confirmed that there was no problem, she breathed a sigh of relief, but tears also came out quickly, and her face was red, and she looked extremely embarrassed.
"Did you save me?" the defensiveness on the man's face disappeared, and he looked at them gratefully, a little panicked, causing him to stammer, and he said a word of thanks several times before he said it completely.
"No thanks. Shen Jingyou smiled, handed a tissue to the woman, and said,
"As long as the child is fine. β
"How can you not thank you! You saved my child, you are my son's life-saving benefactor, and the grace of dripping water is still reciprocated, not to mention the grace of saving life!" the man said hurriedly, and the green tendons on his forehead burst out, showing how sincere his gratitude was.
When the woman heard this, she hurriedly said, "What my husband said is, it's good that you are here, otherwise it would be really-" She glanced down at her son again, and her voice couldn't help but choke.
"Mom. The little boy looked up at his mother and smiled,
"I'm fine, don't cry, this uncle and aunt are really good people, give me milk to drink!"
"Yes, yes, they are very good people!" the woman hurriedly wiped away her tears, smiled embarrassedly, and said,
"My name is Yu Qinling, this is my husband Mu Yukai, it is fate that everyone met today, it is better to get acquainted and be friends. Lin Yansheng and his younger brother hid in the shadow of a tree not far away, and looked at the two pairs of adults thanking and bowing over there, and they couldn't laugh or cry.
Lin Yanhuan looked at it for a while, and suddenly said: "When is the time for retribution, there is no end to the retribution of virtue and virtue." Lin Yansheng sneered, looked down at his younger brother's immature face, and asked, "Where did you see that?"
"I thought of it myself. Lin Yanhuan pursed his lips, turned his face into a wooden board again, and said,
"I kept drawing. β
"Don't paint, just your painting, the painting is the same-" Lin Yansheng raised his head and thought about his words,
"With-" But after thinking about it for a long time, she didn't come up with the right words, so she had to say,
"You can't paint the landscape at a glance, you have to add your own emotions to make the painting come alive. β
"Why should I let it live?" Lin Yanhuan sneered,
"Jing is Jing, people are people, can people use their hearts on Jing, Jing can express their feelings?" Lin Yansheng has never been good at words, and he couldn't say it for a long time because of his brother's words, so he had to sigh and say, "Okay, what you said is right." She followed her brother towards the place where the sketchpad was set up, sat down on the small stool, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind, and she turned to her brother and said,
"What you just said is not right, if you say so, then it is better not to paint, just take a picture with the camera?" Lin Yanhuan didn't look at her, and said coldly: "Yiduo is not pressing, learning to paint always has its benefits, just like I learn the piano and learn anything else." Lin Yansheng looked at his younger brother's thin body and felt speechless for a while.
Although she is still young, she still sometimes thinks that her brother is too precocious, and she can't tell whether this is a good thing or a bad thing, but intuitively, she feels that this is not very good.
She shifted her gaze back to the drawing paper, focused her attention, and rethought it, when a sound came from Leng Buding's side, and a jar rolled at her feet, interrupting her train of thought.
"Ah, I'm sorry. The boy who fell into the water hurriedly bent down to pick up the jar, and smiled embarrassedly,
"I accidentally dropped it. Lin Yansheng turned his head and looked at him curiously, only to see that his dripping eyes were black and shiny, and his skin was fair, as if he had never been in the sun.
He is very handsome, and he looks a little like a girl, but his face deliberately puts on a manly look, which seems to be a little inconsistent with his appearance.
"Are you drawing, can you draw?" asked the boy curiously, looking over to the drawing paper. Lin Yansheng turned sideways and frowned slightly, she smelled the dampness on the boy's body, and there was some repulsion in her heart.
The boy looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see any eyebrows, he scratched the back of his head, grinned widely, and asked, "My name is Mu Yi, what's your name?"
"Lin Yansheng. Lin Yansheng said in a low voice, looking at him vigilantly, for fear that he would accidentally contaminate his paintings.
"What about you?" Mu Yi raised his chin towards Lin Yanhuan behind Lin Yansheng, but the expression on Yan Huan's face was still cold, and he didn't move.
"He is my younger brother, his name is Lin Yanhuan. Lin Yansheng smiled lightly and said, even if she doesn't like the boy in front of her very much, her parents have taught her to be polite to people since she was a child, and she can't lose her sense of proportion.
"My parents bowed to your parents, why don't we come and worship too?" everyone will be good buddies in the future, I have delicious and fun food, and I will come to share it with you!" Mu Yi was full of pride, crossing his waist and laughing.
He looks two years older than Lin Yansheng, but he is half a head shorter than Lin Yansheng.
"Boring. Lin Yanhuan spit out two words in a low voice, and then said,
"It's noisy. Lin Yansheng smiled embarrassedly, but he was happy for his brother's reaction.
"My brother is like that, don't you care. Mu Yi was still smiling, his eyes shining,
"It's okay! Am I the kind of person who gets angry so easily?" he lowered his head and took out a bottle of milk from his arms, which Lin Yansheng recognized as his mother had specially bought and drank when he was going out to play this time.
He stuffed it into Lin Yansheng's arms and smiled unceremoniously,
"This bottle of milk is just my gift to you. Lin Yansheng couldn't laugh or cry, but he still accepted it.
Mu Yi completed this series of ritualistic movements, turned around and ran in the direction of his parents. Lin Yansheng breathed a sigh of relief, put the milk at his feet, picked up his distracted thoughts again, and began to conceive of his own paintings.
This is the scene of their encounter, and in the rest of their lives, they seem to be tied together by an invisible rope, and they can't be separated.
Lin Yansheng and her parents never knew that when they sent their children to that key school, Mu Yukai also spent all his strength to send his son who didn't learn and didn't know how to go to that key school.
When Lin Yansheng and his younger brother were promoted to a key high school, although Mu Yi's grades were extremely poor, the score could not be enough to meet the score line, Mu Yukai still tried his best to arrange him into Lin Yansheng and Lin Yanhuan's class.
On the first day of school, Lin Yansheng was very shocked the moment she saw Mu Yi swaggering in from the back door, but she was never moody, she just glanced at him lightly, then turned her head and looked at the new book in front of her seriously.
"Yan Huan!" Mu Yi moved to Lin Yanhuan's side and patted him on the shoulder hard. Lin Yanhuan frowned, but he didn't dodge, he just didn't hear it.
Mu Yi sat down next to him with a smile, looked in the direction of Lin Yansheng stupidly, and said in a daze: "Oh, this is called fate, this shows - this shows that I also have fate with your sister." β
"Shut up, it's noisy. Lin Yanhuan suddenly became a little irritable, he closed the book in his hand, got up and walked outside.
This sentence was repeated over and over again, and my ears were calloused. Mu Yi pretended to pluck his ears, patted the shoulder of the girl in front of him, and asked with a smile,
"What's your name?, my name is Mu Yi, everyone meets is fate, it's better to get to know each other......" The girl glanced at him with a red face, and quickly turned her head.
Mu Yi felt bored, so he shifted his gaze back to Lin Yansheng and looked at it stupidly. I don't know when, in his big manly mind, quietly left a shadow.
The shadow was always faint, and even the speech was soft, with almost no sense of presence. However, in his mind, the shadow is as important as a blood vessel, it can't be missing, and it can't be broken, otherwise his heart will die - this is his own decision, he is sure and very sure, if Lin Yansheng is not by his side, his heart will die.
But even so, he was still cautious and didn't dare to reveal his thoughts to Lin Yansheng.
It was a clean, profane girl, and he would rather be silently by her side than let her cause any estrangement to him because of his own carefulness, which would be more than worth the loss.
Mu Yi felt complacent about his little cleverness, and finally felt that his IQ stood on the slightly curved high ground for the first time.
As for Lin Yanhuan, Mu Yi has always felt that he is a little perverted, a little perverted indifference and cleverness.
Mu Yi has never seen that he can read and be appreciated by the principal, he jumped directly from the first year of junior high school to the first year of high school, he himself reads to death, he can't even catch up with the passing score of a class, and he can't figure out how Lin Yanhuan reads this book, and what kind of structure is the brain to read so vividly.
Lin Yansheng always said that he had a bad temper, but in Mu Yi's opinion, Lin Yanhuan's temper was even worse than him, but fortunately he had a big heart and didn't care, otherwise he didn't know how many times he would have been angry.
Just as he was wandering, the class bell suddenly rang, Mu Yi was startled, and hurriedly glanced at Lin Yansheng.
Seeing that Lin Yansheng was still burying his head in the book, he didn't seem to move. The chair next to him made a noise, and Lin Yanhuan came back and sat down beside him coldly.
"Hey, your eldest brother-in-law is here?" Mu Yi asked quietly. As if Lin Yanhuan hadn't heard it, he opened the book and studied the math problem of the second year of high school.
In the eyes of this group of young and lively children, they are just a foreshadowing of their future life, and what brings them vitality is never these knowledge points that consume energy to study thoroughly, but the beauty and expectation brought by those young and restless hearts.
Lin Yansheng couldn't tell what she was expecting, she was still young, and she was still confused about the future, she just relied on her intuition and felt that she liked to put color and imagination on the drawing paper.
She is different from her younger brother, who is recognized as a gifted student by the school, and her own intelligence may not even be half of her brother's intelligence.
She wasn't interested in those topics, she was only interested in literature and art, and in her sophomore year of high school, she had a showdown with her parents and said she wanted to be an art student.
Lin Shengming and his wife agreed without even hesitation, they know their daughter very well, they have not talked much since she was a child, and their love for art is visible from the inside out.
Since she really wants to develop in this area, let her go, life is short, and it is also a kind of luck to be able to do what she likes for the rest of her life.
And Lin Yanhuan still occupies the first position on the school's ranking list, his eyebrows are always faint, not happy or angry, as if the name that is always ranked first has nothing to do with him.
Mu Yi was envious of his realm, and asked many times, wondering how to cultivate, so that his moody temper could be restrained.
Lin Yanhuan finally couldn't stand his annoyance, and said, "If you really thought of that kind of realm, you wouldn't have come to ask me this question." β
"What do you mean?" Mu Yi frowned, not understanding. Lin Yanhuan put away the books on the table, stood up, and said, "What's wrong with being ranked first? Can I eat as a meal? I don't study to be ranked first." β
"It's not for the first, that's for what? Do the first more scenery!" Mu Yi said, at this time, a girl passed by his side, and he immediately restrained the expression of the hippie smile and made a cold iceberg.
Lin Yanhuan snorted coldly and said, "I don't care, it's okay to be the last one." He looked back at Mu Yi, thought for a moment, and said,
"Then be the last one. Mu Yi was even more puzzled, he followed behind the first place in this school suspiciously, step by step, like Lin Yanhuan's shadow.