"Alai, this is the driver of Mr. Lin's fiancé, not the uncle I said before, you can call him Uncle Aaron. Lin Xigu pointed to Ah Long, who was concentrating on driving in front of him.

"What is a fiancé?" All the girls and boys in the Dulong clan are directly married, so Alai has no concept of the word fiancé at all.

Lin Xigu was about to answer, but was still preempted by Lele, "Stupid Alai, my fiancé is the man who will marry and live with Teacher Lin in the future." ”

"Oh, who is the person in Mr. Lin's photo? Is he also his fiancé? But isn't marriage only with one person? Mr. Lin, my aunt will only bring his photo with her if she likes someone, and my aunt also said that only bad women will be with several men. Alai pouted, and it was clear that he thought of Lin Xigu as the kind of bad woman his grandmother said he had.

"We Alai even know that. Of course Lin Xigu would not take the words of a 7-year-old child to heart, "Don't worry, the teacher will not be a bad woman, the uncle in the photo is an elder brother of the teacher before, but now he is gone, so the teacher can only take his photo with him, and take it out when he wants to see him." ”

Ah Lai nodded as if he didn't understand, and then asked, "Where did the uncle in the photo go? Why didn't he come to see Teacher Lin?" Lin Xigu didn't know how to tell the child about the fact that Xu Yinuo was dead, the child's world was innocent and beautiful, death was still too far away from them, and life and death were not something they should bear at their age, after a slight pause, Lin Xigu hugged Ah Lai to his lap, rubbed the top of his hair and said with a smile. We have a lot of problems, uncle, he didn't come to see me, uncle went to a far place, even farther away than the last time we went to Beijing, Mr. Lin was afraid that he would be tired, so he didn't let him come, Alai was tired last time he went to Beijing, did he come back? So uncle is the same. "Oh, it turned out to be Mr. Lin, you didn't let your uncle come to see you. But it's okay, Mr. Lin, when I grow up, I'll build an airplane, and then I'll go to your uncle, okay?"

As soon as these words came out, not only her, but the rest of the people in the car also laughed, Lin Xigu's eyes rolled and happened to catch a glimpse of the slightly shaking shoulders of the person in the driver's seat, he is not a wooden person, at least he will laugh when he encounters something funny, Lin Xigu really wants to see what Ah Long's real heartfelt smile looks like when he goes out to face her and Lin Qibei's professional smile, but now he is driving with his back to him, even if she wants to see it, she can't see it.

"Okay, of course, then the teacher will wait for the plane that Alai built. Lin Xigu lightly nodded the tip of Alai's nose and replied dotingly.

After an afternoon of tiring travel, Lin Xigu took the children back to the inn to rest after eating.

The inn she booked was a homestay in the ancient city of Dayan, named Liunian, and she and Xu Yinuo lived in this one when they came to Lijiang to play.

Nearly four years have passed, but I didn't expect the shopkeeper here to know her, and she greeted her warmly as soon as she walked in.

"Little girl, you are really trustworthy, how many people have come and gone in my store, and they all said that they would come back next time, but the opening has been open for more than ten years, and you are the first person to do what you say." "The shopkeeper is a beautiful middle-aged Naxi woman, but she doesn't look old at all, especially when she laughs, the two cute tiger teeth often make people forget her age.

It was really just a polite remark when he said that he would come back, and to be honest, Lin Xigu didn't expect that he would come to this ancient city.

"The hostess is still so beautiful, are the rooms I ordered ready? The children are tired from sitting in the car all afternoon, so let them rest early. ”

"Okay, okay, you don't have to worry about my errands, you can take the children with me. The shopkeeper lifted the bead curtain and walked into the backyard, and Lin Xigu naturally followed in.

There were a total of fifteen of them, Lin Xigu booked five rooms before coming, the guest rooms here are all four sets, the shopkeeper gave them the emptiest spring, summer, autumn and winter suites with the best scenery, and the remaining extra one can only be found in other rooms, Lin Xigu assigned the children and led the two girls to another separate room.

Tidying up, brushing his teeth, taking a bath, and after a lot of tossing, Lin Xigu had a chance to be idle, the moon was shining outside the window, Lin Xigu couldn't sleep for a while, so he simply approved a piece of clothing and walked to the yard to enjoy the moonlight.

"Aaron, why are you here?" As soon as he pushed the door open, Lin Xigu saw the mute Aaron standing at his door.

Ah Long took out his mobile phone, clicked on it a few times, and handed it to Lin Xigu to see.

"I'm going to protect you, it's too far away. Lin Xigu read out loud word by word.

"It's okay, it's not a remote place, there will be no problems, it's not too early, hurry up and go to sleep." Lin Xigu couldn't bear to watch him stand in the yard blowing the cold wind, and refused his kindness.

Aaron still stood motionless as if he hadn't heard her words, with no intention of leaving.

"I said no. Lin Xigu suddenly felt a little irritable, but she couldn't say for what reason.

"Then I'll go farther. Aaron typed a few more words on his phone.

Lin Xigu looked at the words on the glowing mobile phone and became even more impatient, "Whatever you want, just stand if you like, what do you like to do with your legs spread on yourself." ”

After speaking, he turned around and threw the door with a "bang", he didn't know what to do, and he deserved to freeze to death!

After about ten minutes, Lin Xi opened the window and secretly looked outside, and sure enough, the stupid wood was still in that place.

"I really don't know if Lin Qibei wants to trick me, why did he assign such a person to me!" Lin Xigu muttered dissatisfiedly.

Pacing around the room, after thinking about it for a while, Lin Xigu still felt that it was not good to let the family stand outside alone, so she took a cup of hot tea and walked out again.

"Well, is it cold? Drink hot water to warm up. It was already autumn and it was more dewy in the middle of the night, and Lin Xigu already felt a chill as soon as he walked outside, not to mention Ah Long, who had been standing at the door for almost half an hour.

Ah Long took the cup and bowed respectfully to Lin Xigu, and Lin Xigu couldn't help laughing out loud because of his formal appearance.

"Let's go sit down over there. Lin Xigu pointed to the stone bench in the center of the courtyard.

Ah Long hesitated for a while, and finally followed.

"Sit down. Seeing that he refused to sit down, Lin Xigu simply stood up and forced him to sit down on his shoulder.

Ah Long is the same height as Xu Yinuo, Lin Xigu, who is not wearing high heels, has a little difficulty pressing him on the seat, but fortunately, Ah Long did not insist on sitting obediently in the position beside her, otherwise if he really didn't want to sit Lin Xigu, I am afraid that he may not be able to make him obedient if he uses his strength to eat.

"Aaron, where are you from?" Lin Xi suddenly asked, looking at the starry sky.

"Jinan, Shandong. ”

"Jinan, isn't that Xia Yuhe's hometown on the shore of Daming Lake?" Lin Xigu said jokingly, "But why did you come to Ruili?"

"I came with my parents. ”

"What about your parents?"

This time, Ah Long did not immediately lower his head and type, but looked at the front fixedly for a long time.

"They all died. After a while, Ah Long held up his mobile phone to Lin Xigu.

"I'm sorry. Lin Xigu said apologetically, "But the two of us are really alike, my parents left early, and I am also an orphan without a father and mother." ”

"It's the same end of the world. ”

Lin Xigu didn't expect Ah Long to be able to speak such literary and artistic words, and after reacting for a long time, he smiled and said, "Yes, the same is the end of the world, Ah Long, you really think about it very much with a friend of mine, you say, are you he?"

After Lin Xi finished speaking, he suddenly looked at Ah Long steadily, with some expectation and uneasiness in his eyes.

Ah Long also turned his face at this time, and the moment his eyes met unexpectedly, the moment his eyes met, Lin Xigu felt as if something that had been sleeping for a long time in his heart woke up, the moonlight was bright, and the hope gushing out became stronger and thicker in the silence of the man.

Lin Xi Gu Duo hoped that the person in front of him could say "yes" at this time, but hope was only hope after all, and Ah Long quickly looked away.

"It's not. The two concise and clear words broke all the illusions of Lin Xigu, no, he was not the person she wanted to remember, he was not Xu Yinuo.

"Yes, probably because you were a little confused by this cold wind, you said that you are from Jinan, Shandong, how could it be him?" Lin Xigu muttered self-deprecatingly.

"Who is he you?" Aaron took the initiative to ask her for the first time about anything other than his own job.

"I'm not going to know. But he lied to me for five years. But I will be more sad than him when I see him sad, whether I love or hate? Do I love more or hate more? Who is he to me? Actually, I want to know. Lin Xigu asked and answered himself, and in the end, he felt that the logic was very confusing.

"If you don't love where the hatred comes from, Miss Lin, I think you love him. ”

Lin Xigu looked at the black font on the screen and subconsciously wanted to deny it, but suddenly found that he didn't even have a reason to open his mouth, yes, because of love can there be hatred, if he really doesn't love him at all, where does the resentment come from?

Lin Xigu was speechless for a while, so she could only hide back in the room under the pretext that the weather was too cold, facing Ah Long's cheeks that were exactly the same as Xu Yinuo's, Lin Xigu really found it difficult to agree with what he said, even if maybe what he said was right, she probably had more love for Xu Yinuo than hatred, the kind of unforgettable love that had penetrated deep into the bone marrow and merged with her body.