"yes, I know." Lin Anping touched her hair as he spoke, hoping to give her some comfort.

Waiting for the summer to finish crying, my eyes are swollen.

Lin Anping took out his handkerchief and handed it to her, and Xia was embarrassed to take it.

It's much better to cry, although she has talked to her father before, and she has also expressed her mind and position, but after all, she can't get over that hurdle in her heart.

After telling Lin Anping everything today, she really let go of her heart.

She also figured out that even if she can't go to college, she has to work hard, work hard to earn money, and wait for the day when she will live in the metropolis! It's not impossible!

Who says you have to go to college to live in a big city?

Now that she has figured it out, she is no longer so sad.

The two of them sat under the big tree and talked for a while, waiting for Summer's eyes to look less swollen, and then they took Xiao Huang who had taken a nap and went home.

In early September, Lin Anping set out alone on his journey to Beijing Normal University.

And in the summer, standing on the platform of the train station, looking at the train in the distance, I watched it for a long, long time.

……

Mid-July 1994.

Two years have passed in the blink of an eye, and in the summer, my father's leg has healed and he can walk like a normal person.

It's just that my body is more sick and weak than before, maybe because of my age, or because I didn't care about my body in the past few years, so my asthma is much worse than before, and now I basically can't go out to work.

In the summer, the eldest brother Xia Dahai didn't dare to fool around all day because of his father's affairs, so he went out to find a job in a factory, but he couldn't do it for a long time, so he could only go home to farm again.

In the summer, I found a restaurant in the county seat and worked as a waiter.

The restaurant doesn't pay her much, but she can support her family.

She has had a lot less contact with Lin Anping, and she has only seen her a few times during the winter and summer holidays in the past two years.

Occasionally, she misses her school days in the summer, and sometimes a group of high school students come to a restaurant, and she sees her past through those high school students.

In the evening of this day, she welcomed a guest from the restaurant as usual.

"Hello, this is the menu, what do you order?"

Summer handed the menu in her hand to a middle-aged man sitting in her seat.

The middle-aged male guest had a big belly and had been wiping his sweat with a handkerchief because of the weather and size.

"Don't talk about ordering yet, go ahead and turn up the fan in your store! It's hot to death! ”

Summer knew from his tone that the guest's temper wasn't very good, and she smiled and nodded.

"Yes, sir. I'm going to turn it up. ”

When Summer turned the fan up a notch and returned to this middle-aged male guest again, his mood was obviously not so irritable.

The middle-aged male guest ordered a large table of dishes and another half case of cold beer.

When he ordered the order, he went to the kitchen in the summer to tell him to cook as soon as possible.

Summer also brought half a case of beer to this guest and opened a bottle for him.

The middle-aged man glanced at her, and seemed to be very satisfied with her service attitude, with a little frivolity on his face, and his speech began to flow into the air.

"Where did your little sister come from? Is it a local? What does it look like Shui Ling'er? ”

Summer smiled faintly, and did not answer, but put the dishes brought from the kitchen on the table in front of him, "Sir, the dishes you ordered are here." The rest is still being done and will be given to you as soon as possible. ”

The middle-aged man seemed to be attracted by Summer's attitude, snorted, and raised his hand to grab Summer's wrist where he was putting the plate.

Summer withdrew his hand, didn't say anything, turned back to the cash register as if nothing had happened, said to the manager, and then went back to receive other guests.

This scene fell in the eyes of the two people outside the door.

The people who came were Lin Anping and her brother Lin Yilu.

Lin Anping and Lin Yilu both went to universities in Beijing, but Lin Anping had a good brain and was admitted to Beijing Normal University, while Lin Yilu was admitted to a third-rate junior college in Beijing.

It's just that Lin Yilu didn't accept his fate, he and his college classmate and roommate Zhou Xianzhong, a fellow villager in the same city, both wanted to get ahead, gave up the national iron rice bowl, and chose to start a business, and the two of them began to be a dumpster in their hometown X City to resell BB machines, wanting to make money.

Lin Yilu has now graduated for a year, and Lin Anping has just entered his sophomore year.

Now during July, Lin Anping has taken a summer vacation, and Lin Yilu has also returned from X City, and the brother and sister have just returned to the county, and Lin Anping wants to go to the summer restaurant to meet her.

Lin Yilu was not in a hurry to go home, and he was also very curious about who the person who could make his sister Lin Anping talk all the time.

So the two of them got off the train at the station and went straight to the restaurant where they worked in the summer.

Before I entered the door, I saw the middle-aged man pull Summer's wrist, and Summer just withdrew his hand and didn't say anything.

This scene fell in the eyes of Lin Anping and Lin Yilu outside the door, Lin Anping was naturally angry, and rolled up his sleeves to go in and scold the old man.

Lin Yilu also frowned, but he stopped Lin Anping, and his mouth was very steady and mature.

"Anping, don't make a fuss yet, after all, this is where your friend works, and you will cause her trouble. Let's take a look at the situation first and call the police if it's serious. Anyway, the two of us are here, so he can't run away. ”

As soon as Lin Anping heard her eldest brother's words, she immediately relieved herself and nodded at her eldest brother.

"Okay, I'll listen to you, big brother."

"Then let's go in first, I'm hungry, let's see if the food in this place where your friend works is good."

Lin Anping suddenly smiled again, "That must be delicious!" ”

The two of them raised their legs and went in, and as soon as they put the dishes on the table of a guest in the summer, they saw someone coming at the door.

Following the legs of the two people, she looked up and saw Lin Anping smiling and waving her hand, "Summer!" I'm on summer vacation! ”

Summer's face immediately smiled.

"Anping!"

As soon as the two of them wanted to hug each other, Xia remembered that it was in a restaurant, so he whispered: "Anping, I guess I can't go out with you at this time, otherwise you go back first, I'll look for you another day?" ”

"Who said we're going out, we're going to eat here."

When Summer heard this, she reacted and hurriedly led them to their seats.

"Then, then you sit down first, and I'll go get the menu."

Summer trotted back to the cash register, took the menu and returned to Lin Anping's table.

She handed the menu to Lin Anping, "This is the menu, you guys see what you want to eat." ”

Lin Anping was distressed while reading the menu, but Lin Yilu was fascinated by this girl when he saw the appearance of summer when he just entered the door.

It is said that he should marry a daughter-in-law at his age, but because he is starting a business outside, his mother Gao Haoyue can't find anyone if she wants to urge him.

He always said that he was not in a hurry.

But to put it bluntly, I didn't meet someone I liked, and I didn't want to find someone to get married.

What he likes is the kind of urban girl who is intellectual, gentle, and has a bit of a goddess temperament. It's better to be a lawyer, a doctor, a girl with such a profession.

But the moment he saw Summer, he felt that the god of fate had shot an arrow of love at him.

The girl was not a lawyer or a doctor, but he seemed to suddenly realize that he was not obsessed with her because of that.

At this moment, only one thought clearly appeared in his chaotic heart, he fell in love with this girl at first sight.

And he fell in love with this girl at first sight because she was beautiful.

In Lin Yilu's eyes, how beautiful is summer?

She just stood there swaying, the fan in the restaurant blew her ponytail in the wind, she raised her hand to pull the broken hair on the sideburns behind her ears, and looked up from the side of her neck, her face was white, her skin was delicate, and when she turned to look at him, her big watery eyes, small nose, delicate eyebrows, every part of her facial features seemed to be just right and good-looking. She made his eyes roll with her stillness.

Xia noticed Lin Yilu's gaze, and felt a little uncomfortable.

She had never seen Lin Yilu, and she didn't know that this was Lin Anping's brother.

Xia thought that this person was Lin Anping's friend or college classmate, after all, Lin Anping has always been in love with Xiang Siqing, and he can't be a boyfriend.