Chapter 6: Childhood Memories
When the elevator came down, a full five minutes had passed, and after getting on the elevator, Zhang Tianye simply tidied up his clothes and began to smooth out his thoughts, thinking about how to talk to Professor Lin about the "Twelve Dooms" and "Lao Ye Mountain", and whether to have reservations about Ye Xinxin.
The elevator stopped with a "ding" sound, and it had already arrived at the door of Professor Lin's house, Zhang Tianye put away his thoughts, and walked out of the elevator with the things he bought in Jiuhe Building yesterday.
I happened to meet a middle-aged man, walked into the elevator head-on, and there was a familiar smell of Zhang Tianye on his body, and he was in a trance, Zhang Tianye suddenly woke up, it was the fragrance of the accident taxi on the west side of the suburbs!
Hurriedly turned around and wanted to enter the elevator, but at this time, the door of the elevator had been closed and began to run downward, and he couldn't care about so many things for a while, Zhang Tianye casually put the gift given to Professor Lin and his wife at the door, and trotted down the stairs all the way.
When he went out of the door of the unit building in the community, he collided with a middle-aged woman who was walking her dog back, and before Zhang Tianye could explain, he saw the man in a black suit, open the car door, and drive a black Audi A8 out of the door of the community.
Zhang Tianye, who originally wanted to catch up, was grabbed by the woman who had just bumped into him, angrily grabbed his sleeve, accused him of reckless behavior, and almost frightened her baby, crying and laughing Zhang Tianye, looking at the husky led by the woman, hurriedly apologized, thinking that this is all nonsense, there is nothing wrong with loving dogs, but raising dogs as children.
When the chattering woman originally wanted to be entangled, the mobile phone rang, and after she glanced at Zhang Tianye, she said angrily: "Today, you just met me, this is going to be replaced by uncle and aunt, you can give it a try"?
Seeing that the woman was relieved, Zhang Tianye just nodded hurriedly, and said "yes, yes", obviously this call is very important to middle-aged women, she didn't care about Zhang Tianye, she walked in the direction of the elevator with the dog alone, and connected the phone, and said to the caller: "Don't rush, go downstairs, I can still forget, I made an appointment to play mahjong today."
After the middle-aged woman who muttered hung up the phone, she walked into the elevator, and Zhang Tianye, who did not give up, walked quickly to the doorman of the community, and asked the security guard inside for the information of the man who drove out in the black car just now.
The clues that were finally grasped were broken again, Zhang Tianye was a little frustrated and polite with the security guard, lying that he was a resident here, and wanted to sell the house that had been uninhabited, and the person just now seemed to be the buyer introduced by a friend, and he had no contact information for a while, so he seemed a little anxious.
This explanation is reasonable, and the security guard of the doorman didn't think much about it, so that Zhang Tianye left his mobile phone number, so that when the buyer came again, it would be convenient to notify him.
After leaving his mobile phone number, Zhang Tianye walked quickly to Professor Lin's house, fortunately, at this time, the middle-aged woman had completely left, otherwise it would be a difficult thing for him.
After calming down, Zhang Tianye took the elevator again, arrived at the door of Professor Lin's house, and when he saw that the things placed outside the door were still in place, he rang the doorbell, picked up the gifts on the ground, and waited for Professor Lin and his wife to open the door.
What he didn't expect was Ye Xinxin who opened the door, Zhang Tianye was just about to enter the door, but was stopped by Ye Xinxin outside the door, and whispered: "Why are you going, Professor Lin and I have been waiting for you for almost half an hour, you'd better explain to me well, where is there such disrespect."
Ye Xinxin put on a master's posture, which made Zhang Tianye cry and laugh, thinking that she was really condescending if she didn't become an actress, if she hadn't eaten it for so long, wouldn't there be three hundred taels of silver here?
"Miss, can you stop making trouble, I still have something to ask, Uncle Lin, you won't be the one who cried your nose just now after such a big while, can you not be so naïve", before Ye Xinxin could fight back, Zhang Tianye walked in after saying sarcastically.
Ye Xinxin, who was angry, itched her teeth, and couldn't wait to go up and slap Zhang Tianye a few times, daring to mention her crying nose, but seeing him walk in, she had to close the door casually.
Although the door was only a few steps away from the living room, Ye Xinxin completed a gorgeous transformation in front of Zhang Tianye, running in front of Zhang Tianye like a docile kitten.
Seeing Zhang Tianye come in, his wife Li Hongmin got up and came out to greet him, and was just about to take the gift from Zhang Tianye's hand, but Ye Xinxin coquettishly grabbed his arm, this method is really scary, Zhang Tianye secretly gave Ye Xinxin a thumbs up in his heart, it has only been a long time, and it has already become a piece, but looking at the posture, it seems that they have known each other for a long time.
"Xinxin, don't make trouble, Amano is a guest, how can he be so rude", his wife Li Hongmin gently raised her hand and rubbed it on Ye Xinxin's head, which could see her love for Ye Xinxin, and then tapped her finger on her forehead again, signaling her to take the gift from Zhang Tianye's hand.
Ye Xinxin stuck out her tongue at Zhang Tianye, and after letting go of the hands holding her wife Li Hongmin and taking the things in Zhang Tianye's hands, Professor Lin, who had not spoken for a long time, said to the three of them: "Okay, hurry up and sit down, the tea will be cold in a while, Tianye, you stinky boy, you released my pigeon yesterday, your master and mother, and complained for a long time, saying that I didn't take good care of you."
Seeing and hearing Professor Lin's words, Li Hongmin pulled Zhang Tianye with one hand and Ye Xinxin with the other hand to sit down on the sofa in front of Professor Lin, looked at Zhang Tianye kindly and sighed: "Twelve years are so fast, in a blink of an eye, Xiaotian has grown so big, and he is no longer the child who loved to cry back then", his eyes were full of praise.
Before Zhang Tianye followed his mother abroad, he often came to Professor Lin's house with his father Zhang Xinghai, and Professor Lin and Li Hongmin were never able to have a child because of physical reasons, so they naturally loved children.
In addition, at that time, Zhang Xinghai and Lin Zhengwei were both excellent staff teachers of Ganges University for Nationalities, and the two of them went a little further, and his wife Li Hongmin also went to see Zhang Tianye with delicious food every once in a while.
Later, Zhang Tianye's father violated the organization's records, privately accepted a huge amount of funding, joined a mysterious expedition, and became a tool used by smugglers, and when the police arrested the fugitives, he was taken hostage, and the suspects were treated as traitors and shot to death.
At that time, only Professor Lin and his wife were not afraid of gossip to help their mother and son, Zhang Tianye's mother "Yu Wei" was also a teacher at Minzu University, but because of her husband, she was implicated.
At that time, the whole school was full of gossip, Yu Wei couldn't stand the pressure for a while, so she took Zhang Tianye to live in the UK, when Zhang Tianye was twenty years old, his mother also left him because of a heart attack, but fortunately, Zhang Tianye had a rich uncle in the UK and had been taking care of him all these years.
Professor Lin was also very cautious in the conversation, and he never dared to mention anything related to his old friend Zhang Tianye's father, but judging from his expression, his wife Li Hongmin had already discovered that Zhang Tianye still couldn't get out of the shadow of those years.
Although he didn't say anything about the things of the year, Zhang Tianye was also very uncomfortable, but he still tried his best to suppress himself, over the years, he and his mother have walked every step of the way very hard, especially in the years when he just arrived in the UK, Zhang Tianye remembered that his mother not only had to teach Chinese during the day, but also had to be a nanny after work, and after coming back at night, he couldn't sleep all night long, and cried secretly, which is also an important reason why he died of a sudden heart attack.
Professor Lin knows that there are some things that cannot be bypassed in this life, even if you don't mention it, it doesn't mean that the scar doesn't hurt, Zhang Tianye's mother chose to bear everything silently, and carried all the pressure, she has never accepted anyone's funding, looking at Zhang Tianye in front of him, Professor Lin's heart is also full of love and pity.
The atmosphere was a little cold for a while, and Ye Xinxin was also very aware of this matter, but Zhang Tianye didn't know that the crazy girl who spent half of his childhood with him at Professor Lin's house was himself.
At this time, the pressure cooker of the old hen was stewing in the kitchen, and it sounded, wafting out an irresistible fragrance, and his wife Li Hongmin stood up, first broke the somewhat embarrassing atmosphere, and said to Professor Lin: "Look at my memory, the kitchen is still stewed, you talk first."
Li Hongmin, who got up and left the living room, walked to the kitchen and took down the pressure cooker, and began to stir-fry, Professor Lin also stood up, smiled mysteriously at Zhang Tianye and Ye Xinxin, and pulled the two of them to the door of the innermost bedroom in the living room with some mystery, and watched the two of them open the door with full of memories, and said to himself: "You two go in and have a look, there are a lot of memories of the two of you when you were young."
Ye Xinxin naturally knew what the common memories of the two people when they were children in her uncle's mouth were going on, but Zhang Tianye pushed open the door with some doubts, and Ye Xinxin also walked in curiously, wondering what this memory was.
Zhang Tianye knew that his wife Li Hongmin was very fond of photography, and because he had no children, he often took pictures of himself and another little girl with the old camera at that time, Zhang Tianye was not as tall and burly as he is now, and he was often robbed of toys by little girls, and a person who was bullied cried his nose, which is why his wife Li Hongmin said that he loved to cry when he was a child.