After school in the afternoon, Lin Ming held a small black umbrella and walked leisurely among the students to go home.

If you don't go to the company today, it's not interesting to get old.

Under the old banyan tree outside Ping'an Street, it is still the old position, standing alone and lonely, looking out from afar, like a lookout stone.

In fact, everyone understands Enron's thoughts. Just like Lin Ming and Li Sisi's layer of window paper, Zhang Shaoan did not break it, Zhou Yunkai did not break it, and no one in the Eight King Kong broke it. Zhao Hao didn't dare to break it.

This is self-deception.

But Zhao Hao is not Enron's anyone, he has no qualifications and no right to let Enron not do this.

If Zhao Hao is so self-righteous that he pretends to be An Ran's boyfriend and forces An Ran to do something, then don't say how An Ran is. Even the other six people of the Eight King Kong would no longer take him seriously.

They are together because of the relationship they have had since childhood, and because of the bottom line that everyone has maintained from beginning to end. A friend is a friend, and a relationship is a feeling. Who crossed that line and did something that was sorry for everyone and hurt friends. Then I'm sorry for everyone's relationship, so far.

That's why and the bottom line everyone keeps up.

It's like when he is external, Zhou Yunkai is insidious and ruthless, and he can always come up with a lot of vicious ways to deal with the enemy. But it is a truth that he will never put this cunning on his brothers.

In the previous life, he left safely. caused Zhao Hao to be excluded by the other seven people, except for the symbolic greetings during the New Year's holidays, he is no longer as affectionate as he was at the beginning, which is a good proof. Therefore, no matter how stupid Zhao Hao is, he will not interfere with Enron's own choice.

At most, each according to his ability.

Even in the eyes of everyone, this is no longer something that can be solved by each person's ability.

"Don't wait for the rain, what should I do if I get wet and catch a cold."

Lin Ming was distressed to see An Ran's trouser legs wet by the rain, An Ran was wearing a pair of blue and white canvas shoes, although she was standing on the flower bed surrounded by a banyan tree, but when she walked over before, she didn't know if her shoes were soaked by the heavy rain.

The rain has turned the streets outside Ping'an Street into a small river.

An Ran didn't speak, but naturally took the initiative to hold Lin Ming's hand.

That hand was full of softness and tenderness, tightly grasping the gap between Lin Ming's fingertips, and no one wanted to let go. That second, it was frozen into an eternal picture.

"Carry me."

An Ran put away the umbrella and hid under Lin Ming's small black umbrella.

Lin Ming smiled and handed her the umbrella, turned around and bent over.

For the goddess to be a cow and a horse, I can't ask for it.

An Ran held a small black umbrella and lay on Lin Ming's thick back. For a moment, she thought how good it would be for this moment to be eternal.

Raindrops crackled on the umbrella.

To get back to the family home, you have to cross Xiangchun Street. But the entire road was flooded.

Lin Ming dripped water, the water was up to his ankles, and his shoes were all wet, but every step he took, he walked steadily and safely.

Because Enron is very light, but on him, it feels very heavy.

This is the responsibility heavier than Mount Tai.

He hopes that in the future, he will let this responsibility be pressed on him forever, even if he is out of breath, he is willing to eat it.

......．

Lin Ming returned home, changed into slippers and went to the toilet to take a shower.

Dad Lin Changqing hasn't come back yet, and he doesn't know what's going on in the unit. My mother was watching TV in the living room, and there were two guests in the house.

Aunt Fang Xiaolan and cousin Gong Jie.

Lin Ming was still very happy to see Gong Jie coming, his cousin was two years younger than him, and among their family peers, they were the closest in age and had the best relationship. It's just that the two call each other a little unexpected.

"Auntie." In the living room, the mother and the aunt are talking about the shortcomings of the family, which is nothing more than the aunt complaining there and talking about the matter of the sister-in-law. In the three years from 98 to 01, in the period of state-owned enterprise reform, a large number of workers were laid off, and the number of laid-off workers remained at about 7 million to 9 million per year, which was at its peak.

Last year, my sister-in-law left a state-owned enterprise, took a subsidy, and followed a so-called old classmate in high school to Fen City, the next province, to engage in the 1321 Sunshine Project, but I didn't expect it to be a pyramid scheme, and I lost most of the 50,000 yuan subsidy given by the unit. After coming back, the aunt who learned the truth had a big quarrel with the sister-in-law and divorced, if it weren't for the pressure of family relatives, plus the two children were so old, the two husbands and wives might really leave. It is precisely because their relationship has fallen to the freezing point that many quarrels have made my aunt quite depressed recently, and she often comes to her mother to cry. I only came here once a few days ago, and I came here again today.

This shows that the aunt and his wife are likely to quarrel again today, in fact, the two of them are not short of that money, Lin Ming's two uncles are very capable, and now they are doing passenger transport business at the West Bus Station and running the line as a car owner. At the end of this year, my aunt's family will also participate, and their net worth will be tens of millions in the future.

It's just that the aunt's personality follows Lin Ming's grandmother, or rather, the blue is better than the blue, and the temperament is even more powerful than the mother and grandmother when she is short-tempered. The sister-in-law was already annoyed by being deceived by his classmates outside, and the aunt had to accuse him, so the two were naturally incompatible, and they would explode at one point.

In fact, the family is quite sympathetic to the little brother-in-law. After all, it's not that he doesn't work hard, it's just that his luck is not good. So every time my aunt came over, my mother comforted her, and then took her to the yard to play mahjong at night......

This diversionary method was effective, at least during this time, my aunt's mood was much more stable. also allowed Lin Ming to have more time with Gong Jie during this time.

Back in his room, Lin Ming saw Gong Jie playing with his computer.

As the owner of the Peach Wood Company, Lin Ming also serves as a music director. This job made him pay close to 3,000 yuan a month, so he bought a computer a few days ago. It's the kind of old-fashioned big-headed computer, and the configuration can only be used on the Internet, or play StarCraft and Red Alert.

"Yakiniku (SB)."

"NC (Brain Dead)"

Lin Ming called Gong Jie a baked cake, and Gong Jie called him NC. This is a unique title between the two brothers.

Gong Jie is tall and thin, not handsome, like he will be blown down by a gust of wind. Later, Gong Jie went to the army, and after returning from training for five years, he still looked like this. It's just that compared to the original ribs, it has become a little tougher.

Lin Ming still misses his cousin's youth very much.

Unlike later, it was very tanned.

Gong Jie was still in his second year of junior high school, and when he saw Lin Ming coming back, he quickly turned off the computer game and gave him a look.

The two looked at each other, you know, I understand.

"Mom, when is it time to eat, I'm starving." Lin Ming shouted probingly at the outside interview. This sentence determines two situations, one, my mother wants to go out to play mahjong with my aunt now, so let them go outside for dinner or Lin Ming will do it himself. Second, have dinner now and go out later.

Fang Lan replied: "You cook for your brother by yourself, and your aunt and I are going to play mahjong, and your Aunt He is urging over there, and two are missing." We don't eat dinner, you don't have to leave it for us, lose weight. ”

"Okay."

Lin Ming glanced at Gong Jie.

Don't look at the pouring rain outside, but it definitely can't stop the mahjong soul of the aunts and aunts in the yard. Usually, the big guys usually set up a table in the yard to play, and on rainy days, they make an appointment to play cards at home.

It is a pity that in the past two years, the city and the province have been carrying out innovation and change, and the major organs and units are no longer working in the unified office of the city government or the provincial government, but have built new offices one by one, and at the same time building new family compounds in each government office, and the children of the same unit can only play in the courtyard of their own units, so that the family buildings where various organs and units live together have completely disappeared into the ocean of history. In Lin Ming's current yard, almost every day, the leading families of government agencies and units move out, and the partners in the yard are decreasing day by day, and the scene of forty or fifty friends playing in the yard every day can only be recalled in the memory of childhood.

At the end of this year, starting from 99, the police building of the Provincial Public Security Department, which took three years to build, was officially announced to be capped on Yanzi Road in Hexi, and three rows of magnificent high-rise buildings rose from the ground. At the same time, several family buildings were also built behind the Public Security Department, making Zhou Yunkai the first Bajjra partner to move out.

Such a situation not only happened in the courtyard where Lin Ming was, but also happened in the entire cloud city in various government family homes.

A long time ago, all units of the provincial government and the municipal government worked in the same place, and the family members were basically placed in the public family building near the work, so the civil servants of various units lived together, and the city civil servants and the provincial civil servants became neighbors, and various units were organized to live together.

There are as many as seven or eight courtyards like Lin Ming's in the entire Cloud City.

In the future, it will all disappear.

Fang Lan often sighed later, even if the contact was still there, she could no longer find the feeling that she could chat with the east family when she went downstairs, and the west family was short, and there were neighbors she knew everywhere, and she could get together a table of mahjong anytime and anywhere.

But.

Things around us are changing all the time.

But unchanged.

It's a relationship that used to be together when they were young. Even if in a few years, almost everyone will move out, and the feelings of Ba Kong will still remain.

When his mother and aunt went downstairs to play mahjong, Lin Ming and his cousin waited for more than ten minutes before they went out.

Their destination is the game hall on Xiangchun Road.

In the past two years, Internet cafes and game halls have sprung up like mushrooms, and in the south, it seems that such game areas are everywhere overnight. On the streets, in small alleys, and even in residential buildings, there are small secret doors like this everywhere, and there are a dozen or twenty of them in them, all of which are old semicircular desktops, bulky and ugly. The entire Internet café is full of people who play StarCraft, Red Alert or Fairy Sword CS, and the business is very hot. However, compared with the Internet café with higher cost and slower return on investment, the cost of the game hall is much lower, and the machine costs a few hundred yuan, which is cheaper than the computer, and there is no need to apply for expensive relevant documents, which is in the gray area.

If the young people of the post-80s and early post-90s generations still have this recollection, they will remember that at that time, many remote alleys would have a façade, the façade was covered with a huge red and green thick cloth, and a small door was opened on the side, and there was a miasma of smoke inside, and the smell was very unpleasant, and there were young people playing games in it everywhere.

Cousin Gong Jie likes to go to the game hall with Lin Ming the most.

Even in Lin Ming's opinion, such a thing could no longer bring him the slightest pleasure of the game when he was resurrected in the future generations. But the rare family time can't sweep away the cousin's happiness after all.