Chapter 7: The Age of Sadness and Death
In the afternoon, Xie Yulin changed into a neat and clean dress and went to visit his father's old friend. The day before yesterday, I was visiting with my sister Xie Xue, but I was released by my sister, and now he is the only one to complete this glorious and great cause. Xie Yulin came to a villa area according to the location given by Ouyang Tielin, and quickly came to the door of Uncle Ouyang's house under the guidance of the doorman. After the doorbell rang, Ouyang Tielin opened the door.
"Hello Uncle Ouyang!" Xie Yulin took the lead in greeting.
"Yulinxian, nephew, please come in." Ouyang Tielin looked amiable.
"I'm sorry to visit you for so long."
"Yu Linxian's nephew is too outside, please take a seat. What to drink? Tea? Coffee? ”
"Coffee bar."
"Wait a minute," Ouyang Tielin took out his treasured coffee beans and grinded them himself.
"Have you completed the admission procedures?" Ouyang Tielin was talking to Xie Yulin while grinding coffee.
"I'm looking forward to the first class at university."
"College is different from middle school, where your teachers force you to study, while college is where you have to find and learn."
"Take your time."
"No... No... It's important to find out where you're going before you walk, and it's imperative that you figure out why you're going to college. ”
"Learn knowledge."
"Yes, it's not."
"Oh?" Xie Yulin's face was full of doubts.
"The four years of college will pass quickly, and many students don't understand why they went to college until they graduate from college. University is not only about accumulating knowledge, but more importantly, learning to trace back to the roots, exploring the essence of things, and learning to find ways to solve problems. After four years of hard work, when facing life choices after four years, there are many possibilities for choice, rather than panicking and not knowing where to go to society. In general, do not call out two aspects, improve your height, and expand the width of your life. But it's really not easy to do it well, after all, the times are too tempting. ”
"Thank you Uncle Ouyang for your guidance, I will study hard in the future."
"I believe that Yu Linxian's nephew is definitely the dragon among people."
Xie Yulin accompanied Uncle Ouyang to lunch and went back to school directly after saying goodbye. Ouyang Tielin sent Xie Yulin home and sat on the sofa, picked up the teacup and tasted it slowly. After a long time, Ouyang Tielin stood up and walked into the bedroom, took out a small wooden box from the cabinet, opened the wooden box and picked up a black and white photo with trembling hands. In the photo, two men and one woman are smiling happily.
"Xinlan, how are you doing all these years?"
"If you could turn back the clock, would you not make a different choice?"
"No......"
"Let Yulin and Ouyang make up for the regrets of the year, let us pray for them."
Ouyang Tielin closed his eyes after talking to himself, the scene from 30 years ago was as clear as last night. At that time, he was high-spirited, and he looked like he was not afraid of the sky or the earth. In that thriving time domain, he met a good friend - Xie Guoqiang (Xie Yulin's father), and through Xie Guoqiang, he met the unforgettable girl in his life - Lan Xinlan (Xie Yulin's mother). The three of them spent a wonderful college time together, Ouyang Tielin and Xie Guoqiang both fell in love with Lan Xinlan, in the face of love and friendship, the three of them have experienced too much sourness, struggle, fall, insomnia, tears, running wildly, facing the wall...... This heart-burning pain lasted until the winter of the year of graduation. The snow was very heavy that winter, covering everything in the world, but it couldn't cover the sorrow and hatred of the three people. The three of them came to the snow-covered field as promised.
"Thank you for all these years of waiting." Tears rolled in the corners of Lan Xin's blue eyes.
"All the dust will fall, all the gatherings will be separated, and all the choices will be clear. Xinlan, I and Guoqiang are at an equal distance from you, and you can decide who you are going to. Ouyang Tielin stared at Lan Xinlan with a longing gaze.
"Don't force me, I don't choose." The blue heart and blue brain door are about to burst.
"Xinlan, don't be like this, even if you don't walk towards me, it's okay." Xie Guoqiang endured the pain in his heart.
Lan Xinlan picked up her emotions and slowly walked towards Ouyang Tielin. Lan Xinlan stepped on the snow and made a squeaky sound, like an extremely sharp needle piercing Xie Guoqiang's heart.
"Tielin, I'm sorry! You're a good person, and you're bound to meet girls who are better than me. ”
"I see."
A few meters away, Xie Guoqiang saw the dialogue between Ouyang Tielin and Lan Xinlan, and slowly turned around and took steps with 100,000 reluctance.
"Guoqiang......" Ouyang Tielin shouted Xie Guoqiang's name, Xie Guoqiang paused and continued to walk forward without looking back.
"Xie Guoqiang, bastard!" Blue Heart Blue roared loudly.
Xie Guoqiang stopped his pace and turned around, and saw Lan Xinlan running towards him. The short distance of more than ten meters looks like thousands of mountains and mountains, and the thick snow trips Lan Xinlan from time to time. Xie Guoqiang looked at Lan Xinlan's embarrassed appearance on the snow, smiled, laughed happily, and laughed heartache. Ouyang Tielin stepped forward and patted Xie Guoqiang on the shoulder, "Don't say anything, be kind to Xinlan." Ouyang Tielin walked towards the vast snowfield, his heart full of pain. That kind of pain was like rapidly dividing cells and rapidly growing cell tissues, squeezing Ouyang Tielin's heart and about to burst and splash. Ouyang Tielin knelt on the snow, buried his head in the snow, and let out a cry of pain. The night enveloped Ouyang Tielin, he shrunk in the snow, he couldn't feel the pulse of his blood, his breathing became more and more difficult, he saw a world full of wild flowers and green grass...... When Ouyang Tielin opened his eyes again, he saw Xie Guoqiang guarding him.
"You don't want to die!"
"I'm sorry to worry you."
"What if... You take Xinlan with you. ”
"And then, you're like me again?" Ouyang Tielin's voice was hoarse, but his words were sonorous and powerful.
"Maybe."
"I've already died once, and it's kind of cutting off the complicated past. Guoqiang promised me to love Lan, the past, present, and future of the three of us, only you and Xinlan will stick to and interpret it. Ouyang Tielin looked at his good brother with resolute eyes.
"I'm worried."
"The pain will definitely keep coming, but I'm going to force myself to let go. Tomorrow I will take the train north, and you and Xinlan don't have to see me off. ”
"I promise you."
Ouyang Tielin left silently alone, and looking back, time has quietly passed for thirty years. The years are a handful of pig feed, raising everyone for nothing, urging them to sit on the fast-turning wheel of time and walk on the slaughtering ground built by the years.
Ouyang Tielin pinched the bridge of his nose, carefully put the photo back into the small wooden box, then put the wooden box into the cabinet, closed the cabinet door and walked out of the bedroom.
In the office of the president of the administration building of Zijin University, Ouyang Tielin was concentrating on his work, and a knock on the door interrupted his work. "Please come in!" Ouyang Tielin continued to work without raising his head, and the knock on the door continued. "Who is this?" Ouyang Tielin was reluctant to stand up and open the office door.
"Oh, Ouyang is here?"
"Do you know you have a daughter?"
"How do you talk, you kid!"
"If I were my mother, I would have divorced you a long time ago."
"You kid, isn't your father busy with work? Is your mom okay? ”
"Okay, for the great dream of your precious son, accompany him to travel the world."
"Xuefeng isn't fighting for his dreams?"
"You all fight for your dreams, and you work selflessly. What about me, sad autumn and sad summer? ”
"Okay, Dad promises to spend more time with you in the future."
"I don't need you with me now."
"You're getting more and more unseemly, kid."
"Don't you want me to be independent?"
"Okay, don't make you look like an enemy as soon as you meet, talk about how you feel about college life in the past two days."
"Feel! On the first day I entered the school, I was abused like a dog, and I almost died today, and I talked about my feelings! ”
"Haha, who dares to bully our Princess Ouyang."
"A bastard boy, he's the culprit, but he's very handsome, and it's my type of person."
"Don't be hungry, don't scare people."
"Why, in fact, I am a very reserved girl."
"You're a ghost. Good news for you. ”
"What's the good news? It's not uncommon for you to introduce me to a boyfriend. ”
"Awesome!" Ouyang Tielin gave a thumbs up and praised his daughter, "It's really a father-daughter connection." ”
"You're not going to introduce me to any of your tea and wine friends."
"You kid, can your father push you into the fire pit?"
"Haven't I been in a lonely fire pit all these years?"
"It's your parents who haven't been with you well over the years. But let the past pass, it's time to turn the page, and Mom and Dad will accompany you well in the future. ”
"Can you turn the page? It's as easy as yawning. ”
"Tell me, how do you want Dad to compensate you?"
"Forget it, I haven't missed arms or legs over the years, so I won't worry about your old man for the time being. By the way, tell me about your tea and wine friend's child. ”
"Ah, fate, fate. Back then, my parents and I were college classmates, and now you are in the same class as him, is this fate? ”
"It's providence."
"Yes, yes, providence." Ouyang Tielin told his daughter what happened to him 30 years ago as if he were playing a movie.
"Dad, I guess what the Lord of the Sky is hinting at."
"You little ghost, you are still superstitious in the 21st century."
"There are gods three feet above your head, Dad, don't you believe it?"
"Can't I believe it?"
"Haha."
"That kid is a proud son like his father, you get along with him well."
"Oh? Then I'm going to get to know each other. ”
"You have to know it well! This old classmate of mine made me admire very much, he started from scratch and turned a small workshop into a large group company. It's amazing! As the so-called tiger father has no dog son, he must have a good relationship with Yulin in his future study and life. ”
"What's it called?"
"Xie Yulin."
"What!?" Ouyang Xueyan quickly remembered the image of being abused on the first day of school.
"What's wrong?"
"It's this stinky boy bullying me!" Ouyang Xueyan was extremely angry.
"Fate, fate, if you don't fight, you don't know each other. Besides, my Ouyang Tielin's daughter is the kind of narrow-minded person. ”
"Dad Ouyang, I feel that you have a bad intention." Ouyang Xueyan smiled and grimaced at her father.
"Why do you call me a rooster and a dog thief?"
"Eat with Dad in the evening, call Yulin, and let the two of you get acquainted."
"Dad, you better spare me, next time, next time." Ouyang Xueyan fled from his father's office with lightning speed.
"Okay, Xie Yulin, you pretend to be deep for me, let's see!" Ouyang Xueyan walked to herself, calculating in her heart how to move back to the guy who was playing tricks on her.