A long time ago, in Argos, Greece, lived a retired general and his elderly servants. One morning the servant went to the street to buy groceries, and suddenly in the crowd, he saw death grinning at him. Frightened, he threw down the basket and hurried back to cry to the general. The kind general lent him the fastest horse and told him to take refuge in Abdela first. After the servant left, the general had no choice but to go to the street to buy groceries by himself, only to see death in the crowd again. The general bravely stepped forward and asked, "Why are you smiling so insidiously at my servant, do you want to put him to death?" The grim reaper's expression was very innocent, he said that I was just passing by here this morning, but I thought it was strange at the time, I was going to take him in Abdela tomorrow night, why is he still in Argos at this moment?

This story was told inexplicably by Teacher Qin, she was a single Jin, a chemistry teacher and homeroom teacher in Lin Mu, and the reason for the story was that the English teacher was forty minutes late. The English teacher's name is Yu Ying, and the people of Mei Sile say that when Teacher Yu meets with friends, when he introduces himself, he always says that I am redundant Yu, and Ying, who is very young, and those who can understand the stalk laugh, and the distance is suddenly closer.

This teacher appreciation banquet was expected to start at 6:30, but Mr. Yu was late, and everyone was waiting for him. In the past 40 minutes, starting from "the guests come to tea as wine on a cold night, and the bamboo stove soup is boiling and red", Principal Song has made several teas for the guests and changed several types of tea.

Regardless of the presence of the master, he talked loudly: Gu Jingzhou Gu Lao asked that the tea must be made on a tea stove, which is more stylish than other tea sets. The electric tea stove is too modern. It is necessary to use a charcoal-burning red clay stove, and the master who does the wind stove in Chaozhou City, Guangdong Province must pull the embryo by hand. Other tea sets require elaboration, while red clay stoves require simplicity.

The red tandoor stove wants to burn olive charcoal, and there are hardcover sales on the market, so he can get a more affordable one, and each bag of charcoal is just right with a cup of tea. Physics Liu asked why he burned 100 yuan of charcoal for each tea, and the principal straightened up, looking ahead affectionately, his eyes were sad, and the corners of his mouth were happy: "I like this faint olive fragrance, it reminds me of the time when Mr. Manxi taught me to make kung fu tea in the past......"

Everyone tasted this "Qingfengxiang" 50-year-old Gaoligong Mountain Pu'er was full of praise. "The water is strong, the flow is connected with the rhyme, and the upper and lower teachings", Principal Song mentioned his favorite pot, Mansheng Tiliang in the Shanghai Museum in China, he said that the body of the pot is inscribed with "boiled white stone, green clouds, a scoop of carefully invite Tongjun", how elegant!

Just as Liu Hegeo Huang and several others were admiring and scanning the code to him to order olive charcoal, Yu Ying pushed the door and flashed in.

So everyone got up and prepared to take their seats, and after waiting for a long time, hunger defeated culture. The restaurant is top-notch, and the dining table and chairs are naturally well matched. A whole mahogany dining table is very large, can sit more than 20 people, the center of the table is a well-made garden scene, the light and shadow are swaying, the smoke is pleasant, and the fairyland is general.

The seating sequence was a good humility, nearly ten minutes. Lin Mu was arranged to sit next to Teacher Qin, and the principal sat as the guest of honor, everything was a rule, from big to small, sitting in rows and eating fruits. Finally sat down, Yu Ying was busy taking off her suit - there were still creases on the newly bought Hugo BOSS shirt, and the armband of the newly bought Armani suit had not had time to be removed, while embarrassingly saying that she was delayed because she was helping her wife buy groceries.

Teacher Qin, who has always been known for his strictness, unceremoniously told this seemingly fatalistic story. Lin Mu knew that she hated her classmates who were late when she was in class, she said that "it is better to be late than not to be late", but she didn't expect that she also hated colleagues who were late. This is a bit similar to Lin Mu's mother, who said that "it's better not to wear it than to wear it randomly". Lin's mother used to study fashion design in Milan, and no matter how good her friends are, she will point it out mercilessly. This is what Lin Mu and his father Lin Jinrong understand the most.

Qin Jin is knowledgeable and likes to smoke, a man with a pretty face, but often untimely serious, full of vigilance against sales and men, an angry woman. Her husband died in a car accident when he was young, and I heard that she never remarried and had no children, and lived alone. There is a saying in the school that "Qin Jin is not close, and English depends on Yu Ying", and they are all teachers with very high teaching standards and legends. I was really flattered to hear her say that Lin Mu was the best student she had ever taught. Lin Mu's face turned red, he didn't know what to answer, but he didn't expect that Teacher Qin, who was high in Qinggao, would also compliment.

The banquet was held in Cuiyuan on Huanshan East Road, next to the best Yonghua Mansion, but Lao Lin did not book it, catering is the pillar industry of Meisle, and the top famous restaurants need to be booked at least a month in advance. A banner hung on the splendid large-character signboard of Cuiyuan: Congratulations to Lin Mu on his admission to Chulalongkorn University, Lin Mu is 20 years old this year and has just reached adulthood. He Lihua said that he has too many trees, only two less than Lin Sen - the plaque of Cuiyuan is inscribed by Lin Sen, the former head of the Kuomintang, which is vigorous and powerful, and has a silver hook painted with iron. This "cui" character is only comparable to the "cui" character of Dicuitan in Moganshan in Deqing and the "cui" character of "floating cui" at the west entrance of Suzhou Mudu Ancient Town. The former is inscribed by Lu Xun's disciple Qian Junkuo, and the latter is written by Wen Peng, the son of Wen Zhengming, one of the "Four Great Talents of the Late Ming Dynasty", after he was drunk, and they are all famous all over the world. When passers-by saw this banner and shop sign, they all said that Lin Mu Cui Yuan Lin Mu Cui Yuan was really good and auspicious.

It's just that the guests didn't expect Mr. Qin to come up with such a story, which is a fast horse and a god of death, which is really a bit out of place, for fear that the host will be unhappy. Qin Jin didn't care about it, she rolled her eyes to the ceiling after speaking, as if everyone here was "nine out of ten people can be white-eyed", and the guests at the table had no choice but to roll their eyes to the ceiling, everyone had their own hearts and minds. However, although the proprietor was slightly unhappy, he pretended not to care if he didn't listen or understand, and after the joyful opening remarks, he stood up and began to toast. Although his wife didn't come today, only a secretary came, the fact that his son was admitted to college was enough to give his father great honor and face.

When he saluted Yu Ying of Hugo's BOSS shirt, he stood up with a smile on his face, he was not tall, and his straight waist was also very arched, and he first praised the 18-year-old Chinese Moutai is really OK, Ve

y OK, and said that the stone forest on the table has nothing to say, it is no worse than Feiquan, and then Kwa Linmu still likes to read novels in class in the third year of high school, and they are all foreign suspense reasoning and the like, and he also likes to discuss with his classmates, although he has criticized him, but it does not affect Lin Mu's grades at all. He had long seen that Lin Mu's thinking was divergent, his knowledge was profound, and his future was promising. The speaker has intentions, the listener is used, thousands of clothes are worn, and the sedan chair is not worn. The chubby man with a shy belly, the master of Moutai and the outer heavens, and the father of Lin Mu, the three of them together were full of red light and smiles.

After three rounds of drinking, they began to relax, greeted each other warmly, shook hands, hugged their shoulders, and saluted each other like hairpins on their faces. The conversation gradually transitioned from this list, that business, this business to this big brother, that chief, this leader, and even who the dean, dean, and president of Linmu University were, all of which were introduced like teenagers, and they clapped their hands happily. If it weren't for the famous Teacher Qin at the table, that topic that men all over the world love to talk about, they would definitely not miss it. Lin Mu was very embarrassed, and he couldn't interject. Before he came, his mother told him to eat as little as possible and not drink, so he just feasted his eyes when the table of dishes was turned around. Several teachers who teach sub-classes also didn't use chopsticks much, for fear that others would see through their greed and gluttony.

I only ate a few bites of my favorite stir-fried mushroom, but I saluted the teachers with a lot of coconut water, and the forest trees had a strong sense of urine. It can be seen that the second uncle doesn't like this atmosphere very much, so he left first under the pretext of going home halfway. Lin Mu went out to see him off, and the second uncle told him to go home early. Teacher Yu asked drunkenly when he would report to the university, and Lin Jinrong was already deeply drunk and staggered. The secretary replied on his behalf that a week later, the plane ticket had been booked. The banquet ended in the excitement of Principal Song, who was wearing 1000-degree glasses: "I did this bottle of red, Brother Jin Rong has to give me two more shopping cards, and he said okay......"

Mom is Lin Mu's closest person, but she has almost no presence in the family, too timid - I remember the first time I quarreled with my father's secretary, Aunt Kobayashi, my mother first blushed herself, and then asked softly, how do you have the key to our house? And she didn't know whether she wanted to protect Lin Mu or protect herself, so she grabbed Lin Mu's arm tightly, and was still looking forward to Xiao Lin's answer. The growing forest felt sorry for her cowardice.

But I don't know why, Lin Mu has never hated Aunt Xiaolin very much, but is a little close. Aunt Kobayashi is tall, can dress up, has bright eyes, and her small lips are particularly good-looking, and the most important thing is that she is cultured and educated, and graduated from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. That "Snowman" was also recommended by her to Lin Mu. She's very close to everyone. The second uncle once said that if there was a plate of pears to be distributed among five colleagues and Mr. Lin, let Xiao Lin take it first, she would definitely pick the smallest one. If you ask her why she wants to take the smaller one than her colleagues, she will say that I am the superior and I should take care of my colleagues, so I take the smaller ones; If you ask her why she wants to take the smaller one than Lin Zongbi, she will say that I am a subordinate and I should take care of the boss, so I take the small one. In short, it is long-sleeved and good at dancing, and the dripping is impeccable. This is the reason why although Aunt Xiaolin is charming and arbitrary, the whole company is quite polite to her. Because Mr. Lin is very satisfied with Aunt Xiaolin, the two of them and their picky mother are always on the same page.

Lin Jinrong Lin was not like this before, similar to all men before the development, he was so honest that he couldn't find fault with it. Lin Jinrong's father Lin Qian is also Lin Mu's grandfather, 49 years ago, he was the quartermaster of the 93rd Division of the National Army, in the words of his commander Duan Xiwen, who is called an eight-sided exquisite, nine-curved intestine and ten-sided ambush, in short, the ideas of the world are all taken up by him.

After settling in Mesle, Lin Qian borrowed all kinds of money, coupled with the money and connections he had accumulated in the national army, and he made great achievements during the economic take-off of Southeast Asia, starting from daily necessities such as clothing, soap, toothpaste, etc., to jadeite, gemstones, rubber, tin mines, etc., and the Lin family became a hot and sought-after wealthy family in northern Thailand for a while. It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, Lin Qian's old family was warm, and felt that the two sons were too ordinary, without their own skills, and at the age of eighty-two, they were still keen on speculative business, but in 97 years, because of long rubber futures, they fell from 70.65 baht/kg all the way to 8.3 baht/kg.

The old man has been beautiful all his life, how can he admit it now? The more he lost, the more he made up the position, the deeper the set, on the day Lin Mu was born, because of the collapse of the position, he lost all his net worth, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, the more angry he became, and jumped off the roof of the 76-story Jade Leaf Building in Bangkok, becoming a small sacrifice for Soros.

Fortunately, Lin Jinrong had already married Lin Mu's mother at that time, and Lin Mu's grandfather was an old painter who was well-known at home and abroad, and was good at painting animals, especially pandas, known as "Panda Forest". Lin Mu's mother had already opened a children's clothing company called "Rice Peanut" at that time, and the business was prosperous. The Bilin family supported and cheered up the Lin family, and continued to transfuse blood, so that Lin Jinrong finally slowly rose and regained his dominance.

When he was down, Lin Jinrong took care of the children at home, fed, washed, cooked, and cleaned, and did not fall behind. He told stories to Lin Mu when he was a child, played cartoon paradise with him, and often tutored homework in primary school, saying that mathematics must be learned well, and to learn mathematics well, you must lay a good foundation. Lin Mu knew that although the Lin family had suffered misfortune, his mother should have liked Lao Lin very much, or his grandfather would not have readily agreed to support him all the time. When Lin Mu was older, Lin Jinrong became an ordinary patrol police officer at the Minshan Road Police Station through his connections.

But in the year when Lin Mu graduated from elementary school, one day Lin Jinrong came home very late, and he drank a lot of wine at a glance, and he didn't know where he was stimulated by whom, and his throat was high when he got home. As soon as he sat down, he shouted in a loud voice that Lao Tzu had decided to resign and not do anything, and no one should stop him. Lin's mother was a little confused at the time, she felt that although her husband's income was not high, his status as a police officer was very good, he could give the family enough security, and the money he earned was enough for the family, but she couldn't help it, Lin Jinrong's temper was like "bad minister" Wang Anshi. Although many people are not optimistic, but starting from "the family is in trouble, the father changes the law", maybe it is Mr. Lin Qian's blessing in the spirit of heaven, I don't know which way the gods have opened a hang for Lin Jinrong, his business is rolling bigger and bigger in the "long slope, thick snow", from bulk trade to industrial groups, from nightclubs to real estate, from Mae Sile to Chiang Rai to the whole of Thailand, there is no business he dare not do, there is no business he can't do. The phone is getting louder and louder, the name of the leader is getting shorter and shorter, the title is getting longer and longer, the son is becoming more and more ignorant, and the relationship with his wife is getting worse and worse.

As Lin Mu grew up day by day, in order to take care of Lin Mu's studies, his mother reluctantly transferred the business to her good friend Aunt Qu. A few months after Secretary Xiaolin was hired by the company, her mother found out that she actually had the key to her house, and the two had a big fight at the door of the villa, and Lin's mother was admitted to the hospital.

After Lin's mother was hospitalized, Lin Mu could only go home alone after school, and there was nothing to eat in the cold kitchen - the interesting Aunt Wang had already slipped away, and he only found a pomegranate with wrinkled skin all over the house. After enduring it for a long time, I couldn't help but peel it off and eat a few bites, it was sour, and soon my stomach was uncomfortable, and then I ran to the bathroom and vomited so much that I couldn't stand up. Lin Jinrong came back too late, and Lin Mu had already fallen asleep on the sofa. He kicked him with his leather shoes drunkenly, and he smelled of alcohol. Lin Mu stood up and angrily imitated Secretary Kobayashi's voice and shouted writhingly: Mr. Lin, hello! It was my mother who imitated it first - the forest tree was just a copy.

Lin Jinrong was very angry, staring at Lin Mu hard, his small eyes became round, and he was panting like a wild boar, and the wild boar's slap seemed to be about to come to Lin Mu, but in the end he just pushed Lin Mu hard, and after Lin Mu fell, he turned around and went to his bedroom, and the door was damaged.

Because he was not beaten because of the third year of junior high school, Lin Mu was half disappointed and half glad to open this name to him. Until one time, the second uncle said, why are you calling him Mr. Lin, you are not his subordinate. Oh yes, Lin Mu felt that he should call him Lao Lin. Unfortunately, the more angry he is, the more he gets rich, from the third year of junior high school to the third year of high school, from Mercedes-Benz to Land Rover, and now on 211, Lao Lin drove a Bentley of 6 million, and Macau, China also went to the old and young, I heard that every time he took Secretary Lin. In the past few years, he has started to do mysterious art business - mainly celebrity calligraphy and paintings and antiques, Lin Mu said that he was money laundering, and his mother said next to him what children knew. She said that your father is essentially nothing, and Lin Mu said no, it was Lao Lin.

"But Mr. Lin shouldn't understand the difference between Barbizon and the Symbolic School", this is when Lin Mu went out on the way to the banquet, he heard Secretary Lin call outside the private room, and he should be talking about Lao Lin.

There is a toilet in the private room, but Lin Mu is not used to the toilet that others have just used. So I went out, the outside was quiet, compared to the inside, here is an old mansion remodeled, for many years, everything is a calm deposit. The scent of trees and flowers, the shadows of lights and the cloister. Living here is like living in a painting, the wind is too loose. Playing chess with a parrot in the pavilion, the moonlight is quiet, the chess is quiet, and the hands are quiet. If you squint your eyes, when the child falls, because of the painting, it is also very quiet at this time, like a noun. When Lin Mu vaguely heard her say Bolgisai, Authentic, The Hague and so on. At this time, suddenly a figure passed by, very light, but fast, just like Secretary Lin spoke at the same speed. If you don't see who it is, the shadow is hidden and never to be found again. Then the lights went dark all over the Garden, except for theirs. An eerie feeling floated up, like a tide engulfing a weak land. Here the old Lin surname is Lin, his wife's surname is Lin, his son's surname is Lin, and Secretary Lin is also surnamed Lin, Dark Forest.