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Chapter 30

Wei Qingyun actually didn't expect Lin Zhanyu to run away at first.He came back with this person, seeing the other person returned to the house, he really thought that this person had listened to his advice.

He sighed, helped Wei Xueyi, who was not sleeping honestly, put the quilt up, and sat quietly by the small bed for a while.

Thinking about Lin Zhanyu's various performances in the past few years, Wei Qingyun finally blamed himself for the "crime".

I am too stupid.he thinks.

He got up and went out of the room, and when he lay down on the bed, the dark clouds covering the moon just slowly moved away.

The bright light spills into the house through the half-open windows, and the shape of the window lattice is drawn on the wall, reflecting a hazy implication to the clean and simple house.

Wei Qingyun turned over and wanted to close his eyes and go to sleep, but unexpectedly, his mind was full of Lin Zhanyu's appearance when he was a child. For a while, the thin child was holding him and crying, and for a while, it was this disobedient man who wanted to leave at night.

The more he thought about it, the more depressed he became, thinking: Xiao Zhanyu was just a baby yesterday, when did he grow up so big?

However, after thinking about it, he was not only in a state of confusion, but also suddenly a little flustered: What if the child can't think about it?

He hurriedly put on his clothes and walked to Lin Zhanyu's door, intending to knock on the door to ask a question, but just as he approached, he heard a few sounds like moving a cabinet.

He put down his raised hand, thinking about this person's "criminal record", and instantly understood what the other person was doing.

This child.Wei Qingyun shook his sleeves helplessly, only to realize that in the past few years, Lin Zhanyu has grown taller and more capable, but at some moments his temperament is still the same as that of the stubborn boy.

However, Wei Qingyun didn't intend to seriously care about his younger brother, after all, he also did reckless things when he was in his early twenties, fighting with people in the street.

Lin Zhanyu may still have a little youthful heart, but he has long been a father, and the years have passed, and he is no longer the young man who could grab someone back by the collar.

"Brother?" Lin Zhanyu broke out in a cold sweat, but his legs seemed to be nailed in place, unable to move for a moment: "Why are you here?"

"You still have the nerve to ask me?" Wei Qingyun stared at him, his dark eyes shining brightly in the night: "Little pole, where do you want to go?"

Lin Zhanyu hadn't been called that for a long time, and now Wei Qingyun's words are like being plucked on the strings of an old violin that is dusty in the corner.

The continuous rain made the winter in the Jianghuai area wet and cold. It was the middle of the night, and the doors and windows of the front hall had been closed for several hours. The air in the room was already a little cloudy, and even damp.

Lin Zhanyu suddenly remembered that his elder brother, as a northerner, can't stand such a cold, so he is used to keeping the windows open even when he sleeps, so as to facilitate ventilation.

But it was just such a person, sitting in this stuffy and cold room, waiting for him most of the night without moving.

"I don't know either." Lin Zhanyu finally stopped being stubborn, and honestly admitted his thoughts: "It's good to go anywhere."

"Going out, how do you live?" Wei Qingyun patted the table: "Have you thought about it?"

"No." The more Lin Zhanyu said, the more he felt guilty: "I, I can be a coolie, I can do anything."

Wei Qingyun sneered, stood up and stretched his muscles, and grabbed the other party when he wasn't paying attention.

Lin Zhanyu was startled, and tried to break free, but found that his senior brother's strength was frighteningly strong, far beyond what he could handle now.

"With your small body, do you still want to do coolies like others?" Wei Qingyun let go of his arm: "Let's talk about it first if you beat me well."

Lin Zhanyu was a little ashamed, but fortunately the deep night covered his expression, otherwise Wei Qingyun would have seen how this man's face turned red from embarrassment in an instant.

"Zhanyu, you shouldn't go. You went out to hide from me. This is called escaping." Wei Qingjun sat down again: "How can a person live smoothly? A man should be able to take care of things when he encounters them. Hold on, use your brain and put down your body to find some way to get over. Those who only know how to escape are called cowards.”

Lin Zhanyu didn't make a sound, he didn't know how to respond.

Seeing this, Wei Qingyun sighed: "I know your thoughts are no longer here, and it's useless to force them. Go back to sleep first, and I'll go to the shopkeeper to say hello when the sun breaks. I'll go with you .”

"No." Lin Zhanyu thought that his senior brother was going to give up this hard-won livelihood, so he hurriedly stopped him: "Senior brother, you are still young..."

"What are you thinking about?" Wei Qingyun looked at him: "I tell you, go out for at most half a year, be honest, you can follow me wherever I go. If you want to go, if you don't want you to stay in Wuji Restaurant on."

"I am willing." Lin Zhanyu thought for a moment, and finally nodded: "Brother, thank you."

None of them went back to the house.The two squinted together in the front hall for a while, and said goodbye to the shopkeeper when the sky was bright the next morning.

Wei Qingyun entrusted Wei Xueyi to take care of him, and said a lot of things like "I'm in trouble".

"Have you decided where to go?" Wei Qingyun asked after leaving Wuji Restaurant.

Lin Zhanyu shook his head: "I don't know."

"Then listen to me." Wei Qingyun said: "Let's go to Nanjing. I've wanted to go back a long time ago, and I have been missing opportunities."

Mentioning that place, Lin Zhanyu's heart trembled.

In fact, he also wanted to go, to see with his own eyes how the once prosperous and beautiful Jiangnan town had been transformed by the invaders who had killed a thousand swords, and even more wanted to find an opportunity to work there, scolding them to relieve their hatred.

So he said, "Okay."

On the boat, Lin Zhanyu couldn't sit next to his senior brother as usual, even if Wei Qingyun agreed, he couldn't get over this hurdle in his heart.

He sat in the corner of the cabin near the door, while the other party sat diagonally opposite.The cabin is not big, even so the distance between them is not too far.

On the way to the east, Lin Zhanyu was surprised to find that his elder brother Wei had changed.

In the past, Wei Qingyun would only tell him that he would rather die than be a subjugated slave, and must not be indifferent, but this time sitting on the swaying boat, Wei Shige said: "When you arrive in Nanjing, remember to hide when you see the Japanese devils. Over there It's an occupied area, and if we're not careful, we'll lose our lives there."

Lin Zhanyu was startled, but he immediately reacted and nodded at Wei Qingyun: "I see."

Senior brother Wei saw him like this, got up, walked to him and sat down, and grabbed him quickly before he was about to move away: "I remember you said when you were young, you think senior brother is a gentleman."

"Yes," Lin Zhanyu replied, "Actually, I feel the same way now, it's just..."

"It's just that what you said just now makes you feel that senior brother is different from before." Wei Qingyun knew what he was thinking, and said it directly for him:

"In fact, your senior brother has never been a gentleman. I told you long ago that I am smooth and philistine, just an ordinary commoner. Let me tell you this, senior brother has only two bottom lines now. The first is never To be on stage for the Japanese, the second is to protect the safety of you and Xueyi. As for other things, they are not important."

Only then did Lin Zhanyu come to his senses: "Did you say that on purpose just now?"

Wei Qingyun was noncommittal: "What I'm telling is the truth. Now that I'm nearly [-] years old, I've dealt with so many people. If I don't even understand a little bit of worldly wisdom to protect myself, I definitely won't be able to live today."

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Lin Zhanyu looked at Wei Qingyun, and suddenly thought of many fragments of time.He almost thought that he was going to forget those things, but now that all the dusty memories came out, he realized that he remembered so clearly.

There are so many such episodes, so many that Lin Zhanyu suddenly discovered that during the eight years he and Wei Qingyun had known each other, the other party had already occupied his life, his thoughts and all his worries and expectations.

Now it was windy, and bits of rain fell, hitting the roof of the cabin and melting into the rushing river.

The small boat floated on the river, slowly moving forward with the river, and was blown off course by the cold wind from time to time, like a rootless duckweed, and like a wandering bird in the sky.

Lin Zhanyu felt that his mood was just like this drifting boat.He glanced at Wei Qingyun, and suddenly realized that this person was too far away from him, as far away as stars in the sky.

Although he could always see the light, no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't touch it.

Kuafu went day after day recklessly, and finally died of thirst on the road; the mayfly was born small, but he tried to shake the big tree.The act of mantis acting like a cart is destined to never end well.

"Do you think I like you because I think you are so good?" Lin Zhanyu lowered his head: "You misunderstood, it was never like this."

His heart suddenly beat fast, and he spoke a little faster: "Senior brother, I want to live with you like a husband and wife, with simple food and light food, and live a long life together."

Wei Qingyun didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Other couples live as a man and a woman, are we suitable? There are people in rich families who like this, but who do you see really looking for a man to be the first wife? It's just a novelty .”

He wanted to pat Lin Zhanyu's arm, but his outstretched hand was hanging in the air, and he finally took it back: "Fortunately, you are not my real brother, otherwise I would really have to beat you hard."

"Hit me." Lin Zhanyu lowered his head and said.

Wei Qingyun stared at him for a while: "I can't bear it."

Lin Zhanyu asked, "Why are you reluctant?"

"You kid, can't you turn your brain around?" Wei Qingyun was so angry that he slapped the man on the head lightly: "Even if you have a dog, you are still an old partner after eight years, not to mention that we are alive and well." people."

As he spoke, he sighed: "Zhanyu, the relationship between senior and brother is for a lifetime."

Lin Zhanyu understood that Wei Qingyun was really reluctant.But he thought, I would rather not have such a relationship, because it will only torture and pain for me.

He even felt that he might hope that Wei Qingyun would really beat him up, even if he beat him half to death, he wouldn't want to hear the other party tell him like he did just now, for the sake of master's face and the friendship between his brothers and sisters for many years, we Not familiar with you.

Seeing that he stopped talking, Wei Qingyun sat back to his original place: "Close your eyes and take a rest. The road is far away, and we won't be there in a while."