Lucas Yin and the Trials of Youth Chapter 2

Ethan Nie's home was in the alley behind. In fact, it was not his home, but his third uncle's home. As soon as he walked out of the alley, he bumped into his cousin Oliver Nie, as if he had calculated correctly.

"Brother, is Lauren back?" Oliver Nie wanted to go into the alley.

Ethan Nie grabbed the man's collar and walked out. When he saw Lauren coming back, he quickly retreated in order to stop Oliver Nie. Oliver Nie was dragged for a few steps, and when he reached the gate of his own yard, he broke free and said, "There are thousands of kinds of sadness in the world, but secret love is the saddest. Brother, you don't love me at all."

"Don't waste your secret love." Ethan Nie raised his leg and kicked him, "Whose secret love listens to the noise in the alley every day, and then goes to the other person's yard to do some household chores? Are you familiar with it?"

Oliver Nie was a little shy and changed the subject: "What did Brother Yangyang call just now?"

"Who knows him? He's still lame." Ethan Nie said and walked into the gate. In the yard, Oliver Nie's parents were resting and drinking tea. Summer evenings are so relaxing. Ethan Nie found a stool and sat down, saying, "Uncle and Aunt, I won't come back to sleep before school starts."

The third uncle shook his fan: "You go to the viaduct with others every night to ride motorcycles, you think I don't know? You still want to stay up all night and let me stay in peace."

"I'm going to sleep in grandpa's shop and make something on the way." Ethan Nie stretched out his hand and looked at his palm, "Fortunately, I still have some skills, otherwise I would have done something after graduating from high school."

The third aunt said angrily: "After graduating from high school and going to college, what else do you want to do at such a young age?"

Seeing that they were about to talk about academic performance again, Ethan Nie stood up and prepared to leave. He went into the room and packed two pieces of clothes in his schoolbag. When Oliver Nie followed him, he told him, "Don't provoke Lauren, otherwise Lucas Yin won't be able to spare you."

Everyone in this alley knows that Lucas Yin loves and protects his sister, but Oliver Nie doesn't care: "Although I call him brother, at his level, no one can be spared."

Ethan Nie zipped up: "He couldn't even score two goals while standing under the basket, but he dared to challenge the basketball team of the sports school and then gave himself a false fracture. Can you do that?"

Oliver Nie frowned and said nothing. Ethan Nie had already taken out his car keys and was about to leave: "Brother, there is a way to cure everything from soft to hard to life-threatening. There is no cure for your weak and blindly confident Yangyang brother."

There was only one small light in such a long alley, and turning on the lights on an electric car felt like a car, which was a bit silly. Ethan Nie rode very slowly with a slight twist, and turned the corner after exiting the alley, ready to speed up.

"Hey, wait a minute!" Lucas Yin stood at the entrance of the alley next door. The big plaster was quite dazzling at night. "Why are you going? You still have your schoolbag with you. Why don't you just go and play by yourself?"

"What are you playing for? I went to sleep in the store." Ethan Nie leaned over and knocked on the plaster shell. "You can't even put on your shoes, so you just stepped on the ground like this?"

Lucas Yin said nonchalantly: "I jumped here on one leg. If you don't come out in time, I will jump to my third uncle's house."

Ethan Nie asked: "Is there anything going on at night?"

"I'm curious, why did you leave immediately after my sister came back?" Lucas Yin was too tired to support him on one leg, so he jumped closer and held Ethan Nie's shoulder, "Is there something you're hiding from me?"

"I told you not to worry." Ethan Nie estimated that Oliver Nie wouldn't be able to hide it for long given his character. "Xiaoyu has a crush on your sister, so I stopped him."

"No! This little brat deserves a beating!" Lucas Yin turned away and was about to jump, mumbling a bunch of words, "My sister is just too pretty. She has never had a suitor since she was a child. It's really troublesome. Fortunately, we are not twin---"

Ethan Nie was pulling and pulling, but he couldn't move while sitting on the electric car. Lucas Yin's center of gravity was already unstable, and he lost his balance while jumping and pushing. He threw Ethan Nie and fell to the ground hard, still hitting the electric car.

"Even if you are paralyzed, you can still go to the house to reveal the tiles." Ethan Nie was lying on the ground, holding Lucas Yin's back. Lucas Yin didn't finish her sentence even though she was pressed on it, but she wilted a little: "Fortunately we are not twin sisters, otherwise I would be bored to death being chased every day."

After much effort, Ethan Nie drove Lucas Yin back to his home on an electric bike. Before leaving, he said, "It's not a big deal to jump around the alley. It even made me fall all over, so go back quickly."

Lucas Yin jumped into the threshold and stopped moving, asking: "Do you remember what day tomorrow is?"

Ethan Nie turned around and said: "Your seventeenth birthday will be an adult in one year, and you will be able to harm society."

"Damn, society hasn't said anything yet." Lucas Yin held the door open, not making any noises, but he had the temperament of a young boy, "I have difficulty moving, and I don't like eating cakes. Come and eat longevity noodles tomorrow." , play games after eating."

"Okay, I'll bring you a gift." Ethan Nie turned the handlebars and walked away.

Lucas Yin quickly jumped out and shouted from behind: "I don't want gifts, don't give them! Whoever gives them to you is a fool!"

After he yelled, he jumped back. Grace Bai came out from the house to help him and lectured: "Why are you shouting at night and swearing? You will be ruined by the Yin family's family style. Fortunately, your surname is not Bai."

Lucas Yin didn't say anything and went back to the bedroom silently. Unexpectedly, Lauren was painting nail polish in his bedroom, making the whole room smell. Seeing him come back, she asked, "What were you shouting just now?"

He replied: "Xiaoshan said he wanted to give me a gift, but I told him not to."

Lauren said happily: "That's great, it just so happens that I didn't prepare anything."

"How can that be the same?" Lucas Yin stroked his plaster, "He is living under the roof of Oliver Nie's house. He has no spare money to buy gifts. Today he wants to buy me a little native dog, but I won't let him."

Lucas Yin was agitated after saying this: "I know, he will definitely give me a little native dog!"

The night wind was still sultry, so Ethan Nie rode his electric scooter to Antique Street. Everything was closed at this time. He stopped at the door of "Erji" and opened the rolling shutter to go in.

The old man who heard the noise inside turned on the light and said, "I was so scared that I almost died because I thought there was a thief."

"There are so many antique shops. Why don't I steal your bracelet?" Ethan Nie walked through the hall and went to the backyard. Then he turned on the light in the courtyard and asked, "Grandpa, do you have any wood? The most common one will do."

Mr. Clark said: "What are you doing? I can't sleep if I turn on the machine."

"Before starting the machine, pick the wood first." Ethan Nie went straight to the warehouse without saying much. Mr. Clark followed again and said, "You still have a chain to finish. I think it is the most authentic piece of your work. When you finish it, sell it in the store."

"That piece of material is not good, and you can't sell it for much money." Ethan Nie found two large wooden boards and took a ruler saw. "You go to bed quickly. I will go to bed after struggling for a while. I will buy you some bean foam tomorrow morning." Fried Cake."

Late at night, Ethan Nie squatted on the ground to measure the dimensions of the wood. After measuring and drawing the lines, he sawed off the excess. Then he carried what he needed into the machine room, tinkering with the bells until after four o'clock, and finally fell asleep on the workbench.

Before seven o'clock, the shops on the Antique Street opened one after another. Some shops were drinking refreshing tea with walnuts in their hands, while others were carrying bird cages and singing to warm up their throats. Mr. Clark sat on a rattan chair at the door and ate fried cakes. He felt relaxed all over after eating.

Ethan Nie, who had slept for less than two hours, was watching the counter in the store and catching up on the unfinished chains. At around eleven o'clock, he took a shower and prepared to eat longevity noodles.

Daniel Yin and Grace Bai both went to work, and Lauren had to make the longevity noodles. Lucas Yin sat at the small table cutting cucumber shreds, glancing at the door from time to time.

"Sister, what do you think we should name this little dog?"

"Ten local dogs, eight rhubarbs, and two little black ones, it's up to you." Lauren cut the meat into cubes and beat the eggs. "I didn't study in the first place, and I don't even study when I have a dog. I have to play with the dog every day. "

Lucas Yin bit the remaining cucumber into his mouth: "It's my birthday today, don't say that to me."

By the time it was 11:40, Ethan Nie hadn't arrived yet. Lucas Yin couldn't sit still, so he took ten yuan and jumped outside, saying, "I'll go to the alley entrance to buy some cold skin to make it richer."

He had just jumped two steps when he heard the horn of the electric car. He stood there and stared at the door, waiting for Ethan Nie to lock the car and come in. Unexpectedly, Ethan Nie appeared outside the threshold empty-handed and smiled at him.

Lucas Yin didn't have the nerve to ask where the little native dog was, so he just said, "Come in quickly, the food is ready."

Ethan Nie said: "Yang'er, I have prepared a gift for you."

"I told you not to give it away. I'm not a child." Lucas Yin didn't know why he was so embarrassed. Even his feet in plaster were a little bit panicked. "What gift do you want to give me?"

Ethan Nie stretched out his hand to the side and leaned it against the courtyard door like a gift. Lucas Yin held his breath and stared intently, and then he saw the other party taking out a pair of crutches.

A pair of crutches.

Who gave him a kid on his Fcuking birthday!

"You have difficulty moving, so I made one for you." Ethan Nie still felt that he was quite cool. After all, he made it by hand in one night and selected the materials himself. The only thing missing was Lucas Yin's name.

Lauren laughed so much that she forgot to fish out the noodles and they all rotted in the pot. She said, "This gift is so good. I will carry it when school starts. It makes me walk faster than a normal person."

The three of them wore a pair of crutches to celebrate their birthday. Lucas Yin ate with his head in his hands, wanting to shed a few tears. His rhubarb, his little black. There are thousands of kinds of sadness in the world. Secret love is nothing, but being unkind is the most fatal.

Lauren lectured him: "I am busy making longevity noodles for you, and Xiaoshan is making you gifts. Who are you showing your slumped face to?"

"I'm touched..." He finished eating and put down the bowl, "Who would have thought that I would be injured the day before my seventeenth birthday? Who would have thought that I would eat rotten noodles on my seventeenth birthday and get a pair of crutches."

Ethan Nie held back his laughter: "You played with the basketball team yesterday, and tomorrow you may be hurdling with the track and field team. Crutches are very useful, and I think they will be useful in the future."

After eating, we felt a little sleepy, so we went back to the room and turned on the air conditioner to rest. Lucas Yin stood in the middle of the bedroom, then raised his arm and clamped the crutch. He said with a sad face: "Can't you do it without practice? Who can handle this handsome guy?"

"Handsome guys don't jump on one leg either." Ethan Nie stood in front of him to protect him, "Try taking two steps and I'll catch you if you fall."

Lucas Yin took two steps, reached the bed, put down the crutches and got on the bed, saying, "I will never challenge others again. If the injury is serious, you may have to make me a wheelchair."

Ethan Nie lay down beside him. He hadn't slept much to begin with, and now he felt sleepy as soon as he touched the bed. But before closing his eyes, he took out a chain from his pocket and said, "I'll give you another one."

The chain was made of thin red rope, with a few jade stones on it. It was small but exquisite. Lucas Yin took it and put it on his hand: "You are so good at craftsmanship, but is the jade material expensive? Grandpa didn't tell you, right?" "

"The most common material, you won't feel bad if it breaks." Ethan Nie grabbed Lucas Yin's wrist and looked at it, "There is a jade ring, a jade bead, and a gourd bead on it, which is called the Xuankong Lucky Treasure Chain."

Lucas Yin was very happy: "Obviously this is a gift, I like it. Look, it seems a little loose, I always think it will fall off."

Ethan Nie took off the chain: "The school doesn't allow you to wear it, so I made it a little loose and let you wear it on your ankle. The boy is left and the girl is right. In the end, you have a plaster on your left foot. It was a waste of my efforts."

"Don't waste, don't waste." Lucas Yin grabbed it and put it on his hand again, "I will remove the plaster tomorrow. There is no need for plaster anyway."

Ethan Nie turned over and prepared to fall asleep: "Since you have beaten it, you need to raise it before dismantling it, otherwise you will die from the torment."

"Okay, it's up to you." Lucas Yin lay on his back and raised his arms to treasure his multi-treasure chain. He couldn't sleep when he was excited, but he was afraid of disturbing Ethan Nie, so he wanted to say something to spoil the fun, "It's time to start school." When it comes to literature and science, should we choose literature or science? "

Ethan Nie thought about it seriously: "Choose whichever one is closest to the passing line."

Lucas Yin asked again: "Which one is closer?"

Ethan Nie answered quickly this time: "They are all quite far away."

The air suddenly became quiet, and the two of them stood back to back without making any sound.

Mr. Lu Xun seems to have said something, "Studying medicine cannot save the Chinese people." Judging from the academic performance of Ethan Nie and Lucas Yin from kindergarten to high school, even Xuankong's luck cannot save them.