If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

After drinking some wine and chatting for enough time, Xia Mi proposed that she want to play in the water for a while. Su Xiaoqiang and Shao Nanqin also wanted to go together. Coming to the beach of Lake Michigan without playing in the water is like going to Beijing without climbing the Great Wall.

The seaside is good, with coconut trees, sea fishing and 'sea food' so fresh that it fills your mouth, but the lakeside also has its own unique benefits, that is, you will never be choked to death after choking on water, and the lake's wind blows The wind does not have the slightly unpleasant smell of the sea, which is very suitable for playing in the shallows and sunbathing.

Leaving the wooden house bar, he found a reef with fewer people. Lin Nian did not go into the water. He just asked Su Xiaoqiang and others not to go into deep water after drinking. Then he sat on a larger reef to rest, glancing at the water from time to time. There were several girls playing there, and Xia Wang who was playing in the sand with Lu Mingfei on the beach, but Lu Mingfei looked absent-minded and glanced at the girls from time to time, and at Lin Nian on the rocks.

The safety waters are basically cordoned off at the beach on Beifang Avenue. Besides, there are no dangerous aquatic creatures on the beach, so there is basically no need to worry about anything happening. The girls also had a lot of fun. Xia Mi and Su Xiaoqiang seemed to be there. Teaching Shao Nanqin how to swim, they seemed surprised that the younger twin sister was as good at swimming as a barracuda, but the older sister was a landlubber.

Shao Nanqin was fine when she was diving, and could splash water, but once they took her to a slightly deeper place, her whole body began to stiffen when the water reached her chest. She completely lost control of her hands, feet, and brain and couldn't move. Those who knew better thought she had cramps, and shouted for help with her face turning red from holding back pain.

Xia Mi and Su Xiaoqiang didn't know what to do. Only Shao Nanyin smiled and dragged his sister into the water regardless. Just drink a few more sips a day and you'll be fine. There are so many people protecting you! Maybe you are really drowning and a Dwayne Johnson-style lifeguard will come to save you and give you artificial respiration or something like that.

Shao Nanqin screamed and cried, saying Nanyin, if I drown and become a ghost, I will not let you go! Nan Yin laughed loudly and said, "It's okay, it's okay. How about we sisters transform into ghosts together to find a fair and pure scholar to marry us!" The white-faced scholar must be the Leslie Cheung type at last!

She was really a peerless good sister. Su Xiaoqiang and Xia Mi were so happy when they saw her. They became bold when being led by Shao Nanyin and dragged Shao Nanqin's belly to let her try paddling by herself. Although the movements at first were like puppy paddling, The look and feel of a beautiful girl playing the role of a cute drowned puppy is completely different.

Lin Nian sat on the rocks and looked after them, and also paid attention to the situation on the beach. Xia Mi and Su Xiaoqiang said they were hungry, so Chu Zihang went to the food truck on the beach to buy food, and he had to bring eight people in one go. Things will probably take a while.

Lu Mingfei and Xia Wang, who were piled in the sand, got along unexpectedly harmoniously. In other words, Xia Wang ignored Lu Mingfei completely. This was a kind of harmony. The prerequisite for not being disgusted was not being repulsive.

Lin Nian looked at them for a while, then took out his phone and stared at the screen in a daze. His fingers slid unconsciously, and after prodding a few times, he put the phone to his ear and looked at the honey-like sky-white bird pendant in the distance. After descending from the Blue Lake and rising into the sky, I finally put the phone down and stuffed it back into my shirt pocket.

"Who are you calling?" someone asked under the rock.

Lin Nian looked down and found that it was Shao Nanyin, leaning on the edge of the reef and looking up at him on the top of the stone.

"friend."

"Isn't it? You wouldn't look like this when calling a friend." Shao Nanyin saw through Lin Nian's lie at a glance.

"It's not an important call." Lin Nian didn't look at her and focused on the shallows in the distance. "Aren't you going to accompany your sister? She seems to be afraid of water."

"People are already in the water, and they get used to being afraid. It's like this with everything." Shao Nanyin said, "But you didn't get through the call just now, right? Did you refuse to answer or did the other party not bring his cell phone with you? "

Lin Nian didn't want to answer this question, and he didn't quite understand. Shao Nanyin, a girl with emotional intelligence, shouldn't be able to tell that he didn't want to talk about this issue, but the other party always kept asking about this aspect, which made people a little excited. Annoyed.

"Is the phone call to your sister?" Shao Nanyin said suddenly.

Lin Nian lowered his head and glanced at him, saying nothing.

"You guys are having a conflict." Shao Nanyin patted the water, "When we were chatting before, I saw your little girlfriend reacted inappropriately when she mentioned your sister, so I probably guessed something."

"It's not a big deal." Lin Nian said.

"I think so." Shao Nanyin said nothing, "After all, with the relationship between the two of you, it's impossible for there to be any major conflicts. Is she in the country now?"

"You care about her very much?" Lin Nian asked.

"Absolutely. After all, she was one of the few old friends I could chat with in the orphanage." Shao Nanyin shrugged, "I just thought it was a little strange to see you but not her. After all, you have always been They were inseparable. So what happened?"

"I don't want to talk about it." Lin Nian spoke concisely and concisely. He was not willing to share everything with others.

Shao Nanyin leaned against the rocks and closed his eyes, feeling the touch of the lake water rippling on his lower abdomen. The ripples refracted by the water surface shimmered on his cheeks.

For a long time, she didn't speak, and Lin Nian didn't speak either. He only listened to the sound of the lake water lapping against the rocks.

In fact, Su Xiaoqiang and the others didn't know that Shao Nanyin was indeed an acquaintance of his a long time ago, but they were not familiar enough to open up to him. It was even said that even in the former orphanage, Lin Nian's attitude toward the sisters was a little unfamiliar. , but Lin Xian had some strange tacit understanding with Shao Nanyin at that time, which led Lin Nian Aiwu and Wu Di to have a different view and sense of identification with the Shao Nanyin sisters.

"There is nothing bad between siblings. Just like Nan Qin and I, every quarrel is a quarrel. When I go home the next day, I will still bring her a cup of her favorite milk tea." Shao Nanyin raised his head and opened his eyes. .

"I know, we didn't quarrel." Lin Nian said.

"That's the best." Shao Nanyin suddenly smiled, "Looking at your current living situation, you don't seem to be prone to quarrels. It's not like me and Nan Qin. Every day she has to complain to me about bank work and say some weird things. The depositors are all unreasonable, and if I don’t handle her well, she will have to quarrel with me.”

"The working environment and living environment do affect personality. Front desk workers in public institutions usually don't have very good tempers." Lin Nian expressed his understanding.

"I think you have a pretty good personality now. I always thought you would turn into a soft-spoken, cute and frustrated boy when you grow up, but I didn't expect you to be so generous now." Shao Nanyin tilted his head. 45° looked at Lin Nian Xiangyang's side face from bottom to top, "I thought that going to college in a foreign country would make you as fashionable as those hip-hop boys, but I didn't expect that you would become so calm and mature."

Lin Nian was noncommittal about this. It was never up to him to decide what others thought of his character. The only thing that could be labeled was the eyes of others. At least in the eyes of most people in high school, he was a very good person. Dull, silent, weird guy.

However, after Kassel Academy, the so-called shortcomings were also repackaged into advantages. Indolence was regarded as indifference, silence was regarded as efficient, and eccentricity was regarded as elite.

Perhaps this is the "sense of identity" that Hilbert Jean Angers advocated in his school philosophy? What Caesar Gattuso said in his speech at the Amber Pavilion, "We are all lunatics that cannot be tolerated by the world! We are all used as fuel to support heliocentrism." is also well-founded.

Kassel College has reshaped Lin Nian, or in other words, it has protected Lin Nian's true appearance. This has to be said to be a blessing. It was through the continuation, sublimation and strengthening of those characters that he became the current Lin Nian.

"It seems that you and your sister encountered a lot of things after leaving the orphanage? Are you interested in telling me about it? I feel that you have changed a lot." Shao Nanyin looked at Lin Nian carefully and said, "For example, you are more independent and more Is it reliable?"

"Tell me, is there anything special about the days after leaving the orphanage?" she asked with interest.

"It's nothing special." Lin Nian shook his head. "It's a normal high school and a normal university. I met a lot of unreliable seniors in school, so I can only rely on myself."

"Is that so?" Shao Nanyin nodded and changed the topic, "Did you know Su Xiaoqiang in college?"

"High school classmates, just went to the same university."

"A very beautiful girl, she matches you well."

"Thank you." Lin Nian said.

"By the way, what is the name of the university you are attending now? I heard Su Xiaoqiang said it was in Chicago before. Which Ivy League school is it?" Shao Nanyin asked with a smile.

"Kassel Academy."

"Kassel College?" Shao Nanyin repeated Lin Nian's pronunciation, then tilted his head and frowned, "I feel like I heard it somewhere."

"Have you heard of it?" Lin Nian lowered his head and glanced at Shao Nanyin.

"I don't remember much, I just think it sounds familiar. Maybe the dean mentioned you and your sister when he was talking about you and your sister when we returned to the orphanage, right?" Shao Nanyin thought for a while, but still had no clue, "The address of your school is Where? How is the environment? How are the points collected?"

"The environment of the private school is not bad. The teaching buildings are all old buildings. They are located on a mountain, so the greenery is great. You can hear birds chirping every morning. Mountain fog occasionally occurs. The visibility is very poor. Many students I would bump into trees when I was awake in class." Lin Nian recalled the part that could be said about Cassel College and said briefly, "Admission does not depend on scores, but mainly on interviews, which is similar to Harvard, focusing on personal abilities and personality. "

"An ancient college hidden in the mountains, or does it have a special admissions system?" Shao Nanyin became a little interested, "It looks a bit like Hogwarts! Can I visit it?"

"It's similar to other universities." Lin Nian wanted to dispel Shao Nanyin's interest.

"I didn't go to college. I dropped out after middle school."

"This is not possible in the near future, because last year there was a fire accident in the school and a wildfire occurred. A lot of vegetation was burned clean. The school buildings and mountain greening are being repaired. They have not yet fully restored their appearance, so the campus is temporarily closed to the public. Open." Lin Nian explained in a compromise way.

"Forget it, let's talk about other things. What major do you major in? Are you from the finance department like Nan Qin? I think you are similar. The boys in the finance department are very cold." Shao Nanyin said with a smile.

"I'm a history major."

"You really can't tell. I think you are more of a science major, just like the handsome guy with short hair and no expression who is with you." Shao Nanyin tilted his head and commented.

"Are you talking about Chu Zihang? He is indeed from the science department, or rather the engineering department." Lin Nian nodded, "The division between arts, science and engineering in our school is not so clear."

"What did your sister do when you were in school? You lived on campus and she lived alone in the country?"

"She lives in the school dormitory like me, and she has a job at the school."

After hearing Lin Nian's explanation, Shao Nanyin had an expression on his face that I knew was like this, "Let me just say, she used to be so precious to you and wouldn't let me touch you. How could she let you run away inexplicably?"

"What do you mean you won't be allowed to touch me?" Lin Nian thought this sentence was a bit strange.

"Has your sister ever told you that even in the past, you were a very special child in the orphanage?" Shao Nanyin tilted his head and asked Lin Nian.

Lin Nian shook his head.

"Let me tell you a little trivia. Children in childhood like to use offensive methods to attract others' attention. For example, the boy in the back row will pull the pigtails of the girl in the front row." Shao Nanyin said with a smile.

Lin Nian studied this sentence silently for a few seconds, then understood the meaning and glanced at Shao Nanyin strangely.

"Don't get me wrong." Shao Nanyin said immediately, "That's not what I meant. I was just interested in you at the beginning."

"Why?" Lin Nian didn't understand.

"Because you were the only child in the orphanage who didn't get close to me because I took the initiative to release my affection?" Shao Nanyin said leisurely, "You can think of it as a girl's rebellious psychology. She always wants to try when she sees a stone that is impervious to water. I tried to see if I could wear a slit or something. But because of your sister, I stopped teasing you."

Lin Nian didn't really want to understand this mentality. Judging from Shao Nanyin's casual attitude in talking and laughing, the other party probably didn't take the matter seriously, so he didn't need to think about it deeply. It was just one of the jokes in the past. .

Lin Nian was silent for a while and asked, "You and my sister used to have a good relationship?"

"Why do you ask?"

"She rarely treated some people specially in the orphanage before, but you are one of them. I think she seems to be able to chat with you."

"Did you remember correctly? Your sister used to be very nice to everyone."

"It's special treatment, not kindness. She is nice to everyone, but only has different ways of contacting specific people." Lin Nian said.

"If I have to say it, I can only say that she and I have something in common, but she is much stronger than me. It's just that I can talk about a topic with her, and she forces me to compromise on that flower body. Like your robbed donut?" Shao Nanyin recalled.

"I don't quite understand." Lin Nian had reason to suspect that this guy was playing the Riddler.

"Oh, by the way, are there any photos of you and your sister? I want to see if your sister has grown into the 'sister-type' girl that everyone expected after so many years." She suddenly stretched out her hand towards the rock.

Lin Nian subconsciously wanted to refuse, but there seemed to be no reason to refuse. He just looked at the photo. He took out his phone and flipped through the photo album, easily finding a photo.

In the photo, he and Lin Xian were taken together in the flower bed at the entrance of the college. The photo was taken when he first entered school. The person taking the photo was Mandy. In the photo, Lin Nian was wearing the dark green uniform of Kassel College, and Lin Xian had his hands hanging down. Standing beside him in front of him was a gentle smile, and the dark blue Chevrolet parked in the distance.

"Don't slide around." Lin Nian handed her the phone.

"I won't slide weird things on your phone."

Lin Nian didn't insist that there was no such thing at all, because he really did have it on his phone. Most of them were sent to him by Fingel and Lu Mingfei and he forgot to delete them. There were a few times when Su Xiaoqiang was lucky enough to be caught with strange videos. The file name, he was smart enough to deal with it perfunctorily. (Actually, it’s just the little girl pretending to be a virgin who doesn’t understand)

"Wow, this is exactly what I imagined she would look like when she grows up." Shao Nanyin's first glance at the photo fell on Lin Xian, and he said enthusiastically, "I knew she would look like this. .”

"She hasn't changed much since she was a child." Lin Nian said lightly.

They all spent their time day by day, and it seemed that Lin Xian should always be the same Lin Xian, and there would be no big changes.

Shao Nanyin didn't respond. He just looked down at his phone. Lin Nian didn't pay much attention to it. He just thought that she was thinking about things and was lost in memories. He just turned to look at Su Xiaoqiang and Xia Mi. Waiting for Shao Nanyin's reaction.

But somewhere where he couldn't see it, the relaxed and charming expression on Shao Nanyin's drooping face disappeared suddenly and suddenly became uncharacteristically tense?

The watery light reflected on the side of the pretty girl's face. Her dark eyes were fixed on Lin Nian's dark green school uniform on the phone - specifically, the collar of the school uniform, because There is a clear school emblem of the half-decayed World Tree.

Kassel Academy. The emblem of the Half-Dead World Tree?

A trace of white gradually appeared on Shao Nanyin's cheeks that were originally blushed by the sun, and her clear pupils also showed an emotion of panic that even her sister Shao Nanyin had never seen in her sister in the past twenty years.