19th month down

  (Some seniors advised me to ask for recommendation votes at the beginning of the chapter, not at the end... My recommendation votes are really too few, can you bear to watch?)

  Lin Zhenhua and Yang Xin walked out of the garage, only to find that it had already darkened outside. The sky was hanging with a bright moon, its light pouring down like liquid silver, shining on the two young people's bodies.

  "Oh, what a wonderful moon today!" Yang Xin exclaimed happily, her heart now filled with joy, and everything she saw seemed incredibly beautiful.

  "Hmm, it seems like yesterday was the Ghost Festival, so today should be the 16th. The moon is full on the 15th, right?" Lin Zhenhua said.

  "Little Hua, do you remember? When we were kids and went out to play, the moon would follow us as we walked, it was so much fun."

  Isn't there a song that goes like this? The moon walks, I walk, and I see Brother off to the village entrance.

  "What kind of song is this? How come I don't know it?"

  "Uh... This is a Yunnan folk song." Lin Zhenhua couldn't help but add more mystery to Yunnan once again.

  "Really? How does it go?"

  "I couldn't possibly sing for you here?"

  "Sing softly." Yang Xin said with a pout.

  "Alright, sing softly... The moon is walking, I'm also walking, I'll send Brother to the village entrance, to the village entrance..." Lin Zhenhua hummed softly, the melody of the song was beautiful, making up for his vocal shortcomings, and Yang Xin listened as if she was drunk.

  "It sounds so good, unfortunately I didn't bring a score. Little Hua brother, sing it for me again tomorrow, I want to memorize it."

  "What's up, Yang Xin? You seem to have arrived home."

  "Wow, we're home already?" Yang Xin said disappointedly. From the production area to the living quarters, it's only a distance of about 500-600 meters, Yang Xin deliberately slowed down her pace, almost crawling at a turtle's speed, but finally arrived at the door. She wanted to suggest to Lin Zhenhua that they should walk around the residential area for another ten laps, but she swallowed back the words, not wanting Lin Zhenhua to think she was crazy.

  "See you tomorrow, bye." Lin Zhenhua waved his hand and unintentionally took away some clouds.

  "Goodbye."

  "By the way, Yang Xin, I'm going to teach you some techniques, but you mustn't tell anyone." Lin Zhenhua thought of something and hastily leaned in close to Yang Xin's ear, speaking softly.

  "Why?" Yang Xin was bewildered, she had just been thinking that with Lin Zhenhua's excellent skills, as long as he told Deputy Director Zhu, he would immediately be transferred to a technical position and would definitely be promoted to level 5 or above. At the age of 18, becoming a level 5 worker, wouldn't her mother have nothing to say about it?...

  "I don't want to show off too much now."

  "But don't you want to be a technician?"

  "When a skilled worker has more freedom than an ordinary worker." Lin Zhenhua's answer almost made Yang Xin collapse.

  "But, however... when the wages of skilled workers are higher than those of ordinary workers." Yang Xin remembered that Lin Zhenhua's grand ideal was to make more money, so he had no choice but to use money to persuade him.

  "This is also true." Lin Zhenhua was slightly moved, "However, let's talk about it later. If I want to be a technician, isn't it just a matter of minutes?"

  "Uh, okay, bye." Yang Xin reluctantly gave in.

  As she watched Lin Zhenhua walk away, Yang Xin pushed open the door to her own home, only to find her parents sitting inside, staring at her with an unusual gaze.

  "Oh no, what are you doing? You scared me." Yang Xin had a guilty conscience, and this fright was not fake at all.

  "Who were you just talking to outside?" Wei Suping asked casually.

  "Little Hua."

  "You're back so late, were you with Xiaohua all this time?"

  "Yes." Yang Xin replied, only to realize that her mother's question had a hidden meaning, and her own answer had left room for imagination. "No, we've been working overtime in the workshop all along."

  "Are you working overtime?"

  "Today, my master asked me to process six gears, but I didn't understand how to set the dividing head. By the time it was closing time, I still hadn't finished. Luckily, Xiaohua saw me and came over to teach me," said Yang Xin.

  "Xiao Hua, are you teaching us?" Yang's couple asked in unison. Little girl, we don't object to your dating, and it's normal for your IQ to drop while dating. We're all experienced people who know that the IQ of young men and women in love will drop to varying degrees. But if you think our IQ will also drop, then you are greatly mistaken.

  "Yes." Yang Xin sat down at the table, picked up the meal left for her, looked at her parents with a hint of pride and said: "Dad, Mom, I'll tell you a secret. Xiaohua not only knows how to operate a milling machine, but his skills are even better than my master's."

  "Is that true?" Yang Chunshan asked, his daughter should have come up with a more believable lie if she wanted to deceive him. Looking at her expression, it didn't seem like she was lying.

  Yang Xin took a mouthful of rice and said, "At first I didn't believe it either, but when he started operating on the lathe, I believed him. The iron shavings he cut out were much better than what my master could do."

  "He has such good skills, why doesn't he tell the leader?" Wei Suping asked doubtfully.

  "I don't know, he asked me to keep it a secret and not tell anyone. Dad, Mom, you guys shouldn't tell anyone either. I think Xiao Hua Ge definitely has some idea in mind, he doesn't want people to know, there must be his reason."

  "Uh, okay." Yang Chunshan nodded and added before Yang Xin could get excited: "Actually, even if I did say something, those factory leaders wouldn't believe it anyway."

  "Hmph, those factory leaders are blind!" Yang Xin angrily stuffed the last mouthful of rice into her mouth and took out the bowl and chopsticks to wash them.

  Yang Chunshan and Wei Suping looked at each other, Yang Chunshan asked: "Suping, do you believe it?"

  "Looking at Xiao Xin like this, it doesn't seem like she's telling a lie."

  "Where did Xiaohua learn the technique?"

  "Didn't Xiaoxin say he learned it in the army? Maybe they also learn technology in the army?"

  "Xiao Xin seems to be really dating Xiao Hua."

  "If Xiaohua really understood technology, it would be fine..."

  At the same time that Yang's couple was calculating, in Lin's family, the siblings were also having a fierce debate about whether Lin Zhenhua and Yang Xin were dating.

  "Brother, are you dating Yang Xin or something?" As soon as Lin Zhenhua walked in the door, his little sister Xiaofang asked him this directly.

  "Xiao Fang, hasn't the clinic in the factory moved locations?"

  "What's wrong? How come you're sick?" Lin Fanghua was startled.

  Lin Zhenhua shook his head: "I'm not sick, I think you're the one who's sick, why don't you go to the clinic?"

  "Don't dodge the question!" Lin Fanghua was insistent, "You came back so late, I asked Hong Yang and he said he saw you and Yang Xin getting romantic in the workshop."

  "What a treacherous friend!" Lin Zhenhua lamented, so-called brothers are just used to be sold out. He had only made a pot of boiled fish without inviting Hong Yang to eat, and yet Hong Yang actually ran to his home to spread rumors about him.

  "Go on, is there or isn't?" Lin Fanghua put on a posture as if she was about to pursue the remnants of the enemy.

  "Hey, little sister, you're just a bit older and already thinking about having a boyfriend?" Lin Zhenhua put on an authoritative brotherly air, placing his hand on his sister's head and ruffling her hair. "Let me tell you, I know what your goal is. You're trying to frame me and Yang Xin for having a relationship so that you can use it as an excuse to start dating early yourself, since Yang Xin is the same age as you. If Yang Xin can have a boyfriend, then you think you should be able to too. As your brother, I'm warning you: if you dare to have a boyfriend before you're 20 years old, I'll break his legs!"

  Lin Fanghua was stunned by her brother's stern lecture, but it was clearly his fault, so how did it become hers? No, there must be some mistake somewhere. Her brother's move was called "openly repairing the Long Wall while secretly crossing the Wei River". This Lin Zhenhua, after serving in the army for a few years, had really become too cunning.

  "Tell me, what did you learn today? Did you understand it?" Lin Zhenhua stirred the water, not giving his sister another chance to ask about his relationship with Yang Xin. He sat down with a pleased expression and asked about his sister's studies while eating.

  "Today, we learned about the sine function, I don't quite understand it." Lin Fanghua had given up. In the two years that Lin Zhenhua was away in the army, she had thought countless times about becoming a housewife in the future, managing her brother and making him behave. But when her brother came back, she discovered that her little plans were completely useless in front of him, so it's better to just be an obedient girl and let her brother take care of her, which is more pleasant.

  "Bring me the book and I'll read it to you."

  "You haven't finished your meal yet."

  "Isn't it just a sine function? Don't even mention eating, I can explain it to you while sleeping." Lin Zhenhua said confidently.

  "You're bragging." Lin Fanghua said disbelievingly.

  Half an hour later, Lin Fanghua was stunned: "Brother, you explained it more clearly than our teacher. With math skills like yours, if you take the college entrance exam, you'll definitely get into Chunyang Normal University..."

  Lin Zhenhua raised the math book in his hand, as if he wanted to use it to slap his sister to death: I'm a prestigious Tsinghua University graduate student, and you want me to take an exam for a local normal school?