When Gu Yanting was about to get off work, he received a call from Gu's mother.
"Yanting, where is Xiaoyi? I called him and said it was turned off."
"He's on a business trip today, so he might still be on his way at the moment." Gu Yanting smiled and raised his wrist to check the time, "But it's almost landing, he'll be there at six o'clock. Mom, do you have anything to do with him?"
"It's okay, what can I do?" Mother Gu said with a smile, "Doesn't he like to eat cakes baked with locust blossoms? Your dad went out fishing today and happened to pick a lot of them back, so we can see a lot of them on weekends. I'm thinking of letting him go home. When you're done eating, you can bring some back."
Gu Yanting snorted and said, "How about I go get it? He will come back the day after tomorrow, so he may not be free to go there."
"That's it," Gu's mother was a little disappointed, and sighed after a while, "Okay, you can come back when you come back."
Tang Yi was on a errand this time, but he will actually be back tomorrow. Gu Yanting subconsciously refused for him, but there was no other meaning. It was because Gu's mother called Tang Yi back too often recently. The Spring Festival Lantern Festival is nothing but the Arbor Day and the Tomb-sweeping Day this year. In addition to picking wild vegetables, I also call Tang Yi, and the seasonal Sophora japonica toon is even more justifiable.
Gu Yanting was about to die of grief.
In the evening, when Tang Yi arrived at the hotel and sent him a message, Gu Yanting simply called back, and when he heard the laughing low voice, it was rare that he was not a hooligan, but heaved a long sigh.
"Tang Yi, my mother called you back to eat again."
Tang Yi smiled and gave a low hum, and was a little surprised to hear this, "Didn't I... just went there last week?"
"Yes, the old lady told you to go back to eat locust blossoms," Gu Yanting said with a tut, somewhat unpleasantly, "She is my mother and your mother, I said that I would go back for you and she was quite unhappy. "
Tang Yi just smiled but didn't answer, and when Gu Yanting sighed enough, he said solemnly, "This is quite normal, isn't it all?"
"Ah?" Gu Yanting was stunned for a moment.
"Mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more she looks at her, the more pleasing to the eye." Tang Yi smiled, "What do you think?"
"..." Gu Yanting paused, but did not refute.
Tang Yi raised his eyebrows, and just when he was teasing him a few more words, he heard Gu Yanting shouting unhurriedly, "Husband."
"… "
Tang Yi was stunned.
"I think," Gu Yanting paused, then took a deep breath and said, "My mother... Maybe, she already knows about our relationship."
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Gu Yanting had always wanted to come out of the closet, but most of the time he just silently calculated. His original intention was to give Tang Yi a name, so he never talked to Tang Yi, and even thought about when Tang Yi was on a business trip, he secretly went back and confessed the matter.
But after all, this matter requires courage. He hesitated for many times, and went home a few times, but he didn't say those words until he got back to T City.
Until Tang Yi knew, he stopped him.
That was a year ago, before Wei Wei was picked up by Zhou Hao. Wei Wei added up before and after, and lived with them for a total of three months. In the past three months, the atmosphere at home has been harmonious and happy, and the children are extraordinarily well-behaved and sensible, which is naturally attractive.
At the end of that year, Zhou Hao was going abroad, but he couldn't come back during the Chinese New Year, so Gu Yanting wrapped his child happily and went home for Chinese New Year.
The direct consequence of this incident was that Gu's mother liked what the child liked so much. She hugged Wei Wei lovingly and dumped all the delicious food in the house in front of him. At the same time, she seemed to have suddenly woken up and began to question Gu Yanting's life-long affairs. .
At that time, Tang Yi was one step behind him. When he pushed the door and came in, he happened to bump into Gu's mother leaning over to ask Gu Yanting, "Didn't you say that there is a girl you have a crush on? What? Is there any drama?"
Gu Yanting: "!!!"
Tang Yi heard the sound and tilted his face slightly, but still smiled slightly, without any fluctuations. Gu Yanting's heart was agitated, and he straightened his body and explained to Gu's mother anxiously, "Mom, there is no girl! You remember it wrong!"
"Yes! What's the one called Ling? Didn't you mention it before?" Gu's mother said with certainty. Seeing Weiwei blinking curiously and looking up, her lips moved, and she swallowed her words.
She rubbed Weiwei's hair, and then said, "You are too old, and sooner or later you will have to start a family. This is the house that my dad and I bought for you as a wedding room. When you find a wife, our old couple will go there. Live on the side, not with you."
Gu Yanting had also thought about the rhetoric when he was urged to marry by his parents before. He knew that this was a hurdle that could not be bypassed and that he would have to face it sooner or later. But things really came, and the set of big truths he had prepared didn't work.
On the other side, Dad Gu happily took out the chessboard and called Tang Yi to put it on the small table. Gu Yanting glanced at Tang Yi worriedly, and finally frowned and said dryly, " Mom, I know my affairs, and now I have no plans to get married, so don't worry about it, okay?"
"Hey, that's what I said, I don't worry about who you worry about! You can pull someone on the street and I can take care of him?" Gu's mother glanced at him and sighed, "I don't have any requirements with your father, no matter the girl. The condition of the home is good or bad, ugly or handsome, as long as you are upright, you can close your eyes. If you think this house is broken, you can sell it for two years, and you can live in the city. My father and I are both There is a retirement salary, and it can't drag you down."
Gu's mother is a kind mother at home and rarely forces Gu Yanting to do anything. This time the speech also stopped, but Gu Yanting was entangled in his heart.
After the New Year's Eve dinner, it was the Spring Festival Gala as usual. Dad Gu dragged Tang Yi to play two games of chess and went to sleep. Mom Gu also carried the sleeping Wei Wei into the master bedroom not long after. When Gu Yanting heard the sound of the bedroom door closing, he reached out and grabbed Tang Yi's hand. After turning over to hold it, he whispered, "Tang Yi, I want to come out of the closet."
Gu Yanting thought about many scenarios of coming out of the closet, and even kept thinking about the worst consequences, but there was no definite answer. There are all kinds of people in this world, everyone has different personalities, different opinions, and naturally different reactions to the same thing. Around Gu Yanting, there are fathers and sons who have turned their heads because of coming out of the closet, and there are also people who are happy and get along with their parents happily. The atmosphere in one guy's house was even lighthearted, the parents were not shocked, not disappointed, and there was no hysterical arguments and beatings.
That was the best result Gu Yanting could think of. He hoped so, but he also knew that in front of the traditional concept of Gu's mother and Gu's father, there was almost no such possibility.
Tang Yi allowed Gu Yanting to hold his hand and did not move or make a sound. After waiting for a while, he sighed and touched Gu Yanting, "Don't."
Gu Yanting grabbed his hand tightly.
"I know it's hard to do, but I don't want to be sneaky all the time, and I don't want you to be wronged because of this," Gu Yanting said in a low voice, "If it wasn't for my dad to let you come during the New Year, would you not plan to? Are you here? We will have a long time in the future, so we can't hide like this all the time, and we don't always spend the New Year and the festival together."
Tang Yi was cautious in his heart, afraid that he would often come to Gu's father and Gu's mother to see the clue. But he was afraid that Gu Yanting would be embarrassed between him and his parents, so he sent the latter to go home during the holidays. Gu Yanting saw clearly all the time, and felt sorry for him, so he could only make two trips home as much as possible, and then reduce the time spent each time. The only gratification now is that the home is indeed a lot more lively after VV, and Tang Yi would not be alone if he were not at home.
"Yes, we have a long time to come," Tang Yi smiled, "so be filial to your parents first." He was silent for a while, then said softly, "We are under some pressure now, but it's not that we can't get through the hurdles. It's easy to come out and come out, but if it doesn't go well, what will happen next, they will suffer multiple blows, and what the consequences will be, we can't predict. "
Gu Yanting opened his mouth, and finally closed it tightly without speaking.
Tang Yi turned his face and smiled, took out his hand and patted his face lightly, and warned, "If you are celebrating the new year, you should come back to accompany your parents more often. We have Weiwei at home to accompany me."
"Well," Gu Yanting said after being silent for a while, "I know, what are you worried about."
"Huh?" Tang Yi smiled.
"My parents always thought that I didn't remember the past at all. Just like when I was a child, I was worried that they would not want me. They are also worried now, afraid that I will see my biological father or mother someday and have other ideas." Gu Yanting sighed softly, "I've been hesitant to tell them about the Zhou family. Actually, you're afraid that they will be too concerned about it, and you want me to maintain the status quo, right?"
He wants to come out of the closet, it is difficult to say, easy to say. The standard of evaluation is just how cruel he can be - this cruelty is not towards himself, but towards his parents. Whether it was the matter of his life experience or the inner worries of the Gu family's parents, it was destined that the second elder would not take an overly tough attitude and means towards him.
But that doesn't mean they aren't sad. They have always regarded Gu Yanting as their own sons, and they don't want to wrong him at all, and they don't put in less effort than other parents. But they are destined to lack a layer of blood. Others' father and son break the bones and connect the tendons, but they can't. What they have always feared in their hearts is that if this son is really beaten, it may be broken.
Tang Yi didn't want Gu Yanting to tell the Gu family's parents about Zhou Dongchuan, that's why. Even if Gu Yanting can express his attitude with sincere words, it is impossible for the parents of the Gu family not to worry in front of the disparate Zhou family.
But if he insists on coming out and confessing, when his emotions are intense, he will inevitably not come up with the biggest rebuttal to refute "marriage, having children, and inheriting the lineage" - I'm not your own.
The living room was quiet, and the TV was in the middle of switching programs. The next program was the annual family sketch, and the host was emotionally reciting the nostalgic letter from the frontier soldiers. On the big screen at the back of the stage are the VCRs recorded by the families of several fighters.
The hot boiling water, the dumplings in the pot, the flames floating on the firewood stove, the wrinkles on the old man's face and the slightly bent back...
"Let them be fine, Yan Ting." Tang Yi looked at the TV at the time, turned his face slightly, and said softly, "Actually, you have such good parents, I am very envious. So I will not feel wronged."
Tang Yi said calmly, and he has always been like this since then. If there is a conflict between his affairs and the Gu family's parents, he will definitely let Gu Yanting take care of the second old man first.
Gu Yanting was both moved and distressed. One time, his father was seriously ill. When he came home to visit, he was always distracted when he sat by the bed alone. When Gu's mother handed him the boiled porridge to let him eat, he held the bowl and didn't move. Gu's mother asked him what was wrong, Gu Yanting shook his head, lowered his head and said, "Tang Yi had a fever with pneumonia when I came. I don't know if he has a bowl of porridge to drink at this time."
After he finished speaking, he suddenly returned to his senses, and looked up at his mother's expression with some regret. Fortunately, the latter didn't hear anything, just hesitated for a while, and patted him, "Why don't you go back and have a look."
Gu's mother was soft-hearted, and when Gu Yanting went back, she always asked about Tang Yi's situation. Sometimes I ask about work, sometimes I ask about my body. When Gu's mother first knew Tang Yi, she also liked him very much, but at that time most of the time she kept an extra copy for Gu Yanting, and she was mostly sympathetic and polite. It wasn't until the last year that I really took the initiative to understand.
Gu Yanting is no longer the hairy boy who just came out of the campus and speaks freely. He and Gu's mother talked about Tang Yi's past, Tang Yi's present, and many trivial things in his and Tang Yi's life.
Although he came out of the closet, he also hoped that his parents would understand the importance of Tang Yi to him. Whether they understand it as friendship, brother in need, or something else.
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"Then let's go back this weekend." After listening to Gu Yanting, Tang Yi was silent for a while before saying, "We are one."
"Then," Gu Yanting paused and said, "If the speculation is true, should I come out? Confess?"
Tang Yi walked to the floor-to-ceiling window of the hotel with his mobile phone and looked outside quietly. As soon as Gu Yanting finished speaking, all the street lamps not far away came on with a snap.
"Actually, it's not important." Tang Yi looked into the distance, smiled and said, "A lot of things don't have to be so clear, we just understand."
For example, the master bedroom door that was not closed on New Year's Eve, or the two childhood photos of Gu Yanting that Gu's mother gave him.
Sometimes the difference is just a layer of window paper. If we can find a comfortable and decent distance for each other, there is no difference between this layer of paper being broken or not.
The author has something to say: I'm back from a business trip, please choose to eat (⊙o⊙)... In other words, buy carefully...