Xie Yu remembered that he only mentioned about him and He Chao to Ms. Gu after the college entrance examination.
They are different from other parents and children in the way they get along. During the first year of high school, Ms. Gu is more like the "exam preparation" candidate, and her nerves are tense all day.
Even before the college entrance examination was over, Xie Yu didn't dare to influence her.
"Don't review it too late, take it easy, ah, don't think too much, you can take the test as you usually do."
Gu Xuelan said, adding vegetables to his bowl: "...Eat more."
In the eyes of Ms. Gu, Xie Yu, who "reviewed late", wanted to say that she basically went to bed on time at ten o'clock every night and lived a stress-free life.
After Xie Yu finished eating the chopsticks dish, he calmly changed the subject: "There is someone in the next class who is dealing with him, and he called his parents last week."
Gu Xuelan is not the kind of rigid parent. She even has a little girl's mind in her heart. She is very relaxed about the issue of "puppy love". She usually asks her son if she likes someone, is she secretly in love.
It is not incomprehensible that each age group has unique and precious characteristics of that age group.
Hazy, green, warm and flamboyant.
"Young," Gu Xuelan sighed, "Hey, it's nice to be young."
After the college entrance examination, Gu Xuelan, who said "it's good to be young", was hit by the most indescribable impact in more than ten years.
Xie Yu didn't have time to change the school uniform on his body. He planned to go to Heishui Street just after the exam, and pulled Gu Xuelan along by the way: "Mom, let's go together?"
Gu Xuelan didn't care about the second half of the sentence. She rarely returned to Heishui Street. She knew that Aunt Mei and the others had spent a lot of time this year. They were busy changing simple clothes, and they brought a few gifts before leaving.
The dinner table was very lively.
A table of people sits in the courtyard, enjoying the shade in the open air.
Even though Gu Xuelan was dressed casually, she still couldn't resist Lei Ma's trendy men's big pants: "..."
"These beach pants belong to Lei Zi's father," Lei Ma raised her legs and smiled, "It's pretty cool."
Xu Yanmei directly held the beer bottle, lifted the bottle cap with her bare hands, and the bottle cap rolled onto the concrete floor. She habitually handed the wine forward, and halfway through the hand, she remembered that Gu Xuelan didn't drink beer: "Look at you - come here, why bring so many things."
Gu Xuelan usually doesn't drink much, so she took the bottle of wine and poured some into the water glass.
"How are you?" Xie Yu raised his hand and clinked glasses with Zhou Dalei.
"VP club, substitute," Zhou Dalei said, "in less than half a year, I'll show you another starter."
"Cow batch."
"That's it, your brother and I are thieves."
Three rounds of wine.
The topic strayed all the way from the college entrance examination, and ended up talking about playing mahjong. Before making an appointment, Xie Yu, who was sitting there quietly and eating quietly, suddenly said, "Mom, Aunt Mei. , let me say something."
Xie Yu drank half a bottle of wine, the tips of his ears were a little red, and then he stood up and faced these people in front of him—except Gu Xuelan, the people in Heishui Street who were not related by blood but were still like relatives.
He looked as usual, but his fingers on the edge of the table involuntarily tightened: "I have a partner. I don't talk about it casually in the second year of high school. I'm very serious, serious enough... I'll be him in this life."
"His name is He Chao."
Xie Yu had no special idea. You don't have to explain it to anyone, you can ignore the eyes of the world, but they are different.
The expressions of the people at the dinner table were different, and surprise was the majority.
Xu Yanmei: "The He Dynasty who came here last time?"
Zhou Dalei: "Damn, that He Chao?"
Gu Xuelan opened her mouth, almost unable to find her own voice: "... He Chao?"
On the way back, Gu Xuelan didn't speak for a long time. By the time the car pulled into the garage, she didn't even react to the ground.
In all fairness, she really liked He Chao's child.
But she never thought about it.
Even if he noticed that every time he called, as long as the child was there, Xie Yu would become different from usual.
Unexplainable changes, think about it carefully... In fact, there are already omens.
Gu Xuelan's first reaction was unacceptable.
However, everything she wanted to say stopped abruptly when it touched Xie Yu's eyes.
In those eyes, there is trust and hope.
She thought again of what she had written in her letter to him: no matter what choice you make.
- I just want you to be safe and happy.
"Have you made up your mind?"
Xie Yu said, "Think about it."
Gu Xuelan slowly closed her eyes, opened them again, and finally said softly: "If you are willing to tell me, Mom is very happy. Ask him out for a meal someday and see you."
Xie Yu took a shower and lay on the bed. At first, he thought that he would feel calm, but he was just frank, but after seeing a text message, Aunt Mei's, Dalei's...
He watched and suddenly buried his face in the pillow.
When He Chao received the call, he didn't know that he had met the child's parents "indirectly", but he felt that the child's voice was muffled: "What's wrong?"
"The next time you call, don't call Aunt Gu."
He Chao didn't react: "Did you make my aunt look too old, and your mother didn't like it? Then what should I call me, or I'll call my sister next time?"
Xie Yu said, "Fool, call me Mom."
It was as if He Chao had dropped the call. Xie Yu was about to hang up. When he was about to press 'hang up', he heard him ask again, "Is it what I thought?"
"Could it be as you think, called elder sister? Seniority really counts."
"you… "
He Zhao "you" for a long time, and finally smiled: "Then you can add Lao He's WeChat. He has been begging me for almost two years. I was afraid of scaring you, so he never gave it."
Xie Yu: "..."
two years
"I told him on the first day of dating. I said that I found someone I like very much. This boy is very cute."
He Zhao's father is a god.
Since He Chao expressed his affection for the creative short video, Lao He felt that this gift was very tasteful. After successfully adding Xie Yu as a friend, he immediately went to the online shopping platform to order one.
Xie Yu just woke up in the morning and turned on his phone to check the time. In the morning, he saw a group of African children dancing wildly with a blackboard newspaper.
"He Dynasty, He Dynasty!"
"Xie Yu, Xie Yu!"
"Hundred Years of Harmony!"
…
So for Xie Yu, the biggest bad news of the year is probably that his birthday is coming.
But birthdays can't be avoided.
He spent a lot of effort, but still couldn't convince himself: don't care about the people of the He family.
The sophomore year was busy with classwork, and after taking a day to accompany He Chao to class, he started to get busy again. I had almost forgotten about my birthday, but I was accidentally reminded by Professor Yang: "Next week, you won't be using it. Give you the data to Senior Brother Wang and let him follow up."
"what?"
Old Professor Yang smiled: "I forgot my birthday? I don't want to be said to be squeezing you to the point that you can't even celebrate your birthday."
Xie Yuxin said that it was good to be squeezed.
There were few tasks on this day, Xie Yu left the lab, and there was still half an hour before get out of class ended.
He thought about it and planned to wait for his boyfriend to finish class.
The classroom is very quiet, only the voice of the finance teacher: "Let f be the preference relation defined on the consumption set X, if for any x, y, xfy in X if and only if u(x) ≥ u(y) …”
Xie Yu didn't go in, didn't show his face through the window, and waited against the wall for a while.
He Chao came out of class and saw someone: "Why did you come here?"
"Wait for you," Xie Yu lowered his head and replied to WeChat before looking up at him, "Your dad said he wanted to give me a big gift, you persuade him not to give it, and you take it."
"I think so too, it's enough for me to give it... He's making fun of it."
He Chaoshun laughed at Lao He, and then heard Xie Yu say again, "Don't give it to the motherfucker. Don't give me anything. It's the best blessing to me."
"… "
In the end, He Chao really settled down for several days, and only sent him two messages on his birthday.
-[position]
-come over.
Positioning is a restaurant.
A certain Kuo Shao surnamed He also booked the venue.
The storefront is not big, but the decoration is elegant, and there is a singing platform at the front.
Xie Yu sat and waited for a long time without waiting for anyone, and all kinds of strange gifts ran around in his mind, which made him upset.
Just as I was about to send a text message to ask, the lights in the entire restaurant dimmed for a few seconds without warning.
Then Xie Yu heard a cappella singing, and along with this acapella, the lights on the bar also lit up.
"What are you doing?"
He Chao had a sound that was missing at the beginning, stopped and coughed, raised his index finger and made a "shush" gesture at him.
Without any accompaniment, He Chao sang for four minutes in the most direct way.
It was the autumn tour of the second year of high school, the song he sang on the bus.
He Chao finished singing the last sentence, but didn't say happy birthday. He held onto the microphone and asked, "I plan to give a ring this year, the kind that I wear on my ring finger and never pick it up for the rest of my life. I don't know if my children will accept it?"