"How much did you drink?"
"Five or six bottles?"
"...You're doing well," Xie Yu frowned, and let go after the gang left, "I told you to stop smoking, change to drinking, and open up new ideas?"
He Zhao looked at him and said nothing.
Xie Yu saw the bruise on the corner of his mouth, and was about to say "still fighting" when He Chao reached out and took him into his arms.
"Don't move," He Chao pressed his forehead against Xie Yu's neck and whispered, "If you don't smoke, I'll hold you for a while."
The streets were empty and lonely, and most of the alcohol was blown away by the cold wind. The child was wearing a down jacket, which was loose and heavy, and felt very soft when hugged, completely different from the impatient expression on his face.
The two rows of street lights on the side of the road stretched to the horizon, like little stars, scattered and melted into the night.
After hugging for a while, He Chao asked, "Why are you here?"
Xie Yu: "Come and collect my boyfriend's body."
He Zhao woke up, and the cowhide also blew it well: "With your boyfriend's alcohol capacity, it's no problem to blow ten more bottles."
"...You don't want to be beaten."
He Chao was impoverished for a few words, didn't speak any more, and closed his eyes, only then did he really feel that it was over.
it's already over.
Is it liberation? He Chao thought about it for a while, but felt that he couldn't even talk about it.
But he gradually began to understand why Lao He didn't stop him in the first place, so he just let him go and watched him solve the problem without any rules or even using the most extreme methods.
Being pulled up by someone and standing up by yourself are two different things.
"Are you going back?" The temperature was too low at night, and if he stood still, he might catch a cold the next day. He Zhao let go and said, "It's not easy to take a taxi here, you have to go to the intersection ahead."
Xie Yu hesitated for two seconds.
When he went out, Ms. Gu had already fallen asleep, and he didn't say hello to her. Now that he went back and got home, it was almost early morning, but it was difficult to explain.
He Zhao glanced at him sideways: "Then go to my house?"
There was no one in He Chao's house.
Lao He just left a few days ago, and he traveled between several countries. He came back and rested for less than half a week. Seeing his final report card, he didn't say anything, threw the list on the table, and dragged him to play a game of chess.
"It doesn't matter which way you choose, how you go," Lao He said in a deep voice when he said the last word, "I believe in you."
Xie Yu slept in the car for a while, and was woken up by He Chao when he got out of the car.
He Chao got out of the car and paid for it, then went around to the back seat, resting his hands on the door, he didn't have the heart to wake anyone up. In the end, he bent down, leaned over and kissed the corner of his mouth, calling him, "It's here."
He Chao's house was very clean, the kind that didn't smell like fireworks. Except for the housekeeping aunt who will come to clean up once a week, there is basically no one in and out.
Xie Yu sat on the sofa, half-squinted watching He Chao clean up the guest room. He waited for a while, exhausted his patience, stepped on the floor with bare feet, walked over and asked, "Which room is yours?"
"… "
After all, He Chao drank a lot of alcohol, but he was afraid that he would not be able to restrain himself. He didn't expect the little boy in front of him to be very courageous: "Aren't you afraid that I will kill you tonight?"
Xie Yu leaned against the door to look at him, not at all conscious of being a guest: "I mean, you, sleep in the guest room."
Xie Yu said that he was going to sleep in the guest room, but it was almost two in the morning, so He Chao didn't take the time to clean up the room.
That's all, I don't have the energy to think about other things.
He Chao simply finished taking a shower, and when he opened the bathroom door and came out, Xie Yu had already closed his eyes and fell asleep, his hair covering half of his face, and his breathing was shallow.
The child was lying on his bed, restraining all his anger, and looking very good.
He Chao forced himself to look away, thinking that the bath just now was probably a waste.
Xie Yu slept lightly, and the moment the sound of running water in the bathroom stopped, he moved his fingers, subconsciously feeling that he had missed something and didn't do anything.
... I didn't send a text message to Ms. Gu to report her safety.
But he also thought that in the middle of the night, the Zhong family's gang had basically fallen asleep, so no one should pay attention.
It's true that Xie Yu didn't make much movement when he went out, but he walked in a hurry, and happened to be caught by A Fang who got up at night to drink water.
As soon as he went out on the front foot, several servants gathered on the back foot. Ah Fang didn't see who it was, and thought it was Zhong Jie who got angry in the middle of the night: "Is it Master Zhong?"
"No, the eldest young master didn't come back today. It should be the second young master, ouch, it's what time it's still out-"
The Zhong family has a lot of work, and Xie Yu went out in the middle of the night, which was unprecedented. Several servants were wondering if there was a quarrel: "It was fine during dinner, but there was another quarrel?"
"My wife recently wanted to ask a tutor for the second young master, isn't the second young master unhappy?"
"Second Young Master's final results this time..."
There are a few small lamps in the hall of Zhong's house, and the several mahogany cabinets in the hall are full of antiques from all over the world.
Several servants were talking in a low voice and were about to go back to the room, when they were startled by Gu Xuelan.
Gu Xuelan was wearing a coat and looked a little sleepy. Standing at the head of the stairs, she tugged at the jacket that had slipped down, and asked, "What's the matter?"
Gu Xuelan's sleep quality has not been very good in the past few days. After hearing the whole story, she felt more and more headaches. She raised her hand and pressed her forehead.
Xie Yu has done a lot of things that have worried her over the past few years. Even though she has her own thoughts on many things, she will still think about her when she speaks and does things.
This kind of unbelievable meekness revealed inadvertently, often gave her the illusion that the person standing in front of her was the same Xie Yu who liked to pester her when she was a child.
After Gu Xuelan went back to her room, she couldn't sleep at all. She couldn't stop thinking about it in her mind. She pressed her anger and called Xie Yu, but after several calls, no one answered.
The anger in her chest was quenched by the words "The call you dialed is temporarily unavailable".
"What," Zhong Guofei was half-dream and half-awake and noticed the sky above him. When he opened his eyes, he saw that Gu Xuelan was wearing thin clothes, sitting beside the bed and staring at the phone, "... It's very late, still not sleeping?"
Gu Xuelan lay on the bed for a while, but still couldn't fall asleep, then got up lightly and walked to Xie Yu's room unconsciously.
When he pushed open the bedroom door, he was stunned by his actions.
She would never go through Xie Yu's stuff.
Even if the conditions in Heishui Street were not good before, the locks on the drawers of the second-hand desks were useless, and when you opened them, you could see the diary inside, and there was no thought of peeking.
The quality education she received since childhood made her calm and restrained in these aspects.
but now-
Gu Xuelan said in her heart that she might do something extraordinary in order to understand what Xie Yu was thinking.
Xie Yu's room was very clean, Gu Xuelan walked in, glanced over the desk, chair, computer, and finally stopped on the slightly messy quilt on the bed.
The phone was lying beside the bed.
Gu Xuelan hesitated for a while, stretched out her hand, and stopped again.
Gu Xuelan sighed wearily, and was about to put his hand away, but the phone screen suddenly lit up.
-Boss Xie, after thinking about it for the past few days, I think I still have to tell your mother about this matter. It is not the way for you to pretend like this. How are you going to fix the college entrance examination...
Zhou Dalei sat cross-legged on the sofa and sent a text message with sincerity. Feeling that he didn't say everything, he lowered his head and continued typing on the phone screen.
- Lei Zai, who didn't like to write essays since he was a child, can write 800 fucking words for his brother.
I am moved by myself!
Zhou Dalei has been miserable these past few days, with such a big thing hidden in his heart, he is distracted when playing games.
The day before yesterday, I went to Guangmao to help Aunt Mei unload the goods, and I heard Aunt Mei talking there: "Xiaoyu's grades are so bad, and this time he dropped one place. It turned out that the grade was at the bottom, so it's good to be at the bottom, what are you going to do? channeling…”
Halfway through Aunt Mei's words, the box of goods in his hand was almost unsteady.
Zhou Dalei finished typing with his head down and clicked send.
- We just got good grades! If you hide something, hide a piece of shit, you have to let that idiot surnamed Zhong know the gap between people and let him know what it means to be able to go to Tsinghua University and Peking University with your eyes closed!
Xie Yu still didn't know what happened at home when he left the door.
When he woke up in the morning, he was pressed by He Chao, and he could dodge the drunkenness but Chenbo. Xie Yu's mind went blank. After orgasm, He Chao bit his lip and asked, "Is it time for me to finish the fun? Now, with your legs?"
Xie Yu wondered if this person had been thinking about trying this trick for a long time.
He Chao's movements were neither light nor serious, Xie Yuhong's eyes were bitten by him, and he grabbed the sheet under him, and faintly tasted a bit of blood from his mouth.
He Chao reached down and asked in a low voice, "How do you explain it when you go back? Have you thought about it?"
Xie Yu licked the wound on the corner of his mouth and said, "Fight."
"Fight in bed?"
"… "
Xie Yu didn't take this night's sleeplessness seriously, but as soon as he arrived at the door of Zhong's house, before changing his shoes, he saw that A Fang's expression was not quite right.
Ah Fang opened her mouth to say something, but in the end she shook her head and said nothing.
Xie Yu followed her gaze to the living room and saw Ms. Gu sitting on the sofa—it was almost noon, and she was still wearing the same pajamas from last night.
Ms. Gu likes to take care of herself very much. Even if she doesn't go out, it is impossible to stay at home dressed like this at noon.
Before Xie Yu said "Mom", Gu Xuelan stood up.
Gu Xuelan's face was very bad, his eyes were red with blood, and when he got up, he was even stiff and could not stand firmly without holding the back of the chair with his hands. Xie Yu's eyes landed on the phone that she was holding tightly in her hand. Although she didn't know what was going on, her heartbeat suddenly skipped a beat.
Then the phone screen lights up.
In the text message preview column, there are several text messages sent by Zhou Dalei.
Gu Xuelan said word by word, her voice almost hoarse, and asked him sternly, "What is this - what are you talking about, what is this!"