Tao Huainan went to the hospital in the afternoon, and Chi Cheng wanted to go out to talk about something. The two went their separate ways. Before leaving, Tao Huainan asked Chi Cheng where he was going, Chi Cheng gave a location, and Tao Huainan asked again, "How much time did you get?"
"I don't know yet."
Tao Huainan thought for a while and said, "Then if I get off work first, I'll pick you up."
Chi Cheng glanced at him: "You don't need to pick it up."
"Why don't you use it?" Before Tao Huainan spoke, his eyes turned to Chi Cheng's side, his eyeballs rolled even though he couldn't see it, he didn't know what he was thinking.
"Don't make trouble." Chi Cheng said.
"Then someone else will pick it up..." Tao Huainan hummed in a low voice, not at all forceful, "Don't you have it too?"
"Who will pick it up?" Chi Cheng finished changing his shoes and stood at the door waiting for him.
Tao Huainan slowly put on his jacket and put on one sleeve: "Brother Kai is drinking too much, Xiao Zhuo still picks it up... yes... yes..."
He was chattering and chattering, Chi Cheng didn't urge him, and leaned against the cabinet in the entrance hall next to him, waiting for him to speak.
"...Like..." Tao Huainan put on the other sleeve, "Doesn't it all have... someone to pick up... huh?"
It wasn't until he finished the stuttering sentence that Chi Cheng looked at him calmly and asked, "Are you my partner?"
Tao Huainan continued to pull the zipper slowly, and raised his head: "I... no?"
"Reconciled?" Chi Cheng's hand was hanging down, his index finger was wrapped around his key chain, and the other fingers lightly tapped the keys on it, jingling, "Don't you say you don't need to forgive?"
"Yes...don't forgive me," Tao Huainan pulled the zipper all the way to his head, pressed his nose to the tip, and said with a stuffy mouth inside, "If you don't reconcile, you can be right... yes..."
"Come on," Chi Cheng opened the door, "Let's go."
Tao Huainan took his blind stick and followed Chi Cheng out, his voice muffled in his clothes: "I've been doing that..."
Chi Cheng ignored him, closed the door and pressed the elevator, Tao Huainan shook his hand: "I just want to pick you up."
"I don't need you to pick it up." Chi Cheng was still indifferent.
It wasn't until the two of them parted ways that the car Tao Huainan hailed was almost here, so he asked Chi Cheng again: "Can the puppy pick me up?"
The big eyes are round and round, and people will cry when they are cold, so the eyes look watery. Tao Huainan looked eagerly in Chi Cheng's direction.
Chi Cheng looked at him for a few seconds, then suddenly raised both hands to cover both sides of Tao Huainan's face through the hat, lifted his face up, and kissed him hard on the mouth.
This time it was really not a bite, but a sip.
Tao Huainan said "Oh". After being let go, he was still beautiful, and he was acting like a good boy when he got a bargain. He asked, "Are you a dog?"
Chi Cheng shook the top of his hat vigorously with his hands, and said, "Go."
Sex makes love more intimate.
It is bound to be different if you have done it or not. The psychological sense of belonging and possessiveness are stronger, even though they are already close to one.
A few brothers in the hospital really went to Japan, but Tao Huainan couldn't go out for a few days, and he didn't want to go out either. When he was free, he wanted to stay with Chi Cheng more, and he didn't want to go anywhere.
It will take more than a year for Tao Huainan to become a full-time employee, and he has nothing to do with the meeting. This time it is a case study with another hospital group, so he can only sit in the back and listen.
Tao Huainan couldn't see the PPT, and the speaker's speech was very fast. After several hours of discussion, Tao Huainan's mind kept running rapidly thinking about memorizing things, and he felt a little headache after the end.
I haven't touched my phone all afternoon, and the signal in the meeting room is not strong. The leaders hadn't left the conference room yet, so Tao Huainan could only sit and wait. It wasn't until the people in front had almost left that Tao Huainan hurried out and sent a message to Chi Cheng.
—Where are you brother
He still had to go upstairs to pack his things, and halfway there he received Chi Cheng's reply: Just go downstairs.
Tao Huainan: Wow.
He said he was going to pick up Chi Cheng, but not only was he unsuccessful, Chi Cheng had to come over to pick him up in the end.
Tao Huainan happily followed him home. The two older brothers had already returned and were fiddling with vases on the balcony. As soon as the door opened, Xiaodong let out an exaggerated "Ouch" and asked Tang Suoyan, "Brother Yan, who is back?"
Tang Suoyan said cooperatively: "I don't know, it sounds like there are two of you."
"Who is this?" Tao Xiaodong said, "Who can come to our house?"
Tao Huainan moved closer and whispered to Chi Cheng, "Look at how annoying they are."
Chi Cheng smiled, picked up their coats and hung them up, Tao Huainan shouted, "I'm back."
"Yo!" Xiaodong looked back and said to Tang Suoyan, "The two children who ran away from home are back?"
"Who ran away from home!" Tao Huainan came in after changing into slippers, and sniffed, "It smells so good, what did Brother Tang do?"
Tang Suoyan patted his head, holding the flower wrapping paper in his other hand, and said with a smile, "Let's go, Brother Tang will cook for you."
Tao Huainan bumped his brother's back with his shoulder, and happily followed Tang Suoyan away.
In the morning, Tao Huainan's prediction was right. The two brothers ate up the box of candied haws after dinner. Tao Huainan didn't even have time to take a shower.
"Brother!" Tao Huainan shook the empty glass box, "Look at it!"
Chi Cheng was also about to take a bath, so he walked over with his pajamas and said "it's okay".
"Look at the two of them." Tao Huainan originally planned to come out to eat after taking a shower, "I didn't leave any of them for me."
Tao Xiaodong even raised his head and said to Chi Cheng, "Brother Ku, I love candied dates."
Tang Suoyan said: "I still like to eat hawthorn."
Tao Huainan turned towards Chi Cheng: "Look at them."
Chi Cheng said, "I'll do it for you again."
Tao Huainan's candied haws were gone, so he put the glass box aside and went to the kitchen to cut a fruit plate for himself with a tense jaw.
The two children went out for a few days, and when they came back, there was a subtle change in their status.
Tao Xiaodong and Tang Suoyan saw it, and neither of them asked any more questions. Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, Tao Huainan is laughing and laughing every day, and he goes to the store with Xiaodong when he is not working. Xiaodong works while he studies, or stays with Chicheng at home.
It was the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month when I really went out to meet Pan Xiaozhuo, so it wasn't that Tao Huainan didn't want to see him, it was because Pan Xiaozhuo had been away for two days and had just returned.
Tao Huainan was just teasing him before, he wasn't really angry, he didn't have a temper at all.
"I'm just a true friend like you. I really feel bad if you ignore me." Pan Xiaozhuo soft-spoken to Tao Huainan as soon as he came, "I'm sorry Huainan, don't be angry with me."
Tao Huainan said with a smile: "Isn't that good at talking? Don't say it when you should say it, and say that you have a social barrier when you should talk."
"I won't hide anything from you anymore," Pan Xiaozhuo said seriously, "I'll tell you everything."
Tao Huainan waved his hand, took a deep-fried ball and bit it: "I'm just teasing you, I'm not angry, I'm happy for you, Xiao Zhuo, brother Kai is really nice."
Shi Kai didn't have to say anything, Tao Huainan had known him for so many years. Tao Huainan was actually quite worried when he guessed that Pan Xiaozhuo and Ji Nan were getting along. He was afraid that Ji Nan would be unreliable. , is also enough to worry people. Now that he knew it was Shi Kai, Tao Huainan really felt good about it.
Tao Huainan told him, "I'm really happy."
Speaking of this, Pan Xiaozhuo was still a little embarrassed, but he still told Tao Huainan: "Actually, I..."
He pushed his glasses and didn't know how to say: "I've always... just liked boys."
Tao Huainan smiled and said, "Ah."
"I dare not say that I am afraid that you will be burdened. I think I have something for you." Pan Xiaozhuo scratched his head, his face was blushing, "It is not because of this that I am with you..."
Tao Huainan was delighted at once: "I never thought of going there. I didn't expect you to have such a strange angle unless you told me."
"Don't laugh!" Pan Xiaozhuo cleared his throat, covered half of his face and said, "I'm very simple to you..."
"If you don't treat me innocently, you will abuse me." Tao Huainan said with a smile.
It never occurred to him that Pan Xiaozhuo didn't dare to confess his sexuality because he was afraid of being misunderstood, Tao Huainan couldn't laugh or cry.
Pan Xiaozhuo didn't hide anything that day, and told Tao Huainan everything about his secret love for Shi Kai since high school. For a few years in between, they had no contact at all, and had little contact, and Pan Xiaozhuo didn't dare to think about it.
Tao Huainan had no intention of listening to these private matters, and then hurriedly said, "Stop confessing, you don't need to go into such detail."
To be honest, the boy was afraid that Tao Huainan would feel that he was lying to him, so he wished he could tell all about the incident between him and Shi Kai.
"Then are you still angry?" Pan Xiaozhuo asked.
"Didn't I say I was teasing you," Tao Huainan said, "I was teasing you little fool."
After meeting with Pan Xiaozhuo, Tao Huainan went directly to his brother's shop. The shop was at work on the last day, and tomorrow's New Year's Eve was a holiday. The employees in the store get a lot of red envelopes every year, and Tao Xiaodong has always been generous in this regard.
Chi Cheng was also in the store, helping Tao Xiaodong.
As soon as Tao Huainan left, Huan Ge immediately greeted him: "Xiao Nan is here? Are you looking for Brother Dong?"
Tao Huainan thought that he would eat me for whatever I wanted him to do. Tao Huainan said, "Don't look for him, look for my little brother."
Huan Ge smiled and pointed upstairs: "They're all there."
Tao Huainan went up the stairs by himself while stroking the handrail, with the blind stick still in his other hand: "Brother?"
Chi Cheng was standing by the window talking to Guo Yiming, looked back, and said, "Here."
Tao Huainan walked towards him, and Chi Cheng said, "It's okay, just keep talking."
Hearing that Chi Cheng was busy, Tao Huainan didn't bother, and stood beside him holding his hand and waiting. Chi Cheng hooked a chair with his legs and moved it to Tao Huainan's lap, beckoning him to sit down.
Tao Huainan then sat down beside him and quietly listened to Chi Cheng's phone call.
Chi Cheng scratched his hair from time to time, and occasionally squeezed his neck, all of which were subconscious actions when he was on the phone.
Xiaodong came down from upstairs after packing up his things, saw him coming, and asked, "Will you pick me up from get off work?"
This is actually a common conversation between them. In recent years, Tao Huainan often came over after class, waiting for Xiaodong to go home from get off work together.
But it's different now, and the elder brother has to step back a little bit.
Tao Huainan responded with an empty "ah" and asked, "What time do you get off work?"
Xiaodong said: "Today I have to be late, I'm going on vacation, and I have a lot of things to do."
Tao Huainan nodded and comforted, "It's okay, I'll wait for you."
Waiting is waiting, the two brothers are inseparable, eat, eat fruit, drink sparkling water, and do everything together.
Tao Xiaodong glanced at the two of them and asked, "Why don't you two go first? Go out and watch a movie or something?"
Chi Cheng couldn't say it.
Tao Xiaodong still has this self-consciousness, saying: "I feel like I'm delaying things."
Tao Huainan and Chi Cheng were wearing earphones on one side, and they didn't know what movie or variety show was playing on the phone, so they turned around and said to Xiaodong, "Go to work, don't chat."
Tao Xiaodong laughed, turned around and left again: "Okay, I know."