"Isn't it?" My aunt smiled, "I also heard from your cousin that the two of you have been on the trending searches several times, and your uncle also said that you two children have been good since childhood."
Zhao Yao suddenly remembered something, and tentatively said, "I remember his nickname is Pepe...?"
"This is the case. When you were young, you liked to call him Brother Pepe. At that time, the old house of the Pei family was next to your grandfather. When you were young, you would come to your house to look for you during holidays. Sometimes your mother didn't bring you here. He I have to come and see every now and then." My aunt remembers these things about the children clearly, mainly because the two children have a good relationship, and the old man in the family keeps talking about it, and some things will be remembered deeply after repeating them.
Zhao Yao remembered the big kid named Peipei, but he didn't know that his name was Pei Mingzhan. When he was a child, the big kids around him had their own nicknames. Many people called that kid Pepe. He thought that kid's real name should be similar to this ...But he didn't expect his original name to be Pei Mingzhan.
Seeing that Zhao Yao was interested in childhood, my aunt thought of the photo album that Uncle Wang had just brought, "Wait a minute, you took a lot of photos with that child when you were young, and there are photo albums at home."
She left for a while and came back with a photo album in her hand.
Zhao Yao watched as she flipped to the back of the photo album. There were several photos in a row of him and Pei Mingzhan when he was a child. From the time when the two were not familiar to each other until Pei Mingzhan took him to play around, some in the small yard outside the grandfather's house. There are also photos of playing on the court, and even photos of taking him to the field to fly a kite... Some memories are buried deep, but when I see these photos, I have a vague impression.
So the older boy is Pei Mingzhan
Pepe is a boy with a cropped cut. Compared with other children of the same age, he looks a little fiercer, and he is very smart, so he easily became the head of the children at that time and there.
How the two met, Zhao Yao didn't remember clearly, only that the child came to apologize with snacks, and finally led him to play around.
Zhao Yao suddenly thought that when he first met Pei Mingzhan, Pei Mingzhan had been paying attention to him all the time, and the time he really got along with him should be in the "Mission" crew. With Pei Mingzhan's status and work attitude, it is reasonable to say During the rest time, I should be busy with other things, and during that time, Pei Mingzhan introduced the crew's work and shooting details to him after the filming... The originally planned shooting time gradually lengthened.
Thinking about the time when he was hospitalized, Pei Mingzhan's attitude was very friendly.
Now the two are in a relationship, but at that time, facing Pei Mingzhan's closeness, he thought he was guilty because of an accident on the set. with the same attitude. Zhao Yao unconsciously thought, did Pei Mingzhan know that the two knew each other when they were young a long time ago
"This picture was taken when your grandmother made you a small costume. It seems that you wore it for the first time. You cried all the time. Later, your mother persuaded you to try it on." My aunt was very interested when she saw Zhao Yao. Pointing to one of the photos, he said, "Did you see behind this door? The person hiding behind is Pepe. He was too shy to come in at that time."
Zhao Yao took a closer look, and indeed he could see a little boy with a crop top, and his face in the photo was a little blurry.
He couldn't remember clearly, so he asked, "Why is he shy?"
My aunt laughed out loud when she thought of this, "At that time, he thought you were a girl, and secretly asked the family members which family she was from. Later, his elder brother joked that you were his first love, and his face turned red."
The Pei family used to live next door to the Zheng family's old house, and because Pei Mingzhan's mother and Zhao Yao's mother used to be classmates, the relationship between the two families is very close, and there are certain things that the two families know clearly. What's more, it was about the two children. They were still young at that time, and the elders liked to tease the two children when they had nothing to do. My aunt had just married into the Zheng family at that time, and she remembered these things clearly.
A child's face is already tender, so wearing a costume and a wig is no different from a girl's. Zhao Yao flipped through the photo album. There are many photos of him and Pei Mingzhan in this photo album, and some of him and other children... There are a lot more photos than the photo album in his home. , and then explained by others, it is easy to remember what happened at that time.
So he and Pei Mingzhan met so early
In fact, he stayed here for very little time, and he came here often when he was five or six years old. At the beginning, he didn't know many children. Later, by accident, his relationship with Brother Pepe became better, and then he took him with him. Play. But these memories are very long ago, and I can’t recall them without mentioning them, and I don’t think about them carefully. How can I remember so many things when I was five or six years old
Pei Mingzhan was a few years older than him. It seemed that he had just entered elementary school at that time. He didn't remember Pei Mingzhan, but Pei Mingzhan seemed to remember him.
"I haven't seen any of these photos." Zhao Yao flipped through them again.
My aunt paused a little after hearing the words, "These are photo albums brought over from your grandparents. Your grandpa loves to take pictures. When you are at home, he likes to chase after you to take pictures."
Zhao Yao flipped forward, and sure enough, he saw many single photos of himself, some when he was three or four years old, and some when he was four or five years old.
My aunt talked for a while longer, and when a servant outside came to look for her, she left temporarily because of other things, and Zhao Yao was left alone to look through the photos one by one.
Looking at these photos, Zhao Yao felt nostalgic in the past, but now he couldn't wait to see Pei Mingzhan's appearance from the photos. At the end, he only felt that his eyes were a bit like the current Pei Mingzhan. There are all kinds of scenes in the photos, but Pei Mingzhan was more lively and playful when he was a child than he is now. Looking at the photos, you can see that he is playful.
After he finished reading the photos, he picked up his mobile phone and wanted to call Pei Mingzhan, but before the call was made, he suddenly hesitated.
What is the question
The development of this situation was completely unexpected by Zhao Yao. He had a premonition that the two of them might have met before, but he didn't expect that they would meet at such a young age, when he didn't remember much. And from this situation, with Pei Mingzhan's intelligence, he might have known about it from the very beginning.
Thinking about it carefully, it seems to be a very ordinary thing in normal times, but once the object and time point are changed, everything becomes inexplicably strange.
"Pei Mingzhan, Peipei?" Zhao Yao read Peipei's nickname, and suddenly felt that Pei Mingzhan's nickname was inexplicably cute.
He turned to the front again to look at the photos, took pictures with his mobile phone, and saved the photos in the album one by one.
-*
I don't know how late I saw it until Pei Mingzhan called.
Zhao Yao just came back to his senses, he looked at the name on the phone screen, "Hello?"
The two of them would call every night. Today's call was a little late, and Pei Mingzhan's voice was a little hoarse. He still had a cold.
"Have you finished your meal?" Pei Mingzhan heard his voice was very quiet, so he said, "I heard you still have a cousin, didn't you bother me?"
Zhao Yao closed the photo album and said simply: "A teenage child who doesn't know me well, how could he bother me?"
The two children were quite quiet, they would say a few words when asked by the elders during meals, and they would play with their own affairs after meals at other times, they were much more well-behaved than the children in the Zhao family. Zhao Yao still remembered that when he lived in Zhao's house, his father was in good health, and Bai Chengxue would occasionally find a reason to hold a family banquet, and then invited many people, including children of about the same age, but they were very noisy.
The two children of the Zheng family know the rules and know how to behave. When Zhao Yao was eating, he noticed that the younger child would look at him, but when talking to him, he would only call his brother, and was not curious about other things.
"Is it Xiao Yao?"
Pei Mingzhan listened to him, while Pei's mother was standing beside him asking him something in a low voice. He had no choice but to nod his head and gave Pei's mother a look, and the latter reluctantly left.
Zhao Yao asked: "I seem to have heard someone talking just now?"
Pei Mingzhan said helplessly: "My mother, just asked who I called."
He hasn't told his family about his relationship with Zhao Yao, but he said that Zhao Yao might come to the house for a few days during the Chinese New Year, and then his mother kept asking.
"Pei Mingzhan, let me ask you something." Zhao Yao felt that Pei Mingzhan should know about his childhood, because he kept calling him by name when he was a child, and occasionally Xiao Yao. He always thought that he and Pei Mingzhan should have met somewhere. He thought it was in school when he was in junior high school, but now he realized that he was a playmate when he was a child. "Did you know me before?"
Pei Mingzhan paused suddenly, then asked, "Why do you ask that?"
Zhao Yao was silent for a while: "I always think so, I think you are too kind to me."
Pei Mingzhan stood at the balcony on the second floor, the night wind blew by, and the moon hung high in the distance.
"I know." He smiled, "but that's not important."
There were several things from childhood in the room, and Zhao Yao saw a small kite hanging on the wall facing him.
"Why is it not important?" Zhao Yao leaned against the bed and put the photo album aside.
"This will make you feel that I have ulterior motives. Knowing you is not a reason to seek relationships or get close to you. If possible, I want us to get to know each other on an equal footing." Pei Mingzhan thought Thinking, continued: "So it doesn't matter if you think about it or not, anyway, I'm your boyfriend now."
Zhao Yao didn't expect this to be the reason, but in fact, he can also consider the reason why Pei Mingzhan didn't say it. After all, the friendship when he was a child was so far away. If he hadn't been mentioned by others, he would have forgotten it. He asked, "Then why do you like me?"
When Pei Mingzhan heard that Zhao Yao asked the question, he actually expected that Zhao Yao would ask this question. The first love when I was a child can only be said to be a little friendship, but it can't be regarded as liking this kind of relationship at all. At that time, he really treated Zhao Yao as his younger brother, took him to play, and took him around.
Later, Zhao Yao didn't go back to City H because of family matters. During his vacation, he ran to the gate of his grandfather's yard and waited for that familiar car to come from the path. He waited several times, but he didn't find anyone. In the end, it was his mother who asked about the situation, only to find out that Zhao Yao might not be back this holiday.
For Pei Mingzhan, this is actually a very regrettable thing. He didn't have Zhao Yao's contact number, and he was embarrassed to ask Zhao Yao's grandfather. He thought Zhao Yao would come back, but it turned out to be a two-year vacation. The family moved to other places, and he also had his own life, and gradually lost contact with the Zheng family.
There was a turning point in high school, because of a fellowship activity between schools, as a representative of the high school department, he took the two junior three students to compete in other schools, and it was at that time that he met Zhao Yao again.
Zhao Yao stood under the podium in the auditorium wearing a college uniform, introduced himself very solemnly, and gave a fluent and confident speech in a foreign language. He was completely different from the timid and cute child when he was a child. Light.
…
"I just fell in love with it." Pei Mingzhan smiled: "Mr. Zhao, according to your confession method, didn't you think about whether I like it or not when you submitted the request to me?"
Zhao Yao paused for a moment: "I think you will reject me if you don't like it."
Pei Mingzhan said: "Well, I won't refuse you. So you just remembered to ask me this question at this time?"
"Pei Mingzhan." Zhao Yao lowered his eyes slightly, and then lowered his voice slightly: "When I came here today, I saw a picture of my childhood. There was a child whose eyes looked a bit like yours, named Pepe, it was you Nickname?"
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and then Zhao Yao heard Pei Mingzhan's slightly lowered voice with a smile: "Yes."
Zhao Yao paused for a while: "Huh?"
Pei Mingzhan smiled: "Mr. Zhao, isn't this not a standard answer?"
Zhao Yaochi questioned: "Did you like me when you were young?"
Pei Mingzhan said again: "You were liked by many people when you were young."
Zhao Yao originally wanted to ask Pei Mingzhan a lot, but when he heard his joking tone, those strange thoughts in his heart disappeared immediately, and he suddenly laughed: "I am talking to you very seriously."
"I'm also answering you seriously." Pei Mingzhan replied.
Listening to the voice on the phone, Zhao Yao actually doesn't remember much about his childhood, but hearing Pei Mingzhan's voice, he is very eager to see him, it's best to hold his hand and kiss him several times, "You didn't want to tell me either."
"Because it's not important. People's feelings are different at each age group, and their minds and views on the outside world are gradually changing." Pei Mingzhan suddenly became in a good mood. He looked up at the moon in the distance, "How can the two of us remember so much about our childhood, Zhao Yao, I'm a male, and I only like you, and you happen to like me too."
Zhao Yao looked at the two people in the photo album. In fact, what Pei Mingzhan said was right. No matter whether the two met or became friends when they were young, it was a matter of childhood.
"I miss you a little bit." Zhao Yao suddenly said, "I only met at the airport tomorrow afternoon."
-*
Mother Pei knew that Pei Mingzhan was secretly hiding on the balcony to make a phone call, but she couldn't understand what the young man was talking about, so she gave the elder brother Pei winks to let people understand. Big brother Pei was indifferent when he saw this, and then said: "If you want to ask Peipei, just ask. After so many phone calls, maybe it's something about work."
Mother Pei said: "I just asked him if he was on the phone with Xiao Yao, and he nodded."
After she finished speaking, she added: "I won't go there, just make a phone call."
Father Pei, who was watching the news with a tablet, was about to say something when he saw Pei Mingzhan coming downstairs from the balcony. His pajamas had already been changed into travel clothes, and he planned to go out . Pei Mingzhan pulled his coat and said to the eldest brother of the Pei family, "Brother, lend me the car."
Brother Pei nodded and asked again, "Where are you going at this point?"
"I have something to go out, and I may come back later at night." After Pei Mingzhan finished speaking, he hurried out, leaving only the three people who met each other's eyes.
Father Pei also forgot what he was going to say just now, and said, "Why is he still going out at this point? Someone called him just now?"
Mother Pei turned her head to look at the eldest brother of the Pei family, "Boss, where do you think your younger brother is going at this point?"
"..." Brother Pei squeezed his brows with a headache, "I don't know."
Inside Zheng's house, my uncle was busy finishing his work and inquiring about Zhao Yao's situation with his aunt, and learned that the latter was a little silent after looking at the photo album, "When I heard that he left the Zhao Group, I wanted to ask him if he would come to our place By the way, you know that my brother-in-law is not a good person. The Zhao Group has become more and more chaotic these years. My brother-in-law seems to have gone abroad to cultivate. Xiao Yao seems mature, but after all, he is still a young man who has just graduated from university. , I am worried that he will suffer."
"This child is not close to us, but I think he looks like a child with a strong opinion." My aunt also knows that her husband is in a complicated mood now. When Zhao Yao was young, they also made requests with the Zhao family, but they were all rejected by his family. The brother-in-law refused, and Zhao Yao had less contact with them these years, and sometimes he didn't even return a call.
If it were someone else, Zhao Yao would have ignored the child, but she and her husband were still a little worried. In the past few years, Lao Zheng, who managed Zhao Yao's mother's assets, had been entrusted to take care of Zhao Yao. She said, "If you want to keep him Xiaozhu, you should take the initiative to talk about it, this child rarely mentions the family, maybe he still wants to get close to us in his heart."
"Then I'll talk to him tomorrow." After finishing speaking, the uncle asked, "Is he still used to living in that room? If not, there are several other rooms that are vacant."
…
Zheng Leqi had just come out of his brother's room, and the two brothers had a late-night talk with their cousin who just arrived today. He had heard about the affairs of his cousin's house, and he also knew that his life at their house was normal. . But with this cousin, the two brothers don't have the close feeling of their parents. Maybe it's because they didn't meet each other very much when they were young, and they only heard about it from their parents when they grew up.
It wasn't until seeing this cousin tonight that he realized that his cousin was a little different from the adults of his age in his impression. The family sometimes mentioned how good his cousin is. When he was studying, he said he was good at reading, and at work, he said he was good at work. They gradually became a little curious when they heard what their parents said about this omnipotent cousin.
During the meal, my cousin had a smile on his face, and he answered every question my father asked patiently.
Zheng Leqi observed him carefully, but found that whenever his father toasted, his cousin just took a sip, didn't smile much, and didn't drink much.
He asked his brother: "Does my cousin not like drinking?"
Brother said: "No way? Why don't you ask Mom tomorrow?"
Zheng Leqi also felt strange, because he always felt that his cousin seemed to be smiling, but he didn't seem to be integrated into the family, and he felt very strange.
The people in the house were almost ready to rest now, Zheng Leqi was about to go back to his own room after coming out of his brother's room, when he saw the door of his cousin's room on the other side of the corridor suddenly opened. He stopped for a while, thinking about whether to go over to say hello, when he saw his cousin go downstairs and talk to the servant downstairs.
Zheng Leqi was a little curious, and saw that his cousin walked out under the guidance of the servant after asking the question, and it seemed that he was about to go out.
Why are you going out at this point? Zheng Leqi was thinking about whether to tell his parents, thinking that this would be too much of a fuss, so he went to the balcony on the second floor to see the situation.
The area of Zheng's mansion is full of rich people's villas. Except for the patrolling security guards at night, it is very quiet at other times. When Zheng Leqi went to the balcony, he could easily see a car parked outside the garden, and a person stood vaguely beside the car.
It was a little far away, so he couldn't see it clearly.
The car didn't stop in front of their house, but parked at the intersection outside. Cars entering the villa area at night would go to the underground parking lot. The car turned off the lights and stopped at the intersection. The person standing beside the car was obviously Waiting for someone. After Zheng Leqi saw his cousin greeted the bodyguard at the door, he went straight out the door and walked straight to where the car was.
Zheng Leqi thought to himself, is my cousin going out at this point
In the next second, I saw the person standing next to the car move, and stepped forward to hug his cousin.
Zheng Leqi: ...