Lu Rong kept staring at Shen Jize: "My brother worshiped me in the back mountain when I was a child, and said that I was his wife, and told me to go to the city to find him..."
Xiao Chu pinched the paper in his hand, and the more he heard it, the more something went wrong. He looked at Lu Rong in horror and asked repeatedly: "What are you talking about? Are you here to apply for a bodyguard? Did you go to the wrong place? Which security guard are you?" the company's?"
Lu Rong was confused and blurted out without thinking: "That's right, I'm here to apply for a wife—"
Xiao Chu:! ! !
"Application for bodyguard." Lu Rong changed his words again.
Shen Jize, who kept his head down, finally raised his head slowly, and met his gaze.
Facing those dark and deep eyes, Lu Rong wanted to show a smile, but he couldn't mobilize the muscles on his face, so he just puckered his mouth, and tears poured out.
Shen Jize stared at him blankly, his eyes filled with turbulent waves. He stood up abruptly from behind his desk. The chair slid back a few steps and the phone fell to the ground.
He remembers me, he does remember me.
Lu Rong felt very lucky, a heart that was hanging high finally returned to its original place happily, and the tears kept flowing.
The two stood in this lounge, looking at each other only across a desk. But there is more than just a desk between them, there are more than ten years of separation. The person opposite is so familiar, but also strange.
"Brother..." Lu Rong murmured.
The voice was very small, but Shen Jize could hear it clearly.
The sound of "brother" made countless pictures appear in front of his eyes.
Back then, that child was crying and crying that you didn’t want me anymore, and she stuck to his arms coquettishly and asked for candy, and smiled and splashed him with water, saying it was a nail polish...
brother, brother, brother...
Those voices lingered in my mind, and the child's face gradually merged with the big boy on the opposite side, looking at him with infinite attachment with a pair of big eyes filled with tears.
"Furry." Shen Jize also responded softly.
He crossed the desk and walked quickly towards Lu Rong, with uncontrollable excitement on his face. But a few steps away, he suddenly stopped.
Lu Rong also stood up at this moment. When Shen Jize stopped in front of him, he rushed over impatiently, and plunged into that firm embrace like a bird throwing itself into the forest.
"Brother... woo... brother." Lu Rong hung his hands tightly around Shen Jize's neck, desperately burrowing into his arms. But he felt that it was not close enough, so he pressed his face against his neck and wiped away his tears.
After so many years of searching and anticipation finally came to fruition, he felt as if his heart was going to explode with happiness, but he was so sad.
Shen Jize's usual calm expression also collapsed. He raised his head, closed his eyes, and hugged the person in his arms tightly.
Since he stood up in a gaffe, Xiao Chu didn't make any sound. At this moment, he retreated to the wall calmly, pressed himself against the wall, and breathed as lightly as possible, like a portrait with no sense of existence.
"You promised to come to see me during the winter vacation, why didn't you come? I've been waiting for you for a long, long, long time... You are too bad, you are really bad... I didn't mean not to answer your call, our village was destroyed, The phone is gone... why didn't you keep your promise to see me..."
Lu Rong cried and complained, but his arms were still around Shen Jize's neck.
Shen Jize buried his face in the top of his hair, and whispered softly: "Rongrong, Rongrong, Rongrong..."
There was a bit of choking in her voice.
"...But I still want to find my brother, and I'm looking for you. Although you are so bad, I still want to find my brother..."
Lu Rong cried and kissed him on the neck again.
"You said that I am not trash, you will definitely come to pick me up, and you will never leave. You also said that I have a husband named Shen Jize, and I will be with him when I grow up... You lied to me..."
Lu Rong sobbed and complained, and just after kissing his neck, he suddenly opened his mouth and bit Shen Jize's shoulder.
Shen Jize's body trembled slightly, but he didn't dodge, nor pushed Lu Rong away, but hugged him even tighter with red eyes.
"Furry, Furry, Furry..." He seemed to be able to utter only this one word, but his voice trembled.
"I hate you..." Lu Rong let go of his mouth, then stretched out his hand to push off his collar, looking at the tooth marks with blurred eyes.
There are a few fine tooth marks on the light brown skin, neither deep nor broken. He stroked the mark lightly with his fingers, but Shen Jize grabbed it and said in a hoarse voice, "Bite, it doesn't hurt, keep biting."
Xiao Chu turned around with the slowest movement, facing the wall, like a hanging portrait turned upside down.
Shen Jize patted Lu Rong's back, and comforted him softly with the deep and magnetic voice of an adult man. Lu Rong's excited emotions finally calmed down, she stopped crying, just leaned on his shoulder, hiccupping occasionally.
"Rongrong, let go of me first, can my brother get you a tissue?" Shen Jize asked softly.
But Lu Rong tightened the arms around his waist, said in a low voice, "Not good." She also rubbed against his shoulder, "I'll use this to wipe."
After speaking, he switched to leaning his head on his right shoulder: "It's wet over there."
Shen Jize chuckled twice, Lu Rong's ears were pressed against his chest, and suddenly he raised his head to stare at his face.
"What's wrong?" Shen Jize asked.
Lu Rong said: "Brother, you have become very strange."
"Why am I so strange?"
"As you grow up, your voice changes. It feels weird to be talking to me like a stranger."
Tears were still hanging on Lu Rong's face, his eyes were red and swollen, but he burst out laughing.
"But you haven't changed at all." Shen Jize said.
Lu Rong asked excitedly: "Really? Has it not changed at all?"
Shen Jize said: "You're still so weak, you cry every now and then, crying like a rabbit."
Lu Rong suddenly felt a little embarrassed, twisted his body, and said, "Actually, I haven't cried for a long time."
—I haven’t cried a lot since that winter vacation.
He said this silently in his heart.
The two hugged quietly like this, without saying a word, but they could both feel the joy of the other party's loss and recovery.
The rain outside did not know when it had stopped, and the clouds parted and the sun rose.
Lu Rong was bathed in the soft sunlight, half-closed his swollen eyes, enjoying the peace brought by Shen Jize's embrace.
His hair was also brown in the sunlight, a little messy, but soft. Shen Jize looked down, and suddenly wanted to kiss it.
This is the boy he has been longing for, the deepest obsession in his growing years, the missing piece in the gap in his heart.
Now the boy leans meekly in his arms, and tells him with a gesture of attachment and trust, whether it was before or now, I am all yours.
Shen Jize slowly lowered his head, and when his lips were about to touch the hair, he suddenly stopped again.
—Have you forgotten what others said to you when you went to find him that year
The sound was like a ladle of cold water pouring down from the top of his head, calming down his feverish heart and body.
While he was in a daze, a series of loud bangs sounded from the wall.
Xiao Chu frantically helped up the vase he had bumped into, and explained awkwardly to Shen Jize who looked over: "My feet are numb, I wanted to change my standing posture, and I accidentally bumped into it. I was really careless."
Shen Jize hugged Lu Rong without moving or speaking, just looking at Xiao Chu like that.
Xiao Chu felt chills all over from that gaze, and felt that the so-called murderous gaze was nothing more than that.
It wasn't until Shen Jize squinted his eyes and glanced at the door that he realized that he hurriedly walked to the door: "I'm going out, I'm going out now."
The door slammed, and the room fell silent. Shen Jize looked down at Lu Rong who was still in his arms, wiped off the sweat from his forehead with his hands, and said, "Rongrong, go sit on the sofa, and I'll pour you a glass of water."
Lu Rong was soothed by his habitual action, licked his dry lips, finally let go, and sat down on the sofa.
Shen Jize went to pour water from the water dispenser next to him, Lu Rong stared at his back, but looked away the moment he turned around with the water.
Just now, with the courage to ignore him, he rushed up to hug and kiss people, only now did he realize that Shen Jize already has broad shoulders and a mature face, and is no longer the little brother who was so close to him back then appearance.
He was suddenly a little nervous and a little shy, his eyes drifted around, but he didn't look at the person who was walking towards him.
Shen Jize put the water glass on the coffee table in front of him, saw that his knees were close together and turned his head to look aside, then took the water around the coffee table, sat down beside him, took his hand on his knee, and put the water glass on the his palm.
Lu Rong still looked at the side, just passed the water glass to his mouth, Gululu drank it clean.
"Do you still want to drink?" Shen Jize looked at him for a moment and asked softly.
"Stop drinking." Lu Rong's voice was as low as a kitten's.
Shen Jize stared at him for two seconds, then suddenly laughed.
Hearing the laughter, Lu Rong quickly cleared his throat, increased the volume and replied again: "I won't drink."
Shen Jize took the empty water glass from his palm and said, "Are you tired? If you are tired, go to the next room and lie down for a while, if you are not tired, follow me home."
go home
Lu Rong's ears perked up, and he turned his head and said straightforwardly: "I'm not tired, you can go home."
When he saw the smile in Shen Jize's eyes again, he slowed down his voice to make amends: "I'm really not tired." Then he pretended to decline, "I can go back to where I live."
Shen Jize raised his right hand, as if wanting to touch his head, he stretched it out in the air, then stopped suddenly, put it down, and said: "Then you have a rest, it's getting late, let's go out to have lunch before go back."
As soon as the words were finished, a childish voice sounded in the room.
"Who is looking for me? Who is looking for me, a cute little baby?"
Shen Jize was taken aback, looking around, but saw Lu Rong suddenly get up and rush out, grabbed the backpack that was still on the chair, and took out a mobile phone from it.
"Who's looking for me? Who's looking for this lovely—"
"Hey, brother Guang, I'm off today. I'm not in the store, so I can't change shifts with you. Well, I'm sorry, you can find someone else."
After talking on the phone with his colleague Ah Guang, Lu Rong turned around and saw Shen Jize looking at him with a half-smile, so he explained in a murmur, "It's my colleague in the store, asking if I can change shifts."
Shen Jize nodded: "I know."
After speaking, he got up and strode to the bathroom.
Lu Rong didn't quite understand his strange expression, and sat down on the sofa with some anxiety, listening to the sound of water rushing from the bathroom.
After a while, Shen Jize came out with a wet towel and said, "Lie down."
Although he didn't know what he was going to do, Lu Rong obediently lay down, with his head flat on the sofa, his hands next to his sides, and looked at Shen Jize with red and swollen eyes.
Shen Jize stepped forward, leaned over and hugged him up, put a soft cushion under his head, folded the towel into long strips, and covered his eyelids.
Lu Rong didn't move during this process, but blinked when the cold towel fell.
In the dark, he smelled a light fragrance from Shen Jize's movements, which was clear and long-lasting, and he couldn't help sniffling.
"When you put this on, your eyes will be much more comfortable."
Lu Rong hummed.
The room was quiet again, and the footsteps of someone passing by could be heard outside the door. After a while, Lu Rong didn't hear Shen Jize's movement, and couldn't help calling softly, "Brother."
"I'm here, you rest first." Shen Jize's voice sounded very close.
Shen Jize sat on the edge of the sofa, staring at the empty water glass on the coffee table, and felt a hand gently grasping the hem of his jacket.
Lu Rong breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to lie down, only pursing her lips, two dimples flashed on her cheeks.
The anxiety that has been in these days is finally relaxed. He is now lying next to Shen Jize, holding his clothes in his hands. The air is full of his good smell, and he feels like his whole body is soaked in warm hot water. There is a sense of comfort and security.
He yawned a little, his exhaustion surged up like a tide, and he fell asleep unconsciously.
Hearing that the breathing of the person on the sofa became soft and long, Shen Jize turned around, watched him quietly, and traced the outline of his facial features bit by bit with his eyes.
After looking at it like this for a long time, he gently loosened Lu Rong's fingers that were holding onto the hem of his clothes, and went to the cabinet to take out a small blanket and put it on for him.
Lu Rong slept deeply, a few strands of forehead hair fell down, and the ends of the hair were hidden in the towel. Shen Jize leaned down, carefully pulled out the strands of hair, and pushed them aside.
He continued to stare at Lu Rong, comparing in his mind with his appearance when he was a child.
She lightly touched the white earlobe with her fingers, and then opened her hand to hang over his face, feeling that his face was about the size of her palm.
The corners of Shen Jize's lips curled into a faint and gentle smile. It wasn't until there was a wet feeling on the shoulders that he realized that there was a big wet area there, and he got up and took off his coat.
Inside the jacket was a black short-sleeved T-shirt, which was also slightly soaked with water stains by the jacket. He stared at the dark mass, his expression suddenly a little dazed.
He remembered all the words that Lu Rong said, even deeper than Lu Rong.
But…
The coat in his hand buzzed and vibrated, Shen Jize glanced at Lu Rong quickly, seeing that he was still in a deep sleep, he quickly took out his phone and walked to the bathroom, closing the door behind him.
"Hey."
"Ze'er, I found the boy's movements in the video. Let me tell you, he is your wild brother in the mountains." Xiao Yong's excited voice came from the microphone.
Shen Jize looked at himself in the mirror, wiped his forehead hair back, and said flatly, "I see."
Xiao Yong: "... why aren't you excited?"
Shen Jize: "He's here with me now."
Xiao Yong: "...then if you don't tell me, I'll find someone to search everywhere."
Shen Jize thought for a while: "I haven't had time to ask about his recent situation, have you found out?"
Xiao Yong said: "He arrived in Beijing more than half a month ago. He works as a waiter in a coffee shop. He usually stays in the coffee shop and only goes out when he is resting. According to his whereabouts report, I guess he has been there for a while. Looking for you."
Shen Jize lowered his head, looked at his right hand resting on the sink, and said hoarsely, "I see."
Xiao Yong heard his tone and asked, "What are you going to do?"
After a moment of silence, Shen Jize didn't answer the question, but said in a low voice, "Thank you this time."
"Hey, what are you talking about, why are you being so polite to me?" Xiao Yong didn't ask any more questions, and said something else, and then hung up the phone.
Shen Jize pushed open the bathroom door, and as soon as he came out, he saw that Lu Rong had already woken up, with messy hair on his head, and looked at him in a daze with his still red and swollen eyes.
Those eyes were dazed at first, and then they woke up, bursting with intense joy, brighter than the sunlight outside the window.
Shen Jize couldn't help but also smiled, and silently answered Xiao Yong's question in his heart.
"No matter what he thinks I am, I will take care of him until he no longer needs me."