On Thursday afternoon, after school, Tong Yan was waiting for Zhuo Xiangming at the school gate.
They had contacted twenty minutes ago, and Zhuo Xiangming said that he would be a little late, and asked Tong Yan to wait for him at the milk tea shop in front of the school.
But this point was when there was a long queue at the milk tea shop. Tong Yan held his schoolbag in one hand and a lollipop in his mouth, and stood at the door of the guard room listening to songs and waiting.
A car honked its horn not far away, and Tong Yan saw that it was Tong Yang.
"Tongtong." Tong Yang called him.
"Brother!" Tong Yan ran over, "Why are you here?"
"There's no one at home this weekend, you'll stay with Zhuo Xiangming for two days." Tong Yang leaned forward and opened the passenger door, "I'll take you to eat something today."
Tong Yan got into the car, surprised and delighted: "Will you pick me up today?"
Tong Yang said, "Well, what do you want to eat?"
"hot pot!"
Last week, I went to District 21 with Chai Manman and the others but failed to eat, Tong Yan has been thinking about it.
Tong Yang said: "Okay, let's go to the hot pot."
Tong Yan sat crookedly, still agitated, the earphone cables in his hand were twisted into a pile and couldn't be untied, Tong Yang said: "Fasten your seat belt."
Tong Yan quickly agreed: "Oh, I forgot."
With candy in his mouth, he asked vaguely: "Just now I told brother Ming that he would be late, did something happen so he didn't come?"
"Huh?" Tong Yang said, "Zhuo Xiangming picks you up?"
Tong Yan said: "That's right."
Tong Yang said: "He picks you up personally every day?"
Tong Yan: "Ah..."
"So free..." Tong Yang said hurriedly, "I was just about to tell you to call the driver who picked you up, so hurry up."
As he spoke, he dialed Zhuo Xiangming's number with his mobile phone.
Tong Yan became anxious: "Didn't you tell him? I just said that he said he was on the way just now, why didn't he come again..."
When the phone was connected, Zhuo Xiangming said, "Tong Yang?"
Tong Yan said: "Brother, are you on the way?"
"It's almost there, there are still two intersections." After a pause, probably looking at the caller ID, Zhuo Xiangming said, "Are you with Tong Yang?"
Tong Yan was even more anxious: "Tong Yang came to pick me up, he didn't know you would come, I..."
Zhuo Xiangming said: "Did you go with him?"
Looking at the passing street scene outside the window, Tong Yan could only hum.
"Okay." After a brief pause, Zhuo Xiangming said, "I see."
Tong Yan said: "I'm sorry brother, Tong Yang didn't know that you picked me up, I... we're going to eat, you can come too, okay?"
Tong Yang raised his eyebrows and glanced at him, Tong Yan didn't respond, and was still apologizing to Zhuo Xiangming: "I didn't expect this to happen, I'm sorry."
Zhuo Xiangming comforted him at the other end: "It's okay, I turned around and went back. It only took ten minutes, and it didn't go too far."
Tong Yan whispered: "Then you eat by yourself?"
Zhuo Xiangming hummed.
Tong Yang coughed again, but Tong Yan ignored him.
He felt that he had done something wrong, but it seemed nothing. Zhuo Xiangming was angry or not. Still have to go to school."
"Good! Good!" Tong Yan wished that Zhuo Xiangming would set some rules for him now, so that he would feel less guilty, "What time should I go back?"
Zhuo Xiangming didn't know what Tong Yang took him for, thought for a while, and said, "Before eleven o'clock."
Tong Yan immediately agreed: "Okay!"
Before hanging up the phone, Zhuo Xiangming said to Tong Yang, "Don't let him eat too much spicy food. He has been coughing for the past two days, and he may have caught a cold."
Tong Yang said: "Well, I will remember."
The phone hung up, Tong Yan was languid for a while, and Tong Yang kept sending messages to people while driving the car.
At the hot pot restaurant, Tong Yan's spirit came again. But Tong Yang refused to let him order abnormal spicy food, and asked for three delicacies. Tong Yan was so angry that he stopped eating, the two saw each other, and finally ordered medium spicy food.
"Is it easy for me?" The dishes came quickly, Tong Yang swiped his phone and waited for the pot to open, "I'll tell you that your cough got worse when I go back tonight, and I didn't bring it well."
Tong Yan was still not very satisfied: "It doesn't affect at all if you eat that little chili."
Tong Yang said in a strange tone: "Okay, can I be your master now?"
Tong Yan said: "I am my own master."
Tong Yang said: "Who knows..."
Tong Yan glared at him: "Why are you acting weird?"
Tong Yang said: "Am I eccentric?"
Tong Yan said: "Are you not yin and yang?"
The red oil pot was boiled, and Tong Yang ordered fat beef and frozen tofu first, and changed the topic: "What you like to eat."
Tong Yan didn't speak, and after a while, he asked: "Why do you say that you don't give me spicy food because you are afraid that Zhuo Xiangming will say that you didn't bring it well?"
Tong Yan's face was tense, and he held the chopsticks tightly with both hands. Tong Yang adjusted the fire and said, "Why? Otherwise, didn't he say, don't give you too spicy food?"
Tong Yan said: "Then didn't you hear him say I had a cough?"
"What's wrong?" Tong Yang picked up a chopstick of meat and put it on his plate, "Is it serious?"
Tong Yan put down his chopsticks, lowered his eyes not to look at the meat he picked up, put his hands under the table, and sat still.
After waiting for a while, Tong Yang frowned and said, "What are you awkward about?"
Tong Yan still didn't speak.
Tong Yang was most worried about him, and sighed: "Master, why did I provoke you again?"
He let out a long hey again: "I came here after pushing for two dinner parties, I apologize to you, I shouldn't be eccentric, don't be angry, eat, okay?"
Tong Yan said: "Do you think I am making trouble for no reason?"
Tong Yang said, "No."
He picked up two more chopsticks for Tong Yan, and the plate was full: "Eat quickly, there is so much oil, it's too cold to eat."
Tong Yan raised her head: "Why didn't you ask me about my cough?"
"Still talking about this?" Tong Yang said helplessly, "Can I care now? Brother Tong Yan, is your cough serious? I'll take you to the hospital?"
Because no one was eating, there was too much cooking in the pot, and it made a gurgling sound soon.
Tong Yan grabbed the leather sofa and asked softly: "Why didn't you ask me about the news? It's been six days from Saturday to today, and you haven't called me, neither has Dad. Why? My classmate's My mother knows that my classmate said that her mother was worried that I didn't want to go to school because of this, why didn't you ask me?"
Tong Yang's expression had not had time to change, his brows were slightly frowned, and he looked a little impatient because of Tong Yan's stubbornness. At this moment, he froze, opened his mouth a little, and said ah twice, but didn't say a word.
"You came here today, I thought it was because of that, but no, you've been texting people, if it wasn't for telling me not to go home this weekend, would you still be here?"
Tong Yan didn't want to cry, but the tears just flowed out, one after another, he felt embarrassed and ashamed, but he didn't wipe it, just looked at Tong Yang like that.
Tong Yang said: "I...Because I've been very busy recently, you know, my brother is short of people, very busy... I thought, because you are with Zhuo Xiangming, I can rest assured him...Tong Tong..."
He reached out to wipe Tong Yan's tears, but Tong Yan turned his head away.
"Dad...he's been abroad this week, and he probably won't be back until three or four days later." Seeing Tong Yan's tearful eyes, Tong Yang spoke with difficulty.
When Tong Yan was a little over four years old, his mother fell ill and passed away. At that time, Tong Yang was thirteen years old, and the responsibility of taking care of his younger brother fell on him.
The child had no awareness of death. The most direct impact on Tong Yan at that time was that he no longer had the pheromone that brought a sense of security in his life. Tong Yang remembered that Tong Yan would always cry during that time, Out of breath, sleep tired from crying, wake up and continue to cry.
But after he got used to it, he became very sensible, he didn't cry or fuss, he could eat by himself, and he wouldn't get himself dirty like other kids.
Tong Yang prefers this younger brother most of the time, but because Tong Yan is too young, he can't play some games played by big boys with him, and other partners will dislike Tong Yan as a hindrance, so he has no choice but to go out She locked Tong Yan at home before and told him: "You stay at home obediently for two hours, and brother will sleep with you at night."
Tong Yan with a round face and round eyes looked up at him, grabbed the hem of his clothes with her soft hands, and nodded vigorously: "Brother, come back quickly."
Tong Yang emphasized to him: "It will take two hours."
Tong Yan probably didn't understand for two hours. After Tong Yang locked the door, he ran to the window and waved at Tong Yang: "Brother, brother! Come back soon!"
The boy is always playful. He stayed outside from noon until dark. When he came home, he didn’t know how many hours had passed. All the servants who came to cook had gone home. Tong Yan behind the door was sitting there with his hands hidden between his belly and legs, his eyes were bright and dark, he looked at him pitifully, and asked him: "Brother, why don't you go home? I'm very scared. "
Why don't you ask me about my cough? Why didn't you ask me about the news? why don't you go home
Tong Yan hadn't cried in front of him for a long time, some childhood fragments flashed in his mind, Tong Yang was speechless and speechless.
Tong Yang reached out to wipe Tong Yan's tears again, but this time Tong Yan didn't hide, Tong Yang's palms were wet and he hadn't wiped them clean.
"Eat quickly." Tong Yang said.
Tong Yan shook his head: "I don't want to eat."
He spoke in a low voice, still a little hoarse, but at such a distance, it was enough for Tong Yang to hear clearly: "What?"
"I won't eat." Tong Yan said, "I'm going back."
Tong Yang became angry again: "Can we have the Tong Yan? What happened to you today?" He stood up and sat down again, the pot was so hot that Tong Yang simply turned off the fire, "Didn't I explain it to you? Still angry?"
Tong Yan felt that he wasn't very angry, but he didn't want to stay with Tong Yang anymore, just like he was very hungry now, but it made sense that he still didn't want to eat the pot of boiled food.
"You take me back." He took his schoolbag and walked out, but was grabbed by Tong Yang.
"Where are you going?"
Tong Yan said: "Zhuo Xiangming's family."
"It's Zhuo Xiangming now?" Tong Yang suddenly sneered, "Didn't brother and brother call you very fluently just now? I know, you kiss him, and I can't take it when he tells you indifferently. Not to mention letting people walk around for more than ten minutes and eating alone, don’t you feel particularly unbearable? What am I? I’m such a cheap ass with a hot face and a cold ass!”
Tong Yan trembled when he heard that cheap word, his eyes were red again, he didn't want to say a word to Tong Yang anymore, the hand that was not held by Tong Yang threw away his schoolbag, took out his mobile phone and called Zhuo Xiangming Telephone.
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