When Zhuo Xiangming arrived, Tong Yan was no longer crying. He and Tong Yang were sitting across from each other in a hot pot. Formed into some very small pieces floating on top.
Tong Yan held her schoolbag in her arms and lowered her head. Tong Yang was watching with a mobile phone in his hand, but the screen was dark.
Both of them were extremely dejected, and this was what Zhuo Xiangming saw when he was led by the waiter.
He called out, "Tongtong."
Tong Yan raised his head immediately, and Tong Yang did the same. Zhuo Xiangming walked to the table, put his hand on Tong Yan's shoulder, and said to Tong Yang, "Then I'll take him back first?"
Tong Yang looked away, straightened his clothes a few times, and said, "Well, you guys go back."
"Let's go." Zhuo Xiangming lightly pressed Tong Yan's shoulder, "Give me the schoolbag."
Tong Yan whispered, "I'll take it myself."
He still spoke with a nasal voice, and his thin eyelids were also red.
Zhuo Xiangming took the schoolbag from him, and the two walked out one after the other for a while, Zhuo Xiangming suddenly said, "You didn't say goodbye to your brother."
Tong Yan stood still, straightened his back, didn't say anything, and didn't look at anyone.
They were already a little far away from Tong Yang, Zhuo Xiangming looked at Tong Yan's stern face, wanted to laugh, but felt sorry for him, he lowered his head and said, "You can only leave after saying goodbye."
Moisture gathered in Tong Yan's eyes again, and he stared at him: "I don't."
The boy was tall and thin, and he wore a white shirt under his school uniform. He had red lips, white teeth, bright and round eyes, and his black hair was fluffy and fluffy on the top of his head. He also looked cute when he was angry, like a daffodil flower in bud.
Zhuo Xiangming hung his schoolbag in the crook of his arm, grabbed Tong Yan's back and exerted some strength, then hugged him loosely in his arms, and said in Tong Yan's ear, "Be obedient, huh?"
Tong Yan took a few deep breaths: "I hate him."
"Nonsense." Zhuo Xiangming hugged him quietly for a while, and patted his back, "Okay, okay, go say goodbye and let's go home."
Tong Yan's arms were hanging by his sides, and he leaned forward straight, his eyes pressed against Zhuo Xiangming's shoulder sockets, and after a while, he said, "You let me go."
Zhuo Xiangming said: "I let you go."
Tong Yang was still sitting in that booth, and Tong Yan saw him as soon as he turned around, with a cold pot in front of him, he was sitting there alone, in the same posture as when the two of them left just now.
"Brother." Tong Yan stopped two steps away from him, "I'm leaving."
Tong Yang didn't expect him to go back and forth, the frustration on his face was fully displayed, and he put on an ugly smile in panic: "Okay, okay, be careful on the road and pay attention to safety."
Tong Yan felt that he wanted to cry again, but he finally held back and said "goodbye" to Tong Yang.
Zhuo Xiangming went to settle the bill first, and this time Tong Yang followed them downstairs, watching Tong Yan get into Zhuo Xiangming's car, Zhuo Xiangming did not leave for a long time, after a while, he turned around in the passenger seat He lowered his waist and said, "I'll pick you up when my brother finishes his work, and go to school well. It's cold, so put on more clothes."
It was completely dark, and Tong Yang couldn't show a happy expression when he said this, and the neon lights behind him made him a little embarrassed.
Tong Yan nodded at him, Zhuo Xiangming lit the fire but did not leave, saying: "They have a sports meeting this weekend, and Tong Yan signed up for the 4x100 relay race."
"Ah, oh." Tong Yang was taken aback, "Come on."
Tong Yan said: "Okay."
The two brothers chatted awkwardly, but Zhuo Xiangming seemed to be exhausted here, so he still didn't leave, and said: "In the quiz last Friday, he got the first place in the class and the second place in the grade. point."
Tong Yang looked at Zhuo Xiangming, then at Tong Yan, and scratched the back of his head: "The exam is so good, why didn't you tell me?"
Tong Yan didn't speak, and Tong Yang also looked at a loss.
Finally, he took out his wallet from his pocket, took out a wad of cash and stuffed it into Tong Yan's arms: "Buy what you want." After that, he drew another card and put it in Tong Yan's hand, and added, "Two days ago The card I gave you has also been paid, look at the flowers, don’t save, if you don’t have enough, just tell me.”
Tong Yan remembered that he had received a transfer message two days ago, and it seemed to be sent at two or three o'clock in the middle of the night.
"Why did you make money at that time?"
Tong Yang himself can't remember: "What time?"
Tong Yan looked at the phone: "Two forty-eight."
"That may be overtime." Tong Yang said.
"I've been working overtime lately." He tentatively smiled at Tong Yan, lowered his head and lightly tapped Zhuo Xiangming's front tire with the tip of his shoe: "Day and night have been reversed, and I always want to call you sometime, But I forgot after a while, either the time was wrong, or I fell asleep by myself... Brother did something wrong, I'm sorry."
He didn't say sorry to Tong Yan very much, and he didn't even seem to have apologized a little more bluntly. At this time, he said it, and it was Tong Yan who felt the most uncomfortable.
"No... no, actually I did something wrong too..." Tong Yan grabbed Tong Yang's hand on the car window, with teary eyes, "Brother..." He looked at his watch again, hesitatingly said: " It's seven o'clock now, or..."
As if he didn't hear him muttering, Zhuo Xiangming suddenly shifted the gear two or three times and said, "It's getting late, let's go first, Tong Yang, please slow down on the road."
Tong Yang responded with a nanny, and as soon as he took his hand away, Zhuo Xiangming's car reversed and turned around without stopping.
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Tong Yan held a handful of money in his hand and received it in his wallet together with the card. Zhuo Xiangming handed him some banana milk. Tong Yan said, "Thank you."
Zhuo Xiangming hummed, and after a while, Tong Yan said again: "Thank you brother."
This time Zhuo Xiangming understood what he was thanking, and said with a smile, "You are welcome."
Tong Yan said in distress: "I'm too bad."
Zhuo Xiangming said: "Why do you say that?"
Tong Yan said: "I was thinking, why can't I be considerate of Tong Yang like you? If I would take the initiative to tell him about me like you, there would be no quarrel tonight. He managed to spare time , but I quarreled with him."
Zhuo Xiangming thought for a while and said, "You may be wrong. Do you think that what I did just now is because I know and agree with Tong Yang?"
Tong Yan turned to look at him: "Isn't it? At that time I didn't give him a chance to say this, so I lost my temper. I asked him why he didn't care about me, said a lot of excessive things, and then said that he would go back."
Holding the banana milk and taking a few sips, Tong Yan looked very regretful and blamed himself, and said again: "If I could be like you, I wouldn't quarrel."
"Because you looked sad at the time." Zhuo Xiangming said, "Because I know that if you go back to me in that state, you may not be able to sleep well tonight, and you may not see Tong Yang in the future." For a few days, you will keep thinking about this matter over and over again, and if you don’t face and solve this problem, you may still cry secretly, more than once.”
"First you tell yourself it's no big deal, but obviously you can't help but take it seriously, and then you start to wonder, was it too much? Was it too aggressive with Tong Yang? Then you start to blame yourself, But when the other party is not in front of you, you can't apologize."
Encountering a red light, Zhuo Xiangming turned sideways to help Tong Yan fasten the seat belt that he had forgotten just now, and said: "From believing that the other party is too much to suspecting that he is too much, this is a very complicated and uncomfortable process." He looked at Tong Yan's Eyes: "I don't want to make you feel so uncomfortable."
Tong Yan also looked at Zhuo Xiangming—they were so close, he couldn't help but look at him, Zhuo Xiangming's eyes were very gentle, making Tong Yan feel like a treasure worthy of being cherished: "I let you Didn't you go to say goodbye to him and pass him a message because I agree with him-I can't understand him and want to hear the truth? When you called me crying and heard him attacking you over there, I was out of my mind Li just wanted to beat him up. But I "helped you" to denounce Tong Yang together, and we "won" this quarrel, which will not really make you happy. Your problems must be solved, and I don't want to let You are suffering."
Hearing "beat him up", Tong Yan was stunned for a moment, he looked at Zhuo Xiangming, and found that his expression was still the same, upright and serious - Tong Yan didn't want anyone to beat Tong Yang, but Zhuo Xiangming said It is indeed very abnormal to say such words, and it makes people want to laugh.
After the red light passed, Zhuo Xiangming held the steering wheel with one hand, and tapped Tong Yan's wrist with the other hand, signaling him to continue drinking the milk: "It will take a while to eat."
"When you grow up, you will find that no matter what conflicts will disappear, whether you choose to face them now or let time wear them down, they will always disappear. But there is no shortcut in the world , if you give this work to time, it will solve it for you and at the same time give you back the pain.”
Tong Yan asked: "So, no matter what the problem is, do I have to face it right away?"
Zhuo Xiangming said: "When you feel pain. Tongtong, don't let these things torture yourself too much."
After thinking about it, Tong Yan said: "But I'm still wrong, I really didn't give him time to explain."
Zhuo Xiangming said: "Why are you wrong? I told Tong Yang just now, but you can tell it yourself, why didn't you? Because you want him to ask you, right?"
After a pause, Zhuo Xiangming said, "Obviously I can talk about many things, but I just feel that if the other party asks first, the meaning will be different, right?"
Tong Yan nodded with red eyes: "Sometimes I feel confused, thinking that I am right, but it seems that I am wrong... because I don't think as clearly as my brother, and I don't know how to explain these principles."
Zhuo Xiangming lightly said: "Because you are growing up for the first time, you have no experience. This is the responsibility of the elders, so that children will not suffer from torture when they grow up."
Growing up for the first time, Tong Yan heard this theory for the first time. Zhuo Xiangming is really powerful, he can speak out many reasons, and he can make Tong Yan stand on the side of reason at any time.
Not only can he make Tong Yan justified, but he can also make Tong Yan justified without being tortured.
Now Tong Yang apologized to him, and he didn't feel bad anymore. Tong Yan thought again: Zhuo Xiangming is really amazing. He's such a nice guy, why is he celibate
This question came out of nowhere, it was almost random, but Tong Yan started to think repeatedly: Why is he a celibate
The car stopped, but it wasn't Zhuo Xiangming's house.
He leaned over to help Tong Yan unbuckle his seat belt, and said with a smile: "Eat hot pot."
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