Pei Zhuo didn't go to the evening dinner.
After waking up, he felt much better. After the meeting, he stayed in the office to approve the test papers for two hours. Before returning home, he put a box of yogurt on Lu Lin's desk.
Teacher Wen, who teaches mathematics in the second class, just celebrated his birthday, and urged everyone to eat roast duck together, saying that he had booked a good seat at the Hongbin Building on Wanwanzhuang Avenue.
It wasn't until Lu Lin entered the private room that he remembered that Mr. Huo Luhuo is the head teacher of the second class.
He paused in his footsteps, the strange feeling in his heart surged up and was pressed down again, and he suddenly wanted to find an excuse to leave directly.
"Brother Lu is here, come in and have a seat!" The teacher next to him greeted, "The braised oxtail in this shop is amazing. Let me tell you, last time I brought my wife here..."
Lu Lin sat next to Xiao Huang, and glanced at the other people in the room.
Huo Lu was not tall, and he looked even petite sitting among the male teachers, and he smiled heartily.
Lu Lin took out his phone and replied to his parents' WeChat messages, and continued to listen to their chat.
"Later when we proposed, we went to Mei's Mansion. I heard that Mei Lanfang's son Mei Baojiu bought the private house from Lord Baylor." The teacher said with a happy face, "The money was well spent."
"How about the food?" Huo Lu asked curiously, "Could it be possible to eat swan meat?"
"Then how can you care about the food?" Another teacher said with a smile: "He paced back and forth in the office when he was going to work on the day he proposed, and asked us several times nervously if we would ask another day."
While chatting and laughing, delicacies were presented one after another, and everyone clinked glasses and drank a sip of wine before feasting. They are acquaintances and there is no restraint.
Lu Lin had no appetite and ate very cautiously.
Teacher Wen next to him was also a little nervous, and knocked over the goblet with his hand.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he hurriedly stood up and looked for a paper towel to help Lu Lin wipe his sleeves. The waiter didn't have time to get the paper after serving the food.
Hearing this, Huo Lu opened his handbag, took out a tissue and threw it to Lu Lin: "Here."
Lu Lin took the tissue and said thank you, sat down after drying it, and returned the tissue.
This time and again, Huo Lu opened the handbag twice, and the sharp-eyed female teacher next to her saw the small photo inside: "Mr. Huo, you are hiding a little lover and don't tell us."
"What little lover?" Teacher Huang was so busy gnawing on the tail of the ox that his chin was covered with chopped green onion: "Ms. Huo is in love?"
The female teacher blinked narrowly: "I was wrong, no."
Huo Lu frankly opened his handbag, and took out the group photo that looked like a small card.
On the day Pei Zhuo graduated from university, she specially took her parents to the university to celebrate with him, and the group photo of the four of them was in the mezzanine.
After all, my father is an entrepreneur and my mother works in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, so it is known that it is easy to attract right and wrong.
As soon as the group photo was taken out, there were thunderous cheers in the private room.
Teacher Wen scooped up a bowl of soup for Teacher Wen and said with a smile, "Is this a successful strategy?"
Huo Lu looked at them both happily: "What do you think?"
Lu Lin was drinking cold beer with his head down, and Xiao Huang dragged him to look at the group photo of the two of them: "Look at you, Mr. Pei is quite young wearing a doctor's hat, and he looks handsome like this."
"When did Teacher Pei lose his handsomeness?" the female teacher joked, "Ban Lu should call him over for dinner. The young couple just happened to be sitting together."
Huo Lu suppressed a smile and sipped his wine.
"Little couple?" The language team leader knocked on the table: "Don't talk nonsense, Xiao Huo is going to get married, this kind of joke is not allowed in the future."
The old lady looked a lot like Siqin Gaowa, she raised her eyebrows calmly and prestige.
Her qualifications in the school are very old, and several teachers have been taught by her for three years, and everyone usually likes her very much.
"Teacher Peng," Xiao Huang said curiously, "Look at this photo..."
Lu Lin was already thinking of an excuse to go back early.
"What's wrong with the photos? The two of them grew up together. If you really want to look through them, I can give you hundreds of photos." The old lady squinted her eyes and said, "This is her brother, dear."
The dozen or so people in the private room were dumbfounded.
"elder brother?"
"Brother?"
"It doesn't look like it at all," a teacher next to him whispered, "Teacher Pei looks like a male model..."
Huo Lu said truthfully: "I follow my father."
At this moment, Lu Lin felt that his blood stopped flowing for a few seconds.
"You and Mr. Pei... Are you brother and sister?" He asked.
"Ang, if my QQ space hadn't been closed, you would have found a lot of photos." Huo Lu looked at him with a smile: "My brother was very good-looking when he was young. When he was in junior high school and high school, scouts kept looking for him. He didn't go."
Lu Lin could hear every word very clearly, the more she spoke, the hotter his chest felt.
It turned out to be like this.
how could this be
He was suddenly glad that Pei Zhuo didn't hear clearly the words on the road that day, he was reckless and crossed the line, and he was still saying something that was not safe.
He wanted to raise his lips and smile, considering the presence of other teachers, he didn't dare to show the relief in his heart.
Lu Lin didn't remember how the second half of the meal ended. After everyone dispersed, he drove home. The green light was unobstructed along the way, as if he knew that he was in a good mood now.
When he got home, the man hummed a ditty and cleaned the coffee cup, wiped all the windows of the table with the background sound of the TV drama upstairs, sat on the sofa and turned on his cell phone.
He clicked on WeChat to chat with Pei Zhuo about something, but the conversation stopped three days ago, and at the end was Pei Zhuofa's bunny emoji.
Lu Lin stared at Pei Zhuo's head, and his breathing gradually slowed down.
He obviously couldn't see the other party, but he still waited for a long time before slowly opening the big picture of the avatar.
It was a selfie taken by Mr. Pei when he was younger, with a young and gentle smile and long eyelashes.
In the photo, the long finger stroking the side of the lips is slightly curled up, which is very seductive.
Lu Lin even relaxed his heartbeat before carefully saving this photo.
He looked at it for a long time, and suddenly felt sour again.
Although he deliberately ignored it for a long time, there are some things that cannot be hidden, and Lu Lin knows it himself.
The man turned off the photo and didn't speak for a while.
He liked him, really liked him.
Lu Lin has been single for more than 20 years, and has never thought about whether he likes a man or a woman.
He severed ties with his family in his sophomore year, and spent most of his time working part-time, trying to figure out how to pay his tuition and support himself.
Even after working, I am constantly investing to make money and work overtime, but buying a house is always in the foreseeable future.
It seems that God has been unable to fall in love, and has no strength to be tempted.
The man sank into the sofa, covering his eyes with the back of his hand.
The phone rang suddenly.
"Hello? Old Lu?" Mrs. Peng said, "You left in such a hurry that you forgot your wallet on the table. Ask me to get it tomorrow."
"I was negligent, sorry." Lu Lin said, "I'll see you tomorrow."
"What are you apologizing for?" The old lady didn't take it seriously, "You have done a good job these days, and being able to set an example for other teachers is already helping me share my worries."
"Oh yes, the grades organized a trip to the hot springs on New Year's Day. Remember to ask Teacher Pei to fill out the interest form early, and bring a swimsuit and bathrobe. I always feel that the hotel is not clean."
Lu Lin clenched the phone tightly and hummed.
"Why don't you live in the same room with Mr. Pei? He likes to be clean. I'm afraid those smelly old men will smoke him." The old lady was careful and continued: "When we went out to play last year, I heard that those few The snoring of the geography and physics teachers can be heard upstairs, and I would say it is a nuisance.”
Lu Lin was a little distracted, and hummed again after a while.
"Just remember it, hang up, bye."
As soon as the phone was hung up, Lu Lin stared at the call log for a long time, swiped his fingertips, clicked on Baidu Zhizhi, and began to search for related entries.
He wanted to chase Pei Zhuo.
And don't want to wait any longer.
The author has something to say:
It suddenly occurred to me that Beijing was not late for self-study.
The campus setting in the article is all overhead, even if it serves the plot.