The weather is hot in summer, and it is easy to get sick if you always stay at home and turn on the air conditioner.
Pei Zhuo just got a card and took Lu Lin to go swimming with him.
It was the holiday time, and there were many students frolicking in the swimming pool, and many college students came to find a way to play water polo in a place where there were few people.
The two of them walked into the swimming pool one after the other, attracting most of the eyes of the girls sitting beside them.
After Pei Zhuo entered the water, he swam unhurriedly. He was more meditating to take a breath, feeling the current of water brushing against his body.
Lu Lin was in the other swimming lane, with excellent speed and explosive power, swimming like a jellyfish in the river, jumping out and diving neatly and beautifully.
Pei Zhuo felt tired after two rounds of swimming, sat beside him to rinse his mouth, and heard a girl whispering in the distance.
"Did you see that handsome guy... How about asking for a WeChat later?"
"I want it too! He has definitely trained his abs, okay? How about we buy him a cup of coffee?"
After Lu Lin finished swimming, he found that there was no one in the next lane, so he swam to Pei Zhuo with a deep dive, and splashed him all over when he broke through the water.
"Swim again?"
Pei Zhuo leaned over and wiped the water from his side face, and smiled narrowly: "Did you see those girls next to you?"
Lu Lin glanced casually: "What's wrong?"
"They want your WeChat, and they want to buy you coffee."
Lu Lin gave a meaningful oh, stretched out his hand and pulled Pei Zhuo down.
Pei Zhuo almost choked, and instinctively wrapped his arms around his neck, hanging on his body as if kissing before.
"You..." He wiped the drops of water from his cheeks, and whispered, "Relax, hurry up."
Lu Lin held him in his arms with one hand, and put the other hand around the back of his head to help adjust the tightness of the glasses strap.
It looks like it's going to be kissed on the head.
Pei Zhuo subconsciously looked into the distance, the girls apparently also realized that they were a couple, and walked away wrapped in bath towels with some embarrassment.
"I don't think it's right." Pei Zhuo whispered, "Shouldn't it be my turn to be jealous?"
The man took advantage of the situation and kissed his lips: "Very moist."
They just happened to go shopping in the nearby business district after swimming, and they happened to choose a suit for the swearing-in meeting afterward.
Lu Lin always dresses very formally, and has already prepared two sets of suits.
On the contrary, Pei Zhuo doesn't like this kind of clothes that are too stylized, and he doesn't have any at home.
He didn't want to take Papa Pei's class before, because he was tired of all kinds of socializing among adults, and he would rather talk about two more questions with high school students.
The teller still had a tape measure hanging around his neck, and asked them in a soft voice whether they wanted to order or buy a ready-made style.
Pei Zhuo originally planned to pick something similar, but when he saw the poster in the light box, he suddenly felt a little moved, and turned to look at Lu Lin.
"...how about we get married?"
Use the same cut fabric, same buckle tie.
It's heartbreaking to think about it.
Lu Lin smiled and said yes, and picked up the details with him with the brochure.
The teller turned around and poured lemonade for them, Pei Zhuo playfully gesticulated with his tie and measured his waist with a tape measure.
Lu Lin indulged his approach, and suddenly paused.
"Don't move." He held his breath subconsciously: "Pei Zhuo, get out of the way first."
Pei Zhuo realized that Lu Lin's mood had changed suddenly, and followed his gaze.
A middle-aged couple at the door watched the two of them sullenly, as if they had seen their intimacy a long time ago.
He let go of the hand on Lu Lin's shoulder in a daze, and stood up slowly.
The living space of homosexuality is actually the existence of Schrödinger.
In first- and second-tier cities, they can travel freely most of the time, hugging each other in bars and small places, and others will not give them too many surprised looks.
But when you meet the middle-aged generation and the elderly, it seems that you are suddenly beaten into a prototype and turned into a monster with a distorted face.
Pei Zhuo had realized at this second that this couple passing by by chance might be Lu Lin's parents.
The parents who had severed relations with him for nearly ten years.
Professor Lu's temples are gray, and his face already looks old.
He walked in without saying a word, and when he saw Lu Lin's face clearly, he raised his hand and drew it away.
Pei Zhuo stretched out his hand to block it, and said coldly: "If you have something to say, don't do it."
Lu's mother scolded: "What are you? It's your turn to speak about our family's affairs?"
The teller was hurrying over with two glasses of ice water, seeing the sudden tense situation, he was at a loss for a while.
Lu Lin said with a sullen expression, "Let's go, there's nothing to say."
"No?" Mother Lu originally had mixed feelings in her heart, but she was only angered by his words: "Okay, okay."
"Lu Lin, you are promising. After you are admitted to university, you will sever ties with us, and you will not repay us for your kindness." The middle-aged woman pointed at Pei Zhuo with her backhand, gritted her teeth and smiled: "Now you are still hanging out with this man. What, you still want to be gay?"
Professor Lu's eyes suddenly turned cold, he spat in Lu Lin's face, took out a tissue to wipe his hands: "It's really disgusting."
Pei Zhuo held Lu Lin's hand tightly while suppressing his emotions, and led him outside without saying a word.
Lu's mother opened her hand to block people: "Are you sick? Are you still robbing my son?"
Pei Zhuo glanced at her expressionlessly, and his aura suddenly opened up.
He was originally Pei Hongchuan's son, and he grew up with his father at the wine table, seeing people's eyes and listening to people's words is a daily routine.
Pei Hongchuan was a loving father at home, he showed both kindness and power in business, and he could scare his subordinates into cold sweat and apologize in front of his son at the bar.
Pei Zhuo has a soft temper on his face, even the students dare to make fun of him.
When it comes to big right and wrong, in fact, like his father, he will not give in half a step.
The moment he stared coldly at Mother Lu, the woman subconsciously took a step back.
Lu Lin pulled his wrist away, and held Pei Zhuo's hand tightly in front of his parents, interlocking his fingers like an embedded lock.
They turned and left at the same time, unwilling to speak any more to the parents.
Mother Lu suddenly lost control.
"You can't go!"
"I have raised you for eighteen years, eighteen years! Did you think about your father when you ran away from home? Did you know that he had a heart attack that night!!" She roared at him hoarsely: "Have you thought about it?" The slightest feeling of our parents, you ungrateful son! Beast!!"
Pei Zhuo quickened his pace, not wanting to have any entanglement with the lunatic.
The customers in the mall heard the noise and stopped to look at them.
Their gazes seemed to give Mother Lu the courage to humiliate the defected son with a louder voice.
"How can you be with a man?! Are you a monster!!"
Lu Lin stopped suddenly, and turned to look at the gloomy father and the mother whose tears were streaming down.
"It almost turned me into a monster, didn't you?"
He took a step forward, his pupils shrank slightly: "Ten years have passed, and you still haven't changed at all."
Mother Lu lost control and shouted, "Then you can't become gay to provoke us!"
Lu Lin took a deep look at them, and led Pei Zhuo to the underground parking lot.
A tearing cry came from behind.
In fact, no one was chasing after them, but they didn't even wait for the elevator. They walked down the escape stairs to the fourth floor without speaking to each other all the way.
They actually live very clearly.
From school to home, from public to private, the two of them switched between different identities over and over again. Even if they went out to eat together on weekdays, they would try to call Huo Lu or Xiao Huang as much as possible to minimize the risk.
Their love is a secret, and they may not be able to tell others in this life.
When Lu Lin took out the car key, Pei Zhuo reached out and snatched it, and stepped into the driver's seat first.
Lu Lin sat in the co-pilot silently, and watched the car drive out of the dark and damp underground parking lot into the bright sky.
"I'm very sorry."
Pei Zhuo turned the steering wheel and stepped on the accelerator, stared into the distance and didn't speak for a long time.
Lu Lin hasn't seen his parents for ten years, and when he suddenly sees them with gray hair, in fact, countless emotions are also entangled and collided in his heart.
He didn't speak for a long time, feeling that something was slowly breaking.
"You shouldn't apologize." Pei Zhuo drove on the viaduct and remembered that he hadn't fastened his seat belt. After buckling it up, he finally glanced at him: "I shouldn't have suffered this kind of injury."
He grew up without a mother and knew what it was like to have a missing piece in his life.
There will be a dull pain, and it will burn my heart like a deep sore.
In the past ten years, Lu Lin has been living independently in advance since college, and he has endured no less pressure and difficulties than him.
He is such a good man, sincere and awe-inspiring, gentle and serious, even a few words written by hand can make him fall in love.
But he was described as a monster by his parents, and everything was denied, as if even his birth was a mistake.
Lu Lin closed his eyes and didn't speak for a while.
He may never want to come to this mall again in his life.
Pei Zhuo didn't take him back to his home, instead he drove back to Pei's father.
Huo Lu went to eat today, clamoring for braised beef tendon and sauced pig's trotter.
Pei Zhuo pulled Lu Lin and rang the doorbell directly, not wanting to explain further.
Dad Pei rubbed his hands and came to open the door. He was a little surprised when he saw them: "Hey, you didn't say hello to me when you came. Fortunately, I made a lot of dumplings yesterday and put them in the refrigerator."
Pei Zhuo reached out and hugged his father tightly, and when he let go, he looked at him and said, "I'm homesick, come and have a look."
Pei Hongchuan smiled and patted his head, as if he was still a teenager.
He looked up at the silent Lu Lin again, and generously reached out to hug him.
"Go home, go home, have a good meal."
Lu Lin was a little taken aback, and turned to look at Pei Zhuo in a daze.
They didn't call anyone about it all the way, but the tacit understanding between the Pei family and his son seemed to be needless to say anything.
Huo Lu rushed out with half a shrimp in his mouth, followed by Amao: "Brother Lu is here! Brother Lu, sit down quickly, my mother is frying shrimp!"
Pei Zhuo pulled him to change his shoes and sat down, and brought the cold man into this warm restaurant without saying a word.
The dog was circling them, and there was a mess of entertainment news on the TV.
Lu Lin felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar ten minutes ago, but now he seemed to be covered by force.
He took a breath and took a long time to relax, as if he had just experienced a disaster.
"Wait a minute, the meal will be ready soon, let's save a piece of elbow for dinner."
Papa Pei rushed to the kitchen to help, and the aroma of fried shrimp and small fish came out, and the pot was still boiling brine.
Pei Zhuo clenched Lu Lin's hand tightly, and put his palm on his protruding finger bones.
"You are not a monster."
"Lu Lin, if there is anything, we will carry it together."
"I always."
He looked at him with firm eyes and a strong voice.
There is no half fear and backing down.