Because he was so busy at the end of the year, Xia Yiyang forgot to promise Nie Shuangshuang to go back for dinner, and he didn't remember until his mother called after him.
"You are so busy." Nie Shuangshuang complained, "What time do you get off work now?"
Xia Yiyang smiled wryly and said, "It's not too late to get off work before eight o'clock in the evening."
Nie Shuangshuang: "Isn't it a good start yet?"
My son has been in the bank for a long time, and Nie Shuangshuang, a mother, knows some technical terms, and occasionally likes to show them off.
But Xia Yiyang usually doesn't give her face: "I have to sleep in the bank for a good start."
The old lady was not very convinced but gave a very fashionable "cut".
After Xia Yiyang repeatedly promised to go back for dinner this weekend, Nie Shuangshuang hung up the phone contentedly.
Shen Luo on the opposite side raised his head from a pile of documents and glanced at him, then asked, "Are you hungry?"
Xia Yiyang sighed: "I really want to eat oden."
Shen Luo smiled: "Things that lie to your mouth."
It is true to say so, but Shen Chu still ordered takeaway.
When the courier delivered it, Cai Cai knew without blinking that it must be ordered by Shen Luo.
She has already resigned to her fate, and she probably won't be able to get rid of the heavy department of the Banking Supervisor in the next 30 years of work. Although she has to peel off her skin every year for an inspection, the collective supper every night should be regarded as compensation.
When Cai Cai sent the loan in, she even joked with Xia Yiyang, saying: "Leader, you can choose more expensive food next time, Shen Chu treats you, how can you be so worthless."
Xia Yiyang was biting his bamboo shoots, blinked his eyes, and said nothing.
Shen Luo answered for him: "You Xia will always feel distressed."
Cai Cai didn't give up and asked Xia Yiyang again: "What is your heart hurting?"
Shen Luo smiled: "He loves me."
Cai Cai: "..."
After working overtime continuously for a whole week, Shen Luo came to accompany her almost every day, went home together after work, showered and went to bed.
When he woke up in the middle of the night, Xia Yiyang was lying on the bed, looking at Shen Luo's sleeping face in the dark, it didn't feel real, Shen Luo was a shallow sleeper, Xia Yiyang woke up when he moved.
"Why did you wake up?" Shen Luo dazedly touched Xia Yiyang's face.
Xia Yiyang grabbed his hand: "It's okay, go on to sleep."
Shen Luo let out a "huh", he leaned over and kissed Xia Yiyang's mouth.
The two lay quietly for a while, then Shen Luo suddenly said: "I watched a video a few days ago."
Xia Yiyang asked, "What video?"
Shen Luo closed his eyes, and said softly, "It's about our earth, the solar system, and the galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars."
Xia Yiyang listened quietly.
Sunset: "It takes 200 million years for our sun to circle the Milky Way, and Andromeda will collide with the Milky Way in hundreds of millions of years."
Xia Yiyang: "..."
Shen Luo: "I saw a comment at the bottom saying that compared with the universe, we human beings are as small as dust, and our thoughts are even more insignificant and meaningless."
Xia Yiyang couldn't help laughing, and asked, "You think so too?"
"Maybe." Even Shen Luo laughed himself, and after a long while, he said slowly, "But I still feel that there are still very meaningful places in my insignificant thoughts. "
He said slowly: "After all, liking you, for me, means the earth, the solar system, the Milky Way, the universe, and countless universes outside the universe."
"It's more meaningful than those added up." Shen Luo looked at Xia Yiyang and said softly, "It's even more meaningful."
On Saturday, Xia Yiyang was going home early in the morning. After Shen Luo sent him there, Xia Yiyang this time stared at the other party and drove away before going upstairs.
He brought some New Year's goods, and his father Xia Cheng opened the door for him.
"Where's mom?" Xia Yiyang asked while changing his shoes.
Xia Cheng was teasing birds before, holding a small wooden spoon with a long handle in her hand, and hurried back to the balcony: "I went to the gym to exercise, and we will take care of it at noon."
Xia Yiyang was quite speechless: "Then why should I come back early in the morning?"
Xia Cheng teased his mynah: "Stay with me, old man."
Xia Yiyang went to the balcony and leaned against the door to watch him play with the birds.
"How did you get here?" Xia Cheng asked.
Xia Yiyang: "A friend sent me here."
Xia Cheng: "That bank supervisor friend who sent your mother back last time?"
Xia Yiyang was a little surprised: "My mother told you?"
Xia Cheng nodded, he put his reading glasses back on, and scooped up some bird food and handed it into the cage.
"I thought he was coming up with you."
Xia Yiyang was stunned for a while, Xia Cheng glanced at him from behind the lens, pointed to the stool next to him: "Sit down, let's talk."
Xia Yiyang hesitated for a while, but sat down obediently.
Xia Cheng teased the bird for a while, and then casually asked, "How long have you been with him?"
Xia Yiyang: "?!"
The morning sun is warm and bright, and after covering the balcony, there is nowhere to hide even the small ups and downs.
After asking that sentence, Xia Cheng continued to feed his bird with a small wooden spoon like a normal person.
Xia Yiyang coughed, and asked dryly, "When... did you know?"
"Your mother and I are not brainless." Xia Cheng took off his presbyopic glasses, and his tone was flat, "You are still not interested in women when you are 30 years old. quite fast."
"..." Xia Yiyang didn't understand what this had to do with Wubi's typing speed.
Xia Cheng continued: "Your mother came back half a month ago and said that there is someone beside you, is that Shen Luo?"
Xia Yiyang was so speechless that he was sweating.
Xia Cheng sat down on the chair beside him: "I heard that you knew each other in college?"
Xia Yiyang: "Yes."
Xia Cheng: "How long has it been?"
Xia Yiyang: "About half a year."
Xia Cheng: "Oh."
The father and father fell silent again, Xia Yiyang couldn't help turning his head to look at his father.
Xia Cheng is almost old, his back is covered when he sits, his temples don't have many gray hairs, but the corners of his eyes are deeply wrinkled, Xia Yiyang looked at him, and for some reason, his eyes became hot.
Xia Cheng turned to look at him, seemed to hesitate for a long time, and then said in a hoarse voice: "Is it impossible for me to be a grandfather in my life?"
Xia Yiyang suddenly felt a pain in his throat. He met Xia Cheng's gaze and wanted to hide, but he held back.
He finally said slowly, "I'm sorry, Dad."
Xia Cheng sighed deeply.
"If you think it's good, that's fine." Xia Cheng said after a long time, "You live your life, with whom, we all hope that you will last for a long time and support each other until the end."
Xia Yiyang didn't speak.
Xia Cheng looked at him and smiled. The two of them are not very similar in other places, except for a pair of eyes. When they smile, they even have the same wrinkles, with one more tail.
"It doesn't matter if you are alone." Xia Cheng smiled and said jokingly, "Mom and dad's money is enough to support you for a lifetime."
When Nie Shuangshuang came back, she didn't ask what Xia Cheng and Xia Yiyang were talking about. She was still that kind of hot-tempered old lady with boundless energy.
She looked around at Xia Yiyang, and curled her lips in disgust: "You've gained weight."
Xia Yiyang couldn't help rolling his eyes: "Where am I fat?"
Nie Shuangshuang: "Don't keep asking Xiao Shen to buy you supper."
Xia Yiyang: "Is he eating well too?"
Nie Shuangshuang: "Why didn't he come today?"
Xia Yiyang: "You didn't call him."
Nie Shuangshuang stared: "I still want to call him, shouldn't Maojiao take the initiative to come to the door for this kind of thing!"
Xia Yiyang: "..."
When he was rushed to his room to make a phone call, Xia Yiyang really couldn't laugh or cry. He was holding his mobile phone, and the golden Buddha in his collar leaked out, and he stuffed it back.
Xia Yiyang sat on the bed and brewed for a long time. When he dialed the number, his fingertips were still shaking slightly.
Shen Luo answered quickly: "What's wrong?"
Hearing his voice, Xia Yiyang became less nervous, and asked with a smile, "What are you doing?"
Shen Luo also smiled: "I'm waiting for you."
Xia Yiyang was a little suspicious: "Are you at home?"
Shen Luo smiled even happier: "This time I'm really at home."
Xia Yiyang was worried, so he went to the window and looked down, and he was relieved to make sure he didn't see the car.
Shen Luo was still laughing.
Xia Yiyang sighed, "I'm worried about your criminal record."
Shen Luo laughed for a while, and then said in a low voice, "Hey, I miss you so much."
Xia Yiyang followed his words: "Then come here."
Shen Luo didn't understand: "?"
Holding the phone, Xia Yiyang pretended to be relaxed and said, "My mother asked you to come to my house for dinner."
Shen Luo: "..."
Xia Yiyang explained: "My parents know that they promised us to be together and let you come to our house for dinner."
Shen Luo: "..."
Seeing that Shen Luo didn't speak, Xia Yiyang was a little uncertain, so he asked tentatively, "Shen Luo?"
It was still quiet over there.
Xia Yiyang waited for a while, then suddenly laughed, his eyes were a little hot, he lowered his voice and said, "Why are you crying, this is a good thing."
—After those long lonely years, there will always be good things, like flowers.
It blooms gorgeously and fragrantly, and it blooms gently and long.
It has always been open in that year.