Tao Xi walked to Lin Qinhe, who held a bag of fried chestnuts with sugar in his hand and handed it to him.
The chestnuts were still warm, and the aroma was blowing on his face. Tao Xi took out one and ate it. The sweet and dense taste made him narrow his eyes, and the irritability seemed to have subsided.
He asked Lin Qinhe, "How do you know that I want to eat candied chestnuts, where did I buy them?"
Lin Qinhe glanced at Yang Zhengming, who was still standing there, and walked towards the elevator with Tao Xi, and said, "There is a shop that sells fried chestnuts with sugar next to the fruit shop."
When buying fruit before, Lin Qinhe saw Tao Xi glanced at the sugar-fried chestnuts next door several times, and knowing that he wanted to eat it, he went to buy it while they were talking.
"Really? Why don't I remember." Tao Xi peeled another chestnut and fed it to Lin Qinhe.
Seeing Tao Xi's expression as usual, Lin Qinhe calmed down a little. He didn't ask about the ward, but asked, "Are you going back to school in the afternoon?"
Tao Xi continued eating chestnuts, nodded and said, "I missed so many classes yesterday afternoon and this morning. I have to catch up with my class and homework."
After following Lin Qinhe out of the hospital, Tao Xi suddenly looked back at the high-rise buildings in the inpatient department. Lin Qinhe seemed to know what he was thinking and asked him, "Do you want to take a look?"
Tao Xi lowered his eyelashes and was silent for a while, then finally shook his head.
They went back to school again, and life seemed to be the same as before. High school was so stressful that Tao Xi didn't have the time to think about too many other things, so he concentrated on preparing for the TOEFL and final exams.
It was only the day before New Year's Day that Fang Zuqing called him personally. The old man spoke earnestly and hoped that he could go home for a meal in the evening.
Tao Xi agreed.
Yang Zhengming drove to Wenhua No. 1 Middle School to pick up Tao Xi. The guard at the gate saw him and asked politely, "Mr. Yang has come to pick up his son?"
Yang Zhengming just smiled and nodded.
After school, Tao Xi and Lin Qinhe walked to the school gate, and saw Yang Zhengming at a glance. Yang Zhengming has been very diligent in the past two days. He has already taken offence to this person with gifts and food.
Yang Zhengming hurriedly stepped forward, brought Tao Xi's schoolbag over to the doorman's surprised eyes, and said with a smile, "I'll take you back to Grandpa's house."
Tao Xi felt that the smile on Yang Zhengming's face was inexplicably familiar. He thought about it and didn't reject it. After all, after all these years, no matter what Yang Zhengming was, their father-son relationship could not be changed.
Lin Qinhe has never had a good look on Yang Zhengming, and now he is even less good-looking. He only asked Tao Xi in a low voice, "Are you coming back tonight?"
Tao Xi hesitated, thinking that his grandfather wanted to keep him overnight on the phone, and said uncertainly, "I should be back."
Lin Qinhe didn't say anything, just said "OK".
After Tao Xi said goodbye to Lin Qinhe, he got into Yang Zhengming's car. Bi Chengfei, who happened to witness this scene, almost glared out his eyes. He stepped forward and put his hand on Lin Qinhe's shoulder, and asked in shock, "Student God, How did Brother Xi get into Yang Duole's father's car?"
He suddenly thought that Yang Zhengming was also involved in the CAC game, and suddenly realized: "Did you ask Brother Xi to apologize? Or do you want to coerce and lure?"
Lin Qinhe threw away Bi Chengfei's hand and turned away without saying a word.
Bi Chengfei stood there worried about Tao Xi's safety, and suddenly thought of Lin Qinhe's expression just now, as if he saw that Tao Xi was abducted and sold.
Tao Xi sat in the passenger seat, watching Yang Zhengming scrambling to tune the music, while asking him what song he likes, he said whatever.
Yang Zhengming played some songs that he thought high school boys liked to listen to, and deliberately looked for topics to talk to Tao Xi. It was nothing more than about studying and painting, but the two were not familiar with each other and there was nothing to say. The answer was very perfunctory, and Yang Zhengming was not at all annoyed.
In the car, Tao Xi finally remembered how familiar Yang Zhengming's smile was. He met Yang Zhengming to accompany Yang Duole to catch the doll at the Crab Mansion. At that time, Yang Zhengming had that kind of indulgent and indulgent smile on his face. It's just that the favor is stronger now, and it's a bit embarrassing.
He suddenly felt a little funny. Yang Zhengming didn't please a fake son, and now he came to please a real son. The role has changed so quickly, it seems that he has no feelings for Yang Duole.
Perhaps only such a ruthless person will find a lover without any grudges after the death of a loved one.
Seeing that Tao Xi really had no interest in talking to him, Yang Zhengming stopped after talking for a while.
In the evening rush hour traffic jam, the whistle sounded one after another from the car window, mixed with the unpleasant music in the car, Tao Xi closed his eyes and fell asleep, just when he was about to fall asleep, he suddenly heard Yang Zhengming say:
"Tao Xi, I haven't been able to say sorry to you for a while. I am responsible for Yang Duole and Guan Fanyun. I have broken up with Guan Fanyun."
Tao Xi closed his eyes and did not respond.
Yang Zhengming knew that Tao Xi was listening, he rubbed his fingers on the steering wheel, hesitated for a long time, and finally took a breath and said, "Actually, I haven't fulfilled the responsibility of being a father all these years, and now it seems a bit ridiculous to start to be a good father, But I really think so, and I hope you... I don't mean to accept me as soon as possible, but I just hope you don't resist me and give me a chance to make up for you."
Yang Zhengming has always been able to speak well, but these few words are full of anxiety, but he has obviously prepared these words for a long time.
Tao Xi half-opened his eyes, Yang Zhengming was suddenly so serious, he didn't know what to say for a while, just pursed his lips.
Seeing that Tao Xi didn't speak, Yang Zhengming instead asked cautiously, "You and... Qinhe are living together now?"
Hearing Lin Qinhe's name, Tao Xi's eyes instantly turned to Yang Zhengming, with obvious alertness in his eyes.
Seeing this warning, Yang Zhengming smiled bitterly, and quickly explained: "I'm not against anything, Qinhe is a very good boy. I just want to say that you are free to do what you like, with the people you like. Together, Dad will always support you."
He could see the relationship between Tao Xi and Lin Qinhe at a glance. He had no opinion on it, nor was he qualified to have an opinion. It was just that the Lin family had a strict family style, and the old man of the Lin family was famous for being old-fashioned and conservative. He thought of his old husband who was exactly the same. People can't help but worry that Tao Xi will experience ups and downs like himself in the future.
Tao Xi was a little stunned by Yang Zhengming's sudden remarks, he was silent for a while, then turned his head to look at Yang Zhengming.
Yang Zhengming looked at the traffic in front of him, noticed Tao Xi's sight, turned to look at him, and asked warmly, "What's wrong?"
Tao Xi pursed his lower lip, did not respond to Yang Zhengming's previous words, only said: "Turn off the music, it sounds unpleasant."
Yang Zhengming was stunned for a moment, a smile appeared on his face, he said ok, and quickly turned off the music.
After the Fang family moved out of the professor building of the University of Literature, they have been living in a villa area on the outskirts of the city.
There was a bright moon in the night sky, the car slowly drove into the yard, and a lamp was on in the yard. Tao Xi saw two old people in the warm yellow light in the car, standing at the door of the house, supporting each other, and saw the car coming in and facing forward After taking two steps, he waved at him with a smile.
For some reason, Tao Xi remembered this scene for a long time. After he got out of the car, he was greeted by two old people into the house, and the food was fragrant and warm.
Ye Yurong helped him hang up his schoolbag and the coat he took off, and took him to wash his hands. He and Fang Zuqing hugged him to the restaurant where dinner had already been prepared. The dishes on the table were rich, Ye Yurong asked him to sit down and smiled Introduce these dishes made by yourself.
"I don't know what you like to eat, so I made some dishes. If you like which dishes, tell grandma, and grandma will cook it for you later."
Tao Xi felt some discomfort for some reason. This discomfort was not due to discomfort, but because he had never experienced this kind of overwhelmed attentiveness. He curled his fingers and said softly "thank you".
"I have nothing to thank at home." Ye Yurong laughed. She heard a "ding" from the kitchen, and she turned around to get the last dish in the oven. Yang Zhengming hurriedly let Ye Yurong sit down and went to get it by himself. Dish back.
It is a garlic-flavored grilled wings, grilled to perfection, sizzling with a hot aroma.
Yang Zhengming put the dish on the empty place on the table, but Fang Zuqing, who had already sat down, climbed the table and stood up slowly.
Not long after the old man was discharged from the hospital, his hands and feet were still somewhat inconvenient. He supported the table with one hand and leaned slightly towards Tao Xi. With the other hand, he slowly moved the plate of roasted wings in front of Tao Xi, and said kindly:
"Children like to eat these, we can't eat anymore when we get old."
Tao Xi looked at the trembling hand uncontrollably, and when he heard the sound of "child", his vision suddenly became blurred, he blinked his eyes quickly, stood up and helped Fang Zuqing to sit down on the chair.
Yang Zhengming took out the various drinks that he had prepared and asked Tao Xi what he wanted to drink, but Tao Xi said that he only drank rice wine, and that rice wine was made by Ye Yurong. She saw that Tao Xi liked to drink it, and she smiled very happily and said:
"Your mother has liked to drink the rice wine I made since she was a child, but she would get drunk after more than one bowl. Once she secretly drank too much and I thought she was sick, so I sent her to the hospital, and it turned out to be a joke. "
Tao Xi was yearning and curious about his mother, and the two old men told him a lot about Fang Sui's past.
In their remarks, Tao Xi knew that her mother was probably like all daughters of wealthy families, pure and innocent, and grew up in an environment full of love, but they did not say why Fang Sui ended up going to Taoxi Bay alone.
The atmosphere of this meal was just like an ordinary New Year's Eve dinner. Perhaps it was because the heating in the house was too strong, which made it easy for people to relax. Throwing the schoolbag on the sofa, grandma will prepare a table of dishes and call him to eat, and grandpa will ask him what he learned in school today.
After seventeen years of absence and vacancy, no matter how deep the blood ties are, it is impossible to make the estrangement disappear overnight. These gaps may take a year or two, or even longer to fill.
Maybe one day the cracks will be healed by time, and they will be inseparable.
In the middle of the dinner, Fang Zuqing hesitated for a long time, but still mentioned Yang Duole to Tao Xi. This was a choice they had to make.
"It's mainly our fault that he made such a mistake. We coddled him too much, so he didn't learn well and took the crooked way."
Speaking of this child, Fang Zuqing's eyes showed a look of sigh: "We raised him, and we will not ask him to repay this kind of upbringing, and we will not continue to raise him when he becomes an adult. He should pay the price by himself. The result of the school's handling is to drop out of school. We will not stop him any more, just... "
It's just that, after all, it was the child he raised with his own hands. He could ruthlessly cut off this kind of parenting, but he still couldn't watch him and his own grandson fall into a lawsuit.
Fang Zuqing sighed, the sudden changes in the past few days made the old man much older, he pleaded with Tao Xi: "Son, I know you won't forgive him, and I don't ask you to forgive him, it's just whether you can see your grandfather. For the sake of your face, no longer pursue his legal responsibility, you have nothing to do with him in the future, and we will never keep him here, it will always be your home."
If Yang Duole hadn't done such a thing, they might have continued to keep Yang Duole at home after so many years of affection, but now they know that their own grandson has no chance of coexisting harmoniously with him, leaving him behind , Tao Xi is afraid that he doesn't want to come back at all.
The restaurant was quiet, Ye Yurong also looked at Tao Xi earnestly, Yang Zhengming was silent and did not speak.
Tao Xi was quiet for a while, and finally said, "Okay."
He is not a generous person, but he doesn't want to see his grandfather and grandmother caught in the middle to make things difficult for him.
Even if he knew that the two old people might not be as heartless as they said, and he really didn't care about Yang Duole, he didn't care anymore, because Yang Duole was no longer in his eyes.
After that, the atmosphere at the dining table became lively again. Tao Xi finished drinking a bowl of rice wine and couldn't help adding another bowl. After drinking, his eyes were still clear. Ye Yurong smiled and sighed that he could drink much better than his mother.
After dinner, the family sat and chatted in the living room for a while. Fang Zuqing wanted to stay with Tao Xi, and showed him a new room that had been carefully tidied up. The room was large, with a wide balcony and several Easel of various sizes.
But Tao Xi declined, only saying that he went to school early the next day, and the place was a little far from the school by car. Seeing the disappointment of the two old people, he promised that he would come to live in the future after the holiday. The old man thought he was staying in the dormitory and asked Yang Zhengming sent him back.
According to the address given by Tao Xi, Yang Zhengming sent him to the gate of Lin Qinhe's house. Before Tao Xi got off the car, Yang Zhengming struggled for a moment, but couldn't help but remind his son vaguely:
"You are still young, there are some things that are better done when you are an adult."
Tao Xi had been sleeping on the way back, when he was woken up not long ago, he looked at him blankly and asked, "What's the matter?"
"Haha, it's nothing." Yang Zhengming closed the conversation embarrassedly. When he saw Tao Xi like this, he knew that this child was still a blank sheet of paper. If he wanted to come to a stable person like Lin Qinhe, he probably wouldn't mess around.
He smiled and watched Tao Xi enter the community, but the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became.
He doesn't object to his son falling in love with Lin Qinhe, but what's the matter with his son living in someone else's house, at least let Lin Qinhe come to live in his son's house occasionally.
Yang Zhengming shook his head and decided to transfer the Jiangjing house he just bought to Tao Xi's name as soon as possible.
When Tao Xi returned home, Lin Qinhe was taking a shower in the bathroom.
Lin Qinhe put on his bathrobe and opened the door after taking a shower, and saw a figure flying towards him. He hugged him quickly and wrapped his hands around Tao Xi's buttocks and waist. His expression was calm, but there was surprise in his eyes. The smile could not be hidden.
"I thought you would stay at Grandpa's house."
Tao Xi tucked his legs around Lin Qinhe's waist, put one arm around Lin Qinhe's neck, and raised his chin with the other hand, and said with a smile, "I'm coming back to accompany you on New Year's Eve."
Lin Qinhe raised his jaw obediently, looked at Tao Xi who was inexplicably clingy tonight, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and asked in a low voice, "How do you accompany him?"
Tao Xi didn't react, and asked repeatedly, "How to accompany him?"
Lin Qinhe stared at Tao Xi's confused eyes for two seconds, and sighed in his heart. He carried Tao Xi to the bedroom, and asked in a loud voice, "How was the food at Grandpa's house?"
Hearing this question, Tao Xi's eyes became bright and he said with a smile, "It's delicious, and my grandmother cooked a lot of dishes for me."
"Which is your favorite dish?"
Tao Xi tilted his head and struggled for a while, and finally said, "Roast wings with garlic." After thinking about it, he added, "And the rice wine made by my grandmother, it's delicious!"
No wonder.
Lin Qinhe walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows with Tao Xi in his arms. This day was the last day of the year. Through the floor-to-ceiling windows, you could overlook the neon-flashing riverside square, where the crowds were surging and lively, waiting for the new year to come. .
Lin Qinhe originally wanted to put Tao Xi on the reclining chair, but Tao Xi wrapped his hands and feet tightly around him and didn't seem to want to come down, so Lin Qinhe continued to hold Tao Xi and walked slowly in the room like a child. , asked him about his experience of returning to his grandfather's house for the first time.
"I have a room with a big balcony and I can see the garden. My grandfather said I can paint there." Tao Xi bit Lin Qinhe's ears.
"Do you like that room?"
"Like it! I'll take you to play next time."
Lin Qinhe smiled and said, "Okay."
"Grandma said she would knit me a scarf and let me choose wool." Tao Xi whispered next to Lin Qinhe's ear again, as if sharing some happy secret.
Lin Qinhe asked along the way, "What color did you choose?"
Tao Xi bent the corners of his mouth and said, "I said that gray and black look good. Grandma said they would knit them for me. I'll give you one of them when the time comes!"
"Okay." Lin Qinhe's smile deepened.
When it came to the end, there was nothing to say, Tao Xi became sleepy after being excited, put his chin on Lin Qinhe's shoulder, Lin Qinhe kissed Tao Xi's hair sideways, and asked, "Would you like me to take a bath for you? ?"
Tao Xi completely lost his previous embarrassment, nodded and said, "Okay, okay."
Lin Qinhe hugged Tao Xi, turned around and walked to the bathroom, and put him on the sink. Tao Xi sat obediently with his hands on the countertop, his lips were slightly parted, and he looked at Lin Qinhe eagerly, waiting The way he works, he doesn't even know how to take off his clothes.
Lin Qinhe stared at Tao Xi's lips for two seconds, raised his hand to squeeze Tao Xi's chin, and warned, "You are not allowed to drink outside in the future, and rice wine is not allowed, you know?"
Tao Xi was a little puzzled, but nodded and said "OK".
But Lin Qinhe knew that he wanted Tao Xi to have sex with him at this time, and Tao Xi would say yes without hesitation, even if he didn't know what it meant to go to bed.
Tao Xi didn't notice that Lin Qinhe looked at him strangely. He still remembered taking a bath. He gently kicked Lin Qinhe's leg and urged, "I want to take a bath."
But in the next second, he was kissed by Lin Qinhe who leaned over, his legs were artificially opened, and his waist and neck were also tightly bound. He was forced to raise his head and close his eyes to bear Lin Qin Wo gentle kiss.
He was kissed very comfortably, and his hands consciously hugged Lin Qinhe's neck, but the kiss became more and more intense, making his scalp numb, he couldn't help but puff out his chest, and his legs unconsciously clamped against the body in front of him. people.
A hand stroked up from his waist, and every time he passed by, he couldn't help shuddering, the hand finally stopped in front of his neck, his fingers flexibly unbuttoned his school uniform shirt, and he was dizzy from the kiss. He didn't realize that his clothes were almost peeled off until he was carried into the bathtub.
Lin Qinhe tore off the bathrobe that had been wet for the most part, and stepped into the bathtub.
The not-so-small bathtub suddenly became cramped, and warm hot water was slowly poured into the bathtub. Tao Xi moved aside to make room for Lin Qinhe and planned to take a bath with him, but he didn't know what was going on. , while the world was spinning, he was pinned down by Lin Qinhe's waist.
When the new year was approaching, Tao Xi had already been washed and lay on the bed. Lin Qinhe half hugged him and applied ointment to his inner thighs.
Tao Xi leaned against Lin Qinhe's arms and was so sleepy that he was about to fall asleep. He allowed Lin Qinhe's hands to rub his legs. The skin that was originally fair and tight was a little red and swollen at the moment, as if it had been rubbed hard.
At the moment when the clock rang, the Ferris wheel in the distance outside the floor-to-ceiling window flashed with splendid brilliance, the dazzling fireworks shone on the night of the city, and the crowds in the riverside square shouted "Happy New Year" to the sky. Everyone's face is full of anticipation for the new year.
Lin Qinhe clasped Tao Xi's hand, leaned over and kissed Tao Xi's lips, who had closed his eyes, and whispered, "Baby, happy new year."
"Happy New Year." Tao Xi cheered up from drowsiness, hooked his neck to kiss Lin Qinhe back, but kissed on his chin.
Lin Qinhe held the back of Tao Xi's head and lowered his head to finish the kiss.
With the arrival of the new year, people in the square went home with a smile after a grand carnival.
The author says:
I'm not an adult, I can only have a hard time