In December 2007, Yuan Yuan and Tan Ruikang officially went home. Yuan Yuan found that he was really homesick. When he was half asleep, he got up and went to the bathroom without turning on the light. When drinking water, he could catch a cup with his eyes closed. , Over the years, the pattern of this house has been imprinted into his life.
Every place has traces of his life with his father, mother and Tan Ruikang.
He didn't have to go to drink and socialize anymore, he slept lazily for a few days when he came back, turned on the computer to check the stock, now he can buy a lot of point cards and play legend all day long, and he can buy a door-like dragon knife to shoot people everywhere. People, but no one has played the legend anymore.
You Zeyang asked him to play World of Warcraft, and Yuan Yuan downloaded a client to play casually. It wasn't fun, so he stopped playing after a while.
The snacks that I liked to eat in the past gradually stopped eating. I watched the TV every day after elementary school, and I was scolded by Zhao Guogang when I watched my grades go crazy. Now I don’t like to watch it anymore.
Tan Ruikang rented an office building in the bonded area, covering more than 1,000 square meters, and hired 15 employees. He couldn't fill it, and most of it was vacant. He put up a sign and was ready to open for business.
Zhao Guogang came over to have a look, nodded and said yes, and invited all the employees of the company to have a meal.
After the Spring Festival, Wang Peng's decoration city is about to open. All the stores have started to stock up, and everything is going smoothly. After a few trips to Dongguan, there is nothing to do after returning.
As soon as Tan Ruikang's illness recovered, he showed his strong professionalism, like a gong-beating monkey with full clockwork, running here and there for a while, driving to Dongguan in the morning to purchase goods - to Guangzhou for delivery - to Huizhou Look at the berth - I came back to Shenzhen to get off work, and I came back at half past six after a circle, and I was in time to have dinner with Yuan Yuan. Everything is done with one hand, Yuan Yuan doesn't have to take care of things at all, just sitting in the company is boring to death, pulling a piece of grid paper every day and playing backgammon with Tan Ruikang's secretary.
The stock is half dead, and the remaining money in the distance has dropped by 200,000, and the remaining capital is dragging around there, like a depressed patient. In January, Tan Ruikang made up another 100,000 yuan in the warehouse to account for the distant staring, and then he was full of energy to make money again.
During the Spring Festival, Zhao Guogang invited a meal and said, "Ruikang is 26 years old. You two have achieved a little in your career now. Who is going to get married first?"
Yuan Yuan's heart suddenly twitched.
Tan Ruikang drank his face flushed and said with a smile, "It's not suitable, it's really not suitable."
Zhao Guogang said: "If you don't look for it, how do you know that there is no suitable one? I don't think you two are in the mood to fall in love."
Shu Yan said, "Ruikang's girlfriend last time was not bad. She's a good girl. Are you still in touch?"
Tan Ruikang smiled, shook his head, and glanced far away.
Yuan Yuan knew what he meant, so he didn't take it and said, "Isn't it true that students were not allowed to fall in love back then? Teachers and parents, when they saw dating, they all came to dismantle them like mad dogs. Breaking up a pair is a pair. Do you remember? Zhang Zhen? He came to our house before, and brought his girlfriend to ask for the New Year's money. You told me not to follow him, saying that he couldn't even support his own wife, so he would learn to fall in love... Do you know what others are doing?"
"The two have been together for ten years. They got married right after graduating from college. Zhang Zhen is a physical education teacher, and his wife is a civil servant in the customs system. When Zhang Zhen was in school, his grades were the lowest, and his wife was a little sister, so she may not be a mess now. Worse than the average person."
As soon as Zhao Guogang heard it, he knew that this son had a bad temper again.
"Five couples in our third year of high school fell in love, and some people have been invited as parents. Now they have all graduated from college and have married and had children. It has nothing to do with when they fell in love."
Yuan Yuan laughed again: "Don't let people talk when it's time to talk, and now you're urging you to get married soon? You all think that love is a light bulb, you want to turn it on and you want to turn it off, and if it breaks, replace it with a new light bulb... "
Tan Ruikang hurriedly said, "Xiaoyuan, my uncle is also for your own good."
Zhao Guogang said: "You should do things at any age. It was indeed for your own good that you were not allowed to fall in love."
Shu Yan smiled and said, "Don't rush them, it's natural to talk when it's time to talk."
After having known Shu Yan for so long, Yuan Yuan finally heard her say something human.
When he got home that day, Tan Ruikang said, "Xiaoyuan, are you still thinking about Dairy Girl? How about calling her?"
Yuan Yuan looked at the TV and frowned, "This stock is probably not going to get better."
Tan Ruikang's attention was immediately drawn to the distant past and asked, "Why?"
Yuan Yuan said: "What did my dad say after the last rate cut by the Fed?"
Tan Ruikang shook his head in confusion. His understanding of the economy was very simple, and it was all instilled in him from afar: if the United States is bad, China will be bad too, but it is hard to say whether the United States is bad or not, it all depends on whether the US government saves the market. So China is not necessarily bad, everyone has the opportunity to turn over the salted fish.
Yuan Yuan: "Did the community developer in Nanshan notify you last time?"
Tan Ruikang: "All the goods have been pulled, and the payment for the goods will be settled today."
Far away: "How much."
Tan Ruikang: "One hundred and one hundred and fifty thousand."
Yuan Yuan suddenly felt more and more bored, put his pillow on Tan Ruikang's lap, and said, "Why don't I start another company."
Tan Ruikang said: "What do you want to do, isn't it good now?"
Yuan Yuan said: "I don't have anything to do at home all day long. You don't let me go to social events. Everyone in the company sighs and says that the stock is trapped. There is nothing to do. The chicken will not return to China until after the summer vacation, and everyone else is working..."
Tan Ruikang's slender little finger poked Yuan Yuan's ear, put it into Yuan Yuan's ear and turned around, Yuan Yuan's face immediately turned red to the base of his ear, and his whole body softened from comfort.
Tan Ruikang said: "By the way, a client's wife introduced my brother to go on a blind date, should we go?"
There was a thud in the distant heart.
"You want to get married?" Yuan Yuan said.
Tan Ruikang said: "Hey, that's just talking about it. Aunt... My uncle said that we should both get married, the oldest is not young, and my brother is 26..."
"26 or something." Yuan Yuan said: "Many men get married in their 30s."
Tan Ruikang said: "That's right, but my uncle is afraid that you will also delay... He wants to hug his grandson earlier. According to our family's rules, the eldest brother should marry his wife first, and I have never seen the second child get married earlier than the eldest... "
Yuan Yuan couldn't help laughing and crying: "What age is it, and it's still like that in the countryside."
Tan Ruikang smiled embarrassedly.
Yuan Yuan threw the remote control to him and went back to his room to sleep.
Tan Ruikang changed a few stations, and Yuan Yuan said in the room, "You might as well buy a plane ticket and ask my sister to propose to me if you go on a blind date. Now that you are rich, her parents must have nothing to say, and give it to her parents in OCT. Buy a duplex, come and live for a few months a year, and miss your daughter the rest of the time, won’t it be the end of flying around to live there?”
Tan Ruikang said nothing and sighed.
Yuan Yuan said: "You bought a house in Overseas Chinese Town, you have the key to the house, go and find her. Isn't this the best set for you?"
Tan Ruikang said: "Okay, okay, stop talking."
Yuan Yuan stayed in his room for a while and said, "Go on a blind date and have a look."
Tan Ruikang said, "Let's go together?"
Yuan Yuandao said: "Go to a later date and fall in love with me again, just come back and talk about it after you're done."
Tan Ruikang said: "I'm afraid to find someone you don't like..."
Yuan Yuan could not laugh or cry: "It's you who married your wife, not me. You can just like it, it doesn't matter if I like it or not."
Tan Ruikang said, "Later you will avoid me like you did last time..."
Yuan Yuan said: "Not this time, we are all going home, why are we hiding from you? You have all the keys to the house. Now the situation is different from before."
Tan Ruikang snorted and said, "It may not be appropriate for my brother to meet tomorrow."
Yuan Yuan said: "Good night."
The two of them turned off the lights in their rooms, and lay far away in the dark room, sighing, and suddenly he felt that it didn't matter whether they were married or not, and if they wanted to, they could just do it.
Not only was he not sad, but he was a little angry. Tan Ruikang was so careful that Yuan Yuan always felt that he was a burden.
Zhao Guogang didn't get married because of him, and Tan Ruikang also didn't get married because of him. Yuan Yuan couldn't help asking himself, is my existence so domineering? How did it end that everyone seemed to be sacrificing for me? Do you still want to see my face when you are in a relationship? Why do you want to do what you love? You can just be worthy of yourself all your life. Anyway, I, Zhao Yuanyuan, don't get married.
Tan Ruikang went on a blind date the next day, and when he came back at night, he said, "It's not suitable, that girl spends a lot of money."
Distant: "… "
Tan Ruikang said: "She doesn't pack the leftovers. She orders a dish, and doesn't eat it after taking a few bites, and she doesn't pack it back."
Yuan Yuan: "Hey, you don't understand girls. When you first meet, you have to pretend to be reserved and say you can't eat that much. This is normal! And no one even packs it for a blind date! Who will pack it back for? , eating and eating is the saliva of her own family, she packed it back to eat, did the whole family eat your monkey saliva?!"
Tan Ruikang: "..."
Yuan Yuan was both angry and funny, he taught him a meal, and told him to be generous when chasing girls, and don't be as stingy as Lin Xi.
Yuan Yuan: "You have been a cow and a horse for your girlfriend for a few years, and after you get married, you become your wife, and it is the other person's turn to be a cow and a horse, serving you and your children for a lifetime. What's the use of being rich and reluctant to give flowers to your daughter-in-law
Tan Ruikang: "You're wrong. A girl's self-reliance is a virtue, and the AA system is to respect her."
Yuan Yuan: "Then you want people to be obedient and eat yourself. How can there be such a good thing in the world? And let you make a chivalrous score without spending your money, is it an inflatable doll?"
Tan Ruikang said: "Okay okay, in short, I don't think this girl is suitable, and you probably won't like it."
Yuan Yuan gloated a little and said, "Forget it, this year has encountered a suitable difficulty, let's talk about it."
Tan Ruikang got up and went to take a bath. A text message came from his mobile phone, and he glanced at it from a distance. The girl asked Tan Ruikang if he would come out to play next time, and meet your brother by the way.
Tan Ruikang certainly didn't mention himself too much when he went on a blind date, so Yuan Yuan helped him back: [The company is a little busy recently, I'll contact you when I'm done, you usually pay attention to your meals, you're too thin, don't always eat so little, but too much Eat and take care of yourself.]The girl smiled back: [Okay, good night.]
Far away deleted all the text messages.
Tan Ruikang took a shower and went out to make supper for Yuan Yuan. Now their daily routine is: Yuan Yuan sleeps until 90 in the morning. After Tan Ruikang wakes up, he makes breakfast and puts it in the microwave. He goes to work by himself. Yuan Yuan eats breakfast and sees Stocks, take a look at the company slowly, have lunch with Tan Ruikang, and eat whatever you want.
When I came back to play games in the afternoon, Tan Ruikang had an entertainment in the evening, so he called and ordered takeout to eat, laying on the sofa and surfing the Internet.
During supper, the two talked about the company's affairs, analyzed it from afar, called Tan Ruikang, discussed decisions, and went to bed each after the decision was made.
Yuan Yuan's mood was up and down, as if he had returned to the time when he was about to graduate from college. It didn't matter what he did, he didn't want to be entertained, and he didn't want to go to the company. Tan Ruikang was done, so it didn't make much sense for him to go.
Watching TV and surfing the Internet at home is boring, and stocks are half-dead.
In March 2008, spring came, everything was prosperous, and a strong impulse was born in the distant heart.
With money and time, what else can he do with so few pursuits in life? He has almost no goals.
He wants to be in love.
But he has been in love, for so many years, and he can't ask for it.
His mind was full of bizarre thoughts. He wanted to persuade Tan Ruikang to resign, sell the company, and travel the world with him. Sure enough, going home is not a good thing. It is easy to be in a daze when you are free, and you will think about things after a long time. Think West.
One day, Tan Ruikang invited a client to drink at noon, and came back to rest in the afternoon after drinking, saying that the female client was very nice and wanted to introduce him to a girlfriend.
Yuan Yuan listened for a while expressionlessly, and said, "Let's go and see you."
Tan Ruikang smiled and said, "Brother, there is a girl in our company upstairs who likes you. The last time I saw you, she fell in love with her. You took the same elevator with her when you went upstairs."
"Is there?" Yuan Yuan asked suspiciously.
Tan Ruikang said, "It's very beautiful. You even pressed the elevator for her. Last Wednesday, remember?"
Yuan Yuan: "Is there? I have helped so many girls press the elevator, how can I remember which one it is."
Tan Ruikang: "Do you want to know her? I told her to introduce our vice president of Dairy Boy to her."
Yuan Yuan: "No. I'm old uncle, and I'm still old."
Tan Ruikang sighed, lay on the sofa, and said, "That girl is really nice, you might like her, and you won't want me anymore when you fall in love."
Yuan Yuan said, "I won't get married."
Tan Ruikang said: "Don't talk nonsense, how can you not get married? I will arrange for you to meet her another day, brother will sleep, call me at three o'clock, and have to go to the company."
Yuan Yuan took a blanket and put it on Tan Ruikang. Tan Ruikang slept soundly with his eyes closed. Yuan Yuan sat on the ground, looked at him sideways, and touched his head.
Tan Ruikang smelled of alcohol all over his body, Yuan Yuan casually flipped through his cell phone to check who he was texting with at ordinary times, customers and customers... He was all talking about trivial things.
After looking at it for a while, I didn't find any clues.
Tan Ruikang's mobile phone is dual-SIM and dual-standby. After changing to a Shenzhen SIM card, Yuan Yuan put the phone back, and opened the drawer under the coffee table. Inside was their couple's phone.
They all changed numbers, the original number was suspended, the phone was turned on at a distance, and the text messages were still there. They dug out the old text messages and recalled their university life bit by bit.
[Brother, I miss you.]
[miss you.]
The far corners of his mouth were slightly tilted, and he kept those text messages. He suddenly remembered one thing: it was not the first time that he had checked Tan Ruikang's mobile phone in these years. Some parts are dropped, some are left, and all that is left are text messages that express attachment from afar.
But there are two text messages that I have never seen in my distant memory.
[I like a person, but I dare not say it.]
[you.]
Yuan Yuan lowered his head and flipped through it for a while. He didn't find the text message, and his heart began to thump again. What does this mean
Does Tan Ruikang know that he likes him? Did he vaguely guess it
Yuan Yuan turned to look at him, Tan Ruikang was still a little drunk, sleeping like a well-behaved child, wrapped in a blanket and breathing heavily.
He still has a shallow stitch scar at the base of his ear, his cheeks are thin, and his eyebrows are as handsome as a jackknife.
After watching it for a while in the distance, unspeakable excitement surged in his heart, did he always know? Really
Yuan Yuan did a daring thing, he was like an avid gambler, and he regretted the decision for a long time, which was the most desperate thing he had ever done in his life.
He didn't control himself, covered Tan Ruikang's face with one hand, leaned in and kissed his lips, he kissed him earnestly, as if to put all his secret love in this kiss, his tongue learned from TV On the kissing scene, pry open Tan Ruikang's lips.
"what are you doing!"
Tan Ruikang woke up, was startled, and pushed Yuan Yuan away suddenly.
The two looked at each other for a moment, Tan Ruikang's eyes were full of shock, and he looked into the distance as if he didn't know each other.
Tan Ruikang said, "Xiaoyuan? Xiaoyuan, what are you doing?"
Yuan Yuan knew that he had lost the bet and that there was nothing left.
He stepped back a little, accidentally knocked over the coffee table, collapsed on the ground, stumbled again, and said, "I'm joking, it's just a joke, don't take it seriously..."
Tan Ruikang frowned, Yuan Yuan was silent for a moment, then stood up, turned around subconsciously, stepped over a pile of broken glass, and ran to the door.
"Xiaoyuan!" Tan Ruikang shouted, "Xiaoyuan!"
The distant one stumbled, his white socks were covered with blood, he was wearing a pair of slippers indiscriminately, he wanted to run out to calm down, he couldn't deal with this kind of thing, he just wanted to escape.
"Wait!" Tan Ruikang held the door with one hand and stopped far away.
"Wait, Xiaoyuan." Tan Ruikang said: "Don't run, don't go anywhere. Why did you do this just now?"
Yuan Yuan closed his eyes, pressed his forehead against the door, and let out a long breath.
"Are you gay?" Tan Ruikang said, "how could this be? You... No wonder, Xiaoyuan, how are you... "
Yuan Yuan said: "Let me go out, let me be quiet for a while..."
Tan Ruikang said: "No, don't run, don't run! Xiaoyuan, where do you want to go?! You stepped on the glass, sit down!"
"A person with AIDS!" Yuan Yuan said, "Don't touch it!"
"I'm not afraid! I'm not afraid! I'm your brother!" Tan Ruikang said loudly, "I won't leave you if you are sick! You can't leave if I'm here!"
The two gasped for each other, and after a while, Yuan Yuan closed his eyes in despair, and he said, "Please, let me go out, let me be quiet for a while, I... I did it wrong, I made a complete mistake, how could I so stupid..."