Xu Sheng was half wet, so he used Tang Zhi's bathroom.
He washed quickly. Tang Zhi was sitting on the bed with his clothes on. Before the pain from the burn on his scalp completely subsided, Xu Sheng came out wearing a bathrobe.
He looked very upright, and it seemed that he had not solved it himself.
He walked straight towards Tang Zhi, gently picked up Tang Zhi's hand, checked the gauze, and asked Tang Zhi, "Does it still hurt?"
Tang Zhi shook his head and heard something vibrating. He turned around and took a look. It was Xu Sheng's cell phone on his bedside table.
Xu Sheng still squeezed Tang Zhi's palm, as if he hadn't heard anything. Tang Zhi pointed to the bedside table and reminded him: "Mr. Xu, the phone is ringing."
He just let go of Tang Zhi's hand, picked up the phone, looked at the caller, asked Tang Zhi to lie down obediently, and then walked out of Tang Zhi's room.
Tang Zhi lay down, but he didn't expect Xu Sheng to go back to his room.
When Xu Sheng went out, he turned off the wait, shrank into the quilt alone, wrapped himself up, and placed the injured hand on his chest, palm inward. He felt that the wound would be less likely to be pressed in this way.
Tang Zhi couldn't fall asleep immediately. He closed his eyes and thought about some irrelevant things.
He thought about what happened in the bathroom just now, and why Xu Sheng was so hard and put his pants back on. He thought about the long seaside plank road, the huge green lawn, and the scenery in the resort villa during the day. Xu Sheng's study, the little rabbit made of pears in the plate of fruit.
Just before his consciousness was about to blur, Tang Zhi's door was suddenly opened, and the dim light from the living room came in, covering the back half of the bed and the floor.
Tang Zhi opened his eyes to look. Xu Sheng at the door seemed to be stunned. He stood there for a few seconds and asked Tang Zhi in a low voice: "Are you asleep?"
"Not yet," Tang Zhi replied softly, and then added, "I want to sleep."
Xu Sheng was silent for a while, then turned on the floor lamp in Tang Zhi's room.
The light was not dazzling, but Tang Zhi still closed his eyes, and then saw Xu Sheng, who had changed into pajamas, walking towards him.
"Let me sleep with you tonight." Xu Sheng said to Tang Zhi.
From what Xu Sheng said, it seemed that Tang Zhi wanted him to sleep with him.
Tang Zhi said nothing because he didn't know what to say. When he saw Xu Sheng sitting next to his bed, he loosened the quilt a little and gave half of it to Xu Sheng.
Xu Sheng lay down next to Tang Zhi and turned off the light.
Tang Zhi felt that the mattress next to him sank heavily. Not long after, Xu Sheng hugged him. The body temperature from Xu Sheng wrapped around Tang Zhi, which was indeed warmer than the lifeless quilt.
Tang Zhi lay there for a while, then turned over to face Xu Sheng, put his injured hand on Xu Sheng's body, and rested his forehead on Xu Sheng's chin. Xu Sheng hugged his waist tightly and asked him, "What's wrong?"
Perhaps because of the darkness, Xu Sheng's voice sounded low and clear.
Tang Zhi didn't speak. Xu Sheng paused for a while and suddenly told Tang Zhi: "I just received a call from Zhong Rui. The place where your mother and the other party started to fight happened to be the blind spot of the camera, but yesterday there was a prisoner in the prison who reported to the prison guard. I am willing to testify for your mother because the other party made the first move."
"However, the retrial date may be postponed further." He put his hand on Tang Zhi's back and rubbed Tang Zhi's skin through the thin nightgown.
Xu Sheng's words are very ordinary, maybe Tang Zhi himself understood a little tenderness. Tang Zhi felt that he should kiss Xu Sheng and thank him again, but he did not do so and just said "thank you".
"No need to thank me, it should have been faster." When Xu Sheng spoke, his breath enveloped Tang Zhi's forehead like a heater, "I promised you."
Tang Zhi moved closer to Xu Sheng.
Xu Sheng's hand on him seemed to be raised slightly. He was quiet for a few seconds, then lowered his head and found Tang Zhi's lips.
He didn't kiss Tang Zhi in an overly erotic way. He kissed Tang Zhi gently and slowly, then moved to his chin, then pressed Tang Zhi into the bed, and kissed Tang Zhi's neck and collarbone. Before kissing his chest, he seemed to As if fighting against himself, he stopped, and finally left, almost as if he was a little annoyed.
The curtains in the room were very good at blocking out the light, making the darkness too intense.
Tang Zhi listened to Xu Sheng's breathing and felt that Xu Sheng was pushing against him, but he did not feel scared or in pain.
When Tang Zhi sees or thinks about sex, he often feels a sense of shame, accompanied by avoidance and indifference.
He always wanted to bury his body.
For example, if he lies on a deserted beach, burying everything from his neck down in sand, and wrapping his head in a paper bag, no one will see him, no one will know what he looks like, and no one will be able to touch him. body, and communicate with others through electronic communication.
But for a very brief moment that night, Tang Zhi felt a little less ashamed.
"Xu Sheng," Tang Zhi called Xu Sheng's name, and then asked him, "Why don't you do it with me?" He wanted to touch the part where Xu Sheng was pressing against him, but he felt it was a bit blasphemous that it was very hot and soft. Embrace.
Xu Sheng probably didn't expect him to ask this kind of question, because Xu Sheng was more respectable than Tang Zhi.
After a while, Xu Sheng said, "Tang Zhi, do you think about this every day?"
Tang Zhi was amused by what he said. He leaned on Xu Sheng, hugged Xu Sheng, and deliberately said to him: "Yes, I think about it every day."
Xu Sheng paused for a few seconds, then slowly came over to Tang Zhi with a bit of hesitation, kissed Tang Zhi's forehead, and told Tang Zhi, "I'll think about it later."
Tang Zhi laughed for a while longer, and then stayed quietly in Xu Sheng's arms for a long time. He thought about a lot of things, but still couldn't fall asleep, so he asked Xu Sheng, "Are you asleep?"
"No." Xu Sheng said.
Tang Zhi told Xu Sheng: "Actually, I don't think about it every day."
"I don't like these as much as you think." Tang Zhi said.
Xu Sheng did not answer, and Tang Zhi suspected that Xu Sheng did not believe it.
But Tang Zhi didn't care. He asked Xu Sheng, "Do you know why my mother killed people?"
After a while, Xu Sheng said to him, "Yes."
"I..." Tang Zhi didn't know how to express it. He leaned on Xu Sheng, thought for a while, and said, "After my mother went to prison, I stayed in the orphanage for two months and then went to an adoption home."
"They are very rich, but my adoptive father has been working abroad, and something is not right with my adoptive mother," Tang Zhi recalled carefully, leaning against Xu Sheng's neck, "I often fell asleep in the middle of my sleep, and when I woke up, I found her touching me. The lock on my room door is always broken, so I always run."
"Later, when I got a little older, she wasn't so extreme anymore, so I thought she was normal."
"I was quite happy during that time."
Xu Sheng didn't answer anything, and Tang Zhi added, "As you know, I had a fight with someone in high school and was punished."
He felt that Xu Sheng seemed to move, and Tang Zhi also moved before continuing: "That person lied to me at that time, saying that he could give my mother special care in prison, but he wanted me to get a large sum of money."
"I didn't understand anything and I trusted him, but I had no money," Tang Zhi said. "He asked me to work harder and earn some money."
"I went home that day and took a shower at night. When I was thinking about this, I suddenly realized that something seemed to be installed on the top of my bathroom. I turned off the light, removed it, and found out that it was a camera."
"I originally wanted to call the police," Tang Zhi said, "or show it to her husband. But when I held the camera in my hand, it suddenly occurred to me that I was short of money."
"I returned the camera and memory card to her, got the money, and gave it all to him. Later I found out that she was a liar. My mother is still in jail and there is still no one to take care of her," he thought calmly as he said, "Xu Sheng, you're right. I'm really cheap."
"I don't like women, and I don't like going to bed," Tang Zhi repeated, "but I'm really cheap."