After Xiao Yiheng left, Li Cheng returned rationally, and dazedly took out the small note from his swimming trunks.
For the 10,000th time, he was fortunate that he was wearing long racing swimming trunks. If he was wearing those low-waisted swimming briefs, if Xiao Yiheng had stuffed him with money... Wait, stop! Stop!
Li Cheng shook his head vigorously, dispelling the L-level fantasy in his mind.
He looked intently at the note—Xiao Yiheng's handwriting was very beautiful, just like his own personality, very restrained, but every stroke was natural. Li Cheng thought about his "ant body" character again, and for the first time came up with the idea of practicing calligraphy.
The meeting time is scheduled for Saturday morning, and the place is naturally the art classroom. Li Cheng thought with some guilty conscience, when Teacher Qiu Xian entrusted the key to Xiao Yiheng on maternity leave, he must have never thought that the sacred classroom could be used as a secret meeting place for the two of them.
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Saturday morning, the Xiao family.
Even on weekends, this "3A" family definitely doesn't allow family members to spend an extra minute in bed. At seven o'clock in the morning, the three Xiao family sat around the dining table, silent as always.
The breakfast prepared by Mother Xiao was as usual, with a cup of coffee, fried eggs and bacon in front of each person, and bread and jam bought in advance. Of course, all the ingredients are bought from the membership-based high-end supermarket, all organic and natural, and the taste is naturally worthy of its price.
But no matter how high-quality ingredients, eating in Xiao Yiheng's mouth is like wood chaff. The steamed buns and fritters sent by Li Cheng a few days ago, even if they are cold, are far better than these things.
Xiao's father is using a tablet to browse his work mailbox. As a high-ranking professor, he now has five graduate students under him. When Xiao Yiheng was young, he once went to the university where he taught to find him, but it happened that he scolded several graduate students in charge of crying because of an incorrect experimental data... That scene left a deep impression on Xiao Yiheng, he From then on, he knew that his father really didn't have "feelings".
At the top of the mailbox is an email from the school's Academic Affairs Office, with a red exclamation mark in the title, indicating that this is a high-level email. Dad Xiao put down the coffee cup, frowned and opened it. After reading it from beginning to end, he scolded a few words in a low voice.
"What's wrong?" Mother Xiao asked when she saw it.
"The secretary of the dean sent me an email again." Dad Xiao said impatiently, "It's the same thing. He said that I only recruited alpha students for five consecutive years. After each interview, it caused complaints from beta and omega students. According to "Teacher Code of Conduct", if I don't adjust the gender ratio in my enrollment next year, I will not be allowed to bring new students."
When Xiao's mother heard the words, she immediately said, "Let me coordinate this matter for you." She and her husband worked in the same school, but she was in the administrative office and often dealt with the academic affairs office.
"It's ridiculous. The graduate interview is a two-way choice. Students can choose teachers, why can't teachers choose students?" Dad Xiao took another sip of coffee and said angrily, "Beta is too mediocre, Yumu's head is not open, the same knowledge , others will learn it once, and beta needs to be taught several times; omega is too weak, anyway, in the end they will all get married, why should I spend my energy teaching them knowledge? Choose to choose, or alpha."
In the same words, he has said it more than once or twice. To use the popular words of young people now, he is an out-and-out straight A cancer.
Xiao Yiheng had to endure his remarks since he was a child, but for some reason, today he doesn't want to endure it any longer.
He stopped his chopsticks, looked up at his father who was sitting opposite him, and interrupted him unceremoniously: "Your opinion has too many subjective factors. Modern medicine has long proven that the difference in IQ between the three genders is minimal. , there is only a certain difference in physical development, and this difference can be made up by acquired training."
He paused, then added: "I know that in institutions of power and in academia, the alpha is much more important than the other two genders, but it's because of the asymmetry of gender concepts, not because of the asymmetry of ability— By the way, the two leaders of the discipline known as the mother of the 'artificial womb' are a beta and an omega. If you want to deny the abilities of beta and omega, then I am sitting in front of you, eighteen It wouldn't exist years ago."
Xiao Yiheng rarely expresses his opinions at home. He has always been silent and obedient in front of his parents. His sudden outburst this time was beyond their expectations.
Xiao's father was used to being the "head of the family" at home, and he immediately lowered his face when he heard this. But before he could speak, Xiao's mother next to him had already spoken first.
"Yiheng, how can you talk to your father like this!" Xiao's mother slapped the table heavily, "Do you think you know so much? Your father and I have worked so hard to train you for so many years, not for you to contradict us!"
Xiao Yiheng sneered from the bottom of his heart: Yes, his parents trained him in order to raise an echoer who would "inherit" and "carry forward" their dreams, study, work, stand out in their expectations, and become an alpha among alphas.
"What the hell is going on with you? First, you lied to your parents, went to watch some swimming competition, and then went to be an assistant in a physiology class without saying a word. Do you know how much time is wasted by this? Senior year is the most precious time. Don't waste a minute!" Xiao's mother became more and more angry, and her voice became louder and louder, "Tell the truth, your winter camp is reporting to the school in the capital, do you just want to run away from us? Stay away from us, I can't take care of you anymore?!"
These words after another are nominally concerned with Xiao Yiheng's studies, but he knows better than anyone that all their cares and concerns are just to control themselves.
Faced with his mother's questioning, Xiao Yiheng paused for two seconds, and then asked, "...Can't I have my own affairs, my own goals, and my own thoughts?"
"You're still a child," Father Xiao said this time, "what does a child need 'self'?"
"..." Xiao Yiheng stopped talking.
He thought, I'm afraid his parents have forgotten, next month he will be eighteen years old, next month, he will become a legal adult.
He thought about the paintings he had entrusted to Mr. Qiu Xian to sell over the past few years, and then thought about the FXXK U money accumulated in his private account... He narrowed his eyes to hide the surging thoughts in his eyes.
…
After breakfast, Xiao Yiheng carried his schoolbag and went to school to make up lessons on the excuse. Xiao's mother was a little suspicious, but in the end she didn't stop him.
At the moment when he left the house, something heavy suddenly disappeared from his shoulders, and Xiao Yiheng couldn't let out a sigh of relief until this moment.
The campus on Saturday was empty, but some classes organized make-up classes, so occasionally you could see a few scattered students on campus.
When Xiao Yiheng walked across the playground, he met several students of the same grade. He nodded lightly as a greeting, and when he passed by, he heard them chatting, "As expected of a student, you have to come to recharge with such good grades."
They were right, Xiao Yiheng was indeed here to charge.
He turned around and walked towards the complex. He walked up the stairs, and hidden in the art classroom on the top floor was the treasure that could recharge his soul.
Not only was Li Cheng not late today, but he arrived ten minutes earlier. But he didn't have the key to the art classroom, so he sat on the floor against the door panel and focused on playing mobile games. He turned on the sound effect so loudly that it covered Xiao Yiheng's footsteps.
It wasn't until a pair of sneakers appeared in his sight that Li Cheng quickly put away his phone and looked up at Xiao Yiheng who was standing in front of him.
"Do you need me to give you a few more minutes to finish this round?" Xiao Yiheng asked slowly.
"No, I'm not playing anymore." Li Cheng was very forthright, and directly locked the screen of his phone and put it in his trouser pocket - a joke, the life and death of teammates in the game are not as important as a wife (?). Moreover, the team with him was his younger brother, even if he dropped the line in the middle, they would not dare to kick him out of the guild.
Li Cheng took Xiao Yiheng's hand and stood up, until the two got close, Li Cheng realized that something was wrong.
Li Cheng asked directly: "...Are you in a bad mood today?"
Li Cheng couldn't tell what was wrong, but he had a feeling somewhere.
Xiao Yiheng didn't know how to tell him about the conflict between himself and his parents, so he could only simplify it into one sentence: "Well."
Fortunately, Li Cheng is not the kind of person who likes to get to the bottom of things. Without saying a word, he immediately opened his arms and gave Xiao Yiheng a hug.
"Tell me if you have something, and I will help you carry it together!" Li Cheng pressed the alpha's head firmly on his shoulder, "It's okay if you want to cry, I'll lend you my shoulder!"
Xiao Yiheng was amused by him. He pressed his forehead against the side of Li Cheng's neck, and his laughter was light but heavy, hitting Li Cheng's heart one after another.
They stood in the empty corridor and hugged quietly for an unknown time. The induction lights above their heads went out one by one, leaving only the light source leaking from the window covering them.
After a long time, Xiao Yiheng first let go and stood up straight.
Li Cheng looked at him carefully, and said regretfully, "Dare you not crying?"
He was seen by Xiao Yiheng when he was crying, and he thought that if he could see Xiao Yiheng cry this time, he would be able to regain a city.
Xiao Yiheng replied, "I haven't shed tears for many years."
"That won't work!" Li Cheng frightened him, "Even if it's a man, it's good to shed tears occasionally. This kind of water is a channel for emotional catharsis. If you hold it back, your body will be damaged!"
Xiao Yiheng paused for a few seconds: "... Orange Orange, the second half of your sentence can actually refer to another kind of moisture."
Li Cheng: "?"
Li Cheng didn't understand at all.
However, Xiao Yiheng didn't intend to explain. He opened the door of the art classroom with the key and walked into the classroom with Li Cheng's hand.
He has already made arrangements in the art classroom in advance. After painting and drying the recently completed works, they were all delivered to Mr. Qiu Xian's house and asked her to contact the gallery to sell them. Now the whole classroom is vacant, and the middle is completely empty. After emptying it, I don't know where he brought a set of simple sofas, covered with cloth and two pillows.
"Sit down." Xiao Yiheng moved a chair and sat across from the sofa. He put down his schoolbag, took out a black hard-shell notebook and a few sharpened pencils.
The book was not big, Li Cheng thought it was a diary or something at first glance, but Xiao Yiheng directly opened the middle page of the book, and it seemed that he was going to draw directly on the book.
Li Cheng was dumbfounded and pointed to the drawing board easel stacked against the corner: "Don't you use those?"
"No, I want to sketch today." Xiao Yiheng raised the notebook in his hand, "It's enough to have it."
The so-called sketch, as the name suggests, is to describe a person or a scene in a very short period of time. Xiao Yiheng has always been painting scenery, but after meeting Li Cheng, a strong desire to create emerged in his heart.
He wanted to paint him with a paintbrush, his bright eyes, straight nose, smiling lips... He wanted to paint his body, paint his soul.
When Li Cheng was in art class before, he used to be a model for other classmates in the class, but that time it was just a joke. The students described him as a strange-looking monster, like a monster who failed to survive the calamity.
But this time is different, he is a model for his boyfriend!
Li Cheng was excited and nervous. He sat on the sofa, not knowing where to put his hands and feet.
"Don't be so rigid." Xiao Yiheng guided him with words, "Just do the movements you like."
Actions he likes...
Li Cheng subconsciously assumed a "contemplative" posture: "Is this okay?"
Xiao Yiheng: "..."
Seeing that her boyfriend was dissatisfied, Li Cheng put on another "discus thrower": "So what?"
Xiao Yiheng: "..."
Taking advantage of this, Li Cheng also poses as the Statue of Liberty, Guanyin Bodhisattva, etc. If Venus's arm is not broken, he doesn't know how to pose, and he even wants to learn from her.
"Don't be so troublesome." Xiao Yiheng hurriedly called to stop, "You just need to move as usual, you can lie on the sofa, read a book, or play with your mobile phone, as long as you keep one movement still for a few minutes, you can change it if you want. You can change your posture at will."
This requirement is too lenient!
Li Cheng immediately lay down, picked up the book at hand and started to read. Those books were all prepared by Xiao Yiheng in advance. He knew that Li Cheng didn't like to read textbooks, so he prepared several popular fantasy novels for him.
At first, Li Cheng just flipped through the pages just to make a move, but the more he read, the more fascinated he became. When he saw the rise, he sat up directly from the sofa, leaning on the back of the sofa, sitting with his feet crossed together, Read the book on your lap.
Following the progress of the plot, Li Cheng's expression also changed. His cheekbones flew up and down for a while, and his eyebrows even provoked a tap dance.
Xiao Yiheng quietly observed him, capturing every subtle change in his expression.
This page is full of Li Cheng's agile eyes.
On that page, all Li Cheng's hands were flipping through the novel.
Turning another page, he turned into Li Cheng's sitting position again. Even if he only used a few circles and squares to outline the basic frame, he could tell at a glance who he was painting.
Finally, this fantasy novel turned to the last page, Li Cheng let out a sigh of relief, closed the cover, and was still immersed in the world of the novel—and then he remembered that he was here to be a model! !
He looked at Xiao Yiheng embarrassedly, but soon found that the sketchbook in Xiao Yiheng's hand had already turned several pages... This means that his "work" was done quite well?
Thinking of this, Li Cheng asked confidently, "Hey Xiao Yiheng, did you bring the second volume of this book?"
Xiao Yiheng stopped writing and looked at him: "I can give you the second volume, but I have a request."
"any request?"
"Can you stop calling me by my full name?" Xiao Yiheng said, "We have officially dated. I call you Chengcheng, and you should call me by a more intimate name."
Li Cheng thought for a while: "Then I call you Hengheng?"
"..." Xiao Yiheng immediately refused, "No, change it."
In fact, Li Cheng thought "Hengheng" sounded pretty good. He secretly called out several times in his heart, but unfortunately Hengheng couldn't hear it.
It doesn't matter, Li Cheng "can bend and stretch", Xiao Yiheng said that he didn't like this nickname, he immediately changed the new name "follow the goodness": "Please give me the second volume, wife."
Xiao Yiheng: "..."
Not to mention the second volume, from now on, the first volume will also be gone.
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When I wrote this chapter about parents with cancer, I specifically went to Zhihu and searched for posts such as "Straight Men's Cancer Quotes" and "How Terrible Parents' Desire to Control"...
Chapter 72 "Because I lost my father since I was a child, so now I like to be someone's father"
Xiao Yiheng wanted to confiscate the fantasy novel in Li Cheng's hands, but Li Cheng certainly refused. He deliberately hid the novel behind his back, turned his hands back and forth like magic, and said naively, "Look, the novel is gone!"
Xiao Yiheng put down the sketchbook, got up to grab it, but was confused, and the two rolled together like this.
The sofa is not spacious, two tall and long-legged teenagers are squeezed on it, their bodies are stacked, their legs are pressed against their legs, the thumping heartbeats meet together, their eyes meet, and no one moves for a while.
Xiao Yiheng lowered his head to look at the boy who was under him, his eyes were burning, and the nebula in the depths of his pupils was bright.
Li Cheng's soul seemed to be sucked away by the gaze. After a long time, he made a vague "uh" from his throat, his eyes wandered, and he turned his head to the side.
The slender neck was exposed to alpha's sight, and a drop of sweat fell down the back of the blond boy's neck. Xiao Yiheng reached out and tapped it with his fingertips, crushing the drop of sweat.
Boys of this age are at the age where it is easy to rub a gun and go off the rails. As soon as Xiao Yiheng prodded, Li Cheng bent his legs subconsciously, trying to hide the gradually awakening part of his crotch.
Xiao Yiheng pressed on him, clearly felt the changes in his body, glanced down, and the end of his eyes swayed in a pleasant arc.
Li Cheng tried his best to hide his "little tail", and scolded with red cheeks: "Xiao Yiheng, don't pretend to me! You have what I have, and you also have what I have thought about, don't say you haven't thought about it!"
"Of course I have thought about the things you have thought about." Xiao Yiheng played word games with him in a playful tone, "It's just that you may not have thought about the things I have thought about."
Li Cheng usually makes a mess of Chinese reading questions in exams, but on this occasion he can get full marks.
Li Cheng's upper and lower heads were equally hot. He glared at Xiao Yiheng with a blushing face and muttered, "You can only think about what I have thought about, what you think about, no, you are not allowed to think about it!"
Xiao Yiheng laughed hoarsely.
He hugged the boyfriend in his arms and promised, "Don't worry, this is the classroom, I won't do that kind of thing in the classroom."
Li Cheng blurted out: "Do you still do that kind of thing in the classroom less often?"
Xiao Yiheng was stunned, and when he recalled it carefully, he realized that Li Cheng was right. The first time they kiss was in the classroom, and the first time they marked was in the classroom.
I don't know when Li Cheng's next boom will be... When they are adults, they won't have to secretly date in school like they are now.
Xiao Yiheng was about to ask when suddenly, a strange vibration suddenly appeared from him, breaking the ambiguity between the two.
Li Cheng: "...why is your butt shaking?"
Xiao Yiheng: "...that's the phone in my trouser pocket."
"..." Damn, did he really get his IQ eaten by sperm? !
A temporary call broke the ambiguous atmosphere between the two. Xiao Yiheng got up from Li Cheng, Li Cheng tidied up his clothes awkwardly, and asked Xiao Yiheng who was calling.
Xiao Yiheng glanced at the caller's name: "It's your sister."
"Yuyou?" Li Cheng recalled, "Oh right, Yuyou told me yesterday, let me remind you to go to her house for dinner at six o'clock on Sunday night. Maybe she was afraid that I would forget, so I just called to remind you."
Fortunately, Youyou made the call, otherwise Li Cheng might have forgotten about it.
Xiao Yiheng answered the phone, and Youyou's lively and cheerful voice came from the phone.
She called out crisply: "sister-in-law!"
Xiao Yiheng: "..."
Youyou: "Did my brother tell you? Come to my house for dinner tomorrow night. Mom and Dad will practice it for my brother!"
Xiao Yiheng glanced at Li Cheng and replied, "He told me." Although it was just a minute ago. "Saturday night at six o'clock, I won't be late."
"I'm not afraid that you will be late..." Youyou said sadly, "I'm afraid that my brother will be late. You don't know, my brother is the king of pigeons, and he always forgets the appointments with him!"
Xiao Yiheng thought that he knew Li Cheng's cooing skills better than anyone else. For the loving breakfast promised by Li Cheng, he was hungry for three whole mornings. But the quarrel between brother and sister-in-law should not let the children worry about it.
"Don't worry." Xiao Yiheng promised, "I will come to pick him up at school, and the two of us will go together. With my supervision, he would not dare to be late."
Beside him, Li Cheng eavesdropped on the whole conversation openly. He shook his fist at Xiao Yiheng while baring his little tiger teeth, but unfortunately his eyes flickered, which made him feel unsure.
This phone call has been talked about for a long time. Youyou has a good relationship with this freshly released "sister-in-law", and she has to tell him everything. Although it was all trivial things like "who borrowed my rubber and who did I dance with?", it still sounded sour.
I don't know whose vinegar he is eating.
By the time this call is over, it will be too late. Li Cheng has to train this afternoon, so he can't continue to be a model for Xiao Yiheng.
Xiao Yiheng packed up his brushes and sketchbooks, returned the art classroom to its original state, and walked out of the classroom with him.
Li Cheng looked at the sketchbook in his hand curiously: the book was hard-shelled, about the same thickness as a textbook. From the side, the front half of the book was yellow and frizzy, and it seemed that a lot of things had been drawn.
Li Cheng asked, "Can you show me this book?" He wanted to see what Xiao Yiheng wrote of himself.
Xiao Yiheng asked back: "Are you sure you want to see it?" He flipped the book in his hand and whispered, "The pictures here are all the things you don't allow me to think about..."
"Lying, trough." Li Cheng immediately played far away, "Take it away, I won't watch it!"
"You really don't see it?" Xiao Yiheng deliberately made a pity look and handed him to Li Cheng, "Actually, I really want you to see it."
Li Cheng was so shaken - he was an old driver who read countless films, and Xiao Yiheng was a good student. Maybe there was nothing in that book, maybe Xiao Yiheng was deliberately scaring him?
In the end, the idea of dying prevailed. He reached out his hand to take the book, but just when his fingers were about to touch the book, Xiao Yiheng turned his wrist and deliberately took it back.
"Forget it." Xiao Yiheng said, "Since Brother Li doesn't want to read it, don't read it." As he spoke, he opened his schoolbag and put the book in.
Li Cheng scratched his ears and cheeks anxiously: "Who said I don't want to watch it!"
Xiao Yiheng: "So Brother Li really wants to see it?"
"..." Li Cheng pursed her lips and was embarrassed to admit it. He could only watch Xiao Yiheng pull up his schoolbag, and the hard leather was disappearing from his sight.
This guy Xiao Yiheng really grasped his mind accurately. It is estimated that in the next few days, Li Cheng will have dreams related to that book every night.
…
At five o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday, Xiao Yiheng arrived at the downstairs of Licheng's dormitory on time, ready to pick him up to go to Youyou's house.
Li Cheng lingered in the dormitory for a while, Xiao Yiheng was afraid that he would forget, so he called him and urged him to go downstairs.
Li Cheng said on the phone, "It's down", but it took another ten minutes before he appeared in front of Xiao Yiheng.
Today's Li Cheng is completely different from the usual one: his messy blond hair is neatly combed and split in half in the middle, like a K-pop male star in the 1990s, every hair is smeared with hair oil to shine The water is bright, and if a fly falls on it, it will throw a split.
Looking at his clothes again, a solid black T-shirt is paired with straight jeans and white sneakers. Even the shoelaces are clean and spotless.
Li Cheng opened his arms and turned around in front of Xiao Yiheng, asking him, "Can I wear this?"
He never dressed like this even when he came to the stage to accept the award.
Xiao Yiheng nodded: "Yes, very handsome."
He finally understood that Li Cheng had been dawdling in the house for so long just now because he was changing clothes. Although Li Cheng and Youyou's adoptive parents have known each other for a long time, this is the first time he has visited the house, and of course he wants to be more formal.
When Li Cheng approached, Xiao Yiheng suddenly felt that something was wrong: "Is your T-shirt on the wrong side? Why is the wiring outside?"
Li Cheng choked and said casually, "This is a design style."
Xiao Yiheng realized something, stretched out Li Cheng's T-shirt, and looked inside - oh, and saw a row of golden characters printed on the "inside" of the clothes!
Xiao Yiheng was helpless: "You couldn't find a solid color T-shirt, so did you turn it over and wear it?"
Li Cheng pretended to be stupid.
Xiao Yiheng: "Actually, you don't have to do this. It's not the first time you have dealt with Yuyou's adoptive parents. You know who they are, and they know who you are. Just keep on being your normal self. ."
Li Cheng is Li Cheng, he has an arrogant personality and acts flamboyantly... If he is timid, then he is not Li Cheng.
Li Cheng thought about it too, he took off his clothes and put them back on again, this time, the three golden characters on his chest clearly caught Xiao Yiheng's eyes - "My name is eldest brother!"
There is an exclamation mark after it.
Xiao Yiheng: "..."
Xiao Yiheng: "Otherwise, you'd better turn your clothes over and wear them."
Li Cheng: "???"
…
Although it took a while to change clothes, it was a smooth journey. They got into the car and soon arrived at the gate of the community where Youyou's house is located.
It is said to be a "community", but it is actually just an old-fashioned building with low buildings clustered together, imprinting the imprint of the times on this rapidly changing city.
Li Cheng was very nervous, and when he was nervous, it was easy to talk too much. Along the way, he reminisced about the days in the orphanage and what happened before and after Yuyou was adopted. Xiao Yiheng listened quietly without interruption.
Li Cheng said: "In a situation like me and Youyou, it is actually the most difficult to adopt from the welfare home. Generally speaking, couples who come to adopt only want one child. If two children are raised together, the cost will be too high. In addition, everyone tends to adopt younger children, but when my parents had an accident, I was in the fourth grade, and I remembered everything. In their words, even if a child like me is brought home, 'Unfamiliar'."
Li Cheng: "I really hate the word 'unfamiliar', I feel like we are not human, just like kittens and puppies, we can forget our previous owners by giving us food and water. But that's my parents. , No matter how nice others treat me, I can't be 'nurtured' by others."
"Other children are all about being adopted, but I don't. I don't want to be adopted. The welfare home is actually pretty good. Although there are no toys and no entertainment, it has all the food and clothing that should be provided. From time to time, enthusiastic companies are organized. We do volunteer work, but when those uncles come to do volunteer work, they look at us very well... How do you say that word, mercy? Yes, it is mercy."
"And their main task is to come and take pictures. Play games with us, and some people take pictures; give us red envelopes, and some people take pictures; accompany us to do hygiene, and some people take pictures... I'm not saying they shouldn't take pictures, but just, how do you say it? , I feel very uncomfortable."
Because, it would make him feel more like a zoo animal.
When Xiao Yiheng heard this, he stretched out his hand to hold Li Cheng's hand, and intertwined his fingers with him to transmit power to him.
It was a life experience that Xiao Yiheng could not imagine, and its colors were only black, white and gray. It's hard to imagine how a boy with a flamboyant and presumptuous personality like Li Cheng has spent years in such a depressing environment.
"The welfare institute has a counterpart school for assistance. All students will be arranged to go to school there. That school is still the city's key school, and the school spirit is particularly good. But during school, you can clearly feel that there is a gap between you and other students. They They dare not talk to you, not 'afraid of you', but 'afraid of hurting you', they are afraid that casually saying 'my parents took me to the amusement park this weekend' will hit you, and they are careful when playing with you Yes, every word must be thought several times before speaking." Li Cheng smiled bitterly, "But they don't know, it is their attitude of treating me as a fragile item that makes me very unbearable."
Xiao Yiheng clenched his hand tightly, he wanted to say "I understand", but he knew, he didn't actually understand.
Empathy is always a false proposition.
"Later, something happened, but now that I think about it, it's really a trivial matter. On a Friday, the head teacher told me to take the afternoon off. I was very happy. I felt that there was an extra half-day vacation. As a result, when I went to school on Monday, my deskmate said something wrong. He opened his mouth and said that there was a parent-teacher meeting on Friday afternoon... Yes, the parent-teacher meeting. The teacher was afraid that the word parent would hurt us, so he told the children in the orphanage to have a holiday on Friday. In fact, he held a parent-teacher meeting for other students.”
The teacher's starting point was good, but when it fell into Li Cheng's heart, it became a serious pit. He used to be a child with parents and a family, but when he was persuaded to accept this fact, the teacher's behavior reminded him of the pain of losing a loved one again.
"It was also in that year that Youyou's adoptive parents appeared." Li Cheng fell into his memories, "The dean called me over, showed me their information, and asked me for my opinion. Our orphanage is very formal. In the welfare home, all adopters have complete procedures, have legitimate occupations, and have undergone background checks. Youyou was only six years old at the time, which was a very suitable age for adoption. I still remember the dean's expression at that time, she knew that I had a bad temper, Afraid that I would disagree, that I would play tricks."
"I looked at her and I said: 'Why don't I agree? Of course I agree. I can find a new home for Youyou, I agree more than anyone else.'" Li Cheng whispered, "My only request is to let them Transfer Yuyou's student status as soon as possible, I hope she will enter the first grade of an ordinary elementary school as an ordinary child... Since then, her parents' meeting will be attended by everyone. "
Speaking of the last sentence, Li Cheng's voice was barely audible.
Xiao Yiheng couldn't help holding him in his arms, Li Cheng grabbed his T-shirt tightly and hid his wet red eyes.
He didn't cry, of course Brother Li wouldn't cry. He was just... a little emotional.
According to the principle of adoption, adopted children should avoid contact with previous family members, because this will prevent them from integrating into the new family. Li Cheng was just a child, so he couldn't hold it any longer. He secretly ran to see Youyou a few times, but when his sister saw him, she made a fuss and wanted to leave with him... Because of this, Li Cheng's relationship with the couple was for a time. Made it very stiff.
Youyou's adoptive parents have prejudice against Li Cheng who looks like a gangster, and Li Cheng doesn't like the person who took his sister away. The two sides have their own reasons, and until today, they finally decided to let go of their grievances.
Li Cheng said, "I don't have my parents anymore, but you still have you, how wonderful."
Xiao Yiheng wanted to comfort him very much. He wanted to tell him that although he had parents, he might as well not have them.
At this point, they are all equally alone.
Before Xiao Yiheng could say these words, Li Cheng in his arms sniffed and said in a muffled voice, "Maybe it's because I haven't had a father since I was a child, so now I especially like being someone's father."
Xiao Yiheng: "..."
The originally good atmosphere was completely lost by Brother Li's words. Xiao Yiheng's comfort was blocked in his heart, and he finally decided to swallow it silently.
The two bought milk and fruit at the small supermarket at the entrance of the community, but Li Cheng was not stingy and chose the expensive ones.
They walked towards Yuyou's house with their hands full. Youyou's house is on the second floor of Tongzi Building. The old floor is very short, and the stairs are narrow and dark. However, the doors of every household are tidied up warmly, and some people put shoe racks and lockers directly in the corridor.
This is completely two extremes from the high-end community where Xiao Yiheng's family lives.
Li Cheng joked with him: "The first time the eldest young master condescended to come to the civilian area, how do you feel?"
"Feelings?" Xiao Yiheng looked at the debris piled up in the corridor and asked suspiciously, "With so many things in the corridor, do the community cleaning and property care not matter?"
"..." Sure enough, it was the eldest young master. He didn't know that some communities had neither cleaning nor property.
While joking, the two walked to the door of Youyou's house. Li Cheng handed the gift in his hand to Xiao Yiheng, opened the backpack with his backhand, and took out the little lemon that was sleeping soundly inside.
The two had discussed before that when Li Cheng went to the capital for training, he would leave the little duck to Youyou to take care of. After all, Youyou still has a cat at home who can be with ducks, and Xiao Yiheng is inconvenient to keep pets at home. In this way, Youyou is the most suitable candidate.
"Little Lemon, don't sleep, wake me up!" Li Cheng shook it to wake him up, "Hurry up and put on the cutest expression, our family of three will be guests in the most perfect manner."
Little Lemon shook his wings, stretched his neck ten centimeters energetically, and formed a snowball in Li Cheng's arms.
When everything was ready, Li Cheng took a deep breath, hugged the duck with one hand, and rang the doorbell with the other.
The melodious doorbell rang for a few seconds, and after a few seconds, a series of footsteps sounded behind the door, and then, the door in front of him was opened.
Youyou, like a cheerful lark, threw herself into Li Cheng's arms calling out "brother, brother".
And the adoptive mother who was standing behind her also raised a smile, arranging to get them guest slippers.
"Hello, Auntie." Li Cheng greeted a little jerkily. Xiao Yiheng followed behind him and entered the house. Two teenagers about 1.8 meters in size crowded in the small entrance, and they were so crowded that it was difficult to turn around.
"You two children," the adoptive mother looked at the gifts in their hands, "you just came to the house for a quick meal, what else did you buy?"
"You're welcome, this is a little thought from Li Cheng and I." Xiao Yiheng said, while handing over the milk and fruit in his hand to Youyou. Youyou is very sensible and helps to carry the snacks after running. into the living room.
"Then auntie will thank you." The adoptive mother was very moved and reached out to take the little lemon in Li Cheng's arms.
Taking advantage of this, she turned to face the kitchen, raised the little white duck in her hand, and shouted to the busy figures in the kitchen: "My child, her father, Li Cheng brought a very fat and tender duck here! Take out the casserole. , I'll make you a winter melon stewed duck tonight!"
Li Cheng: "... No, wait!"
Xiao Yiheng: "..."
Little Lemon: "Gah????"
The author has something to say:
Who doesn't want to eat a very fat and tender duck?
(Little Lemon: No, you don't want to!!!)