Lao Cheng hurriedly rushed to help, Dou Xun's eyes sank slightly, and he finally let go.
Xu Xilin was so embarrassed that he didn't dare to look back. He directed Lao Cheng, who was half drunk, to pick up the drunk Cai Jing into the car. Then he grabbed a handful of his hair and asked the silent Dou Xun, "It's you who will give you a ride. Take a taxi?"
Dou Xun picked up his jacket, retreated to a safe distance, and said reservedly, "It's fine."
Xu Xilin was stuck, but he didn't expect that after not seeing him for many years, Dou Xun actually learned to "let you face the dilemma easily".
Xu Xilin looked down at his toes: "It's too late, I'll take it off for you."
Mr. Dou Xun, who was "all right", happily followed.
Dou Xun's heart had been beating wildly since he came out of the private room. After the unexpected contact, his desire to touch Xu Xilin was suddenly activated, and it expanded exponentially.
He looked at Xu Xilin's hand on the steering wheel and wanted to cover it with his own. Seeing that Xu Xilin was tired from sitting and pinched his neck with his fingers, he wanted to do it for him.
Dou Xun also wanted to rub the back of his hand against his face, wanted to press down the woolen thread on his shoulders, wanted to stroke his slightly arched back all the way... He even wanted to occupy Xu Xilin's bathroom and take a shower without him. Replace the liquid with the original, familiar taste.
Dou Xun felt that it was not his illusion, and Xu Xilin was not indifferent to him.
The two of them sent the crying Cai Jing and the humming Lao Cheng to the grandfather's flower shop, and suddenly found that the route actually coincided with the one that took the way back to the hotel that day.
The last time, there was a solid ice between the two of them, and Xu Xilin didn't say a word to him all the way in a trance.
But at this time, that layer of ice was melting at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving a layer as thin as window paper.
Xu Xilin tilted his head and glanced at Dou Xun: "Have you been drinking? Turn up the air conditioner when it's cold."
Dou Xun let out an "um", his brows were still terribly handsome, and in the dimly lit place, the silhouette was particularly beautiful. From Xu Xilin's point of view, he was frowning slightly, as if he was troubled by something.
Xu Xilin had a lot of problems and was eager to pierce the thin layer of ice, and he was discouraged in front of the shallow folds between his brows.
Dou Xun was actually worried about how to bring up this matter. He wanted to have the cheek to ask Xu Xilin out again, but when he was dozing off, the other party brought a pillow.
Dou Xun was shocked: "If it's not troublesome..."
... can you take me for a walk tomorrow
But before he could finish speaking, Xu Xilin's cell phone rang.
Xu Xilin didn't answer and asked Dou Xun, "What?"
Dou Xun waved his hand, motioning him to do his own thing first. Facing forward, he stared greedily at the reflection Xu Xilin cast on it through an obscure shadow on the window glass.
It was Song Lianyuan who called.
Song Lianyuan asked, "Why haven't you come back yet? Is there anything else on your side? What day do you plan to book a ticket?"
"Oh, I originally planned to leave today," Xu Xilin said in the silence as he parked his car at the intersection and waited for the red light, "I have something to do today, I have to change the sign for tomorrow, and arrive at night."
Dou Xun turned his head, put his elbows on the car door, supported his head, sighed silently, his straight waist collapsed slightly, and smiled bitterly to himself - fortunately, he didn't have time to say, Xu Xilin probably didn't Good rejection, like a ruthless request.
Song Lianyuan asked him a few words, and Xu Xilin answered absentmindedly, joining in the sparse traffic.
When Dou Xun saw that he had hung up the phone, he asked, "Why do you still have to go out of town at this time?"
Xu Xilin: "No, urge me to go back for the New Year."
The word "hui" hit Dou Xun at once, and the excited heart seemed to be stumbled by a mass of mud poured down from the sky, and it gradually became less joyful. The distance that had already narrowed was flickering and the next day, Dou Xun forcibly suppressed the displeasure in his heart, and couldn't help but ask lonely, "Why did you sell the house?"
Everyone is gone, why do you live in such an empty big house, raise a kid
But this sentence is inappropriate to say at this time. Xu Xilin closed his eyes and remembered the days when Dou Xun left without any news, and the days when he got along with his grandmother.
"The past" is really like an enemy-occupied area, with two mines in three steps, and there are too many problems left over from history.
Xu Xilin had no choice but to pretend to say lightly: "In those two years, the domestic housing prices have gone up so crazy, I think the market is a bit dangerous, the relatively small units are more liquid and have better anti-risk ability - and at that time, I just wanted to quit my job and start a business, and it was precarious. , you have to have some source of income, and change a few small houses to collect rent."
Dou Xun was speechless for a moment.
Can a home with so many memories and so many feelings be abandoned because of the cold word "fluidity"
The corners of Dou Xun's mouth tightened, and he began to suspect that the momentary intimacy in the private room was his own illusion.
At this time, Xu Xilin asked again: "You can't spend the New Year in the hotel, can you? Or..."
Dou Xun hung up in one breath and waited expectantly for his next sentence.
"Let's settle down at my house" came back and forth on Xu Xilin's tongue several times.
But the abruptness is on the one hand, on the other hand... Xu Xilin felt that his home like a memorial hall seemed not suitable for Dou Xun, and finally swallowed it.
He wisely came up with a bad idea: "Why don't you go to Laocheng's, there is an empty room in his flower shop, and Cai Jing is back this year, and it is also lively."
Dou Xun's expression became completely cold, and he said lightly, "Let's talk about it, I have a place to go."
Then the two stopped talking, and Xu Xilin was sensitive to find that Dou Xun's mood suddenly dropped, and he didn't dare to ask casually, so he had to drive the car steadily.
After such a long journey, Dou Xun's cheerful mood was not left at all, and he felt that his expectations were like a fluke.
Someone once said "I won't be angry with you", but in the end, it was still one shot.
Someone once said, "This room will always be reserved for you", but it still became a sentence, "Why don't you go to the old one."
There was also the phrase "going back for the New Year", he didn't even know where Xu Xilin's home was now.
Dou Xun wanted to be quiet, and said indifferently: "Just put me at the intersection in front of you, you don't have to go over, it's not easy to turn around in front of you."
Xu Xilin silently parked the car on the side of the road, the hem of Dou Xun's coat crossed the cold winter night, and walked into the cold night without looking back. Xu Xilin had an indescribable intuition for a moment, as if after a short meeting, this back figure heralded the next parting trip.
He abruptly opened the car door and got out of the car: "Dou Xun!"
Dou Xun looked back at him.
Xu Xilin's soul was divided into two, and the left half thought: "Don't be too much."
The right half thought: "You heard him say that it is so ambiguous whether to leave or stay, and there is probably no one around for these years?"
Then the left half hit back: "Did you forget that when he left, he said to you 'you don't get along with old age'? I haven't come back once in so many years, and he hates you to death! I heard that Yin Aisheng Hate, have you ever heard of hate giving birth to love? What are you dreaming about?"
The right half was almost killed in one hit.
Xu Xilin's lips twitched a few times, but he was unable to speak.
Dou Xun's eyebrows were slightly raised, Xu Xilin was familiar with this expression, it meant he was a little impatient.
Who would have guessed that at such an inopportune time, the right half of Xu Xilin who was knocked down actually just pretended to be dead.
Xu Xilin blurted out, "Can you watch the parrot for me for a few days? I have to go back there to do the annual report. It's too much trouble to carry it back and forth."
Dou Xun didn't say anything for a while, Xu Xilin held his breath, and waited for a while as if waiting for the verdict, feeling that the time had become infinite, just when he was about to back down: "If it's trouble..."
Dou Xun said, "Okay."
Xu Xilin was stunned for a while, and then the two of them spoke almost at the same time.
Dou Xun: "Then I'll pick it up from you tomorrow."
Xu Xilin: "I will send it to you tomorrow before I leave."
Dou Xun: "..."
He took a deep breath, tried his best to convince himself not to screw it up, forcibly suppressed the bitterness in his stomach, and smiled half sourly: "Why, what treasure is hidden in your house, you have to be so careful?"
Then, without waiting for Xu Xilin to make up the reason, he said, "Then you can send it to Laocheng. Birds may not be allowed here where I live."
After speaking, Dou Xun quickly nodded at him, and strode away as if he were running away.
The next day, when Dou Xun went to the "Grandpa" flower shop, the gray parrot was already there, and Xu Xilin went to the airport before dawn.
"He's too busy to mention it," Lao Cheng carefully added water to the bird ancestor in the cage, "Whenever you call him, he is always in the company, working twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Back then he was studying. If he had such energy then, maybe both of you are alumni now... Hey, Dou Xian'er, how does this monster serve, why do I think it has something against me?"
Perhaps Xu Xi had instructed him before he came, but the grey parrot did not take the initiative to attack. It stood on the shelf in the birdcage, staring at Lao Cheng with a noble and glamorous look.
"Male bird, I don't like men." Dou Xun tentatively stretched out his hand, the grey parrot obviously doesn't remember him anymore, as if his hair was blown up by the enemy, he bowed his head and was about to peck at him, Dou Xun reluctantly withdrew his hand, " See, I have a lot of opinions too."
Lao Cheng looked back and saw that Cai Jing was still serving flowers in the front yard, so he carefully lowered his voice and said to Dou Xun, "You two... that... that what... "
Dou Xun: "Break it, it's been many years."
"Oh," Lao Cheng nodded, and after a while, he said awkwardly, "We outsiders can't talk about these things. Actually... Now it doesn't seem to matter. You can get married abroad, and it's quite foreign— Have you tried it with anyone else?"
Dou Xun shook his head silently.
Over the years, many people have shown affection to him, most of them are women. Later, it may be because he has never had a female companion and was seen by caring people, and there are also men in this team.
But none of them was Xu Xilin.
Some people can only have unforgettable feelings with a specific person at a specific age and in a specific environment in their entire life.
If you think about it rationally, it is not necessarily that that person is unparalleled in the world. Probably after the boyhood, the pressure and ambition of life will follow, his vision is getting more and more crowded, and he sees more and more things, no longer. I have the energy to desperately seek a feeling.
What's more, Xu Xilin is indeed a person who makes people "once in the sea" to him.
Dou Xun didn't seem to want to talk about this topic with outsiders, so he asked Lao Cheng, "Did Xu Xilin say to pay attention?"
"Oh, yes!" Lao Cheng came back to his senses, "he put down a big bag of things, maybe it's bird food, let me see..."
Xu Xilin left behind a large bag half a meter high, which contained only a little bird food and sawdust and other necessities. The rest were all toys of His Royal Highness. The most spectacular one was a huge chewing toy that could be hung up and colorful. The ground is full of balls and bells, which are more domineering than ordinary children.
Dou Xun: "..."
"Hao no humanity!" Lao Cheng picked up a puzzle forager, which could put food in it and let the bird find a way to take it out through different shaped openings. He tried to put his fingers in it, but it got stuck. Now... Maybe this thing is a bit ahead of his IQ, Lao Cheng felt his chest and said, "Mr. Xu is really talented, you can raise anything for your ancestors."
He said, using the forager to tease the grey parrot. The parrot's eyes seemed to be even more contemptuous. It stuck its head out of the cage, slowly put its beak into the largest hole of the forager, and took a Nut - the bird was actually showing him how to play this thing.
Lao Cheng suffered a mental injury.
"Don't keep it locked, it's easy to get depressed." Dou Xun said, opening the cage, trying to take the grey parrot out.
Lao Cheng: "Wait..."
I saw that although the bird didn't take the initiative to attack, it would never let the "stranger" approach. It first ducked vigilantly, but found that it couldn't turn around, and turned back to Dou Xun's hand.
The bird's beak was ruthless, and Dou Xun saw blood on his hand, and Lao Cheng's "Ow" sounded, which alarmed Cai Jing outside.
"Shh, it's alright." Dou Xun's eyes twitched with pain, but he didn't shrink his hands, he took the grey parrot out carefully and gently, stroking its feathers, "It didn't bite me less when I just bought it. "
It's just that at that time it was still small, and biting people didn't hurt so much.
Grey Parrot probably felt that he was not malicious, and gradually gathered up his tense defenses and landed on the shelf. He still looked at Dou Xun with some defensiveness. Seeing that he insisted on approaching, he would also try to bite, but it was all a subtle threat. , no more heavy words,
Lao Cheng was busy with reconciliation, and came back after a long time to see that Dou Xun, who had spent a long time with the parrot, had been approved to sit next to the parrot.
Lao Cheng glanced at Dou Xun's miserable hand with mixed feelings, and felt that he was looking for abuse.
Dou Xun was very happy to be bitten.
"Still don't touch it," he said, "but I'm a little familiar with it."
While talking, the grey parrot, who was playing with the ball, thought about it, picked the most ugly ball, and gave it to Dou Xun.
After so many years, people have become strangers, and the birds raised by their own hands don't know him anymore.
Dou Xun stared at the grey parrot, and his heart lit up - but it doesn't matter, the bird can get acquainted again.
Lao Cheng was about to say something when his phone rang. He looked down and Xu Xilin sent him a WeChat message, asking, "How is it? Did you ask me?"
Lao Cheng secretly sighed, never expecting that one day he would be able to start a pimping business - there was no such a dramatic thing to look for him when he was in school.
Xu Xilin has already returned to Song Lianyuan. He has just arrived, and he has already returned to his heart. He can't let go of his "son" or Dou Xun. He can't wait to report to the headquarters in the afternoon and leave the next day. Gao Lan can hear him talking. No match.
"I'm serious with you," Gao Lan said. "Many people are begging me for an introduction. What do you like?"
Xu Xilin had just finished sending a message to Lao Cheng, and was anxiously waiting for a reply, and said absently, "He is very smart and beautiful."
Gao Lan asked, "What about temper? What about personality? Hey, why are you guys so superficial?"
Song Lianyuan couldn't stand it any longer, and he couldn't tell Gao Lan clearly, eldest brother is very reliable - other people's secrets will never come out of his mouth, and his wife will not tell them. He came over and dragged Gao Lan away: "You're almost done, you didn't care about being so wide when his mother was alive, wouldn't this kid find it by himself when he's such an adult, can I use your introduction? Xiaolin went out to buy some food and came back, let's make dumplings. "
Xu Xilin said slowly, "Oh."
Gao Lan: "I want leeks."
Song Lianyuan: "I want fennel."
After speaking, the two of them looked at each other and spoke in unison.
Song Lianyuan: "Listen to your sister-in-law."
Gao Lan: "Listen to your brother."
At this moment, Xu Xilin's mobile phone vibrated, and all the "fennel" and "leek" were shaken nine days away by the vibration. Xu Xilin's fingers trembled a little and opened the old message.
Lao Cheng said: "I asked, he said no, you have a show, come back early."
For a time, a thunderbolt blasted away thousands of miles of dark clouds, the sky was blue, the sea was without waves, and a rainbow stretched from Xu Xilin's temple to the bottom of his feet.
He raised his head abruptly like a lift from Fan Jinzhong, and under Song Lianyuan and Gao Lan's unexplained gazes, he used the strength of his milk to straighten the corners of his mouth, and his face that smiled when he met everyone was extraordinarily serious: "Is there an accurate idea? What fragrant leeks should I buy?"