In the past, for Xu Xilin, the days of the New Year were very busy. At the beginning, for the business that had just started, he had to bite the bullet and visit many local snakes - although others saw him as young, they didn't take him seriously, but the meaning had to be expressed. The Chinese New Year is an opportunity to think hard about building relationships.
Later, the "township" stood on its heels, and Song Lianyuan also became the "door-to-door son-in-law". The two brothers successfully became one of the local local snakes, and they were replaced by people to curry favor with them. It's the convenor of a lot of entertainment.
However, this year, everyone was surprised to find that he could not be invited.
Xu Xilin flew over on the 29th of the twelfth lunar month. On New Year's Eve, he gave Brother Song a briefing on the subsidiary's one-year performance at the dinner table. He took a few chopsticks and laid out the strategic vision for the coming year on the dining table. If he didn't make it, he planned to leave early in the morning on the first day of the new year. The reason was very nonsense - the gray parrot would shed its hair if he left him for too long.
Song Lianyuan heard this excuse, and his eyebrows almost flew out of his face: "Why don't you just marry a parrot? You are really unprofessional in business. Go back and open a zoo and let you be the director!"
"Uh... There are other things," Xu Xilin searched his intestines for a long time, and finally paid off his hard work, reminding him of another reason, "I heard that Director Wei was hospitalized for surgery during the New Year. Do you mean?"
Song Lianyuan thought about the large dividend he received this year, and reluctantly accepted the reason: "Okay, okay, get out."
Xu Xilin packed his bags and left, his luggage was ready.
Song Lianyuan followed him with a sullen face while chattering incessantly: "No one will take care of you when you go back, pay attention to yourself, cook some millet porridge when you have nothing to do, pity for your rotten stomach... and make more young friends, business entertainment and so on. You don’t have to go all the way in person, just let the subordinates run errands, don’t go around that broken bird all day long, can it give you old age?”
The last sentence was a vague reminder. Unfortunately, Xu Xilin, who was in Caoying and Han, didn't hear it at all. He felt the broken mouth of the married man and ran away without looking back.
Song Lianyuan worriedly scold him for being a bastard, and when he turned around, he saw Gao Lan looking at him and smiling.
"What are you laughing at?" Song Lianyuan asked inexplicably.
"Your brother must be in love." Gao Lan pointed at Song Lianyuan's forehead inexplicably, "You can't tell, and you are still nagging, silly hat."
Song Lianyuan heard her "announcement of good news", and remembered Xu Xilin's indistinguishable sexual orientation of men and women. Not only was there no joy, but he looked even more worried, so worried that Gao Lan was inexplicable: "Who the hell is that?"
Xu Xilin's heart felt like an arrow, and the air tickets were all booked in taxis. He may have to rush back to give birth. The time for booking was quite tight. When he arrived at the airport, the automatic ticket machines were all closed. He dragged his luggage and ran all the way to the The ticket was exchanged at the manual counter, and when I entered the security check without any risk, my lungs almost ran out.
Flying home all the way, when I landed, I heard the sound of forbidden firecrackers everywhere. The streets that were usually blocked into the parking lot were as loose as a private sports car park, and it was hard to get a taxi.
On the way, Xu Xilin, who was non-stop, suddenly thought: "Master, look at the gift shop nearby and stop for me."
The driver's master glanced at him with a neurotic look: "Gifts? This is the first day of the new year, who will open the door? I see you, I will find a flower bed that no one is looking at in a while, and I will cut two flowers—you Are you going to go to your girlfriend's house?"
Xu Xilin smiled brightly: "No, no."
The driver glanced at his face: "Buying anything is nonsense, I'll give you a trick - I'll put you in the mall soon, you can get some bird's nest sea cucumber or something to send to the old mother-in-law, there are many little girls It doesn't matter if the jewelry has few flowers, you are better than anything if you answer your hometown correctly.
Xu Xilin was so embarrassed, he waved his hands again and again, and the romantic feelings floating in the air condensed into rain in the master's down-to-earth suggestion, and all fell on the unpretentious loess.
There were three people in the "Grandpa" flower shop. Cai Jing was homeless. Dou Xun politely sent Dou Junliang a New Year's greeting text message, even if he had fulfilled his obligations. The eight aunts were caught out to carry out the annual New Year's "child beating" campaign, and they ran out of the house long ago without being abused.
The closed flower shop became the gathering place for the three bachelors.
When Xu Xilin barged in wrapped in snow, Cai Jing was studying how to heat the leftovers in the microwave, and everyone was shocked by his uninvited guest.
The grey parrot finally saw his relatives, directly abandoned Dou Xun who had been trying to get close to it, flapped his wings and flew to Xu Xilin's shoulders. After the old married family was silent for several days, it opened its mouth and said something cowardly: "Wish you prosperity and wealth."
At the door, Xu Xilin was amused by his precious son and turned into a dog.
Lao Cheng closed his chin with difficulty—no wonder Xu Xilin disappeared after he sent that message, and after a long time of trouble, he was thinking of killing him directly!
Lao Cheng was almost ashamed to watch, and asked Xu Xilin, "What are you doing here for the New Year's Eve?"
Xu Xilin entered the room and closed the door, hugging his precious son, and looking at Dou Xun first, he saw that Dou Xun was sitting in the cramped and aggrieved small space on the second floor of the shop.
The heating in the store was not good. Dou Xun had a blanket covering his legs and a notebook on his knees. He was struggling to maintain his calm on the surface, and was obviously taken aback.
Xu Xilin laughed involuntarily.
"My brother has only been married for two years, and he has no children. What kind of light bulb should I be with?" Xu Xilin said, glancing at the prepared dinners of the three of them, frowning, "For the new year, you three will eat leftovers?"
Lao Cheng eloquently argues: "It is important to eat leftovers on the first day of the new year, which means that there is more than enough every year..."
"You're too tall." Xu Xilin shoved the suitcase and parrot into Lao Cheng's hand, then threw off the snow-stained coat and threw it at the door, rolling up his sleeves as he walked, "What about the quality of life? Lao Cai avoided, I See what's in the fridge?"
Lao Cheng: "… "
He just blew Dou Xun on behalf of Xu the day before, and described him as an empty, lonely and cold workaholic. He also said that besides eating fast food, he was socializing all day long, and his whole person showed a world-weary look. The breath is cloudy.
As a result, the Lord is coming back today to slap him in the face!
Lao Cheng angrily dragged the door where Xu Xilin stepped on a pile of muddy footprints, thinking to himself, "You bastard, don't worry about your business, I'm a bastard!"
Xu Xilin's brain hasn't calmed down since he received Lao Cheng's WeChat, and he wished that he could vividly reflect the results of his culinary training a few years earlier - only that Lao Cheng's family didn't have so many materials for him to use.
Although Dou Xun is determined, he is braver when facing birds. At this time, when he meets people, he is still a little homeless. He hesitates to go downstairs to the kitchen and look around: "What can I do for you?"
Xu Xilin turned back and smiled brightly at him: "Okay, what do you know?"
Dou Xun: "..."
Xu Xilin took off his coat and covered his body with a thin layer of cashmere sweater, as if he was casually putting it on a moving hanger, revealing the outlines of his shoulders and waist. It has been finalized, and the back is full of the steady and straight of a man, and there is no more youthful feeling of youth, but the smile handed back is as warm as ever.
This smile is so lethal that Dou Xun almost couldn't resist it. After being speechless for a while, he reluctantly admitted: "... I know fried rice."
After finishing speaking, Dou Xun felt a little embarrassed, because he realized that he had really stuck to himself for ten years without making any progress, whether it was with Xu Xilin or in the kitchen.
Xu Xilin was helpless: "Go and wait to eat, it's so smoky."
Lao Cheng, who came back to put the mop, was swept away by his indulgent eyes, and immediately walked away with his hair upright against the wall, wishing he could use the mop to beat the general named Xu out.
Dou Xun looked at Xu Xilin for a while, and was reluctant to leave, but the "Grandpa" flower shop only had so little space, and he had to take care of the mood of the other two onlookers, so he reluctantly sat back in the living room.
As soon as the food came to the table, the dissatisfied old achievement forgave Xu Xilin, and felt that he could love him for another five hundred years.
With Dou Xun's light, the three of them made do with living bachelors and finally didn't have to eat the leftovers from the New Year's Eve takeout, Xu Xilin sat down pretentiously, and wiped his hands gently with a towel: "I don't have enough time today, just do something, you guys Just enough to eat."
Lao Cheng looked at the flower carved by the radish next to the vegetarian dish and thought that he might need to re-include the entry with the word "casual".
After eating, Cai Jing got up and cleaned up automatically, while Dou Xun tentatively sat beside Xu Xilin as if he was approaching a grey parrot. At first, his sitting posture was a little stiff, but later he found that Xu Xilin didn't seem to have any objection, so he relaxed a little. , I couldn't help being a little greedy again, and under the guise of looking for the TV remote control, I touched Xu Xilin's hand.
Xu Xilin turned his head to look at him—the first few times we met, Xu Xilin rarely looked at him. At that time, Dou Xun was just a little lost, but the overall feeling was okay. Today Xu Xilin didn't know what medicine he took wrong... Maybe he was getting used to it. He returned to his previous habit - when Dou Xun talked to him, he looked at Dou Xun quietly, his focused eyes and affectionate eyes were actually a bit similar, and it was easy for people to be distracted.
"Parrots haven't spoken much these days, are you not used to living here?" Dou Xun was not very good at talking to people, so he struggled to find a topic.
Xu Xilin waved at the gray parrot on the shelf, and the big bird flew over and landed on his arm: "It's poor at home, maybe it's old and it's not familiar here, and it's a little timid - come, son, sing a song ."
The gray parrot has the habits of Mr. Dou when he was young. He is usually arrogant and arrogant, and can push his nose on his face, but once Xu Xilin gets angry, or he doesn't take him with him for a while for some reason, he begins to be strongly disturbed. , a disturbed will become very good, especially likable.
At this time, the gray parrot was afraid that Xu Xilin would not pick it up. It was too cute to sing. It even sang a very festive "Gong Xi Fa Cai"... Although it was out of tune in the middle.
Xu Xilin heard that it was about to turn into a love business again, so he hurriedly fed a peanut for it to eat.
Dou Xun reached out and touched it, and the parrot was very dissatisfied, but because it was being sold, it was inconvenient to attack, so he had to hold his nose and endure it.
Xu Xilin suddenly grabbed Dou Xun's wrist.
Dou Xun actually showed him the scars on his hands on purpose, but when Xu Xilin touched it, he still shivered slightly involuntarily, and the waist that had just relaxed froze involuntarily.
Xu Xilin's face turned cold: "That little evil animal bit?"
The parrot was so frightened that he didn't even bother to eat the peanuts, fluttered his wings and flew to the foot of the table, and stood up tremblingly.
At this moment, Cai Jing came out of the kitchen after washing the dishes. Dou Xun immediately remembered that Xu Xilin used to keep a secret about their relationship in front of others. With outsiders around, Xu Xilin never liked to have physical contact with him, so he immediately broke free of Xu Xilin. hands: "It's okay."
Xu Xilin was just half distressed, and he was caught off guard once "to avoid being too late", and his heart sank unavoidably.
Fortunately, he was treated with a lot of cold eyes in the early years, and his mental state adjusted quickly.
Back then, he was completely passively accepting Dou Xun's intense and burning thoughts, and he was always ignorant and didn't find the right rhythm. In fact, when I think about it, how many men have this kind of luck
The male bird still knows that courtship is not easy, and it is normal to suffer a few setbacks. It is necessary to adjust the strategy... Thanks to everyone's age, even if he is as ruthless as Dou Xun, he will not be like when he was a teenager. It's a lot better to confront him face to face.
Thinking of this, Xu Xilin's mind was calm.
He glared at the parrot who didn't dare to look up: "How did I tell you at home?"
The grey parrot flopped its wings and quivered uneasily.
Xu Xilin was reluctant to hit him, but he was still angry, so he frightened it: "I won't want you if I bite again."
The grey parrot understood, was frightened, and stood there dumbfounded.
Although Dou Xun deliberately complained, but looking at the bird, he suddenly felt a little sad.
So he stretched out an arm to the grey parrot. The bird probably knew who it had offended, so it flew to Dou Xun's arm in dismay, carefully closed its claws and didn't catch him, and glanced at Xu Xilin, seeing that his face did not ease, so he turned to Dou Xun unwillingly, jumping up and down. He stomped on his shoulder and rubbed his head depressingly.
Dou Xun said, "It's okay, it also bit me when I was a child. It's like this when I was born. It'll be fine after two days - why don't you let me raise it for another two days?"
After speaking, Dou Xun still felt that he was quite witty, so he had reason to contact Xu Xilin and see him occasionally.
Xu Xilin, who had a bad heart, was in the middle of his arms, and he sold his son without saying a word.
That night, Xu Xilin was driven away by Lao Cheng on the grounds that the room was too small to live in.
He left in the middle of the night the night before, and the next day, he was like a lunatic. Before dawn, he rolled back. Xu Xilin drove around the "grandpa" flower shop. From downstairs, he saw that the curtains in several rooms were drawn. Then he reluctantly left. When it was morning, he turned back, and he didn't know where to get one. Lots of fresh, dripping fruits and vegetables.
While Dou Xun was changing the water for the bird, Lao Cheng quietly waved to Xu Xilin: "Come."
Xu Xilin: "What's the matter?"
Lao Cheng gritted his teeth and took a bite of the apple. He saw the "Country Village" logo behind the fruit basket, and found out with hatred that this rotten bourgeoisie only provided fruit with a reason.
Lao Cheng: "Let's discuss something, can you take your ancestors away? The big deal will be to send it back at night, and I will save you all day and night. Our family can't hire someone like you to be a cook."
Xu Xilin also had this in mind, and asked in a low voice, "Where did you say you're going?"
As a lifelong member of the "Death to Die" group, Lao Cheng was stunned by his question. He widened his eyes and said, "Are you here to ask me? Did you meet Dou Xun on the first day?"
Xu Xilin: "..."
In fact, he didn't go out with Dou Xun very much. At that time, he had to take care of Grandma Xu. The two of them occasionally went out together, probably attending a class reunion to buy food or something.
He rarely buys Dou Xun any gifts, let alone ask him out.
It seemed that there was no artificial romance and deliberateness in that relationship, and even without special maintenance, the garden could be spread out of control and flooded like wild grass.
Now that everything is starting from scratch, he is a little helpless.
Lao Cheng saw that there was something wrong with his expression: "What's wrong?"
Xu Xilin quickly came back to his senses: "It's okay, you're right, I took the person away."
After speaking, he jumped up as if recharged.
Lao Cheng heard that Xu Xilin first called someone to help him check the latest theatrical performances, and then asked someone to help him book the theater tickets for the evening, and then ran to ask Dou Xun if he wanted to go out to see the house with him. Although the intermediary may not open the door, Xu Xilin claimed that He is familiar with it, and he probably knows the traffic conditions and rental prices of the houses. You can show him the environment first, and then look at the houses in a targeted manner.
As soon as Lao Cheng heard it, he knew that he was farting—Xu Xilin had been floating in the field for several years, and he couldn’t find his home when he came back. The rent of the rented house had not risen by a penny for several years. Where could he be familiar with the city’s housing rental market
I can't tell how long I have been cramming the map on the Internet the night before.
Lao Cheng looked at Xu Xilin and took Dou Xunyu out with a few words, and hummed a little song and approached the gray parrot to scold him: "Oh, you stayed again?"
Grey parrots make aggressive movements.
"Bite, bite," Lao Cheng Hehe Zhile, "Tell your father after you bite, he doesn't want you anymore."
For the first time ever, the grey parrot made a golden mouth to an unfamiliar person, saying, "Bah!"
Humans are not good things!