"Okay...?"
Sitting on the sofa in his own home, He Yunzhou just put down his phone when he heard Shu Ran slapped his butt beside him repeating the comforting words he had unconsciously said before with a half-smile.
"Why didn't I know you were so nasty before?"
Shu Ran winked at He Yunzhou and said with a smile.
He Yunzhou's face became hot, and he almost dropped his phone.
Facing Shu Ran, no matter what, he couldn't really tell the other party that he was currently feeding a living big man as a substitute for a dead cat. The tone words used to coax cats.
What's even more unlucky is that He Yunzhou is still used to using the voice input method. Just now, he had a brain pumping and added the phrase "be good" that he used to coax melons, and it was also faithfully input into the text message to Huo Zheng by the voice input method.
Although He Yunzhou immediately sensed something was wrong after pressing the send button and withdrew it, but whether Huo Zheng saw the modal particle that shouldn't appear, He Yunzhou could only resign himself to his fate.
"Didn't you just dig through the refrigerator? You found what you wanted to drink so quickly?"
He Yunzhou instinctively avoided Shu Ran's probing eyes, and tried stiffly to divert the topic.
"Well, I have a bad stomach recently, just drink beer—"
Shu Ran shook the beer machine in her hand, and said with a smile, she suddenly raised her eyebrows and looked at the bottle of beer carefully in the middle of the sentence, and then exclaimed: "Wow, Brother He, you have released it now, the beer at home has been upgraded gone."
It was only then that He Yunzhou noticed that Shu Ran was holding the beer that Huo Zheng had sent over.
It was some time ago that He Yunzhou made Huo Zheng a German-style roasted pork knuckle. Huo Zheng was full of praise for the pork knuckle, but he disliked the beer He Yunzhou bought casually in the small supermarket downstairs. Halfway through the meal, Huo Zheng made a phone call, and not long after, he saw a person who looked like an assistant respectfully deliver a small box of beer to He Yunzhou's door.
He Yunzhou is not good at drinking. He Yunzhou stuffed the few bottles of beer in the corner of the refrigerator after drinking the small box of beer. He didn't expect Shu Ran to turn over the two bottles of beer directly. .
"That's just a beer my friend left here before..."
He Yunzhou explained, unexpectedly, Shu Ran's eyes lit up after hearing his answer, and he immediately asked, "This friend is not your Mr. 'Good boy'."
Damn it, the topic accidentally returned to Huo Zheng.
Annoyed in his heart, He Yunzhou smiled at Shu Ran in embarrassment, and he had the right to answer.
If he was sitting on the sofa, carelessly like a good buddy, the person who was gossiping with him was not Shu Ran, and He Yunzhou had already explained everything calmly.
Just a slip of the tongue and nothing else.
that person? That person is just a friend who occasionally comes to eat.
You really think too much.
…
Anything is fine, as long as you say a few casual words, you can solve the current embarrassing situation.
However, He Yunzhou couldn't really explain too much.
Because at this moment he is facing Shu Ran—the woman he has been secretly in love with for many, many years.
And Shu Ran also likes women.
As early as when they first became friends, Shu Ran had straightforwardly expressed his sexual orientation to He Yunzhou, and also clearly drew an insurmountable boundary for He Yunzhou.
["He Xuedi, you are really a pretty good person, and I don't hate you or anything. It's just that you're an ordinary man, and I'm a steel lily, and it's easy to get into trouble if I go down like this... Hey, I'm mainly doing this for Take precautions before they happen, I’m afraid that when the time comes, you won’t be able to hold back and hurt your heart…”]
At that time, Shu Ran might have noticed something, when He Yunzhou wanted to get closer to her, he said this to him as a joke.
It's just that He Yunzhou knew that Shu Ran was not joking at that time.
Shu Ran in college was so beautiful, so eye-catching, just like her name, like a burning flame, even if she came out of the closet in front of everyone, she still couldn't resist someone's delusional moth Shu Ran pursued her like a fire, but Shu Ran was so annoyed that he simply kept a distance from all men from the beginning.
As for He Yunzhou, the reason why he has been able to stay in Shu Ran's circle of friends and become a safe haven for her when she is suffering and frustrated is because he lied to Shu Ran.
He told Shu Ran that he, like her, could only fall in love with his own sex.
In order to fulfill this lie, he even dragged his former best friend into the water to act together.
He Yunzhou thought that his clumsy lie would be exposed soon, but he didn't expect that after so many years, Shu Ran would still believe it.
"... If you have a chance to fall in love, don't let it go."
He Yunzhou was still struggling secretly and didn't know how to answer Shu Ran, but Shu Ran's suddenly dark words sounded in his ears.
He looked up at the other party in surprise, the unnaturally bright smile on Shu Ran's face had gradually dissipated.
"You finally have a partner... Shhh, I can see that Mr. 'Good boy' has a special relationship with you, so don't rack your brains to think of excuses to prevaricate me."
Shu Ran unceremoniously withheld the beer, gulped down a mouthful of wine down his throat, and then burped for a long time.
"For so many years, you haven't found a new partner since you broke up with Ouyang. I'm still worried that you won't be able to get out..."
"Shu Ran..."
As soon as he heard Shu Ran mention that name, He Yunzhou's eyelids twitched, and he subconsciously wanted to interrupt the other person's conversation. Fortunately, it seemed that Shu Ran mentioned that person just in passing, and he didn't entangle him too much.
"If you really have something to do with the other party, do it quickly. Don't delay. People's feelings are the easiest to change. No one knows what will happen in the end..."
The words have come to this point, and He Yunzhou can't figure out where Shu Ran is really talking, it is actually a matter between herself and her lover Liang Mengmeng.
Shu Ran and Liang Mengmeng were already together before He Yunzhou appeared, but after going around for so many years, they still had a big quarrel for three days and a small quarrel for two days, and finally broke up, reconciled, and broke up again.
Of course, every time Shu Ran and Liang Mengmeng broke up, Shu Ran would find He Yunzhou to confide in him thoroughly, and even though He Yunzhou was heartbroken, he was still an understanding, gentle and considerate listener and friend on the surface. Until two years ago when Shu Ran broke the boat and eloped to the United States with Liang Mengmeng desperately, it was said that he was going to get married there, He Yunzhou thought that he could finally get out of his secret love for Shu Ran.
Unexpectedly, Shu Ran finally returned to the country.
Shu Ran, who was sitting on the sofa, drank the bottle of beer in his hand, and then opened another bottle, his eyes gradually became straight.
The previous smile and cheerfulness were like shards of broken glass, peeling off her body in small pieces.
"I also know it's my fault, but I still can't control all of this. Let me tell you, this time Mengmeng and I are really doomed... I may not be able to survive..."
Hearing Shu Ran's gradually becoming incoherent murmurs, He Yunzhou's movements froze, he inhaled secretly, and forcibly calmed down the dull pain in his heart. When he looked back at Shu Ran, he was still as calm as usual.
"Did you drink before you came?"
He Yunzhou frowned and asked.
When I saw Shu Ran before, I was so frightened that I didn't care about other things. It wasn't until this time that He Yunzhou slowly noticed the faint smell of alcohol under Shu Ran's heavy perfume.
Shu Ran raised his head and showed a distorted smile at He Yunzhou: "Of course I drank it, otherwise I have nothing to stabilize my mood."
Before He Yunzhou could speak, she said without thinking: "... I want to eat braised prawns to go with the wine."
He Yunzhou stood on the spot and sorted out his emotions secretly before he could barely speak rationally.
"What kind of braised prawns do you eat? I'll cook some soup for you and drink whatever you want. I'm not a little girl and I don't know how to take good care of your stomach—"
"Student He... Why don't you say you are a woman? If you were a woman, I would have dumped Liang Mengmeng and gone with you..."
Shu Ran has been immersed in alcohol, and his speech has become more and more disorganized.
But just this sentence made He Yunzhou almost out of breath.
After a while, Shu Ran covered his face and said to He Yunzhou: "Don't look at me, okay, I'm going to cry for a while, my makeup is messy, I don't want you to see my ugly face."
"good… "
He Yunzhou didn't want Shu Ran to notice the difference in his expression, so he turned and went into the kitchen.
He thought that he would listen to Shu Ran's crying in the kitchen, his heart would be pierced and his mind would go blank, and in the end he could only stand in a daze in the corner where she couldn't see - just like many times in the past.
But when He Yunzhou reacted, he realized that he had started cooking mechanically.
The pumpkin prawns were blanched and then dried. The heads of the prawns were cut off and used to boil the prawn oil. The curly and red prawn bodies were wiped clean with kitchen paper, put on oiled paper and sent to the oven, where the hot air was turned on to bake slowly.
There is black-bone chicken in the refrigerator that He Yunzhou has processed and packaged before, just take it out and put it in a casserole to simmer slowly. A few dried longan, use scissors to cut a small hole, slowly tear off the pale yellow dry longan meat from the core, put it into the chicken soup together with the ginger and red dates and cook for a while, the golden soup is slowly stained with a trace of Sweet and fragrant.
The water vapor slowly soaked the air in the kitchen with the tumbling chicken soup. He Yunzhou held a wooden spoon in his hand, but found that he didn't know what to do—
Tang Mingming had finished stewing, but the choking voice of Shu Ran in the living room did not subside.
Pumpkin slipped into the kitchen without a sound, and its soft but fat body spun around He Yunzhou's ankles. The touch of the warm and soft fur brought He Yunzhou back to his senses.
He squatted down slowly and hugged the pumpkin to his chest for a while.
"It's all right," he said to the pumpkin, "it'll be all right in a minute."
Pumpkin raised its head slightly, the thin hairs on its forehead rubbed against He Yunzhou's chin, and then it made a loud purring sound.
…
"Ding dong—"
At this moment, the doorbell rang.
He Yunzhou was still a little stunned, and when he heard the doorbell ring, he opened the door directly.
He never expected that the person outside the door would be Huo Zheng.
"Oh, so you are at home."
Huo Zheng lowered his eyebrows, and said to He Yunzhou calmly.
A thick and sweet smell of chicken soup flowed out from He Yunzhou's house, and it couldn't be concealed.
"… Cook at home?"
The green-eyed man paused for a while, then quietly added a question.
The author has something to say: Mr. Huo's resentment degree: max+