He Yunzhou blinked, and he and Huo Zheng looked at each other in silence for a moment, then suddenly burst out laughing.
"Hahaha, I seem to have told a very cold joke..."
After saying such words, the man in front of Huo Zheng smiled happily as if he had been poked at some strange point of laughter.
Huo Zheng stared at He Yunzhou's smiling face uncontrollably as if obsessed. He obviously couldn't understand why the other party was smiling, but somehow, just seeing the man smiling, his chest seemed to be injected with blood. Like strawberry-flavored sparkling wine, all the cranky thoughts, embarrassments and worries before have all turned into small sweet bubbles at this moment.
Huo Zheng just looked at He Yunzhou like that, unconsciously, the corners of his lips curled up.
And when He Yunzhou caught a glimpse of Huo Zheng's smiling face, even though he was a man himself, he still couldn't help being slightly shocked.
Huo Zheng's face, which is completely beyond the value of ordinary people, once matched with that kind of relaxed and gentle smile, its lethality will increase exponentially - even a serious straight man like He Yunzhou has a faint trick Feeling overwhelmed.
"Okay, you go to the living room to stay for a while, I have to clean up the kitchen first." He Yunzhou subconsciously found an excuse to drive Huo Zheng out of his sight, thought for a while, and added: "If you are bored, , take a cat teasing stick to play with pumpkin, it is really a bit too fat recently, it should exercise more... But don't fight with it, that guy's nails are going to be cut."
The last exhortation was not that He Yunzhou was worrying about the sky, but that Huo Zheng and Pumpkin had previous convictions.
Who would have thought that for a person like Huo Zheng...every time they played with Pumpkin, it would turn into a human-cat battle at the end
It was exactly the same as when Guaji was still alive.
Thinking of this, He Yunzhou's heart softened, and his gaze towards Huo Zheng was once again uncontrollably filled with strong love.
"What do you mean I should fight with it? Every time it's the fat man himself who provokes me—"
Huo Zheng was still angrily complaining about Pumpkin's stupidity in a low voice, but when he was caught by He Yunzhou's gaze, his words suddenly became fragmented.
"Then I'm going to the living room."
He muttered softly, lowered his head, and shrank to a corner of the living room.
very bad...
Huo Zheng thought.
It seems that as long as he is with He Yunzhou, he will involuntarily forget his previous thoughts and sink into that kind of strong tenderness.
But Huo Zheng also knew that he couldn't make any promises to He Yunzhou at all.
It would be better to say it clearly—although he is intellectually aware of this point, but as long as he thinks of making a clumsy man like He Yunzhou face the cruel rejection, Huo Zheng can't bear it.
While Huo Zheng was still struggling in this room, He Yunzhou's cell phone on the coffee table rang.
He Yunzhou heard the sound and hurried out of the kitchen to check his phone. However, the moment he picked up the phone and saw the screen, he couldn't help but froze for a moment.
"Yunzhou, are you okay?"
Seeing that He Yunzhou stared at the phone for a long time without answering, and his face became very strange, Huo Zheng couldn't help asking worried questions.
It was only at this time that He Yunzhou seemed to have suddenly come to his senses, and smiled apologetically at Huo Zheng.
"Ah, let me answer the phone first."
He Yunzhou hurriedly dropped these words, then quickly ran to the balcony, and pressed the answer button tremblingly.
"Hey, brother, it's me...Xiaoxi."
A soft but slightly unfamiliar voice came from the other end of the microphone.
"Xiaoxi, hello."
He Yunzhou opened his mouth, but found that his voice was extremely dry.
The caller was his younger sister, He Yunxi.
In theory, it should be one of his closest family members.
It's just that even He Yunzhou himself can hardly remember how long ago it was the last time he received a call from his family.
"What happened at home..."
"Brother, I'm getting married."
He Yunxi didn't seem to know how to talk to his brother whom he hadn't contacted for a long time, and the voice from the other side of the microphone was filled with lingering stiffness.
"Huh? Married? How did you get married at such a young age?"
He Yunzhou was taken aback and blurted out.
He Yunxi on the other end of the phone seemed to be choked up, and then reluctantly responded: "Brother, I'm already twenty-seven, so I'm not too young."
"..."
He Yunzhou stopped talking suddenly, and then he remembered vaguely that his sister was no longer the high school girl with a ponytail in his memory.
Speaking of which, his sister is only two years younger than him.
It's just that He Yunzhou left home too early, and his relationship with that family is too weak, so that after so many years, when thinking of He Yunxi, the face that comes to mind is still that immature face.
"Sorry, I just..."
He Yunzhou opened his mouth dryly, wanting to save some points, but at the end of the sentence, his mind was still blank, and in the end he could only say "Congratulations" bluntly, and there was nothing else to say.
The two brothers and sisters were silent for a few seconds in front of the phone, and He Yunzhou still cheered up and said:
"When is the wedding? I'll put the money in the red envelope on your account..."
"Well, brother, I marry you... will you come?"
"..."
He Yunzhou was suddenly stuck.
He Yunxi's voice was low, appearing embarrassed and stiff.
"It's been so many years... Parents and the others just don't want to lose face, why don't you come back, if you have anything to say, let's talk about it together."
parents…
He Yunzhou's hand holding the phone turned pale.
"I'm very busy with work here," He Yunzhou heard himself say in that hollow and false voice, "I'm afraid I won't be able to ask for leave... I'd better send the money to your account."
He Yunxi seemed to sigh on the other end of the phone.
The two brothers and sister exchanged a few words with difficulty in a way that was even stranger than ordinary friends. When they finally hung up the phone, He Yunzhou felt relieved.
However, the next moment, He Yunzhou remembered that when he was lying about not being able to get a vacation at work... he didn't even ask He Yunxi when his wedding date was.
An indescribable sense of dullness gradually swelled in He Yunzhou's chest. He Yunzhou couldn't help but look out of the balcony. The lights of thousands of families in the night represented countless small families—
It was a very ordinary, ordinary, but also very distant picture.
He Yunzhou couldn't help but be lost in thought.
He Yunzhou's relationship with his family is very distant.
Not a bad relationship, but alienation.
There's no hate, no love in that... alienation.
He is the first child in the family, but the timing of his birth in this family is very embarrassing.
Both his parents are the most typical workaholics, and when He Yunzhou was born, both of them happened to be in the most critical rising period of their careers. Maybe there was no way, maybe it was an expedient measure, in short, He Yunzhou was sent to his grandparents' house after the full moon. It was a remote mountain village so remote that materials could only be transported in by primitive manpower or mules and horses.
There are beautiful mountains and clear waters, bright stars, crystal clear rivers and small pieces of primitively cultivated farmland. Mother He was the only golden phoenix that flew out of the mountain village for decades, and she never went back from the day she left that small mountain village.
But He Yunzhou was sent back, and because of this, his grandparents loved He Yunzhou very much, and every once in a while, He's mother would ask someone to send money and supplies to the mountain village.
Everything looks good, He Yunzhou's father and mother have enough leeway to fight for their own careers, He Yunzhou has someone to take care of him, and his grandparents in remote mountain villages finally have sustenance.
However, probably even He Yunzhou's parents never thought that they would have a new child two years later.
Moreover, He Yunxi was born with a weak body and had to be hospitalized every three days. In any case, it was impossible for him to be sent to the village to be taken care of by the elderly like the healthy and happy He Yunzhou.
So He Yunxi was left by his parents' side, but at the same time, the devastated parents no longer had the extra energy and time to take care of another child.
In this way, inexplicably and naturally... He Yunzhou was exiled by his parents in that dilapidated and dilapidated mountain village, year after year.
When he was finally picked up, he was already a boy in his teens.
He can sing long and ancient folk songs, plant seedlings and reap wheat, fetch water and herd cattle, and everything that children in the mountains can do.
But everything that He Yunzhou knew was incompatible with that family and that city.
He Yunzhou knew that it was his parents, but his parents were so strange.
In the same way, compared to He Yunxi who grew up pampered by his side, is He Yunzhou a stranger to He's father and He's mother
They got along politely, alienated and far away, and He Yunzhou couldn't wait to leave that home after he was admitted to university—so everyone was relieved, relieved.
Coupled with the fact that some things happened to He Yunzhou when he was in college, naturally, he never went home again.
He Yunzhou has long been used to this kind of life that has no blood relationship but actually floats alone in the world, but like today, occasionally reuniting with his family members, there is still a sense of emptiness.
It's like being swallowed up by some black and deep swamp...
However, in the next second, He Yunzhou heard the sound of the balcony door being pushed open heavily.
"Meow woo woo—"
"Your cat is hungry—he's hungry and gnaws on my foot—"
Immediately afterwards, Huo Zheng shouted angrily and the pumpkin howled.
He Yunzhou was taken aback for a moment, and when he turned around, he saw Huo Zheng hugging the pumpkin in a rude manner.
"ah… "
He Yunzhou was half a beat slow before pulling away from that empty emotion, and squeezed out his usual smile at Huo Zheng.
"The pumpkin didn't bite you, did it? I'll get him something to eat right away—"
"What’s wrong with you?"
Huo Zheng interrupted He Yunzhou's words suddenly, he stared straight at the latter and frowned.
He Yunzhou was taken aback.
Huo Zheng stepped forward suddenly, and He Yunzhou couldn't help but take a step back.
The pumpkin slammed onto the ground and let out an annoyed meow, but the two humans on the balcony didn't notice it at all.
"Someone troubled you? You look so bad."
Huo Zheng said in a cold voice.
He Yunzhou shook his head in amazement: "No, no one troubles me, I just... just feel a little bad."
Huo Zheng obviously didn't believe it. He tilted his head slightly and stared intently at He Yunzhou, probably trying to find some clues from He Yunzhou's face.
The light in the living room fell on Huo Zheng's hair through the glass door. The long silver-gray hair was so similar to the melon hair back then.
He Yunzhou's breathing became a little faster.
He missed Guaji more than ever after receiving the phone call that brought back his memories.
That fluffy, heavy cat can always give He Yunzhou courage and warmth when he is at his lowest and most depressed.
However, Gua Ji is no longer there.
Beside He Yunzhou, there was only a green-eyed man named Huo Zheng.
"I… "
He Yunzhou didn't know whether he was dizzy or what, but after seeing Huo Zheng's melon-like eyes, he found that he suddenly couldn't control himself.
"Can I stroke your hair?"
He Yunzhou said softly to Huo Zheng.
"..."
Ah, here we come.
Straight ball.
Oh no.
The moment he heard He Yunzhou's request, countless noisy and chaotic thoughts exploded in Huo Zheng's heart.
Huo Zheng's footsteps stopped and his heart beat wildly.
Huo Zheng knew that he should reject He Yunzhou.
The current ambiguous and ambiguous relationship between him and the other party cannot continue - otherwise, there will always be someone who will be completely heartbroken.
But at this moment, the man's nervousness and frustration seemed to be transmitted to the depths of Huo Zheng's soul through the air.
"Okay... okay."
Huo Zheng heard that he agreed immediately.
The author has something to say: I originally planned to let Ouyang play...but I still don't like the plot that is too bloody.
It's better to pamper Mr. Huo who is also acting as a stand-in today without even realizing it.