Xie Yu remembered that he only mentioned the matter between him and He Chao to Ms. Gu after the college entrance examination.
Their relationship with their children is different from that of other parents. Throughout her senior year of high school, Ms. Gu was more like a candidate who was "preparing for exams" and her nerves were in a state of tension all day long.
The college entrance examination was not over yet, and Xie Yu didn't dare to influence her.
"Don't review too late, relax, ah, don't think too much, just take the test as you usually do."
Gu Xuelan said, putting vegetables into his bowl: "...eat more."
In Ms. Gu's eyes Xie Yu, who "revises very late", would like to say that he basically goes to bed on time at ten o'clock every night and lives a stress-free life.
Xie Yu finished eating the chopsticks and calmly changed the subject: "There is someone in the next class who is having sex. I called the parents last week."
Gu Xuelan is not the kind of rigid parent. She even still has a bit of a little girl's thoughts in her heart. The question of "puppy love" is very broad. I usually ask my son: Is there anyone I like and have I fallen in love secretly?
It is not incomprehensible that every age group has its unique and precious characteristics.
Hazy, green, passionate and public.
"Young," Gu Xuelan sighed, "Hey, it's great to be young."
After passing the college entrance examination, Gu Xuelan, who said "It's great to be young," suffered the most unspeakable impact in more than ten years.
Xie Yu didn't even have time to change into the school uniform. He planned to go to Heishui Street just after the exam. By the way, he pulled Gu Xuelan along with him: "Mom, are we going together?"
Gu Xuelan didn't pay attention to the second part of the sentence. It was rare for her to go back to Heishui. Jie also knew that Aunt Mei and the others had spent a lot of effort this year, busy changing into simpler clothes, and picked up a few gifts before leaving.
The dinner table was extremely lively.
A table of people sat in the courtyard, enjoying the cool air.
Even though Gu Xuelan was dressed casually, she still couldn't resist Lei's mother's trendy men's pants: "..."
"These beach pants belong to Lei Zi's father," Lei's mother raised her legs and said with a smile, "It's quite cool."
Xu Yanmei took the beer bottle directly and lifted the bottle cap with her bare hands. The bottle cap rolled down to the cement floor. She habitually passed the wine forward, but halfway through it she remembered that Gu Xuelan didn't drink beer: "Look at you - you're here as soon as you come, why do you bring so many things?"
Gu Xuelan didn't usually drink much, so she still took the bottle of wine , poured some into the water glass.
"How are you?" Xie Yu raised his hand and clinked glasses with Zhou Dalei.
"VP Club, substitute," Zhou Dalei said, "In less than half a year, I will change the starting lineup for you."
"That's awesome."
"That's right, your brother and I are the best."
After three rounds of drinking.
The topic wandered all the way from the college entrance examination to playing mahjong. Before we could even arrange a match, Xie Yu, who had been silent the whole time and was sitting there eating quietly, suddenly said: "Mom, Aunt Mei , Let me tell you something."
Xie Yu drank half a bottle of wine, and the tips of his ears were a little red. Then he stood up and faced the people in Heishui Street who were not related by blood except Gu Xuelan but were still like relatives.
He seemed to have a normal expression, but his fingers on the edge of the table tightened unconsciously: "I have a partner. This conversation in the second year of high school is not just for fun. It's very serious, so serious... it's him for the rest of my life."
" His name is He Chao."
Xie Yu had no special ideas. You don't have to explain it to anyone, and you don't have to care about the eyes of the world, but they are different.
People at the dinner table had different expressions, and most of them were surprised.
Xu Yanmei: "That He Chao who was here last time?"
Zhou Dalei: "Fuck, that He Chao?"
Gu Xuelan opened her mouth and almost couldn't find her voice: "...He Chao?"
On the way back, Gu Xuelan asked for a long time No words were spoken. When the car pulled into the garage, she didn't even realize it was there.
To be fair, she quite liked the child He Chao.
But she had never thought about it.
Even if he realizes that every time he calls, as long as the child is around, Xie Yu will become different from usual.
The unspeakable changes, if you think about it carefully... there are actually signs of it.
Gu Xuelan's first reaction was that she couldn't accept it.
However, everything she wanted to say came to an abrupt end when she touched Xie Yu's eyes.
There was trust and expectation in those eyes.
She thought again of what she had written in her letter to him: No matter what choice you make.
——I just hope you are safe and happy. " Have you
thought about it?
"
"Let's meet."
Xie Yu lay on the bed after taking a shower. At first, he thought he would be calm and just confess, but when he saw text messages one after another, Aunt Mei's, Da Lei's...
he looked at them . Suddenly he buried his face into the pillow.
When He Chao received the call, he didn't know that he had "indirectly" met the child's parents. He just felt the child's muffled voice: "What's wrong?"
"Next time you call, don't call Aunt Gu. "Yes." He
Chao didn't react: "Does it sound too old to call you aunt? What should I call you next time?"
Xie Yu said, "Idiot, call me mom."
It was as if the call had been dropped. Xie Yu almost hung up. When he was about to press 'hang up', he heard him ask again: "Is it what I thought?"
"Could it be what you thought? Sister? You really know how to calculate seniority."
"You..."
He looked at you for a long time and finally smiled: "Then please add Lao He on WeChat. He has been begging me for almost two years. I'm afraid I'll scare you. "I haven't given it yet."
Xie Yu: "..."
Two years?
"I told him on the first day we fell in love. I said I found someone I really like. This boy is very cute."
He Chao's father is a god.
Since He Chao expressed his touching feelings for the creative short video, Lao He felt that this gift was tastefully chosen. After successfully adding Xie Yu as a friend, he immediately went to the online shopping platform to customize another one.
Xie Yu just woke up in the morning and turned on his mobile phone to check the time. In the early morning, he saw a group of African children holding up blackboards and dancing wildly.
"Congratulations, congratulations!"
"Xie Yu, thank you!"
"A happy marriage!"
...
So for Xie Yu, the biggest bad news of the year is probably: his birthday is coming.
But birthdays really can't be avoided.
He spent a lot of effort, but still couldn't convince himself: don't argue with the people of the He family.
This semester of my sophomore year was very busy with schoolwork. I took a day off to accompany He Chao to class and then started to get busy again. I had almost forgotten about my birthday, but Professor Yang accidentally reminded me, "You won't be here next week. Give the information to Senior Brother Wang and ask him to follow up."
"What?"
Professor Yang smiled. : "You forgot your birthday? I don't want to be said that I squeezed you so much that you couldn't even celebrate your birthday."
Xie Yuxin said that it was better to be squeezed.
There was a small workload on this day. Xie Yu came out of the laboratory and there was still half an hour before the end of get out of class.
He thought for a while and planned to wait for his boyfriend to finish class.
The classroom was very quiet except for the voice of the finance teacher: "Suppose f is a preference relationship defined on the consumption set X. If for any x, y in X, xfy if and only if u(x)≥u(y) ..."
Xie Yu didn't go in or show his face through the window. He leaned against the wall and waited for a while.
He Chao saw the person only after he came out of class: "Why are you here?"
"Waiting for you," Xie Yu lowered his head and replied to WeChat before looking up at him, "Your dad said he wanted to give me a big gift. Please advise him not to give it away, I understand. "
"I think so, it's enough for me to give it away... Why is he joining in the fun?"
He Chaoshun laughed at Lao He, and then Xie Yu said: "You. Don't give him anything. Don't give me anything. It's the best blessing for me."
"..."
As a result, He Chao remained calm for several days and only sent him two messages on his birthday.
-[Location]
-Come here.
Positioned as a restaurant.
A certain wealthy young man named He even booked the venue.
The store is not big, but it is elegantly decorated and has a singing stand at the front.
Xie Yu sat and waited for a long time without seeing anyone, and all kinds of weird gifts ran around in his mind, making him very upset.
Just as I was about to send a text message to ask, the lights in the entire restaurant dimmed for a few seconds without warning.
Then Xie Yu heard a cappella song, and with this a cappella song, the lights on the bar lit up little by little.
"What are you doing?"
He Chao didn't pronounce the sound well at first, stopped and coughed, raised his index finger and made a "shh" gesture to him.
Without accompaniment, He Chao sang in the most direct way for a full four minutes.
It was the song he sang on the bus during the autumn outing in his second year of high school.
He Chao finished singing the last line, but did not say happy birthday. He held the microphone and asked: "I plan to give you a ring this year. The kind that will be worn on your ring finger and never be taken off for the rest of your life. I wonder if my child will accept it?"