An Accident in Broad Daylight

Xu Tangcheng didn't bring his ID card, so they found a small hotel that night to make do.The room rate is cheap, and accordingly, the environment is not very good.The bedding in the room had a bad smell, but Yi Zhe didn't notice it, and although Xu Tangcheng smelled uncomfortable, he didn't say anything.The small hotel is critically located, and the noise from passing vehicles made Xu Tangcheng unable to fall asleep.

In the middle of the night, the wind picked up and it rained. The sound of the rain was pattering, as if coaxing people to sleep.Xu Tangcheng squinted drowsily for a while, he was half asleep and half awake, when a heavy object fell to the ground outside the window, Xu Tangcheng was startled awake, and he has never felt sleepy since then.

After a night of insomnia and lying down for too long, he turned over several times at dawn to relieve the pain in his back.Yi Zhe, who usually slept soundly, seemed to have sensed something, and suddenly woke up.

"Did you sleep well?"

Xu Tangcheng nodded, raised his hand, and rubbed his temples: "Headache."

"Then sleep a little longer?"

Xu Tangcheng shook his head.

The curtains in a small hotel are no better than at home, and the light of day breaks, and it has already affected the indoor space.Yi Zhe stared at Xu Tangcheng's profile for a while, then stretched out a hand to cover his eyes.

"Can I fall asleep like this?"

Yi Zhe's voice was right next to his ears, and his breath also brushed against his ears along with the soft words.Unable to restrain himself, Xu Tangcheng laughed immediately: "How can I fall asleep like this?"

The corner of the curved mouth went straight to the hand that blocked the light, Yi Zhe was moved by seeing it, moved his body, and kissed the corner of his mouth.

Different from the silent acceptance in the past, Xu Tangcheng suddenly tilted his head after a brief moment of daze, and put his lips on Yi Zhe's.

At the end of the kiss, it was hard to let go, Yi Zhe touched Xu Tangcheng's face, and from a very close distance, his eyes met his brows and eyes: "Shall I accompany you back?"

"No need." Xu Tangcheng shook his head, "They will be even angrier if you go."

Xu Tangcheng returned home, and it was Xu Tangqi who opened the door. Her eyes were so dark that Xu Tangcheng immediately frowned, "Did you sleep well?"

Xu Tangqi nodded, hesitated to speak, and looked back in the direction of the kitchen.

The room was very quiet, Xu Tangcheng waited for a while, and heard the sound of dishes clashing in the kitchen.Xu Tangcheng changed his shoes, but he stood at the door and did not go in.

"Parents... are you okay?"

"I didn't sleep much yesterday." Xu Tangqi replied in a low voice, "I was trying to persuade my mother, but then they told me to leave it alone and go back to sleep. But when I got up to go to the bathroom at almost three o'clock, the lights in their room were still on. .”

Xu Tangqi stopped while talking, looked at Xu Tangcheng, and moved his lower lip emptyly.

"Just say something."

Hearing this, Xu Tangqi instantly lost face.

"Mom told you not to come back... When did you and brother Yi Zhe..." Xu was restless and helpless, Xu Tangqi kept rubbing the corner of his clothes with her fingers, she raised her eyes, a little aggrieved, "We separated, when did you... Come home again."

In fact, there is nothing unexpected about this. He had already heard it yesterday.

Xu Tangcheng pursed his lips tightly, stood there for a while, then nodded his head lightly, and said, "I see."

He took off the slippers he had just changed, and put back on the pair of sneakers that had been stained with rain.

"Brother..." Xu Tangqi felt something, took a step forward, and grabbed his arm.

Xu Tangcheng patted her hand and felt that her hand was cold, so he reached out to hold it.But the two brothers and sisters are similar in physique, and neither can warm the other.

"Help me to take out the wallet and keys." Xu Tangcheng straightened the wrinkled clothes for her, and said, "I won't take the car keys with you. Give them to Dad. They will be handy when you want to use the car." .”

After he finished speaking, Xu Tangqi didn't move.

There was a sound from the kitchen at this moment, it was the sound of dishes being put into the pot.

Xu Tangcheng urged again softly.

This time, Xu Tangqi finally turned around.

After getting the wallet, Xu Tangcheng opened the interlayer and took out a bank card.There are only two bank cards left that he is still using, one is the one he got with Yi Zhe, and the other is the one in his hand, which has been used for many years and holds most of his savings.

"I'll give you this card. If I give it to my parents, they probably won't want it." He handed the old card to Xu Tangqi, "just in case."

"I don't want it." Xu Tangqi withdrew his hand, lowered his head, and glanced away, "Mom and Dad are just angry now, and you can talk about it after a while, it will be fine, there is no need for this."

Without arguing with her, Xu Tangcheng just smiled shallowly, took her hand again, and forced the card into her palm.

"Anyway, you should take care of your parents more these days," Xu Tangcheng said after a pause, and then added, "Especially Mom, you should spend more time with her."

After confessing these few words, Xu Tangcheng took a step back.He wanted to close the door, but Xu Tangqi resisted the door and refused to let him.Xu Tangcheng patted her on the head: "Be obedient."

These two words made Xu Tangqi's eyes turn red instantly.

"Brother, I will stand by your side and help you persuade your parents." After speaking, two strings of teardrops swept down, and Xu Tangcheng kept wiping them off.

"Okay, I got it, don't cry." Xu Tangcheng felt sore, and sighed helplessly on his face, "How old is it?"

Xu Tangqi ignored his persuasion.

She grabbed Xu Tangcheng's hand very hard, looked into his eyes, and asked, "Then can you not leave?"

When they returned to Beijing, they didn't get a high-speed rail ticket, so Xu Tangcheng and Yi Zhe took the express train back to Beijing.Yi Zhe went to the window to queue up to buy the tickets. Seeing that he brought back two sleeper tickets, Xu Tangcheng was surprised: "It's only been over an hour, why did you still buy a sleeper?"

"There are no hard seats next to each other."

In the messy ticket hall, Yi Zhe escorted Xu Tangcheng out.A rain last night took away a lot of the temperature in the city, Xu Tangcheng shivered after leaving the hall, and followed Yi Zhe even more closely.

The station has a long history, and the economy of the small town is underdeveloped, so the environment inside the station is roughly the same as when it was just built. The waiting hall is very small, and there is not even a shop for drinks and snacks.

Fortunately, fast food restaurants have always been standard at stations.Seeing that there was still some time before leaving the car, Yi Zhe took Xu Tangcheng to the KFC next to the station, bought a cup of hot milk, and asked him to hold it in his hand.

They were sitting by the window, the milk was a little hot at the beginning, Xu Tangcheng didn't drink it, so he kept looking out the window, biting the straw in a daze.

"Uncle and aunt, what do you say?"

Xu Tangcheng was in a bad mood last night, so Yi Zhe didn't dare to ask.But even if Xu Tangcheng didn't describe any family situation to him, he could probably guess some, but he didn't know how serious it was.

"It's... quite opposed." Xu Tangcheng still didn't say the whole thing, but said, "It's a bit troublesome. Their thinking is quite traditional, and it's not easy to explain."

Yi Zhe understands this point.He had watched some TV dramas by chance before, and at that time he felt that the families played in them were very similar to Xu Tang's family, they were all big families.It's not about being rich, but about having a stable, harmonious, and complicated family relationship.

"so what should I do now?"

The milk became colder, and Xu Tangcheng finally took his first sip.It is said that drinking milk on an empty stomach is not good, and Xu Tangcheng has always avoided this practice, but at this time, he felt that after drinking this milk, he felt comfortable and comfortable.

"I don't know." Xu Tangcheng said, "Take your time, they are very angry now, and they don't want to listen to me."

The ticket for two people is an upper berth and a lower berth.They didn't bring any luggage, so they naturally sat side by side on the lower bunk after boarding the train.Perhaps it was because the slight jolt of the train had a hypnotic effect, or maybe it was because he was too tired, Xu Tangcheng curled his legs and leaned on Yi Zhe's shoulder, and fell asleep within a short while.

He had a dream, in which he was standing in a strange space, with white walls all around and above his head, like a huge bell jar.He was not used to the confined space, and he wanted to punch an exit, but found that the wall was soft, like cotton wool, which made him unable to use any strength at all.After a while, the cotton ball in one direction suddenly spread out to both sides, not gradually dissipating, but as if the bell jar had been torn out abruptly, forcing him to see the clear world.

Yi Zhe rode his bicycle from the gap and stopped in front of him.

The mountain bike is red, the only color in the dream.

Xu Tangcheng wanted to look for him, but he was pulled by some force and blocked his steps.

In the dream, he was a little confused about the situation, so he could only stand and watch Yi Zhe approaching him with unhurried steps.But when Yi Zhe walked halfway, the road between them was suddenly cut off.Xu Tangcheng watched Yi Zhe's surroundings collapse.He wanted to cry out in fear, and opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't make any sound.

In the dream, Yi Zhe seemed unaware of the changes around him, and was still pushing the cart towards him.

A violent shaking awakened Xu Tangcheng.He regained his composure, opened his eyes, and saw that his head had slipped off Yi Zhe's shoulder, and was being held by another hand.

"Having a nightmare?" Yi Zhe asked with his head lowered.

"En." Xu Tangcheng rubbed his eyes, only to realize that his throat was so dry, "Is it almost here?"

"Well, there are still 10 minutes, and I was about to call you."

Xu Tangcheng looked out the window, the train hadn't entered the station yet.He leaned his head back on Yi Zhe's shoulders, put his arms on his knees, and waited quietly for the train to slow down.

There was a girl sitting on the bunk opposite, Ben was holding a book and reading, and for some reason, she kept looking at them.Xu Tangcheng was in a daze and didn't notice, but Yi Zhe frowned and looked back, forcing her to lower her head.

When it was time to change the ticket when getting off the bus, Xu Tangcheng took his coat from the side, intending to search for the two tickets in his pocket.When I took the coat, my wrist accidentally touched the folded quilt. It was soft and could dissipate strength, exactly the same as the "cotton cover" in the dream just now.

He suddenly discovered that this dream was not meaningless, and that cotton cover was their current situation.When facing Eucalyptus, he could spare no effort to protect Yi Zhe and stab him with the greatest strength, but Zhou Hui and the others were never enemies.

This is not a war, they have no fortresses to break and no ammunition.

Xu Tangcheng lost his mind for a moment, and Yi Zhe had already leaned over to help him take out the ticket.

The days after that actually passed faster than Xu Tangcheng imagined.He thought it would be difficult, but he was busy graduating and getting a job, any of which consumed him too much energy, and the troubled time could only be moved to night.

He would still insist on going home, but Zhou Hui and Xu Yueliang still avoided seeing him.At first Xu Tangqi would come to open the door and talk to him in a low voice for a while, but one day, he knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered.When he turned the door with the key and went in, he was greeted by a loud closing sound.

Xu Tangqi stood in the living room, looking at him a little aggrieved.

Xu Tangcheng understood what Zhou Hui and Xu Yueliang meant, and he didn't go back after that. He just contacted Xu Tangqi on the phone to find out about the situation at home.

Zhou Hui and Xu Yueliang were not having a good time, and Zhou Hui's eyes were always swollen. This fact made Xu Tangcheng's nights more difficult.Yi Zhe was not unaware of it, he tried every means to help Xu Tangcheng relieve his insomnia symptoms, warm milk, calming the nerves and nourishing the brain, massage before going to bed, telling stories... Even Yi Zhe tried to learn the lullaby, but Neither seems to have worked.

Until one day, Xu Tangcheng accidentally broke a glass at home because his hands suddenly became numb and cold, and Yi Zhe forcibly dragged him to the hospital for examination.The doctor's diagnosis was neurasthenia, which was serious if it was serious, and it was really nothing if it wasn't serious.Xu Tangcheng knew his own situation, so he didn't think much of it, but Yi Zhe was silent all night.

A month later, when Xu Tangcheng saw Xu Tangqi again, it was she who suddenly ran to the door of his company.The little girl lost a lot of weight, and the tip of her nose was red from the cold.It was already nine o'clock in the evening, seeing her, Xu Tangcheng hurriedly bid farewell to the colleagues who came out together, and ran over.

"Why did you come here?" Xu Tangcheng became anxious after touching her cold face, "I just caught a cold a while ago, and I haven't recovered yet. You, why are you still running and freezing. How long have you been waiting?" ?”

"Not long." Xu Tangqi was still normal when he said these three words, but after he finished speaking, he suddenly shed tears.

When the colleagues behind saw this situation, they were afraid that something might happen, so they kindly came to ask.Xu Tangcheng circled Xu Tangqi and waved at them: "It's okay, my sister."

Xu Tangqi also realized his gaffe, quickly wiped his eyes with his sleeve, and buried his head very low.

Xu Tangcheng took Xu Tangqi home, called Yi Zhe, and asked him to pack an extra meal.

"Tell me, what's going on with you, you sneaked out from home?" Putting down his phone, Xu Tangcheng leaned against the dining table and asked.

Xu Tangqi held a cup of hot water, sipped it in small sips, and nodded.

"Call home quickly, what's going on with your parents."

After hearing this, Xu Tangqi shook his head: "I didn't bring my mobile phone."

"You really..."

Putting the words of education aside, Xu Tangcheng hastily sent a message to Xu Yueliang, telling him that Xu Tangqi was with him and would send her back tomorrow.

"Did you argue with your parents?"

Xu Tangqi didn't speak at first, but when Xu Tangcheng started to walk towards her, she choked up and said, "I just want to persuade them...you haven't been home for so long, don't they miss you? I I don't understand, you didn't murder and set fire, is it really because of this that you will not be allowed to go home for the rest of your life?"

In my early twenties, there are many things that I don’t understand, understand, and accept.Xu Tangqi asked: "What's important, men and women, as long as you live well?"

"You think so, they don't think so." Xu Tangcheng didn't dare to let Xu Tangqi cry, he patted her on the back, trying to calm her down, "How traditional our family's concept is, you haven't realized since you were young Come? I have to go home every New Year’s holiday, I said to go to the South for the New Year, my parents didn’t agree, my cousin got divorced, how long has the family been gloomy...how do you let them accept this?”

"No one can accept it from the beginning," Xu Tangqi looked up at him stubbornly, "Everyone has something they can't accept, but at least try it, I just thought about it all night Want to understand. But they don't, they don't accept it, their thinking is old and stubborn, and they just condemn people without a chance to speak."

At this point, Xu Tangcheng has basically understood Xu Tangqi's thoughts. She is really on her side and hopes that her parents can understand her.But I always feel that I am right, and unconsciously, I will gradually become angry in such a confrontation.

"Think about it, my parents are over 50, and it's really hard for them to change their ideas for so many years." Xu Tangcheng pulled the stool away and sat next to Xu Tangqi, "We can't use our ideas to measure They, because they grew up in a different environment from ours. Although our current environment cannot be said to be very open, we have indeed been provided with opportunities to learn about open minds in some ways. But when they come into contact with In these cultures, there has always been only marriage, childbirth, and family building, and no one has ever told them that same-sex people can fall in love. They have never heard of it, let alone seen it.”

Xu Tangqi's fingers kept digging at the outer wall of the cup. When Xu Tangcheng finished speaking, she wanted to refute, but suddenly found that she had nothing to say.

"Most people are ordinary. You can't ask them to create something out of nothing and create their own thoughts. So I said I can understand them." Xu Tangcheng stretched out his hand and stroked Xu Tangqi's somewhat messy ponytail, "Bring the environment The lack of culture is entirely due to the backward thinking of individuals, and I think this is harsh.”

Xu Tangqi's eyes flickered, bit his lip, and said nothing.

Xu Tangcheng paused for a while, then asked Xu Tangqi, "Do you think so?"

"Then it will always be like this?" This is an admission that what Xu Tangcheng said is reasonable, but the little girl is not reconciled, and is still arguing, "We must communicate. If you don't go home, they won't give in. Parents have lost a lot of weight." , you see that there is no flesh on your face..."

"I don't know what to do, but let's do this for now. Wait until the Chinese New Year," Xu Tangcheng said with a wry smile, "My parents probably didn't tell my uncle about this. I always have to go home during the Chinese New Year, and they probably won't either. Object, otherwise the rest of the family can't say anything. Tang Qi, I don't want to force them to accept it, and you don't want to force them either. Listen to me, take care of your parents, and don't let them get hurt because of this."

Xu Tangqi was silent for a long time, finally sniffed, and said: "Okay."