An Accident in Broad Daylight

The eyes of father and son met in the air, and it was obvious that Xu Yueliang's was more calm.

"Is your job only available in Beijing?"

Xu Tangcheng finally understood what the so-called "Talk about" was about. His heart was beating violently. After a long time, he managed to calm himself down and replied, "Well, the company is not big, and they are all in Beijing."

"Is there no such project as a business trip to Sanya?"

Xu Tangcheng shook his head: "No."

The atmosphere at the dinner table suddenly became dull, even Xu Tangqi didn't take any food, he left a chicken wing in the bowl without eating, and stared blankly at his parents.

"But..." Xu Tangqi knew what her parents meant, and she couldn't help but want to help Xu Tangcheng, so she said, "But didn't you say before that all the relatives in the family are here, and you don't want to go to other places?"

In fact, after graduating from high school, Xu Tangcheng discussed with Xu Yueliang and the others whether he should consider going to the South in the future.Finding a small city with good air and good climate may be more suitable for Xu Tangqi's life than here.But at that time, everyone felt that the environment at home was not bad. In addition, Zhou Hui said that a large group of relatives were here, and they didn't want to travel so far. It was boring because they didn't know the place well.

"It's not that you will never come back. It's not that you have been uncomfortable for the past two years and want you to raise it first." After Xu Yueliang finished speaking, he turned his gaze to Xu Tangcheng, "Tang Cheng, why don't you change your job? It hasn't been long since you joined the company, and it won't have a great impact on you. Regarding work, Chengcheng's mother said that she can help, and it is also a Beijing company that you are professionally matched with, and there is also a project in Hainan."

Xu Tangcheng didn't expect that his parents had arranged things in such a detailed manner during this period of time. His head was a little messed up, and he couldn't find a decent excuse. He had nothing to say for a while, and remained silent while biting two chopsticks.

Zhou Hui remained silent for a while, half of the braised fish on the table had been eaten, she moved her chopsticks and turned the fish over.

Xu Tangcheng was familiar with this movement.

"It's New Year's Day too, and the Chinese New Year is not far away, and Cheng Cheng's mother is still urging to book tickets quickly." Zhou Hui's words were toneless, but light and clever, driving Xu Tang Chengzhen to the end, " We want to order a few, Tang Cheng, give me the number."

When the chopsticks in his hand started to be clenched, Xu Tangcheng didn't have any impression. When he felt the pain, he realized that it was the nail of his thumb that had been pinching the knuckle of his middle finger.

"Dad... why didn't you discuss it with me in advance. Brother, this job is very good, he likes it..."

"You can find a job again," Zhou Hui interrupted Xu Tangqi, implying, "but a person only lives for a lifetime."

No one answered, and no one dared to answer.The whole family didn't look at anyone, they all stared at a rice bowl in front of them.

When she spoke again, Zhou Hui's voice changed a little.

"A person's life is... there is no turning back."

"I like this job very much, and you also know the conditions offered by the other party at that time, the contract..." Xu Tangcheng paused, he didn't even notice, the fingertip of his index finger scratched the table, and then the whole hand Gradually tightened and clenched into fists, "The contract is for five years. If you want to break the contract, it will be very troublesome."

"Crack." A pair of chopsticks were pushed onto the table with considerable effort.

"When did you..." Zhou Hui looked at Xu Tangcheng in disbelief. She clenched her mouth tightly and asked, "When did you learn to lie? You think we don't understand anything, so you can be fooled?"

Xu Yueliang sighed, then slightly raised his eyebrows, looked at Xu Tangcheng and said, "You should be in the internship period now, and you haven't signed a tripartite contract yet."

Finding excuses to decline is basically evasion.When he just said it, Xu Tangcheng already knew that he had said something wrong.The situation seemed to be made worse by one of his lies, and he couldn't find any solution for both, so he simply confessed directly.

"I can not go."

"You don't have to go, haven't you been walking around for a few months?" Zhou Hui said, "I'll just pretend that I didn't give birth to you, and live as you like, so that I won't have trouble eating or sleeping well in the future. "

"Mom," Xu Tangcheng's head suddenly started to hurt badly, and he looked at Zhou Hui with pleading eyes, "No matter how you arranged it before, since you called me back today, let's really talk, okay?"

"Don't talk about it," Zhou Hui refused immediately without giving him a chance, "You don't have to try to convince me, I'm just stubborn, I just can't accept it. You don't have to reason with me, I don't care how much you say this homosexual is right I don't care how many famous people are... homosexuals, I don't care about others, and I don't care about it, but my son can't."

"Okay, if we don't talk about homosexuality, let's talk about Yi Zhe."

Xu Tangcheng looked at Zhou Hui, then at Xu Yueliang, and couldn't bear it anymore if he had endured it for so long.

"Dad, Mom, I have never told you about any emotional matters, and I am not the kind of person who likes to bring these things out, but I have to say today. I have grown up so much, I have never liked anyone, I have There have been girls who chased me, and girls who everyone thought were good, but I didn’t feel anything. I don’t think it’s necessary to pursue this matter whether I’m born gay. What I’m sure of is that I like Yi Zhe, In the future, there will never be anyone who can make me like this so much."

"Do you like him?" To Zhou Hui, these words were a bit unbearable, and she asked sharply, "Do you like a man?"

Xu Tangcheng didn't speak.

"say something!"

Xu Tangcheng always thought that he was not a bad-spoken person, but when negotiating with his parents, it always became an endgame with missing pieces after a few words.

With a loud noise, Zhou Hui stood up suddenly and took the seat.

"Mom..." Xu Tangqi was startled and called Zhou Hui.

Zhou Hui ignored him, and ignored Xu Yueliang's obstruction, walked around half of the table, grabbed Xu Tangcheng's arm, and brought him to the bedroom.

"mom!"

Xu Tangqi thought that Zhou Hui was about to make a move, so he chased after him in a panic, but saw Zhou Hui come out of a plastic bag from the closet.She had never seen the bag before, and she didn't know what Zhou Hui's intention was, so she stopped at the door and looked at it while leaning on the door frame.

Zhou Hui untied the bag and threw it on the bed.The contents of the bag came out in an instant, a pair of cotton trousers, a pair of small cloth shoes, all embroidered with exquisite tiger head patterns.

"Look for yourself, the shoes and pants your grandma makes for your future children, you have to tell her that you like Yi Zhe? Do you like a man?" Zhou Hui burst into tears, "Do you think she Can you accept it?"

It was easy for Zhou Hui to poke Xu Tangcheng's other sore spot.

"Do you know how old your grandma is?" Zhou Hui stretched out a hand, not knowing where she was pointing, but shaking violently, "88... When she was young, she avoided the Japanese and hugged your father to hear the criticism …Have you seen her feet? She was still bound at that time, you know? Every time I cut her nails, I dare not cut them, because those feet are deformed, and the nails are all grown Meat. At that time, women were not allowed to eat at the table in the village. Your grandma served the big family, and she was reluctant to eat and use anything. She suffered all her life... What's the matter, this is getting old, I just want to see all of you juniors get married, she is so at ease, you still have to let her know about this new thing, let her know that her grandson doesn't plan to marry a wife and wants to live with a man for the rest of his life?"

Xu Tangcheng stared at the pile of colorful things on the bed, and could still remember the nursery rhyme his grandma had read to him.

He had seen his grandma embroider tiger-toed shoes stitch by stitch.

"Do you have a conscience, Xu Tangcheng?"

"Mom, I've thought about all of this." Xu Tangcheng also had something clear in his eyes, reflecting the color of the colorful thread, "I know there are many things that I can't explain, so in the beginning, those who were not with Yi Zhe At that time, I hesitated for a long time."

Zhou Hui sat on the bed, covered her face and wept, ignoring Xu Tang Cheng's words.

After a long time, Xu Tangcheng continued: "But I can't help it, I'm sorry."

His voice was soft, almost breathless.

He really has no choice, he knows how unrealistic it is to be with Yi Zhe, but he can't control himself.

"Are your dad and I hurting you? Huh? What did you tell us about whether you like it or not?" Zhou Hui trembled, covering her eyes with her hands, "We don't want you to find someone you like and have a good time. Forever? But it’s not a big deal for you... Aren’t we just afraid of other people’s gossip? You just know what you like and don’t like. Have you really thought about it? You like him, can the two of you start a family? You can't get married and have children. Yes, now you are both strong and strong, and you don't need to rely on anyone, and you don't need to rely on anyone. You think you two can live a good life together. Then you can be strong for the rest of your life Strong body, don’t you need to rely on others for the rest of your life? Your father’s legs are not good. You take him to the hospital. There is a sick person, how do you live, who of you will live forever, who can take care of whom? Go to a nursing home? Can it be the same as at home?"

A series of questions made Xu Tangcheng helpless.He squatted in front of Zhou Hui, opened his mouth a few times, but couldn't speak.Zhou Hui cried more and more, Xu Tangcheng held her hand and lowered his head wordlessly.

"When the time comes, your father and I won't feel at ease when we leave..."

"Mom," Xu Tangcheng interrupted Zhou Hui, his chest and head were in pain, "I'm sorry."

Zhou Hui looked at him in a daze.

"I know it will be difficult in the future," Xu Tangcheng murmured, "but I really have no choice, I can't live without him anymore."

"Why can't you do it? Why can't you leave?" Zhou Hui cried, talking intermittently, "When you young people fell in love, you felt that you couldn't do without each other...you broke up with him, I don't believe that in two or three years, you still can't forget him."

Xu Tangcheng didn't speak, and seeing him silent, Zhou Hui suddenly grabbed his arm excitedly, raised his head forcefully with the other hand, and said, "Then just promise mom, you will follow us first, okay? You try, you completely cut off contact with him, can you try it?"

"mom……"

"Can't you just try it! If you really can't forget him in a few years, and he still likes you so much... can't we just accept our fate?"

Zhou Hui lost her voice at the end, just like Xu Tangcheng said "I can't help it".

Xu Tangcheng knew that this was the biggest concession Zhou Hui and Xu Yueliang could make.

But after a long silence, he still shook his head.

"No."

"You..." Zhou Hui slapped him on the shoulder, "Don't you want me to live?"

"Mom," Xu Tangcheng sniffed, trying to suppress the stuff that was gushing out of his eyes, "You also know, Yi Zhe... Yi Zhe's family is not like ours. I have you, grandma, and uncle. But he's not, he..."

Without warning, the tears that had been suppressed just now rolled down again.Xu Tangcheng has never said "love" to anyone, not even Yi Zhe, let alone at this time, he wants to explain this to Zhou Hui and the others, and explain why he just can't leave Yi Zhe.He hurriedly organized his words, but he didn't get a complete sentence for a long time.

Until the appearance of Yi Zhe appeared in his mind too many times, and among the pictures that passed by quickly, there was one that floated and stopped.

Xu Tangcheng blinked, as if seeing the mooncake that was handed to his mouth in the sunset again.

"If I have three mooncakes, I'll give you two and him one. If he doesn't want it, I'll give you all. But he...he has three and will give them all to me."

He was clearly talking about love, but Xu Tangcheng's eyes were full of tears and pain.Not only Zhou Hui, but even Xu Tangqi who was standing at the door was stunned.She unconsciously opened her mouth and called softly, "Brother..."

"I can't leave him, not even for two or three years." Xu Tangcheng tremblingly said, "Whenever I think of him holding something delicious but no one can give it to me, I feel pain in my heart. No."

Zhou Hui's eyes were wide open, she had stopped crying a long time ago, and sat there quietly, but tears were falling straight down.

"What about us?" She asked hoarsely, "Are you relying on the fact that we have people who care about us, that we have Tang Qi?"

Yi Zhe already knew Yi Yuanzhi, he knew that this "wait a while" probably passed by this day.Sure enough, Yi Zhe went back to the hotel and took a nap, but Yi Yuanzhi hadn't come back yet.

All day long, Yi Zhe was worried about Xu Tangcheng's side. He lay on the bed alone, tossed and turned for a long time, and finally couldn't help sending Xu Tangcheng a text message.I didn't dare to ask any sensitive questions, just asked what he was doing.

After the text message was sent, Yi Zhe put the phone next to his pillow, waiting for a response. He was afraid of missing the message, so he had to hold on to the toilet even when he went to the toilet.

It was already ten o'clock when Yi Yuanzhi came over. He took off his coat after entering the room, put it on the hanger, and asked Yi Zhe, "What's the matter?"

"I just wanted to tell you..."

Yi Zhe temporarily put the phone on the coffee table, and sat down on the sofa under Yi Yuanzhi's gesture.

"I want to tell you that I'm not single now."

Hearing this, Yi Yuanzhi raised his eyebrows slightly, but didn't interrupt.

After the beginning, the rest of the words were spoken much more smoothly.Yi Zhe suddenly thought that maybe Xu Tangcheng was doing the same thing at home - describing their feelings to his family.

"Do you remember our neighbor in the past, surnamed Xu, there was an older brother and a younger sister, the older brother was named Xu Tangcheng, and I was with him now." As if feeling that this was not enough detail, Yi Zhe continued, "We are We've been together for a long time, and I love him very much. So, don't let me accompany Du Yi all the time, and it will be the same if you change someone else in the future, I won't accompany you either. "

Yi Zhe originally thought that Yi Yuanzhi would be somewhat unhappy, but unexpectedly, he didn't notice any expression changes on Yi Yuanzhi's face.Yi Yuanzhi was still sitting there, not even moving his hands crossed on his knees.

He couldn't figure out what Yi Yuanzhi meant, although his heart was beating a bit, but he still tightened his hand, and sat there calmly.

Yi Yuanzhi was silent for a long time.The phone on the coffee table finally received a message. Yi Zhe was stunned for a moment, and without hesitation for a second, he reached out his hand and reached for the somewhat cold fuselage.

At the same time, Yi Yuanzhi got up suddenly.

Yi Zhe thought he was angry, so he quickly grabbed the phone and stood up.

"dad……"

"Should I be thankful..." Yi Yuanzhi interrupted him, "You chose Xiang Xiyao back then."

This sentence made Yi Zhe stunned, he vaguely understood the meaning of the words, but couldn't believe it.Up to this moment, his position towards Yi Yuanzhi was still the father he had been with for many years.

With his father who has been together for many years, even if the relationship between the two is not balanced, Yi Yuanzhi still loves him.

There were rumbles in his ears.

"what?"

Chest tightness, shortness of breath, and suddenly even the people in sight can no longer see vividly.

"That's right, I should have seen it at the beginning. I used to think you were honest and easygoing. When I got divorced, I always thought you would choose me." Yi Yuanzhi moved the corner of his mouth and smiled.It was strange that his smile made Yi Zhe feel strange.In his memory for a long time, his father will always have the same expression. Even when he was a child, covering him with a quilt and saying good night, his face was still deserted.

"Looking at it now, I was right at the time. I went out of the house, so it's okay, I didn't take you away. I'm preparing to immigrate with Yi Xun, and you have already grown up. I won't give you any more money in the future , you don’t need us to contact us again.”

Hui Yi was out of his control, Yi Zhe didn't want to think about it, but those memories came uninvited and flooded into his head one after another.He remembered that in the sixth grade, Yi Yuanzhi came to his school suddenly. At that time, he was in music class, and the class teacher came to the door and called him out.He followed Yi Yuanzhi to the open space between the two teaching buildings of the school.Yi Yuanzhi bent down slightly, looked him in the eyes and said, "Yi Zhe, choose your father tomorrow, and your father will give you the best life."

There is a pool in that clearing for students to wash mops.The faucet was old and rusty, dripping water drop by drop.

Yi Yuanzhi went to the hanger and picked up the expensive coat hanging on it.Yi Zhe remembered that Yi Yuanzhi would always tell him not to dress so shabby, that he would wear a black down jacket in winter.

After standing quietly for a while, Yi Zhe didn't say a word.He bent down, picked up the down jacket on the sofa, passed Yi Yuanzhi with his head up, and strode out of the room.

The door closed behind him without a sound, like the last drop of water dripping into the pool that summer.

There are lies and mirages in the water.

And those things once drowned a turn.