An Accident in Broad Daylight

After that day, the world seemed to suddenly quiet down.In the past, Xu Tangqi often secretly contacted Xu Tangcheng, but now, it really became their world of two.

This kind of tranquility was a bit scary, and Yi Zhe felt uneasy, and talked to Xu Tangcheng several times, asking him if he wanted to go home and have a look.Xu Tangcheng remained silent every time, shook his head and said, "I can't go back."

The stalemate continued until the uncle called. He didn't know that Xu Tangcheng was in a relationship with a man, so he just asked Xu Tangcheng in a slightly reproachful tone, how busy he was, and he didn't even go home.Xu Tangcheng had nothing to answer, and the uncle went on to say, "Tang Qi has been ill for such a long time, and I haven't seen you. Your mother said that you are busy. Does your new job not even have a day's rest?"

In a word, the question made Xu Tangcheng's heart sink several times.He stopped in the busy supermarket, and Yi Zhe, who was pushing the cart, also stopped and looked back at him.

"Tang Qi..." Xu Tangcheng murmured, but didn't say any more.

"I didn't want to call you at first. You are all grown up and busy. I know. But I saw that your parents are having a hard time, so I wanted to ask you." The uncle's tone became more serious, "Tang Cheng, man , no matter how busy you are, you can’t leave home anymore, Tang Qi is weak, and your parents are so old, you should take care of them and think more about them.”

Xu Tangcheng's mind was in chaos, he answered a few words, hung up the phone, and turned around to call Zhou Hui.But he never saved his family's number in the phone book. He used to open the call log, and there would always be Zhou Hui in the first few entries, so he just dialed it.

But this time, he opened the call log habitually, only to find that the familiar number was not on the first two pages.

Disappointment and loss are just the most direct experience at that moment. Xu Tangcheng had no time to feel it, bit his lower lip, and pressed the numbers under the urging of the pain.

Yi Zhe had already walked back to him and asked him softly what's wrong.Xu Tangcheng looked up at him and said, "Tang Qi is ill."

The phone was connected, and after six rings, it was hung up.

Xu Tangcheng called again, but this time the hangup came faster.

The warm air in the supermarket is very strong, but Yi Zhe still feels a little cold standing in front of the refrigerator and watching the constantly switching interfaces on the screen.

For the third call, after taking the phone from his ear, Xu Tangcheng didn't immediately cut it off, but held it in front of him, quietly looking at the interface showing that it was being connected.

"Is it still not working?"

"Yeah." As soon as Yi Zhe said, Xu Tangcheng seemed to come back to his senses.He pressed the red button slowly and put the phone in his pocket: "It's off."

Xu Tangcheng went home after that, but when he came back to Beijing, he told Yi Zhe with a wry smile that he hadn't seen Tang Qi, but he secretly asked the doctor and said that he was recovering smoothly and there would be no major problems.

Yi Zhe saw Xu Tangcheng's worry and helplessness in his eyes, but he couldn't think of what else he could do other than say a few words of comfort.One day when he woke up in the middle of the night, in a daze, Yi Zhe found that there was nothing beside him, and his panic immediately woke him up. He lifted the quilt to look for it, and didn't even bother to put on his slippers.

The living room of their house is connected to the balcony. Yi Zhe went out and saw Xu Tangcheng standing on the balcony smoking a cigarette, wrapped in a half-length down jacket outside his pajamas.

The sliding door of the balcony is not new, it has a lot of resistance when it is opened, and there is a continuous harsh sound.When Xu Tangcheng heard the movement, he turned his head quickly.Seeing Yi Zhe, he smiled: "Why are you awake?"

The living room didn't turn on the lights. In comparison, the balcony was brighter due to the influence of external lights.Yi Zhe's back was pitch black, and when Xu Tangcheng looked over, a pair of shiny black eyes were engraved in his field of vision.The emotion inside made Xu Tangcheng slightly stunned, and he couldn't hear whether Yi Zhe answered his question or not.

"What are you doing?" Yi Zhe blinked and walked over.

"Can't sleep, smoke a cigarette."

There are a few empty flower pots on the balcony, which may have been left by the previous residents. Neither Xu Tangcheng nor Yi Zhe had any intention of growing flowers, so the few flower pots have always been filled with the old soil, and they are placed alone on the balcony.

Xu Tangcheng pressed the cigarette into a flower pot, twirled it around, inserted it in the center, and arched the soil next to it with his fingers, buried the root of the cigarette butt, and let it stand upright.

His hands were dirty, Xu Tangcheng pinched his two fingers together and rubbed them back and forth twice.Looking down, Xu Tangcheng suddenly felt that he was a little bored when he caught a glimpse of the smoke that had just been planted, so he chuckled lightly.

"Does it look good?" He pointed to the flowerpot and asked Yi Zhe.

Xu Tangcheng turned his head strangely without hearing the expected applause, but saw Yi Zhe staring at him blankly.

Xu Tangcheng shook his hand in front of Yi Zhe's eyes: "What are you looking at?"

Yi Zhe stretched out a hand, grabbed Xu Tangcheng's, and rubbed his dirty index finger with his thumb.When Xu Tangcheng thought that Yi Zhe would not answer him, Yi Zhe lowered his head, looked at his hands and said, "Look at the stars."

Xu Tangcheng froze for a moment, then grinned.He curled his fingers and scratched Yi Zhe's palm in reverse: "Who are you kidding, the stars are in the sky."

He raised his head while speaking, but the sky was gloomy, and there was not a single bright star above the huge city.Xu Tangcheng was not reconciled, he raised his neck and turned his head several times, but he still could only see a bright moon looking at him.

He sighed a little disappointed, looked away, and found that Yi Zhe was still lowering his head, wiping his hands repeatedly.

It was winter, but Xu Tangcheng felt dazed that the corners of his eyes were warmed by the night wind.

The outline of Yi Zhe's side face is very beautiful, especially when he is focused, half of his eyes are exposed like gems embedded in a painting, with black eyelashes, as if he is carefully wiping away the sharpness of the gems.Xu Tangcheng rolled his eyes over his face, and then suddenly called him softly: "Yi Zhe."

Yi Zhe looked up and looked at him.

"Are you afraid?" Xu Tangcheng asked.

He was standing at the door just now, with endless panic in his dark eyes.

Xu Tangcheng pinched Yi Zhe's chin with his other hand, where there were stubble that had just sprouted, young and sexy.

"What are you afraid of?"

After he finished asking, he didn't give Yi Zhe a chance to answer.

Xu Tangcheng is a very well-behaved person. He never prepared any romantic surprises for Yi Zhe, and he never said sweet words, and he never made some ambiguous and seductive intimate actions. , he condoned in every possible way.

He always felt that if he fell in love, just kissing his lips and telling him was enough.

Such rules can sometimes seem boring, and he knows it.

But today was different, Xu Tangcheng raised Yi Zhe's chin a little, then approached him, and bit there lightly.He used his teeth to feel the flesh and bones of Yi Zhe, and brought hard and soft things into his aggression range at the same time, only to suddenly discover that the special physical closeness can give another experience of love.

Yi Zhe's hands trembled, and he suddenly tightened his grip.

Following his jawline, Xu Tangcheng wanted to kiss him, and finally stopped the kiss on his closed eyes.But helpless... the height is not enough.

Xu Tangcheng stood on tiptoe, kissed and smiled to himself.The originally closed eyes opened, looking at him a little blankly.Xu Tangcheng kissed Yi Zhe's mouth again, and explained to him: "I want to kiss your eyes, but I can't reach them."

After hearing this, Yi Zhe also slightly bent his mouth, and kissed Xu Tangcheng's eyes instead.

After he finished kissing, Xu Tangcheng raised his eyelids again, picked him up with his eyes, and asked, "Showing off your height again?"

The pear vortex then deepened, hiding the moonlight privately.

For some reason, Xu Tangcheng wanted to make a move on Yi Zhe.He squeezed Yi Zhe's chin again, shook his head lightly, and said word by word: "Yi Zhe, I will never leave you."

Yi Zhe had no strength at all, and let his head shake wildly with that restless hand, but after hearing this, he made a little effort so that his eyes could fall on Xu Tangcheng's face more smoothly.

"I won't leave you," Xu Tangcheng said, "so don't be afraid."

After the final exam, Yi Zhe still stayed in the lab for a while because of his scientific research tasks.One day, he packed up his things and was about to leave the laboratory when he was suddenly stopped by a PhD student who told him to go to the teacher's office.

Yi Zhe glanced at the time and frowned slightly.Xu Tangcheng will not work overtime tonight, they agreed to have dinner together.

"Brother Shan," Yi Zhe called to stop his senior, and asked, "Do you know what's going on?"

Brother Shan raised a document in his hand: "I think it's a good thing."

It is indeed a good thing.

Yi Zhe was a little dazed when he came out of the teacher's office. Brother Shan happened to come back with the signed document. Seeing him sitting in a daze, he patted his head with the folder: "What are you doing? Are you stupid?"

"Huh?" Yi Zhe recovered his senses and looked up.

Brother Shan turned his body slightly, lowered his voice and asked him, "Are you going?"

"I haven't made up my mind yet." Yi Zhe lowered his head, pinched his hands together, and squeezed them.

"Didn't think about it?" Seeing that his expression was not right, Brother Shan hesitated for a moment, then patted him on the shoulder, "Let me tell you, you are lucky. The teacher thinks you have strong abilities, but it is actually equal to one day in advance." I have arranged for you in [-], and you have to prepare for about a year before going to Antarctica, and you just finished the basic courses. This opportunity is not so easy to get, that is, the teacher cooperates with the laboratory in the United States, otherwise If you don’t go to the U.S. to study for a two-year Ph. , the gold content of your doctor is absolutely different."

"Ah."

Of course Yi Zhe understands these principles, but...

"I don't really want to go."

Unlike geological and marine scientific expedition personnel, they are not short-term expeditions and will not come back before wintering. They go for at least one year.Now that he and Xu Tangcheng are in a bad situation, he has no energy to deal with those complicated preparations, and he can't let go of Xu Tangcheng, and he has no way to go to such a far and such a special place by himself.

Brother Shan didn't seem to expect him to think like this, so he didn't speak for a while.The two of them thought about their own things, and after a moment of silence, Brother Shan said, "Okay, then think about it carefully."

Xu Tangcheng was going on a business trip to Xiamen for a week. The night before his departure, Yi Zhe helped him pack his luggage and began to revise the PPT that would be used for the final presentation in class tomorrow.Xu Tangcheng went to the kitchen to wash two apples, peeled them, cut them into small pieces, put them on a plate, and handed them over to Yi Zhe.

"Remember to eat fruit at home."

In fact, Yi Zhe has always been in good health, but he doesn't know whether it's because the winter is too dry, or the pressure at the end of the semester, Yi Zhe's throat has been swollen for a few days.

"Yeah." Yi Zhe poked a small piece with a toothpick and put it in his mouth.

After making the last correction, Yi Zhe starts to play the PPT from the first page.When the question was displayed, Xu Tangcheng happened to approach it with an apple in his mouth. He bit the toothpick on the tip of his teeth and read the question vaguely.

"Do you still remember?" After a pause, Yi Zhe asked.

Prying the toothpick up, Xu Tangcheng turned a page down and found the memory.

"Ah, I remember." Xu Tangcheng said, "I also read this article. It must have been many years ago..."

There was only one chair in front of the desk. In order to watch the screen, Xu Tangcheng originally put his hands on the back of the chair and on the table.Thinking not to disturb Yi Zhe any more, Xu Tangcheng withdrew his hand and turned around after finishing speaking.Unexpectedly, Yi Zhe suddenly stretched out his arms to wrap around his waist, and before he could exclaim, Xu Tangcheng had already been pressed down and sat on Yi Zhe's lap.

Xu Tangcheng realized his current posture, laughed, turned his head and asked Yi Zhe, "What are you doing?"

Yi Zhe didn't speak, but leaned forward and got close to the person in his arms.

"When I saw you watching this, I thought that I would go to the same university and study the same major as you."

The light from the desk lamp shone over, and those who caught Yi Zhe's eyes were those who had just passed by Xu Tangcheng.

After a moment of silence, Yi Zhe suddenly smiled and said, "I really worked hard in my third year of high school."

I fought hard and studied hard.

Not understanding why he suddenly mentioned this, Xu Tangcheng put his hand around the back of Yi Zhe's neck, pinched the soft flesh there: "I know."

On the third day after Xu Tangcheng left, Yi Zhe returned to City C.

He hadn't come back for a long time, and when he saw the lifting rod device at the gate of the yard, he didn't know when it was replaced, and his steps paused.Standing at the door of Xu Tangcheng's house, one hand was raised and lowered for a long time, but he failed to knock on the door.Yi Zhe let out a long breath, paused for a while, and then raised his hand again.

The door was pushed open suddenly, and the door panel hit his knuckles, Yi Zhe took a small step back in agitation.Seeing the person with half of his body exposed, the hands that had been hanging in mid-air immediately returned to his legs and hung obediently.

"Hello, Auntie." It was a little close to the door, and there was no room to bow, but Yi Zhe bent his upper body as best he could, and lowered his head.

His appearance was obviously beyond Zhou Hui's expectation, Zhou Hui froze and looked at him in a daze.

Looking at Zhou Hui from such a close distance, Yi Zhe found that there were more signs of aging on her whole body. There seemed to be more wrinkles on her face, and her white hair was thicker. These marks even crawled into her body. The fundus of his eyes, entrenched there, became somewhat dull.

"Ah, Yi Zhe, you..."

After a few words, Zhou Hui stopped as if she didn't know what to say anymore.

"I..." Yi Zhe changed the bag from his hand to another, and said, "I'm sorry, Auntie, I just want to come and see Tang Qi."

After being let in by Zhou Hui, Yi Zhe sat on the sofa a little stiffly, and then very slowly remembered that when Zhou Hui opened the door just now, she was fully dressed and must be going out.He was annoyed secretly, he should have asked "Are you okay?" just now.

"Tang Qi is sleeping, please sit down for a while." Zhou Hui poured a cup of hot water and placed it in front of Yi Zhe.Yi Zhe quickly thanked her, but she didn't know if she hadn't recovered from Yi Zhe's sudden appearance. Zhou Hui felt a little anxious about this thank you, and repeated it twice.

"Tang Cheng..." Yi Zhe thought carefully, and tentatively said, "Brother Tang Cheng is on a business trip, so I came back by myself."

When he mentioned Xu Tangcheng, Zhou Hui's brows twitched.Yi Zhe's heart tightened and he didn't dare to speak again.

"En." The living room was quiet for a while before Zhou Hui made a small sound as a response.She didn't ask about Xu Tangcheng, but said to Yi Zhe, "Are you going to have something to do later? If you have nothing to do, let's have a meal here. Auntie has a few words to tell you."

Yi Zhe nodded quickly, his expression unchanged: "Okay."

The door of Xu Tangcheng's bedroom was pushed open, Yi Zhe looked in that direction a little strangely, and found that it was Xu Tangcheng's grandma.He hurriedly stood up to say hello, but Zhou Hui stopped him: "I can't hear, my ears are very deaf now. The hearing aid is broken, and I haven't bought a new one yet."

Grandma took two steps and saw the extra people in the living room.She froze for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "Yi Zhe."

Yi Zhe didn't expect grandma to still remember him and know him, even though she knew she couldn't hear him, she still smiled and said, "Grandma is good."

"Can't hear." Grandma smiled and pointed to her ear, but what she said next was different from Zhou Hui, "I broke the hearing aid, so I took it to be repaired."

Zhou Hui said that she didn't know he was coming, and Xu Yueliang happened to be away today, and there were few people eating at home, so she didn't make much preparation, and only cooked a few simple home-cooked dishes.Yi Zhe repeatedly said, "It's already very good", but sitting on the chair, looking at the steaming food, he was somewhat apprehensive.He didn't understand why Zhou Hui's attitude towards him was not bad at all. She refused to let Xu Tangcheng go home, but why she could keep him at the same table as before.

"Won't Tang Qi eat?" Yi Zhe asked after thinking about it.

"She was uncomfortable last night and didn't sleep well. You just fell asleep when you came. Let her sleep for a while, and I will do it for her when she wakes up."

Yi Zhe was a little worried, and hurriedly asked, "Are you all right?"

"It's okay." Zhou Hui shook her head, "I asked the doctor, and the doctor said it might be because of the cold, and told me to take medicine on time and rest well."

"Well, it's better to rest more and keep warm." After Yi Zhe finished speaking, he felt that his words were useless.He was silent for a while before opening his mouth cautiously: "Brother Tang Cheng is very worried about Tang Qi, auntie..."

"Yizhe."

Before he could say his request, Zhou Hui interrupted him with a slightly higher volume.When he stopped his voice and looked over, Zhou Hui raised her slightly drooping head, and barely raised the corner of her mouth: "Let's eat first, and talk while eating."

Zhou Hui's cooking skills are very good, but Yi Zhe felt uneasy, picked up a few mouthfuls of food, but didn't taste anything, and sometimes, he didn't know what he just picked up or what he was eating.

"You called him 'Brother', but he took you the wrong way. Auntie apologized to you for him."

Yi Zhe was only stunned for less than a second, and immediately reacted, and quickly said, "No, Auntie, it's me first..."

Under Zhou Hui's calm gaze, Yi Zhe lowered his voice in the second half of the sentence.He looked at the grandma who was unaware and still sipping food, and said, "I liked him first."

A calm tone, not declaring anything, but just stating.

After he finished speaking, Zhou Hui didn't move for a long time.She maintained a posture and looked at the floral pattern on the edge of the same plate. After a long time, she said in a low voice: "This matter is his fault, and we will not agree with you to be together."

No matter which sentence before and after, Zhou Hui said it very resolutely.

Yi Zhe had already prepared enough in his heart. Of course, he was not at all surprised when he heard this, but he still felt obviously sad in his heart.

"Yi Zhe, Tang Cheng is my child, so between the two of you, I always worry more about him. I hope you can understand."

Yi Zhe nodded.This is natural.

"When you are together, other people's gossip is one thing, but this is not what I am most afraid of." Zhou Hui picked up a piece of rapeseed and put it in a bowl, "I and Tang Cheng also said the same thing, I said, You say you like it now, you say you love it, because you are still young. It is not so easy to live a lifetime, and you can't imagine how many things you will encounter in the future. The relationship between the two of you will affect you a lot."

Rubbing the edge of the bowl with his thumb back and forth, swallowing the food in his mouth, Yi Zhe said softly, "No matter what happens, I will take care of him."

This is a belief he has had a long time ago, so he said it even though he knew he had not done it well.

Zhou Hui didn't answer immediately, and when Yi Zhe wanted to repeat his promise more clearly, Zhou Hui suddenly asked, "Can you really?"

Yi Zhe didn't understand, so he raised his head and looked at Zhou Hui.

"You can now, I believe. But in ten, twenty years, will you still like him so much?"

Yi Zhe had never thought about this question.Ten years, 20 years, these concepts of time have never appeared in his head, more precisely, he has never considered whether he will always like Xu Tangcheng.

So at this moment, he met Zhou Hui's gaze, nodded, and told her straightforwardly: "I will."

Many people will have a conclusion that is close to the truth. Most of the time, what lasts is only affection, which belongs to one person and all kinds of affection.Some people say that love will become a habit, become a family relationship, or that the love for one person is transferred to others, all of which change in different directions and last forever.In the final analysis, there are thousands of love and love in the world, and when it comes to eternity, people are all selfish.

Zhou Hui also thinks the same way. She doesn't believe that there is any love that can tie two unbound people together for a lifetime. It is related to Xu Tangcheng's life. She can't believe that the two of them will really become that special case.But she looked into Yi Zhe's overly determined eyes, and suddenly she didn't want to argue with him about this, because she knew that Yi Zhe wouldn't listen to what she said, just like Xu Tangcheng.

"Well, even if you can, after ten or twenty years, you will love him so much and will take care of him. But have you ever thought about what to do when he is seventy or eighty years old and old in fifty or sixty years? Woolen cloth?"

"I will still take care of him." Yi Zhe repeated stubbornly, speaking to Zhou Hui, and also to this unfulfilling self.But before he finished speaking, he suddenly understood the meaning of Zhou Hui's question.

Zhou Hui's eyes were slightly red, her lips moved, and she told Yi Zhe, "When he gets old, you will too."

His mind went blank for a moment, and Yi Zhe recalled afterwards that the fear that flooded his heart at that moment was no longer caused by the strong opposition from Xu Tangcheng's family, but that he was really thinking about what to do when they were old, would Xu Tangcheng Sick, will he be sick.

"His father and I can't live to that day. Even if you are together, we can't see how you will live at that time." Zhou Hui covered her face with her hands, opened her eyes forcefully, avoiding tears "But it is because we will not live to that day that we are afraid. I have no ambitions in this life. My only hope is that he and Tang Qi can live a peaceful life. Yi Zhe...you are like this, I am afraid He... is afraid that he will have a bad life in the future, and I won't even close my eyes when the time comes."

Before coming, Yi Zhe had already prepared a full stomach of arguments, but there were no items in his guarantees that could explain life, old age, illness and death. He tried hard to say something, but he was too stupid to even say a word of contingency.

"I know you are a good boy, you are all good boys...Yi Zhe, can you listen to Auntie, you can try it separately. Just as we are going to take Tang Qi to the south for a while, I told Tang Cheng that he won't come with us. Let's go." Xu Tangcheng's attitude that day was actually a thorn in Zhou Hui's heart, she was sad, sad that he had abandoned them, but more, it was actually fear, even though she knew Xu Tangcheng's feelings for them were very deep, She is still afraid that such persistence will make her really lose him.No one can really understand her longing and fear these days. She has no ambitions and is confined to her family. A pair of children are what she loves and loves the most.

Originally, she had made up her mind not to cry today, but Zhou Hui couldn't hold back, she still shed tears silently.Afraid of being discovered by her grandma, she hurriedly wiped it off with her hands, took a bite of food and put it in her mouth to suppress her emotions.

Yi Zhe couldn't recover from what he said just now - Xu Tangcheng never told him that his family was going to the south.

This was the first time Yi Zhe saw Zhou Hui cry.Just now when he saw Zhou Hui for the first time, Yi Zhe was thinking how much Xu Tangcheng would love his mother if he saw it.

There were too many emotions gathered in his heart, and they were turbulent, and he couldn't even tell what they were.He stretched out his chopsticks numbly, wanting to take a bite of food, but suddenly a hand appeared in his sight, holding up a plate.

"Mom," Zhou Hui asked, as if forgetting that grandma didn't wear a hearing aid, "what are you doing?"

Grandma naturally didn't hear Zhou Hui's words, she picked up another dish and switched the two dishes before looking at Yi Zhe and smiling.

"Change, I see you like eggplants, you should get closer and eat more."

When he was in school, Yi Zhe couldn't do reading comprehension.He didn't understand how a sentence had so many meanings. Even after seeing the answer, he was still not convinced, thinking that these people were just making up things.After reading for so many years and doing so many questions, he has forgotten many sentences that he didn't understand, but looking at the plate of eggplant, he suddenly remembered a sentence - "kindness is the most powerful weapon".

This was a question for a mid-term exam. He looked at this sentence coldly for a long time, and blanked out the incomprehensible question.