it takes a little effort

He knew the person standing in front of him very well. Tao Liang, who lived across the door, saw him every day. However, since his son was admitted to the provincial middle school, the whole family moved to a new house, and he hadn't seen him for a while.

The boy standing behind looked about the same age as me, tall, and his eyes looked a little cold. At first glance, he looked like a child with advanced social phobia who didn't like to talk, but his handsome facial features were still unbearable. I want to take a second look.

"Long time no see." Tao Liang handed Ling Chuan a bag of snacks in his hand, "Your favorite seaweed rolls, I brought you every flavor."

"Ah, thank you uncle," Ling Chuan smiled, "You haven't been back for a long time."

"Yes," Tao Liang glanced at Jiang Kai, "The child of a friend's family will stay with me for a while, so I'll clean it up when I come back."

"Oh..." Ling Chuan nodded, "Then you move back?"

"No, no, he lives here," Tao Liang said, "So I came to say hello to you, and I have to ask your family to take care of me."

"It's easy to talk about," Ling Chuan looked at Jiang Kai and said with a smile, "Hello, my name is Ling Chuan."

"Hello," Jiang Kai pulled the corners of his mouth reluctantly, "My name is Jiang Kai."

Ling Chuan's eyes kept wandering on Jiang Kai's body until Tao Liang said, "It's so delicious, your mother made braised pork."

"Dog nose," Ling Chuan stepped aside with a smile, "Why don't you come in and have something to eat together?"

"Just wait for your words." After Tao Liang finished speaking, he patted Jiang Kai on the back and motioned him to go in together.

Jiang Kai was very reluctant about Tao Liang bringing him here for dinner.

He doesn't like to eat at other people's homes. Even during Chinese New Year, he would rather do his homework at home than visit relatives' homes.

But thinking about his unreasonable cooking skills and empty wallet, he had no choice but to compromise.

I ate lunch on the high-speed rail, curry chicken rice, but I only ate two pieces of chicken that were the size of fingernails. The smell of braised pork immediately whetted my appetite.

Jiang Kai followed Tao Liang into the house, and while Tao Liang was greeting Ling Chuan's mother, he glanced around twice.

The overall color of the living room is beige, the lighting is also very soft, and the cleaning is not too clean, with floral lace fabrics everywhere.

Dining table, chairs, air conditioner, TV cabinet, TV set... Even the remote control of the coffee table is covered with a floral pattern cover.

An enigmatic taste.

Although there are small debris piled up everywhere, it feels very comfortable.

"This is my parents." Ling Chuan introduced to Jiang Kai.

Ling Chuan's parents have similar faces, delicate features, and look like a husband and wife.

The family was very interested in his arrival, and they didn't intend to start a meal at all. The questions kept popping up like a machine gun. He, who was not good at communication, could only bite the bullet and answer one by one, feeling like he was sitting on pins and needles.

There was a little girl sitting next to him who didn't speak, just stared at him so straightly, Jiang Kai felt a little uncomfortable being stared at by her.

"This is my cousin, Zhou Yueyi." Ling Chuan said.

Fortunately, the family didn't mention the reason why he lived here, but just gossip about some irrelevant issues, such as which school to transfer to, what grade this year, will it be a lot of pressure, and so on. One made two complaints.

Holding one refers to Jiang Kai, and stepping one refers to Ling Chuan.

Jiang Kai's new school is a relatively well-known foreign language school in the city, and the number two candidates in the college entrance examination are basically from their school, while Ling Chuan attended a high school with the lowest admission score in the city, and was squeezed in with the lowest ranking .

So Jiang Kai became a typical child of other people's family.

Jiang Kai thinks that this family is very friendly, just like what Tao Liang said, they are very easy to get along with.

Ling Chuan's mother is an accountant and is very good at chatting. Compared with Ling Chuan's father, he is less talkative. He has a naive smile, and he seems to be the kind of person with a good temper.

The little cousin has been reading novels, and occasionally raised her head and gave him a smirk, she didn't seem to care much - she just looked stupid.

As for Ling Chuan...the friendship is mixed with a little emotion, probably because of his identity as 'other people's child'.

After chatting for an unknown amount of time, Ling Chuan finally said impatiently, "I'm hungry, let's eat first."

When Jiang Kai got up, he felt his eyes were dizzy, and sat down in the position pointed by Ling's father.

"This is my position." Ling Chuan said while standing next to Jiang Kai.

"Hey, what's your seat and mine? Wherever you sit, you don't eat." Ling's mother raised her hand and circled around the dining table, "Aren't there all empty seats? You still need to look at Feng Shui when you have a meal."

Just as Jiang Kai put down his chopsticks and was about to get up to let him, Ling Chuan sat down beside him, and the two looked at each other without speaking.

After eating, there were still endless topics to chat among the adults. Tao Liang guessed that he was really not very hungry, and talked the most. The two of him and Ling's father could talk about missiles and cannons from the vegetables in the vegetable market.

Ling Chuan and Zhou Yueyi were secretly talking about something Jiang Kai couldn't hear clearly, and he didn't want to know, so he just picked up the food in the bowl.

The rice was served by Ling's mother, and it was piled up like a mountain, and it was pressed very tightly. After he picked it up for a long time, it still felt like a full bowl, as if it hadn't been touched.

"Don't just eat, eat more dishes, Jiang Jiang, you eat a piece of ribs," Ling's mother shouted holding up her chopsticks, "Yueyue eat more, don't lose weight blindly, when you are growing... Liangzi, use your chopsticks too ah!"

A group of people nodded their heads one after another, looking at the dishes on the table.

Probably every table will have such an impassioned character.

Jiang Kai has never experienced this kind of feeling of a family sitting around eating together. Usually, he and his grandfather are two at home, and his grandfather likes to listen to storytelling and cross talks when eating, and basically does not speak. Relatively speaking, the atmosphere of such a dinner table seems to be It was quite warm, but the more it was like this, the more Jiang Kai felt that he was out of place.

When a group of people were chatting in full swing, Ling Chuan's cell phone rang, and after seeing that it was Grandpa's phone, he directly pressed the speakerphone.

Grandpa Jianlang's voice came from the other end of the phone: "Baby, have you had dinner yet?"

"I'm eating." Ling Chuan picked up a piece of ribs.

"What are you eating?" Grandpa asked.

"Sparse ribs, scrambled eggs, braised pork, stuffed eggplant, fish soup..." Zhou Yueyi hurriedly said, "Grandpa, have you eaten yet?"

"Yueyue is here too," Grandpa said with a smile in his voice, "I've eaten a long time ago, and I'm already lying on the bed."

"Where's grandma?" Ling Chuan asked.

"I'm here," grandma snatched the phone and said with a smile, "Let me tell you, the hen at home hasn't laid any eggs recently, and I'll go to the vegetable market to ask someone to help kill it, and then ask someone to deliver it to you." Ah, do you want any more vegetables? A wave of chicken feathers has just grown in the ground, but they are tender."

"Yes..." Ling Chuan bit his chopsticks and said, "Are the oranges ripe?"

The phone call didn't take long, and the content was very homely, but Jiang Kai felt a tightness in his chest when he heard it.

The food in the bowl also seemed to have lost its flavor.

He misses his grandpa very much.

I would love to hear Grandpa's voice.

When my grandfather was alive, he also planted many fruit trees behind the house.

Now that he is gone, those trees will probably die like the flowers on Tao Liang's balcony.

When he thought of this, he felt very uncomfortable. Those memories buried in the trivial time took root and sprouted in his body, and he couldn't forget them gracefully.

After barely taking a few bites, Jiang Kai put down his chopsticks and politely said thank you.

Everyone's eyes turned to Jiang Kai one after another, and they all felt that his mood was not right, and the ribs in Ling Chuan's mouth fell on the table.

"Is this enough?" Ling's mother glanced at the half-filled rice in his bowl, "Such a big man can only eat this little? Hurry up and eat more, I'm going to be hungry at night."

"No, thank you." Jiang Kai said.

"It's probably because the environment is not acclimatized to me when I first came here." Tao Liang probably guessed what was going on, got up and followed, "I'll go over and have a look, you guys eat slowly."

"He looks a little unhappy." Zhou Yueyi said.

"I heard from Liangzi that his family members passed away, and he just moved here from his hometown." Mom said.

"Then does he have any other relatives?" Ling Chuan asked.

"Yes..." Ling's father said, "Liangzi said he is the son of a friend of his, and I think he is quite friendly, so he let a little boy live here alone."

"A friend is my series, maybe Uncle Tao's illegitimate son." Zhou Yueyi said.

Ling Chuan gave her a disgusted look, "Hurry up and turn off your Qiong Yao drama mode."

"Liangzi looks too ugly, how can she give birth to such a marked son." Mom said solemnly.

"It's not right for people to say that behind their backs," Dad said, "Although I also think Ryoko...she doesn't look very good, she looks a bit like...a sloth?"

"Sloths are so cute," Zhou Yueyi slapped Ling Chuan's arm, "Hey, brother, let's go to the zoo together this weekend."

"Let's see then, I'm very busy." Ling Chuan raised his eyebrows.

"Busy skipping class, busy sleeping, busy playing games," my mother started to mutter after picking up the conversation, "I don't know what to pretend to be in my head all day long, let me tell you, now Xueba lives next door , you have time to ask people for advice on learning skills, how can they learn foreign languages, why can't you?"

"I didn't hesitate to do it." Ling Chuan said.

"Hey, you can be thicker..."

Jiang Kai leaned on the balcony, looking at the dark night sky, he could only see the faint moonlight but no stars.

I don't know if it's the weather or the air pollution in the city is too serious. I feel that what I inhale into my lungs is a mouthful of car exhaust.

In the countryside, it is rare to see the stars, unless it is rainy.

The moon is also much brighter and bigger than that in the city. If you are on the mountain, you can touch the clouds as long as you stretch out your hand, which is very beautiful.

He doesn't like this place.

It's very strange, with no familiar taste, and no feeling of Ding'er's home.

Home.

I have never had this concept before. I feel that my grandfather is always there, and my family is always there. No matter where I go, there is always a way to go back.

But those things that were thought to be deeply rooted and unshakable just disappeared with a bang, without giving him a chance to react.

Behind it now is darkness.

He can't find a way to go back, and what the future will hold is also unknown.

It feels a bit hypocritical to say I'm confused, but I just don't feel at ease, every cell in my body is clamoring.

accurate!uncomfortable!depressed!

"Melancholy..." Tao Liang, who stood silently behind Jiang Kai for a long time, suddenly let out a voice, which startled him.

Jiang Kai turned his head to look at him, frowned, and said nothing.

"Homesick?" Tao Liang opened the French window and walked forward, leaning sideways on the balcony.

"No," Jiang Kai stared at the streetlight downstairs in a daze, before saying after a while, "Thank you for letting me live here."

"You're welcome, your dad paid the rent." Tao Liang said.

It took several seconds for Jiang Kai to realize that the person Tao Liang was talking about was Gu Weidong.

I'm so unaccustomed to this title.

your dad.

My Father.

dad?

I can't even scream, it's clearly a stranger.

"Are you introverted and not talkative, or are you unhappy?" Tao Liang sighed. From the time we met to now, this child has been sullen, and he looks like someone who owes him millions. "If you think If you are not used to living alone, you can ask your dad to arrange you in the school dormitory, so that it will be more lively."

"No, it's fine to live alone." Jiang Kai remained expressionless.

"It's quite independent. If it were my son, he probably wouldn't be able to last a day. He can't even use a rice cooker." Tao Liang said.

Jiang Kai wanted to say, in fact, I can't either.

In the past, it was basically grandpa who cooked, and his cooking skills were still at the level of fried rice with eggs and instant noodles.

"It's okay." Jiang Kai snorted lightly, as if laughing.

"The scenery here is probably not as good as your hometown, but the transportation and shopping are convenient. You can go out to the station. I will greet everyone at the door. If you don't understand anything, just ask them directly. Don't be shy. , their family members are quite good-tempered." Tao Liang said.

"Understood." Jiang Kai said.

"That's fine." Tao Liang felt tired from talking this day, "I'll go first, you should pay attention to safety alone, and remember to check the doors and windows when you sleep at night. The property management here is not strict, and there have been thieves."

"Okay," Jiang Kai nodded, "Thank you uncle."

Tao Liang patted Jiang Kai on the shoulder and didn't say anything else. The kid looked smart, sensible and polite, but the expression on his face was cold and hard to get close to.

After Tao Liang left, Jiang Kai still stood silently on the balcony, his thoughts wandering far away.

homesick.

Miss grandpa.

Think of that orange tree in the yard.

Suddenly there was a burst of laughter from the balcony next door, and with the light of the living room, it was barely possible to see that the two figures were Ling Chuan and his cousin.

"Brother, look at that, look at that!"

"Fuck, awesome!"

"Hahaha, where is the phone, quickly record it!"

"Living room, you go get it."

"You go."

Jiang Kai was a little curious, lowered his head and glanced around, and saw two dogs by the flower bed.

A curly-haired teddy is hunched over an unknown dog twice its size in a sport of reproduction.

In a few seconds, the big dog sat up, and the two front legs of the little Teddy were still on top of its hips, facing the air, doing a twerk dance.

Jiang Kai helped his forehead, and the little lonely feeling that had just been brewed was immediately shaken to pieces and he couldn't put it together.

The laughter of the dude next door slapped into his ears one after another like waves, Jiang Kai looked away, breathed a sigh of relief, and decided to go back to the house to pack his things first.

When picking him up, Gu Weidong didn't notify in advance. Of course, it was impossible to notify in advance. They didn't have contact information with each other, so they left in a hurry and didn't have time to bring many things. It would be a bit thirsty to realize that even I forgot to take the thermos.

He went to the kitchen to find a disposable cup and filled it with tap water.

Tao Liang tidied up the room very clean, the wardrobe was empty, he put all his clothes for all seasons in it, it took up half of the space.

The sheets and duvet cover should be freshly dried and fluffy, which made him feel very comfortable.

Tao Liang is quite a good person, but he is from Gu Weidong's side. He can't tell Tao Liang about many things, such as homesickness, wanting to go back, wanting to make money, etc. After graduation, he will Planning to move out.

He longed for real independence, mainly because he didn't want to get involved with Gu Weidong and Gu Weidong's family.

very annoying.

As long as Gu Weidong hasn't confessed his identity to his family until now, he knows that this matter won't stop without a fight for [-] rounds.

More importantly, he didn't want to destroy the harmonious life of a family, making it a mess.

Thinking about it this way, I feel like a walking mine, detonating myself and injuring others.

I hope I can leave before it detonates.

After thinking about the mess, things are almost tidied up.

Although the night was quite cool, Jiang Kai was still sweating lightly, so Jiang Kai went back to the bedroom, took a pair of underwear and went into the bathroom.

The water heater is plugged in, and simple instructions for use are posted on it.

He likes this kind of explanation that adds up to no more than five elements, which is clear at a glance.

After adjusting the temperature, he took off his clothes and stood in. He was pleasantly surprised to find that the body wash and shampoo inside were not expired.

There was still more than half a bottle of body wash, he squeezed a little and rubbed it, and it smelled like coconut milk, which smelled good.

Jiang Kai poured some shampoo and rubbed his head, and vaguely heard the doorbell outside.

The most annoying thing in life is to be interrupted in the shower.

There was still foam on his head, so he ignored it and continued to rub it.

The doorbell outside kept ringing, getting clearer and louder, as if sending a telegram in a hurry, Jiang Kai felt a little irritable.

That's how people are, and they can't help being curious even though they think there will be no big deal.

When Jiang Kai walked out in his underwear, he thought, don't knock on the wrong door.

"Who is it?" Tao Liang's family didn't pretend to be peepholes, so he could only shout from behind the door.

"I," Ling Chuan said again, afraid that Jiang Kai would not be able to hear his own voice, "Ling Chuan."

"Oh." Jiang Kai thought Ling Chuan was alone, so he opened the door unpreparedly. When he saw Zhou Yueyi standing next to Ling Chuan, his scalp tightened and he closed the door with a bang.

At this pass, Ling Chuan knocked the tip of his nose directly on the door.

A burst of tingling.

"Yes, what's the matter?" Jiang Kai was so shocked that he couldn't speak fluently.

"My mother is afraid that you are hungry, so let me bring you something to eat." Ling Chuan said vaguely, holding his nose.

"I don't have any clothes on." Jiang Kai held the doorknob, not knowing what to say.

When the door was just opened, most of his body was subconsciously stuck behind the door. Zhou Yueyi was standing on the right side of Ling Chuan. From her angle, she should not be able to see anything, but when he opened the door, he was shocked to see a woman. arrive.

"Nonsense, I saw it," Ling Chuan rubbed his nose and shouted with pain, "Open the door!"

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