it takes a little effort

When Ling Chuan came out of the kitchen, his parents were still sitting in the living room watching TV, "Why didn't you go to the square dance today?"

"No, it's boring." My mother waved her hand and said.

"If you don't go, the position of the first lady in the square dance world will be taken by someone." Ling Chuan smiled and squeezed onto the sofa with Jiang Kai.

Mom moved her butt to the side and passed half a grapefruit over.

"I want to make a new breakthrough in the cross-stitch world," he said, and took out a bunch of fancy cross-stitch ornaments with tassels from the drawer of the coffee table. "How about it? It's beautiful!"

Ling Chuan and Jiang Kai looked over at the same time.

In the middle of the pendant is a three-dimensional rhombus sewn by three small red square pieces of cloth, with three large characters embroidered with yellow silk thread on the three sides, "Ping", "An" and "Fu", and a circle of small flowers around the edge.

On the top of the pendant is a Chinese knot in the shape of a butterfly, and there is a small pendant that looks like a lotus root slice and looks like jade but is definitely not made of jade.

The soil is slag.

Ling Chuan flattened his mouth in disgust, clapped his hands and said, "Beautiful!"

"Pretty is not for you," my mother raised her hand in the air, "Jiang Jiang, do you like this?"

"Ah..." Jiang Kai nodded flattered, since he lied for the second time after responding to Father Ling's question about how to solve physical problems last time, "I like..."

"I knew you would like it!" Mom walked over to Ling Chuan, "Auntie embroidered it for you, and you can hang it on the car when you turn around, to keep you safe. I went to the temple to light it when I burned incense last time." gone."

"Ah...thank you, Auntie." Jiang Kai took the Buddha-bright cross-stitch pendant with both hands very solemnly, feeling an inexplicable warmth in his heart.

It makes sense that this little thing is ugly.

"Then why don't I have one?" Ling Chuan felt that it was an insult that he couldn't even get such an ugly thing, and the words "opened light" sounded awesome, and he actually wanted one. up.

"I'll embroider one for you when you buy a car," said my mother.

"I have a bicycle," Ling Chuan flashed the picture of this thing hanging on the handlebar in front of his eyes, and immediately said, "Ah, let's forget it, let's talk about it after I buy a bike."

"Is there anything you fancy? If you don't have enough money, tell Dad." Just as Ling Chuan was about to speak, Dad added, "Dad will help you ask Mom for instructions to see if you can approve some public funds to help you pay for it." .”

"I thought you had a lot of private money." Ling Chuan glanced at him.

"No! How can it be!" Dad raised his voice as if guilty, "I never hide money from my house!"

Mom suppressed a smile and slapped Dad on the arm, turned her head and said to Ling Chuan: "Buy it if you like it, it's easier to drive out when it's cold, and if you don't have enough money, Mom will help you."

"Hey, I actually saved a lot of private money." Ling Chuan said to his mother proudly.

Jiang Kai habitually stretched out his hand to stuff the grapefruit meat into Ling Chuan's mouth, paused in the air, and then retracted.

My mother saw it, "Oh, hello, just hello, how tiring it is to hide like this when you're all at home."

Jiang Kai was stunned, smiled and passed the meat over, Ling Chuan chewed it twice and rubbed it back and forth on his leg with a smile, "It's quite sweet."

"Hey," my mother stretched, "I went back to bed."

"There's one more episode after the commercial," Dad said.

"Hurry up," Mom patted Dad on the back, "The melon seeds on my head are brighter than the chandelier on the top, so I have the nerve to watch the next episode."

Dad looked back at him, smiled, and followed into the bedroom.

Ling Chuan suddenly felt a heat in his chest.

He has always felt that there is a big generation gap between him and his parents, and the topics we usually talk about when we sit together are also very trivial, such as who's son got a Ph. Got a new house...

He rarely really pays attention to what he wants, and only thinks about saving face when he goes out to chat.

Even when his mother raised objections to their relationship, the first thing that popped up in his mind was that the reason why his parents refused was because their son was in a relationship with a man, which made them feel ashamed.

But some actions and words of his mother today moved him a lot.

Parents seem to be in a place where he can't see, silently caring and understanding, but their love is too silent to be noticed.

If you think about it carefully, what parents have to bear is not less than them.

They also need to be patient with those doubts and prejudices, and may even stand up to defend them.

Around them, most of them should be people who cannot accept or even discriminate against it. It takes a lot of courage for parents to make up their minds to stand on their side.

Ling Chuan cleaned up the fruit peels on the coffee table, "I'm taking a shower, I have to get up early tomorrow."

"I'll go back to the room and lie down first. Call me when you're done." Jiang Kai said.

When Ling Chuan came out of the shower, his father poked his head out of the bedroom like a thief, "Xiao Chuan."

"Ah?" Ling Chuan put a towel around his neck and walked over.

Dad secretly stuffed him with several boxes of things, and explained: "Everything must be done in moderation, safety and health are the most important things."

"What is it?" Ling Chuan felt baffled, the living room was not lit, and he could only see a familiar LOGO printed on it through the light leaking from the bedroom.

When Ling Chuan returned to the bedroom, he suddenly said "Fuck me".

"What?" Jiang Kai woke up instantly.

Ling Chuan threw the box in his hand on the bed.

"You brought so much for just one night?" Jiang Kai sat up from the bed.

"My dad gave it to me." Ling Chuan thought about it and found it funny, "What the hell did he check with that wooden fish head... just sneakily slipped this to me!"

"He asked me before." Jiang Kai said with a smile.

"What are you asking?" Ling Chuan sat on the edge of the bed.

"Just ask how the two of us meet our physical needs." Jiang Kai said.

"Then what did you say?" Ling Chuan asked.

"Fix it by yourself, then I might not be able to tell him the truth." Jiang Kai said.

Ling Chuan propped his hands on the mattress and tilted his head up. It took him a long time to recover, "Then you can solve it yourself."

"You are so beautiful." Jiang Kai hooked his neck backwards, and straddled his thigh.

Early the next morning, Jiang Kai and Ling Chuan finished styling at home, and went to pick up the bride with the wedding car.

This is Jiang Kai's first time as a best man in his life.

Preparing flowers, red envelopes, looking for wedding shoes, being questioned, stuffing red envelopes...

These very clichéd plots are something he has never experienced before, and the whole process feels quite fresh.

A large group of people were laughing and making noise around a small room, all of them had excited and cheerful smiles on their faces.

Ling Chuan also helped to take a lot of sideshows. After lunch, he went home and edited the photos, and made a small video that was directly used in the evening banquet.

The photos on the stage and screen switched slowly, and everyone stared with bated breath.

From the time I was a student until I put on white gauze and gowns, it was like watching the two protagonists grow up slowly.

The long years of walking together are fully recorded in the photos.

A beam of gorgeous lights came on and hit the end of the stage.

The bride, holding the arms of her family, came slowly.

"Is your sister pregnant?" Jiang Kai felt that her belly was growing slightly, and asked Ling Chuan in a low voice.

"Ah, I only found out yesterday, it's been more than three months." Ling Chuan said.

"Then you..." Jiang Kai didn't have any relatives around him, and it took him a long time to remember the seniority relationship between Zhou Yueyi's child and Ling Chuan, "Are you going to be an uncle?"

"Yeah, I'm going to be an uncle!" Ling Chuan excitedly slapped the table.

"It's amazing!" Jiang Kai was also a little excited. The colleagues around him either already had wives and children, or they were single, and it was rare for them to be pregnant and have children younger than him.

"Hey, I've aged a lot in an instant," Ling Chuan rubbed his face and said, "I actually belong to my father's generation."

"You're okay, I'm still uncle's father." Jiang Kai said with a smile.

Ling Chuan was overjoyed.

During the dinner, the two blocked a lot of wine for Yang Fan, and they didn't wake up until noon. After lunch, Ling Chuan booked a high-speed rail ticket to Q City.

The luggage was packed when I came back, and I planned to leave Yucheng directly after attending the wedding banquet.

Before leaving, parents gave each of Jiang Kai and Ling Chuan a red envelope, "It's rare to go out for fun, so we must eat and drink well, and the most important thing is to pay attention to safety on the road."

"Thank you, Uncle and Auntie." Jiang Kai accepted the red envelope with a smile. This was the first time in his life that he received such a formal red envelope cut out of beautiful kraft paper. When he was a child, his grandpa would just stuff money into the New Year's money, which is not so formal. .

Before returning to the room, Ling Chuan had already started counting the money.

Jiang Kai held the red envelope in his hand and was not in a hurry to open it. In fact, he was quite happy even if it contained only ten yuan.

"My three thousand six, what about yours?" Ling Chuan squeezed Jiang Kai's red envelope, feeling something hard inside, "Damn it, did you put ancient coins?"

Jiang Kai opened the red envelope, and there were not only neat red tickets lying in it, but also a brand new key.

!!!

He quickly realized where the key was used, and his eyes became hot.

Ling Chuan was also stunned for a moment, holding the key and comparing it with the one on his own key ring, "The house key!!! Ah!! My new key! I just got it yesterday!"

"Ah..." Jiang Kai has not recovered from his excitement.

Ling Chuan rushed forward and hugged Jiang Kai, "Congratulations, my parents approved your marriage."

"It's a married woman." Jiang Kai corrected him while being moved.

"You are a member of our Ling family," Ling Chuan kissed Jiang Kai's lips, "You will never be alone."

Jiang Kai still couldn't take it easy.

It feels like stepping through the snow in the cold winter, pushing open a door, and the whole body is wrapped in warmth.

He never thought that one day he would be moved by such a small form.

The family, friendship, and love that he once sneered at brought him unprecedented warmth.

Although this is just a small house key, there is a lot of meaning behind it.

It was like announcing that he was recognized.

Like Ling Chuan, they are all loved.

This home welcomes him back anytime.

Very down-to-earth feeling.