left pocket

At the end of the semester, when Xiao Ming came back, there was a person standing beside him. I saw that he was an acquaintance.

"Brother!" Xiao Ming shouted.

"Cousin." Gao Yang seemed to be a little darker than last time, and his teeth were very white.

I looked at him angrily, "Why are you here again?"

"I'm here to send an invitation," Gao Yang said.

"Huh? Are you getting married?"

Gao Yang rolled his eyes, "You just got married. My mother asked me to tell you that Chinese New Year is coming to my house. All other relatives are here."

If Gao Yang didn't mention it, I would have forgotten it. It's the Chinese New Year again...

I declined, "I won't go, I still want to accompany my friends..."

"Which friend? Xiao Ming?" Gao Yang patted Xiao Ming on the shoulder, "I asked Xiao Ming, and he said he wanted to go."

I am silent, Xiao Ming, the traitor.

"Come here together, you already have several nephews and nieces, let's recognize each other then."

New Year's Eve.

The fireworks control is very strict, and the sound of firecrackers and fireworks cannot be heard in the urban area, and the colorful lights replace the splendor of the sky.

When I brought Xiao Ming into the house, everyone was already there. People in the room were walking back and forth between the kitchen, dining room and living room. Tea was filled in disposable cups everywhere. Men couldn’t get rid of the tobacco smell. He pinched the rim of the cup with his fingers and took a sip of the tea, then spit out the tea leaves he drank.The children giggled and laughed, and beat each other with pillows in the living room, and no one cared, anyway, no one was hurt.

Those who were younger and later in life didn't recognize me when they saw me, thinking that a stranger had entered the house.Fortunately, those elders still remember, Xiaogang Xiaogang called out.

I smiled and called over one by one. Everyone was very enthusiastic, which made me feel a little less uncomfortable when I first entered the door.After the opening remarks, I pulled out Xiao Ming.

"This is my friend, come with me to celebrate the New Year, called Xiao Ming." I said with a smile.

So there was another noise, "Hello, Xiao Ming", "Hey, this young man is so beautiful", "Xiao Gang's friend is also a handsome young man".

The younger children were obviously more interested in Xiao Ming, and boldly came over to play with Xiao Ming.Xiao Ming looked at me, and I signaled him to be free, just play with them casually for a while.

Xiao Ming guessed that he had never seen such young siblings. They were all elementary school students in the second and third grades, and some of them were only in kindergarten.The elementary school students are especially good at talking, chattering non-stop, Pian Xiaoming listens quite seriously, and responds with a special face, nodding and asking and then and then.

I was dragged away by the elders. My uncles asked me where I work now, and the female elders, headed by my aunt, kept asking me if I found a girlfriend. This is a big life event.

"No, no, no introduction..." I quickly waved my hand, "No rush, I'm busy with work..."

"I'm busy with work and I want to get married." The aunt was used to saying it when she saw it, "Xiaogang, do you have many female colleagues in your work unit? If you don't like it, then come to Auntie, I have a friend..."

Really, I've always wondered why their friends' daughters are so good.

"Auntie," I stretched out Erkang's hand, "Auntie, Auntie, I really don't need to introduce you, I have a partner, really, I have."

"Yes?" the aunt asked suspiciously, "Really? Then I will bring it to see next time. Xiaogang, you are not young anymore. You should get married sometime. If you bring it here, we can give you the check……"

My heart moved, "Auntie, what do you think of Xiao Ming?"

"Xiao Ming?" The auntie turned her head, Xiao Ming was smiling and talking to one of the children, and didn't notice us.

"This child is also very good, and he looks good..." the aunt said, "Is he in love? If you don't want me, I can introduce him to him. But if you think about it, such a good girl, after passing this village There is no such store anymore, compared to outsiders, I definitely want to give it to you..."

I couldn't laugh or cry, "Auntie, what I mean is, what do you think of me and Xiao Ming?"

My aunt didn't react at first, but she gradually came back to her senses after seeing my expression, "...are you gay?"

Her voice suddenly softened, and she was as mysterious as an underground party joint.

I nodded solemnly.

The aunt seemed to have been frightened, and she couldn't choose what to say, "Oh, that's also...that, it's good, that..."

which one?I smiled and felt that what I said today was a bit abrupt.

My aunt didn't say anything about it, but she didn't mention the girl to me anymore.Xiao Ming sat next to me during the meal, and I served him dishes from time to time as usual, and he would look up and smile with me from time to time.

Others didn't see anything, and felt that our relationship as friends was really good. The aunt looked like she saw through everything, but she didn't know what it meant.

Of course it doesn't matter what it means.

I secretly told Xiao Ming about this, and Xiao Ming was so frightened that he almost didn't hold his chopsticks.

"It's all right?"

"It's okay." I touched the back of his hand while no one was watching to show comfort, "You don't mind?"

He smiled and shook his head, looking quite happy.

"Brother," he probably couldn't hold back after a while, and said, "Does this mean I've met my parents?"

As time goes by, old movies and newcomers overlap, and between toasting and drinking, I actually have some hazy tears.

"That's right." I laughed, "After entering the door, she will be the daughter-in-law of my old Liu's family."

Second Auntie’s house doesn’t have such a big space for so many people to live in, and it’s dark at night and it’s not easy to drive, so Xiao Ming and I went to find a nearby hotel to stay.

It snowed on Lunar New Year's Eve this year, and it accumulated some at night, and there was a rustling sound when walking on it, which was the harmony of the joyous sounds of every house that even the doors and windows could not hide.

I remembered watching "The Plum in the Golden Ping" when I was young, and there was a sentence in it: (Jinlian) stood alone under the curtain coldly, and saw Wu Song in the snow, coming back on the chaotic jade.

Since then, I have had infinite reverie on the snow.

Xiao Ming walked beside me, it was cold, and he took a hard breath.

"Is it cold?" I put my hands in my windbreaker pockets and laughed at him.

He looked at his fingertips that were a little red from the cold unhappily.Because the second aunt is too polite, she must give Xiao Ming some gifts when she leaves, and one or two bags must have been prepared long ago.

I couldn't even reach into my pockets to get presents.

"Xiao Ming." I pointed to the bag in his right hand, "give it to me."

He hesitated and handed it to me.

I took the bag with my right hand, held his hand with my left, and put them together into the pockets that had been covered with heat.

"Feel it?" I said.

"Ok?"

"Something in your pocket."

"Ah."

"Guess what?" I asked him with a smile.

Xiao Ming smiled, but didn't say anything.

No more sugar in your pocket.

It's a pen.

I think I'm so lucky.

There will always be a ghostly Zongze in my heart, he fills up all the gaps in my youth.Now that I have Xiaoming again, we greedily draw warmth from each other and spend the winter in this city together.

When Zong Ze called me Xiao Gang, he often joked that he would change his name to Xiao Ming in the future so that we could become a couple.

Without thinking, a word became a prophecy.

I am no longer a rough but gentle big brother. Time has destroyed my patience and my good temper, leaving only helpless patience with life and resentment accumulated in my heart.But time has taken away the pain of the past, like running water washing away the symbols engraved on the rock.Those symbols gradually became blurred, lost the magic power of the original seal, released me locked in the cave like sesame seeds, and began to yearn for a world without treasures but with thousands of colors outside.

There is another sentence, which has not been mentioned, Xiao Ming actually has a very shining name.

It's called Lin Yiming.