pretend to be poor

Two minutes later, Tong Huai and Yu Hui sat face to face in the cafe.

High school students rarely drink coffee. The coffee shop outside No. [-] Middle School is mainly for everyone to catch up with homework and puppy love. The decoration is average, and each seat is separated by a baffle.

Tong Huai was a little embarrassed when he entered the cafe, and soon he stretched his waist and looked at Yu Hui secretly.

He is no stranger to luxury goods, and seeing the price of Yu Hui's outfits, he feels uncomfortable.

With such a good life, let Xue Ting and grandpa live in such a remote small house, no matter what?

Or is this a vanity-worshiping woman who loves vanity and abandons her husband and son?

Yu Hui was ordering, but she didn't notice the complicated face of the kid in front of her. She guessed that he couldn't drink bitter ones, so she ordered him a caramel latte, looked up calmly, and glanced at his legs: "Little Classmate, what happened to your leg?"

"Well," Tong Huai quickly retracted his gaze, "I accidentally knocked on it... You are Xue Ting's mother? Why don't you go to see him?"

A complex and unspeakable bitterness floated on Yu Hui's face: "He may not want to see me."

Obviously she didn't mean to say more, she quickly changed the topic, and then asked: "Are you Xiaoting's friend?"

Tong Huai nodded without hesitation.

It turns out that Xue Ting didn't lie, he really made friends here, and he didn't come and go alone like before.

It was obvious that she should breathe a sigh of relief, but Yu Hui felt more and more uncomfortable.

In the final analysis, it was her and Xue Songbo's fault that Xue Ting developed such a temper.

She raised her eyes and looked Tong Huai carefully again. The boy's eyes were clean, and he could see to the end at a glance. The hesitation and slight dissatisfaction on his face were so obvious, and they were poorly concealed, youthful and transparent.

It's hard to imagine, with Xue Ting's indifferent temperament, how he got along with this young boy.

Silence spread in the air, and the atmosphere froze for a moment.

Yu Hui opened her mouth, there were so many things she wanted to ask, but she didn't know where to start.

The barista brought the coffee, she picked it up and took a sip, then asked after deliberation: "Xiao Ting is at school... isn't it very gregarious?"

Tong Huai held his breath in his heart, and shook his head decisively: "Xue Ting is very popular. He helped us get the first place in the sports meeting last week."

The child in front of him described a strange Xue Ting.

Yu Hui was stunned.

She asked a few more questions, but was overwhelmed by Tong Huai's answer. She sighed softly in her heart, and finally asked, "Do you know Xue Ting's grandfather? How is his health?"

"pretty good."

Yu Hui nodded, repeated "very good", and then muttered "that's good" in a low voice.

Tong Huai frowned, but didn't drink that cup of caramel latte.

He doesn't understand these grown-ups, why they always have to cover up everything they do, and why they have to turn a corner and use others to understand.

Is this interesting.

Yu Hui's phone on the side lit up, she didn't reach out to pick it up, she smiled: "Thank you, little classmate. If possible, I hope you don't tell Xiao Ting that I've been here."

Tong Huai nodded, and out of politeness, he stood up and sent her out of the coffee shop.

The afternoon rain has now resumed, and the gray sky is slanting with drizzle, which is bone-chillingly cold.

There was a car parked outside, Yu Hui nodded at Tong Huai, and got into the car.

Watching the car disappear from sight, Tong Huai realized that he seemed to have forgotten Yu Wen.

He quickly took out his mobile phone, and sure enough, the screen was full of missed calls, besides Yu Wen's, there were also Xue Ting's.

It's over, I will be scolded to death by Yu Wen.

Tong Huai's scalp was numb, and he quickly called back, but the phone hadn't been picked up yet. There were hurried footsteps and the sound of stagnant water being stepped on, and the next moment he stopped in front of him, amidst the rustling rain, there was a slight panting .

Tong Huai's head was knocked once, and he raised his face blankly.

Xue Ting's voice was slightly tense: "Where did you go?"

Tong Huai wondered: "I thought it was Yu asking, why are you here?"

Xue Ting's school uniform was more than half wet, and his black hair was also stained with water. After recovering from that, he stared at him expressionlessly, without answering.

This appearance is neither fierce nor indifferent. Tong Huai was afraid of Xue Ting like this, and raised his hands in surrender: "I, I came to ask Yu Wen... It's not raining. You didn’t pay attention when you muted it, he’s looking for you?”

Just as he was talking, the phone was connected, and Yu Wen's roar came from the microphone: "Fuck, I finally answered the phone, I thought you were abducted by the strange sorghum!"

Tong Huai muttered, "How old am I?" In exchange for Yu Wen's louder roar, he quickly admitted his mistake in a low voice.

After hanging up the phone, he found that Xue Ting tilted his head, looking in the direction Yu Hui left.

Tong Huai's heart tightened, and he quickly pulled him under the eaves: "You are stupid, you don't even bring an umbrella out."

Xue Ting wiped the rain from his face and glanced at him.

It was getting dark, and the lights outside the cafe were turned on, slantingly reflecting on his face, covered with a layer of watery light, and the whole person suddenly became colder by several degrees.

Tong Huai wanted to ask him about his family, but he didn't know how to start the topic.

Xue Ting didn't even ask about his family's affairs, so if he spoke rashly, Xue Ting would feel offended.

Tong Huai tried his best to hold the question back to his heart, and waited for a while in boredom. The rain became heavier and heavier, pattering on the eaves.Yu Wen ran over holding the umbrella, still holding the handle in his hand, glared at Tong Huai, and handed the umbrella to Xue Ting: "Thanks, this kid will run around if he doesn't pay attention, so he has to worry to death."

Tong Huai clicked his tongue: "That's not because you went away for a long time and didn't come back."

"You can't wait to buy milk tea during peak hours."

Seeing them choking each other, Xue Ting took the umbrella and opened it.

Yu Wen's eyelids twitched suddenly, and he shut up.

He stood on Tong Huai's right, and Xue Ting, who was standing on Tong Huai's left, looked at each other silently, and found a subtle hostility in each other's eyes.

Then the two looked at Tong Huai without saying a word, waiting for him to choose who to go with.

Tong Huai who was flanked by left and right: "..."

No, they are all brothers, why is the atmosphere so strange.

He thought about it for three seconds, and felt that he couldn't choose any one, so he suddenly moved to ask Yu.

Yu Wen's tense shoulders loosened, his brows relaxed, and he glanced triumphantly at Xue Ting, whose thin lips were pursed into a straight line, and then his hands were empty——

Tong Huai snatched his umbrella, pushed him under Xue Ting's umbrella, and said firmly: "You two have an umbrella."

As he said that, he ran towards the rain curtain with a strong body and a strong heart.

At this moment, he ran smoother than when his legs were healthy.

Xue Ting: "..."

Yu asked: "..."

After all this tossing, back to the classroom, evening self-study is about to start.

In fact, Tong Huai didn't really want to continue studying bitterly, but he had a sense of accomplishment after making progress, and he was afraid that the next exam would be too bad and he would lose face—mainly because of embarrassment, so he planned to work hard for this monthly exam.

It's just that the conversation with Yu Hui still rang in his mind, and he couldn't help but sneak a glance at Xue Ting from time to time.

Xue Ting was calm and pretended not to see it.

There was a small lump in my heart, and Tong Huai was bored and didn't speak until he came home from self-study next night.

After taking a shower, one of them sat on the bed and the other sat on a chair, with a towel around their necks, and they wiped their hair one by one, not bothering to move.

Xue Ting glanced at Tong Huai, who had been quiet for more than three hours, and handed him today's milk. He looked up and took a sip, and said abruptly, "Did you see my mother?"

With a puff, Tong Huai coughed violently.

Xue Ting calmly handed him a piece of paper, waiting for him to speak.

Tong Huai gasped, stunned: "How do you know?"

"I saw it in the afternoon." Xue Ting saw that his cheeks were flushed from coughing, paused for a moment, realized his conscience, and gave him a pat on the back. Seeing that he had recovered, he sat back on the chair again.

Tong Huai said awkwardly, "Oh, then why do you..."

"I don't want to see her."

It's the same as Yu Hui said.

Seeing Tong Huai's face full of hesitation and hesitation, as if saying "Tell me quickly", Xue Ting laughed and said, "If I don't say anything, you won't be able to sleep tonight."

Tong Huai said modestly, "At most, I'll struggle until midnight and then have a dream to make up for myself."

Xue Ting stared at him silently for a few seconds, shook his head helplessly, and brushed his soft curly hair: "What do you want to hear?"

"Really?"

Tong Huai's eyes lit up, and he was very happy.Not because he could hear Xue Ting's secret, but because Xue Ting was willing to tell him his own.

As if he had won the jackpot, he rolled up the small quilt and rolled himself inside. The injured leg was resting on the side of the bed, the other leg was bent, holding his chin, and staring at Xue Ting. overflowing with doubt.

After observing Xue Ting's expression for a while, Tong Huai confirmed that he was not reluctant, and then asked cautiously, "Your parents..."

Obviously talking about a serious topic, seeing him like this, Xue Ting lost his mind for a moment.

...just like a pathetic and lovable puppy.

After recovering, he and Tong Huai looked at each other for a moment, and said lightly, "Divorced."

Tong Huai: "Ah..."

Expected.

So did Xue Ting's mother remarry into a rich family?

What about his dad?

Isn't he really an old drunkard and old gambler?

"They married impulsively when they were young, and when the passion cooled down, they gradually became disgusted with each other."

However, there is a bit of reluctance to let go of the old love that was like thunder and lightning. It is obvious that they have no feelings, and they are full of jealousy and resentment towards each other's scandals, and they fall into endless suspicion and quarrels.

"...so you didn't take care of me much."

Xue Ting paused, expressionless when he said this.

If he said "I didn't take much care of it", it must be indifferent, or even worse.

"Later, they turned against each other, cheated on each other, framed each other, and got divorced."

No matter how tortuous the experience is, put it in Xue Ting's mouth, it is only a few words.

But if you imagine it a little bit, you can think of the torture and pain involved.

Tong Huai was stunned.

In fact, when talking with Yu Hui in the afternoon, Yu Hui's conversation slightly reversed his impression, so that he still had a little sympathy for Yu Hui.

After Xue Ting finished those few words, he fell into some kind of memory.

Xue Songbo and Yu Hui met at a high-class reception.

When the two passed by, their eyes collided, and for a moment, the sky thundered, and they both felt that the other was their destined person.

The love came suddenly and vigorously. The two got married within half a month after they met each other.

However, this lightning-like love came and went quickly, and within a year, the two got bored, but Yu Hui was already eight months pregnant at that time.

The married family has children again, it is not a wayward player's house wine, of course it is impossible to just stop it.

As long as Xue Ting could remember, he had never seen his parents get along in harmony.

When we were talking at dinner, we would suddenly start cursing, we would turn over the table and sweep the dishes, and when we were working together at home, we would suddenly start fighting, tearing up pieces of paper, swearing at each other, taunting each other, distorted expressions, screams of collapse, and roaring hysterically .

Even so, we must maintain a superficial harmony in front of the media and never separate.

After they tortured each other, they turned to torture Xue Ting again, trying to wear away the similarities between him and each other.

Xue Ting's emotions were smoothed out little by little.

Later, they found that Xue Ting was not quite like any of them, so they were relieved and continued to torture each other wholeheartedly.

Xue Ting is the proof of the love they spurned, both of them can't bear to look back on that memory, and they don't even look good towards Xue Ting, as if his birth was a mistake, always telling them clearly that they shouldn't get married, Not even a child.

They wish Xue Ting never showed up.

It's also really strange, it's obvious that they were passionate for a while, but they pushed all the mistakes on Xue Ting.

Of course, this was not the reason why he wanted to stay away completely.

Tong Huai is very clean, he doesn't want to tell Tong Huai.

Xue Ting recalled the nonsensical life of the few months before transferring to another school, and randomly picked out a few memories to satisfy Tong Huai's curiosity, and the corner of his mouth curved into a mocking arc.

Xue Songbo and Yu Hui's change of attitude towards him was only because they took a breath from the long torture and finally tore apart their faces completely, and they let each other go. Looking back, they realized that they had treated their son badly and felt guilty. Want to make it up.

Tong Huai didn't say anything until he finished his last word.

Xue Ting raised his eyes, wanting to see Tong Huai's expression.

He has seen sympathy and pity in the eyes of many people, such as his uncle Xue Songchu, or calling him to ask him if he wants to come here as a grandfather.

He thought he would see the same look in Tong Huai's eyes.

Unexpectedly, Tong Huai's eyes, which were always clear and bright, were filled with sadness and anger.

He was feeling sad and angry for Xue Ting.

"Don't talk to them from now on!"

Tong Huai felt a chill in his heart when he thought of Xue Ting's reluctance to go to dinner with Yu Wen, and he understood everything.

He would not say harsh words, angrily withdrew the trace of sympathy for Yu Hui, staggered off the bed, put his hands on the sides of the chair, lowered his head and stared at Xue Ting's eyes, his eyes were burning, serious and eager: "You have such a good grandfather, and we good brothers, don't pay attention to them in the future, they don't deserve to be your family."

Xue Ting rarely saw such a sincere look in his eyes.

He seemed very anxious and wanted to tell him that he didn't need to be so sensible, sensible, and sensible.

Xue Ting raised his head slightly, looked at him deeply for a moment, and smiled slightly: "Yes."

Listen to you.