I am very poor

"So what about you?" When Huo Yufei said this, he stopped his hands and stared at the other party for a moment, so that you could feel that the other party was extremely serious.

Very curious to know the answer to the question.

So what about me?Under the eager gaze of the other party, Gu Cheng only spent a dozen seconds to filter his nearly 20 years of life.

Then there was a little embarrassment - he couldn't find anything interesting to tell the other party in exchange for a while.

Compared with what Huo Yufei said, the first 20 years of his life seemed a bit too monotonous and boring.When an ordinary child was thinking about how to act like a baby so that his parents promised to buy him a remote control car for his birthday, he pretended to pass by the transparent glass window again and again, just to see the beautiful cakes and cakes in the fairy tale world. candy.

Until he can finally face up to his own preferences - not a sweet tooth.But all the while, those pretty sweets held special meaning to him.

and great attraction.

He likes sweet, beautiful, sunny things, everything that is the opposite of what he has experienced in life.It is also too easy to be attracted by these diametrically opposed things.

Gu Cheng never talked about all this with others, including his few close people in the first 19 years, including Yan Qing.

He had thought about being honest.The first gift Gu Cheng prepared for the other party was a big box full of colorful candies.

There were bears, and icing, and Santas, and plums, and marshmallows, and fruit candies, and nougats, and every kind of pretty candy he could think of.It is so full that the whole box is piled up, it looks very good, just looking at it makes me feel good.

Gu Cheng was almost reluctant to send it out.

But Yan Qing didn't like it.She told Gu Cheng not to buy these messy things next time, and now even children don't like to eat them, and told Gu Cheng that she likes chocolate, and reported several chocolate brands.

So the beautiful box of candies lay quietly under the bed, soon covered with dust.

Just like the box of candies that failed to deliver, Gu Cheng had prepared for a long time to confide in him but failed to say it.

There are many, many things he wants to say, but in the final analysis, there is only one sentence. "I'll be good to you, stay with me all the time, okay?"

Of course, these are all in the past, and they are no longer important.

Gu Cheng understood a truth from this, the people who will leave your side are not only the couple who abandoned him at the gate of the orphanage back then.A vague memory in childhood may be able to show that those are his biological parents.But Gu Cheng didn't care anymore.

Unlike the children of the same age in the Jing'an Welfare Institute, he recognized the reality early on, and pulled himself out of the boundless quagmire of longing for his "parents".

Because he was abandoned.

But the reason Gu Cheng gave himself was that this would make you weak.

The so-called harmonious family of three is nothing but self-deception.

From the first second after waking up, Gu Cheng told himself to keep one thing firmly in mind, in this world, he is different from those children with umbrellas.He has only himself.

But maybe one day, he will be the one who holds an umbrella for others.Gu Cheng's eyes fell on Huo Yufei's face.

Countless chaotic images flashed through my mind.

The public hall of Jing'an Welfare Institute is always dark in order to save electricity, the bunks that smelled musty when I was a child, and the enamel bowl that was knocked off and never filled.When he was young, he harbored unrealistic fantasies, took advantage of the free time to sneak to the "secret base" in the backyard, and dug the dirt under the iron gate with a small plastic shovel that was broken off.Until one day, the gap between the iron gate and the ground was finally big enough for his small body to get out.

He was like a bird released from its cage, breathing fresh air freely.It seems that the outside world is a completely different paradise from the orphanage.Everything is so lively, beautiful, clean and tidy.No one rushes over to grab your ears, scolds and reprimands you, and no one forces you to hand over the fruit candy you secretly hid in your pocket during the lunch break, because no one will give you candy.

The outside world is so beautiful.

But no one will send you a candy for no reason.Even if it's just one.

So after pretending to pass by the glass window outside the candy store countless times, and finally arousing the suspicion and alertness of the clerk, Gu Cheng went back through the small gap between the iron door and the ground again.Pat off the dust on your body and pretend nothing happened.

However, the beautiful and cold "outside" world is still deeply rooted in his heart.

Ever since he heard the phrase "reading can change your destiny", and from the first day he came into contact with books, Gu Cheng knew what he was going to do.

He has sneaked into the classroom countless times with his schoolbag in his arms after school, just to have a quiet place to study.He woke up from his sleep countless times when the sky just lit up, and got up quietly.The moment he received the admission letter, he was relieved.It was like trekking in the long dark night, and finally saw the lighted exit.

In the same way, day after day in the dark night, he became himself.

Huo Yufei's focused and urging gaze seemed to freeze, or maybe it was because his memory was too short, and the other party hadn't had time to change another expression.

He didn't intend to say all of this.

Those dark pasts have long been left behind, and I want to be with you in the bright future.

I will treat you well, Gu Cheng said silently in his heart.Then he forked the last piece of quiche off the plate, "I grew up in an orphanage." He ate the food off the fork, "I'm an orphan." Then he said nothing else.These two sentences are both concise and to the point, but also extremely frank.

But that's not what Huo Yufei wanted to hear.It's something the other party doesn't want to tell others.

Maybe...it's still a bit early, right?He thought that Gu Cheng had completely opened his heart to him.

It seems not yet.

This made him a little relieved and a little sad.

Well, he doesn't need to be melancholy.

Huo Yufei ate up all the food on the plate in two or three strokes, and he and Gu Cheng put on their coats and shoes again, and went back to school to bring the last bit of food.

Among the three who moved into their new home, Caesar may not be the happiest, but he must be the one with the most beaming expressions.As soon as he entered the room, he filled the room with joy and circled. After inspecting each room up and down, he rushed into the living room with four paws in joy, and jumped straight into Huo Yufei's arms.As Caesar grew up day by day, the dormitory also shrunk day by day. Although the area here was not large, it was enough for Caesar to be overjoyed.

That night, they weighed some spare ribs and various vegetables at a vegetable market not far away, and ate them in hot pot in the living room at night.The steaming white water vapor blurred each other's faces.It made Gu Cheng's familiar face a little strange.

Maybe it's still a little early?Huo Yufei was still a little brooding in his heart.

It's okay, just wait a little longer, he will open up to me sooner or later.Huo Yufei comforted himself in this way.

But the next day, he was taken aback.

Gu Cheng has to work all day long, starting at eight o'clock in the morning.He put on his coat and shoes, stood at the entrance, and took something out of his wallet.He called out to Huo Yufei who was still a little sleepy sitting at the dining table.

"The things on the shoe cabinet are for you, remember to put them away."

Huo Yufei said "En?" and asked, "What?"

Gu Cheng hastily closed the door and left.

They slept in the same bed last night.Huo Yufei lost sleep.He has valued his own private space since he was a child, and he is never used to spending the night in the same room with others.Unexpectedly, Gu Cheng was no exception.

Sharing the same bed with Gu Cheng, Huo Yufei cared even more.He was half asleep and half awake all night, and even if he managed to fall asleep for a while, he was very restless.It wasn't until Gu Cheng woke up in the morning and got out of bed lightly to prepare breakfast that he gradually fell asleep.But soon woke up again.

Huo Yufei took a small piece of fried dough sticks, dipped them in the soy milk, and thought about it seriously, should he move to the sofa tonight?

But immediately, his focus was completely shifted.

On the shoe cabinet in the entrance, there was a thin savings card lying quietly.And under the card was a corner of the post-it note, with a series of familiar numbers written on it.

very familiar.

It was his birthday.

Huo Yufei stared at the green Agricultural Bank card, the corners of his naturally upturned lips unconsciously flattened.

He knew that there shouldn't be much money in it, at least for him now, the number on this card was not worth mentioning.But at the same time, he also knew that even this frivolous number was hard-earned for Gu Cheng.

So he didn't touch the card, and he didn't even allow Caesar to go near the shoe cabinet.

Huo Yufei sat cross-legged on the sofa, reading materials and answering the phone.Besides his manager, one of them called from Song Yulai, asking when he planned to go home.Huo Yufei joked that he would come back when Ms. Song was on a business trip.Song Yulai told him in a very dangerous tone that Ms. Song might stay until the new year this time, so he doesn't plan to go home for the new year?

Although the so-called "running away from home" is a joke, it is very obvious that Ms. Song and Huo Yufei avoided it when she was at home.

Huo Yufei turned the pencil in his hand, pretending not to speak while thinking, Song Yulai hummed unhappily, and then he smiled and said, "How is that possible? Of course we have to spend the New Year at home. But it's only the beginning of the month, before the Spring Festival It's still early."

Afterwards, he chatted with Song Yulai and spied on the military by the way: "Is this year's itinerary set? When will you return to Australia?"

Because Huo Zhangzuo has lived abroad for a long time, Huo Qidong's family will rush to Australia every New Year's Eve to celebrate the New Year.I heard Song Yulai say: "Not yet, I heard that my cousin has other plans for this year."

The cousin she was talking about was Huo Yubo, Huo Qiming's only son, who devoted himself to world peace and joined the ranks of international volunteers. "Other arrangements?" Huo Yufei stopped his fingers, "What does this mean?"

Song Yulai did not continue on this topic: "You will know when you see him during the Chinese New Year."

Huo Yufei sighed: "Okay, but we may not be able to see him this year."

"What are you going to do?"

Huo Yufei put down the pencil and touched his nose: "Actually, I have other arrangements."

"Any other arrangement?"

He imitated Song Yulai's tone just now, and said frivolously: "You will know it during the Chinese New Year."

Huo Yufei tilted his head and smiled looking at the hung up phone.

He originally wanted to care about how Song Yulai was doing recently, and whether Ying Xiaofang's parents continued to contact her, but Song Yulai didn't give him the chance at all.So he threw the phone aside and continued to study with his head down.

That's right, Huo Yufei was studying.

He was immersed in various materials and reports for most of the day, and Caesar poked his head for a long time before he realized that he forgot to feed the other party dog ​​food.Of course I also forgot to feed myself.

Seeing that it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, Huo Yufei, wearing slippers on his bare feet, found dog food under the cupboard, and mixed some into Caesar's food bowl.Then think about what you want to eat.He opened the refrigerator and found that he didn't have the urge to cook, so he went back to the bedroom to change and planned to go out to eat.

In order to make sure, Huo Yufei took advantage of Caesar's dinner and slipped out, then checked his phone, but there was no unread message.

Recently, he and Gu Cheng stayed together every day, and once in a while they didn't eat together, so they were not used to it.

Gu Cheng was busy with all his work, and it was already past eight o'clock in the evening.

He took out his mobile phone to check the time, and immediately packed his things quickly.There is a small two-story building behind Yubaozhai with a small courtyard.These few days, in order to focus on the shooting, I specially set up a room set inside. Because of time constraints, everyone ate a few mouthfuls of boxed lunch in a hurry, and Gu Cheng was even tighter, so he just took the time to fill in a few mouthfuls.

After finishing work at night, Yuxi reserved a seat outside and invited everyone to dinner.Only Gu Cheng did not go.

Yuxi smiled and asked him: "Why, is there someone waiting?"

Gu Cheng nodded subconsciously: "Yes."

However, he himself is not very sure, because there have been no calls or messages on his mobile phone for the whole day.

So what is he doing today?Are you busy?Still playing with Caesar?Or they raised their eyebrows and concentrated on trying to clear that little game.

So why hasn't he contacted me?Does he not miss me at all?

Gu Cheng felt awkward in his heart for a moment, but he immediately felt relieved.He was so busy today, even if Huo Yufei sent a message, he might not be able to see it in time, and he didn't have time to answer the call.But if he is free, he can call back.

Gu Cheng hurriedly walked under the dimly lit street lights, and couldn't help laughing when he thought of the things he had left on the shoe cabinet.

He raised his phone and wanted to call the other party, but when he looked up, he found that he was already standing downstairs.

As soon as he raised his head, he accurately found the window that was lit up for him, and then his whole heart seemed to have wings, and he flew up one step faster than his legs.

He pushed the door in.

The warm floor lamp was already on, and on the coffee table and the sofa were spread out materials and pages randomly. Caesar stretched his neck and lay on the woven carpet, with two pages of paper covered on his buttocks.

The sound of the door opening startled the barefooted man sitting cross-legged on the sofa.

Huo Yufei immediately threw away the cushion in his arms and jumped down quickly.

"Finally back, Caesar and I are too hungry to speak."

Huo Yufei drove Gu Cheng to wash his hands, turned into the kitchen, and put the dinners into the microwave one by one.

When Gu Cheng came back wearing rabbit ear slippers, he saw Huo Yufei wearing a pure white home clothes with a blue border, wrapping his arms in front of the microwave, looking a bit boring.

The bright interior contrasts sharply with the neon night outside the window.And the person standing in front of the microwave oven, nodding his fingertips and impatiently waiting for the time, filled this bright world with endless warmth.

He couldn't help leaning over and hugging each other affectionately.

Then he was rubbed on the head.

Gu Cheng was stunned for a moment, thinking belatedly, isn't it really annoying?

That night, they took a shower and went to bed, the silence of the night emphasizing each other's clear breathing.

Gu Cheng, who had restrained himself from lying on his back obediently, turned over quietly, pretending to touch the other's shoulder inadvertently, and then moved closer until he held the other's palm.

In fact, he wanted to hug him more, but he was a little embarrassed.

Feeling the warm touch of the palm, Gu Cheng closed his eyes satisfied.

But the next morning, when he changed his shoes and straightened up.

I saw something on the shoe cabinet that I didn't even touch.