Song Song

The cold was so severe that Chu Yi took a leave of absence and fell asleep at home for two days. Lin Xiaosong followed behind him and waited on him from dawn to dusk. He seemed to be suffering from a serious illness. He fell asleep at work as if he didn’t get enough sleep every day. .

On the other side, because her son resisted the blind date many times, Chu's mother became angry, and she had to go to the place where he lived to see anything. The woman was sensitive, and she already had some guesses in her heart.

At around 08:30 in the evening, Chu's mother came to the rental house.Chu Yi hadn't recovered from his illness, and his face was pale. He sat leaning on the sofa, watching his mother scan back and forth in and out of the room.

Chu's mother felt that her son probably already had a partner, but she searched the whole house and found no feminine products. She was puzzled, and saw two pillows on the bed in the room. Not only that, but also the toiletries and shoes. are in pairs.

"Are you renting with someone?" Chu's mother stood in front of the coffee table with her chest folded, showing the imposing posture of a middle-aged woman.

Chu Yi did not speak, but coughed lightly, expressing his acquiescence.

Chu's mother was relieved a little, her voice was still the tone of an elder talking to a junior, "If you have a home and don't come back, you have to be crowded in such a small house, how many times have you introduced blind dates, and every time you say you don't have time, then you should Tell me, when will you be free." Then he looked around the house, "I don't know what I'm busy with."

Chu Yi got up, went to the kitchen and poured a glass of water for his mother, and came back, leaned over and put it on the coffee table, "Calm down, drink some water."

Mother Chu sighed, thinking why did she have to have a son in the first place, the son is the most worrying thing.She walked to the sofa and sat down, picked up the tea cup and took a sip, then thought of something, put down the cup and asked, "Where's your roommate, why hasn't he come back?"

"Still at get off work."

"What is he doing? He's still outside at such a late hour."

Chu Yi flirted with her, nestled back on the sofa, picked up a book at random, and read, "What are you doing asking about other people's business?"

This is a small collection of poems, and there are many circles and drawings in it. Chu Yi flipped through a few pages boredly, glancing at ten lines like a revolving lantern, and finally stopped on a line of small characters, "Oh, it's written in real ink." The man couldn't help laughing.

Chu's mother put aside the subject of roommates and helped him clean up the house briefly. She took a rest when everything was done. Looking at the time, more than an hour had passed.

"Let's go home for dinner this weekend. I'll make you something you like." Chu's mother stood up, took her bag and planned to leave, and then ordered, "If the place of work is not far from home, you can move back home. I know you find me annoying, but if you listen to me in everything, I won't bother to care about you."

Chu Yi said: "Understood."

"Okay, okay, I won't bother you anymore, I'll go back now." Mother Chu walked to the door in a few steps, stepped out, and continued to mutter a few words, "I'm getting old, and I will mess with you wherever I go." People hate it, sons hate it, and dogs hate it."

The voice-activated light in the corridor was broken, and no one came to fix it. It was dark and there was no light, so I had to walk step by step while holding on to the handrail. Mother Chu had just descended to the third floor when she heard light footsteps coming up from downstairs.

It was Lin Xiaosong who came back.

He shook the fried bun in his hand, and ran upstairs in small steps. Hearing that there was someone at the escalator on the third floor, he dodged to the right, and then passed by.

Mother Chu didn't think about it, and walked all the way downstairs along the handrail. The street lights in the community were bright, she got out of the darkness a little bit, looked back into the corridor, settled down and thought about it, and some answers were ready to come out.

She turned back.

This time it was Lin Xiaosong who opened the door, biting an apple with a naive face: "Auntie, who are you looking for?"

Mother Chu looked him up and down with a sophisticated and critical gaze, her lips were red and her teeth were white, and he looked strangely delicate, no wonder, no wonder...

She cut to the chase: "I am Chu Yi's mother."

Lin Xiaosong panicked for a moment, immediately turned his hand holding the apple behind his back, and said nervously, "Auntie, come in and sit." Then he ran to the bathroom door and knocked, "Brother Chu Yi, your mother is here."

The man was taking a shower. When he heard the noise, he turned off the shower first: "What?"

Lin Xiaosong repeated in a low voice: "Your mother is here." Now he only dares to wait at the door, he dare not sit in the living room, afraid of seeing his mother's sharp eyes.

"What's your name?" The house was not big, and Mother Chu's voice was very clear.

Lin Xiaosong walked over with his head down, looked timidly at the sitting woman: "Lin Xiaosong."

Mother Chu raised her eyebrows and smiled, patted the sofa beside her, and said kindly, "You sit too, this is your home, and I'm the guest."

After more than 30 years of working in the system, she has already practiced the politeness of business affairs, and she is the best at what to say to who.

Lin Xiaosong sat down hesitantly, deliberately avoiding the woman's gaze.

"how old are you?"

Lin Xiaosong turned his face away and lowered his head slightly: "Nineteen, twenty years old."

There was some inexplicable regret in Chu's mother's tone: "You won't go to school at such a young age? Then what are you doing now?"

Lin Xiaosong answered one by one.

Not long after, Chu Yi got dressed and came out. His hair was still dripping wet. He wiped it off with a towel without haste, and signaled Lin Xiaosong with his eyes: "Go to your room and stay."

Lin Xiaosong was conflicted in his heart. On the one hand, he was afraid of Chu's mother's harshness, and on the other hand, he wanted to hear the opinions of his family members. He was in a dilemma. When he arrived, he obediently hid back in the bedroom, and the cat listened to his ears at the door.

Mother Chu leaned on the sofa with her arms folded and looked at him: "Tell me, what do you mean?"

Chu Yi ripped off the half-wet towel, casually threw it on the coffee table, pulled a chair from the small restaurant where he ate, and sat on it by himself.

Mother and son face each other.

"What do you want to ask, let's ask it together today." The man's tone was firm.

Chu's mother broke the pot and said directly: "Do you like men?"

"Correct."

"When did this happen?"

"It was a long time ago, I don't remember exactly."

"Who was that man just now?" Mother Chu paused, unbelievable, "Your partner?"

Chu Yi was silent for a moment, and said in a deep voice, "It doesn't count, just an ordinary colleague."

"Colleague?" Chu's mother was dubious, "Where do you work now? How can you meet all kinds of people."

"Don't worry about it. Anyway, I won't be working for long. The hospital is recruiting for spring recently. I'm preparing for the exam."

Chu's mother gasped, and she kept explaining herself in her heart: children and grandchildren have their own blessings, and the son of a former colleague, Lao Tai's family, was so promising. He went abroad, got a green card, and even got a foreign wife. In the end, he was lucky. One day, the family was in a car accident while traveling by car.

Therefore, she often persuaded herself: It is a blessing that her son is safe and secure by her side, and the requirements should not be too high.

If you like a man, you like a man, peace is good.

Mother Chu patted her chest and calmed down for a moment: "I'm not such an unenlightened parent... I have to take it easy."

Chu Yi poured his mother a glass of water, felt bored for a while, went to the balcony and lit a cigarette.

Mother Chu felt even more upset when she saw her son, who had a high degree of education and good looks. I don't know how many people lined up to match him.

"Come here." Mother Chu became angrier as she thought about it.

Chu Yi glanced back, with a normal expression, he slowly walked back after twisting his cigarette butt, and sat down on the chair he had just been sitting on, keeping a certain distance from his mother all the time.

Mother Chu thought about it, and said mysteriously: "Let's go to the hospital to see if we can reverse this tendency."

Chu Yi was amused by her: "Which subject do you take?"

Mother Chu had nothing to say, she just sighed again and again, she didn't sit for a long time, she got up to leave.

Lin Xiaosong listened to their conversation word by word, and the word "colleague" was particularly harsh. He pretended not to know anything, and went out to see off Mother Chu.

Chu's mother thought it was an ordinary colleague's relationship, and she didn't confront her as before, but from the bottom of her heart, she always looked down on this child, "There's no need to send it away, let's go back."

Lin Xiaosong said politely, "Auntie, walk slowly."

Back upstairs again, Lin Xiaosong didn't say a word, the door slammed loudly, and he was bored in the bedroom alone.He leaned on the table and flipped through "Three Kingdoms" page by page, tears streaming down his face.

Wiping it with his sleeve, he called his family, and it was his mother who answered the phone. When he heard that it was the eldest son who hadn't heard from him for a long time, he was very excited: "It's Songsong."

Lin Xiaosong held the phone close to his right cheek, holding back tears: "Have you received all the money I sent home?"

"Got it, got it, you have to take good care of it outside..." Before he could finish speaking, Lin Xiaosong heard his mother talking to his father through the phone line, "Old Lin, go to your son's room quickly, everyone calls you It's been half a day, and he has to make a cup of hot milk and send it in. At this time, he must keep up with his nutrition."

His father may have moved a bit slower, but his mother made a "tsk" sound and urged, "Hurry up, what are the ink marks?"

When everything was in her favor, his mother remembered that the eldest son was still on the phone: "Songsong, what's the matter with you calling right now?"

Lin Xiaosong pursed his lips, looking pitiful: "I'm fine." Then he hung up the phone.

Chu Yi opened the door and came in. He saw Lin Xiaosong lying on the table, and he ignored him.

The man knows in his heart that it is better to be vaccinated in advance for some things.

After a long time, Lin Xiaosong couldn't hold back anymore, threw the "Three Kingdoms" in his hand on the floor, and stared at him angrily: "Why did you tell your mother that we were colleagues? You don't know what the relationship between us is. .” As soon as he spoke, tears welled up, and he wiped them with the back of his hand, looking very embarrassed.

Chu Yi stretched out his hand to hold Lin Xiaosong down, leaned over and pulled out a piece of paper from the table, and wiped it for him: "Don't cry."

Lin Xiaosong choked up: "You don't want me anymore."

After a few words of coaxing but still not listening, Chu Yi was so tormented by him that he annoyed, "When the hell are you going to make trouble!?"

Lin Xiaosong was frightened, and couldn't help shivering, he had rarely seen a man lose his temper like this, and the grievance in his chest surged like a tide.

He was so angry that he punched the man, then ran out of the room and rushed out the door.

The dead silence after the battlefield was even more disturbing. Chu Yi shook his hand and punched the wall, "Fuck!"