under the filth

Tang Cen stood up in a panic, and ran towards the bedroom with messy steps: "Wait...wait...there is still a present that has not been opened."

Eisen looked at Tang Cen's panic-stricken appearance, and touched his chin with great interest.He was not at all curious about what the other gift Tang Cen mentioned was just an excuse for Tang Cen to avoid it, but when he saw Tang Cen coming out of the bedroom, Eisen quickly put away the expression on his face.

When Tang Cen came out of the bedroom, he had a flat red package in his hand.Eisen had never seen this gift before, but he always felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

After Tang Cen sat down, Eisen immediately leaned over: "What is this?"

"I don't know. Raymond gave it to me, saying it was a Christmas present." Tang Cen pulled off the green ribbon tied on it, and tore off a corner of the red wrapping paper wrapped outside, revealing the cover under the wrapping paper.

After hearing that it was from Raymond and seeing the familiar cover, Eisen fell silent.This thing has been with him for nearly 30 years, and Eisen knew what it was just by looking at it, but he didn't expect Raymond to bring it here so soon.

"He said it was your mother's intention, and told me not to tell you." Tang Cen saw Aisen's sudden silence and asked worriedly, "Are you angry?"

Eisen shook his head and stroked the brown cover with his fingers: "It's okay, I suddenly thought of something, please take it apart and have a look."

Tang Cen was hesitant to open it. This gift was forced by Lei Meng, and there was no time to refuse it.But now that Eisen said so, Tang Cen still opened it.

After completely tearing apart the wrapping paper, Tang Cen saw the whole picture of the gift without the last cover.What Lei Meng gave him was a photo album that looked quite old, and it held a lot of weight in his hand.

"This is...your photo album?" Tang Cen touched the rough-edged cover, and his calm heart stirred again, "Can I open it and have a look?"

Eisen picked up the remaining bottle of beer, pried off the cap, and took a sip.With the gesture of opening the wine, he said in a concealed manner: "This is a gift for you, you can read it if you want."

That photo album was specially made for Eisen by Mrs. Sterling. It is equivalent to Eisen's growth record. Every child in the Sterling family has a copy.In the book in Tang Cen's hand, all the photos in it are about the big and small things that Aisen has experienced from birth to now.

Of course, there are not only records of Eisen's glamorous side, but also many strange photos.

Before Tang Cen took off the choker around his neck, the bell jingled as he lowered his head, but the person who became embarrassed and embarrassing because of this became Eisen.

Open the cover of the photo album, and on the first page of the photo album is a family photo of the Sterling family.

Tang Cen picked up this family photo, and his eyes swept over the faces of everyone in the photo.Tang Cen couldn't recognize everyone in the photo, so he could only infer from what Eisen told him.

In this family photo, the Sterlings are sitting in the center, with two young children standing beside them.Raymond and his wife stood behind the Sterlings, with Eisen next to them.There are also three people Tang Cen has never seen before, but one of them is very similar to Raymond. It should be Eisen's sister named Olivia. She stands with her husband and the youngest daughter of the Sterling family. together.

The number of people in the photo did not match what Eisen said, and the looks of Eisen and Raymond on it were too young, and the edges of the photo were already yellowed, making them look a little old.

Tang Cen calculated the time marked on the lower right corner of the photo, and then confirmed to Eisen: "You took this at Christmas that year?"

"En." Eisen responded, picked up the wine bottle, raised his head and took a big gulp, the sweet bubbles with the aroma of peaches jumped in his mouth.

Tang Cen put the family photo back to its original position, looked at the photo and sighed softly, "That's great."

In Tang Cen's former bedroom, there was also a photo that could be regarded as a family portrait. There were only three people on it - he, his father, and Tang Qian who had just been adopted.In that photo, everyone has different expressions on their faces, serious, indifferent, disturbed, and no one is smiling.

There are ten people in the family portrait of the Eisen family, more than three times that of the Tang family.Although there were more people, everyone had a smile on their face.It was the first time Tang Cen knew that family portraits could capture such a feeling. The slightly yellowed photo paper at the corners exuded warm love.

"That's great." Tang Cen sighed softly again, rubbing Eisen's still young face in the photo.

Tang Cen made no secret of his envy and longing, as well as the lonely look in his eyes.Eisen sat beside him, drinking in silence.

He really wanted to tell Tang Cen that they could become a family, and he could also appear in this family portrait.But Eisen thought about it for a long time, and still didn't say these words out of his mouth.

After looking at the family portrait, Tang Cen continued to flip back. On the top of the second page of the album was a photo of Eisen when he was just born. He was completely different back then, but those blue eyes were still the same as before. clear.

Tang Cen turned a few pages back. In the photo, Eisen grew up from babbling to toddler.

"You were so cute when you were little."

A seven or eight-year-old boy always has endless energy, and Eisen is the same. He dozed off on top of the Labrador, chased the big dog around the yard, and stood on tiptoe on a small bench to watch his mother do it. dessert……

While drinking, Eisen looked at the expression on Tang Cen's face. Seeing the constant smile on his face, he finally couldn't help but leaned over: "What did you see?"

Tang Cen pointed to the photo of him with cream all over his face, and beside it was a little boy with cream on the tip of his nose making faces at the camera.

"This was taken at Luca's ninth birthday party, when he covered my face with the creamed plate." Eisen tapped his finger on Luca's grimacing face, "The one next to it is he."

Tang Cen opened his eyes wide in astonishment, and looked at the boy in surprise.

"It feels completely different from what I saw in Switzerland." Tang Cen used a more euphemistic way of saying it.Although he couldn't see the boy's face clearly, but such a cute boy, he couldn't connect with the black-clothed bald man who was blocking people at the entrance of the Swiss Hotel.

Eisen didn't take it seriously: "When he first came back from the United States, everyone he knew said so."

When Luka first came back from the United States, his shiny head was touched all over by people he knew.But that was already a memory of their teenage years, and now they would not want to ravage Luca's head recklessly.

Tang Cen sat next to Eisen, flipping through the photo album, listening to him tell the story behind each photo.

One-third of the photo album is the photos of Aisen Elementary School and junior high school, and after that is the photos of high school.Eisen calmly skipped the black history of elementary school and junior high school, and went straight to the part of high school: "After high school graduation, I took a group photo with Luka and the others while traveling together."

Tang Cen leaned on Aisen's shoulder, and his gaze followed Aisen's movements of flipping through the album.Looking at the group photo of the three of them, Tang Cen didn't stare at Eisen's childish and smiling face. He was attracted by another boy.

It was an Asian teenager with short, smooth black hair.In the photo, Eisen and Luca stood shoulder to shoulder in front of the statue, and the boy was also hooked by Eisen's shoulders. He bent down a little reluctantly, but there was no impatience in his eyes.

"Who's that next to him?" Tang Cen didn't notice it at first, but when he saw this photo, he realized that the boy appeared very frequently in the photo, almost always with Luka, but Eisen didn't notice it at all. To introduce what he means.

"Ah, you said that Xiu is also a friend I have known since I was a child." Eisen glanced at the teenager in the photo, and said lightly, "Luka lived with his aunt's house when he was a child, and Xiu emigrated from China with his father. We grew up together and went to the same school until college."

"This was taken on Christmas in my sophomore year. Luca and Xiu were both at York University. After graduation, Luca went back to work in his family's hospital, and Xiu went back to China to find his mother."

Eisen paused, pondered for a while before continuing: "Xiu seems to have opened a consulting room. I'll bring you to see him when he comes back. You should have a lot of topics to talk about."

He spoke ambiguously, Tang Cen wasn't sure if Aisen had any conflicts or rifts with this boy named "Xiu", so he didn't ask any further.

Eisen didn't have many photos in high school probably because his studies were a little heavier than before.In the photo, Eisen's age has been increasing, but the people taking pictures with him are those people from the beginning to the end, and it didn't change until he made new friends in college.

Aisen in college... Tang Cen lowered his eyes and stared at his knees. For some reason, he suddenly didn't dare to look down. He couldn't tell whether he was afraid of seeing Lu Sheng's shadow on it, or whether he was afraid to look at it. Going to Aisen has a completely different university life from my own.

Tang Cen's eyes dodged, and he looked away after a few glances. He picked up the wine bottle, raised his head and drank the rest of the wine in one gulp.

And Eisen seemed to notice that he was not in high spirits, so he quickly turned over this part, but after that, a familiar face appeared on the photo again.

After graduating from university, Eisen got together with Luca and Xiu again, and the three seemed to travel together after Christmas every year.Between a bunch of group photos of the three of them, there were also photos of a party at Sterling's house, among which appeared a particularly distinctive figure.

The date in the lower right corner of the photo shows the time, and it is a photo of two people taken six years ago.Eisen was holding a young and beautiful woman on his arm.

"Ex-girlfriend?" Tang Cen looked at their intimate actions, tilted his head and asked, and the bell around his neck jingled because of his actions.

Eisen didn't expect this photo to be included in the album. Looking at his ex-girlfriend's bright smile, his heart was pounding.Tang Cen's question was like a life-threatening talisman, and Eisen frantically covered the photo in fright.

But it doesn't matter if it's covered, Tang Cen has already seen it, Eisen's heart was at war with heaven and man for a few minutes, and he nodded heavily.

Tang Cen opened his mouth, and before he could make a sound, Eisen's heart rose, but what he said afterwards made Eisen's heart sink back down.

"It's pretty." Tang Cen knew that Aisen had a girlfriend before dating him, but he didn't expect to see the photo.

Eisen's ex-girlfriend was beautiful, with long, soft blond hair falling over her shoulders, sea-blue eyes looking into the camera, and a bright smile on her gorgeous face.

Hearing that Tang Cen wasn't angry at all, Eisen let go of his hand and asked cautiously, "Aren't you jealous?"

Tang Cen asked in surprise, "Isn't it your ex-girlfriend?"

Eisen was dumbfounded, and it took him a long time to reply: "Yes."

After the ex-girlfriend's photos, there were not many photos, and Tang Cen finished them quickly.Holding the album in his arms, he hesitated and said, "This album...can I really accept it?"

This is Eisen's memory. His mother gave such a precious thing to him who had never met before. Tang Cen didn't know whether he should accept this gift.

"Since mother gave it to you, of course you can accept it." Eisen looked at him with deep eyes, "Come home with me next Christmas, okay?"

Tang Cen stroked the rough and mottled cover of the photo album, but did not speak.

After a long time, Tang Cen put the photo album aside, raised his hand to caress Eisen's cheek.

Cool fingers brushed against the side of his face, Eisen held Tang Cen's hand, leaned forward, nose to nose: "Are you okay?"

Tang Cen didn't answer him, but turned his head slightly, and lightly licked Eisen's wine-stained lips with the tip of his tongue.

The bell rang non-stop, covering up the sound of the kiss, and Tang Cen's answer had long been crushed in the lingering kiss.

Probably because Eisen bought fruit-flavored beer, this wine-flavored kiss was warm and sweet.

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