mountain sleep

"Burning grass jelly with honey and peanuts."

"Thank you."

Li Chengjin took the bag and turned to go out. As soon as he reached the door, he bumped into the person who came in.

"I'm sorry, aren't you..." Dongmeng was looking at his phone when he entered the door. He didn't notice someone coming out, and subconsciously apologized when he bumped into him. When he raised his head, he was dumbfounded and took a step back.

Li Chengjin stood there, just now the tip of his nose touched Dongmeng's hair, itching.

Dongmeng lowered her head to avoid his sight, and moved her steps to pass by his side, but no matter which direction he went, the other side blocked him, Dongmeng was a little anxious, and stretched out her hand to push him away: "You..."

Like a ghost, Li Chengjin grabbed the hand that was pushing against his chest.

"Yiwen, here." Chen Siyi stood up and waved to the people who came in from the door.

"Sister Chen, long time no see." Yang Yiwen smiled, bowed slightly to Chen Siyi and nodded decently, politely and politely pulled Chen Siyi to say hello, "Thank you very much for the Lapsang Souchong you gave earlier, Lao Zhao loves to drink Incredibly."

"As long as you like it." Chen Siyi shook her hand and patted it, "Come on, sit down, let's sit down and talk slowly. ——The chrysanthemum tea I ordered, how about some?"

"Okay, thank you." Yang Yiwen motioned Chen Siyi to look at the menu, "What do you want to eat? This restaurant is pretty good."

"You are more familiar with this place, you come here, I have no taboo."

"Okay. Then let's have a crispy duck with glutinous rice? This is their specialty. Then honey sauce barbecued pork, sea bass balls with cloudy legs, and soup, how about eight-treasure winter melon soup?" Yang Yiwen asked Chen Siyi's opinion while looking at the menu. , "Order another seasonal vegetable, boiled."

"The two of us don't order too much, it's a waste."

"Then start with these." Yang Yiwen nodded to the waiter, returned the menu, and added, "Oh, yes, after the end, give us two first-grade bird's nests. Thank you."

After the waiter left, Chen Siyi poured chrysanthemum tea for Yang Yiwen. Yang Yiwen rested her thumb on the edge of the cup and asked casually, "Why did Sister Chen come to Naicheng? Are you here to see Zihang?"

"Yes, I took him to lunch at noon. But he is busy now, and he will go back to class immediately after eating, and I will leave on the plane at night." Chen Siyi put down the teapot, put his hands on the table and arranged the tablecloth , straight to the point, "Yiwen, I am here this time mainly to talk to you about Xu Zihang and Xiao Ge."

"Hiss..." Yang Yiwen's finger bounced off the edge of the teacup, she quickly put her finger to her lips and blew on it, then smiled at Chen Siyi nonchalantly, "What's the matter with them?"

"Yiwen, you don't need to hide it from me. Zihang told us last time when we came home, and we have thought about it for a long time, and want to chat with you to hear what you think." "Children are immature. As parents, we should communicate well."

Yang Yiwen turned the teacup in her hand and took a sip.

"I didn't expect Zihang to tell you this."

The warm light fragrance permeated the heart and lungs, making Yang Yiwen's mood stable again.She put down her teacup and looked up at Chen Siyi: "Sister Chen, let me tell the truth. I don't have any ideas, and I don't want to talk about it. First of all, they are high school students now, and I don't think it is necessary for us to be here for high school students." You and I have both been young, how many of our teenage romances can go to the end? It’s meaningless for us to communicate here.”

"Yes, I know they are all high school students. It may be too early for us to talk about anything, but I think we as parents should understand everything as soon as possible, including why the children are like this, and how far their feelings have developed. , these are all problems."

Yang Yiwen looked away, unable to maintain the smile on her face.

Seeing Yang Yiwen's reluctance to communicate, Chen Siyi became a little anxious: "Yiwen, don't take it seriously. Now Xu Zihang came back crying and said that he wanted to go abroad to be with Yao Ge. As a mother, I can't be indifferent. ?"

"I don't take it seriously?" Yang Yiwen was stimulated by this sentence and couldn't help laughing. She felt that it was extremely absurd, and her tone became cold, "Sister Chen, I have known about this for a long time, so I resolutely sent Yao Ge Going abroad. As for what you want to do with it, I have no opinion, so I hope you don't interfere with how I educate Yao Ge."

"This is between the two of them. How can you do yours and I do mine? I must know your attitude. Now that they are in adolescence, the more you obstruct them, the more they resist. My idea is that we can't block them but only loosen them. Get them in touch..."

"Sister Chen," Yang Yiwen interrupted her unbearably, as if she was the only one who was a villain, and everyone else could easily hold high the banner of understanding, even if she didn't want to mention this matter again, she still couldn't swallow this grievance, "Instead You found out that your son was sleeping with another boy at home, would you still sit here and talk to me?"

Seeing Chen Siyi's dumbfounded expression after hearing these words, Yang Yiwen felt a sense of pleasure and complicated pain in her heart.

"Hi, your order is here." The waiter pushed a small trolley and politely helped them move the tableware, "Crispy duck with glutinous rice, barbecued pork in honey sauce, sea bass ball with cloudy leg, eight-treasure winter melon cup, boiled Shanghai Qing, there are still two servings of first-grade bird’s nest after dinner, please use it slowly.”

Chen Siyi reluctantly raised the corner of his mouth to thank the waiter.A table of good dishes was placed in the middle, and the two women sitting facing each other didn't move their chopsticks.After a while, it was Yang Yiwen who said first, "Let's eat first."

Seeing that she was out of her wits, Yang Yiwen just recovered from the energy, and she couldn't bear to feel sorry for her, so she reached out and took her bowl to fill her with soup, and sighed: "Sister Chen, don't blame me for being extreme, my idea is very simple, they are now Separate, it will fade after a long time, if it really can't fade, when they can be independent, I can't control it."

She gently placed the bowl in front of Chen Siyi: "I know what you mean, you are worried about their aggressive behavior. But think about it—do you think they can really not contact? Now that the Internet technology is so advanced, I just It’s just using the distance to calm them down.”

Chen Siyi rubbed his temples, fell silent for a moment, and nodded: "You're right." In fact, she thought about this question repeatedly during this time. If Xu Zihang can really return to the life of the public, she still hopes that he will not go through such a hard journey. road.If they will be broken because of the distance, that is the best thing.

Li Chengjin sat by the river embankment, opened the lid of the burnt jelly grass at hand, poured in a small packet of fried peanuts, and stirred it with a spoon. The unmelted honey at the bottom stuck to the spoon, and Li Chengjin licked it.Not very sweet.

He took out his mobile phone to call Xu Zihang, every time like this, he only had Xu Zihang to talk to.

"Hey, what are you doing?" Xu Zihang was copying the wrong physics question, the hearing in the earphone was interrupted, and he was quite impatient, "Long story short."

"Let me ask you," Li Chengjin stammered, "I...won't become gay?"

"What?"

As soon as the words came out, the girl who was sleeping on the front desk turned her head and stared at him. Xu Zihang quickly covered his mouth and lowered his volume, put down the half-copied questions, got up and went outside the classroom.

"Tell me, what's the matter? Dongmeng again?"

"Yeah." Li Chengjin squeezed the cup in his hand, watching the burnt grass jelly rising and falling in the milk tea, "I met him today."

When he touched Dongmeng's hand, he realized that he had never forgotten the soft touch. The back of Dongmeng's hand was always cold, and holding it felt like burning jelly grass in his mouth.

It's a pity that the process was very short, and he was thrown away immediately.When the other party ran away, I couldn't help following a few steps.

"I don't know, that is, I couldn't accept Xia Chu being him before, but now I seem to be able to accept it."

"Oh..." Xu Zihang prolonged the syllable, and concluded, "So you have always liked Xia Chu, and now you accept that Xia Chu is Dongmeng, which means you like Dongmeng."

"Hey, no!" Li Chengjin's first reaction was to flatly deny, "Who told you that I like him?"

"If you don't like him, why are you worried about homosexuality?"

"I...Okay." Li Chengjin felt a little ashamed, but now it was time to ask for help, so he could only say reluctantly, "Even if I like him, but I like Xia Chu. That's right, I thought he It was a woman, but now he is not a woman, and I like him again, do you think I am gay or straight? What if he actually wants to be a woman? Or is it that he just likes to dress up as a woman? A man? You said..."

"Wait, wait, stop!" Xu Zihang was dizzy from his talking about men and women, "I'm confused by what you said, what's the problem, are you gay?"

"……more or less."

"Do you still like other girls?"

"Like it, girls are very cute." Of course Li Chengjin would be attracted to other girls, and occasionally he would feel his heart flutter, "And I said that I only liked him because I thought he was a girl."

"Well, then you're not gay."

"Oh." Li Chengjin heaved a sigh of relief, but at the same time he was a bit disappointed, "Then I can rest assured."

"What are you thinking about? If you like it, you like it. If you don't like it, you don't like it. Whether it's gay or not, there's no difference except that it's more troublesome for your parents." Said that he was going to hang up, "I'm going back to do the questions."

Also, what's the point of messing with this?But sometimes, he still often thinks about how to define himself, and what direction should his life go?Is it to follow the rules or to find another way?

Li Chengjin hung up the phone, looked at the river rolling forward in front of him, raised his head and drank the burning jelly grass.

Let nature take its course, the river will eventually find its way to the sea.

He turned around and was about to throw the cup into the trash can, so he froze in place.Dongmeng, who had just fled, stood in front of him.

"Did you just say you liked me?"