Both look at each other, Mr.

After meeting Shen Mingyan and Tang Jian, he passed away peacefully.

Perhaps it was because the two of them were the people who accompanied him the most during the past two years. Grandpa Shen took their hands and said a word, "Tang Jian, Ming Yan, you should be well."

It was also a midsummer, and the rain washed away all the sorrows in the world.

Five years later in the summer, Shen Mingyan put a stick of incense in front of the grave. Today is the anniversary of the old man's death. He didn't want to bump into his family members, so he always came earlier. Today, he was an hour later than usual because of the company's affairs.

"Grandpa, were you awake at that time?" He squatted on the ground, pulling out weeds with his bare hands. "I remember, you called him Tang Jian in the end, didn't you? You used to call him Tangtang all the time."

Thinking of this nickname, Shen Mingyan couldn't help curling his lips.

After pulling the weeds, Shen Mingyan leaned against the side of the tombstone, squinting his eyes at the two dragonflies biting together, "Grandpa... what did you mean at that time?"

"Do you want us to separate...or..."

He lit three cigarettes, one was bitten between his teeth, one was stuck in the crack of the stone slab in front of the tomb, and the last one was held between his fingertips, letting it burn slowly.

"Just treat Tang Jian as me and accompany you."

Twenty, three glasses of wine

When Shen Mingyan left, he met someone he had never thought of.

"How did you come?"

Tang Jian also met him by accident, he thought that Shen Mingyan would come with the Shen family.

"I already called him Grandpa, how could he not come?"

Shen Mingyan couldn't tell what it was like in his heart. He watched Tang Jian skillfully put on three sticks of incense, and knew that this was not his first time here.Tang Jian was a man of few words and introverted, but Shen Mingyan knew that he was unexpectedly heavy on emotion, and unlike his sharp mouth, Tang Jian had always been taboo about letting others know his true emotions.

Watching him take out three more wine glasses, filled them up and handed one to himself.

Shen Mingyan took it, looked at Tang Jian's calm eyes, and clinked glasses with him. The wine in the glass was Grandpa Shen's favorite baijiu. It had a high alcohol content, and it went straight into his throat like a knife.

Just like he lit three cigarettes, why did Tang Jian take three wine glasses?

Shen Mingyan didn't dare to think about it.

Just like when he knew the news of Tang Jianjian's engagement, he didn't dare to think about it.

21, choice

"Ming Yan." Father Shen called him.

Shen Mingyan came back to his senses, "Dad, what's the matter?"

"Have you chosen a school?" He was referring to the school where Shen Mingyan went abroad to continue his studies.

"Well, think it over." Shen Mingyan nodded, the death of his grandfather still shrouded the Shen family in grief, and he didn't celebrate with great fanfare when he got offers from several prestigious schools.

"Same school as the Tang family boy?"

Shen Mingyan was stunned for a moment, and then said "En".

Shen's father sighed, just took a deep look at him, and said, "Your grandfather has been very happy these two years, and he has passed away very peacefully. Thanks to his cooperation with us in acting, we invited him to have dinner at home on weekends." Well, the Shen family should thank him very much."

"Dad, there's no need to be so polite." Shen Mingyan subconsciously refused, he always felt that hearing these words made people uncomfortable.

"You're grown up, and you know the situation of your younger brothers and sisters. Sooner or later, the Shen family will be handed over to you. Your father has nothing to say about other things, but this is not a good way to deal with people."

Shen Mingyan wanted to say something else.

Father Shen continued: "You silly boy, did he not find a girlfriend for two years to act with you? You are not in a hurry, but you are still in a hurry. Old Tang arranged a blind date for him. I heard that Tang's favorite type, you might be able to get engaged before going abroad."

After saying this, Shen's father left slowly, blocking everything Shen Mingyan wanted to say.

When Shen Mingyan found Tang Jian, Tang Jian's expression was not good.

"Ah Jian, grandpa passed away."

Shen Mingyan knocked out two cigarettes from the cigarette case, bit one himself, and handed one to him.

They all smoke, but they haven't smoked for a long time.

The doctor said that attraction was not good for the old man's health, so the two of them quit without much thought.

Thinking of the funny story about quitting smoking, Shen Mingyan couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Shen Mingyan didn't like the taste, so they bit a quit smoking candy in half, saying that they wanted to share joys and sorrows, and the two of them hadn't had a cigarette addiction for almost two years.

The long-lost smell of tobacco made Shen Mingyan's eyes sore, and when he turned his head, he met Tang Jian's eyes looking at him.

Shen Mingyan squinted his eyes, and pressed his own cigarette butt against Tang Jian's unlit cigarette.

The two clusters of bright red lights stuck together for a long time, and when they parted, soot fell between them.

"What? Can't smoke anymore?"

Tang Jian looked at him, and Shen Mingyan sat down beside him, looking up at the sky.

"I'm going to country E."

Tang Jian frowned a few times.

The corner of Shen Mingyan's mouth raised, it was worth it, at least he was not indifferent.

"Are you going to get engaged..." Shen Mingyan said to himself.

Tang Jian's expression became even uglier when he heard this, and he grabbed his wrist, "Are you really going?"

"It's not that I want to go, but you have to go too."

Tang Jian's eyes were dim, he had already snuffed out the cigarette, and his right hand was pinching his wrist stubbornly, refusing to let go. Shen Mingyan took the last puff of the cigarette, leaned over and pressed Tang Jian's shoulder, wisps of smoke It spread against his lips.

Tang Jian's hands loosened and clasped the back of his head. The breaths of the two were almost merged into one. When they were almost attached, the smoke dispersed.

"Tang Jian."

When Shen Mingyan stood up, the voice was faintly present. Many years later, Tang Jian wondered if it was his own auditory hallucinations——

"What was the name of the song you gave me last time?"

Tang Jian told him before that the name of the song was "Sea", but in fact, it should be called——

Sea...and light.

Influenced by Tang's mother, Tang Jian has dabbled in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since he was a child. The best thing he learned was the piano, but after that Tang Jian never played the piano again. Shen Mingyan's expression appeared.

Sadness, forbearance, relief... reluctance.

Staring at the two children getting closer and closer in the garden downstairs, the ashtray and cigarette butts in Tang's father's hand were also piled up higher and higher.

"You really lied to your son that...the boy from the Shen family is getting engaged?" Mother Tang said in a sad tone.

"They chose the road themselves." Tang's father said something inexplicably.

22. Curtain call

Shen Mingyan didn't think it was a big deal, for the sake of everyone, it was the best choice for them to separate.

When people are young, how many times can they ask for something?

What's more, they had two years of carefree and good time, which Shen Mingyan felt was worth it.

But if reason and emotion can always be consistent, then there will be no idiots in the world.

He didn't cry when he left, and he didn't cry when he knew Tang Jian left for another country.

Even when he finally found out that Tang Jian had no blind date or engagement at all, he didn't cry.

"Shen, do you want to watch a movie?"

Shen Mingyan wanted to find something to do for himself and stop thinking about Tang Jian all the time, so he followed a few Asian classmates to watch old movies that he dug out from nowhere.

In the movie, Cheng Dieyi entered the scene, obsessively reciting the name of his senior brother.

Shen Mingyan outside the movie cried under the astonishment of everyone.

It was a play at the beginning, even if it was done for real, it was still a play.

Nostalgia for the stage and the people on the stage.

The time has come, no matter how reluctant it is, it's time to call the curtain down.

23. smart

In fact, Shen Mingyan is very clear that he can't blame anyone for today's situation.

If you really want to blame, you can only blame themselves.

No matter what others say, they are the ones who choose this path after all.

But why did it get to the point where the two hate each other today.

Shen Mingyan couldn't explain clearly either.

Probably because he can't stand Tang Jian chatting and laughing with him like ordinary friends, he can't stand outsiders mentioning them and just remember that they don't like each other, he can't stand those seven aunts and eight aunts who want to surround him and ask if Tang Jian has girlfriend.

Shen Mingyan is a willful young master in his bones, and he is a little bit rebellious.

Probably it was a little bit of reluctance, unwillingness to be reconciled to them being reduced to a mediocre friendship between gentlemen, which led to today's situation of being in the same situation.

"Dad, I don't want to get married yet." Shen Mingyan shook his head. Grandpa's death anniversary had just passed, and whoever said that the family hadn't held a happy event for a long time, Shen Mingyan, the eldest of the grandchildren, was pushed out as cannon fodder.

Shen's father looked at him, and he felt that he had never understood his son, obviously when he was a child he was heartless and no one cared about him, but he changed after he grew up.

"Do you not want to get married this year, or next year, or you don't want to get married in this lifetime." Shen's father didn't play tricks with him, he thought that they broke up in the past, and five years later, the two of them really stopped dating. But no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like it's broken.

"Dad..." Shen Mingyan had a headache. How should I talk about this matter? If he was really with Tang Jian, he could come out of the closet in a fair manner, but he didn't at all. Since he came back, the two of them just quarreled a few times Stand, drenched in the rain, and drank a glass of wine.

"I thought you were all smart kids, and you all made the smartest choices back then."

Father Shen sighed.

It was just a guess before, but now Shen Mingyan finally understood that the elders of both parties were not hidden from the matter.

"Dad." Shen Mingyan scratched his head, as if he did something wrong when he was a child, but his eyes were extremely serious, "But I'm not as smart as I thought, what should I do if I regret it?"

24. Accident

Shen Mingyan frowned and looked at Xu Bao in front of him, and then looked at Fa Xiao who shrank aside, a gloomy look flashed across his eyes.

It is said that he was a child, but in fact he only knew each other since he was a child, but he and Tang