windy city rainy season

Tao Yu didn't take Chang Zheng's proposal seriously: "I'm not saying that playing with you is boring, but I feel different from my friends. I was in a hurry to play with Liu Jingyang, and I could catch up and say something, and it was fine in a blink of an eye. I can greet you when I play with you. Are you uncle? Even if you are not in a hurry, I still have a psychological shadow. "

Chang Zheng didn't quite understand: "What does your playing have to do with my uncle?"

"It doesn't matter a dime!" Tao Yu said helplessly, "This is just a metaphor. With a good friend, you can say whatever you want without any scruples. No matter how close you are with your lover, you can't just say something casually, as it will hurt your relationship. .Go out with friends, say hello wherever you want to go, go if you like, go if you don’t like to go down. Go out with you, I have to think about whether you are willing to go, whether I am too busy recently and need to change the time...You look at me like that Well? I didn't say I don't want to go out with you, I mean..."

"I understand." Chang Zheng leaned on the head of the bed with one arm behind his head and said, "I don't want to take the place of your friend, I just don't want you to feel that life is dull and boring. If you find it boring and can't find a suitable friends, we can do something together."

"What are you doing?" Tao Yu squinted at him, then suddenly turned over and leaned over, stretched out his hand to dim the light and said, "Do something you can't do with your friends?"

Chang Zheng stretched out his hand and slowly rubbed his waist and asked, "Can you do that dance again?"

"Can you tie a tie here?" Tao Yu brushed his fingers across the other's neck.

"There is a skeleton in the box under the TV cabinet, do you want to install it?"

Tao Yu: "...you are ruthless!"

In the following week, Dr. Chang gave up studying the dialectical relationship between lovers and friends, but he obviously did not intend to let Tao Yu go. He found various entertainment programs in an attempt to occupy all possible boring time of the other party.

Tao Yu was exhausted every day when he came back from the sewage plant. He really couldn't bear this "close-to-mark" tactic, and finally broke out one night.

"I said we have to play the mentally retarded game 'Monopoly'?" Tao Yu threw away the "fake money" in his hand angrily, "If you want to play, you can also play on the computer, and you can also speculate in stocks. This is a small cart to buy land What's the fun in counting bills?!"

Chang Zheng has been a little annoyed by his picking and choosing in the past few days: "Teaching you how to play chess is a waste of your brain, and you say I won't let you play bridge, and the rich man doesn't need your brain, and you complain about luck It’s too bad you can’t buy land! Are you still trading in stocks? Can you count on it?”

"Chang Zheng!" Tao Yu jumped up, turned around to find something to vent, and finally turned around and rushed into the bedroom and slammed the door hard, causing the decorative painting on the living room wall to jump and fall to the ground.

Both inside and outside the house were quiet.

Chang Zheng sat on the sofa for a while, then got up to clean up the broken glass on the floor.Tao Yu opened the door and leaned against the door frame to see him squatting on the ground, using magazines to pile up the broken glass.

"Your hands are precious, let me do it." Tao Yu bent over and pushed him.

Chang Zheng didn't speak, and continued to work hard.

Tao Yu sighed and said, "Is it okay if I'm wrong? Let's play bridge. I can compare the size."

"You're right." Chang Zheng said in a stiff voice, "My way is wrong, tell me what you want to play? Do you want to go outside?"

Tao Yu said helplessly: "I'm really not that addicted. I've been tired all day, and you've been tired too. Let's read your notes as before, and I'll sort out my data. Can I go to bed at some point?"

Chang Zheng picked up the broken glass, dumped it into the trash can together with the magazines, turned his back to Tao Yu and said, "Okay."

In the next two days, Tao Yu clearly felt that the other party was coldly handling this unexpected dispute. In fact, it was not even a dispute, and there was no quarrel at all, but it just made people feel unhappy.Tao Yu felt a little guilty, after all, Chang Zheng was there to accompany him, and he seemed a little ignorant, so he carefully flattered the other party, but he couldn't get the point.

"It's not over yet?" Tao Yu finally became impatient two days later, thinking that I'd just slam the door down. Why are you so narrow-minded?So the DSLR escalated the Cold War, didn't make dinner that day, drove the car directly to the hospital after returning from the sewage plant, threw the car keys to Chang Zheng, and went to the student club to play bowling with his classmates.

It was past eleven o'clock when Tao Yu took someone else's car home. When he entered, he found that the living room was lit. Chang Zheng was sitting on the sofa reading notes, waiting for him to go home.

Tao Yu was a little flustered. At that moment, he thought of Wei Wei, the frequent quarrels, and the time when the other party asked him if he wanted to be together.Some things are afraid of looking back. He suddenly realized that he may not have paid as much in that relationship as he imagined, and the other party's reservations may not be without his own responsibility.

Standing in the living room at this time, Tao Yu was waiting for Chang Zheng to get angry, but the other party looked up at him, and just said: "Next time turn on the phone, call and I'll pick you up, it's too late and it's not safe around here. "

"Luo Feng sent me back..." Tao Yu subconsciously explained, "They are all classmates in the department. Tomorrow is the holiday, and everyone made an appointment to play tonight..."

Chang Zheng got up and walked in front of him, Tao Yu involuntarily took half a step back, but the other party reached out and hugged him.

"You're right, a lover can't replace a friend, you need your own space. I don't want you to feel bored with life, and end up pushing you away instead."

Tao Yu's throat was congested, and it took him a while to say: "Actually, bowling with them is boring, the level is too low."

The dim light in the living room shone on the two of them, casting overlapping phantoms on the wall, Chang Zheng said in a low voice: "A man in ancient Greece said that love is one soul living in two bodies, I think this In fact, it’s the other way around, a lover is one person with two souls, no matter how intimately fused, they are also two thoughts, each with its own half of the world.”

Tao Yu tightened his arms, leaned on the other's shoulder, and looked out through the balcony door. In the distance, there were dots of celebration fireworks blooming and extinguishing in an instant, just like those passionate moments, you don't know when it will come, but you know It must pass away.The only constant is that the sun rises and sets every day, which is commonplace and indispensable nourishment.

The next day was American Independence Day, and the two caught an early morning flight to New York.

Chang Zheng's parents live in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Tao Yu has just been in the United States for a year, and he has heard that area code 10065 is the most expensive place in the United States.

"Didn't you say that your parents' wages are used for charity?" Walking on Park Avenue, Tao Yu felt a cloud floating in his heart, covering the glorious image of "every great kind person".

"My grandfather bought this when he came to the United States, and housing prices were not so expensive at that time." Chang Zheng explained, "I lived in Queens when I was a child, and after my grandparents passed away, my father inherited the inheritance and moved here. The hospital is very close to my mother's clinic."

While talking, Chang Zheng stopped in front of a four-story apartment building.Compared with the surrounding high-rises, this building occupies a wider area. Whether it is the dark red stone walls, the carved railings on both sides of the steps, or the thick gates on the high steps, they all bear the imprint of the early last century, with a kind of Sophisticated charm tempered by time.

"What floor do you live in?" Tao Yu asked.

"Top floor." Chang Zheng pressed "FOUR" written in ancient Roman script on the electronic lock.

Tao Yu found that there was only one button on each floor, and asked curiously, "Do you hire someone to open the door on each floor?"

Chang Zheng didn't answer, and a pleasant female voice sounded from the intercom.

"Hello—"

"Mom, it's me."

The electronic lock made a "beep" sound, and the door popped open a crack.

Chang Zheng opened the door and looked back at Tao Yu looking up at the sky, not knowing what he was doing.

"What are you looking at? Go away."

Tao Yu was counting the windows in vain, and asked incredulously, "There is only one household on this floor?"

Fuck, there are eight windows on the front alone!

Chang Zheng nodded.

"How much land tax do you get this year?"

Chang Zheng thought for a while: "It's about the same as my four-year loan."

Tao Yu: "..."

Damn, I will never believe that Dr. Chang is crying poor again!