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Qin Ge first took Chen Xiye to the nearest pharmacy. The wound on the wrist bled a lot and looked scary, but it was actually not deep enough to require stitches. The nurse sterilized it with hydrogen peroxide and put a patch on Chen Xiye. Band-aid, pressed it, asked: "Does it hurt?"

Chen Qiye shook his head.His face had been washed, and he was wearing Qin Ge's school uniform jacket to cover his soiled white shirt. He looked listless, but at least he wasn't dirty.

The nurse asked, "Are there any other wounds on your body?"

Chen Qiye shook his head this time with some hesitation, Qin Ge held his shoulders and told him not to be shy or afraid.

Chen Qiye silently lifted the hem of his shirt, his lower abdomen was so flat that there was no curvature when he exhaled. The nurse frowned as she looked at the area that was obviously about to be bruised.

"Hurry up and go to the small supermarket next door to buy a few popsicles and apply ice at home. It will make you feel better." The nurse sighed, and her eyes fell on the school badge on Chen Qiye's chest. In Tanzhou, everyone who can be admitted to Wenlin Middle School It is the most precious thing, but this child is injured like this.

Fortunately, he has a classmate who takes care of him.Qin Ge went to the front desk to pay for the treatment of the wound and the purchase of disinfectant solution. Chen Qiye walked to another counter and bought an HIV test strip with the money himself.

Qin Ge then took Chen Qiye back to the apartment next to the school. Chen Qiye sat in a corner of the sofa in the living room, opened the package of the test paper, tested it with saliva, and handed the test strip to Qin Ge.

His voice was low and timid: "If you are worried, I can test again with the one that dripped blood."

Qin Ge took the reagent strip and threw it on the coffee table without looking at it.He put the old clothes he found just now on Chen Qiye's lap, and wrapped his wrist with the bandages in plastic wrap, and said, "Go take a shower first."

Chen Qiye was very obedient and obedient, he carried his clothes into the bathroom.Qin Ge sat slumped on the sofa and listened to the sound of the shower. After a long time, he held the reagent strip between two fingers and held it up to his eyes. There was only a red line on it, which was negative.

Chen Xiye is not sick, he is very clean.

The sound of the shower stopped abruptly, and another five or six minutes later, Chen Qiye came out of the bathroom with wet hair.The clothes Qin Ge gave him were too big for him to wear, but they were still roomy for Chen Qiye.He stepped on his legs, Qin Ge walked over and took off the towel that was draped over his shoulders, and the shoulder line of the gray short sleeve fell on Chen Qiye's shoulders.

Qin Ge then dried Chen Qiye's hair. The hair dryer made a lot of noise, and Chen Qiye had to speak loudly if he wanted to.But he didn't have much energy, so he didn't say a word the whole time, thinking about what to say to Qin Ge after his hair was blown. Qin Ge's cell phone rang, and the delivery man knocked on the door: "Hello, your delivery is here."

Chen Qiye and Qin Ge sat face to face at the dining table.It is already [-] o'clock in the evening, the moon is shining on the treetops outside the window, the air conditioner is turned on inside the window to cool off, the self-heating hot pot delivered to the door is boiling hot, and most of the tables are filled with ingredients.

"Why are you stunned, eat quickly." Qin Ge greeted, put the cooked beef and mutton into Chen Xiye's bowl, and ate it vigorously, giving Chen Xiye the illusion that nothing happened, completely No chance to leave.

Chen Xiye ate very slowly, and there was no taste in his mouth. Qin Ge said again: "After eating, I will ask someone to take you to the county."

Chen Qiye paused with his chopsticks, and couldn't understand with his mouth still stuffed with food. Qin Ge looked at him blankly, and said with a smile, "Why did I forget tomorrow's exam after I made an appointment?"

Chen Qiye's eyes were foggy, Qin Ge reached out and stroked his hair, wanting to keep the atmosphere relaxed and lively, it was difficult for him to laugh, so he put down his chopsticks and took a deep breath.

"Are those vocational high school students last time?" Qin Ge took Chen Qiye's silence as a tacit consent, "They think you're a bully, and want to blackmail you?"

"...Damn." Qin Ge couldn't eat either.Looks like emailing the principal won't work, he'll have to pull the wires and buy the camera himself and cover that piece up.

"Eat some more." He gave Chen Xiye something to eat, during which time he received a call from Lu Chong, who said that he would be half an hour late due to urgent business.Chen Qiye ate up the food that Qin Ge had given him, then sat on the sofa and applied the unopened popsicle to the place where he had been punched on his stomach. After applying the compress, he fell asleep.

But he didn't sleep well this time. When Qin Ge went downstairs to throw away the takeaway box and came back, he found that Chen Qiye was scratching his neck subconsciously. He walked over and moved Chen Qiye's hand away. A rash spread from the place where he scratched. Chest, and then touched his forehead and compared with his own, it was obvious that he had a fever.

Qin Ge thought badly.A few weeks ago, he also consulted the doctor at home, Chen Xiye, about the symptoms. The doctor said that people with low immunity are prone to allergies and fevers once they are physically and mentally exhausted, and this type of allergies cannot be cured like migraines, but maybe after puberty it will be fine.

"Chen Qiye...Little Yezi, Ye Zi." Qin Ge woke him up and wanted to take him to the hospital. Chen Xiye could also feel that there was something wrong with his body temperature, but he didn't want to see any more blood. He refused to go to the hospital to hang the bottle, and closed his eyes tightly. He curled up his arms and legs and curled himself up in the corner of the sofa.

Qin Ge had no choice but to coax him to take antipyretics.There are only two bedrooms in this apartment. He carried him back to the bed in his own room, folded the quilt, and waited for the quilt to fall asleep again. He heaved a sigh of relief and stood up from the floor and turned around. Lu Chong was standing at the door I don't know how long I looked at it, holding the reagent strip in my hand.

Qin Ge opened his eyes, closed the door softly and stood in the living room with Lu Chong: "Listen to my explanation."

Lu Chong shook the reagent strip, and said solemnly: "Okay, I will listen to your explanation."

Qin Ge: "..."

Qin Ge was at a loss for words. Lu Chong thought he had been hit by what he said, and felt guilty. He looked at him with a look of re-acquaintance with Qin Ge, threw the reagent strip into his arms and said incredulously: "Ridiculous!"

"It's not what you think!" Qin Ge felt that he was about to die unjustly, so he quickly told Lu Chong what happened, and at the end he didn't forget to ask Lu Chong, "Do you know people in society? The kind with big gold chains on flowery arms."

Lu Chong was a businessman, and he had a lot of opportunities in Tanzhou City. He had met and met everyone.Those vocational high school students are bullying by nature, and being taught a lesson will make them shut up and go away far more than telling the school teacher. It is not a problem for Lu Chong to find a few real gangsters.

Lu Chong sat on the sofa with his legs slightly open, his forearm resting on his legs and his fingers intertwined. After thinking for a while, he asked in a descriptive tone: "So the one in the room is Chen Wang's son?"

Qin Ge was silent, and even felt immoral for a moment.The truth in life is often too cruel and needs to be beautified with forgetting and lies. He told Qi Miaomiao that he could not remember the afternoon when he was five years old in order to make his mother less obsessed and disillusioned, but he was just an immature , There is no way to bury this dirty secret in his heart forever, otherwise he will rot himself.

He told Lu Chong about Qin Siyuan's sexual orientation and cheating partner.At that time, he was in junior high school, and as he grew older, his face resembled that of Qin Siyuan.The more rebellious he was and wanted to attract his mother's attention, the more Qi Miaomiao didn't know how to face this son, using work as a shield, as if Qin Ge was raised by her, it was better than raising another Qin Siyuan.

Fortunately, Lu Chong did not give up on Qin Ge.He was the only person who really walked into Qin Ge's heart during that dark time, and Qin Ge also treated each other frankly, telling Lu Chong the deepest dirt and trauma of this broken family.

"Thank you for telling me this. But this shouldn't be a reason for you to indulge your time and life. That man is a scumbag who cheated on marriage and cheated. You are his son, and you are yourself."

Lu Chong said this to Qin Ge at the time: "Your goal should not be to live as his opposite, but to live as yourself."

Lu Chong looked at the bedroom door, guessing that he should have nothing to do tonight, and before leaving, he said, "I didn't expect you to be good at taking care of people."

"That's not true." Qin Ge wasn't boasting. His family was rich and he was served by others since he was a child. It didn't mean that when he suddenly had to rely on himself, he couldn't rely on himself.

Lu Chong asked, "Your mother isn't here today?"

"She seldom comes here." Qin Ge smiled. "After the expansion of the Youth Palace, a large number of new teachers need to be recruited. She has been busy with this during this time and has no time to come and see me."

"Hmm..." Lu Chong nodded, he was already standing at the door, and his expression was still a little worried.

Qin Ge knew what he was worried about, so he laughed and said seriously: "No matter what his father has done, he is innocent."

Lu Chong said, "Your mother is also innocent."

After finishing speaking, Lu Chong nodded thoughtfully, and closed the door without further words.

Qin Ge stood in front of the door for a while, and went to help Chen Xiye sort out the textbooks and test papers that had been hastily stuffed into his schoolbag, and replaced those pens that had been dropped, so as to prevent him from writing unevenly tomorrow.

It was impossible for him to sleep in his mother's room, and the bed in his bedroom was big enough for two.He carried another quilt into the room. He didn't turn on the light because he was afraid that the light would wake Chen Qiye. On Xiye's forehead, the fever should have subsided.

He didn't have the habit of drawing the curtains. The moonlight and street lamps poured in to cover the room with a thin layer of filter, so that people would not be too lonely in their sleep. After Qin Ge closed his eyes, he was a little tossing and turning. Unable to smell the breath, I couldn't help asking: "Did I wake you up because I made too much noise?"

Chen Qiye was indeed not asleep, and shook his head with his back to Qin Ge. Qin Ge asked again, "Do you want to listen to the song?"

Chen Qiye slowly turned sideways.Qin Ge picked up an iPodnano from the bedside and placed it between the two of them, and gave each other an earphone. The songs in the playlist were all with a slow rhythm, most of them were folk songs. There was no "Miss Dong", but there was Song Dongye's "Pigeon ".

Qin Ge closed his eyes again during the singing, remembering that Lin Ji once said that his voice was quite similar to Song Dongye's, especially the sentence "No one knows two thousand secrets", he felt the same helplessness and melancholy.

At the end, Chen Qiye suddenly said in the accompaniment without singing: "My father is gay."

The song "Pigeon" was played in a loop according to the setting, and the lost pigeons began to fly south again.Qin Ge waited until the accompaniment sounded in the middle before asking, "When did you know?"

Chen Qiye said: "No.30 seven days after you left."

"...He started to bring men back, all kinds of things." Chen Qiye's voice and lyrics overlapped, like a bystander recalling the past.He mentioned the interview video. He said that no matter whether it was Hangzhou or Tanzhou, no teacher or classmate would look at him differently because of his family, but those men whose complexions had long been blurred would look at him as if they were looking at Chen Wang. Looking forward to something, Chen Wang will grow old, but he will grow up.

Qin Ge said, "You don't look like him."

"Fortunately, he doesn't look like..." Chen Xiye said, "He's promiscuous, and I thought homosexuals were like him, so I felt disgusted. But then... I found out that I might... also."

Chen Qiye said that sexual orientation seems to be a part of genes and can be inherited.

Qin Ge opened his eyes wide in the darkness, staring at the pitch-black ceiling with bated breath.

He was surprised by Chen Qiye's sudden honesty.Perhaps it was too unexpected, but he didn't have any violent reaction. Instead, he had a subtle feeling that Chen Qiye was testing his bottom line, and he didn't allow himself to run away.

So he said to Chen Xiye who was sharing the bed with a relaxed tone: "Then you won't be gay with me."

Chen Qiye chuckled after a moment of silence.

Qin Ge also laughed.This kind of indifference is the reaction a straight man should have.

"A real man can't be bent." Chen Qiye said this to reassure Qin Ge, but Qin Ge made fun of him: "You seem to be very experienced."

"How is it possible!" Chen Xiye hastily denied, saying that he had never even been in love.

Qin Ge asked: "Then how can you be sure that you like men?"

Chen Qiye didn't hide anything, and told Qin Ge that when he was still in Hangzhou, an elder cared for him like a father, but one day the elder broke down and told Chen Qiye that he had lived in the eyes of others all his life, and married Having children to live a so-called normal life, but never living a day for myself.

"He's not happy at all," Chen Xiye said, "He begged me to help him, to be himself again."

Chen Qiye didn't say who that person was, but Qin Ge thought it should be Zhao Yunhe.

Qin Ge felt a sense of sinking out of control.He knew that it would be difficult for Chen Qiye to refuse someone who was nice to him, so he quietly asked, "How can I help?"

The darkness concealed Chen Qiye's embarrassment, he skipped a lot of details, and said directly: "Anyway, his son came in suddenly, it didn't work." He added, "Then I lost contact with that person."

Chen Qiye was emphasizing his innocence.

"...Fuck, what a coincidence." Qin Ge pretended to be surprised, "Reality is indeed the most dramatic."

"Yeah..." Chen Qiye murmured, "Before this, I thought that those unsolved mathematical conjectures were the most difficult, but when he was so big crying like a child in front of me, I suddenly realized that Life couldn’t be any easier.”

And his previous thinking was always simple: "I thought that as long as I did enough questions, I could get into a good university and live a good life in the future."

"It'll be fine, we're still so young..." Qin Ge paused, then said, "Let's rest, you still have to appoint the provincial team tomorrow."

Chen Qiye chuckled and said thank you for being late. Qin Ge felt lucky that although he was late, at least he came.

Chen Qiye said, "You are so kind."

"I'm investing in you. I can't enter the provincial team by myself. It would be nice to have a friend who enters the provincial team." Qin Ge is very confident in Chen Qiye. I still expect to brag about you."

"How is it possible..." Chen Qiye was a little embarrassed, but to be honest, who wouldn't want to go to the best school.

"Go to sleep, I have to get up early to go to the county tomorrow." Qin Ge put an end to this late night conversation.The two were still facing each other, and in the earphones, the pigeons flew to the warm road.