Ambiguous addiction

On the last day of November, Ye Xi went out to discuss work with a client, and took a day off with pay. After the talk, he drove onto the highway as soon as he came out of the hotel. There are long and thin water marks left on the top, but when you look closely, they are small water drops that are connected in a straight line, like an ellipsis.

Lu Yage spent the whole morning and afternoon in the library, and was about to go shopping with his classmates, but unexpectedly ran into Ye Xi at the entrance of the library.This man is so eye-catching and attractive, he combed his bangs on his forehead today, he is a little more charming than usual handsome, leaning lazily next to an equally handsome famous car, It is not an exaggeration to say that it is as pleasing as a painting.

When Ye Xi smiled and waved to Lu Yage, she heard the classmate next to her gasp in a low voice, she secretly felt better, and walked over slowly, pretending to be calm, "Brother Ye Xi, why did you come here?" ah?"

"It's coming out." Ye Xi took the books and laptop in her hand for her, "Yesterday your brother baked strawberry cheesecake in the store, and asked me to bring some to you when I was free, saying that you are usually at the end of the term. It was soaking in the library, so I just came right over."

"Oh, that's right." Lu Yage nodded, but the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up a little nervously, "Are you reconciled?"

"Yeah." Ye Xi opened his eyes slightly after hearing this question, and then smiled a little reservedly, "Are you going to eat? Let me treat you, and take you to stare at me for 3 minutes." The little classmate who didn't blink."

Lu Yage looked back at his classmate, couldn't help laughing, "No, it's too late for you to drive back after dinner, brother will be worried, but it's okay if we go to a nearby coffee shop and chat for a while. You wait Let me ask her to help me buy food and go back to the dormitory."

After Lu Yage finished speaking, he trotted back to his classmate, told him what he wanted to eat tonight, and asked the classmate to pay for it first, and she would pay back the money when she went back. The classmate asked her quietly, "Yage, how about you?" Who is that over there, isn't your boyfriend the male lead singer of the band next door?"

Lu Yage licked his dry lips calmly, blinked his eyes and replied solemnly, "That's my sister-in-law, my brother's boyfriend."

"What?" The classmate couldn't control the volume, shook Lu Yage excitedly, and then covered his girlish heart, "My male god's boyfriend? Ah, my male god finally moved my heart, I'm so relieved , This kind of goblin has gone all over our school and I can't find anyone who can look better than him. Sure enough, only my male god can hold it down."

"Tch, the boys in our school are just ugly." Lu Yage said with a disdainful smile, with a natural tone, "But my sister-in-law is really good-looking. I won't tell you anymore, he is still waiting for me , I’ll talk to you when I get back to the dormitory tonight.”

After Lu Yage said goodbye to his classmates, he got into Ye Xi's car and showed him the way to a coffee shop with the most beautiful decoration nearby.

The store was rebuilt from an old colonial building. The outermost gate is the kind of retro iron fence. The exterior wall of the main building is painted in a light mint green. The arcade-style European architectural style, Full of simplicity and clarity of Western classicism.

There are two camellias planted in the garden downstairs. At this time, some of the early buds are in full bloom, and the red petals are especially eye-catching against the dark green hard leaves.

Ye Xi went to buy two drinks and a piece of newly baked Portuguese egg tart. By the way, he asked the clerk for two small plates, and divided the cakes baked by Lu Churan on the plates and handed them to Lu Yage.

He pondered in his heart for a long time, and finally asked, "Well, actually, I came here today to ask you, how much do you know about your brother and Tao Jiayue?"

Lu Yage was drinking marshmallow hot cocoa, but he choked when he heard this sentence, covered his mouth and coughed violently, took the paper towel handed by Ye Xi and wiped his mouth, his eyes widened in surprise Looking at Ye Xi with awe, eyes full of awe, "Brother Ye Xi, you are so amazing, you can even find out Tao Jiayue's old first love more than ten years ago. When they were together, I was still there. In elementary school."

Ye Xi, on the other hand, was a little dazed. She bowed her head in embarrassment and took a sip of the hot cappuccino. There was a thin layer of cinnamon powder on top of the dense milk froth. Discovered carefully."

"Oh... um? Wait, you mean, Tao Jiayue and her brother also met, so you know they are exes?"

"Yeah." Ye Xi nodded honestly, and he couldn't explain why he really asked Lu Yage such a question on a whim, or secretly asked Lu Churan without telling it, which seemed rather ungenerous of.

But it is probably because he is such a penniless person, no matter how much confidence is given to him, he will not learn to be confident, so he must understand the facts as much as possible to reassure himself.

"Then let me think about where to start, because it's really been too long." Lu Yage raised his chin and looked up at the warm yellow retro chandelier in the coffee shop, thinking for a while, "From my brother and Ji Er Let’s talk about the relationship between the older brothers. The two of them are classmates in junior high school. They have the best relationship. Then they were admitted to the same high school and entered the same class. Brother Ji’er and that brother of He Han are in the first year of high school. We were together when we were together, and Tao Jiayue hooked up with my brother after the sophomore year of high school, and after hooking up for a long time, my brother agreed to be with him."

"Then the relationship between the four of them must be very good." Ye Xi listened very carefully, and gave Lu Yage a little response from time to time, so that she got a response and kept talking with great interest.

"That's right, the four of them were in pairs at school all day long. Although everyone was very innocent at that time, I only thought they were a pure and deep friendship, but when my brother brought Tao Jiayue to pick me up from school, he went straight to him. I said that was his boyfriend." Lu Yage, a little girl in her early 20s, obviously hasn't realized what it means to talk too much, but looking at the listening expression on Ye Xi's face, she feels that her sister-in-law Sure enough, he cared about his brother very much, and accidentally talked more and more, "But they have never done anything out of the ordinary, you know people like my brother can't make a high profile, so they have been hiding it very well and have not been caught. Found out. Brother Ji’er’s pair broke up when he failed to come out when he was a freshman, but my brother and Tao Jiayue broke up before the college entrance examination.”

"Why?" Ye Xi asked, "How did they break up? When I asked Lu Churan, he said it was because it touched the bottom line, so I didn't dare to ask any more. I always felt that he would be unwilling if it was too private. explain."

"When they were dating, they were seen by friends of Tao Jiayue's parents. When they went back and asked, Tao Jiayue admitted, so his parents began to persuade them to break up."

"Oh, I thought Lu Churan broke up because he wanted to concentrate on the college entrance examination." After Ye Xi finished speaking, he wanted to laugh, and bit his bent knuckles to hold back, "I think he is the kind of person who can do such things." .”

"Hahahaha, when he was in high school, he wasn't as boring and old-fashioned as he is now. At that time, he worked hard to take the TOEFL test so that he could go abroad with Tao Jiayue to study in university and fall in love without any scruples." Lu Yage smiled, digging Putting a spoonful of cake into his mouth, he recalled carefully, "However, he was suddenly out of the closet, and all plans were disrupted. In addition, Tao Jiayue's parents had a very tough attitude. Knowing that they went abroad to study to elope secretly, they would not Let him go out, let him stay in the country to take the college entrance examination and go to university, in this case, even if they refuse to break up, they must go to another place."

Ye Xi frowned, and asked a little uncertainly, "So Lu Churan thinks that since this is the case, it's better to break up, can't he, his bottom line is a different place?"

"Of course not, my brother is not afraid of going to other places." Lu Yage said with certainty, "But Tao Jiayue is so smart, how could he not know what his parents want to do, so he began to persuade my brother not to leave, so After they went to university and stopped living at home, they could still communicate in private. But it didn't take long for them to start a cold war."

"I don't understand. Why is there a cold war?"

"Actually, I didn't understand at the time. I was still a kid chasing cartoons after school every day, but I remember very clearly that my brother was in a bad mood during that time, and he failed several times in the exam. One day he Suddenly said to me, 'Some people stay by your side to waste time, not to stay for you'." Lu Yage glanced at Ye Xi and asked him, "Based on what you know about my brother, do you think this sentence What means?"

Ye Xi was silent for a while, finished the coffee in the cup, and then said hesitantly: "He thinks Tao Jiayue has already compromised with his parents, just to delay the time of breaking up, so he doesn't want to move?"

Lu Yage smiled, and met Ye Xi's eyes, "Well, he has clearly given up on his brother in his heart, but he is hesitant to let him go. This matter is the bottom line of my brother."

"Then one day, Tao Jiayue's parents called our home to find our parents. I don't know what they said, but they meant that if our parents didn't cooperate with persuasion, they would have a way to influence my brother's admission." Lu Ya Ge became inexplicably annoyed as he said, "That's cheap enough for old stubborn people. If you can't persuade your own son, you will attack other people's sons. Threatening a man with the future is a shame."

Ye Xi felt a tangle in his heart, as if he had touched Lu Churan's pain that had disappeared in the past, his eyes on Lu Yage became darker, but he couldn't speak.

"Under such circumstances, my brother has to go abroad." Lu Yage's expression softened, and he sighed softly, "It was the first time I saw my mother shed tears in front of me when I grew up. , she hugged her brother who was a head taller than her like a very small child, and said to him, "Mom loves you, and mother will always be on your side", and then my brother also cried, I didn't know anything and cried along with me, and then Dad put his arms around the three of us tightly."

Ye Xi's eyes were slightly red, imagining the scene Lu Yage said, rubbing his sore nose, "Your parents are so kind."

"Yeah, because they are all such gentle people, that's why I taught my brother and me so well. After this incident, my brother and Tao Jiayue broke up completely. At first, Tao Jiayue couldn't accept the breakup. In order to keep my brother I made it miserable. I waited for him all night downstairs in our house in winter, and drank so much that my stomach bleeds. As a result, my brother’s brain circuit is very strange. He said that he hates people who don’t love themselves. Not only did he not sympathize with him, On the contrary, he was more completely neglected, completely refusing to meet or communicate with him, so he stopped studying and prepared to go abroad wholeheartedly."

Ye Xi smiled wryly, "Lu Churan really doesn't miss old love at all."

"No, my brother doesn't like to smile very much. He looks cold and doesn't get close to anyone, even a little unreasonable, but in fact he is very clingy in his heart. But if he makes any decision, he doesn't care. No matter what, I won’t look back.” Lu Yage shook his head, and said with some regret, “When a good relationship comes to an end, how could it only hurt one person? Others think that brother is very cold and heartless, and some even Poor Tao Jiayue came to blame my brother, but I know that my brother’s sadness is no less than his. He just doesn’t like to vent his emotions. In fact, it’s even more uncomfortable to suppress it in his heart. Those idiots don’t understand that the invisible wound is the most difficult to heal Yes. Tao Jiayue makes my brother so uncomfortable, I don't like him at all."

"I don't like him either." Ye Xi said, but he was secretly grateful to that weak Tao Jiayue back then. If his hesitation hadn't angered Lu Churan, the person who owns Lu Churan today wouldn't be him. .

"But don't worry, it's not because my brother didn't fall in love with him because he couldn't let him go, it's just that there is no one around him that he thinks is suitable. I don’t want to be with myself all the time, and in the end we break up with both of us.”

Ye Xi nodded in understanding, and got up from the seat with Lu Yage to pick up the car, and heard her suggest with full expectation, "Brother Ye Xi, come to our house to play when you have time, my parents are very happy." I want to see you, I saw my mother asking my brother in our family group last night if he just made up a boyfriend to avoid a blind date, hahaha, hurry up and prove your innocence to my brother."

Ye Xi sent Lu Yage to the downstairs of the dormitory, and then drove on the highway back to the original city. It was exactly six o'clock in the evening when he arrived at the headquarters campus where Lu Churan had classes today. He went upstairs and stood in the corridor outside the classroom door, Lu Churan came out of the classroom, didn't expect him to be outside, so she skipped him and strode forward.

Ye Xi hurriedly called him from behind, "Teacher Lu."

When Lu Churan heard the voice stopped, she turned her head to look at him, was taken aback for a moment, and then smiled, "You are dressed so nicely today, what are you doing?"

"Come on a date with you." Ye Xi walked up to Lu Churan and walked forward side by side with him. For some reason, he suddenly remembered what Lu Yage said to him today, and felt a little pain in his heart, feeling distressed He wanted to treat him better, "Let's go eat hot pot tonight, it's cold, I really want to eat meat."

So the two of them went to a nearby big shopping mall to eat hot pot. Ye Xi couldn't control himself while eating, and always stared at Lu Churan thoughtfully, making Lu Churan confused. "What's wrong with you? I look good today?"

"You look good every day." Ye Xi replied without hesitation, confessing that he didn't have much to say, and he asked again, "Did that photo you secretly put in my wallet be taken in high school?"

"Well, Ji'er joined the school's photography club at that time and insisted that I be his model. He took a lot of photos and made them into postcards and sold them at the club's open day booth."

Ye Xi laughed out loud, and the meat caught by the chopsticks floated away in the soup, "I didn't expect Ji Er to be the kind of person who betrayed his friend's appearance for money."

"That's right, for those who are obsessed with sex, hide He Shen's photos by themselves, and sell mine." Lu Churan complained expressionlessly, and used a long spoon to pick up the meat that escaped from Ye Xi's chopsticks and put them in in his bowl.

"I'm so jealous of Tao Jiayue. I got to know you in high school." Ye Xi picked up the meat and put it down again, with a smile on his face, "But I was only a junior high school student when you were in high school. Very short, and very hostile during the rebellious period, you won't look at me more when you see it."

"That's not necessarily true." Lu Churan carefully studied his outline with his eyes, imagining what he looked like before he grew up. It smells like milk."

After hearing what he said, Ye Xi felt balanced again, her face was burned quietly, and she secretly held Lu Churan's hand under the table, looking at him and curling the corners of her lips.

The two of them ate while talking, and accidentally got stuffed. After paying the bill, they wandered around in the shopping mall to help digest. Lu Churan suddenly remembered that the rice at home was almost finished, so he went to the supermarket with Ye Xi to buy it. Order daily necessities at home.

Ye Xi's eyes were instantly attracted by the Christmas tree that was being promoted at the entrance of the supermarket. He pulled Lu Churan's sleeve and said excitedly, "Dad, I want a Christmas tree."

A ten-year-old girl with a ponytail walking beside them turned her head when she heard the sound, looked at him in horror, then looked at Lu Churan next door, wondering if she had heard it wrong, Ye Xi replied calmly. He gave her a look of "what are you looking at, do you believe it?", forcing her to turn her gaze back.

Lu Churan silently refused, and Ye Xi said again: "Look at that, buy a Christmas tree and give decorations as gifts, you can choose the same as little stars and glass balls."

"Aren't you a little orangutan, the one who eats bananas?" Lu Churan's reaction was flat, and he didn't forget to seize the opportunity to bully him, and then added, "This plastic Christmas tree stinks, have you been poisoned enough?"

Ye Xi thought about it unconvinced, took out his phone and lowered his head to check the price, and then suggested, "Then buy a real tree, and the shipping fee is not very expensive, I will pay for it."

"The pine needles will fall all over the ground, and it will be very troublesome to clean up." Lu Churan still refused, with good reasons, "After Christmas in foreign countries, someone from the government will come to take the tree away, and here we have to do it ourselves Disposal is still troublesome."

Ye Xi clung to him tightly, and kept thinking about wanting a Christmas tree, but Chu Ran was still very firm on the way home.

He was a little unhappy, and muttered angrily, "This will not work, and that will not work, I want to break up with you."

"Then let's break up." Lu Churan responded very happily, and immediately froze Ye Xi, and her breathing stopped, but Lu Churan finished speaking as if nothing had happened, "15 minutes, just in time for me to take a shower. bath."

Ye Xi's heart beat suddenly, and he almost scared him to death. He agreed to break up so readily, he walked up to Lu Churan and hugged him, and touched his face with his lips, "Then remember to coax him after you finish washing. reply me."

"Okay, then remember to remind me."