Cinderella's Gypsophila

The subject of Cheng Sheng University is economics and management.

When he was a child, he wanted to be a doctor in the future.But when he really chose a subject, he had to consider practical issues. It was impossible for his body to withstand the black and white shifts of a doctor's work.

Qi Yan: "How good the management is, in the future I will make money and you will help me manage it."

Qi Yan also asked him to study hard, keep studying, and stay in the university to teach as a professor in the future.

"That way you don't have to work overtime, and the podium is also very suitable for you."

"Professor Cheng" wearing gold-rimmed glasses is serious and sharp on the podium. Thinking about it, he feels more suitable than "Lawyer Cheng". He really wants to see it.

During the Christmas holiday of that year, the two went out to play again.

After staying in Hong Kong for more than half a year, Cheng Sheng's English proficiency has improved by leaps and bounds.

Before traveling abroad, Qi Yan was responsible for translating and asking directions, and he obediently followed behind. This time, he took the initiative to do the strategy.

Facts have proved that it is different for serious people to start strategies.

Cheng Sheng's itinerary is much more reliable than Qi Yan's.

The route is not detoured, the arrangement is reasonable, each meal is carefully selected and delicious, and 100% will not get lost.

Qi Yan: "..."

You don't have to worry about anything when you come out to play with your brother, so you feel safe.

In the future, I don't have to worry about it, just follow my brother, and I feel a little happier.

The only thing he has to do during this trip is to keep his brother away from his whimsy, especially prohibiting him from learning about dangerous activities such as bungee jumping and skydiving!

As a compromise, Qi Yan had no choice but to take Cheng Sheng for a hot air balloon ride.

Early in the morning, just after dawn, colorful hot air balloons were already flying high in the sky. Qi Yan muttered, "The temperature drops by 100° for every 0.6 meters rise", and wrapped Cheng Sheng in a windbreaker.

Cheng Cheng: "...you can still memorize this, didn't you not study much in high school?"

Qi Yan: "It's just that I didn't take the exam well, and it's not that I didn't study!"

Cheng Cheng lowered his gray eyes and smiled, but his heart felt a little sour.In those few years, his little angel retaliated against the society. He knew everything but didn't take the exam well.

Looking back on those days now, the sky is gray.

How did they survive when they were still so young?

But looking up at this moment, the east is the golden orange morning mist and morning glow.Looking down, there are small mountains, rivers and golden wheat fields.

The person he likes hugs him warmly in his arms.

……

After playing in the rainforest for the next few days, the two met again the old lady who loved piercing people's ears.

Qi Yan can be regarded as convincing, why is there such an old lady who follows the tradition and likes to poke and wear big earrings on people's ears no matter at home or abroad?

There was also a very brave little girl in the company, who sat down on the spot and let the old lady wear it.

Cheng Cheng watched eagerly.

Qi Yan covered his eyes: "Don't look at it! Tattoos and pierced ears, don't even think about it in your life!"

Cheng Sheng: "Oh."

But before going to bed that night, he still tugged at Qi Yan unwillingly: "Actually, I kind of want to get a pair of small tattoos together, small ones are fine."

The moonlight shone on the bed, reflecting the gleam in his gray eyes.

Qi Yan knew that his elder brother was the most obedient, and he seldom made any requests, so the way he made small requests carefully and earnestly was extremely cute.His heart moved, and he almost surrendered on the spot.

Finally, I used all my rationality to hold back: "No!"

Just like the time with the hot air balloon, he was always reluctant to let his brother show his disappointed expression.

The final compromise condition was to reluctantly agree to take Cheng Sheng to have his hair dyed.

A little highlight.

Cheng Cheng has beautiful gray eyes, so he picked two strands of similar silver gray on his temples.With just this little color, he is very excited, his eyes are bright like the kind of child who eats candy for the first time in his life.

Sit upright obediently throughout the whole process, while Qi Yan beside him can't laugh or cry.

Sure enough, this person is only obedient on the surface, but his heart is strange and unfathomable!

It was dyed in a while.

"Isn't it... weird?"

Qi Yan: "Well, it's strange."

He believed whatever Qi Yan said, Cheng Cheng's ears turned red all of a sudden, and he was too embarrassed to look in the mirror.

When I went back to wash my hair, I rubbed those two pinches carefully, but the color couldn't be rubbed off.

It wasn't until that night, when the wall lamp was dimly lit, that he realized that he seemed to have been cheated again.

Xiao Yan is so enthusiastic, obviously he likes it.

He knows he's weird sometimes.

Fortunately, his little angel is always willing to appreciate the little eccentricity and rebellion in his bones.

……

The hidden people in the rainforest of Southeast Asia have their unique blessing rituals.

It is to give blessings to each other under the trellises and bells that hang small white flowers.Whether it is brothers, father and son, family members, lovers, you can bless each other.

However, this pure white dreamy setting is too much like a wedding ceremony scene.

So for tourists, most of them are couples who go to take pictures.

Cheng Cheng panicked when he was dragged under the flower stand by Qi Yan.

The breeze blowing on his face couldn't dissipate his heartbeat and heat, and the boy's dark eyes were full of smiles.

Xiaoyan is getting worse and worse now.It is clear that the more shy he is and wants to hide, the more narrow-minded he is and not allow him to run.

As a result, only a few seconds after they stood under the flower stand, it suddenly started to rain.

The couples who were still queuing around fled to hide from the rain, and the pure white flower stand suddenly became a world exclusive to the two of them.

Cheng Cheng raised his hand, and gently wiped the rain off Qi Yan's cheek.

The boy's head was stained with raindrops, and his black pupils were as gentle as black jade.Cheng Cheng looked in a daze.

It was a kiss in public, and he took the initiative.

Although the crowd dispersed to take shelter from the rain, there might be someone under the eaves nearby who could recognize Qi Yan and maybe take pictures.

So is it possible to just ignore it?Cheng Cheng also had doubts for a moment, until he saw the young man's smiling eyes crooked.

He looked at him with only joy on his handsome face.

The rain was still falling, but Cheng Cheng's heart suddenly brightened.

...His little angel has been loving him frankly and sincerely with an invincible heart from before to now.

Don't be afraid of anything.

So he was not afraid anymore.In the drizzle, under the pure white flower stand in a foreign country, he unscrupulously grabbed Qi Yan and kissed him several times, regardless of whether anyone would see it or not.

It's time to go home the next day.

On the eve before returning to China, Cheng Cheng finally pestered Qi Yan, talking a lot of his heart in a sticky manner.

In the past, he only dared to tell his psychiatrist sister these words, but he felt that he shouldn't say them in front of Qi Yan.

But now he is no longer afraid, and even the people who he has deliberately avoided mentioning before and did not want to mention, now finally have the courage to mention it again.

……

The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.

Qi Yan didn't believe this sentence before.

He once believed that he would hate his father and Meng Xinlan for the rest of his life.But it's only been a few years, and when he thinks of those two again, his mood is as if he is thinking of the treacherous officials who have been notorious for thousands of years in history textbooks.

Although the attitude is definitely contemptuous and contemptuous, but usually I don't think of it at all.

Meng Xinlan had a hard time in the last few years.

She thought she snatched her son back from Qi Yan.But those seven months in Cheng Sheng made her fully aware of how completely she lost.

Life is ironic sometimes.

She hurt countless people in her life.In the end, it was the son she regarded as the only hope, who gave her the most severe blow in life.

Of course Cheng Sheng didn't do it on purpose, but objectively he did it.

Achieving a damage value that Qi Yan could not do with all his strength.

Of course, no matter how much damage he caused, he himself suffered a terrible backlash at the same time.

The little uncle asked Qi Yan back then, what would you do if Meng Xinlan never died and Cheng Sheng stayed by her side?

At that time, he only said that there was no such if.

Because he didn't know anything at that time, but now he knows - if there was that "if", if Meng Xinlan didn't die, then Cheng Sheng must have died early.

His baby had actually died once.

Qi Yan still dare not think about the day when Cheng Cheng was forced to suffocate in despair and his heart gradually stopped beating in a cold prison all by himself.

He loves him so much.

"Brother, your mother really died of illness."

"You took care of her until the end, you did your best. There was nothing wrong with her, and there was nothing sorry for her."

"..."

"Xiao Sheng, I want you to promise me something, okay?"

"Can you promise me that you won't be so kind again in the future?"

"This is not good. You can't always think of being right for everyone. I hope you don't always forget 99% of the bad things others have done to you, but only remember the 1% good."

"Those people obviously treat you...not at all nice."

"99% bad and 1% good add up to bad. Very bad..."

He hugged the person in his arms tightly, and his words couldn't express his meaning, and tears fell silently on the pillow in the dark.

All of a sudden it was very, very sad—

The person he cherishes the most, why does he have to be tortured all the time?He would rather this person be as heartless as himself, ignoring those useless ethics, logic, and feelings.

Treat those who hurt themselves without showing any sympathy, and without any compromise.

Then live wantonly.Even if he is selfish, willful, and unconstrained, he is willing to pamper and pamper such a brother for the rest of his life.

Cheng Cheng panicked: "Xiao Yan, you, don't cry."

"No, I can tell you this, doesn't it mean that I have let go? Don't cry, it's really over, I won't have any more knots, you believe me..."

"End of it!" Qi Yan gritted his teeth, "You tell me, what else is there to hide from me?"

There was a moment of silence.

"No more."

"It's really gone." He got up, confused and serious, "Xiao Yan, I swear it's really gone. You believe me!"

His gray pupils were frank and clean, like smoky glass, not just pretending.

He didn't think about those seven months at all.

As always, he only remembered that he owed others a lot, and never remembered how much he had paid.

"You just..."

Qi Yan looked at him, his eyes were red with anger and he wanted to strangle this fool to death, but in the end he still hugged him gently.

……

During the seven-hour journey back to China, Cheng Sheng slept for six and a half hours.

It shouldn't be that long, but he foolishly didn't notice anything unusual the whole time.

It wasn't until he got off the plane that he realized that he was not in the south at all, but an airport only one hour away from their hometown.

"Xiaoyan..."

Qi Yan put on a heavy wind-shielding coat for him, watching his slightly flustered appearance deliberately showing off.

The car drove all the way, and drove into a small town that had been away for two years, and the scenery along the river bank became more and more familiar.

Their home used to be the most luxurious loft community on the bank of the river, and the doorway was full of golden wintersweet, with snow still falling on the plum branches.

When the car drove into the community, Cheng Cheng was already on pins and needles: "Xiao Yan, I, I sold our house, I'm sorry."

He spoke incoherently, and Qi Yan lowered his eyes: "Yes. The money is not enough to spend, so it's normal to sell it."

The car drove along the viewing path all the way to the downstairs where they used to be.

Qi Yan: "Let's go up and have a look."

Cheng Cheng: "Don't look at it, it's already someone else's house..."

He was stiff all over, but he forced Qi Yan to walk into the familiar unit, the familiar elevator, and the familiar floor.

So many memories made his eye sockets red.

But I saw Qi Yan take out the key leisurely.

In his shocked and confused eyes, he inserted it, turned, and opened the door just like that.

jingle--

There is a beautiful wind chime in the entrance, shining with the brilliant colors of the sun.

The wooden floor inside is spotless, and there are a bunch of little plush on the bay window.The furniture and beds are all available, and there are fruits in the fruit plate on the table.

Everything is the same as before.

It's as if its owner never left.

A trace of shock and sleepwalking confusion flashed across Cheng Cheng's handsome face, he turned his head and stared blankly at Qi Yan.

Qi Yan hugged him.

"Fool," he said.

"It's true that you sold it, but who did you sell it to? Did you sign it and you know how to collect money after the transfer?"

"Black-hearted profiteer, pay back my rent."

"..."

"Are you really stupid? Xiaosheng, Xiaosheng, come back to your senses! You sold it to me, how could I be willing to let you really sell our home."

"It's not sold, you see, it's still ours."

"Now give it to you again, do you like it? I couldn't give it to you for your 18th birthday back then. How about this supply... woo!"

Qi Yan still wanted to be handsome, but in the end Dao was one foot taller than the devil.

The elder brother also learned to suddenly wallow relatives.

After the kiss, she still panted and rubbed her ears to seduce him.

……

They used to live together in this small and warm loft for several months.

He was underage at the time, and he was worried about his brother's health, so he never exceeded the rules.

Today is always different from the past.

A small loft will eventually "grow up" one day.

Because his brother was too excited today, like crazy, he acted proactively and out of line.Qi Yan even felt a little sorry for the little loft.

Daytime prostitution is so exciting, it actually makes the pure little loft grow up in such an explosive way for the first time,

In broad daylight, Cheng Cheng huddled under the quilt and refused to come out after passionately rolling the sheets, bathroom, dining table and other places of interest.

Qi Yan understands.

Just now he wondered if his brother was occupied by some strange things like a little hermit crab by the sea.

His brother is really not an ordinary person.

Sure enough, the more serious and repressed a person is, the more...cough.

It was so young that he felt backache for the first time.

The poor little loft is so dirty.

But Qi Yan didn't dare to say that.If he joked with Cheng Cheng, there would be no next time, and he still wanted little loft to have another spring.

Cheng Cheng hid until dusk, and barely crawled out of the blanket when he was so hungry.

The smell of the kitchen was wafting, and Qi Yan was frying egg pancakes.

On the bedside, there is also a crystal clear storm bottle.

He dazedly rubbed the small bottle with his fingertips, it was cold.That was the love he once hid here, thinking that he would never say it again in his life.

But Xiao Yan still knew and saw it.

Next to the storm bottle, there was a small jewelry box that he had never seen before.Cheng Cheng slowly opened the lid.

Inside are two moonstone pendants.

Gray ones, glowing with night mist fluorescence, a little bit colorful, just right for a pair.

Qi Yan came in with a sweet egg pancake and milk: "Does it look good?"

"You have been secretly looking for it at home a while ago. Did you just look for this? Then of course you can't find it. It has been here as a neighbor of your little bottle since two years ago."

Neighbor.

Cheng Cheng felt that this statement was both shy and cute.

He lowered his eyes and was stuffed with a mouthful of egg pancakes. Qi Yan picked up the pendant and put one on for himself and the other for him.

"I will wear it every day from now on, and no one is allowed to take it off. Promise me?"

"Ah."

"How is it? Is the stone I have chosen thousands of times really as beautiful as everyone said—colorful gray?"

He smiled, holding the moonstone to face the fiery red sunset, while Cheng Cheng was chewing hard on the omelette.

"You're not good," Qi Yan lowered his head and rubbed his nose, "Why do you eat such delicious egg pancakes like you're about to cry?"

"Don't cry, or I'll kiss you?"

The breath is intertwined, he really likes the feeling of pampering his brother fancy every day.

……

In the next few days, the two held hands and wandered around the small town.

The weather is cold, and there are not many pedestrians on the street, but there are many memories in the small town in the middle of winter.

Elementary school lanterns, junior high school warm gray scarves in the heavy snow, high school skipped class and went shopping together near Christmas.

Cheng Cheng is occasionally so happy that he doesn't feel real.

He still remembers the long days of secretly falling in love with the little angel, and the sourness of thinking that there would be no result.

He was waiting like a dream.Waiting for a small, almost impossible miracle, in the end, he actually waited.

He can be so happy.

Qi Yan is the same, sometimes there is no necessary sense of reality.

In his life these years, everything is obviously very real, but it can be said to be almost magical when they are connected together.

And it is very different from his childhood vision, when he was a child he always thought that he would spend his life in a very ordinary way.

As a result, he braved the wind and waves and caught everything he wanted with his own hands.

They messed around in the small loft for a few days, and one day, Qi Yan suddenly found the key to the dusty mailbox at the door.

There are not many things in the mailbox, except for some junk advertisements, there is only an old postcard that has started to yellow.

From the United States, the postmark time is three years ago, and the sender is Zhuo Ziwei.

His handwriting is clean and beautiful, and there is only one sentence on the postcard——

"I hope we can see each other again when we are both free."

Qi Yan was stunned, with mixed feelings.

If he received this letter three years ago, he might feel very uncomfortable, maybe he would cry.

But now, he is really free.

Both he and Cheng Cheng are free, and they can hold on to happiness, but what about Zhuo Ziwei?

The United States is very big, and there is no news at all. Qi Yan still doesn't know what happened to him afterwards.

Because Yu Qing wanted to play professional games, his family moved to City S a few months after Qi Yan left. I don't know what's going on now.

Cheng Cheng: "Chou Chou also left with Yu Qing at that time."

Qi Yan: "Ugly?"

"It's a dog, have you forgotten?" Cheng Cheng reminded him seriously, "That stray dog ​​in our school."

Qi Yan couldn't remember where there were stray dogs.

It took me a while to vaguely remember that under the wisteria flowers in No. [-] Middle School, my brother once fed a stray puppy, and later in the small park next to No. [-] Middle School, he also fed it once.

Later that little wild dog became friends with Butter from Yu Qing's family.When Yu Qing moved, he took the little wild dog Chou Chou with him.

"It should be living a happy life in Yu Qing's house together with Butter."

"I don't know what happened to Yu Qing."

"Before Zhuo Ziwei left, he stood downstairs at his house all night. I don't know whether I should tell him or not."

"Although I know it's difficult, if only... everyone could be happy."

"..."

"At that time, Zhuo Ziwei was only 16 years old." Qi Yan said.

"I couldn't do anything when I was 16."

"But I believe in Zhuo Ziwei, and I believe that he will be very strong in a few years, and no one or anything can stop him."

Cheng Cheng looked at him with gray eyes: "Yes."

The gray moonstone pendant on his chest was swinging, beating steadily on the atrium of his heart.

He didn't believe in fairy tales before.

But his little boy, after all, cast magic time and time again in his life, turning the gray ruins into a fairytale castle.

So now, he also believes in courage and confidence.

Believe in hard work, and believe that everyone has unlimited potential to break through the darkness.

Hong Kong has short holidays and school will start soon.

Before returning to the south, Qi Yan took Cheng Cheng to visit various snacks and small corners in the small town, trying to make up for what was missing when he was a child.

What I didn’t have time to eat at that time is eating now, and where there are sad memories, I will cover them with sweet kisses.

They went to the temple to play coin toss to pray.

Looking back, I have made various wishes over the years, some of them worked and some of them didn't.

But Qi Yan always believes that God is partial to him.

That's why he can now hold his brother's hand tightly and stand here together.

Tossing the coin this time, Qi Yan hit it three times, and Cheng Cheng hit it three times in a row.

He was pleasantly surprised. He had never hit three consecutive hits in all these years.

Qi Yan just laughed: "Because you changed your luck, your luck will get better and better in the future."

"Believe it or not? When I was a child, my mother asked someone to tell my fortune, saying that my life will be wonderful when I grow up."

"So the people who are with me will be very, very nice!"

……

A small temple with so many memories, it is a pity that it will be demolished.

It is not to be demolished, but because of the relocation of the city center, the small temple will also be transferred to a new address as a whole as a protected ancient building.

Qi Yan read the notice on the wall word by word.

The courtyard wall has peeled off.After he finished reading, he suddenly remembered that he had pressed Cheng Cheng against this wall many years ago.

Cheng Cheng also pushed him, saying that he was afraid that the surroundings of the ancient temple would desecrate the gods.He argued with him and said what he said sincerely, and the gods would understand.

Thinking this way, when he turned his head, Cheng Cheng was gone.

Where did you go without saying a word...

The alleys are full of twists and turns.

Qi Yan went to look for him, but he soon saw him standing in front of a small stall at the corner, buying a candied haws.

The hawthorn is wrapped in bright red ice crystals, looking sour and sweet.

But can my brother eat candied haws?

Qi Yan thought in his heart that it was just a bunch of candies and hawthorns. My brother is in much better health now, so it is not impossible to eat it.But in winter, things are a bit cold after all...

Just as he was thinking, Cheng Cheng handed him candied haws.

Qi Yan was in a daze.

He neither likes sweet food nor sour food. Cheng Cheng knows that sweet and sour food is rarely used in cooking.The sugar and pudding in the refrigerator belonged to Cheng Cheng, and occasionally he would help him eliminate them if he couldn't eat them. He didn't even touch the hawthorn or lemon.

So why.

Qi Yan looked suspiciously at the serious and bright gray pupils under the sun, and then looked at the candied haws.

Suddenly froze.

...Probably the thousands of pets in the world are not as good as one person who, after many years, always remembers the little you who cried and smashed a candied haws in a dark alley.

It was night, cold and dark.

He is still very young and can only cry.The candied haws didn't eat a bite.

Qi Yan met Cheng Cheng when he was 11 years old, and it has been more than ten years since he turned around.

He has grown taller and is not afraid of anything. After taking a bite of sweet and sour candied haws, behind him is the sunny day after the last spring snow this year.

Cheng Cheng's gray eyes were soft, and he stretched out his hand to him.

"Xiao Yan."

Now my brother will not only take the initiative to relatives, but also know how to reach out and ask people to fall into his arms.

The little gray wolf in the emerald forest is very satisfied.Holding up the sweet candied haws, he went to hug his little goat.

Since then, the cold winter has dissipated.

The snow melts, and all things revive.