Mr. Dong Guo

Guo Qiyu started to feel something was wrong a week ago.

At first, when he went out by himself, there seemed to be someone behind him, but when he walked down the street, when he turned his head, it was all young people who were hurrying to go to work, or children who were going to school and those who came out for a walk in the morning elder.

Then one day, when Chengen came home and hid his small schoolbag, Guo Qiyu just received a text message from the teacher, saying that the homework was assigned on the weekend, and he hoped that the parents could supervise and complete it.

So he asked Cheng En to take out his homework, but Cheng En carried his small schoolbag into the bedroom, fiddled with it for a while, and then slowly came out with his homework book, "The teacher said, math is done twenty times a day. A math problem."

Guo Qiyu stood up, "I won't let you do 21 questions, but you come here first, Dad has something to ask you."

Cheng En endured slowly, very reluctantly.

Guo Qiyu flipped through his homework. They were all homework from the previous few times. They were done very carefully, and all of them got "excellent".

"What's in your schoolbag?" Guo Qiyu asked.

Cheng En pouted, "Dad, don't scold me."

"I'm not scolding you, just tell me."

Cheng En stammered and said, "My brother was waiting for me outside when school was over today."

"Brother? Neighbor brother?"

Cheng En shook his head, "I don't know him, but Dad, didn't you say that I have a brother? That brother also said that he is my brother, and you are his father."

Guo Qiyu was slightly taken aback.

"My brother gave me a gift box full of candy. I didn't want it, but my brother said that you like it, Dad..."

"So you accepted it?"

Cheng En nodded, "Brother said, don't let me tell you, do it quietly, otherwise you won't eat it."

Guo Qiyu was speechless.

Seeing that Guo Qiyu's expression was not good, Cheng En leaned over and leaned on Guo Qiyu's knee, looking at him, "Dad, don't you like brother?"

Guo Qiyu sighed slightly, shook his head, "You are still young."

He didn't scold Cheng En, but just told him that when his elder brother came to him in the future, he couldn't ask for anything from him.

"You do your homework first, Dad will cook."

Cheng En nodded ignorantly, thought for a while, then ran back to the bedroom, took out the small schoolbag, and showed it to Guo Qiyu, "Dad, it's this one."

The gift box is pure white with a ribbon on it.

Guo Qiyu took it out and patted Cheng En's head, "Go do your homework."

Cheng En still missed the candies in the box, so he called "Dad" in a low voice.

Guo Qiyu was helpless, "I'll eat this candy after dinner."

Only then did Cheng En happily jump to the small table and start doing homework.

Guo Qiyu went to the kitchen and opened the gift box. There were indeed some various candies inside, but they were all in foreign languages. The exquisite packaging seemed expensive.

Guo Qiyu pursed his lips and picked up the card that was pressed under the silk of the box.

It is written by Meng Xiaoyan.

After so many years, Meng Xiaoyan's handwriting is no longer as messy as before, and Guo Qiyu can hardly recognize it. The smoothness and neatness of each stroke seems to imply the real growth and transformation of a young man.

"Dad, I want to see you."

There is only one sentence on it.

In this way, if there is no response, the moment I write it seems to be doomed to be a fruitless expectation.

Guo Qiyu put away the card, put the candy gift box on the dining table, and started preparing dinner.

He knew who was following him all the time, and knew that that person had seen him in the dark countless times, but that person still didn't dare to come forward and say a word to him.

You can't even pretend to meet by chance.

The next day was Saturday, Guo Qiyu took Cheng En out to buy vegetables.

Since the last scare, Guo Qiyu would either buy vegetables before Cheng En woke up, or take Cheng En with him.

"Dad, can I watch TV first this afternoon?"

On the way home, Cheng En also made a little effort, carrying two lotus roots and a handful of celery.

"Since you performed well this morning, I agree, but you finish your homework first, and you can watch TV before dinner."

"That's great, Dad, you are really the best dad." Cheng En flattered him very obediently.

Guo Qiyu was amused by him.

Cheng En began to talk excitedly about the plots of the characters in the cartoon he was about to watch.

"...Really, super powerful!"

Cheng En was talking, but found that Guo Qiyu stopped, "Dad?"

He looked forward, his eyes lit up, "Huh? Brother!"

Cheng En wanted to run forward, but after glancing at his father, he backed away, holding lotus root and celery in his arms, and looked back and forth between the two.

Both of them were silent, Guo Qiyu glanced at him hastily, and then looked away, Meng Xiaoyan smiled helplessly, but kept his eyes fixed on the person in front of him.

Finally he broke the silence.

"You threw out the trash this morning, I went through it, and there was no gift box or card," Meng Xiaoyan smiled pretendingly, "So, I still feel that Dad promised me."

As he spoke, he stepped forward and was about to grab Guo Qiyu with his hand.

Guo Qiyu hastily took a step back, and didn't notice Cheng En who was clinging to his thigh behind him.

"Ouch!" Cheng En was knocked down to the ground, and his butt fell solidly.

"Chengen!" Guo Qiyu quickly put down the things in his hands and hugged Chengen.

The child's butt hurts, but he feels embarrassed to cry in front of this strange brother, so he holds back his tears, pouted his lips, and endured the pain.

Guo Qiyu hugged him and apologized repeatedly.

Cheng En endured it for a while, feeling more and more pain and grievance, hugged Guo Qiyu's neck, buried his face in the man's shoulder, and did not say a word, but Guo Qiyu heard his soft sobs, and knew that the child had fallen awful.

"It's okay, Dad didn't pay attention, I'm sorry!"

He looked at the scattered things on the ground and felt a little embarrassed for a while.

"Let me come, Dad," Meng Xiaoyan squatted down, picked up the pockets on the ground one by one, with both hands full, he said with a smile, "Daddy buys so many vegetables every day?"

Guo Qiyu was a little awkward, "Today is the weekend."

Meng Xiaoyan pressed the elevator button first, and the two of them waited for the elevator in silence. Cheng En didn't feel any pain anymore, so he twisted his butt and refused to hug Guo Qiyu.

"Dad, let me come down, I don't want you to hug me."

Guo Qiyu asked, "Does it hurt anymore?"

"It doesn't hurt anymore, I'll go by myself."

Meng Xiaoyan said from the side: "Cheng En is really good."

Cheng En hid behind Guo Qiyu in embarrassment, and secretly glanced at his tall, handsome but unfamiliar elder brother.

Guo Qiyu said to Meng Xiaoyan: "Give me something."

Meng Xiaoyan froze for a moment, then handed him half of the things in his hand.

"Give it all to me." Guo Qiyu said.

Meng Xiaoyan laughed as if mocking himself, "Is Dad going to let me sit up?"

Instead, Guo Qiyu was stunned.

He really didn't seem to want to let Meng Xiaoyan in.

The elevator door just opened, and a young girl came out of it. She glanced at them, and Cheng En called out sweetly, "Hello, sister!"

The girl laughed, and handed him a big white rabbit candy, "My brother is so good!"

Guo Qiyu was interrupted like this, and his clear thinking seemed to be confused, "Cheng En, don't thank you, sister?"

Cheng En said again, "Thank you sister!"

The girl went out humming a song.

Guo Qiyu said in a panic, "Xiaobei, I..."

Meng Xiaoyan raised his hand to stop his next words, and handed out all the pockets in his hand, "It's okay, Dad, I'll come to you again when you're ready."

He took out his business card and wrote a series of numbers on the back, "Call this number, okay?"

He has always maintained a decent and gentle smile, without losing etiquette, and his eyes are warm and patient, as if he has put away all the thorns and sharp edges.

Cheng En had already run into the elevator and kept pressing the door open button. Seeing that his father and brother had no intention of coming in, he couldn't help feeling a little anxious, "Brother Dad, come quickly!"

Guo Qiyu glanced at Cheng En and walked into the elevator.

Meng Xiaoyan was still holding his business card, slightly dazed.

"You, you come, come and sit at home..."

"Okay, thank you Dad."

Before Guo Qiyu finished speaking, Meng Xiaoyan had already walked in, and took the pocket from Guo Qiyu's hand like a gentleman, "Dad, let me do it!"

All the things were carried by Meng Xiaoyan, Cheng En exclaimed, "Brother is so amazing!"

"Ok?"

Cheng En said: "Dad said he couldn't lift it, so he gave me lotus root and celery, things that Dad can't lift, brother, you can lift them in one go!"

Meng Xiaoyan glanced at the man whose ears were already red, and said, "I couldn't carry so many things when I was young, and my father had a hard time carrying them."

"Yeah," Cheng En nodded, shaking Guo Qiyu's hand, "Dad worked very hard!"

Guo Qiyu smiled and patted the child's head, but he still didn't dare to look at the people standing beside him.

When the three of them entered the room, Guo Qiyu said "sit casually", then hurriedly entered the kitchen and closed the kitchen door.

Meng Xiaoyan stared at his back for a while, and he didn't come back to himself until Cheng En held his gift box and pulled his hand.

"Brother, you gave it to us, you eat it." He picked out a black and blue packaged candy from it, "This is delicious."

"Thank you, Cheng En." Meng Xiaoyan also touched his head, the child's hair is very soft, he imagined that every time Guo Qiyu touched Cheng En's hair like this, would he have the same feeling...

"Brother," Cheng En pulled him to sit on the sofa, leaned closer and asked in a low voice, "Brother, why did it take you so long to come home?"

Meng Xiaoyan was speechless for a moment.

"Because my brother still has to study." He said.

Cheng En nodded knowingly, "I know, study abroad! I saw on TV that many people will go abroad to study, and they will not come back for a long time."

Meng Xiaoyan nodded perfunctorily.

Cheng En glanced at him with some complaints, "But brother, you've been away for too long, I'm going to elementary school in the second half of the year!"

"Yeah, I don't want to either," Meng Xiaoyan said, "It's been a long time, sorry."

"Then brother will live with us after he comes back?" Cheng En's eyes were full of anticipation.

This embarrassed Meng Xiaoyan, "Probably not..."

Cheng En lowered his eyes in disappointment, "Why?"

"Dad, he—"

"What are you talking about?" Guo Qiyu asked casually as he came out wearing an apron and carrying a plate of fruit.

Meng Xiaoyan kept silent, and glanced into the kitchen, "Stewed pork ribs with lotus root?"

Guo Qiyu didn't look at him, but fiddled with him, "Yes."

Meng Xiaoyan smiled, "I still remember it, it's very fragrant."

Cheng En also agreed with both hands, "Very fragrant!"

Guo Qiyu patted him and lifted his small schoolbag, "Cheng En went to the house to do homework, finish it early, you can watch TV earlier."

Cheng En refused, so he leaned on Meng Xiaoyan and begged Guo Qiyu, "But I still want to play with my brother."

"Not now." Guo Qiyu said.

Cheng En wanted to cry a little, because there was one more person today, and he was still a long-lost relative, so he couldn't help but get a little angry, and retorted: "Then when will it work, and my brother can't stay and stay with us all the time. Together, he has been walking for a long time, when can I meet my brother?"

The author has something to say: write until the two meet again!I knew I was going to win!