Clear Feather of the Ring

Xia Wenyi stayed in City S for nearly half a month, and in the end Lu Ming couldn't think of any fun tricks to surrender to him.His newly opened company is just when he needs to take care of it himself, and it is impossible to accompany such an idler all day long without doing anything.

"Yi Qing, persuade him to go back to the country. I don't have time to talk to him." This early in the morning, as soon as he entered his office, he saw Xia Wenyi sitting on his office chair and asked him what his plans were for the day. .Lu Ming was in a bad mood when he saw him now, so he turned around and went outside to call Yi Qing to ask him to take the Buddha away.

"Tomorrow I will tell him that today I will accompany my dad to the hospital for a re-examination. You will accompany him for another day."

"Okay. If you can't say it, I'll buy him a plane ticket and tie him on the plane to send him away. It's too fucking difficult."

"Row."

Yi Qing accompanied her father to the hospital for an examination in the afternoon, and happened to run into Yao Yao while waiting in the corridor.The two looked at each other, and nodded slightly to say hello.Yi Qing was about to leave, but Yao Yao caught up and stopped him: "How are you doing recently? I haven't seen you for a long time."

"Fortunately."

"This is where you came to the hospital?" Yao Yao asked while looking at the house number next to Yi Qing.

"It's just a re-examination with my dad, it's not a big deal." He didn't know Yao Yao very well, and at this moment, her enthusiasm for him was a little vain.

"Oh, that's it." Yao Yao stood there with a smile, "I just happened to come over with Tian Yu to see Auntie. It's such a coincidence that I can meet you here."

"Is Aunt Long better?"

"It's been a while since I finished the last chemotherapy treatment a year ago. I guess it was because I was in a good mood during the Chinese New Year and my body recovered quickly. It was only later that I suddenly started to deteriorate, so I came to the hospital."

"Are you planning to go abroad for treatment?" Yi Qing took out her wallet, took out a business card from it, and handed it to Yao Yao: "This is an acquaintance of mine. He knows a lot about hospitals that specialize in cancer treatment abroad. You can Ask him for advice."

Yao Yao took the business card, the smile on her face froze, said a few words of thanks, and put the business card in her bag.The two stood quietly for a while, and it was almost time for his father to finish the inspection. Yi Qing moved his feet to leave, but was stopped by Yao Yao again.

"Wait a minute, I have something to tell you."

Yi Qing checked the time, and his father had already been in for half an hour, usually only four or ten minutes at most.He looked at the anxious look on Yao Yao's face, and paused: "What's the matter?"

"Tianyu and I are getting engaged."

The not-so-spacious corridor was full of people waiting in line for inspection. The noisy conversations of adults, the noise of children, and the yelling of nurses at the window filled this small space with bustle and bustle.Among so many voices, only Yao Yao's words passed through the dull air full of disinfectant and liquid medicine, and passed into Yi Qing's ears clearly and sharply, stinging her eardrum.He looked at Yao Yao, saw the happy and satisfied smile on her face, and waited expectantly for him to return a smile.He raised the corner of his mouth, narrowed his eyes, and met Yao Yao.

He smiled, thinking in his heart, it should look like a smile, should he smile harder, narrow his eyes a little more, and make the corners of his mouth more curved?Or, did I smile too hard, would it make people look a little fake?

His throat was uncomfortable as if something was stuck, and the sentence "Congratulations" that came out of his mouth floated in the air, carrying the bitterness in his throat and the bitterness on the tip of his tongue. empty.

Yao Yao looked at him and smiled even sweeter, "Thank you." She said thank you, then lowered her head, covered her mouth with her hands as if embarrassed, and laughed softly again.

Yi Qing stood there, not knowing how long she would keep smiling, so she could only keep the smiling face just now and look over.The door of the examination room next to him opened, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw his father standing up from his seat and arranging his clothes. The nurse had already started to come out and was about to call the family members in for a conversation.

"Family of No. 23, please come in." The nurse in a white coat shouted into the noisy corridor.

Yi Qing held the number plate, held it tightly, and waved at Yao Yao: "I'll go first."

"Well, okay, I'm free another day..."

Yao Yao was still talking behind her, Yi Qing had already followed behind the nurse, turned around and entered the room.After closing the door, resting his forehead against the door, the number plate in his hand was broken into two halves.

"Yi Qing, what are you doing standing there, come here quickly." Qing's father shouted over there.

With his forehead pressed against the cold iron door, he blinked vigorously, tears dripping down silently, his tracks were covered by the light gray floor, and he quietly completed his sad mission.He quickly wiped his eyes with the back of his hand, then raised his head, turned around, and said to the doctors and nurses in the room with a smile: "Thank you, please..."

Standing beside his father, he helped him straighten his turned-up collar and the folds on his back, while listening to some suggestions given by the doctor, occasionally interjecting a question or two, his face always calm and peaceful. calm down.

But those tears that were too late to fall and invisible to others flow down the eye glands drop by drop and flow into his atrium, soaking the apex of his heart with soreness.

After sending his father back home, his mother seized the opportunity of him returning home and called Yi Zifeng's family over, saying that they would have a meal together at home.In the whole afternoon after talking with Yao Yao, except for the few seconds after entering the door, he didn't have a time and a place to be quiet and pour out the bitter water that was about to overflow from his heart.

Sitting at the dinner table at the moment, watching my parents smile because of the rare family dinner, seeing my brother's family in harmony, thinking of Long Tianyu, thinking that he will be like his father in the future, although there is such a person, although it is not a Happiness is complete, but at least in a home accompanied by a wife and children, the qi that has been stuck in the throat for an entire afternoon will be unblocked all at once.

One person is better than both are bad.

This meal, he ate absent-mindedly.After Yi Zifeng talked with his father about some things at work, he turned around and saw his distraction, and asked him, "Is the agency busy recently?"

"It's okay. A new project has just been approved. After a while, the dilapidated building of the XXX Township Primary School will be demolished and a new one will be built." Yi Qing sat there, ate a bowl of rice, and put the bowl down, " I'm done eating, I still have something to do in the bookstore, so I'll go back first."

"Why do you only eat this? Let's eat a little more. Mom has stewed the soup and didn't serve it. At least finish the soup before leaving." Seeing that he had stood up, Qing's mother quickly put down her chopsticks and ran to the kitchen to fill up the soup.

Yi Qing had no choice but to sit down again.Yi Zifeng glanced at him, and signaled his wife to take the noisy Xiaoxue into the living room to eat, and when the two of them walked out, he put down the bowl and looked at Yi Qing: "Is Xia Wenyi here?" Market? He came to look for you? I saw you eating out a few days ago."

"Come and play."

Qing Ma had already brought out the soup from the kitchen, she was holding her own bowl and asked Yi Zifeng, "Which Xia Yi? Do you know him?"

Passed a bowl to Yi Qing, and told him: "Others come all the way from abroad to play, you have to accompany them well, don't just worry about the things in the club."

Yi Qing took the bowl, took a sip, and felt that it was the same as the bowl of white rice that he ate just now, and he couldn't taste anything.

"If you have time, invite him to your house for a meal. Didn't you co-found the company in France with him? He also helped a lot when you were there, so invite him to your house for a meal. It’s not too much.” Yi Zifeng said to Yi Qing, and then said to Qing’s father and mother: “Xia Wenyi, I don’t know if my parents still remember. When Yi Qing had an accident, he was on the same team as Yi Qing. Invite us to the one that had a meal."

"Oh, is that the tall half-breed boy with blue eyes?" After being reminded by Yi Zifeng, Qing's mother immediately remembered.She had a good impression of this Xia Wenyi. The young man looked a bit aggressive, but he was meticulous, steady, and caring for others. When he returned home, he specially picked a gift for himself.She immediately echoed Yi Zifeng, and said to Yi Qing: "Yes, yes, it is right to invite someone to your house for a meal. Yi Qing, make an appointment with him, and tell mom in advance, mom is a nanny Prepare in advance. By the way, is there anything he is not used to?..."

"He'll be back in a day or two. He just came here to play casually. I've already invited him to dinner, so there's no need to invite my family here." Yi Qing interrupted Qing's mother.

"Aren't you going to take it home to formally meet your parents?" Yi Zifeng looked at Yi Qing: "Are you two together?"

All of a sudden, no one was talking at the table.

Yi Qing drank the soup in the bowl in one breath, looked at Yi Zifeng: "No."

"Really?" Yi Zifeng smiled, "Don't think too much, I won't get involved in your affairs. But if we are really together, we can take them home to meet with our parents and have a chat. Let parents know more about him, so they can rest assured in the future."

"Bring it back to have a look, just have a meal and chat casually. We won't make it difficult." Qing's father said calmly and earnestly.

This was the first time the family talked about his sexuality after the incident between himself and Long Tianyu.But this time, there were no red-faced quarrels like before, no abuse of throwing glasses over the table, and no beatings with fists and feet. Only after so many years of uncompromising resistance and tacit cold war, everyone finally You can sit together calmly and bow your heads to each other.

And such a result came too late, too late.Today, he finally heard a word of reconciliation from his brother, and after waiting for his parents' approval, he couldn't find anyone who wanted to take him home and introduce him to his family.

The person he wanted to bring home, just today, he heard the news that he was getting engaged.He was about to have a home of his own, a home that had nothing to do with him.

He wanted to laugh, to say thank you to his parents and brother, thank them for finally reconciling with him, but he opened his mouth and lost his voice.The soup he just drank boiled up and rushed into his eye sockets, causing his eye sockets to heat up.

He raised his head, opened his eyes vigorously, and stared at the ceiling without blinking.Don't blink, as soon as you blink, tears will come out of your eyes.He exhaled heavily, and when the tears in his eyes were finally withdrawn slowly, he lowered his head and said in a hoarse voice: "I'm not with him. It's getting late, I'm going back."

Without waiting for his mother to stand up again, he quickly stood up, walked through the living room, and walked out of the house.

He rode his bicycle and rushed down the slope in front of his house. His tears were blown down by the cold wind and disappeared into the darkness behind him.

On this day, he gained something important to him, and at the same time lost something important to him.

It's just that no matter what he got or what he lost, he had the urge to cry.

Among gains and losses, between joys and sorrows, there is a past that can never be returned and a future that cannot be reached when one smiles and laughs.