Two pots of water

"Watch the road." Tan Zui immediately reminded him with a frown.

Jiang Chu looked away without saying a word, slowed down a bit, and continued to drive towards the station.

"Don't be distracted by driving in the future." Tan Zui remembered what happened at the traffic lights that day, and his heart was still tugging, and his brows did not loosen for the rest of the way.

"It's okay." Jiang Chu smiled and replied lightly.

After answering, he suddenly asked, "Is Kang Che a native of your school?"

"No." Tan Zui lowered the car window a little, "He doesn't go home on vacation, he rents a house."

"I said." Jiang Chu nodded, "I remember that Maodou's family is the only one in your dormitory."

"Mao Sui." Tan Zui corrected him.

"Ah." Jiang Chu smiled again.

When he turned a corner and was about to reach the station, Jiang Chu asked again: "How big is the house he rents?"

Tan Zui didn't answer right away this time, he glanced at Jiang Chu before saying, "Two beds."

Jiang Chu didn't drive the car to the drop-off area, but stopped by the side of the road in front of the station, and turned to look at Tan Zui.

"I'll book a hotel." Tan Zui raised one eyebrow, and took out his phone as soon as his eyelids drooped.

Jiang Chu stretched out his hand and held it down for him.

"I'll just ask about the situation." He took out Tan Zui's phone and glanced at the screen, "You ran away after half of the summer vacation, and your mother asked, I have to know where I live."

"We've been classmates for eight years. We'll be staying in a hotel this month. Will we have to change rooms when school starts?" He didn't know whether to say this to Tan Zui or himself.

Jiang Chu locked the screen again and threw the phone back to Tan Zui.

Tan Zui looked at Jiang Chu again, took the phone and rubbed it with his thumb twice, and stuffed it back into his pocket.

Jiang Chu made this patch, and he couldn't explain what it was like, his mind was full of involuntary emotions.

"I'll show you when we get there." He picked up the hat that was thrown on the car body and put it on, and simply pushed the car door open.

Pulling out the suitcase from the back row, he supported the roof of the passenger car and greeted Jiang Chu again: "I'm leaving, brother, you go back and drive slowly."

With one arm on the steering wheel, Jiang Chu looked sideways, and his eyes subconsciously stopped on Tan Zui's mouth.

With just one glance, many thoughts suddenly flashed in Jiang Chu's mind.

Like a single father who is really in his 60s, [-]s, and [-]s, he immediately understood what it means to "a child competes with his parents, and the adult must be the one who loses first."

He also suddenly understood a little bit, why his mother clearly knew it in her heart, but she would rather suffer herself to point him out with every word and deed, rather than directly questioning him.

It is indeed "dare not".

The closer the relationship is, the more caring people are, the less they dare not leave no room for it easily.

But how do things like "face" and "worries" stick to the face layer by layer with age, making people less and less afraid to take them off at will?

Qin Zui said that if he wanted to think about it, he could really think hard about it.

In the past, every time before we parted, it was as if we would never see each other again, and even the second before departure, we had to chat with him.

Now that I want to return the time to him, I can really leave as I say, without dragging my feet at all.

Jiang Chu quickly recalled that since he started to paralyze himself and acquiesced that Tan Zui was "unclear" with him, he seemed to have only kissed Tan Zui on his own initiative twice.

Once was at the porch last winter.

It didn't seem to be the initiative that time, it was an impulse hardened by Qin Zui who squeezed him against the wall and didn't let go.

The remaining time was the day he had a fever.

At that time, after answering the phone call from his mother who wanted him to live with her, Jiang Chu was so annoyed that he had nowhere to vent, so he called Tan Zui over and kissed him without saying a word.

If you add the time when Lao Du saw Tan Zui trying on clothes before the wedding, it would barely count as three times.

It's just that he couldn't kiss that day, and after Tan Zui avoided it, he didn't have the nerve to pull her back, and he didn't feel the nerve to ask.

So from that moment on, Tan Zui wanted to distance himself from him.

Jiang Chu felt that if it was another five years, no need, three years would do.

If he was only 26 years old now, he should be able to follow his current mood and call Tan Zui back into the car to kiss him.

Then simply turn around and drive the car directly, and pull the person home.

What nonsense to give him time back, what to think about, why is he afraid that after he really tells his family, there will be no room for him, and he will feel uncomfortable and regret it...

Get all of them out of the way.

No regrets at the moment is the best leeway.

But he really can't do it.

Every time Tan Zui kisses him outside of home, maybe it's just like this that he only needs to consider his current mood, and it's considered rational to spare a second to look out the window to see if anyone is there.

But Jiang Chu would think of ten thousand kinds of surprises and worries.

Just like it is now.

It seemed that it had been like this all along, Tan Zui followed his heart recklessly, he was looking forward and backward by the side.

Now Tan Zui is starting to worry, but he still can't, and shouldn't, dare not replace Tan Zui's way of doing things as he pleases.

The situation between them is too complicated, it's not a relay race where they just pass the baton and just rush forward.

Jiang Chu didn't even have the confidence to be sure, Tan Zui really felt like he said, he felt too tired, so he had to give him time back and wait for him to make a decision.

Or Tan Zui himself was really tired.

After all, he is still too young.

"Ah." Jiang Chu withdrew his gaze, as if urging himself to regain his senses, and tapped his index finger on the handle of the steering wheel.

"Go, be careful." He told Tan Zui, "Call me when you arrive."

When Tan Zui arrived downstairs in the community, Kang Che was just about to enter the second round of cage sleep.

The mobile phone was shaking under the pillow and his head was buzzing. He squinted his eyes and sighed. He raised his arm and pulled it out several times.

"Are you there?" He squeezed his eyelids a little to glance at the caller, and asked directly by his ear when he connected.

"It's downstairs." Qin Zui said.

"Come up directly, Unit [-], second floor." Kang Che hung up the phone and yawned, sat up with his forehead propped up, and got out of bed to open the door for him.

Kang Che randomly found a holiday sublet before the holiday. It is in a residential area near the school, so it is very convenient to go to the courtyard.

It's the husband's house in the old community, and there is no elevator, but it only takes 1 minute to climb to the second floor.

When Qin Zui turned into Unit [-], he thought he forgot to ask for the room number, but when he went up, the door of the room on the left was already opened, wide open.

"Kang Che?" Tan Zui called out.

"This way." Kang Che came out of the bathroom with a toothbrush in his mouth, and showed his face to him.

Tan Zui took a look at his long legs in underwear, closed the door and went in to change his shoes.

The sublet that Kang Che took over was originally a young couple. The house was not big, but it was furnished with care.

There is a row of small green plants on the balcony, and new wallpaper is specially pasted in the bedroom.

"I thought you had to buy a ticket for the evening." Kang Che shook his head with a face full of water after washing.

"Have you eaten yet?" He went to the refrigerator to get two cans of Coke, and tossed it to Tan Zui, "I didn't explain it clearly in WeChat, so I came here right away, or did I have a fight with your brother?"

"Put on a pair of pants." Qin Mo didn't answer him first.

He caught the Coke, put it upright on the suitcase, and sat down on the sofa to call Jiang Chu.

Kang Che didn't even need to ask, he knew what he was going to do just by watching him take out his phone.

He smiled and sighed softly "Hey", pulled the side of his underwear and turned around to walk into the bedroom.

Today, Sunday, Jiang Chu didn't need to go to the company, he just turned around and went home after seeing off Qin Zui.

It didn't take two seconds for Qin Zui to dial the video, when the screen flicked, he had already picked it up.

"Are you there?" Jiang Chu asked as soon as his face emerged from the camera, with a half-lit cigarette still in his mouth.

"Just arrived." Tan Zui took a look at Jiang Chu's background, in the study.

"Look at the house?" He turned the camera over, got up and scanned around.

Jiang Chu was indeed waiting for Tan Zui's call, but he didn't expect him to start filming just like that.

He was trying to imply that you should not shoot in front of Kang Che, it's too straightforward.

As a result, he didn't see Kang Che's shadow after the camera was shaken.

"Where's Kang Che?" Jiang Chu squinted his eyes and blew on the smoke, hesitated for a moment, and asked in a lower voice.

"Here, brother." As soon as he finished asking, Kang Che came out from the door that should be the bedroom, and shouted towards the camera with a smile.

"Scare me." Jiang Chu's eyelids fluttered abruptly, he cursed secretly in his heart, and smiled.

Kang Che was shirtless, with only a big pair of underpants hanging on his crotch, and a crumpled blanket in his hand.

Jiang Chu took a look and asked him casually, "Trying the quilt?"

"No, give it to Qin Zui." Kang Che swayed to the side of the sofa and threw the blanket up.

"You put some clothes on yourself as a pillow, I don't have many." This is what he said to Tan Zui.

Tan Zui had already turned the camera back to the front to take a picture, and said "um" casually, as if he didn't take it seriously.

Jiang Chu flicked the cigarette ash with his fingers, said something casually to him, and hung up the video.

Just as he was about to lock the phone, Jiang Chu's WeChat popped up.

Jiang Chu: Didn't you mean two beds?

Tan was stunned, his thumb hung on the screen for a long time, he didn't know how to explain it.

The so-called two beds, "bed" is a reference, it simply means not sleeping on the same bed.

Kang Che lived in a short-term rental house for two months by himself, so it was impossible for him to get a two-bedroom apartment.

Jiang Chu was obviously not in the same channel as him.

"What are you doing out with the blanket now?" Tan Zui rubbed his forehead, and leaned back on the sofa with a tired frown.

"Assist, didn't you come here just to hang on to your brother?" Kang Che took another pillow from the bedroom and threw it on the sofa, "Your brother reacted?"

Tan Zui didn't say anything, and replied to Jiang Chu, "You can sleep on the sofa bed when you spread it out."

Jiang Chu came back after a while, just four words: go buy a pillow.

Kang Che took a chair and sat beside him, studying Tan Zui's expression for two seconds.

Tan Zui threw the phone aside and remained silent.

Like a daze, he drooped his eyelids and didn't know where to stare at the floor. It took him a long time to rub his face on his knees.

Miscalculated?

"What's the matter, you and your brother can't even be brothers under the same roof?" Kang Che asked back to Tan Zui's question when he first entered the door.

Tan Zui didn't even raise his eyelids, and simply summed it up in five words: "Brothers back."

"Wow." Kang Che expressed his surprise without sincerity with a calm face.

He turned around and took a bite from the cigarette case on the dining table, threw it on the sofa, and asked vaguely while lighting the fire, "Your brother picked it up?"

"Me." Tan didn't pick up a cigarette at the end, and took the mobile phone between his fingers and turned it down.

Kang Che looked at him again, this time he was a little surprised.

"I've grown up." He smiled, "What about your brother, what's your reaction?"

"I didn't say anything." Tan Zui stopped playing with his mobile phone in a circle, "I know he has to think about it too."

"What's going on with you two?" Kang Che asked Tan Zui about his brother's affairs for the first time, "What's your brother's attitude?"

"I haven't explained the situation." Tan Zui flicked a cigarette and took it out. "The mother must have noticed something. He is under too much pressure."

"I have everything I should have, and I have done what I should do, and then I don't dare to think about anything else." Kang Che understood immediately, and nodded with half-drawn eyelashes, "It's not up to you whether you dare to think about it now or not. , the mother-in-law forced her up."

Qin glanced at him the most.

"Which one of you is underneath?" Kang Che raised his eyebrows with interest.

"Do you regret it?" Qin didn't answer his question, and suddenly asked Kang Che back.

"Which aspect, with the family? Or the other half in love?" Kang Che stepped back on the edge of the chair, looked at the four corners of this one-bedroom, one-living room, as if thinking about it seriously.

"I want to say that I don't regret it at all, do you believe it?" He tilted his neck back to look back at Tan Zui, and asked with a smile.