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When he got home, Chang Qin called Xi Fu immediately and asked if they were at home at this time.

"We're on the highway, and we won't get home in two hours." Xi Fu said on the phone, "What's wrong?"

Chang Qin's jaw dropped in surprise, ignored Xi Fu's worry, and said directly: "Just now, Xi Ling left halfway through the meal, saying that you asked him to see Crescent Moon, but I didn't expect that you were not at home!"

Xi Fu was also obviously taken aback, but she was calm by nature. After a while of silence, she comforted Chang Qin: "Don't worry, my brother won't do stupid things. He has the keys to my house, so he might wait for us at home. When I get home and have a look, I'll call you back."

"Okay." Chang Qin could only agree.

"However, what happened to my brother? He will leave your house halfway. Didn't you promise that he will lose three catties when I come back?" Xi Fu asked angrily on the phone.

Chang Qin had black hair, and hurriedly explained: "My good sister, I really don't know what happened. We had a good meal, but he suddenly got up and toasted everyone one by one, and he was about to leave. No matter how my parents persuaded me to stay I can't keep it."

Xi Fu paused for a moment, but was also at a loss: "It stands to reason that my younger brother can't do such an inappropriate thing. He must have something unhappy in his heart to be so impulsive. Let me apologize to your parents for him first. .”

"These are not important." Chang Qin said indifferently, "The most important thing is to find out where he went. It's cold and he didn't drive!" The more Chang Qin talked, the more impatient he was, almost sweating coming.

"Don't worry." Xi Fu comforted, "I will call you when I find him."

After hanging up the phone, Chang Qin immediately dialed Xi Ling, but there was a message that the phone was turned off.

He swears a dirty word, hating himself for being incapable of doing things, so he can only go back to the dining table resentfully, and accompany his parents and Xiao Yu and Xiao Lu to exchange glasses with a forced smile, but he is worried about it. The Yu brothers and sisters didn't even notice when they left.

After Xi Fu answered Chang Qin's phone call, he immediately called Xi Ling, who was also reminded to turn off the phone, and couldn't help but feel his heart ache, urging Zeng Mo to speed up.

As a result, Zeng Mo Leng arrived half an hour early for the two-hour journey.

In the well-lit pub, men and women with heavy make-up are twirling their bodies on the dance floor. The DJ in the corner is frantically shaking his head and tail in accordance with the rhythm. It was still crowded and lively, and the carnival intensity of a group of young people was no less than usual.

Beside a small round table in the corner, a young man in a light gray sweater slightly shook the whiskey in his hand. The pity to be protected, the slender phoenix eyes are half-opened and half-closed, and the eyes are full of decadent ashes. Perhaps because of excessive alcohol intake, his complexion is blurred, sometimes pouring the yellow liquid in the cup into his mouth, sometimes lying on his stomach. Lower body, staring at the four-edged and octagonal cup body, the glass refracts the colorful light around him in all directions, and there are shadows of people writhing unrestrainedly not far away. low smile.

Such an eye-catching stranger sitting there naturally attracted the "sexy people" in the pub to strike up a conversation one after another. There are both men and women in this group, and the proportion of men is even more. A wine glass full of wine, invite this handsome man to drink a drink, fill one himself, and strike up a conversation with a vulgar opening line like "Who are you, why are you sitting here drinking alone".Regardless of whether the person who came to strike up a conversation was handsome or glamorous, benefactor or high-ranking official, the young man ignored them one by one, and only drank the whiskey in the bottle one after another. He left discouraged, and after a while, the wine glasses left behind filled the entire table, but he didn't even touch them.

Such a spectacular scene immediately aroused a lot of discussion among the guests. Several people with malicious intentions gathered together to bet who could make this handsome man speak first, and all the drinks ordered tonight would be free.One of the handsome blond men reluctantly raised his wine glass, and walked towards the man in the corner amidst the noise of the crowd. He cleaned up all the untouched wine on the table, and gently put the glass in his hand on the man. In front of him, he sat down opposite him, shook his curly blond hair hanging down his shoulders, and opened his mouth with an ethereal voice: "Hello, MynameisVincent, What'syouname?"

Xu Shi heard a familiar name, and the young man raised his eyelids to glance at the other person for the first time, and then twitched the corner of his mouth contemptuously: "Hmph, you deserve to be called Vincent." After speaking, he took another sip of foreign wine.

"What?" Although the surrounding voices were noisy, the blond man still caught the obvious contempt on the young man's face, turned black in an instant, slapped the small round table, and repeated in very substandard Chinese, "What did you say? "

The young man sighed impatiently, and shot a cold light very bluntly: "I said, get out!" Worried that the other party didn't understand, he added a sentence in English, "Getaway!"

The blond man immediately ignited a burst of anger, and raised his hand to slap the opponent's white and tender face, but before his palm fell, he was pinched by another hand that stretched out of nowhere, and surrounded him with lightning speed. Passing the man's broad shoulders, the middle finger was pulled in the opposite direction, straight to the back of the hand, and there was a "click" sound at the joints. The blond man broke out in a cold sweat from the pain, and turned his face awkwardly, only to find that the one who twisted his arm was actually A beautiful young woman.

"Don't you understand? He said, get! away!" The woman stared viciously at the blond man with veins bursting out of pain. The latter looked unconvinced, his squinting eyes were full of provocation, and cursed angrily: " Who are you?"

The unrestrained woman pursed her lips tightly, and the strength on her hand increased a little bit, the angle of her middle finger bent became more and more distorted. The latter was in so much pain that she was going crazy, so she kept begging for mercy, and shouted tremblingly: "OK , OK!"

Only then did the woman let go of her hand, and squeezed out a "roll" from between her teeth!

The blond man rubbed his sore fingers and rolled away numbly.

During the whole process, the young man at the round table didn't look up. He only raised his eyelids after the woman sat down, glanced at her lightly, and muttered a word from his throat: "Sister."

It was Xi Ling who left Chang Qin's house who got drunk in this crowded pub, and the tough and embarrassing woman just now was his sister Xi Fu.

Xi Fu asked the waiter for an empty glass, took the whiskey on the table and filled it up, and drank it in one gulp as if to quench her thirst. Then she looked at her brother carefully, and said half-heartedly: "Look at you, like What is it like?"

Xi Ling laughed at himself, raised his head and took a sip of the wine.

"It was Chang Qin who called me, saying that you escaped in the middle of your meal, and made excuses that you would come to my house to watch the crescent moon, and then turned off the phone and disappeared for fun. If I didn't know you well and knew that you were unhappy I will come to this bar, your brother-in-law and I may still be looking for you all over the street. But it has been four years since you came here last time, fortunately this place has not closed down yet." Xi Fu glanced around at the decoration Exaggerated four walls, "Since Dad passed away, you have thought carefully about everything you do, and you will never be impulsive and willful. What happened this time? Did you quarrel with Chang Qin?"

Xi Fuxu babbled a lot, but Xi Ling remained indifferent, keeping his head down, without even looking at her, but when he heard the word "Chang Qin", his thick eyelashes trembled slightly.

Seeing it, Xi Fu sighed, calmed down, and said in a very patient tone: "It's because of him, right?"

Xi Ling's fingers holding the wine glass trembled almost invisible, and Xi Fu knew that he had guessed right, and continued, "Actually, you don't want to spend the New Year with us, I expected that, my brother is a person with such strong principles, he would rather If you celebrate the New Year by yourself, you will never go to someone else's house to celebrate the New Year with strangers you have only met a few times. Besides, every time you finish a few cases, you have to set aside a month to go far away. You, you took a whole month's vacation a year ago, why didn't you go anywhere?"

Xi Ling's thin shoulders trembled slightly. Xi Fu thought he was crying, and stretched out a hand uneasily, covering the back of the other's hand that was tightly holding the wine glass. With warm hands, the boy finally raised his head, his blurry eyes were covered with red bloodshot eyes, but there was not a single tear in sight.

It was only then that Xi Fu remembered that her younger brother would not shed tears. Since her father passed away, no matter how much turmoil she experienced, she never saw Xi Ling shed a single tear.

She took Xi Ling's cold hand away from the wine glass, and held it tightly in her palm, conveying a little warmth to him, and said distressedly: "Since you are so obsessed, why didn't you tell him?"

Xi Ling looked at her, and there was bottomless bitterness in his black pupils. He sneered and muttered to himself, "Tell him? What are you trying to do? Sister, you don't know that I saw him for the first time." It's not like you don't remember, when Xie Ronger was with him, how much she cried when she asked you to scold that person for all kinds of wrongs."

"Even so..." Xi Fu said empathetically.

"Even so, I still like him." Xi Ling shook his head mockingly, drank the wine in the glass, and filled the glass again, "I know his nature is hard to change, so I never force him to have it, anyway, he changes My girlfriend is more diligent than changing clothes. I endure their sweetness in front of me. After enduring this for a while, he will become a person again. I even thought that as long as he can please his parents, even his parents will be happy. Standing on my side, but now I understand that all the assumptions are my wishful thinking, I am weaving a ridiculous dream, and that dream is my one-man show, no matter how much I deceive myself, sooner or later he will be To be married."

"I really don't understand you, you like it but don't say it, and you still pretend to have a boyfriend, what's wrong with it?" Xi Fu asked.

Xi Ling was silent for a moment, then continued: "On the first day after I met him again, he drank too much, and I sent him home, but his first reaction after waking up was to be defensive." Xi Ling hooked helplessly. The corner of his mouth curled up, "He remembered that I said that I was gay, and he was afraid that I would touch him, so when he misunderstood that I had a boyfriend, I had to admit it, so as to dispel his grudge against me."

Xi Ling thumped the table silently, and greeted Chang Qin's eight generations of ancestors in his heart: "So you let the family of three have fun with their future daughter-in-law, but you get drunk here, what do you think you are trying to do? "

"I can't, sister." Xi Ling shook her head like a rattle, the bitterness on her face deepened, "I swore at my father's grave that I would never touch love in this life."

"My silly brother." Xi Fu held his hand even tighter, "If Dad had a spirit in heaven, he would not be willing to see his only son trapped by love. I know you have been blaming yourself for the past few years. You are self-willed, using the excuse of homosexuality to deceive Dad, which caused his heart to get worse and worse, and finally died suddenly at the shareholders meeting, but if Dad knows that you are lonely because of him, then he will not feel at ease under the nine springs." Xi Fushen Taking a deep look at Xi Ling, he continued, "However, not all parents can accept the fact that their children like the same sex like Dad. Speaking of which, the reason why Dad agreed back then was also because that person was Chang Qin. , as Chang Qin's parents, do you think they would agree?"

Xi Ling's heart was as heavy as a piece of iron tongs, he thought for a long time, then shook his head: "Probably not."

"Having children is a major event in life. No parent is willing to send their children to a marriage that cannot be guaranteed by law, let alone having children. Although medical science is very advanced, it is not impossible for same-sex couples to have children. It doesn't mean that Chang Qin's parents can accept all of this, even I may not be able to fully support you in doing this, but you are my younger brother, and besides Yueya, my only blood relative in this world, I can't bear to see you suffer, I know that when you pretended to come out in front of your father, it was actually very painful inside, right?"

Xi Ling stared blankly at his sister, unexpectedly she knew him so well, he twitched the corners of his mouth helplessly, and said in a low voice: "I didn't know what kind of girl I liked when I was a child. All the male students in the class had a crush on a girl, but I didn’t know who I should like, or even whether I liked a boy or a girl. It wasn’t until I went to England that I realized that homosexuality was so open among them. No matter where I go, there will be different men confessing to me and begging me to be their lover, but every time I receive such courtship text messages, I feel very disgusted. I think I don’t like men, I like women , until that year, I met him, and then pulled him to pretend to be my boyfriend... Sister, there are some things you have to admit, it may be really destined, I wanted to divert Dad's attention as a homosexual, so that he Don't be so opposed to my study of archaeology, I never expected that it would become a prophecy." Xi Ling laughed a few times, and continued, "I thought that the encounter four years ago was just a flash in the pan. He came, and it was in my heart. Leaving traces is enough, I don't insist on more, but God let me meet him again, I can pretend that I am not in love, but I can't refuse a person who has been hiding in my heart for many years, and proposes another a request."

"No wonder, you allow him to travel far away with you." Xi Fu suddenly realized, "I'm surprised, with your personality, if you don't want to, what else can others do to you."

"It's me who deceived myself. I vowed to let go, but I still wanted to stay in someone else's house. I watched them fall in love in front of me. I thought that as long as I was here, they couldn't do anything. But now, I really should let go." Xi Ling drank the last few drops of wine, like drinking a bowl of Mengpo soup, and the past and the past have nothing to do with him.

Xi Fu didn't know what to say, she was silent for a long time, when her phone notified that she had received an unread message, she opened her eyes and raised her head to ask the other party's opinion: "Chang Qin is here to pick us up, right at the door, let's go?"

Xi Ling froze for a moment, then nodded, Xi Fu went around the round table, carefully put on his brother's coat, took the thick scarf from the chair and wrapped it around his neck.Ingesting too much alcohol, Xi Ling walked unsteadily, Xi Fu held his arm tightly, helped him out of the pub, and Chang Qin, who was waiting by the side of the road, hurriedly got out of the car to help, and Xi Fu Fu, alone, helped Xi Ling into the car.

"What's wrong with Xi Ling?" Chang Qin glanced at Xi Ling's drunken face in the rearview mirror and asked worriedly.

"Today is my mother's death day, Xi Ling felt uncomfortable, so I drank a few more glasses." Xi Fu casually told him a lie.

Chang Qin let out an oh and didn't ask any more questions. He drove the car to Xi Fu's house first. Before getting out of the car, Xi Fu told him: "My younger brother is living in your house. I'm afraid he will be laughed at by his uncle and aunt. You should send him off." Go back to your own home, the key is in his coat pocket." After explaining, he didn't rush to leave, and looked at Chang Qin meaningfully for a while, hesitant to speak.

"Sister Xi, is there anything else you want to explain?" Chang Qin asked in confusion.

Xi Fu shook his head, and finally turned and left without saying anything.

Chang Qin drove the car downstairs to Xi Ling's house, half dragged and half hugged him out of the car, bumped all the way, Xi Ling finally couldn't hold on, and vomited faintly while holding a tree trunk in the flower bed. Chang Qin was so distressed , quickly patted his back so that he could feel more comfortable.

After vomiting, Chang Qin wiped his mouth with a paper towel, bent down and carried him into the elevator. With great effort, he pushed the unconscious drunk man onto the sofa, and then went to the toilet from the bathroom. Taking out a hot towel, he carefully took off his coat for the other party, wiped his face and hands carefully, and was worried that Bai Yulan hadn't changed the quilt cover before leaving, so he dug out a set of clean sheets and quilt cover from the cabinet and changed it on. The 1.8-meter-long boy was hugged to bed and covered with a quilt for him.

After doing all this, he was sweating from exhaustion, and after a simple wash, he returned to the bedroom and fell asleep with his arms lying on the edge of the bed.

Liquor mixed with foreign wine, few people can bear this kind of stimulation. In the night, Xi Ling woke up twice with churning stomach pain, and vomited without bile left. Fortunately, Chang Qin took the trash can to catch it in time, so that he did not vomit. The ground was full of filth, and when Xi Ling finished vomiting, Chang Qin fed him a few sips of warm water and put the garbage bag outside the gate.

The next day, Xi Ling woke up from a splitting headache, and when he opened his eyes, he found Chang Qin lying beside him, with loose hair covering his distinct eyebrows and eyes, and his eyelashes trembling slightly in the broken hair, as if he had dreamed of something thrilling Xi Ling stared at him blankly for a while, and finally stretched out his hand to push him. As soon as his palm fell on the arm next to his leg, the other party woke up immediately.

"Do you want to vomit?" Chang Qin jumped up and shouted inarticulately, perhaps because he couldn't stand the stimulation of the strong light for a while, his eyes were half-closed, and he didn't grow up until he saw that the person in front of him was normal. Breathe a sigh of relief.

Xi Ling patiently waited for him to regain his senses, and said gently: "Thank you for sending me back last night."

Chang Qin smiled indifferently, and said in a hoarse voice, "You're still so polite with me." Then he frowned worriedly, "Why do you drink so much wine?"

Xi Ling avoided answering, closed his eyes, and said, "I want to move back today, please, please say thank you to my godfather and godmother for me."

Chang Qin was speechless, rolled his Adam's apple with difficulty, hesitated again and again, and finally plucked up the courage to ask: "Xi Ling, are you, to me..." Seeing the other party looking at him in surprise, he felt uncomfortable Clearing his throat, he said bluntly, "Do you like me?"