Out of place

Xiang Xi stayed in the tea room until almost three o'clock, and old man Lu told him how to make several kinds of tea, and then he pretended to take some tea back with him.

Hu Hai has been playing the piano by the side, the bgm work is very conscientious, and Xiang Xi is a little reluctant to leave in the end.

He quite liked listening to Hu Hai playing the piano. In addition, the old man Lu told him about Hu Hai's younger brother. Although he only mentioned one sentence, he didn't say whether he lost it or died, but it reminded him of Cheng Boyan. It feels strangely kind.

The three of them were still waiting for him at the intersection, and they probably had finished eating the barbecue at this moment, so he took tea and prepared to go back, and said to old man Lu: "I have some sausages at my place. My friend's grandma made them. I forgot to bring them today." Yes, bring some next time I come."

"Okay, I like sausages." Old man Lu was very happy when he heard that, "Then why don't you come over early and have dinner?"

"You don't need dinner," Xiang Xi scratched his head, "I live with my friend, and he always eats with me at night."

"The one who sent you here last time? Is it the doctor you mentioned?" Old man Lu said with a smile, "Why don't you ask him to come too? Although I have a choice for my apprentices, I still like to make friends."

"Then..." Xiang Xi thought for a while, "Let me talk to him."

Old man Lu is willing to eat, drink tea, and chat with others in the tea room. Xiang Xi also thinks it is very interesting, but he is not sure whether Cheng Boyan is willing. He is usually very tired when he comes back from get off work, and his classmates and friends ask him to go out. , Every time I have to cry.

Cheng Boyan was still quite tired today, and because both of them were injured, he drove downstairs and called directly: "Xiao Xixi, go downstairs, Dad will take you to eat meat."

"Are you home?" Xiang Xi was sitting on the sofa watching TV boredly.

"Well, it's downstairs, come down and make up for yesterday's meal." Cheng Boyan said.

Xiang Xi ran downstairs, and Cheng Boyan's car was parked at the entrance of the building, dozing off with his forehead on the steering wheel, Xiang Xi pulled the car door and didn't open it.

"Hey Dad!" He patted the car window, "Don't sleep!"

Cheng Boyan raised his head and opened the door for him: "How is your shoulder today?"

"I don't feel any pain, and it doesn't hurt." Xiang Xi got into the car, "Is it healed already?"

"It's a dream, what do you want us to do?" Cheng Boyan started the car, "What do you want to eat?"

"I don't know," Xiang Xi rubbed his stomach, "Actually, I'm not very hungry, or just eat what you want, I can do anything."

"Hey, are you still hungry?" Cheng Boyan glanced at him.

"I went to the tea room at noon," Xiang Xi laughed aloud, "Master told me to go over for dinner, Brother Hai brought a leg of lamb over..."

"Brother Hai?" Cheng Boyan tapped the brakes, "Why is there another Brother Hai?"

"Oh, it's my senior brother." Xiang Xi glanced at him, "I told you the one who can play the piano and cook. He made the leg of lamb himself, but..."

"Senior Brother is Senior Brother, and he is also called Brother Hai. He doesn't have a full name?" Cheng Boyan asked.

"His name is Hu Hai. He is about the same age as you. Is it inappropriate for me to call him Hu Hai?" Xiang Xi was stunned.

"Then you still call me Cheng Boyan." Cheng Boyan clicked his tongue.

"No? I'm called Cheng Boyan when I'm impatient," Xiang Xile said, "Usually..."

"Usually you don't have a name for me," Cheng Boyan thought for a while, "I don't call you Brother anymore, now Dr. Cheng calls me less, and when I'm upset, Cheng Boyan will just say it when I'm in a better mood... oh, just called me Dad."

"You are so grown up, you still care about these things," Xiang Xi laughed uncontrollably, and then whispered after a while, "I'm not calling you Brother because I'm afraid you'll remember...how about Boyan?"

"My parents, my mother, my relatives, my classmates, and my friends," Cheng Boyan said unhurriedly, "They all call me Boyan."

"Hey!" Xiang Xi knocked on the car window helplessly, "Then Xiao Cheng is done."

"My colleagues and leaders call me Xiao Cheng." Cheng Boyan said.

"Stop barking," Xiang Xi leaned back in the chair and closed his eyes, "You can count slowly by yourself."

Cheng Boyan laughed: "Call it whatever you want."

"Bo Yan, let's go with the crowd," Xiang Xi said with his eyes closed, "I like to hear people call you Boyan, but I feel unique when I call you Boyan."

"Okay," Cheng Boyan nodded, and glanced at him again, "Don't you call me Dad?"

"Hey, do you know that kind of compressed paper film that looks like little sugar grains? It's for little girls," Xiang Xi said, stretching out her little finger and pinching her fingertips. Pao, oh my god, it's so big..."

Xiang Xi drew a circle with his hand again: "It's so big, it's just like your face."

"Bear stuff, it's going around in circles to hurt people," Cheng Boyan laughed so hard that the steering wheel almost shook, "I've been listening carefully for a long time."

"You don't know me too much," Xiang Xi clicked his tongue, "I used to hurt people to get rid of boredom in the past ten or so years. If I could turn people into bricks, I would have killed countless people. How can I get two?" They beat me into the mud."

Cheng Boyan smiled and didn't speak. In fact, if Xiang Xi hadn't reminded him, he would have almost forgotten what Zhan Hongtu was like when he first met him.

Thinking about it now, that child who is always impatient, speaks aggressively, and changes his face professionally has gone far away without knowing it.

Xiang Xi stepped into the sun with admirable courage. Every time I look back and compare, people will be surprised.

When the car was turning around on the road and approached the street with the most restaurants, Xiang Xi suddenly opened his eyes: "Hey, let's go have some Western food, just steak or something."

"Just the two of us? One person and one hand still eat Western food?" Cheng Boyan was stunned.

"Oh, I forgot," Xiang Xi looked at his arm, "then eat KFC."

"What?" Cheng Boyan was stunned, "KFC?"

"Well, I haven't eaten it yet," Xiang Xi looked at him, "How is it? I want to try it."

"Then what's there to taste, I haven't eaten it yet." Cheng Boyan couldn't accept that he was going to take Xiang Xi for a big meal and suddenly changed to eating KFC.

"That's right, let's try it together." Xiang Xi still looked at him.

"...I have prepared several meals for this meal," Cheng Boyan sighed, "You just eat KFC?"

"You want to eat hundreds of dollars with just one hand," Xiang Xi looked him up and down, "Keep it, I'm eating Kideki today, I suddenly want to eat it, although I don't know what it tastes like."

In the end, Cheng Boyan walked into KFC with Xiang Xi, and there was a Pizza Hut across the street, but when he proposed to go, Xiang Xi refused.

"I suddenly want to eat this, just eat this, fried chicken, hamburger, French fries, chicken wings," Xiang Xi said, "Hey, I want to eat them all."

"All right, all right," Cheng Boyan stood in the back of the ordering line, "What do you want to eat?"

"I think so, how about two family buckets?" Xiang Xi said.

Cheng Boyan turned his head suddenly: "Two?"

"Too much? How big is the family bucket? I haven't seen it either." Xiang Xi whispered.

"It's just this big when I usually look at it," Cheng Boyan imitated his previous appearance and gestured, "When I eat it...it's still this big."

Xiang Xi kept laughing until it was their turn to order, and he didn't notice that Cheng Boyan didn't order two family buckets for him, not even one.

After finding a seat and sitting down, he realized: "Huh? Didn't you order a bucket?"

"No, let's eat a set meal. If you want to eat, you can order it alone," Cheng Boyan said, "If you really want to eat for a while, take one back and study it slowly when you leave."

"Okay, I'll try a hamburger first." Xiang Xi grabbed a hamburger and was about to eat it. Before he opened the paper, Cheng Boyan took out a small bottle and put it in front of him.

It was a small bottle of disinfectant. He sighed and put down the burger: "How can I rub it with one hand?"

"Hand out," Cheng Boyan picked up the bottle and squeezed some disinfectant into Xiang Xi's outstretched hand, "Shake hands with me."

Xiang Xi froze for a moment, Cheng Boyan put his hand on his and rubbed it, and then he realized, rubbing and tossing with Cheng Boyan for a while.

"Is it ready to eat?" Xiang Xi glanced at the table next to him, "Everyone is watching us."

"Let's eat." Cheng Boyan smiled.

This is Xiang Xi's first time eating KFC. Cheng Boyan has never eaten it before, probably because it is not good for the body because it is not nutritious. He has never eaten it because he never thought of eating it.

When he and Mantou wandered the streets every day, he didn't even think about eating them, usually they were fried noodles for fast food.

At that time, probably the meaning of life was just to be alive, and the height of life was only so small, as if I couldn’t adapt to a cleaner and tidier environment. that's it.

Now holding a hamburger in my hand feels quite special, ordinary people's ordinary not-so-healthy life.

I ate a lot of leg of lamb at noon, and Xiang Xi wasn't very hungry at the moment. He ate a cod burger, a pair of grilled wings, a box of French fries, half a box of egg tarts, a piece of corn, and a tender beef roll. Can't eat anymore.

"Hey, I'm full." Xiang Xi leaned back in the chair and narrowed his eyes in satisfaction.

"I was always worried that you were too thin," Cheng Boyan looked at the pile of boxes in front of him, "It seems really redundant now."

"Eat more when you're in a good mood," Xiang Xi chuckled for a while, "By the way, Master asked me to go over to eat during the tea class this weekend, and let you come with me."

"Me?" Cheng Boyan was a little surprised.

"Well, he said that there are more people and it's more lively." Xiang Xi rubbed his nose, "I'll ask you, if you feel tired, you won't go..."

"Who is it?" Cheng Boyan asked.

"Just me, Master, and Hai..." Xiang Xi said, before Cheng Boyan interrupted him.

"Okay," Cheng Boyan nodded, "Go."

"Are you going?" Xiang Xi raised his eyebrows happily.

"Well, go," Cheng Boyan wiped his hands, "By the way, I will meet your... senior brother."

Coming out of KFC, it’s not too late, Xiang Xi wants to go to the bookstore: “Buy some books like The Little Prince, I can understand them, they’re pretty good, I can read the books on your shelf understand this book."

"Okay," Cheng Boyan replied, "Let's go for a walk, it's not far, and let's go for a walk."

"Well," Xiang Xi raised his face and took a breath, "It's pretty cool now."

The two strolled slowly along the road, Xiang Xi looked at the bright lights of shopping malls and restaurants on both sides of the road, and the pedestrians walking fast or slow beside him. But the feeling is completely different, every step is real.

When he walked to the gate of the Book City, Cheng Boyan's cell phone rang, he took it out and took a look, then walked to a place with few people nearby: "It's my mother."

"Ah?" Xiang Xi suddenly became nervous, and quickly followed him to the side.

"Mom?" Cheng Boyan picked up the phone, and he was quite surprised that his mother would call at this time. He called his mother in the morning and said that he would go home on the weekend and have a good chat with her.

"Bo Yan," my mother's voice sounded the same as usual, "I have something to tell you, take Xiang Xi back for dinner when you have time these two days, your father wants to see him."

"These two days?" Cheng Boyan was stunned. His mother had never passed this test, and he hadn't talked with his mother in detail. He never thought about taking Xiang Xi home. "Don't talk to me if you don't talk about it." What did my dad say?"

"Of course I didn't tell you about the fact that you were beaten into the police station, but your father knew about this person before," said the mother. "He will be on a business trip for a meeting next week, so he is free for these two days..."

"Is this suitable?" Cheng Boyan hesitated about the current look of himself and Xiang Xi.

"Of course it's not suitable for us, and I don't want to let him come home now, but for your father, of course it is suitable, and he doesn't know the following things," my mother sighed, "I just know His son has made a boyfriend and they are living together, so he wants to see him anyway."

Cheng Boyan didn't speak, he frowned and pondered, it was indeed like what his mother said, it was a normal request for his father to see Xiang Xi. have a bad impression...

"Then..." He gritted his teeth, "Is it the day after tomorrow?"

"Yes." Mom said.

"That's fine. I'll be on duty tomorrow, and I'll be fine the day after tomorrow." He said.

"Well, make a call before you come here so I can help mom prepare the meals." Mom said.

After hanging up the phone, Cheng Boyan looked at the flower bed in front of him, and felt that this matter was a bit troublesome, and he had to think of a suitable excuse for their injuries.

"What's wrong?" Xiang Xi asked nervously, "What are you going to do the day after tomorrow? What's wrong with your dad?"

"My dad wants to see you," Cheng Boyan put the phone back in his pocket, looked at him, "I'll let you go home for dinner."

Xiang Xi's eyes widened, he opened his mouth and said nothing, stared at Cheng Boyan for a long time before saying: "You agreed?"

"I can only agree, otherwise." Cheng Boyan said, raising his hand to rub his hair.

"Isn't this virtue going to kill yourself?" Xiang Xi stared at the splint on his arm, "Can this thing be removed the day after tomorrow? I don't feel anything, so it can be removed!"

"No," Cheng Boyan held down Xiang Xi's arm that was moving because of his anxiety, "Don't take it, just make up a lie and cover it up first."

"Why, Director Xu knows!" Xiang Xi was still in a hurry.

"She won't tell my dad now, we..." Cheng Boyan said, "Just think about how to make it up."

"On the way there was a drunk man who drove a broken car and rushed onto the sidewalk. We didn't dodge it, and we were hit by someone," Xiang Xi said without even thinking, "Is that okay?"

"...OK." Cheng Boyan said.

Xiang Xi, who was originally excited about buying books, became a little downcast after the phone call. When he got on the elevator, he stepped on the wrong foot and almost fell.

"It's okay," Cheng Boyan whispered in his ear, "Why don't you just meet my dad?"

"I'm nervous when a good man sees your father," Xiang Xi said with a muffled voice, "let alone such a virtue now."

"It's pretty good now," Cheng Boyan smiled, "My father is very kind and easy to get in touch with. My mother listens to him in many things, you..."

"Really?" Xiang Xi suddenly raised his head.

"Yeah." Cheng Boyan nodded with a smile.

"What does your dad like? Do you have any hobbies? Does he keep healthy? Plant flowers, grass and birds?" Xiang Xi asked a series of questions, "He won't talk to me about medical problems, right? I can't get in, so I can only talk about my hospitalization..."

"Tea," Cheng Boyan pressed his shoulder, "Tea, just talk to him about tea. He doesn't like tea as much as the boss, but he is quite interested."

"Hey? Okay!" Xiang Xi smiled immediately, "Hey tea, I can do it, I can talk about this, and I can talk a lot, and I can make tea for him if I can move my hands!"

"Don't worry?" Cheng Boyan asked him, "To choose books?"

"Well, let's pick a book first, this time we don't need to go to the children's literacy area," Xiang Xi walked forward, "What story book area are we going to?"

Cheng Boyan looked at Xiang Xi's back and heaved a sigh of relief.

However, Xiang Xi's state of being nervous or not is not stable. After thinking about it for a while, he becomes nervous again, and when he thinks about it again, he feels nothing.

From one night to the next day, Xiang Xi changed back and forth like this, and Cheng Boyan regretted not telling him before going.

"I'm on duty at night," Cheng Boyan confessed a little worriedly, "Eat well, sleep well, read a book when you're bored, don't think about it anymore, I'm going to make you think about something wrong."

"Understood," Xiang Xi jumped up, "Actually, you don't need to worry about me, I'm just like this, if there's something to think about, there's nothing to think about, that's fine."

Enough.

When Xiang Xi said this, he didn't know what to do. It was a completely different experience to go to Cheng Boyan's parents' house for a formal meeting, and the surprise meeting with grandma and the others.

Although he knew that Cheng Boyan's attitude towards him would not change because of anything, he still wanted to make a good impression and behave like an ordinary person in front of Cheng Boyan's parents.

For so long, he has been treated kindly by the people around him. He has Cheng Boyan, colleagues, friends, master, and senior brother. No one has ever looked at him strangely, but now he still longs for the love of Cheng Boyan's parents. agree.

He thought a lot, but he didn't know what he was thinking at the end. When he took Cheng Boyan to the mall to buy gifts, he felt that his mind was empty.

In fact, when Cheng Boyan came back from duty today to catch up on sleep, he went to the tea room and asked Old Man Lu for a can of good tea. Although it was not expensive, the tea from the tea mountain was more reassuring.

But I still feel that the tea is not enough.

"Tea leaves are enough," Cheng Boyan asked him, "What else do you want to buy?"

"I don't understand these things," Xiang Xi looked around, "I've never bought anything for my elders, but I've bought cigarettes and takeaways for Uncle Ping."

"Let's go around first. There's a lot of time. Think about it slowly. I won't be able to figure it out for a while." Cheng Boyan put his arm around his shoulder.

After walking around the mall for almost an hour, Xiang Xi finally fell in love with a silk scarf with a beautiful design and color. He thought it matched Director Xu at the first sight.

It was the price that made Xiang Xi stunned, more than 500.

After checking the price for a while, he decided to buy it.

"This is too expensive." Cheng Boyan stopped Xiang Xi who was about to ask the shopping guide to bill him.

"Not expensive," Xiang Xi touched the silk scarf, "It's very beautiful, I think Director Xu will like it."

"It's too expensive, buy something else," Cheng Boyan said in a low voice, "If you want to buy something like this, isn't there a hairpin or something over there? It's also very beautiful."

"No, that's it," Xiang Xi looked at him, "I just want to buy this, I can give you a lollipop as a gift, but Director Xu can't do that, you don't understand! I don't want...to be rude again."

Cheng Boyan looked at him without saying a word, he took the silk scarf and turned around and handed it to the shopping guide.

When paying the fee, Xiang Xi didn't let Cheng Boyan follow him, he went to the cashier to pay the money, and when he came back, he took the silk scarf and checked it carefully before asking someone to put it on.

The silk scarf box is very beautiful. Xiang Xi looked back and forth for a long time, and then looked at the shopping guide: "Do you have any other boxes? Bigger ones?"

The shopping guide smiled: "Yes, but the box is not the original brand, there is no logo, and it is too big for silk scarves. It is used to put..."

"Can I put this?" Xiang Xi took out the tea pot from his bag.

"Put tea leaves?" The shopping guide looked at the jar with some surprise.

"Well, sister, look, this is for me... my mother-in-law and my father-in-law," Xiang Xi said, and glanced at Cheng Boyan, "the silk scarf is so beautifully packaged, this tea pot is not good-looking enough, although it is Good tea..."

Cheng Boyan covered his mouth with his hands and said nothing, his eyes almost disappeared from laughter.

"Is that so?" The shopping guide glanced at him, "Then let me find you a box...you look so small, are you going to get married?"

"I..." Xiang Xi glanced at Cheng Boyan again.

"Yes, he is going to get married soon." Cheng Boyan answered.

"Then congratulations." The shopping guide smiled and found a box, and put the tea in it, which was quite suitable.

Satisfied, Xiang Xi walked out of the mall with two boxes in his arms.

Cheng Boyan kept smiling and didn't speak, but when he got in the car, he hugged Xiang Xi and kissed him twice.

The tea is packed in a box, which is a bit silly, but he didn't say it out. Xiang Xi is trying to make every detail flawless in his own way, and trying to make his family accept him, even if it means He wouldn't say anything even if he used a shoebox to pack tea.

"I think your father's name is Uncle Cheng, right?" Xiang Xi confirmed with him while waiting for the elevator downstairs at home.

"Well, yes." Cheng Boyan said.

"Your family is just your father and your mother, right? No one else?" Xiang Xi continued to confirm with him, "Don't have anyone else, I called the wrong one again."

As soon as he said this, Cheng Boyan couldn't help laughing: "No more."

"Don't laugh!" Xiang Xi glared at him, and tapped his fingers on the box uneasily.

Before, Cheng Boyan called his mother and said he would be there soon. As soon as the elevator door opened, he just took a step, and saw the door of his own house opened. Dad poked his head out: "Bo Yan?"

"Yes." Cheng Boyan replied.

"Hello, Uncle Cheng!" Xiang Xi, who was still in the elevator, hurriedly greeted him loudly.

"Okay, okay," Dad nodded, "Where's the person?"

"Here," Xiang Xi anxiously pushed Cheng Boyan who was standing in front of him, walked out of the elevator, and bowed to the door from a long distance away, "Hello, Uncle Cheng!"