Cross the sea

Actually, I don’t want to complain, but I still want to thank the readers who are still reading this article. For this rotten, slow and procrastinated article, you are really a bodhisattva. (The progress will be faster later. The transition chapter is almost over here. ) Li Chengyun received another call from Chen Zheng a week later.

"Yuan Jianan is the only son in the family. His mother teaches opera at the Academy of Art. His father and grandfather are both soldiers. He can barely be regarded as a third-generation soldier? He should be a good person. He has many friends in the army and his usual training results are also consistent. It was the first few days, it was highly valued by the higher-ups but it has not been raised..."

"Is he gay?"

Chen Zheng on the other end of the phone was stunned for a few seconds, then smiled and cursed: "How the hell do you know, I didn't want to ask about my private life, but my friend talks very fast."

"Just guess."

Li Chengyun leaned on the sofa, stretched out his hand and threw the tablet on his lap aside, "What else did your friend say?"

"There's nothing else."

Chen Zheng said, "Yuan Jianan should have talked with a friend before, and they talked for a long time, and then they broke up for some reason... No, why did you ask him?"

"I have to find out what kind of friends my younger brother makes outside, in case I lead him into trouble."

Li Chengyun turned his head sideways, turned off the dazzlingly bright screen, and said lightly: "For the sake of family harmony, there is no way."

Chen Zheng sighed on the other end of the phone, and paused for a few seconds before saying, "That's you. If it were me, I would wish that the other one in the reorganized family would make something ugly. It's better for you."

Li Chengyun accepted all these compliments, and after a few casual greetings, he hung up the phone, opened the window and lit a cigarette.

It sounds like Yuan Jianan is a good person, with a clean family relationship, no cheating parents, no suicidal mother, no father who wants to climb up the ladder, and no stepmother who is quiet.

Li Chengyun looked down at the automatic sprinkler rotating along the track below, it was too clean for He Zhen, Li Chengyun dusted off the soot and put out the fire.

He is really a person who wants to live in hypocrisy, inferiority and deceit. Even if he wants to change, he has to drag this rotten family forward.

Yuan Jianan couldn't drag it, so he had to do it, Yuan Jianan was not good enough for He Zhen, Li Chengyun thought so.

The sun at noon in summer made people dizzy. When Li Chengyun went downstairs, Hezhen was sitting on the sofa eating a smoothie, and didn't look back when he heard the sound.

He Ping, who came out of the kitchen, took a look at Li Chengyun with the bowl in her hand, then smiled and waved her hand and called his name: "Just now I was thinking whether to ask you to come down to eat or bring it up for you."

"Thank you, Aunt Ping."

Li Chengyun took it, and the ice water at the bottom of the bowl stained his hands. Li Chengyun frowned lightly, holding the bowl in one hand and nodding to the side with the other.

He Zhen stared at the outstretched hand, stunned for a few seconds, swallowed the unmelted ice in his mouth, took out a tissue and stuffed it into Li Chengyun's hand.

Li Chengyun turned his head back, his eyes collided, and after not stopping for too long, Li Chengyun turned his head again.

The two sat quietly on the sofa and ate ice. He Ping was walking around in the kitchen, occasionally hearing the sound of dishes colliding. Get up and put down.

"Thank you for taking care of my mother."

He Zhen thought for a while before opening his mouth. He held the bowl and looked at Li Chengyun who was sitting on the other side of the sofa, "She told me that you sent her to the hospital for several times of hypotension."

Li Chengyun didn't look up, he took a mouthful of ice, and the corner of his mouth was bright: "It doesn't matter, anyway, you will pay it back in the future."

Li Chengyun put down the bowl, stood up and walked outside to smoke. He stood with his back to the light, and the dazzling light coated his body with a layer of light gold.

Obviously Li Chengyun looks so calm, but He Zhen always feels sorry for him. This feeling started when he saw Li Chengyun's face through the half-open car window.

It was raining that day, and Li Chengyun was the one on the street without an umbrella. He was standing in the puddle, his trousers were stained with black mud, he borrowed fire from himself, and watched himself leave.

Everyone close to him knew that he was sick, but it seemed that only Li Chengyun hoped that he would get better, and the sooner the better.

He Zhen drank the remaining sugar water in the bowl, stood up and went back to the room.

——Li Xiangting, who hadn't seen each other for a long time, returned home later in the day. Although he had gray hair growing on his temples, it could still be seen that he was in good condition.

Li Xiangting hugged He Zhen as soon as he entered the door, and before he even had time to change his slippers, he patted his shoulder vigorously: "It's really grown up, if I meet this on the street, I won't recognize it."

He Zhen just laughed, and out of the corner of his eye, he saw Li Chengyun standing aside with his hands in his trouser pockets.

Everyone said that he has changed a lot, only Li Chengyun said that he is still the same as before.

"Go out for dinner tonight, your mother and Ah Cheng will go."

Li Xiangting raised his chin at Li Chengyun, "And the girl I asked you to meet last time, didn't you miss it last time? I'll meet you this time."

Li Chengyun came over and stood beside He Zhen, took his hand out of his pocket, and lightly brushed the back of He Zhen's hand with his fingers.

"Okay."

Li Chengyun responded easily, "See you."

When going out again, Li Chengyun changed into clothes that He Zhen had never seen before. I have to say that Li Chengyun looked good in any color, so He Zhen unconsciously took a few more glances after getting in the car.

It can't be said that it was a few glances, because when I looked at it for the second time, I was caught by Li Chengyun who suddenly turned his head.

"What are you looking at?"

Li Chengyun's voice was not too loud, but it was enough for the four people in the car to hear clearly. He could really see Li Xiangting's eyes in the rearview mirror.

"Look at the tree."

"Does it look good?"

He Zhen turned his head aside and said, "It's not pretty."

He Ping smiled in front of the car and said that the two of them were naive, and that people in their 20s were still arguing. Li Xiangting also laughed, saying that the children only look a little bit home when they come back.

Such a beautiful atmosphere lasted until the entrance of the restaurant. Li Xiangting handed over the car keys to the doorman, walked to the door of the box on the second floor with ease, and smiled as he opened the door: "I knew you must be early! It's been so many years. It really hasn't changed at all."

The people sitting in the room stood up, and He Zhen saw a girl in a light-colored shirt sitting at the door, with short black hair and delicate makeup.

"This is my wife, this is Hezhen, and this is—" "Li Chengyun, right?"

The girl interrupted Li Xiangting, she raised her eyebrows lightly, and then stretched out her hand to Li Chengyun: "It's a pity I didn't see you last time, Ava."

"What Ava, your parents didn't name you, did they?"

The man walked over with a frown, and pressed down the girl's hand with some dissatisfaction, "She just returned to China not long ago, and her foreign problems haven't changed, just call Ye Qiao."

Li Chengyun smiled politely: "It's a pity, Ava."

He Zhen saw Ye Qiao's eyes light up.

The process of eating was relaxed and happy. Ye Qiao told a few boring jokes in the middle of the meal. Li Chengyun laughed very flatteringly, and occasionally used serving chopsticks to pick up food for her.

"I saved a bottle of good wine here before, and I have to drink it today."

Li Xiangting looked at Li Chengyun, "Go to the manager and bring the wine."

The lounge of the restaurant is in the basement. Li Chengyun stood in the lobby and watched the elevator numbers go down. He heard footsteps behind him. Ye Qiao came over and stood beside him: "It's not that I want to follow you. come out."

Ye Qiao pursed her lips, and added, "I'm not interested in you, but you probably are also interested in me...Are you gay?"

Li Chengyun glanced at her and did not refute. Ye Qiao raised his neck and sighed, "I've been gay for so many years and I'm still so sensitive."

Ye Qiao took a step forward and stood in front of Li Chengyun, stretched out the fingernail of his index finger and shook it twice, and said with a smile, "not straight." "Are you talking about your sexual orientation when you see someone?"

"No, if I don't tell anyone, I will suffocate to death."

Ye Qiao pinned her hair behind her ears, revealing the black earrings on her earbones, "I dare not cry after breaking up, dare not post on Moments, and dare not tell others."

The elevator number jumped from B3 to the top, and Li Chengyun commented on her a bit perfunctorily: "Then you are quite miserable."

"Yes."

Ye Qiao sighed artificially, "It's pretty miserable."

The elevator door opened, and the manager handed Li Chengyun the wine wrapped in red velvet. Ye Qiao stretched his neck to look over it, and lifted the velvet down with his hand.

The box door on the diagonally opposite side was pushed open, and someone came out, half of his body was blocked by lush green plants.

Li Chengyun's original plan to retreat paused, he lowered his eyes, and took off the flannelette outside the wine bottle.

Sensing Li Chengyun's approach, Ye Qiao raised his head and met Li Chengyun's eyes.

"……What are you doing."

Li Chengyun smiled with his eyes bent, and said in a low voice, "Let me take advantage of it."

The people standing in the hallway came towards them, stopping as they passed.

"My friend is coming to pick me up."

Li Chengyun stood still and paused before asking, "Yuan Jianan?"

He Zhen nodded. He looked at Ye Qiao who was standing aside, hummed and walked out.

Hearing the sound of footsteps getting farther and farther behind, Ye Qiao looked at Li Chengyun's expressionless face, and curled his lips: "You're just playing it off."

The tip of Li Chengyun's tongue pressed against the corner of his mouth, and the next second he stuffed the wine bottle to Ye Qiao, and walked towards the door without turning his head.

When he was in the army, Hezhen was really good at counter attacking and grappling, so when Li Chengyun grabbed his wrist, he could actually throw Li Chengyun to the ground in [-] seconds, but he didn't.

Li Chengyun looked down at him, breathing heavily.

"I'm here for a blind date, you know."

"know."

"Ye Qiao is interested in me."

He Zhen nodded: "I see."

Li Chengyun held the mailbox with his hands, lowered his head and pursed his lips, and raised his eyebrows slightly when he raised his head again: "So you want to leave now?"

The two of them were very close, and their posture could be called weird. Although it was blocked by the billboard, someone was still looking at them.

Evenings on weekdays are not too noisy, and Hezhen can hear birdsong and Li Chengyun's heartbeat.

"Because Yuan Jianan confessed to me, I promised to give him an answer today."

The sight of strangers and the singing of birds are there, but the beating heartbeat seems to disappear suddenly.