The Boyfriend Return Policy

From May, the temperature has been rising in a straight line. One sun has the effect of three suns. By June, the road is so hot that you can fry eggs directly. The sixth middle school has not finished class yet, and the school gate is crowded with people, waiting for a long time. The parents chatted about the college entrance examination in twos and threes.

"My family's grades are not good."

"Don't say that, the children are fine, let's not put so much pressure on the children as parents."

"Oh, it's hot today, and the college entrance examination is also suffering."

……

Xu Du couldn't make it to the shaded place, he waited here for half an hour, not to mention the eggs, he was almost cooked.

He raised his hand to cover his eyes, his eyes hurt from the sun, he turned his head and walked to the canteen across the road. There was a sunshade cloth outside the canteen, and the boss was sitting next to the refrigerator. Xu Du went over, opened the refrigerator by himself, and took A bottle of iced mung bean paste came out: "Boss, when does this school end?"

The boss squinted his eyes and smiled: "You are also waiting for the third year of high school, right? School will be over soon..."

As he said that, the bell rang for the end of get out of class. This sound, like the horn of victory, saved countless parents who were waiting outside.

Xu Du took out another bottle of iced mung bean paste and put it on the freezer: "Yes, how much is the total?"

"Six yuan." The boss charged him ten yuan with half a cigarette in his mouth. He glanced at him when he changed the money, "Are you here to pick up your younger brother? How can a son who is so young go to high school?"

Xu Du was taken aback for a moment, the iced mung bean paste that had just been taken out of the refrigerator exuded a tempting icy aura, pressed against his palm, and penetrated into his internal organs, Xu Du raised his eyebrows: "Yes."

"You brothers have such a good relationship." The boss handed him the change.

As long as the get out of class bell rings, it doesn't take a few minutes to come out of the teaching building. Not long after, the school gate is occupied by students wearing the same school uniform. Xu Du stands under the sunshade cloth, taking it easy and getting used to it, looking across the road Case.

When he drank half of a cup of mung bean paste, a little idiot wearing a green-striped school uniform came out. They were all in groups, and when they came out, they just called dad and mom. The little idiot was carrying a heavy schoolbag alone. It looks so pitiful.

Xu Du drank the last sip of mung bean paste and threw it into the trash can. He strode across the road, squeezed into the hot crowd, followed the little idiot for two steps, raised his hand and put the mung bean paste on the little idiot. on the back of the neck.

Tao Zheng gave a sudden chill: "Fuck! Suck you!"

He clutched the back of his neck, turned his head to look, and was stunned for a moment with a fierce expression.

Xu Du pushed the mung bean paste on his forehead, hooked the corner of his mouth, "Stupid?"

"You're so stupid!" Tao Zheng turned his face away and pulled down the strap of his schoolbag.

"Hold it." Xu Du tossed mung bean paste to him, and took his schoolbag along the way. Xu Du, who had graduated for many years, forgot for a moment that a student's schoolbag was no different from a mountain. Hold on, "Let me go, what are you pretending to be?"

Seeing him like this, Tao Zheng finally smiled. The big boy had a neat crew cut, and his smile was much cleaner and brighter: "Little weak chicken!"

"Drink yours!" Xu Du grabbed the strap of his schoolbag and turned it over his shoulder. Usually parents carry bags for students, and they carry them on one shoulder, but Xu Du is different. He usually doesn't need a face, so he just told him Like a student, he carried both sides of his back, "It's quite heavy, are all the books here?"

Tao Zheng drank the mung bean paste in a few sips, and he wiped his mouth: "I moved the books back a few days ago, this is what's left."

Xu Du: "...kid, put away your disgust."

"Forget it." Tao Zheng stretched out his hand, "I'll do it myself."

Xu Du: "That can't be done. When the older brother comes to pick up the younger brother, he must carry a schoolbag."

Tao Zheng was stunned for a moment: "What the hell?"

It's just that I don't know if Xu Du said that he called himself his brother, or the latter.

Xu Du put his arm around him and led him forward: "Let's go, let's go to my house for a meal, the car is parked in front... You seem to have grown a little taller?"

Adolescent boys probably like to hear this sentence. Tao Zheng said, "I'm so awesome, but I have to act like I don't care." Smiling, "Well, it's three centimeters longer."

Xu Du: "Okay, how many days off do you have?"

Tao Zheng: "Two days."

Xu Du nodded, and when he arrived at the parking lot, Xu Du threw his schoolbag behind him and squeezed his shoulders: "Call your dad, and I'll take you home after dinner."

Tao Zheng had already gotten into the car, and said reluctantly, "It's really troublesome, it's not like they can't guess", and at the same time obediently followed Xu Du's words, and dialed the phone. I couldn't say a few words, just a few words, just like a notification, I hung up the phone.

During the rush hour after school, Xu Du could only drive and stop. The car in front of him moved, and he followed suit. The horn of the car behind was beeping, but Xu Du automatically ignored it: "When I was studying, there was almost no rebellious period, and I never quarreled with my parents, especially my dad."

Tao Zheng looked over.

"My dad..." Xu Du tapped his fingers on the steering wheel, "Don't look at him pretending to be serious in front of you, he is actually a little princess with a temper. Although he can't cook, he knows very well that he can't cook , but if he does it on a whim, or you eat it all, you can cry with you for a long time, even when playing chess, you lose every time, cry every time, if you are his son, a rebellious, a little princess, you will not Know what it's like."

Tao Zheng: "...you are the one who rebelled."

Xu Du laughed: "So you and your dad are quite suitable, but if you have something to say, and because of some puberty, you are thick-skinned in places where you should be embarrassed, and thin-skinned in places where you shouldn't be embarrassed, And if you don't say it, you may miss the opportunity to touch an old man in his 50s."

Tao Zheng clutched his mobile phone, didn't say anything for a long time, then shook his head again: "Crazy, why did you come to pick me up?"

Xu Du blurted out: "It's boring."

Tao Zheng: "...then can't you impress me?"

Xu Du bared a row of small white teeth: "Look at you, people come and go in pairs, in groups, why haven't you made any friends?"

Tao Zheng used to dye his yellow hair as a non-mainstream, and every day as his irritable and withdrawn little prince. Later, because of the incident of jumping off a building, it spread in the school, and everyone in the class would avoid him when they saw his face. And far away.

Tao Zheng looked out of the car window, and the students wearing the same color and style of school uniform as him could feel the liveliness and vitality through the car window. friend."

……

Two days of college entrance examination, 12 years of hard work.

Tao Zheng only scored more than 200 points in the first college entrance examination. Among them, he had a big tail in English, so he decided to repeat it.

Although he had already prepared for another year, on the day the results came out, the young man still faced the moon and secretly bought wine by himself.

It might be easier to treat Xu Du than to face his family, so he came to find Xu Du with a beer.

Xu Du had just finished taking a shower and opened the door. He thought it was Zhou Jixing who came back. When he opened the door, he saw that it was a hard-working little idiot: "Come in."

Xu Du took the plastic bag in his hand, opened it and saw that it was full of beer.

Tao Zhengchu stood there, holding back a sentence: "I'm an adult."

"Yeah." In order to take care of the little boy's fragile heart, Xu Du decided not to hit him, as if he had dedicated more love to the world, "I didn't tell you not to drink, come here and sit down."

Xu Du opened a can and handed it to him. Tao Zheng looked down.

Xu Du also opened a can by himself. Based on his drinking capacity, Xu Du took a sip. Then, wearing slippers and big pants, he walked to the refrigerator and got half of his body into the refrigerator, looking for something to eat.

After searching for a long time, I found a bag of mustard.

Xu Du held the bag of mustard between two fingers and looked at it for a long time, then sighed. He just carried the bag of mustard, went back to the sofa, and very generously gave Tao Zheng all the bag of mustard worth two yuan and fifty cents: "Let's eat."

Tao Zheng: "...can you be more stingy?"

Xu Du tut.

He turned over on the sofa, dug out the phone from the crack of the sofa, and lay down in this position: "Who's being stingy! What are you eating? I'll check out the takeaway and give me that pillow over there."

"There are many things." Tao Zheng muttered, and still gave him the pillow.

Xu Du was lying on his side with a pillow on his head: "What do you eat? Hey, barbecue? Peanuts? Pig ears?"

Tao Zheng was still looking at the bag of pickled mustard: "It's all expired."

Xu Du: "...Can you broaden your gaze? You have to stare at the bag of mustard, right?"

In order to comfort the child's wounded heart, Xu Du ordered a large table of takeaways. Tao Zheng watched him eat up two chicken legs, holding one in each hand, for fear that someone would snatch it from him, and the corners of his mouth kept twitching: "You Who is it for?"

Xu Du didn't know where his face came from and said, "You, I'll stop by and eat something."

Tao Zheng: "..."

Forget it.

Tao Zheng told himself.

Life is already so difficult, there are not many more.

When you are sad, you need to eat. You can only eat and drink enough, and life will become better, especially if someone brings food to you, it is simply a great joy in life!

Xu Du ate two-thirds of a chicken, leaving a chicken butt for Tao Zheng, and felt that he had saved a lost boy with delicious food.

"Are you full?" Xu Du wiped the sauce off his fingers, "How are you doing, are you happy?"

Tao Zheng heard the sound, and the chicken feet in his hand were no longer fragrant. He grabbed the half-gnawed chicken feet and choked out a sentence: "I'm not unhappy at all."

Xu Du slapped him on the back of the shoulder: "Just take the exam for another year! What are you afraid of! Do you know how many people repeat the exam every year in China? There are more than 100 million people. You are just one of the ordinary ones. Think about it. As a person who didn't pass any of your majors, there are a bunch of people who could have been admitted to the same starting line as you now, isn't it better?"

"...Not really." Tao Zheng gritted his teeth, "Also, have you wiped your hands clean?"

Xu Du laughed loudly: "It's a small matter, eat more."

It may be that Xu Du kept instilling in him that repeating studies is just a very common and trivial matter. Many people who are more powerful than him have to embark on this path, and Tao Zheng's mood has also eased a lot.

Xu Du clinked glasses with him: "Little friend, what do you want to do in the future?"

The kid whose complexion was better before suddenly stopped talking.

Xu Du drank some wine, his face flushed, and he was not so clear mentally. He squinted his eyes, and in a daze, he insisted on getting closer to Tao Zheng's face. He himself didn't know how close the distance was. Anyway, I have to look into Tao Zheng's eyes: "Huh?"

Xu Du was drunk.

Tao Zheng pulled him away, and he was sitting next to Xu Du. On the table were the wreckage of the takeaway, several empty wine jars were tilted here and there, and some chicken bones fell on the carpet... Tao Zheng stared quietly. After staring for a while, he turned his head and looked at Xu Du who was sitting next to him. Xu Du himself was sitting cross-legged, but his upper body was tilted to one side, like a tumbler: "Xu Du."

Just for a while, Xu Du almost closed his eyes: "Huh?"

"Doctor Xu."

Xu Du closed his eyes.

"Brother." Tao Zheng looked at him and said, "I want to be like you."

But it was impossible for him to become a doctor.

A moment of nonsense ruined his life.

Young people, you should understand that some costs are not worth bearing just for being cool.

When Zhou Jixing came back, what he saw was this scene. Xu Du spread his legs apart and fell asleep on the sofa. There was a mess on the carpet on the table. Face:"………………"

Zhou Jixing was speechless for a long time before he crossed over and lifted Tao Zheng's feet away.

In September of the same year, Tao Zheng changed to a high school to repeat his studies. It was the best high school in the city, and it was also the strictest high school. Similarly, the teachers were much better than No. [-] Middle School.

Those who have repeated it should know that that year is sometimes more memorable than the three years of high school, and some people always call them seniors.

This year, Tao Zheng's height exceeded 1.8 meters, the vigor of a boy was quietly born, and his facial features became more mature and tough.

The hell-like re-study ended with the new year's college entrance examination. On the day before the college entrance examination, Xu Du still asked for leave to pick him up, and then had a meal at Teacher Xu's house. After dinner, Teacher Xu gave him a three-hour lecture question.

Teacher Xu: "Well, you have improved a lot."

Tao Zheng scratched the back of his head, and in front of Teacher Xu, scratched his hair in embarrassment.

Xu Du sent him home as usual, and on the way, Xu Du joked with him: "It's the second time, once a stranger and second acquaintance, don't you feel nervous this time?"

Tao Zheng hugged his schoolbag and didn't speak a word along the way.

When he got out of the car, the doors were closed, he turned around suddenly, leaned over and knocked on the window.

Xu Du lowered the car window: "What? Do you want an encouraging hug?"

The night covered Tao Zheng's red ears, and he deliberately said in a blunt voice: "This time, I will succeed."

"I will be admitted to the university I like."

"Will make new friends."

"I'll meet someone I like."

"I will live a life that I like."

Slowly moonlighting, Xu Du calmly looked at the boy's resolute eyes, you always feel that the child has grown up and matured in an instant: "Well, you will."

On June [-]th, Tao Zheng stepped into the palace of the college entrance examination again.

On June [-]th, during the comprehensive examination of science, he suddenly had a high fever and was sent to the hospital urgently. Immunodeficiency and complications followed. In just a few months, a tall and strong boy was skinny and his neck lymph nodes were swollen. Completely end your life the day before New Year's Eve.

On the day Tao Zheng was relieved from the pain, Zhou Jixing saw Xu Du cry for the first time.

"I will be admitted to the university I like."

"Will make new friends."

"I'll meet someone I like."

"I will live a life that I like."

……

Goodbye Tao Zheng.