north bird south

The author has something to say: You can see starfish by rewarding them, thank you babies.

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"...The musician came to me to 'settle accounts' just now, thinking that I had reneged on my promise and hired someone else." Chen Yansong came out to see Yu Yao off, glanced at the bustling hall through the window, turned his head, and smiled He said, "...you two too, how can you still fight for your job if you only need to relieve yourself?"

Xu Zhiyuan was whistling and put his hands in his pockets. After listening, he pointed to Yu Yao who was beside him and said, "My little uncle did it first. I'm at most an accomplice."

"?" Yu Yao didn't expect the bastard to turn against him so quickly, and caught him and pinched the back of his neck.

Chen Yansong laughed, and said, "I've heard from Xu Zhenping that Zhiyuan has a better relationship with his uncle than with him. It's true."

After Adjutant Chen gave a few instructions, he said goodbye to the two of them. Yu Yao and Xu Zhiyuan left the restaurant one after the other, and walked along the street by the uninterrupted lighting of the road.

The night here is more lively than the daytime. People in strange costumes can be seen outside the theater, and old monkeys can be heard yelling. The leaflets printed with portraits and large characters are wetted by the melted snow, sticking to the ground, and being slapped by passers-by. After stepping on the soles of the shoes, they are no different from mud.

Xu Zhiyuan glanced at the coachman waiting in front of the restaurant and theater, and asked, "Shall we call two cars?"

"No need," Yu Yao said, "Pei Zhen's house is not too far from here, just walk there."

"Oh," Xu Zhiyuan looked at the tail of the scarf hanging behind him, and couldn't help pulling it up. There was a small piece of down on it, and Xu Zhiyuan shook it lightly on a whim, but it didn't fall off.

Feeling his small movements, Yu Yao didn't turn around to scold him, but sighed insignificantly, as if he was used to Xu Zhiyuan's restless movements, he just lowered his eyes and curled the corners of his mouth.

Xu Zhiyuan suddenly said: "Little uncle."

"……Um?"

He said, "Can I hold you?"

In the deserted place, Yu Yao stopped, and Xu Zhiyuan also stopped.

Yu Yao looked at the corner of the scarf he was holding in his hand, and said, "Didn't you already hold it?"

Xu Zhiyuan said, "I want to hold your hand."

Yu Yao frowned, looked at him for a while, then turned around and continued walking, saying, "No."

Xu Zhiyuan: "Why."

Yu Yao asked back: "You tell me why."

"Is there any reason, is it strange that I hold my uncle's hand?" Xu Zhiyuan said calmly, "It's like holding my parents and going shopping together."

Yu Yao still said, "It's not the same."

"Hey," Xu Zhiyuan said with a look of indeterminate meaning in his eyes, "little uncle, you must be thinking wrong."

"No."

"Then you have to prove yourself, give me a lead."

Yu Yao repeated flatly: "No."

"..." Xu Zhiyuan took a deep breath, vented his anger on the snow on the side of the road, and said, "I'm so stubborn!"

"Obviously, no matter how close I was to you before, you would acquiesce," he murmured, "How did it become like this now, Yao'er, do you dislike me after knowing that I like men?"

"Yes," Yu Yao admitted unabashedly. His voice was as soft as usual, and he said, "I have never been too intimate with the opposite sex. Since you are interested in the same sex, you can treat them the same way. So avoid suspicion.”

Xu Zhiyuan frowned, and said disapprovingly, "You discriminate against me."

"No, it's treating you the same as everyone else."

"Equality" is a good word.It's a pity that liking is selfish, Xu Zhiyuan doesn't want to hear the words "I and others are equal in the eyes of my sweetheart".

Xu Zhiyuan had no intention of joking, and felt desolate and sulking in his heart, but he pretended to be at ease on his face, and said, "You think too much, Yaoer, I like lively, outgoing, nice-talking boys, young and old It's better to be younger than me, like Fu Shubai... Your temperament is not suitable."

Xu Zhiyuan couldn't see Yu Yao's expression, but he was silent for a long time before he said: "...Then what about the teacher from Ming University you mentioned, is there an exception?"

"That's a lie, tell it to lie to my father."

Yu Yao said again: "But if you say you want to chase him, no one can stop you except me and him."

It's like a drop of red wine spilled from a goblet, flowing along the transparent wall onto the white shirt, slowly soaking through the fabric, leaving a permanent circular mark before it can be wiped off.

Xu Zhiyuan lost his mind and spilled the drop of wine.

"...That's what I said to lie to you."

With the night breeze, Yu Yao seemed to slow down his pace, he laughed feebly, like a teacher who was played by a fun student for a long time, but still accommodated the teacher who didn't lose his temper, and said wearily: "Okay, you son of a bitch. "

Xu Zhiyuan opened his mouth, feeling some regret in his heart.

The horse has fallen off the cliff, and it can only hold on to an empty rein in vain.Xu Zhiyuan had no choice but to laugh a few times, he wanted to say: "Little uncle, I just made a joke with you." But the words didn't come out, Yu Yao said: "It's here."

……

This is Pei Zhen's house.

Pei Zhen welcomed them in, the room was filled with heat, and there was the sound of welcome from Pei Linwan.

The girl hugged Yu Yao's scarf, took his hand and went to sit in the living room.

Pei Zhen tilted his head slightly, and called out, "Young Master?"

Xu Zhiyuan: "Huh?"

"Why do you seem to be absent-minded..." Pei Zhen looked at him and Yu Yao, as if aware of it, but still said, "...It's just a meal with me, your expression looks like you are going to die bravely."

Xu Zhiyuan went down the steps, hummed, and said, "I'm afraid you'll poison me."

Pei Zhen narrowed his eyes and smiled: "It's fine if you follow your uncle to serve chopsticks during the dinner, I can't even harm him."

Xu Zhiyuan: "You..."

Pei Linwan exclaimed excitedly: "Aunt Six! Ah Yao is here."

Yu Yao was wondering who Aunt Six was, when she saw a woman with curly hair coming out of the kitchen wearing a gray apron.She bowed her waist, as if she wanted to bow, but she was still walking, which looked a little funny.She wiped her hands on the apron somewhat at a loss, with a slightly straightforward smile on her face, speaking with some twists and turns in dialect, and said: "It turns out that Mr. Yu is here, and he always listens to Pei Zhen." Talking to Xiaowan about Mr. Yu, hello Mr. Yu, hello Mr. Yu..."

Yu Yao said hello and stretched out his hand, but the woman looked at it slowly and wiped her hand for a long time before she dared to hold it.

Pei Zhen introduced: "This is my wife, Wu Yuan." He smiled, "In terms of age, she is ten years older than you, A Yao, so she can be called sister."

Yu Yao smiled politely and said, "Sister Yuan."

Wu Yuan was already very nervous, as if he was afraid of embarrassing him in front of Pei Zhen's friends, but when he heard Yu Yao call him that, he panicked and said restrainedly: "Don't, don't, Mr. Yu calls me Wu Liu. Well, I am the sixth child at home, and everyone calls me that, and Xiaowan also calls me Aunt Six."

Xu Zhiyuan watched from the side, and also called out after Yu Yao.Wu Yuan smiled, and then sneaked a blank glance at Pei Zhen.Pei Zhen introduced: "This is the young master of the Xu family, Xu Mingzhi."

Xu Zhiyuan: "?"

Wu Yuan hurriedly called Master Xu a few times, and then went to the kitchen to prepare meals in peace.

Seeing her running to the kitchen again, Pei Zhen shouted from afar: "Yuan, don't do it, we can't eat much." But Wu Yuan didn't listen, Pei Zhen laughed, pointed over there, and said, "She knows you If you want to come, you have been busy since yesterday."

"Is sister Yuan a native of your hometown?" Yu Yao asked.

"Yeah. Her parents are both dead, and her older brothers and sisters are all married. It's becoming more and more inconvenient for him to live in the old house." Pei Zhen said gently, "Wu Yuan has never been out of that small county before. It’s the first time I stay away from there and come to live in a big city, and I’m a little shy.”

"Go ahead and sit down," Pei Zhen said, rolling up his sleeves and going to help, "Dinner will be served in a while."

This time Xu Zhiyuan saw it, the old silver ring was still in Pei Zhen's hand.He looked at the bloated plain winter coat wrapped around the skinny woman, and he was filled with mixed thoughts.

He thought that a person like Pei Zhen would be a poet who would place roses downstairs and vigorously pursue the daughter of everyone he had admired for a long time.I didn't expect Mrs. Pei to be such a simple and unremarkable rural woman.

He always felt that it was family affection rather than love that occupied Pei Zhen and Wu Yuan's eyes.Perhaps rather than a romantic relationship, the two seem to regard each other as their original family members.Pei Zhen didn't need any red roses, he just wanted a place of peace of mind when he was tired.And Wu Yuan wouldn't expect any extravagant love, what she needs is an upright backer, so that she can plant half of her life and protect it with all her strength.

Xu Zhiyuan grew up in a prosperous place, and he would not have imagined that most of the men and women in this land who are ordered by their parents and told by matchmakers are like this.

The hormones on the yellow land are not as romantic as those on the west coast of the ocean, and the human nature raised also lacks publicity and individuality.They are silent and introverted seeds, spewing out simple buds in the wind and rain. When they meet, they hover together to form a family, and then continue to take root and multiply.

They are imprisoned by society for their freedom and desires, and the leaves they grow may not be able to touch love for a lifetime, but the roots of family affection and responsibility are solid and firm.

If Xu Zhiyuan was lucky enough to think of that day after living through middle age, he would not be able to judge whether it was a good or a bad thing in that era.

……

Xu Zhiyuan heard a voice from a long distance: "Don't take this knife that has killed a chicken. Doctors use a knife to save lives. It's unlucky for you to touch it!"

Looking at Pei Zhen who was pushed and dragged out of the kitchen, Yu Yao crooked his eyes and smiled beside him, and commented: "That's great."

Pei Linwan nodded in her arms in agreement, and said: "Aunt Liu is very nice, she cooks delicious food, and she will tell me stories at night! I am teaching Aunt Liu how to read, and my father said that if I can teach Aunt Liu a A hundred words, let us go out to play. So Aunt Six can learn. I woke up last night and saw her secretly sitting on the ponytail and reading..." Pei Lin paused, and suddenly whispered: "Ah Yao, don't tell daddy."

Yu Yao touched her head.

Xu Zhiyuan interrupted after listening: "Then you say it's better for Aunt Six or Ayao."

Tong Yan Wuji, Pei Linwan tilted his head and thought for a while, looked at Yu Yao apologetically, and said, "Ah Yao is very good...but Aunt Six is ​​better."

Xu Zhiyuan laughed triumphantly, and was pinched by Yu Yao like an idle relative who specializes in provoking relations.Xu Zhiyuan whispered: "What to do, little uncle, now you can only be number one in my heart."

Yu Yao lowered his eyelashes lightly, thinking it was a provocation for fun - Xu Zhiyuan is a habitual offender of smooth talk, if you believe him, you will be deceived again.

He had no choice but to say: "Nonsense."