muddy boy

When the wedding came to an end, most of the guests at the banquet dispersed, only some close ones were still chatting with the bride and groom.

Chen Linhu sat at the table of Lin Hongyu's relatives for dinner, and the seven aunts and eight aunts surrounded him chattering about everything from academics to love, and finally they were defeated by Chen Linhu's fierce face and cold answers, and turned their heads to chat about their parents.

With a table of food and wine, Chen Linhu couldn't finish eating after moving his chopsticks a few times, and fiddled with his mobile phone absent-mindedly.

He was always thinking about Zhang Xun's affairs, and since the two separated, he has been sending a few messages every once in a while. Zhang Xun probably knows that he is worried, and he replied very quickly. It was very clear, but after entering the inpatient department of the hospital, there was suddenly no movement.

Considering that he might be meeting with Zhang Cheng or his own mother, Chen Linhu didn't call rashly to ask about the situation. Lin Hongyu's wedding just happened to start here, and he was busy with getting things to congratulate him until it was time for dinner. He looked at his phone , Zhang Xun still did not reply.

Chen Linhu frowned, tapped his fingers meaninglessly on the desktop, stared at the screen and refreshed the chat interface after a while.

His vicious look of keeping strangers away was too conspicuous, and the irritability around him was too strong. When Lin Hongyu came over, the diners at the same table had already moved a short distance away from him.

"Eat, why don't you eat?" Lin Hongyu had already finished her work, and was waiting to see off the last batch of guests before going home to rest. She came and sat down next to Chen Linhu, carefully observing his expression, "Why is this expression so unhappy? "

Chen Linhu noticed the look in Lin Hongyu's eyes, and knew that his mother was worried that her son would feel uncomfortable seeing her getting married.

"No," the expression on his face softened, Chen Linhu nodded to Wu Hao who also came over, and then said to Lin Hongyu, "There's something wrong, my friend hasn't contacted me, I'm worried."

Lin Hongyu smiled and said, "Okay, tiger, it's different after going to college, I have more friends."

"More in the future," the groom Wu Hao said, and said kindly, "Your mother is watching you not eating, wondering if it's too spicy and you don't like it. Is there anything you like? Get something you like!"

Chen Linhu shook his head: "No, I'm really not hungry."

After speaking, the phone vibrated, and he hurriedly lowered his head to look at it. After discovering that it was a spam message, his brows frowned, and his straight back collapsed a bit.

Lin Hongyu and Wu Hao looked at each other, Wu Hao didn't see it, but Lin Hongyu was her real mother, and she knew her son who was not good at hiding his emotions since he was a child, and he could see Chen Linhu's strangeness, so he patted him on the shoulder: "Still Missing your friends? Male or female?"

"Man," Chen Linhu recovered, and put the phone upside down on the table, "Mom, do you have anything else to do this afternoon?"

"It's okay!" Lin Hongyu said, it was a second marriage, and the customs of the two families are that there is no need to make a fuss, so there is nothing to be busy after the banquet, "Do you want to hang around? Mom will show you around? "

Chen Linhu was thinking about Zhang Xun, but he couldn't refuse directly in front of his own mother. He hesitated to find a reason, but Duan Qiao's call happened to come in.

Because of Zhang Xun's relationship, Duan Qiao and Chen Linhu contacted more frequently than before, calling for a game or something, but today is a working day, Duan Qiao is very busy, it is a bit strange to make a call at this time, Chen Linhu is holding the mobile phone Find a corner to answer: "Brother Duan, what's the matter?"

"Where are you? You're not with Lao Zhang, are you?" Duan Qiao said anxiously, "What's the matter, he went back to his hometown?"

Chen Linhu: "His mother is going to have an operation, and he will return after seeing it. I didn't follow at the wedding."

"Oh, yes, both of your mothers have something to do," Duan Qiao said in a hurry, talking in a nonsensical manner, and put the operation and the marriage together, "Just now we have an old classmate holding a class reunion, I called him Talking on the phone, I didn't expect the call to go through, and it wasn't him who answered the phone..."

Chen Linhu's complexion became tense, and he interrupted: "Speak briefly."

"It was his father who answered the phone!" Duan Qiao said, "As soon as I heard it was that old boy, I quickly asked him where Lao Zhang was. Old turtle grandson..."

A bad premonition welled up in his heart, and the restlessness just now had an explanation. Chen Linhu couldn't tell whether it was mostly worry or anger. He coughed twice first, and felt a slight pain in his throat, before he managed to sort out some clues.

Zhang Xun should have met his father.

Combined with what this stick father did before, Chen Linhu didn't think at all that he would sit down with Zhang Xun and talk calmly - a father who can send his own son to a correctional institution can do anything.

"Have you contacted Zhang Cheng?" Chen Linhu asked, regretting not saving Zhang Cheng's contact information because of disgust.

"Zhang Cheng!" Duan Qiao patted his thigh, "I almost forgot, okay, I'll contact him, don't worry, I'll tell you when I've found out."

"Give me his phone number directly," Chen Linhu looked at the time, "I'll ask him on the way."

Before Duan Qiao asked whether the road was on or not, Chen Linhu had already hung up the phone, turned around and walked towards Lin Hongyu.

Lin Hongyu was being courteous to a few friends. When she saw Chen Linhu coming over to introduce him, she glanced at the expression on her son's face and was stunned: "What's wrong?"

Chen Linhu's face seemed to be covered with a layer of black clouds, his brows were depressed, and the anger in his eyes became heavier, but his pursed lips and quickened steps revealed his impatience.

"Mom, I have to go first," Chen Linhu said in a low voice, "My friend has something to do, I have to go and see."

Lin Hongyu didn't react: "Now? In such a hurry?"

"Yes." Chen Linhu replied briefly, "I'll go upstairs to get my luggage."

While speaking, he had already dialed Zhang Xun, rang a few times, and hung up there.Probably Dad Bangchui didn't pick up because he saw that Chen Linhu was someone he didn't know.

Chen Linhu sent a few messages to Duan Qiao on his mobile phone, saved Zhang Cheng's phone number, and already had a rough plan in his mind.

Ask Zhang Cheng first what the situation is. If Zhang Xun is locked up, he will kill him and rob him. If he is still in the hospital, he will go to support him. Anyway, he has to go.

The hotel he stayed in was pre-booked by Lin Hongyu. It was the hotel where the wedding was held, and he didn't have much luggage, so he just took it and left.Taking the high-speed rail is too slow. Zhang Xun’s hometown is not far from here. If you charter a car, you should be there in the evening.

"Which friend are you in such a hurry?" Lin Hongyu waved to Wu Hao, and asked as she walked behind Chen Linhu, "Tell Mom and see if I can help."

Chen Linhu turned his head to look at her, Lin Hongyu didn't expect him to turn his head, the doubts and inquiries on his face were not well hidden, and he was caught off guard.

"...Just a friend," Chen Linhu didn't say much, "It's okay, Mom, you and Uncle Wu can see off the guests, I can do it myself. I can rest assured when I come back, Uncle Wu is very nice."

Lin Hongyu didn't say a few words to Chen Linhu this morning. Wu Hao was there last night, and the mother and son couldn't have a deep conversation. Lin Hongyu didn't expect her son, who always went his own way, to seem to know her concerns from beginning to end, and instead came to comfort her.

Although his tone was still calm, his words no longer had the stubbornness of his youth.

When she grew up, Lin Hongyu looked at the back of Chen Linhu walking in front and thought, she is no longer a child who sticks behind her butt and wants to get attention by throwing a tantrum, nor is she a teenager who will get angry because of being ignored.

There are actually not a few years when a child can really behave like a baby, and the love of relatives will prolong this time. If it is missing, it will only accelerate the pace of his growth.Being sensible is because sometimes you have to understand.

Before she knew it, Chen Linhu had become an adult who could take "I can do it myself" for granted.

The rest of the questions were suddenly speechless, and Lin Hongyu followed Chen Linhu to the elevator with a sense of loss.

"I really don't need to follow, Mom," Chen Linhu pressed the elevator, looking at her with dark eyes, and only then could he find the earnest and stubborn appearance when he was a child, but his tone was calm and calm, "Just know that you are doing well, this is you The path you choose, your own life, I will support you no matter what.”

Lin Hongyu's eyes were watery, and it was hard to wipe off her makeup, so she just nodded her head in a "hmm" voice: "Then you...you really don't want to eat anything, so you're leaving now?"

"In a hurry," Chen Linhu said, "I will explain to you when I have a chance."

"Okay," Lin Hongyu hesitated for a moment, before finally speaking, "A very important friend?"

The elevator door opened, but Chen Linhu didn't say a word, and only replied when the door was about to close: "A very important person."

The second hospital is an old building, and the sound insulation of the inpatient department is poor. Zhang Haisheng's voice quickly attracted other patients to watch and look around from each room.

"You've grown capable, and you don't care about your parents when you talk and do things," Zhang Haicheng recovered from his astonishment, and said angrily, "Tell you Zhang Xun, I gave you everything you have now, and I gave you your life. Don't you feel ashamed of being disobedient and unfilial now?"

Zhang Xun was already tired of hearing this set of rhetoric, and also tired of the big hat that was put on his head. The eyes of the people around him cast their eyes on him, and they first brought contempt for an unfilial son.

In Zhang Xun's memory, what his father is best at is to suppress him and Zhang Cheng from the two aspects of "for your own good" and "filial piety". I have nothing to say.

"Yes, I'm not filial to my bastard," Zhang Xun put his hands in his pockets, and smiled slightly, "I don't need you to send it, I'll leave now, and we will live our own lives in the future, and you should stop harassing my friends."

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Haisheng's slap reached Zhang Xun's face.

"Dad!" Zhang Cheng didn't hold back.

Zhang Xun didn't stand and get beaten like his brother, but turned around to avoid it. Zhang Haicheng's slap missed, and he simply turned his hand and grabbed his shoulder: "Your mother has been in the hospital for more than half a year. Have you come back to take a look? The heart is like a wolf." s things."

"Last time, you seemed to have the same words." Zhang Xun's shoulders hurt from his grasp, but there was a sneer on his face, "In the end, I almost sent me to the correctional institution. You can bring my mother's illness." Be the bait to catch me, why should I trust you again."

Zhang Haicheng's eyes were burning with anger, his nose was panting heavily, and he cursed and pushed Zhang Xun to beat him.

It may be because Zhang Cheng is used to obedience, Zhang Haisheng was even more angry at Zhang Xun's resistance, and he was about to smash Zhang Xun on the head.

The habit he developed when he was young made Zhang Xun immediately want to squat down with his head in his arms to reduce the pain in his body, but the vibration of the mobile phone in his pocket brought him back to his senses, and he swung Zhang Haisheng's fist violently, towards Taking two steps back, he roared with a little trembling in his voice: "Zhang Haisheng, don't fucking touch me again! I'm not a child who stands up and makes your belt twitch and calls you dad!"

Zhang Cheng, who rushed up to fight, paused, his eyes swept over Zhang Cheng's face, with a complicated expression.

Zhang Haicheng was pushed away and bumped into the rushing eldest son, almost fell to the ground, he was a little stunned and couldn't recover.

"Inverted!" Zhang Haicheng roared, "Inverted! Do you still see me as a father?!"

There used to be, but now it has long been spent in repeated disappointments.

Zhang Xun suddenly discovered that Zhang Haisheng was different from what he remembered. The tall figure he had when he was young had long since withered, and the belts and fists that had been like strict punishments had become an absurd and painful past, leaving only empty etiquette and etiquette. Shout out.

There is no filling of family affection between the bloodlines, and it is ridiculous to be so thin.

The door of the ward was opened, and Zhang Xun's haggard face appeared in Zhang Xun's field of vision. She saw Zhang Xun and immediately shed two more tears: "Xiao Xun, don't get angry with your father... I know you are not happy , but your father is also thinking about you, it's all a disease, how can you talk to a man..."

Zhang Cheng had a splitting headache, one father was fine, and there was another mother who added fuel to the fire.

Zhang Xun originally saw his mother's mood eased slightly, but he didn't expect to hear this in the next sentence, and said coldly: "Okay, you can see me now, so don't be crazy. Cooperate with the treatment well, if you are short of money or something Ask Zhang Cheng to contact me."

After finishing speaking, regardless of Zhang Haicheng's roar, he turned his head and was about to leave.

Unexpectedly, his mother rushed forward as if she had taken the wrong medicine, and grabbed Zhang Xun's coat, so hard that even Zhang Xun almost sprained.

"Xiao Xun, listen to me," Zhang's mother looked at him with a little fear and pleading in her eyes, "I feel relieved when I see you. I have been dreaming for the past few days. I dreamed that when you were young, you were... Education, when you looked at me at that time, I felt distressed at the time, really, I really felt distressed, but you also know that if you do something wrong, you have to accept criticism..."

"You're talking about the kind of criticism that you can't get up? Just because you dropped three places in one exam." Zhang Xun looked at her sideways, and laughed mockingly, "Or the kind of education that is hanged and beaten? Or do I deserve to be sent to a correctional institution? Just because I like men."

After he finished speaking, Zhang's mother froze for a moment, and even Zhang Haisheng behind her shut up. The people watching in the ward immediately started whispering, and all looked at Zhang Xun with curious or disgusted eyes.

Zhang Xun was unexpectedly calm in his heart. He suddenly realized that he no longer needed to put on an appearance to please others, and those who were worth getting along with did not need to pretend, even if they were not related by blood.

I want to be upright, Zhang Xun thought, and live frankly.

Just like Chen Linhu said.

"Come on," Zhang Xun pulled back his sleeves, his coat was torn by Zhang's mother, "it's okay, I'm leaving."

Zhang's mother's tears fell like a flood, and she grabbed Zhang Xun's wrist and said: "...I keep dreaming about your childhood, you hate me, Xiao Xun, I apologize to you! Really! I Apologize! I will have an operation soon, I heard people say that it is the door of hell, you can’t go to the operating table with someone’s hatred on your back, you will be cursed to death! Forgive me, forgive mother—”

This time not only Zhang Xun, but even Zhang Cheng and his wife were stunned.

It is indeed a heart disease.

It's just that I don't know whether it's guilt or regret, or the fear of doing good deeds when I stand in front of the gate of life and death.

A serious illness made her superstitious about gods and ghosts, and everything in the past made her wonder and have constant nightmares, fearing that she would end up being cursed and hated.

Zhang Xun saw his mother's messy hair and said those words indiscriminately. He was shocked at first, and then found it funny. In the end, he felt a little sad and pitiful.

He slowly pulled his fucking hand away, as if something was stuck in his throat, he couldn't swallow it, and couldn't spit it out.

At this moment, Zhang Haicheng's high blood pressure barely stabilized. He walked over to support his wife, pointed at Zhang Xun's nose and cursed: "You just have the heart to see your mother like this? She hasn't been able to sleep well for several nights, and all she thinks about is you." , but you hate her for hating me, do you think you have the face to hate?"

"There's no need to be shameless, I don't have time to be nice to you at all," Zhang Xun withdrew his hand, glanced at the nurse doctor running this way, and said sarcastically, "I won't waste my life on two On the lunatic, Zhang Haicheng, I have a lover and a friend, and a great future, you two have your own way of life, let's let each other go, okay?"

He raised his foot to leave, but Zhang Haicheng's voice came from behind him: "With your fault, what future do you have? Shit! His family knows that their son has your fault, and they will die of anger!"

Zhang Xun's footsteps paused, without looking back, he went straight downstairs.

The stairs in the Second Courtyard were steep and narrow. When he was running down, he thought of Chen Linhu jumping down the steps, carefree and free. When he thought about it now, he wanted to follow that jump, to keep up with the road of nothingness. A figure of scruples.

The hospital was full of people, and he squeezed his way through the gate and ran into the street.

The air at the end of October was already chilly, and his nostrils were filled with the smell of car exhaust and the cold autumn wind. Zhang Xun finally stopped panting, only to realize that he had run two streets.

His chest rose and fell due to strenuous exercise. Zhang Xun supported his knees with his hands, and felt that his eyes were so dry that he couldn't shed a single tear.

It's just that it's hard to breathe, and the angry and wronged roar in his chest has nowhere to vent, and he can only spit out a few rough syllables.

After a while, Zhang Xun straightened up and reached into his pocket to retrieve Chen Linhu's message first.

After groping for nothing, Zhang Xun was stunned for a while, and immediately searched all his pockets, but he couldn't find the phone.

"Grass!" He cursed, it must have been dropped when his mother was pulling the coat, or lost it while running.

An unknown fire went straight up, and Zhang Xun kicked the curb.

Damn bad luck!This bloody place is going against him, right? !

Zhang Xun searched along the long distance, but he couldn't find the mobile phone, either it was picked up by someone or he fell into the hospital.

After searching around, I returned to the hospital entrance. It was already afternoon, and my stomach hurt from not eating for a day. Zhang Xun first took out the cigarette and bit it. Fortunately, the lighter was not lost. After lighting it, he took out the change and found a small grocery store. Call up.

I called my cell phone first, but no one answered, but I didn't hang up.Called Zhang Cheng again, Zhang Cheng was probably still trying to appease his parents, but didn't answer.The third call was to Chen Linhu.

Memorizing phone numbers is no longer popular in this day and age, but Zhang Xun still remembers the phone numbers of Chen Linhu and Duan Qiao clearly, and even remembers the number of old Chen Tou’s landline. use.

There was a connection soon, and Chen Linhu's deep voice came from the microphone: "Who?"

Zhang Xun's heart slowly warmed up, and the corners of his stiff mouth finally had some intuition, and he suppressed the sourness between his lips and teeth: "I. I lost my phone just now, so I found a public phone to talk to you first. I'm still in my hometown. Maybe I have to go back later."

"Where are you?" Chen Linhu's tone was quite anxious, and the background sound was a bit noisy, "Is there anything wrong, are you okay?"

Zhang Xun's originally dry eye sockets suddenly felt a little hot. He pressed the button randomly, but his voice was still calm, and he said with a smile: "What can be the matter, I'm not in the hospital now. Are you done?"

"Well," Chen Linhu paused, "What's wrong with your broken pot?"

Zhang Xun actually wanted to laugh a little: "It's noisy, it's okay, I can handle it."

The other end was silent for a few seconds: "Tell me what's going on, Zhang Xun."

"Really, I was not caught and I was not locked up," Zhang Xun smiled, "Really, I will call you and tell you that you can rest assured that you are with your mother and talk more. I miss you a lot, don't be stubborn."

Chen Linhu may have found a quieter place, and his voice was much clearer, showing some anger: "Can you please me when you meet your father?"

"Why do you..." Zhang Xun was stunned.

"Duan Qiao called you, and your dad answered it." Chen Linhu said, "If you don't tell me the truth, Zhang Xun will be so mad at me."

Zhang Xun was at a loss in his heart, and suddenly he was speechless. He had never dealt with this kind of thing before, and he didn't know how to tell Chen Linhu to make him feel at ease, so he could only say: "I will tell you later."

"What do you do now?" Chen Linhu asked.

Zhang Xun thought for a few seconds: "Contact Zhang Cheng, he..."

"I've contacted him. He's chatting with your two old lunatics. His wife is frightened and uncomfortable. She has to be checked in the hospital and can't get away." Chen Linhu knows the situation better than he does.

Zhang Xun was completely speechless, even a little embarrassed, cleared his throat: "It's okay, I can go to the hospital to find him later."

"...You can't," Chen Linhu said after a long time, "Are you looking for me?"

Zhang Xun didn't understand, so he smiled lightly and said, "How to find it? Fly over there?"

"Go to an air-conditioned and warm store to rest, and wait at the gate of the hospital after seven o'clock," Chen Linhu said, "I'll fly over to find you."

I don't know whether Chen Linhu said it too calmly, or Zhang Xun's brain was rusted and malfunctioned. He didn't realize what Chen Linhu meant until he hung up the phone.

Zhang Xun walked out of the grocery store and looked at the gate of the hospital opposite. His hair was disheveled by the wind at the end of October, but there was still some heat in his ears, as if Chen Linhu was talking in his ear.

He exhaled, really feeling a little tired.

Not only physically, but also mentally.

He has never tasted the feeling of lying on the ground and waiting for others in his life, so he suddenly wants to feel the feeling.

It feels like someone is rushing for him from a hundred miles away.

For the first time, Zhang Xun obediently listened to Chen Linhu's instructions, and while muttering "no big or small" in his heart, he found a nearby drink shop to hide, bought a cup of hot drink with the last little cash, and looked at the shop honestly. The watch moves forward.

Because he was too tired, Zhang Xun lay on the table and stared at it. It was almost seven o'clock when he opened his eyes again.

This sleep was so muddled that Zhang Xun almost thought he was dreaming, he thought a lot in his mind, and still took the time to go to the hospital.

The flow of people in the hospital will not decrease with time. Zhang Xun walked out of the drink shop quickly, looked at the crowd in the distance, felt impatient without a mobile phone connection, and searched around.

Originally, he thought that he would have to search for a long time to connect with Chen Linhu, but unexpectedly, Zhang Xun didn't take two steps, and his eyes fell on the stone lion at the entrance of the hospital like a magnet.

Familiar silhouette, familiar back.

Because I came in a hurry, I haven't had time to change out of the suit on my body, so I stand stubbornly at the entrance of the hospital in the evening.

Something exploded in Zhang Xun's heart. The sound was small, but it quickly filled his internal organs, making the clogged emotions in his chest no longer hold back. He shouted loudly through the crowd: "Chen Linhu!"

The people beside the stone lion turned their heads when they heard the movement, and as soon as Zhang Xun called out, they found him in the crowd.

Chen Linhu ran all the way, full of dust and dust, his originally frowning brows relaxed after seeing Zhang Xun, his facial features softened quickly, and he revealed a clear smile.

Zhang Xun walked faster and faster, and finally ran in his direction, passing through the crowds, leaving behind his maturity and stability, he took off and swooped in the autumn evening to hug his lover who gave him courage and support.

Chen Linhu embraced him with open arms, Zhang Xun wrapped his arms around his neck, and they almost fell to the ground at the same time.

"I'm covered in sweat." Chen Linhu put his arms around Zhang Xun's waist, and the luggage in his hand had already been thrown on the ground. "It's too late to take a shower, Brother Xun."

Zhang Xun buried his face in his neck. Hearing this, he laughed a few times. The tears that had not shed all day finally overflowed from his eyes, and his voice became a little hoarse: "I really fucking love you."

Chen Linhu's worry and anxiety all day fell to the ground, and he said "um" steadily: "Let's go, take the mobile phone, whoever blocks and beats the other."

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