blazing fire

The houses in this community are simple in structure, with two doors facing each other on the first floor, and an elevator in the middle.

Cheng Zhuo got out of the elevator, walked to the door on the left, and took out the key from his pocket.

The sound of the key being proclaimed in the keyhole attracted the people in the house. As soon as Cheng Zhuo opened the door, he met the woman who came out in a hurry.

The four eyes met, and both sides were taken aback.

Yuan Yu keenly felt that the atmosphere was a bit stiff.

The woman spoke first: "It's you... I almost didn't recognize it."

"I didn't recognize it either." Cheng Zhuo smiled, and opened the shoe cabinet to look for slippers, "I'm here to move things today, where is my dad?"

"It's on the way." The woman looked at him, "You want to move out? He gave you a house?"

"Yeah." Cheng Zhuo looked up, a little surprised, "Why, didn't he tell you?"

The woman pinched her knuckles and said nothing.

Cheng Zhuo didn't delve into it, he also found a pair of slippers for Yuan Yu, and led them into the house.

His room is at the end of the corridor, Cheng Zhuo entered the room by himself, touched the switch on the wall to turn on the light.

Yuan Yu was a little surprised by what he saw: "This is your... room?"

The room in front of me didn't look like a room at all, a few parallel shelves took up the entire space, and they were full of things.It looks like it was transformed into a storage room.

Cheng Zhuo was not surprised: "It's not surprising, I haven't lived here for five years."

There were unused plastic storage boxes on the shelf, Cheng Zhuo found a few and gave them to Yuan Yu.

Not all the things in the room belonged to him, there were also some things that were added by the woman, Cheng Zhuo would not move them.He could only do the inventory by himself, Yuan Yu guarded the plastic box and helped him pack it.

The wardrobe was directly made during the renovation back then, and it was still in place. Cheng Zhuo opened it and took a look. The clothes seemed to be still there, and there was a dull smell in the wardrobe.

He couldn't wear many clothes anymore, but he didn't intend to leave them to Cheng Yuan, so he took them out all at once.

Yuan Yu helped him fold and pack, and urged him to organize other sundries.In addition to some personal items and knick-knacks that I didn't take away, there are also many books.Cheng Zhuo didn't intend to take them all, but only picked a few of them.

Yuan Yu looked at it for a long time: "Why do you only take fairy tale books?"

"My mother bought it for me." Cheng Zhuo said, and found an empty box to put the book in, "I'm too lazy to take it."

"But……"

"Huh?" Cheng Zhuo turned his head and saw Yuan Yu's expression hesitant to speak.He froze for a moment, then suddenly said, "Do you want anything?"

"There are a few..."

"Then you pick it yourself." Cheng Zhuo patted the box, "Put the ones you choose in, and just go back to my place."

Apart from these, Cheng Zhuo found his old mainframe in the corner.Five years have passed, and the configuration has long been outdated. He didn't intend to take it away. He just disassembled the case and took out two hard drives, one large and one small, and threw them casually into the sundry box.

The packed boxes were temporarily piled up in the living room. At this moment, there was the sound of the door lock turning again from the outside door, and the woman hurried out of the house.

"Guangzong, your son..."

In the middle of her conversation, Cheng Zhuo had already come out, and directly cut off her words: "I have already greeted Dad when I come to move things today, what are you going to sue?"

The woman didn't say a word, she bit her lip and stood there aggrieved.Cheng Zhuo is very familiar with her routine, and he has often quarreled with his father because of this in the past.

If you want him to say, Cheng Guangzong is eccentric, the woman made up a story for her without filing a complaint, and then chose to beat and scold Cheng Zhuo.But now, Cheng Zhuo is not afraid of these things, his growing up also means Cheng Guangzong's aging, and he still doesn't know who will win in a real fight.

Although... before coming here, his mother warned him not to conflict with his father.

Cheng Guangzong waved his hand. After a busy day outside, the muscles on his face were slack, and he looked very tired: "Why did you still talk to your aunt like this after going out? Are you polite?"

He spoke bluntly, but his tone was weak, which amused Cheng Zhuo: "I'm already being very polite. I used to yell at her directly, okay?"

"It's right to be sensible," Cheng Guangzong said, "but you can be more polite."

"Oh." Cheng Zhuo smiled.

He finally understands why Yuan Yu likes to say "oh" to him in a weird way, because when this kind of situation has the upper hand, it's very interesting to watch the other party blow up into a ball.

At least he was having fun watching that woman contort her face now.

Cheng Guangzong did not train Cheng Zhuo, but asked the woman a few words about Cheng Yuan's study status.Cheng Yuan was 14 years old, entered junior high school, and officially entered the rebellious period, which made the mediocre academic performance even worse because of his lack of intelligence.Because of this, Cheng Guangzong scolded the woman instead.

Yuan Yu finally found a suitable opportunity to come out and say hello: "Hello, Uncle."

"You are..." Cheng Guangzong glanced at him, feeling familiar.

"It's my friend, who came to help me move things." Cheng Zhuo answered the conversation first, not wanting Yuan Yu to tell his father too much.Unexpectedly, Yuan Yu himself said a few more words, he smiled politely and politely, like the kind of "neighbor's kid" that all adults would like: "My hometown is not far from Grandma Cheng's house, and Yuan Shouyi is my father. "

"Oh! You're the boy from Yuan Er's family!" Cheng Guangzong came to his senses, "Why did you come to Jiangcheng? Is your father okay?"

"I was admitted to a school in Jiangcheng, and I came here to study." Yuan Yu smiled, "My dad..." He paused subtly, pursed his lower lip, and then continued, "He has always been in poor health. The year... has passed away."

Cheng Zhuo turned his head abruptly and looked at him in shock.

Cheng Guangzong was a little surprised, and didn't notice that his son's expression was wrong: "When did it happen? I go back every year, and I haven't heard from the villagers?"

"Two years ago, I didn't get through the New Year's Eve." Yuan Yu said with a smile, "It's not very auspicious when the Chinese New Year is approaching, and there are no big funerals. My sister and I have come out, and my mother is alone in my hometown now. Maybe in a few days I won’t go back to the village when I bring my mother out again in [-]. Maybe there will be less contacts, so everyone didn’t mention it... It’s not a good thing after all.”

"That's it," Cheng Guangzong said, "If you have any difficulties, you can come to uncle and tell him. We are all old neighbors."

"Thank you uncle, I will definitely find you if I need something."

Yuan Yu is much more skilled than Cheng Zhuo in dealing with human relations in the village.The old and the young chatted for a long time before Yuan Yu was pulled back into the house by Cheng Zhuo.

"Your dad looks quite enthusiastic," Yuan Yu said when he entered the room, "I don't see why he keeps arguing with you."

"He is very good to the people in the village, but he is not good to my mother." Cheng Zhuo paused, "No, he is not good to women. I don't like it."

His focus was not on this at all, he quickly finished speaking, and quickly asked: "Your father passed away? You didn't go to school because of this? Why didn't you tell me when I asked you last time?"

Because if you don't care about me, there's no need to tell you these things.Fortunately, during this period of time, you have performed fairly well.

Yuan Yu answered in his heart, but said on his mouth: "I told you that he can't be resurrected."

"You——" Cheng Zhuo knew what "one thing falls one thing", he felt that the anger he made that woman suffer could be recovered from Yuan Yu.

Yuan Yu smiled and gave him a slight push: "Didn't I tell you now?"

"Can it be the same? You told my dad to let me hear it by the way, but you didn't tell me."

"Then shall I tell you again?"

"Okay," Cheng Zhuo is also a tempered person, "tell me in detail."

Yuan Yu glanced at him, and there seemed to be reproach in his eyes: "You don't even look at the time and place...Let's talk about it another day."

Cheng Zhuo curled his lips, and continued to tidy up his things unhappily.

But it didn't take long before Yuan Yu's impression of "Uncle Cheng" began to change. There were intermittent quarrels outside, and later mixed with women's cries.

Cheng Zhuo was unmoved, and commented indifferently: "It seems that she hasn't had a very good life in the past few years."

Yuan Yu looked at him.

"My mother left her a sentence before she left, saying, 'This man is cruel to me now, and he will probably use this cruelty on you in the future'. The woman didn't believe it, but what do you think now?" Holding the things, he said while tidying up, "I asked for the house I live in directly from my father, and he asked me to choose a place, and gave me more than one set. That woman... has been married to my father for so many years, and she is also Just live here."

"you……"

"I went out to study for five years, and I packaged myself as a 'returned high-achieving student'. I am not as unmotivated as before. I can still do something in his company, and his attitude towards me is much better. On the contrary. Cheng Yuan, the older he gets, the worse his grades become, so it's normal for him to be angry." Cheng Zhuo laughed at this point, "It's just that I didn't expect him to be angry with that woman instead of Cheng Yuan... At the beginning, he was always staring at me call taxi."

Yuan Yu gave him a sympathetic look: "It must be hard for you to have such a father."

Although Cheng Zhuo's tone was calm, Yuan Yu felt a little distressed when he heard it.

Cheng Zhuo raised his head and smiled at him: "Xiaoyu, there are some things, you can see through it without revealing it, do you understand?"

"……Oh."

Cheng Zhuo had a lot of small things, but not big things that took up space. The two of them worked together and quickly sorted out more than a dozen boxes.

After tidying up, Cheng Zhuo thought for a moment, opened the door and went straight to the opposite side.

The opposite door is Cheng Yuan's room.

The woman was helping her son with his homework, and there were faint tears on her face.His intrusion was so loud that the woman raised her head in surprise: "What are you doing?"

Cheng Zhuo glanced around, and at a glance he saw the monitor on the table that once belonged to him, and the bed in Cheng Yuan's room.

This bed belonged to him. He bought it not long before he left. It has a smart electric massager and is expensive.

Cheng Zhuo even suspected that his host computer hadn't been misappropriated because the computer had a password, and his clothes hadn't been moved entirely because Cheng Yuan was too short to wear them, otherwise there wouldn't be so many left in the storage room right now.

He smiled: "Auntie, I will give the monitor to my younger brother, but this bed is not cheap, so you have to pay me back. It cost 2 when I bought it. Even if it is second-hand depreciation, I will wipe it for you again." For a fraction, you have to give me [-] yuan. You have my account, remember to transfer it to me."

"You—" the woman twisted her face in anger, "You robber!"

"What's the matter?" Cheng Guangzong came over from the living room, "Didn't I tell you two not to quarrel?"

"I don't want to quarrel, I just want to say that this bed is mine, so Auntie remembers to pay me back."

Cheng Guangzong glanced into the room, and remembered the bed, frowned: "I told you not to touch his things at the beginning, look at you..."

The woman seemed about to cry out of anger again, and after holding back for a long time, she said, "Then you finally agreed!"

"Tsk, are you going to argue?" Cheng Guangzong's voice suddenly rose.

"Stop!" Cheng Zhuo stretched out his hand, "It's inconvenient for me to participate in the family war - can you give me the money first?"

……

Not long after, Cheng Zhuo stood downstairs, looking at the 2 yuan that had just arrived in the account, and at the same time watching the moving company move his things into the car.

"Is there anything else?" Yuan Yu stood beside him and asked, "Is it okay, I'll go back first?"

"Aren't you going to visit my place?"

"What's there to see." Yuan Yu glanced at the time, "It's getting late, I have to go back to sleep."

"What I mean is..." Cheng Zhuo licked his lower lip and put away his phone, "Aren't you going to live with me? Your place is not even easy to take a shower."

Yuan Yu smiled lightly: "I've said it all, what happened at noon is just to help you get rid of that sick person, don't push yourself too hard. I have to go to work tomorrow, so it's faster to go from my own place. You move these things back, I have to tidy up the room, so I won't accompany you."

"..." Cheng Zhuo bit his lower lip, a little upset.

The corridor lights went out at this moment, and the surroundings became dark. The moving company finished loading the cars and called Cheng Zhuo to come over.

The car was fine for loading, but it was crowded with people. Cheng Zhuo asked them to deliver the things to the designated place, saying that he would take a taxi there in a while.After sending the person away, he walked back to Yuan Yu.

Through the night, his eyes calmed down, and his voice was a little low: "I still don't want to understand."

Yuan Yu raised his eyelids.

"Before I figure it out...will you run away?"

In the past, Yuan Yu only had that village, and Cheng Zhuo never thought about it.

But now, he feels that Yuan Yu has the ability to send himself to Nanwan or other places with a ticket at any time. He feels ethereal, as if he can't catch this person.

Although Yuan Yu showed him the admission notice.

Of course, the acceptance letter really comforted Cheng Zhuo, but Cheng Zhuo had studied in college and knew that if Yuan Yu didn't want to see him one day, he would not be able to find anyone in school.

The university campus is too big.

Yuan Yu didn't think about running away, but he still thought about it seriously, because he didn't plan to promise Cheng Zhuo anything: "...Maybe."

Cheng Zhuo opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, Yuan Yu said again: "So you'd better hurry up - I'm going back from here, you go back and pack your things."

Cheng Zhuo grabbed him: "Then about your father..."

"It's nothing, it's just that he broke his leg in his early years." Yuan Yu paused, and changed to a more detailed version, "When he was young, he delivered food to people. One winter, at night, he was riding too fast on a motorcycle and fell into the car. I fell into a ditch and broke my leg. It was cold in winter, and the village couldn’t call anyone at night, and I couldn’t move because of the motorcycle. It was after a long time that my mother saw that he didn’t come back and went out to find someone to rescue him. The doctor said, After the best time for treatment, the leg was useless. Later, he couldn’t do any work, and the motorcycle was sold to him for treatment, probably because of the annoyance of this incident. Later, he began to drink heavily, swear, and quarrel with his family every day There is nothing serious about him. If I have to say it, it’s just out of anger—he couldn’t do the work, he refused to eat more, he only drank alcohol every day, and kept getting angry. Later, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and had to be resuscitated. He breathed a sigh of relief, hanged for half a year, hanged all the family's money, and no one was rescued."

Yuan Yu smiled after finishing speaking: "Actually, it's nothing, but the time of his illness happened to be when I took the college entrance examination. At that time... Firstly, there was no money, and secondly, I also felt that if I didn't study, he would It won’t be possible to live a few more years, just…”

"How can you think so?"

"I also know it's wrong to think so." Yuan Yu smiled, "I applied for psychology, half of which was because of my father. I thought he was actually sick. He was just a villager. Who knows what kind of mental illness? What if With a little scientific awareness and early treatment, it may not be like this."

"...Hmm." Cheng Zhuo didn't know what he thought of, and responded in a low voice.

"Okay, let's not talk about such a heavy topic. I really have to go back, I'm a little sleepy." Yuan Yu rubbed his eyes, "Tomorrow I have to..."

"Let's go to my place."

Yuan Yu rubbed his eyes halfway, then suddenly stopped.

"Just stay for one night." Cheng Zhuo said.

I don't know which sentence of his touched Cheng Zhuo's nerves. When Yuan Yu looked over, it seemed that he had returned to the first day they met.

In front of the bus, Cheng Zhuo's burning eyes were exactly the same as now.

Such a state somewhat shocked Yuan Yu, he hesitated for a moment, and finally compromised: "Okay."

……

Yuan Yu was really sleepy, and fell asleep on the way. When he got off the car at the place, he found that it was actually close to the university town.

He had to suspect that Cheng Zhuo did it on purpose: "Why...why do you live here?"

"Coincidentally," Cheng Zhuo knew what he wanted to say at a glance, "I've been working on a campus project recently, and I thought it would be more convenient for field trips in the future. It's a surprise to me that you can be admitted to Jiangcheng University."

"Then you also want to enter Jiangcheng University for that project?"

"Ah."

"...Oh," Yuan Yu was stunned, "You told me that I couldn't avoid you after all."

"..." Cheng Zhuo was amused by him, and said seriously, "Xiao Yu, I'm very glad that you understand so well."

Yuan Yu ignored him and walked into the gate.

The house here is much bigger than the small three-bedroom house where Cheng Guangzong himself lived. There are only two families in the independent small western-style building. Each house is a two-story duplex, and the single-floor area is not small.The decoration inside is exquisite, but because no one has lived in it for a long time, the table is a little gray, and it seems that no one has cleaned it for a while.

"I didn't have time to call cleaning, but I came to clean up the bedroom in advance, you can just go to sleep." Cheng Zhuo was going to wait downstairs for the moving company to deliver the things, and waved Yuan Yu upstairs, "There is a bathroom in the master bedroom. You can take a shower."

"No clothes to change." Yuan Yu looked at him.

"I lost a few pieces of my clothes in the closet. If you don't mind, just take them and wear them."

"En." Yuan Yu responded and went upstairs.

There is a small flower hall on the second floor, as well as several bedrooms and study rooms.Yuan Yu went in and looked at each room, and confirmed that only the master bedroom with bathroom had been tidied up.

He laughed, suspecting that Cheng Zhuo did it on purpose.

But if you insist, he doesn't mind sleeping with Cheng Zhuo, anyway, it's not the first time.Yuan Yu turned on the light, opened the closet and took a look. It was half empty, and there were not many clothes hanging there. He found a simple white T-shirt from the folded clothes, and took it into the bathroom.

He didn't work much today, he washed very quickly.When he came out, there was a faint voice coming from downstairs, probably someone from the moving company came.

He looked at the big bed in the room, and suspected that Cheng Zhuo made the crumpled bed himself, and the shape was a bit funny, so he tidied it up by himself before lying on it.

It seems that there is a feeling that the couple moved to a new house.

He closed his eyes in a daze, and the refreshing smell of clean bedding filled his nostrils.

...But for things like fishing, the progress should not be too fast, otherwise, he himself was caught.

Cheng Zhuo is a fool, if he always gives him a taste, how can he think of the answer?

Is it time to hang him out?

……

After thinking about it, Yuan Yu gradually fell asleep.

The cleaning hadn't come yet, Cheng Zhuo didn't want to sort out the moved things first, he settled the cost with the moving company, sent the person away, and went upstairs in one step at a time.

There was only one very dim bedside lamp in the master bedroom, and Yuan Yu seemed to have fallen asleep when he entered.

Cheng Zhuo stood at the door of the room admiring the lamp and the sleeping person for a long time, then suddenly laughed.

He pulled his tie, walked towards the bed, lowered his head and called softly, "Yuan Yu—"

Yuan Yu didn't respond.

So Cheng Zhuo lowered his head and stole a kiss on his face, then undressed and went into the bathroom.

As soon as the bathroom door was closed, the person on the bed suddenly opened his eyes.Yuan Yu glanced in the direction of the sound of water, and laughed.

He shook his head and closed his eyes again: "Fool."

……

Cheng Zhuo came out of the shower and was not in a hurry to sleep.He went downstairs to wash a glass, then opened a bottle of wine for himself, and went back to his room to watch Yuan Yu sleep with the glass in his hand as if admiring the scenery.

He didn't know what was so interesting about it, but he drank a whole bottle of "Room Scenery" in a daze.

At three o'clock in the morning, Cheng Zhuo calculated the time difference, went to the balcony of the flower hall on the second floor, and made a video call to his doctor.

"I figured it out, let's continue the treatment...Huh? You said alcohol? I know, I will quit after starting the treatment...No, I just think...it's not good to worry about."

Maybe he won't worry.

But... If he was really worried, he didn't seem to show it.

Cheng Zhuo never found out that Yuan Yu was worried about his father. If he hadn't heard from him today, Cheng Zhuo would have always thought that he hated that father.

Who knew that Yuan Yu had thought about those things.

Just think of it as a rainy day, anyway... the doctor has advised him a long time ago that he still needs to take the medicine.