african diary

When he came to Ted's room, Xiao Hang was still indignant at the unfair treatment Ted had received, and had no time to observe what the room looked like.

"Xiao Hang, why are you here?" Ted was quite surprised by Xiao Hang's appearance.

"What age is this? Your family is still in isolation and confinement. I haven't heard from you for three days."

Xiao Hang's complaint clearly revealed his worry about himself, which put Ted in a good mood, and he smiled and said with his arms around his neck: "I'm about to go back, I miss you, how do you say that in Chinese?" So, one day passed by without seeing each other?"

"It's like not seeing each other in one day, like three autumns." It seems like three years have passed since they haven't seen each other for one day, so it should have been nine years since they didn't see each other for three days, Xiao Hang suddenly felt that he really wanted to hug Ted and him tightly Alone, but forget it, this is Ouattara's house, not Ted's house, and he doesn't want to stay here for a minute.

"Your father didn't use violence against you, did he?" Xiao Hang looked at Ted up and down while talking.

"It's not that exaggerated, he is my father after all." Ted looked at Xiao Hang who was really going to check if he was injured.In fact, what happened this time gave him a new understanding of his father. It was an agreement between him and his father to leave the Ouattara family. The words his father said to himself afterwards—"You will no longer be Vata La family members, but you will always be my son Seri Ouattara", which greatly touched Ted.He didn't want to do things for the family for a long time, and making a career out of his own ability was what he pursued, but his father would say such things, maybe he was not as insignificant in his heart as he always thought.

"Seri Ouattara is too cunning. What did he say to me just now that he would give up his son for a gold mine that is of no importance to your family?" Under such a statement, since Ted has been expelled After leaving the Ouattara family, the previous agreement naturally does not count, and the Ouattara family will not lose a penny, but Ted just lost the power he deserved in the Ouattara family. It is really a loss, Xiao Hang paused, thought for a while, Ted should be more angry than himself, "But forget it, don't be sad, it's worth noting the money of such a cold-blooded capitalist."

"I'm not sad," Ted couldn't help but smile, his little lover is really too cute, "but I'll be poor in the future, do you still want me?"

"Damn," Xiao Hang, who has always been elegant, even got angry with swear words, "What's the matter, I will support you!"

Ted couldn't bear to look away from Xiao Hang, who was full of pride. Maybe it's okay to pretend to be poor: "How do you support me?"

"I have 8 yuan now." The annual salary of the previous six months was 7.5 yuan, plus the previous savings, exactly 8 yuan. "As long as you don't wear Armani or drive a Land Rover, I can still afford you in a normal life. "

"Enn," Xiao Hang's undisguised disclosure of his family background made Ted feel very sympathetic, "Then let's start from scratch together."

"What zero, it's obviously 8 yuan." Xiao Hang muttered softly, alas, forget it, it is estimated that the 8 yuan is not much different from zero in the eyes of Mr. Ted.

"Abidjan is indeed the little Paris of Africa, so beautiful!" Standing on the beach in Abidjan, there is blue water in front and a bustling city behind. Today's weather is very good, with a slight salty sea breeze It's not small, and it makes people lazy.Xiao Hang is so old and has never seen the sea. Although he is studying in Guangzhou and is very close to the sea, he has always stayed home. He has not gone out for four years in college. Now looking at the beautiful beach and sea, he suddenly wants to Take off your shoes and experience it with bare feet.

"Do you think it would be weird for me to be barefoot?"

Knowing Xiao Hang's thoughts, Ted replied: "No, I will accompany you." After saying that, he took off his shoes and socks.

Xiao Hang also imitated Ted without hesitation. This section of the beach is not specially developed for tourism. The sand has not been artificially sorted, it is a bit hard, and there are some foreign objects such as small stones in the middle.The two carried their shoes and socks, while enjoying the sun and the sea breeze, while carefully avoiding the sundries on the beach.

Ted's hand suddenly reached out to hold Xiao Hang's free hand, and the warm touch came from the palm.Xiao Hang quietly glanced around, Abidjan can be regarded as an international metropolis, there are all kinds of people, forget it, no one knows him anyway, so just let Ted hold it, he No hand was drawn.If in China, two big men walking on the beach holding hands like this will probably attract a lot of heads. It is good to be abroad, but you can ignore it. Xiao Hang has a feeling that he has entered a fairy tale-like illusory world when he is abroad. , the feeling that it doesn't matter what you do.However, if they return to China, everything will have to return to reality. He and Ted...

"Your father doesn't seem to mind your sexual orientation, what about your mother?" Xiao Hang thought about it, and asked the question in his heart.

"Same-sex marriage is not yet recognized in the UK, but it will be soon. My mother has never had any objections since I discovered that I like men when I was twelve or thirteen years old. She only cares about my studies and my character."

That's right, the only people who still have prejudices against homosexuality are China, which adheres to "there are three ways to be unfilial, and having no offspring is the greatest."

"I heard that the Chinese are very conservative in this regard." Ted said this half-questioning half-certain sentence seemingly indifferently.

"En." This topic is not suitable to continue, Xiao Hang doesn't want to guess what his mother thinks, he can't talk about these things at all.

Ted didn't continue to ask, and the two just walked quietly holding hands.

"I'll take you to catch crabs." Ted broke the silence first.

"There are still crabs here?" Ted's words aroused Xiao Hang's interest.

The two came to a pile of big rocks, and Ted knelt down and poked the sand below with a small stick.

"There will be crabs here?" Xiao Hang also squatted down to observe carefully.

"Yes. This season, the crabs are still very thin. If you come here in July and August, you can see very large crabs."

Sure enough, after a while, a group of small crabs drilled out from under the stone, and there were also a few unknown bugs.

"Come on, reach out." Ted picked up a small crab and handed it to Xiao Hang.

"Doesn't it bite?" To be precise, it should be pinching people. The crab's pincers are not easy to mess with.

"It's so small, there's nothing to be afraid of, it doesn't hurt even if you bite it."

Ted put a small crab the size of a fingernail in Xiao Hang's palm, and the small crab crawled around, and whenever it was about to fall, Xiao Hang circled his hands, so it returned to the palm of his hand .

"It's so cute," said the gray-brown little crab, which was even a little transparent, "take a photo for me."

"Such a common thing needs to be photographed." Even so, Ted took out his mobile phone and helped Xiao Hang take a close-up of the crab in his palm, and by the way... took a close-up of Xiao Hang's side face.

Satisfied to put away the phone, Ted was startled by Xiao Hang's soft cry of "Oops".

"What? Did it pinch you?"

"Well, I ran away." Being pinched suddenly by the little crab, Xiao Hang didn't react at once, let go of his hand, and let it run away, but it really didn't hurt very much as Ted said.

"Forget it, let me take a look." Pulling Xiao Hang's hand to look, there was a little redness at the root of the index finger, which must be the masterpiece of that little crab.Ted put Xiao Hang's hand close to his lips, and gently sucked the reddened skin.

"You..." A tingling feeling like an electric shock came from the roots of his fingers. Although Ted quickly let go of Xiao Hang, he was still a little-uh... distracted.

"Come on, I'll treat you to seafood. The seafood in Abidjan is great." Ted strode forward happily as if he had succeeded in a prank.