until the last minute

Because of the cake, everything is kept simple for dinner.Li Qing cooked tomato and egg noodles, the noodle soup was steaming hot, it was too hot to eat immediately, Zhou Yin picked up the noodles with chopsticks impatiently, and held his chin to wait for the noodles to cool down before eating.

Li Qing looked at his depressed look with a funny face, "What's the matter? Don't you like to eat?"

Zhou Yin puffed his cheeks, and said sullenly: "I confess to you, but you are not very happy."

Li Qing couldn't help laughing, "How can you tell that I'm not very happy?"

"You didn't have a big reaction," Zhou Yin approached and looked at Li Qing. "Shouldn't you be very excited?"

Li Qing got up and took a small bowl, put a large chopsticks of noodles into the small bowl, and pushed it in front of Zhou Yin, "You eat this, it's not so hot."

"Hey! I'm telling you about the confession," Zhou Yin protested dissatisfied, "You still have the mind to eat noodles!"

"I knew it a long time ago, and we are already together, aren't we? You are mine." Li Qing stared at Zhou Yin tenderly, and Zhou Yin blushed, "When did you know—"

"High school, those nights when you came to see me, you allowed me to hug you and kiss you. Although you rejected me at that time, and I misunderstood you at that time, I am not stupid. I should figure it out in a few years. You He likes me."

Li Qing moved the chair back slightly, motioning Zhou Yin to sit on his lap.Zhou Yin sat down and leaned against Li Qing's chest. He turned his head and bumped into Li Qing's smiling eyes. He saw his little self in Li Qing's eyes. Only the lover's firm gaze is the only self.

He kissed Li Qing's lips, like the first time he secretly kissed him with anxiety.

When lips parted, Zhou Yin whispered: "It's good that you know that I like you."

Li Qing put his arms around his waist and said with a smile: "Okay, can we have noodles now?"

After dinner Li Qing went to wash the dishes, Li Qing's cell phone rang at the dinner table, Zhou Yin handed it to Li Qing without looking at it.Li Qing reached out and crossed out the incoming call, Zhou Yin asked, "Are you not answering? Whose call is it?"

"Harassing calls." Li Qing fed Zhou Yin a washed grape, and Zhou Yin muttered, "It's a bit sour."

The phone screen lit up again, this time Zhou Yin saw the caller number, Li Qing quickly crossed out the call, and put the phone back into his trouser pocket.

Zhou Yin explained: "That's my mother's phone number."

"I know, I don't want you to pick it up."

"why?"

"There's no need to pick it up, we're having a good time." Li Qing wiped off the water in the bowl with a rag, and put the bowls and chopsticks into the disinfection cabinet one by one.He put the grapes that Zhou Yin had just taken out of the refrigerator under the faucet to wash, and Zhou Yin took the initiative to hug him from behind.

"Did my mother tell you something before? So you don't like her very much."

"Nothing to say."

"My mother told me that at that time you wanted to set fire to your yard—" Zhou Yin tentatively mentioned this matter, but Li Qing suddenly interrupted him, "It's all over, don't mention this matter."

"I'm sorry, I know you are for me." Zhou Yin softened his tone.

"Are you afraid of me?" Li Qing asked suddenly, "Do you think I'm scary?"

"will not."

Li Qing was silent for a moment, and his tone softened when he spoke again, "It's fine if I don't, everything I do is for you."

Zhou Yin kissed Li Qing's side face, and said softly: "Let me call back, I want to tell my mother that I am with you, so that she doesn't have to worry about me anymore, you will take good care of me. "

"Xiao Yin, why don't you contact her?"

"That's my mother," Zhou Yin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Are you worried that she won't agree with us being together? No."

"There are some things you may not know." Li Qing took out his phone, opened the photo album, and enlarged one of the photos. He almost looked at Zhou Yin with pity, "Do you know who your mother has been with recently?"

Zhou Yin's face was pale, and he stared at the person in the photo in disbelief.

Li Qing asked: "Do you know that person?"

"I asked my colleagues, your mother and that person have been to the sales center several times and bought a house with full payment. Recently they went on a trip."

"Impossible, they can't be together." Zhou Yin turned to leave, Li Qing held Zhou Yin's arm, "Do you know who that person is?"

"That's my dad! Since I can remember, I have been indifferent to me and my mother, because of him, I accompanied my mother to the hospital for two years, how could my mother be with him?"

Zhou Yin's eyes were red, but no tears fell. Li Qing pulled Zhou Yin into his arms forcefully, wrapping his arms around his back. Zhou Yin's abrupt shoulder blades pinched his arms.

"Xiao Yin," Li Qing let out a heavy breath, "You know you can't stop them, so leave them alone."

Zhou Zhi let out a low howl of pain.

"I love you the most in the whole world, don't you understand?" Li Qing turned Zhou Yin's face and said word by word, "They have nothing to do with you anymore."

Zhou Yin opened his eyes wide, because he was afraid of crying and didn't even dare to blink.His eyes were lost and out of focus. After a long time, Li Qing heard him muttering, "I only have you."

At midnight, after Li Qing made his wish, he blew out the birthday candles. Zhou Yin gave him a hug, "Happy birthday, I will give you the gift later."

Li Qing smiled and said: "No, you are my gift."

Zhou Yin recovered from the grief just now, with a faint smile on his face, just as he was about to speak, Li Qing's cell phone rang, and Li Ying's name flashed on the screen.

Zhou Yin glanced at it, "Answer the phone first, your sister is calling."

Li Qing answered the phone, and when he heard the crying on the phone, his face suddenly changed, and he said sharply: "I'll give you an address, you take a taxi and ask that bastard to bring you here, and let him get out when you get downstairs."

Zhou Yin asked: "What happened?"

Li Qing's face was livid, "That girl's boyfriend borrowed usury, and the debt collector came to her. She didn't dare to go back, and the school dormitory was closed again. I asked her to come and stay for one night."

More than ten minutes later, Zhou Yin saw Li Ying, who was crying and wearing make-up, trembling. He found a clean bath towel and wrapped it around Li Ying's frail and shivering body.

She was sitting on the sofa, telling the whole story intermittently, Li Qing's face became more and more serious, "You gave all the rent money to that bastard to repay the usury? Where do you live now?"

"I'm still renting a house outside. This brother gave me [-] last time." Li Ying looked at Zhou Yin, and Zhou Yin, who was named, blinked innocently, knelt down to cut the cake, and gave a piece to Li Ying , "Eating something sweet can help restore your mood."

"You never broke up with this bastard?"

"No."

"I thought the dormitory was too noisy and wanted to move out, and asked me to take the money, just to help him repay the usury?"

Li Ying nodded timidly.

Li Qing sneered, Zhou Yin cut a piece of cake to cover Li Qing's mouth.He tried to use the gentlest tone to explain to the little girl who was already terrified: "Will a few thousand or hundreds of dollars be enough to repay the usury? Do you know how much he borrowed? Are you sure he didn't lie to you?"

Li Ying looked at Zhou Yin in confusion.

Without saying a word, Li Qing got up and went to the bunk bed.Zhou Yin said with a smile: "Your brother is a bit fierce, but with me here, don't be afraid of him."