1999

During that typhoon, Huda wandered aimlessly on the nearby streets for 10 minutes before returning home by detour.

He was thinking of finding something to do next, but his mind was so messed up that he couldn't do anything, and he was afraid of making the young man even more angry, but he didn't want to stop the electric car running in the heavy rain anyway.

As long as you stop, you will see the young man's face mixed with shock and disappointment.Huda didn't even want to close his eyes and think about what an outrageous thing he had done.

How should I apologize to the young man? Huda was thinking hard about this along the way.

He originally thought that Wu Jiusheng would be very angry with him, and maybe he would be so angry that he refused to go home.He thought that would be good, at least the school study room is warm and comfortable, where young people can study and do what they want to do with peace of mind.

He didn't expect Wu Jiusheng to come back earlier than him.When pushing the door open, Huda was startled by what he saw.

He wasn't sure how the young man got home from school, but he could be sure that the young man didn't hold an umbrella all the way.

Wu Jiusheng's whole body was soaked, dripping like a person who had just been rescued after falling into the water.He was already emaciated, and the rain-soaked clothes stuck to his skin made him look like a firewood stick that could be snapped at a handful.At this moment, Wu Jiusheng was sitting on the edge of the bed, not caring at all whether the sheets and the floor were wet with water all over his body.Hearing the sound of Huda pushing the door, he moved a bit, raised his head silently, and turned his gaze to the door where Huda was standing.

Huda felt like he was going crazy.

Such a strong wind!Such cold rain!What to do if it freezes!What to do if you are sick!He rushed into the room, opened the closet like he wanted to break off the door with his bare hands, and randomly pulled a blanket from the top compartment where the bedding was stored.The remaining sheets, quilts, pillowcases and mattresses were all dragged down and fell all over the floor. He didn't care about it, and grabbed the blanket and wrapped it around the young man.

The coldness of the skin touched by his tentacles made him bite his tongue bitterly.

"Why don't you know how to take care of yourself...!" He yelled anxiously and distressedly.

Wu Jiusheng suffered that roar for nothing, but he didn't get angry, nor did he resist. He let Hu Da raise his head and let him wipe the water off his face.He looks very calm, now he is close enough to Huda, the door is closed, in this small space isolated from the world, there is no need to worry that Huda will suddenly run away without looking back, Wu Jiusheng finally spoke to him Huda said the first words after returning home:

"Now you know it too, that's how it feels."

The young man's words made Hu Da stunned, and he was instantly occupied by an indescribable complex emotion.He thought of a hundred possible ways in which Wu Jiusheng would quarrel with him, but none of them were like what he saw before his eyes.

The changes and growth quietly taking place in Wu Jiusheng came so quickly that Hu Da even began to feel a little uncertain about him. Such a firm but not forceful way to express dissatisfaction.

They had indeed been together for a long time, and Wu Jiusheng seemed to know how to eat him to death. One sentence blocked the remaining one hundred and one thousand sentences of him, making Hu Da feel wronged and feel ashamed.

After saying that sentence, the youth did not continue to spread out.He has more pressing questions that he wants to know the answer to than to blame Huda——

"Why did you pretend you didn't know me just now?"

That was all he really cared about, and for the first and only time today, he felt hurt when Huda called him a stranger.Now he asked.

"Uncle Hu, if you are afraid that more people will know about the two of us together, so that you will suffer from what happened in the factory before, I can understand. But Uncle Hu, the two of us are also real People, as long as people are together, how can we avoid mutual contact. I understand that you have your concerns. It is true that I am not as experienced in society as you are, and I don’t know more than you, but I will also think about the two of us. Ah. The unpleasantness in the factory before... that's because we were seen and some explicit messages came out. Now we are in the city, it's different, no one here knows us, you before, you before Me, no one knows. Can you stop pretending you don't know me in person like today, it really makes me sad. "

On the desk not far in front of Wu Jiusheng, there were a dozen study materials that had just been printed and were still fresh and hot.It was typed out by him in the printing shop to deal with the little editor's questioning.It is full of various case information that needs to be memorized proficiently. Usually, Wu Jiusheng would have a headache just by looking at it, but he never felt bitter. He even thought that as long as it was for a better life for himself and Huda in the future, that little effort would be worthwhile. It can't be called any real hardship.

But now that he was looking at the stack of materials, a layer of intense tiredness suddenly covered his heart.

He sighed as if exhausted at last, and said:

"Since I met you, I have listened to you on every major matter. You said that if you asked me to quit my job, I would quit my job. If you asked me to go to the city to study, I would go to the city to study. Before you came here, you asked me, didn't you I really wanted to read a diploma, and I said I wanted to. At that time, I really wanted to come. But now my thoughts have changed. I think it’s because you have changed since you entered the city. Uncle Hu, you are so afraid, so Worried, it seems that this world will only hurt me except for dangers. In order to protect me, you push me away from you. I can't accept this. Yes, I want to study, but what I want more is With you. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have any of these things, because they don't mean anything to me, do you understand?"

After Wu Jiusheng said that, he sniffed, raised his head, and met Hu Da's eyes.In those eyes, the light was clear and clear, with a trace of pitiful weakness mixed in.

"Uncle Hu..." Wu Jiusheng called Hu Da again coquettishly, he wanted to tell all the truth, and he didn't want to wait any longer——

"I used to have the illusion that everything would be better when I entered the city, but now I really miss our former home. I want to go back to Pingxiang, I miss our store, I miss the familiar feeling before, we... we go back OK?"

Huda's throat choked, and he turned his head subconsciously.

He was afraid to look at the begging eyes of the young man.

"I can't go back." After a while, he broke the silence and replied softly, "The store told me to sell it."

Wu Jiusheng couldn't believe it, and slowly opened his eyes wide in front of those words.

"what……?"

Hu Da bit the bullet and maintained his movements, pretending not to hear the shock in the young man's tone.

"Whether it's sold or not, I won't promise you to go back." He said, "I just want you to finish this study well. At your age, how can you give up halfway?"

However, as if the young man didn't hear his words, his round eyes turned red bit by bit.When he spoke again, there was a long-lost cry in Wu Jiusheng's voice.

"Why are you like this, you don't even discuss it with me..."

Huda's body shook.Every time the young man shed tears in front of him so defenselessly, it made him nervous, and the heart in his chest shrank together fiercely like being scalded by boiling water.

He stretched out his hand, wanting to caress the young man's cheek, but only felt a cold and slippery water mark.

Wu Jiusheng was crying with his eyes wide open, and he didn't even blink. The way of crying was so pitiful. Hu Da couldn't bear it.

"Uncle is wrong, uncle is wrong, don't be like this..." He softened his voice to coax the young man, bent down and arched his body to hug the man, hurriedly wiped those tears from the edge of his eyes, but it was like how to wipe the tears away. It seems like it can't be wiped out.

Wu Jiusheng bit his lip and whimpered.

"What do you ask me to do? That's our home... Where is my home in the city? This one is not here at all. You never do this when you are at home. You will not ignore me or pretend that you don't know me I...I don't want to stay here, Uncle Hu, I want to go home..."

"Be good, don't cry, no, uncle didn't..." Hu Da frantically wiped Wu Jiusheng's face for a while, until his heart was numb with pain, he held up the young man's face, and told him as if admitting his mistake , "Listen to Uncle, Uncle really didn't ignore you, nor did he pretend not to know you on purpose, there are some things you don't understand, I did this because I didn't want to trouble you..."

"What trouble can you cause me!" Wu Jiusheng cried.

"You study in school, you are a student, you live with me, we live together, your classmates may think that I am a relative who takes care of your life, but I am a takeaway and courier, so it is not Stable and undignified job, which competent parents in the world would throw their child in a strange city and put it in the care of someone who does this kind of job? Let your classmates know, and they will guess your family, Your origin, guess whether your parents don't want you, don't care about you."

"They didn't want me at first, they didn't care about me!" Wu Jiusheng suddenly called out, "Only you want me, you don't care about me, you are my only relative in this world, I am not afraid of others knowing, and I am not afraid of shame!"

"But I'm afraid...!" Hu Da said bitterly, "I hope you are the best in everything, no worse than other people of your age, you are obviously smart and hardworking, why should you be caught for a while Gossip behind your back about something bad, if you study, I should provide you with the best environment, and when I earn enough money, we will move out and change to a bigger house—”

"But I don't want a big house!" Wu Jiusheng stood up from the bed suddenly, grabbed Huda's sleeves, and repeated impatiently, "I don't want anything! I want you! You are not old! You don't embarrass me! You won't let others talk about me behind my back! Who dares to say that you are not good!"

He gripped the knuckles of Huda's sleeves so hard that they turned white.Wu Jiusheng really didn't know what else to do, what method to use to convince Hu Da that he didn't care about all of the above!

He finally found the reason why he was so sad when he heard Huda say that.

It was Huda who had changed his attitude.When they encountered difficulties in the past, Hu Da would sometimes be unable to help, but he would try every means to try, and he would patiently explain himself from the perspective of an elder.At that time, they loved very frankly and equally.

But at this moment, Hu Da, inside and outside of his words, has a kind of fear that he is afraid that his life will be dragged down.His love didn't decrease at all, but the humbleness in it hurt Wu Jiusheng.

When had he seen Huda like this?How could he be willing to see his Uncle Hu become like this?

The last tear in the eye socket burned his eyesight, and it dripped down slowly like that.Wu Jiusheng stood there staring at Hu Da for a long time in a daze, then suddenly stretched out his hand and wiped them away with a lot of strength.

"Uncle Hu," he made up his mind, called Hu Da, and when he spoke again, the trembling in his voice was gone, and the only thing left was the firmness that no one could shake, "You will know, you are definitely not me I'm not hiding anymore, I want them to know who you are and I want everyone to know that we are together."

Huda never expected that the young man would say this.He looked at the young man in shock, his brows knit together quickly.

"Are you crazy! I disagree!"

Before Hu Da could fully express the shock and worry in the back, he was interrupted by the shaking of the head of the young man.

"I always have a way." Wu Jiusheng raised his head stubbornly and looked at him, "You sold our shop without consulting me, Uncle Hu, you did something willful and irresponsible, now, It's time for me to turn."