In the Same Boat

Qu Yiheng is really not the kind of person who acts casually. He is usually very restrained and never has sex with anyone other than his lover. Of course, the love affairs he has been in are also extremely limited, twice, and twice. The other party has entered the palace of marriage.

For a while, he hated it, felt discouraged, and felt that he would never look for it again, and find one to marry the other, making him seem like an old man in the world. In the end, he guarded the empty house full of fragmentary memories.

He doesn't look down on gays who cheat on marriages, and he doesn't have the pressure of his family. He doesn't have the troubles that most homosexuals have. .

The last time they broke up was three years ago. The other party meant that he was going to get married and would come back to accompany Qu Yiheng from time to time, making it seem like he was treating Qu Yiheng kindly.

This incident disgusted Qu Yiheng enough, in order to avoid that person, he moved house again, changed his cell phone number, and stopped communicating with that person at all.

That was the beginning, he made up his mind to live on his own, and really couldn't afford to worry about that.

He didn't know how Yao Zhan was doing now. He was in his 30s. Most people would get married and have children at this age. When the two of them met, neither of them brought up this topic. They didn't even ask each other any private questions until they kissed and fell on the bed. .

It's as if they met just to have a fling, this relationship is very pure, and there shouldn't be any emotional topics mixed in.

In broad daylight, the curtains were drawn, and the two of them were sweating under the quilt.

Qu Yiheng felt that he hadn't done this kind of thing for a long time, and felt ashamed no matter how he posed in some positions.

In a trance, he repeatedly reminded himself that this is Yao Zhan. The two of them had lured each other so many times when they were young and energetic, and he had bitten this person so many times, but they had never had a real/gun/real/bullet fight. .

After all, I was still young at that time, and there were some things I didn’t dare to do.

The two of them will be adults that year, and they always feel that they are adults, but when they really want to do what adults do, they are timid again.

And after all, they are different, the two boys are both guilty.

Seventeen or eighteen-year-old children don't know where they are going. Once something starts, it will be difficult to turn around later.

It's not like now, in my late thirties, although I don't really understand it, but I don't care so much about many things, and happiness is the most important thing.

If it were someone else, Qu Yiheng would not do it, but Yao Zhan, he would not refuse.

It's like filling in the missing piece of adolescence, the puzzle is complete.

Yao Zhan didn't drink well enough, but he couldn't really drink a piece of wine. He knew exactly how the two of them got here and what they did.

It's just that, drinking too much in broad daylight and proclaiming sex, the final result was that they slept together until late at night.

Qu Yiheng woke up first, and looked at the time, it was 11:30 in the evening.

Sticky, hot and uncomfortable, he pushed the person holding him, wanting to take a shower.

Pushed by him, Yao Zhan woke up and said, "Morning."

Qu Yiheng smiled: "What's so early? It's night now."

He got up from the bed, and actually started to feel a little embarrassed afterwards.

He couldn't tell what was going on, but suddenly he was a little worried that Yao Zhan thought he was a casual person.

While taking a bath, Qu Yiheng thought again, let's just feel it, who knows if we will see each other again in the future, just treat it as meeting by chance to quench each other's thirst, what's the big deal?

When he came out of the bathroom, Yao Zhan was sitting by the bed playing with his mobile phone, with his back turned to him without any clothes on.

"Anything to eat?" Qu Yiheng asked politely.

Yao Zhan looked back at him: "Don't eat."

He put down his phone and began to get dressed: "I have something to go, have you been here recently?"

"Leave tomorrow."

Yao Zhan paused for a moment, then continued to put on his clothes: "Do I need to see you off?"

"No, you are busy."

"That's fine." Yao Zhan fastened his belt and put his phone in his pocket, "Then I'll go first."

Qu Yiheng nodded and sent him to the door.

From the beginning to the end, the two didn't reminisce about the past, didn't care about each other's present, and didn't even leave each other's contact information. When communicating, they were not indifferent, but they were not warm. After all, they haven't seen each other for so many years. There must be some unfamiliarity, even if it is not long. Before the body is warm, the heart is not close.

Regarding the contact information, Qu Yiheng deliberately kept silent, and Yao Zhan really forgot.

That night, after Yao Zhan left, Qu Yiheng went downstairs to a noodle restaurant to eat a bowl of noodles in clear soup. When he came back, he tossed and turned, unable to sleep, and drew pictures under the lamp with his notebook.

He had no idea at first, but in the end, he actually drew the high school basketball court in his memory.

The basketball court was on the second floor of the gymnasium. When he looked up at the small dark corner where Yao Zhan bit him, he could see the students playing basketball.

Qu Yiheng's return flight was in the afternoon, and he saw on the Internet that there was an art gallery near the hotel, and he was going to visit it.

He went to check out at nine o'clock, intending to temporarily store his luggage at the front desk, but when he checked out, he suddenly remembered that the umbrella he had rented had left on Yao Zhan's car.

It doesn't matter if the deposit of 50 yuan cannot be refunded, but this matter has tied a knot in Qu Yiheng's heart.

On the way to the art gallery, he saw the class monitor talking in the group again, and specifically hit him and asked him if he wanted to get together today.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, he would definitely not talk in the group, but now everyone was talking to him directly, and it would be too impolite to keep quiet.

Qu Yiheng replied: Ready to go, see you next time.

Everyone chatting in the group soon drowned out his news, he breathed a sigh of relief, and put his phone back in his pocket.He is still not used to being noticed by others, even if it is friendly concern, he still feels uncomfortable.

Qu Yiheng didn't stay in the art gallery for too long, feeling unwell.

It must have been too long since he had done that. After drinking, Yao Zhan was a little too excited, which made him feel awkward when he walked.

Qu Yiheng took his luggage early and went to the airport, sat in the cafe and waited for the time to check in.

He checked the group messages on his mobile phone and saw Yao Zhan saying that he had a lot of things to do today and the department was too busy.

Just for a moment, Qu Yiheng was a little curious about Yao Zhan's work. He clicked on Yao Zhan's WeChat avatar, and the other party's signature and Moments were empty. He stared at the "add to address book" for a long time. , did not press it in the end.

He thought of Yao Zhan 15 years ago, the boy who sat on the table smoking a cigarette and gave him lectures from time to time.

In fact, after Qu Yiheng lured Yao Zhan for the first time, he couldn't calm down at all. For several days after that, he kept paying attention to Yao Zhan, but Yao Zhan seemed as if nothing had happened, which made him unable to see through.

Later, Qu Yiheng added Yao Zhan's QQ account, and opened the other party's QQ space nervously, thinking that he could capture some secrets, but in the end, there was nothing in it.

15 years later, he is still like this.

As soon as Qu Yiheng got off the plane, he received a call from the editor, and the other party hurriedly said, "Teacher Qu, can you help me?"

He asked what was wrong with the other party, and the editor said with tears: "A painter teacher opened the skylight, and you are my only hope."

Qu Yiheng smiled helplessly, and asked, "How long?"

"Two days."

He frowned, but finally agreed.

After hanging up the phone, Qu Yiheng dragged his luggage to take the subway. It cost nearly 200 yuan to take a taxi home from the airport, but the subway only cost [-] yuan.

That's why he took the job.

In this current world, the same industry has similar levels, but the income is very different.

Some painters earn a lot of money, while others are struggling on the line of food and clothing, and Qu Yiheng is the latter.

On the way back, there was no vacant seat, so he held the suitcase with one hand and grabbed the handle with the other, swaying with the subway, closing his eyes, thinking that it would probably be all night in the next two days.

When Shao Wei went to find Yao Zhan with his son in his arms, Yao Zhan was prescribing medicine for a child.

"Busy? Doctor Yao." He put his son down, and his little fat man ran over and lay on Yao Zhan's lap.

Yao Zhan was the last patient today to finish reading, gave the prescription to the child's mother, gave a few more instructions, and then hugged the fat boy from Shaowei's family.

"Oh, I'm getting fat again!" Yao Zhan was very fond of Shao Wei's son, the boy was cute and chubby, and he was also close to him, when he saw Uncle Yao, he was closer than seeing his own father.

Shao Wei asked him: "Where did you take Qu Yiheng that day?"

Yao Zhan didn't expect that he came to ask this question, raised his eyebrows: "Why?"

"It's okay, I just thought about how many years I haven't seen him, and thought about how hard it was for him to come back once, and treat him well, but he didn't eat a single meal. I'm not competent as a monitor."

"It's okay, I'll entertain you."

When Shao Wei heard it, he understood a little: "Have you two been in contact before?"

"No." Yao Zhan was taken aback suddenly, "Fuck."

Only then did he realize that he didn't leave Qu Yiheng's call.

"Don't swear in front of my son, the child has learned badly." Shao Wei detested him.

Yao Zhan laughed: "It's okay, this thing will be learned sooner or later."

Doctor Yao got off work, took off his white coat, chatted with the doctor on duty, and went out with the baby in his arms.

"Whatever you want for dinner, you can pick whatever you want."

"Don't let him choose randomly," Shao Wei took the child over, stuffed it into the back seat, and then sat in again, "He lost weight recently, let's go eat grass."

Yao Zhan was driving, and looked back at the aggrieved child: "Come on, he is fat, you take him to exercise, just controlling diet and not exercising is useless."

Two big men led a fat boy to eat steak. The adults didn't eat much, and the children didn't eat less.

Shao Wei said: "If you are like this, you will not be spoiled if you have a child in the future."

"I have to have it too."

Shao Wei sighed and asked him: "Then what are your plans? I said that if you are alone, you might as well find someone, at least a companion."

"What's the use of having that companion? We have good heating here in winter, and we don't need warm quilts."

Shao Wei sneered: "Anyway, brother's words of concern are here. If you are not looking for a woman, then find a down-to-earth man. Tell the truth, what did you two do with Qu Yiheng that day?"

As soon as he said it, Yao Zhan remembered what happened that day. He remembered that he had tossed Qu Yiheng so hard that the corner of the man's eyes overflowed with tears at the end.But what impresses him the most is not this, but the tattoo in a hidden corner of the opponent's body.

Yao Zhan couldn't remember how many tattoos Qu Yiheng had on his body, five?ten?Anyway, a lot.Each tattoo was small, and he didn't look at the patterns carefully at the time. There were words and pictures, but he remembered a sentence on the man's thigh, and he even kissed it a few times.

Yao Zhan frowned: "Why are you so gossip?"

"It's about caring." Shao Wei said, "I don't know what Qu Yiheng is like now, but he used to be silent, and he couldn't talk to anyone, so he just talked to you. I heard that he is still single. , and like you, you know what I mean."

Speaking of this, Yao Zhan didn't understand: "Who did you listen to?"

Shao Wei smiled: "Who did you hear it from? His ex-boyfriend!"

Shao Wei said: "Didn't I engage in a project last month, and the person in charge of the other project was sent to work with us for two weeks, and he hasn't left yet. I said I was from No. [-] Middle School, and he said that his predecessor did the same. , Is this a coincidence, we drank together, good guy, that kid jumped out of everything after drinking, asked me if I knew Qu Yiheng, and said that was his ex!"

After hearing this, Yao Zhan had an idea: Qu Yiheng is really unlucky to have such an inattentive ex.