why are they still in love

In the deep winter, there are many patients with fever in the emergency department, and even the infusion stents in the observation room have to be queued up.Xiao Zhaoshan was quite lucky, just after the drowsy Xiao Chining finished inserting the needle, there was a plastic bench not far away.

He moved the stool to the corner so that Xiao Chining could lean on and sleep for a while, and he himself acted as a humanoid support, holding the infusion bottle and standing next to him until the infusion was finished.

Xiao Chining didn't know about this, and fell asleep on the side of Xiao Zhaoshan, but his hand was still loosely holding the little finger of his left hand hanging by his side.

Painting oil paintings, especially large-scale oil paintings, is a physical labor. It usually takes a long time to lift the palette with the left hand and the right hand. So Xiao Zhaoshan has maintained the habit of going to the gym occasionally no matter how busy he is for so many years. tired.

However, when he was about to lose the last bottle, he stopped the passing nurse and asked her to help change the bottle, but he yawned twice before opening his mouth.

Once the exhaustion and sleepiness were torn open a small hole, they would rush in like a flood like a beast in an instant.When he went back, he didn't dare to drive again, so he carried Xiao Chining on his back and went to the side of the road to hail a taxi.

At three o'clock in the morning, there were no pedestrians on the street.Xiao Chining was wrapped into a rice dumpling by him, fully armed from head to toe, lying on his back and talking in his sleep.

Xiao Zhaoshan only had a fleece shirt and a round-neck sweater over his upper body. When the cold wind blew, most of his drowsiness disappeared, and he turned to listen to Xiao Chining's dream.

Xiao Chining was asking why.

His scalding breath and exhaled hot air all rushed into Xiao Zhaoshan's neck, and the latter suddenly felt a long-lost peace in his heart when he heard his unexplained questioning.

Snow is still falling.

There is not a single star in the purple sky, and layers of dark clouds cover the source of the snow, but the street lamps still reflect the two distinct shadows, as if the entire Beijing, the entire boundless snow and the invisible wind have stopped for them time.

Xiao Zhaoshan thought, even if this moment is not perfect, it is still worth cherishing forever.

He tilted Xiao Chining's body, coaxing him to "be good" like a baby.Dong Xin was right, Xiao Chining was his baby.

The baby's healing ability was not as fast as a baby's. Three bottles of liquid dripped into the body little by little, and he slept soundly for a night. The next morning, his fever subsided, and he was sober, just like normal.

Xiao Zhaoshan was still in a deep sleep, Xiao Chining turned over and saw that he was still lying beside him and hadn't gone out, so he didn't rush to get up to take a shower.

He looked at Xiao Zhaoshan's sleeping face motionlessly, and several images of last night gradually emerged in his mind, without exception, Xiao Zhaoshan was holding him, negotiating with doctors and nurses in the crowded emergency department.

Like a father.

There was an impatient knock on the door outside the house, Xiao Chining sighed secretly for a moment, turned his head to look at the door of the room, then turned back to look at Xiao Zhaoshan's face, seeing that he still had no intention of waking up, guessed Seeing that he was exhausted last night, he tiptoed off the quilt and left the bedroom.

Quin's face unexpectedly appeared in the cat's eyes.

Xiao Chining opened the door for her, and went straight to the kitchen to fetch water without saying hello.

Qiu Yin was carrying an LV handbag, standing dignifiedly on the carpet at the entrance, and asked in a deep voice, "Where's your father?"

Xiao Chining took the cup and walked back to the living room: "He's still sleeping, don't disturb him."

"What time is it still sleeping?" Qiu Yin smiled eccentrically, and deliberately raised his voice, "I'm afraid I'm exhausted after spending the night with my little lover."

Xiao Chining sat on the sofa, drank water to moisturize his throat, and was in no mood to talk to her.

Quin took a few steps closer and suddenly asked, "Have you seen it?"

"See what?"

"Your father's concubine."

As expected of mother and daughter, Chi Yan also asked him similar questions.Xiao Chining found it interesting, nodded and said, "I've seen it, she looks better than your daughter, and she's younger than your daughter."

"Xiao Chining!" Qiu Yin stared at him angrily, "Did your father teach you to say that?"

Xiao Chining didn't understand whether she believed too much in the inherent goodness of human nature, or whether she still had the illusion that he had grown up and matured, and that's why she asked such a self-righteous question.

"Does anyone need to teach the facts?" he asked rhetorically.

Qiu Yin stood stiffly in front of the coffee table, breathing heavily and furiously.But Xiao Chining felt that it was not enough.

He put down his glass, got up and said, "Since you are so free, why don't you ask your daughter, how many concubines does she have, are they as handsome as my father, and younger than my father? Go ask and see if she has any concubines." It's not as pure as you think."

Qiu Yin was so angry that his face was ferocious, and he said inarticulately: "I knew... I knew it was right for me to come to Beijing! If I don't come, you will be ruined by Xiao Zhaoshan!"

She lifted her feet and walked deep into the house, and asked Xiao Chining in a vicious voice: "Which room is he in? Let him out!"

Seeing her going straight to the master bedroom, Xiao Chining quickly walked around the coffee table to stop her: "This is my house, do I agree with you to go in?"

Quin chose the room facing the dining room based on experience.However, when she opened the door, she saw the layout of a study inside.She opened the door on the right again.

Also a study.

There were only a few rooms in total, Xiao Chining saw her turn to the real master bedroom, and without thinking, he slapped her arm away from behind as she was about to raise it: "Get out! Come here to drive your mother crazy!"

Qiu Yin persevered past him to press the doorknob, and stretched his neck to shout to Xiao Zhaoshan in the room: "What kind of man is hiding behind a child and pretending to be dead?!"

The room was eerily quiet for a second, and she heard clear footsteps coming from behind the door.The confidence that she was about to catch the adulterer on the bed immediately dazzled her, she roughly pushed Xiao Chining away who was standing in front of her, and opened the door regardless.

Xiao Chining had been burning all night, but at this moment his limbs were still weak and his feet were stilted. After being pushed so hard by Qiu Yin, he bumped straight into the wall and fell to the ground unprepared.

"Bang!"

The flesh and the floor, the door leaf and the door stopper collided suddenly, making a loud noise.

Xiao Zhaoshan, who had just come out of the bathroom in the master bedroom and was still in pajamas, saw no one else. He only saw Xiao Chining fell down, clutching his shoulders, his facial features wrinkled in pain.

With a cold face, he brushed Qiu Yin's shoulder out of the bedroom, knelt down without saying a word, lifted Xiao Chining up, let him lean into his arms, and then pulled his hands away to lighten him. rubbing the wound.

Qiu Yin turned a blind eye and rummaged through the master bedroom, but he didn't see the mistress who was supposed to appear on the bed, in the bathroom, in the closet, or behind the curtains.

"Where did you hide him!" She turned around and asked Xiao Zhaoshan.

Xiao Zhaoshan turned a deaf ear to it, and kept his head buried in rubbing Xiao Chining's shoulders, as if this was the most important event in the world.

"Where did you fall?" He raised his eyes and asked Xiao Chining.

"Ass." Xiao Chining scolded in a low voice, "Fuck, I'm so old."

Xiao Zhaoshan touched his forehead again: "The fever seems to have subsided. Go get some clothes to wrap around and wait for me in the study."

Xiao Chining looked at Qiu Yin and said with a sarcasm, "Someone is occupying our bedroom, where can I get it?"

The mistress who was looking for so hard was right in front of him, but Qiu Yin couldn't think of going there. When he heard him say "we", he thought it was because there was no spare bedroom here, so the father and son had to sleep in the same room.

Xiao Zhaoshan patted him on the back and made him stand up: "I'll get it for you."

After a little hesitation, Xiao Chining obediently went to the study.In front of Qiu Yin, Xiao Zhaoshan picked out his own thin coat from the wardrobe with the door wide open, brought along the medicine on the bedside table, and sent it to Xiao Chining together.

"Don't talk nonsense with her." Xiao Chining put on his coat and said impatiently, "If it doesn't work, throw her out."

Xiao Zhaoshan didn't respond, and warned: "There is water in the thermos from last night, it should be hot, remember to take the medicine."

The door of the study was closed by him immediately.

Xiao Chining curled up bored in Xiao Zhaoshan's chair and waited for half an hour. At first, he could hear Qiu Yin loudly accusing Xiao Zhaoshan of betraying his heart. Only a whimper could be heard, nothing else.

While falling asleep, the door of the study opened again.

"Xiao Chining, come out for a while." Xiao Zhaoshan returned to the living room as if he was doing business.

Xiao Chining rubbed his eyes, yawned and went out to meet Qiu Yin: "What else?"

The tip of Qiu Yin's nose was red, and the short curly hair that was curled and carefully groomed was not messy at all, making the remaining tears seem insincere.

With a trembling voice, she asked, "Xiao Ning, do you want to follow your father or—"

"My dad." Xiao Chining interrupted her other choices that she hadn't had time to say.

Qiu Yin clutched the handkerchief and closed his eyes. Finally, he was willing to give up: "Okay... Grandma knows."

Standing opposite her, Xiao Chining was slightly taken aback, suddenly feeling a little embarrassed.It's as if what she "got it" gave up was not her worthless grandson who would only cause trouble, but other priceless things, such as money, face and status that she valued most.

In short, it will never be him.How could it be him?

He didn't know what exactly Xiao Zhaoshan said in that half hour to make this stubborn old woman compromise and leave.

When he was choosing dishes at noon, he couldn't help asking out his curiosity. Xiao Zhaoshan was sitting on the other side of the dining table busy with work, and he simply answered: "I said I'm going to take you abroad, and the procedures have been completed."

"That's it?" Xiao Chining didn't believe it.

"I also said that I will let you go to a prestigious school, become a famous person, and help you become a great painter. I will make your life better than it is now."

That's right, that's what Quin likes to hear.

Xiao Chining joked: "Then did she suddenly realize that it doesn't seem like a big deal for you to divorce Chi Yan?"

Xiao Zhaoshan looked at the laptop screen and said unmoved: "Maybe she suddenly realized that only I can be a good father to you little bastard."

Xiao Chining did not refute.

He often feels recently that since the divorce from Chi Yan, Xiao Zhaoshan has been too gentle and good-tempered, as if the wind and rain outside his house did not disturb him, but he was already ready for the end of the world .

In the past, success experts always said "live every day as if it were your last", but if you really spend every day with the feeling of spending the last day of your life, you will be ruined personally.

Because at the end of life, apart from love, it is indulgence.

The night before the end of the world, is anyone willing to work overtime until late at night?Is there anyone else who is willing to say things against their will and do things against their will for the sake of being in a group?Everyone is busy showing love, forgiving, carnival, and sorrow. The road is full of homeless men who rob shops, psychopaths who set fire to and kill people, tearful couples hugging and kissing, and parents rushing home for reunion. .

Probably only Xiao Zhaoshan, only he will still leisurely and methodically arrange the planned exhibitions, frame the latest paintings, and then go to a certain place, calmly make love with his lover, and welcome the earth calmly in his sleep end.

Could this lover be him, Xiao Chining?

"Father," he put down the last handful of kale left at home, and asked Xiao Zhaoshan seriously, "Do you love me?"

Xiao Zhaoshan didn't hear Xiao Chining's words for a long time, and he had already dipped back into a pile of accounts he had just received. When he managed to catch a glimpse of Xiao Chining from the corner of his eye, he realized that he seemed to have been looking at him for a long time.

"what?"

Xiao Chi Ningfu lowered his head again to choose the kale leaves: "Ask you whether the kale is made with garlic or boiled."

Xiao Zhaoshan tried to save him trouble: "Bai Zhuo." After finishing speaking, he lowered his head and continued to sort out the numbers.

He wants to hurry up and create a statement that can be faked to force the police to investigate Yue Zezhang's asset flow.As long as the higher-ups are suspicious, it's easy to say anything.

But this is not his major. Just relying on his grasp of Yue Zezhang's organization and rules of conduct, he can't be perfect at all.He could only ask the professors he had met before, fill in the blanks slowly, and then ask the auditor of Dong Xin's company to help review.

A day passed through high-intensity work such as phone calls, video conferences and making up numbers. Xiao Zhaoshan couldn't take a nap at noon, and felt a little sleepy after dinner at night.

Xiao Chining saw that he was exhausted, and tried to persuade him to go to bed early.Xiao Zhaoshan was not very happy, and asked him to make a cup of coffee and then work in the study.Xiao Chining didn't bother to talk anymore, he closed the door for him and went to wash the dishes and tidy up the kitchen.

However, after he finished his housework, read a book of paintings, and it was time for him to fall asleep, Xiao Zhaoshan still had no intention of washing up and going to bed, and there was no movement in the study.

Xiao Chining put down his book and knocked on the door: "Dad, it's 11:30."

No one answered inside.

Xiao Chining raised his voice: "Dad."

Still no one answered him.

"I'm in."

Xiao Chining carefully pushed open the door, and the mixed smell of burning sandalwood and cold coffee in the study came to his face, and everything was unbelievably quiet.

There was no sound of typing on the keyboard, Xiao Zhaoshan had already fallen asleep lying on the desk.

Xiao Chining was not surprised.He walked over with light steps, glanced at the half-written document on the computer, and gently pushed Xiao Zhaoshan's shoulder.

"Dad, get up and go to bed."

Xiao Zhaoshan fell into a deep sleep, and Xiao Chining increased his strength: "Get up quickly, don't catch a cold."

Only then did Xiao Zhaoshan wake up leisurely.

He had a splitting headache, subconsciously frowned and rubbed his temples: "I fell asleep?"

"Otherwise." Xiao Chining also nagged at him, "I'll let you go to bed early after dinner, but if you don't listen, is it more comfortable to sleep on your stomach than on your back?"

Xiao Zhaoshan moved his neck around: "I don't want to see who had a high fever last night and tossed me so that I didn't sleep well."

Xiao Chining beat him on the shoulder: "Anyway, it's Yue Zezhang's fault!"