easy to be a man

Zhou Liming received a text message from Zhou's mother in the advanced mathematics class a few days ago.

"Niannian, it's your birthday soon, take some time to go home, let's celebrate your birthday with the whole family!"

After reading the content of the text message, he turned over his phone, and only replied "yes" after class was over.

For various reasons, Zhou Liming doesn't like birthdays.But he also didn't want to disappoint Zhou's mother in this matter, so he agreed.

After class ended at three o'clock in the afternoon that day, Zhou Liming went to the library in a leisurely manner. He didn't pack up his things and went to Lishui Garden until after 05:30.

The Zhou family is in a single-family villa in the middle of the Lishui Garden Community. It was moved here by Zhou's mother three years ago.The reason why he moved here was that this neighborhood is very close to Zhou Liming's high school, and not far from his target university, H University.But after the Zhou family moved here, Zhou Liming chose to live on campus instead, and now that he is in college, he lives alone in an apartment outside.

Zhou Liming knew that Zhou's mother was very disappointed with his choices, but the other party didn't say anything, so he naturally pretended not to know.

The villa is surrounded by a circle of greenery, and there is a big iron gate blocking the sight of others.From a distance, the Zhou family seems to be the kind of house that only appears in fairy tales, beautiful and peaceful.As soon as Zhou Liming entered the big iron gate outside, the main gate opened.Mother Zhou greeted her happily, "Niannian, you are back."

Zhou Liming nodded, and as Zhou's mother entered the living room, he found that the living room had been decorated with colorful balloons, and the most conspicuous background wall was pasted with the words "happy birthday", filling the whole living room with a joyful and lively atmosphere.

Looking at the birthday decorations of elementary school students, Zhou Liming remained silent.

It's just that Zhou's mother felt embarrassed when she saw that he didn't express anything, "I want to make it lively and arrange it like this. Isn't it a little naive. If you don't like it, you can dismantle it now."

"No, it's fine." Zhou Liming shook his head, put the bag on the sofa, and sat down to pour a glass of water.Seeing this, Zhou's mother sat down next to him, happily pulling Zhou Liming to greet him.It's just that Zhou's mother always asks more questions and Zhou Liming answers less.

But Zhou's mother didn't care about these things, as if sitting and chatting with her son was already the happiest thing in the world.

The mother and son were chatting when they saw a young and handsome man approaching and respectfully said to Mother Zhou: "Mr. Hu, Auntie just finished cooking and left. Everything is set up here."

Mother Zhou looked at the young man with gentle eyes, she smiled and nodded to him, "Xiao Liu, I'm sorry to trouble you, thanks to you today."

"I should." Assistant Liu smiled, then turned to look at Zhou Liming again, "Then I'll be here to wish Young Master Zhou a happy birthday, the company still has something to do, so I'll leave now, so as not to delay your family reunion gone."

As he spoke, Assistant Liu nodded to Mother Zhou again, then got up and left.

Zhou Liming looked at the remaining smile on his mother's face, lowered his head, picked up the cup and took another sip of water, then closed his mouth and fiddled with the phone.

Zhou's mother thought that Zhou Liming was getting impatient for waiting, so she spoke to comfort her: "I just asked your dad, and he will be home soon. You father and son haven't seen each other for a long time, although he didn't say anything, he still misses you. "

"Yeah." Zhou Liming nodded, but his eyes were still fixed on the phone.

Seeing this, Zhou's mother hesitated to speak, but she didn't say much after all, she just got up and went to the kitchen.

Sure enough, within a quarter of an hour, Father Zhou came back.

Father Zhou is a serious-looking man. Although he is middle-aged, he is still quite handsome.Most of Zhou Liming's appearance followed him, but Zhou's father had been in the top position for a long time, and he had more imposing manner and the charm of a mature man.Even at this age, walking on the street still attracts the attention of young men and women.But at this time, Father Zhou had been busy all day, and he was obviously a little tired.He untied his tie, casually hung it and his coat on the hanger, and then turned his head to look at his son whom he hadn't seen for a long time.

"Are you back?" Father Zhou's tone was very flat, "How is living outside?"

"Very good." Zhou Liming replied with the same tone, which was lighter than that of talking to Zhou's mother.

But Father Zhou nodded after hearing this, "That's good."

After a few words, there was nothing to say between father and son.But obviously Zhou Liming and Zhou's father are already used to this way of getting along, and they don't feel embarrassed.Seeing Zhou's mother serving dishes from the kitchen, the father and son went to the dining room and sat down tacitly.

Zhou's father looked at the layout around the room and frowned. He obviously didn't like it, but he was very polite to Zhou's mother: "You are tired today."

"What is there to be tired of for my son." Zhou's mother's attitude towards Zhou's father is not as warm as Zhou Liming, and seems a little cold.It's just that the two of them spoke in a low voice, as if they didn't want others to hear them.

After Zhou's mother finished speaking, she turned her head and looked at Zhou Liming again, with a natural smile on her face.She seems to be born to be a person who can create excitement, and when the other two people don't talk much, she can still carry out every step of celebrating her birthday happily and beaming.But thanks to Zhou's father and Zhou Liming's willingness to cooperate with Zhou's mother's pace, the wish, blowing out candles and cutting the cake were all completed, but this excitement seemed to be floating in the air all the time, which seemed a bit out of place with this family.

After finally cutting the cake, the dinner table finally calmed down.

Father Zhou ate his food gracefully, and looked up at the other two talking from time to time.Zhou's mother watched Zhou Liming eat all the time, occasionally guiding him to answer some trivial daily questions, so busy that she didn't even care about eating.It's not that Father Zhou doesn't take part in the conversation at all, and he will add a few sentences at the right time.However, although Zhou Liming was the main character at the dinner table, he ate with his head down all the time, and answered most of the conversations with an "um".Eating and chatting like this, the atmosphere can be regarded as somewhat harmonious.

Zhou's father was halfway through his meal, as if he suddenly thought of something, he glanced at Zhou Liming and said, "I heard recently that you seem to be in love with a boy at school. It's very high-profile. something?"

When Zhou's mother heard this, she raised her head and looked at Zhou's father, obviously not unaware.Seeing that Zhou Liming was chewing something and did not speak, she smiled and smoothed things over, "Nowadays it is normal for young people to fall in love with boys or girls, so there is no need to make a fuss."

Zhou's father frowned when he heard the words, he paused and then said to Zhou Liming: "It's okay to play with boys, but you have to know that these little boys are very messy when they are gay, you should pay more attention, don't play it off gone."

As soon as Zhou's mother heard this, she knew that she would suffer, so she quickly raised her head and looked at Zhou Liming nervously.But Zhou Liming just put down his chopsticks when he heard the words, and smiled: "What do you mean by playing off? Does it mean being found by a mistress like you?"

As he said that, he raised his head and looked at Father Zhou with ironic eyes, but his expression became more and more similar to Father Zhou's, until the serious expression on Father Zhou's face almost shattered.

"Zhou Liming, is this the way you are talking to me!"

Zhou Liming obviously wasn't impressed by Zhou's father's majesty, he still mocked with a smile on his face, "You've done everything, are you still afraid of me telling you?"

"Zhou Liming!" Father Zhou was even more furious.

"Okay, okay! Can't you have a good meal at home?" Mother Zhou interrupted the confrontation between the father and son.

The father and son shut up immediately, and the dinner table was eerily quiet.

Mother Zhou looked up at the exaggerated decorations around her, lowered her head and sighed, but couldn't say anything else.

Zhou Liming looked at his mother, the smile on his face had long since disappeared, "Mom, I'm sorry. It's just that I can't finish this meal, so I'll leave first."

With that, he stood up and left the table.When he walked into the living room and picked up his schoolbag from the sofa, he heard his parents' uncontrollable quarrel.

"The child finally came home, can't you say something nice!"

"Am I not cooperating enough? Listen to what he said!"

"Hmph! Did Niannian say something wrong? I don't care how many people you have outside, but you just let that woman come to your door and let Niannian see it! It's all your fault that he has become like this now!" Said that Zhou's mother has already brought a crying voice here.

"Can you stop pretending here? I'm not a good couple, but are you a good mother? What do you think your little assistant does, and your son doesn't know?"

"Zhou Hexue, you're still not human for saying that! You're spending time and drinking outside, why do you still ask me to stay in the empty room..."

Zhou Liming stood in the living room and listened to the movement for a while, then put his schoolbag on his back and went out the door expressionlessly.

When he heard these words for the first time, he was very sad, but now that he listened to them again, there was no wave in his heart.

It was already dark outside, and there was only a pointed crescent moon standing above it in the night sky.Zhou Liming looked up at the moon and said silently: "Every year, every year. Every year has today, and every year has today." He didn't know what he thought of, he laughed at himself, raised his legs and strode away .

Sitting on the subway, Zhou Liming turned on his phone, and saw that the class group was congratulating him on his birthday, so he simply replied in the group with a thank you.Then I saw Liang Shu's dialog box among a bunch of private messages of blessings.

Liang Shu: [Niannian, I wish you a happy birthday ヾ(?°?°?)? By the way, Niannian is your nickname (〃'▽'〃)]

Zhou Liming was taken aback, and then remembered that when Zhou's mother called him last time, Liang Shu seemed to have heard her.Thinking of that night, he couldn't help laughing out loud.

After thinking about it, he simply got off the car one stop earlier.

Let's go back to school tonight, see what Liang Shu's little psycho is doing, and tease him by the way.