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Wei Jin always felt that he was used to spending weekends with Luo Yu, and when he suddenly returned to being alone, he felt so lonely that he didn't know what to do.

It wasn't until he sat on the minibus bound for the nursing home and stared at his own reflection in the window that he realized that this was only the third weekend after school started.

Wei Jin was slightly disgusted by himself, silently straightened his back and raised his head.

After a summer vacation, old man Zhang's room has undergone many changes.

The biggest change was that the half of the room that belonged to old man Chen was empty.

Old man Zhang changed his sitting meditation mode, and was bowing his waist and carrying a small water bottle to serve the potted plants.A row of flower pots was added along the foot of the wall, and the flowers and plants were raised by him in a swaying manner.

When Wei Jin stepped into the room and saw this scene, he already had a bad premonition in his heart, but he still pretended to be relaxed and asked: "Uncle Chen has moved?"

"Dead." Old man Zhang said angrily.

Wei Jin was shocked.He still remembered the appearance of old man Chen, no matter how he looked at it, he was tougher than old man Zhang who looked like a dried walnut, but he said nothing and he was gone.

Wei Jin was still at an age when he would be overwhelmed by the news of his death. After thinking for a long time, he could only say: "...sorry."

Old man Zhang looked disapproving: "Hey, how many years don't die in the nursing home? Catch up with the peak period, send two away a week, get used to it."

Having said that, Wei Jin always felt that he suddenly started growing flowers, probably because he was touched by the death of his roommate.

"When will the new roommate move in?" Wei Jin got a rag and began to clean the windows.

"Hurry up, it depends on their arrangements."

In the courtyard outside the window, the old ladies are still dancing.Old man Zhang was so addicted to watering the flowers that he didn't lift his head.

Wei Jin asked out of nowhere: "Is there any progress between you and that granny?"

Old man Zhang frowned: "You youngsters, what are you thinking about all day long?"

Wei Jin said awkwardly, "I thought you would have some...new insights."

"What perception?"

"Life is too short. Flowers can be broken when they bloom, and so on."

"Yes," said old man Zhang, "life is too short, and she doesn't know how many years are left, so I won't bother her."

"..."

"I've been a bachelor all my life, and I'm not afraid of losing my life. But my life is peaceful and stable, with children and grandchildren. I want to find a result, but I made her face more variables. Why bother?" Zhang The old man must have been brewing these words for a long time, and no one can say them on weekdays, but now he poured them all out to Wei Jin, "Like this flower, you see that it blooms beautifully, so don't break it. "

Wei Jin stood there stiffly, feeling that every word he said was directed at him.This old man is probably an NPC sent by the heavens, and together with the whole universe, he persuaded himself to retreat.He was thinking about Luo Yu's family business and great future, and with a trace of grief and indignation that was not clear, he murmured to himself: "Then what will happen if I want to give up?"

"Who are you breaking?" Old man Zhang raised his head, full of shock and anger, "You break yourself first! If you dare to hit grandma's head with your idea, the young man now..."

"..."

-

Luo Yu was embarrassed to take his parents to the cafeteria, so he found a restaurant to invite them to dinner.Luo Yu's mother flipped through the menu and sighed: "The scrambled eggs with tomatoes in this big city are five yuan more expensive than ours."

Luo Yu's parents are completely different from Wei Jin's parents. They have been working-class workers for most of their lives, and a trip to see their son is considered a long-distance trip.

In fact, they never figured out how Luo Yu got to where he is today.From their point of view, the son just read a few more math books and took a blank piece of paper to write and calculate some things he couldn't understand.Later, the head teacher came to the door and advised them to send their son to the competition.Later, the son took home some kind of trophy as if it were a matter of course, and sent him to the awesome university in a daze.

Luo Yu's father summed up all this as "good Fengshui at the ancestral grave".

Halfway through the meal, Luo Yu's father said: "You are about to graduate from college, when will you talk about a girl and bring it home for us to see?"

Luo Yu lowered his head to pick up vegetables as quietly as a chicken.

"No hurry, no hurry," Luo Yu's mother said, "They are busy with their studies."

"That's not true." Luo Yu hastily agreed.

"No matter how busy you are, you can't delay the important events in life."

Luo Yu lowered his head and sipped his soup as quietly as a chicken.

Luo Yu's mother smiled and patted him: "It's okay, boys are more popular when they are older. Besides, our son is so competitive, are you afraid that you won't be able to catch up with girls..."

The vocabulary of the old couple's compliments is seriously lacking, and they switch between "really make the old Luo family proud" and "really make us look good" all the year round.

Luo Yu couldn't even swallow the soup.

He always thought that he fully understood Wei Jin's feelings at the moment when he came out of the closet, and he could also estimate the courage it would take to come out.Only at this moment did he discover that people can never truly empathize until that critical moment.

Luo Yu placed his parents in a hotel near the school: "I'll come back tomorrow to take you to the train station."

"No, no, you need to sleep longer in the car early in the morning." Luo Yu's mother said, "Remember to eat the things I brought you, and send them to you after eating."

Luo Yu responded, looking down at his toes.Luo Yu's father only regarded him as parting, and slapped him boldly on the back: "Grow up. Relatives and acquaintances are saying that they haven't seen you for a long time. You have to go home for the New Year. It's best to bring another... ..."

Impulsively, Luo Yu blurted out: "Speaking of which, do you still remember my cousin?"

As soon as the forbidden words were uttered, the hotel room fell into silence for an instant.Silence itself has fully demonstrated the answer, but Luo Yu's father insisted on asking: "Which cousin? How many cousins ​​do you have?"

"The one who always played with me when I was young..." Luo Yu already regretted it, "Well, I haven't heard you mention her in the past few years, and I just remembered it for some reason. Nothing else, just ask casually..."

He shut up.The father and the father seem to be conducting the first silver-free 300 competition here.

"I don't know where to go for a long time." Luo Yu's father said firmly.Luo Yu's mother was angry, mixed with unexplainable vigilance and panic, and reprimanded: "Don't mention her in front of relatives and acquaintances in the future. She made such a big fuss back then, she said everything. Be careful of people misunderstood you."

Yes, relatives and acquaintances.These four characters represent the entire social circle of Luo Yu's parents.

Luo Yu nodded out of habit, and the root of his tongue felt a little bitter for a while.Luo Yu's mother still couldn't let go and asked: "You haven't contacted her, have you?"

"……No."

Luo Yu shuffled out of the hotel, and there seemed to be two worried eyes on his back.

-

Luo Yu is not an emotional person, even at this moment he can see clearly that his parents love him.This love comes from the unbreakable blood bond, crossing the gap of time, environment and cognition, and conveying the heat of primitive recklessness to him.

Just like that year after he won the award and was recommended, he wanted a computer to play games.His father didn't know any configuration at all, but he went to withdraw the money without saying a word, and told him to "buy in Guili, the most important thing is to help study".

Luo Yu knew that if he put all his eggs in one basket and confessed to them, after a long struggle, most of them would still trek to his side and face the monsters on the other side of the chasm together with him.And that wouldn't be because of any improvement in realm, they were still old and dazed, they just loved him.

Together with themselves, they will become "people who should not be mentioned" in their hometown.I have already left the nest, so I can laugh it off, but they only have the nest left.

Luo Yu walked more and more heavily, until he was almost at the school gate before suddenly standing still.He has not contacted Wei Jin for a whole day.

Luo Yu took out his mobile phone from his pocket, and there were no unread messages or missed calls.He made a phone call, but Wei Jin didn't answer.Luo Yu was inexplicably apprehensive, so he called again, and waited for the sound to beep seven or eight times before there was a loud noise from the other end, followed by Wei Jin's voice: "...Hi."

"Wei Jin? Where are you?"

Wei Jin didn't say anything.Luo Yu listened attentively, distinguishing the music and drumbeats: "Are you in a bar? Are you drunk?"

Wei Jin said: "Hey."

Luo Yu remembered Wei Jin's drinking capacity last time, and suddenly felt dizzy: "Which bar? Obedient, send me a location."

Wei Jin didn't know how much he drank, and there was a lazy smell of alcohol in his voice: "Guess."

"..."

Luo Yu really guessed right.

He stepped into the door of the Rear Window Bar for the second time, his eyes searched the crowd for a moment, and he saw Wei Jin lying on the bar counter, with his head propped on one hand, chatting and laughing with the handsome bartender, with a row of empty glasses in front of him.

Luo Yu's eyelids twitched a few times, vaguely feeling that there was something wrong, so he walked over and patted Wei Jin on the shoulder.Wei Jin turned his head in a daze, blushing, and grinned when he saw him: "Brother."

Luo Yu couldn't laugh or cry: "Brother, what brother, how long have you been drinking?"

"Brother." Whether Wei Jin was pretending to be drunk or really drunk this time, his words and deeds had no logic at all, he fumbled to find the phone, and handed it to him as if offering a treasure, "Look."

Luo Yu looked down and saw a picture of a potted plant.

Wei Jin happily asked for credit: "I have been pruning with old man Zhang all afternoon. This is the most satisfying pot. I held it in until now to show you. Isn't it beautiful?"

Luo Yu knew that straight men are aesthetically pleasing, so he didn't even look at it. He followed his will and said, "Beautiful. Why did you hold back until now?"

Wei Jin continued to claim credit: "Because you are with your parents."

Luo Yu's heart was sore and soft, and the feeling was hard to describe.He can probably guess Wei Jin's mood when he came to buy drunk alone.

However, Wei Jin seemed to wake up a little suddenly, and his complexion changed. He grabbed him to identify his eyes, and then pushed him: "Luo Yu? You can't come here, you go."

Luo Yu didn't follow the general knowledge of drunkenness: "It's time to go, I'll take you back."

"No, no, go, go now!" Wei Jin pushed harder and harder, and suddenly his center of gravity became unstable and fell on Luo Yu.He hurriedly broke away again, and looked around with a look of horror: "This is... this is gay, in case someone sees you coming..."

The soreness in Luo Yu's heart turned into a dull pain, and he hurriedly paid for the drink, and comforted him in a low voice while helping him up: "It's okay, you'll see it when you see it, what are you afraid of?"

Wei Jin hung on his body and was dragged by him to walk out. When he squeezed through the crowd, he still struggled to raise his hand to cover his face: "Did someone take a picture just now?"

"No."

"Keep your head down a little bit." Wei Jin cried.

Luo Yu broke into a little sweat, and gritted his teeth to carry the living man: "Wei Jin, you and I are already in the same world."

"not yet."

"Wei and Jin."

"Not yet," Wei Jin said stubbornly almost shamelessly, "You still have a chance—"

Luo Yu blocked his mouth.