near and far

Le Mingxin lightly tapped his finger on the cover of the sketchbook, feeling like the distortion of time and space.He and He Cheng'an had known each other for a long time, and he really felt it.

He was so lost in thought for a moment that he didn't even notice that the sound of water in the bathroom had stopped.

A hand, still steamy, stretched out from behind him, pressing on the sketchbook.Le Mingxin looked back and saw that He Chengan, with his upper body covered in water droplets and the heat from the bath all over his body, picked up the sketchbook expressionlessly, and put it on the high shelf.

Le Mingxin didn't intend to take a peek at first, and he really didn't, but the atmosphere became awkward.

He said, "That notebook, I remember you used it when you were in high school."

He Chengan didn't care about the water droplets on his body, picked up a sweater and put it on, and gave a vague "um".

"I seem to have seen it..." Le Mingxin said to himself.

He Chengan's movements stopped.

Fearing that he might misunderstand, Le Mingxin hurriedly continued: "It's not peeping, accidentally..."

"Okay," He Chengan interrupted, "Let's go, it's getting late."

Before Le Mingxin answered, he had already dressed and went downstairs by himself.Le Mingxin sat on the edge of the bed, not knowing what he said wrong, so he could only scratch his head and follow up in three steps at a time.

It was indeed getting late, when the two sat in the car and drove to Le Mingxin's house, it was almost ten o'clock.There are still so many cars on the road, and the queues stop and go.After a rain, the whole city is moist and fresh, and the shallow water on the ground reflects the car lights and street lights, colorful.

Le Mingxin was sitting in the co-pilot, still holding her own small vase in her hand, the pottery was still very rough after being painted, and itched in the palm of her hand.The rose flower cut by He Chengan himself was safely inserted in the vase. Compared with the slender flower stem, the corolla was extraordinarily large and trembled with the driving of the car. Le Mingxin stretched out his hand unconsciously. Go to protect it, as if the petals will fall off.

He Chengan didn't speak again, just looked at the road ahead silently, and sometimes turned the steering wheel neatly, as if he was back to the first time Le Mingxin took his car.

Le Ming was a little discouraged, and didn't want to talk anymore. He pursed his lips tightly, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became.

What is this for?

When I got out of the car, there was still silence in the car.

Le Ming made up his mind not to say a word, unfastened his seat belt on his own, held the vase in one hand, opened the door with the other, got out of the car and walked downstairs to his house without looking back.After walking out for several steps, I didn't hear the sound of the car starting. Le Mingxin turned around under the cover of night, and saw He Chengan carefully picked up a scattered petal from the driver's seat, and gently placed it next to the handbrake. .

Le Ming's puffed up air dissipated all of a sudden, like a balloon that was punctured by a needle.

Not angry anymore, but my heart is empty.

When he returned home, he put the vase and flowers on the bedside table, next to the photo of the family of three.

When Le Mingxin finished washing and lying on the bed, he suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen Kang Chen for a long time, took out his mobile phone and sent him a WeChat message, asking him if he was busy recently and when will we get together.Almost immediately, Kang Chen called back and complained as soon as the call was connected.

"My mother recently put up a line somewhere, saying that she wants me to go on a blind date with a girl, please forgive me..." Probably Kang Xiaoqin had already fallen asleep, and Kang Chen lowered his voice.

The most soothing thing is to hear that others are worse than oneself, Le Mingxin regained his energy, turned over, lay down on the bed, and said with great interest: "Where is the girl?"

"I heard it's your school's teacher," Kang Chen said with a sigh, "The music teacher is surnamed Li, do you know him?"

Teacher Li, who teaches music, knows each other well. She is no longer a girl. She is about the same age as Kang Chen. She is divorced and has no children. Good match.Looking at the fire from the other side, Le Ming said maliciously: "Mr. Li, I know her, she is beautiful."

Kang Chen wished he could crawl over the phone and beat him up, and said, "I'm as beautiful as a celestial being, and I can't be hard."

"Just say that you already have a partner, and that's it."

Kang Chen was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Where did my partner come from..."

Le Ming was still waiting to talk, Kang Chen angrily said "I won't tell you anymore" and hastily hung up the phone.

Kang Chen has been really annoying lately. He has never come out to the family. All these years after the divorce, he has been vainly responding to the elders in the family. Teacher Li, who was called a good match, told Kang Chen tactfully that if he wanted to get acquainted with others, he should treat it as a friend.

Better to just come out.

This idea flashed for a moment, but seeing the cautious looks of the two old men, he swallowed the words again, and only said that the company is busy recently, so he will talk later, and he did not stop talking.

In fact, he is not busy recently, Shao Zhihe is busy, and the two haven't seen each other for almost ten and a half months.

If Shao Zhihe knew that he was going on a blind date, what would his reaction be? He probably wouldn't have any reaction, and he might suggest ironing the casual suit he usually wears.Thinking of this, Kang Chen couldn't help feeling angry, and lay down on the sofa.There was only a small wall lamp on in the living room, Kang Xiaoqin had already gone to bed, and Aunt Hong had gone to bed too, leaving him lying on his stomach in a daze.

Resting his chin with the back of his hand, Kang Chen unconsciously swipe through the WeChat address book list.

He remembered that Shao Zhihe always seemed to have such a proper attitude of advancing and retreating, neither alienated nor too close, making people irritated, people don't know why, just want to see him panicked.

When he was young, even if he led Kang Chen to do bad things, Shao Zhihe was always there.During adolescence, Kang Chen fell in love with the girl in the class next door, and Shao Zhihe gave him movie tickets. When the class teacher found out about his puppy love, criticized them, and interfered with them, Shao Zhihe pretended to be Kang Chen's brother. Went to school to listen to the teacher's lecture, and nodded while listening, Chen Chen knew that he was wrong, the teacher would never fall in love with him again, and he would definitely study hard.

Kang Chen always thought that he liked girls until he graduated from university. During the teacher's thank-you banquet, he drank too much. Shao Zhihe drove to school to pick him up, and the two rolled on the bed for some unknown reason.

Early the next morning, Shao Zhihe still looked the same, and said, I bought you medicine, three times a day, on the back.

It made Kang Chen have no room for embarrassment, as if having sex with the same sex whom he had known for many years was nothing at all.

Kang Chen didn't quite remember the memory of that period of drunkenness anymore, he only remembered that after waking up, his back was sore and swollen, and then there were entangled hands and feet, hot body temperature, and deep panting.Thinking about it, Kang Chen felt ashamed that he seemed a little stiff, no matter how thick-skinned he was, he was too embarrassed to masturbate himself in the living room, so he could only go back to the bedroom with his legs crossed.

He lay on the bed, unbuttoned his trousers, pushed the clothes to his chest, and put them on from slow to fast, with his crotch pushing up unconsciously.

The cell phone next to the pillow turned on, and it was Shao Zhihe who had sent a voice, Kang Chen licked his lips, and turned on the voice with one free hand, Shao Zhihe's slightly tired low voice came out from the phone.

"I bought Xiaoqin a chair to correct her sitting posture. The last time I saw her writing, she always bent over..."

Kang Chen didn't listen carefully to what he was saying at all, he just panted and shot himself all over his hands.After realizing that the content of the voice was so homely and measured, he felt blushed and scolded himself for being shameless from the bottom of his heart.

He wiped off the turbidity on his hands, and without replying to that sentence, he shuffled into the bathroom.