Yesterday

After dinner, Qin Yu received a WeChat message from his mother asking where he was.

Qin Yu replied without thinking, "In the apartment." In fact, he was at Xu Yanqing's home.

Mom's phone call came right away.

"where are you?"

"I'm--" Qin Yu hesitated, listening to his mother's tone, his lie had been seen through.

"I'm in your apartment right now," Qin's mother said, "and there's a layer of dust here. You haven't lived here at all recently, have you?"

Qin Yu would go back to his parents' house every half a month at most, but he hadn't been to his bachelor's apartment for a long time.

"……Um."

"Who are you at? Could it be—"

"Mom," Qin Yu took a deep breath, "I'll go over and tell you."

"Okay, then hurry up."

Even without his mother's phone number, Qin Yu planned to go home and tell them next time.Xu Yanqing and Shen Jialan accepted him like a family member. It would be unfair to Xu Yanqing if he kept hiding it from his family.

His mother was waiting for him at the apartment.Until he walked into the elevator, Qin Yu was still thinking about how to say the most appropriate thing.

"Qin Yu," Mother Qin's intuition is keen, "Did you... live with someone else during this time?"

"Yes, Mom," Qin Yu refused to sit down, "We've been together for almost a month."

There was no trace of sullenness on Qin's mother's face, she smiled and said, "You're real, we haven't stopped you from falling in love, so there's nothing to hide. Your father and I don't need anything, and we won't ask you for anything. As long as it's someone you're serious about, you won't object."

Qin Yu's eyes lit up: "As long as it's my choice, you really won't object?"

"Yes, you have been serious and assertive since you were a child. Mom believes in your vision." Qin's mother beckoned him to sit down, "What does that girl do? Why don't you bring her to your house on weekends?"

"Mom, I do fall in love with someone, and I want to be with him forever," Qin Yu said to his mother in a solemn tone like an oath, "You may have heard of his name."

He gently closed his eyes, then opened them again: "His name is Xu Yanqing."

After Qin Yu left, Xu Yanqing was a little restless, and even regretted not going with him.Shen Jialan had already gone to bed, and Xu Yanqing was guarding the door because Qin Yu said he would definitely come back.

It was past ten o'clock, and the door was still quiet, without any movement of anyone coming.Xu Yanqing couldn't help but make a phone call, the phone was turned off.His brows were tightly furrowed, and the calmness he managed to maintain collapsed a little bit, and he opened the door and ran outside.

The alley at night is surprisingly quiet, the scattered street lights are dimly lit, and there are blind spots everywhere that cannot be illuminated.When he reached a place where he couldn't see clearly, Xu Yanqing had to support the wall and move forward slowly.Just turning a corner, he heard hurried footsteps.

"Who?" Xu Yanqing instinctively ran towards the nearest street light.Under the lamp, he could clearly see the panting figure. "Qin Yu?"

"Senior—" Qin Yu raised his head and looked at Xu Yanqing blankly. Maybe he was running too fast just now, and his head was covered with sweat.

"Qin Yu!" Xu Yanqing walked over quickly, ignoring the sweat on his body, and hugged him tightly.

Qin Yu buried his head in Xu Yanqing's neck, and firmly grasped the back of his T-shirt with both hands.

"Your mother... did she mention you?" Xu Yanqing could easily guess.

Qin Yu let go of Xu Yanqing, showing a faint smile: "Better than I imagined, that is, the keys to the apartment and the car were confiscated." His mother has always been tolerant of him, and even this time she knew that he had found a man, she did not become hysterical. Swearing, just asking him to reflect and hand over the key.

His cell phone was out of battery, and he couldn't call a car by the side of the road. When he came back by bus, he was worried that Xu Yanqing would not be able to be contacted, so he rushed here as soon as he got off the bus.

"Okay, let's talk about it when we get back." There was no one around, Xu Yanqing took the initiative to hold his hand and led him back, finally letting go of his hesitation.

Qin Yu took a shower, changed into a dry white T-shirt and went to bed.He hugged Xu Yanqing, both of them were warm, gradually getting hotter, but they were reluctant to let go.

"Don't worry," Qin Yu's voice sounded in the darkness, "I will take care of it."

The house and car belonged to the family, so he felt more at ease when they were taken away. His parents needed some time to digest it, and he had a job that was enough to make a living. There was no reason for him to be depressed.

"I'm not worried," Xu Yanqing stroked his short-cut hair, "I just think that you don't have to bear everything by yourself."

Qin Yu clutched the corner of Xu Yanqing's clothes in one hand, and it took a long time before he said, "Senior, you won't leave me again, will you?"

Xu Yanqing's heart was slightly hot, and he sighed softly: "No more." After a moment of silence, he added, "Now it's different from before."

Li Wenshan asked him when he was in college, "If Qin Yu was a girl, would you still dare to tease him like that?" Xu Yanqing was also thinking recently, what would happen if Qin Yu matured earlier and confessed to himself at that time? ?And then you're almost certain to say no.

Everyone thinks that Xu Yanqing is a person who has sufficient control over everything, but in fact he is not. He used to not know what he really wanted.A person who is still in a state of confusion about his own cognition cannot open his heart to accept a pure love, at least Xu Yanqing cannot.So at the beginning, he didn't accept anyone.

It seems that they missed four years, but they communicated with each other at the most appropriate time.

"Did you... hate me then?" Xu Yanqing took the initiative to talk about the past for the first time.

"I'm a little angry." Qin Yu said truthfully.

Back then, he read the emails that Xu Yanqing sent him over and over again. The first one was still "Come back and meet again", but the next one became "Don't come to me again".Then he returned to China, and there was no one named Xu Yanqing on campus again.He said "you big liar" to the computer, and the only response was silence.

"But I can't hate it," he went on, "I want to see you again . . .

"Okay," Xu Yanqing coaxed when he heard his breath, "Don't cry again."

"I won't cry anymore." Qin Yu rubbed his head against Xu Yanqing's chest, and after a while, An Sheng came down, "You have to remember what you said today."

Is this coquettish?Xu Yanqing thought to himself.He was a little thirsty, but he waited until Qin Yu's breathing became steady and he fell asleep completely before he got up and went to the kitchen to pour a glass of water.