soft hedgehog

The life of the senior year is like a clock that has been wound up, every minute and every second is tense.

Ji Tong quit his job at the training institution and began to rely on his good relationships to look for opportunities for private tutoring everywhere, so that the money can come in the quickest and the time can be more controllable.

At the beginning, I almost hit a wall everywhere, and I didn't get any business for more than a month.Everyone saw that he didn't graduate from a bachelor's degree and looked young. He didn't look like someone who could teach high school students well.

Fortunately, there is someone behind him who is willing to help him—Zhai Qiuyan.

After Liang Yuchen left again, Ji Tong would occasionally go to Beiyao Hutong to visit Zhai Qiuyan.There is no particular reason, just because only in that yard can he calmly chat with Liang Yuchen.Zhai Qiuyan likes Liang Yuchen, a young man, and treats him like a son, and he more or less reveals that he knows the things between the two of them.

This made Ji Tong very relaxed.He didn't need to try hard to explain why Liang Yuchen was not in the country, he didn't need to try his best to hide how much he missed Liang Yuchen, he just needed to be himself.

On Liang Yuchen's 27th birthday, Ji Tong went to Beiyao Hutong again, trying to get Zhai Qiuyan to drink some Wuliangye for him.Zhai Qiuyan couldn't help being soft and hard, and agreed with him to take a sip or two, but the result was out of control.

Ji Tong drank too much, grabbed Zhai Qiuyan's mobile phone at the dinner table, and wanted to call Liang Yuchen desperately, almost knocking the charcoal hot pot to the ground.Fortunately, Zhai Qiuyan was sober, and tried to stop him from dialing out the phone.

Maybe young people think that telling the truth after drinking is a romantic and willful thing, but Zhai Qiuyan doesn't think so.Having lived to his age, Fang knows that every word that comes out of his mouth should be responsible, neither impulsive nor reckless, otherwise it is called gaffe after drinking.

Unable to get the phone, Ji Tong almost collapsed, pushed away the dishes and lay on the table whimpering endlessly, his emotions were like a faucet with a loose screw, simply and straightforwardly dripping out.He said drunkenly in a hoarse voice, "Uncle Di, I'm going to find him. I'll go as soon as the exam is over. If he drives me away, I'll go too."

While speaking, he still raised his hands and arms, his movements were so fierce that there was a gust of wind, as if a teleport was about to happen in the next second, and the table was shaken, stirring up charcoal dust.

Zhai Qiuyan extinguished the fire, to prevent him from hurting himself, he muttered: "Go if you want."

Ji Tong didn't become happy at all, but cried even more crazily, shouting all the time: "He likes someone else, he likes someone else..." Even his forehead was stained with dirt from the plate.

Zhai Qiuyan had no choice but to twist a towel to wipe the monkey cub's face, but Ji Tong was not only disobedient but struggled desperately, so angry that he forced the towel into his hand: "Wipe yourself!"

Ji Tong was insane, his eyes were red and swollen and he struggled to open them, so he simply leaned back in the chair and covered his face with the towel, not afraid to smother himself to death.

That night, Zhai Qiuyan tossed his old bones enough, and finally got him to lean on the recliner, and sighed: "It's really a monkey, one tie, how did this kid Yuchen handle him before. "

When the moon was hanging in the sky, Ji Tong finally regained some clarity, opened his eyes vaguely, and heard the sound of listening to an opera in his ears.Turning his head, he saw Zhai Qiuyan slapping his knees rhythmically with the opera.

"woke up?"

Ji Tong groaned, and realized that he was sweating in his turtleneck sweater because he was too close to the radiator, so he quickly widened his collar.

"Uncle Di, why am I so dizzy..."

"It's right to be dizzy," Zhai Qiuyan glanced at him, "I dare to overestimate my abilities when it comes to drinking, and it's like playing a monkey show when I'm drunk. I really should record it for you."

Ji Tong was embarrassed: "Did I get drunk?"

He had a vague memory, and he did seem to be crying and fussing.

"Drunkenness?" Zhai Qiuyan raised his voice, "It's more than that, it's a drunken madness, singing a big show!"

Ji Tong's face flushed red: "What did I say?"

"There's a lot of content, and it's hard to retell it from the beginning." Zhai Qiuyan was still tapping his fingers, looking quite proud, "But if I have to say it, there is a high-frequency word."

Ji Tong became vigilant for a moment, and stood in front of him clutching a towel: "What high-frequency word?"

Zhai Qiuyan said slowly, "Liang—"

Just said a surname mouth has been covered with a towel.

"Uncle Di, stop talking..."

Zhai Qiuyan immediately moved his hand away: "There is still sesame paste on this towel, so you cover my mouth. Is this what your brother taught you?"

Ji Tong sat with his back turned, bowed his head and remained silent for a while.

"He won't teach me now."

That's what feelings are.When you liked me, I didn't understand it, but when I figured it out, you might not still like me.It is indeed a pity to say that it is a pity, but how can there be so many in the world?

It's a pity that there are too many.

Zhai Qiuyan turned off the TV, got up and walked to the courtyard, turned around and beckoned him to go out, and Ji Tong followed.

The two of you are standing in the courtyard, the moon is hanging in the sky.Pointing to the couplet in front of him, he said, "Read it to me."

There are people who know each other naturally, and there is nothing that cannot be done.

Ji Tong didn't know his intention, so he chanted obediently.

"This couplet is from Lord Qianlong." Zhai Qiuyan's face was flushed, and his spirit was hale and hearty, as if he had never had any troubles.He said: "People have to persuade themselves all the time when they are alive. There is nothing difficult. People who should know each other should know each other. If you try your best, the other party will naturally feel your sincerity. But if you really can't feel it, it means you I missed it too thoroughly, so I can only let him go."

These words are full of comfort and persuasion, not only persuading him to fight but also leaving him a way to let go.Ji Tong pondered over and over in his heart, both sentimental and moved, before asking after a while: "Have you ever had someone you knew naturally?"

Zhai Qiuyan stood with his hands down, walked to the cold stone bench and sat down: "I have something that I can't get past."

The words were suddenly full of discouragement.

Ji Tong was already easily infected by others, but at this moment he suddenly felt gloomy, and stared down at the wooden steps: "So what Lord Qianlong said is not the truth."

There are always some things that cannot be overcome in a lifetime.

"You misunderstood what I meant." Zhai Qiuyan said, "Only when a person is alive can he have a chance to make things go. When a person is dead, all regrets become 'unforgivable things'. So don't waste time, let alone yourself and others that courage."

It takes a lot of courage to love someone who shouldn't be loved, and you should cherish it when you meet it.

Ji Tong pondered for a long time, then nodded: "Understood."

After that day, Zhai Qiuyan introduced many opportunities to him overtly and secretly, and the hourly wages were not low. Fortunately, he himself was very competitive.Although he has not yet graduated from a bachelor's degree, he has a good and certified French foundation, which is more than enough to teach elementary students.In addition, this can be regarded as a basic review, which is of great help to him for the postgraduate entrance examination.

Time flies by in such a busy schedule, and it is already the end of January in a blink of an eye.

Ji Tong finished the initial postgraduate exam, and he felt that he was okay, and the re-examination was in our school, so it shouldn't be a big problem no matter what he thought.During this period of time, he deliberately did not mention the matter of going to find Liang Yuchen, and when Hu Aihua gradually relaxed his vigilance, he easily took back the passport book locked in the drawer, and quietly put it back after photocopying and signing.

After saving money for half a year, round-trip air tickets and visa money are enough, and there is still some money left after spending it.After much deliberation, he went to the supermarket to buy Liang Yuchen's favorite dried tofu and flower cakes, and added a few bags of hot pot bottoms, not to mention the gift in the closet, rolled up the clothes to prevent them from breaking in the middle .

In this way, we prepared bit by bit secretly, and everything was ready in the two weeks before the year.He counted the time, and it was almost New Year's Eve when he ran out of money.If the elder brother has nothing to worry about there and is willing to go back to China with him, that is naturally the best result; if the elder brother has already met someone more worthy of his love, or is more willing to develop abroad, then he can meet his elder brother before New Year's Eve On the one hand, talking about it, everything is worth it.

Always give an explanation for three years.

On the fourteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, he took out his passport again, carried a rucksack, and went to the airport to board the plane alone.This time he imitated Liang Yuchen's previous practice and called Hu Aihua when he boarded the plane, telling her that he was leaving.

Hu Aihua was having dinner with her natal family at that time, she stood up in shock when she heard it, ran to the corridor and asked him in a low voice: "What do you want to do with him?"

"Nothing," Ji Tong said frankly, "I miss him so much, I want to see him, that's all."

Hu Aihua almost fainted from hearing this, leaning on the wall and said: "It's just nonsense! Don't go."

There was a sharp trembling and excitement in the voice transmitted through the signal.

"I'm going to board the plane right away. I have to go no matter what this time."

The words were clear, but Ji Tong became more determined.He stood on the covered bridge and looked at the tarmac outside the glass, and said calmly: "Mom, others say that I am self-willed, but you know best, in fact, I listen to you in everything. You said that grandma likes French, let me read French , then I will read French. You said that my father is not a thing. If you don’t let me contact my father, then I will not contact my father. Even if you asked me to have a good relationship with my brother, I still accepted it no matter how unwilling I was. Treat him like my brother."

"But I'm 22 now, and I have a lot of ideas that I just haven't talked about. If you want to listen, I'll tell you all when I come back."

Behind him was the boarding team, and there was a faint electric sound in his ears. After a long silence, he heard Hu Aihua ask him: "Are you determined to find your brother?"

Looking at the large passenger planes outside the window, Ji Tong was not only not afraid, but was full of anticipation because he wanted to see Liang Yuchen.

He spoke in a low voice: "I want to see him, no matter what kind of relationship we end up with."

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Ten hours later, the plane landed on the land of Turner State.

Ji Tong's first thought when he saw the departure hall was that this airport is so small, less than one-third of the size of Pingcheng International Airport.Going further outside, the environment near the airport is also like a small city that has not yet fully developed, without much fashionable atmosphere.Even the ticket booth of the airport bus is a small wooden house with a triangular red tip on the top, like Santa Claus' hat.

The address came from Zhai Qiuyan, who asked in the name of sending something to Liang Yuchen.It's not cheap to take a taxi abroad. Ji Tong took out a pocket notebook from his backpack, flipped to the middle, and wrote down densely packed routes and precautions in small letters.

How to take the bus from the airport, how to buy a bus card, how to transfer to the bus, and where to change change, I remember it clearly.

It is also his first time to come to this country. Fortunately, there is no problem with the language barrier. He is smart and well-prepared before coming.

After buying the ticket, he got on the bus and turned on his phone again. He thought that the first text message must be from Hu Aihua, but unexpectedly it was his father Ji Jianbin.

"Tongtong, your mother called me and said that you ran away from home. What's the matter?"

"Your mother is crying! Go back quickly, don't let your mother worry about it."

"You little bastard, you're in your twenties and you still give us a walk-and-go trip? Go back to me."

"Did it land?"

"Which state are you in? Dad knows a lot of reliable friends. Tell me the hotel where you are staying right away."

Ji Tong raised the corner of his mouth, flipped through his dad's messages one after another, to the end, but found that there was no message from his mother.

He knew his mother must be very angry.Knowing that he was deviant, knowing that once he started, he would not be able to turn back, but he still wanted to come, which really made Hu Aihua sad.What mother can easily accept that she raised a homosexual when her son was raised from a young age?

No matter how enlightened people are, they still need time.Even he himself couldn't accept it at the beginning, let alone his mother's age.

He replied to his father: "You have many friends? I can do it myself."

I don't know why, the past six months in China have been more painful than happy, but when he went abroad, he felt suddenly relieved, as if breaking free from an invisible cage deep in his heart, like the light cotton in his heart, even My father's rare harsh words can be responded with jokes.

When he arrived at the station, he shouted in English "stop and thank you", and the driver stopped steadily on the side of the road, waiting for him to pick up all his things.When he got to the door, the car door didn't open. He turned around and said thank you to the driver, but found that the driver was lying on the steering wheel and tilted his head and smiled at him.

He groaned, and suddenly remembered that he forgot to give a tip, so he hurriedly took out the change from his pocket and handed it over. Then the driver pressed the button and made a gesture of please.

When I got out of the car, my face was hot.

When he came to check the weather, he found that Turner State had been snowing intermittently for a whole week.Now that his feet were on the ground, he realized how thick the snow was, it covered more than the soles of his feet, and half of his boots were submerged in the snow.

He put the rucksack on his back and stepped out with one foot deep and one foot shallow, almost slipping and falling several times.There is a snow-capped area in front of you, low houses, villas, old oak trees covered with snow, and a row of mailboxes standing on the side of the road are filled with supermarket discount leaflets.

He finds it novel.It turns out that the city Liang Yuchen chose is here, it looks like this, simple and quiet.

After walking to the bus stop, he stomped his feet and breathed on his hands in front of the stop sign. He forgot to wear gloves, but fortunately he did not forget to wear a scarf.While waiting for the car, he began to think about what he should say when he saw Liang Yuchen.

Speaking of which, it has been a whole year since they met each other, and he doesn't even know if Liang Yuchen's appearance has changed.Brother is now a working person, will he have more formal clothes and hairstyles, and does he still smoke?Is the stomach ache any better?

Once the cranky thinking starts, you can't stop it at all.

He turned on the front camera of his phone to take a picture of himself.His face was a little red, whether it was from the cold or anticipation, his lips were so dry that they started to smear, he quickly took out the lipstick and wiped it on, but when he applied it, the tips of his ears felt inexplicably hot.

After finishing these cars, they still don't come.I heard that it was difficult to wait for the bus here, but today I found out that it was actually true.

He gradually rubbed his hands together, and soon there was another person beside him, who looked like an Asian, and his left and right hands each carried a large bag of things bought in the supermarket.

The two looked at each other, and Ji Tong smiled politely.The other party was suddenly pleasantly surprised: "chese"

Ji Tong was stunned: "yes"

The boy in front of him, who was about his age, had extremely good-looking eyes, single eyelids, and a delicate face, with an oval face.

"I'm also Chinese!" The other party's Chinese was a bit broken, and immediately put two bags of things on the ground, and pulled the brim of his hat with his right hand, "You are also Chinese, this is called...Meeting an old friend in a foreign country!"

Ji Tong was first amused by his blunt five-character poem, followed his movements, and then noticed the knitted hat he was wearing, feeling strange in his heart.

I always feel very familiar, but I can't say it for a while.

He nodded gently: "Yes, they are all Chinese. My name is Ji Tong, what about you?"

The boy opened his mouth and paused, as if he forgot how to pronounce his name for a while, and then laughed out after a while: "Wu You, carefree Wu You."