I have known love for many years

On the last day of vacation, I didn't expect that all relatives came to Bai's house to have dinner and play cards.

Mother Bai came to open the door, and the laughter behind the door suddenly swirled like an explosion and rushed towards her face. Two five- and six-year-old children rushed to the door with toys and poked their heads. There were snack residues around their mouths. Bai Xuecheng shouted, "Boss!"

"What boss!" Bai's mother flicked the heads of the two children, "They all yelled something, called brother."

"Brother!" The two children shouted again.

"It's a generation away!" Someone in the room shouted, "Whose advantage is this taking advantage of?!"

Bai Xuecheng carried the big and small bags, and said happily, "Hello, brothers, have you finished your homework?"

The two children immediately made faces and ran away.

"Bai Xuecheng! You are outrageous!" Someone laughed and scolded.

Bai Xuecheng's aunt came out to help carry things, met Fei Lian and said, "Hey, who is this handsome guy?"

Bai Xuecheng introduced Fei Lian who came in behind: "I'm a good friend from college, we have a very good relationship, Fei Lian."

Fei Lian stood cautiously at the door: "Hello, Auntie, Happy New Year. This is a gift I bought...No, it's easy, I just didn't expect that there are so many of you, and you may not have enough things..."

Fei Lian's ears were completely red, and there was a little sweat on his forehead in the cold weather.Bai Xuecheng pulled him into the door, shut the cold air out, and turned on the air conditioner in the room, which made it a lot warmer: "I told you it's fine, if you can't let my mother go with them."

Aunt Bai Xuecheng smiled and said, "It's okay, we're just here to drop by. Eh? Did you even buy something for a child?"

"I heard from Bai Xuecheng that there are children at home, so I bought some food, which is not expensive..."

"It's okay!" The woman thought it was interesting that Fei Lian was so polite and cautious, and looked him up and down, "Does our little Bai have such a polite friend? People say that he is close to Zhu Zhechi, hey, Bai Xuecheng, what have you learned all day long? "

The relationship between Bai Xuecheng's family is close and harmonious, there is nothing to fight for, and everyone speaks frankly, without hiding it, it looks like a biological family.

Seeing that there was something to eat, the two children immediately ran back again. The people at the poker table looked back, and Fei Lian didn't even recognize him, only Bai Xuecheng's parents.

"Hello, Uncle and Auntie." Fei Lian nodded in greeting.

"Okay, is that Xiaohui?" Bai's father still remembers, "You two had a good relationship when you were in school, right?"

As Bai's father said, he felt that the surname Fei looked familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

Fei Lian: "???" Xiaohui?

"They're all in Nancheng now," Bai Xuecheng suppressed a smile, and changed the subject, "That guy Chen Xin is also here, he's already a father."

"Look!" Mother Bai came out with fruits and melon seeds, "Should all your classmates have children?"

Several elders at the poker table laughed: "Come here, come here, it's the same old style during the New Year and holidays, now you can talk about it on the Internet, we old people are nosy, but we don't have a few good words."

"What's your business? What is said on the Internet is a mess!" Bai's mother snorted, "Which parent doesn't look forward to their children? It's weird, and they won't know until they become parents! All of them are supercilious. Wolf!"

"Stop!" Bai Xuecheng hurriedly said, "Don't mention this, huh?"

Bai's mother glared at him, then went to look at Fei Lian. Seeing Fei Lian fidgeting, she hurriedly cared: "Just treat him as my own home, there's nothing to be ashamed of. This child..." Bai's mother looked at Fei Lian, thinking that the young man was handsome and shy Yes, looking pleasing to the eye, I felt a sense of closeness in my heart, and said, "Didn't you go home during the Chinese New Year?"

Fei Lian's expression darkened for a moment, and he said nonchalantly, "My family is out on a trip."

"Oh, that's not bad." Bai's mother sat down and said, "It's too cold today, your uncle and I are too lazy to move, so we didn't go out."

"It's quite cold." Fei Lian nodded.

Bai Xuecheng finished dividing everything, sat down and drank some hot tea: "How do you eat at night?"

"Eat dumplings," Bai's mother said, "I'm too lazy to do it. It was the two of you who came over to finish off the unfinished meals... There were too many people at the New Year's Eve dinner, so there were some leftovers. How did you know that their family would eat dumplings at noon?" Come here, let's just order dumplings."

Mother Bai felt embarrassed again as she spoke, she covered her mouth and looked at Fei Lian: "Tip Fei should laugh at us, he's so stingy."

"No, no, saving is a good thing." Fei Lian forcibly closed his eyes and blew.

Bai Xuecheng glanced at Fei Lian with a smile, and felt that Fei Lian was a little distracted by how he looked at the young daughter-in-law, as if he had brought a good daughter-in-law home, all kinds of flattering.

Bai Xuecheng lazily chatted with his mother and aunt on the sofa for a while, and then exchanged business with a few elders across the poker table. I went to my mother's house, and my uncle didn't come and go often after that.

He listened quietly all the time, couldn't help laughing from time to time, and helped Bai Xuecheng peel oranges. When he saw Bai's mother go to work in the kitchen, he quickly got up to help, and even helped pour tea for some people at the card table.

Bai Xuecheng's aunt was eating melon seeds next to her, and said, "I don't know, I thought tip was our child, you look lazy."

Bai Xuecheng propped his chin, watched Fei Lian pour tea for Papa Bai, and helped the elders get cigarettes, smiling and not talking.

Fireworks and firecrackers are not allowed in the city now, if you want to do so, you can only go outside the city, you can hear the indistinct sound of fireworks from a distance, and the children downstairs bought some firecrackers from somewhere, and they threw a bomb in the community The sound made Bai Xuecheng jump.

"Nancheng can't hear this movement anymore." Bai's mother said.

"I don't know, I didn't stay in Nancheng to celebrate the New Year this year," Bai Xuecheng said, "I just came back from the beach."

"It's not very tanned," Bai's mother said, "Don't just hold the computer and play somewhere else? It's a waste of money."

Bai Xuecheng and Bai's mother spoke in a low voice, drowned in the crackling mahjong sound.Fei Lian sat down at the side, looked at the small lanterns hanging in the room, and the blessing characters pasted on the glass. He exhaled slowly, feeling that the panic in his heart had calmed down a little bit.

This is... home.

Bai's mother told Fei Lian about the embarrassing things about Bai Xuecheng when he was a child. This is probably one of the old routines that the elders must talk about during the New Year.

After dinner, the relatives left, and Bai's mother said, "Go back early tomorrow morning? Stay overnight?"

Bai Xuecheng is a freelancer, so it doesn't matter if he has a computer. He turned to look at Fei Lian, and Fei Lian nodded: "I don't have anything to do tomorrow morning, so I can go later."

Bai's mother suddenly became happy: "Then, I'll clean it up, you two squeeze together?"

Fei Lian's heart was pounding, and he always felt guilty, so he nodded: "It's okay."

Bai's father watched TV, Bai's mother tidied up the room, Bai Xuecheng and Fei Lian sat on the sofa and looked at each other, Bai Xuecheng coughed and sat up straight, Fei Lian subconsciously tightened his fingers, nails in the palm of his hand Li squeezed hard to make pinch marks.

Papa Bai didn't look sideways: "What's the matter? Do you have something to say?"

The Bai family is a man with a careful heart, and Bai's father knows his son better, but Bai's mother is more lenient.

For a moment, Bai Xuecheng didn't know how to speak, he always felt that the timing was not quite right.

But when is it right?There may never be a perfect moment for many things. In any case, this step must be taken.

Bai Xuecheng took a few breaths quietly, and said calmly, "I made a friend."

Bai's mother just came out of the house and said in surprise: "Really? Why didn't you bring it back to see!"

Bai's father was more perceptive, and found that what his son said was "talking about a friend" instead of "talking about a girlfriend."

The New Year's Eve brought his friends to his house, and he was still so serious, Fei Lian's attentiveness at home all afternoon and one night, but Papa Bai noticed it all.Father Bai had a bad premonition in his heart, he looked at Fei Lian, and sure enough, Fei Lian's expression was very solemn.

Papa Bai's heart skipped a beat, afraid of scaring his wife, he said, "Go...then what, look in the kitchen."

Mother Bai: "What are you looking at?"

"I'm... thirsty, pour me a glass of water."

"Is there no tea here?"

Sure enough, the Bai family is not good at lying. Bai's father insisted on stuttering for a long time, and finally gave up, saying: "I will talk to my son, you go back to the bedroom and talk about it later."

Although Bai's mother didn't know what was going on, she didn't say anything else. She walked into the bedroom step by step, and when the door was closed, Bai's father turned up the volume of the TV a little, and lowered his voice, saying: "I don't want to Is it like that?"

As he spoke, he glanced at Fei Lian.

At that moment, Fei Lian sat up straight like a light on his back.

Bai's father also surfs the Internet at ordinary times, and he knows that same-sex and different-sex are popular now, and he also knows that many countries have opened up same-sex marriage.

But other people are other people, other countries are other countries, and I still feel a little confused when I have a relationship with myself.

Bai Xuecheng took a sip of tea nervously, and tentatively asked, "What have you been thinking?"

"You said that you are a Chinese New Year senior, bring Xiaohui...tips back..." Papa Bai said, "You have never brought anyone back before, and you two had a good relationship when you were in school, and I haven't seen you bring them back. You haven't been with any girl in these years. Didn't you even meet her when your aunt introduced her to you before? It's only been a long time since you've been to Nancheng, and you already have a partner? "

Bai Xuecheng thought for a while: He wanted to bring it back at the beginning, so wouldn't he have a falling out with Fei Lian after that?

Seeing that his father said it straight, Bai Xuecheng stopped going around in circles, and didn't bother to bother: "Yes, I'm with Fei Lian, very serious."

Papa Bai stopped talking immediately. He took a puff on a cigarette and coughed hard a few times, his brows furrowed deeply.

He has always been not strict with Bai Xuecheng, but he is not spoiled, he just doesn't want to interfere too much, but right now, even if he pays attention to the educational philosophy of "the master guides and does not interfere", his heart is turned upside down at this moment. of.

Papa Bai asked with difficulty: "How can you be serious?"

It was very uncomfortable for Fei Lian to sit on the side, but Papa Bai didn't look at him, and he couldn't intervene, he could only worry in his heart.

Bai Xuecheng said: "As serious as you and my mother are, I will be as serious as he is."

"Nonsense!" Bai's father finally became strict, "Can it be the same? Your mother and I can argue, how about you? Your mother and I can give birth to you! What about you?"

At such an age, Bai Xuecheng is rarely yelled at by his father, and his face turned pale, but he calmed down and said firmly, "This has nothing to do with others, it only has something to do with me and Fei Lian."

"Don't tell me this, 99% of the people in the world take this road! You want to go another road, don't you ask why no one else walks that road? This is the experience and experience summed up by the predecessors. Lesson, it’s not that the predecessors have tried it before, but found that it doesn’t work! Do you understand what I mean?”

Bai's father pointed at him and Fei Lian with a cigarette in his hand: "What if we are found out, what about work? What about life? What do others think of you? What do relatives and friends think of you? When you grow old, who will take care of you? How can you What's left?"

Bai Xuecheng frowned: "Dad, you always said that you have to be honest and down-to-earth. I live a down-to-earth life and live a good life. Just because the person I love is not a woman, I am not worthy of being an ordinary person? I am not worthy of an ordinary life. huh? If I have to go this way because 99% of people go this way, am I still an honest person? Isn't this self-deception? Besides, where did you get this data from? You said 99% As far as you know, your score is macro and..."

Fei Lian bumped Bai Xuecheng lightly and interrupted him.

Sure enough, Bai's father trembled with the smoke in his hands: "You brat..."

"Think again!" Papa Bai stood up, "I advise you to think again, this is no joke!"