Teacher, breathe for me

The night was still dark.

Qi Yan said seriously: "My dad said he would try to accept it."

Joshua really didn't expect this answer.

In addition to being surprised, he also felt very lucky.In the eyes of the elders, homosexuality is definitely not something that they can easily say "try to accept".Let’s just say that the relationship between him and his father has resisted for several years, and only this year there is a slight sign of recovery.

In Qiao Xiu's impression, Qi Yan's father was a man with a strong aura, a very official tone, and his temper should not be very good.

Qi Yan said slowly: "After hearing this, I was quite touched."

Qiao Xiu looked at him and sighed softly: "Your father has a high level of acceptance, it's not easy, really."

Qi Yan smiled: "No matter what, it's not a sad thing, don't frown." As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to caress the center of Qiao Xiu's eyebrows.

Qiao Xiu let out a sigh of relief with a smile: "It's not that I'm sad, I just hope everything goes well." Then he looked at Qi Yan distressedly, "Don't carry everything by yourself, just say that you got off the train today It’s not right to go up and down.”

Qi Yan turned over on the bed and looked at Qiao Xiu with a smile: "Brother Qiao, trust me, everything will be fine."

Qiao Xiu stepped on him, pulled the bangs on his forehead, leaned into him slightly, and kissed him on the forehead: "Yes."

Qi Yan hooked his neck, and smiled seductively: "You said you wouldn't stay tonight, and you're still like this..."

Joshua patted his head: "There will be plenty of time in the future."

Qi Yan: "Yes, all your luggage has been brought to my house."

Qiao Xiu was taken aback: "You said... what?"

Qi Yan cast a smug look: "I found Brother Luo Li and took all your luggage back to my house."

Joshua: "..."

Qi Yan: "Can't you see that I'm jealous?"

Qiao Xiu: "I've never seen anyone jealous or winking."

Qi Yan asked humbly: "Then what expression should I have?"

Qiao Xiu raised his eyebrows: "You are familiar with the expression of the little daughter-in-law."

Qi Yan: "So Brother Qiao, your cuteness is weak attack."

Joshua: "..."

The two soaked in the room and talked nonsense again. Qiao Xiu looked at the time and felt that he was about to go back. Qi Yan wanted to see him off. Qiao Xiu said, "It's so cold, why are you walking around?" Qi Yan said: "Is it because you are afraid of sleeping alone?"

Qi Yan: "..."

Qiao Xiu smiled and said, "It's okay, call me if you're afraid, and I'll tell you a story."

Qi Yan twitched the corner of his mouth: "Thank you, Teacher Qiao."

Qiao Xiu waved his hand, closed the door for him, took a taxi home, and happened to meet his stepmother calling in the living room, saw him coming back, hung up the phone, and smiled at him: "Going out?"

"Yeah." Qiao Xiu said, "I ran into a former classmate and had dinner together."

"Your father's surgery is scheduled for the day after tomorrow." The stepmother said in a toneless tone, as if she was reporting an official matter.

Qiao Xiu could only say "hmm" to indicate that he had received the news.

Stepmother: "Go and spend more time with him. Actually, your father still misses you very much."

Joshua: "...OK."

When Qiao Xiu arrived at the ward the next day, it happened that his father and his colleagues came to visit. The ward was bustling with laughter and flowers, fruits and various nutritional products.When they saw Joshua, they were all quite pleasantly surprised.The incident of Qiao Xiu coming out of the closet was not a big deal at that time. I guess these people have heard of it. Many uncles and aunts watched him grow up. They haven't seen Qiao Xiu for a few years, but they are very happy to see him suddenly. .

"Qiao Xiu is so old, I still remember him as that white and tender little boy." Aunt Xu held Qiao Xiu's hand very kindly.

Qiao Xiu laughed dryly. Although he hadn't seen him for a few years, it was only the few years from college to work, and it wasn't like he was growing up every day.Qiao Xiu couldn't help but ask in his heart, did he age so much???

Qiao Xiu didn't like to deal with elders. For example, he faced a group of mother-level teachers in the office, and pretended to be a lady while scolding their mothers in his heart.Qiao Xiu felt that his face was about to freeze from laughing, and he was watched in turn like a handicraft.

Finally someone said: "It's getting late, let's go first."

A group of people echoed "Okay, okay", and Qiao Xiu had to send them to the door with a smile, and came back rubbing his face.

The ward fell silent all of a sudden, after the bustle, it was extremely lonely.

Father Qiao seemed a little tired, and closed his eyes wearily.

Joshua went over to help him turn off the TV.

Father Qiao opened his eyes to look at him again, and Qiao Xiu said, "Go to sleep if you're tired."

"I want to talk to you for a while."

Qiao Xiu was stunned, his neck was a little stiff when he turned his head, and he quickly glanced at his father, who even had a smile on his face.Qiao Xiu sat down tremblingly, but was very restless.

Father Qiao: "Open the curtains."

Qiao Xiu got up and opened the curtains. Today's weather is fine, the sun is abundant and full, and the ward is full of vitality.

The winter sun looks grand but not scorching, warm.

Father Qiao sighed: "When I get old, I always think about the past."

People are always afraid of death, no matter what age they are.Qiao Xiu attributed his father's actions to the fact that he was going to have an operation tomorrow, and he wanted to express his panic.No matter how strong a person is, when they get old, they will show a vulnerable side. His father is like this, and he thinks he will be like this when he gets old.

The ward was brightly lit, and Qiao's father looked at Qiao Xiu with somewhat withered eyes: "I dreamed of Xiaoling last night."

Xiaoling is Qiao Xiu's mother. Qiao Xiu paused. Ever since his mother passed away, Qiao's father had deliberately seldom mentioned her.

Father Qiao said in an almost ethereal tone: "I dreamed about her, she waved, she was very beautiful."

Qiao Xiu was silent. To be honest, he was not in a good mood after hearing what his father said.

"She beckoned to let me go down to accompany her."

Joshua looked at him speechlessly.

Father Qiao shifted his gaze: "But then I thought, I'm leaving too, your mother loves you so much, what should you do? Are you alone?"

Qiao Xiu had a sore nose, lowered his eyes, and tasted a strong sourness.

"But even if I'm alive, I haven't brought you any good..." Qiao's father shook his head, "Xiaoling loves you the most. Knowing that you have suffered all these grievances, I must be very blamed."

Joshua: "Stop talking."

Father Qiao insisted on speaking: "I did a lot of research in private at the time, and I know that homosexuality is not a disease. It has been several years, no matter how face-saving your father is, now lying on this hospital bed, there is nothing better."

Qiao Xiu already knew what he was going to say next, and layers of water steamed out of his eyes as if he couldn't control it.

"I have wronged you these few years, go live the life you want." Father Qiao stretched out his hand and touched Qiao Xiu's head, as if he was still young, and Qiao Xiu was still childish, and he was still a kind father Well, Joshua was still an innocent child.

Time passed by, and Qiao Xiu's eyes seemed to pass by a lot. There were quarrels, breakups, roars, and finally it became quiet.

He held his father's slightly trembling hand and smiled.

After a long winter, spring will come, and everything will be better, and everything will be perfect.

When his father was pushed into the operating room, he looked at Qiao Xiu. Qiao Xiu held his hand and squeezed it very hard.

Waiting is long and useless. Qiao Xiu thought that even if he sat at the door of the operating room and meditated, it would not have any effect on the outcome of the operation.

The operation was successful in the end, and my father was pushed out of the operation. He was still asleep due to the anesthesia, and he seemed to be in a deep sleep.After the stepmother heard it, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Qiao Xiu relaxed as if he saw the results of the college entrance examination back then.

In the next few days, there was an endless stream of people who came to visit the patients, and all kinds of nutritional products piled up in the ward at a speed visible to the naked eye, and within a few days, they piled up into a hill.After Qiao Xiu bought newspapers for his father, he tidied up a little. When he looked up, he saw Luo Li walking into the ward with a smiling face like a spring breeze.

"Uncle, I'm here to see you." Luo Li walked in with a smile on his hands carrying several large bags of nutritional supplements, and when he put them aside, the space that Qiao Xiu had just sorted out was filled up again.

Joshua: "..."

The two had known each other for many years, and Luo Li naturally knew Qiao Xiu's father, so it was reasonable that he would bring something to visit.

Father Qiao smiled and said, "Xiao Luo is here."

As soon as Luo Li entered the door with his front foot, Qi Yan followed him in with his back foot.

Joshua didn't expect it at all.

Father Qiao: "This is...?"

Luo Li played tricks on Qiao Xiu.

Qiao Xiu was at a loss, and looked at Qi Yan blankly, and Qi Yan looked at him cautiously.

Father Qiao's puzzled eyes still lingered among the few of them.

Qiao Xiu gritted his teeth, walked over and held Qi Yan's hand, and looked at Father Qiao frankly: "Dad, this is Qi Yan, the one my aunt told you about... my partner."

Speaking frankly, Qiao Xiu was actually too embarrassed to look his father in the face.

After a while, I heard Father Qiao say, "You're so young."

Joshua bit the bullet: "A little younger than me."

After a while, Father Qiao said, "It looks about the same age as your student."

Joshua: "..."

Joshua: "Yes."

Father Qiao seemed to hear the reluctance in his tone, and said, "It's pretty good."

Qi Yan was taken aback, and looked at Qiao Xiu, who was also taken aback.

Father Qiao smiled and sighed, "Young man is handsome."

There are countless people who have praised Qi Yan for his good looks since childhood, but none of them can make Qi Yan so flattered, a little shy and a little surprised, blending into a very complicated mood.

Qiao Xiu was truly shocked, and looked at Father Qiao in trepidation.

Father Qiao tilted his head slightly to look at them, and smiled slightly: "It's quite comfortable to stand together."

Qi Yan could hardly control the upward curve of the corner of his mouth, so he could only block it with the back of his hand.

Joshua also laughed outright, he didn't expect, he really didn't expect that his father would describe the two of them as "standing together and looking very comfortable".Perhaps to others, this is just a neutral or even perfunctory evaluation, but to Qi Yan and Qiao Xiu, it is a hard-won affirmation from their parents.

After coming out of the hospital, Qi Yan still felt that today was like an unreal dream.Today he just wanted to visit Qiao Xiu's father with Luo Li, and he didn't communicate with Qiao Xiu, and he didn't expect Qiao Xiu to admit him like this.

All the happiness came so suddenly, Qi Yan felt dizzy as if he had eaten a bowl of old white rice, and was led away by Qiao Xiu.

The three met for the first time in City A, and Luo Li suggested that they should have a big meal if they came out successfully.

Qi Yan said: "You can call your brother out too."

Luo Li's beaming face suddenly sank.

"Just the three of us." Luo Li said.

Joshua: "Still frozen?"

Luo Li: "When did you not freeze?"

Qi Yan raised his eyebrows: "What are you talking about?"

Qiao Xiu covered his ears: "Just don't listen to brother incest or something."

Luo Li: "..."

Luo Li expressed dissatisfaction with Qiao Xiu's behavior of selling his teammates. Tonight, he picked a particularly expensive Japanese restaurant and slaughtered Qiao Xiu severely.Of course, Qiao Xiu and Qi Yan also brought [-] points of damage to Luo Li in terms of fancy show of affection, so the two sides were considered even.

Qi Yan and Qiao Xiu returned to the hotel, and as soon as they entered the door, Qi Yan hugged Qiao Xiu, resting his chin on his shoulder, and said in a drawn out voice, "Don't go back tonight..."

Joshua thought it was funny, and deliberately teased him: "I'm a little full, let's exercise?"

With bright eyes, Qi Yan nodded abruptly.

Qiao Xiu: "Okay, let's run two laps along Liuyi Road in a while."

Qi Yan's face twisted all of a sudden: "I didn't mean that."

Qiao Xiu turned around and hugged his neck, kissed Qi Yan on the lips, and said with a smile, "I won't tease you, baby, I'll give you some meat."

Qi Yan nodded like a pest, and stripped off Qiao Xiu's clothes.

The foreplay was harmonious, and when Qi Yan came in, Qiao Xiu finally couldn't help cursing: "Little beast, when should I be on top?"

Qi Yan smiled and blinked: "I love you."

Joshua: "..."

This answer successfully choked Joshua.

After finishing the digestion exercise, the two took a shower, lay on the bed fragrantly, and fell asleep hugging each other.

Qi Yan fell asleep quickly, Qiao Xiu quietly looked at his sleeping face, the more he looked at it, the more beautiful he felt.

It doesn't matter who goes up and who goes down, he thought, it's just that he dotes on Qi Yan.

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