No touching porcelain, no coquetry! [campus]

"Hey! Josh! I'm here!"

As soon as Ye Jue came out, at the pick-up place, he saw a figure in a cotton sweater, sports shorts, and slippers in the front row desperately waving at him.

Even though he spent a lot of money this time, Ye Jue, who still didn't sleep well on the plane, yawned and responded with a smile.

Ye Jue pushed the luggage cart and looked at the people around him. They were basically dressed in the "homeless" outfit that made people unable to distinguish the seasons, and a feeling of "ah, is this the taste of home" was born in an instant.

At least Ye Jue, who is well-dressed, doesn't look so casual against the backdrop of other people, except for the pair of flip flops on his feet that show his identity as a local.

"I haven't seen you for almost a year. How are you doing?"

After pulling Ye Jue over and giving him a warm hug, Branden put his arms around his friend's shoulders and slowly wandered towards the parking lot.

Branden is Ye Jue's middle school classmate. His family is an old Asian immigrant. He really doesn't speak Chinese fluently, so Ye Jue and him usually communicate in English.

When the two were still troublesome teenagers, they got together every day to make troubles everywhere, and their friendship was profound.

But no one would have guessed that those two gangsters who rode motorcycles through the streets and alleys of the city back then, now one is about to graduate with an honors degree in psychology, and the other has been an intern in one of the top local law firms for half a year.

The most carefree boyhood is over, only the phrase "stupidteenager" is left when we get together and recall the past with a smile, which can be regarded as adults' nostalgia for the past.

"Not bad." Ye Jue replied with a smile, he put the luggage into the trunk, and expressed his concern for the other party's life in a joking tone, "Why didn't Cecilia come together, she doesn't want me?"

"Get out." Branden scolded people in Chinese, but he was very polite. He hammered Ye Jue's shoulder twice, and replied with a smile: "The early pregnancy reaction is a bit serious, so I didn't dare to go out, but She asked me to invite you to play at home these few days."

Ye Jue looked at his friend in surprise, and for a while couldn't digest the fact that his friend of the same age was going to be promoted to be a father, and he had just sent a "bearing kiss emoji package" to his high school boy friend.

"Why did you tell me?" Ye Jue's tone was somewhat complaining.

If I knew it earlier, I could at least buy some souvenirs at the domestic airport to perfuse it. The new Uncle Josh is now empty-handed, which is somewhat embarrassing.

Branden didn't care, he just urged Ye Jue to get in the car while talking.

"Her mother said try not to tell others three months ago. It's not good for the child." When talking about his wife and unborn child, Branden's expression softened visibly. "I'm not a superstitious person, but when it comes to things about ceci, I always get too nervous, you know what I mean."

Ye Jue couldn't be more clear, these two people have always had a good relationship since freshman year together, basically they can be said to be inseparable, so it often sets off his light bulb very brightly.

However, Cecilia is extroverted and easy to get along with. Before he was an exchange student and Branden was not a social animal, they often went out on weekends.

Ye Jue curled his lips, and joked, "Then I'm going to be a godfather."

"We don't believe in religion, and you don't believe in it, what kind of godfather are you?" Branden was a little speechless by his friend's brain circuit.

Ye Jue was very calm, adjusted the back of the seat, found a comfortable position for himself, and announced the big news: "I won't have children, so what's yours is mine."

"What do you mean?" Branden didn't understand.

Ye Jue was straightforward: "I recently found out that I'm gay."

Branden slammed on the brakes immediately, but fortunately, he encountered a red light in front of him: "Are you serious?!"

"Hmm." The beautiful baby expressed approval casually.

The old friend reacted for a while, and suddenly realized that something was wrong, Ye Jue was really caught off guard, and based on his understanding of the other party, if he was not [-]% sure, he would definitely not say it even if he was bored in his heart.

So Branden's surprise immediately turned into curiosity: "Who is he, is he from Huaguo?"

Ye Jue nodded: "I'll talk about it in detail at your house another day."

"Can you drive faster, I have something urgent to do." Ye Jue was quite unreasonable in front of his old friend, he was lazy and leisurely, and even disliked the other party for dawdling.

Branden, the tool man, was also very speechless. How could he come out at night to pick up the plane and borrow a car, and in the end he couldn't even hear all the gossip.

But being speechless is speechless, he is clearly prioritizing, Ye Jue finished the exchange early and came back, and specifically told himself not to tell his mother that he borrowed a car from him without explaining the reason, there must be some accident.

He has a specialization in surgery, thinking that Ye Jue will come home in a few days, and then let his wife dig out the other's body, it will definitely be better than him tangling here for a long time, Branden is relieved immediately.

In about half an hour, the two arrived at the door of Branden's house. The small second floor of the single-family building was exquisite in shape, with a variety of flowers planted in the front yard and a swing tied in the corner.

Life is full of fireworks.

Ye Jue stood in front of the car and greeted the beautiful woman at the gate of the courtyard, and jokingly took off the peaked cap on her head, and performed a complete hat-off ceremony from a distance, making the other party laugh out loud.

Branden couldn't wait to go over and kiss his wife who had been separated for a few hours, and then he remembered that there was someone behind him, and waved to his friend, urging him to leave.

Ye Jue, whose boyfriend was on the other side of the ocean, regained his honorable status as a light bulb, cupped his fists, quickly covered his eyes, shook his head and got into the car.

Ye Jue took the driver's license test at the age of 16, and occasionally drove the family car when she was in college locally, but she didn't touch it for more than half a year when she went to Ningcheng to exchange, so she was a little unfamiliar.

He connected his mobile phone to the car's bluetooth, and drove in the direction of his father's leisure cabin by the lake in the suburbs from memory, and called Pei Yanqiu by the way.

The time difference between the two places is only a few hours, and there is no need to turn day and night upside down to fall in love. It will be past zero on my side, and it will just be nightfall on my child's side.

After waiting for the speaker, it was picked up by the other side within a few seconds. The boy's clear and gentle voice contained a lot of joy in it: "Brother, you are here."

Ye Jue responded, and then teasingly asked: "Didn't I send you a message just now? What are you doing badly, I haven't seen it yet."

"Learning." Xiao Pei blustered.

Of course Ye Jue didn't believe it, he didn't answer his words, just laughed, and finally made the child feel guilty and confessed: "I played a game with Jiang Yu and the others..."

"I can do the questions now." Pei Yanqiu admits that he is cowardly, and has the illusion that his parents are on a business trip, and when he checks the post, he catches that he has turned the world upside down at home.

But Ye Jue laughed out loud, put away his teasing thoughts: "Okay, okay, the first grade holiday can be less hard."

Then he cleared his throat and cut to the real purpose of the call: "Yanqiu, happy birthday."

Pei Yanqiu was stunned for a few seconds, probably remembering the problem of jet lag, and then acted coquettishly with a smile: "It's not midnight yet on my side."

"I'm here." Ye Jue said confidently.

He paused, then lowered his tone, as gentle as whispering beside his lover: "To me, you are already my best friend."

"I'm an adult, why do you still call me a child?" Xiao Pei muttered to express his dissatisfaction.

Ye Jue reassured: "Even if you are 80 years old, you are still a child in front of me."

Pei Yanqiu was stroked comfortably, and Teacher Xiaoye was already thinking about what happened when she was 80 years old.

He loves me so much.

The rounded adult Xiao Pei is determined.

"How do you plan to spend your birthday?" Ye Jue asked.

Pei Yanqiu replied politely: "My dad held a banquet, you know that kind of boring social occasion."

Ye Jue nodded: "Then you have worked hard."

"Life is bitter." Brother Ku uttered violent words, and then said aggrievedly: "You can't even accompany me..."

Ye Jue couldn't help laughing, he had seen a pattern in the past two days, Pei Yanqiu usually called him "you", only when he wanted to get something from him would he switch to the pitiful "you" .

Ye Jue, aware of his lover's cunning but helpless, could only be indifferent: "Okay, I will replenish you when I go back."

The two chatted about trivial matters without saying a word, this kind of stable atmosphere completely calmed down Ye Jue's originally agitated mood, and also inexplicably gave birth to longing.

Ye Jue couldn't help but began to suspect from the bottom of his heart that the reason why he hadn't been interested in love for so many years and was extremely resistant when he entered this relationship might be because his self-awareness was too clear.

What is the magical power of the younger brother to quickly become a love brain.

"I miss you so much."

"I went to the apartment to water your flowers today."

"They miss you too."

The culprit continued to publish provocative quotations.

Although Ye Jue was sweet in his heart, he thought of the succulent window sill he raised that he "wouldn't like to water too much", and quickly stopped the other party's predictable behavior of "seeing things and thinking about people twice a day".

The journey to the hut by the lake was not too far, and after chatting with Pei Yanqiu for a while, Ye Jue could vaguely see the dim lights inside through the dense forest.

"Let's talk later, I'm here." Ye Jue said.

Xiao Pei is a sensible and clingy person, obediently said good night to her boyfriend who was going to get down to business.

Don't forget to remind the other party to "be safe" before hanging up the phone.

Although Ye Jue agreed hastily, he actually had no idea in his heart. Although he still didn't know what role his father played in it after reading the materials, just looking at Bai Ming's shocking wound in the photo, He already understood that this matter might not be as easy as he imagined.

It's just that Bai Ming's care for him for so many years has not been fake. He really doesn't want to make irreparable mistakes, but it seems to be too late.

The fallen leaves in front of the hut were piled up, and there were messy tire marks on them.

Father's jeep was parked alone under the side canopy, looking inexplicably lonely in the bleak early winter.

Ye Jue couldn't tell whether Bai Ming had been there, so he could only be more vigilant and got out of the car.

Probably because he heard the sound of his abrupt visit, before Ye Jue touched the doorbell, the wooden door of the hut was pushed open from the inside.

Ye Zhanyun's expression was calm, without the slightest surprise, as if he had known the news of his son's upcoming arrival in advance. As for who he heard about it from, the answer was self-evident.

Ye Jue sensitively noticed the bandage wrapped around his father's forearm, but the other party put that hand behind his back with a little guilt, and said in a neutral tone, "Come in."