Glass Butterfly

The meeting between Ruan Youqing and Yang Liu once a month was transferred from the restaurant on the ground floor of Chuqing to his and Tang Tu's home.

"That, Youqing...tomorrow, that..." Yang Liu stammered on the phone.

"What's the matter? Is the time inconvenient? If it's inconvenient, just change it to another day, that's okay." As soon as Ruan Youqing finished speaking, Tang Tu pushed the tablet in front of him, and the screen showed the two people's recent itinerary.

"No, what's inconvenient for me...that is, it's summer vacation...Pinyue just wants...to see you."

"Pinyue wants to see...'us'?" He looked up at Tang Tu, who nodded slightly.

"Yeah, it's not that the university is on vacation. I really can't help her... You, do you think it's appropriate?" This question is not confident.

"It's okay, then you can bring her with you." Ruan Youqing saw Tang Tu typed a sentence on the screen, and read it out, "Then does she have any taboos or favorites?"

"Damn, you don't have to accommodate her, she's alone... hey! You child, don't snatch it!" Yang Liu's voice suddenly became softer, and Ruan Youqing struggled to hear it, but soon, a more childish and clear voice changed from the other end of the phone .

"Hey, Brother Youqing, I want to eat perverted spicy fried chicken wings, can you make them?" The little girl had never met him twice, and she didn't recognize her birth, she was not like her mother.

"You can try..."

"Then see you tomorrow! Bye!" Cui Pinyue simply hung up.

"What are you in a daze for?" Tang Tu took the phone from his hand and put it on the table.

"Ah, it's nothing." Ruan Youqing stroked her hair, "She suddenly called me brother, I'm not used to it."

"Sounds a bit familiar, not quite like you." Tang Tu rubbed the light red scar on the palm of his hand, squinting his eyes and remembering the only time he met Cui Pinyue, "You're quite a pungent little girl, wasn't she at that time?" And called a few hooligans to block you?"

Ruan Youqing lowered her head and smiled: "Well, I thought my mother was raising a little boy outside."

"Tsk tsk." Tang Tu squeezed his chin and turned around, "It's quite white...is it expensive..."

"It's not expensive." Ruan Youqing leaned forward, approaching the corner of Tang Tu's mouth, but retreated when the other party slightly opened his lips.

Tang Tu was unprepared for nothing, his heart was itching uncomfortably, he grabbed his collar and pressed it against him, grabbed his lower lip with one bite, and sighed vaguely: "You've failed in your studies, Teacher Youqing."

"Hmm." He answered with a snort, and threw his hands towards the butterfly.

The living room is quiet and empty, and the log dining table is smooth and strong.

Creaking is the sound of table legs shaking and rubbing against the ground.

"Wait a minute," Ruan Youqing let go of him, "I'll get it..."

"No need." Tang Tu crossed his legs and almost locked his waist, "There's no need to take it... just... um..."

Considering that they had to receive guests the next day, they didn't go too far, and fell asleep peacefully after clocking in at the dining table and bathroom respectively.

In the early morning of midsummer, Ruan Youqing opened the window and met several passing magpies unexpectedly.

"Let's go, go buy chicken wings for your sister." It's hot today, and Tang Tu is wearing a loose silk shirt with the buttons unbuttoned to the third, revealing her protruding collarbone. The three-quarter sleeves are rolled up to the elbows, and the hem is tucked into a straight leg. Pants, paired with thin metal frame glasses, the whole person has a retro pictorial texture.

"Are you wearing this?" Ruan Youqing touched a cotton shirt of the same color and put it on top of the T-shirt.

"...It's just shopping in the supermarket... Do you want to wear a suit..."

He opened the drawer and took out the perfume bottle, pinched Tang Tu's outstretched wrist, and lightly pressed the nozzle on the pulse point. A strong fragrance invaded the cloakroom, and soon evaporated into a faint scent of soap.

"The glasses should look better with a metal chain..." Ruan Youqing looked up at him.

My aunt is responsible for the shopping at home on weekdays. It is rare for them to go to the supermarket together. They couldn't get out of an ordinary supermarket for two hours.

"Young Qing, let's go. Otherwise, the chicken wings won't have time to marinate, right?" Tang Tu urged while standing between the shelves.

"Yeah. Then come back another day. So many devil peppers should be enough... I don't know how spicy she can eat..." Ruan Youqing also held his partner's hand unscrupulously in public, and he didn't care if he attracted attention. Anyway, he was at home with his family. He has come out in front of the media and the media, and the title of artist seems to make the world more tolerant of him.

It gets dark late in summer, the setting sun procrastinates and refuses to disappear, Yang Liu and Cui Pinyue arrive earlier than the agreed time, when Tang Tu gets off the car, he is squatting in the yard, cutting off a blooming hydrangea with scissors and sticking it to his body. In the transparent vase next to it, the shadows of flowers fell all over.

"Xiao Tang." Yang Liu tugged at the daughter beside him, "Pin Yue, say hello."

The girl's eyes widened immediately, and her mouth was a little unrestrained: "Huh? Is he that? Didn't you say he was an uncle?"

"Don't talk nonsense!" Yang Liu apologized to Tang Tu with a face full of embarrassment, "I'm sorry, Xiao Tang, this child is spoiled by us, don't mind."

Tang Tu smiled and shook his head: "No." He turned to look at the slim girl, "Uncle, are you talking about me?"

"Tsk, the information is wrong." Cui Pinyue looked at him without squinting, "Handsome guy, are you really over 30 years old?"

"Yes." Tang Tu walked ahead and opened the door for them, leading the guests into the entrance, "So what do you think it looks like to be in your 30s?"

"Well...that's right, you need to have a little stomach." She glanced at Tang Tu's slender waist, "You have a loud voice, and you smell like sweat." The girl blinked her watery eyes and sniffed, "You are better than me." All fragrant..."

"What fragrance?" Ruan Youqing took off her apron and came forward.

"Brother! I said your husband smells good." Cui Pinyue asked anxiously, "Brother, where is your refrigerator? The ice cream I brought should melt in a while."

She shook the aluminum foil thermal bag in her hand, and there were a few beads on her slender wrist. The thin silver bracelet was lined with cyan and white glass beads, and there was also a small transparent jellyfish hanging from it. It was Ruan Youqing's co-branded series. .

"Oh, by the way, this jellyfish!!! The limited-edition halo-dyed one! I can't even get it!!! The scalper's price is skyrocketing... Do you have one yourself? Give me one."

There are four colors of jellyfish, transparent, lavender, light cyan, and limited smudged models.

Seeing that Ruan Youqing was stunned by her yelling one brother at a time, Tang Tu took the ice cream bag and took it to the kitchen and stuffed it into the refrigerator. In front of him: "What else do you want, take it."

The girl was not polite, and put the box directly into her bag: "Thank you brother and... um, what should I call you..."

"Whatever you want, uncle is fine too." Tang Tu accompanied her around the room.

"It's fine as an uncle. It's better to be an elder brother."

"Hey Pinyue! Don't run around!" Yang Liu yelled unbearably while sitting at the dining table.

"Damn it, your house is too big! You can play basketball after this floor is emptied!" Cui Pinyue completely ignored her mother's reminder and looked up at the high roof, "It's so high. Can I see the upstairs?" ?”

"Wash your hands and eat first. Watch after eating. The chicken wings have just been fried." Tang Tu pulled out the chair for her and let him sit opposite Ruan Youqing.

"Oh." She couldn't take her eyes off the jellyfish lamp on the refrigerator.

Although Tang Tu was very reluctant to part with it, he still asked politely: "Do you like it? I like it for you."

"Tsk, it's too dreamy, it's not suitable for me. It looks good here."

Fortunately, the eldest lady was not spoiled too much, or maybe she grew up and became more sensible.Tang Tu breathed a sigh of relief.

On the table is the dinner that two people have been busy all afternoon, salmon pasta salad sprinkled with roasted almonds, fried button mushrooms with asparagus, cold loofah, fish maw chicken soup cooked by my aunt at noon yesterday, and the abnormal spicy fried chicken wings named by the eldest lady .

During the dinner, they had been listening to Cui Pinyue's eloquence, complaining all over from the new teacher to the new classmates, even the aunt in charge of the dormitory and the uncle at the mailing point were not spared.

"You don't even know how stupid the boys in our department are. Parents followed behind to the bed, made him a bed sheet and a quilt, and cried a lot after tidying up the closet."

"Are you still going to the boys' dormitory?" Ruan Youqing was taken aback.

"I didn't go in, so I just went downstairs to see if there are any handsome ones." She shook her head sadly, "Brother, with your quality, our School of Economics and Management can't pick a single one from top to bottom... Sigh... "

Tang Tu couldn't help reminding her: "Your brother's quality is rare in any theater. Probably go to a film school or something."

"That's right." Cui Pinyue stared at his face for a while, then asked in a natural tone, "Which one of you two is 1? Is it my brother? Or are you taking turns?"

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There was an eerie silence at the dinner table. Ruan Youqing and Tang Tu were stunned for a few seconds, and then they exchanged a terrified look, neither of them dared to answer.

Yang Liu, who had always been listening quietly, saw that the atmosphere was a bit tense, and took the initiative to smooth things over, and asked with a smile, "What is one?"

"Tsk, I don't understand this." The girl looked at the middle-aged woman who couldn't keep up with the times with disgust and opened her mouth, "1 means attack, attack means..."

"Pin Yue!" Tang Tu hurriedly interrupted her, "How's the taste of the chicken wings? Is it spicy?"

"Didn't you praise my brother just now? It's super delicious, unlike the first time I made it." Cui Pinyue looked at him suspiciously, as if surprised that he started to forget at a young age, and then seemed to suddenly realize, "Oh! You are still shy Ah. Hey, there's nothing to be ashamed of being such an adult. Then I won't ask..."

Yang Liu smiled and took out a piece of paper to wipe the corners of her daughter's oily mouth: "Mom can't understand you young people."

Until they finished dinner, visited the house, and ate ice cream together, Tang Tu couldn't let go of the string in his mind. He tried his best to guide the topic, for fear that Ruan Youqing, who was still in adolescence, would say something surprising again.

Ruan Youqing couldn't stand such a lively young girl, she got a headache from the noise, and then she just kept silent.

After finally surviving until they were successfully sent to the car, the two stood on the side of the road and waved goodbye to a mother and daughter.

The car started slowly, and the sound of mother and daughter talking could be heard from the open window, Yang Liu couldn't wait to ask her daughter: "What do you mean by that one?"

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They looked at each other with despair.

"Your mother is very curious..." Tang Tu sighed heavily in the night.

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