A bowl of sweet soup

Ji Wei went on to say: "You yesterday..."

Tang Xuen really wanted to ask what nonsense he was talking about, but he didn't have the face to ask, afraid of hearing an answer that would make him even more ashamed.

Seeing the corner of Ji Wei's mouth twitching into a smile and wanting to continue talking, Tang Xuen almost jumped up, like a puppy whose tail was stepped on, and quickly stopped him: "Okay, okay, needless to say."

"I know I'm making a fool of myself."

"Hey, I won't drink so much next time. Drinking is really a mistake. I don't drink too much, and I didn't drink a lot yesterday. It's just three or four bottles of yellow. How can I get so drunk..."

While Tang Xuen was deceiving himself and talking about fragments, all kinds of beautiful pictures appeared in his mind, and he couldn't tell the difference between the real and the fake.

Actually nothing happened?

Tang Xuen felt that something was wrong again, his chest was congested, he thought about it, and asked: "I have changed my clothes in the morning, and there is no smell of alcohol on my body, can you wipe it for me?"

"Then what?" Ji Wei asked back, his frank attitude made Tang Xuen a little embarrassed, "You must sleep with me last night, and you took off your clothes and got under my quilt. I can't let you You smell of alcohol, you can sleep but I can't sleep."

Tang Xuen's face flushed red.

Did he really do such a thing?Why can't he remember? ...But when you calm down and think about it, it doesn't seem too strange.

There were times before when he stayed at Ji Wei's house drunk and passed out, and then Ji Wei changed his clothes, but didn't scrub his body.

Tang Xuen said embarrassingly: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I caused you trouble."

Ji Wei replied: "It doesn't matter, we are friends."

What he said was a little distant and polite, which inexplicably made Tang Xuen uneasy.

He said, got up, took off the suit jacket that was hanging on the back of the chair, folded it in half and hooked it on his forearm.

Tang Xuen's gaze then changed from looking up to looking up, before he realized: "Ah, are you leaving?"

There was a faint tiredness in Ji Wei's eyes: "Well, it's getting late. I didn't sleep long last night."

Tang Xuen quickly stood up and said, "I'll see you off."

In the middle of the night, Xiaoheqiao Street was completely silent, the starry sky was cut into long and narrow star belts by the eaves on both sides, covering their heads, and the breeze was blowing slowly, which gradually cooled Tang Xuen's cheeks.

He often walks by Ji Wei's side, from the youthful youth to now.It probably originated in the third year of junior high school, and I can't remember when it started. Anyway, after self-study next night, the two of them will go home together basically every night.

When he was in high school, on the way home, Ji Wei would take him to a stall for supper.Tang Xuen had no money, so he just sat and watched him eat.

Ji Wei would always order a sweet soup of stewed eggs with longan and red dates. He asked for a small bowl, picked out the stewed eggs in it and pushed it to him, saying: "I don't like to eat this, it's a waste if I don't eat it, please help me eat it." .”

At the first time, Tang Xuen was a little embarrassed to accept it, but he always listened to Ji Wei.If he doesn't eat it, Ji Wei will really leave the egg there, he would rather throw it away than force himself to eat it.

Tang Xuen is such a frugal person, seeing it hurt her heart, and finally ate it with a sense of guilt.

The eggs are boiled and soaked in the aroma of longan and red dates, and the sugar is just right, sweet but not greasy.

At that time, because the family wanted to treat his father's illness, Tang Xu'en wished to break a penny in half and spend it in half. The two younger brothers were at the age of gluttonous food and long-term health. The younger brother eats two more bites.

This egg is his little secret with Ji Wei.

Tang Xuen never told his younger brother that he would steal delicious food when he came home from school.Especially in winter, when he drank a bowl of sweet soup, he felt his cold hands and feet were warmed up, and the sweetness seemed to moisten his heart, making him feel that life was not so bitter.

At least, he still has a good friend who is devoted to him.

Go to the parking lot.

Tang Xuen stopped by Ji Wei's car and said, "Then I'll take you here."

Ji Wei: "Yes."

Ji Wei turned around and glanced at him, his body froze, and for a moment, as if seeing something on his face, he suddenly reached out and touched the corner of his mouth.

Tang Xuen: "?!"

It was just what happened in a second or two, Tang Xuen blushed, and couldn't react to it all at once.

Ji Wei said, "There is some red bean paste on the corner of your mouth."

Tang Xuen hurriedly fumbled in his pocket, but couldn't find a tissue, so he said in a panic, "Oh, oh."

The touch of Ji Wei's fingers seemed to remain on his lips, and Tang Xuen couldn't help but think of how Ji Wei kissed him in his shameless dream.

That wasn't a very skillful kiss, it was just full of enthusiasm, if you didn't like it, it was like eating a piece of candy you liked, you wanted to chew it, but you couldn't bear to chew it too fast, and you wanted to lick some more sweetness.

He is that candy.

Ji Wei withdrew his hand, but Tang Xuen saw that he didn't wipe his stained fingertips.

Ji Wei: "Okay, let's go back."

"Go to bed early, don't you have to get up early to prepare for the opening of the store?"

Tang Xuen: "Hmm..."

Ji Wei said goodbye to him, got in the car, and drove away slowly.

In the rearview mirror, Tang Xuen was still standing there. In the dim light, he could vaguely see the reluctance in Tang Xuen's eyes that he didn't realize.

Ji Wei sometimes wonders if this is his own self-indulgence.

He held the steering wheel with his left hand, raised his right hand, and licked the red bean paste on the pulp of his thumb, and the red bean paste at the corner of Tang Xuen's mouth.

Yesterday's kiss smelled like lychee roses. If I kissed Tang Xuen just now, it must have tasted like red bean paste.

Tang Xuen felt inexplicably sad, he watched Ji Wei leave before slowly going home.

When I got home, I couldn't sit down and worry about it by myself.

Two heads poked out from the door, staring at him mischievously, making Tang Xuen laugh, and asked: "What are you two doing?"

Tang Zheng asked, "Brother, what happened to you and Brother Ji Wei?"

It's true that which pot is not opened and which pot is lifted, Tang Zheng is always No.1 in terms of not being long-sighted.

Tang Xuen's face was sullen, and everyone said in a patriarchal manner: "It's nothing, don't worry about the children."

Tang Zheng jumped into the room: "Why do you say that I am a child and I am an adult. Don't I care about you? I always feel that you two are fighting. You are the best friend like Brother Wei, I don't want to see You are in conflict."

Tang Xuen said bluntly, "There is no conflict."

Tang Yuan didn't speak, but looked at him pitifully with a downcast face.

Tang Xuen asked: "What's wrong with you?"

Tang Yuan stood up silently, and asked guiltily: "Brother, did you go drinking in the middle of the night yesterday because of me? I made you feel bad?"

Tang Xuen was taken aback.

Suddenly, he realized that since he woke up in Ji Wei's bed at noon, he had completely forgotten about worrying about Tang Yuan!

I didn't think of it at all!

Just thinking about the matter between himself and Ji Wei...

He is really a big brother who has failed his job.Tang Xuen felt ashamed of himself.

It was true that he drank because of this before, but now he has no feelings, so he doesn't need to go against his conscience and just say: "No, no."

"I really went to talk to Ji Wei about this matter. After all, it is a major event in your life. You should be more cautious, right?"

"Mr. Meng is a professional and seems to have a lot of money. Our family is ordinary people, so I must go to Ji Wei to help me find out."

Tang Yuan gradually relaxed under his reassurance, and he nodded his head after saying a word.

When talking about his worries, Tang Xuen paused and said: "First of all, I am not prejudiced against Mr. Meng, or maliciously speculate, but I just consider it reasonably. He is 33 years old, and he may have been married, at least once. Emotional experience."

When Tang Yuan heard this, he directly swore: "No, he has never been in a relationship before, and this is the first time with me."

Tang Xuen: "Ah? Impossible?"

Tang Xuen didn't believe it, especially because he felt that his little brother Tang Yuan was a little fool. He was stupid since he was a child, and the well-known little bookworm was less understanding of the world than him.

He really wanted to ask if you had been cheated, but he didn't know how to ask it tactfully, and he was thinking about how to say it so as to protect his brother's heart as much as possible.

But Tang Yuan seemed to guess what he wanted to say, and said: "You don't believe it, do you? I didn't believe it before. There is a reason for this, brother, he is a bit wrong, that's why it's delayed until this age. I temporarily It’s not convenient to go into details.”

"Anyway, I know he didn't lie to me."

I don't know what happened.

He was clearly discussing about Tang Yuan's partner, but Tang Xuen's thoughts wandered to Ji Wei again——

Wait, Ji Wei is not young anymore.

Moreover, Ji Wei has been studying abroad before, and only returned to China a few years ago. Foreign countries are so open. Ji Wei is tall and handsome, so can he not have some emotional experience?Tang Xuen couldn't help thinking.

After thinking about it for a while, he had the feeling that charcoal sparks had poured into his heart, heartburning, and he felt a little uncomfortable for no reason.

Tang Xuen recalled that Ji Wei was very attractive when he was a student. When he arrived at school in the morning, he would often see love letters being stuffed in his desk.

All the male classmates in the class envied Ji Wei, but no one was unconvinced. Privately, Ji Wei was called a five-good boy by the girls—referring to his good grades, good family background, good grooming, and good personality. , looks good.

In his memory, Ji Wei is like a shining figure.

And until now, it is still so excellent, and it has not dimmed at all.

In the past two years after returning to China, he knew that Ji Wei did not have any flowers and plants around him. Ji Wei said that he was busy with his career first.

I was only 25 or 28 years old at the time, and I thought they were still young, but I didn't expect that they were both [-] or [-] years old in a blink of an eye.

But what about going further?While abroad?

Tang Xuen didn't know anything about it, he didn't know how to talk about it with Ji Wei at all, he thought it was too personal, and he was completely ignorant about it at that time, so he never thought of asking.

On the other hand, Ji Wei seemed to have asked him twice, and he felt ashamed of himself, so he replied that he hadn't, and he didn't have time, and once seriously said that he would not get married until both his younger brothers were sent to college.

Especially in the past two years, almost at the peak of their generation's marriage, every now and then a classmate gets married and invites him to join the party.

No, do whatever you want, within two days, Tang Xuen received a message from an old high school classmate saying that she was getting married next Saturday, and sent him an electronic invitation on WeChat.

Tang Xuen turned around and asked Ji Wei if he would participate.

Ji Wei said he would participate.

Of course we go together.