Difficult round

After dinner, Gu Yan helped his mother clean up the dishes and cut up the watermelon he bought. The family of three ate watermelon while watching TV.

The TV show was as boring as ever, but the three of them didn't really put their minds on the TV. Gu's mother squeezed Gu Yan's hand, and her eyes turned red before she could speak:

"Xiaoyan, your dad and I have figured it out over the years. If you really, really can't accept girls, we won't force you anymore. As long as you...you think it's good."

Back then, Mother Gu was looking forward to hugging her big fat grandson, and when she learned that her son liked men, she was no less opposed than Father Gu.

Two years ago, I was really angry and hurt my heart. I felt that I gave birth to such a son for nothing. Later, I really couldn’t see anyone. I started to miss him again. While complaining, I was worried that my son would not be able to eat and live alone outside. Have a bad time.

"Dad, Mom, don't worry, I will take care of myself." Gu's mother has said similar things on the phone and WeChat in the past two years, and Gu Yan said the same thing when she came home for the first time during the Chinese New Year, but Gu Yan didn't A little impatient.

Instead, he held his mother's hand and reassured: "Mom, I used to be young, I was impulsive in words and actions, I didn't take into account the feelings of you and Dad, and I gambled and refused to bow to you. It was my mistake. From now on, from now on I will never do this again... please forgive me..."

"Hey, good, good..." Gu's mother smiled and wiped her tears, and Gu Yan also had a sore nose, and she shed tears for a while.

Then he went to sit next to Dad, swayed Dad's thigh as he did when he was a child, and asked with a playful smile: "Mom has already expressed her opinion, so Dad, why don't you forgive me?"

"Huh, I didn't forgive you for being useful. You are so capable, you dared to refuse your parents back then, but now your wings are hard. I'm afraid I can't control you anymore!"

Gu Yan didn't reply, turned around and arranged the chessboard on the coffee table: "Dad, let me play chess with you, the old rules, if I win, don't be angry with me again, okay?"

Gu's father didn't say yes or no, he gave a cold "hum".

The son who was finally looking forward to come back is naturally a treasure. Seeing that her son was wronged, Gu's mother slapped Gu's father on the back: "Are you annoying or not, you know how to hum, can you talk well?"

Gu's father was scolded, couldn't hold back his face, got up angrily and walked to the study room, seeing Gu Yan motionless on the sofa, turned his head and said angrily: "What are you doing in a daze, take the chessboard with you!"

Shen Qi went down the mountain at three o'clock in the morning.At that time, he was completely sober from the wine, remembering the absurd things he did more than an hour ago, he was ashamed to stay in that room anyway, packed his luggage in a hurry, and fled down the mountain overnight.

The night in the mountain was so dark that he couldn't see his fingers. With the faint light of the flashlight in his mobile phone, Shen Qi walked for almost two hours before he reached the bus station down the mountain.

He is well aware of his own driving skills, it is no problem to drive on the main road, but it is impossible to drive into the mountains, so when he came over, he did not play a hero and parked the car behind the bus stop. On a clearing.

He was not in a hurry to go back to the company, but went home like Gu Yan.

Shen's father and Shen's mother were not happy because of their son's sudden return. Shen's mother asked him with a straight face: "Why did you come back suddenly at this time? Could it be that you were fired from the company?"

Shen Qi didn't say a word, dragged his suitcase into his room, locked the door, and went to sleep.

Shen's mother followed behind and knocked on the door for a while, and chattered a few more words, but when there was no movement inside, she calmed down and left.

After not sleeping all night, and driving the car for a long time with concentration, Shen Xi now has a headache and brain fever, and he doesn't want to say anything, he just wants to get a good night's sleep first.

However, if he really wanted to sleep, he couldn't sleep well, and he was dreaming all kinds of weird dreams in a daze.When I woke up, it was past six o'clock the next day, my head still hurt, my throat was sore, and my whole body was sore and sore as if I had been run over by a train.

I got up and went to the living room to look for a thermometer to hold, and as expected, I had a fever of 38.5.

In such a cold room, I took off my clothes and tossed for a long time, how can I not have a fever?

The small medicine box was turned upside down. There were painkillers, banlangen, and bandages, but there was no cold medicine.But the head really hurt, so Shen Qi randomly peeled off a painkiller and took it.

Painkillers Painkillers, as long as it hurts, it should be able to stop it.

Mom and Dad usually get up around seven o'clock, take medicine, and Shen Xi goes to the kitchen to make a simple breakfast, a pot of white porridge, a tray of pumpkin steamed buns, and cook a big meat dumpling for Dad.

After finishing his work, he sat on the sofa in the living room with his eyes closed and rested, waiting for his parents to get up.

Facts have proved that painkillers have little effect on the headache caused by the cold. His head still hurts, and the pain is getting worse. During the waiting for more than half an hour, he got up and went to the bathroom to retch several times.

Shen's father and Shen's mother walked out of the room and saw his son with a pale face and cold sweat all over his head. Shen's mother was startled, and came over to feel his forehead temperature with her palm:

"Why are you sitting here without sleeping in the morning? Why is your complexion so bad? Is there something wrong? Why is your forehead so hot? Do you have a fever?"

Shen Xi didn't know if he was still running a fever, he felt like his body was going to burn for a while, and shivered for a while.But what he cares about at the moment is not physical problems, so he just shook his head and said, "I'm fine."

"What's the matter? Your face is pale! You're such an adult, don't you know if you're sick or not?"

Shen's mother scolded him a few more words, turned around to get him medicine, but Shen Qi grabbed his arm: "Dad, Mom, wait a moment, I have something to tell you."

Father Shen scanned the thermometer on the coffee table. The scale on it hadn't been dropped yet, and the mercury column stopped at the mark of 38.5. He frowned and said dissatisfiedly, "Let your mother find some medicine, take it and take a nap." , If you have something to say, you can talk about it when you wake up."

However, Shen Qi insisted: "No, I must... say it now."

Shen's father and Shen's mother seemed quite dissatisfied, but they still sat down on the sofa according to their words: "Come on, tell me what you want..."

Shen Qi and his family are the most ordinary working-income families. Shen's father and Shen's mother are reluctant to eat and drink, but they have high hopes for Shen Qi, buying him nutrition and enrolling in various cram schools. They only hope that he can get ahead and find a good job in the future. , You don’t have to get up early and work in the dark like them, but you can only receive a little salary.

Shen Qi also knows that it is not easy for him to grow up because of his parents. He was weak and sick when he was a child. It fell on my mother's head, and she was often tired and sweaty in winter.

Shen Qi sees all these in his eyes and keeps them in his heart, but sometimes he can't help but feel that his parents' love for him is conditional, for example, he will be scolded if he fails to score 100 in elementary school, and even worse in junior high school. I dare not fall out of the top 200 in the grade.

If the grades are good, the parents will be pleasant, and if the grades are not good, he will watch TV and buy a comic book, which is a heinous crime and an unforgivable crime.

He is not the kind of talented person, and even thinks that he is quite stupid. For the same math problem, others can understand it after listening to the teacher once at most two or three times, but he may not understand it after listening to it four or five times.But in order to maintain his grades, he never dared to relax for a moment. He studied until midnight every day and drank coffee as water.

This is also the reason why he didn't like drinking coffee very much later - he drank it until he felt sick in middle and high school, and he didn't want to drink it anymore.

After entering high school, there was a period of time when his grades fluctuated greatly, and his parents would sigh in front of Shen Qi every day. At that time, they would no longer scold him loudly. Working hard to make money is just hoping that he will live up to his expectations, and hope that he will not have to work as hard as them in the future...

These words were like soft knives, piercing Shen Qi's body, it made him feel more uncomfortable than stabbing him with a real knife.

The pressure was too great, Shen Xi was overwhelmed like a boulder, he couldn't sleep well every day, and often dreamed that he failed the college entrance examination, and then woke up in the middle of the night.

Thinking about it now, he always had difficulty falling asleep later, probably because of the bad habits he developed at that time, and it was difficult to change over the years.

In the end, Gu Yan tried every means to get him a good night's sleep.But maybe it wasn't the little coups and remedies that Gu Yan searched around for that made him sleep well, it wasn't the lavender essential oil in the foot bath bucket, but Gu Yan himself.

Otherwise, after the two broke up, he still soaked his feet before going to bed and dripped essential oils on the pillow, why didn't it work at all.

"Dad, Mom." Shen Qi pursed his lower lip, looked up at his father, then at his mother, with his palm firmly on his thigh, and said to the two, "I have a date."

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Shen Qi: It's also going home...

Gu Yan: Who told you not to come home with me.