rain is not far

After all, Wu Yurong is not young anymore, Qi Shiyu is a head taller than her, and if you look down, you can see her gray hair and her no longer slim back.Qi Shiyu's heart softened, he held Wu Yurong's trembling arm with his hand, and said after a long sigh: "Mom, have you ever thought that no one made mistakes in this matter from the beginning to the end?"

Wu Yurong looked at her son with tears in the corners of her eyes. Qi Shiyu suddenly felt sad when she saw the deep lines in the corners of her eyes.

"Mom, it's been so many years." Qi Shiyu reached out to wipe away the tears from the corners of her mother's eyes, "I've discovered since adolescence that I only have feelings for the same sex. When I came out to my family when I graduated from high school, I thought that in a family like ours, you Both my dad and I understand. But you don't."

"You all told me that I was wrong." Qi Shiyu subconsciously stroked the tattoo on the inside of his left wrist with his right hand, "Later I also began to feel that I was wrong, a family that was good at first, because I was torn apart, and then my brother also left... I thought, I really did something wrong."

"But I don't know how to change it, and I can't change it, Mom." Qi Shiyu murmured, "It's not that I haven't tried to like girls...Mom, since I was a child, I just want to see if you don't eat coriander. Eating a mouthful of coriander is like eating a mouthful of soap, it's disgusting."

"Everyone in our family loves coriander except you. Every time we eat hot-boiled mutton, there is no coriander in your sesame sauce."

"Mom, we like to eat coriander. I don't think it's abnormal that you don't like coriander. We can still cook meat around a copper pot." Qi Shiyu hugged his mother, "Why can't you try, even a little bit, try Accept me?"

Zhong Yuan was not far from them, and he listened to what the two had said.

"Shiyu, have you been blaming your mother all these years?" Wu Yurong grabbed his hand and touched his wrist, "You must be blaming me, right?"

"Mom, you and Dad go back first." Qi Shiyu withdrew his hand, "I'll go in and help Brother Dong."

After all, he didn't care about the few people standing there, and entered the small courtyard without looking back.

Wu Yurong finally couldn't bear it anymore, covered her face and cried.Qi Yanjie stepped forward to hug her, and she wept in her husband's arms, sobbing: "He hates me...he hates me, he doesn't even want to lie to me..."

Qi Lang held the mushroom by the hand, and stood beside Zhong Yuan quietly, with his head bowed.The mushroom raised its front paws, lay on his lap, and stuck out its tongue to lick the little master's hand.

Zhong Yuan rubbed Qi Lang's head, leaned over and said to him: "Lang Lang, take the mushrooms back to accompany Lao Qi, okay?"

Qi Lang nodded and led the dog back.Seeing the child walking away, Zhong Yuan walked up to the Qi family's parents and said politely, "I don't think the second elder is driving, so I'll take the two of you home."

Qi Yanjie looked at his wife in his arms, and wanted to refuse, but Wu Yurong nodded first.

Zhong Yuan opened the rear door, put one hand on the top of the door, and helped the two old people into the car.

He asked for the address, started the car, and drove slowly to the destination.

There was soft classical music playing in the car, but no one spoke.In the end, it was Qi Yanjie who broke the silence first, and said, "Mr. Zhong, please, I woke up early this morning and I didn't feel well, so I didn't drive."

"Uncle, you are welcome, just call me Xiao Zhong." Zhong Yuan turned off the music, his voice was steady, polite and demeanor, "Be careful if you are not feeling well, if Shi Yu has no time to accompany you to the hospital, you can also contact me the same."

Qi Yanjie: ...

This young man really doesn't regard himself as an outsider.

Out of politeness, he still politely declined: "It's all right, don't bother..."

"What do you do?" Wu Yurong suddenly interrupted her husband and asked.

Zhong Yuan calmly said, "Teacher."

The next second he added: "I am Xiao Lang's head teacher."

Wu Yurong frowned slightly: "You..."

"Auntie, Shi Yu and I have known each other for many years. We are classmates in high school, and he is one grade higher than me." Zhong Yuan interrupted Wu Yurong, "I liked him many years ago, and this unexpected reunion is also my first pursuit. his."

Wu Yurong was still sobbing: "You two big men, what do you like and pursue?"?

Zhong Yuan was not annoyed, and his tone was still calm: "Auntie, if I don't talk about liking and pursuing, then what does a same-sex relationship look like to you?"

Wu Yurong was silent again.

"Casual and uncertain promiscuity?" Zhong Yuan continued, "Accompanied by an infectious disease that can't be put on the stage or even kills, can you end up alone in pain or regret?"

"Auntie, I'm actually happy for Shi Yu, really." Zhong Yuan stopped the car in front of a red light at an intersection, "He has a mother like you, no matter how many conflicts and differences there are between you, in the end you still Hope he's well - the biggest problem is that you and he don't have the same definition of 'good'."

Wu Yurong seemed to have grasped something: "Mr. Zhong, since you know that I am also for his own good, why..."

"For his good, he may not be really good." Zhong Yuan looked at the old man in the back seat from the rearview mirror, "I think you should know this truth better than me, because he never told me the reason for the tattoo on his wrist .”

"Auntie, now I have no position to tell you that same-sex people can also form a family and enter into a marriage relationship, because this is not legally established." The red light changed to green, and Zhong Yuan started the car again. "When I saw Shi Yu again, he was so different from when he was in high school, he didn't smile so much anymore."

"What I can assure you is that in the days to come, I will return that 17-year-old child to you." Zhong Yuan looked ahead, "I can make him laugh like before, really laugh."

The two old people in the back seat remained silent until Zhong Yuan's car stopped at the gate of the community. Wu Yurong got out of the car and said to him: "Mr. Zhong, I still can't accept the relationship between you, I hope you can understand."

Zhong Yuan nodded: "Of course."

Seeing him so relaxed, Wu Yurong frowned and said, "You...don't you try to convince me?"

"I never thought of convincing you." Zhong Yuan smiled, "No matter how powerful my mouth is, I can't change the existing ideas of a mature woman with high knowledge in less than 30 minutes—of course, men Same."

When Qi Yanjie at the side heard this, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up.

Zhong Yuan changed the subject: "But Auntie, when you said you didn't accept the relationship between me and Shi Yu, at least you had admitted that there was a relationship between me and him. No longer deluding yourself to deny the fact, it is to accept a relationship The first step of a new concept of values.”

"Does your family accept it?" Wu Yurong asked, "...this kind of values?"

Zhong Yuan smiled: "This is the reason why I envy Shi Yu. There is no basis for this kind of conflict between me and my mother. The source of this conflict is mutual care and concern, and the only connection between me and my mother It's child support when you're a minor."

"Because I have never owned it, I hope that the one I love will not miss it."