one punch

One day near the end of July, the countdown software on Jiang Ran's phone rang.

It's his little dog's birthday.

At this time in previous years, uncles and aunts would prepare some food in advance to make a feast comparable to Chinese New Year, but this year everyone was so busy that they forgot the time.

Even Dou Tianxiao himself completely forgot about it.

At around nine o'clock in the evening, he was writing the test paper in his room when he suddenly received a call from Jiang Ran.

"Is everyone in your family asleep?" Jiang Ran's voice was very soft.

Dou Tianxiao opened the door and took a look, "Grandpa is asleep, the light in my brother's room is still on, he is probably packing, what's wrong?"

"I'm outside your house," Jiang Ran said, "Go out and open the door, be careful not to be discovered by your brother."

Dou Tianxiao pushed open the door, tiptoed through the living room and the hallway, and saw a head in the cat's eye, looking down at the phone.

"Why are you here!?" Dou Tianxiao did not dare to turn on the light, and took advantage of the light from the corridor to find a pair of slippers for Jiang Ran to change into.

"Let's go in and talk about it." Jiang Ran hid the things in his hands behind his back.

With his back arched, Dou Tianxiao slipped back to the bedroom cunningly, during which time he heard Ye Xi humming in the room, and seemed to be in a good mood.

"Are there a lot of orders today? I see he has been busy in the room all day." Dou Tianxiao turned on the light in the bedroom.

"It's okay, I saw about [-] orders in the evening." Jiang Ran said.

Dou Tianxiao raised his eyebrows, "That's great!"

When he turned his head and saw Jiang Ran holding a small cake in his hand, his eyes immediately widened, "Ah!"

"Shh." Jiang Ran made a silent gesture, "If your brother finds out, he will drive me back."

"Yeah." Dou Tianxiao nodded sharply, and locked the door, "He probably won't come in."

Jiang Ran put the small cake on the table and clicked his tongue twice, "I found that you are more excited when you see the cake than me."

Dou Tianxiao chuckled, walked over to him like a koala and entangled him for a kiss.

Jiang Ran hugged his lower back tightly, and the two of them stuck together like this, swaying half a circle on the spot, "I wanted to go out to watch a movie with you at night, but my cousin just gave birth today, My mother took me to the hospital to see her, so I came back late."

"What a coincidence!? I was born on the same month and the same day as me." Dou Tianxiao laughed, "Actually, I'm super surprised that you can come!"

"Are you hungry?" Jiang Ran pointed at the cake, "If you're not hungry, you can eat it tomorrow, anyway, the cake is just a formality, the point is to come and see you."

Dou Tianxiao ate a piece of fruit, "Actually, I even forgot that today is my birthday. My brother cooked me a bowl of egg noodles. My stomach was still growling just now. What a coincidence you came."

"Want to make a wish?" Jiang Ran asked.

"Okay." Dou Tianxiao nodded, and then watched Jiang Ran insert the candles, forming a circle in a leisurely manner.

When I bought it, I was too focused on choosing the style, but I didn't pay attention to the number of candles. After opening the box and counting several times, I found that there were only 16 candles in total.

After inserting all the candles, Jiang Ran suddenly said, "Bad review."

Dou Tianxiao chuckled, "Sixteen can be 16, I'm 16 years old this year."

"No, no, no." Jiang Ran found a pair of scissors, and cut two candles in the middle, making 18 candles.

After putting in all the candles, Dou Tianxiao suddenly remembered something, slapped his thigh and said, "But no one in my house smokes, and I don't have a lighter."

"You wait."

Jiang Ran risked his life to light a fire on the kitchen stove, and Xiaotu saw Jiang Ran barking and barking to welcome him.

Protecting the little flame with one hand, Jiang Ran darted back to the room, and just as the door was closed, he heard Ye Xi open the door and shout at Xiaotu.

"Stupid dog! Why are you barking in the middle of the night without sleeping!? If you bark again, believe it or not, I'll kill you?"

"Wang Wang!"

Jiang Ran turned off the light, and then closed the half-open window.

The small room was instantly enveloped in darkness, and the light in Jiang Ran's hand kept flickering, looking like a fluffy circle.

Dou Tianxiao watched quietly as Jiang Ran lit those candles one by one, those tiny lights made the atmosphere very romantic.

"Close your eyes, there must be a sense of ceremony." Jiang Ran's palms were placed on his eyes.

In the darkness, Dou Tianxiao felt the warmth brought to him by those hands with sharp knuckles.

desire.

In fact, I had a lot of wishes when I was a child. At first, I hoped that my classmates would not hate him so much. Later, after knowing that my parents divorced, I hoped that God would give him back the little home that originally belonged to him...

He wants to celebrate his birthday with his parents like other children.

However, it was only in the end that I realized that these wishes could not be realized.

He couldn't spend his birthday with his parents in his life.

A lifetime of regrets.

After growing up a little bit, he hopes that he can become very rich, and he can solve many, many troubles when he is rich. Only enough money can give him a sense of security.

But after my grandfather had a stroke, he felt that there were some things that no matter how rich he was, he couldn't buy them anymore.

Now he wants to go back to his childhood.

So what if you don't have your parents to accompany you on your birthday, don't you still have your uncle?

No one in the class likes him, isn't there Jiang Ran and his brother?

Compared with the current force majeure, the troubles of childhood are not considered troubles.

When the candle was half burned, Jiang Ran moved his fingers and reminded, "Are you ready?"

Dou Tianxiao saw those faint, warm yellow lights through his fingers, "Why don't you make a wish."

"Why?" Jiang Ran let go of his hand and stared at him.

"I suddenly remembered that the wishes I made since I was a child have never been fulfilled." Dou Tianxiao held Jiang Ran's slender fingers, "It's better to live realistically, cherish the present, other things are not so important."

Jiang Ran smiled and rubbed his head, "Then blow out the candle."

What Jiang Ran bought was an eight-inch milk cake, which was originally intended to be eaten by the family at night, but Dou Tianxiao couldn't finish it all by himself.

Jiang Ran cut a piece for him, and put the rest in the refrigerator to cool down. When he came back, there was only half of the cake on the table.

"Do you want to try it?" Dou Tianxiao poked a piece.

"I stopped eating after brushing my teeth." Jiang Ran said.

"Oh, I just asked casually, this one is not enough for me to fit between my teeth." The second after Dou Tianxiao finished speaking, the chair was suddenly turned half a circle, and the cake in his hand was almost gone. son fell to the ground.

Jiang Ran supported the armrest of the chair with his left hand, leaned his upper body forward slightly, locked him in the chair, and then raised his right hand to lightly touch his chin.

Moist lips pressed against it.

A kiss caught off guard, when Jiang Ran's tongue tip came in to touch and tease, Dou Tianxiao's mind was full of "It's over, it's over, there must be cream in his mouth that hasn't been swallowed... I'm so obsessed with cleanliness that I can't hate it..."

He stepped back a little, but Jiang Ran pressed the back of his head to prevent him from hiding.

Dou Tianxiao said in his heart that it will work, and I will let you taste the cake to see what it tastes like.

So he took a breath and slowly moved forward.

Jiang Ran suddenly laughed after kissing her.

The kiss wasn't too intense, but it ended up feeling creamy in my mouth.

"Laughing fart." Dou Tianxiao pushed the cake in his hand into his mouth, under the light, the roots of his ears were slightly red.

"I have a present for you." Jiang Ran said softly, took out a square box from his bag and placed it on his desk.

It's a new mobile phone. You can tell from the picture on the package that it's the one with a touch screen.

Dou Tianxiao's mobile phone was bought from a second-hand mobile phone store. After using it for several years, the buttons are no longer sensitive, and the electric board is not durable. But Jiang Ran knew that even if he really had thousands of savings, he would not be willing to buy a good one.

"My god..." Dou Tianxiao didn't dare to open such a precious gift, "Why did you give me a mobile phone?"

"I will give you whatever you need." Jiang Ran said, "I hope that one day I will give you everything you wear."

"But it's so precious." Dou Tianxiao was a little conflicted, he couldn't afford to pay back this gift.

Jiang Ran seemed to be able to read his mind, and spoke first, "Anyway, the time has passed, and the mall does not refund or exchange. If you don't want to accept it, you can sell it at a low price in the second-hand market."

Dou Tianxiao was at a loss as he stared at the phone box.

"I bought everything." Jiang Ran put the old SIM card into the new phone for him, "Try it, see if you can make calls."

Dou Tianxiao tried to dial Jiang Ran's cell phone.

"Yo, can I recite my mobile phone number?" Jiang Ran connected the phone, stepped back to the corner, looked at him, and pretended to be on the phone, "Why are you calling me? Miss me?"

Dou Tianxiao grinned, turned around suddenly, covered his mouth and cursed in a low voice: "Smelly shameless."

"Then do you like smelly and shameless?" Jiang Ran asked.

Dou Tianxiao picked a pen cap on the table, shyly said: "I like it."

As long as it is you, I like everything.

The first thing Dou Tianxiao did after hanging up the phone was to send the photos of the old phone to set the wallpaper.

Jiang Ran held the new mobile phone in one hand, and clasped his fingers tightly with the other.

"Crack" sound.

The focus is on Dou Tianxiao's high and protruding wrist bones. The two have slender arms and similar skin tones. The two strings of the same style are particularly eye-catching, and they look really good together.

"The pixels are so high." This is many times better than his original flip phone, and even the little fluff on his hand is photographed.

Although Dou Tianxiao doesn't know the model of the mobile phone very well, but this brand is expensive, at least four or five thousand is the starting price.

"Don't give me such expensive things in the future, I can't afford it."

"Ah, I gave you something just for you to ask you to return it to me, right? Then I'll give you a fart." Jiang Ran rubbed his head, "I said, I will give you whatever you need, It is now, and it will be in the future, as long as you are happy."

"Super happy." Dou Tianxiao rubbed his head against his stomach, whispering softly, "Why is my boyfriend so nice?"

"Because they are family members." Jiang Ran bent down and kissed him on the forehead. When he spoke, there was a little light in his eyes, "I don't ask for anything in return, and I will always be there. You can rely on me. I am your brother." , is your boyfriend, the one who wants to accompany you through the rest of your life."

Dou Tianxiao looked up at him, unable to speak for a long time.

The meaning of the word "family" is very different to a child from a divorced family.

Dou Tianxiao has been surrounded by a feeling of abandonment since he was a child, so even if he lives in his grandfather's house, he will worry that he will be abandoned by his relatives at any time, because it is someone else's home after all.

Although now that he is grown up, this feeling is not as strong as when he was a child, but it is not guaranteed that one day Ye Xi gets married, and he will have to move out. He is a newlywed, happy and harmonious, what is going on with his cousin living here all the time.

Even if Ye Xi and the others let him live, he doesn't have that face.

Jiang Ran's words made him feel that there was no longer an empty space behind him, even if he fell down, there was still a big embrace.

Depend.

Probably the most beloved word in the dictionary.

"Oh, I still have something for you." Jiang Ran took out a small thing from his pocket.

At first glance, that thing looks like an ornament made of mahogany, with a very unique shape, but if you look closely, you will find that each side of this small cube-shaped ornament has different patterns and mechanisms.

It seems that only by unlocking all the mechanisms can the "small door" at the top be opened.

"You did it?" Dou Tianxiao looked at it with his hand.

"Yeah." Jiang Ran nodded.

Dou Tianxiao was a little surprised, not to mention how many brain cells it takes to come up with such a complicated lock, it takes a lot of thought to polish these small parts, "When did you start messing around? It's so delicate."

"There's something inside, let's see if you can take it out." Jiang Ran said with a smile.

"What?" Dou Tianxiao put it to his ear and shook it, but he couldn't hear any sound, "Is it a note?"

"It's so boring to tell you," Jiang Ran sat on the edge of the bed, "You can take it easy, anyway, the things inside won't expire."

Dou Tianxiao was already very curious, and he couldn't bear it even more when he said this, and begged him to help untie it.

After Jiang Ran got a sweet deep kiss, his heart softened, and he showed him how to solve one of the locks, "Okay, you can solve the rest by yourself. It's boring if you unlock it for you. I still think that you will not be able to see it until N years later."

"Am I that stupid!" Dou Tianxiao poked his neck.

Jiang Ran pursed his lips and smiled, but didn't answer, "Do your homework, I won't bother you."

"Oh," Dou Tianxiao put the little things aside first, "I still have two big questions to finish."

"Okay, I'll wait for you." Jiang Ran said.

Dou Tianxiao said without looking back, "It's nothing, you go back first."

"Ah?" Jiang Ran was stunned, and in the middle of the night, he sneaked out without his parents behind his back, and had to sneak back?Not only did he have no intention of retaining him at all, but he also drove him away directly?Those words just now are all in vain!

"Huh?" Dou Tianxiao looked at him, "Is there anything else?"

Jiang Ran breathed a sigh of relief, and thought that it was his birthday anyway, so he couldn't be as knowledgeable as this little thing, "Okay, I'm leaving."

Dou Tianxiao turned around and grabbed his wrist, "I'm just kidding you."

Jiang Ran frowned, and leaned against his desk, "Are there any questions you don't understand?"

"Not yet, why don't you read these two papers for me." Dou Tianxiao said.

"Okay." Jiang Ran took the paper and sat on the small sofa to mark it.

After correcting the paper, Dou Tianxiao stretched his hands and saw that it was getting late, so he was ready to go to bed.

"It's raining heavily outside, what should we do?" Jiang Ran got up and said.

"Ah!? No way!?" Dou Tianxiao immediately lay down on the window sill, not to mention the heavy rain outside, there was not even a drizzle, and the sky was full of stars and there were countless stars.

Jiang Ran is not a fool, everyone knows the reason for such serious nonsense.

"Sure enough, it's raining heavily..." Dou Tianxiao echoed, "I have an umbrella at home, can I lend you one?"

Jiang Ran turned to look at him.

Dou Tianxiao suppressed his stomachache with a smile, "If you want to stay, just say so, why are you beating around the bush, it's not like I won't let you sleep."

"It's better to be reserved." Jiang Ran couldn't help laughing either.

"Did you take a bath?" Dou Tianxiao asked.

"Washed." Jiang Ran answered quickly, and lifted the quilt.

"Just wash it, I don't have extra underwear for you to change." Dou Tianxiao said.

Ye Xi went to the living room to pour a glass of water to drink, and when passing by Dou Tianxiao's room, he heard the sound of someone chatting, and when he turned the doorknob, he found that it was locked.

This is strange.

Dou Tianxiao never had the habit of locking the door at home.

"Who are you chatting with!?" Ye Xi knocked on the door.

Dou Tianxiao was startled suddenly, "Ah, I'm on the phone."

"With Jiang Ran?" Ye Xi asked.

"Yes, he wished me a happy birthday." Afraid that he would come in suddenly, Dou Tianxiao quickly motioned Jiang Ran to hide in the closet first.

Jiang Ran pointed to the tip of his nose, then to the wardrobe, with a look of astonishment.

How could it be like having an affair!

"This guy is really insincere. He just said on the phone to send blessings, and he didn't send a cake. Let me tell you that blessings without real things are perfunctory. Hurry up and hang up the phone and talk about farts." Ye Xi said.

Dou Tianxiao smiled and said, "He's listening on the phone."

"Just listen to it, just for him." Ye Xi leaned against the door and said, "Things that are not sincere!"

After all, Ye Xi didn't enter the door, Jiang Ran crawled out of the closet in a state of embarrassment, scratched his messy hair, "Get up early tomorrow and hide that cake, don't give it to him."

Jiang Ran didn't look carefully when he was lying on the bed, and accidentally pressed something, pulled it out from the back, and found that it was the number two rival in love—Xiong Zai.

"How many years has this bear been with you?" Jiang Ran patted Xiong Zai's head angrily.

"I don't remember, it's been there since I can remember. I didn't like to eat when I was a child, so my grandfather bought me bear cubs on the street, pretending to feed the bear, and then feed me a mouthful of rice." Dou Tianxiao followed into bed , "He loved me when he was young."

"It's more painful after another generation, and my grandparents also love me." Jiang Ran turned his head and glanced at him, "Have you taken a bath?"

"It's been washed. If you don't believe me, you can smell it." Dou Tianxiao stretched out his arm.

"You just finished eating the cake and didn't brush your teeth." Jiang Ran said.

"It doesn't matter once in a while." Dou Tianxiao said.

"No," Jiang Ran pushed his arm and urged, "Go, go, brush your teeth."

Dou Tianxiao originally wanted to say that you are so annoying, but when he thought about the possibility of some in-depth communication in a while, he excitedly got out of bed, washed his face and brushed his teeth.

Jiang Ran held Xiong Zai in his hand and lowered his head to smell it.

Xiong Zai smells like Dou Tianxiao all over his body, so he probably sleeps in his arms every night.

"Tsk tsk." Jiang Ran flicked Xiong Zai's nose vigorously, "Call me Dad."

Then he squeezed his throat and replied, "Dad."

"Do you welcome me to live here?"

After finishing speaking, he pressed Xiong Zai's head forcibly and nodded.

"Good boy," Jiang Ran patted it on the head, "Xiong Zai must be sensible, so you can't watch what you shouldn't see later, you know?"

Xiong Zai nodded very "cooperatively".

"Then you can sleep on the ground tonight." Jiang Ran put the bear cub on the ground, fearing that it would catch a cold, and took off the pillow cover to cover its belly.