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When eating breakfast the next day, the eyes of the whole family were all red. Xu Le was not the only one who suffered from insomnia last night?Everyone ate breakfast tacitly, no one spoke, and the quiet atmosphere was unspeakably oppressive.

After breakfast, Xu Cheng left home to go out.After he retired, it became almost a daily routine to go to the park for morning exercise and play chess with chess friends in the afternoon.

Xu Le sat in the living room, watching the morning news broadcast on TV.

Wang Dan came out of the room with a bag in his hand.She sat down next to Xu Le, took out a bank passbook from her bag, and handed it to Xu Le while saying: "Xiao Le, this is the money my father and I have saved over the years, you take it."

Xu Le was stunned, "What's wrong with Mom? I'm not short of money."

"Take it, this money was originally saved for you!" Wang Dan insisted on pushing the passbook to him.

Xu Le had no choice but to take it, and opened it to see that this should be all their savings.

Wang Dan took out some brochures from the bag again, all of which were information on some small apartment buildings.

"These are real estate properties that my father and I have seen and thought were good. You can take the information back and have a closer look. If you think it's suitable, you can buy it."

"I have no plans to buy a house yet." Xu Le returned the passbook to his mother, "Besides, Mom, even if you want to buy it, you don't need to pay for it. I have a housing provident fund, a little savings in the bank, and recently made a small profit from the stock market." A sum of money. You and my dad will keep the money."

Wang Dan refused to accept it, "Your father and I have a place to live, and the monthly pension is enough. Why do we keep this money? Besides, we only have you as a son. If you don't give this money, you can give it to me." who?"

"But Mom, I really don't need it."

"Originally, the money was reserved for your marriage, but now it seems that you will not be able to get married." Wang Dan sighed, "I discussed it with your father, the property prices keep rising, you should buy a house as soon as possible , it can be regarded as a guarantee in the future.”

"mom……"

Wang Dan interrupted him, "Your father and I are old, and we can't be with you forever." After hesitating for a while, she asked unnaturally, "You...do you have any company now?"

From being driven out of the closet to now, the family has never mentioned this matter, which can be regarded as a consensus to a certain extent.Now that Wang Dan suddenly asked, both mother and son were inevitably a little embarrassed.

"No."

"Then why did you...?"

"I've talked to men before." Xu Le knew what she wanted to ask, and didn't want to give her false hope. "Mom, I don't have feelings for women. It's probably innate."

Although he had been persuading himself to accept this fact for a long time, when even the last bit of illusion was shattered, Wang Dan still couldn't help turning red in his eyes.

Seeing her like this, Xu Le also bowed his head uncomfortably.

……

The two were silent, and after a while, Wang Dan said softly: "If possible, let's find a companion to live with."

Since Xu Le came out of the closet, she has read a lot of materials about homosexuality.Knowing that this road is difficult to walk, of course she doesn't want her son to walk this road, but she doesn't want him to suffer more because of them.While she kept persuading herself, she also did a lot of ideological work to Xu Cheng. She could feel the change in Xu Cheng's attitude, and knew that he just couldn't save face now, and he sorted out all the real estate information.

Xu Le stepped forward and hugged his mother gently. He knew that she must have struggled a lot to say these words.While he was moved, he also felt deeply guilty, and he could only endure the soreness and redness in his eyes silently.