Confluence

Wang Zheng let go of the suitcase. After knocking on the door, he heard footsteps approaching. When he undid his tie and shirt, he never thought that the person who opened the door was not Zhang Shuchen.

The boy who opened the door was a lot shorter than Wang Zheng, his hair should have been washed, and the reflection looked a little shiny, his eyes were very big, and his eyes were very black. When he looked up at him, he looked like a bird that saw a human being. I don't understand Xiaolu, he is wearing an ill-fitting shirt, which is a bit too big, but the buttons on the neckline have not been buttoned, and the shorts are mostly blocked by the hem of the shirt, and only the slender legs can be seen, as if his lower body is naked...

This stimulation was really a bit big, even Wang Zheng, who was so tired that he wanted to fall to sleep immediately, couldn't hold back his breath.

Then, his mind started to spin wildly: Could it be Zhang Shuchen's new partner?Or a friend who wants to spend the night... No, he knows I'm coming back tonight, so why would he bring someone to the apartment?This is unreasonable...

Before he could figure out an answer, the boy ran away: "Brother Shuchen, there is a knock on the door, and he is still undressing—"

"Ah?! What did you say—"

Hearing the familiar voice, Wang Zhengcai finally came back to his senses, and hastily raised his hand and squeezed his collar to cover his bare chest.

"Didn't I say that you have to ask who is the person first when you open the door? Who did you let in?!" Zhang Shuchen came from the balcony with a plastic basin in his arms, apparently just drying clothes there.

When he saw the bewildered Wang Zhengshi at the door, he let out a "puchi" laugh after being silent, and then said to the boy standing beside him: "Okay, I didn't misplace the wrong person, this is your brother Wang." , Hurry up and call someone, thank you guys."

After the boy timidly said hello to Wang Zheng, Zhang Shuchen said again: "Clean up and go to sleep, don't worry about it."

The boy nodded, then ran into Zhang Shuchen's bedroom stepping on the oversized slippers "da da" and closed the door.

Only then did Zhang Shuchen walk towards the door: "Are you back?"

Wang Zheng nodded, not daring to let go of his neckline.

"Have you eaten yet?" Zhang Shuchen brought his suitcase in, "If you haven't eaten, I'll make you some quick-frozen dumplings."

Wang Zhengdao: "I have already eaten."

"That's fine, you can go to take a shower directly, put the clothes you take off into the washing machine, and I'll get the clothes you want to change for you." In the end, he couldn't hold back, and he habitually said a few words, "Your appearance, Those who didn't know thought you escaped from an illegal coal mine..."

Wang Zheng changed his shoes, and when he heard the words, he turned his head and pretended to be dissatisfied: "How could it be so exaggerated..."

Zhang Shuchen smiled: "Go and look in the mirror yourself, your hair is scuffed like that, and your clothes are disheveled."

Wang Zheng didn't quarrel with him anymore, he smiled at him, turned around, and went straight to the bathroom.

After taking a comfortable bath, Wang Zheng felt that his soul had been washed, and every pore in his body screamed refreshed.He went to the kitchen to get a can of beer in the refrigerator, and when he came out, he saw Zhang Shuchen hugging a pillow and quilt and laying it on the sofa.

Wang Zheng raised his eyebrows and asked as he walked, "Mr. Zhang, what are you doing?"

Without raising his head, Zhang Shuchen spread out the pillow and quilt: "Pack up and get ready to sleep."

"Huh? Where's your room?" Wang Zheng was taken aback, and then he remembered the boy just now, "Could it be that the boy from your relative's family just now?"

Zhang Shuchen: "Yes."

"No, wait a minute," Wang Zheng put down the beer in his hand, lifted the quilt that Zhang Shuchen had spread, and sat on the sofa, "Don't worry about it, let me ask you, didn't you say that the kid can be in my bed?" Did you leave before you came back? Why are you still here now? What happened?"

Zhang Shuchen sighed, sat down next to him, and explained with a suppressed voice: "He Cheng...is that kid. He came up alone this time, and his parents didn't teach him anything...he came up with him. I said that I didn’t register in advance—you know how difficult it is to get a number in the third hospital, so I tried to buy him the nearest one, which was yesterday, and I arranged for him to have his liver function checked again and blood drawn on an empty stomach. I drank the porridge... the inspection was dragged on for another day, and it was finally finished today. He said he wanted to play in the city after he came out—what can I say? The child started talking, and he couldn't come to the city for a few days all year round The second time, the re-examination situation didn't seem to be very good, so I agreed to take him to play for a few more days..."

Wang Zheng frowned, and said unhappily: "What's the matter with his parents? They don't even know how to register in advance, and you need to help? And at this time, children aged sixteen or seventeen have started to go to school, right? Just leave him alone. ?”

Zhang Shuchen also frowned, he raised his hand to wipe his face, and sighed in distress: "I can't ask... If it weren't for the fact that I still have value, I guess his family would not take the initiative to find me. There is a relative who is still willing to ask me to do business..."

Wang Zheng was silent for a moment.

Besides him, there is also a sensible and obedient younger sister in his family.He has a good job now and can support himself. As for being with men and women, getting married or not, his parents can think about it, but they don't really care.

But Zhang Shuchen is different from him.

Zhang Shuchen had already come out of the closet when he rented with him five years ago. At that time, Wang Zheng had never seen Zhang Shuchen talk to his family.In the second year of the co-tenancy, when the two celebrated the New Year together, on New Year's Eve, both of them got too drunk. Wang Zheng's cheap mouth made this problem obvious. Zhang Shuchen was drunk, blushed and said with a smile: " I have family." Then he took out the phone and pressed it in a messy manner, and stretched out the call page in front of Wang Zheng, who was so drunk that he almost hit Wang Zheng in the face—there was a list of contact names that were not saved on the page. number.However, after a few rings, the mechanical female voice inside said: "Sorry, the user you dialed is temporarily unable to answer your call, please dial later..."

Wang Zheng still remembers how Zhang Shuchen's eyes turned red when he smiled.After that, everyone tacitly never brought up this topic again. From that year on, Wang Zheng would forcefully drag Zhang Shuchen to his home to celebrate the New Year every year.

After more than two years, it was obvious that no matter how good Wang Zheng's family was to Zhang Shuchen, in Zhang Shuchen's heart, they still couldn't reach the same position as his original relatives, and there was no way to replace them.

Wang Zheng sighed deeply, put his hand on Zhang Shuchen's shoulder and patted it lightly.

Zhang Shuchen smiled: "I've been busy for a week, so go to bed early!"

Wang Zheng touched the quilt: "You sleep here at night?"

Zhang Shuchen said: "Otherwise? You are back, if I don't sleep on the sofa, can I sleep on the floor?"

Without even thinking about it, Wang Zheng said directly: "Then you sleep with me!"

Zhang Shuchen raised his hand and rubbed the tip of his nose, with a half-smile and a look of embarrassment.

"What? You still feel embarrassed? Why are you two big men embarrassed? Are you still afraid that I will force you?" Wang Zheng turned to enlighten Zhang Shuchen, "The temperature has dropped so badly recently, you just sleep here? After a few days It's hell if you don't catch a cold. What if the kid wakes up in the middle of the night and sees someone lying in the living room, who has a bad heart and scares him..."

"Stop, stop..." Zhang Shuchen hurriedly interrupted him when he heard it, "I, I got it."

Wang Zheng pointed two fingers at him: "Come on, choose one, my room or your room, who do you sleep with."

Zhang Shuchen was quiet for a few seconds, stood up helplessly, patted his hand, and said in resignation: "Help me move there."

"That's right!" Wang Zheng quickly stacked the cups and said cheerfully, "Our brothers have been with each other for so many years, what else can happen if we just lie on the same bed?"

Zhang Shuchen used his bedroom for a few days, but did not touch any of the furnishings.Therefore, Wang Zheng saw the extra pot of watercress green on the computer desk at a glance.

He put the quilt on the bed, and then went to look at the small plant: "This is?"

Zhang Shuchen moved Wang Zheng's pillow to the side, and put down his own: "Forgot? You gave it to me last year."

"I know I gave it to you," Wang Zheng walked up to it, "but I don't know it has become like this until now."

On the day of Zhang Shuchen's birthday last year, Wang just remembered it after get off work. Time was running out, and he had no time to wait for him to pick another one, so he simply bought a case of beer in the supermarket outside the community and planned to give it to Zhang Shuchen as a birthday present. ——It just so happens that yesterday at home I finished drinking.Downstairs, I met an old lady from the next building who collected the stall and went home. This old lady went out every day to set up a small stall on the side of the road to sell succulents wholesaled online, and picked up a few bottles to sell.After Wang Zheng greeted him politely, the old lady gave Wang Zheng the unsold, leftover pot of wilted yellow watercress green.

Originally, Wang Zheng didn’t want it, and planned to throw it away the next day, but Zhang Shuchen saw it when he brought it home, and Zhang Shuchen misunderstood it before Wang Zheng came to explain, and was punched because “picking a basin is too shabby”... ...Zhang Shuchen took the initiative to accept this half-dead plant, and Wang Zheng was also happy to pass it on to him.

But now, the palm-sized watercress green grows in a small light blue ceramic pot, with layers of leaves, verdant and lovely.

Zhang Shuchen raised it very well.

Wang Zheng asked, "How did you bring it here?"

Zhang Shuchen rolled his eyes at him: "I spent so much energy to bring it back to life, and it has only been raised for more than a year. I'm afraid that the child's hands will be damaged by me."

"That's true. It's more worry-free to put it on my side." Wang Zheng nodded.

Zhang Shuchen warned: "You are not allowed to touch it casually!"

"Okay, okay, I promise." Wang Zheng surrendered, "You pack up and go to bed first, I will deal with the phone messages first, and then wash up."

"That's fine, I won't wait for you. I have two morning classes tomorrow morning, so I'll go to bed first."

"Okay, then I'll turn off the light for you."

By the time Wang Zheng sneaked into the bedroom quietly, Zhang Shuchen's breathing was already very steady.

He carefully unfolded his quilt and lay down in half of the vacant space.

Compared with Zhang Shuchen who took a step to sleep first, this kind of sleeping while listening to other people's breathing is a weird and ambiguous illusion.

This kind of situation with people around him has not been experienced by Wang Zheng for more than half a month since he broke up with his predecessor, not to mention the lack of passion this time. After being tired, he is completely awake, quiet, and wants to let himself fall asleep slowly. .To be honest, this is still a bit difficult.

Fortunately, I ran all the way during the day and held a meeting at night. In this dark and quiet environment, the highly tense nerves gradually relaxed, and the released drowsiness gradually accumulated, reaching the level of sleepiness.

Wang Zheng closed his eyes, and the slow and regular breathing from his roommate finally faded away.

The moment before he lost consciousness, Wang Zheng was thinking that he had almost enough free time this time, should he find another companion...

When Zhang Shuchen got up, Wang Zheng didn't feel it at all. When he opened his eyes, the seat beside him was already vacant.

He took the phone to check the time, it was already nine o'clock, but fortunately the weekend came back from a business trip, so he could relax.

Wang Zheng yawned, turned over and got up.

While he was frying poached eggs with a toothbrush in his mouth, Zhang Shuchen's room opened with a "squeak".

Yesterday, the child rubbed his eyes, accompanied by the sound of slippers under his feet, and wobbled to the balcony to collect his clothes.

When Wang Zheng started to eat breakfast, the child came out slowly.When he saw Wang Zheng's breakfast, he hesitated for a few seconds and asked, "Brother Wang, is the kitchen available now?"

Wang Zheng was still thinking about the kid staying in the apartment, so he didn't really want to talk to him at first, but he thought that for Zhang Shuchen's sake, he should answer anyway, so he looked up at him.The child is dressed very well today, with a pair of overalls over a white shirt, and looks pure and innocent, no matter how you look at it, he is the type that people like - anyway, Wang just can't talk about him.

"Okay, what do you want to eat?"

"Just... poached eggs, the kind in sugar water, two."

Wang Zheng paused with the hand holding the chopsticks.Okay, did this kid just order the food? ...Feelings thought that he was going to do it for him?

The child was also polite, and directly opened the chair and sat down: "Thank you, Brother Wang."

Wang Zheng: "..."

After suffering a lot, Wang Zheng is not a fool, and immediately became completely immune to this kind of beauty trick.When handing over the poached eggs, the child sweetly said "Thank you, Brother Wang", and Wang Zhengpi replied with a smile, "You don't need to thank me, your brother Shuchen bought the eggs last week, wait for him to come back You thank him."

Wang Zheng first finished his meal and left the table, and immediately cleaned up his own bowl and chopsticks.Fortunately, the kid was not thick-skinned enough to save his bowl and chopsticks until Zhang Shuchen came back, so he honestly washed them.

After eating, Wang Zheng sat on the sofa and checked the news on his mobile phone. After a while, the child also came over. He ignored Wang Zheng and turned on the TV to watch variety shows.

After a while, the door lock slammed lightly. Zhang Shuchen came back with his briefcase, put it on the shoe cabinet, and said to the living room, "Are you all up?"

Wang Zheng replied, "En."

The child shouted: "Brother Shuchen!"

"That's right, He Cheng, I'll show you around the city." Zhang Shuchen paused, and then asked Wang Zheng, "Wang Zheng, do you want to go out together?"

Wang Zheng raised his head, looked at Zhang Shuchen, and quickly glanced at the child sitting next to him. He nodded and put away his cell phone: "Well... okay, I'll go out with you."