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In the early morning of the second day of junior high school, Gu Xiao picked Gu Xi out of bed, hurriedly dragged him to the kitchen, and grabbed him to learn how to cook, as if trying to make Gu Xi cook the most delicious food in one day.

The family members agree with this, especially Gu Pingshao and Zhang Hui, the two parents have long been displeased with Gu Xi's attitude towards food.

Gu Xi reluctantly chose the dishes, his movements were so slow that there was a tendency to choose one dish for 10 minutes, Gu Xiao didn't say anything about him, and just finished choosing the dishes quickly with his hands and feet.

It seemed that Gu Xiao's voice was deaf to his ears. Gu Xi didn't hear a word after he babbled for a long time. He wanted to pour all the vegetables into the pot without washing it. Gu Xiao hurriedly picked up the vegetable basket in his hand.It's not a dish, it's an extra dish to prevent Gu Xi from overcooking.

While washing the pot, he scolded Gu Xi moderately, Gu Xiao's expression was a little irritable, and his hands were moving in a hurry.

After the pot was put away, Gu Xiao asked Gu Xi to heat up the pot first, and then put the oil in. Gu Xi weakly lifted a bottle of oil, opened the lid, and lifted the bottle over the frying pan. He casually tipped the bottle to cover the oil. .

"Put in a little more oil." Gu Xiao said.

Gu Xi opened the half-covered oil bottle again, moved the bottle back to the top of the frying pan, and turned the bottle mouth downward with a flick of his wrist.

"Stop, stop, stop! There are too many!" Gu Xiao hurriedly snatched the oil bottle from Gu Xi's hand, put it aside, and scolded: "Is there someone who pours oil like you?"

Without saying a word, Gu Xi scooped up some with a big spoon and put it into the bowl next to it. Gu Xiao said that it was too little, and then Gu Xi scooped up some from the bowl and put it back into the pot.After repeated tossing and tossing several times, Gu Xiaocai nodded and said it was ok.

Maybe he was afraid that Gu Xi would pour all the vegetables into the pot again, so Gu Xiao personally helped him put the dishes, and saw that all his movements towards the dishes in the pot were pushing back and forth, so he held his cooking hand in hand. teaching.But after doing this, Gu Xi's hand became limp, and he didn't use any strength. When Gu Xiao thought he had almost finished teaching, he let go of his hand. As a result, the spoon fell out of his hand and fell into the pot with a "bang".

Gu Xiao frowned and said nothing.

Gu Xi silently picked up the spoon to stir fry again, Gu Xiao asked him to put salt, and he poured a spoon full of salt.

"Start again." Gu Xiao ruthlessly pronounced the sentence.

However, the situation didn't get any better after that, Gu Xiao taught hard but restlessly, while Gu Xi studied hard but carelessly.While talking about the skill of stir-frying vegetables, Gu Xiao also explained in detail how to cook some other ingredients. He taught him and even demonstrated it to him. Gu Xi stood aside unhappy like a child who made a mistake, his eyes were tight. Staring at the beautifully green dishes skillfully tossed and fried in the pot, I dawdled all morning.

"Again, too little oil won't taste good, and too much oil won't work. Stir-fried vegetables are very particular." Gu Xiaosheng picked up the stir-fried vegetables and handed the spoon to Gu Xi.

"You don't pay attention to what you do..." Gu Xi complained listlessly, but he was unwilling to take the spoon, picked up a vegetable leaf and threw it back into the vegetable basket, repeatedly.

Gu Xiao irritatedly snatched the vegetable basket from Gu Xi's hand, Gu Xi raised his head and glared at him, then turned around angrily and wanted to walk out of the kitchen.

Gu Xiao pulled Gu Xi back, his tone a bit anxious: "Obviously not, are you still not happy to say a few words?"

"It's not that I'm not cooked well, it's fine if I can eat it or not!"

"How can this be done? Your vegetables are all stewed, and the vitamins and nutrients are gone!"

"I've been eating like this for five years, and it's not doing much. Why do I have to learn it? I don't want to learn it!"

"Gu Xi!" Gu Xiao ran over and stopped at the door of the kitchen, "Don't be self-willed, can you, you didn't want to learn before, I can do it for you, but..."

Gu Xi's eyes suddenly turned red, and he looked at Gu Xiao with grievance, and said in a trembling voice, "I won't learn, Gu Xiao, I won't learn, I won't learn..."

Gu Xiao stared at him fixedly, his eyebrows were knit together, and he couldn't speak at all.

Taking a step forward, Gu Xi put his eyes on Gu Xiao's shoulders, and murmured in a low voice: "Gu Xiao, I don't want to learn, so don't worry about me, okay, I go home for dinner every week, and it's okay if I get off work early." Go home and eat, don't worry about me, okay..."

Gu Xiao finally had no choice but to give up, and at the same time gave up the idea of ​​doing other useless work. After lunch, he hugged Gu Xi tightly, neither talking nor moving, and he didn't care if his hands were numb and his feet were tired. Spent an afternoon by the window.

In the evening, the two of them walked around the village side by side, recalling everything in the village together, and found that every place was engraved with traces of their growth, fighting and chasing, year after year, enough A full 25 years of time.Although, in the first five years and the next five years, there was only one person.

Walking to the entrance of the village, Gu Xiao touched the big stone engraved with the name of the village, and asked quietly, will you get married in the future?

Gu Xi didn't answer, staring at the muddy concrete floor, his eyes were wet in the dark night.

When I leave, you can find a good girl and get married.Gu Xiao said.

After lunch at the old Gu's house in the third day of junior high school, the family set off for home, because Gu Xiao had to leave early in the early fourth day of junior high school.

On the evening of the third day of junior high school, the two brothers went out for a walk together at the request of their parents, and even played badminton. The uncles and aunts on the court praised Gu and Zhang for raising a pair of good sons.After hearing that the two brothers were single, they rushed to introduce someone to them. Gu Xi and Gu Xiao looked at each other and smiled helplessly.

After returning home and entering the room, Gu Xi immediately wrapped his hands around Gu Xiao's neck, kissing him proactively and passionately.

"Gu Xiao..."

Crazy entanglement, endless demands.

In the living room, Gu Pingshao and Zhang Hui were still watching TV, which seemed to be a parent-child variety show. Whenever the little doll on the TV screen made some dumbfounding moves, the two laughed and found out that their son The stupid look when I was a child, who is more stupid in comparison.

After an unknown amount of time, the living room became quiet, and the surroundings gradually fell into silence.

Both were exhausted.

After resting for a while, Gu Xilei turned sideways and raised his hand to caress Gu Xiao's cheek. After a long time, he slowly said: "Gu Xiao, I will have a good life this time. I will work hard and cherish it. The people around you won't miss you that much anymore... So you don't think about me anymore, you have to live your own life, your future, and don't think about me anymore."

"……it is good."

The night is terribly quiet, but time is painfully slow.

Both of them rolled over and lay quietly without touching each other.

After a long time, someone broke the silence.

"Brother, occasionally...come back to see your parents, they will definitely miss you very much, miss you very much..."

"……it is good."

In the early morning of the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the sky was not yet bright, and the room was full of grayness. The window let in the light from the outside, like a large light screen, making Nuoda's room look empty and cold.

The phone by the bed vibrated, and soft music floated out from there, and then someone disconnected it.Then the quilt moved slightly, and the feeling of emptiness around the waist was both unaccustomed and a little cold.

Gu Xiao didn't hug him to sleep last night, for so many years, the only time they lay on the same bed, but each slept peacefully.It wasn't because I was angry with the other party, or because someone was resisting, but because they both chose to use calmness to buffer the parting.

Gu Xiao stood up slightly, looked at the person whose back was facing him, and frowned uncontrollably.In the end, he leaned over, kissed his temples, and said softly, "Don't send me off."

"I have a cold and don't want to get out of bed."

Gu Xi didn't sleep almost all night, Gu Xiao knew that he was crying right now, and Gu Xiao knew it too.These years, I have made him cry a lot, it's really bad.

Smiling, Gu Xiao said, "Well, take care of yourself, take care."

In order not to make him feel uncomfortable, Gu Xiao got up, put on his clothes, and left the room to wash outside. Everything including the suitcase was in the living room.

Behind him is the slightly moving bedding, and the gradually leaving temperature.He heard the rubbing sound of the cloth, it was Gu Xiao who was changing clothes, it was obviously less than a minute, but it seemed like ten years had passed.

The familiar but light footsteps were far away, and the door was gently opened and closed.It was Gu Xiao who left.

Gu Xi grabbed the pillow hard, trying to suppress his crying.But the sound insulation effect of the room today seems to be particularly bad, and all the sounds outside can be heard clearly.Parents have already woken up and are helping Gu Xiao pack things and prepare breakfast.

"Why isn't Xiaoxi getting up, Xiaoxi, get up and send..." Mom seemed to be calling him in the room.

"Mom, we two brothers chatted all night last night, enough for me to stay in the United States for a few years. Just fell asleep, don't disturb him." Gu Xiao stopped Mom, so considerate, not like he was back then, making him helplessly Watch him leave.

"What years, you won't come back next year for the Chinese New Year?" Mom asked funnyly, "Could it be that you made a girlfriend in the United States?"

When Dad heard it, he also started to boo: "No wonder you are going so early, do you really have a girlfriend?"

"What are you talking about, I'm going to work!"

"You must tell mom if you have a girlfriend, but you won't be allowed to enter the door!"

"Okay mom, we're far away, the time is almost up, let's go." Gu Xiao urged.

Mom was still reluctant, "Don't take getting married seriously, you are not young anymore, in a few years you will be the age of your son running around..."

The noise of the three people gradually subsided, but Gu Xi's mind was still repeating those conversations, as well as the sweetness and bitterness of this period of time.

Gu Xiao is gone, they are really over.

I don't know what year and month the next return date will be.

At that time, will it be as he wished at the beginning, the day Gu Xiao returns, he will not be alone.

He gritted his teeth, but still couldn't help it, and ran barefoot to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the living room, rubbing his eyes hard, trying to make his vision clearer.

In the alternation of vagueness and clarity, the figure that made him feel distressed put the suitcase into the trunk, talked and laughed with his parents, and finally said something, and looked up to this side.He quickly pulled the curtains over, squatted behind, hugged his arms and cried bitterly.

He didn't know, Gu Xiao felt pain when he looked at the shaking curtains, his eyes were red but he couldn't cry.

Upstairs and downstairs, less than a nod away, two worlds are abruptly split.

After the car left, Gu Xi went back to bed in a daze, and soon got up to pack his things, he couldn't keep them.At least he can't keep it now, if his parents come back, he doesn't have the confidence to smile, he can't pretend to react normally.

He left a note saying that the company just called and there was something urgent, so he fled and left home, not even daring to make a phone call.

During these days together, I left nothing but memories and feelings, and the only thing I bought together was food.Because since we decided to separate, we shouldn't leave any thoughts, even ambiguous words.

Perhaps with the passage of time and the change of years, each other can settle into the bottom of each other's heart, and this love has become a plain but never-fading secret.When we meet again, we can hold back the longing in our eyes and care about each other as relatives.Contact again, able to suppress the inner impulse, simply complete the matter at hand, and then turn around.

Once Gu Xiao watched him go, and once he listened to Gu Xiao go, time didn't change anything at all.

Maybe the first time he saw Gu Xiao when he was young, he should have understood that they were destined to have only one ending.

The dream has passed, the dream has woken up, and returned to reality.

But whether people in reality are willing to face reality is unknown.