A Tooth For a Tooth

(1)

Yang Ren was helpless: "Didn't we agree last time? You and your boyfriend have been together for so long, and soon you will be talking about marriage. What are you thinking about Xu Yao?"

"I know we made it clear last time, but I just feel that this New Year's Eve is in such poor health that he must be very lonely." Kang Xiaomeng explained, keeping her voice very low, for fear that her parents would hear.

"Brother, you miss your relatives a lot during the festive season, don't you miss him?" Kang Xiaomeng asked.

Yang Ren didn't know how to answer, so he sat down in his seat to eat silently, but he didn't know what to eat.

While his stepmother was feeding Yang Yitong, Yang Ren took out his phone and looked at it. It was all messages about New Year greetings. He really wanted to send Xu Yao one, but he didn't have his contact information.The question his sister asked him certainly had an answer in his heart, why would he not think about it, it was as frequent as breathing.

Yang Ren suddenly thought that there was a WeChat group for parents in the children's kindergarten. He moved his fingers and began to look through the names of each group member, and saw a WeChat profile picture signed "Grandpa Xu Aisu" at a very lower position.Still playing WeChat at such an old age, Yang Ren smiled in his heart.

After thinking about it, there is no "Papa Xu Aisu" in this group, maybe the old man has no choice but to be forced to learn to use WeChat.

Yang Ren couldn't laugh anymore, so he applied for Grandpa Xiaoai's account to be added to the address book with a bitter face.

(2)

After a while, the old man agreed to the application, and Yang Ren couldn't wait to send a WeChat message: "Old man, I have something to ask Xu Yao, can he make a phone call?"

The old man was probably eating too, so he replied a little slowly: "I'll send you his mobile phone number, you can send him a message."

Seeing the old man say that Xu Yao can still read messages, Yang Ren was so excited. Does this mean that his eyesight is not as bad as he imagined?

When Yang Ren's father saw him playing with his mobile phone while eating, he was very angry. He tapped the side of the bowl with his chopsticks and said, "Put down your mobile phone and eat well."

Yang Ren ignored him at all, picked up his phone and stood up: "I'm full." Then he ran back to his bedroom.

"Happy New Year. Yang Ren." Yang Ren sent a message to that number.

Then he sat on the bed, pretending that he didn't care and was not in a hurry, and looked around with the handmade doll on the bedside. After a while, he picked up his phone and checked to see if he had accidentally muted it.But there was no response on the mobile phone, Yang Ren even wanted to use his landline at home to call his mobile phone to check whether the mobile phone was shut down due to arrears.

(3)

Just when Yang Ren was thinking wildly, the phone finally rang.

A text message came: "Happy New Year. Xu Yao."

Such a neat confrontation, I don't know if Xu Yao did it on purpose, or if he is used to being rigorous.

Yang Ren smiled, but his teeth did hurt a bit, and he held his chin while laughing.

"I want to see you now, is it suitable?" Yang Ren wrote.

"Today is New Year's Eve, so it's not appropriate. Do you have anything to do?" Xu Yao has always been more rational and mature than Yang Ren.

"I miss you." Yang Ren simply wrote down what was in his heart by using words to compare the indirectness of the interview.

It took a while to send the text message this time, and Xu Yao wrote: "On New Year's Eve, spend time with your son."

Yang Ren understands that Xu Yao is reminding himself that everyone is no longer the young man ten years ago, and now they are all fathers, so maybe many things can no longer be considered.

(4)

Yang Ren was not reconciled, and hurried back: "I have something to do with you! I have a toothache, and I want you to look at it for me!"

"I can't see." Xu Yao's words are always cold.

Yang Ren was stunned all of a sudden, he was just relieved that Xu Yao could send messages with his mobile phone, when he was hit badly by his words.He looked at his mobile phone and saw the phrase "I can't see".It didn't feel like New Year's Eve, but like one of the saddest days.

After a long time without any movement, Xu Yao might be a little worried about Yang Ren, so he sent another message: "Which tooth hurts?"

Yang Ren knew that it was impossible for Xu Yao not to worry about himself. He really had a toothache, and his left jaw hurt, so he didn't have time to distinguish which one it was, so he wrote casually, "The second last one from the bottom left."

This time the message came back immediately: "Nonsense, I've already killed your nerves for that tooth, there's no way it will hurt."

Looking at the words on the screen, Yang Ren put his finger into his mouth in a daze, and touched the tooth that he just said casually, his eyes were wet.These are the teeth that Xu Yao touched with his hands. Ten years is enough to make him forget what treatment methods were used for each of these teeth in his mouth.

But Xu Yao remembered everything.

The author has something to say:

I tried my best to write so sweetly that there is no abuse at all.