A Tooth For a Tooth

(1)

Xu Yao's hand was always on Yang Ren's lips, waiting for him to speak and move at any time. When Xu Yao was silent, Yang Ren knew that he understood.He just doesn't want to answer, or doesn't know how to answer this.

"Why? Talk to me!" Yang Ren urged, shaking his hand.

Xu Yao finally changed his eyeballs to look at it. He thought for a while and said, "I'm not in good health, it's a drag on others."

What did he say? He might be referring to his own eyesight and hearing, which made Yang Ren very angry: "When we met ten years ago, your ears were always bad, and I didn't mind. "

Xu Yao's eyes dimmed immediately, and he fell silent again.

Yang Ren couldn't stand Xu Yao's character, so he sat up straight, took his hands off his face, and said anxiously: "You talk, talk!"

Unable to touch Yang Ren's lips and expression, Xu Yao panicked and wanted to get up to get the hearing aid and put it on, but as soon as he got up, the corner of his clothes was pulled, and he was dragged back heavily, and fell down on the sofa.

(2)

He didn't know what Yang Ren said, but the topic must be around the body. They were together, and it seemed that they had never had a good discussion on the issue of disability.Xu Yao thought for a while, and suddenly said: "You even despise your own son's eyes."

"What did you say!" Yang Ren was furious, and he even wondered if Xu Yao's lisp was a mistake.

"When did I dislike Tongtong?" Yang Ren shouted at him, unable to control his temper.Seeing that he didn't respond at all, Yang Ren's mood was forced to slow down, and he reluctantly took Xu Yao's hand again and put it to his lips and said again: "Who told you that I despise Tongtong's eyes?"

"Your son said it himself."

Yang Ren felt that he was about to be wronged to death. All he could remember was that time when Xu Yao and his son were locked in another bedroom and whispered. But how could he have such a misunderstanding?Even if I really jumped into the Yellow River, I can't wash myself away.He wished he could ask his son what was going on immediately, but he suddenly figured it out.

It was during parent-child activities in the kindergarten, because Xiao Ai disliked his father's bad eyesight, Yang Ren felt chilled, and told Yang Yitong about it, but after all, Tongtong was also young, so he didn't understand what his father meant, but only understood one thing Things: If you have bad eyes, you will be disgusted.Unexpectedly, Tongtong told Xu Yao, and Xu Yao suffered from it.

(3)

"You should take the words of a child seriously," Yang Ren complained, "I have never disliked your ears, let alone your eyes."

Xu Yao carefully felt his words with his fingers, and then he didn't answer, the corners of his mouth slightly turned up. Yang Ren looked at it, didn't understand what he meant, and was not in a hurry, so he got up and packed the suitcase he had messed up up.

Living alone this week, Xu Yao didn't seem to cook serious meals, at least there were no ingredients in the refrigerator, just a drawer of noodles frozen in the freezer.

Yang Ren rolled up his sleeves and started to clean up the kitchen. He put away the broken porcelain pieces first, and then started to clean up the sewage in the pool and the stained ground.

Taking advantage of this time, Xu Yao finally put on the hearing aid again. His need is completely incomprehensible to others. In a silent environment, the word sense of security does not exist, even if the voice from the hearing aid is not clear , but after all, this is the only tenuous connection between him and the environment.

There was an almost pure white color in front of him, so he couldn't find Yang Ren's figure like before.This is also the reason why he had to send his father to a nursing home: his father became ill at night and became unconscious. Fa knew all of his father's movements and positions.

(4)

He had been wearing a hearing aid for a long time, and there was no news from Yang Ren, Xu Yao was suddenly a little scared, afraid that he would leave without saying goodbye just like his father, so he stood in the middle of the living room, mustered up his courage, and called out: "Yang Ren? You gone?"

Yang Ren was kneeling on the kitchen floor wiping the tiles, when he heard the mosquito-like voice trembling, he was startled, and immediately got up and ran over to ask: "What's wrong? I'm here."

The hearing aid seemed to transmit a meaningful sentence amidst the noisy hum. Xu Yao was overjoyed, closed his eyes and tried to reflect the meaning of the sentence, but because it was extremely unclear, he only captured the word "I".Unable to understand the meaning, he could only tilt his head slightly towards the source of the sound, hoping to hear Yang Ren repeat again.

Seeing him tilting his head slightly, Yang Ren didn't think that he didn't understand what he was talking at such a close distance, so he took his arm and led him into the bedroom, and said loudly in his ear: "It's almost twelve o'clock, you first Lie down, I will make you some supper, I don't know if you have eaten at night, I will call you later."

Xu Yao's eyebrows were knit together again, he couldn't stand the density of words, he stared straight at a certain place, carefully and hard trying to organize the fragmented words he heard into coherent meanings, But he failed.

After a long time of no contact, Yang Ren saw him like this, and realized that his words were too fast and too much for him to understand, so he pushed his hand, let him sit on the side of the bed, and said again: "You lie down for a while. "

Yang Ren took a glance, but saw four small medicine bottles standing on the bedside table.