soft hedgehog

In the third week of June, Liang Yuchen got on the plane back to China.

This time I came back to defend my thesis.According to regulations, every student has to spend enough time in interpreting practice before they can graduate, and Liang Yuchen is no exception.When he was at Turner, he calculated that he had completed more than twice the required number of hours.The defense is just a process, there is no major pass.

Because he didn't plan to stay in the country for a long time, he didn't bring much this time. He packed his computer, documents, and personal clothes in one box. He took a taxi from the airport and went straight to Liang Changlei's new store.

The yellow-green short-term rental is a new car that only appeared this year, and I haven't seen it before.On the highway leading to the city, he lowered the window a narrow slit.Outside, the fire umbrella was high, and the hot wind got into the car, blowing on the face like a wet handkerchief, and it also reminded people of the rooftops and bicycles in summer.Closing your eyes seems to still be in front of your eyes. There are many nights when the summer wind passes through the T-shirt, blowing the front and back collar fluffy.

It felt like he hadn't forgotten a day, but he didn't want to remember it.

When entering the urban area, it is still the same traffic jam, adding stoppers, honking the horn, and checking license plates from other places. The driver chats with the team members while chatting with him, as if he has two mouths.

"Where are you from?"

Liang Yuchen said the name of a country.

The other party yelled: "A foreign country, did you just come back from a trip?"

"No." Liang Yuchen leaned his elbow on the window sill, "Working outside."

"It seems that you are not very old, so you went to work in a foreign country so early?" The driver was surprised, "Then your parents must have missed you, my youngest son..."

No matter what the topic is, the taxi driver can always get hooked on his own affairs in the end.

Liang Yuchen was away for too long, and he felt cordial when listening to the other party's Pingcheng dialect, and answered all the questions one by one without any impatience.When he arrived at the place, the driver was a little reluctant to part with him, not only carrying his luggage for him, but also brought him a bottle of water.

He thanked him, closed the car door and walked to the Limin fruit shop with a new sign on the side of the road.

There are two spacious and open storefronts, and the gray concrete floor is paved from the front to the innermost.Liang Changlei bent over to peel pineapples on the table, the white plastic board was covered with green and black peels that were picked off with a knife like hills.

"Boss, do you have any frozen pears?"

Boss Liang didn't raise his head, and his hands were very nimble: "It's summer, where can I find frozen pears?"

"Is there any rock sugar orange?"

"It's all out of season."

"Give me five catties."

"Okay, please—" Turning his head, he saw the person pulling the luggage at the door, and the knife in his hand fell to the ground.

"son?!"

Liang Yuchen walked over: "Dad."

"When did you come back?" Liang Changlei took off the cotton gloves on his hand and pulled his shoulder excitedly, "Why didn't you tell Dad, why didn't Dad pick you up?"

Liang Yuchen smiled: "I have a surprise for you."

The luggage in their hands was scrambled and put in a corner, and the father and son stood in an open place talking.Liang Changlei's eyes were wet, he looked him up and down from head to toe, and after a while he said two words: "I lost weight."

For an elderly man, his concern is unspeakable.

The lines of Liang Yuchen's face are indeed more obvious than when he was walking. His shoulders are flat and his back is straight and broad. This is probably the reason why he started going out into the society. His temperament has become a little sharper and less gentle.

"Boss, cut half of the watermelon for me." Someone came to buy something.

Liang Changlei responded, and just as he was about to go, Liang Yuchen stopped him: "I'll come."

He started to help in the store as before, without even drinking his saliva, he was busy here until the sun went down.Liang Changlei felt sorry for him and asked him to rest. He said no, he slept for more than ten hours on the plane, and now he just wants to move around.

In fact, he also misses his previous life.

At 06:30, Liang Changlei advocated closing the store early.

"Let's go home now. Your mother doesn't know you're back. I'll call and ask her to cook two more dishes."

As soon as the words finished, Liang Yuchen pressed his hand: "Dad, don't hit me yet, I won't go back for now."

Liang Changlei frowned: "If you don't go back, is it possible that you still have to live in the school?"

"Is there any vacant room in the store? I'll live in the store first." He walked to the back, stretched out his hand and pushed open the door. As expected, he saw a utility room with a few plastic baskets. "I'll live here."

The only son flew back from thousands of miles away, but he didn't agree to go home but asked to live in the utility room. Of course, Liang Changlei didn't agree anyway.The two father and son were in a stalemate, his father's face was flushed, he couldn't tell whether it was anger or anxiety, and he looked very ruthless at dusk.

"Originally, you just came back, and I didn't want to settle the old score with you. But since you don't even want to enter the house, I would like to ask, how did your mother and I offend you? You left without saying a word and then walked away without saying a word." Come back and hide from us like a plague god, how can there be such a reason for being a son of man?"

"No one offends me, it's just that I'm not used to living there."

"I've lived here for almost three years, now you're telling me that you're not used to it, are you fooling your father like a fool?!"

"Dad, I really don't want to go back, don't force me."

Just like what Ji Tong made fun of at the time, he was like a stubborn donkey who didn't know how to adapt. He started to confront his biological father the moment he came back.

Liang Changlei was so angry that he lost control of his temper. He picked up the slender iron hook that pulled the shutter door and lashed at him: "You've grown up? Don't think I can't control you when you're 26! Let me tell you, Liang Yuchen, I'll be your dad when I grow old! "

Liang Yuchen stood on the spot and carried it abruptly a few times, and there were a few dark red bloodstains on his forearm under the short sleeve.But he didn't feel wronged. As the old saying goes, his parents didn't travel far, so he resolutely left for Ji Tong without a word of confession.

In such a chaotic time, he was still distracted to think, when you grow old, you will also be my father, I will always remember, never dare to forget.

He didn't resist, Liang Changlei didn't have much fun playing, and when he was tired, he threw the slightly bent iron hook and sat on the small bench, panting like an old scalper.Liang Yuchen sat next to him, finally bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

"Dad, don't keep losing your temper because of me. Your body is important. You are not a young man in your twenties."

There is actually a hint of relaxation and ridicule inside and outside the words.

Liang Changlei blew his beard and stared at him: "How could I lose my temper without you?"

He was strict with his son when he was in charge, and he believed that a filial son was born under the stick. All his rude temper was directed at his own son, and he didn't restrain himself a little until Liang Yuchen became an adult.

"Can you tell Dad the truth, why did we feel sorry for you, and made you feel angry for so long?"

Liang Yuchen turned his elbow and saw blood bleeding from the back of his elbow.He knows best how to talk about his father to calm down.

"You have raised me for so many years, and I left you before I graduated. I am sorry for you. You will be your son when you grow up, and you want to go out into the world and live independently."

Liang Changlei didn't believe it: "Is it that simple?"

"It's because your thinking is too complicated. Besides, it's Aunt Hu's house. I can make money now, so it's not suitable for me to live any longer."

Once he made a decision, several horses would not turn back, of course my father knew this temper.

Liang Changlei thought for a while, and then heaved a long sigh: "You are living a comfortable life but going to work hard in an unfamiliar place. I really don't know whether to say that you are too competitive or too pedantic!"

Liang Yuchen smiled: "Of course it's literal-minded."

Liang Changlei glared at him: "You can still laugh, I hit you too lightly?"

"Thank you, Dad, for being merciful." Liang Yuchen relented in time, "You save the rest of the lesson until the next time I come back."

Liang Changlei collapsed upon hearing this: "You still want to go out?!"

"Well," Liang Yuchen still smiled gently, as if he hadn't encountered any difficulties, "The professor introduced me to a lot of big clients abroad who need interpreters, and I'm a freelancer now."

He added: "But I promise, I will come back to see you often."

Liang Changlei sighed one after another, and his father couldn't help but throw out the last order: "I will always have a meal with you, Aunt Hu and the others when I come back this time..."

"Look for an opportunity, definitely." Liang Yuchen was as perfunctory as in the workplace.

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The summer vacation is not far away, and all the exams are over, but Ji Tong refuses to leave the school.The reason is simple, he was waiting for Liang Yuchen.

Ever since he found out that Liang Yuchen was going back to China, he never left school for a day, because he guessed that his brother must live in the dormitory after he came back.

After thinking about it day and night, I finally waited for the news on Wednesday.

At noon, Wang Teng went to the cafeteria to eat. When he came back, he saw him sorting out the lesson plans and asked, "Have you eaten?"

He casually replied, "I've eaten."

"Drink with your brother?"

The hand typing on the keyboard stopped immediately, and he turned his head in surprise: "What did you say?"

"Your brother, isn't he back?"

"how do you know?"

"I saw him this morning. How do I know... Although he has changed a lot, we can't fail to recognize him. Anyway, he used to be—"

Ji Tong stood up abruptly, and the chair creaked sharply.

"Where did you see it?"

"Teaching building, co-author, don't you know?"

Even though they are acquired brothers, but the relationship is like this, it is too indifferent.Wang Teng murmured in his heart, and just about to ask again, the person in front of him was blown away like a gust of wind.

The distance from the undergraduate building to the graduate school is not short, and this is Ji Tong's fastest run ever.He was full of joy and sadness, his heart was beating with joy when he thought of seeing Liang Yuchen soon, and his nose was sore when he thought of Liang Yuchen's return without telling him.

But no matter what, the most important thing right now is to meet the previous one.He had to tell Liang Yuchen face to face how he got through the past six months and how happy he is now.

He ran to the postgraduate dormitory in one breath, and the elevator had to wait, so he simply climbed up the stairs, two steps at a time, and was already sweating profusely when he stood at the door of Liang Yuchen's dormitory.

It's just after dinner time, and the corridor still smells like takeaway food.

Ji Tong took a breath, and was about to knock on the door, but suddenly he was a little worried, afraid that his appearance would not be good-looking, and his brother would not like it when he saw him.

After a three-second pause, he turned around and went to the public bathroom, washed his face with cold water and wiped it off with paper, then scratched his bangs in the mirror a few times, and pressed his cool palms on his red cheeks for a while. Erwen, then took a deep breath and walked back to the door of the dormitory.

The door was closed tightly, he raised his hand and knocked twice, he was so nervous that he could hardly breathe.

"Who is it?"

It was Xi Jiacheng's voice.

"It's me, Ji Tong." He said hastily.

After a few seconds, the door creaked open.Xi Jiacheng stood inside wearing a sweatshirt and slippers with a surprised expression: "Ji Tong? Why are you here?"

Ji Tong didn't bother to answer, and immediately looked into the room behind him, but he even scanned the bed, but still found nothing.

"I'm here to find my brother, where is my brother?"

"Your brother?" Xi Jiacheng held the doorknob, and he subconsciously glanced back, turning his head in doubt, "Is Yuchen back?"

Ji Tong's heart was like sitting on a roller coaster, climbing to the top for a while, and falling rapidly for a while, his whole body was almost weightless.

"My roommate said he met him, just this morning."

Xi Jiacheng was dubious: "Really? Maybe it's because I haven't had time to go back to the dormitory. I'm busy with other things. When he comes back, I will tell him that you have been here."

Wang Teng spoke with certainty, as if he had admitted the wrong person.But the brother's roommate in front of him insisted that he hadn't seen him, and he didn't seem to be hiding anything.Returning to the country and school, but refusing to go home or go back to the dormitory, Liang Yuchen made up his mind to hide from him, not giving himself any chance to find him.

Ji Tong refused to believe it, and refused to go in, so he stood at the door and called Liang Yuchen in front of Xi Jiacheng, and immediately called again when no one listened to him.For the third time, Xi Jiacheng couldn't stand it anymore, so he pushed away his cell phone and said, "Use mine."

He turned around and got his mobile phone, and the call was quickly connected in front of Ji Tong, and someone answered within three rings: "Jia Cheng?"

It was Liang Yuchen's voice.

Ji Tong firmly supported the wall with his hands, and bit his lower lip with his teeth, leaving a deep blood mark.

Xi Jiacheng was straightforward, and after saying "Your brother is looking for you", he put the phone into Ji Tong's hand without refusal, then sat back in the chair and put on the earphones.

The call time on the screen was increasing by the second, Liang Yuchen hadn't hung up yet, maybe he hadn't had time to hang up yet.

Ji Tong said to the phone: "Brother, it's me, Tongtong..."

Just said such a sentence, there is already a cry in the words.Many rhetoric and many joys that were conceived before coming here are impossible to talk about.

There was silence on the other end of the phone, Liang Yuchen said, "It's you."

His tone was normal.

"it's me."

Ji Tong turned his back against the wall, ignored the people coming and going in the corridor, covered his eyes with his sleeve, and half bent down.

After Liang Yuchen said those two words just now, he fell silent again.

Afraid that he would hang up the phone, Ji Tong hurriedly asked before he could cry: "Brother, are you back? Where are you? I, I want to find you."

"No need," the answer came very quickly this time, Liang Yuchen's voice was very loose and deep, like sand, "Just pretend I haven't been back."

Where is Ji Tong Kenyi: "How is this possible? I know you are here, you are very close to me, I really want to find you, brother, can you tell me your location?"

After saying this sentence, the person has already lost his composure. He can't control who will hear him, and he can't control how others will think of him.

Unfortunately, there was a long silence.

Later, Liang Yuchen hung up the phone and said before hanging up, "It used to be very close, but now we are far away."