soft hedgehog

There were four people in this meal, three of them were calm, and only one was quite disturbed.

It wasn't Liang Yuchen who was about to be beaten that was disturbed, but Ji Tong who started to get scared before the beating.He held the bowl to count the rice, took two grains and looked at Liang Changlei who was opposite, hesitant to speak, took two grains and looked at Liang Yuchen next to him, hesitant to speak again.A good meal was turned into a feast of counting rice by him, he didn't try all the delicacies on the table, and he didn't even count how much rice was in the bowl.

In the end, Hu Aihua couldn't see it, so he knocked on the edge of the bowl with his chopsticks: "Eat, what to look at."

He turned his head and looked at his mother as if asking for help, his mouth moved silently: "Mom, what should I do."

Hu Aihua ignored him, stretched out his chopsticks to fiddle with the steamed sea bass he made, picked shredded green onion and peeled off a large piece of whole meat along the belly of the fish, then turned the chopsticks in the same direction and sent it to Liang Changlei's bowl: "Eat more, eat well Only then will you have strength.”

Ji Tong was in a hurry, and his voice was nine and eighteen: "Mom—"

All he had to do was kneel down and kowtow three times to his mother, begging her to forgive and forgive her, and stop fueling the arrogance of crime.

Still ignoring her, she asked again: "Yuchen, do you want to leave this time?"

Whenever Liang Yuchen talked to his elders, he always put down the bowl first: "I won't be going out for the time being, I have already taken on some jobs, and it will probably last until November and February."

When Ji Tong heard this, his heart burst into ecstasy, and when he was about to speak, his mother glared at him, and then shut his mouth sullenly.

"It's also very good. Since I'm back, I will accompany your dad well. I originally planned to let Tongtong accompany him to the medical examination this week. If you are here, you can accompany him."

Liang Changlei snorted coldly when he heard the words: "What are you asking him to do? My illness is all because of his anger."

Liang Yuchen pushed his glasses, not arguing with his father.

"Have you decided where to live?"

These words neither meant to drive him away nor to keep him. It seemed that everything was up to him to decide, and Hu Aihua was only responsible for watching from the sidelines.

"Live at home, let's go." Ji Tong looked at his mother, a little flattering, "I mean, it's inconvenient to go outside, it's inconvenient to eat and come back, okay, mom?"

His mother chewed and swallowed the choy sum in her mouth, and seeing that the fish in her husband's bowl hadn't moved at all, she said, "Brother Lei, make up your mind."

The problem was thrown to Liang Changlei.After all, she is a stepmother, so she should stay out of it, so don't pretend to be a human being inside and out.Now she has also figured it out, if there must be a good face and a bad face in this family, why does her face have to be black?If she really wanted to keep singing with a dark face all the way, in the end her own son separated from her, her step-son became vengeful against her, and she threw a bamboo basket to fetch water in vain, so who could she cry for?

So simply let Liang Changlei handle his own son.If he agrees, then it's useless for him to object, if he doesn't agree, then it's never too late for him to object.

Beside her, Liang Changlei sat silently with folded arms, his aura suppressed very low.

Liang Yuchen took the initiative to give way: "I don't have any free room at home, so I will rent another house in the courtyard, so I can come and see you."

"no!"

This time, Ji's mother and son all objected.

Ji Tongqi Ai Ai looked at his brother: "Brother... just live at home, if you can live, squeeze with me."

He wished he could sleep on top of his brother.

Hu Aihua frowned and scolded him: "If you rent a house in this courtyard, you have to run over [-] times a day, and sooner or later you will be seen. I can't afford to lose my old face."

"Then what should we do?" He shook his shoulders and hung his head in despair, "I won't let my brother live at home, and I won't let my brother be hospitalized." After speaking, he gave the two elders a half-truthful look, "You guys Why are you so cruel?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Liang Changlei's complexion became very ugly, he glanced at Liang Yuchen with cross eyebrows, tilted his head and said in a deep voice, "Come in with me."

Then he turned and walked towards the bedroom.

Liang Yuchen didn't dare to be negligent, so he also put down his bowl and chopsticks and got up to follow.

Ji Tong rushed to catch up and tugged at his sleeve: "Brother, if you need anything, just call me, I'll be outside."

Hu Aihua poked his temple: "What's the matter with you, come watch TV with me."

Liang Yuchen looked back at him comfortingly, signaling him not to worry.

When someone entered, the door was closed with a bang, and Ji Tong began to fidget. He stood up after touching his buttocks on the sofa, walked around in front of the coffee table twice, and then leaned on the door to listen to the sound, frowning tightly.

Hu Aihua sat on the sofa and glanced at him leisurely, picked up some water and moistened his throat.

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Before leaving this bedroom, Liang Yuchen came in very few times.

He acquiesced that this was his father and stepmother's private place, and since his status was embarrassing, it was better not to come in.Unexpectedly, it was here that the two father and son were alone again after a long time.

The foreign language competition trophies in the corner are placed spotlessly on the table, someone wipes them from time to time, next to his father's Go box and ink.

Liang Yuchen took out his glasses and put them in his pocket, Liang Changlei walked to the table and turned his back to him: "Come here and kneel, face outside."

He walked to the sliding door and knelt down straight, with his back straight, shoulders flat, and his body facing the outside.

It was past seven o'clock at this moment, and it was pitch black outside, and the room was neither ventilated nor air-conditioned, so it was a bit stuffy.Liang Changlei said again: "Take off your shirt."

He took off his shirt in a kneeling position, and the floor-to-ceiling windows in front of him reflected the outline of his upper body, with clear waist and abdominal muscles.Liang Changlei was rummaging through the cabinets behind him, probably looking for something convenient, and he stood behind him not long after.

"Don't keep your head down, act like a prisoner."

He raised his head and saw through the glass that his father was holding a clothes hanger in his hand, and he also saw the clothes hanging on the balcony of the opposite building. He felt that he had returned to the days when his father taught him when he was a child. Instead of being afraid, he felt a little kind in his heart.

Liang Changlei was like this when he was a child, and he was beaten to make him kneel in the yard facing the road, but the gate of the yard was closed, and the situation inside could not be seen from the outside.

"Liang Yuchen, you know my temper. From now on, if you lie to me, you will decide the consequences yourself."

He hummed.

"Let me ask you, why did you start to have that idea?"

"When I spent the first Spring Festival in this house."

Liang Changlei's figure shook on the glass.

"Have you ever done it before?" After a pause, he added, "I mean before I met Tongtong."

"No." He answered truthfully, "I only had girlfriends before."

He wasn't born gay, it was because Ji Tong was so annoying that he couldn't control his heart.

"Then you went abroad for him too?"

I thought that my son chose to go abroad for further studies because he had his own ideals and ambitions, but now that I think about it carefully, I am afraid that it is mostly for the sake of the love between my son and daughter.After asking, Liang Changlei stared closely at his son's expression, and when he saw Liang Yuchen nodding his head to admit it, he immediately realized that what he had expected was right, and he hated and was angry in his heart, cursing, "You don't live up to it!"

As soon as the words fell, Liang Yuchen was hit hard on the back.

The wooden clothes hangers taken from the closet were pulled on the flesh one after another. The wood was wrapped with a wire core, and it would not be a problem to smash the glass door in front of him, let alone a mortal body.

At first, there were a few deep red marks, and then the shoulder blades were pounded. At first, he was able to carry it to death, but then he couldn't bear it and he groaned twice in pain.

Liang Changlei yelled while beating: "Are you so unambitious, so useless? For such a small matter, leave your father here and ignore it, and go to a foreign country to hide alone. I feel that I am a lover." amazing?!"

Liang Yuchen had no way to defend himself, and was beaten with his back straight.

Ji Tong heard the movement outside the door, sweating from anxiety, knocking on the door and twisting the handle, until the door almost fell apart.

"Uncle Liang, Dad, Dad! Don't hit him, don't hit my brother! He's not in good health and his stomach is bad, he can't take a beating! He——uh, uh!"

His mouth was covered by Hu Aihua from behind, and he struggled away desperately. Seeing that the caller should not answer, he turned to Liang Yuchen: "Brother, brother! How are you?! Don't worry, I will go in and save you right away! I, I will hit the door! I will call the police !Call the police to me!"

Liang Yuchen immediately said in a deep voice, "It has nothing to do with you!"

In fact, Ji Tong only wanted to scare the elders, and of course it was impossible to call the police. At this moment, when he heard his brother's voice, he became less afraid and at the same time became more anxious.

Hu Aihua couldn't help but pulled the person aside and pointed at his nose as a warning: "I have nothing to do with you! Sit for me! Do you want to be beaten too?"

Ji Tong had no choice but to continue fidgeting on the sofa while sucking his nose.

In the room, Liang Changlei was exhausted from beating, leaning on the back of the chair to pant, and saw that Liang Yuchen's back was bluish and red and full of scars, and even his neck had an opening where the iron hook was hanging on, and he knew in his heart that he had hit hard.

His voice was dry and hoarse: "Let me ask you, do you know where I went wrong?"

"I know," Liang Yuchen subdued, "Parents are not traveling far, it's because the son is not sensible."

Liang Changlei nodded slowly twice, took a breath and asked solemnly: "So you gave him your mother's ring to please him?"

At that time, he only thought that Liang Yuchen valued this younger brother, so he gave important things to him. Now that he thinks about it, he feels that his son takes the deceased wife's belongings too lightly. Staring at Liang Yuchen.

Unexpectedly, Liang Yuchen fell silent.

Liang Changlei thought he was acquiescing, and the anger in his heart instantly burned to the top of his forehead, and the hard coat hanger in his hand was slammed into his back the next second: "Speak!"

Liang Yuchen suffered this blow, his brows slightly wrinkled and then loosened.

"I gave it to him because I thought Mom would bless him."

"Then you don't cherish your mother's things at all?"

"I cherish it, so I gave it to him. He is the most important person to me besides you, and he deserves this thing."

Liang Changlei was shocked again when he heard the words, and said, "Do you know what is important? The more important, the more you have to think about him, the more important, the more you can't let your own mind!"

Liang Yuchen said slowly: "Dad, I have considered very clearly. The relationship between father and son can't be broken with sticks, and me and him can't be broken without anyone's objection."

In the words, he compared the relationship between him and Ji Tong with the relationship between father and son, which shows the importance he attaches to this relationship.

Liang Changlei sat back in the chair and pointed at him with the sharp corner of the clothes hanger: "I can't object?"

He was facing his father sideways, but after hearing this, he turned and knelt down, kowtowed twice, and didn't raise his head again.

"Dad," a horribly scarred back was naked in front of his father's eyes, his voice was low and gruff, "Our family has never been rich, and I have never asked you for anything since I was sensible. Just one thing for you. This time I sincerely beg you, don't take anything that's important from me."

Ji Tong is his most important person, and Ji Tong's love is his most important thing.With these two, he is not alone in this world.

His back hurts, but his neck is very stiff, and he never raised his head until Liang Changlei threw the hanger and told him to get out.

When he opened the door and walked out, his shirt hadn't been buttoned all the way, and he was in a terrible mess.Ji Tong came up to meet him, saw the wound that couldn't be covered by the back collar of his shirt, burst into tears with distress, and asked directly, "Brother, does it hurt?"

碰又不敢碰，亲又不敢亲，一根肠子绞得生疼，心爱的人挨揍他才明白什么叫打在你身疼在我心。

Seeing this tragic situation, even Hu Aihua got up from the sofa and walked over, opened the collar of his shirt with his own hands to have a look, and said, "This won't work, at least it must be disinfected, Tongtong, go and get the medicine box."

Ji Tong hurriedly ran into the house to bring out the medicine box at home, and saw that Hu Aihua had already placed Liang Yuchen on the sofa and sat sideways, half of his shirt was taken off, half of his shoulders were exposed, and there were bruises and purple spots on it, and none of them was intact. place.

"Be patient."

Hu Aihua took a cotton ball soaked in alcohol and carefully wiped Liang Yuchen's back. The white cotton ball turned completely red within two swipes. It took four or five times to finally clean up the blood stains on the surface and the open skin. .She turned her head and threw the cotton ball, saw cat urine hanging on Ji Tong's eyelashes, frowned and said, "Do you care about the big sesame?"

"It's not your own son, of course you don't feel bad." Ji Tong choked up and was angry. She choked her half to death with one sentence. She stood up and said, "Okay, okay, I'm a stepmother and I'm vicious, okay?"

"Tongtong, don't talk to Aunt Hu like that." Liang Yuchen stopped him.

He wiped his tears and stood up: "Brother, go to the small room and change clothes."

Liang Yuchen hummed, and said to Hu Aihua: "Aunt Hu, I'll go in and change clothes, and I'll be out soon."

Naturally, Hu Aihua couldn't say anything.

The two walked into the small bedroom one after the other, turned on the light and closed the door. Ji Tong turned around and wrapped his arms around his neck. Although his movements were big, he was very careful, lest he hurt him, and then buried his head in sobbing.

"Why?" Liang Yuchen smiled lightly and patted him on the back, "How could it be so exaggerated."

He was terrified, sobbing and saying: "Your father beat you so horribly, as if he wanted to kill you, and then you fell silent, and I almost had a heart attack outside, you know that? .”

"Touch your hair, it won't scare you." Liang Yuchen smoothed the hair on the back of his head.

The mother was still working as the doorkeeper outside, and the two of them didn't dare to delay. After a moment of tenderness, they hurriedly changed their clothes and went out again.

Hu Aihua said: "Let's go out and find a hotel to stay tonight, and come back after your father calms down."

In fact, he wanted to use the dragging formula again, but Ji Tong mistakenly saw it through.

He glanced at his mother dissatisfied, and said to Liang Yuchen in a low voice: "Brother, you go to the top of the building to stay for a while, and I will go up to find you later."

Liang Yuchen was still in pain, and was about to smoke a cigarette slowly, thinking that Ji Tong was reluctant to send him to the hotel, so he listened to him and went upstairs.

Although the night has not relieved the summer heat, the moon is falling and the moon is white, which is worthy of the sentence "Midsummer is bitter and the night is short, open the pavilion to enjoy the coolness".

There was a virtual lock on the iron door on the top floor, and he took it off with a short movement, pushed the door open, walked under the moonlight, took out a cigarette and lit it.I have stood at this position many times before, leaning on the railing alone, and the surroundings are still messy and empty, but my mood is quite different from before.

When he came here before, except for the first two times when he left good memories with Ji Tong, he used nicotine to numb himself by himself several times after that.Not now, although he still smokes now, he is still waiting for someone, and when that person comes, he will immediately snuff out the cigarette, so as not to make that person unhappy.

After a while, the pain gradually dissipated.The iron door behind him squeaked, and Ji Tong ran over here with a big bag of long and big things under his arm.

"Brother, look what I brought here."

It turned out to be a mat and a thin quilt.

He put out the cigarette, a little dumbfounded: "What is this for?"

"Sleep. I told my mother that I will come to the roof to accompany you on the floor. If she can see us, she will leave us alone. If she can't see it, she will come and call us back. Anyway, you have decided to return to this family. They Let's see what we do."

After speaking, he pulled people to spread the mat and lay down on it.

Liang Yuchen usually doesn't do things that don't match his age, unless he is accompanying Ji Tong.

There is no pillow, so I just use my arms to cushion it.Ji Tong lay flat on the mat, looking very comfortable and comfortable. He even crossed his legs and exhaled to the sky: "Comfortable."

Liang Yuchen lay beside him, turned his head to look at his side face: "Is it cold?"

"What's cold? It's cold. Besides, isn't it covered with a quilt?"

The thin quilt does cover the belly, so it's fine if you don't catch a cold.The ass is a bit hard, bear with it.As for the legs, they are still comfortable.

Liang Yuchen pulled up the quilt, and also folded his forearms behind his head.

There are a few silver melon seeds sprinkled on the sky like splashed ink, just like back then.Crescent Moon is the watermelon rind that has been gnawed off. It is sweet and sweet in the stomach, leaving a fragrance on the lips and teeth.

The two of them just watched the sky and stared at the stars, and waited quietly.Only because we are companions with each other and have been stumbling for several years, we can appreciate the rareness of this moment.

"Brother," Ji Tong said, "I want to eat popsicles."

"Go shopping tomorrow."

"I also want to eat the day after tomorrow."

"Then buy some more and keep them at home."

"No." He turned his face, "You have to buy it for me every day, and eat something fresh."

Of course, what he covets is not fresh popsicles, he just wants to see this person in front of him every day.

Liang Yuchen understood, and hummed: "Buy every day."

Ji Tong smiled happily, pulled the quilt to cover their faces, and moved his lips to kiss Liang Yuchen.

Liang Yuchen also turned his face to the side, and the two stared at each other's eyes under the thin quilt, borrowing the moonlight, fortunately they were able to see clearly, they only had each other in their eyes.

Lying down like this, I want to talk about anything, I can talk about anything, before and after, there are no taboos.

Ji Tong asked, "Brother, were you ever afraid when you were in the war zone?"

Liang Yuchen thought for a while: "Yes."

"When?"

"When you hear the bombers."

"What were you thinking at the time?"

He remained silent, but there were thousands of words in his eyes.

Ji Tong asked: "What were you thinking at that time, did you ever think of me?"

"I thought about it."

"What do you miss me?"

"I remember you told me that the underworld is going to find me too."

When they were lying together, even though Ji Tong didn't know that he loved Liang Yuchen, he did say: "If you don't live a long life, I will find you in hell."

Liang Yuchen wrote it down and kept it in his heart. Like a treasure, he wanted to tell thousands of people but chose to keep it private.

Ji Tong didn't expect that he still remembered his own joke at that time, his heart was so touched, he put his hand on him and said: "I mean it, if you get to the underworld, you must remember to wait for me."

Since they are companions, they must be companions for a lifetime, and there is no reason for anyone to go first.

Liang Yuchen laughed it off, as if he didn't think so in his heart.

Ji Tong wanted to ask again, but there were footsteps getting closer and closer behind him. It was obvious that Hu Aihua had come to look for them, so he could only restrain himself and let go of his brother.

Not long after, the iron door was pushed open, and Hu Aihua stood in the corridor and shouted: "Two debt collectors, go back to sleep."

Overjoyed in his heart, he pulled Liang Yuchen up and got up, immediately forgetting about the little episode just now.