Midsummer of Eden

As if feeling something, Zhang Chi's gaze collided with Qin Shuo, and the two looked at each other for a short two seconds, neither expressing surprise at the other's appearance.

Two seconds later, both of them had smiles on their faces.Qin Shuo walked closer, Zhang Chi got up to meet him.

"Mr. Zhang."

"Mr. Qin." Zhang Chi's address to Qin Shuo changed, but it was not the "buddy" he was familiar with when they first met.

"You don't look well, do you need to go back and rest?"

"No, smoke a cigarette." Qin Shuo pointed outside, "One?"

On the street with people coming and going, Zhang and Qin stood beside the trash can at the entrance of the hospital.There is a layer of soot sand on the top, which has accumulated a lot of cigarette butts, which seems to indicate the anxiety and exhaustion caused by illness and pain in this door.

The two seem to be smoking together in a harmonious relationship, but they are actually thinking about each other.

"I trouble you to send him back. The journey was hard. According to the previous agreement, we will increase the subsidy if there are special needs. I will arrange someone to call you for the money later, and Mr. Zhang will go back and check." Qin Shuo stared at Zhang Chi's expression, It seemed that he wanted to dig out some clues from this same-sex person he didn't like, "You saw it too, Jueming's family had an accident... I said I would stay for an extra month, but now I can't keep it. Just send someone to bring back his things, and I will ask Mr. Zhang to help me when the time comes."

Although Zhang Chi didn't like Qin Shuo's tone of belonging to Yin Jueming between the lines, and even used the word "family", his hand holding the cigarette paused: "Let's go now? Uncle's health is so serious?"

"Well, non-stop, not even the bed." Qin Shuo said and looked up.

Zhang Chi took a deep breath of the cigarette, exhaled it slowly, and did not speak for three to five seconds.

"It should be, after all, your father is also his nobleman." Zhang Chi didn't notice that he had already replaced the three words Mr. Yin during the conversation, unconsciously carrying a sense of intimacy.

Of course, Qin Shuo realized right away that he didn't have much expression on his face, but he was slightly surprised in his heart——Yin Jueming even told him such a thing?

Qin Shuo looked Zhang Chi up and down, and confirmed that he was indeed waiting for someone.As for who to wait for, it goes without saying.

"Are you waiting for him?"

Zhang Chi glanced at him and extinguished the cigarette: "Well, he asked me to wait."

Qin Shuo nodded coldly: "I'll go up first."

"Walk slowly, and wish your father a speedy recovery."

"Thank you."

Zhang Chi licked his lips, looked back when he was far away, and went to the cafe Yin Jueming mentioned with his arms crossed.

As for Qin Shuo, he was calm at first, but after getting out of the elevator, he was very anxious.

His footsteps became faster and faster, and finally he almost yanked the door open.

Yin Jueming was sitting in front of the hospital bed in a daze. He was startled by Qin Shuo, and turned to look at him with a frown: "What are you doing? Don't you know where this is? What happened?"

Qin Shuo took a deep breath and said under pressure, "I just saw Zhang Chi downstairs."

"Well, I was just going down." Yin Jueming carefully wiped Qin Jifeng's neck with a warm towel.

Qin Shuo was suppressing a fire that he thought he couldn't understand. For some reason, seeing Yin Jueming's completely unresponsive face, the evil fire seemed to be filled with firewood and burned even more intensely.

There was no explanation, no panic, it seemed to be a normal thing.Such a delicate and intimate relationship is obvious enough to outsiders.Yin Jueming has always been aware and insightful, if he pays attention, how can he not notice this?Even when Qin Shuo ran into Zhang Chi downstairs, Yin Jueming didn't seem to want to say why Zhang Chi was waiting for him downstairs.

"Don't go down, I'll let him go." Qin Shuo walked to an empty seat on the side and sat down, with the corners of his mouth drooping, his eyes fixed on a point in the air, without any reaction.

Based on Yin Jueming's understanding of Qin Shuo, he should be quite irritable right now. Coupled with Qin Jifeng's illness, Qin Shuo was haggard and anxious, and his overall condition now seemed particularly poor.

"Gone?" Yin Jueming raised his eyebrows, "Oh, then I'll go down and have a look."

Qin Shuo stood up suddenly and grabbed Yin Jueming's hand: "My father is still here, but you are in a hurry to see him?"

Yin Jueming didn't speak, just stared at Qin Shuo for three to five seconds, until Qin Shuo felt guilty, he pushed Qin Shuo's hand away.

"Qin Shuo, what's the matter with you? Zhang Chi made you so hostile to him. The National People's Congress sent me all the way from Arima Town, and drove for several hours, worried that I was not in good condition. I'll go down What's wrong with looking for him, or even settling him down?"

Qin Shuo was stunned: "I..."

"I'll be up soon." Yin Jueming didn't give Qin Shuo another chance to talk, and turned around and left.

Qin Shuo looked at the back of Yin Jueming walking away, and felt more stuffy in his chest.

Besides, when Yin Jueming arrived at the cafe downstairs, he saw Zhang Chi sitting by the window bored.

The waiter just served him a cup of coffee, Zhang Chi said something to the waiter, his young and handsome eyebrows were exposed to the afternoon sun, and there was a kind of warmth.

After a while the waiter came back and brought him a lot of milk, so Zhang Chi concentrated on adding a lot of milk to the black coffee, took out three sugar packets, tore them open and poured them in.

In some ways, he looks surprisingly like a child.

Yin Jueming, who was standing outside the window, twitched the corner of his mouth without even realizing it.

He went straight in like this and sat opposite Zhang Chi.Zhang Chi put down his cup, suddenly saw Yin Jueming, licked his lips, and licked off the milk froth.

The waiter came over again, and Yin Jueming ordered a cup of black coffee.

"Just now I said I was waiting for you in the lobby..."

"Well, I heard from Qin Shuo."

"We also smoked together."

Yin Jueming put his hands in his trouser pockets, blinked at Zhang Chi, and suddenly smiled: "Are you jealous?"

"At a time like this, why am I jealous?" Zhang Chi waved his hand, then glanced at Yin Jueming, leaning back slightly, "Okay, a little bit."

The waiter brought black coffee, Yin Jueming picked it up with a light smile and took a sip.

"Isn't it bitter?"

"It's not bitter, brother. Try next time, don't put so much milk."

Zhang Chi was sensitive to Yin Jueming's emotions. Although he was joking with him, even sitting by the window with the sun shining on him, he still laid him out so elegantly and decently, but it could be seen that he was not in a good mood.

"Are you... all right over there? How did it turn out?"

"It's okay, it's just that I may be in the hospital for a long time."

Zhang Chi tentatively asked: "For a long time, it means..."

After the coffee was brought to his mouth, Yin Jueming paused for a while, but put the coffee back into the cup.The smile in his eyes also dissipated.When Yin Jueming was not smiling, he was almost inhumanly calm.

"I'm sorry, I may... I will take away the things I left in Arima Town soon."

"You want to leave?" It took Zhang Chi a long time to ask with difficulty, "So... suddenly?"

He actually wanted to ask too much.About the messy relationship between the two, about the unreasonable relationship, about future plans... But when Zhang Chi saw Yin Jueming's eyes, Zhang Chi couldn't ask any more questions.

There was a touch of worry and fatigue in those eyes, but there was no reluctance and sadness in those eyes.

It seemed, to him, that the end of any journey was... irrelevant.

Zhang Chi bit the root tightly, and the muscles on both sides of his cheeks moved.

Yin Jueming took another sip of coffee and looked up at him.Even to Zhang Chi's reaction, he didn't change much in expression, as expected.

"However, I still have something to tell you." While talking, Yin Jueming slowly took out the key and put it on the coffee table, and pushed it in front of Zhang Chi with two fingers, "If... I mean if you don't If you mind, you can stay at my house tonight."

As soon as Yin Jueming said this, Zhang Chi froze.

At this moment, Qin Shuo couldn't bear to smoke his second cigarette.

In fact, Yin Jueming said that he will come up soon, but he really only has time for a cup of coffee.

Even when Qin Shuo walked to the glass window of the coffee shop and saw the two of them, Yin Jueming had already pulled out the money and put it under the teacup.

Coincidentally, if Qin Shuo had come a minute or two late, he would not have bumped into this scene.

In other words, this scene itself may not exist.

Because of the angle, Zhang Chi, who was sitting opposite Yin Jueming, saw Qin Shuo outside Yin Jueming's glass window and behind him for the first moment.

Immediately afterwards, without hesitation, he got up and grabbed Yin Jueming by the collar, pulling him closer.He swore that he had never been so rude to Yin Jueming before.

Of course, things in bed are another matter.

Zhang Chi pulled Yin Jueming and kissed him across the coffee table.

His lips and tongue are still aggressive. In such a crowded cafe, Yin Jueming should have refused the kiss.

Maybe it's the warm sunshine in the afternoon, or maybe the thick milky coffee smell that is completely different from the aggressiveness in the relaxed lips, or maybe it's such eager desire and plunder, which Yin Jueming has always been lacking... In short, he Zhang Chi's kiss slowly softened.

The hand that was holding Zhang Chi's hand after refusal also relaxed.

The kiss wasn't long, but it wasn't a pecking kiss either.It was a real kiss, just like a lover's kiss.Anyone who reads it should understand what is going on.

Zhang Chi didn't know what was wrong with him, but suddenly he became like a naive middle school student doing such things.

When Yin Jueming retreated, wiped his mouth and got up to leave, the glass window was already empty.

Qin Shuo stood at the corner of the street, and after personally confirming that Yin Jueming had entered the hospital gate, he clenched his fists and his whole body tensed up.

He couldn't relax.

He felt like a tight bow, since Qin Jifeng's accident yesterday, he has not relaxed for a moment.

In such extreme and strange pain and chest tightness, he finally understood what he had never paid attention to, or deliberately avoided...

His feelings for Yin Jueming had already changed unknowingly.He actually knew that Yin Jueming liked men, he could tell.But these years, he has always maintained the bottom line of being a brother and a friend.

Fear and cowardice, as well as a subconscious inability to accept himself, have always repelled him from admitting his thoughts and recognizing his feelings.

So much so that when he came to his senses, he realized that it was him who sent Yin Jueming to someone else step by step with his own hands!

In fact, Yin Jueming was not without people in the past.

Qin Shuo has seen it, but he doesn't care.If you don't care, you ignore the hope in Yin Jueming's eyes, which gradually fades every time he turns around.

Who Yin Jueming is with is not his business.No matter how good those people are, how long can they stay by Yin Jueming's side?

Yin Jueming is good enough, Qin Shuo knows that.He's good enough to attract all kinds of people.But none of these people had such a deep bond with him as he did.

People around Yin Jueming come and go, but in the end he must return to him.

Because of himself, because of Qin Jifeng, Yin Jueming's family.As long as he is by Yin Jueming's side, he is irreplaceable.

At that time, Qin Shuo didn't realize how despicable it was to threaten with family affection as bait.

But this time, Qin Shuo felt different.

Because this time, he felt that Yin Jueming was changing.

Qin Shuo stood in the corner, and he didn't know how many cigarettes he had smoked. When he realized it, there was no one in the cigarette case.

His eyes were red, and his temples were throbbing.

"Yo, Mr. Qin."

Qin Shuo turned his head and saw a flawless smiling face, it was Zhang Chi.

"It's only been 10 minutes, and you came down to smoke again? So much... Even if you are worried about your father, you should pay attention to your health."

"You did it on purpose." Qin Shuo calmed down at such a time.

His dark eyes stared at Zhang Chi: "You saw me just now."

"Yes." Zhang Chi admitted generously and calmly, without retreating a bit, and stared back at the same time, "I think Mr. Qin was insinuating for a long time, and I probably know what he was thinking. Instead of us guessing each other, it's better... let you see For the truth."