double struggle

The sky was misty, with dark clouds pressing down, and it looked like a storm was coming.Chu Wendao took off his glasses and rubbed his temples.The other teachers in the office had almost left. He glanced at his watch, and it was time to pick up Zhang Zhiyuan.

The door was knocked twice, Chu Wendao packed up his things and called out, "Come in."

Pushing the door open was a tall, thin young man with delicate features.The eyes are large, the eyelashes are long, and the facial features are somewhat feminine.He also has a particularly poetic name, Xu Qingzhou.When Chu Wendao first took over as his tutor, he admired it a lot: "'I heard that Shuangxi Spring is good, and I plan to go on a light boat. I'm afraid that the Shuangxi boat will not be able to carry many worries." The name is very good , I’m just sad—your parents are Li Qingzhao’s fans?” In a blink of an eye, the graduate student at that time became a PhD student.

"Teacher." Xu Qingzhou walked a step further, and was obviously taken aback when he saw the briefcase that Chu Wendao packed up, "Is the teacher going back?"

Chu Wendao glanced at the sky outside and said, "Well, go pick someone up first, and you won't be able to go back if you're later."

"Oh..." Xu Qingzhou replied softly.

Chu Wendao rubbed Xu Qingzhou's hair habitually. He always felt that Xu Qingzhou's hair was relatively soft, which was completely different from Zhang Zhiyuan's short spikes.

At this time, he was not in a hurry and asked: "Tell me, what's the matter?"

Xu Qingzhou had no choice but to say: "Mr. Chen, he is in poor health and was hospitalized. I will help him with a substitute class recently. I just prepared the lesson plan for the latest class, and I want the teacher to help me see it."

"How old is it?"

"Sophomore."

"What else can you ask me about modern literature in my sophomore year? Don't you just give me all the knowledge back?"

"No, it's just that I'm not sure about this one, and I'm afraid it will go too deep."

Chu Wendao was just joking at first, but when he saw Xu Qingzhou and Ma Shan blushing and panicked, he immediately accepted the joke.

"The only ones who can embarrass you are those authors. Let me guess—is it Yu Hua?" He opened his hands and said calmly.

Xu Qingzhou naturally put the USB flash drive on Chu Wendao's palm, and looked at the fingertips sliding across the palm lines, the movement seemed to shake.

Chu Wendao didn't care, and directly threw the USB drive into the briefcase.

"I'll show you later, remember to check WeChat tonight," he said.

Xu Qingzhou nodded: "Thank you, teacher." He smiled shyly with crooked eyebrows and beautiful eyes.

Chu Wendao glanced at him, then looked away, and said casually, "It's going to rain, are you leaving? I'll give you a ride."

Xu Qingzhou blinked blankly, and said hesitantly after he realized: "But teacher, aren't you going to pick up someone?"

"It's okay, isn't your home on Wanxi Road? It just happens to be on the way."

Xu Qingzhou bit her lip and shook her head after a while.

"I still have some things to do, so forget it. Thank you teacher." He whispered.

Chu Wendao smiled, and rubbed Xu Qingzhou's short hair again: "It's okay, then you should go back early. But you'd better wait until the rain stops before leaving, so as not to catch a cold like last time."

The last time Xu Qingzhou went home in the rain without an umbrella, he caught a cold the next day and went back to school wearing a mask.It was Chu Wendao who took him to the hospital that time.

Xu Qingzhou nodded obediently and said "thank you" for the third time today.He has been with Chu Wendao for so many years, but his attitude is still as polite as ever.Chu Wendao was confused at first, but gradually he didn't intend to investigate too much.Such a distance is actually very good.

Chu Wendao threw the briefcase into the back seat, sat in the driver's seat and called Zhang Zhiyuan.He seldom took the initiative to find Zhang Zhiyuan, and chose to wait more.The opponent needs space, and he is happy to give it.

After a long time, the phone was connected.

"Wendao, I forgot to tell you. I'm going to have dinner with my colleagues tonight. Don't wait for me." Before Chu Wendao could speak, Fang Zhang Zhiyuan spoke first.

Chu Wendao was stunned for a moment, then said in silence for a moment: "Okay, then don't go home too late, Auntie will be worried. Also drink less alcohol, you don't drink too much."

"I know, I know, like my mother."

"It doesn't work, call me when the time comes, and I'll pick you up."

"No... hey don't, wait until I go out before closing the door... Wendao, I won't tell you anymore, hang up first."

"Well, pay attention to safety on the road."

Chu Wendao looked at the blacked-out mobile phone, putting his arm over his eyes.After waiting for a few years to cultivate, the positive result came, but after that, there was still endless waiting.It seems like nothing has changed, and it seems like everything has changed.

After staying in the carriage for a long time, he opened the window and decided to send Sun Hai a WeChat message.Sun Hai is a mutual friend of him and Zhang Zhiyuan, and one of the few old classmates who have remained together since middle school. After graduating from undergraduate, he went back to inherit his father's business and became a big boss.

Speaking of which, Sun Hai's father and Chu Wendao's old father are also friends. For this reason, Sun Hai often ridiculed that young master Chu Wendao went to work for others instead of doing it, because he was so ambitious.

"Come out for a drink." The message was sent out, and Sun Hai immediately replied to the conversation.

"Yo, what are you doing? Your little one isn't here?"

Chu Wendao knew Sun Hai's gloating face just by reading the text, and he still deserved a beating.

"Stop talking nonsense, come or not."

"Come, come, see you at the old place!" At the end, there was a mean smile.

Chu Wendao threw away the phone, reversed the car out of the parking space, and ran out as soon as he stepped on the accelerator.Sometimes he drives like a desperate person, and Sun Hai is terrified several times.As the second generation of rich people, I used to play a lot when I was young, and I played sports cars for several years when I was a teenager, and my skills were honed at that time.

It's just that he has never exposed this side in front of Zhang Zhiyuan.When facing Zhang Zhiyuan, he will always be the gentle and refined Chu Wendao.

The old place Sun Hai mentioned was actually Xiaoqing Bar, but this Xiaoqing Bar has a special feature in that it is gay.Boss Wu here is also capable of making the GAY bar so quiet and elegant.

It happened to be the singer Chu Wendao admired the most on the stage. Chu Wendao especially liked his hoarse voice, which seemed to have gone through vicissitudes of life. With the acoustic guitar, the whole song had an otherworldly feeling.

"Come on, you asked me to drink, there must be something wrong." Sun Hai shook the ice cubes in the glass, looking like a caring brother.

Chu Wendao scoffed, looking at the singer under the stage lights.

Sun Hai said: "Hey, don't laugh, is there something wrong with your family?"

Chu Wendao took a sip of the ice wine and said flatly, "It's okay, why are you talking so much when I call you out for a drink?"

"Come on, I don't know about you and Zhang Zhiyuan?" Sun Hai leaned over and hooked Chu Wendao's neck, "You always follow his ass, when did he look at you?"

Chu Wendao frowned and drank silently.The wine entered the throat, bitter and astringent.

He couldn't refute Sun Hai's words. At first, he pursued Zhang Zhiyuan first, and after waiting for several years, he thought that the end of all hardships had come, but Zhang Zhiyuan's attitude towards him was very strange.It should be regarded as a couple, after all, they have slept in bed many times; but it seems that it is not for the lovers' share, he can feel Zhang Zhiyuan's alienation from him from time to time.

It's been almost six years, and his parents also know about Zhang Zhiyuan's relationship with him. When it's Zhang Zhiyuan's turn, every time he shirks and confesses their relationship to his mother.Chu Wendao knew that Zhang Zhiyuan's mother, as a single mother, had a difficult life, so she accommodated her lover.

But Chu Wendao is not a saint, he also gets tired sometimes.Faced with Zhang Zhiyuan's concealment of their relationship with each other and his inexplicable indifference, this made him feel confused.What is the relationship between him and Zhang Zhiyuan?

Sun Hai and Chu Wendao have known each other since childhood, while Zhang Zhiyuan only met them in middle school. No matter how strong the relationship between the three is, Sun Hai still prefers his bamboo horse after all.In terms of emotion and reason, Chu Wendao really attached his heart to Zhang Zhiyuan, and Zhang Zhiyuan didn't give a bite of candy when he was hanging on him.

"Hey, I didn't say that after so many years, the ice has melted, right? But look at you, it's just miserable." Sun Hai pinched Chu Wendao's face and said.

Chu Wendao clapped his hands away and stared at the stage.

Sun Hai said: "My brother said, why don't you consider a second spring? Then the singing brother is not bad, with red lips and white teeth, singing is still the type you like."

Chu Wendao put down his empty wine glass very calmly, and looked at Sun Hai: "Comrade Sun Hai, as a human being, we should not retreat when we are afraid of difficulties. We must inherit the spirit of the great revolutionary Chairman Mao and carry the revolution to the end—understand?"

Sun Hai raised his hands to express his surrender. Chu Wendao can talk about the world as long as he wants to change the topic, and the eighteen bends of the mountain road confuse people.Sun Hai glanced at Chu Wendao, got up and asked for two more glasses of wine.He knew his own bamboo horse, as long as he didn't deny it outright, then he had listened to the words.

He sighed, and decided to molest Boss Wu while he was ordering drinks.Not seeing each other every day is like three autumns.