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After another three days of being suspicious, Tao Zhuo couldn't help but call Tao Zhen and asked him, "Did you tell mom where I went?"

"Say it, according to what you told me, I also poured a lot of chicken soup." Tao Zhen was walking the dog, and said relaxedly, "What's wrong?"

"Why didn't she look for me?" Tao Zhuo was depressed, "If she didn't look for me, wouldn't I be held by her again? Can this cabinet still come out?"

"No, what else do you want?" Tao Zhen sighed, "Isn't Mom's attitude now basically acquiescing? Do you really hope that she will welcome you to bring a man back with drums and gongs?"

"Then there's no need to beat drums and gongs, let's accept it head-on, aren't you curious about who I'm with?" Tao Zhuo also sighed, "What acquiescence, she is just waiting for the day when I don't ask any questions. The problem is that I won’t change it, the whole family is in a rivalry, will I come back to this house in the future?”

"You're just too used to it." Tao Zhen actually laughed when he heard it, "Don't say that my mother accepted it positively. If you really bring a man back, I can't guarantee whether I can keep my expression when I see that scene... ..."

"What?" Tao Zhuo almost fainted, "Didn't you always understand me and support me? Brother!"

"Hey, don't shout. How should I say, these two things are different, Tao Zhuo." Tao Zhen tried to reason with him, "Man, the assumptions made before anything happens will be an ideal state. And when it really comes to that Sometimes, all reactions are instinct, who can control instinct? Think about when your sister was going to Wuhan, I don’t know why I was so anxious that I couldn’t suppress my anger.”

Tao Zhuo didn't say anything, Tao Qiwei was indeed the one who went to Wuhan, and Tao Zhen was usually so reasonable and respectful of Tao Qiwei, but when his "instinct" came up, he was full of non-human words.

"I can understand you. If you want me to see you... What kind of boyfriend, even if I really can't keep my expression, I will try my best to keep it, because I can understand what's going on, and there is no generation gap between us." Tao Zhen continued.

"But how old are the parents? They have lived most of their lives in black or white, let alone seeing each other. They have never even heard of a son who is not married and lives with a man." Tao Zhen paused After a pause, he yelled "Doudou", and probably went to tease someone else's big dog again.

"You have to think about it from their perspective. It's not what you want. Everyone can support it without fighting. My parents and I must be the people in the world who want you to be happy and have a good life. This is because we love you, not a tool you use to force her to give you the result you want immediately," Tao Zhen said in a light tone, "You can't take 'Parents want their children to be happy, they really want me to live If you want to be happy, support my decision unconditionally, 'be a gunman, otherwise this is plainly called kidnapping by sexual orientation, understand?"

"I didn't..." Tao Zhuo was stumped by the word "kidnapping".

"I know that's not what you mean, that's what you said. On the other hand, our mother can't use 'I'm all for your own good' to force you to do something." Tao Zhen said, "Didn't she tell you that? It's useless to force you to go home and marry a wife right away. Don't look at our mother's temper, this is really something special about her. "

"Ah." Tao Zhuo thought about it, and really couldn't deny it.

"But everything is destined to have a process. This matter is more difficult than finding a daughter-in-law who is not recognized by her. You can't just think about yourself." Tao Zhen finally concluded, "Everything is mutual. Understand."

After the phone call, Tao Zhuo lay on the bed in a daze for a long time.

Dog Tao Zhen, I don't know how long these thoughts have been in his heart. He didn't hear Li Suihan say it before he was with Li Suihan.

He kicked off the bed depressed. In fact, he really didn't think about it that much, and he didn't know how he could be interpreted so much.

At the critical moment, I don't know how to argue!

After listening to Tao Zhen's retelling, Li Suihan didn't directly comment on Tao Zhen's ideas, but told Tao Zhuo about a movie he had seen before.

"We need to talk about Kevin." He asked Tao Zhuo, "Have you seen it?"

"I seem to have heard of it." Tao Zhuo thought for a while, "Doctor Strange?"

"Yes." Li Suihan smiled, "The leading actress seems to be playing a mage in it."

"Continue." Tao Zhuo clicked on the browser and searched for the name of the movie.

It's not a new theme, the emotional confrontation between mother and son, and the murderer's son with extreme personality due to the mother's indifference.

"Ah, he." Tao Zhuo smiled when he saw the actor playing his son, "He also played the gay friend in The Wallflower Boy, and he thought it was cute when I watched it."

Li Suihan glanced at him, hooked the corners of his mouth indifferently, twisted Tao Zhuo's chest, and said, "The movie was average, but after watching the movie, I followed up with an interview, asking him what he thought of the mother-child relationship in the movie. "

Tao Zhuo held Li Suihan's hand through his clothes, "hissed": "What did he say?"

"He said that the starting point for most people is the irreversible damage caused by family relationships to the child's growth process. They feel that the child cannot feel love, and they know that the mother does not love him enough, so they form an extreme personality." Li Suihan thought for a while, "He said that in his view, a mother is first and foremost a person, a woman, and that 'mother' can be part of this woman's identity, and that one should not take it for granted that a mother should give her all to that identity, and because she does Not good enough, skilled enough, self-sacrificing enough, and put all the blame on her."

Tao Zhuo rubbed his chest and turned to look at him.

"It's very politically correct, and that's all I can say. After all, no matter where the child has an accident, the first thing the public blames is what the parents are doing." Li Suihan pushed Tao Zhuo's hand away to help him rub , "But I happened to be having an argument with my dad at the time, so I felt like I was being persuaded."

"You also think I'm kidnapping?" Tao Zhuo frowned, "Stop rubbing, it's hard."

"Of course not," Li Suihan smiled and kissed the corners of his eyes, "I just want to tell you that I always let you go with the flow, not because I'm afraid of facing your family—my own family is like that, and I'm still afraid What?"

Tao Zhuo twisted his heart, turned around and hugged Li Suihan.

"Because I know it's uncomfortable to have a deadlock with my family, so I want you to avoid it as much as possible. Your brother is right, not all problems can be solved as long as you face each other. There are standard answers and endings. People's hearts are not Press the switch, and all the past concepts will be cleared and rebuilt." Li Suihan said in his ear, "Escaping is sometimes another kind of concession, and it is also mutual protection. What do you think?"

"Actually, I also feel that I am very lucky. Compared with you and that one. What do I want to do since I was a child, including learning to draw when my mind is hot, my parents didn't say anything." Tao Zhuo said in a sullen voice. Said, "I just want to give you a home too, not for the two of us, but to recognize your family like your sister recognized me."

"I understand." Li Suihan pulled Tao Zhuo's face out from his shoulders, and looked at it carefully for a while.

"I am also very lucky, Tao Zhuo." He said to Tao Zhuo.

Tao Zhuo paused under his gaze for a while, his small eyes slid from Li Suihan's eyes to his mouth, and then back again, pursing the corners of his mouth in an embarrassed smile.

"It's really hard now." He pressed against Li Suihan's body, took his hand and placed it there, "Knead."

Li Suihan couldn't help laughing, and whispered "a prodigal", put his hand under Tao Zhuo's back, pushed him into the computer chair, pushed his knee between his legs, and buried his head into the hollow of his neck.

After Tao Zhuo finished chatting with Li Suihan, there was no class the next day, so he tidied himself up, took the tea and wine that Li Suihan gave him, and strolled back home.

When my mother saw him, it was like seeing someone else's son. She didn't say a word about his reckless running away from home. She raised her eyelids and said nonchalantly, "You're back?"

"Mom." Tao Zhuo went over cheekily and smiled, "Why don't you look for me, don't you want your son?"

"Why are you looking for you? Are you looking for anger?" Mom threw him sideways with her arms, "Scroll, I'm busy with your brother's wedding, I don't have time to worry about you, go to the other side."

"Come on." Tao Zhuo obediently stepped aside and put the things he brought on the table in the dining room, but his mother still pretended not to see.

It wasn't until Dad came back from buying vegetables that he yelled, "Is someone here?"

"Here is my son." Tao Zhuo greeted him, and cut a tooth of watermelon for his father.

Dad glanced at him, kicked Tao Zhuo's butt first.

"Hey! What are you doing, Dad!" Tao Zhuo jumped up and down while clutching his buttocks, his father's strength was half-true and half-fake, which made him a little nervous.

Don't be like Li Yang's father, lock him at home and send him to the preceptor.

However, Dad just kicked him, and after kicking him, he was just like his mother, without mentioning anything else, and asked Tao Zhuo to open the tea gift box to see what good ingredients it was.

Tao Zhuo didn't know how the old couple discussed in private. He suddenly had the feeling of going back to his childhood. The attitude of his parents was always a mystery. Sometimes he felt that they were worried about something. If he asked a question, the answer he got would always be "Nothing, don't worry about it, kids."

Perhaps in their conception, the fact that the son is actually with the man is indeed a kind of "worry" in "report good news but not bad news", which requires careful consideration and pondering.

But now Tao Zhuo is no longer obsessed with letting them accept it.

Just like this pot of tea, using this "subtle" method to bring Li Suihan into his home little by little, and let the traces of Li Suihan grow slowly at home, may be the best state at this stage.

He had a meal at home, and went back to Li Suihan's place in the evening, and his mother still put on a face and didn't bother to ask, but she didn't stop him.

From that day on, Tao Zhuo carried tea this week, fruit the next week, and bought a massage chair at home two days later. He always brought a lot of things home.

Some were bought by Li Suihan in duplicate for his parents, and some were bought by Tao Zhuo himself, and he would also prepare a set for Li Suihan's family.

He doesn't care about Li Suihan's family's attitude towards the things he bought, and he understands Li Suihan's feelings more and more - not to please the other's family, since it can't be changed, it's just for his own peace of mind.

This hamster-like way of moving was maintained for two months, until a week before Tao Zhen's wedding, my mother finally took the initiative to mention Li Suihan to Tao Zhuo for the first time.

"That friend of yours," my mother said forcefully, "let him come to our house for a meal in these two days."