The Third Rose

One day late in the holiday, Chen Xingze and Lu Hao made an appointment to hang out.They gathered at the bookstore at about 10:30, and it was almost eleven o'clock and Lu Hao still hadn't moved.Chen Xingze called to ask, Lu Hao hurriedly said that he had slept and was rushing here.

"Don't worry too much, safety first, it's too late anyway," Chen Xingze said.

"You go to the store and wait for me first! It's too cold outside!" Lu Hao yelled on the phone, accompanied by the whistling wind.

"How long will you be there?"

"I'm about to take a taxi, about 15 minutes."

"Then see you at the intersection."

It may be that he urged the driver to drive faster, and Lu Hao arrived 10 minutes after the phone call.

"Didn't I tell you to wait in the store?" Lu Hao complained.

"You're blaming someone else." Chen Xingze pushed aside the roasted sweet potatoes that he just bought on the side of the road. The steaming sweet potatoes radiated heat in the winter.

Lu Hao moved his head closer, "I want to eat too."

"Fuck off, those who are late are not eligible to eat sweet potatoes."

"I didn't even eat breakfast in order to come here earlier."

"Who made you snooze."

Lu Hao felt aggrieved, Chen Xingze said: "Last night, you went out to play with someone again. What do you think you can do in a day other than eating and playing?"

"I can still accompany you to the bookstore."

"..."

Chen Xingze said in his heart that Tiandu is really an amazing species, and casual seduction is more lethal than his scheming gay.

Chen Xingze took out another roasted sweet potato from his arms.

"Hi, brother!" Lu Hao's eyes lit up, and he happily took the sweet potato. "You bought two, didn't you! You deliberately teased me."

"Eat slowly, don't choke." Chen Xingze rolled him a look.Not only did he buy two, he was afraid that the sweet potato for Lu Hao would get cold, so he specially put it under his clothes to keep warm, which made his belly itchy.

Chen Xingze knew that Lu Hao went out to play yesterday, so he didn't intend to call him today, and Lu Hao himself had no interest in places like bookstores, but he still insisted on coming with Chen Xingze every time.

"Why do you want to buy a paper book? There's no electronic version. It's so painful to hold your hands." When Chen Xingze was selecting books in front of the bookshelf, Lu Hao was making trouble beside him.

Chen Xingze said without raising his head, "Basketball is much heavier than books."

"Basketball is not always in your hands."

"E-books don't make sense."

"Do you still feel like reading a book?"

Chen Xingze stretched out his palm in front of Lu Hao, and Lu Hao shrank back, "What are you doing, are you going to hit someone?"

Chen Xingze: "Smell."

Lu Hao sniffed suspiciously, and smelled a faint fragrance of ink.

"Ah... I don't understand those of you who like to read."

"I only read casual books, and I can't even read a single page of textbooks." Chen Xingze saw Zhang Ailing's works collection, which he had unilaterally regarded as his confidant before, on the literature bookshelf, and took out a copy. "Let's go, go to the coffee shop for a meeting, you are too sleepy."

This store is very close to Chen Xingze's home. It is a newly opened book bar. It is not small in scale. It has three floors. There is a cafe with a good atmosphere on the second floor.Chen Xingze ordered a cup of coffee, while Lu Hao ordered milk.No matter what store Lu Hao goes to order a drink, as long as there is no sports drink, he will order milk.Every time Chen Xingze saw it, he laughed hard.

"Still failed to wean today?"

Lu Hao was already immune to Chen Xingze's ridicule, and he didn't feel any shame in drinking milk, instead he persuaded Chen Xingze to drink it together.

"Drink milk to grow taller, so you are not as tall as me now."

"My height is good enough, but you jumped too fast."

Chen Xingze felt that one sweet potato just now might not be enough to feed this stupid guy, so he ordered cake and salad, and walked to the resting place inside with the tray.On the way, he secretly glanced at Lu Hao.Chen Xingze is now 176 centimeters tall and is still rising steadily, while Lu Hao was already 179 centimeters when he entered school, and it is estimated that he has grown another four or five centimeters in the past year.

Lu Hao still held on to the topic of "height", followed behind Chen Xingze, and said leisurely: "Hey, if I'm also gay, I should be the 'husband' when the two of us are together."

Chen Xingze's hand softened, and the tray almost fell to the ground. He quickly squeezed it tightly to protect his No. 1 dignity.

"It's not like that at all, okay?"

"It depends on your aura. If you are taller, you will naturally have aura."

"Only you can say such superficial words."

Lu Hao snorted dissatisfiedly. Chen Xingze chose a place by the window with good sunlight, put the tray away, and said, "Besides, you're not gay, so why think about such useless things."

Lu Hao snorted again, gulping milk.

While Chen Xingze was reading, Lu Hao fell asleep on the soft sofa.At first, Chen Xingze couldn't concentrate on reading at all, he was still thinking about what Lu Hao just said.This is not the first time that Lu Hao has said something similar. Chen Xingze doesn't know whether he is just joking or really thinks so.

When he was young, his feelings were so pure. Although Chen Xingze's rationality told him that this was a dead end, he would still fantasize about Lu Hao's occasional words.

Chen Xingze looked down at the book in his hand, Zhang Ailing's novella "Red Rose and White Rose".Literary critics said that this book mainly expresses Eileen Chang's examination and concern of women's living environment under the patriarchal system, as well as her questioning and rebellion against women's social roles.Of course, these are just foils. The most precious legacy left by this book to the public is the set of peerless theories——

"Perhaps every man has had two women like this, at least two. Marry a red rose, and over time, the red one becomes a smear of mosquito blood on the wall, and the white one is still 'moonlight in front of the bed'; married a white rose The white one is a grain of sticky rice on the clothes, and the red one is a cinnabar mole on the heart."

This set of typical male obscenity thoughts of "eating from the bowl and looking at the pot" and "it's best not to get it" was expressed by the great writer with elegant words such as "rose", "moonlight" and "cinnabar mole". , has been the most widely read.

The novel is not long, and Chen Xingze finished it in a short time. After reading it, he felt that his confidant, Miss Zhang Ailing, was a person who did not believe in human nature.

She believes in love, but not in humanity.That's right, which woman in this world doesn't believe in love, but some people believe it and believe it full of anxiety.

Chen Xingze substituted himself into the book. He agreed with Zhang Ailing's saying that "every man has had two roses". In his mind, he visualized the white rose and the red rose as You Xiaolin and Lu Hao, a holy moon, One is passionate, one is the one to whom he has given strong affection, and the other is the one to whom he has given strong affection.

Chen Xingze raised his eyes from the book, and looked at Lu Hao who was lying on the table and sound asleep.He laughed at himself in his heart, anyway, he couldn't "marry" any of them, so these two roses would probably last forever in his life.

Chen Xingze closed the book, and further thought that even if he really "married" one of them, it would not be the result in the book.He will never destroy all good things with dirty thoughts like Tong Zhenbao did.In his view, flowers are for care.No matter what happens, he will not hurt the two boys.Even just imagining their injuries in his mind would make Chen Xingze miserable.

The book was almost done, but Lu Hao was soundly asleep. Chen Xingze didn't want to wake him up, so he took out his phone...

Mi Sheng thought for a long time, and decided to take off the expensive coat on his body before knocking on the door.

When his father asked "Who is it", Mi Sheng answered truthfully, "Your son", so he was greeted with a splash of tea when he opened the door.

Fortunately, he took off his coat, Mi Sheng thought happily, the clothes were very expensive, and they were the latest items of a certain luxury brand.Mi Sheng's money is very tight recently, but he still saves money and buys it.Because his work circle is too snobbish, everyone has a pair of piercing eyes, and he is easy to be looked down upon by his peers without two serious outfits.

"You're not my son! I don't have your son, you give me—cough, cough, cough!" Father Mi Zhenguo coughed without cursing a few words, and Mi Sheng said lightly, "Can you rest?"

Mi Zhenguo insisted on finishing his curse, "Get lost!"

Mi Jie came out of the room with an impatient look on her face.

"It's not over!"

She pulled Mi Zhenguo into the room, pushed Mi Sheng out, and spoke at the door.

"What about the money?"

"Open your mouth and ask for money, is there any brother-sister bond?"

Mi Jie looked at him speechlessly. Like Mi Sheng, she had a pair of slender fox eyes, and she was extremely cold when she was not smiling. "I'm not in the mood to talk to you today. If you don't give it, you can leave."

Mi Sheng frowned slightly, "What's wrong?"

"What's wrong?" Mi Jie said indifferently, "Mom fell ill today, and my dad called me back halfway through my appointment. This is the fourth time, my boyfriend just called to break up with me. You have to ask what's wrong , That's it, nothing much."

Mi Sheng knows that Mi Jie's boyfriend is a salesman who works in the same company as her. To be honest, he is very ordinary in appearance and average in working ability, so he is completely unsuitable for Mi Jie.It's a pity that many things cannot be viewed in such a simple way.

"Is there any room for redemption? How about explaining the situation to him?" Mi Sheng said.

Mi Jie sneered and said: "Explain what? It's just interrupting the date. If I know that my family has a seriously ill father, a mentally ill mother, and a gay brother, I'm afraid they will hide me as a plague. "

Mi Sheng felt uncomfortable when he heard it, but the surface was calm, he took out a card and gave it to Mi Jie.

"It's okay to split up, that guy is so ugly that I can't even eat."

It's a pity that his teasing didn't have any effect on alleviating the atmosphere. Mi Jie had to close the door after drawing the card.Mi Sheng blocked it, and took out another card to Mi Jie, "You can use this for yourself, buy more clothes and bags you like, and parents will ask you to take care of them."

Mi Jie took the card and closed the door without saying a word.

Mi Sheng left home and stood dryly in the community for a long time, until the cold wind made him feel cold inside and out, and he didn't think of putting on his coat.

The phone vibrated, Mi Sheng took it out, and saw the text message from Chen Xingze.

--What are you doing?

"Fuck your mother." Mi Sheng scolded viciously, and then sneered, "No, it should be your father." He was so upset that he completely ignored Chen Xingze's thoughts and went to look through the phone's address book.

He yearns for comfort, and if that doesn't work, it's fine to just let go of his desire.

"Come someone..." He whispered while searching for the target, "Come someone to accompany me, whoever you want."