The Third Rose

The next day, Chen Xingze slept until noon. When he opened his eyes, he felt dizzy as if he had just woken up from a dream.

Because of the hangover, Chen Xingze had a severe headache and his body was clamoring for soreness.He sat up, suddenly felt cold under his body, touched the inside of the quilt, and was surprised to find that he was naked.Chen Xingze didn't know what happened, so he took the glasses from the bedside and stumbled to the bathroom to take a shower.

His underwear hung on a hanger in the bathroom and looked washed.Chen Xingze was a little confused, thinking while taking a shower, there was no one else in the room, it must be Mi Sheng who washed him.

but why……

Why did Mi Sheng wash his underwear for him?

Chen Xingze's thoughts are simple, and his emotional experience from childhood to adulthood always starts with "love", and he will not reverse the order at all, stepping over the "love" stage, and thinking about the possibility of sleeping with others.

After taking a shower, the moment he turned off the shower, Chen Xingze finally came up with a possibility with his chaotic brain.

Chen Xingze was embarrassed to let the underwear dry, so he put it away.He put on his pants directly with his bare buttocks.Just after getting dressed, Mi Sheng came back from outside with breakfast.

"Are you awake? Eat something." Mi Sheng's voice was hoarse.

Chen Xingze watched Mi Sheng put the breakfast on the table, and unpacked the boxes one by one.He came to Mi Sheng's side and stared at his side face, thinking maybe it was too cold outside which made his face look paler than usual.

"that……"

Mi Sheng turned his head, Chen Xingze blushed, "You...you helped me wash my underwear?"

Mi Sheng hummed.

Chen Xingze was ashamed, and muttered something.

Mi Sheng said indifferently: "Are you telling the mosquitoes?"

Chen Xingze raised his voice with difficulty, "Did I drink too much... peed my pants?"

Mi Sheng didn't speak.

Chen Xingze blushed and said, "I'm sorry, I'm so dirty, but you don't need to worry about me."

After a while of silence, Mi Sheng laughed suddenly, and said without emotion: "You really didn't remember?"

Chen Xingze: "What?"

Mi Sheng looked deeply into Chen Xingze's eyes, trying to find any clues of repudiation.It's a pity that the first time they looked at each other, he knew he was telling the truth.Mi Sheng looked away first, looking at the dusty window sill. "...if only you could lie." He said in a voice that no one could hear.

Chen Xingze took half a step forward, "What did you say?"

Mi Sheng murmured: "I mean... did you sleep well last night, did you dream, was it a good dream or a nightmare?"

Chen Xingze didn't know why Mi Sheng asked such a question suddenly, thought for a while, and said, "I don't remember much, probably not. I drank too much, and I feel so sick, my mind is messed up."

Mi Sheng looked at him again.

Chen Xingze: "What's wrong?"

Mi Sheng was not reconciled, and asked again: "Why don't you think about it more carefully?"

Before Chen Xingze could think again, his cell phone rang. It was Wu Xingzhi calling, asking him about his exam preparations.It was only then that Chen Xingze remembered that there would be a school recruitment exam tomorrow.Wu Xingzhi thought that Chen Xingze was in Beijing, but he didn't know that he was in a hotel not far from home.

After hanging up the phone, Chen Xingze hurriedly put on his coat.

"I go first."

"Where?"

"Station, I have to go back to Beijing immediately."

"Leave now?" Mi Sheng grabbed his arm, "Eat something first."

Chen Xingze: "It's too late."

In fact, Mi Sheng never imagined that after Chen Xingze woke up, they could talk to each other smoothly, and then meet for a lifetime, but the situation now is too bad.People who fall in love will always become weak, Mi Sheng grabbed Chen Xingze's arm and held it tightly, like a child who is reluctant to part with his mother.

"Don't go, stay for a while."

Mi Sheng thought for a short time whether to tell him what happened last night, but after hearing Chen Xingze say "I have an exam tomorrow", he swallowed his words automatically.

Chen Xingze left.

Mi Sheng was eating alone at the table. He was afraid that the sweet potato porridge would be cold, so he fought wits with the stingy shop assistant for more than ten minutes before he added an extra box.But now, the fine double-package made his already poor appetite even worse.

He sat in a daze, after a while, his pocket vibrated, Mi Sheng quickly took out his cell phone, and was disappointed to find that it wasn't Chen Xingze.Mi Jie urged him to go home quickly, as she would be moving out in two days. "Mom can't leave people around. If you have to work, please hire a nanny." Just after putting down the phone, the phone vibrated again. This time it was Jo, and Mi Shengli ignored it and hung up directly.

He was lying on the table, looking out the window with gray-brown pupils.The winter in the north is too bleak, and at a glance, it is like an old photo that has been faded.Mi Sheng closed his eyes, his waist was so painful that it was about to break off, but in such an environment, it seemed that no matter how painful it was, it was numb.

He rested for a while, took the ointment bought from the pharmacy, and went to the bathroom to apply the medicine to himself.

This winter is destined to make many people uncomfortable.

Chen Xingze's exam was absolutely terrible.In fact, he already had a hunch. After all, at the most critical moment, he didn't put his mind on his studies. God is fair in some things.Like a soldier who knew he would lose the battle but had to go to the field, Chen Xingze was sweating heavily in the examination room, and he couldn't even hear the most basic sounds. He kept staring at the time, praying that the torture would end soon.

Wu Xingzhi has a lot of contacts in the music circle, and she soon found out about Chen Xingze's achievements.

Chen Xingze applied for music majors in four schools, but just after the second exam, Wu Xingzhi called Chen Xingze back.

"You don't need to take the exam, pack your things and come back."

Apart from the not-so-warm Gentle Township, Chen Xingze still has more things to face.It was Tuesday when he arrived home. Wu Xingzhi and Chen He were busy with work on weekdays, and they were rarely at home on weekends, let alone on weekdays.But this day, they both asked for leave to wait for Chen Xingze to come back.

"Tell me, what happened to the exam?" Wu Xingzhi said, Chen He was sitting on the sofa smoking a cigarette, the atmosphere made Chen Xingze's chest tight.

"Sorry, I didn't pass the exam."

Wu Xingzhi held a copy of the sheet music in his hand, and said, "Is this a failure in the exam? I asked Professor Wang to come to the concerto you composed in the exam room. Do you want me to play it again and you can listen to it yourself?"

Chen Xingze lowered his head in shame.

After a moment of silence, Wu Xingzhi said again: "To be honest, I have been waiting to see what kind of answer sheet you will hand in after three years with such a learning attitude. Chen Xingze, you really I was not disappointed."

Chen Xingze's face seemed to be burning. Although he didn't grow up with a golden spoon in his mouth like Lu Hao, his life was more comfortable and free than most of his peers.His parents have always cultivated him with a western education attitude, mainly encouraging him. In his impression, Wu Xingzhi never said such words to him.

Wu Xingzhi pinched the sheet music and said, "Chen Xingze, ask yourself, did your parents force you? I never force you to do anything, because I know that if people don't wake up by themselves, they won't do anything good even if they use a whip. You don't want to do it." I won’t let you go to the cram school. If you don’t want to live on campus, I’ll rent you a house next to the school. What did you ask your parents to do when you were young, and you repay us like this?”

Wu Xingzhi spoke louder and louder, "If you are really stupid, I will admit it, but are you stupid?" She threw Chen Xingze's copy score of the composition in her hand to the ground, "You are not even as good as you were three years ago! You How do you want to explain it?!"

Chen Xingze's body was trembling. He used to tremble when he was sad for You Xiaolin and Lu Hao, but that kind of trembling was more like a greenhouse flower stretching its branches out of the window, only to be accidentally frostbitten.But at this moment, someone forcibly lifted the roof of the greenhouse, leaving him naked in the blizzard, forcing him to recognize a fact.He wasted his studies. As a student, he failed to complete the most basic tasks.

Chen Xingze wished he could find a crack in the ground and get in, his eyes were sore.

"Why are you crying?" Chen He, who had been sitting on the sofa smoking a cigarette, finally said, "Crying all the time, are you a girl?"

Wu Xingzhi glanced at Chen He.

Chen He: "Still crying? Can crying solve the problem? You are still not a man!"

"Chen He." Wu Xingzhi shouted in warning.

Chen Xingze looked up, just in time to see Wu Xingzhi looking at Chen He.He knows his parents too well, with that look, he knows what his mother is conveying to his father.

He suddenly panicked.

"What's the meaning……"

He was flustered and out of tune.

"You, you know?"

Wu Xingzhi and Chen He did not speak, which was regarded as tacit agreement.

Chen Xingze felt that all the blood in his body was drained, "How did you know?"

Wu Xingzhi said: "When I was packing my things, I saw the foreign magazines you ordered."

Chen Xingze: "That's, that's it?"

Chen He stood up angrily, pointed at him and said, "We already knew! We are your parents, you can hide anything from us! Including when you went out to skip classes with Lu Hao when you were in school, and your training in Beijing We all know it when we sneak out to play! We don’t say it because we trust you, and we want you to be sensible so we don’t care about you!”

Chen Xingze felt dizzy after accepting too many things at once.

Chen He: "Are you still crying, aren't you? Come here! I don't want to settle accounts with you today, I think you won't be able to wake up!"

Chen Xingze's lips were numb, so he could only keep apologizing.

Chen He rolled up the newspaper on the table and rushed to hit Chen Xingze, but Wu Xingzhi stopped him halfway.

"You calm down."

Chen He was furious.

"Get out of the way! How long do you want him to be addicted to?!"

Wu Xingzhi held Chen He tightly.

Chen He pointed at Chen Xingze and shouted: "I think this is your last fig leaf! The mayor of Berlin is also gay, look at him. Your dignity is all earned by yourself! You can't even be responsible for your own life at least!" Can’t do it! The whole body is crying like this and that every day! Do you think this society is very tolerant? Do you think everyone can tolerate you? If you fail to achieve anything, what will you do to stand up in the future, and what will you do to shut up those gossiping people Mouth?!"

Chen He was hoarse, his eyes were red, and there were tears in his eyes, he couldn't tell if it was anger or worry.

As if Mount Tai was pressing down on the top, Chen Xingze's knees gave way and he knelt down on the ground.He kowtowed to his parents, snot and tears streaming all over the floor.

"I'm sorry, I was wrong, I really know I was wrong..."

That night, along with the scolding, a snowstorm fell in the city, and the blizzard lasted for two days and two nights, washing the world completely.