South of Chutian

"Where are you?" Fu Liling angrily said, "What time is it and you're still not home?"

"...you didn't go back to Shanghai?"

"Just wait until I go back and no one cares about you, right!" Fu Liling raised her voice, "An Yun's mother told me! The three of you are fighting again?! Are you injured?!"

Tang Heng sighed silently in his heart: "No, I'm fine."

"You come back to me now."

"I'm staying at Jiang Ya's place tonight."

"I'll call you back, let me see how you've been beaten!"

"I'm really," Tang Heng frowned, "I'm really fine."

"Tang Heng!"

"..."

"I can't control you now, can I? Then do you think you can manage yourself well?" Fu Liling's speech became faster and faster. After listening to a few words, Tang Heng threw the phone on the table.He stared at the phone with a frosty face, and Fu Liling's voice came out quickly from inside.

"You want to go abroad, and you think the academic environment abroad is good, okay, then you should show a bit of academic research! Look at what you do all day long? You can still make trouble under your uncle's nose." With so much trouble, why don’t you go crazy by yourself?! Tang Heng?!”

Tang Heng lowered his eyes and said in a low voice, "I'm listening."

"You are already in your 20s, Tang Heng," she sighed, and changed into a tone of earnestness in the adverb, "You are not a child of fifteen or sixteen years old, and you fight as soon as you fight. You are already an adult, understand? You said In case you are beaten up by others, or you beat others up, what will you do? And me, what should I do? I work hard to make money for you, and only if you live a healthy and happy life, what do I do? , Tang Heng, you..."

"Mom," Tang Heng took a deep breath, "I know."

"You know you're still so angry at me? I asked you to come to Shanghai and you didn't come. I finally found time to come back, just to be angry with you."

"...Mom, your wish is for me to be healthy and happy?"

"Of course, my mother doesn't ask you to have any great prospects. As long as you are healthy and happy in your life, it's better than anything else."

"I'm only happy if you admit that."

"what?"

Tang Heng was silent.An Yun and Jiang Ya next to them were full of horror, shaking their heads and waving their hands, while making "Don't!" and "Don't!" at the same time.

Tang Heng said, "I'm gay."

There was no sound on the other end of the phone.

Jiang Ya and An Yun also seemed to be frozen, and did not move.

Tang Heng continued: "I don't like girls, and I won't marry girls in the future, Mom, do you understand?"

There was still no sound on the other end of the phone.Tang Heng folded his arms and waited calmly.

After a long while, Fu Liling smiled reluctantly: "You are still young, what are you talking about getting married or not now? Baby, is it popular among your children who play in bands? We were like you when we were young, and it was popular at that time." Free love, the most annoying thing is to introduce someone at home. But you see, your dad and I were introduced by our family...Baby, in a few years you will be sensible, and your mind will change."

"It has nothing to do with age, I said, Mom, I knew I didn't like girls when I was in junior high school, before, now, and in the future—"

"Nonsense!" Fu Liling interrupted Tang Heng, "There is no such thing as homosexuality! You children, you have learned a few new words from foreign movies, and you are talking nonsense here!"

In fact, he had already expected this result, and he shouldn't have hoped at all—it wasn't the first time after all.Tang Heng sneered twice: "Then let's pretend it's not. I'm not going home tonight, Mom, bye."

"Tang Heng, come back to me!"

Tang Heng hung up the phone directly and turned off the phone.

Jiang Ya and An Yun were dumbfounded.

Tang Heng didn't speak, his face was ugly.

There was a lot of people around, but their table was as quiet as a mourning hall.After a while, Jiang Yacai raised his hand to wipe off his sweat, and patted his chest: "Oh my god, it's a good thing I'm straight."

An Yun glared at him: "Can you talk?"

Jiang Ya quickly changed her words: "Fortunately, I don't have such a mother." An Yun: "Forget it, you better shut up..."

"Hey, no, this is too much," Jiang Ya approached Tang Heng with a puzzled expression on her face, "Auntie, what do you mean by escaping? Is it possible to escape? I thought she would be cut off from your mother and child by a catastrophe." relation……"

Tang Heng said: "She feels that as long as she doesn't admit it, it doesn't exist."

"Ah? This..."

"Auntie's move is cruel enough." An Yun took a puff of cigarette and said quietly, "It's worse than direct opposition. If you pretend not to know, don't admit it, don't respond, you can't talk to her at all."

Jiang Ya was still confused: "What do you mean?"

"Forget about being stupid!" An Yun said, "Think about it, if you object to something, the premise is that you admit its existence, otherwise what are you objecting to?"

"Oh, yes...fuck! So Auntie doesn't admit the existence of homosexuality at all, let alone accept it or not!" Jiang Ya suddenly took Tang Heng's hand and said emotionally, "Son, you are so miserable."

"Get out," Tang Heng shook off his hand, "Eat your roasted leeks."

Jiang Ya grabbed a few skewers of roasted leeks and gave half of them to An Yun: "Come on brother An, let's strengthen your yang together." After chewing a few mouthfuls, she added, "Then she's not deceiving herself, why doesn't homosexuality exist anymore? Tomorrow Tang Heng Bring a boyfriend home..."

An Yun rolled her eyes: "Take who? Take you?"

"What are you doing!" Jiang Ya raised her little finger and said sharply, "I like girls! But if it's Brother Heng..."

"Then you might as well take me," An Yun stroked her hair, "Hongshan Tie T."

These two live treasures.

Tang Heng laughed helplessly and scolded: "Get out of here, you guys."

The three of them finished the barbecue and came to Jiang Ya's house in the light rain.As soon as she entered the door, An Yun went straight to the guest room on the second floor to take a shower, while Jiang Ya and Tang Heng sat on the ground with bare feet.Jiang Ya took out two bottles of beer from the refrigerator, and the two chatted lazily while drinking.

"When did you come out?" Jiang Ya asked.

"High school senior."

"Fuck, it's so early."

"When did you take the girl to the room?"

Jiang Ya hiccupped and fell silent.

After a few minutes of silence, he asked again, "Why did you tell your mother?"

"She suspected that I had a puppy love with a girl. I said I didn't, and came out by the way."

Jiang Ya sighed: "You are quite wild!"

"..."

Tang Heng recalled the scene at that time.He presupposed many possibilities in his heart, would Fu Liling cry?Will he pick up a broom and beat him?Will break down and yell?Would he even accuse him of being sorry for his dead father?In the end, there were none. Fu Liling just shook her head and said casually, baby, you are still young, so don't say such things in the future.

Maybe her expectation of him is really just to live a stable life, homosexuality and going abroad are not within the scope of "stable".

Not long after, An Yun took a shower, changed into a loose T-shirt and shorts, and stepped on her slippers to come out.

Then Tang Heng went to take a shower. They often stayed at Jiang Ya's house, so there were always several sets of their clothes in the closet.After Tang Heng walked out of the bathroom wearing a T-shirt and shorts similar to An Yun's, Jiang Ya also took a shower and changed into a new set of clothes.

The point is... so new.

It was a peacock blue slim-fit suit, with a Van Cleef & Arpels agate brooch on the chest, and a pair of unrecognizable brand leather shoes, pure white, so flirtatious.

"What are you doing?" An Yun was stunned, "Have you got an appointment tonight? Then the two of us... avoid it?"

"Where are you going!" Jiang Ya shook her shoulders, and leaned in front of Tang Heng, "How about my body?"

Tang Heng: "..."

"I had a mental struggle when I was taking a shower just now, I think, as far as our relationship is concerned, I should help you!"

An Yun: "What's the relationship between you two?"

"As close as father and son!" Jiang Ya dodged and easily avoided Tang Heng's kick, "Why don't you pretend to be a boyfriend, I'll do it!"

For a moment, Tang Heng really wanted to kill someone.

An Yun smiled nervously, pretending to be serious and said, "I don't think it's necessary."

"Why isn't it necessary? Tang Heng brought me to my aunt, and then we... um..."

"What are you two?"

Jiang Ya pursed her lips, as if mustering up a lot of courage: "He can kiss my face... just the face, not the mouth!"

An Yun stared at him, and said after two seconds, "I'm going to throw up."

Tang Heng silently grabbed the drumstick on the table: "Jiang Ya, come here."

Jiang Ya took a few steps back: "You don't want to avenge your kindness, Tang Heng."

……

The three of them played Doudizhu for a while, and after listening to two CDs, Jiang Ya was already snoring.His house is a duplex building, and the living room is surprisingly large, with three sofas placed in the shape of "Hui".Jiang Ya was sleeping on the sofa in the middle, Tang Heng and An Yun were on the left and the other on the right.

Across the messy coffee table, An Yun asked in a low voice: "Then are you still going abroad?"

"I don't know." Thinking of this, Tang Heng felt upset, "Go if you can."

"Go to America?"

"Ah."

An Yun stopped talking.Tang Heng originally thought she would ask "what if you leave the band" - what should I do?Maybe change the lead singer, maybe disband.Their band is purely for fun, and no one intends to make it a career.He and An Yun will probably continue to be academics in the future, and Jiang Ya also casually mentioned that he wants to inherit the family business.

"Actually, what Jiang Ya said makes sense," An Yun said again, "If you find a boyfriend, Auntie will have to admit it."

"Can you find one on the street?"

"Hey, go to a gay bar more often."

"No time."

"You deserve what you deserve," An Yun sighed, "You don't like those who chase you, but you refuse to ask you to take the initiative to find you."

Tang Heng remained silent, acquiescing to her words.Although he was aware of his sexual orientation very early, he never fell in love, nor did he have any impulse to fall in love.

Not long after, An Yun also fell asleep, and her breathing became light and long.There was continuous rain outside the window, and the room was extremely cool because of the air conditioner.

The room was silent, and Tang Heng thought of Li Yuechi's face again.After a while, he got up in the dark, and found the phone with the help of the dim light outside.

Turning on the phone, there were four missed calls from Fu Liling and one missed call from my uncle.

Nothing else.Tang Heng suddenly remembered that he never left his number to Li Yuechi.

Immediately afterwards, another thing came to mind, and the brain strangely connected the two things together——

Li Yuechi is very short of money.

But he is not lacking.