Break up

When Gu Yanting was about to leave work, he received a call from Gu's mother.

"Yan Ting, where's Xiao Yi? I called him and said the phone was turned off."

"He's going on a business trip today, so he might still be on his way right now." Gu Yanting smiled, raised his wrist to look at the time, "But it's probably about to land, and he'll arrive at six. Mom, do you have something to do with him?"

"It's okay, what can I do?" Mother Gu said with a smile, "Doesn't he like to eat cakes baked by Sophora japonica? Today your father went fishing and just picked a lot and came back. It looks like he can open a lot on the weekend. I was thinking of letting him come home. You can take some back after eating."

Gu Yanting snorted, and said after a while, "Why don't I go get it? He won't come back until the day after tomorrow, so he might not be free to go there."

"That's it," Gu's mother was a little disappointed, and sighed after a while, "Okay, come back when you come back."

Tang Yi was on an urgent business trip this time, but he will actually be back tomorrow.Gu Yanting subconsciously refused for him, but it didn't mean anything else. It was because Gu's mother called Tang Yi to go back too often recently.The Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival are nothing more than that. This year, even the Arbor Day and Qingming Festival are not missed. In addition, picking wild vegetables is also called Tang Yi, and the seasonal Sophora japonica and Toon are even more justifiable.

Gu Yanting was about to die of worry.

At night, when Tang Yi arrived at the hotel and sent him a message, Gu Yanting simply called back. When he heard the low voice with a smile on his head, it was rare that he didn't play hooligans, but sighed and took a long breath.

"Tang Yi, my mother called you back to eat again."

Tang Yi smiled and gave a low hum, and was a little surprised to hear this, "Didn't I... just went there last week?"

"That's right, the old lady told you to go back and eat Sophora japonica." Gu Yanting clicked his tongue, and said with a bit of a bad taste, "She is my mother and your mother, and she is not happy when I say I go back for you. "

Tang Yi just smiled and didn't answer, and when Gu Yanting sighed enough, he said solemnly, "This is quite normal, isn't it all like this?"

"Huh?" Gu Yanting froze for a moment.

"Mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, the more she looks at her, the more pleasing she is." Tang Yi smiled, "What do you think?"

"..." Gu Yanting paused, but did not refute.

Tang Yi raised his eyebrows, just when he was teasing him a few more words, he heard Gu Yanting call out unhurriedly, "Husband."

"..."

Tang Yi was dumbfounded.

"I think," Gu Yanting paused, then took a deep breath and said, "My mother...maybe, she already knows about our relationship."

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Gu Yanting had always wanted to come out of the closet, but most of the time he was just thinking about it silently.His original intention was to give Tang Yi a reputation, so he never talked to Tang Yi, and even thought about when Tang Yi was on a business trip, he sneaked back by himself and confessed the matter.

But after all, this matter requires courage. He hesitated many times by himself, and went home several times, but he didn't say those words out of his mouth until he returned to T City.

Until Tang Yi found out, he stopped him.

That was a year ago, before Weiwei was picked up by Zhou Hao.Weiwei lived with them for a total of three months.In the past three months, the atmosphere at home has been harmonious and harmonious, and the children are extraordinarily well-behaved and sensible, so they are naturally likable.

At the end of that year, Zhou Hao was going abroad, thinking that he would not be able to come back during the Chinese New Year, so Gu Yanting happily wrapped his child and went home for the Chinese New Year in a brainstorm.

The direct consequence of this incident is that Gu's mother loves children so much, she hugged Weiwei affectionately and dumped all the delicious food at home in front of him, as if suddenly awakened, she began to question Gu Yanting's lifelong affairs .

At that time, Tang Yi arrived one step later than him. When he opened the door and came in, he met Gu's mother leaning over gossip and asked Gu Yanting, "Didn't you say that there is a girl you have a crush on? Why? Is there any drama?"

Gu Yanting: "!!!"

Tang Yi turned his face slightly to this side when he heard the sound, but he still smiled slightly, without any fluctuations.Gu Yanting's heart was agitated, and he straightened his body in a hurry and explained to Gu's mother anxiously, "Mom, there are girls everywhere! You remember wrong!"

"Yes! What is Ling's? Didn't you mention it before?" Gu's mother said with affirmation, seeing Weiwei blinking her eyes and looking up curiously, her lips moved, and swallowed back the words.

She rubbed Weiwei's hair, and then said, "You are too old, you will have to start a family sooner or later. Your father and I bought this house for you as a wedding room. When you find a wife later, we old couple will go there Live next to you, not with you."

Gu Yanting had also thought about what he would say when he was urged to marry by his parents before, and he knew that this was an unavoidable hurdle, and he would have to face it sooner or later.But when things really happened, the set of principles he had prepared could no longer be used.

Gu's father on the other side had already happily picked up the chessboard and called Tang Yi to put it on the small table. Gu Yanting glanced at Tang Yi worriedly, and finally frowned, and said dryly, " Mom, I know my affairs well, and now I have no plans to get married, so don't worry about it, okay?"

"Hey, that's what I said, I don't worry about who you worry about! Can you bring someone over on the street and I can take care of him?" Mother Gu glanced at him and sighed, "Your father and I have nothing to ask, no matter the girl The condition of the house is good or bad, ugly or handsome, as long as the person is upright, you can just close your eyes. If you think this house is broken, you can keep it for two years and sell it. You can live in the city. My father and I both With retirement wages, it won't drag you down."

Gu's mother is considered a loving mother at home, and rarely forces Gu Yanting to do anything.This time the speech was also to the point, but it made Gu Yanting tangled up in his heart.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, it was the Spring Festival Gala as usual. Father Gu took Tang Yi to play two games of chess and went to bed. Mother Gu also carried Weiwei who was asleep into the master bedroom not long after.When Gu Yanting heard the sound of the bedroom door closing, he reached out and grabbed Tang Yi's hand, turned it over and clasped it, and whispered, "Tang Yi, I want to come out."

Gu Yanting thought about many scenarios of coming out, and even kept thinking about what the worst consequences would be, but he didn't have a definite answer.There are all kinds of people in this world, everyone has different personalities, different views, and naturally reacts differently to the same thing.Around Gu Yanting, there are people who have trouble at home because of coming out of the closet, and there are also people who are happy to get along with their parents.There was even a relaxed atmosphere in one guy's house, where the parents weren't shocked, or disappointed, or hysterically arguing and beating.

That was the best result that Gu Yanting could think of. He hoped so, but he also knew that in front of Gu's mother and father, who had traditional concepts, such a possibility was almost impossible.

Tang Yiren let Gu Yanting hold his hands without moving or making a sound.After waiting for a while, he sighed and touched Gu Yanting, "Don't."

Gu Yanting held his hand tightly.

"I know it's difficult, but I don't want to be sneaky all the time, and I don't want you to be wronged because of this," Gu Yanting said in a low voice, "If my dad didn't force you to come during the Chinese New Year, don't you plan to come?" Come here? The two of us will have a long time to come, we can't hide like this all the time, we won't be together during Chinese New Year."

Tang Yi was cautious, afraid that he would often come to Gu's father and Gu's mother to see the clues.But he was also afraid that Gu Yanting would make things difficult for him and his parents, so he drove the latter back home during the holidays.Gu Yanting has been seeing clearly all the time, and feels sorry for him, so he can only go home twice as much as possible, and then reduce the time each time he stays.The only thing that is gratifying now is that after having Weiwei, the family is indeed much more lively. If he were not at home, Tang Yi would not be alone.

"Yes, we have a long life ahead," Tang Yi smiled, "so first be filial to your parents." He was silent for a while, and said softly, "We are under a little pressure now, but it's not that we can't make it through It's easy to come out, but if it doesn't go well, we can't predict what will happen later, the multiple blows they will encounter, and the consequences."

Gu Yanting opened his mouth, and finally closed it tightly, without speaking.

Tang Yi turned his face to the side and smiled, took out his hand and patted his face lightly, and said: "It's Chinese New Year, you should come back more often to accompany your parents, and Weiwei will accompany me at home."

"Well," Gu Yanting was silent for a while before saying, "I know what you are worried about."

"Huh?" Tang Yi smiled.

"My parents always thought that I didn't remember the past at all. Just like when I was a child, I was worried that they would not want me. Now they are also worried that I will meet my biological father or mother one day and have other thoughts." Gu Yanting breathed out lightly, "I've been hesitating whether to tell them about the Zhou family's affairs. In fact, you are afraid that they will be paranoid about it, and you want me to maintain the status quo, don't you?"

He wants to come out of the closet, it is difficult to say, easy to say.The criterion for evaluation is just how hard he can be—this cruelty is not for himself, but for his parents.Whether it's about his life experience or the hidden worries of the Gu family's parents, it is destined that the two elders will not adopt an overly tough attitude and means against him.

But that doesn't mean they aren't sad.They have always regarded Gu Yanting as their own son, and they don't want to wrong him in the slightest, and they put in as much painstaking effort as other parents.But they are destined to lack a layer of blood relationship, other people's father and son have broken bones and tendons, but they can't do it. What they have always feared in their hearts is that if this son is really beaten, it may be broken as soon as he says it.

Tang Yi didn't want Gu Yanting to tell Gu's parents about Zhou Dongchuan, and that's why.Even though Gu Yanting can express his attitude with heartfelt words, it is impossible for Gu's parents not to be worried in front of the Zhou family who are so different.

But if he insists on coming out of the closet and confessing, when his emotions are intense, he will inevitably not come up with the biggest reliance to refute "marry and have children and carry on the family line"-I am not your biological one.

The living room was quiet, and the TV was in the gap between switching programs. The next program was an annual family sketch, and the host was emotionally reading the homesick letters of the frontier soldiers.On the big screen behind the stage, there are VCRs recorded by the families of several fighters.

The boiling water, the dumplings in the pot, the flames floating on the firewood stove, the wrinkles on the old man's face and the slightly bent back...

"Let them take care of themselves, Yan Ting." Tang Yi was watching TV at the time, turned his face slightly, and said softly, "Actually, I am very envious that you have such good parents. So I won't feel wronged."

Tang Yi said it frankly, and he has been doing things like this since then.If there is any conflict between his affairs and those of the Gu family's parents, he will definitely ask Gu Yanting to take care of the elders first.

Gu Yanting was moved and distressed. Once his father was seriously ill, and he went home to visit him. He sat by the bed alone and was always distracted.When Gu's mother handed him the cooked porridge for him to eat, he held the bowl and didn't move.Gu's mother asked him what's wrong, Gu Yanting shook his head, lowered his head and said, "When I came, Tang Yi had pneumonia and a fever. I don't know if he has a bowl of porridge right now."

After he finished speaking, he suddenly came back to his senses, and looked up at Gu's mother's expression with some remorse.Fortunately, the latter didn't hear anything, but hesitated for a moment, and patted him, "Why don't you go back and have a look."

Gu's mother was soft-hearted, and when Gu Yanting went back, she always asked about Tang Yi's situation.Sometimes I ask about work, sometimes I ask about my body.When Gu's mother first knew Tang Yi, she also liked him very much, but at that time, she mostly left an extra copy for Gu Yanting, mostly sympathetic and polite.It was not until the last year that I really took the initiative to understand.

Gu Yanting is no longer the brat who just left the campus and speaks freely.He and Gu's mother talked in detail about Tang Yi's past, Tang Yi's present, and many trivial things in life between him and Tang Yi.

Although he doesn't come out, he also hopes that his parents can understand the importance of Tang Yi to him.Whether they understand it as friendship, brothers in need, or something else.

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"Then let's go back this weekend." After hearing Gu Yanting's words, Tang Yi was silent for a while before saying, "Let's go together."

"Then," Gu Yanting paused, and said, "If the speculation is true, should I come out? Confess?"

Tang Yi walked to the floor-to-ceiling windows of the hotel with his mobile phone and looked outside quietly.Just as Gu Yanting finished speaking, all the street lights not far away were turned on with a snap.

"Actually, it's not important." Tang Yi looked into the distance, smiled and said, "A lot of things don't have to be so clear, as long as we understand everything."

For example, the door of the master bedroom that was not closed on New Year's Eve, or the two childhood photos of Gu Yanting that Gu's mother gave him.

Sometimes all that is missing is a layer of window paper.If we can find a distance that makes each other comfortable and decent, it will make no difference whether this layer of paper is broken or not.

The author has something to say: I am back from a business trip, please choose to eat (⊙o⊙)... In other words, buy carefully...