godfather

Qi Liang sat cross-legged on the sofa, holding a small kettle in his hand, his posture was like a living Guanyin holding a water purification vase, his delicate eyes only lacked a little rouge between his eyebrows.However, what he did this time was just the opposite of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva.There was a momentary stagnation on his face, he couldn't tell whether it was resentment or regret, he seemed to be caught in a confused memory. In the cold early morning a few days ago, he was walking on the streets of Beijing wearing a warm cashmere scarf. , into a person's home.

Meng Xiaobei's expression was broken, and he walked up and down the living room, unable to believe it: "Liangliang, you are crazy."

This is his dearest buddy, talking to each other frankly, Meng Xiaobei gestured with both hands and couldn't describe his mood: "That's your father!!!"

In Meng Xiaobei's thinking mode, he still maintains the most traditional patrilineal family concept of Chinese people.In a boy's heart, the word "father" has a sacred and lofty status incomparable to others.Even though his relationship with Meng Jianmin became increasingly estranged, he was still an honest son in front of his own father and did not dare to overstep. At home, Meng Jianmin must also be the head of the family and decide his son's fate.As for his little father, he is an idol whom he has worshiped and adored for ten years.In his heart, no matter how bastard his father is, he is also your father!

Meng Xiaobei said to Qi Liang bitterly: "Liangliang, you are so stupid, you have been chatting with a group of women all day to get their jealousy! You are Qi Jiandong's son, no matter how much your son can't be given to your father." Instead of a woman!"

The words came out of Meng Xiaobei and Shaotang looked at each other, but he still said it.He still thinks so in his consciousness for so many years, even though some concepts have been slowly reversed and subverted by Shaotang's feelings.

It is very easy to judge other people's lives, and it is very easy to generate a mentality of replacing kindness and tolerance.Meng Xiaobei said: "Your father has seven or eight concubines outside, and he is only your son. What are you bothering about? It's not worth it."

The corners of Qi Liang's mouth trembled, and he said awkwardly: "When will he have another son?!"

Meng Xiaobei frowned and said earnestly: "Liangliang, is this man a bit promising? Qi Jiandong will separate from you and set up a new family, so you let him go. You are almost seventeen, and you will be a man in the future, and you will be counted on for the rest of your life." Is the thought of "Is there a father" alive?You go to college, have a job, a man has his own business, you can go to sea to start a company and make a lot of money than your father. One day in the future, looking back, what do you care about? "

Qi Liang's face was pale, his eyes throbbed with grievance, he stared at Meng Xiaobei and asked, "...Do I care?"

"I still care about it?!"

"The one who has no father, no mother, and no family now is me, not you! Meng Xiaobei, I am not as lucky as you. If your father fights with your mother and divorces one day, and your family breaks up, you will be fine, because you have never been born. After that, you will have two fathers, and you will have two families!"

Meng Xiaobei was scolded and subconsciously thought, what a decent and reliable man my father is.People are simply too different, and Meng Jianmin would not have done that kind of thing in the first place. For so many years, my mother has only been a woman.

Qi Liang pointed to Shaotang and said, "Meng Xiaobei, wherever you go, you have a backup father! You just insist on putting me in your situation and standpoint so that I can be generous and tolerant, it doesn't matter, I must be great and kind... I'm not strong or great at all!"

"I'm great and no one loves me. Not only do I have no dad, I also don't have a boyfriend to spoil me... No, no, what boyfriend?" Qi Liang was confused, and quickly changed his words, "I mean, I don't have a girlfriend. Spoil me! I'm not 'that kind of person', what do I want a boyfriend for?"

Meng Xiaobei also felt guilty, he didn't know where to put his hands, and said in a daze: "... Liangliang, don't do this."

Back then, he once said to Meng Xiaojing like a scourge, stay away from my little daddy, this daddy belongs to me completely.

Shaotang looked up at the two older children who were about to grow up, and held Meng Xiaobei's back to stop him.With generous palms, Shaotang stroked the back of Meng Xiaobei's neck to calm him down and soften his heart.What Liangliang said is right, there will always be the most solid wall of support behind him, supporting him not to fall, his man is as steady as a mountain.

Meng Xiaobei hugged Qi Liang from behind, strangled Qi Liang's chest and rubbed vigorously, "Liangliang, don't do this, brother hug you, I'm sorry, don't do this, I will feel bad too."

Qi Liang buried his face in his knees, his eyes were stubborn: "I just want to cause trouble for Qi Jiandong and make their family's life unhappy..."

"I want him to go to the Public Security Bureau for a while and have a hard time...then he can come home..."

"My little mother will definitely fight him if she finds out. I wish their family would break up... Then my dad can come back, and he will still be my dad and won't become someone else's dad."

"..."

Qi Liang told the sad truth, curled up on the sofa, and bit his own pants.

Which son really doesn't care about his father's unshakable position in his heart?How many years and such deep grievances have caused Liangliang to do such outrageous things?

Meng Xiaobei stayed at Qi Liang's house overnight, sleeping with Liang Liang in his arms under the blanket.

Qi Liang has cold hands and feet in winter, Meng Xiaobei said you are such a girl, why do you have cold hands and feet like a woman, Liang Liang, do you have dysmenorrhea?

Qi Liang sat on the edge of the bed with disheveled hair, and said loudly: "Yes, I'm in pain. My stomach hurts!"

Meng Xiaobei was forced to boil a pot of boiling water for this man, pour out a basin of footwashing water, and rub his feet.Meng Xiaobei said angrily, "I haven't boiled water to wash my man's feet yet!"

Counting nine cold days, the heating is still not too hot, and at night they rub each other's feet in a quilt tube.Meng Xiaobei said seriously, "Comrade Liangliang, you need a good wife or mother."

"Good mother, you have never fallen into one in your life, so look for a good wife, Liangliang, don't be the one who covets you for being handsome or having money at home."

Qi Liang's face is like a handsome big peach, with a pointed chin and especially beautiful eyes, he is a delicate and difficult young master.Under the dim light at the head of the bed, Qi Liang's eyelashes fluttered slightly, without saying a word...

Later, Qi Liang often wandered in the corridors of the school office building, passed by the office of the Chinese teaching and research group, and looked in, as if he had a knot in his heart, tied by an invisible thread in his heart.

However, I never saw Teacher Xiao again.

Xiao Yi's desk was empty, and everything on the desk and bookshelf was still there.There is a chair that he remembers being talked to twice before when he went to the office, and he had dipped his mouth in that set of small red clay teapots.

Later, Qi Liang took two books from the bookshelf and took them away, which seemed to be "Ancient Chinese Poetry Selected Notes" or something like that.He saw Xiao Yi's red seal on the title page.

About Mr. Xiao, Shaotang asked someone twice, but the police had notified the school and the Chaoyang District Education Bureau immediately, and it was difficult to undo the influence on the people involved.

After Shaotang came back, he slowly explained to the two boys: "The thing is, your father went to Bathing City with a woman and was reported for hooliganism. Life style can be big or small. After all, your father once He is not a cadre of a state agency, secondly, he is not a public employee of a public institution, and thirdly, he is not subject to various rules like our army soldiers, your father is a self-employed person after all."

"Qi Jiandong was sentenced to ten days of public security detention and a fine of 500 yuan. He will be released in a few days. Your father has no unit and no leadership. He is a pure businessman. Extramarital affairs will not do anything to him, except that his wife and mother-in-law may Find him awkward."

Qi Liang was silent for a while, holding Shaotang's knee with both hands and pleading: "Uncle Shaotang, can you help get Teacher Xiao out, I didn't intend to report him!...I know I was wrong."

Shaotang said: "He will definitely not go to jail, it's not that serious, it's just an investigation and punishment, you don't have to worry."

"But I'm afraid I won't be able to keep my school job."

"At that time, I roughly guessed that he had nothing to do with massage and prostitution, but the bad thing was that he appeared at such a wrong time and sensitive place. He was in the bathing city with a male teacher from the school next door to yours. He didn't There is no way to explain...he can't admit that he is...do you understand?"

When Shaotang said this, he also felt a little bit of difficulty and intolerance: "It's better to admit that you are a prostitute than to admit that it's two men, otherwise you will really go to the detention center."

Meng Xiaobei shook his head and couldn't accept it: "Isn't this an unjust case, isn't he being wronged?"

Qi Liang rushed into the bedroom, threw himself between the quilts, buried his face, the pain in his whole body seemed to be burning his heart, it was extremely uncomfortable.The sky outside the bedroom window was cut into patches of haze by the branches, and his life seemed to become more fragmented.

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With the coming of spring and the summer solstice, the traffic and pedestrians on the streets have faded to gray and light, and there are bursts of warmth floating in the dust.The old and the new look of the city intersect, and the rose flowers on both sides of the Chaowai Street are brewing a red cloud.

In the first half of the school year of high school, many people and things around me have undergone earth-shaking changes.

Teacher Xiao resigned and left Chaoyang No. [-] Middle School.Before the District Education Bureau issued a document and the school made an attitude, this person took the initiative to pack up all his belongings and leave.After that, Meng Xiaobei Qi Liang never saw Xiao Yi on campus again.Qi Liang went to ask the head of the junior high school grade, and the head of the grade said, "We don't know and we won't ask where he is going."The school kept a secret, never mentioned family scandals, and removed the photos of excellent teachers in the corridor, as if Xiao Yi had never taught in Chaoyang No. [-] Middle School.

The principal, the director of the Academic Affairs Office and other school leaders gathered together for a meeting, feeling very helpless, "Which school is not unlucky to have this problem? It is competing with the No. [-] Middle School for the advanced work unit in Chaoyang District this school year. I am afraid that such corrupt teachers will appear." The matter of team morality and honor... If it is in the school, it can be suppressed so that it will not be exposed... Now it has been notified..."

Searching the entire campus, Meng Xiaobei and Qi Liang were able to find the only trace of Xiao Yi's existence, which was actually the script of the European-style fairy tale "Cinderella" rehearsed by their drama club.There were many annotations made by Xiao Yi as a tutor to correct the script, and lines of blue ink were written in small and delicate characters.

Shaotang couldn't bear it because of some past friendships, and tried to find Xiao Yi, willing to introduce him to a job.

Xiao Yi remained silent on the phone for a long time, with a low and gentle voice, and declined Shaotang's favor.

Of course Qi Liang's father was released quickly. The 500 yuan security fine is only enough for this person to buy a Pierre Cardin suit top, not enough to buy matching pants!

Liangliang's father left the detention center and did not return to Balizhuang to see his son.The young daughter-in-law was holding the child at home and fighting with him all day long, and the fight was so violent, and she gave birth to a daughter instead of a son, which made the man even more reluctant to go home.Qi Liang whispered to Meng Xiaobei, "Look, Qi Jiandong is going to raise a house outside soon, and his company has started to move motorcycles from the south."

"Man, you really can't have too much money."

"It's too much money to raise one family and one child. My dad wants to raise three families."

Boys don't grow up without setbacks.Qi Liang sounded like an adult, patted Meng Xiaobei on the shoulder, and concluded: "Xiaobei, you should also be careful, don't let your man become too rich in the future, son of a high-ranking official, don't dump you!"

Meng Xiaobei said disdainfully: "The richer Shaotang is, the happier I am. You think my man is like your Qi Jiandong!"

Qi Liang snorted coldly: "Our family, Qi Jiandong? Apart from Qi Jiandong and I having the same surname, how can you tell that we belong to the same family?"

Meng Xiaobei looked at Liangliang, feeling sorry for his good brother.Liangliang's father gave his only son such a good name back then, and Qi Liang's beautiful eyebrows and eyes were left with "bleakness".

A few months later, Shaotang drove to Grandma Meng's house one weekend.

He drove along the main street of Hujialou towards Dongbalizhuang. There were not many cars on the road and the view was wide.At a red light intersection, through the window glass, he suddenly saw an acquaintance.It seemed to be Mr. Xiao, with the iconic big white scarf around his neck, and he passed by on a bicycle after turning a corner.

Shaotang rolled down the car window and shouted, "Xiao...", but a large muck truck whizzed by crushed his shout in a burst of dust and smoke.

With a cigarette between his fingers, Shaotang stretched out an arm subconsciously from the car window to sign for a left turn, and chased after him.He kicked the accelerator and quickly caught up with the cyclist.Xiao Yi was timid, he suddenly saw the military license plate brake suddenly and crossed in front of him, and when he got out of the car, his feet were covered with garlic, holding his glasses, showing surprise and embarrassment.

Shaotang jumped out of the car, half clenched his hands into fists.

The old acquaintances looked at each other, pinched, quarreled, threatened and even fought, and now they are all a little sad, and there are so many things to say that I don’t know where to start.Shaotang didn't tell Xiao Yi some truths - some things should be confessed, but he shouldn't say them.

There is a shoulder bag in Xiao Yi's car basket, which contains textbooks and handouts.This person rushed to three tutoring sessions in one afternoon on weekends. He had just returned from the home of a student he was tutoring, and it was already dark.

Shaotang: "Talk?"

Xiao Yi's eyes were calm under the thick glasses he was wearing, he nodded, let's talk.

Shaotang put his hands in his pockets and looked around: "It's close to the park, or is it the coffee shop in Tuanjiehu Park? Anyway, you know the way."

The small lotus pond next to the coffee shop is still there, and there are little traces of waves floating on the water, but it seems that things are different, and the end of the world is melancholy.Shaotang invites Xiao Yi to drink coffee, but Xiao Yi insists on paying for it himself.

Shaotang leaned forward and stopped him: "Don't, Mr. Xiao, I'm not a polite person. It's easier for me to earn wages and allowances than you. I invite you."

Xiao Yi's face was pale, his eyebrows and eyes were even more delicate, and his face was always clean-shaven: "Don't call me a teacher, I'm not a teacher now."

Shaotang said generously: "As long as you have taught Meng Xiaobei for a day, you will be considered my son's teacher."

Shaotang is a loving father, and he wanted to fulfill a wish for his eldest nephew Liangliang, so he helped Xiao Yi find a job.It is not easy for anyone to live on the rough and difficult road, so don't push people into desperation.

Xiao Yi shook the coffee with a small spoon, calm and elegant.Xiao Yi said: "I appreciate the good intentions. You really don't need to bother. It's not even a matter of raising a family. I'm alone anyway. I don't have any family members or children. I just need to support myself."

"I'm okay now, I found another school's agency, introduced a few tutors, and tutored the students in the third grade of junior high school for the final sprint before the exam...I'll tell you the truth, being a tutor is more serious than I used to teach at school. The hourly wages are high, but there are no other benefits.”

Xiao Yi spoke calmly, a man has a face and dignity, he doesn't want to expose his embarrassment in front of outsiders, and he has to straighten his back even if he bears it.On this road, moths rush to the flame in pursuit of feelings, and sooner or later they will fall into this matter.

Shaotang stroked the table with his fingers, and said with emotion: "Mr. Xiao, in fact, I wished you to get out of Chaoyang No. [-] Middle School. But I didn't have time to use the things I recorded a year ago, and something happened to you..."

Xiao Yi nodded calmly: "It was my own carelessness, a profound lesson."

Xiao Yi also seemed to be purposely explaining and clarifying, fearing that Shaotang would look down on him.He said: "It was definitely not what you imagined in Bathing City that day."

Shaotang asked, "Isn't that male teacher your kind of friend?"

Xiao Yi confessed: "It doesn't count. I just met him not long ago. I planned, planned, and tried to get along with each other. It's a pity... Anyway, it's all over now, and nothing happened."

"Use me as a reference. In the future, you and Xiaobei don't make mistakes like me. It's not easy for people like us to live emotionally and survive. Life goes by in a hurry. In a blink of an eye, I'm in my thirties, and I come and go It is difficult to find a lover whose temperament, character, and hobbies perfectly match your own, not to mention a life partner, it is too difficult... You have to bear the pressure of society and family members every minute, and you also protect yourself and take care of your little ones. Bei, don't let him suffer and don't get hurt."

Xiao Yi's voice was delicate, with the softness of a southerner. Some words seemed to have been thought about for a long time, and Shaotang lowered his eyes and let out a "huh".

Shaotang was distracted for half a minute, and suddenly raised his eyes to stare at Teacher Xiao!

Teacher Xiao also raised his eyes and looked straight at He Shaotang, his eyes bravely faced his heart without any evasion.The small silver-plated coffee spoon in his hand fell into the coffee cup, and the splashed liquid made a "pop", hitting the most secret and invisible place in the hearts of the two of them.

……

Shaotang tightly closed his lips, staring at the other party without saying a word.

Instead, Xiao Yi blushed first, and was most afraid of Shaotang's stern eyes that would be ignorant and unforgiving: "Don't goug me with your eyes, I don't know how to talk nonsense."

"You are very kind to Xiaobei. I have been teaching in school for so many years, and I have rarely seen a father like you. You and Meng Xiaobei are by no means ordinary father-son relationships. Whether there is love hidden in people's hearts can be seen from the eyes." Show it. How much you love him, does he know?"

Xiao Yi asked so much that Shaotang was speechless.

"You two are very lucky, much luckier than me. Really, I envy you very much."

"It's a good match."

"Strive to be together for a lifetime, don't give up easily."

Shaotang felt depressed, and a surge of strong emotions surged up. He had never wanted to confess his love to someone so strongly, to open his heart.

Before he left, he turned around and said loudly, "Why should I give up?"

"I will not give up."

"I've been with him forever. Mr. Xiao, just wait and see in the future."

……

Perseverance and giving up, sticking to it and letting go are sometimes just in one thought.At that time, there was an obstacle in front of Shaotang and Xiaobei, which they could not avoid.

Just after the mid-term exam, there are clusters of emerald peaks in Xishan, and peaches and plums are auspicious.Meng Xiaobei's grade organizes a spring outing.

Meng Xiaobei was wearing a long-sleeved T-shirt and hiking trousers. The trousers were a foreign trade style with several pockets on the side, which was very cool. He also wore a red baseball cap.He carried a big and heavy backpack on his back, and traveled all the way through mountains and rivers.The students in their class arrived at the foot of the mountain and started to move freely along the way. They didn't pull up a team, and everyone's speed was different. The female students were still buying snacks at the foot of the mountain. Meng Xiaobei and a few boys had already climbed up.

Qi Liang also wore a hat, the brim of the hat covered most of his face with a shadow, and kept drinking from a bottle of water in his hand: "Meng Xiaobei, you are not tired after carrying such a big bag!"

Meng Xiaobei nimbly stepped on the big rocks in the valley and streams. When encountering moss, he used a long wooden stick to support him. He was very experienced. He marched quickly, and quickly took the lead. Qi Liang was panting and pale after chasing him.

Meng Xiaobei stopped halfway, squatted on the big rock, and took half a roll of photos of Qi Liang.Qi Liang took it over and fiddled with it: "Japanese brand? Looks more advanced than the one my dad left me, did you buy it at home?"

Meng Xiaobei chewed on the ham sausage, frankly: "My man gave it to me, a New Year's gift."

Qi Liang cursed in a low voice with jealousy: "I really can rely on the two of you..."

The two each held a ham sausage, the wind in the valley was very strong, the hair was blown up, and the side of the handsome young man's face was covered with a layer of golden light.

Meng Xiaobei stuck out his tongue and licked his quivering intestines.

Qi Liang looked at him: "You still lick, why is it so... like..."

Meng Xiaobei: "What do you look like?...Liangliang, you've watched too many pornographic videos, rascal!"

Qi Liang: "Have you ever done that?"

Meng Xiaobei: "Absolutely not!"

After a while, Qi Liang asked, "Xiao Bei, I heard that you still want to transfer schools? Go back to Xigou?"

Meng Xiaobei nodded: "Maybe, I don't have a Beijing hukou."

Qi Liang: "When are you leaving?"

Meng Xiaobei: "Let's go on summer vacation, I will go back to study in the second year of high school."

Qi Liang had the resentful expression of a young man who didn't know how to feel sad: "What are you doing leaving so early, you can't pass the college entrance examination when you go back!"

Meng Xiaobei said: "Nonsense, as far as my level is concerned, it will be too late and I won't even pass the college entrance examination!"

Qi Liang: "..."

Qi Liang said indifferently: "Meng Xiaobei, let's go! You all left one by one, and you are all so far away from me. I am finally completely alone."

Meng Xiaobei said cheekily: "You can't do it, it seems like you want to break up with me! You love me so much? Can't bear me?"

Qi Liang was silent for a while, smashed the pot and stuffed a whole ham sausage into his mouth in two mouthfuls, almost choking himself, and then swallowed forcefully.Qi Liang confessed to Meng Xiaobei: "Xiaobei, do you know that on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, I wanted to jump off the building. You must have said it right last time. Damn, I was like a woman at that time. I was very special in my heart. I feel so uncomfortable that I want to jump off the building.”

Meng Xiaobei: "Liangliang..."

Qi Liang suddenly stood up, his eyes staring straight.

Meng Xiaobei was stunned for a second, then stood up abruptly, clenched his hands into fists, with a vigilant expression.

They climbed the mountain faster than other students. On a cliff halfway up the mountain, there were green trees and vast forests in front of them, as if time could not see the end.Qi Liang stepped on the edge of the cliff: "I thought at the time, I'll wipe out the thirty coins in my hand, I'll kill all the bread and the four boxes of fresh peach juice, and when the clock strikes midnight on the Spring Festival Gala on TV, I will climb to Beijing On the top of the hotel building, call Qi Jiandong at the hotel and tell him that I am going to jump off the building and you will not go home!"

Meng Xiaobei hugged Qi Liang, strangled him, dragged him away, and said with a stern face: "Stand back! Don't stand on the side of the mountain, you scare me? Liangliang, what are you doing!"

Qi Liang burst into tears, and said: "That man Xiao Yi made me a bowl of hot noodles on my loneliest New Year's Eve, and then I cheated him, and I made him lose his job. "

On the top of Fragrant Mountain that day, Meng Xiaobei hugged Qi Liang like a man, kneaded and coaxed him for a long time, it was bright and bright, don't worry, man, I will go back to the Northwest to catch up with the exam, with a two-year appointment, I will In order to reunite with you, I will definitely come back!When I return to Beijing, as long as my little dad doesn't object, I will definitely marry you and be my child. I won't abandon you as a mess!

After Liangliang pissed his horse, he wiped his face, and immediately returned to Pi Laijian's true colors: "Damn, you have to work hard to get back from the exam in order to reunite with your little father, don't talk about me, I have nothing to do with you and won't take you love!"

After experiencing ups and downs of emotions, the traces left on the road of life are more unforgettable, and the color will not fade in the second half of life.That year, Happiness told Xiao Bei and Qi Liang that you were still young.