detour

Zhuang Shaodong parked the car on the side of the road, opened the door and walked slowly to the path beside the road.

The autumn color is getting stronger, and the sycamore trees on both sides of the road have started to drop their dry leaves one after another.Walking on the path, listening to the slight clicking sound coming from under your feet, you will have the illusion that something is being destroyed.The air lacks the annoying moisture in spring and summer, and instead has a dryness mixed with the smell of grass and trees.The sky was light and the sun was so bright that it was almost blinding.

This is Zhuang Shaodong's favorite season, and it seems to be Xu You's favorite season too.He still remembered that when he went to the sky restaurant for dinner that day, Xu You's eyes fell on the glass wall as soon as he got out of the elevator. Lin Chenghu and Zhuang Yupei were still discussing the price of the screen, but he was the only one who was concentrating on the pattern on the glass wall , eyes indulged and focused.

"Hey, hello," the little girl on the phone was unhappy, "Are you listening?"

Zhuang Shaodong came back to his senses, "Yes."

"Why did you go to City C without telling me?" Huo Ying insisted on the phone, "At any rate, you should prepare me mentally. It's too much!"

Zhuang Shaodong sat down on the wooden chair next to the grass. In the square not far away, several children were flying kites with the adults. A long string of swallow kites floated up and down, and the children ran back and forth anxiously. , Zhuang Shaodong smiled involuntarily.

"...When my mother and aunt appeared, I was stupefied!" Huo Ying was terrified, "You also gave them my brother's phone number, right?"

"If I tell you, you will definitely say that the timing is wrong." Zhuang Shaodong retracted his gaze, and smiled with his lips pursed, "Actually, you are quite afraid of your aunt and the others, right?"

"Can you not be afraid?!" Huo Ying said angrily: "They have severed ties with my brother. If your explanation is not good, I'm afraid there is really no room for change. At that time , how pitiful my brother should be."

Zhuang Shaodong grieved slightly.

"I dare not be careless, big brother." Huo Ying began to complain, "I have always planned to start talking about my brother with my aunt after I have lived in Daocheng for two years. Only when they feel that I treat my brother Understanding is more objective, and what I say can carry some weight in their hearts."

Zhuang Shaodong didn't agree with her plan, "The longer it takes, the more numb they will be to this matter. I'm afraid they won't be able to listen to what you say."

Huo Ying was not convinced, "I still think you are too reckless!"

"When it's time to take the medicine, you have to take the medicine. You just said that their emotions are very intense. I think they have accumulated so much pressure in their hearts. Only when they all burst out can the old wounds truly heal." hope."

Huo Ying sighed old-fashionedly, "When my brother got off the taxi, he was crying... a lot of people on the street looked at him, but he hasn't noticed yet..."

Zhuang Shaodong closed his eyes, "What about now?"

"I dare not go in and see." Huo Ying replied honestly: "Fortunately, I saw my aunt crying so much just now, so I advised them to meet in another place. The tea room has a private room, and the door is closed now. I don't know what's going on inside. My mother was sitting in the lobby downstairs in a daze, and I slipped out to call you."

"It's okay." Zhuang Shaodong comforted her, "Trust me, things will get better. Your aunt willing to take the initiative to come to Daocheng to meet Xu You, this is already a very good start."

"I'll trust you for the time being. But I don't want to scare people like this in the future. If you do this again, I will... I will speak ill of you to my brother!"

"No more." Zhuang Shaodong pursed his lips and smiled, "Go and accompany your mother. When Xu You and Aunt Li come out, you can quietly call or send me a text message."

"OK, no problem."

"Good girl."

"You will scare the soul of a good girl!" Huo Ying hung up the phone, slipped into the teahouse with a nervous look, and sat down opposite her mother.

Mother Huo pushed the cup in front of her, "Or?"

Huo Ying shook his head, and glanced upstairs worriedly, "It's been so long, why haven't you come out yet?"

"Let them talk slowly," Mother Huo sighed, "It's not easy for your aunt to turn around..."

"Won't you say you're stiff again?" Huo Ying was worried.

Mother Huo sighed, "Your aunt, she is regretting it."

"I regret it, Yoyo, I really regret it..." Li Huimin held Xu You tightly in her arms, crying so hard that she couldn't breathe, "Why did I..."

Xu You patted her on the back lightly.Compared with his emotionally out-of-control mother, he has calmed down a lot.It was only now that he was truly sure that he did not sink into a long dream.All this turned out to be true, and his mother actually came to the island city in person—what kind of magical opportunity brought about this unbelievable scene?

Xu You didn't know how he rushed out of the hotel and stopped the car to drive over. The memory of that period was blank in his mind.Even at this moment, his hands and feet are still shaking, afraid that if he blinks his eyes, the scene in front of him will change again, and he will become a lonely person again.

Xu You closed her eyes and leaned against her mother's arms, like a tired little animal that finally crawled back into its nest after a long journey.

This is the smell that only mothers can have, the smell that has been warmed to the bone marrow.It turned out that it has been engraved in the depths of his soul and has never been forgotten.

"Are you blaming me?" Li Minhui raised his face uncontrollably, eager to find a positive expression on his face, "Are you blaming mom?"

Xu You shook his head.A tear slipped out of the corner of his eye following his movements, and quickly fell down his cheek.

Li Minhui pressed her son's forehead, tears pouring down like rain.

"At that time, the liar spoke convincingly, and took a lot of photos... Your father and I were confused. He was a soldier, with a stubborn temper, and behaved all his life..."

"I understand." Xu You knew that his father's temper had always had a habit developed in the army, and he would only classify things in black and white.If Xu You had been present at that time, he might have the intention of beating Xu You to death.

"How could we have thought that he had hatred against you?" Li Minhui cried again, "The words he said... were really like a bolt from the blue..."

Xu You wrapped her mother in her arms, feeling sad.I haven't seen him for a few years, his mother is really old, even her skeleton has become thinner, yet she can be hugged so easily.

"Mom, I understand."

Both mother and son fell silent.Xu You knew that what his mother had to say next was what he had to be careful about.And he is no longer that young and ignorant boy who just blindly avoids the storm that may come in reality.Over the years, he has asked himself more than once: If he had talked openly and honestly with his parents about his sexuality, would his parents not have suffered such a big blow when Song Shicheng went to spread rumors?

His parents don't know enough about him.And he didn't give them a chance to understand himself.

Xu You poured a cup of hot tea, carefully tested the temperature, and then gently placed it beside her mother's hand, "Mom, drink some water first."

Li Minhui watched his son's every movement, with a sad and gentle look in his eyes, "Yuyou, mom has always wanted to ask you, are you really...can't accept women?"

Xu You was silent for a moment, then nodded slowly.

Li Minhui's tears fell again, "Mom went to a specialist before she came here, and the specialist said...it's not a disease, there's no cure for it. And...we've put too much pressure on you..."

"There's no pressure, don't listen to their nonsense." Xu You couldn't stand the tears on her face, and was about to get up to get the tissue box when Li Minhui grabbed her palm.Xu You thought she was going to say something, but Li Minhui just looked at him with a slightly dazed expression in her eyes.

"Mom remembers growing up, there were always girls around you, and you always said you were annoying..." Li Minhui smiled, but tears kept falling, "At that time, your aunt was still joking with me, What should I do if the child doesn't like girls? Will he find me a male wife in the future? I was a little worried at that time, but I didn't expect..."

Unexpectedly, it became a truth.

Xu You suddenly felt a bit dumbfounded, "Mom..."

Li Minhui sighed.

Seeing such a mother, Xu You suddenly felt less worried.It was also at this moment that he suddenly realized that what made his parents so angry was actually just his son's depravity.

What Song Shicheng told them at the beginning, he can guess without going to Song Shicheng to confirm.It is nothing more than saying that Xu You is greedy for vanity and trading his body for enjoyment, or that he has shamelessly dealt with rich men, and he has only recently fallen in love with Zhuang Shijie... But those words have changed because of the evidence of photos It became the undoubted fact in the eyes of parents-the fact that broke them.If they knew that their son was still working and living like an ordinary person except that his sexual orientation was different from most people, and he didn't make any outrageous friends, for them... things shouldn't be so difficult to accept, right?

"mom……"

"You now……"

The mother and son spoke together and stopped together.

"You talk first." Xu You gently shook her arm.

This is a coquettish gesture. When Xu You was a child, he would often come to her side and shake her arm to ask for snacks.Li Minhui sighed unconsciously, "Are you alone now or..."

Xu You felt slightly sour, "I've always been alone."

Li Minhui's eye circles were red, and she turned her eyes away unnaturally, "Your father is there, I will persuade him slowly. Don't hold grudges against him in your heart..."

"Will not."

Li Minhui fell silent, rubbed the back of Xu You's hand with slightly rough fingers, and said slowly after a while: "Can you contact Mr. Zhuang? Mom wants to treat him to dinner."

"Mr. Zhuang?!" Xu You suddenly felt a slap in the face, "Which Mr. Zhuang?"

"Mr. Zhuang Shaodong. He came to City C to explain to me... I acted a little out of character at that time, and let him go without saying a word. Later, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that I shouldn't. My mother wanted to say thank you to him face to face. "

Xu You understood everything now.The feeling in my heart suddenly became unprecedentedly complicated.

Should I thank you?

Definitely.Not only himself, but even his mother, aunt, maybe even Huo Ying tried his best to thank him face to face.

But for some reason, at the moment when he knew the truth, he suddenly wanted to grab Zhuang Shaodong's collar and bite him hard on the neck...

Who the hell wants you to mind your own business? !