Pavlov and the White Moonlight

That day we messed around until almost noon. When the rain was falling, the two of us were lying on the sofa, lazily unwilling to move. For a long time, Tang Shuhe leaned over silently and rested his chin on my chest. The two of us looked at each other. At a glance, I stroked his hair, Tang Shuhe smiled, turned his head, and put his face against my heart.

I touched Tang Shuhe's sweaty back and neck, wanted to put some clothes on him, and glanced at the ground. I rubbed his clothes like dried vegetables, and I couldn't wear them at all. I Picking up my clothes to cover him and sitting up, I suddenly remembered that the curtains were not drawn, but luckily the laundry I was drying yesterday by the bay window blocked the two of us.

I took a deep breath, and then realized something——

It's too quiet in this room.

I asked bluntly, "No, where is the dog?"

There is no dog in the living room, where did these two little things go, I yelled: "Lu Bowen! Xiao Ke!"

Not a single dog responded to me, the puppy was quiet and must be acting like a demon, I looked for them while putting on my pants: "Where are you two going..."

A dog's head protruded from the door of the bedroom. I was delighted to see Lu Bowen's stalking dog, and I clapped my hands at it: "What are you doing? Come here!"

It snorted in its throat, and rubbed over with its tail between its legs, Xiao Ke followed it and came out too, with flat ears and the look of a frightened dog, eyes squeezed timidly at me from bottom to top, I looked at them both with my legs crossed in bewilderment for a moment and said, "Hey my old fellas, what's up with you guys?"

Tang Shuhe changed his posture, pillowed his arm and said, "You must be scared."

I froze for a moment: "Are you scared? Am I being too rough?"

Tang Shuhe smiled, put his legs on me lazily, and said, "No."

I still looked at him worriedly, and then touched his forehead. It was okay, there was no major problem, but his body was bruised and purple, and he looked a bit miserable. He scratched the blood purlin, and then thought about the scene where the thunder hit the ground and the fire pagoda suppressed the river demon just now. It is understandable for these two silly dogs to be scared.I looked at them and felt that they were the same as me when I was a child hiding in my own room and not daring to quarrel with my parents, so I suddenly had a strange empathy with them. I stroked the dog heads of Lu Bowen and Xiao Ke , got some food for them, the two silly dogs found that the alarm was lifted, and went to cook happily.

Tang Shuhe was still lying on the sofa, watching me come back, looked up at me, I was happy, sat next to him, rubbed his stomach: "Why, why are you stupid?"

Tang Shuhe: "..."

Me: "Hey."

Tang Shuhe's eyes oscillated between "very emotional" and "is this a person or a stupid dog" for a while, and finally slowly slid towards the former. His hand stretched out from under my clothes, and I held it.

He sat up, put his arms around my neck, and put his forehead against mine.I picked him up horizontally and carried him into the bedroom. When I entered the door, I said, "Pass through the door, and we will be husband and wife."

He was smiling all the time, with curved eyebrows and eyes, very beautiful, he said yes.

We spent almost a whole day in the bedroom that day, and we both fell asleep at five or six o'clock. When we woke up, it was dark and Tang Shuhe was still sleeping. My legs pressed against my stomach, I squinted my eyes and took out my phone to check the time. It was 19:34, it was too late for dinner, I sat up, Tang Shuhe snorted in a daze, and came over and hugged me She rubbed her face against my lower back, closed her eyes and asked, "... what time is it?"

I touched his face and said, "07:30, it's almost eight o'clock, I'm going to sleep, I'll get up and get something to eat."

He collapsed under the quilt, half asleep and hummed, I want to make fried rice, forget it, when Tang Shuhe ran over amidst the sound of oily smoke, he held up my mobile phone and said, "There are you!" Telephone."

"I don't have hands," I said aloud. "Who do you see?"

Tang Shuhe took a look and said, "Yes...it's Auntie."

My mother answered the phone and asked me if I had eaten. When I said no, she said that I had dinner late. I couldn’t tell her why. My mother said that it’s almost Chinese New Year. Don’t forget to buy new year’s goods. What, I said I got it, I got it, my mother said hey son, why are you so perfunctory, I sighed: "I'm a cook, Mom, the oil has collapsed several times when I talk—"

Tang Shuhe took my mobile phone and held it to my ear. I raised my eyes and looked at him. He had no expression and nodded to me.

"Go ahead and talk about mom." I said.

"What about cooking?" my mother asked, "You still live alone?"

"No, I live with Xiao Tang," I said, "Why?"

My mother muttered in a low voice: "We all live together, and no one cooks for you."

"Yes—hey, what's the matter?"

"Are you coming back for Chinese New Year?" she said.

"Hmm."

"Aren't you bringing someone back?" she asked.

I glanced at Tang Shuhe and said, "Take it."

"Okay," my mother said, "It's okay, you can eat, and don't eat so late next time, your stomach will make you eat like this every day."

I:"……"

After hanging up the phone, Tang Shuhe immediately asked, "Where is the oil collapse?"

"It's okay," I turned my wrist, "I can't even find Xiaoyou Xing'er."

He rubbed my wrist, I laughed and pulled him over to steal some incense, he helped my waist, couldn't help laughing too, the two of them kissed until their mouths were swollen before eating.

After the meal was served, we ate head to head. Tang Shuhe hesitated for a long time and asked me, "Why is Auntie calling you?"

"Remind me to buy new year's goods," I buried my head in my meal, "It's okay."

He didn't speak, I looked up at him and said, "Will you go back with me during Chinese New Year?"

Tang Shuhe nodded, and I was happy: "Don't be nervous, what kind of expression do you have?"

He pursed his lips and gave me a smile of concern for the country and the people.

It was only later that I realized how serious this person was.When I came home the next day, I saw Tang Shuhe was busy in the kitchen. I hadn't had time to change my clothes yet. It looked like I had just got off work. I even went to cut my hair and trimmed it into a very refreshing style, exposing my eyebrows and forehead. There are a bunch of gift boxes on the sofa, tea, silk scarves, fruits, and our local specialties. Women’s silk scarves and tea are expensive, but he tore off all the price tags, and I sat there looking for a long time , looked up and saw Tang Shuhe leaning against the door frame, smiled at me embarrassedly, lowered his head and touched his arm, and whispered: "I don't know what uncles and aunts like..."

I put my arm on the pile of things, a little bit want to laugh, a little soft-hearted, I said: "This is just a gift, there is no need to buy such expensive things."

He smiled and said, "Wash your hands and eat."

I washed my hands in the kitchen sink and said, "You got off work early today?"

He didn't answer, just said: "You eat first, I have a dinner later."

"Huh?" I said casually, "Then why are you coming back? Why don't you go directly?"

"The game at 06:30, it doesn't matter if I go early." He put his arms on the table and said softly, "How is it?"

In fact, it's a little bland. Tang Shuhe always cooks with less oil and less salt, but it's very delicate and much more delicious than mine. I swallowed the food in my mouth, laughed at him, and said in a drawn-out voice: "What does my wife do?" It's all delicious."

He laughed too.I'm also really not promising, every time he smiles so shallowly and cleanly, the little Godzilla in my heart will bump into it.

As stupid as I am, I didn't notice anything wrong at this time, until he asked me what I wanted to eat tomorrow when he got dressed and went out, and he brought it back home later. Laughing at the door frame, he said, "Which one do you eat—" He waved his hand passionately, and then said to me, "I remember it all, and I will cook at home from now on."

My mother didn't realize it yet, so I laughed and said to him: "If you keep working so hard, you won't have a few hairs left on your head. Let's talk about it first when you can go home sooner."

He touched the currently thick hair on his head, and muttered: "There will always be a way."

I waved at him: "Pull you down."

At that time, I was just wondering why I suddenly started to discuss the distribution of housework. I was still wondering if he thought my cooking was unpalatable, so next time I cook less oil and salt.At around nine o'clock in the evening, I received a call from him, and I gave him a feed, and the man was over there in a daze, and said with his tongue out in the noisy background: "Brother Huai, I drank a little Wine... can you come and pick me up?"

I immediately stood up from the desk: "Where are you? I'm going now."

He gave me a place name intermittently, and when I heard ho, a high-end hotel, I asked, "Are you driving?"

He grunted lowly like a cat, and I sighed and said, "Okay, okay, stop talking and I'll go to the garage to take a look. Are there any colleagues and friends next to you? Let them watch you, I'll be right there."

He answered this sentence quickly, and said obediently, "Okay."

When I got there in a hurry, he was being held by a male colleague to stand at the gate of the hotel to blow the air. It seemed that he had drunk too much, he was standing wobbly, and his face was as red as a little peach...juicy peach , saw me, half-closed my eyes and tilted my head and smiled. I took him from the male colleague, thanked him, and asked if I needed to take him home. The male teacher in his 40s showed He waved his hand and smiled, and drove away by himself.

As soon as the person left, I pinched Tang Shuhe's face: "Why do you drink so much, huh? You know you can't drink."

He chuckled, hooked his hands around my neck, sprayed the smell of alcohol in my ears, and said, "I'm going to be promoted to associate professor."

"Really?" I also became happy, and patted the back of Professor Tang's fluffy head, "Let me just say, last time you went to Tianjin, there was something to be said about this."

Tang Shuhe hummed, as if he didn't understand what I said, I found that he was still holding something in his hand, picked it up, and it turned out to be a plush toy pig the size of a palm, I laughed: "Where did this come from?" Yes? How old are you, Shu Xiaohe?"

He leaned heavily on my shoulder, with his whole face pressed against my chest, as if he was about to fall asleep, the most urgent thing was to get this drunk professor into the car, I half supported and half hugged him to the passenger seat , when he was fastening his seat belt, he opened his eyes, kissed my earlobe, and I laughed, "Don't trick me."

He didn't speak, but squinted his eyes and kept smiling at me. He was usually happy after drinking, not annoying, and even cute, which made me feel very good. He really drank a lot today, and his whole body Dazed, I flattened the seat, and he tilted his head and fell asleep.

The car drove all the way, and when I was about to go home, I woke him up by patting him to wake him up so that he would not get out of the car and catch a cold. He slept for a while, and his mind was much clearer. The little pig was stunned for a long time, and said, "What is this?"

"How would I know?" I said, "You just sang with it, 'We are Flowers, Spring is Mother, and we are Little Flowers in Spring.'"

He looked blank: "What?"

I said: "McDull should be with me."

Tang Shuhe: "..."

I smiled and said, "Get out of the car, we're in the garage."

Although he was a little more conscious, his body was still weak. I simply opened the passenger door and carried him out. He lay flat on my back. I walked out of the garage and asked as I walked: " You sat all night today, does your back hurt?"

He shook his head and said, "It doesn't hurt."

I said go back and let me take a look again, he suddenly shrank his legs, and said a little timidly: "Today... can you take it easy, I have a meeting tomorrow, and I have to sit all day."

Said it didn't hurt.I laughed, feeling a little sad: "I won't mess with you."

He said oh, relax the legs.

After a while, he suddenly said, "The supermarket is closed."

"Well," I said, "off."

He sighed and said, "I was drunk a lot today...I didn't buy what I promised you."

"Don't worry, I'll go buy it tomorrow. You're about to get promoted, and they'll make you drink." I said.

"No, no..." He paused for a moment, then suddenly said without a word, "I'll change it."

"What the hell?" I said.

He suddenly lowered his head, looked very depressed, and whispered in my ear what to do, what to do, he said: "I originally wanted to impress my aunt, but I messed up before we met."

He drooped his head, with his chin resting on my shoulder, and he was still confessing upside down, saying I’ll correct it, I’ll correct it, and another time he said it’s screwed up and it’s all screwed up. Fuck, my mom called me yesterday to complain about that, and he heard it.

That's why he said those words and ran back to cook me a meal before going to the banquet. He would definitely react like this.

He drank today, otherwise he would never have said this.

"Baby, baby," I sighed, and kissed his white and thin side face sideways, as if his chest was stuffed with a ball of cotton, "Why are you thinking so hard, hey. My mother, I don't have any evil intentions, it's just an old lady It's a bit broken-mouthed, what she said, don't take it too seriously."

When I arrived at the gate of the building, I opened the door, carried him upstairs, and said as I walked: "It's okay, it's not a big deal. I hesitated yesterday because I was afraid you heard it. If you weren't here, I would definitely tell her. I have been outside for so many years, which meal is not cooked by myself, and I lose the ability to take care of myself when I fall in love. Besides, I am not looking for a cook. Take it to bed and eat."

He suddenly smiled, put his cheek against mine, and whispered, "Then I want to pamper you too."

I was stunned for a moment, thinking why I suddenly started talking about love when I was talking about the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and I felt numb in my heart. Tang Shuhe hiccupped and said, "I know too... no, I don't know. I'm quite I'm afraid. You are willing to forgive me after a long time, and I'm very afraid... something will go wrong again. "

He said, "I should have been nicer to you. I should have been nicer to you."

You are so good, you are already so good to me.

I stood there, my heart ached a little, and I didn't know what to say for a while, so I turned him upside down.

"Tang Shuhe," I said, my voice was astringent, "I've been telling you all my life, and I've explained this to my parents a long time ago—earlier, earlier than you imagined, My parents are very gentle, that's my attitude, they won't embarrass you, you don't have to be afraid, you never have to be afraid, just relax a little bit."

He stopped talking, and after a while, he rubbed the side of my neck and gave a muffled hum.

When I arrived at the door of the house, when I took out the key to open the door, I suddenly felt a heavy weight on my head——Tang Shuhe put that plush pig on top of my head, and I put that Q version of the pig on my head, and said dumbfoundingly: "What are you doing?"

He said, "I like you."

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