Naked

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Liu Xixiang and his parents went to visit Gu's house as scheduled.

Just after a snowfall, as soon as he stepped into the yard, he saw Chong Xiao squatting on the ground to make a snowman.He is fair-skinned and well-born, and his bright red windbreaker makes him full of energy and vigor.Seeing the person entering the door, Chong Xiao raised his head and laughed: "Happy New Year, sister-in-law! Happy New Year, uncle and aunt!"

Probably the elders like this kind of lively and cute looking type, Liu's father and Liu's mother smile closer than seeing Gu Yan.Liu Xixiang handed the gift box to her aunt.She didn't show her bosom at the moment, she was wearing a light-colored long skirt, wrapped in a down jacket, stroked the skirt and squatted down with a smile: "What are you doing?"

"The snow is too small, so we can only make a small one." Chong Xiao felt a little regretful, and nodded the palm-sized gadget in front of him, proudly said, "Isn't it cute?"

Liu Xixiang blinked and looked at the large and small snowballs stacked obliquely on the ground in a daze: "Is this a little man with a crooked neck?"

Chong Xiao: "...This is a duck! Sister-in-law, go in with your uncle and aunt!"

Liu Xixiang couldn't help laughing, got up and patted his head and followed his parents into the door.Gu Yan came to open the door for them, and asked the elders to lean on her affectionately and lightly hugged her shoulders.The relationship between the two parents was not bad, and Liu's father walked towards the sofa while laughing loudly: "Happy New Year, my in-laws——" He saw Qin Zhao sitting on the sofa with his back to him at first glance, and it was the first time he saw him in casual clothes. Unrecognizable, the footsteps stopped and the voice almost turned, "——Boss Qin?"

Qin Zhao greeted politely, looked past him and looked at Gu Yan behind him: "Chong Xiao is still outside?"

"Still guarding his ugly duck, he will be praised if he catches anyone." Gu Yan expressed helplessness.

Liu Xixiang whispered: "I didn't realize it was a duck..."

"It's okay, no one will recognize it." Qin Zhao comforted her, his eyes fell back on Qin Zhao and he quickly changed his words, "Oh no, brother Zhao recognized it at a glance."

Qin Zhao: "..." That's because Chong Xiao likes to pinch ducks.No matter what it is squeezed out, as long as you guess it is a duck, you will be right in all likelihood.

He sighed and got up: "I'll get him a scarf, just play for a while, it's freezing outside for so long."

Gu's father and mother looked at each other and smiled, Gu Yan was no longer polite to him, and he changed his address obediently since the first time he came to the door - even though this address seemed to call him brother and brother with Gu Jingren and his son.He asked quite naturally: "Brother Zhao, please get him a glove by the way, it should be on the table in his room."

"Okay." Qin Zhao got up and went upstairs.The Liu family's parents were left blankly: "Mr. Qin came to pay New Year's greetings so early?"

Gu Jingren smiled at him inscrutablely: "Drink tea, drink tea. Xi Xiang, sit down quickly, Gu Yan, what are you doing, you don't know how to find a soft cushion for others."

Liu Xixiang had already heard about Qin Zhao and Chong Xiao from Gu Yan, but this was the first time she had seen them get along with each other.Qin Zhao said that he was giving Chong Xiao a scarf and gloves, but after going out for a while, Chong Xiao obediently followed him back home.He had been freezing outside for a long time, and his face was still red when he entered the door.He sat next to Gu Yan, and pulled Qin Zhao to sit next to him.Qin Zhao didn't think there was anything wrong with sitting in the last place, so he casually took the oranges on the table, peeled them slowly, even the tangerines were cleaned, and handed the orange petals to him. give him.

After coming out of the shock of knowing that Qin Zhao became Chong Xiao's boyfriend for the first time, he was satisfied with what his parents and mother thought of him.They already admired Qin Zhao's ability and talent, and saw that his words and deeds were all taking care of Chong Xiao as usual, and they felt relieved. He pulled him over to have New Year's Eve dinner together.

Liu Xixiang secretly watched the two of them for a while, then looked away, and lightly bumped Gu Yan with his elbow.Gu Yan looked at her blankly, then looked at the direction of Chong Xiao and the two, smiled clearly, then took an orange and carefully broke it for her.

Sitting on the sidelines, Gu's mother glanced at the two couples, with a smile unavoidably on her face.The two elders were chatting, but Liu's father always felt that Qin Zhao's presence was inexplicably awkward, and politely threw the topic to him several times. Who knew that Qin Zhao lowered his head and concentrated on chatting with Chong Xiao, and only after a long time did he raise his head blankly: "I?"

Father Liu: "..." This is not the Qin Zhao he knew.

Qin Zhao smiled.He seldom smiled in the business field, and the number of times he laughed at Gu's house in the past two days was more than Gu Jingren had known him for all the years combined.He gathered the orange peels on the table and threw them into the trash can, took out a paper towel and wiped his hands, and Ai Wu and Wu Di also softened their tone to Father Liu: "It's all at home, you don't have to be polite."

Liu's father, who knew nothing about it, slandered: "Whose house is this?"

Chong Xiao held back his laughter for a long time, and was glanced helplessly by Qin Zhao, and finally couldn't help but slapped his thigh and laughed and fell on Qin Zhao's shoulder.Gu Yan: "...Why are you patting my leg!"

Chong Xiao rubbed his legs on his leg with a playful smile as a way to appease him: "Smoothly."

"Go and take pictures of your family." Gu Yan muttered in a low voice, silently moving towards Liu Xixiang's direction.

After eating, Chong Xiao slipped into the yard again, and climbed up the fence with ease. Seeing Liu Xixiang terrified, he poked Gu Yan: "Is he a little dangerous?"

"It's okay, he's solid. He dared to climb up at such a young age, don't worry." Gu Yan sat under the eaves and watched from afar, "Let him play, Auntie just swept the snow, Besides, brother Zhao is watching."

Chong Xiao sat on the wall looking down at Qin Zhao who was standing in his yard, and suddenly laughed: "Uncle Qin, do you remember that I was here when I first saw you?"

At that time, he thought, how could there be such a good-looking person in the world.It's just gloomy and unreasonable, and she doesn't look popular at all.

With a smile on his face, he jumped into the opponent's courtyard lightly and skillfully. Qin Zhaoxu gave him a hand and put his hands on his waist: "Yes." He thought about it carefully and corrected, "It's not the first time." once."

Chong Xiao: "Eh? No way, I don't believe I saw you before and didn't recognize you."

"You're still young. Don't remember."

Qin Zhao met Chong Xiao once when he was a few months old.

The parents of the two families already had contacts, and the parents took Qin Zhao to Gu's house as a guest.Qin Zhao was in his early ten years old at the time, and he already had some signs of being serious later on.Parents feared that it would be boring for him to stay in the living room and listen to adults talk, so they drove him to the room to see his younger brother.

Gu Yan went to a relative's house to play, only Chong Xiao was in the room.He sat in the stroller, concentrating on studying the toy in his hand.The nanny next to him whispered to Qin Zhao, "My brother has a good temper, you can go and play with him."

Qin Zhao had no interest in children, but seeing the child with his head down playing with toys, he walked over and poked his face with a finger.Chong Xiao raised his head in a daze, and his long eyelashes flickered twice. Qin Zhao subconsciously thought that he was going to cry, and was about to take a step back quickly, but he suddenly let out an "ah" and let out a cheer that seemed to be happy.

Qin Zhao: "...?"

The auntie nanny couldn't help laughing: "My brother likes you."

Qin Zhao didn't have any close siblings, so he didn't know how the other children expressed their love, so he nodded Chongxiao's hand in doubt, and Xiao Chongxiao grabbed his fingers, raised his face and laughed at him.

Chong Xiao was a little annoyed that he didn't remember seeing Qin Zhao when he was a child, but Qin Zhao didn't care too much, and plucked Chong Xiao's hair with his fingers: "Your hair was also very soft when you were young."

The two stood in the courtyard for a while, Chong Xiao then dragged Qin Zhao into the house.He himself was not afraid of the cold, but he thought Qin Zhao had a car accident and injured his leg, no matter how Qin Zhao said that his leg had recovered long ago, he dared not let him freeze outside.

Chong Xiao just received a reply to the New Year’s greetings he sent to his tutor, and the tutor gave him some suggestions for his topic selection. Chong Xiao smiled and sighed: "The boss who celebrates the Chinese New Year will not let me go. Uncle Qin, I will go to the study to borrow you." Check the literature on the computer—do you have an Internet cafe here?”

"Yes. You go up first, and I'll see what's in the kitchen."

Chong Xiao quickly kissed him on the cheek, and ran upstairs to the study with ease.The decoration of Qin Zhao's study has been the same for ten years. Chong Xiao used to nestle on the sofa next to him and read a book. Now that he thinks about it, he happily sits on the boss chair in front of the desk.He pressed the power button and looked at the ornaments on the table while waiting for the computer to turn on.

Qin Zhao's desk is simple and clean, because he hasn't even had any documents for a long time, only a pen holder, cup and a stone paperweight are placed.Chong Xiao saw that the paperweight carved into a reclining lion was unique, so he picked it up and took a closer look, only to find that there was a photo pressed under the paperweight.

A photo of the two.

Chong Xiao also has this photo, and it has been kept in the album for a long time.He put down the paperweight a little nostalgic and picked up the photo to look at it. In the photo, the teenager was leaned over slightly by Qin Zhao, smiling proudly and flamboyantly at the camera.

There was a faint protrusion on the photo. He touched it lightly with his index finger and realized something. He turned it over and saw Qin Zhaoqiu's strong handwriting on the back of the photo.

"Seeing each other is like not seeing each other, how can there be no love if there is love." (*)

He stared at the line and read it over and over again, until the door of the study was knocked, and Qin Zhao's voice came in: "I came in?"

Chong Xiao blinked away the moisture in his eyes, cleared his throat and suppressed the choked sobs at the bottom of his throat: "Yeah."

The author says:

This time it's really over. W I wish everyone a happy new year!Thank you for your likes :)

(*) "Seeing each other is like not seeing each other, how can there be love without love" from Sima Guang's "Xijiang Moon"