Temporary cohabitation

In the dead of night, the children and dogs are asleep.Cheng Shi quietly opened the door, groped into the bedroom lightly, and hugged the big cardboard box on the bay window that hadn't been opened in time.

Ren Mingyao was an accomplice and accomplice, and it was not enough to watch at the door, so he hooked his hand at him and mouthed, "Come out and tear it down, let's watch together."

The box is sealed well with tape, and it can't be opened with just a few clicks.Cheng Shi was also afraid of waking the children, so he had to carry the box out and put it in the living room to find the scissors.

Ren Mingyao looked at it with interest, "I remember you said that it was something temporarily unusable, winter clothes and so on."

"Well... there are some things that Guan Guan gave me, that is, messy things."

How could Cheng Shi have the courage to just pull out his old self like this, found another soft bag from the bottom of the box, unzipped the zipper and scratched it a few times, and threw two small boxes to him with red ears, "That's all I have. Look at the expiration date...see if you can still use it."

These are all small toys bought and sent by Guantong, which were used as reference materials when drawing before.Cheng Shi still remembers the scene when he went to pick up the courier and was speechless when asked "what's inside".

Social fear people don't want to think about it.

"She will even give you this? You two are so close." Ren Mingyao looked down at the little thing thrown by him like a hot potato, his long and strong fingers were just holding the box, and he was very lustful.

But the fire that had simmered in the bedroom just now was almost extinguished, and another evil fire came out from the bottom of my heart.He was silent for a while, "Cheng Shi, I want to ask you something."

"……Um?"

"It's pretty ugly. It's okay if you don't want to answer."

Cheng Shi sat on his knees by the box and straightened his back, the water in his gentle eyes gradually receded. After putting it back into the indescribable storage bag, he smoothed out the messy ends of his hair, "It's okay, just tell me."

Ren Mingyao made a lot of determination before asking.

"Before me, how many times have you talked about?"

Cheng Zhi: "..."

His aggrieved look of "whether it's an ex-boyfriend or an ex-girlfriend is fucking over, you just tell me, I don't mind", "I'm so annoying, who the hell am I lying to? I just care to death but I can't say", let Cheng Shi felt that he might have been troubled by this question many times behind his back, but he didn't ask it because he was afraid of embarrassing himself, and he couldn't help it until now.

Kind of silly.

Cheng Shi smiled helplessly: "Not one."

Ren Mingyao probed, "Not one?"

"Well. The two of us were just curious and having fun, so we bought some things as...toys and wanted to study them."

Cheng Shi said frankly, "I'm bored at home painting all day long, and I rarely see many people. Guan Guan and the others only met a while ago, and they were just netizens before."

"Really?"

"Ah."

Ren Mingyao belatedly realized what a "toy" was, and was a little surprised in his heart. After a long silence, he lowered his head and said in a muffled voice, "I'm sorry."

He knew it was petty and narrow-minded to care about his ex, but after so many years, he couldn't help but wonder if Cheng Shi ever relied on someone like he did before when he was not around.Be it jealousy or regret, no one is immune.

It's another matter for Cheng Zhi to play by himself.

"There's nothing to apologize for."

Cheng Shi smiled, stretched out his hand and patted his arm, "Okay, don't worry too much. It's not an important matter. In the future, if you want to know such questions, just ask me."

"You never asked me how I've been in the past few years." Ren Mingyao said, "I thought it meant 'I don't ask about you, and you don't ask about me'."

Cheng Zhi paused when he heard the words, and said in thought, "I don't even need to ask you yourself, they have told me all the unexpected little fishes I can think of. Otherwise, how would I know the origin of "Rainy Day"? They came to follow I said a lot more than you asked."

"Just don't get angry. You can know whatever you want, it doesn't matter if you ask them or me."

Ren Mingyao looked at his expression seriously, "I'm afraid that you'll keep everything on your mind and ignore others, and I really can't figure it out..."

Cheng Shi was amused by the tone of "I'm so clueless" at the end, nodded and said, "I understand, I will ask you later."

Ren Mingyao is not a person who is good at observing words and expressions, or in other words, not a person who has the patience to think about those twists and turns.He has always been aware of it, and he doesn't think it is a shortcoming, and even envies such a straightforward and magnanimous expression.

"Why does this dress look so familiar?" Ren Mingyao let go of his worries and glanced at the box, "Our high school uniform? Why do we still keep it?"

Cheng Shi followed his line of sight to look at the corner of the box, the school uniform jacket with blue and white stripes was folded into a square.Seeing that, his heart skipped a beat, "The clothes are good and not damaged, of course we should keep them."

That was Ren Mingyao's school uniform.After he used it, he found all kinds of excuses to delay returning it. Over time, Ren Mingyao forgot about it, or it might be because of his personality, so he just gave it to him and didn't care about it.He just stayed by himself, until now.

"Save it for Xiaojun to wear later?"

Ren Mingyao himself didn't recognize it at all.The school uniform jackets all look the same, and Cheng Shi's size was not much different when he was in high school, and now he took them out to shake off his nostalgia, and a folded tissue paper floated out of the jacket pocket.

Ren Mingyao opened it and took a look. It was the payment slip left when he went to the hospital for an examination.Over the years, the thermal paper has faded to light and mottled, "What is this?"

"Ah... what is it? The hospital list." Cheng Shi was thinking about the school uniform, and suddenly became a little flustered, "Maybe it was left behind when I went to the hospital when I broke the bone."

Ren Mingyao stared at the payment slip for a while, and then turned the other side to look back and forth, "If you have a broken bone, do you need to call the psychiatric department?"

"..."

Cheng Shi dodged it with his hands and grabbed it in the palm of his hand, "It's been a list for several years."

After such a twists and turns, the charming atmosphere in the bedroom just now was completely dispelled.He packed the suitcases away, said "go to bed early," and went back to the children's bedroom.

Ren Mingyao was not stupid enough to ask further questions.Left alone in the same place, as if being left several light years away, the intimate kiss ten minutes ago was like a passing illusion.

He has a piece of sad land that he doesn't want to be touched by anyone.

Ren Mingyao paused for a while before getting up, gently pushed open the bedroom door, carefully avoiding the sleeping children to go to bed, and lay down with Cheng Shi on his side.A family of four squeezed into one bed.

There was a steady stream of heat coming from behind, Cheng Shi closed his eyes, and the fingers hanging by his side were held by the hands across his waist.

"Go to sleep." Ren Mingyao said.

He also had a piece of patience reserved only for Cheng Shi.

Cheng Shi gave a low hum, but couldn't fall asleep anyway.He remembered that when he was a child, his parents had been working away from home.Relatives in the family always said that to go to school well, the elders must be obedient, so that parents will come back to see him.

He is the most well-behaved child in the family and has the best academic performance.He thought that as long as he met the requirements of the adults, he would be able to reunite with his parents sooner.

His parents died in a car accident that year, and his relatives didn't tell him what happened at first.For the first two years, he thought that he hadn't performed well enough, so his parents didn't want to come back to see him.It was only later that he learned that his parents had an accident and would never come back. They didn't even take their bodies back to their hometown for burial.I heard relatives comment that the scene was bloody and the body collection was incomplete.Moreover, people who died in other places were not allowed to go home and enter the ancestral grave according to the rules.

Those words have been printed in his mind, making him feel terrible.So since I was a child, I always thought that when I have the ability to leave home in the future, I must die outside, and no one is allowed to pick me up.He didn't care about sleeping in some kind of ancestral grave, and would rather leave his bones outside than go home.

But he also seemed to have a time when he wanted to go home.

For a while, even if it was such a terrible home, he thought about going back.

Cheng Shi fell asleep in a daze, and there seemed to be some noise in his mind, which became more and more noisy.

"Cheng Shi! Cheng! Shi! Cheng! Shi!"

His name was shouted by high and low voices, like a scattered symphony.He had never heard such loud music in his life. He rolled over sleepily and curled up to cover his ears, but his wrist was firmly held and shaken vigorously.

"Cheng Shi! Cheng Shi! Cheng! Shi!"

He shrank back in resistance, the voice came from behind.Hiding forward, the sound invaded from the front again.It was so annoying that I finally struggled to break free from the chaotic nightmare.

"...Stop shouting!"

Cheng Shi suddenly opened his eyes.

The lights were on in the room.The colored pencil was chasing its tail on the floor, and he was the only one still lying on the bed.Cheng Xiaojun woke up at some point, sat next to his head and pushed his shoulders up and down, babbling and calling his name, "Cheng Shi, Cheng Shi woke up. Don't be afraid."

Ren Mingyao heaved a sigh of relief, grabbed his wrist and pulled him into his arms, "I'm awake."

Cheng Shi sat up in a daze, with his cheeks close to his chest, and heard an irregular heartbeat, as if he was the only one who couldn't figure out the situation, "What's the matter...why aren't you sleeping?"

"Woke up by you." Ren Mingyao wiped the sweat off his forehead with the back of his hand, "Did you have a nightmare?"

"...Ah." Cheng Shi sat up, rubbed his face in a dizzy state, and his palms quickly became wet, "I don't know too well."

"Drink of water."

Ren Mingyao got out of bed to pour water.He picked up his phone and checked the time, it was only past ten o'clock in the evening.

Cheng Xiaojun was still shouting "Cheng Shi" from the side.He took the water glass and took two mouthfuls to moisten his throat, and tapped his round nose with his fingertips, "Okay, I'm going to call you little uncle. Did you worry?"

"Cheng Shi, I can't wake up."

Cheng Xiaojun pointed to Ren Mingyao, "Uncle, worry."

Ren Mingyao coughed lightly, "Your complexion is not good. I couldn't see you clearly... so I turned on the light, and Xiaojun was woken up by me."

"..."

Cheng Shi couldn't laugh or cry, and handed the glass back after drinking the water.Cheng Xiaojun called him twice again, "Cheng Shi, don't be afraid."

"It's little uncle. Don't be afraid of little uncle, and don't be afraid of Jun."

He rubbed his hair, couldn't remember what he dreamed just now, simply shook his head aside, and sighed, "Why has he been calling me by my name recently?"

"The first word Xiao Jun spoke was my name, could it be because I always hear you calling me?"

"I don't think so."

Ren Mingyao said, "You told him a lot about 'eating' and 'sleeping'. Why didn't he learn something simple first?"

"..."

Cheng Shi said depressedly, "That's why."

"He likes you."

Cheng Xiaojun blinked and looked left and right.Ren Mingyao rubbed his round head, "He likes you, that's why he likes to call you by your name."

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Come to Liao

I'm in a hurry, sorry

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Goodnight everybody

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