city ​​garden without flowers

It was already nine o'clock in the evening when Lu Chuanhuan got off work. He answered Zhang Rui's call and lazily tore off his tie: "I just got off work, come right away."

"I don't have as much leisure as you, advertising dog. It's strange not to work overtime." Lu Chuanhuan sounded in a good mood, but there was no expression on his face, "I don't drink alcohol, you guys eat first, I'll come over in 10 minutes Well."

Nine o'clock, for Chongqing, is just the beginning of the night, not to mention that it is now summer, the night is not dark, it looks more like a piece of blue glass, holding the moon indistinctly.

Barbecue shops are never short of business. Simple folding wooden tables and cheap plastic stools are placed outside the shop to form a full seat.When Lu Chuanhuan arrived, a child at the next table just jumped off the stool, walked around him very nimbly, and added a whole handful of corn to his table.

"Brother Lu, you're too slow." Zhang Rui saw him first with sharp eyes, and waved at him with his arms extended.

"It's not easy to park here. I parked at the back. Who knew that the road was built again here, and I went around a lot." Lu Chuanhuan laughed. He has a very handsome face. People find him a bit difficult to get close to, and his actions are always a little lazy, he is careless when he speaks, and his expressions are perfunctory, which will make people who are not familiar with him feel that he is arrogant.

"Let me introduce to you, this is my cousin, Xia Yang, who just returned to China a few days ago." Zhang Rui pulled him to sit down, pointed to a man beside him and introduced.

Lu Chuanhuan glanced at him and gave him a very friendly smile: "I'm your brother's old classmate, my name is Lu Chuanhuan."

"That's right, you can find Brother Lu if you need anything in the future." Zhang Rui grabbed Xia Yang's shoulders, "Hurry up, give you a glass to Brother Lu."

Lu Chuanhuan's first impression of Xia Yang was that this young man looked a little shy.The summer in Chongqing is sweltering, the wind carries moisture, hitting the tip of Xia Yang's nose, sweating a few grains, making him look a bit obedient.

"Come on, don't use your brother as an excuse to trick me into drinking." Lu Chuanhuan opened a bottle of coconut juice by himself, "If you don't drink it today, you won't drink it."

Dongzi complained: "It's rare to get together, and I don't drink wine."

"Being a worker, I have to change my plan when I go back at night." Lu Chuanhuan patted Dongzi's head, glanced at the table leisurely, and pushed him again, "Give me some wrapped tofu, you guys A group of people starved to death and reincarnated, there is nothing left for me."

"If you come later, there will only be bones left for you to chew on." Zhang Rui gave him a white look.

"By the way, Brother Lu, I heard from Lingling that you quarreled with your sister-in-law again yesterday?" Luo Luo glanced at him cautiously.

"Yeah, we're going to get divorced, and we're going to continue to quarrel. It really has a beginning and an end." Lu Chuanhuan smiled self-deprecatingly, "It's not a big deal. It was negotiated to let her take care of Tongtong, but she felt reluctant. Tell me that taking care of children is too hard. So I said, if you don’t want it, just give it to me. Although I am busy with work, I can always overcome it, and I will not let children become a stumbling block in your pursuit of a new life.”

There was a sudden silence on the table.

"What expression do you have? Don't worry, Tongtong is not at home." Lu Chuanhuan pinched a skewer of roasted corn. This kind of thing is the most common and can be ordered at any table. He skewered it one by one and tasted delicious. He ate half of it slowly. Cai continued, "It's not that Lin Yi has a bad temper, so he got into a fight with me, and then we got into an argument. It's not a big deal."

Everyone knew that Lin Yi had been arguing about divorce, so she didn't know what to say for a while.

Lu Chuanhuan also felt bored, took a sip of coconut juice, his face was numb, he is 32 years old, and the years have accumulated his ability to remain calm at any time.

Xia Yang sat opposite him, wearing a short-sleeved white shirt with two buttons unbuttoned, exposing a smooth neck.He was gnawing on the chicken wings very seriously, half of his cheeks were puffed up, and there was a little chili on the corner of his mouth. It seemed that the sky falling would not stop him from eating the chicken wings properly.

The two looked at each other. Xia Yang had a pair of natural smiling eyes, which looked amiable. He looked at him with clean eyes, without curiosity or avoidance. Xia Yang's unsurprisingly tolerant attitude made Lu Chuanhuan feel relaxed.

So he leaned back in the chair: "Okay, you guys, Lin Yi can't go on talking, if she wants to leave, just leave, life should go on as usual, I just feel sorry for my daughter, so I say it seriously. She is It's not a big deal to talk about Tongtong because she thinks she's had a bad time these years, Tongtong is also her daughter."

"We all know Lin Yi's temper. At that time, we thought it was not easy for the two of you, so we persuaded you to make up." Zhang Rui patted him on the shoulder, "Now that we have decided to leave, we also I won’t persuade you blindly, I know you can handle it yourself.”

"That's fine. I'll treat you to dinner today." Lu Chuanhuan raised his glass, "Substituting coconut milk for wine is also a celebration of my return to being single."

His attitude was casual, as if he really didn't care.

In order to change the subject, Luo Luo talked about his house inspections in the past few days: "It's really troublesome, I always feel that my agent is unreliable."

"Indeed." Zhang Rui nodded, then turned to Xia Yang, "Speaking of which, Yang Yang is also looking for a house."

"Yeah, it's not convenient to live with my mother all the time. I want to move out quickly, but I can't find a suitable one." Xia Yang wiped his mouth slowly with a tissue, "Although uncle is very kind to me, But I'm sorry to bother them all the time."

Dongzi asked him: "Is the job settled? Where is it?"

"It's fixed, at D University." Xia Yang replied.

"How old are you?" Lu Chuanhuan was taken aback.

"He is 26 years old. My younger brother has been smart since he was a child and skipped a grade." Zhang Rui raised an eyebrow at Lu Chuanhuan, "He graduated from college at the age of 20."

"He looks too young." Lu Chuanhuan smiled, "I would believe you even if you said he was in his early twenties."

"Speaking of which, Brother Lu, isn't the place where you live right now on the edge of D University?" Luo Luo said.

"That's right." Zhang Rui also remembered, "It's also next to our high school. I remember that Brother Lu slept in every day, and then came to the classroom every day. I was so envious."

"This is not the current house given to Lin Yi, so I moved back." Lu Chuanhuan said, "No one lived there for a long time, and it took a long time to tidy up, but it is still convenient and close to the company."

Xia Yang looked up at him.

"You live alone? Then let Xiao Yang accompany you." Dongzi said enthusiastically.

"Yes, yes, there are vacant rooms anyway." Lu Chuanhuan paused while lighting his cigarette, and he also looked at Xia Yang, "But it is an old community, and there is no elevator."

Zhang Rui's hand holding the cucumber stopped in the air. He glanced at Lu Chuanhuan, hesitant to speak.

"I don't mind that. When Brother Lu is free, let me go and see the room." Xia Yang laughed, looking very obedient.

The two added WeChat friends to each other.

"The food is gone, go get some more." Zhang Rui stood up, and then gave Lu Chuanhuan another hand, "Stop sitting still, come with me."

Lu Chuanhuan threw a cauliflower into his mouth and stood up slowly.

The two stood in front of the freezer, and Lu Chuanhuan bent over to get something, without looking at Zhang Rui, and said, "What's the matter? Do you want to tell me something?"

"My brother, he is good in everything, but there is one thing I think you should know." Zhang Rui looked a little worried, "His sexuality..."

"What's wrong, I like men." Lu Chuanhuan threw two strings of chicken wings into the frame again, "Brother Rui, it's the 21st century."

"It's because you're afraid that my charm will make your brother fall in love with me." Lu Chuanhuan rolled his eyes and winked at Zhang Rui casually.

Zhang Rui looked at him speechlessly: "That's not what it means, I'm afraid you might mind."

"Damn, what do I mind?" Lu Chuanhuan looked like a fool.

"Although it is now open, there are always people who don't understand. Yang Yang, you don't think he looks so obedient, but he is actually very stubborn. When he came out to the family, my dad was very angry and put He's in the hospital." Zhang Rui frowned.

"After this incident, Yang Yang didn't come back for the new year. Although it was inconvenient for him to be abroad all the time, he was actually stubborn. He said that if my dad didn't accept it, he didn't have to be his son. "

After hearing this, Lu Chuanhuan threw a string of chicken wings into the box again: "I just heard what you said to him, his parents are divorced."

Zhang Rui nodded: "Actually, I left quite early, but I never told him."

Lu Chuanhuan looked disgusted: "Isn't there some stupid reason why you don't want to affect the children's studies?"

Zhang Rui coughed in embarrassment: "He has been smart since he was a child, and he was not yet an adult when he went to college, so he has been hiding it from him. My dad has been doing business in Guangdong, and he didn't see him a few times a year."

"Speaking of which, the day Yang Yang came out seemed to be just a few days after he knew that his parents had divorced long ago." Zhang Rui slapped his thigh, "When I think about it, it feels like he did it on purpose."

Lu Chuanhuan insulted him: "Brother Rui, your reflex arc is so long that you can run around the earth three times. Xia Yang might have seen it a long time ago. Wait for a confession for so long. How old was he then? Don't worry about it." When a child knows nothing."

"Tongtong is right, hey, she came to me the other day and told me, Dad, it's okay to divorce, I want to make you happy." Lu Chuanhuan showed a rare look of despair, "You said that even a nine-year-old child I understand, doesn't he understand?"

Zhang Rui patted him on the shoulder to show comfort, and said, "Then it's fine if you don't mind."

"Go back." Lu Chuanhuan took the dishes and gave the frame to the boss, pointing outside, "Add more dishes to the table over there."

When the added dishes were served, Dongzi reached out to get the chicken wings, and was slapped open by Lu Chuanhuan: "I brought them to Xia Yang, you have to add them yourself."

"Damn, brother Lu, you are really eccentric." Dongzi withdrew his hand aggrieved, "I love duck intestines, why don't you get them for me."

"Are you as cute as him?" Lu Chuanhuan shrugged and leaned back leisurely.

"Speaking of which, does Xiao Yang have a partner? Let Brother Dong introduce you." Dongzi was very enthusiastic, and he pulled Xia Yang to look left and right.

"I'm still single, let me introduce myself more." Lu Chuanhuan laughed at him, and then laughed at himself, "Look at me, it's still a lesson from failure."

"Okay, okay, it's rare that everyone is here to eat and drink." Zhang Rui raised his glass and changed the topic.

The night style of Chongqing is always condensed on such a small table, with a few friends and disposable plastic cups filled with beer, chatting all over the world, and in the middle of the night, the cups and plates are messed up, and they return to enjoy themselves.

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Two days off and one day off temporarily ('?`??)