A corner of ten years

Chapter 50

The air smells of lemon, the dense shaved ice and the fragrance of orange soda have awakened the rhythm of early summer.

Li Cheng called Tao Xiaodong in the afternoon and said that he was eating out tonight, and he still had some work to deal with, so he asked him to come to the company and wait for him in his office.

Tao Xiaodong deliberately went a little later than the appointed time. Xiaobai said that this is reserved. Normally, Li Cheng should have been waiting at the door, but he didn’t see anyone after the meeting. Tao Xiaodong went to find Li Cheng’s secretary. Belinda, she said that he had something to do and went out again, and he would be back soon, Tao Xiaodong said oh.

Belinda looked at Tao Xiaodong again in a bit of embarrassment, Tao Xiaodong immediately understood, "It's off work, you go back first, I'll wait here for a while."

Belinda immediately thanked this considerate and handsome young man in high spirits, secretly boasting that the boss really picked the right person this time.

Tao Xiaodong was fiddling with his phone in boredom, this Li Cheng was really getting worse and worse.

Half an hour passed, and there was still no one. He picked up his mobile phone to call him, but the phone was fucking turned off. Now Tao Xiaodong was furious, and the date he had been looking forward to for a long time was actually let go.

Suppressing his anger, Li Cheng had better give him a convincing reason, otherwise he would not be able to pass by today, and half an hour later, Tao Xiaodong's complexion became greener and greener, he decided not to wait, tonight Li The city is dead.

Just when he stood up and was about to leave, the door was pushed open with a "bang", and Li Cheng came in with a guilty face and raised his hand, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry..."

Tao Xiaodong sat back on the sofa, clasped his hands, crossed his legs, and lived like Huang Shiren, "Tell me, what's going on."

Li Cheng walked over and wanted to grab his arm, but Tao Xiaodong slapped his paw off, "Be civilized, don't move your hands."

Li Cheng rubbed his hands and smiled, "Our company has a contract to sign. It's a bit far away, so I went early."

"Then come back at this time."

"Listen to me, I went early and signed the contract early, but the boss refused to let me go, insisted on keeping me for dinner, and I couldn't refute my face, so I just finished eating with me. Let's go for entertainment, you said that my beauty is here, can I do that, I seriously refused, and came back in this car."

Tao Xiaodong glanced at him sideways, and said eccentrically, "It's still too late."

"Isn't this a traffic jam? It's not the right time for me to come back. This traffic jam in Beijing doesn't work. I almost abandoned the car and ran back."

"What about the phone, why are you turning it off?"

Li Cheng stuffed the phone into Tao Xiaodong's hand, "Go ahead and call, if there is still some battery, what do you ask me to do? I will do whatever you want."

Tao Xiaodong looked at the sweat on Li Cheng's forehead, so he smiled a little.

When Li Cheng saw that he was done, he immediately wrapped himself around Tao Xiaodong's waist with one hand, and pressed his hand on his chest with the other, "Look, my chest is still beating like a timer. Yes, hurry up and rub it for me."

Tao Xiaodong pushed him and called him nasty.

Tao Xiaodong's little expression was the most likable, Li Cheng grinned and kissed him.

When the two of them were arguing, the door of the office was suddenly pushed open, and a loud and cheerful male voice sounded at the door: "Brother Acheng!"

The two looked towards the door at the same time. A sunny and handsome curly-haired boy with big eyes was standing at the door and waving at them. He was bright and warm, like a fluffy elf.

Tao Xiaodong felt that Li Cheng's hand holding him was gradually lowered, looked up at his expression, he had suppressed his smile, stood up from the sofa and went straight to the door, pulling the boy into his arms.

The two people at the door embraced each other affectionately, as if there was only each other left in the world, Tao Xiaodong watched them collapse on the sofa.

Li Cheng didn't give Tao Xiaodong an explanation, and told Tao Xiaodong that he was very sorry that tonight's date would be cancelled, and even called a taxi for him to go home alone.

Tao Xiaodong didn't say a word from the beginning to the end, he opened the door and got into the car silently until he couldn't see the other party. Just think about all the things he has done with Li Cheng this year. , didn't he hold him in his mouth for fear of melting, hold him in his hands for fear of falling, it's not too much to say that he is spoiled, even Zhang Shijie said that it was the first time he saw Li Cheng being so serious and honest Really fall in love with people, Tao Xiaodong has seen someone who is better than him around Li Cheng, he is not worried, everything he and Li Cheng have experienced is enough to support them for a few years, but seeing that boy today In an instant, Tao Xiaodong knew that this person was different, but the self-confidence accumulated for a long time seemed to be pierced by someone, and Zizi's wilting became a piece of dough, his clarity, his beauty, and his innocence , his ignorance of the world, he has what Tao Xiaodong has, if what Li Cheng loves is his, then that boy can completely replace all his reasons for existence, not to mention, he has something he has never participated in, Li Cheng The past of the city - the part he cares most about.

When he got home, he stood in the living room without turning on the light, picked up the panda pillow and hugged it in his arms and fell on the sofa. At this time, he missed Po, that silly cat even more.

The phone rang in the darkness, and Tao Xiaodong got up to answer it.

Seeing the coming display, I was suddenly disappointed, "Brother Zien?"

Fang Zien called to invite him to participate in the summer social practice research he organized. He hesitated for a while. Although he was unhappy because of Li Cheng now, he was not stupid enough to retaliate against him by agreeing to Fang Zien. When he refused, Fang Zien said suddenly: "It's okay, you can think about it again, there are many people in our group, all of whom I carefully screened, without any personal factors."

Tao Xiaodong was too embarrassed to say no now when the other party put his attitude down so low, so he had to agree to think about it for another two days.

After dialing the phone, Fang Zien took him to watch the night scene, what Xiaobai said, Li Cheng hugged the boy, and countless pictures rolled in his head, gradually becoming heavy, making people unable to help but fall into the dream to...

In a daze, he felt that someone was picking him up, narrowing his eyes slightly, bright light shone on his eyelashes, it was already daytime, Li Cheng saw Tao Xiaodong opened his eyes and tied his arms, "Why didn't you go upstairs to sleep? Do you have a cold?"

Now that Tao Xiaodong's low pressure has been spreading, he rolled over from Li Cheng's arms, opened the bathroom door to take a shower, and when he came out, Li Cheng had already put the food on the dining table, calling him to have breakfast.

Tao Xiaodong lost his appetite, put his schoolbag on his back, and went out, "I have an appointment with my classmates to buy books, and I'm going to be late."

Li Cheng frowned and stopped him, "It's not too late."

"I do not want to eat."

"Don't be petty."

"I'm really not hungry."

The two entangled and arrived at the door. Tao Xiaodong didn't want to entangle, so he pulled the door and wanted to run out. As soon as he opened the door, he saw Zhang Shijie holding the camel in one hand and ringing the doorbell with the other.

"Yo~ The induction is fast enough. You opened the door before I rang the bell."

Li Cheng asked, "Why are you here?"

"It's not your young master, he promised Tuotuo to take him to the parent-child social gathering organized by the kindergarten today, but he couldn't see anyone this morning, so I sent him here." Zhang Shijie stuffed Tuotuo after finishing speaking. In Tao Xiaodong's arms, "I'll go first, Xiaobai is still waiting for me below."

Li Cheng turned his head and looked at Tao Xiaodong, "Buying books with my classmates, huh?"

Tao Xiaodong glanced at him, and carried the camel into the house.

In fact, the so-called parent-child association is just a disguised parent meeting organized by the kindergarten. After talking about the children's performance, they can visit the kindergarten casually.

Tuo Tuo led a group of children to play a game of King Lolo, jumping up and down on the trampoline, waving his little paws and fighting monsters. He seemed to be able to point out the country with his paws, completely forgetting his parents back.

Tao Xiaodong pulled a swing and sat down, looking at the camel in the distance, Li Cheng walked up behind him and grabbed the rope of the swing, swinging and swinging, yes he also followed, he knew Tao Xiaodong's mood at this time, explained The words were originally intended to be resolved early, but after all this series of events, there was no chance. Now he is organizing words to tell a story to Tao Xiaodong.

At this time, a little girl came from a distance, climbed onto the swing next to her, and started playing on her own. Tao Xiaodong turned her face and said to him, "Where are your parents?"

"Go home."

"Why don't you go home?"

"I want to play on the swing."

"Then how are you going to get home?"

"I can take the school bus."

"Really? You are really independent," Tao Xiaodong smiled, "You must be the monitor if you are so independent?"

The little girl pursed her lips, secretly laughing.

After a while Tao Xiaodong got up and walked towards the camel, the little girl quickly slid down from the swing and ran to hold Tao Xiaodong's hand...

Sitting in Tao Xiaodong's seat, Li Cheng watched Tao Xiaodong play with the camel in the distance with the little loli, and couldn't help but twitched his lips.

Failed again.

In the ocean ball pool, Tuo Tuo let Tao Xiaodong and Li Cheng lie there, and said something that adults don't understand, "You are hostages, I will rescue you with the police in a while, you must lie down obediently and don't move."

Tao Xiaodong was really tired after playing with them for a long time. He wished he could pretend to be a dead person, buried in a blue and white toy ball, and remain motionless.

Li Cheng lay down next to Tao Xiaodong, and held Tao Xiaodong's hand under the cover of the ball. Tao Xiaodong struggled a little at first, but soon lost his strength, so he simply let him hold him.

"Mingcan and I also met at their age." Li Cheng raised his jaw at them.

It turned out that the boy was named Mingcan. Tao Xiaodong closed his eyes and pretended not to listen to him.

Li Cheng didn't care and continued to say: "From childhood to adulthood, he has always looked like a little girl, with thin skin and tender flesh, like a porcelain doll. He would cry all day after being slapped. At first, the adults asked me to play with him. In fact, I It’s a trouble to listen to those who don’t want to, but this kid just clings to me, no matter how hard I drive him out, he won’t go away, and after a long time, he treats him like a brother, and he treated me like I was back then.”

Tao Xiaodong twitched his lips, complaining secretly in his heart how can there be such a narcissistic person.

"Later when we went to school, we didn't alienate because we were not in the same grade. He often came to see me after class, and stuck to my house after school. During the winter and summer vacations, he seemed to grow behind my buttocks. He followed wherever he went. Mingcan likes to cling. People, hugging people, hugging people, kissing people, will become numb after a long time, I think this is his habit."

Tao Xiaodong suddenly had a strange premonition.

"But after my college entrance examination, that guy actually kissed me."

Tao Xiaodong clenched his fingers slightly, sure enough.

Li Cheng didn't let go of his slight change, he inserted his fingers into the opponent's palm, and interlocked with Tao Xiaodong's fingers.

"That incident hit me too hard. It overturned the worldview I had established since I was a child. I never liked men, but Mingcan broke me at that moment."

Li Cheng turned his face to look at Tao Xiaodong, who still had his eyes closed, but his trembling eyelashes betrayed his thoughts.

"But I didn't accept him. I was still young at that time, and I was too extreme. I used the wrong method to force him away. He has been away for nearly ten years. I really made a big mistake. I made people like that. Thinking about it now makes me hate myself."

Tao Xiaodong opened his eyes and looked at Li Cheng.

"So if you want something, you should have it long ago. Mingcan is a younger brother and a family member. I will take care of him and protect him, but feelings should not be confused. So do you understand, little panda?"

"You mean he's part of your family?"

"Well, the same family as Xun."

"You don't like him, I mean like in love?"

"I only like you."

"Then you still hug him!"

Li Cheng came out with a "puchi" and pulled Tao Xiaodong into his arms.

Tuo Tuo came back with his little warrior, stood in the ball pool condescendingly looking at him and uncle, and said to the people behind him in high spirits: "The big devil is here, boys!!"

The little friends behind rushed forward, and the plastic ball smashed down on Tao Xiaodong and Li Cheng.

"Aren't we hostages? When did you become a big devil?"

"I guess they changed the play, it should be Monkey King fighting the Bull Demon King."

"What does it matter to me if he fights against the Bull Demon King?"

"He thinks you are the Iron Fan Princess!"

Li Cheng protected Tao Xiaodong with his arms and escaped from the clutches of the little monkeys...