No.20 years

34

One year later, Huaguo.

Chen Jingming and Hao Chun sat side by side in the back seat to pick up Hao Zhoudi from prison.

"Why do you have to go back to China to pick him up?"

Chen Jingming was a little dissatisfied.He endured the whole journey, from Oklahoma to getting off the plane. Although he really doted on Hao Chun, he still had to ask what should be asked.Then again, he had another layer of worries. "Chun, you just finished the brain nerve blocking operation, and Tommy said it's best to rest."

"What do you mean just finished?" Hao Chun exaggeratedly rolled his eyes, and grinned with two small canine teeth. "It's been more than half a year. Rest? Have you ever told me to stop?"

Since the reunion on July [-]th last year, Chen Jingming was like an insatiable beast, stalking him, especially after marriage.

Chen Jingming really couldn't say it.He coughed twice, pretending to be serious with a sullen handsome face. "He didn't treat you well in the past, and he deserves to be in prison. Why do you have to come to pick him up?"

"He is my father anyway." Hao Chun grinned.

Chen Jingming glanced at him suddenly, and there was something in his eyes.

Now that Hao Chun's mind is gradually returning to normal, he is so keen to catch the eyes of others, especially Chen Jingming's eyes!He immediately noticed something strange, clicked his tongue, and whistled exaggeratedly. "You don't mean to say that even that isn't true?"

Chen Jingming clenched his fists and held back for a few seconds before uttering a few words from between his teeth. "That August, the person I bumped into on the edge of the cliff was him."

The black Cayenne jolted suddenly.A Bin, who was driving in the front row, was obviously frightened. The next second, he immediately said loudly, "I'm sorry, Young Master Chen, I'll just put on earplugs."

The Cayenne is no better than the few cars they have in Ohio. The driver's seat and the rear row are not equipped with sound insulation.But in fact, Ah Bin has followed Chen Jingming for more than eight years, and he knows more business secrets. This apology is obviously just to comfort Haochun's heart.

This also reminded Chen Jingming.

Chen Jingming was silent for a moment, and when he saw A Bin decisively put on the earplugs, he clenched his fists and said softly to Hao Chun: "That year, he told me that your mother was my father's classmate at the Unnamed University. The two of them ... have been together before."

"So?" Hao Chun raised his eyebrows and smiled playfully. "What does that have to do with us? She and my dad didn't look like a couple at all."

This time Chen Jingming didn't speak, his bottomless eyes stared at Hao Chun motionlessly.

Hao Chun jumped up in shock and almost opened the car window and jumped out. "...No, no...can't you?"

"It's just what you think." Chen Jingming pursed his lips.After 11 years, he finally spoke about that bloody night. "That afternoon, I drove to Jibei City to see you as usual. In order to take a shortcut, I took the side of the cliff and got on the elevated road. I didn't expect that I would meet him blocking the road that day."

Hao Chun shrugged slightly, and licked the dry skin of his lips. "How can he stop you? You drive!"

"He rides a motorcycle." Chen Jingming said concisely. "Should have known about our relationship early in the morning, called me, and asked me to have an interview on the cliff. I didn't agree at first, but later, he actually waited there."

Hao Chun only felt that his throat was dry this time, so he laughed loudly twice. "Is he just trying to extort money?"

"I thought so at first." Chen Jingming lowered his eyes. "But that day he said, you are not his son, and he said that we both committed crimes."

Hao Chun laughed heartily.The laughter was so hollow that even he couldn't bear it. "You believe it?"

Chen Jingming avoided answering. "He has the appraisal report in his hand."

"...Gan!"

"I lost my mind and wanted to take the report back from him. I wanted to buy it, but I paid a hush money, but he didn't agree." Chen Jingming lowered his eyes, clenched his fists and said, "Later... I thought, It’s better to let this person die. If he dies, it’s all over.”

This is the side of Chen Jingming that Hao Chun has never seen—the side of the devil.

Hao Chun stared wide-eyed, and there was a buzz in his head, as if he was sitting on a constantly rotating planet, or as if a large shock wave overturned the deep ocean and caused a tsunami. "...Chen Jingming?"

"Ah."

"Why didn't you tell me before?" Hao Chun grabbed Chen Jingming by the collar and cursed angrily, "Why didn't you tell me back then?"

Chen Jingming turned his head slightly, and smiled strangely. "Say it, you just ignore me."

"But you, but you clearly know...we..." Hao Chun couldn't continue.

"So what?" Chen Jingming's face was very pale, his thin lips parted and opened, and the words he spit out were extremely harsh. "Ah Chun, we live together and die together!"

Hao Chun stared at him, the two of them were close to each other, but he didn't seem to recognize Chen Jingming at all.

"What's more," Chen Jingming clenched his fists and sneered bitterly. "He lied! He even lied about this on purpose!"

Hao Chun stared straight at him.

"I arrived in northern Hebei very late that day. Then, the next time I came, you had already proposed to break up with me. I was in a mess at the time, and fled to country A like a bereaved dog." Chen Jingming was silent for a while, and continued Said: "After I arrived in country A, I questioned it, and my dad admitted it later. In extreme anger, I took charge of the Chen family."

He has vaguely mentioned all these things that are most important to Chen Jingming's turning point in his life, and the words are so brief that they are vague.In his heart, he never wanted Hao Chun to know about the darkness and unscrupulousness of those ten years.

"Then, probably five years after we broke up, I had someone put Hao Zhoudi in prison. And then..." Chen Jingming paused, and looked back at Hao Chun with raised eyelids. "It suddenly occurred to me that the appraisal report may not be true, after all, Hao Zhoudi is that kind of person. So I took your...for appraisal."

"What did you take from me for appraisal?" Hao Chun felt incredible. "Chen Jingming, at that time, the two of us had long since died of old age."

Chen Jingming's face suddenly turned red, and he whispered something to Hao Chun silently.

Rubbing, Hao Chun's face is also hot. "You, why do you still have that stuff?"

Chen Jingming answered as a matter of course. "Your things, of course I have to keep them well, and they are specially stored in the gene freezer."

"...Hiss!" Hao Chun was shocked by how shameless this guy was. "What are you doing with that stuff?"

Chen Jingming pursed his lips, a little aggrieved. "If I hadn't specially saved your children and grandchildren, it wouldn't be so easy to get the real appraisal report."

He used "true", which means that Hao Zhoudi really lied back then.

But at that time, what did Chen Jingming, who was only 25 years old on the edge of the cliff, think?Especially when he was hiding this amazing secret alone, and was unexpectedly broken up by him in the cafe, what did Chen Jingming think of him at that time, Hao Chun?

Hao Chun couldn't tell what it was like. "Chen Jingming?"

"Ah."

"Do you know..."

"Ok?"

"You sometimes," Hao Chun thought for a long time, but couldn't think of how to describe this person, so he was forced to speak the truth. "Sometimes you are stubborn and scary."

Not only was Chen Jingming not annoyed, but he seemed relieved. "I know," he loosened his fist slowly, sticking his slender fingers along Hao Chun's hand, clasping his fingers together. "I also know how the world sees me. Ah Chun, as long as you don't leave me, I don't care about the rest."

The 36-year-old Chen Jingming didn't ask Hao Chun to love him again, but only told Hao Chun not to leave.

Hao Chun felt uncomfortable for some reason. "Chen Jingming!"

"Ah."

"You don't have to be so humble, really." Hao Chun clumsily tried to collect all the vocabulary, but he really didn't study for a few years and suffered from lack of words. "Those things are in the past. Besides, my dad... Even though there are thousands of bad things about him, he is indeed my dad. As far as this is concerned, it's good."

"...Well." Chen Jingming clasped his fingers tightly, and after a moment of silence, he said, "My dad probably made a mistake back then."

"Don't blame them." Hao Chun returned to his playful smile. "After all, my mother was a great beauty back then. Maybe my father didn't really want to blackmail you, but he has always been suspicious, and has been suspicious for many years."

Hao Zhoudi and Dou Jing really don't look like a couple.Back then, people in the compound of the Hongling Automobile Factory in Jibei City called Hao Chun an illegitimate child, so Hao Chun was suspicious when he was careful. ——Even he himself was suspicious, let alone his father.

Hao Chun smacked his lips and laughed. "Chen Jingming, you can do it! You have kept it from me for so many years. You didn't even mention that we were married."

"There's no need to mention it." Chen Jingming pursed his lips. "And it has been found to be fake, so I don't want to mention it."

"Then why do we have to mention it on the way today?" Hao Chun said twice, this time Danfeng's eyes were quite lively, obviously teasing.

Chen Jingming breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed his fingers repeatedly, and said softly: "You will see someone in a while, I thought about it, and I think it's better to tell you about it."

Hao Chun raised his eyes and glanced at A Bin, the bodyguard sitting in the front row and driving honestly.Chen Jingming doesn't shy away from these people, it can be seen that Chen Jingming has a lot of privacy, and there are probably not many who can see the light.

This subverted his perception of Chen Jingming a bit.

"How many things are you hiding from me?" Hao Chun hissed, and said with a sneer, "But one day you will be handcuffed away suddenly, and I will give you prison food."

Chen Jingming's face was a little ugly. "There won't be that day. Even if there is, I won't implicate you. Before we get married, I have entrusted the law firm to help you save the agreement. "

Hao Chun moved closer, right under his nose. "What agreement?"

"Agreement on the division of property." Chen Jingming remained silent again, his face getting more and more ugly, as if he didn't want to mention a certain word that was connected. "If you want, I also left a copy of the divorce agreement in the safe, and you can sign it at any time."

"Where's the safe?"

Chen Jingming raised his eyelids in disbelief.

Hao Chun had a playful smile on his face, full of scoundrels. "I'm asking you!"

Chen Jingming's thin lips trembled and his face was pale, but he still answered Hao Chun. "Just keep it at home. You ask Lisa, she knows."

"Okay, I know you are a ruthless person." Hao Chun grinned indifferently.Now that he has gradually recovered from his serious illness for many years, he has become more energetic, and because he was raised by Chen Jingming, his face has a little more flesh, at least his cheekbones are no longer protruding.With his smile, the two plump petal lips became more and more alluring.

Chen Jingming stared blankly at the two petal lips, subconsciously tightened his fingers, wishing to strangle Hao Chun's bones, flesh and flesh into his body.

Hao Chun clicked his tongue, as if feeling pained, he withdrew his hand and looked down.

Chen Jingming's heart grew colder and colder.

Leng Buding wrapped his arms around his head like a snake, and Hao Chun's face that he hadn't gotten tired of seeing for more than 30 years moved closer.

—"Hey, Chen Jingming, are you always afraid that I will run away?"

Chen Jingming breathed heavily, and after a long while, he responded muffledly. "Um."

"You are stupid!" Hao Chun laughed at him. "It's agreed that we will die and return together. If you go to jail, I will definitely go to see you! At worst, it will be like the time in Ninth Middle School. I will climb into bed as soon as the hour comes. "

Chen Jingming's pale skin turned abnormally red, he pursed his lips, and smiled softly. "It may not be that day."

Chen Jingming, who smiles, is always extraordinarily good-looking.

Hao Chun couldn't take his eyes off his eyes. Finally, he smacked the man's head, brushed away the black hair that was in the way, and muttered, "Why do you keep your bangs?"

"You like it!" Chen Jingming chuckled, and took advantage of the situation to hug Hao Chun back, their foreheads touching their foreheads, like flounder.

Ten minutes later, the Cayenne parked silently outside Fangzihe Prison.

Chen Jingming and Hao Chun stood outside the car holding hands to welcome Brother Hao Zhou out of prison.The moment the door opened, Hao Chun didn't recognize it.

— "That's my dad?"

Hao Chunzui pouted and signaled Chen Jingming to help identify it.

Chen Jingming fixed his eyes on the old man with gray and white messy hair, paused for half a second, and then replied with certainty: "It's him."

Hao Chun slanted his right hand into his trouser pocket, and clicked his tongue a little bit unpleasantly. "He's hunchbacked."

"Ah."

"Forget it, I can go there by myself, you can just sit in the car." Hao Chun said and let go of Chen Jingming's hand, but just as he let go, he was caught again immediately.

"Let's go together," Chen Jingming interlocked his fingers forcefully, and said, "After all, he is your biological father."

Hao Chun squinted at him. "Don't you want to see him?"

"We're already married." Chen Jingming sighed in a rare way, and there was a little indulgence in his cold eyes. "Because of emotion and reason, I should go with you and see him once."

"Just this time?" Hao Chun sneered. "You have to control it, this is the gate of the prison, don't want to hit him again on impulse."

"Back then..." Chen Jingming hesitated to speak. "I didn't intend to really kill him back then. I just couldn't get angry and fought with him. Later, he was stopped by a motorcycle and I drove him to the side of the road."

Chen Jingming added another sentence. "At that time, I could see clearly from the rearview mirror that he just fell and was not run over by the wheels."

Hao Chun was silent for a while, then suddenly became high-spirited. "Okay, I believe what you say."

Hao Chun interrupted Chen Jingming's further explanation. "He's coming towards us."

Hao Zhoudi was carrying a bag, with gray-white hair, and he was so sluggish that he was far from the person Hao Chun remembered.小时候，他印象中的爸爸虽然谈不上良善，又爱揍他，但偶尔高兴了也会把他单手提起来，吼一句，儿子，咱们今晚出去吃顿好的！

At that time, Brother Hao Zhou was young and handsome, and he was born with a smiley appearance, which was very attractive to women.However, his mother died for so many years, and his father never remarried.

Hao Chun waved to Brother Hao Zhou. "dad!"

Brother Hao Zhou was startled, and looked up to see Hao Chun, with a gleam of light in his eyes, but the light froze instantly when he caught sight of Chen Jingming.Brother Hao Zhou shrank his neck, coughed repeatedly, and dropped his feet, as if he didn't even intend to recognize his son Hao Chun.

Hao Chun frowned and muttered dissatisfiedly. "He's afraid of you."

With a cold face, Chen Jingming took the initiative to shake off Hao Chun who was hugging him, and went forward to meet him.When he was five or six steps away from Hao Zhoudi, Hao Zhoudi shrank his neck and tried to escape.

"Ah Chun and I are married." Chen Jingming stood still, his voice restrained. "The two of us are here today to take you back to Hebei."

Hao Zhoudi turned his head, with a strange expression, half crying and half smiling. "you and him?"

Brother Hao Zhou pointed in Hao Chun's direction, and cursed through gritted teeth: "You two, you two are going to hell!"

"Achun is not my father's son." Chen Jingming looked at him quietly, every word was chilled. "He is your son."

Hao Zhoudi's pupils dilated for a moment, the corners of his mouth trembled uncontrollably, and his finger pointing at Hao Chun kept trembling. "No, I don't believe it, you, you are lying, you are going to hell."

"Believe it or not, but if you want to see it, I can take you to do a paternity test again." Chen Jingming briefly explained the business, and said lightly: "I have never liked you since I was a child. If you beat him, treat him badly." Okay, but you are his biological father after all. After you are released from prison, we will send you back to your old house in Jibei City. After that, you can receive 1 yuan of living expenses from this card every month."

Chen Jingming handed Hao Zhoudi a black bank card.

Hao Zhoudi raised his hand and knocked down the card, spat in a mouthful, and cursed: "I don't need your pity!"

Chen Jingming didn't go to pick up the card, but just quietly looked at the gray-haired and stooped man opposite. "Achun and I, we won't come back if there is nothing to do in the future. The living expenses given to you every month can guarantee your daily life. Of course, if you are really sick, you can also call me."

Chen Jingming paused, meaning something. "The phone number is written on the sticker on the back of the bank card. If you want to go back with us today, I'll send you off. If you don't want to, forget it."

Hao Zhoudi stared at him angrily, his red phoenix eyes were exactly the same as Hao Chun's.

Chen Jingming lowered his eyes and said the last sentence. "It doesn't matter whether you made a mistake in the identification report on purpose or unintentionally. I'm already with Ah Chun, and we will always be together in the future."

His answer was another spit full of anger.

Chen Jingming laughed out loud.Raising his eyes, it was the first time in his life that he solemnly stared at the man in front of him, his bottomless pupils were as deep as a cold pool. "You are his father, so I'll call you dad too. From now on, I will continue to contract your life, old age, sickness and death to the end, but you must have a bottom line. If you make me anxious, you will know the consequences."

Brother Hao Zhou kept making noises. "You fucked my own son, should I still be grateful to you?"

"Whatever you think." Chen Jingming turned around and walked back, beckoning to Hao Chunyao who had been keeping one hand in his trouser pocket. "Achun—!"

"Bah!" Hao Zhoudi cursed endlessly behind him.

Chen Jingming walked straight back to Hao Chun's side, and told him after wrapping up the confrontation just now. "Let's go back to the car first and wait for him for half an hour. If he still can't turn the corner after half an hour, let's leave it alone, okay?"

Hao Chun bared his teeth and grinned, with one hand in his trouser pocket, with a carefree expression on his face. "Three and 10 minutes is too long, remove the zero, let's just wait for him for 3 minutes."

"It's all up to you."

Under the sun, Chen Jingming kissed the corner of his mouth without hesitation. "You have already done what you should do, Ah Chun."

Hao Chun was noncommittal.

In fact, they waited for far more than 3 minutes, let alone half an hour. They stayed for more than 50 minutes. Hao Zhoudi stood there, spitting and cursing, not getting in the car, and not accepting their overtures.

"Let's go," Hao Chun kicked Chen Jingming with his toe. "He'll always go back to that old house."

Hao Zhoudi had no other assets, and all he could rely on was the house and the bank card that Chen Jingming gave him.

Chen Jingming pursed his lips. "Abin, let's go."

The black Cayenne starts.In the corner of the rearview mirror, they did see Hao Zhoudi suddenly stop cursing and bend over to pick up the card.

"Young Master Chen?" A Bin reminded Chen Jingming to look. "He took the card."

"En." Chen Jingming only answered one word, then turned to look at Hao Chun. "Go straight to the airport?"

"Wait a little longer," Hao Chun bared his teeth. "Go and see your grandpa again."

Chen Jingming was taken aback.

"Isn't our grandfather buried in Baima Mountain on the outskirts of Jibei City?" Hao Chun grinned heartlessly, as if everything he said was true. "The old man was nice to me back then, let's go and see him."

Chen Jingming sullenly did not say a word.It looks like it's screwed up again.

Hao Chun bumped him with his elbow, but Chen Jingming remained stern and motionless, so Hao Chun rolled his eyes, snapped, and pecked Chen Jingming's two thin lips.

Chen Jingming's face relaxed a little.

"It's unlikely that we will come back in the future. Just like my dad, I guess we can live for at least ten or twenty years." Hao Chun smiled wickedly, and bumped Chen Jingming with his elbow. "Hey, don't be like this, we just go to the grave to worship and leave."

"He doesn't deserve it!" Chen Jingming twisted his fists fiercely, almost as ferocious as gnashing his teeth. "He killed half of your life, he is not worthy of you to worship him!"

Hao Chun opened his mouth, thought for a while, and changed his words temporarily. "It's all old calendars, why do you still have to remember them?"

"Because that's your business!"

Hao Chun was stunned for a moment, then opened his mouth, trying to laugh like he used to, but finally closed his mouth.

"Ah Chun, you don't need to visit him. He was the one who was sorry for you." Chen Jingming said in a harsh voice, "I'm also... sorry for you."

Hao Chun rarely closed his mouth seriously, and looked at Chen Jingming seriously. "Chen Jingming?"

"Ok?"

Hao Chun looked seriously at Chen Jingming's dark and bottomless eyes, and there was a little bitterness in his throat.He didn't laugh today, and finally stopped acting, and said to Chen Jingming seriously: "I forgive you."

Chen Jingming's face shook.

"I can also forgive your grandfather," Hao Chun pressed Chen Jingming's hand, and sighed with a little regret. "In those years, he was the only elder who was kind to me. Even if he did..."

Hao Chun stopped talking and was silent for a while before concluding his statement with a sigh. "You're right, let's go straight back to Ohio!"

Chen Jingming was also silent.After a long time, he kissed the corner of Hao Chun's lips lightly. "good."

The black Cayenne headed silently along the expressway to the airport, passing a tollbooth with red lights flashing and a long queue of blocked vehicles.

Hao Chun turned his head and glanced at the flickering car lights outside the window, and suddenly smiled. "Look, Chen Jingming, these are the stars in the sky that I learned in my previous Chinese textbooks."

Chen Jingming followed his gaze and looked over. "Well, the car lights on the ground really look like stars in the sky."

Then Hao Chun turned his head, raised his thick eyebrows, and his pair of Danfeng eyes were shining brightly. "My Polaris is sitting in the car, Chen Jingming, I..."

Chen Jingming smiled dotingly, fully expecting that he would say next, Chen Jingming, I love you.

Unexpectedly, Hao Chun grinned and continued. "I am the funnel that catches the North Star."

Chen Jingming was startled.

Hao Chun approached with a smile and whispered to him quietly. "Funnel to catch stars, do I use this metaphor well?"

Chen Jingming couldn't help laughing, and raised his eyelids to look at him. "I haven't been your class monitor for a long time, and I don't check your homework. Do you want me to review or praise you?"

"I want you to praise me." Hao Chun smiled arrogantly.

So Chen Jingming coughed twice logically, with a sullen face, imitating the conversation they had when they were 15 years old in the third (third) class of Jinxing Middle School. "Ordinary funnels can't get stars, but!"

Chen Jingming deliberately suppressed and then raised, and then read out the "but" heavily, and slowly raised his thin lips under Hao Chun's astonished and dissatisfied eyes. "It is said that in the ancient East, there used to be a vine that was born in spring. That vine was a spiritual grass that accidentally descended into the mortal world. The fruit produced on that vine can naturally make a ladle. This ladle How long is it? It is said that this long-handled ladle is so long that if you fish it casually like this, you can get the brightest North Star in the sky."

"...Puff hahahahaha," Hao Chun laughed uncontrollably. "Hurry up, don't stop! Chen Jingming, you are so fucking fun!"

There was also a gentle smile in Chen Jingming's eyes, but he continued to make up nonsense with a straight face. "So, classmate, you use this metaphor very well! You vividly use the allusion of the ancient East, it is like an antelope with no trace of horns, natural, delicate, and agile! Classmate, you are simply a natural master of writing."

"Hahahaha-!"

On the congested highway, the black Cayenne is submerged in the long traffic flow, unremarkable.

The laughter of Chen Jingming and Hao Chun was gradually submerged in the crowd and the sound of wheels, as if it had never been here before, and it seemed like it would stay here forever.