Jiang Wang couldn't go out for a while.

It hurts self-esteem for an adult to be ridiculed in public, not to mention the slap in the face.

"What's the use of just rushing over here? Your father is so worried about it!" The woman looked old and miserable, and tried her best to vent all the pressure of life on Ji Linqiu: "For the sake of talking, you still have no expression at all. -You monster!"

Ji Linqiu moved, as if she heard what she actually wanted to say.

"You came to the provincial capital without telling me this time, but it was actually to give me a blind date, right." He said lightly: "I just stayed at my sister's house for two days and suffered a brain hemorrhage in the middle of the night. Is it because of me?"

The elderly mother Ji gave him a fierce look.

"We saved money for you to go to college back then, not to see your face now!"

"Now Dad is in the intensive care unit," Ji Linqiu's voice turned cold: "You still want me to leave him on a blind date, are you serious?"

The woman let out a long hiss and rushed forward to poke him on the shoulder in a heartache.

"Ji Linqiu, you are already 30 years old, do you know that?? Is there something wrong with you and you are not married yet??"

"Your father will be asked by leading colleagues as a joke during the holidays in the unit, and your mother will be asked by them when she returns to her parents' house. One or two think we don't treat you as a son."

"Did we owe you anything? Did we make any excessive demands?? We just want you to live like a normal person!"

Ji Linqiu was still looking at the figures in the ward. For a while, she seemed to filter out all the negative emotions she exerted, and said lightly, "Got it."

His sister was helpless and aggrieved by the side, but she didn't dare to participate in their conversation from beginning to end, as if she had acquiesced to a foreigner.

"Tomorrow at noon, you go to have dinner with the daughter of Uncle Tong's family. They are the most serious professors in the scholarly family. Give our old Ji family a fight!"

The femininity hasn't been vented yet, and she keeps poking him with her hand: "Don't be too nasty, can you hear me!"

Ji Linqiu suddenly pulled his arm back and looked at her coldly.

"You are herding cattle."

"What's the matter, I'm afraid I won't be able to stand up and let you hold your grandson?"

Mother Ji's face turned pale and pale, Jiang Wang had a premonition that the situation would not be rushed to save the scene, and the stern-faced nurse also appeared at the same time.

"What's the noise? This is the inpatient department, how many patients need to rest!"

"Trouble you guys have something to say, I'll call the security if I make trouble again!"

"Okay, let's not talk about it, let's not talk about it," Ji's mother changed back to her previous humble look, as if she had never lost her temper just now: "I'm sorry, I really caused you trouble."

Jiang Wang walked between them, seemingly unintentionally keeping Ji Linqiu behind him, smiling politely.

"Mr. Ji and I took turns driving the car all night and going to dinner without sleeping for a while at noon. It is estimated that it will be difficult to get well."

Ji's mother is very cooperative in other matters, but she insists on this kind of thing.

"There is no chance to miss such an opportunity. Sleeping after eating is also good for the stomach!"

"What chance?" Ji Linqiu raised his eyes and said, "Is there no chance of climbing a high branch and slamming into the door?"

Ji's mother didn't expect that the child who had always been submissive would dare to talk back, and in front of Jiang Wang's face, she stretched out her hand and tried to slap her face again.

But he was blocked by the man's two fingers.

"Auntie, it's not suitable." Jiang Wangpi said with a smile: "You also said that he is going to run three times."

Mother Ji sighed heavily and seamlessly switched back to the grudge mode, babbling about how difficult it was for her.

Jiang Wang was tired of hearing it, so he just shied away that the hospitalization procedures had not been completed, and dragged Ji Linqiu to the doctor's office to change to a temporary clean.

After about an hour or two, it was dawn, and Kuang Ye, whose brother-in-law was in the hospital, also rushed over.

This guy looks tall and looks like a brown bear, and he punched Jiang Wang as soon as they met.

"You brat is awesome! Toss me in the middle of the night!"

Jiang Wang smiled and said, "We have a deep relationship with each other. Isn't that the best way to get things done?"

He turned slightly and introduced each other to his friends.

"This is Teacher Ji, someone I respect very much."

"This is Kuang Ye, a friend I know in business and has a wide network of contacts in the provincial capital."

Ji Linqiu greeted him politely, and Kuangye shook his hand carelessly.

"Scholar, you look good at first glance, don't worry, I have specially instructed you about your father, and my brother will come to take care of him more when he comes back."

Ji Linqiu didn't sleep well all night, and he looked a little shaken when he bowed.

"It's really troublesome. I'll invite you to dinner tonight."

As the name suggests, Kuangye people are very wild, and even if their family has money, they fly around on a motorcycle all day long. Making friends is all about being happy.

Jiang Wang knew that it would be safe to leave it to him, and he would take care of his factory's business when he looked back, and also made a few jokes to lead Ji's mother and the others to come to know each other.

After ten o'clock in the afternoon, couldn't control the feeling of sleepiness, as if wanted to drain the arterial blood from the brain stem to the neck.

He was uncomfortable with it himself, and looked at Ji Linqiu with sympathy.

"Are you really going?"

"Quan should have a meal." Ji Linqiu laughed mockingly at himself: "I might be regarded as a phoenix man, so I can't talk a few words."

"Hey, can I go with you?"

Ji Linqiu was stunned and nodded in agreement.

"That's good," he seemed to finally be relieved: "It's all girls with female companions, and I'm the first to enjoy this treatment."

Ji's mother was satisfied as long as she saw that her son let go of the blind date, and worried that it would affect Jiang Wang's rest, so she pretended to be polite.

"My son, I haven't dared to be too close to girls since I was a child. Maybe I used to be too strict. I stared at him all day long for fear of having a puppy love." Ji Mu wiped her eyes, as if she had inherited twelve shares by herself. Ku: "It's good to have friends like you with me now, or it's good to be cheerful at last."

Jiang Wang's heart suddenly opened up, thinking that maybe you'll be staring at something wrong.

The restaurant is quite high-end. It is located in the revolving restaurant on the 22nd floor of the five-star hotel. When you look outside, you can glimpse the high-altitude landscape of the entire city.

The crystal lamps swirled and hung down like shells, and there were no creases on the crimson velvet tablecloth.

The girl is twenty-five this year, the pearl earrings are flickering, and she is very delicately dressed.

However, looking at the smirking expression of the female companion beside her, there is a high probability that she was forced by her parents.

The good dishes were served one by one during the banquet, Jiang Wang ate slowly, and his attention was basically on Ji Linqiu.

He found this man really interesting.

Men are almost like bears. When they meet a good-looking girl, they can't help but look at their chest and buttocks, but the degree of disguise is different.

Jiang Wang observed for a while, and found that Ji Linqiu was always distracted and didn't even look at the other girl.

Even if people go to the bathroom halfway, they don't even bother to look at their slender calves.

No, are you really afraid of women?

Ji Linqiu was sleepy all the way to the point of strong support, but he was polite and polite, and his appearance was clear.

Jun, in fact, is very fond of the two little girls.

The blind date's female companion originally wanted to be a background board, but she couldn't help chatting along, and even held her face and focused on Ji Linqiu.

The girl on the opposite side was more interested in Jiang Wang, and when the meal was over, she specifically asked if he was single.

"The second marriage has a child," Jiang Wang was also afraid of disturbing the good things of the Huang family, so he refused with a smile: "The child is eight years old."

The girl expressed her deep regret and left with a few words of emotion in her arms.

They spent a total of four days in the provincial capital.

In the four days, he was arranged to have three blind dates, either to eat or to drink coffee. Instead, he was only free to watch the old man at night.

Ji Linqiu always has a sense of distance and is very polite to girls.

One of them was slightly tempted and politely avoided by him.

Jiang Wang saw something, and when the hospital accompanied the bed, Ji Linqiu went to the small garden in the hospital to breathe.

The small garden is not big, and only two or three old people are pushed out in wheelchairs for a walk.

The afternoon sun fell on them, and the mottled light spots were a little messy.

"What's wrong, I'm in a bad mood." Jiang Wang walked slowly with him with a cigarette in his mouth, feeling that he was getting closer and closer to the truth of his previous life: "Those relatives gossiping or something...just for a sense of superiority."

"They are all married and have children, so they can compare and give some pointers on this kind of thing."

"But... are you deliberately avoiding girls?"

Ji Linqiu stood under the plane tree, looked at him for a while and said, "Teach me to smoke."

Jiang Wang was noncommittal: "It's not a good thing, don't learn."

Ji Linqiu stared at him.

Jiang Wang sighed, and handed him the white sand he had just taken two puffs, so as not to waste good things.

"Inhale, then exhale through your nose, don't choke."

Ji Linqiu hesitated for two seconds, taking the cigarette and still looking at it.

"I hate my saliva." Jiang Wang was too lazy to care about these, and was used to being bold in the barracks: "Wait, I'll order you another one."

Ji Linqiu shook his head and took a deep breath.

Then he suddenly choked into his lungs, his eyes reddened by the smell of tar, and he coughed while covering his mouth.

His aggrieved look is beautiful.

It seems to be particularly easy to bully, but also very stubborn.

If you cough hard, your eyelashes will be dripping with tears, and the sound of breathing will be broken.

Jiang Wang took the cigarette and took another puff to show him.

"Use your nose, look at me."

Ji Linqiu looked at it in a trance, like him holding the cigarette between his fingers, and repeated it with a cold look in his eyes.

The broken shadows of the sycamore branches and leaves shrouded them, as if giving temporary shelter.

Jiang Wang looked at his former teacher and repeated deep breaths for the first and second times. The movements became more and more proficient, and the light in his eyes gradually dimmed.

He suddenly realized that Ji Linqiu was also an ordinary person.

An ordinary person who is dazed and irritable when dealing with family relations like him.

He always looked at him with a halo, intentionally or not, and Ji Linqiu was so handy in taking care of children, sometimes giving Jiang Wang the illusion that he could handle everything.

After the filter was broken, he felt closer, and even had a kind of sympathy when he met the same kind.

Ji Linqiu finished smoking Jiang Wang's whole piece of white sand, put the cigarette butt in the gravel bowl of the garbage can, and threw it into the basket of harmful garbage.

Jiang Wang witnessed the whole process and thought that a good teacher is indeed a good teacher.

He asked when the two went back.

"how do you feel?"

"I'm so dizzy." Ji Linqiu sighed, "I won't smoke in this life."

Jiang Wang laughed directly.

The old man woke up in the afternoon after the operation, but he was very tired and his words became very few.

After he was transferred from the icu, Ji's mother stayed there for the whole process, and his daughter was responsible for stewing soup and medicine at home, taking care of him diligently.

The old lady is like a strict housekeeper, reporting everything to him every day in every detail.

Although Father Ji is still not very able to move, he will narrow his eyes and listen, then nod his head and shake his head heavily.

At this time, Mother Ji will look back at Ji Linqiu with tears in her eyes.

Jiang Wang didn't have much family memory in his two or three lifetimes, and he felt his scalp tighten as he watched the situation on Ji Linqiu's side for two or three days.

Shit, this is too suffocating.

Before they left, they actually went on a blind date for the fourth time, and they went back to the city after eating.

This time, a second-married woman with a four-year-old child was sitting across from her. The child was either shouting to hear the story or poking the dishes with chopsticks. The two of them reluctantly smiled and accompany them. They quietly packed two hamburgers and chicken wings. Ji's family saw it.

"You'll think about it when you go back. Let's transfer the work to the provincial capital early on the basis of relationships, okay?" Ji's mother changed back to her loving mother's appearance at this time, her face full of concern: "Mom is the most worried about you, The family also has money to marry you a daughter-in-law, and we keep all the dowry your sister received back then."

"Cook well at home alone, usually go to bed early and change homework before too late, and be obedient."

Ji Linqiu agreed perfunctorily and waved goodbye to his family.

Jiang Wang didn't slow down until he drove the car into the high speed, feeling like he was taking Teacher Ji away from the clutches.

They could have gone home at three o'clock in the afternoon to have dinner together, but it was already evening when they went back, and it was estimated that they would arrive late at night.

There are many sections of the national highway without lights, relying solely on the lights to guide the way, it is very troublesome to walk.

The traffic broadcast rambled about today's news, the sound of hunting wind was outside the window, and the world suddenly turned into a boring straight line.

Jiang Wang noticed that Ji Linqiu had been silent, worried that he was in a bad mood, and comforted him.

"My parents left early, in fact, I still envy you a bit, after all, I can accompany them." The man tried not to poke at his difficulties: "But... don't put yourself in for a few nice words of others. "

"Even if you're married, they can't gossip. If you're late for giving birth, and your child's grades are not good, people can still tell you what to do."

Ji Linqiu hummed softly.

He likes to lean against the car window in a daze, but such a posture will reveal his slender neck and look extra fragile.

"It's good to have a good eye. It's okay, brother, I'll look back and find a few suitable ones for you. Let's play and get along with each other first."

"No."

"Jiang Wang," Ji Linqiu looked flat into the dark distance, "I'm gay."

The man was stunned for a moment, then smiled again: "What's the matter, little thing."

He didn't expect it to be like this.

Jiang Wang received a lot of clients in his past life, and he did meet a lot of gays.

He doesn't show any shyness, even when the women or men tease him in front of him, and the tone of conversation is as natural as a husband and wife.

He was too lazy to think about why some people liked people of the same gender, but there was still a subtle conflict in his heart.

I just never thought about it,

In such a close place, the teacher who I value and is close to is also gay.

For a moment, he wanted to persuade Ji Linqiu to open up, but he soon realized that this was a very arrogant idea.

——It seems that men choose to be with the same sex when they really can’t live with women.

So much so that saying, "It's okay, I don't discriminate," or "Are you afraid of women?" will turn into a ridicule of unknown color.

After thinking about it, in the end, he was very cautious and said something in a euphemistic tone.

"Still pay attention to safety."

Ji Linqiu understood what he was saying, just shook his head and smiled.

"Don't pay attention."

"I'm a man, but I can't get close to women."

"I'm gay but hate men touching me."

"After thinking about it, maybe I'm nothing and shouldn't exist from the beginning."

Jiang Wang's eyes froze, realizing that when Ji Linqiu said that he had never been in love at all, he meant that he had never had close contact with either men or women.

"No..." He slowed down and finally turned his head to look at Ji Linqiu: "You don't need to force yourself into this."

"In fact, if I dare to tell any parent that I'm gay, I don't want a job, and even the landlord won't rent me a house."

When Ji Linqiu mentioned this, there was a kind of detached calm, as if he was not talking about himself at all.

"Have you...did something bad happen to you?"

"No," he said slowly, "it's just that when I'm touched by other men, my mind will immediately remind me that I'm gay."

"And that thought was enough to make me hate myself."

"I've been to Qingba, and I've met some similar people."

"Some people hide carefully and discreetly, and even force themselves to marry and have sex with women."

"There are also people who choose to play and indulge directly. They are on the way to have sex every day, and there are endless covers in their bags."

When Ji Linqiu said this, he was quite self-sacrificing. He was probably suppressed by his family so hard these days that he had to say it at the risk of losing Jiang Wang as a friend.

"I'm not like anyone."

"I'm like a wild goose that strays and flies south every winter. Jiang Wang, have you seen it?"

"I got lost, I got lost, I didn't know where to go if I flew north, and I couldn't go back at all if I went south."

"Jiang Wang, I am that goose."

Jiang Wang turned to look at him again, slowly stepped on the brakes and stopped the car, his voice low.

"Mr. Ji, if I touch you, will you feel sick too?"

In fact, when he first met him, Ji Linqiu avoided it.

Xingxing was sleeping soundly at the teacher's house that day, and when Ji Linqiu sent it all the way to the house, his wet hair was stained with ash on the wall, and he wanted to help remove it.

Just didn't expect this to be the case.

Jiang Wang deliberately omitted this memory and proposed again as if he had never tried it.

"Maybe it's just overthinking things, and things aren't that complicated."

Ji Linqiu lowered her eyebrows in silence, and nodded for a while.

"I'll touch your shoulder," the man said gently. "Don't be afraid, I'll wait for you to relax before putting the entire palm on it."

Ji Linqiu had already caught his breath, and nodded again tamely.

The body has begun to tremble slightly.

Jiang Wang moved very slowly, and under his gaze, he stretched out his hand and approached his shoulder little by little.

Then felt Ji Linqiu's body trembling even more.

"Relax," he laughed. "It's not the end of the world. We all have to go to work tomorrow."

"I put my finger down."

His palms were dry and warm, and when they covered his shoulders, the gentle smell of a beast was like the spread of temperature from point to surface.

Then silently count for five seconds, then slowly remove it.

Ji Linqiu took a deep breath for a while.

"It's me being hypocritical." He laughed at himself: "That's right, I usually get patted on the shoulder by the leader, and some like to hug people."

The car moved slowly, Jiang Wang turned the radio loud again, as if nothing had happened just now.

"You know what I'm thinking?"

"I don't know." Ji Linqiu's prevention mechanism has not been lifted, and he lowered his eyes and said, "When most people hear the word gay, their first reaction is AIDS and messing around."

"Not really," Jiang Wang yawned: "What I thought was, okay, I'm finally equal to you."

"Equality?" Ji Linqiu didn't expect him to use this word.

"I used to always look up to you, feeling that you understand everything and don't seem to have any weaknesses." Jiang Wang laughed, feeling very naive: "I used to see you taking care of Xingwang too much, and I felt like I was with Xiao Xingwang. Children have a bunch of stinky problems, you are all right."

"It turns out that Teacher Ji will be so embarrassed by his family that he can't speak, and he can't wait for eighty blind dates a day."

"Ouch, I suddenly got a lot closer."

Ji Linqiu couldn't help laughing.

"Look at your schadenfreude."

Jiang Wang didn't want him to be sad, so he changed the subject casually.

"By the way, I bought a new house."

"Dong?"

"Well, I picked up the leaks and copied the low price, and built a small villa with a yard." He was happy again, and put all his unhappiness behind him: "I can dig a small pond to raise koi, or I can give Peng Xingwang a look. Make a swing."

Ji Linqiu listened fascinatedly, and from time to time corrected some of his fanciful fantasies.

While chatting happily, Peng Xingwang called.

"Hey—big brother—"

"I haven't slept yet," Jiang Wang was used to this kid coming out to post at any time: "Did you have fun at the summer camp?"

"Today we went chasing the rabbit! Almost chasing him!"

Jiang Wang vaguely felt that something was wrong, explained that he was still driving, and asked Ji Linqiu to chat with him.

The child did not expect that he would be able to chat with his dearest teacher Ji, and the sweetness of his voice instantly jumped ten points.

"Mr. Ji!! I miss you so much!! I also made a great gift for you, you wait for me to bring it back to you in a few days!!"

As soon as Ji Linqiu heard Peng Xingwang's phone call, he unconsciously relaxed, with a smile on the corners of his eyes and brows.

"Can't climb trees, be careful to break your arms."

"But there are squirrels on it!! I really want to touch squirrels!!"

They chatted on the speakerphone for more than ten minutes, and Jiang Wangbian listened while driving, interrupting from time to time.

In the end, the child hung up the phone reluctantly, saying that the teacher in the camp urged him to go back to sleep.

"Actually, I sneaked out to call you! Remember to miss me tomorrow!"

Both men had no choice but to agree.

When drove home again, it seemed warm in the car and the stars were bright in the sky.w, please keep in mind:,