Chapter 44
Chapter 44
This is not the first time that Yan Xiaomu has been in such a situation. In the past, when it was severe, he would even experience shortness of breath and chest tightness. Fortunately, this time, being held in Xu Qingqiao's arms, his mood stabilized much faster than usual.
When Yan Xiaoyue poured water over, Yan Xiaomu finally calmed down. Although his face was still a little pale and his forehead was sweating a lot, he didn't feel chest tightness or shortness of breath anymore.
Xu Qingqiao let go of him, took the water glass from Yan Xiaoyue's hand, and handed it to Yan Xiaomu for him to drink.
Yan Xiaomu held the water glass instead of looking at Lin Xiangyu, and turned his body slightly, facing Xu Qingqiao's direction, as if he was afraid that Lin Xiangyu would say something hurtful again, or that Xu Qingqiao would run away and really go on a blind date with someone else.
Lin Xiangyu glanced at Yan Xiaomu, then at Xu Qingqiao, with a sad expression on her face, and said slowly, "So Qingqiao, you are sure that you like men."
What he said was a declarative sentence, but he used a rhetorical tone.
The words are straightforward, but there is really no need to hide them. It is better to speak out now.
It's not unreasonable for Lin Xiangyu to ask this question. After so many years, Yan Xiaomu's liking for men is an established fact that cannot be changed, but they still don't know what Xu Qingqiao really thinks.
"Aunt Lin, I'm sorry to trouble you, but I really don't like women. I'm really sorry." Xu Qingqiao said, "I'm here this time to ask you to allow me to be with Xiaomu."
It happened that her grandson was crying in the room, so Lin Xiangyu asked Yan Xiaoyue to bring Yan Xiaomu in to comfort the child.
Yan Xiaomu was unwilling to move, Xu Qingqiao glanced at him, and then he slowly got up from his seat.
Yan Xiaomu left, and Lin Xiangyu finally spoke up, "You should know about Xiaomu's situation, I now realize that I was really wrong before, I thought I could change him, but I didn't expect to force him into this look..."
Halfway through speaking, Lin Xiangyu choked her throat, rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand, and continued, "I don't have any other demands on him now, as long as he is safe and healthy."
Xu Qingqiao said, "Aunt Lin, don't worry, I will take good care of him."
"Auntie is sorry for you, but you should be able to understand Auntie's heart as a mother. Auntie's original intention is all for the good of her own children."
Even if she used the wrong way to bind and hurt her children for so many years in the name of love.
Many tragedies cannot be blamed on one person, Xu Qingqiao doesn't blame her, and can understand everything she said and did, just like Lin Xiangyu said just now that he would introduce someone to him, he also knew that it was Lin Xiangyu's temptation and self-seeking peace of mind .
So he used an affirmative tone, giving Lin Xiangyu peace of mind, "In the past few years since I broke up with Xiaomu, I haven't found anyone else, so I'm pretty sure that I like Xiaomu."
During dinner, Yan Xiaomu proposed to return to city A with Xu Qingqiao early, Lin Xiangyu didn't say anything against it, but told him not to cause too much trouble for others.
Regardless of homosexuality, Xu Qingqiao is indeed the best candidate for "son-in-law". If Yan Xiaomu is destined to only be with men in this life, he chooses Xu Qingqiao, Lin Xiangyu is relatively at ease.
When they were leaving, Lin Xiangyu and Yan Xiaoyue sent them to the gate of the community. Yan Xiaomu didn't want to cry at first, but before getting into the car, he saw the two fresh-keeping boxes that Lin Xiangyu handed over, and finally couldn't help but shed tears.
There are sliced apples and strawberries in the crisper, for two people, just like many years ago.
It seems like everything has changed, and it seems like nothing has changed.
"Why are you crying?" Lin Xiangyu patted him on the arm, "You are too grown up, don't cry. Take the fruit to eat on the way, and mom will always answer your phone calls from now on."
The two cities were not far away, Yan Xiaomu just went back to work, and would come back every now and then, and now it was like a big girl getting married, Lin Xiangyu didn't like being so sad, so she rushed Yan Xiaomu into the car, don't delay and let Xu Qingqiao drive late.
Feeling sad, Yan Xiaomu ate half of the box of fruit as soon as he got on the expressway. His appetite was so good that he would feed Xu Qingqiao a few mouthfuls from time to time.
After eating sweets, it is easy to get sleepy. In the end, Yan Xiaomu fell asleep with his head tilted while holding the crisper.
He just fell asleep all the way, and when he woke up, the car had already driven into a strange neighborhood, Yan Xiaomu rubbed his eyes and looked around for a long time without reacting.
It was not too early to return to City A, and Yan Xiaomu stayed at Xu Qingqiao's place tonight.
Although the house is rented, it is a duplex. There is a wall-mounted staircase leading to the second floor. The living room is downstairs and the sleeping area is upstairs.
"All the money was used to start a business." Xu Qingqiao said, "The house is temporarily rented."
Yan Xiaomu didn't react in a daze, but Xu Qingqiao continued, "I'll buy a house when I earn money."
"Don't worry." Yan Xiaomu shook his head, "Don't work too hard."
"It's not hard." Xu Qingqiao said, "It's true that I didn't think about the house before, but it's different now."
Yan Xiaomu tilted his head, but he didn't understand what he meant.
Xu Qingqiao explained: "If you are alone, you can do whatever you want. It is better to buy a house for two people."
Yan Xiaomu nodded vigorously: "Then I will start saving money from now on and buy it with you."
"No need." Xu Qingqiao rubbed his earlobe, "Xiaomu can earn money and spend it by himself, didn't he mean to buy a house for mom?"
"Okay..." Yan Xiaomu nodded obediently, and grabbed the strap of his backpack with lowered hands, "Then don't work too hard."
"I've said that before." Xu Qingqiao reminded him.
Yan Xiaomu said again: "Anyway, don't work too hard."
Xu Qingqiao could always see that Yan Xiaomu's backpack had been changed, but the pendant on the bag was still the penguin doll pendant from back then. He also remembered that it was a gift from Yan Xiaomu's children's set meal when they went to eat steak together.
Yan Xiaomu sympathized with Xu Qingqiao's driving all day, and after taking a shower, he obediently went upstairs to sleep without making a fuss.
When Xu Qingqiao went upstairs, she saw that Yan Xiaomu was shrinking to the edge of the bed, so she hugged him a little bit in the middle of the bed, and after taking a shower, she saw that Yan Xiaomu woke up at some point, and was sitting with her hair on her head in a daze. The middle of the bed was in a daze.
"Why did you wake up?" Xu Qingqiao walked over to check the temperature of the air conditioner to make sure he wasn't woken up by the heat.
Yan Xiaomu didn't speak, but rubbed his eyes.
Knowing that he was afraid of the heat, Xu Qingqiao turned down the air conditioner twice before going to bed.
The T-shirt Yan Xiaomu wore to sleep did not know how to sleep. The corners of the clothes were lifted up, revealing a small part of his white belly. Xu Qingqiao went over to help him straighten his clothes and asked him why he didn't sleep.
The corners of Yan Xiaomu's mouth were puckered, and his complexion was not very good. Xu Qingqiao wasn't sure if he was angry after getting up or was in a bad mood again, so he asked him, "Have you taken your medicine today?"
"No." Yan Xiaomu pursed his lips, "I'm cured, so I won't eat."
Xu Qingqiao said: "I just finished calling your mother and said that you can't stop taking this medicine casually, so I have to watch you take it for a while."
"I won't eat." Yan Xiaomu shook his head, "I'm cured."
Xu Qingqiao knew that Yan Xiaomu had always been obedient, but now that he was sick, he would occasionally get emotional, so there was no way to hurt him.
Maybe it was because Yan Xiaomu just woke up, so he was not very sleepy, and he was tossing and turning in bed with Xu Qingqiao.
Xu Qingqiao held him down in the dark, and heard him say, "Do you think the doctor prescribed sleeping pills for me? Otherwise, why would I not be able to fall asleep once I stopped taking the pills?"
Xu Qingqiao had gotten used to sleepiness these past few years, so she was not sleepy at this time, so she took Yan Xiaomu into her arms and talked to him.
"When did Xiaomu stop wearing cartoon pajamas?"
"It's long gone!"
"When did you stop wearing them?"
"last year."
"......Um."
"You like my pajamas?"
"Those pajamas are so cute, why don't you wear them?"
"I'll wear it if you like it. I just haven't lost it yet. It's always in the closet."
"Put it on, you look good in that."
"I knew you liked it, do you want it? I'll buy you two from Taobao?"
"...No, I can wear whatever I want."
"It's too late today, I'll buy it for you tomorrow, or we can wear couple pajamas, I just saw a set before, and thought I'd never be able to wear it, it's Mickey and Minnie, you wear Mickey and I wear Minnie, okay? ?”
Xu Qingqiao finally laughed softly, pinched Yan Xiaomu's shoulders, and approached his face very close, looking at him in the dark, "Why are you Minnie, wouldn't it be good to buy two Mickeys?"
"Oh, oh..." Yan Xiaomu reacted with a blushing face, but after a while she felt something was wrong, and pouted her lips to retort, "But Mickey's size is too big, I still wear Minnie. .”
Xu Qingqiao didn't continue this topic, she stroked Yan Xiaomu's lips with her fingertips, pressed them to kiss him.
That night, Yan Xiaomu was coaxed to call her husband several times, and he tossed and tossed until the middle of the night. After using up two covers, the bedroom regained its tranquility.
The next day, Xu Qingqiao held a video conference all morning in the living room on the first floor. Yan Xiaomu didn't wake up until almost noon, as if he hadn't woken up yet, and walked down the stairs in a daze with bare feet.
There were still a few steps left when Xu Qingqiao came out of the kitchen. When she saw him, she carried him to the sofa beside her and asked him why he wasn't wearing shoes.
"I'm sleepy..." Yan Xiaomu pressed his face against his shoulder, and closed his eyes again.
Xu Qingqiao thought of something, and said to him: "There are still three days before the National Day, and the company happens to be fine these two days, we can go out for a walk after dinner."
When it comes to rice, Yan Xiaomu smelled the aroma of food in the air, and raised his head, "It smells so good, have you cooked?"
Xu Qingqiao said: "It's almost ready, I just wanted to go upstairs and call you."
Yan Xiaomu embarrassedly grabbed the corner of Xu Qingqiao's clothes: "I've been sleeping late, so I can't help...I can't sleep now, or I can't wake up, it's really annoying."
Xu Qingqiao remembered that Yan Xiaomu used to have a regular schedule when he was not sick, and his emotions suddenly became so complicated that he couldn't ask Yan Xiaomu for anything. He just wanted to give infinite tenderness and patience to this good boy in front of him.
"I don't hate it." Xu Qingqiao reached out and pinched the back of his neck, and touched behind his ear, "You can't stop the medicine you took before. After eating, let's go to the hospital and ask the doctor to prescribe some more, and then take it for a while. Enough."
Xu Qingqiao saw that Yan Xiaomu's medicine box was empty when he was helping Yan Xiaomu organize his backpack in the morning, so he called Lin Xiangyu to find out that this person left all the medicines at home in City C.
"Are you okay?" Xu Qingqiao asked him.
"Okay." This time Yan Xiaomu obeyed obediently.
All the dishes were light, Yan Xiaomu only ate the vegetables but not the rice. In the end Xu Qingqiao added some meat floss to the rice, and Yan Xiaomu started to eat the meat floss and the rice.
Halfway through the meal, Yan Xiaomu suddenly said, "I know I'm sick."
Xu Qingqiao happened to be picking up some food for him, when he heard him say, "I will obediently take the medicine, and I will be fine soon."
These words seemed to be for others to listen to, but also seemed to be self-encouraging. No matter what kind of words, Xu Qingqiao couldn't say that he didn't have any ups and downs in his heart, but at the moment, he really couldn't say anything other than silence.
After Yan Xiaomu finished speaking, he continued to bury his head in his meal. Xu Qingqiao stared at the top of his furry head, as if he saw the kid who had been with him since he was 15 years old. He had never had anything to do with the word depression. He was innocent and innocent. .
Xu Qingqiao didn't know if he could spend his whole life enough to make up for loving Yan Xiaomu.
But what he can be sure of is that he is willing to spend his life loving this person.
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