rain is not far

Chapter 21

Zhong Yuan's singing was so charming that at the end of the song, he put down his guitar and stepped off the stage, and everyone's eyes still followed him.Until he saw him walking in front of Qi Shiyu who was buried in his head, stretched out his hand, and rubbed the hair of the man lying on the table.

The gazes of the people were either ambiguous or incomprehensible, but after all they disappeared in the dim light and looked at their companions or elsewhere.

Qi Shiyu hid to the side, whispered: "This is just an ordinary bar, please pay attention."

"Pay attention to what?" Zhong Yuan sat down beside him, "What's the difference?"

"Others will look at you." Qi Shiyu raised his chin and pointed to a table not far away, "Look, you can still talk in whispers like this."

A table of young boys over there were whispering together, Zhong Yuan smiled and said, "Maybe they are just discussing what to eat for supper."

Qi Shiyu was silent.

"Or, they are persuading their companions to come and strike up a conversation with you or me." Zhong Yuan smiled, "After all, we are so handsome."

"..."

"Someone told me a long time ago," Zhong Yuan took a sip of wine and looked into Qi Shiyu's eyes, "He said, 'Don't think you are abnormal, as long as you feel that way, no one can help you', at that time I am afraid of other people's strange eyes, and he told me to be brave."

After finishing speaking, Zhong Yuan's heart was pounding, carefully observing Qi Shiyu's reaction.

Will he remember?

Qi Shiyu drank three shots in a row, a layer of red spread on his face.He murmured: "I have been so brave before."

It was obviously a very low self-talk, but Zhong Yuan could hear it clearly.

"Later..." the ending turned into a long sigh, "There is nothing in this world that is enough to be brave. We always pay attention to the eyes of others, accept the scrutiny of others, and even the scrutiny of relatives. I am afraid that they will look at other people. look."

"So when I met He Jiale's grandma that day, you wouldn't let me take off my helmet?"

"Everyone in the neighborhood knows about me, but they don't dare to talk about it in person." Qi Shiyu laughed at himself, "Of course people of the same sex who hang out with me will be talked about. Granny Hei Xiaopang is a good person, but Broken mouth, you are a teacher, and if others find out, it will affect your work."

"What about He Dong?" Zhong Yuan said, "You two really hang out every day."

"Why do I smell a sour smell?"

"According to your business hours from ten o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock in the evening, the two of you have been together for more than sixty hours this week." Zhong Yuan raised the watch on his left wrist, and tapped the dial with his right index finger, "we Zhou Gang has been together for less than seven hours. More than 50 hours of vinegar must be sour."

Qi Shiyu was amused by his serious counting of time.

"Besides, you still have cult... CP fans." Zhong Yuan looked serious, "I learned from the little girl in my class, is that what you say?"

Qi Shiyu laughed and fell on him: "Hahaha, Mr. Zhong, you know too much."

Zhong Yuan took advantage of the situation to surround him.Qi Shiyu calmed down and said, "It's been so many years, except for those little girls on the Internet, no one has talked about me and Brother Dong for a long time."

Zhong Yuan made a gesture of listening carefully, there was no curiosity in those extremely beautiful eyes, only infinite tenderness, such a listener would make people feel safe.Qi Shiyu said: "That day at Lingkong Temple, I told you that with my brother's help, I left City A and went to City C to attend university."

Zhong Yuan nodded.

"Back then, Brother He had a small software studio in City C, and he was entrusted by my brother to take good care of me." Qi Shiyu said, "Brother He also lived in Baihua Lane when he was a child, and he was our neighbor. But he was not a local. His parents are still there, and they are running a small business in City B. He has been playing with my brother. Later, his parents left due to an accident. Brother He was in high school at the time, and he had a younger sister, so he came back In City C, he went to his relatives. He has been there ever since.”

"Originally, my plan was to go directly to Brother He's studio after graduation and do independent development with him. But in my senior year, my brother fell ill." Qi Shiyu choked on the wine and coughed twice. He patted his back, he blocked it with his hand, and continued, "My brother always had stomach pains before, but he didn't take it to heart. He is also doing independent software development, and his work is very busy, day and night. Until the stomach bleeds into The hospital only found out that it was already in the advanced stage of gastric cancer.”

"The disease was very painful. My brother suffered from it for half a year." Qi Shiyu said, "Because he was sick, I went home after graduating from my senior year and helped my parents and my sister-in-law to take care of him. At that time, my sister-in-law was already two months pregnant. When a woman is supposed to be pregnant, she should enjoy her blessings. My sister-in-law not only had to take care of her own body and take care of my brother, but also comforted her mother-in-law who was on the verge of collapse at the time.

"She is very brave." Zhong Yuan said.

"Yeah, the female fighter is very cool. I didn't know what to do other than help in the hospital." Qi Shiyu said, "Now that I think about it, she was the saddest person at that time—every day, she Gradually losing one's lover, that feeling of slowly cutting flesh with a knife..."

"Brother Dong came back at that time. I remember that day, in July, it rained heavily. Brother Dong held two suitcases in one hand and He Xi, who was not in junior high school at the time, stood at the door of my house and said to me A 'I'm here to help'."

"My brother's partner was thinking about my brother's failure at the time. My sister-in-law really didn't know anything about it, and she didn't know where to start. After Brother Dong came back, he took my brother's authorization letter , quickly dealt with my brother's company. It provided sufficient protection for my sister-in-law and the unborn child at that time."

"he……"

"His own studio in City C directly gave all the shares to the partners at the reserve price."

"Does your brother know?" Zhong Yuan hesitated for a moment before asking, "He Dong treats him..."

"Later I thought, maybe my brother knew about it." Qi Shiyu said, "We were all there when he left, and the last sentence he left to Brother Dong was sorry."

"Brother Dong has never mentioned his feelings to him from the beginning to the end. They have been best friends since childhood, but after Brother Dong went to City C, they lost contact. Until the year I went to City C, my brother It's just a phone call to him, which is weird."

"But in the last days of his life, Brother Dong put everything down and wanted to come back, and he took care of all the things that he couldn't do at that time. My brother may feel that he will never be able to repay him, whether it is materially or emotionally. He will leave that sorry."

"Does your sister-in-law know?"

Qi Shiyu's eyes were heavy: "She knows. In my brother's last days, Dong Ge kept running back and forth to help. My affairs made a big fuss back then, so it was inevitable that some neighbors would gossip and say that Dong Ge was my concubine. "

"One day their gossip was overheard by my sister-in-law. My sister-in-law had a big belly and scolded them." Qi Shiyu smiled as if recalling something, "Have I told you? My sister-in-law works for a newspaper Reporter, when you scold someone, you are citing scriptures and classics, and the posture at that time has continued to this day."

"Then I asked her why she was so angry. Do you know what she said to me?"

Zhong Yuan listened carefully.

"She said," Qi Shiyu paused, "Such pure feelings cannot allow these monsters to make irresponsible remarks."