Honey Passion Fruit

Chapter 24

In the sophomore year of high school, Hu Di chose science, which he was good at, just like Hu Zheng.Their parents didn't want to cut off the road of folk music at home, so they looked at the silent Hu Xiao with some hope.

"I'm going to take the art test."

The parents were overjoyed: "Do you want to learn Yangqin from your mother, or learn Erhu from me?"

"Don't embarrass the child, these two are what he learned to play when he was a child, let's play Xiao, after all, he has practiced for so many years..."

"I want to learn to draw." Hu Xiao gave an answer that no one expected.

"Son, if you continue to learn flute, you will definitely go to the best music academy when you come back. Why do you want to learn painting on a whim? No one in our family can do it. It's hard to say how well you learn..."

Father Hu held his flute: "When you were young, you always said that you liked the flute. You cared about it all day long, and you even gave him a name. You forgot? Learn how to draw well."

"Learning to paint is because I want to learn." He took the flute from his father and knocked it on the table vigorously, causing the top-quality flute to crack.

"I don't want to learn flute because I don't care anymore."

He turned and went upstairs without looking back, as if he heard his mother crying.

"How did the child become like this..."

Hu Di entered the key science class, and Hu Xiao went to the art test class as he wished.Naturally, the learning atmosphere here does not require key classes, and the teacher just turns a blind eye to many things, such as studying, bullying, and the long hair that Hu Xiao secretly grows.

The two brothers and sisters never went home together again, and Hu Di rarely saw Hu Xiao because he stayed in his room most of the time.Occasionally met in the living room, Hu Xiao's gloomy eyes often make Hu Di lose sleep.When she couldn't sleep, she would think about why her brother became like this. Hu Di missed the gentle brother who looked weaker than herself but still protected her, but he was gone.

Hu Di bit the tip of her pen and was puzzled by an English reading comprehension question. She subconsciously pushed open the door of Hu Xiao's room, only to see Hu Xiao hiding something in a panic.Only then did Hu Di wake up from his obsession with learning.

"Sorry, I forgot to knock on the door."

Hu Xiao said it didn't matter, anyway, no matter how many times I said it before, Hu Di would come in directly.

"The answer to this question is D, why?" Hu Di spread the test paper on Hu Xiao's blank math paper.

Hu Xiao looked up at her: "I failed in English."

"I know you did it on purpose, your English is good." Hu Di sat by the bed and acted like a baby to Hu Xiao.

Hu Xiao couldn't hold back her, so he looked down at the question.

Hu Di's eyes flicked around on Hu Xiao's desk, and found the draft book that Hu Xiao hid under the pile of books.She opened it and found that there were various skirts painted by Hu Xiao inside.

Hu Xiao also stopped thinking the moment he opened the draft book.Just as he was about to reach out to grab it back, he heard Hu Di say,

Brother, these skirts of yours are so beautifully drawn.

"You still have a talent for drawing, I'm so envious! Do you want to learn fashion design after drawing so many clothes?"

Hu Xiao nodded after thinking for a long time, then told her not to tell her parents.

This became the first little secret shared by the two.

"You can mark the style you like." Hu Xiao didn't say what it was for, but Hu Di still picked two pictures.

"Come and see the question."

Hu Di approached and heard his brother explaining the idea of ​​the question and the analysis of the options, and thought in a trance that they had returned to the time when they were most intimate.

"understand?"

After Hu Di understood, Hu Xiao returned the paper to her, and looked down at the math problem that he couldn't do.

Hu Di glanced at it, pointed to the picture and said to add an auxiliary line here.

"Brother, you can tutor me in English in the future, and I will tutor you in math."

"No." Hu Xiao quickly declined, "You don't need my tutoring for your English level, and I don't want to waste your time."

That cold brother is back again.

"Then I... can I still ask you questions in the future?"

"can."

Except for Hu Di, the family has almost no communication with Hu Xiao.It wasn't that his parents didn't love him, they still took good care of Hu Xiao, washed him, and served him meals, but both of them tacitly stopped talking.

Hu Xiao signed up to go to other places for training in the summer vacation between the second and third year of high school, and spent the whole summer vacation boring in the studio painting.He still remembers the morning when the whole family sent him to the airport. There was a door with his mother, father, brother and sister on one side, and himself pulling the suitcase on the other. At that time, he felt that it should be like this. Even better, because I am redundant.

He frugals outside, sneaks in makeup and a wig, and tries to look more like a woman for the first time.He looked in the mirror and saw the androgynous man in the mirror laughing and crying again.He grabbed the cosmetics at hand and threw them at the mirror, leaving the bathroom in a mess.

He felt sick, like he made other people feel sick.He lay on the toilet and retched, wondering why he couldn't get rid of this quirk, why he couldn't control himself.At that time, no one guided him or told him that this was not abnormal or disgusting.

What he didn't know was that during the summer vacation, his brother Hu Zheng taught his family a serious lesson.

When filling in the application form, Hu Zheng gave up finance, which he wanted to study, and chose sociology.

At that time, he said: "I want to know what he thinks every day."

He spends his spare time researching people like Hu Xiao, writing papers, and setting up projects. He seems to understand Hu Xiao, but he doesn't.But at least he understood that everything he did to Hu Xiao before was wrong, and he could not undo it.He learned to understand and accept this crowd, and told his parents what to do.

There was endless silence in the living room, and then Hu's mother's voice sounded, with a crying tone.

"Our past two years...how can we make up for it..."

Hu Zheng also told them that Hu Xiao probably likes boys.

"According to the data, this is the case, but he may also like girls, but the probability is very small."

"So, I'll give you a vaccination first. No matter when Hu Xiao falls in love, or not, I hope you don't mind this."

Homosexuals were also discriminated against for their parents' generation. Hu's mother was hit one after another and almost fainted.

"How...how could this be..."

Hu Xiao was completely unaware of all this, but being sensitive, he could feel the subtle changes in his family's attitude towards him.But his parents still don't know how to communicate and apologize, so the tacit silence has continued until now.

After the college entrance examination, the school held a graduation ceremony, and their parents still bought them new clothes.

"Finally, I don't have to wear school uniform all day long!" Hu Di happily twirled around with her new skirt in her arms.

And Hu Xiao went upstairs with new clothes.

No one present would forget what happened three years ago, but Hu Xiao was hurt even more deeply.

The graduation ceremony was held in the afternoon of the next day, and that morning Hu Di took the skirt and went to Hu Xiao's room.

"Brother, do you want to try it? I think it looks pretty." Hu Di handed over the skirt.

Hu Xiao's eyes lingered on the skirt, light yellow, youthful and warm; gleaming gauze, dazzling like broken stars; chic tailoring, unique, one can spot it in the crowd at a glance.

It is very suitable for the flute, but not for the flute.

"No, Mom and Dad bought it for you." He looked away, but he didn't know where to look.

"Then will you go to school with me? I want to go outside and put on makeup first, to look more beautiful." Hu Di smiled shyly, with the sunshine that should be at this age.

Hu Xiao pursed her lips: "Let me make up for you."

Hu Xiao gathered the broken hair behind his ears, took a leather ring and tied it up casually.

Hu Di was stunned, Hu Xiao's movements just now were natural, smooth and beautiful.She thinks her brother is beautiful.

What shocked her even more was that Hu Xiao's drawer was full of cosmetics.

He earned a fortune from receiving manuscripts.

Hu Di looked at her exquisite self in the mirror, she never thought she could look so good-looking.

"Brother, you are too powerful!"

Hu Xiao smiled, but didn't tell him how he got such a skilled technique.

Hu Di saw Hu Xiao's shoulder-length hair again, and was very envious.

"Art students have privileges." She pouted, looking at her short hair that only went over the ears.

Hu Xiao thought for a moment, then took out two wigs from the depths of the closet.

"Want to try it?" Hu Xiao asked Hu Di to choose, "They are all new, I have never used them before."

Hu Di's hand paused, and finally pointed to a wig with curls at the end.

Hu Xiao helped her put it on and touched up her makeup, fastened beautiful clips on her, and asked her to wear the skirt to see the effect.

"The little princess has grown up." Hu Xiao looked at her and smiled.

"Thank you brother!"

"Thank you." Hu Xiao said, thanking his kind sister for not asking anything.

Hu Xiao declined to go to school with Hu Di, but dressed herself up after Hu Di went out, and took out the skirt that was also hidden deep in the closet.Because it was pressed too hard, there were several folds on it, and the cheap skirt looked different from Hudi's.

My sister is a real princess, and I am just a fake product.

He changed into a skirt when he went to the public toilet in the shopping mall, and went into a dessert shop to buy himself a small cake.

"Hey, Hu Xiao, happy graduation."