Wu Wan

Chapter 17

On the day they returned to their hometown, their tickets were in different carriages. Jiang Yi followed Zhao Duobao into the car, and at least changed seats with the person next to him, and sat down next to Zhao Duobao with peace of mind.

The journey was long, and the carriage was very noisy. Zhao Duobao rested with his eyes closed, and Jiang Yi continued to play with his mobile phone with his power bank.

It was already the morning of the second day when the train arrived at the station. The people in the hard-seat carriages showed various sleeping positions. Zhao Duobao woke up on Jiang Yi's shoulder. He froze for a moment and straightened up. Came, "Are you awake?"

Zhao Duobao nodded in embarrassment, twisted his neck, and Jiang Yi also raised his hand to rub his numb shoulder.

When he got off the bus and exited the station, Jiang Yi followed Zhao Duobao and walked out along the flow of people. Zhao Duobao glanced at him. He was tall and big, and it helped him block a lot of crowding in such a crowded place.

There is only one bus from the train station to the village where Zhao Duobao’s family lives. Buy a ticket at the north square of the train station and get on the bus. Once you get out of the station, it’s not so crowded. Abandon Jiang Yi, but Jiang Yi followed closely, not only did not get rid of him, but also got on the bus with him.

The bus departed when it was full. Zhao Duobao sat by the window, and Jiang Yi was next to him. He turned his head and stared at the scenery outside the glass in a daze.

The vehicle passed through the tunnel, and it was pitch black outside, with his own face reflected in the glass, and Jiang Yi's eyes on him.

The bus took them to the road at the entrance of the village. Zhao Duobao stood on the side of the road with a suitcase, looked at the house not far away, and a few people stood in twos and threes at the door, and looked at Jiang Yi beside him, frowning.

"Do your parents know you like men?"

"What do you want to do?" Zhao Duobao suddenly became alert and gave him a look, "Don't mess around."

"In your eyes, I am so wicked?"

"Yes." Zhao Duobao grabbed the suitcase and left, leaving him with the back of his head.

Jiang Yi's face turned pale immediately, he reached out and grabbed Zhao Duobao's left shoulder, and squeezed it hard.Zhao Duobao was in pain, he threw it away vigorously, turned around and shouted angrily, "What are you doing!"

With a cold face, Jiang Yi put his arm back into his pocket after being thrown away, "Let's go together."

Zhao Duobao sneered twice, "I can control you?"

After entering the village, many people greeted each other along the way, and most of them covered their mouths and looked at Jiang Yi with weird expressions and whispered. Li Qin's matter had preceded them, so it's no wonder they were thinking wildly. "The handsome young man who followed Zhao Duobao home during the New Year's Day" alone can spread countless different versions in this small village.

Zhao Duobao clenched his empty hand tightly against his side, his chest hurting from anger, he will return to City B after the Chinese New Year, and only his parents will be the ones who will be arranged, and his father is a very face-saving person. , I don't know how embarrassing it will be after hearing these words.He tried his best to distance himself from Jiang Yi, as if this would clear the relationship between the two of them.

Zhao Duobao held back his anger and walked into the door of his house, "Dad, Mom."

"Xiaobao is back." His mother's voice came from the room first, and then the husband and wife walked out with the help of the couple. His father glanced at Jiang Yi behind him, with a puzzled expression, "This is it?"

Before Zhao Duobao could speak, Jiang Yi stepped forward and said hello to his parents, "I am Xiaobao's friend, and my name is Jiang Yi."

Zhao's father nodded half-believingly, and kept looking at Jiang Yi, "Oh, hello."

"Is Xiaobao's friend?" Mother Zhao asked her husband softly, unable to see clearly.

"Yes." Papa Zhao responded.

Zhao Duobao was made very uncomfortable by his father's sizing up Jiang Yi, always afraid of being seen, so he quickly took his mother from his father, "Mom, have you eaten the cod liver oil I brought you last time? Are your eyes better?"

"Eat, eat." Zhao's mother held her son's arm and smiled, "How can my eyes be better? This is the way it is in this life. Don't waste money."

Zhao Duobao helped his mother to go to the back room. Father Zhao looked at him and said abruptly, "Li Qin is back too, you know?"

"Ah, I don't know..." Zhao Duobao paused, and almost lost his footing even after pulling on Zhao's mother, "Uncle Li should be very happy."

"Happy fart, he came back with his boyfriend..."

"Demin, there are guests at home." Zhao's mother followed the voice, shouted to Zhao's father, and patted Zhao Duobao's arm, "Xiaobao, help me over there, let your father greet you." Get off your friend."

"Okay." Zhao Duobao glanced back at Jiang Yi, and helped his mother to sit beside him.

In the evening, Zhao's father cooks, and Zhao Duobao helps in the kitchen.

Zhao Duobao's home is still a wood-fired stove, with a strong fire and a big pot, making it easy to cook.

"Little treasure."

"Hey." Zhao Duobao sat on a small bench choosing vegetables, and heard his father call him, "What's wrong?"

"Have you seen Li Qin's...?"

Zhao Duobao didn't know why his father suddenly asked him this question, "How could I have met you?"

"She looks beautiful." The spatula turned back and forth in the cauldron, "Your Uncle Li's wife is beautiful, and Li Qin is also well-born."

Zhao's father's tone became more and more strange, "Your friend Xiao Jiang looks good, isn't he also...?"

"Dad! What are you talking about!" Zhao Duobao put the selected dishes heavily on the stove and turned his head out of the kitchen.

Father Zhao glanced at his son dissatisfied, "I'll just ask, why are you reacting so badly?"

In the main room, Jiang Yi was dragged by Zhao's mother to chat, seeing Zhao Duobao coming out of the kitchen, he smiled at him.

Zhao Duobao pretended not to see it, walked up to his mother, touched the hot water bottle in her arms, "Mom, it's not hot anymore, I'll charge it for you."

"Okay." Mother Zhao handed the hot water bottle to her son, "Xiao Jiang is from the north."

"Oh, yes." Zhao Duobao replied absently. He had never heard Jiang Yi talk about himself, and he never knew where he was from or how many members of his family he was from.

"I'm from city B." He fixed his eyes on Zhao Duobao.

Mother Zhao's eyes could only see a faint light, and she couldn't see people clearly. When she spoke, she stared blankly at the front, "A native of City B, the family conditions are good, right?"

"Mom, it's impolite."

Zhao's mother patted her mouth with a smile, "Oh, the folks in our small place are so used to it, Xiao Jiang, don't mind."

"It's okay." Jiang Yi smiled at Zhao's mother, and then remembered that she couldn't see, so he immediately restrained his smile.

Zhao Duobao's house is a two-story private house built by himself. It was built by Zhao's father bit the bullet and scraped together some money when the family's conditions were better a few years ago.A family of three usually lives in two bedrooms on the first floor, and the second floor has not been renovated and is reserved for Zhao Duobao's wedding.Now that there are many guests in the house, it is impossible to find a vacant room at once. Zhao's mother said, "Xiao Jiang and Xiaobao will sleep together in Xiaobao's room."

"Not good!" Zhao Duobao immediately retorted, causing Zhao's father to look suspiciously, he bit his lower lip, "My bed is too small, it's not convenient. Well, I remember there is a bed upstairs, I'll go Sleep upstairs and let the guests sleep in my room."

Jiang Yi, who had been serving as the background board, coughed lightly twice, "It's okay, I'll just squeeze with Xiaobao." He raised his eyebrows as he spoke, and raised his mobile phone to Zhao Duobao.

This action made Zhao Duobao's eyes hurt.That video was hanging over his head like a ticking time bomb. If he was just afraid in city B, then in front of his parents, he had no choice but to be led by the nose by Jiang Yi.

Suppressing the turbulence in his heart, Zhao Duobao forced himself to say: "Well, that's fine, then I'll make you squeeze me."

Jiang Yi raised the corner of his mouth and smiled, "It's okay."

In the evening, Zhao Duobao went to the living room to drink water before going to bed, and met Zhao's father who was still watching TV. Seeing him coming out, he made a point of looking into the bedroom.

"Dad, I'm not asleep yet."

"Sleep after watching this." Dad Zhao pointed at the TV with the remote control, "Xiao Jiang, are you asleep?"

Zhao Duobao glanced into the bedroom, and said in the dark, "Should be asleep." He didn't mean to be perfunctory to his father, but he really didn't know if Jiang Yi had fallen asleep.He specially brought another quilt for Jiang Yi, rolled the quilt into a tube, shrunk to one side, and turned his back to Jiang Yi.Jiang Yi turned off the light after lying down, neither speaking nor moving.

The winter in the south is damp and cold. Jiang Yi is used to the heating and dryness in the north. He was woken up by the cold several times at night, and his back hurts even more when he woke up.

"If you are not used to living here, go back as soon as possible."

It was the first sentence he heard when he woke up in the morning.

Jiang Yi jumped on the spot, invigorating his blood, without any intention of answering Zhao Duobao, and walked to the living room to have breakfast.

"Xiaobao." Zhao's father walked into the house from the backyard, "You go to town later, the water heater is broken, you hurry to buy one, in such a cold day, there is no need for hot water, it will be cold to death gone."

"it is good."

"I'll go with you."

Before Zhao Duobao said "no", Mother Zhao spoke first, "Xiaobao, take Xiao Jiang to see, the children in the city must have never seen the market in our town."

"Oh." Zhao Duobao replied sullenly.

After leaving the village for a long time, Zhao Duobao couldn't bear it any longer. He turned his head and stared at Jiang Yi, who followed him like a follower since he left the house, "When are you going back to City B?"

"Whenever you go back, I will go back."

"Can't you let me have a few days of peace after Chinese New Year?"

"Yes, I will not speak."

"I just want to see your head buzzing!"

"Oh, that can't be helped."

Jiang Yi looked rascal, and Zhao Duobao was furious, he couldn't hold him back, so he left.

In the town, unexpectedly ran into Li Qin and his boyfriend, Han Yin.The four of them had a face-to-face meeting at the market, and Zhao Duobao took care of confronting Jiang Yi, but it was Li Qin who called him first before he noticed the two.

Han Yin was serious and nodded at Zhao Duobao and Jiang Yi as a greeting. Li Qin looked in a good mood and asked with a smile what the relationship between Zhao Duobao and Jiang Yi was.

Han Yin drove to the town, and brought Zhao Duobao and Jiang Yi with him when he returned.The two of them were sitting in the back seat, but they were at one end with the maximum distance between them. Li Qin, who was in the passenger seat, looked strange, "Xiaobao, are you really friends?"

In order to avoid Jiang Yi, Zhao Duobao looked out the window the whole time, and was in a daze at the moment, and didn't hear Li Qin's words at all.

"Not all." Jiang Yi leaned on the back seat and closed his eyes for a nap.

"What do you mean?"

"Literally." Jiang Yi didn't know what he was thinking, and his tone was not kind, so Han Yin took a special look at him from the rearview mirror.

Zhao Duobao came back to his senses, only to realize that Li Qin seemed to ask him a question, "Brother Li, what's wrong?"

He didn't pay much attention to Jiang Yi's attitude, "Is your friend in a bad mood?"

"right."

Li Qin looked at these two people who were almost writing "Appearance and Spirituality" on their foreheads, shook his head, tapped Han Yin's arm, and mouthed to him, "There is a problem."

Han Yin found time to help Li Qin adjust the seat, and touched his face, "It's not that I didn't sleep well, take a rest." Li Qin nodded obediently and closed his eyes.

Sitting in the back seat, Zhao Duobao watched the interaction between the two, and suddenly lost his mind. If that hadn't happened between him and Jiang Yi, would he be like Han Yin and Li Qin?

Following his thoughts, he looked at Jiang Yi, but met Jiang Yi's eyes.