Lao Cheng hurriedly shouted to help, Dou Xun's eyes darkened slightly, and finally let go.

Xu Xilin was so embarrassed that he didn't dare to look back. He directed the half-drunk old man to pick up the drunk Cai Jing and get into the car. Then he grabbed a handful of his own hair and turned around to ask the silent Dou Xun: "Should I give you a ride or should you do it yourself?"

Take a taxi?”

Dou Xun picked up his coat, stepped back to a safe distance, and said reservedly: "Anything is fine."

Xu Xilin was stuck, but he didn't expect that Dou Xun had learned to "easy-going and let you face the dilemma" after not seeing each other for many years.

Xu Xilin lowered his head and looked at his toes: "It's too late, I'll send you off."

Mr. Dou Xun, who said "Anything is fine", happily followed.

Dou Xun's heart had been beating wildly since he came out of the private room. After the unexpected contact, his desire to touch Xu Xilin was suddenly activated and expanded exponentially.

He looked at Xu Xilin's hand on the steering wheel and wanted to cover it with his own. Seeing Xu Xilin pinching his neck with his fingers when he was tired from sitting, he wanted to do it for him.

Dou Xun also wanted to rub his face with the back of his hand, press down the raised wool on his shoulders, and stroke it all the way down his slightly arched back... He even wanted to occupy Xu Xilin's bathroom and change him privately.

Change the shower gel to its original, familiar smell.

Dou Xun felt that it was not his illusion and Xu Xilin was not indifferent to him.

The two of them took Cai Jing, who was crying, and Lao Cheng, who was groaning, to Grandpa's Flower Shop. They suddenly discovered that the route actually coincided with the day they took Dou Xun back to the hotel.

Last time, there was a solid ice between the two of them, and Xu Xilin was in a trance without even saying a word to him.

But at this time, the layer of ice was melting at a speed visible to the naked eye, leaving a layer as thin as window paper.

Xu Xilin turned his head and glanced at Dou Xun: "Have you been drinking? If it's cold, turn up the air conditioner."

Dou Xun said "hmm", but his brows were still handsome. In the dim light, his outline looked particularly graceful. From Xu Xilin's point of view, he was frowning slightly, as if he was bothered by something.

Xu Xilin had many questions vying to break through the thin ice, but they all hesitated in front of the light wrinkles between his eyebrows. He had no choice but to find something to say: "I promised you today, but I can't take you to see the house."

Dou Xun was actually worried about how to bring up this matter. He wanted to shamelessly ask Xu Xilin out again, but the other party brought him a pillow when he was dozing off.

Dou Xun was shocked: "If it's not troublesome..."

...Can you take me for a walk tomorrow?

But before he finished speaking, Xu Xilin's cell phone rang.

Xu Xilin didn't answer and asked Dou Xun, "What?"

Dou Xun waved his hand, indicating that he was busy with his own business first. He faced forward, staring greedily at the reflection of Xu Xilin cast on it through the obscure shadow on the car window.

The caller was Song Lianyuan.

Song Lianyuan asked: "Why haven't you come back yet? Do you have anything else to do over there? What date do you plan to book a ticket for?"

"Oh, I originally planned to leave today," Xu Xilin said in silence as he stopped the car at the intersection and waited for the red light. "I have something to do today, so I changed my date to tomorrow. I'll arrive in the evening."

Dou Xun turned his head, put his elbow on the car door, supported his head, sighed silently, his straight waist slumped slightly, and smiled bitterly to himself - fortunately, he didn't have time to say it, Xu Xilin probably still said it

It was hard to refuse, and it seemed like an unkind invitation that was ignorant.

Song Lianyuan gave him a few instructions, and Xu Xilin agreed absentmindedly and joined the much thinner traffic flow.

When Dou Xun saw him hanging up the phone, he asked, "Why do you still have to go out of town at this time?"

Xu Xilin: "No, urge me to go back to celebrate the New Year."

The word "hui" hit Dou Xun at once, and his heart, which had been so excited just now, seemed to be trapped by a quagmire poured down from the sky, and gradually became less cheerful. The distance that had obviously been shortened suddenly became far away in the South China Sea.

Bei, Dou Xun suppressed the unhappiness in his heart and couldn't help asking lonelyly: "Why did you sell the house too?"

No one is here anymore, why do you live in such a big empty house and raise little ghosts?

But it was not appropriate to say this sentence at this time. As soon as Xu Xilin closed his eyes, he thought of the days when there was no news after Dou Xun left, and the days when he spent time with his grandmother's body.

The "past" thing is really like an enemy-occupied area, with three steps and two mines, and too many problems left over from history.

Xu Xilin had no choice but to pretend to be relaxed and said: "In those two years, domestic housing prices rose so crazily. I felt that the market was a bit dangerous. Relatively smaller units have greater liquidity and better risk resistance - and at that time, I just wanted to quit my job and start a business. The situation was precarious.

Yes, I have to have some financial resources, and I can exchange a few small houses to collect rent."

Dou Xun was speechless for a moment.

Can a home with so many memories and so many emotions be abandoned just because of the cold words "liquidity"?

The corners of Dou Xun's mouth tightened, and he began to suspect that the moment of intimacy in the private room just now was all his imagination.

At this time, Xu Xilin asked again: "You can't celebrate the New Year in a hotel, right? Otherwise..."

Dou Xun hung up in one breath, waiting expectantly for his next sentence.

"Come and stay at my house" This sentence came back and forth on the tip of Xu Xilin's tongue several times.

But being abrupt was on the one hand, and on the other... Xu Xilin felt that his memorial-like home was not suitable for housing Dou Xun, so he finally swallowed it.

He was so smart that he came up with a bad idea: "Why don't we go to Lao Cheng's place? There is an empty room next to his flower shop. Cai Jing will come back this year and it will be lively."

Dou Xun's expression turned completely cold and he said calmly: "Let's talk about it, I have somewhere to go."

Then the two of them stopped talking. Xu Xilin sensitively noticed that Dou Xun's mood suddenly dropped. He did not dare to ask casually, so he had to drive steadily.

After such a journey, Dou Xun's cheerful spirit was gone, and he felt that his expectations were like a fluke.

Someone once said "I won't be angry with you", but in the end they broke up.

Someone once said "This room will be reserved for you forever", but it still turned into "Why don't you go to Lao Cheng?".

And the phrase "go back to celebrate the New Year", he didn't even know where Xu Xilin's home was now.

Dou Xunyou wanted to calm down for a while, so he said indifferently: "Just put me at the intersection in front of you. You don't have to go through. It's hard to make a U-turn in front."

Xu Xilin parked the car silently on the side of the road, the hem of Dou Xun's coat crossed the cold winter night, and walked into the cold night without looking back. Xu Xilin had an indescribable intuition for a moment, as if after a brief encounter, this figure behind him

It heralds the next farewell journey.

He suddenly opened the car door and got out of the car: "Dou Xun!"

Dou Xun looked back at him.

Xu Xilin's soul was split in two, and the left half thought: "Don't be too big."

The right side thought: "You heard what he said, it's so ambiguous whether to leave or stay. It's possible that no one has been around these years?"

Then the left half hit back: "Have you forgotten what he said to you before he left, 'We will never see each other until we die'? He has not come back for so many years, and he hates you so much! I heard that people born out of love

Hate, have you ever heard of love arising out of hate? What are you dreaming about?"

The right half was almost killed with one hit.

Xu Xilin's lips moved slightly, but he could not speak.

The tips of Dou Xun's eyebrows were slightly raised. Xu Xilin was familiar with this expression, which meant that he was a little impatient.

Unexpectedly, at such an inappropriate time, Xu Xilin's right side was just pretending to be dead, and he got up in an instant and took advantage of the situation.

Xu Xilin blurted out: "Can you look after the parrot for me for a few days? I have to go back there to do the annual report. It would be too much trouble to transport it back and forth."

Dou Xun remained silent for a while. Xu Xilin held his breath and waited for a long time as if waiting for a verdict. He felt that the time had become infinite. Just when he was about to retreat: "If it's trouble..."

Dou Xun said: "Okay."

Xu Xilin was stunned for a moment, and then they both spoke almost at the same time.

Dou Xun: "Then I'll pick it up from you tomorrow."

Xu Xilin: "I will send it to you before I leave tomorrow."

Dou Xun: "..."

He took a deep breath, tried his best to convince himself not to mess up, suppressed his acrimony, and smiled half-heartedly: "Why, what kind of treasure is hidden in your house, do you have to be so careful?"

Then, without waiting for Xu Xilin to make up an excuse, he said, "Then you can send it to Lao Cheng, because birds may not be allowed where I live."

After saying that, Dou Xun nodded quickly to him and strode away as if running away.

The next day, when Dou Xun went to "Grandpa" flower shop, the gray parrot was already there, and Xu Xilin left for the airport before dawn.

"He's so busy that I can't even mention it," Lao Cheng carefully added water to the ancestor bird in the cage. "Whenever you call him, he's always at the company. He works twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. When I was studying there

If he had such energy at that time, maybe you two would be schoolmates now... Hey, Dou Xian'er, how can I serve this monster? Why do I think he has some objections to me?"

Perhaps because of Xu Xilin's instructions before arriving, the gray parrot did not take the initiative to attack. It stood on the shelf in the birdcage, staring down at Lao Cheng with nobility and coolness. Looking carefully, it seemed to be a little contemptuous.

"Male birds don't like men." Dou Xun tentatively stretched out his hand. The gray parrot obviously didn't remember him anymore. It felt like it was facing a formidable enemy and its feathers were frayed. It lowered its head and tried to peck him. Dou Xun reluctantly withdrew his hand, "

You see, he also has some opinions on me."

Lao Cheng looked back and saw that Cai Jing was still waiting for flowers in the front yard, so he carefully lowered his voice and said to Dou Xun: "You two... that... that..."

Dou Xun: "It's been many years since we said goodbye."

"Oh," Lao Cheng nodded, and after a while, he said awkwardly, "We outsiders can't talk about these things. In fact...it seems like it doesn't matter now. You can get married abroad, which is quite fashionable.

——Have you tried it with anyone else?"

Dou Xun shook his head silently.

Over the years, many people had shown kindness to him, most of them women. Later, perhaps because he had no female companion, some interested people saw him, and men began to join the team.
To be continued...