Brother Gao Leng, be nice

Chapter 25 The Man in the Glass

The night is also dark, and some people are partying all night, speeding along the driveway, feeling the excitement and heartbeat.And some people sit alone in the quiet room, enduring the loneliness and loneliness that have been hurt for a long time.

Cheng Yi was leaning against the wall, with his legs bent, sitting on the floor of the room, the light was dim, and the bruises on his body were aching. As if he was used to it, he just stayed there quietly, looking at his feet. A book on the edge.

The book was very old, and he stared at the picture in the book quietly. It was a picture of a group of children sitting at the desk in class.

Cheng Yi licked his dry and flaky lips. He hadn't eaten for almost a day, let alone drank water.

He stood up somewhat weakly, his tall and thin figure was covered by a light-colored sweater, he stepped on the carpet with bare feet, his ankles were white with light blue veins.

The slender fingertips caressed the glass of the window, and there was an iron guardrail outside the window.

Under the long curly eyelashes are a pair of glass-like eyes, with a purity that is not familiar with the world, so clear to the bottom.

He moved forward slightly, pressed his face against the glass, and quietly looked at the world outside the gap between the guardrails with his eyes, his eyes were surprisingly bright, not letting go of the slightest flash in front of him.

"Ding~", the familiar bell rang outside the door, and Cheng Yi, like a frightened cat, quickly retracted the action just now, stood there straight, with his head slightly lowered, and his hands unconsciously clenched the hem of his clothes.

The bell on the housekeeper's clothes became more and more clear. After opening the door, the dim light in the room was gradually illuminated.

Cheng Yi stayed in the dark for a long time, and was very uncomfortable being stabbed by the sudden light. It took him a long time to get used to it, and he gradually saw the person coming.

The housekeeper opened the door and left. The tall man stood at the door with his back to the light. Cheng Yi glanced at it, and a glint of joy flashed in his eyes. He relaxed his aching body while standing there, and called out to the man softly. : "Uncle Xie."

As soon as Xie Xinglu entered the door, he saw a young man standing by the wall with a figure like bamboo, looking straight at him with eyes full of trust and kindness. They were never of one world.

Suppressing the obscurity in his eyes, Xie Xinglu walked into the room, and only when he got closer to the boy could he see the bruises clearly.He was obviously a half-grown boy, yet he was raised to be docile and unreasonable, and he didn't know how to resist at all.

Xie Xinglu gestured for Cheng Yi to sit down, and after the boy sat down, he took out a jug of water from the bag beside him and signaled Cheng Yi to drink it.Cheng Yi took the water and drank it, and the dry lips regained their moisture.

Xie Xinglu continued to take out a few boxes of plasters from the bag next to him, the corners of the boxes were somewhat bumpy.This was the mark he was holding the medicine, and when Xie Su found out, she yelled at him desperately and threw the bag on the ground frantically.

Xie Xinglu opened the medicine calmly, and daubed it on Cheng Yi's bruises of all colors. Under the new scars, there were faint old traces, which were caused by the continuous superimposition of old and new injuries over the years.

Cheng Yi didn't seem to notice it, and quietly lowered his head, watching Xie Xinglu apply the wound medicine for him as usual.

As if aware of the ambiguity of the man in front of him, Cheng Yi thought that the man in front of him was in a bad mood because of his injury, his eyes moved slightly, and he said softly to Xie Xinglu: "Uncle Xie, I don't feel any pain. "

Xie Xingli paused.

Cheng Yi didn't see his trembling hands, and just said to himself: "Actually, there's nothing wrong with this, because I know that whenever I get hurt, Uncle Xie will come and give me medicine, so that I can I saw you."

Xie Xinglu, who was putting his head down while applying the medicine, suddenly stood up when he heard the boy's whisper, started to pack his things, and was about to leave the room.

Cheng Yi looked at the man's sudden movement with some puzzlement, and hurriedly said: "Uncle Xie, you forgot, you haven't asked me the reason, the reason for making mother angry this time..."

The tone became lower and lower, a little anxious, with a bit of stubbornness.

Xie Xinglu paused, he stopped at the door, turned to look at Cheng Yi.The figure of the young man coincided with the taciturn toddler many years ago, like a caged bird, docile and timid.

After all, Xie Xinglu sighed silently, like the plot that had been repeated countless times in the past many years, he looked at Cheng Yi, raised his hand slightly and made a gesture: Why?
He couldn't speak, and this was the most action he made in communicating with the teenager.

Over the years, the boy has answered many reasons,

"I made my mother angry."

"I sneaked out."

"That paper is not full marks."

"..."

Those little-known children's words and young people's thoughts can only be confided to him.

Cheng Yi lowered his head and looked at his toes, his thoughts were a little far away, he hesitated to say it, but he still mustered up the courage to say it: "Because, because I told my mother, I also want to go to school. .”

At this point, Cheng Yi couldn't help it anymore, he looked directly at Xie Xinglu, and asked again, the question he had been asking for many years: "Uncle Xie, why am I different from others?" ?”

He seems to be puzzled and perplexed: "I saw the word "friend" in many books, and I read many explanations and notes, but I really don't understand what it means."

"The book says that school is a place where many children gather to study, and almost everyone has to go, even the teacher who comes to teach me at home every day is like this,"

"But why, I can't go."

Cheng Yi's red eyes just looked at Xie Xinglu. Too much confusion made him a little choked up, "I don't have any friends either. I only have Uncle Xie, only my mother, only the housekeeper, only Ah Hua, Xiao Lan..."

He called some people's names one by one, even some servants who had never been noticed before.This was probably the most, the only person he had ever seen.

Everything in this house.

Cheng Yi looked at Xie Xinglu, and asked cautiously, "Uncle Xie, do you think my mother will agree to let me go to school?"

Xie Xingli did not respond.

He thought of Xie Su throwing those medicines on the ground, and after he picked them up one by one in silence, Xie Su cried out, "Why! Why are you doing this?"

"Do you think you'll be different after doing this?" Seemingly calmed down for a moment, she lightly scratched his face with some brightly painted nails, and said to him with a complicated expression: "I can't go back Yes, Ah Lu, you and I are the same, we can't go back."

Xie Xinglu couldn't speak, he just looked at Xie Su who was faintly mad in silence, and stretched out his hand to pin her somewhat messy hair behind his ears, his eyes were gentle, just like before.

Xie Su didn't dare to look directly at those eyes, she lowered her head, leaned on his shoulder, and remained silent for a while.

Xie Xinglu came back to his senses, he looked into Cheng Yi's eyes, smiled slightly, and touched Cheng Yi's head with his hand: she will agree.

As if he understood what he meant, the boy opened his eyes wide in joy for a moment, the light-colored eyes with bright light, eye-catching.

Xie Xinglu turned around and walked out of the room with a smile. The door was closed, and he seemed to be able to hear the excited exclamation of the young man inside the door.

He leaned against the door, the smile on his face slowly disappeared, and he returned to the indifference and calmness of the past, his eyes seemed to be covered with thousands of fogs, making it hard to see clearly.

He was thinking about Xie Su's question, did he go back to the past?No, he is more decisive than anyone else. Even if it is a mistake, he will never look back.

Maybe it's due to human nature, or maybe it's because there are too many sins, and sometimes it's unrealistic to think about mitigating it, and it's good to ease it for Xie Su.

As for myself, it doesn't matter.

He glanced at the medicine in his hand, and walked away slowly, just like when he came.

(End of this chapter)