Admit defeat

Chapter 50

On Tomb-sweeping Day, Cheng Che and Luo Yao took their duck eggs to Liucheng Village to visit their parents and grandma’s grave. Today’s Liucheng Village is no longer the poverty-stricken mountain village that was listed on the national list. Over the years, Luo Yao has united with the local The government, investing in renovations, has promoted the tourism industry here, and the village has gradually opened its old doors and is no longer closed.

Duckling has recently been poisoned by ancient costume dramas, and even sleep talk is "everybody loves you" and "where are the evils running away".

From the steel forest to the landscape garden for the first time, Ducky Duck's whole body flew up, because the feeling here was very similar to the ancient scenes he saw in TV dramas.

In the distance, the black mountains are stretched and stacked, and the smoke from the cooking houses of the flowing water is curling up nearby.

In fact, this is all thanks to Luo Yao. At the beginning, Luo Yao’s positioning here was to return to the basics, so when building the tourism industry, he fully preserved the oldest things with a sense of age.

"Dad, Dad, look at this well, does it look like the one on TV yesterday?"

Ducklings in duck suits wander around a well, carefully peeping inside.When he came here for the first time, everything he saw was novel.

"Be careful, don't fall."

Cheng Che waved to Ducky Ducky, and Ducky Ducky ran back into Cheng Che's arms obediently.

"Father, why can't we live in a house with a roof like this?" Duckling pointed to the simple huts around.

"Because we live in the city." Cheng Che touched the duckling's face.

"Did Dad live here when he was my age?" Duck Duck raised his face and asked Cheng Che.

"Yes."

After hearing this, the little duck said enviously: "Father is so happy."

Cheng Che smiled, but said nothing.

Duckling is a child who grew up in a honey pot. He is very fortunate that his little baby will never experience his plight.

"Is there anyone here who can fly?" After only 3 minutes of silence, the duckling spoke again.

"Luo Yao, this question is beyond the outline, you can answer it."

Cheng Che burst out laughing, this child really thinks about what he sees on TV everywhere he goes, but children are like this, they are at the age of accepting new things, and they are always curious about what they see for the first time.

"Yes." Luo Yao said.

"Where is it?" Hearing that someone can fly, the little duck jumped three feet high in excitement, "Tell me, Daddy!"

"In..." Luo Yao pointed to the distance, and the duckling looked in the direction Luo Yao pointed, and was picked up by Luo Yao in the next second and lifted above his head, "Here! Luo Chengcheng, Luo Daxia."

"Ah!" The duckling yelled, and then giggled, "I am Luo Daxia, and Daddy is my former disciple Luo Xiaodi!"

Luo Yao: "..."

Cheng Che couldn't stop laughing, and struggled to ask: "Then... Hero Luo, what about me? Who am I? Please give me a name."

"Hmm..." Ducky Duck put his cheeks up and thought for a while, "Father is my favorite person!"

Luo Yao: "..."

Liucheng Village does not have a cemetery like the city. The cemeteries are all chosen behind the mountain. Luo Yao once mentioned several times that he wanted to move the tomb of Cheng Che's family back to City H, but Cheng Che refused. This is his hometown after all. People will feel more at ease sleeping here.

The tombs of Cheng Che's parents and grandma have been cleaned all the time, so a year later, they are still very clean.

"Little duck, come here and call grandma."

Cheng Che took Ducky Duck's hand.

"Hello, grandma."

"Call grandma, grandpa."

"Grandma, grandpa, hello."

The little duck egg followed Cheng Che's guidance, and talked to a few hard rocks in a childlike voice. In fact, at his current age, he still doesn't quite understand these things. He only knows that his father, mother, and grandma have passed away. sleep here.

Cheng Che and Luo Yao threw paper money into a metal basin and lit it, then both knelt down in front of the tombstone.

"Grandma, Dad, Mom, Luo Yao and I came to see you, how are you doing over there? This time I brought Luo Chengcheng to show you, he is a very smart boy..."

As he spoke, the corners of Cheng Che's eyes felt a little wet. Although meeting in this world is parting, and no one can escape it, but after so many years, the longing has not faded away, and it will come flooding in at the slightest touch. heart.

Luo Yao quietly held Cheng Che's hand, and powerful warmth spread from Cheng Che's fingertips to his heart.

"Dad, Mom, Grandma, please rest assured in the new year, I will take care of the oranges."

According to the custom, the two kowtowed to their elders together in front of the tombstone. When they kowtowed down, the childish voice of the duckling suddenly sounded behind them: "Bow to heaven and earth!"

It's serious and decent.

Both Cheng Che and Luo Yao were shocked, and it took a long time before they straightened up. Then, without any communication, they kowtowed together again.

"Two thanks to the high hall!"

When the word "Gaotang" entered his ears, Cheng Che's tears finally flowed out the moment his forehead touched the ground.

The first time he and Luo Yao really worshiped Gaotang, it was thanks to their son.

"Daddy, daddy, and husband and wife praying to each other." Ducky Duck excitedly urged, obviously, he still didn't know the shock that his joking words brought to the two fathers.

Cheng Che and Luo Yao were serious, knelt down facing each other, looked at each other affectionately, and bowed their heads solemnly to each other.

"Wow!" Seeing the two fathers cooperating with his game so much, Ducky Duck applauded enthusiastically.

At this time, an old man passing by here accidentally watched the whole process and sighed with a beard and stare: "The young people nowadays are so messed up, they actually ran to the cemetery to pray to heaven and earth."

……

There was a heavy snowfall before New Year's Day this year, and it didn't stop until the last day of the year.

It was the first snowfall, and Cheng Che and Luo Yao leaned together, waiting for the fireworks on the viewing platform with transparent glass walls on the second floor.

"Auspicious snow heralds a good year, and the last snow of this year happens to be at the end of December."

"Yeah, but I'm not as artistic as you. My headache is that the duckling will not stop tomorrow. Alas, what a rare holiday."

Luo Yao just took Duck Duck out to build a snowman, but it was not finished, because the fireworks will start soon, and he wants to watch the fireworks with Cheng Che.

The duckling who was "ruthlessly abandoned" was very angry, and he couldn't make a big snowman taller than others by himself. After rolling snowballs in the snow alone, he ran back to the study angrily to do his homework.

"It's okay, let's build a snowman with him tomorrow."

"No." Luo Yao pressed Cheng Che's cold hands to his chest, and resolutely refused, "You are already cold, so don't touch the snow."

"Ah... well then, can I watch your pile in the garden? Daddy Luo Yao."

"Of course." Luo Yao kissed Cheng Che's lips, "Luo Yao's father will wear a lot of clothes for Cheng Zi tomorrow."

Cheng Che raised his head and kissed Luo Yao lightly back.

At this time, there was a "bang" in the distance, and the first fireworks in the night sky bloomed.

"Look, Luo Yao, the fireworks festival has begun."

Luo Yao and Cheng Che looked up to the sky.

City H has two fireworks festivals a year, one in the middle of the year and one at the end of the year. This is a centuries-old tradition. In the past, traditional fireworks were used, but now they are gradually changed to green fireworks.

While the two were admiring the fireworks together, Cheng Che received a message on his cell phone, which was from Yan Lang.

Cheng Che turned his head to look at Luo Yao, and as expected, he saw Luo Yao's big black face. He opened the message with a smile, and it was Yan Lang who sent "Xiao Che, Happy New Year".

"What is the new year? There are still four hours before the new year." Luo Yao said angrily behind Cheng Che's back. Although he had said it for so long, he would still get angry when he saw Yan Lang. After all, Yan Lang was He was a stumbling block from childhood to adulthood.

"Yan Lang is in country R, ​​and it's already January 1st over there." Cheng Che said while replying to Yan Lang, "I also wish you and Yunyin a happy new year."

Luo Yao snorted, "He never forgets to bother you every year and festival."

"He sent it in a group, and you received it too."

Sure enough, the screen of Luo Yao's mobile phone also lit up. Luo Yao picked up the mobile phone and looked at it-"I miss you in my heart, and I wish you friends in the new year. May your wishes come true in the new year and your wealth will prosper."

Luo Yao: "..."

He is the one with group hair.

Luo Yao turned off his cell phone and Cheng Che's by the way.

The two watched the fireworks for a while, and Cheng Che felt that Luo Yao had something in mind.

"what happened?"

"Cheng Zi, I've actually always wanted to ask you a question."

"Just ask."

"Seven years ago, when you were pregnant with duck eggs, why did you watch fireworks with Yan Lang?"

Cheng Che: "..."

Cheng Che looked at Luo Yao's serious and aggrieved expression, and said helplessly, "Don't tell me that you have been jealous for seven years."

Luo Yao nodded seriously.

That day Luo Yao was attending a banquet event that could not be postponed. He heard from his subordinates that Cheng Che was in the square. He thought that there were a lot of people at the fireworks festival today, so he hurried to the square in the middle of the event. Unexpectedly, what he saw was Yan Lang under the fireworks. The scene of protecting Cheng Che, and the heartbreaking words Cheng Che said.

Cheng Che supported his forehead and said, "I met the fireworks festival when I got off work. You know, the subway entrance at the research institute has to pass through the square, and preparations are still being made in the square. I originally planned to go back quickly when there were not many people. It turned out that I saw you and Bai Zhen at the event played on the big screen in the square. I stopped and watched for a while, but I forgot the time. When I came back to my senses, it was the peak time of the crowd, and they were all squeezing me. I had a big belly and couldn't move, but Yan Lang helped me."

Cheng Che's tone was very calm, as if he was describing an experiment process, not like telling a story, and still less like telling a bad story about himself.However, Cheng Che's explanation made Luo Yao want to kill himself, he knew that Cheng Che and Yan Lang had nothing.Just now he was impulsive and mindless and jealous, and expressed the questions that had been accumulated for many years. In the end, he asked for trouble, and brought out Cheng Che's suffering to make himself feel bad again.

Thinking of how helpless Cheng Che was surrounded and pushed by many people in the square with his duck egg in his arms, Luo Yao tightened his arms around Cheng Che.

"Yan Lang came to return my watch that day. He was waiting for me at the subway station, but when he learned that I was trapped in the square, he came over."

"watch?"

"Well, it's the piece you gave me. I left it in the hospital when I went for the obstetric examination."

"But I saw the watch on Yan Lang's wrist..."

"Yan Lang was very busy. There were many obstetric patients and the crowd was chaotic in those few days. He was afraid that he would forget and that the watch would be taken away, so he wore it." That day, Yan Lang took the watch from his wrist and returned it to him. He also explained it to him in this way. He knew that Luo Yao had been monitoring him during that time, so he was not surprised that Luo Yao knew so many details.

"Chengzi, I..." Luo Yao was apologetic, but hesitated to speak.

"Ah, ah, do we have to hurt each other like this?" Cheng Che laughed, "Besides, Yan Lang has been married for several years, he is a loving couple, why do you insist on pushing me in?"

Yes, and he and Cheng Che are already so happy.

The two hugged each other, watching the splendor of the sky, Cheng Che's white side face was reflected by the fireworks, as if it would glow, it was a beautiful scenery, and Luo Yao couldn't get enough of it in his whole life.

"Cheng Zi, I love you so much." Luo Yao leaned into Cheng Che's ear, whispering love words.

"Luo Yao, I love you too." Cheng Che pressed his face against Luo Yao's side.

"Do you still remember today 15 years ago? At this moment in those days."

"Remember, you have to ask me every year, and I can't forget it even if I want to."

"Chengzi, wait for me."

Luo Yao pulled a blanket over Cheng Che's body, then got up and went to the room. After a while, he changed into a white dress and came out.

Cheng Che asked in surprise, "What are you doing?"

Luo Yao just smiled and walked to the piano in the corner of the viewing platform.

The music flows slowly from the keys, it is the song from that year.

Cheng Che was wearing a blanket, holding his knees, looking at Luo Yao behind the piano, and staring at him, the sound of the piano gradually covered the sound of the fireworks.

The feeling of listening to the live version of the same piece of music is completely different from that of 15 years ago, probably the difference between throbbing and deep love.

Luo Yao named this piece "Clarity", which, in Luo Yao's words, refers to his pure and clean soul.

In his freshman year, amidst the overwhelming criticism, only Luo Yao firmly believed in his character, approached him unconditionally, and justified his name.In fact, objectively speaking, Luo Yao is blind, but how can there be so many objects in this world, if there is no such hidden arbitrariness, how could he still hear Luo Yao playing the piano for him 15 years later.

In fact, how can he be so well described in this song, he is just a cowardly and inferior soul, it is Luo Yao who is not afraid of obstruction, fills his soul with courage and love, making it vivid and three-dimensional.

I don't know if it was because the fireworks were too dazzling, Cheng Che felt his eyes were a little sore, and after a while they became blurred, even Luo Yao couldn't see clearly.

At the end of the song, Luo Yao came from the piano and held out his hand to Cheng Che.

Cheng Che didn't give Luo Yao his hand, and threw himself into Luo Yao's arms. The blanket slipped off and was ruthlessly left on the carpet.

Luo Yao catches Cheng Che unexpectedly.

"Luo Yao, why are you always so... formalistic..." Mingming was so choked up that he couldn't speak, but Cheng Che still said such an unpleasant sentence.

"If this format can make you happy, I will never tire of it."

Luo Yao lightly kissed away the teardrops that couldn't hang on Cheng Che's eyelashes. He didn't expect to touch them like this, and there were a bunch of them.

Whether it is sweetness or misunderstanding, there are thousands of mountains and rivers, and all paths lead to the same goal.

This is the love between Luo Yao and Cheng Che.

Luo Yao and Cheng Che kissed ecstatically in the sky filled with fireworks, with hot tears between their lips and teeth.

In this world, only you and me are left.

In the study room, seven-year-old Luo Chengcheng was distressed. The teacher in the interest class assigned a homework and asked to write a short poem about his parents. This embarrassed him who had never written a poem before. He muttered Mouth, two small eyebrows are twisted together, even if the nib of the pen is bitten, I can't write.

While thinking hard, he opened the curtains, wanting to see what the dads on the viewing platform next door were doing, but unexpectedly, he saw this unsuitable scene.

He suddenly had an idea and wrote on the paper:

"The snow is melting on the eaves/Like papa's tears/Tick-tock-tick-tick"

"The sun melts the snow / also dries up the tears / the sun is Daddy"

-Complete-

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