After leaving the hotel, Secretary Qin sent Wen Fan home. He had to go to the piano store for lessons the next day and had no time to accompany Shao Yi to continue fooling around.
After getting out of the car downstairs, Shao Yi leaned on the back seat of the Maybach and looked at him sideways.
Wen Fan leaned down and lightly tapped on the car window, instructing, “Remember to have Aunt Liu make sobering soup for you when you get back, drink it before sleeping.”
Perhaps feeling the effects of the alcohol, Shao Yisui’s face was calm but slightly flushed. He nodded silently.
Wen Fan turned to leave.
“Fan Fan.”
Shao Yi Sui suddenly reached out and grabbed him.
Wen Fan looked at him in confusion, and Shao Yi Sui said, “Rest early,” before letting go.
The young man’s eyes were round and his eyes were long and narrow at the ends, like a cat’s. The amber-like pupils reflected the dim yellow light of the street lamps, very beautiful.
“You go back and rest too. It’s late, and Secretary Qin should be off work as well.”
Shao Yisui suddenly chuckled, lifted his hand as if to flick him, but Wen Fan dodged.
“You worry about Secretary Qin every day. What about worrying about me?”
“You still need me to worry about you? Alright, Mr.Shao, stop teasing, I’m leaving.”
This time Shao Yi Sui didn’t stop him, and Wen Fan didn’t look back either.
The summer air in Yuncheng was heavy with heat, and cicadas chirped loudly.
On the way back, Shao Yi received a call from the old couple, which was a mess. The main purpose was to scold him for not giving face to the Su family.
Shao Yisui casually tossed his phone onto the seat of the car, closed his eyes to rest, not listening to a single word.
Secretary Qin drove the car, and Elder Mr. Shao’s words kept coming from the mobile phone. Secretary Qin thought to himself that Mr. Shao’s coming to this dinner today was the greatest honor he had given the Su family.
Who knows how long the call lasted, but the person on the other end finally realized that his disobedient son wasn’t listening at all.
Elder Mr. Shao, over fifty years old and still vigorous, raised his voice, “What’s wrong with that woman from the Su family? Can’t she compare to you? Only you can choose? Your third brother already gave me a grandson. You…”
The man impatiently rolled down the car window, interrupting him, “Didn’t the third brother give you a grandson? The Shao family isn’t going to die out.”
“You rascal!” Elder Mr. Shao cursed, “With your stinking attitude, you’ll be a bachelor for the rest of your life!”
Seeing that father and son were about to quarrel, Mrs. Shao quickly took the phone and scolded Elder Mr. Shao in a low voice, “Look at you, talking about him. Whose bad temper do you think he got?
Elder Mr. Shao was scolded by his wife and shut his mouth awkwardly.
Mrs. Shao was a gentle person, but she could handle her stubborn husband like a donkey. She said with concern, “Yisui, I know you have your own ideas, but life isn’t lived like this. You and your father were the same when you were young. Once you start working, you don’t care about anything else. I feel sorry for you when you are busy day and night and don’t even come home.”
Speaking is an art, and it is obvious that the old man does not understand it.
Both father and son were the same, easygoing but stubborn, preferring coaxing over forcing. And Mrs. Shao could handle her stubborn husband, just as she could her stubborn son.
Shao Yisui didn’t directly hang up the phone, but he didn’t respond either.
Mrs. Shao said, “Before your father and I got married, he was already set in his ways, coming home only once every two weeks, full of problems, headaches, stomach problems, and when it got serious, he’d need to be hooked up to an IV every two to three days. I don’t want to see you like this. We’re not by your side, how can we feel relieved when we are not with you? “
“I also want someone to take you home. You are so stubborn now, but you will understand after you get married.”
This is not the first time the old lady has said these words, and it is not the first time Shao Yisui has heard them.
But for some reason, perhaps because he had been drinking, he didn’t resist these words as much this time, and many fragments flashed through his mind like slides.
He whispered, “Isn’t Wen Fan still here? He’ll take care of me.”
Mrs. Shao chuckled, “You must be drunk. Fan Fan is a friend, not a partner. Can you keep Fan Fan by your side forever? Now Fan Fan is taking care of you, but what about after he gets married? Stop being silly.”
Mrs. Shao and Wen Fan’s mother were close friends, and she understood Wen Fan’s gentle nature and her own son’s unreasonable dominance. So she couldn’t help but say a word or two when it came up.
Shao Yisui was indeed a little drunk, his words were muddled, but with Mrs. Shao’s reminder, he suddenly sobered up a bit.
The fragments of memories were now clear in his mind, all of Wen Fan’s beautiful and gentle appearances.
“In any case, consider it carefully. That girl from the Su family is indeed good, relationships are cultivated, you know. Think about it, Ruan Ruan has a good personality and likes you. After you get married and live together day and night, won’t that be nice? You’ll have someone with you for every meal, someone to care about what you like to eat and what you don’t, how can you not want to go home?”
“It will be even more different when you have children…”
Shao Yisui didn’t listen to the rest of the conversation. He was lost in thought.
He was thinking that if Wen Fan could live with him, it would be great. Having him by his side every day, he would definitely be willing to go home.
Wen Fan had such a gentle personality, Shao Yisui could almost imagine those scenes.
When the piano shop closes at seven o’clock, the young man will always go home first. The villa becomes warm and cozy because there is one more person. Wen Fan likes to read. When he comes back from the company, he will see the young man sitting on the sofa obediently. Read poetry collections and maybe prose, he must be quiet and well-behaved.
Wen Fan never liked making noise.
Maybe Wen Fan met someone else eating at the piano store that day, so he wanted to have a grilled fish cake himself, and Shao Yisui was willing to leave his busy work to make it for him.
Of course, he might not do it well, but Wen Fan wouldn’t mind, he would only smile and take the kitchen utensils from his hand, pushing his shoulder to make him leave.
Or perhaps, Wen Fan would be willing to sleep in the same bed as him. They had been like this since childhood, eating and living together, the most familiar people to each other.
Shao Yisui liked the smell on Wen Fan’s body, it was a very light fruity fragrance, like grapefruit, full and ripe berry scent, slightly bitter and sweet, every time he smelled that scent, he would feel very calm inside.
If he could sleep with Wen Fan in his arms, he wouldn’t have trouble sleeping.
“Yisui, are you listening?”
Shao Yi Sui only heard this sentence, and he replied, “Hmm.”
“I’ll consider it.”
Mrs. Shao didn’t know what else to say.
After hanging up the phone, Shao Yisui’s eyes paused, suddenly noticing that Wen Fan had sent him a message.
The pinned message box was labeled “Fan Fan.”
—Drinking again? How much did you drink?
—I’ll come over later.
Wen Fan’s avatar was a small orange cat squatting in the grass, quietly basking in the sun, just like him, warm and adorable.
Shao Yisui really wanted to call Wen Fan and listen to his voice.
This impulse came suddenly, he was about to dial it out, but then hesitated. He thought Wen Fan must be getting ready to sleep now, the young man has always been always very disciplined.
So Shao Yisui swallowed the impulse.
The Maybach smoothly glided off the road, like a speeding cheetah in the dark night.
Shao Yisui propped up his head, thoughts of what Wen Fan had said flashing through his mind. What the young man told him always made sense, so he had to listen.
When he got out of the car, Shao Yisui casually took out a card from his wallet and handed it to Secretary Qin, saying, “This is a red envelope for your child. Go back early.”
Secretary Qin was pleasantly surprised.
Back at the villa, Aunt Liu was still awake, and she smelled the alcohol on him, so she went to make sobering soup without him having to order.
Shao Yisui walked upstairs, unbuttoning his shirt as he went, intending to toss it on the ground, but then he remembered Wen Fan’s words about not littering clothes.
Wen Fan didn’t let him throw clothes around.
Shao Yisui stood still for a moment, then neatly folded the tie and put it away in the wardrobe, patting it afterward, looking very satisfied.
He forgot that Wen Fan also said not to put worn clothes back.
Shao Yisui was drunk, more drunk than he was at the hotel.
Aunt Liu soon brought up the sobering soup, seeing the man sitting on the sofa, holding his head.
She whispered, “Mr. Shao, drink this before sleeping.”