The window of Pei Qing’s room was open, and the sound of small children playing could be vaguely heard coming from the public garden of the neighbourhood.
Zhan Weiyang looked at Pei Qing, not understanding why he suddenly stopped sleeping with him.
Pei Qing sat cross-legged on the bed, straightened his back and faced Zhan Weiyang, saying, “Your father is back.”
Zhan Weiyang nodded.
Pei Qing had no choice but to continue, “Then you can go back to your room to sleep. If you are still scared at night, you can go find your father.”
Zhan Weiyang looked at him with his round eyes, his eyes drooping slightly, and the corners of his mouth drooping unconsciously, “Can’t I look for you?”
Pei Qing patiently said to him, “Isn’t it better to find your father?”
Zhan Weiyang said, “I haven’t slept with my father for a long time.”
Pei Qing was silent for a while and asked him, “Is it because Yangyang is older?”
Zhan Weiyang said, “Yeah.”
Pei Qing said, “Then you shouldn’t continue to sleep with gege. If your father sees you, he will be disappointed in you.”
Zhan Weiyang didn’t speak, and his fingers dug into his pants hard.
Pei Qing suddenly felt a little bit reluctant. He looked at Zhan Weiyang and didn’t speak for a long time.
Zhan Weiyang didn’t want to look at him anymore and lowered his eyes silently.
Pei Qing stretched out a hand to hold Zhan Weiyang’s shoulder and said to him, “Yangyang, this is inappropriate, you know?”
Yes, Zhan Weiyang was not a girl, so it stands to reason that he didn’t need to be so defensive. If there had been no extra rooms or beds at home, it wouldn’t have been a problem for Pei Qing to share a bed with him. However, since there were enough rooms, it seemed inappropriate for Zhan Weiyang, a seventeen-year-old boy, to insist on sharing a bed with him. If Zhan Pengcheng had found out, he would definitely have had some concerns.
Zhan Weiyang could be considered immature, but Pei Qing couldn’t afford to be. He needed to learn to say no at the right time and now was actually a great opportunity.
The room was quiet for a while. Pei Qing got out of bed, went around, and picked up Zhan Weiyang’s quilt and pillow together. He looked at him and said, “I’ll take it back to your room.”
Zhan Weiyang, with his head hanging low in dejection, followed Pei Qing back to his own room and sat down silently on the edge of his bed.
Pei Qing put the quilt and pillow on the bed for him, looked at him for a while, squatted down in front of him, looked up and said to him, “How old is Yangyang?”
Zhan Weiyang replied, “Seventeen years old.”
Pei Qing smiled, “Are you still afraid of ghosts at the age of seventeen?”
Zhan Weiyang perked up and said, “I’m not afraid of ghosts. There are no ghosts in the world.”
Pei Qing asked him, “Then what are you afraid of?”
Zhan Weiyang thought of the strange voice that kept deducting his points, hesitated for a moment and said, “I’m afraid that all my points will be deducted.”
Pei Qing didn’t say anything, just looked at him.
Zhan Weiyang felt embarrassed by being looked at, turned his head and whispered, “It’s true.”
Pei Qing said, “No, you won’t turn into a plant, let alone a money tree.”
Zhan Weiyang didn’t argue. He knew that Pei Qing wouldn’t believe him even if he said something, and often, others didn’t believe what he said.
Pei Qing stood up and said to him, “Go to bed early.” After that, he left Zhan Weiyang’s room.
Zhan Weiyang was left alone. He lifted his feet, bent his legs, and sat on the bed with his arms wrapped around his knees. He silently pulled the brim of his cap down, and then after a moment, pulled it down even further until he couldn’t see anything in front of him. Only then did he sit quietly by himself.
When he went to bed at night, Zhan Weiyang couldn’t fall asleep for a long time. Later, he picked up the mobile phone on the bedside table and sent a message to Chen Youyou in the dark: “Are you asleep?”
Unexpectedly, Chen Youyou replied to him quickly: “I’m asleep.”
Zhan Weiyang thought it was amazing: “How can you reply to my message when you are asleep?”
Chen Youyou: “I was woken up by you!”
Zhan Weiyang: “Sorry.”
Chen Youyou: “Forget it, I can sleep in tomorrow anyway, what’s the matter?”
Zhan Weiyang thought about it and asked him: “Do you like money tree?”
Chen Youyou: “What is money tree?”
Zhan Weiyang went online to find a picture and sent it to him. He especially found a money tree with straight roots and full leaves.
Chen Youyou: “Why do I like this?”
Zhan Weiyang told him: “Nothing, I just want to show you, I think it’s very nice.”
Chen Youyou: “… I’m going to sleep, bye.”
Zhan Weiyang had to type: “Good night.”
He put his phone back on the bedside table and pulled the quilt over his head. He felt that his thoughts were always in a mess as if he was thinking about many things, but he couldn’t figure out any one thing. It took him a long time to fall asleep.
The next day was the first day of the National Day holiday. Pei Qing was still awakened by his biological clock early in the morning. He put on his clothes and went out of the room to wash up in the bathroom. He glanced in the direction of Zhan Weiyang’s room and saw that his door was still closed.
When he went downstairs, he subconsciously glanced at the balcony on the second floor at the stairs and found that Zhan Pengcheng had already gotten up and was watering the potted plants on the balcony with a kettle.
Pei Qing then walked over.
Zhan Pengcheng saw Pei Qing and greeted him with a smile, “Good morning, xiao Qing.”
Pei Qing said, “Uncle, good morning.”
Zhan Pengcheng asked him, “Have you eaten?”
Pei Qing shook his head.
Zhan Pengcheng said, “Then go downstairs and have breakfast.”
Pei Qing did not move. He put his hands in his jacket pockets and slowly walked to the edge of the balcony to watch Zhan Pengcheng watering the plants.
Zhan Pengcheng did not urge him to go down, but asked, “Why is there an extra flower pot here?”
Pei Qing stood in front of Zhan Weiyang’s flower pot, kicked the flower pot lightly with the tip of his sneakers, and said only, “Yangyang and I went out to buy it.”
“Oh,” Zhan Pengcheng seemed to be very interested in planting flowers and plants, and asked him, “What are you going to plant?”
Pei Qing was silent for a moment, and answered him, “A money tree.”
Zhan Pengcheng smiled and said, “A money tree is more suitable for indoor cultivation. It will die if it is exposed to strong sunlight.”
Pei Qing looked at the flower pot for a while, pondered for a long time, and still asked Zhan Pengcheng, “Yangyang he—has he been like that since he was a child?”
The smile on Zhan Pengcheng’s face disappeared instantly. He stopped watering and looked at Pei Qing, “Is Yangyang causing you trouble?”
Pei Qing hurriedly said, “No, I am just concerned about Yangyang, wondering if I should take him to see a doctor.”
“The doctor said he is fine,” Zhan Pengcheng said, his expression and tone becoming serious.
Pei Qing said, “I didn’t mean anything else, Uncle. Please don’t be angry.”
Zhan Pengcheng seemed to feel that he had overreacted, so he softened his tone and said to Pei Qing, “It’s okay. You don’t know Yangyang. He must have caused you a lot of trouble. I’ll be at home during this period of time, I’ll keep an eye on him.”
Pei Qing noticed Zhan Pengcheng’s resistance and knew that no matter what he said now, Zhan Pengcheng probably wouldn’t listen, so he stopped mentioning Zhan Weiyang and said, “Uncle, I’ll go downstairs to eat first.”
Zhan Pengcheng nodded, “Go quickly.”
When Pei Qing turned around to leave, he suddenly heard a shout from downstairs, “Uncle!”
Zhan Pengcheng and Pei Qing both leaned forward to look downstairs and saw Zhan Weiguang with a chubby, tall boy appearing together, dragging a box in their hands.
The chubby boy looked up towards the second floor. First, he spotted Zhan Pengcheng, and then he noticed Pei Qing. Immediately, he waved happily and called out, “Qing ge! I’m here!”
The chubby boy was Zhan Weiyang’s cousin who was in the first year of high school this year—Zhan Xiusong.
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