Ch27 - Going Home (1/2)
When Zhou Sheng returned, he found Yu Hao on the phone with his mother and almost blew up. Yu Hao was sharp-sighted and deft so he instantly protected the telephone cord. Meanwhile, Zhou Sheng’s mother continued to choke back sobs on the other end as she talked about how she only had this one son and so on and so forth. She begged Yu Hao, pleading him to urge Zhou Sheng to come back, and also insisted that Yu Hao must return with him.
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“O……kay……okay……” Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng were fighting over the telephone cord, but Yu Hao wasn’t Zhou Sheng’s opponent at all. Zhou Sheng twisted his arm and pressed him down onto the table, while Yu Hao turned his head and spoke into the phone, “Auntie, I’ll hang up first okay!”
Zhou Sheng successfully plucked the telephone cord out. He was still pressing Yu Hao down; Yu Hao turned around to smile at him so he had to let go.
“Promise me one thing.” Yu Hao said.
Zhou Sheng, “No.”
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Yu Hao, “I haven’t even said it yet!”
Zhou Sheng, “You want me to go home!”
Yu Hao, “What if that’s not it?”
Zhou Sheng conceded, “Okay, I’ll promise you as long as you’re not asking me to go home.”
During dinnertime, Yu Hao washed the vegetables and cut up the meat while Zhou Sheng lay on his bed playing games on his phone. Both of them had hot pot for dinner. Yu Hao scrolled through his phone while picking out the meat and vegetables for Zhou Sheng, so Zhou Sheng just ate quietly. After they were done, Zhou Sheng washed the dishes. Yu Hao opened up his bag and packed both their clothes inside it. Zhou Sheng wiped his hands before walking over. Yu Hao carried his bag and Zhou Sheng asked, “Where are you going?”
Yu Hao, “Going on a holiday to celebrate the New Year.”
Zhou Sheng, “……”
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Yu Hao, “Send me to the train station ba, you promised me.”
Zhou Sheng realised that Yu Hao wanted to force him to go home, so he said, “I’m not going!”
“You’re going back on your words, I’m leaving.” Yu Hao said to Zhou Sheng, “Good bye.”
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Zhou Sheng’s expression was quite a spectacular sight, he said, “Don’t try to lie to me! Aren’t you just going to walk around outside? Do you think I’m a fool?”
Yu Hao said, “I really am going on a holiday. I finished all my work today, didn’t I tell you about it before? Happy New Year.”
Yu Hao closed the door, then left just like that.
Zhou Sheng was being completely led around by the nose by Yu Hao, so he could only grab his jacket and with both hands stuffed into his pockets, follow him out quickly.
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Yu Hao got on the train, and so did Zhou Sheng. The two of them were in adjacent train carriages; Yu Hao saw Zhou Sheng, and Zhou Sheng could see him too. Zhou Sheng was pulling a long face. Yu Hao saw it from across the empty carriage, and his gaze carried a hint of laughter in it.
Zhou Sheng’s face showed his displeasure blatantly. He had followed Yu Hao to the train station, and when he saw him taking his ticket, he realised that he really was leaving. He said, “You’re really going on a holiday?!”
Yu Hao took off his earphones and said, “Yeah.”
“Then what about me?” Zhou Sheng flared up, “You’re leaving me behind to celebrate the New Year in our dorm alone?!”
“Go home.” Yu Hao said seriously, “Listen to me and go back ba. She’s your mother, why are the both of you torturing each other like this?”
Zhou Sheng finally lost to Yu Hao. He could only say gloomily, “Wait for me for awhile.” And as he spoke, he left.
Yu Hao waited in line and took his ticket, and not long after, Zhou Sheng carried a box of duck necks over. He seemed as if he had accepted this reality, and knew that Yu Hao was doing this for his sake, so he said, “Keep your phone turned on.”
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“For going back.” Yu Hao passed the train ticket and Zhou Sheng’s identity card to him. He had bought two tickets for the trip back to Zhou Sheng’s home.
“You rummaged through my wallet?” Zhou Sheng said in disbelief.
“I wash your underwear every day.” Yu Hao, “What’s wrong with rummaging through your wallet a little?”
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A lot of people suddenly turned their heads to look over and Zhou Sheng instantly felt embarrassed, “Keep your voice down!”
Zhou Sheng was thus tricked onto a train back home by Yu Hao. They sat on neighbouring seats, and Zhou Sheng’s face couldn’t look any worse than it did now.
Yu Hao gave Chen Yekai a call and told him that he went out to celebrate the New Year. Chen Yekai said to Yu Hao, “I saw the two of you at the college gates just now.”
Yu Hao looked at Zhou Sheng, then hung up. Zhou Sheng said, “I didn’t bring a phone charger……”
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Yu Hao, “I took it.”
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The train plodded along as it moved forward. There were a lot of migrant workers in their carriage who were on their way home for the New Year. Yu Hao said, “It’s the New Year, come on, let’s get high! I’ll sing a song for you ba.”
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Yu Hao sang along with the puttering of the train, “Di da di da di da……”
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“Cgf sbe jc jijgw mibmx?!” Itbe Vtfcu mbeivc’a yfjg la jcswbgf.
“Life is a thriller novel…….” As soon as Yu Hao began to sing, half the carriage turned quiet.
The train whistled and left Ying city. Lights streamed into the carriage, and the distant rivers and mountains all fell asleep, as if they had entered a bright and resplendent dream.
Zhou Sheng fell asleep. His head drooped sideways and leaned on Yu Hao’s shoulder. His sportswear covered both of them and Yu Hao could smell Zhou Sheng’s warmth. He looked outside the window at the endless winter night, the glass windows reflected the figures of him and Zhou Sheng snuggling together.
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In this lifetime, he had never felt like he was this close to love. Even if this feeling was borne from an earlier emotion dwelling in the depths of his heart, at least on this night, on this whistling train, and by this person’s side, this feeling felt as real as the existence of the objective world — it was so real it left no room for doubt.
“Yu Hao——! You’re Yu Hao——!”
Zhou Sheng’s mother had set up a table filled with food at home. She hurriedly called out to Yu Hao to get him to eat. Yu Hao and Zhou Sheng had slept for 8 hours on the train, so he was crippled by fatigue. Zhou Sheng didn’t say a word before he entered his room, and said to Yu Hao, “Get in here!”
“I was worried that Zhou Sheng wouldn’t be able to make a friend at school……aiyo aiyo! You even brought tea leaves! What tea leaves are those? Come and take a seat, you even brought a gift……”
“Zhou Sheng said that you were the one who taught him English. It was the first time in his life that he passed English! He loves beating people up when he has nothing better to do, he didn’t hit you ba? Give me a moment, I’ll arrange it for you while I smoke a cigarette okay.……”
While Yu Hao tried his best to discern what she was saying to him, his head drooped as he was on the verge of dozing off.
“……for more than ten years, I was the one who fucking raised that son of an eighth wife with a handful of shit and urine, and all I was afraid of was that I’d bring him up to become an idiotic white-eyed wolf……”
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Yu Hao truly underestimated Mama Zhou’s combat ability.
After Zhou Sheng got home, he stayed in his room for a little while, then forcefully pushed his door open with a loud bang. When he walked out, he was already in a new set of clothes. Yu Hao got a good scare, but Mama Zhou seemed like she didn’t hear him as she pulled Yu Hao’s hand and said, “In the future, which girl would be willing to…..aiyo, I’m so worried that I’ve started sprouting white hairs on my head……”
From the corner of his eyes, Yu Hao watched Zhou Sheng walk towards the kitchen and rummage through the fridge. He got out some fruit juice and gulped down a few mouthfuls, then threw some cabbage, chicken, pork, chayote etc. onto the counter. He hacked a knife onto the chopping board before tying an apron around himself.
Yu Hao, “……………………”
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“I don’t know why I was blind last time……” Mama Zhou stretched her neck out to call out, “The rice hasn’t been cooked yet!” Before she turned back to Yu Hao, “And married a lard head who only knew how to cook, ai——ya!”
The corners of Yu Hao’s mouth twitched. Mama Zhou continued, “Forget it forget it, I’ll do it ba.”
“Even dogs won’t eat the food you cook!” These were the first words Zhou Sheng had officially said to his mother after he returned.
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Yu Hao quickly said, “I’ll help him.”
“Just stay there and sit!” Zhou Sheng raised his head up to say as he sliced the chayote into shreds. Yu Hao was so terrified his soul scattered, and all he could see was Zhou Sheng cutting up the vegetables so quickly that it looked like his knife was flying, so he quickly cautioned, “Careful, don’t cut your fingers!”
“Leave him alone.” Mama Zhou said, “If he chops it off we can treat it as an extra dish. Little bro Yu, listen to me……”
An hour later, Zhou Sheng threw a few dishes down onto the table, took off his apron and scooped up a bowl of rice and soup for Yu Hao. Mama Zhou was still talking to him at one side, “Doesn’t even learn anything useful, how much can you earn from cooking?”
Zhou Sheng cast a glance at Yu Hao as if to ask, “You understand now?”
Yu Hao waved his hand and continued nodding at Mama Zhou.
Four dishes and one soup. Sesame oil chicken with scallions that was tender and slightly yellowish, claypot fried beancurd saturated with sauce, 6 rolls of cabbage-wrapped shrimps, stir fried chayote shreds and a bowl of pickled vegetable and fish soup.
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Yu Hao kept telling himself, this is my first visit, I definitely can’t lick the plate later……
Zhou Sheng didn’t eat much before he stopped. Yu Hao said, “You cook so well, yet you can stomach the food from our canteen?”
“As long as it’s not something I cooked, it all tastes the same to me.” Zhou Sheng said casually.
“Yu Hao na.” Mama Zhou asked, “Is Zhou Sheng close to any girls in school?”