Ch30 - Chinese New Year’s Eve (2/2)
As he spoke, Yu Hao turned on the TV and turned its volume up such that it would mask Mama Zhou’s endless rambles. He thought that if she blamed him for being impolite, then he would just go out to eat with Zhou Sheng ba. But it seemed as if Mama Zhou was tired of talking, so she got up and left.
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“This is why I don’t want to date, and why I don’t want to get married.” Zhou Sheng said calmly.
“A lot of girls aren’t like that.” Yu Hao answered.
“Children will treat the parents in their original families as role models and learn from them.” Zhou Sheng grabbed some dough and started to knead them into thin pancakes, then motioned to Yu Hao to remove a lid, “Careful, don’t burn your hands……so, your future family would be like how your parents were. Don’t you understand that after reading so many case studies?”
Yu Hao, “A person’s life is a process that integrates our personality that was formed during childhood. The influence of the families we grew up in is so strong that it’s almost impossible for us to break free from it, but we still need to strive to nurture our willpower to keep our psychological state in line with our external reality. Through an appropriate adjustment of our mental state and some self-suggestion, as well as to our partners……”
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Zhou Sheng only responded with, “Too troublesome. If it’s a problem that can be resolved by staying single, then why expend so much effort?” to shut down all of Yu Hao’s words.
“……after a series of collisions, the scene was cleared……”
Yu Hao placed a plate of pancakes used to wrap the roast duck on the table and inadvertently saw the news. Zhou Sheng quickly sliced up a cucumber into shreds and was currently tearing apart the scallion when Yu Hao was suddenly stunned.
A red BMW had been smashed up after a crash, that license plate number was……
“What’s wrong?”
Zhou Sheng quickly felt that something was wrong with Yu Hao, so he raised his head and looked at him. Yu Hao hurriedly searched for his phone, trembling as he dialled Chen Yekai’s number.
“Laoshi, are you okay?” Yu Hao asked.
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Chen Yekai answered over the phone, “You saw the news? The car isn’t mine, Professor Lin was the one driving; he was fetching Shimu. I wasn’t in the car.”
Yu Hao knew that Chen Yekai definitely wouldn’t be going home for the New Year. He asked, “How are they doing?”
“Laoshi’s fine.” Chen Yekai said, “But Shimu’s not doing so well.”
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Zhou Sheng was standing at one side. Chen Yekai continued, “It’s okay. I’ll stay at the hospital tonight to take care of her. I’ll wish both of you a Happy New Year in advance.”
Zhou Sheng got the gist of what had happened. Both of them looked at each other in silence, then Zhou Sheng said, “Will get better.”
Yu Hao felt a bit heavy-hearted, but luckily, Chen Yekai wasn’t in that car.
Zhou Sheng set the table with all his dishes. The four of them sat around the table, and the atmosphere on this New Year’s Eve night seemed quite strange. In the end, Yu Hao really felt too embarrassed, so he said, “I wish for Auntie to be in good health, cheers……”
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Yu Hao didn’t call that guy “uncle” on purpose. Zhou Sheng said, “You have good judgment.”
Thus the atmosphere became even more awkward. But since it was a reunion dinner, everyone tried their best not to start any arguments. Zhou Sheng only wrapped the roast duck for Yu Hao and kept piling his plate up with food, “Eat more, I made everything on this table specifically for you.”
Yu Hao lightly kicked him under the table to get him to stop picking a fight. Mama Zhou smiled, “This is the first time a friend of Zhou Sheng has come over to celebrate the New Year. Yu Hao, take good care of him in the future.”
Yu Hao said, “Usually, he’s the one taking care of me.”
This meal was finished rather quickly. Zhou Sheng cooked for six hours, but Mama Zhou and her boyfriend ate for only half an hour before dressing to the nines and leaving the house to go play mahjong. Yu Hao was still eating what was left on the table.
“If you’re full, stop.” Zhou Sheng said, “Don’t stuff yourself too much.”
Yu Hao said, “It’s too delicious, I can still eat a little more.”
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This was the first time for Yu Hao to eat such delicious food. Zhou Sheng’s cooking was indeed better than Yun Lai Chun. Although the ingredients weren’t expensive, he had put a lot of heart into it. Zhou Sheng bit a cigarette in his mouth as he watched Yu Hao eat, as if he was thinking of something, but eventually he couldn’t stand watching any longer, “You better not puke later.”
Yu Hao, “……”
Yu Hao really couldn’t eat any more. He said, “Then what do we do with the rest?”
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“Keep it for the next meal ah!” Zhou Sheng blew up, “Did we buy the fridge to keep it on display?!”
Only then did Yu Hao prop himself up. Zhou Sheng asked him to rest while he went to wash the dishes. In the end, under Yu Hao’s insistence, both of them cleaned up the dishes on the table and covered themselves with a blanket as they laid on the sofa to watch the Spring Festival Gala.
Yu Hao could sense that Zhou Sheng didn’t talk as much today. Perhaps it was because his identity had been exposed, so there was a mutually tacit awkwardness between them now. For example, Zhou Sheng didn’t say, ‘did you fall in love with me,’ anymore to tease him and wouldn’t use his leg to rub Yu Hao’s waist underneath the blanket either. Both of them just quietly watched the Spring Festival Gala playing on TV.
The living room was quiet. There was a short romantic scene played by two men and one woman on the show, and they even pandered to the rotten ones. A sissy came out, facing the girlfriend, then pointed at his straight bro and said, “the one I love, isn’t, him!”
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Yu Hao felt a bit awkward. He could see that Zhou Sheng was dozing off from the corner of his eye, so he turned the TV’s volume down.
“Yu Hao.”
Yu Hao turned around and looked at Zhou Sheng.
Zhou Sheng thought about it for awhile before he asked, “Do you want to date?”
Yu Hao’s heart suddenly exploded like firecrackers bursting within an instant, and a feeling of vertigo rushed to his brain. However, Zhou Sheng’s following words were, “It’s a new year, go find a partner ba?”
Yu Hao’s fingers pressed a button on the remote control to change the channel, but it was still playing the Spring Festival Gala.
“Okay.” Yu Hao turned around to watch the TV. He pondered over it a little, then said, “But a partner isn’t easy to find.”
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Both of them understood it implicitly. Yu Hao doesn’t want to look for a boyfriend, but since Zhou Sheng took the initiative to say this, Yu Hao understood what he meant. Find a boyfriend and transfer his feelings to him, then they could perhaps become good bros.
A song rang out in Yu Hao’s mind:
“Pass on the warmth from one to another’s bosom……”
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Zhou Sheng said, “I’ve heard before of an app that could help you make friends?”
Yu Hao laughed, “You know that too?”
Zhou Sheng said, “I saw it on the news before, an app for homosexuals to make friends.”
Yu Hao, “I’ve seen that news story. It was a report that investigated the incidence of AIDS; a lot of people use it for one night stands.”
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Zhou Sheng immediately clarified, “It’s not that I dislike you.”
Yu Hao didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, “I know. If you disliked me, you would have ignored me a long time ago, why would you still treat me so well?”
Zhou Sheng uttered an “wu”, “I see you as a little brother, you know that.”
“I might be older than you though?” Yu Hao joked and kicked Zhou Sheng. He then remembered that when he was buying a ticket for Zhou Sheng, his identity card had his birth date. He was older than Yu Hao by two years.
Zhou Sheng’s solemn expression that he had worn the whole day disappeared. He kicked Yu Hao in return, “Laozi retained for two years, you’re definitely younger than me.”
Yu Hao answered, “I know, I’ll go look for a boyfriend after the New Year.”
Zhou Sheng said, “But don’t get tricked into bed by bad people. You’re kinda stupid.”
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Yu Hao said, “Don’t worry, I won’t. I won’t look for someone on a one night stand app, I’ll ask around on Zhihu. Don’t worry about it anymore.”
Yu Hao knew that they would talk about this one day, and understood what Zhou Sheng was thinking in his heart —— when he had turned into General, he was forced to take an action that had crossed a line. But that was for the sake of saving him, to help him recover the sunlight in his world. However, in the depths of Zhou Sheng’s heart, maybe he was thinking that this action of his caused him to transfer his feelings, which made Yu Hao like him, so this was Zhou Sheng’s responsibility.
So……Yu Hao finally understood now, this was the golden circlet on Sun Wukong! Zhou Sheng wanted to take the golden circlet off, it’s just that……Yu Hao had no idea that this moment would come so fast.