In a society governed by the rule of law, He Yu certainly could not have thrown Xie Qingcheng into the grass to torture him in retaliation.
But there was no way out, so they both ended up resigning themselves to their destiny and returned to the camp.
With their eyes fixed on each other, they could only have a small talk.
It is clear that Adam and Eve did not really love each other, but they still stayed together. Probably because there was no one else, and they couldn't keep talking to the snake in the tree.
Xie Qingcheng: "Child".
Apart from Xie Qingcheng, no one else had called He Yu a "child."
And the use of this term of affection meant more or less that Xie Qingcheng intended to communicate with He Yu at this time.
He Yu turned his head to the side: "Hm?"
"...... Is the wound on your hand healed?"
"She is cured." He Yu smiled: "Why does Dr. Xie worry about the wound on my hand? You didn't mind hurting me anymore that day at the police station."
"...you know I don't want to hear about the past again."
"So, did you know that I really wanted to apologize to you that day?"
"......" Xie Qingcheng raised her eyes.
He Yu was still smiling, but his look was cold when he looked at him: "That's how I speak, Xie Qingcheng. I was being honest that day, leaving aside what you said about the capitalist discourse. You have been the ones who have asked me to control my emotions since I was a child. Have you resigned so long ago that you have forgotten what you told me before?"
There were a few moments of silence.
Then, Xie Qingcheng said: "I resigned a long time ago."
"Four years."
Xie Qingcheng: "...... I haven't asked you well so far, how is your illness?"
"Much better."
He Yu smiled again: "You don't have to worry, no matter what I think of you personally, I agree with your medical philosophy. Your teachings for me, I always have them in mind."
Xie Qingcheng looked at the young man with a cold face in front of him: "That's fine. You have to help yourself with your illness. No matter which doctor you switch to, the most important thing is your own mentality."
He Yu remained silent for a moment, with his head down and smiled: "Hey, how come these words sound so familiar to me?
"Oh." He paused, the coldness flooded his eyes, "Now that I think about it. You told me once. I still remember it, Dr. Xie."
"It was the day you left, wasn't it? ......"
It was the day Xie Qingcheng left.
Before that day, He Yu and Xie Xue had finished reading together in the library, it was raining and He Yu accompanied Xie Xue home with an umbrella.
"Thank you for walking so much to join me."
"It's okay."
"Do you want to come in and sit down for a while? Although my house is quite small..."
"Isn't it going to bother you?"
"Why? No, I was afraid you wouldn't be used to it." Xie Xue smiled, took He Yu's hand and went to the alley on his way home.
Xie Qingcheng was not at home, but Li Ruoqiu was.
The woman was sitting at her desk, sending messages to someone, with a smile resting on her face, she didn't even look up when her little sister entered the house, she just said casually: "Xie Xue is back."
He Yu and Li Ruoqiu didn't look much, so when he entered the house, he politely said: "Br-in-law Li, I'm sorry to bother you."
When Li Ruoqiu heard his voice, he was startled and looked up: "...... Oh, we have a guest. Sit down soon."
He got up hurriedly and went to make them tea.
He Yu smiled, "Br-in-law, there is no need for you to worry, I just came to leave Xie Xue home and I'll leave soon."
"How can it be, sit down, I'll go get them something to eat."
He turned around and left.
Xie Xue said quietly: "The sister-in-law is quite nice and warm, if you reject her, she will get angry."
Li Ruoqiu was, in fact, a woman of strong character, and He Yu was able to perceive it in the few encounters he had with her. What's more, how could a normal woman want to marry a paternal and cold man like Xie Qingcheng?
He sat down. The old house in the Alley of Huzhou was small. A narrow passage, separated by curtains. High school children are big enough and know everything they should and should not know.
It was the first time he entered Xie Qingcheng's private domain, and his eyes looked at the interior furniture, stopping for a moment in the double bed half hidden by a curtain, with a subtle feeling.
It was difficult to imagine Xie Qingcheng and Li Ruoqiu doing those things.
He Yu kept his eyes politely apart.
"Here's the tea, come on, there are also sandwiches, I don't know if you're used to eating." Li Ruoqiu smiled while attending home, bringing a pot of hot tea and cakes, and a plate of fruit cut on the tray, "Try it, dim sum is something that I baked myself."
"You are very kind, sister-in-law."
Li Ruoqiu hid his mouth and smiled, his pair of intelligent eyes took turns looking at He Yu and Xie Xue.
Although the two boys are a few years apart, the boys grow up quickly at puberty, and He Yu did not wear his school uniform today, only a black high-neck sweater for autumn, jeans and a baseball cap. The average is about 180 cm, so he didn't look as much as a high school boy.
He was sitting next to Xie Xue, who was a few years older than him, and his height and appearance were quite similar.
The room was silent for a while.
Xie Xue: "......"
He Yu: "......"
Li Ruoqiu: "......"
After a few seconds, Li Ruoqiu laughed and did not hold back, waving his hand: "Speak calmly, talk calmly, I'm going to go up to Aunt Li's house to sit down for a while."
"Hey." Xie Xue Said: "Bir-in-law..."
Li Ruoqiu was already moving away.
From the way he smiled before leaving, even a fool would know what he was thinking.
"That, oh. I'm sorry He Yu, my sister-in-law likes to watch idol dramas, and she is prone to think anything strange."
"It's okay." He Yu lowered his eyes and took a sip of his hot tea, felt that Li Ruoqiu's misunderstanding flattered him a lot and smiled: "I don't care."
He originally liked Xie Xue, so Li Ruoqiu's misunderstanding was nothing.
"By the way, your brother is not on duty tomorrow, but he comes to my house to take care of something, do you want to come with him? When I'm done with your business, I'll take you to a barbecue."
When Xie Xue found out that there would be something to eat, she gladly accepted.
However, when He Yu got home that night, he found the light on in the living room and pushed the door, and there was Lu Zhishu sitting in the room reading the newspaper.
He Yu was a little surprised.
Lu Zhishu and He Jiwei didn't used to be at home. The He family had two permanent residences, one in Shanghai and one in Yanzhou. In the main residence in Yanzhou, He Yu had only lived until he was five years old, when he was taken south. His younger brother was different, had to study and was used to wasting time with his rich and seductive local friends, so he gave him a heart attack when he saw his sensible older brother standing out in all areas, which is why he almost always stayed exclusively in the main residence.
The two brothers lived on either side of the river, and when their parents were free, they naturally preferred to spend time with their sweet and innocent little brother, they rarely came to spend time with him, unless something came up.
"...... What brings you back?"
"I just finished an errand." Lu Zhishu left the newspaper and said to his eldest son: "Sit down, there is something I want to tell you."
The boy, who was in his third year of school, left his backpack and entered without shoes, and his mother looked at him.
He Yu lowered the eyelashes, "Go ahead."
Lu Zhishu poured himself a glass of red wine and took a sip before saying: "Tomorrow is the last day that Dr. Xie will come to see you. After this, he will no longer be our family's personal doctor."
He Yu didn't expect it to be such a thing and he was stunned.
It was a long time before it was heard, apparently calmly, "...... Why so suddenly?"
"Well. I didn't tell you before because I was afraid you would oppose it."
"...... Why?"
Instead of answering this question directly from him, Lu ZhiShu said: "The money is already in the process of being liquidated, tomorrow he will hand things over to me and greet you too. But after this..."
He took another sip of wine: "You will have to stop relating to his family."
"......"
"Do you understand what I mean? We are not of the same class, I sent Lao Zhao to pick you up this afternoon and he told me that you had gone to Dr. Xie in an alley of Huzhou as a guest and you were with his sister."\nLu ZhiShu sighed: "To be honest, I am quite disappointed. Mencius' mother moved three times to choose her neighbors. Parents expect their children to be surrounded by satisfactory peers. "
He observed the boy's long and tall body, and his gaze turned up and down, to the already handsome face of He Yu.
"Especially from companions."
There was a long silence in the living room.
Then He Yu asked: "Is this what Dr. Xie?"
"It was his intention to leave the job, and it was my intention to keep you away from home." Lu Zhishu admitted it frankly, putting a smile and approaching He Yu, he raised his hand to make him raise his head, smoothing his hair from his forehead backwards.
"But I think what I mean and also what Dr. Xie, I wouldn't want to finish a work period after being unnecessarily associated with someone else. He is an exceptionally sober man, and that is one of the reasons why your father and I admire and trust him."
"......"
"You can ask him yourself tomorrow if you don't believe me."
......
The next day, Xie Qingcheng came.
After delivering all the procedures and last monitoring his condition, Xie Qingcheng spoke with indifference to the boy who was lying in the treatment chair: "Your mother should have talked to you."
He Yu: "......"
"From tomorrow, I won't go to your house anymore."
"In the future, if you feel uncomfortable with something, do not choose to distract attention by self-harm as you did before. And, whatever doctor you change to see you, remember that the most important thing is always your own mind."
The young doctor did not let himself be carried away by his personal emotions when he uttered these words.
Lu Zhishu was right, in the heart of Xie Qingcheng, the boundary between him and He Yu had always been very clear. Their two families were not at all from the same world. He Yu was the youngest teacher in the He family, the son of He Jiwei.
And he was just a doctor hired by his family.
For He Yu, it would not be good if he continued to rely on a doctor to alleviate his mental problems.
Xie Qingcheng was calm and knew it very well.
He could give care, support and a strong moral stimulus to his patients, but when the time came to say goodbye, he did not contain himself. He had always handled the doctor-patient relationship with such seriousness and cleanliness, so he finally limited himself to saying: "...... Well, boy, then I wish you a speedy recovery and good health."
The boy whose puberty had just arrived suppressed the fire in his heart and looked at him: "...... don't you have anything else to tell me?"
"......"
He waited a while, but Xie Qingcheng didn't respond.
He Yu said: "Good. You have nothing to say, I do."
"......"
"Xie Qingcheng, over the last few years, I have met many doctors who have medicated me, given me injections and looked at me with the same eyes as an independent patient. Only you are different."
"It's true that I don't like you, but I've listened to your words completely."
"Because you were the only one who treated me as if I were someone who had to integrate into society. You told me that injections and medication were not the most important thing, but that connecting with others and building a strong heart was the only way to put up with it."
He Yu paused: "Dr. Xie, although I'm not very close to you, I......"
"......"
"I..."
When He Yu said this, he couldn't say anything else for a long time, his apricot eyes stared at Xie Qingcheng's face.
"I thought that you not only looked at me like a patient, but you also treated me like a normal person with feelings."
"I treated you like a normal person with feelings."
"And so you're going to leave suddenly?" The high school boy's physique had grown up, and when he wore some rage, his aura was really frightening and already oppressive, "Is that how normal people relate?"
Xie Qingcheng remained silent for a moment: "He Yu. I know you feel that this matter is very sudden, I should have informed you originally in advance, but I have contacted your two parents, especially your father. He is an old acquaintance and my employer, I have to respect his wishes first without violating my principles ......"
"What about my wishes?"
Xie Qingcheng said, "I'm just a doctor."
"I'm also your employer, am I?" He Yu stared at him: "Aren't you going to ask me for my opinion?"
"......" Xie Qingcheng sighed, "Trole yourself, boy. I don't want to disrespect you, but you are still a student and hiring me is not a price you can afford."
He Yu didn't know what to think, at that time he was already very stable, and he was even able to move forward and retire without losing manners in the midst of adult socialization.
But as soon as he thought that both Xie Qingcheng and Xie Xue were leaving, he suddenly felt helpless again, and surprisingly released: "I have a lot of money in my pocket, I can..."
"Save it to buy cakes and eat them."
"......"
Xie Qingcheng spoke to him rationally: "I'm not a piece of cake that if your father doesn't buy you, you can find your way to spend your money to get it. I have come to see you a lot for your favors. I can't go against his will, do you understand?"
"Why did he have to ask you to leave?"
"He asked me not to leave." Xie Qingcheng said: "I was the one who wanted to leave. Didn't you just ask me? If ending up like this was a normal end to a relationship between people?"
Xie Qingcheng looked into He Yu's eyes.
"Yes."
"Although in my eyes you are also a normal person with feelings, what I have established with you is a doctor-patient relationship, and all human relationships are in stages, not even your parents, the people closest to you, can accompany you throughout your life."
Xie Qingcheng paused for a moment: "Now that my doctor-patient relationship with you has come to an end, I must go. This is a very normal end of relationship between normal people."
"......"
"The time your father and I initially agreed is this same, seven years."
When Xie Qingcheng said this, he looked back into He Yu's eyes: "With your illness, it is no longer convenient for someone to continue to be with you like this at this stage. Sooner or later, you will have to trust yourself to get out of the darkness inside you. Do you understand?"
"...... So you, like my mother, also think that after today, there will be no need for unnecessary contact between us, between Xie Xue and me, right?"
Xie Qingcheng: "You can always get in touch if you need our help."
There was a pause: "For other things, there is really not much need."
"......"
"In addition, your mother told me that you and Xie Xue went out a lot alone." Xie Qingcheng said: "As your tutor, I don't think it's appropriate either."
As he said this, he looked at the boy who was in high school and said decently and calmly: "I know that there is a big age difference between you and that you only depend on it and nothing else. But after a while, it is inevitable that there will be some gossip, and it is not good for you or her."
He Yu did not correct his idea, too outdated and naive, but limited himself to saying: "So you agree with my mother."
"That's right."
He Yu stared at him for a long time, then lay down on his chair, leaned his face and smiled softly, a smile that was like a cloud covering the sun, as if covering the only centimeter of his heart that he had managed to undress.
He Yu smiled and said: "Doctor, you are really ...... calm enough to make people believe that you are not sick, but you are more heartless than I am."
"Good. Now that you have said everything up to this point, you can leave."
"I will remember well what you have said, about saving myself, and I will live peacefully. I also wish you a quiet and prosperous career in the future."
"But..."
The conversation changed.
"Although Xie Xue is your sister, she also has her freedom, and no matter what you say, I will continue to go to her."
Xie Qingcheng frowned and her gaze became severe: "She is a girl, and you are already fourteen years old, you are a little distant. Why do you have to follow her?"
"Because she's not like you."
Light and shadow cut a line on the ground, they were in the light and in the dark respectively, like pieces bent in half. He Yu said, "She is the only bridge that connects me with the world."
Xie Qingcheng remained silent for a moment: "Then you should look for another one."
Time is running out, and he still had some issues to attend to so he couldn't say anything else to He Yu, and he left.
That day, He Yu sat on his chair, without moving a muscle.
From sunset until late at night.
He Yu thought: "Xie Qingcheng is really a really capable person."
<b>It was he who told him that he wanted him to think of himself as a normal person, that he could come out of the shadows inside on his own.</b>
It even gave him the illusion that even if he were close to Xie Xue, Xie Qingcheng, as an older brother, would be able to accept it.
But that day, he learned from Xie Qingcheng's election that he had thought too much after all.
The employment relationship is really the most innocent and simplest of all human relationships, whether it lasts ten or twenty years, when the relationship ends, you can spend the money without any relationship persisting, no one owes anyone.
A private doctor who charges for his work and leaves without any complications.
Compared to the doctors of the past, Xie Qingcheng was nothing special about it. He was even more cruel than those other doctors who saw him as an extraterrestrial, because he was the one who had lied to him the longest and the one who had taken the most advantage of his passion and pain. He was the one who made him believe that the relationship he had built would be one that would last forever, the one who made him believe that his affection for Xie Xue was one that would be accepted.
But he was wrong about both.
He Yu thought about this old story and looked at Xie Qingcheng's face.
After all those years, Xie Qingcheng was still the older brother of the Xie family as it was then, and in the end it had not changed at all.
He still did not want Xie Xue to be alone with him, and he continued to show himself in front of his sister as a very dominant and dictatorial protector; even his words of advice for him to think outside the box were exactly the same.
Xie Qingcheng could be a very good doctor, with a praiseworthy medical philosophy, a fair mind and very responsible to his patients.
But, unfortunately, I didn't have a heart.
"Do you still think about the old days?"
Xie Qingcheng's voice took him out of his memories.
He Yu came to his senses and said: "...... You mentioned it, so I thought about it. Even if I think about it carefully, it is really unlikely that I will remember the way I speak in the past."
Finally, He Yu laughed: "After all, we are just a doctor-patient relationship that is over, am I right?"
Xie Qingcheng had not yet answered, but at that moment, the sky suddenly lit up with a light, followed by a "bang", and the night was filled with fireworks.
At the end of the annual garden party, the grand finale is always a fireworks show, too splendid.
The fireworks were launched with several explosions.
Xie Qingcheng said, "Correct."
In the midst of this glory and brightness, there was a sudden and muted sound of thunder: the rain would come. Fireworks, which by nature were fiery and brief, could not be more powerful than the cold lightning, and they soon went out. In the distance, the students laughed and fled to the buildings or dormitories to escape the rain, a rain with drops as large as soybeans crackled on the worldly hustle and bustle.
He Yu kept holding that fine smile and said in the sky that it was getting dark: "Then let's take refuge together, Dr. Xie. I would like to analyze it according to your sober thinking, in addition to the doctor-patient relationship, now you are also my teacher's brother, and if you get wet, I will not be able to account in front of her."
After a pause, still with a certain sarcasm: "Two people who have ended the doctor-patient relationship, hiding from the rain together is normal behavior, there is no transgression or bad behavior, right?"
Xie Qingcheng knew that in reality he still held a grudge in his heart.
But Xie Qingcheng had no more patience or tolerance to persuade him, so he coldly said, "Good."
He Yu smiled: "There is a cave ahead, please, your first."\n\n
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On this side of the island, He Yu and Xie Qingcheng sought refuge from the rain, while on the other side, the old man continued to work diligently to collect his work, guarding the entrance and not letting the other participants in the visit to the garden approach.
The eldest thought that at this point everyone should have had a lot of fun, and it was unlikely that anyone would get so bored as to come to Neverland to get a stamp, so he was in a much more relaxed mood.
"Heaven, this is a lot of rain." He lamented, sitting on the duck boat and looking insistently at the island, hoping to see something.
But the distance was too great, and before I had only vaguely seen He Yu with a rather thin person, he was short-sighted and could not see too well, so he thought the beauty was quite high, he estimated that he was almost eighty meter, and I did not know if he would have worn a high heel.
The elders felt that He Yu's taste was really unique, as he liked such tall girls.
Ugh ...... the life of a capitalist is really enviable.
While thinking about it, he felt a little itchy. I wanted to know how the two people were getting along on the island now that it was raining. Both went up without an umbrella, there was only one cave on Fantasy Island, to which usually few students go, and it is a blind spot in the school's surveillance arrangement. The eldest had heard that certain couples especially liked to come to this cave in the middle of the night to have wild fights, and calculated that with the type of appearance of He Yu, his family history, and having gone so far to pursue that beauty of 1.80, that should have been successful now.
How about sending a text message to sell a package to a capitalist?
The eldest thought and tested his phone.
A home run on the night of confession, that would fit with today's fast life, wouldn't it?
So he started editing the message and sent it to He Yu's unlocked phone to keep the wool of the capital...
"Here Boss, there is a first aid box in the island cave, there are a few boxes of condoms on the second level of the box, if you need them, just look in the box and remember to send me a red envelope if you use them ......"
Author's comment.\nThe stupidest behavior of teenagers is trying to use the money out of their pocket to retain the man that Dad took so much trouble hiring ......\nThe stupidest behavior of parents is to interfere with the freedom of their children to marry and love, forcing young boys not to approach their daughters, and the consequences will be the same as those of Brother Xie, to be noticed by the boys ......\nAlso that Dr. Xie saw He Yu as a doctor to get a salary, but that Brother Xie still doesn't have too much money is not a mistake ...... later I will say the main reason = = ah, of course, there is also part of a secondary reason: housing prices in the state of Shanghai are ridiculously high = = so many years of seeing him as a doctor, it is not enough to change the house ...... (???) (So realistic about the price of housing = =)