Mrs. Huo felt her mind in total blank instantly as if a humming sound burst in her ears. If Mr. Huo hadn't given her a hand in time, her staggering body would have fallen to the ground on the spot.
She raised her pale face to look at Huo Qu in disbelief, shivering with her words, "My son! What do you want? What on earth do you want?"
Born with different characters from normal kids, Huo Qu had received the most favor from Mrs. Huo naturally among his brothers. Ever since his young age, he had never encountered any scold, let alone a single embarrassing beating.
But today, his mother took off her original gentle appearance and stared at Huo Qu with a pair of aggressive eyes, "You'd better make it clear to me!"
Huo Qu was unaware of his mother's sudden fury. He just looked at Mrs. Huo blankly and repeated, "I like Qinghuan, and I want to be with him forever."
At the thought of Yu Qinghuan, Huo Qu's heart was like soaking in sweet and soft honey. His left shy face showed that little round dimple, and he whispered, "I want him to see me as soon as he gets home."
"Oh, you shut up!" Mrs. Huo's tears welled up in her eyes. She gave a collapsing sob and suddenly rushed to the front of Huo Qu, raising her hand to slap him. "You are not allowed to go anywhere! Stay at your home! You are grounded. Understand?"
"Mom!"
"Miaomiao!"
Both Mr. Huo and Huo Rong were surprised by her slap on Huo Qu. They froze for a moment and hurriedly pulled her away.
"What are you doing?" Mr. Huo hugged her tightly to prevent her from doing some mad stuff again, yelling in her ear in a low voice, "Calm down, you might frighten your son, let's go back to our room and have a talk."
"I'm not going anywhere!" Mrs. Huo looked at Huo Qu with tearful eyes and kept sobbing. The fact was too much a burden for her, "How could this happen? There must be a mistake on my Qu!"
Being different from normal kids since childhood, her youngest son had suffered a lot of pain and ridicule. Loneliness paved the way for his growing up.
Now he finally had some signs of returning to normal life, learning to care about others and developing his own friendship. However, as she became gratified and thought that one day her son would lead a normal life, a bolt from the blue suddenly woke her up from her dream.
Huo Qu actually told her that he was in love with a man! How could she accept this?
It was an even harder road. If Huo Qu chose it, he would be hurt hundreds of times more than before. Huo Qu was her flesh and blood, the son she raised by herself. How could she have the heart to watch him go astray!?
Mrs. Huo's sanity recovered slightly. She pushed his husband aside and walked before Huo Qu. Just as she was about to speak, a long-fingered, bony hand reached toward her.
"Mom, don't cry." Huo Qu carefully wiped the tears on her face, his beautiful black eyes revealed a trace of panic. "Am I making you angry? I'm sorry."
His hair was messy and his perplexed face was marked by fingernail scratches. But he didn't notice his situation at all and only clumsily tried to comfort his mother, "Mom, don't cry."
This was the first time Huo Qu had reacted to the emotion changes of his family. Mrs. Huo's heart was both bitter and sweet. What a mixed feeling!
Tears fell uncontrollably down her face. She touched the wound on her little son's face with regret. All her anger and shock were forgotten, leaving only her love for her son.
"Mom is fine, don't worry. Does your face hurt?"
Huo Qu nodded honestly, "Yes."
"It's mom's fault, mom shouldn't have hit you," Mrs. Huo blamed herself so much. She choked out a cry and even wanted to break off her fingers that slapped on her son.
Seeing his wife's mood finally stabilized, Mr. Huo winked at Huo Rong, "Huo Rong, take Qu to the living room to apply some medicine."
Huo Rong nodded knowingly and pulled Huo Qu out of the room.
After the two brothers left, Mr. Huo turned to Mrs. Huo, "Miaomiao, you scared our son." He disapproved of her reactions.
"Honey," Mrs. Huo tightly clutched Mr. Huo's wrist as if seeking for strength to support herself, "What should our son do? Is it possible…he has fallen in love with that Yu Qinghuan?"
She murmured in disbelief, "What happened to the two boys?"
Mr. Huo's face was as solemn as a mask, he heavily sighed after a long time silence, "I don't know." He paused, holding Mrs. Huo's hands, "But frankly, I actually not so oppose them like you do."
"Why?" Mrs. Huo stared at him with her eyes wide open and brushed off his hands. Her voice was quite stern, "Do you think it is good for your son to be gay? Do you have any idea how people would laugh at and make fun of him?"
"Miaomiao, calm down," Mr. Huo closed the door tightly and continued, "I don't know what Yu Qinghuan thinks, but if the two of them can really live together a lifetime, it's actually not bad."
"I even have no guts to picture that one day my Qu will have friends and even a lover." His expression was complicated, and he touched the gloves from Huo Qu in his pocket, "But since Yu Qinghuan has appeared, our Qu has changed. I am really glad to think that our Qu is no longer lonely."
"Haven't you noticed that?" Mr. Huo reached out his hand and pinned Mrs. Huo's wet hair behind her ears, sighing, "Yu Qinghuan might be our Qu's destiny."
From their first encountering, every change of his youngest son was due to Yu Qinghuan. Even if he felt frustrated, he had to admit that Yu Qinghuan was unique in Huo Qu's heart.
"But I don't want my son to be labeled as homosexual," Mrs. Huo said sullenly, putting her forehead against Mr. Huo's shoulder. "Honey, I'm so afraid. But…" She sipped her lips. "I'm far from a cruel mom to forbid his contact with Yu Qinghuan."
"Let nature take its course," Mr. Huo patted her on the shoulder. "Aren't these we parents' duty? I'd rather he be laughed at than he live alone in the world."
Mr. Huo snorted speaking of that, "Besides, who dares to laugh at our son?!"
"Don't flatter yourself!" Mrs. Huo wiped the corner of her red eyes but felt relieved. Although the fact was still unacceptable for her at present, she had reacted less violently like just now.
"Do you think we should talk to Yu Qinghuan?"
"Nope." Mr. Huo frowned, his expression suddenly grew stern, "I know you love your son, but you can't put pressure on Yu Qinghuan because of that. No one stipulates Yu Qinghuan should have the same feeling for our Qu since Qu has feelings for him!"
"But…"
"Miaomiao, listen to me," Mr. Huo stretched out his hands and put her into his arms, with his eyes full of pity, "We can't impose the pressure on others' son for the sake of our own. Our Qu has our backing for him, but Yu Qinghuan, his parents are long gone. Let the children solve it themselves."
Mrs. Huo was silent for a long time before she answered, "Hm."
When Huo Rong brought Huo Qu back again, Mrs. Huo had packed up her emotions. Although she had not fully persuaded herself, she had already started to try to accept the truth.
However, she still rejected Huo Qu's throughly moving out. On the grounds that Yu Qinghuan was about to move, she only allowed him to take away his usual clothes and articles.
This was the first time that Huo Qu lived alone in Qinghuan's home while the owner was away. He sat quietly on the sofa and covered his chest with discomfort.
After he expressed his feeling for Qinghuan, his mother suddenly cried very sadly. Why would that happen? He sniffed and stared blankly at the floor. Qinghuan was so good that he liked him. Why was his mom so unhappy? He clearly wanted their blessing and envy.
He touched his watch subconsciously, picked up the phone in grievance, and dialed Yu Qinghuan's number.
At that time, Yu Qinghuan, who had just finished filming for a day, was a little exhausted and couldn't even keep his waist straight.
He had really not done so much farm work in this and previous life. Weren't for his good physical strengths, he may unable to handle all these.
He sat on the heatable adobe bed for a while and was about to go down for a drink when Zhao Qingyuan pushed the door and came in with a full face of displeasure.
"I just called Uncle Liu. Wang Chengcheng came to attend this program was due to his relationship! In order to promote the movie, he deliberately put Wang Chengcheng and me into the same variety show. I was wondering how could there be such a coincidence!"
He hammered angrily at the edge of the adobe bed. "For fear I wouldn't go, he deliberately didn't let the program crew tell me the guest list in advance! What a treacherous old fox!"
"Keep calm." Yu Qinghuan patted off Zhao Qingyuan's hand and pointed to the dust in the air. "We won't be able to stay in this room if you keep doing this."
Zhao Qingyuan withdrew his hand, "When I go back, I will let him treat me a big deal!" He wiped the sweat off his face and said with disgust, "Qinghuan, help me make a fire, I'll boil some water and take a bath."
"Okay." Yu Qinghuan replied, and the phone rang when he wanted to go out with Zhao Qingyuan.
He picked up his cell phone and found it was Huo Qu.
Huo Qu seldom called him. Most of the time, he preferred to send messages. Afraid of something happening to him, Yu Qinghuan pressed the answer key quickly.
"Qinghuan," As soon as the phone was connected, he heard the muffled voice from Huo Qu.
"Are you all right?" Sensing that his mood seemed to be a little bad, Yu Qinghuan frowned involuntarily and asked with concern, "What happened?"
"I missed you." Huo Qu's voice was low with kind of grievance, "When will you come back?"
"In another three days, I'm afraid." Yu Qinghuan's voice softened unconsciously, "Do you feel bored at home?"
Huo Qu didn't quite understand the meaning of feeling bored, so he chose to ignore his words and tried to organize his language, trying to tell him what had happened when he was at home, "Qinghuan, today… something very strange happened."
"Hmm?" Yu Qinghuan paused. When he was about to ask the situation, there was suddenly a noisy voice coming from behind.
"Qinghuan! Come here quickly, there aren't enough seedlings for tomorrow, so we have to collect them more now!"
"Stop talking on the phone, we're all waiting for you! Come on! Hurry up!"
"I'm sorry, Huo Qu, I suddenly have a job, you can go to bed now, I'll call you tomorrow." After finishing his words, Qinghuan hung up the phone under the repeated urging of the working staff.
Huo Qu listened to the busy tone on the phone for a while, and it took a long time before he was able to put down his cell phone feebly.
He really missed Qinghuan. He had a lot to say to him. But it seemed Qinghuan didn't miss him. He only liked his work and even hung up his phone for his work.
Huo Qu sipped his lips and felt a little angry for the first time.
At this time, the phone suddenly rang, and a new message popped in. It was from Yu Qinghuan, with only four short words:
"I miss you, too."
Huo Qu repeatedly rubbed the words on the screen, his lips curled up unconsciously. Since Qinghuan also missed him, then he would forgive him, but only a little bit. The rest would have to wait until he saw him in person.
The author has something to say: Alas, many little fairies (readers) did not understand the plots yesterday.
In fact, it was a foreshadowing buried in the previous chapters. Qinghuan died in his previous life in an inspection well in order to save another man. The previous chapter pointed out that this person was Huo Qu. Therefore, their fate lasted from his previous life to this life.
I will put the specific details in the extra chapters. Qinghuan's rebirth is not so simple. Everything comes to fruition when there is a reason. I will give all my readers a big bowl of dog food. Heehee~~~