Chapter 74：

"Isn't it?" Aunt smiled, "I also heard from your cousin that the two of you have been on the hot search several times, and your uncle also said that the two of you have been good children since childhood."

Zhao Yao suddenly remembered something and said tentatively, "I remember his nickname is Peipei...?"

"There's this, you liked to call him Pepe when you were young. At that time, the old house of Pei's family was next to your grandfather. When I was a child, I liked to come to the house to look for you during holidays. Sometimes your mother didn't bring you here. I'll come and see every other day." My aunt remembers these things about children clearly, mainly because the two children have a good relationship, and the old people in the family always talk about it.

Zhao Yao remembered the eldest child named Peipei, but he did not know that his name was Pei Mingzhan. When he was a child, the eldest children around him had their own nicknames. Many people called the child Pepe. He thought that the child's real name should be similar to this one. ...but did not expect his original name to be Pei Mingzhan.

When my aunt saw that Zhao Yao was interested in things as a child, she thought of the album that Uncle Wang had just taken, "Wait a minute, you took a lot of childhood photos with that child, and there are albums at home."

She left for a while and came back with the album in her hand.

Zhao Yao watched her turn to the back of the album, and there were several pictures of him and Pei Mingzhan when he was a child. There are also photos of playing on the court, and even pulling him to fly a kite in the field... Some memories are buried deep, but when I see these photos, I have a vague impression.

It turns out that the eldest child is Pei Mingzhan?

Pepe is a boy with a small head, he looks a little more fierce than other children of the same age, and he is very smart, and he easily became the head of the child at that time.

Zhao Yao can't remember exactly how the two met, but he only knew that the child came to apologize with snacks, and finally led him around to play.

Zhao Yao suddenly thought that when he first met Pei Mingzhan, Pei Mingzhan had been paying close attention to him, and the real time to get along should be in the "Shadow" crew meeting. With Pei Mingzhan's status and work attitude, it is reasonable to say that During the rest time, he should be busy with other things, and during that time, Pei Mingzhan introduced him to the work of the crew and the details of the shooting after the filming... The originally planned shooting time gradually lengthened.

Thinking about it again, Pei Mingzhan's attitude was very close when he was hospitalized.

Now the two are in a relationship, but at that time, when he faced Pei Mingzhan's closeness, he thought he felt guilty because of an accident on the set, but think about it a long time ago. with the same attitude. Zhao Yao thought to himself, did Pei Mingzhan know that the two knew each other when they were children a long time ago?

"This picture was made by your grandmother to make a costume for you at that time. It seems that it was the first time you wore it and kept crying. Later, it was your mother who persuaded you to try it on before putting it on." Seeing that Zhao Yao was very interested, He pointed to one of the photos and said, "Did you see behind this door? The one who was hiding behind was Pepe. He was too shy to come in at that time."

Zhao Yao took a closer look and could indeed see a little boy with an inch head, his face in the photo was a little blurry.

He couldn't remember very well, so he asked, "Why is he shy?"

When my aunt thought of this, she laughed out loud, "He thought you were a girl at that time, and secretly asked the family which little girl this was. Later, his elder brother joked that you were his first love, and his face turned red."

The Pei family used to live next door to the Zheng family's old house, and because Pei Mingzhan's mother and Zhao Yao's mother used to be classmates, the relationship between the two families is very close, and some things are talked about by the two families. What's more, it was about the two children. They were still young at that time, and the elders liked to make fun of the two children when they had nothing to do. My aunt had just married the Zheng family at that time, and she remembered these things very clearly.

A child's face is already tender, and wearing a costume and a wig is really no different from a girl. Zhao Yao flipped through the album. This album contained a lot of photos from his childhood, including him and Pei Mingzhan, as well as him and other children... There are many more photos than the album at his home, and many photos look like , and then explained by others, it is easy to think of what happened at that time.

Did he meet Pei Mingzhan so early?

In fact, he stayed here for very little time, and he came here often when he was five or six years old. At the beginning, he didn't know many children. Later, his relationship with Pepege became better by accident, and then he took him with him. Play. But these memories are all very long ago. If you don't mention them, you can't remember them, and you won't think about them carefully. How can you remember so many things when you were five or six years old?

Pei Mingzhan was a few years older than him. At that time, he seemed to have just started elementary school. He didn't remember Pei Mingzhan, but Pei Mingzhan seemed to remember him.

"I haven't seen these photos." Zhao Yao flipped through them again.

Aunt heard the words for a while, "These are all albums brought over from your grandfather and grandma. Your grandfather likes to take pictures. When you are at home, he likes to chase after you to take pictures."

Zhao Yao flipped forward, and sure enough, he saw many single photos of himself, when he was three or four years old, and when he was four or five years old.

My aunt talked for a while, and when a servant came to look for her, she left temporarily for other reasons, leaving Zhao Yao alone to look at the photos one by one.

Looking at these photos, Zhao Yao used to miss them a little, but now he can't wait to see what Pei Mingzhan looks like in the photos. In the end, he only felt that his eyes were a bit like Pei Mingzhan now. There are various situations in the photos, but Pei Mingzhan was more lively and playful when he was a child than he is now. Looking at the photos, you can see that he is naughty.

After he finished reading the photos, he picked up his mobile phone and wanted to call Pei Mingzhan, but before the call was made, he hesitated.

What is this to ask?

The development of such a situation was completely unexpected to Zhao Yao. He had a hunch that the two might have met before, but he did not expect that they would meet at such a young age, when he didn't remember much. Moreover, in this situation, with Pei Mingzhan's intelligence, he may have known about it from the beginning.

When I think about it, it seems like a very common thing in normal times, but once you change the object and change the time point, everything becomes inexplicably strange.

"Pei Mingzhan, Pei Pei?" Zhao Yao read Pei Pei's nickname, and suddenly felt that Pei Mingzhan's nickname was inexplicably cute.

He turned to the front again to look at the photos, took pictures with his mobile phone, and saved the photos in the album one by one.

-*

I don't know how late I saw it until Pei Mingzhan called.

Zhao Yaocai came back to his senses, he looked at the name on the phone screen, "Hello?"

The two call every night. Today's call is a little late, and Pei Mingzhan's voice is a little hoarse on the phone. He has not recovered from the cold.

"Have you finished eating?" Pei Mingzhan heard that his voice was quiet, so he said, "I heard you have a cousin, didn't you bother you?"

Zhao Yao closed the photo album and said simply: "A teenage child who is not familiar with me, how can you trouble me?"

The two children were quite quiet. When they were eating, the elders would say a few questions when they asked questions. At other times, they would play their own business after eating. They were much more well-behaved than the children in the Zhao family. Zhao Yao still remembered the time when he lived in the Zhao family. His father was in good health. Bai Chengxue would occasionally find a reason to hold a family banquet, and then invited a lot of people. Among them, there were children of the same age, but they were very noisy.

The two children of the Zheng family know the rules and the sense of proportion. When Zhao Yao was eating, he noticed that the younger child would look at him, but when talking to him, he would only call his brother, and was not curious about other things.

"Is it Xiao Yao?"

Pei Mingzhan listened to him, while a mother Pei was standing beside him asking him in a low voice. He had no choice but to nod and give Mother Pei a look, and the latter left reluctantly.

Zhao Yao asked, "I think I heard someone talking just now?"

Pei Mingzhan said helplessly: "My mother, just asked me who to call."

He hasn't told his family about his relationship with Zhao Yao, but he said that Zhao Yao might come to the house in the past few days during the Chinese New Year, and then his mother kept asking.

"Pei Mingzhan, let me ask you something." Zhao Yao thinks that Pei Mingzhan should know about his childhood, because when he was a child, he kept calling his name and occasionally Xiao Yao. He always thought that he and Pei Mingzhan should have met somewhere. He thought they met in school when he was in junior high and high school, but now he realizes that he was a playmate when he was a child, "Did you know me before?"

Pei Mingzhan paused for a moment, then asked, "Why do you ask that?"

Zhao Yao was silent for a while: "I always think so, I think you are too good to me."

Pei Mingzhan stood at the entrance of the balcony on the second floor, the wind was blowing at night, and the moon was hanging high in the distance.

"I know." He smiled, "but that doesn't matter."

There were several things from childhood in the room, Zhao Yao saw a small kite hanging on the wall facing him.

"Why isn't it important?" Zhao Yao leaned against the bed and put the album aside.

"This will make you think that I have ulterior motives. Knowing you is not a reason to be in a relationship or approach you. If possible, I want us to know each other on an equal footing." Pei Mingzhan thought about it. After thinking, he continued: "So it doesn't matter if you think about it or not, anyway, I'm your boyfriend now."

Zhao Yao didn't expect this to be the reason, but in fact, he could also consider the reason why Pei Mingzhan didn't say it. After all, the friendship was so far away when he was a child. If he hadn't mentioned it to others, he would have forgotten about it, and it would be a loss for Pei Mingzhan to remember it. He asked, "Then why do you like me?"

When Pei Mingzhan heard Zhao Yao asking about this question, he actually expected Zhao Yao to ask about it. In fact, the first love when I was a child can only be said to be a little bit of friendship, but it can't be regarded as liking this kind of feeling at all. At that time, he really regarded Zhao Yao as his younger brother, and took him to play and run around with him.

Later, Zhao Yao didn't go back to H City because of family matters. During his holiday, he ran to the gate of his grandfather's yard and waited for the familiar car to come down the trail. He waited several times, but no one was there. In the end, it was his mother who asked about the situation, only to know that Zhao Yao might not be back this holiday.

This is actually a very regrettable thing for Pei Mingzhan. He didn't have Zhao Yao's contact number, and he was embarrassed to ask Zhao Yao's grandfather. The family moved to other places, and he also had his own life, and gradually lost contact with the Zheng family.

There was a turnaround in high school. Because of a friendship activity between schools, as a representative of the high school, he took the students of the second and third grades to other schools to compete, and that was when he met Zhao Yao again.

Zhao Yao stood under the podium in the auditorium wearing a college uniform, introduced himself very solemnly, and gave a fluent and confident foreign language speech, which was completely different from the timid and lovely child when he was a child. Light.

…

"I just fell in love." Pei Mingzhan smiled: "Mr. Zhao, according to your confession method, didn't you think about whether I like it or not when you submitted the request to me?"

Zhao Yao paused for a while: "I think you will reject me if you don't like it."

Pei Mingzhan said, "Well, I won't reject you. So you just remembered to ask me this question at this time?"

"Pei Mingzhan." Zhao Yao lowered his eyes slightly, and then lowered his voice slightly: "When I came here today, I saw the photos of my childhood, there is a child whose eyes look a bit like you, his name is Peipei, it's you nickname?"

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and then Zhao Yao heard Pei Mingzhan's slightly lower voice with a bit of a smile: "Well."

Zhao Yao paused for a while: "Huh?"

Pei Mingzhan smiled: "Mr. Zhao, isn't this a standard answer?"

Zhao Yaochi asked, "Did you like me when you were young?"

Pei Mingzhan said again, "A lot of people liked you when you were young."

Zhao Yao had a lot of things he wanted to ask Pei Mingzhan, but when he heard his joking tone, those strange thoughts in his heart suddenly disappeared, and he suddenly laughed: "I'm talking to you very seriously."

"I'm also answering you very seriously." Pei Mingzhan replied.

Zhao Yao listened to the voice on the phone. He actually didn't remember much about his childhood, but when he heard Pei Mingzhan's voice, he was very eager to see him. It was best to hold his hand and kiss him several times. "You didn't even want to tell me."

"Because it's not important, people feel different at each age, and their minds and views of the outside world are gradually changing." Pei Mingzhan suddenly became in a good mood, he looked up at the moon in the distance, "How can the two of us remember so much about our childhood? Zhao Yao, my sexual orientation is male, I only like you, and you happen to like me too."

Zhao Yao looked at the two people in the album. In fact, Pei Mingzhan was right. No matter if the two of them met or became friends when they were young, it was a matter of childhood.

"I miss you a bit." Zhao Yao suddenly said: "I only met at the airport in the afternoon."

-*

Mother Pei knew that Pei Mingzhan was secretly hiding on the balcony to make a phone call, but she couldn't understand what the young man was talking about, so she gave Pei's eldest brother a wink to let people understand. Big Brother Pei was indifferent, and then said, "If you want to ask Pepe, just ask. After so long on the phone, maybe it's about work."

Mother Pei said: "I just asked him if he was on the phone with Xiao Yao, and he nodded."

After she finished speaking, she said, "I won't go there, I'll make a phone call quietly."

Pei's father, who was watching the news with his tablet, was about to say something when he heard that Pei Mingzhan, who was on the balcony, came downstairs. His pajamas had long since been changed into travel clothes. Depending on the situation, he was planning to go out. . Pei Mingzhan pulled his jacket and said to the elder brother of the Pei family, "Brother, lend me the car."

Brother Pei nodded and asked, "Where are you going at this point?"

"I have something to do, so I might be back later in the evening." After Pei Mingzhan finished speaking, he hurried out, leaving only the three people who looked at each other.

Father Pei also forgot what he just wanted to say, and said, "Why did he go out at this point? Someone called him just now?"

Mother Pei turned her head to look at the eldest brother of the Pei family, "Boss, where do you think your brother is going at this point?"

"..." Pei's eldest brother pinched his eyebrows with a headache, "I don't know."

In the Zheng family's house, my uncle was busy with his aunt to inquire about Zhao Yao's situation, and learned that the latter was a little silent after looking at the photo album, "I heard before that when he left the Zhao Group, I wanted to ask him if he wanted to come to our place. By the way, you know that my brother-in-law is not a good person either. Over the years, the Zhao Group has become more and more chaotic. My brother-in-law seems to have gone abroad to cultivate. Xiao Yao looks mature, but after all, he is still a young man who just graduated from college. , I'm worried that he will suffer."

"This child is not close to us, but I think it looks like a child with an opinion." Aunt also knows that her husband's mood is very complicated now. When Zhao Yao was a child, they also made requests to the Zhao family, but he The brother-in-law refused, Zhao Yao had less contact with them in recent years, and sometimes did not even return a single call.

If it were someone else, they would have ignored Zhao Yao's child, but she and her husband are still a little worried. In recent years, Lao Zheng Duo, who manages Zhao Yao's mother's assets, has also taken care of Zhao Yao, she said: "If you want to keep him Xiaozhu, you should take the initiative to say that this child rarely mentions this side of the family, and he may still want to be close to us."

"Then I'll talk to him tomorrow." After finishing speaking, the uncle asked, "Is he still used to living in that room? There are a few other rooms that are vacant."

…

Zheng Leqi just came out of his brother's room. The two brothers had a late-night talk with the cousin who just arrived today. He had heard about his cousin's house and knew that his cousin's life at their house was normal. . But with this cousin, the two brothers didn't feel as close as their parents. Maybe they didn't meet much when they were young, but they only heard about it from their parents when they grew up.

It was not until he saw this cousin tonight that he realized that he was a little different from the adults of his age in his impression. My family sometimes mentioned how great his cousin was. When he was studying, he said he was great at reading, and when he was working, he said he was great at work. After listening to the omnipotent cousin from their parents, they gradually became a little curious.

During the meal, my cousin had a smile on his face, and he answered every question my father asked patiently.

Zheng Leqi observed him carefully, but found that whenever his father was toasting, his cousin simply sipped his mouth, didn't laugh much, and didn't drink much.

He asked his brother, "Cousin doesn't like to drink?"

My brother said, "No way? Why don't you ask mom tomorrow?"

Zheng Leqi also found it strange, because he always felt that his cousin seemed to be laughing, but he didn't seem to be integrated into the family, and he felt very unfamiliar.

The people in the house are almost ready to rest. After Zheng Leqi came out of his brother's room, he planned to go back to his own room, but unexpectedly saw the door of his cousin's room suddenly open on the other side of the corridor. He stopped for a while, and was thinking about whether to go over to say hello, when he saw his cousin walking downstairs and talking to the servants downstairs.

Zheng Leqi was a little curious, and saw that his cousin went out under the guidance of the servant after asking, looking like he was going to go out.

Why are you still going out at this point? Zheng Leqi was thinking about whether to talk to his parents, thinking that it would be too much of a fuss, so he went to the balcony on the second floor to see the situation.

The Zheng family's mansion is a villa area for the wealthy. Except for the security guards patrolling at night, it is very quiet at other times. When Zheng Leqi got to the balcony, he could easily see a car parked outside the garden, with a person standing vaguely beside the car.

The distance was a little far, and he couldn't see it clearly.

The car was not parked in front of their house, but at the intersection outside. Cars entering the villa area at night would go to the underground parking lot. The car turned off the lights and parked at the intersection. The person standing beside the car was obviously Waiting for someone. Zheng Leqi saw his cousin greeted the bodyguard at the door and went straight out the door, walking straight to the location of the car.

Zheng Leqi thought to himself, is this cousin going to go out?

In the next second, the man standing beside the car moved, and he stepped forward to hug his cousin.

Zheng Leqi: ...?