"Isn't that?" my aunt smiled, "I heard your cousin say that you two have been on the hot search several times, and your uncle also said that you two have been good since childhood."

Zhao Yao suddenly remembered something and said tentatively: "I remember his nickname is Pepe..."

"When you were a child, you like to call him Brother Pepe. At that time, the old house of Pei's family was next to your grandfather. When I was a child, I like to come to you at home every holiday. Sometimes your mother hadn't brought you here yet, and he would come to see you every now and then." My aunt remembered these things clearly about the children, mainly because the two children had a good relationship, and the elderly at home always said that they would remember some things deeply when they were muttering.

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

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

She left for a while, and when she came back, she held the album in her hand.

Zhao Yao watched her flip to the back of the album, and several photos were taken in a row with Pei Mingzhan when he was a child. From the two of them were not familiar with each other to Pei Mingzhan taking him around to play, there were photos of playing in the small yard outside his grandfather's house, there were photos of playing on the court, and there were photos of pulling him to fly kites in the fields... Some memories were buried very deeply, but when I saw these photos, I had a vague impression.

Is that old child Pei Mingzhan?

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

Zhao Yao couldn't remember how the two met each other clearly. He only knew that the child was carrying snacks to apologize and finally led him to play around.

Zhao Yao suddenly thought that when he first met Pei Mingzhan, Pei Mingzhan had been paying close attention to him. The time he really had to spend time with him should be when he was in the crew of "Miscellaneous Movie". With Pei Mingzhan's status and work attitude, he should be doing other things during the rest period. During that period, after filming the filming, Pei Mingzhan introduced him to the crew's work and shooting details... The original planned shooting time gradually lengthened.

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

Now the two are in a relationship, but at that time, he was in the face of Pei Mingzhan's closeness and thought that he felt guilty because of an unexpected incident on the set. But if you think about it carefully, Pei Mingzhan had always been in the same attitude a long time ago. Zhao Yao didn't realize that Pei Mingzhan knew that they knew each other when they were young for a long time ago?

"This was taken by your grandmother for you at that time. It seemed that it was the first time you wore it. She kept crying, but later her mother advised you to try it." Seeing that Zhao Yao was very interested, my aunt pointed to one of the photos and said, "Did you see behind this door? The person hiding behind is Pepe. He was shy at that time and didn't dare to come in."

Zhao Yao looked carefully and could indeed see a little boy with a buzz cut, with his face in the photo a little confused.

He couldn't remember it very clearly, so he asked, "What's he shy about?"

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

The Pei family used to live next to the old Zheng family house. Because Pei Mingzhan's mother and Zhao Yao's mother were classmates before, the two families were very close to each other, and as they talked about some things, both families knew about them. What's more, it was the affairs of two children. They were both young at that time, and the elders liked to joke about their two children when they were idle. My aunt had just married into the Zheng family at that time, and she remembered these things very clearly.

The child's face is tender, and wearing a costume and a wig is indeed no different from a girl. Zhao Yao flipped through the album. There were many photos of his childhood, including him and Pei Mingzhan, and other children... There were many more photos than the album at his home. When many photos looked, after others explained it, it was easy to remember what happened at that time.

So he and Pei Mingzhan had met so early?

In fact, he stayed here for very little time, and he often came when he was only five or six years old. At first, he didn't know many children. Later, he accidentally got along with Pepe and then he took them to play with him. But these memories are long ago, and if you don't mention them, you can't remember them, and you won't think about them carefully. How can you remember so much 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 still remember him.

"I haven't seen these photos." Zhao Yao turned over again.

My aunt paused a little and said, "These are all photo albums brought from your grandparents. Your grandfather loves to take photos very much. When you are at home, he loves to chase you and take photos."

Zhao Yao looked forward and saw many photos of himself, one at the age of three or four, and one at the age of four or five.

My aunt talked for a while, and when a servant came to look for her outside, she temporarily left because of other things. Zhao Yao was left alone, looking through the photos one by one.

Zhao Yao looked at these photos. He used to miss him a little, but now he can't wait to see Pei Mingzhan's appearance from the photos. At the end, he only felt that his eyes were a bit like Pei Mingzhan now. There were all kinds of scenes in the photos, but Pei Mingzhan was more lively and more playful than now. You can see that he was naughty when he was a child.

After he finished reading the photo, he picked up his cell phone and wanted to call Pei Mingzhan, but before the call was dialed, he suddenly hesitated.

What do you want to ask about this?

This situation was completely unexpected by Zhao Yao. He had a premonition that the two might have seen them before, but he didn't expect that they would have seen them when they were so young, when he didn't remember much. Moreover, it seems that with Pei Mingzhan's intelligence, he might have known about this from the beginning.

Thinking about this matter in detail, it seems like it is just a very ordinary thing in normal times, but once the object is changed and the time point is changed, everything becomes strange inexplicably.

"Pei Mingzhan, Pepe?" Zhao Yao thought of Pepe's nickname and suddenly felt that this nickname was inexplicably cute when he put it on Pei Mingzhan.

He turned to the front again to see the photos, took photos 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 Yao came to his senses and looked at the name on the screen of his phone, "Hey?"

The two of them would call every night. Today's call was a little late, and Pei Mingzhan's voice was a little hoarse on the phone. He hadn't recovered from the cold.

"Have you finished your meal?" Pei Mingzhan heard that his voice was quiet, so he said, "I heard that you still have a cousin, haven't you messed with me?"

Zhao Yao closed the album and said simply: "A teenage child is not familiar with me, so why would he mess with me?"

The two children were quite quiet. When they were having dinner, they would say a few words, and when they were having dinner, they would play with their own affairs. They were much more well-behaved than the children in the Zhao family. Zhao Yao still remembered that 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 invite many people, including children of about the same age, but they were very noisy.

The two children of the Zheng family know the rules and know the right measure. When Zhao Yao was having a meal, he noticed that the younger child would look at him, but when he talked to him, he would only call him brother and was not curious about other things.

"Is it Xiao Yao?"

Pei Mingzhan listened to him, and there was a mother Pei standing beside him asking him in a low voice. He had to nod and give Pei a look, and the latter left reluctantly.

Zhao Yao asked: "I just heard someone talking?"

Pei Mingzhan said helplessly: "My mother, I just asked who I called."

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

"Pei Mingzhan, I'll ask you something." Zhao Yao felt that Pei Mingzhan should know what happened when he was a child, because he kept calling his name when he was a child, and occasionally calling him Xiaoyao. He always felt that he had met Pei Mingzhan somewhere, and thought he had met Pei Mingzhan in junior high school, but now he realized that he was a playmate of his childhood, "Did you know me before?"

Pei Mingzhan suddenly paused and asked, "Why do you ask that?"

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

Pei Mingzhan stood at the balcony on the second floor. The wind blew by at night and the moon hung high in the distance.

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

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

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

"This will make you feel that I have ulterior motives. Knowing you is not a reason to be close to you. If possible, I want us to stand in the same position as each other." Pei Mingzhan thought for a while and continued, "So it doesn't matter whether you think about it or not. Anyway, I am your boyfriend now."

Zhao Yao didn't expect it to be this reason, but in fact he could also consider the reason why Pei Mingzhan didn't say it. After all, the friendship between him when he was a child was so far away. If he hadn't forgotten about it, it would have been a pity that Pei Mingzhan remembered this matter. He asked, "Then why do you like me?"

When Pei Mingzhan heard Zhao Yao ask about this question, he actually expected Zhao Yao to ask about it. When he was a child, his first love could only be said to be a little friendship, but he could not be treated as liking this kind of relationship. At that time, he did treat Zhao Yao as his younger brother, and took him to play and ran around.

Later, Zhao Yao did not return to H City because of family affairs. During the holiday, he ran to the door of his grandfather's yard and waited for the familiar car to come from the path. After waiting several times, he didn't wait for anyone. In the end, his mother went to ask about the situation and found out that Zhao Yao might not come back during this holiday.

This was actually a very regrettable thing for Pei Mingzhan. He didn't have Zhao Yao's contact number and was embarrassed to ask Zhao Yao's grandfather. He thought Zhao Yao would come back, but as a result, he waited for two years. Later, their family moved to other places. He also had his own life and gradually lost contact with the Zheng family.

When there was a chance to turn around, it was when high school was in high school. Because of a friendship activity between schools, as a representative of the high school department, he took two junior high school students from junior high school to compete in other schools, and that time he met Zhao Yao again.

Zhao Yao stood under the podium in the auditorium wearing the uniform of the college, introduced himself very solemnly, and gave a fluent and confident foreign language speech. It was completely different from the timid and cute child when he was a child. He seemed to be shining when he stood on the stage.

...

"I just fell in love with it." Pei Mingzhan smiled: "Mr. Zhao, according to your confession method, have you never thought about whether I like it or not when submitting my request to me?"

Zhao Yao paused a little: "I think you would reject me if you don't like it."

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

"Pei Mingzhan." Zhao Yao lowered his eyes slightly, then lowered his voice slightly, "When I came here today, I saw photos of my childhood. There was a child who looked a little like you, named Pepe. Is it your nickname?"

The other end of the phone was silent for a while, and then Zhao Yao heard Pei Mingzhan's slightly lowered and slightly smiled voice: "Yes."

Zhao Yao paused a little: "Hmm?"

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

Zhao Yao hesitated and asked: "Did you like me when you were a child?"

Pei Mingzhan said again: "A lot of people liked you when you were a child."

Zhao Yao originally had a lot of things to ask Pei Mingzhan, but when he heard his joke, the strange thoughts in his heart immediately dissipated, 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 what happened when he was a child, but listening to Pei Mingzhan's voice, he was very eager to see him. It would be better to hold his hand and kiss him several times, "You didn't want to tell me either."

"Because it's not important, people feel different at each age, and their minds and views on the outside world are gradually changing." Pei Mingzhan suddenly felt very good. He looked up at the moon in the distance, "Why did we remember so much about what happened when we were a child? Zhao Yao, I am a man's sexual orientation and only like you, and you just happen to like me."

Zhao Yao looked at the two people in the album. In fact, Pei Mingzhan was right. No matter whether the two met and became friends when they were young, it was all about them when they were young.

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

-*

Pei's mother knew that Pei Mingzhan was secretly hiding on the balcony and making a phone call, but she couldn't understand what the young man was talking about, so she gave the elder brother the Pei family to understand. Seeing this, Brother Pei was indifferent and said, "If you want to ask Pepe, go and ask. If you call for so long, maybe you have something to do at work."

Pei's mother said, "I just asked him if he was calling Xiao Yao, and he nodded."

After she said that, "I can't go over, I'm still quiet when I make a call."

Pei's father, who was watching the news, was about to say something when he heard this, when he saw Pei Mingzhan, who was originally on the balcony, came downstairs. His pajamas had already been changed into travel clothes. Depending on the situation, he was planning to go out. Pei Mingzhan pulled out his coat and said to the eldest brother of the Pei family: "Brother, lend me the car."

The eldest brother of the Pei family nodded and asked again: "Where are you going to this point?"

"I have something to go out and I might come back later in the evening." Pei Mingzhan hurriedly walked out, leaving only three people who looked at each other.

Pei's father also forgot what he was just trying to say and said, "Why are he still going out at this point? Someone just called him?"

Pei's mother turned her head to look at the eldest brother of the Pei family, "Boss, where do you think your brother is going to?"

"..." The eldest brother of the Pei family pinched his eyebrows with a headache, "How could I know."

In the Zheng family, my uncle was finishing his work and asked my aunt about Zhao Yao's situation. After learning that the latter was a little silent after reading the album, "I heard that he left Zhao's group before, so I wanted to ask him if he wanted to come to our side. You know that my brother-in-law is not a good person. The Zhao's group has become more and more chaotic in recent years. My brother-in-law seems to be going abroad to cultivate. Xiao Yao looks mature, but after all, he is still a young man who has just graduated from college. I am worried that he will suffer."

"This child is not close to us, but I think he looks like a child with opinions." My aunt also knew that her husband was in a complicated mood now. When Zhao Yao was young, they also made requests with the Zhao family, but they were all rejected by his brother-in-law. Over the years, Zhao Yao has contacted them less, and sometimes he doesn't even reply to the phone.
To be continued...