novelsmap Chapter 53 Extra Story ④: Cao Yun and Zhang Xuan
Chapter 53 Extra Story ④: Cao Yun and Zhang Xuan
"Xiao Yun, what happened?" Seeing their son's serious expression, the two fathers couldn't help thinking too much. Could it be...the son secretly got a girlfriend outside and made her pregnant?
If Cao Ning knew that Zhang Qingyun thought so, she would definitely complain about him. Do you think my son and your brother are of the same virtue?
"Dad, I don't want to get married, I feel like I'm never going to get married in my life.
When this sentence came out of Cao Yun's mouth, it was hard for the two fathers to suspect that he was joking.It seems normal for a person who can think carefully about his words and is obsessed with academic research to tell his parents that he has no desire for marriage.
As for why Cao Yun chose to speak out at this juncture, it may be because of his grandma who is in the hospital.
"We have no intention of forcing you to get married." The two fathers glanced at each other. They really didn't intend to control their son's marriage or not. This is the most basic freedom in the world.
"If necessary, I can carry a surrogate child, just like Zhang Xuan and I. What do you think?"
The two fathers shrugged: "We have no objection. To be honest, I don't want to help you take care of your children when you are old. And you are busy with your studies, so it is impossible to have time to take care of your children. This matter can be discussed later."
Getting such an answer seems to be expected, but also unexpected.
It's also been a long time since I calmed down and had a good conversation. Tonight, the father and son talked for a long time in the study.
Sometimes I also talk about Zhang Xuan who is performing outside. Cao Yun knows his situation best. Sometimes even the parents don’t know what he is doing.
All I know is that Zhang Xuan travels all over the world, and he rarely has time to go home, and he won't stay for long.
He sighed with emotion, "They've all grown up."
This is how children grow up, each has his own ideas, each has his own future, he is free to pursue his dreams, isn't it the most gratifying thing for parents?
When Cao Yun was 26 years old, he bought his first house at the place where he was working, and then he lived a life of commuting to and from work.
This year, Zhang Xuan was 27 years old. He had participated in countless competitions and performances, won countless awards, big and small, and was full of honors, ushering in the final pinnacle of a dancer.
When he is over thirty, he will no longer have the desire to conquer the stage, because those have already been realized.
At the age of 27, he said on an award-winning stage: "I am still so young, but I have traveled all over the stages I want to conquer. I have no regrets in this life, and there is only one thing I regret most , That is, every time I dance with love, there is no one I most hope to appear under the stage."
After dancing for many years, Cao Yun seldom went to see Zhang Xuan dance. He was too busy to leave because of his studies.
It was only after work that he came back to his senses that he owed Zhang Xuan a performance.
For the last time of this competition, Cao Yun was there. He watched Zhang Xuan win the crown, watched Zhang Xuan receive the award, and watched Zhang Xuan speak ill of him on it.
At that time, the serious mathematician smiled a little more childishly than usual, thinking that he would scare you for a while.
But when he was backstage, seeing Zhang Xuan's tired expression and body behind the joy of success, Cao Yun couldn't think of anything, and his heart ached.
Looking sideways, the man was sitting alone in front of the dressing table, staring at the mobile phone on the table.
Cao Yun took out his mobile phone and called him.
The moment the phone screen lit up, it also lit up Zhang Xuan's face, and he smiled happier than winning the award.
Quickly picked up: "Xiaoyun, why call me when you have time?"
"Congratulations on winning the award. I just found out today that you dance so beautifully. It's a shame I didn't watch it before. Do you still have the previous video? Go back..."
Cao Yun was still talking, but Zhang Xuan was already so excited that his heart beat faster.
"Are you there?"
This is a foreign country, so it is impossible for Cao Yun to see the content of the game immediately, unless someone broadcasts it back to China.
Zhang Xuan stubbornly believed that Cao Yun must have come to see his performance.
"I'm not at the scene." Cao Yun was very mean, he saw Zhang Xuan's face collapsed in an instant, and said, "I'm in the background, looking at you."
"..." Zhang Xuan was stunned, then turned around abruptly.
He covered his mouth with his hands, and was so surprised that he threw his phone on the table and stood up: "Xiao Yun!" Although he was 27 years old, it was no problem to rush over excitedly to cos the koala.
"Mr. Zhang Xuan, congratulations." Cao Yun hugged him, tilted his head and kissed him on the cheek.
"Teacher Cao Yun, I miss you very much." He hugged him, unable to calm down for a long time.
In the days that followed, Zhang Xuan would always say that this was the most romantic thing Cao Yun had ever done, and that was it.
"I miss you too, so I came to see you." Cao Yun sighed, willing to be a big tree for the other party to perch.
"I can't believe it, you just started working, I think you'll be busier than before." Zhang Xuan shook his head, it seemed that he couldn't calm down for a while.
"Being a teacher is not busy." In the final decision, Cao Yun chose to be a teacher, which seemed to be a bit different from his earliest expectations.
But the teacher is good, there are many holidays, less work, and winter and summer vacations.
"Envy." After a while, Zhang Xuan finally jumped off him, rubbed his face and said, "I'm going to remove my makeup, wait for me, and then we'll go eat together."
"I'll accompany you." Cao Yun followed around.
I heard Zhang Xuan complaining all the time: "In order not to show my belly when dancing, I didn't dare to eat too much, I was already hungry."
He removes makeup very quickly and skillfully, it can be seen that he often does this kind of thing.
"Where's your assistant?" Cao Yun asked suspiciously when he saw that no one was following Zhang Xuan.
"Don't mention it, I'll tell you after dinner, it's not easy for me to have this face, if I knew it, I wouldn't be so handsome." Zhang Xuan laughed angrily, there was an accident.
"Beautiful." Cao Yun looked in the mirror and found that although Zhang Xuan was almost three years old, his skin hadn't changed much from when he was eighteen: "How many masks do you apply a day?"
Unexpectedly, Zhang Xuan said: "You don't understand this. Masks are only for emergencies, and food supplements are king."
Everything he eats has a purpose. It may not be delicious, but it is definitely nutritious and beautiful.
"A man lives like you..."
"Any opinion?" Zhang Xuan glanced at the man standing behind him in the mirror.
I am very satisfied after staring, now standing together, no one will say that Cao Yun is his younger brother.
"No." Cao Yun shut his mouth and stopped talking.
Zhang Xuan quickly finished removing her makeup, changed her clothes, took her own things and left.
Cao Yun habitually helped him carry things: "You've been tired all day, and you're still hungry. If you don't know, you'd think you're living a good life."
The distress on his face is self-evident.
"I think it's a very happy thing to waste sleep and food for something I like." Zhang Xuan smiled slightly, his face glowing.
No matter how hard it is, it's still worth it.
"Go directly to eat, and then go back to the hotel to rest." Cao Yun nodded.
"I had a quarrel with my assistant before and drove him away. I don't want to stay in the hotel he booked."
"Just stay with me."
When they arrived at the eating place, the two brothers sat down, and Cao Yuncai asked about the assistant.
Zhang Xuan is very focused on his dance career. He only wants to improve himself, not to build a team and make money to be famous.So there are very few people around, at most it is an assistant.
"This assistant has been with me for three or four years. To be honest, I really appreciate his ability, and he is paid a lot of money. There are also various subsidies during the holidays. But do you know how he treated me? Use my name to cooperate with others to form a dance troupe. I found out and said that this is for me to gain popularity, oh, do I need it?"
Zhang Xuan is not short of money, he doesn't care about popularity or appearance fee.
What he wants is affirmation of himself, and he is really making art.
"..."
"Hey, forget it, you don't understand what I said, anyway, I am very disgusted with his behavior, so I told him to get out in a fit of anger." Zhang Xuan suddenly remembered and said, "I haven't remembered it before I tell you, this month His wages have not been paid to him yet.”
As soon as he said that, he immediately started to send a month's salary to the former assistant, so that he could get together and leave.
"Without the assistant, what will I do in the future?" One person has to eat, eat, live, and travel, and also participate in performances.
"What should I do? I've won so many awards, and I'm not interested in going to gyms anymore." Zhang Xuan said, "Why don't I just go home and open a local dance club..."
"At such a young age, I just want to take care of myself." Cao Yun joked with a smile.
"Can you talk? What are you talking about?" Zhang Xuan saw him smiling, and also smirked, as if someone had guessed his mind, a little shy.
"It's good to come back. After floating outside for so long, sometimes I feel like you are like a kite. I'm afraid that the thread will suddenly break, and you will fly away." Cao Yun looked at him quietly, and his focused eyes made people blush.
"Where is my root, where can I go?" Zhang Xuan and his father Cao Ning are a kind of people who can stand the prosperity and be willing to be ordinary.
Although the colorful world outside is good, the place of peace of mind is always the most familiar place.
After eating, Cao Yun took Zhang Xuan back to the hotel he had booked.
"Ahem, all the nearby hotels are fully booked, only suites." The legendary presidential suite with a big bed.
"It's okay, I like living here." Zhang Xuan smiled happily, took off as soon as he came in, and threw himself on the big bed.
The boyishness of ten years, or this is the reason why his dance never shows signs of age.
Cao Yun took off his shoes, untied his tie, and went to the bathroom to take a shower.
He is a little bit of a clean freak. He went out for a walk, and the first thing he did when he came back was to clean himself.
Zhang Xuan wandered in to brush his teeth and go to the bathroom while he was taking a shower.
I haven't seen you for a long time, but I still don't feel the slightest strange feeling when we meet each other. Everything seems to be still in a high school summer.
Through a glass door, the two chatted for a while, Cao Yun asked him, "I'm done washing, why do you want to wash?"
He came out wearing a bath towel, his hair was still dripping, and he was wiping his hair aside.
Zhang Xuan picked up the hair dryer on the side and dried him skillfully.
"..." Cao Yun was a little stunned, when did Zhang Xuan actually take care of others?
He was a little older, but he was always taken care of.
"When you are outside alone, you have to learn to do everything by yourself, otherwise how would you live." Zhang Xuan said, "Did I tell you that when I first left home to study, I was really not used to it, and I worked hard all night. Secretly cry."
Many students also cried because the practice was hard, they were far away from home, and it was the first time they left home.
What Zhang Xuan thought about most was Cao Yun. He really wanted to catch Cao Yun and let Cao Yun accompany him to school.
Now that I think about it in the end, the previous ideas were naive, which makes people dumbfounded.
"You didn't tell me." When Cao Yun heard that Zhang Xuan had cried secretly, he felt mixed emotions in his heart, both admiration and pride.
Sweating for one's dream and stepping on hardships and hardships is the most admirable thing about a person.
"Okay." Zhang Xuan touched Cao Yun's hair, put down the hair dryer, and planned to take a shower.
That night, the two of them lay on the luxurious big bed, talking endlessly, and recalling countless bits and pieces.
"People say that when a person starts to remember, he is already old." Zhang Xuan pouted, is Ben San really that old?
"Nonsense." Cao Yun didn't believe this kind of statement, who never recalled it when he was young.
Yes, when I was three or four years old, I recalled the baby days when I didn’t have to go to school. In elementary school, I recalled playing around in kindergarten. In middle school, I recalled little homework in elementary school. In high school, I recalled that middle school was so beautiful.
After arriving at the university, I began to recall the dark days in high school again.
After finally coming out to work in society, I still feel that the time of studying is the best.
Memories are not a sign of old age, memories are just for cherishing.
This year, the famous dancer abroad suddenly returned to China, and many programs and TV stations invited him to be interviewed.
Zhang Xuan rejected all of them. His reason was that he was still young, had limited things to share, and was not a rich person. He hoped to have the opportunity to do such an exclusive interview in the future.
"It's actually lazy."
Zhang Xuan is lazy, the more lazy he has been outside these years.
This is something Cao Yun only knew when he lived with him.
It's not an exaggeration to stretch out your hands and open your mouth. Teacher Zhang Xuan is such a person.
Except for dancing, he is at the level of useless wood in other aspects.
So far, Cao Yun still remembers Zhang Xuan's high school math test results.The reason is that doing math problems consumes brain cells, and I am too lazy to use my brain.
"I didn't expect you to be such a teacher Zhang Xuan." Cao Yun made two sandwiches in the kitchen and handed one of them to Zhang Xuan: "I'm running out of time. I'll make you millet porridge mixed with sauerkraut tomorrow."
Zhang Xuan wanted to eat an authentic Chinese breakfast, he was fed up with the same bread and toast sandwiches.
He took a bite in disgust: "Hey, it tastes Chinese." It's quite delicious, and it's different from the ones made outside.
"Yes, the meatloaf is made by myself, you can eat it as a meat bun." Cao Yun drank a glass of water, picked up the key and coat: "Let's go to work."
First send Zhang Xuan to the dance club he rented, and then to the school where he works.
"Teacher Cao."
"Huh?" Cao Yun raised his head from the book and looked at the young and beautiful new teacher of the same period beside him, her surname was Yang.
"It's like this. The office said that they want to have dinner at night. I don't know if you are free. It's kind of... welcome to join us." Teacher Yang smiled at him, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses on his sweet face.
"If this is the case, make room if you don't have time." After all, it is to welcome yourself into the job, and Cao Yun still understands some rules when stepping into the workplace: "But can you bring your family?"
"Uh." Teacher Yang was caught off guard, family members?What about the promised single diamond man?
"Of course you can bring your family members, you can bring as many as you want." Teacher Qin, the older sister opposite, smiled and made a relief. She was stunned when she saw Teacher Yang, and forgot to answer Cao Yun's question.
"That's good, there are not many, just one." Cao Yun smiled, looking more and more handsome and charming.
After chatting with the two teachers, Cao Yun sent a message to Zhang Xuan: "Would you like to have dinner with me at night? Office dinner."
Zhang Xuan replied: "You have dinner in the office, what's the matter asking me to come?"
Cao Yun: "It's okay, you can bring your family."
Zhang Xuan: "Seriously speaking, I'm actually not your family member."
That is, their brotherhood is not legal, and the two parties have neither blood nor relatives.
"If you don't go, my piece of fat will be taken away." Cao Yun smiled back at him.
Teacher Qin on the opposite side was very curious, did he really have a girlfriend.Look at that face smiling like a flower.
"What do you mean?" Zhang Xuan didn't understand.
"Are you coming?" Cao Yun didn't explain.
"Then come pick me up after get off work." Zhang Xuan's reply revealed the fact that he was actually pretending to be stupid.
Cao Yun laughed so hard that his hands shook, so he didn't reply to him.
It seems that after Zhang Xuan returned to China, he became more and more fond of teasing him.I want to see him being teased to show his feet, which is more than anything else.
"Come and pick me up?" The text message sent was silent, and Zhang Xuan immediately called Cao Yun to confirm at noon.
"Come on, can I not come?"
After work, I asked my colleagues for the address, and Cao Yun drove to Zhang Xuan's dance club to pick him up for dinner.
The dance club is still being renovated, and it won't be done in a few months.
Anyway, Zhang Xuan was not in a hurry, so he perfected it while playing.Occasionally inspiration comes, arrange and arrange works, and eat and drink with Cao Yun on weekends.
"Who wants to take you away?" After getting into the car, Zhang Xuan took off his sunglasses, revealing a face that was even more famous than a star's.
"No one, just kidding." Cao Yun chatted with him while driving: "I'm not lucky, and others are not interested in taking me away."
Zhang Xuan said shyly, "There are a lot of people who want to take me away. Over the years, they can be ranked from the western hemisphere to the eastern hemisphere."
"Hahaha." Cao Yun finished laughing, "Then why are you still an old virgin?"
"It's not big or small." Zhang Xuan slapped him, but at this time he put on the big brother's airs.
Cao Yun smiled and didn't care about you, I pamper you.
Go to the place to eat, park the car, and the two brothers walked into the restaurant side by side.
It is a self-service hotel with good decoration and atmosphere.
Cao Yun soon saw his colleague waving hello, and pulled Zhang Xuan over: "Let's go."
Colleagues are all staring at the scene, a handsome guy leads another handsome guy, it's too seductive, too... reluctant to take their eyes away, the scenery is so beautiful.
"Teacher Cao, this way!"
"Wow! Your family members... are too mysterious, why don't you introduce them?"
Cao Yun and the others were booed before they got to their seats.
And someone recognized Zhang Xuan.
"Good evening, I'm sorry for the long wait." Cao Yun apologized with a smile, and introduced the person next to him by the way: "This is my elder brother, Zhang Xuan." He also introduced to Zhang Xuan: "This is Teacher Qin, the beautiful teacher Yang , and the handsome old Mr. Tang..."
There are so many seven or eight teachers in an office, Zhang Xuan called in turn.
"Hi everyone, my name is Zhang Xuan."
"I know you. You are the famous dancer Mr. Zhang Xuan. You have won many awards. You also won an award in France a while ago. Congratulations." Teacher Yang also studied dance before, and she paid more attention to dance. She smiled and told Zhang Hyun shook hands: "I'm also a dancer, but I'm just learning folk dance."
"Hello, girls are very temperamental when they learn folk dance." Zhang Xuan also smiled happily.
"Sit down, sit down, sit down and talk." Everyone greeted.
"Come here, have a drink." Teacher Qin is very caring.
"Thank you, thank you." Cao Yun asked Zhang Xuan to sit inside, and heard a colleague ask again: "Are you two brothers? Or cousins? See why Teacher Cao is the eldest brother?"
Zhang Xuan smiled and said: "It's a real brother, I'm only one year older than him. He looks old."
Cao Yun patted him on the head: "Why don't you say that you are pretending to be tender." He was already very old, and he was still dressed like a high school student.
"Haha, by the way, Teacher Zhang Xuan, let me ask you something. Does Teacher Cao Yun have a girlfriend?" It was Teacher Qin who asked the question.
Cao Yun panicked when he heard this, and quickly waved at Zhang Xuan. The elder sister likes to be a matchmaker the most, and maybe she wants to introduce her girlfriend again.
Zhang Xuan said with a smile: "He has had it for several years, don't you know?"
Everyone present believed him: "Yes, after talking about it for so many years, it seems that a good thing is coming soon." They passed the topic with a smile.
Cao Yun secretly gave a thumbs up, admiring Zhang Xuan's ability to speak nonsense with his eyes open.