murder begins in summer

"I said it, I remember." Shi Zhanyang held Qiu Shili's arms, pushed him onto the sofa, and asked him to sit next to him, "We're going to take him to be sterilized this time when we go home, and I didn't either." forget."

Qiu Shili nodded, he refused to raise his face, Shi Zhanyang could only see his side face, a pair of drooping eyelashes, for a few seconds he felt that Qiu Shili was about to cry.

"What's the matter? Nana," he went to poke his face, holding his chin to make him look at him, he touched the soft skin covered with cold sweat, "what happened, you tell big brother. "

"The cat is dead." Qiu Shili avoided his gaze.

Shi Zhanyang paused, "How did you die?"

"I killed it." Qiu Shili suddenly stopped hiding. He looked directly into Shi Zhanyang's eyes quietly, his eyes were flushed and his lips were purple, and he said quickly, "I cut its throat and killed it. , and then I threw the murder weapon... the dagger you gave me into the lake."

Shi Zhanyang was unable to speak for a while.There is something hidden, he clearly sensed it.But Qiu Shili's current appearance made him feel like a knife was twisting in his trance.

His mother patted him on the shoulder behind the sofa and told him to take his brother over for dinner.Shi Zhanyang narrowed his eyes, looked back at his mother, pulled Qiu Shili up, and walked to the dining table.

"I see," he said softly, "tell me clearly after dinner."

Qiu Shili said nothing.

Their family had a simple lunch as usual. Shi Zhanyang just talked about his experience in Hong Kong, and his parents smiled and teased him just right. He didn't say a word, except for the sharing dishes for each person, he didn't even take a piece of bread.

Shi Zhanyang looked at him opposite him, feeling that his tone was too strong just now, he wanted to make it clear that he didn't want to question Qiu Shili what he did, but wanted to know what others did.He was a little remorseful, his heart was in a mess, he took a flower crab, pried open half of the crab shell, and pushed the other half full of snow-white crab meat to Qiu Shili, who silently ate it.

After the meal, the father left the table first, which meant that the juniors could also leave the table.Qiu Shili suddenly put down his fork, ran to the door, stepped on his leather shoes, and ran into the dazzling sunlight on the marble pavement.

The maid hurriedly greeted him from behind, telling him to be careful of heatstroke, Shi Zhanyang called him through a few arches in a porch, but seeing that he couldn't do it anymore, he was going to chase him.

"Yangyang!" Mrs. Qiu stopped him, her voice was much more confident than usual, "I have something to tell you."

Shi Zhanyang turned his head and looked at his mother in disbelief, "You let him do it?"

Mrs. Qiu did not deny it.

"Did you pick the time when I was not at home, no way," Shi Zhanyang smiled briefly, "Did Nana do something wrong, and you want to punish him, or what?"

Shi Yizhou was the first to say: "ナナ, ナナ, don't you think you call him like a little daughter-in-law, big brother?"

Shi Zhanyang ignored him, supported the back of Qiu Shili's chair, still looking at his mother.

Shi Yizhou laughed exaggeratedly: "Isn't it just a cat? It's like a dead person. Even if the person died, you didn't question your mother like this! Brother, are you crazy?"

Shi Zhanyang said: "Get lost."

Shi Yizhou didn't move.

Shi Zhanyang directly grabbed his collar, cut his wrist, carried him up to the second floor, and found a room to lock him up.Then Shi Zhanyang went downstairs, pulled out the chair opposite to his mother, sat on it and leaned against the back of the chair, looking at his mother.

"It's me who wants to move ten miles away." Mrs. Qiu put down her teacup and said calmly.

"Why?" When Zhanyang's nails were embedded in the tablecloth, he warned himself not to get angry with his mother.

"I told him that if he wanted to enter the industry, he had to kill Xiao Qi to prove his determination."

"I said I wanted him to join the industry?" Shi Zhanyang laughed again.

"It's his own choice."

"What kind of determination can you prove by killing Xiaoqi? I can believe it by killing a tiger. You are lying to him, and you are also lying to me."

"The determination to prove that you can take pain."

"You just want to make him suffer." Shi Zhanyang was categorical, and his whole body had completely cooled down.

Mrs. Qiu was silent for a while, sipping her green tea, and when the tea was cold, she said: "He is like this, he must die if he enters the industry. Shili loves too much, and worries too much. He has become unwilling to hurt anyone. You didn't Did you find it? He began to try to achieve harmonious coexistence with his second child by wronging himself. In the past, he would solve it by force, but now he doesn’t want to embarrass the family and make it difficult for us. He doesn’t seem to care if the second child bullies him. " Mrs. Qiu calmly looked at the darkening face of the eldest son, "You have protected him for too long, making him think that the world is beautiful and that goodwill will be rewarded, and making him think that killing is not painful, You know it's not."

Shi Zhanyang exhaled, and said: "I can keep his world beautiful. I can also keep him from killing for the rest of his life. What good does pain do him?"

Mrs. Qiu pinched the corners of her eyes and smiled palely, "Yangyang, don't talk big. You understand better than me that he can protect himself only when he is strong enough to protect you."

Shi Zhanyang said: "Big talk? I will do what I say. How did the second child bully him?"

"You have to know that he has to deal with far more than the second child. He faces even more threats than you. The Eguchi group wants him, not you."

"You still haven't told me why the Eguchi group wants him."

"Because his surname is Eguchi."

Shi Zhanyang looked like he was listening to a joke. He knew that his mother was perfunctory, but he didn't have time to entangle in this matter now, so he said: "The Jiangkou group didn't know he was here."

"What if I find out someday?"

"I'm guarding him. I can't take it away."

"How to keep it? Do you want to be with him all the time? Don't do other things?"

Shi Zhanyang was silent.

"Or do you want to find a remote place, hide him, raise him preciously, and send many people there to be bodyguards?"

"Isn't it possible? The scenery in remote places is very beautiful. I have taught him a lot of self-defense methods, and I will let my most trusted people protect him. I will find time to accompany him—" Shi Zhanyang's expression changed A little frozen, a little bit sharp, a little provocative, "It's just an Eguchi group, and they can hardly get along in Japan."

"If Shili is your pet, you can do this. You can make him the safest and most beautiful cage, tease him when you have time, and give him a soft coat," Mrs. Qiu sighed, "but he is a Independent man, you are limiting him."

Shi Zhanyang was stunned for a moment, and said, "I just don't want Nana to be like me. This is not his fate."

"You have to respect his own choice. He wants to help you, he wants to stand with you, that's his wish."

"But, Mom, his choice has been influenced by us too much, he was not like this..." Shi Zhanyang gradually softened, or he no longer questioned, but was really confused, "Kill Xiao Seven, wasn't he forced? I was not forced to kill what I like even when I entered the industry."

"You killed a person directly. Are you going to feel sorry for yourself?"

Shi Zhanyang showed the look of being stabbed, he forced himself to adjust his state, and said stiffly: "It's not the same. This is still too cruel and unfair to him. At least, now, he should grow up like an ordinary boy."

"Isn't it too late to say this now?"

Shi Zhanyang raised his eyes, and there was a chilling light in his eyes, "This is what I have always, always, always, wanted to do."

"Yangyang, what you must understand is that you are his elder brother, the person he trusts the most. You have influenced him a lot since he was a child, and even the formation of his personality has traces of you. But for Qiu Shili who is like this now, It is Qiu Shili who really exists, this is an irreversible thing, and it must happen." Mrs. Qiu's calmness seemed desperate, and even more unreasonable, "If you push him away in the name of protection, don't To accept his change is to abandon him like this. Which one is more cruel?"

Shi Zhanyang stood up, "I will never abandon Qiu Shili."

Mrs. Qiu drank tea quietly.

Shi Zhanyang picked up a sterilized towel and wiped his hands, because he pinched himself out of blood just now, "Until I die."

Mrs. Qiu met his stare lightly.

Shi Zhanyang threw down the towel and went out to find someone.

He has been to the lake, to the grassland in the forest, to the tree in front of the house, and saw a mass of blackened blood stains on the ground, in different shades, outlining the outline of a cat, and the soil was still covered with fine hair.Finally he found Qiu Shili in the courtyard behind the house.

The man was hugging his knees and huddled by the carp pond, staring at the pond water disturbed by the fish tail, motionless, when Shi Zhanyang approached and sat down on the ground beside him, Qiu Shili turned his face away.

"ナナ, I figured it out," Shi Zhanyang didn't force him to look at himself anymore, he just looked at the dense green shadows of the firs and cypresses, and said flatly, "It's not your fault."

Qiu Shili was stunned for a moment, and turned his head back. There were tear stains on his cheeks and under his eyelids. He stared blankly at Shi Zhanyang, "Brother, I really want to hear this sentence right now. What do you say?" knew."

Because I wanted to hear it before, and I really wanted to.Shi Zhanyang subconsciously wanted to answer this way, but in the end he said: "Because--I learned mind reading skills from an expert in Hong Kong this time," he smiled mysteriously, "I don't know what ナナ is thinking. I can tell."

Qiu Shili opened his eyes wide, as if wondering whether he should believe it, "Then what am I thinking now?"

Shi Zhanyang narrowed his eyes seriously, as if in a state of concentration, opened them again after a while, and lazily looked at his younger brother's curious and tearful eyes, "Are you thinking that I was caught crying by hiding here?" Here it is, what a shame."

Qiu Shili was right, and suddenly, he really believed his elder brother's nonsense, and all the grievances came to him, and he said in awe: "I didn't cry yesterday, and I didn't cry this morning...but you came back, I don't want to cry." I knew how to explain it, so I ran out, and I didn’t know what to do when I got back, let alone explain it clearly,” he rubbed his eyes in frustration, “It’s just that I didn’t protect Xiaoqi well, and I can’t justify myself.”

Shi Zhanyang laughed again, "I know it all, I said I can read minds."

When Qiu Shili heard this, he suddenly felt ashamed and annoyed, and stared at him with round eyes, Shi Zhanyang also stared back, without blinking, the two just stared at each other like this.In the end Qiu Shili couldn't help but blinked first, and then smiled through his tears. Shi Zhanyang raised his arms to hug him contentedly, and he let go of the tense strength in his body, and leaned his head on the elder brother's shoulder.

"ナナ, Xiao Qi is dead, you are very sad, but if you cry, I will be sad, so we both will be at a loss," he felt Shi Zhanyang's deep and soft voice, and a solid and warm palm , stroked his back unhurriedly, "So, after today is over, don't cry because of this matter anymore, okay? Do you understand? Let's raise Xiao Qi until he is more than one year old, and we bring it Yes, and what it brings us, will not change."

When Qiu Shili heard the first half of the sentence, he had already made up his mind that he would never cry again. He thought it would not be difficult for him, because he was not a person who loved to cry, but after hearing the second half of the sentence, for some reason, he couldn't help crying. She shed tears, so she had to bury her face on Shi Zhanyang's big arm in a panic, swallowing hard and sobbing.

Shi Zhanyang put his arms around this thin body, feeling the heat of tears soaking through his shirt, his heart was so soft that it was out of shape, so he simply wrapped Qiu Shili in his arms and wrapped his neck around his neck, "I won't regret it later ?” he asked softly.

"I don't regret it." Qiu Shili pressed his chest tightly, with a murmur of nasal voice, but he was very firm.

"You really want to join my work." Shi Zhanyang carefully chose his words.

"This is what I must do. It is my dream." Qiu Shili said.

The word dream, placed here, is so out of place, but so sincere, behind it is an honest heart.

After a while of silence, Shi Zhanyang hugged Qiu Shili hard, almost pressing him in his arms, "Okay, okay. ナナ, give me a little more time, and I will accompany you to realize it."

He thought to himself, the first thing to do is to get a double-edged dagger for the younger brother.This time, it must be special enough and precious enough for him to be reluctant to throw it away.

In the evening of the next day, Qiu Shili came home from the shooting range. He had just removed the leather girdle and strap clip on the gun when a bird song came to his ears, loud and clear like a flute. The full-length jadeite bird was placed on the table in a sterling silver cage.

This bird was similar to the ones he had seen in the illustration books before, with red beak and feet, orange-red belly feathers, a stone-blue feather crest on the top of the head, and emerald green back feathers. Live a hundred times.Like a frozen lake wave, like a touch of boiling spring water, rippling in the setting sun.

Qiu Shili was a little dazed, the birds were still chirping and dancing.

Shi Zhanyang stood by the cage and said, "This is yours. ナナ."

Mrs. Qiu sat on the sofa and said with a smile, "Your elder brother must have you have a little pet."

Seeing Qiu Shili's blushing smile, that there was nothing wrong with it, Shi Zhanyang was relieved, and he knocked on the table, "But this is not a pet that should be kept in a cage."

Then, while it was still daylight, they walked to the lake in the middle of the wood and opened the silver cage.Two pieces of exquisite emeralds flew out in this way, drilled into the reed, and drilled out again, spinning in the deep red twilight, as if celebrating the second free life.

The reeds rustled, and the wind brought their joyful cries to their ears.

"Brother, do you think they will be together?" Qiu Shili followed them intently, "Will there be a flock of little birds next year, standing on the reed leaves in a bunch?"

"It's very likely," Shi Zhanyang said seriously, "Jadebirds are very tenacious. They are so small, but they are good at catching fish. There is a Japanese legend that they will pick the right time to stick their chests On the thorns, if they can fly again after being pulled out, they will grow beautifully colored feathers, like a dream, like a green sunset."

"Like Aurora?" Qiu Shili corrected him.

"Yes, it's like the aurora, I'll take you to see it someday," Shi Zhanyang smiled, "It died once, and then survived better. It stands above death. So, I said , it is an immortal bird."