Boiling point

He Xin and Li An cleaned the kitchen. The little guy was forced to wear a mask by him, but he couldn't keep his mouth idle, and he always opened it to say a few words.

"I have a cold, it's dusty here, don't come here." He Xin hugged him to the side of the sofa and sat on the sofa, and nodded his forehead, "Be good, and be careful not to choke you."

Li An coughed a few times and said, "But I want to chat with my brother."

"When can't we talk? Do you have to wait for this time?" He Xin put down the broom, squatted down and looked at him, "Tell my brother, did something happen? I'll know that you caused trouble in school just by looking at you like that." gone."

Li An covered his mouth and laughed, lowered his head and tugged at the belt of his clothes, "Brother, you are so smart."

"Tell me, baby, what's the matter?" He Xin clicked his tongue, "Is there something you can't let your brother know?"

Li An hesitated for a while, leaned close to his ear, and whispered, "I broke Sun Xiaoxiong's glass, I can't stick it well, brother, can you help me?"

"Why did you break his glass?" He Xin asked.

"Because we quarreled, he laughed at me for taking medicine all day long, and for not being able to go out to gym class, so I was so angry that... brother, I was wrong." Li An said with his head drooping.

He Xin gritted her teeth, furiously angry, "You're wrong, you're right, it's just right that it's broken, we won't fix it for him."

Li An shook his head vigorously, "That's not the case. I was also at fault. He apologized to me later, but I still didn't mend his favorite cup."

The kindness of the little guy made He Xin completely lose his temper, and he couldn't resist being stalked, so he reluctantly helped him stick the glass fragments. Although it couldn't be used anymore, at least he could still look at it.

The next day, He Xin offered to send Li An to school. Fortunately, because the little guy had a cold, there was an excuse, so Li Yanqi didn't suspect anything.

Li An was very obedient in school and never did anything out of the ordinary. Since he was in the second grade, this was the only time he was stared at by the whole class because of his brother Lemon Jing.

That guy He Xin had to bend over to enter their class, and hit the podium with a stick, his serious expression could scare people to tears.

"Which one is Sun Xiaoxiong?"

The little thin monkey sitting next to Li An shrank his neck, and at first he didn't recognize it, but was betrayed by the whole class.

He Xin led Li An to his place, took out the cup and handed it to him, while rubbing Li An's head, he patted his desk heavily.

Sun Xiaoxiong was so frightened on the spot that he stuttered.

"you you you you......."

"Leave me alone, Black Monkey, why are you bullying Li An?"

Sun Xiaoxiong argued hard, "I didn't bully him."

He Xin didn't buy it, and tapped his fingertips on his desk, "Listen well, the classmate in front of you is my younger brother, if you dare to bully him again, I will bully you, don't think that children are so easy to talk , he is kind, but his brother is a hooligan, and I am the only one who can bully my baby."

Li An's hair was messed up by him, and he blinked his big innocent eyes, as if he had been bullied miserably.

"But he has a lot of colds, and he will infect me."

"Then you should stay away from him and ask the teacher to sit in the back row." He Xin stared unceremoniously.

Sun Xiaoxiong lowered his voice and pouted, "I don't want it."

Li An pulled He Xin's arm, "I don't want it either."

He Xin was speechless for a minute, carried the child to a chair, took out a pile of food from his bag and stuffed it on his desk, Sun Xiaoxiong stared straight at him, He Xin touched Li An's head and said, "Since you don't want , then bear with it for a day without feeding the black monkey behind."

"Why are you so bad?" Sun Xiaoxiong had a look of hatred.

"Yeah!" Li An was very happy.

He Xin smiled, chatted with him for a while, and finally walked away gracefully under the astonished eyes of the whole class.

Sun Xiaoxiong said angrily, "Your brother is a devil!"

"He's a Superman!" Li An puffed his mouth and became fierce with him, "My brother is a Superman, and brother Lemon Jing is also a Superman."

He Xin couldn't help being happy when he heard Li An say that at the door.

He told him before that Li Yanqi took care of you so meticulously since childhood, he must have been sent by Superman to protect you, and you must treat your brother well in the future.

Li An asked him, are you also a superman?

He Xin said, I am not Superman, I am Superman's assistant.

Li An stubbornly snapped his head off, and repeated it seriously, no, you are just like my brother, a superman sent by Uncle God to protect me.

This brat, He Xin leaned on the stairs and let out a long sigh.

I really want you to be well.

There are only a few days until the college entrance examination at the end of April, and everyone is plunged into the abyss of the sea of ​​questions, unable to spare a nerve to distract attention from other things, but at such a busy critical moment, However, Li An had a fever due to a bad cold, and the fever lasted for two days. The little guy usually could bear it, and kept silent until he vomited after eating at night, and He Xin didn't know that he was sick.

Li Yanqi happened to be attending evening self-study at school at this time, and he was not so busy with his studies, so he contracted the arduous task of bringing food for Xiao Naipao at night.

After sending the little guy to the hospital for emergency treatment, He Xin was free to call Li Yanqi after all the procedures were completed.

He felt bad, and felt that it was entirely his fault. If he had found out that Li An was not feeling well, he wouldn't have been hospitalized.

Li Yanqi came very fast, he didn't take the elevator, but rushed from the stairs.

"Brother Ta, here." He Xin called out to Li Yanqi, who almost kicked across the boundary, and stretched out his hand to grab him.

"Where's Li An?" Li Yanqi spoke intermittently, and He Xin patted him on the back and said, "I've already completed the procedures for hospitalization. Just now, Doctor Qiu came here. He said that we need to observe for a while, in case a cold will catch him. It caused him angina."

Li Yanqi's hair and clothes were messy, his face was pale, and he looked more sick than Li An.

"It's okay, really." He Xin said in a low voice, "Don't worry too much, the fever will subside tonight if there is no accident."

"I..." Li Yanqi's voice was a little hoarse when he spoke, he squeezed He Xin's hand hard, tilted his head and let out a sigh of relief.

Li An in the ward heard the movement and called out to his brother.

Li Yanqi rushed in, the little guy immediately smiled when he saw him coming, his hair was so hot that his hair was sweaty and he was still happy, he stretched out his arms and put his arms around his brother's neck, wanting to hug him.

"I'm sorry baby, brother hasn't taken good care of you these days."

Li An rubbed his head against his shoulder, shook his head and said, "Brother Lemon Jing said that Superman will also be tired, so an assistant will help him."

"Assistant?" Li Yanqi patted his head and said.

"That's right, Brother Lemon Jing is Brother Superman's assistant, although I think he is also Superman, but he insists on me calling him an assistant." Li An pouted, "Don't feel bad, brother, I don't feel any pain at all. "

Hearing what Li An said, and seeing his tiny body curled up on the hospital bed, Li Yanqi felt even more sour.

"Brother will hold you for a while, and then get the needle up, okay?" Li Yanqi coaxed him softly, "Brother won't be leaving tonight, and will sleep with you in the hospital."

Li An felt happy in his heart, but he was afraid that his brother was working too hard, so he gritted his teeth and shook his head vigorously.

"Stupid, brother wants to stay here."

"Report to the boss, do you give Brother Lemon Jing the right to accompany you?"

Li An rubbed his face, blinked at the two of them, and finally nodded helplessly, "Okay, okay, then remember to sleep."

Li Yanqi covered him with the quilt, slowed down his drip, patted his back with both hands and gently coaxed him, and the little guy fell asleep after a while frowning.

He Xin went out to smoke a cigarette for a while. When Li Yanqi came out, he had already lost one. Just when he was about to put the cigarette in his pocket, the other party took one out of his hand, biting the filter and holding it together. In front of him, He Xin lowered her eyes, tilted her head, shook the lighter and lit it for him.

The two silently smoked a cigarette by the window, neither of them spoke.

After a while, He Xin stomped out the cigarette, put one hand on the wall on his left and said, "I just added my name to the emergency contact list of the small milk foam in the inpatient department. Let's take care of each other. It's the responsibility of two people, you don't have to bear it alone."

Li Yanqi took a few deep breaths, turned his head, and gave him a hug like a package.

"Hey, I'm here." He Xin raised her head slightly, and pressed his head on her shoulder, "Brother Ta, you're really welcome."

Li Yanqi's fingers tightly grasped He Xin's clothes and then let go, his voice was still hoarse, "I sprinted for the exam with all my strength these few days, and I neglected him."

He Xin sighed, and after deliberating for a long time, he decided to tell the truth, "In fact, he suddenly became serious because he threw away the medicine."

Li Yanqi's back immediately stretched into a steel plate, and He Xin rubbed his waist to make him relax.

"I checked the compartment of his schoolbag today, and he hasn't taken any medicine for a week." He Xin straightened his hair, and the more he said, the more he felt distressed, "Before he broke a child's cup, because that person Laughing at why he always takes medicine, why he can't go to gym class, why he is different from others, his self-esteem may have been traumatized, so this week he suppressed the discomfort and hid the medicine."

Li Yanqi seemed to be in a daze for a minute before letting go of his hand and leaning against the wall.

After a while, he snuffed out the cigarette that was stuck under his fingertips, closed his eyes and said, "This is the only time he has been willful since he was a child."

He Xin listened quietly from the side.

Li Yanqi said, "When I was a child, I let him take medicine. He thought it was bitter. Once I spit it out while I was not paying attention, and I saw it when I looked through the trash can. That was the first time I yelled at him. He was frightened and hugged me." Seeing me cry, he said that he would be obedient in the future, take medicine well, and make me happy, but he was only three years old at the time, and he couldn’t speak well.”

He Xin grabbed his wrist and slid down to shake his hand.

"No matter how hard it was, no matter how hard the medicine was, he swallowed it without hesitation. There was a long scar on his chest, which was left by the first operation. He used to ask me, Brother, when will my place be better? It’s so ugly. After he went to school and became more sensible, he never asked me such questions again. He knew that he was different from ordinary people, and he also tried to accept his own body. Incomplete facts, but I always have low self-esteem in my heart, he is so sensible, if he loses his temper with me at home, maybe I will feel better."

He Xin said, "If he loses his temper with you, then he is not Li An."

Li Yanqi looked at him and smiled helplessly.

"Sometimes he can resist more than me."

"Like you." He Xin stroked his knuckles with her fingertips, "What a bad example your brother set for him."

Li Yanqi's eyes were a little red, he looked straight at him, "It would be nice if I met you sooner."

"It's not too late now." He Xin stretched out her arms and hugged him, and buried half of her face in his neck, "You stay here and watch him later, I'll get you some food when I go home changed."

"Thanks a lot."

"Be polite to me again and I'll make a fuss."

Li Yanqi smiled, "Then please bring me my English dictionary."

He Xin pointed to herself and said, "With a mobile English speaker like me, what dictionary do you need?"

"Tsk." Li Yanqi shook his head with a doting look on his face.

The two chatted for a while, and He Xin went back home before it was too late, and prepared some things for the hospital. Before leaving, he suddenly remembered what Li An had said to him before.

——This letter can only be opened and read when I am in the hospital.

He Xin frowned, turned around and walked to the cabinet, and opened the gift box that he had kept well. There was a piece of letter paper stuck to the back of Li An's "Little Prince" painting. He gently tore it off, turned on the desk lamp and looked at it.

Li An writes with great effort, stroke by stroke, but the handwriting is very neat and beautiful. There are many alterations on it. It should be that he looked up the dictionary after writing and found out how to write the word.

[Brother Lemon Essence, I am Little Milk Foam, I want to wish you a happy birthday.Today is Wednesday, school has another activity class, and everyone is out to play, so I have time to write to you in the classroom. 】

Seeing this, He Xin felt sore in his heart. He squeezed the letter paper and continued to read.

【When will I be as tall as you?I really want to grow taller, so that I can protect my brother.My brother has always protected me since I was a child, and I also want to protect my brother. I don’t know if I have this chance. 】

Stupid, there must be.

[But I'm really happy, Brother Lemon Jing, you came to our side, I think you are super cool, you are the prince, the prince I drew for you, you seem to have magic, you make my brother smile every day , You made my brother not so tired, and you made my brother give me a candy every day, hehe. 】

[Brother Lemon Jing, are you and your brother best friends in the whole world?Are you always with him? 】

meeting.

[If you will always be with him, I will rest assured. If one day I am gone, if one day I become an angel, I will definitely watch you every day with my little wings.Then I want to hook up with you, you have to love him more than me, treat him well, stay with him, don't get sick like me, and make him worry. 】

[My brother is the best brother in the world, and my brother lemon essence is also the best lemon essence in the world. I love you so much, I really want to be with you forever, brother lemon essence, in fact, I am a Big liar, I always lie to my brother that my heart doesn’t hurt, I lie to my brother that I don’t want my mother, but sometimes it really hurts, and now it’s hurting again, you give me a whir, it doesn’t hurt anymore, every time you The first time you hugged me, it was so comfortable, I really want to get into your arms now. 】

[Happy birthday, be happy every day, be healthy, don’t get sick, I will give you money when I grow up. ——your little milk foam]

After reading it, He Xin felt an inexplicable constriction in his throat, and his heart was filled with soreness. He smashed down the wall with his hands, and hot tears dripped down line by line.

"Fuck, little brat."

He Xin tilted her head and sucked her nose, trying to force back the tears.

When he came to the hospital with his things, Li Yanqi was staring at the window in a daze. Li An had already fallen asleep and slept soundly. He walked over and touched his forehead, and the temperature dropped a little.

"Just woke up for a while, and asked my brother Lemon Jing why he left his post without authorization." Li Yanqi walked to him, looked at his face and said, "Why are your eyes so red?"

He Xin paused, then laughed hoarsely, "It's windy outside, it's blowing."

As he spoke, he took out two gadgets from his pocket, and Li Yanqi took a closer look, they were longevity locks.

"Grandma downstairs is selling it." He Xin said, "I want to buy one for Li An and you."

Li Yanqi lowered his eyes, looked in the direction where Li An was sleeping, and then smiled and said, "That's good, he was born without a mother, and no one has brought him one."

He Xin touched the longevity lock, touched his neck, and pressed his shoulders down, "You don't have it either, your family didn't give you this thing when you were young, right?"

"It used to be, but it was sold by my father." Li Yanqi lowered his head and rubbed his chin against his neck, "You put it on for me."

While wearing it, He Xin said, "If you wear it, you will be mine."

Li Yanqi raised his head, and quickly pasted it on his mouth, "It's stamped."

He Xin went to the hospital bed again, stroked the hair on Li An's forehead, Li Yanqi helped him gently lift the back of the little guy's head, and He Xin quickly tied the things on him.

"Today's full moon is suitable for wishing, wishing the three of us a long and healthy life."

Li Yanqi nodded, and said seriously, "He Xin, I must be admitted to Antan, I want to cure him, I want to make this 20% a reality, and I want him to grow up happily .”

The tip of He Xin's nose touched his, and she didn't bow her head to kiss him, but just stroked back and forth for a while, and then put her arms around him.

"Well, you can."

Li Yanqi took a deep breath, he didn't need to say anything at the moment, only by hugging him tightly could he gather enough courage to move on.

In the process of growing up, unlike the "most", he will inevitably suffer a lot of criticism and grievances. Li An feels that he has been well protected because he has two of the best brothers in the world.

That night, Li An had a dream. In the dream, he was almost as tall as his brothers. They had a big and beautiful house, and the three of them raised a puppy. The dog was very clingy to him. Licking him until he giggled, my brother and brother Lemon Jing stayed aside and laughed at him, the sunshine in the room was very warm.