my brother became a scum

Zhang Chen and I lay on the bed together, each with a mobile phone plugged in to the charger, chatting with each other.

Zhang Chen was able to enter my house after six o'clock, which meant that he hadn't finished his work today and needed to make further arrangements and sort out--in these years, every industry needs diligence and hard work.

I was chatting with my grandfather on WeChat. The old man has been educated all his life. He is very good at learning new things and typing is not slow. Very helpful.

For a moment, only the slight sound of fingers pressing the screen could be heard in the room. When my grandfather was sleepy, I turned my head and met Zhang Chen's gaze.

He stared at me for three seconds and said abruptly, "I want to kiss you."

I raised my hand to touch his forehead, and spoke back to him very slowly: "I don't have a fever."

He pushed my hand away, almost gnashing his teeth and said: "Chen Heping, you are really good."

"I always think I'm good." After saying this, I got into the quilt and lay down comfortably.

Zhang Chen stared at me for a while, then tucked the quilt up for me meaninglessly, and said, "Are you going to sleep now?"

"Sleep, if you don't sleep, you will be so sleepy." I closed my eyes.

"Chat with me for a while."

"You turn off the light."

Zhang Chen turned off the light with a snap, and got into the quilt again—the two of us of course had two quilts, after all, we were brothers, not husband and wife.

"Chen Heping!"

"Um……?"

"You make me feel good."

I opened my eyes in the dark, but what I said was still full of sleepiness: "That's because I'm the only one who has fucked you, you can find a few more people to try, their skills are much better than mine."

Zhang Chen didn't reply to these words, but his breathing was heavy, as if he was a little unhappy.

I closed my eyes again, started to let go of my thoughts, and started to feel drowsy. When I was about to have in-depth contact with Duke Zhou, I heard a crackling sound.

The light shone through my eyelids and made me tremble. Zhang Chen pushed my back, and his words seemed to be icy: "Don't sleep, wake up, and speak clearly."

I opened my eyes, got up slowly, and leaned on the soft cushion.

At this moment, my addiction to cigarettes broke again. Zhang Chen took out a cigarette and a lighter from the pants at the bedside, and threw them on my quilt.

"Explain what?"

"What the hell do you think?"

"What can I think?"

"We've been sleeping for several years, shouldn't it be settled?"

He did say it—he had the guts to say it, and I raised my hand, yawned a lot, and tried to struggle again.

"Brother, can we talk about it tomorrow?"

"No." Zhang Chen's eyes were bloodshot, as if he wanted to kill me.

"Well, Comrade Zhang Chen, you and Li Yang have been sleeping together for almost ten years, why haven't you settled down yet and split up?"

"Chen Heping, you fucking shut up!"

Zhang Chen rushed over all of a sudden, put his legs on me, grabbed my pajamas and picked them up.

I know that he often works out and learns messy self-defense techniques. I can't beat him alone.

He simply gave up his resistance and let him carry it, just saying: "Zhang Chen, I'm sleepy, you're going crazy, can you wait until tomorrow?"

The anger on Zhang Chen's face dissipated all of a sudden, he let go of my pajamas, and I let the force of gravity lie back on the bed, and closed my eyes again.

The light went out, and Zhang Chen also lay down beside me again, but his hand slipped through two layers of quilt, got into my quilt and grabbed my hand, I didn't move, let him grab it.

He said: "Brother, sometimes I go back to the house alone, it's empty, it's so lonely."

I didn't reply, I just felt that this sentence was too hypocritical. In addition to him, there was a nanny in his house, unless he couldn't think of going to a house without a nanny.

He added: "I want to find someone who can chat with me and live a good life with me."

I didn't reply either, but I just thought of a young man Zhang Chen was raising. It is said that he is a professional chef. There is warmth of life everywhere.Zhang Chen also took photos for me to see. To be honest, Zhang Chen has no shortage of people to chat with him, and there is no shortage of people to live with him.

Zhang Chen seemed to be babbling a lot more, but I became more and more sleepy, and fell asleep.

In the dream, I dreamed of Zhang Chen when I was a child for a long time. He forgot his eraser, and finally couldn't hold back his cold appearance, and said to me in a very small voice: "Can you lend me an eraser?"

I took out an eraser, cut it in half with a ruler, and threw half to him.

"I'll use this half for you. You finally talked to me. I thought you were dumb."

Sure enough, seeing Zhang Chen's angry face, this dream was worth it.

It was a good night's sleep, Zhang Chen was already awake when he woke up, and he was on the phone in the living room in his shorts.

I rubbed my eyes, got up from the bed, put on my slippers, went to the bathroom to drain the water, the bathroom door opened from the outside, Zhang Chen got in, took off my underpants, threw it into my basin with precision, opened it Turn on the shower and take a shower.

Slowly drained the water, flushed the toilet again, passed the radiation of the nozzle with some difficulty, picked up the toothbrush to brush teeth, and only at this time, I am very envious of the big house under the name of Zhang Chen, there are at least two The bathroom doesn't need to be so crowded.

After brushing his teeth, he washed his face with water, and when he wiped his face with a towel, the sound of the water stopped. Zhang Chen had finished washing, and he stretched out a hand: "Pass me the bath towel."

I hummed, hung up the towel, and then took off the bath towel and threw it over. During this process, it was inevitable that I would see Zhang Chen's naked body—but we were too familiar, so familiar that we met each other sincerely. When I'm having sex, I don't have the thought of having sex.

For breakfast, I warmed up two packs of milk, fried eggs and sandwiched bread. Zhang Chen ate very happily. The morning news scrolled through the latest news, until there was one-"A trampling accident occurred on the A18th floor of the third phase of Hongxin Community this morning. , 25 people were seriously injured and 121 people were slightly injured. At present, the injured and other residents have been properly resettled. The accident investigation team headed by XX is investigating and collecting evidence..."

My brain buzzed for no other reason. Hongxin community is a boutique project of the developer under the name of Zhang Chen. I calmed down and turned my head to look at Zhang Chen, but he was eating slices of bread slowly.

I got angry immediately: "Did you fucking cut corners, and you still have time to eat, get the hell out and clean up the mess?"

Zhang Chen swallowed the slice of bread in his mouth, but he seemed very calm. He said: "The area was built by Li Yang's husband a few years ago. The money that should be paid has been settled by the financial side. It is the other party who cut corners. not me."

"Hundreds of people have been injured." As I sat opposite him, my brain began to ache.

"It's a good thing that no one was killed," Zhang Chen was terribly calm at this time, and became very alienated. "The public relations department and the legal department have already started operations. The leaders of the subsidiary company have entered the police station to assist in the investigation. The follow-up compensation has been discussed. Don't worry if you have a preliminary intention, Chen Heping."

"What about you, Zhang Chen?" I stared at the bread crumbs at the corner of his mouth, and I didn't know why, but I had to ask this question.

"I'm traveling abroad, and I don't know about these things. Although I have some shares in that company, I have never participated in the decision-making." Zhang Chen smiled, with a light taste, "The old lady specially called and asked me to Don’t need the road, her people have already arranged, and everything that needs to be smoothed out will be smoothed out.”

I was relieved when he said that, but after a while, I felt distorted and hateful again, and insisted on saying something that made him and me unhappy: "If you didn't want to go to Liyang, her husband wouldn't have the opportunity to participate Build a building."

Zhang Chen twitched his lips: "That shouldn't be the case. Although I recommended you to go away, it is the people below who make the decision. There are so many checkpoints in the material testing project and the construction project. If no problems are found, it is naturally the responsibility of the people below. It has nothing to do with me."

He said this lightly, and I somehow felt a little cold. I knew that this person was a scum, but I always underestimated the extent of the other party's scum.

Zhang Chen ate two more slices of bread under my sight, then stood up slowly, and went to the bathroom to wash his hands.

On the contrary, I can't eat anything at this moment.

Zhang Chen yelled at me in the bathroom: "Aren't you going to work, Chen Heping?"

I asked knowingly, "Aren't you going to work?"

"No, stay with your house for a while, stay honestly according to the old lady's order, you go to work quickly, don't buy vegetables when you come back, I'll ask someone to bring food over."

I hummed, got dressed, took my purse, and left my home.

On the bus, most people are watching TV dramas or reading novels, and few people pay attention to the news. Even if the news is pushed, and they know what accident happened and how many people were killed or injured, they just say oh in their hearts, and there will be no How sad emotions.

The country is too big, accidents of various casualties occur almost every day, and people become numb and easy to forget.

There wasn't much work in the department today, so I couldn't help but search for the latest news.

The press conference was held, and the investigation team announced the results, mixed with the latest injuries of the injured, and complicated information rushed in, but Zhang Chen and his group were completely hidden in this accident.

As a brother, I should be happy for Zhang Chen, but I feel great sadness—because I realized once again that this is an unfair society.

I worked in the Economic Commission. At the beginning, I sat at the counter to collect documents. I was promoted quickly. The benefits are good, and there are some opportunities for promotion. When I took the test, I was 80 to 1. I ranked second in the written test, and I ranked second in the interview. I was also ranked second at the time. I had no chance for this position, but my brother who ranked first had an accident at home, and my uncle whom I hadn’t contacted for a long time was imprisoned for economic crimes, so I was added.

Not long after receiving the supplementary recording notice and informing relatives and friends, Fatty Wang made a special phone call to me across the ocean and said, "Your grandson is so lucky."

I laughed and thanked him back.

Fatty Wang talked nonsense for a long time, and finally told me: "If you want to make money, stay away from the public house, and if you want to be close to the public house, don't think about making money."

I thanked him.

At that time, I got mixed up with Zhang Chengang, and he asked me to help out in his company, or give me a sum of money to start my own business.

I was a little insensitive to his way of spending money, and my major was not very easy to get a job, so I tried to sign up, but I didn't expect that I passed.

The bus stopped at the platform, and I got off the bus and started to walk forward. From a long time ago, I knew clearly that Zhang Chen and I were not in the same way, and that one day we would each have our own way, but so many years have passed , It hasn't even reached the point where the old and the dead don't communicate with each other.

I swiped the key card, and the boss handed me a folder. I opened the file, and there were relevant materials on the morning news case.

"What does it have to do with us?"

"Some netizens found out that there are some problems with the project approval materials of the construction party. The fire has reached our side, and we have to jointly accept the investigation."

Since environmental protection has become more and more stringent, an environmental assessment must be done before the construction of residential buildings, and before the environmental assessment, a record must be made with the Economic Commission.

The filing is not complicated. First download the corresponding form online, and then give it to the staff at the window counter for preliminary review. The Economic Commission entrusts a third-party agency of the central enterprise to do a comprehensive review, and then the Economic Commission issues a certificate and seals it. The job is done, and the whole process will take about a month.

However, there are always some projects that are relatively urgent, which may be key projects or projects assigned by the superior, so there is a privilege - after submitting the filing application form, the certificate will be issued first, and the materials will be reviewed, and the filing will be held first The table goes to the next ring test and other procedures.

If the materials fail to pass the review, the filing form will still be withdrawn. This privilege has been used internally, and almost no mistakes have been made, but in this accident, it was caught out.

There was only a [-]-day difference between the date of payment of the application form and the date of payment of the certificate issued, and there was a long holiday of up to seven days in the middle, which was almost glaring evidence-there was a problem with the project registration.

Before the investigation team came, the city's second-in-command in charge of the economy came first, reprimanded the leader, and gave instructions that all personnel involved in the case should be suspended for investigation.

TV dramas always like to describe these heads as personable and wily, but most of them are no different from ordinary people with flat heads when their hair is on fire.

In the information age, it is very easy to find out who is responsible for the accident. Even though everyone knows that such handling does not violate internal rules, if something goes wrong, they must be held accountable.

Two colleagues were forced to resign, and they could no longer be admitted to the public service system. I felt very uncomfortable. In the end, this incident was just an idea of ​​Zhang Chen, and it was difficult for me to rationally follow his thinking. Way to look at this matter.

This day's off-duty time came very slowly. Just after leaving the company, I received a WeChat message from Zhang Chen. He took a picture of a table of exquisite dishes, and the WeChat message said, wait for you to go home for dinner.

I replied to him that I would not go to dinner with my colleagues, so I simply turned off my phone.

I picked up a bicycle on the side of the street and rode to Xinxin Children's Primary School. The children had already finished school, and the classroom building was particularly quiet and beautiful against the backdrop of the setting sun.

Xinxin Children’s Primary School is a nostalgic school. Even though several new buildings were built, the original main teaching building was only repaired and not demolished, and most of its original appearance was preserved. The top floor has been installed with a layer of glass baffles at least 1.5 meters—perhaps because the child is afraid of accidentally falling down.

It's a pity that the top floor was originally a very suitable place to watch the sunset. I still remember when I was in elementary school, I always called a few friends, climbed to the top of the building, sat on the ground, and watched the sunset together foolishly. At that time, the vocabulary was small, and I only knew that she was extremely beautiful. When I stretched out my hand, it seemed to be able to touch the light.

Zhang Chen, who no longer had a cold war with me, was also sitting beside me. He snorted coldly and said, "You bumpkin, if I have the opportunity to take you to see the aurora, that would be really beautiful."