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That night, Yuan Ning and Zhang Xiuyan went to the airport together to pick up their cousin.Yuan Ning was a little apprehensive. Even Zhang Xiuyan, who doesn't like to speak harsh words, said that Uncle Lai'an had a bad temper and bad temper. Would Uncle Lai'an dislike him?Yuan Ning encouraged herself in her heart, and after getting off the car, she followed Zhang Xiuyan closely to pick up the plane.

Yuan Ning is responsible for helping Zhang Xiu hold up the sign strictly.Among all the signs, the one he held was the shortest, but it was a bit conspicuous in comparison.

As soon as Uncle Laian came out from the exit, he saw Zhang Xiuyan and Yuan Ning.Seeing Yuan Ning almost in Zhang Xiuyan's arms, he was slightly surprised and walked towards them.

Seeing that Uncle Laian had seen him and Yuan Ning, Zhang Xiuyan immediately told Yuan Ning to put away the sign, exited the airport pick-up crowd, and retreated to an open place to wait for Cousin Laian.

Before Yuan Ning came back to his senses, he was led away by Zhang Xiuyan.After a while, Yuan Ning saw the bad-tempered cousin Laian that Zhang Xiuyan was talking about.Cousin Ryan wore a long coat and walked very neatly. The size of each step seemed to be measured, neither too slow nor too fast.He glanced back and forth between Zhang Xiuyan and Yuan Ning, and finally frowned disapprovingly, and said with reproach: "Xiu Yan, don't you see the elders for a long-lost reunion hug? After returning home, you lost your manners again." .”

Yuan Ning was taken aback, then looked at Zhang Xiuyan.

Zhang Xiuyan looked at Uncle Laian warily.

Uncle Laian looked at Yuan Ning: "You are Ning Ning, right? I heard your mother mentioned you, saying that your elder brother loves you the most." He walked over and opened his hands to give Yuan Ning a bear hug.

An arm lay across Yuan Ning's face, blocking Cousin Laian's bear hug back.

Uncle Laian's eyes were bright, and he said with a smile: "Look at your elder brother's food-protecting appearance, it seems that what your mother said is true." He stood up calmly and looked at Zhang Xiuyan carefully.Seeing the displeasure in Zhang Xiuyan's eyes, Uncle Laian frowned, "What? Are you still holding grudges? I was kind enough to enlighten you—"

"Let's go, go back and have a rest first." Zhang Xiu said with a sullen face, "The public prosecution will start in a few days. Then Ja Siwen hired a lawyer as soon as he was arrested. You have been late for many days."

Cousin Ryan nodded.Seeing that Zhang Xiuyan retracted his arm, he immediately hugged Yuan Ning into his arms and kissed Yuan Ning on the cheek twice.

Yuan Ning: "..."

Zhang Xiuyan: "..."

Zhang Xiuyan said, "Shouldn't you be imprisoned for doing this kind of thing to children?"

Uncle Laian shrugged: "This is Huaguo." He looked at Yuan Ning with a smile, "And I'm Ning Ning's uncle, right Ning Ning?"

After thinking for a while, Yuan Ning moved behind Zhang Xiuyan, keeping a safe distance from Cousin Laian.He looked at Zhang Xiuyan carefully, and could easily detect Zhang Xiuyan's mood.

The eldest brother actually didn't want to see Cousin Ryan very much.

Cousin Ryan didn't care at all.He walked out of the airport with Yuan Ning and Zhang Xiuyan, and found that it was raining again in the sky.The sky looked dark, and the endless rain wet the lights, making the night wet.Cousin Ryan said, "Ah, it's raining." A smile appeared on his face, "I like rain, it can give me a lot of inspiration."

Zhang Xiuyan didn't answer.

That night, Yuan Ning knocked on the door of Zhang Xiuyan's room with his pillow in his arms.He felt that something was wrong with Zhang Xiuyan, and he was very worried.Yuan Ning closed the door and said to Zhang Xiuyan: "Brother, I can't sleep alone, can I sleep with you?"

Zhang Xiu looked at Yuan Ning steadfastly for a while, then nodded and continued reading.After finishing the content of the plan, Zhang Xiuyan turned off the desk lamp, turned on the bedside light, and got into the warmed-up bed.

Yuan Ning fanned his eyelashes like a small fan, and looked at Zhang Xiuyan who was taking off his watch.Zhang Xiuyan turned his head to look at Yuan Ning, and caught Yuan Ning's eyes full of concern.

Zhang Xiuyan choked his throat and said, "I'm fine, you don't have to worry."

Zhang Xiuyan opened his mouth, Yuan Ning immediately sat up and asked, "Brother, do you not like Uncle Laian?"

"I don't like it very much." Zhang Xiuyan seldom hides anything in front of Yuan Ning, because even if he conceals Yuan Ning, he can still see the truth.

"Did he do anything bad to you, big brother?" Yuan Ning remembered that Ms. Xue had said that Zhang Xiuyan had lived at the house of Laian's cousin for a while.

"Not really." Zhang Xiuyan tried to be objective, "He just knows how to find out people's weaknesses."

Yuan Ning let out an "oh", and lay back quietly under the covers.He could see that some things had happened to Zhang Xiuyan, but he just didn't want to say it out - if Zhang Xiuyan confided everything to others, then he wouldn't be Zhang Xiuyan.

Zhang Xiuyan frowned, regretting bringing Yuan Ning to pick him up.What if that guy also regards Yuan Ning as an "experiment subject"?Zhang Xiuyan couldn't help warning: "Don't be alone with him."

Yuan Ning understood.Big brother really encountered some bad things!

Zhang Xiuyan turned off the light and lay down on the bed.The bed was very warm, and there was the fresh scent of soap from Yuan Ning's body.This long-lost intimacy made Zhang Xiuyan in a daze, remembering that they hadn't slept together like this for a long time.After this little stutter got bigger, he felt that he had grown up and was no longer as clingy as before.I came here specially tonight because I was afraid that he would be unhappy, right?

In fact, he almost forgot.

Zhang Xiu was quiet for a while, and said, "It's nothing wrong. My mother was very ill at that time. I heard that he knew an expert in this field, so I went to find him... He said that something was wrong with me, and he wanted to diagnose it for me. .In fact, it's nothing at all, it's just that I always have nightmares at that time..."

"What kind of nightmare?" Yuan Ning asked with concern.

"I dreamed that your fourth brother was washed away by the flood in front of my eyes." Zhang Xiuyan said, "I dreamed that what I found was your fourth brother's body——I dreamed that my mother said angrily, 'Why are you not here'—"

Yuan Ning's heart tightened, and he grabbed Zhang Xiuyan's hand.He remembered that when he first arrived at Zhang's house, his elder brother was very strict with them, as if he never laughed.The eldest brother not only asks himself to be an excellent person, but also teaches his younger siblings to be excellent people, as if everyone is his responsibility.Big brother often had nightmares back then, right?

Feeling a warm feeling in his palm, Zhang Xiuyan said slowly: "When I woke up, I didn't remember that I had dreamed about this."

Yuan Ning was taken aback.

"It was that guy who guided me to remember," Zhang Xiuyan said. "Since then, those dreams have become more and more clear, and I won't forget them after waking up. Sometimes there will even be a kind of 'if I was caught' for no reason. Washed away is the 'I'll be fine' feeling."

Yuan Ning's heart shrank.

"Dug out other people's shadows and stir up their feelings," Zhang Xiuyan said, "This is what that guy likes to do most—and it's also what that guy is best at."

Obviously he can whitewash the peace, he can live in peace, he can pretend nothing happened—but Ryan must dig out the cruelest things, so that he can only do more to avoid Ms. Xue's hugs and kisses— Like avoiding the nightmare that haunts every night.

"Then he doesn't care?" Yuan Ning asked.

"It doesn't matter." Zhang Xiuyan said, "He said, 'I have already found out the problem for you, you should find a way to solve it yourself!' Then he sent me back to China."

Yuan Ning hugged Zhang Xiuyan quietly.At that time, Zhang Xiuyan was only thirteen or fourteen years old. He had to fulfill his elder brother's responsibility to take care of his younger siblings, and he had to worry about Ms. Xue's repeated illness at any time—and after his trusted cousin dug out the most secret shadow in his heart, But only told him to let him find a way to solve it himself!

That's why Zhang Xiuyan is so resistant to Laian now, right?

Yuan Ning's nose was sore.Even though he was so against Ryan, Zhang Xiuyan still took the initiative to contact Ryan for this case.He stretched out his arms carefully to hug Zhang Xiuyan, and buried his head in Zhang Xiuyan's arms: "Brother, I always make trouble for you."

"It's good to know," Zhang Xiuyan didn't resist Yuan Ning's closeness at all, "——little troublemaker."

"Brother." Yuan Ning called out in a muffled voice.

"Ok?"

"Brother shouldn't have nightmares now, right?" Yuan Ning was very concerned about this issue.

"will not."

"Then why is eldest brother still unwilling to get close to mother and the others?" Yuan Ning was puzzled.

Zhang Xiuyan's ears were red, and he said firmly: "I don't want to."

Yuan Ning was taken aback.

Zhang Xiuyan said: "Isn't that enough if you kiss them for them?"

Yuan Ning understood as soon as he heard it, the eldest brother is shy!Mom still asks him to hold her eldest brother instead every time, everyone is used to it!Of course, it is impossible for the eldest brother to say to his mother, 'Don't use Ningning instead'!Yuan Ning immediately said, "I'll tell my mother right away!"

Zhang Xiuyan hooked his arm and held Yuan Ning down: "Sleep!"

Yuan Ning was obedient.

Zhang Xiuyan said: "You are not allowed to talk nonsense tomorrow."

Yuan Ning smirked.

Zhang Xiuyan continued to warn: "Not the day after tomorrow."

Yuan Ning is as good as others: "Never tell!"

Zhang Xiuyan tightened his face.

After a while, Yuan Ning whispered, "Brother, your ears are so red."

"To shut up!"

Yuan Ning happily closed his mouth and went to sleep obediently.

Early the next morning, Cousin Ryan disappeared, and it was said that he had already started to act.Yuan Ning didn't see him for the next few days. Uncle Laian appeared in front of Yuan Ning again until the public prosecution of Huang Jia's case was over.

That was after school.

Yuan Ning walked out of the classroom, and saw Ryan standing there, still wearing a long coat, still standing upright, every muscle on his face seemed to have been carefully calculated, which made him wear a charming smile.

It was raining, Ryan stood in front of the sweet-scented osmanthus tree with an umbrella, and his whole body seemed to exude a rich fragrance.He was holding a small bunch of sweet-scented osmanthus flowers in his hand, seeing Yuan Ning hesitantly walking in front of him, his smile deepened, and he raised his hand to pin the sweet-scented osmanthus flowers to Yuan Ning's hair.

Yuan Ning: "..."

Ryan said: "Little baby, this is very suitable for you. Are you after school? I'll take you to have a meal. I've been busy for a few days and I'm finally done. I need some food to reward my stomach."

The author has something to say:

Brother: Don't be alone with him! ! ! !

Cousin: Baby, uncle will take you to dinner~

Ning Ning: ……………