He had never seen Joaquin arguing head-on with anyone, and he thought that it was unlikely that anyone would have friction with his neighbors as soon as he came home from the holidays, right?How much hatred?But that voice was really very familiar.

Min Qiu threw the cigarette butts into the nearest trash can, and followed Huajin's corner. Fortunately, there was only one quarrel in this building, and the floor was not high. He locked his position after paying attention, and stood Carefully distinguish directly below the stairway.At this moment, Joaquin said something again - although he didn't understand it, he still recognized the voice.

Another male voice easily overwhelmed Joaquin's voice, the old anti-theft door creaked open, and another middle-aged female voice joined the battle.

Oops, it's really Joaquin.

Min Qiu went up the stairs in two steps at a time. Before reaching the door, he saw a fat man in a suit that didn't fit well and with a hairstyle that looked like a killer blocking the stairs, blocking Joaquin from going upstairs. Wherever she was going, the cursing in her mouth was definitely not a good thing; a thin middle-aged woman stood in front of the opened door. Her "middle-aged feeling" did not come from the number of wrinkles on her face, but her own The haggardness of a plant when it withers and loses water.She should have said something like "get out of the way", "come up quickly", and the moment she saw Min Qiu go upstairs, her expression doubled in horror, and she tried to pull Joaquin's hand.

Min Qiu: "..."

This should be Joaquin's mother, seems to be afraid of him?Maybe it has something to do with his height when he goes up the stairs with his head down to avoid bumping into each other at the corner.

Joaquin was furious, he threw his luggage on the stairs, tried to intervene several times but was suppressed by the fat man's voice, his anger obviously went beyond being blocked from going upstairs.

Several people were busy in their own way, and no one was willing to explain the current situation to Min Qiu in Mandarin, but the scene was not difficult to understand. It must be economic disputes who came here to find bad luck during the New Year's Eve.Could it be that Joaquin was still in debt to go to school?Can't it?

Min Qiu took a step forward to push Joaquin away, wrapped his arms around Sha Matt's shoulders, and fixed Ah Sha's arms on both sides of his body-this feeling of hand, it is estimated that he weighs more than two Joaquins.

"Brother, come, come, come down." He didn't use the force he used when he fell softly on Hua Jin's body, and squeezed his palm hard on Ah Sha's shoulder, "It's Chinese New Year, what is this? Can't speak well."

Ah Sha howled in pain, and asked in "quasi-Mandarin" that Min Qiu could finally understand: "Who are you! Where did you come from!"

Min Qiu calmly twisted his arm: "I am your father, let's go."

When he passed by Joaquin, he gave him a look and said softly, "Go back, don't worry about it."

Ah Sha was pushed and shoved down the stairs by Min Qiu, chattering all the way, Min Qiu didn't care what he said, anyway, if Ah Sha didn't leave, he got involved and brought hundreds of people out of the residential area. Mi, standing at the intersection of a bitingly cold street.

The small town has a small population, and there are few pedestrians on the street after nightfall in winter.Seeing Ah Sha standing still obediently, Min Qiu let go of his hand and took out the lighter, twirled a flower between his fingers, squinted his eyes in the night and lit a cigarette, the smoke he exhaled was quickly blown away by the wind.

Just like in the Hong Kong movies of those years, human life is like morning dew.

Ah Sha muttered a few more words.

Since Min Qiu didn't understand a single word, his expression remained indifferent. When Ah Sha finished babbling, he asked, "How much?"

Ah Sha tremblingly took out more than 100 yuan and a mobile phone with a slightly greasy screen from his jacket pocket, and handed it over.

Min Qiu: "..." The level of debt collection is not good.

Normally, he would not bother to pick up his own 100 yuan when he dropped it on the ground, but this money is different, it belongs to Joaquin's mother.He took the money and stuffed it into his trouser pocket, and entered his phone number into the greasy mobile phone: "Don't go to his house in the future, come to me if you have something to do, and I'll settle the bill with you. Don't call, send messages and photos Give it to me, I can't understand what you're saying. I've answered all the calls, do you hear me?"

After sending Ah Sha away with bold words, Min Qiu was in a good mood, feeling that he could shield Joajin from the wind and rain, and finally fulfilled his duties once in a lifetime, and he didn't waste as much food as he usually eats.With the money in his pocket, he was considering whether to go back low-key to ask for credit. When he took out his phone, he found more than a dozen missed calls—he turned the volume to silent in order to concentrate while driving, and now Joaquin was in a hurry. The message asked him if he was doing well, and he must come back when he sees the letter.

Terrible, isn't this just going to someone's house?

It's so late, you should stay for a meal to be polite, right?When I asked my classmate where you stayed at night, he was not familiar with the place, and he didn't book a hotel in advance. According to Hua Jin's statement, he turned off the highway at least to send Hua Jin off. Normal classmates' parents would keep him to live, right?Not to mention too much, one night is still possible!

He hurried back to the car and took out the razor to tidy himself up, and happily changed into a coat.

However, when he went upstairs, Hua Jin's door was only half opened, and he didn't even let him in.

Min Qiu stood in front of the door in embarrassment, at a loss and embarrassed to show it - from Joaquin's eyes, it was not difficult to see that his mother was not far behind the door.

"That... I brought the money back for you, you can give it to Auntie." Min Qiu took out the money and put it in Hua Jin's hand.

In fact, he was already prepared on the way here, wasn't he?It's just that I was dazzled by my own heroic fantasies just now, and now I calm down and think about it, yes, I just finished the fight, and my blood pressure hasn't dropped yet, how can I be in the mood to treat guests with a smile?You don't want to see anyone at all, do you?

He came at a bad time.

Joaquin turned around and asked a few words in a low voice, then asked Min Qiu, "What kind of money is this? My mother said she didn't give him any money?"

"..." Min Qiu and Ah Sha have always been in one-way communication. Ah Sha can understand what he said, but he really can't understand what Ah Sha said. I asked my aunt? Then why did he give me the money?"

Joaquin was even more at a loss: "I don't know."

The neighbors of his house closed their doors tightly as if no one lived there, but the echo in the corridor was so loud that it was estimated that those houses could hear clearly through the door.Min Qiu lowered his voice like a thoughtful and prudent adult man and asked, "The man who came just now, what is he doing?"

"He's..." Joaquin faltered for a while, and after careful consideration of his words, "It's my younger brother."

"What's the matter?" Min Qiu didn't care who would listen, and the tone of his voice suddenly increased in direct proportion to the surprise in his heart, "Your brother? Brother?"

Joaquin only mentioned his father once, in passing about his half-brother, and his mother's obsessive comparisons to him.Since half of the genes come from the same father, this "brother" has always been a vague image similar to Joaquin in Min Qiu's mind. Unexpectedly, when we meet today, he looks not only like a phantom at all, but also looks like a ghost. "Specific" too!

Joaquin: "Well, that's my younger brother."

"..." Min Qiu thought about it for a while, knowing that it was not the time, he still couldn't help laughing, like the two of them usually whispering under the quilt, "No, it's just him? He can still talk to you What about the comparison? How can he compare with you?"

It’s no wonder that his imagination is not in place, it’s because he didn’t think about his relatives at all——Joaquin and Ah Sha are so different in appearance and temperament, they were made with the same blueprint and material package Seller Show and Buyer Show.

Joaquin shook his head silently and stared at him, but Min Qiu just couldn't stop laughing: "No, no, wait, is he his own? Why don't you two look alike at all? His virtues are like that... "

There was an unbearable chuckle from inside the door, followed by a slightly nasal voice from Joaquin's mother: "Call your classmate to come in and sit for a while."

Joaquin was startled, looked at Min Qiu and then at the room: "No need, Mom, he, his home is still far away, and he still wants to..."

"What's the use? I'm exhausted, I want to drink water." Min Qiu was glad that he understood what he said, and before he entered the door, he yelled loudly, "Hello, Auntie!"

Joaquin's home is as simple and tidy as his room.Sat on the slightly narrow sofa and drank a large glass of water as he wished, Min Qiu wiped his mouth, not knowing why he had a great desire to express himself today, he gestured to the width of Ah Sha with his hand, and continued: "Really, Auntie, I really didn't see that it was two brothers, that child's photo is much worse than Joaquin's!"

Joaquin's mother smiled a little and added some water to him.

"But what did he come for?" Min Qiu was puzzled, "I didn't understand what he said just now."

People in many small towns in the south, if they don’t have a high degree of diploma and have no ambition to go out of the small town, most of them will not deliberately practice Mandarin, because the people around them all speak dialects, and they don’t need it at all. Struggling to communicate through a hurdle.That's why just now Ah Sha tried to communicate with Min Qiu in a few crappy "quasi-Mandarin", but Min Qiu thought it was disgusting, so he picked his ears and played back.

"I stopped asking my dad for money a few years ago, but he didn't know who he heard that my dad was still giving me living expenses every month." Joaquin clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and said, " When he drank too much, he came here to find trouble, and asked my mother to return the money to their family - of course my mother would not give it to him, so he deliberately angered my mother..."

Min Qiu blinked: "Um...has he been drinking? I was very close to him just now, why didn't I smell it?"

Joaquin blushed: "I drink rice bar."

"Oh." Min Qiu looked at the mother and son in front of him, and hesitated, "Should I ask him out for a talk? Explain to him? Don't make trouble."

"No, don't go!" Joaquin immediately stopped his thoughts, "He seems to have dropped out of school very early, and has been in society for a while, I'm afraid of you..."

Is he still a social brother?

Min Qiu felt bad-as the saying goes, "a strong dragon can't overwhelm a snake"!He was a hero for a while and was happy, but how would Joaquin's mother live in the future?Even if he can linger around here throughout the winter vacation, what will he do after school starts?When he is not there and Joaquin is not there, how can Joaquin's mother, a thin middle-aged woman, face the young and strong man who comes to find fault?

"It's okay!" Even if the Earthquake couldn't be shown at Joaquin's house, Min Qiu raised his hand to signal, "I'll call my elder brother, he's not far away, he'll be there soon, we two go to educate that kid. "

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