we are not friends anymore

After coming down from the mountain, Qiao Mingxi developed a fever.

His lips were pale, but there was a tinge of red on his cheeks, his eyes were closed, and his back curled up unconsciously.Ji Yan stretched out his hand to touch his forehead, it was still hot.

Xie Zhen, who was sitting in the co-pilot, raised his eyelids and happened to meet Ji Yan in the rearview mirror. Xie Zhen glanced at him and said to the driver, "Go back to Qiao's house."

"He has a fever." Ji Yan frowned.

Xie Zhen said, "The Qiao family has a doctor."

All the way back to Qiao's house, Aunt Hui had already received the message and was waiting anxiously at the door.Qiao Mingxi was still groggy and did not wake up, Ji Yan bent down and carried him out of the car, Aunt Hui quickly asked someone to open the door and let them in.

"I'm sorry to trouble you." Xie Zhen stood beside Aunt Hui, "I'll go to the hospital to see my third sister."

"Go in and sit for a while before going." Aunt Hui said, "You are all tired these days."

Xie Zhen smiled lightly: "No, you can go in and see Xiao Qiao."

Aunt Hui looked at him, a little hesitant to speak, Xie Zhen said again: "Qiao Qifeng has left it to Lao Wu, don't worry."

"Hey." Aunt Hui nodded, her eyes were a little red.

Xie Zhen said goodbye to Aunt Hui, and before getting into the car, he looked back and smiled meaningfully.

Qiao Mingxi fell into a dream in a daze.

After a while, the woman hugged him and fell to the floor, covering his mouth tightly.He didn't dare to struggle or speak, fearing that even a small whimper would touch the woman's nerves.

After a while, Qiao Mingyue and Qiao Qifeng quarreled when they were girls, and the shrill voice echoed in the big house: "He is still so young! You are all sick!"

After a while, Aunt Hui opened the door of Qiao's house, and Qiao Mingyue encouraged him to gently push him forward: "Go in, this will be your home from now on."

Soon it became Ji Yan's face again, he stood at the door of the practice room and said "excuse me"; he reached out to him at the entrance of the stage, pulling him towards the spotlight.

Then came the indifferent voice of the doctor. They told him that Qiao Mingyue had suffered an impact on her brain, and she would be fine when she woke up, but before that, she might be brain-dead, and she might not be able to open her eyes for a long time.

He anxiously wanted to ask the doctor what he should do, but the doctor's face suddenly disappeared and turned into the back of Ji Yan who opened the door and left.

He stretched out his hand, and both Qiao Mingyue and Ji Yan left without looking back.

Qiao Mingxi curled up under the quilt, with half of his face pressed against the soft pillow, his cheeks were flushed from the heat, and his lips were trembling, as if he was whispering something softly.

Ji Yan stretched out his hand to brush away his bangs that covered his eyes, and moved closer to hear what he was saying softly.

His eyes darkened, and he gently pressed the back of his cold hand against his cheek, and said in a low voice, "I'm here."

Aunt Hui opened the door and came in, using the hot water in her hand to change the cold water at the head of the bed, turned her head to look at Ji Yan, and said softly, "Xiao Ji, come out for a while."

Ji Yan looked at Qiao Mingxi quietly, then withdrew her hand and walked out with Aunt Hui.

Aunt Hui closed the door and said politely and unquestionably, "Thank you for your hard work. I'm here to watch over you. Please go back."

Ji Yan didn't leave, he was silent for a while, and asked in a low voice: "Qiao Mingxi and his... parents, what's going on?"

Aunt Hui looked up at him.Last night, Qiao Mingxi was on vigil at the hospital and persuaded her to come back to rest. In the morning, she was about to go out to the hospital when she met Ji Yan at the door of Qiao's house.He said he came to find Qiao Mingxi, but neither of them could get through to Qiao Mingxi.She felt uneasy and called Lou Feng, only to find out that Qiao Mingxi had gone up the mountain by herself.

Fortunately, he was not alone, he communicated with Lou Feng before setting off, and Xie Zhen led his people to follow behind from a distance.

Aunt Hui looked at the young man in front of her. He left after listening to her call in the morning, but brought Qiao Mingxi back with Xie Zhen.

She sighed: "Come with me." After she finished speaking, she walked forward in silence, her pace was very slow, Ji Yan followed her all the way to the end of the corridor on the second floor, watching her open the last door and go in.

This is an ordinary-looking storage room. Aunt Hui looked around and tiptoed to get something on the top of the cabinet. Ji Yan stepped forward and raised her hand: "I'll do it."

Aunt Hui didn't speak, and instructed him to open the door on the top floor and take out the only small box inside.

She held the small box in her hand and sighed: "It was originally our family's business, so I shouldn't have told you about it."

Ji Yan looked at her silently, and Aunt Hui continued: "In the past, when you and the young master... were on good terms with the young master, I saw that even though you treated him well, I'm afraid even I feel ashamed that I'm not as considerate as you are, but I This look... It can be seen that you must not understand why our family takes care of the young master so carefully."

The old man spoke very slowly, and his voice was a little unsteady as he spoke: "For so many years, I always thought that if the young master didn't have such parents, he could grow into a normal young man like you. Okay...Xiao Ji, because the young master keeps calling you by your name, I am speaking to you on my own initiative, so please listen patiently."

When the brothers of the previous generation of the Qiao family were still there, although there were turbulent waves secretly, they were still peaceful on the surface.

As the eldest brother, Qiao Mingyue's father was nearly a round older than the youngest brother, Qiao Qifeng.Qiao Qifeng was spoiled very much since he was a child, and he developed a stubborn personality that no one can tell him about.

He was married in free love, and he started a family very early. At first, the husband and wife loved each other, and they separated from the house and went out to live well.Gradually, the other two elder brothers secretly coveted the elder brother's position as the head of the family, but he just pretended not to see it and never participated in it.

Until one year, the elder brother Qiao Qihang's enemies in the early years retaliated and wanted to kidnap his wife and daughter, but they kidnapped Qiao Qifeng's wife Jiang Jing by mistake.Qiao Qihang was asked to exchange his wife and daughter for hostages. Qiao Qifeng almost knelt down to beg him, but Qiao Qihang hesitated.

The people over there were very cunning. They contacted Qiao's family all the way and ran all the way out. After a week of anxiety, they were stopped by Qiao Qihang's people in the mountainous area of ​​the neighboring city and rescued him.

But unfortunately, when Qiao Qifeng found Jiang Jing, the other party had already been defiled by gangsters.

Jiang Jing's personality has changed since then. The former virtuous and smiling girl has become taciturn, and no one can get close to her except Qiao Qifeng.It was at that time that Qiao Qifeng secretly hated his elder brother's selfishness.

Although he loves Jiang Jing, this incident is like a thorn stuck in his throat.So much so that when Jiang Jing found out she was pregnant two months later, his first reaction was to look suspicious.

Jiang Jing saw his doubts in her eyes, and became more silent, unable to say a word for almost a whole day.Qiao Qifeng couldn't bear her lethargy, but he took into account the mood of the pregnant woman, and kept suppressing her emotions throughout the other's pregnancy.

Qiao Mingxi was born prematurely and was once judged as unable to survive.Jiang Jing didn't listen to anyone's advice, she stubbornly guarded her son by herself, chanting words that others couldn't understand all day long.

She woke up suddenly one day and asked to name her son "Xi", the hopeful Xi.

Qiao Qifeng looked at her jet-black eyes, nodded with red eyes: "Okay, my name is Mingxi."

That day was probably Jiang Jing's last sober day, Qiao Qifeng looked at his son's soft cheeks and his wife's gentle eyes, and persuaded himself not to doubt anymore.A person will always encounter some things in this life, but let him pass it like this, and lead his wife and children to live well in the future, as before.

But time is that there are many people and things that ruthlessly pull you out of your fantasy.

As Qiao Mingxi grew up day by day, Jiang Jing remained silent, and what she did every day was to stay by Qiao Mingxi's side.Qiao Qifeng originally thought that when Ah Xi could talk and call her parents, Ah Jing would get better.

But day after day, Qiao Mingxi still couldn't speak when children of the same age could already memorize idioms.

More and more people looked at Qiao Mingxi, looked at Qiao Qifeng with various complicated eyes, and told him that this child is not like you.

Ordinary people will be shaken once reminded like this, let alone Qiao Qifeng whose wife had such a thing happen to him.

He wanted to take Qiao Mingxi for a paternity test, Jiang Jing hugged Qiao Mingxi like crazy, and screamed whenever anyone approached.

Qiao Qifeng was tormented by suspicion and uneasiness and became irritable day by day. Looking at his son's dark eyes that were exactly the same as Jiang Jing's, his heart collapsed for a while.

Jiang Jing became more and more reluctant to see outsiders. He locked her and her son at home and hardly saw anyone.

All his love and patience were wiped out by Jiang Jing's screams day after day. He looked at Qiao Mingxi as if he saw his own ruined home.

He didn't want to see Jiang Jing or Qiao Mingxi again.

Ever since he could remember, Qiao Mingxi had been locked up by Qiao Qifeng in the small attic at home, and he couldn't see anyone except his mother.When he was in primary school, Qiao Mingxi, who had already been regarded as dumb by default, only opened his mouth to speak, but he would only reply slowly after ten questions were asked.

Qiao Qihang tried to persuade Qiao Qifeng to send Qiao Mingxi to school, but his younger brother stopped him with "my family affairs".

Qiao Mingxi could meet very few people, and only occasionally when Qiao Qifeng reluctantly took him out to participate in family gatherings could he meet his cousins ​​of the same generation.But none of them were willing to approach him, thinking that he was lifeless and lifeless.

Only Qiao Mingyue liked to talk to Qiao Mingxi, but she had limited opportunities to meet him.

Later, something happened to the Qiao family. Qiao Qihang's family died in an "accident". The only surviving Qiao Mingyue was forced out of the Qiao family with her unrelated younger sister. Qiao Mingxi couldn't see anyone other than her mother.

His mother went completely crazy when he was three or four years old, repeating in his ear every day: "You are his son, Axi, go and tell Dad that you are his son."

Whenever there were footsteps coming and going downstairs, Jiang Jing rushed into the attic and held Qiao Mingxi tightly, covering his mouth to prevent him from making a sound: "Shut up...shh...don't let them found you..."

She stared at her son for a long time, and pushed him into the water again and again. Regardless of the child's painful struggle, she only pressed his shoulders and neck tightly, crying and begging: "Don't move, Axi, please!" It's gone...you save mom, don't move..."

As long as you are dead, the memory that tormented me will end.

Only after you die, can I go back to the time when I first came to this house, I was still the wife who was doted on by my husband and the noble lady who was envied by others.Instead of hiding in the corner like a dark mouse, tortured by other people's strange eyes.

Qiao Mingxi faced her mother's gaze all day long, and only occasionally looked out from the narrow window in the attic. Those blooming flowers and those living people who came and went were as far away as in another world.

It wasn't until later that Qiao Mingyue, who had spent her life breaking through a hard armor outside, came back. Qiao Mingxi didn't know that the two uncles who had shown indifferent eyes to him were gone. The aunt who accidentally glanced at him disdainfully out of the corner of her eye is also gone.

He didn't know where Qiao Qifeng and Jiang Jing were taken, he only knew that Qiao Mingyue came to take him out of this small attic.

He could finally go to the outside world, even if it was many years late.