Sour brine and soft tofu

Brother Xu didn't go home directly when he got off work. He took a detour and went to Xu Ziti's house.

As soon as he entered the door, he found his restless younger brother sleeping on a small blanket. The lights were not turned on in the middle of the night.Brother Xu's long-lost fatherly heart was awakened by such a pitiful back, and his exhaustion felt much lighter.He stood there and snapped on the light.

Xu Ziti was awakened by the light, and opened his eyes in a daze. The light in the center of the living room cast two white spots deep in his pupils.When I first opened my eyes, I couldn't see anything clearly. I could only see the dark sky outside from the huge balcony.When he turned over and was about to continue sleeping, a foot stretched out from the side and stepped on his stomach lightly.

The three words "Ji Bowang" immediately rushed to Xu Ziti's cerebral cortex, he opened his eyes and sat up straight, and finally met his elder brother's eyes.

Xu Zixiao was at a loss and didn't know what to say: "..."

Xu Ziti was disappointed and dejected: "..."

Xu Zixiao felt that he silently comprehended some truths that his younger brother had never told him, and his pity was completely burned out.He leaned back on the sofa, his eyes were cold and stern: "Xu Ziti, where are you waiting?"

Xu Ziti stuck to the ground and stretched his waist. Last night, he had cramps in his waist, legs and buttocks due to excessive exercise. He just slept on such a small blanket. It was late autumn and his body felt cold and painful. His brother didn't have much strength when he came, so he just lazily lay down next to his brother and said, "This is not waiting for you."

Brother Xu didn't want to talk about these detours with him anymore, so he asked him directly: "Tell me, what's going on with you and Ji Bowang?"

Xu Ziti knew that sooner or later he would have to come, so he said frankly, "I really don't know."

"You don't know?" Brother Xu said, "I asked Hu Erjie, and I heard what he said. Why did you hang out with Ji Bowang when you were in high school?"

Xu Ziti shouted: "Brother, you can't, don't listen to his nonsense. I didn't go to the same school as him in high school. How could he know that Ji Bowang and I were together?"

Brother Xu didn't care at all whether Hu Erjie was telling the truth or not. He just wanted to listen to his younger brother telling the truth now: "So is it true? Were you and him together when we were in high school?"

Xu Ziti lowered his head, and on the back of his slender neck, he could see a small round bone protruding from his cervical spine.He held up his hands, rubbed his cheeks, and finally said: "We were together...then we broke up."

In late autumn and October, the cold wind is blowing, and the branches and leaves of the street trees in the community outside the window are swaying, and layers of withered leaves fall off, and fall into the garden, where they accumulate with the dead leaves of the past years, and one day they will be lost in the years Decay, decompose, and perish, and what is left in the end are only some stubborn leaf veins, which are already fragile and shattered into powder with a slight movement.

Brother Xu didn't move for a long time after listening to his younger brother explain those messy things clearly.Xu Ziti was uneasy, watching his brother become a breathing stone sculpture: "Brother, what should I do?"

Brother Xu took a deep breath, turned his head and looked seriously at his younger brother's face.This child is handsome, with black eyebrows and bright eyes, half of his face is soaked in the light, and the soft light is flooding.Brother Xu brushed his younger brother's hair, and said, "Ziti, why don't you marry Liu Yixiu? You can't make up your mind. It just so happens that she is pregnant with your child. Don't look for a job yet, just stay at home." Take care and take care of her mother and daughter."

Xu Ziti turned pale with shock: "Brother, what are you kidding, I don't like her!"

Brother Xu said coldly: "You don't like her, can she conceive your child?"

Xu Ziti wished he could go back in time and slap his former self to death. He grabbed Brother Xu's sleeve and said, "Brother, her child is definitely not mine! Can I do that? I don't even know if I have ever touched her." , I was drunk that day brother, I was so drunk, can I get hard, brother! As soon as I opened my eyes the next day, she slept next to me, what the hell is that?"

Brother Xu was silent for a moment, and found that Xu Ziti was really afraid now, so he sighed and said, "I know, brother, I will help you find a way, so you can't mess around in the future?"

Xu Ziti shook his head quickly: "Stop messing around, absolutely not."

Brother Xu asked again: "Then tell me, what do you think of Ji Bowang?"

Xu Ziti didn't understand: "What do you think?"

Brother Xu said, "Do you still like him?"

He looked at his younger brother's face, and noticed that he was obviously stunned, and blinked his eyes for a while, maybe he just woke up from sleep, the sleepiness in his eyes was still there, and there was a shallow layer of water in them, which stuck to his eyelashes , Those two eyes were also stirred up.Finally Xu Ziti smiled obediently: "I don't like it anymore, I won't be with him."

Brother Xu's heart suddenly went cold.

He touched his younger brother's cheek and stared into his eyes: "Xu Ziti, you can't be with him. His family background is too big, and he will never let him be with a man. If you really go I won't stop you that way, who you like, what gender you like, I don't care now. But you can't get mixed up with Ji Bowang, if that's the case, I won't be able to protect you."

Xu Ziti said nothing, pursed his lips, and nodded solemnly.

Brother Xu smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Our mother is still waiting at home to see if there is anything to pack. I will go home with my brother for a few days."

Xu Ziti was in the middle of the living room, looking around, and finally only took the half-read book that was placed on the balcony.

Brother Xu asked, "Is there anything else?"

Xu Ziti handed the book to his brother: "We have everything at home, so you don't need to carry anything."

Brother Xu nodded, and went out the door first.When I was in the elevator, I flipped through the book, and the square characters on it were in their respective places. The reader obviously didn’t care for the book, and I could still see a little oily spot on the edge of the page, as well as deep in the page. Cookie crumbs.Brother Xu shook the book, trying to shake those things down, but with a clatter, a photo flew down.

Xu Ziti's first instinct was that something was wrong. He had never had the habit of stuffing photos into books, so he quickly squatted down, picked it up and stuffed it into his pocket before his brother saw the photo clearly.

There was no one in the elevator, so Big Brother Xu didn't shy away and asked, "What is it?"

Xu Ziti said, "Nothing."

Brother Xu stretched out his hand, Xu Ziti hesitated for a moment, and handed over the photo.

That photo is the same as the one placed by Ji Bowang's bedside, with the same bright sunshine, the same bright smile, inside and outside, things are different.

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Xu Ziti had breakfast all day long, and was tired and hungry when he came home. He really wanted to sit at the table and have a good dinner with his wife, but unfortunately, his stomach was so hungry that it was like a fire, but the food was hard to reach his throat. Swallowing down like a stone.Brother Xu had something on his mind and was not interested in eating, and Mrs. Xu had always had a poor appetite and was eager to watch series, so the three of them had dinner hastily. back to the room.

Xu Ziti reluctantly took a bath, and there were marks on his body that Ji Bowang had left on him last night. The bruised and purple finger marks from kneading were not bad, but they looked horrible, but the other bite marks could be seen under the steaming water. The pain was severe, and some wounds even bleed a little. His skin was already as white as fine porcelain, so those red, swollen and blue bite marks looked even more terrifying.Xu Ziti was so upset, he rushed out of the bathroom wrapped in a bathrobe.

The curtains in the room shook slightly, except for his footsteps, the only sound was the hum of the air conditioner.Xu Ziti stepped on the cold wooden floor with bare feet, and the unwiped water drops snaked along the curve of his thin calf. Before the water drops landed, a second person hugged his waist suddenly. Surprised, before he recovered his senses, the whole person was condescending and pressed down on the bed.

Xu Ziti was still in shock: "Ji, you, you, why are you here!"

Ji Bowang squeezed between his legs while embracing him, kissed the man's exposed large chest, stretched his hand from the wide open bathrobe, and drilled down without knowing restraint.

Xu Ziti quickly hid back, and then pulled the quilt on the bed to his body: "Ask you, talk."

Ji Bowang was not annoyed by this series of dodging movements, he sat calmly on the edge of the bed, and said to him, "Didn't you say that I will come to you tonight?"

Xu Ziti said: "Then you can't just come in without saying hello."

Ji Bowang moved closer to him again, and asked back, "Who do I greet? It's so late, will your brother let me in after greeting?"

Xu Ziti said angrily: "You also know that my brother won't let you into my house so late, so you won't come back tomorrow?" Ji Bowang shook his head: "No, I want to see you tonight."

Xu Ziti frowned: "What are you doing?"

Ji Bowang rubbed his head, just after he washed his hair, he wiped his palm with water, and some of the wet water slid down to his forehead, making his skin more clean and bright, with black eyebrows and red lips, just like back then The one that moved him the most.Ji Bowang's heart suddenly softened into a mess, he looked into Xu Ziti's eyes, and said softly, "I won't do anything."

Xu Ziti looked at him.Ji Bowang was different from him, he didn't know what he had experienced, his whole body seemed to have been reborn during those four years of disappearance, becoming more and more elusive.Xu Ziti was afraid of him, he always felt that Ji Bowang was coming back to avenge the breakup four years ago.But when Ji Bowang met his eyes, just like before, he realized that he still loves him.

Ji Bowang stroked his eyebrows, leaned closer to him, and said softly: "I was just thinking, I agreed to come to you in the evening, so I shouldn't miss the appointment."

The author has something to say: Well, I can be sure that Shou has no baby!