I surrender my foe with a kiss

Cheng Huan fell asleep on the bench downstairs in Xiao Ci's house.

He was woken up by the New Year's fireworks and cheers. When he opened his eyes, he happened to see the big "Chuan" in the dark night sky above his head.

He was shivering from the cold, and his mouth was full of white breath. Cheng Huan crossed his arms and slowly sat up from the bench.

Cheng Huan took out his mobile phone, his frozen fingers were extraordinarily heavy, he habitually entered the string of numbers, halfway through, he stopped.

After a pause, he still manipulated the cursor to delete the string of numbers.

The column of dialed numbers shows the dozen or so calls he made.

Xiao Ci didn't answer a single call.

Cheng Huan got up, kicked the stones under his feet, and walked alone on the empty path.

At the end of the path, dazzling headlights came on, Cheng Huan blocked his eyes with his arms, and a black car passed him by.

The Rolls Royce was parked downstairs at Xiao Ci's house, Jiang Chao rolled down the window, took out the lighter, and reflexively wanted to smoke a cigarette.Thinking of Xiao Ci sitting next to him, he had no choice but to give up.

Xiao Ci opened the car door and came out, Jiang Chao said, "Why don't you take me to your house?"

"The house is too messy," Xiao Ci said, "I'm going back, so you should go back quickly and go to bed early." After saying that, he was about to enter the building.

"Hello." Jiang Chao called to stop him.

"Huh?" Xiao Ci looked back under the dim chandelier at the entrance of the building.

As soon as Jiang Chao raised his hand, a black object flew over, and Xiao Ci subconsciously caught it.

"Your phone," Jiang Chao pointed his index and middle fingers together, "Go up, good night."

"Well," Xiao Ci smiled, "Good night."

The stairs of Tongzilou are open-air, and Jiang Chao sat in the car, watching the thin figure appear at the corner of the stairs from time to time, and was blocked by the wall from time to time.He saw the boy stop in front of a door on the fifth floor, and with the help of the light above his head, he lowered his head to touch the key.

From such a long distance, Jiang Chao seemed to hear the sound of the key being inserted into the door hole.

When he saw him open the door, he didn't forget to glance at himself downstairs.

The corners of Jiang Chao's mouth hooked up.

Xiao Ci waved to him, saying goodbye.

Jiang Chao lit up a cigarette in satisfaction, put the car in reverse, and drove away slowly.

The subway stopped and there was no way to get a taxi. Cheng Huan didn't know how long he walked on the dark night road before returning to his home.

Before entering the house, I saw that the lights in the house were on.

Cheng Huan's heart skipped a beat.

broken.

Sure enough, when the door of the house was pushed open, the depressive atmosphere before the storm came.

In the narrow living room of the rental house, a man smelled like alcohol and sat in front of the tea table, on which was a bottle of white wine that was half down.

The woman lowered her head and remained silent, unable to see her expression clearly in the darkness.

With a dry throat, Cheng Huan called out, "Dad, Mom..."

"You still know how to come back." The man threw the liquor bottle onto the tea table with a bang, and stared at him with blood-red eyes.

Cheng Huan was cold and sleepy. He was already too tired to open his mouth, but now he woke up half awake, "Dad, I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry, hum." The man was furious, came over drunk, and slapped him twice in the face, "Three air tickets, do you know how much it cost me and your mother? You have been so used to it all these years. Qing, southeast, northwest!"

Cheng Huan was staggered by the man's beating, his cheeks were burning with pain, his fingers twisted the hem of his clothes, he lowered his head and said nothing.

"Take off your clothes," the man shouted.

"Father, it's almost done, it's almost done," the woman shivered and begged, but was pushed away by the man, "Don't worry about it! If you didn't spoil him all the time, he wouldn't be what he is now! "

The man's eyes were staring with anger, he pulled out the belt, forced the boy to take off his upper body clothes, and raised his hand to pull at the boy Yubai's back.

Cheng Huan has gradually grown, and has a man's skeleton on his body, but after all, his stature is not enough.The man strikes hard, once and for all, it's hot and numb, like a whip on his body.

Cheng Huan gritted his teeth and tried his best to keep silent.

The woman couldn't bear to watch, ran to the bedroom, locked the door, and wiped her tears with her hand.

When he hit the back, Cheng Huan lost consciousness in his upper body, he could only feel the warm liquid dripping down his waist, soaking his pants.

With a final yank, the belt broke in two, and one end flew out, slapping the ground.

The man was exhausted, panting for breath, threw the remaining piece on the ground, and slammed the door into the house.

The world quieted down.

The night was as deep as water.

Cheng Huan raised his head, and under the moonlight, he saw that the severed belt was covered with thick blood.

His guess was verified, and his heart was sour.

So much blood, Dad...don't you feel bad at all?

Cheng Huan leaned on the wall, breathed in the air-conditioning, and moved back to his room step by step.

Once I lay down on the bed with my chest down, I couldn't get up again.

The waist is as hard as a board.

The cold in the south in winter is fatal.

The air-conditioning went straight into the bones, and Cheng Huan's back was covered with bloody wounds, and he couldn't cover him with a quilt. After a while, his back was frozen blue.

It hurts, it hurts...

He was thinking so dazedly that he almost fell asleep.Until the phone ringing interrupted him.

He touched the phone, and the light from the screen made his eyes hurt.

The caller ID was Xiao Ci, and Cheng Huan's eyelids twitched. He didn't dare to move his arms, and couldn't lift the phone to his ear, so he pressed the speakerphone.

"What's the matter? I see you called me a lot." Xiao Ci said in a low voice, "I fell asleep at home at that time, so I didn't answer."

Cheng Huan smiled wryly, and tried to steady his trembling voice, "It's okay, it's the New Year's Eve, I'm afraid you will be lonely and uncomfortable, and I want to talk to you for a while."

"Well, I'm fine," Xiao Ci's voice sounded soft and gentle, "You've arrived in Chongqing now."

"...Well." Cheng Huan said: "I have already arrived at my hometown, tomorrow... go to pay New Year's greetings to my grandparents."

The other end was silent for a while, before saying, "Very good, then shall I hang up first?"

"Hey, Xiao Ci," Cheng Huan interrupted him, desperately enduring the pain, "Wait for me..."

He couldn't say the following words: "When I can go to the ground, I will accompany you."

"Huh?" Xiao Ci was still waiting for the second half of his sentence.

"...It's nothing." Cheng Huan said, "Go to bed early."

"Okay," Xiao Ci hung up the phone.

"..."

Back in the silent darkness, Cheng Huan lay on his side, blinked his eyes, and let out a long sigh.

On the second day, his wound began to ooze pus and become inflamed, and he developed a high fever throughout his body, which made him sick all the time.

His mother was by his side, holding his hand and feeding him medicine. Cheng Huan was in a daze, opening his mouth numbly to continue.

In more than ten days, he lost ten catties of weight at once. When his wounds scabbed and his high fever subsided, and he was able to sit up on the bed slowly, the little baby fat on his face disappeared, and even slightly sunken in.

The muscles he had worked so hard for half a year were too weak to exert any strength.Walking on the ground with bare feet, the whole body trembled.

He was a little anxious, thinking that he had to recover immediately.The school is worried that these sports students will not exercise during the winter vacation, and they will arrange their sides right after the start of school.With his current physical condition, he might not even be able to jump the lowest pole.

Years later, Xiao Ci inquired about his brother's whereabouts while working part-time.

In the past six months, he has visited several districts in Guangzhou, and he is very familiar with Yuexiu, Liwan, Tianhe, Haizhu, and Huangpu.He basically checked all the public high schools in these districts, but he didn't find out the whereabouts of his brother.

These days, he has set his sights on the junior high schools and vocational colleges in Guangzhou.

My elder brother was trafficked and may not receive a good education from his adoptive parents. He may still be in junior high school.It is also possible that you did not pass high school and enrolled in a vocational college.

Of course, there is another possibility that he doesn't want to happen—maybe my elder brother will start working in the society immediately after graduating from junior high school.This kind of situation is not an exception in Guangdong, and it is even quite common in the east, west and north of Guangdong.

If you search all the junior high schools and vocational colleges in Guangzhou, there is still no news of your brother.Then Xiao Ci can only focus on the whole of Guangdong.

But in that case, the difficulty will undoubtedly be ten times or a hundred times that of now.

But no matter how difficult it is, he still has to find it.

Maybe God opened his eyes. On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, a sudden text message made Xiao Ci's heart suddenly lift up, and the hand holding the phone couldn't help shaking.

He closed his eyes hard, then opened them again, wishing he could burn every word of that text message into his brain.

The text message said that a boy who looked like his brother was found and asked him to exchange 20 for the boy's address.There is also a photo attached below: a teenager of medium height, carrying a heavy burden on his thin shoulders, walking on the muddy mountain road after the rain, leaving a series of footprints of different shades behind him.

Even though it was just a back view, it still made Xiao Ci's heart pound in his throat.

He suddenly had an intuition that the ragged boy might really be his brother.

He walked around the room several times with his head sullen, and experienced a whole night of ideological struggle.The next day, he worked up his courage and sent the news to Jiang Chao.

He said he wanted to borrow money from Jiang Chao.

After posting, he hardly dared to look at his phone.He didn't know how to tell Jiang Chao about this matter, if Jiang Chao asked him what he borrowed money for, how would he answer?

He has never begged anyone since he was a child, and this time he really put his whole face on it.

After nearly an hour of fear, Jiang Chao returned to him.

Chao: [Just woke up, you woke up so early, by the way, how much do you borrow? 】

Xiao Ci bit his lip and typed: [20. 】

As soon as he sent it out, he backed down and wanted to add that it doesn't matter if it doesn't exist.In the next second, Jiang Chao called him the money.

A full 100 ​​million.

Xiao Ci suspected that he had lost a zero, and when he saw it clearly, his hands trembled, and the phone almost fell under the bed.

【enough? 】Jiang Chao said: 【Not enough and more. 】

[Many, too much...] Xiao Ci replied weakly, and returned the extra 80 to Jiang Chao.

It took a while for Jiang Chao to reply to him this time, and it was a long paragraph: [Actually, I have wanted to give it to you for a long time. I was afraid that you would turn against me, so I never dared to mention it.I heard from Han Jiyue that you don't even eat food in the school cafeteria.Why? This is, the body is growing, no matter how much you shrink it, you can't shrink it to yourself.You take this money, your brother and I are really not bad. 】

【Then I can’t ask for it either.】Xiao Ci typed, feeling relieved, 【Chao, you take back the 80. I will let you borrow the 20. When I have money, I will return it to you immediately. 】

Xiao Ci waited for a while with his mobile phone in his arms, but Jiang Chao ignored him, and didn't take back the 80—maybe he was angry.

However, Jiang Chao never asked him what he was borrowing money for.This helped him avoid the most difficult question.

Xiao Ci took the money and took the train from Guangzhou to Heyuan according to the location provided by the other party.

Some people say that the richest place in China is in Guangdong, and the poorest place is also in Guangdong.This is true, the train just passed through several long caves to the northeast, and the luxury and prosperity of the Pearl River Delta, which is full of buildings, has disappeared.Out of the Pearl River Delta, the mountain is connected to the cave, and the cave is connected to the mountain.Looking around, you can see the endless stretch of high mountains directly to the sky, and the mountains are covered with lush rainforests.Occasionally there are some sporadic flatlands in the cracks of the mountains, and the winding dirt roads lead to poor and dilapidated villages.

Xiao Ci got off the train at Heyuan, and then took a bus for nearly two hours before arriving at Lianping County, which is located among countless peaks in the Nanling Mountains.

And the place he was going to was the village below Lianping County.

The bus went up slowly around the winding mountain road, every step away from the destination, Xiao Ci's heart became more aroused.Even though he barely closed his eyes last night, he still didn't feel sleepy in the slightest.The scene that has been dreamed and imagined for ten years may be realized today.He was excited and scared at the same time, if that person was really his elder brother, what should he say?Will my brother be willing to go home with him?

Immediately, he felt a little selfish again. Maybe his elder brother had long forgotten about his childhood and lived a good life. Suddenly, a younger brother appeared out of nowhere. He would definitely not be able to accept it for a while.Even if the elder brother chooses to continue living with his adoptive parents, he seems to be unable to say anything.

He thought that as long as he knew that his brother was doing well, being able to look at him from a distance would be enough.Keren is such a greedy animal, the closer he is to that village, the more he wants.He even started to think about whether to take his brother back to Jiange or stay in Guangzhou after he recognized his brother.

Guangzhou, let's stay in Guangzhou, my parents and grandma are dead, and Jiange can't go back.And there are so many classmates in Guangzhou, including Jiang Chao and Cheng Huan.Although the pressure of life will be relatively high, he believes that he will be able to support his brother.As long as his brother is willing to go with him, he will go out early and return home late to work two jobs a day, and he will also let his brother eat well, dress well, and let him go to the best school.

Unknowingly, his thoughts drifted thousands of miles away, and when he realized it, Xiao Ci slapped himself with a smile, and then became worried again in a blink of an eye, could that person be his brother?What if it's not my brother?

Getting out of the car with a messy mind, Xiao Ci stepped on the muddy dirt road to the village, feeling an unknown sourness welling up in his heart.He remembered that in that photo, the boy was walking on such a road.He looked up at the dilapidated and old village, knowing that his elder brother might have spent his childhood and youth in such a place, doing heavy farm work for his family every day.He suddenly became angry again. He felt that his adoptive parents would definitely not treat his brother sincerely. If his brother was really wronged, he would take him away no matter what.

There was a man standing at the entrance of the village. He was fairly clean and didn't look like a farmer. The man looked him up and down, walked towards him, and asked him, "Did you bring the money?"

Xiao Ci clenched the phone in his trouser pocket, nodded vigilantly, and said, "Where's my brother?"

The man took him to the village, stopped in front of a house, pointed to the short and dilapidated wooden house, and whispered: "Shh, you quietly look at the one in the window, isn't it?"

Xiao Ci narrowed his eyes slightly, and through the dirty window, he saw a boy in a gray coat lying on the table with his back to him, as if he was doing homework.Xiao Ci has been separated from his brother for 11 years, even if his brother is standing in front of him, he may not be able to recognize him at once, let alone this.Xiao Ci held his breath, took a step forward, and took another step, wanting to see more clearly.

Suddenly his throat tightened, Xiao Ci's neck was strangled tightly by a hemp rope, the texture was so rough that it almost pierced into the skin.The other party made a deadly move, but Xiao Ci couldn't breathe in just a split second. The second before his eyes darkened, he saw the boy in the room who was writing on the table get up and run away.

The pillar supporting Xiao Ci's heart for so long collapsed all of a sudden.

He recalled what he had read in a magazine before, once a rope strangulation is formed, there is no solution at all, as long as the sneak attack is done properly, a little girl weighing [-] kilograms can strangle a mature man weighing [-] kilograms to death.Xiao Ci struggled and scratched with all his strength, but it was still to no avail.Before he fainted, Jiang Chao's face flashed in his mind, and then disappeared into the endless darkness.

boom--!