I surrender my foe with a kiss

Jiang Chao turned around, holding a double-layer carved hazelnut white chocolate cake in his right hand.The left hand was on top of Xiao Ci's head, gently placing a crown.

"Make a wish, my little prince." The voice was low and soothing.

Hearing this, Xiao Ci's eyes turned slightly red.

He turned around and was surprised to find that those countless lamps of fat wax placed on the ground actually formed a big "16" with the shining light.His eyes slowly fell on Jiang Chao again, he saw Jiang Chao's eyes were as bright as morning stars, his smile was bright and brilliant, like the gentlest wind in the summer night city.

"Fuck..." Xiao Ci puffed up his cheeks and exhaled slowly.

Jiang Chao may never know that this is the first birthday in his life.

Xiao Ci closed his eyes, put his palms together facing the cake, and asked, "How do you know that today is my birthday?"

"I won't tell you," Jiang Chao said with a smile, "What wish did you make?"

Xiao Ci opened his eyes and blew out the candles on the cake, "I won't tell you either."

"You... okay, you've failed in your studies." Jiang Chao took advantage of the time when Xiao Ci lowered his head to cut the cake, grabbed a piece of the cut cake, and spread the cream on Xiao Ci's face.

Xiao Ci reacted, put down the knife and fork, grabbed the cake and was about to wipe Jiang Chao back, but Jiang Chao's other hand pressed against his neck.Both of them stretched out their arms, holding the cake and trying to wipe each other's face.It turned out that Jiang Chao's arm was a little longer than Xiao Ci's.Xiao Ci couldn't reach Jiang Chao, but Jiang Chao could smear the cream on Xiao Ci's face with a flick of his fingers.

"You!" Seeing that he was at a disadvantage, Xiao Ci became anxious, "My face was dirty by you!"

"Don't panic," under the moonlight, the city was full of lights, Jiang Chao watched him quietly, stretched out his hand, his thumb slowly slid across Xiao Ci's moist lips, and sucked the creamy lips full of his fingertips.Then, under Xiao Ci's astonished gaze, he licked it away with his tongue.

Xiao Ci was shocked, "Chao, you...don't you think I'm dirty?"

"No," Jiang Chao said, "Do you dislike me?"

Xiao Ci swallowed his saliva, his brain was almost completely empty, he stammered: "Yeah, no way..."

Hearing this, Jiang Chao seemed quite satisfied, took his hand, and let his fingertips touch his lips.

Xiao Ci's fingers trembled, but Jiang Chao's grip tightened.

"You...what are you doing?" Xiao Ci said.

"Hush," Jiang Chao said, "Can you feel the beating of my heart on my lips?"

Xiao Ci was stunned, there was indeed a pulse, like an electric current, passing through his knuckles and spreading throughout his body.

Jiang Chao: "A person's heart beats 1 to 60 times a minute, Xiao Chuanzai, tell me, how many times a minute is my current heartbeat?"

"Do you understand what I'm thinking right now?" Jiang Chao looked at him with fascinated eyes.

"No," Xiao Ci broke away from him, and slowly lowered his head, "I don't know."

Jiang Chao didn't say anything more, took Xiao Ci's hand and led him downstairs.

In the darkness, Xiao Ci's heart was beating extremely fast.

From time to time, he peeked at the faces of the people around him in the dark, and wanted to say something, but he couldn't ask a word.

Jiang Chao didn't let go of his hand until they left the school gate and walked on the road sprinkled with golden lights.

A car speeds past them, its headlights shortening and lengthening their shadows.Xiao Ci looked at Jiang Chao hesitantly and wanted to speak.

Jiang Chao raised his eyebrows expectantly.

Xiao Ci slapped his forehead, "It's broken, I have half-calculated the questions and they are still in the classroom."

Jiang Chao: "..."

After Xiao Ci returned home, he rolled onto the bed, spread out the large characters, and gasped for a while before his heartbeat slowly calmed down.

From the drawer, he took out the family photo he brought from his hometown.

Fingers gently caressing those yellowed cheeks, looking at his brother and himself when he was a child, looking at his father and mother who were still young, Xiao Ci blinked, pasted the photo on his heart, folded his hands, and lay down.

He gradually fell asleep and had a dream of having a brother.

At the end of June, the final exams are over, and the summer vacation is coming.

Xiao Ci packed his schoolbag and prepared to go home. Thinking that he will be a sophomore in high school when school starts again, his mood is a bit complicated.

After Cheng Huan finished the last special training of this semester, he came over covered in sweat and said, "Xiao Ci, I'm not at home during the summer vacation, we are going to camp for training."

Xiao Ci looked up at Cheng Huan.

Cheng Huan has grown taller and stronger. Under the intensive training, his milky white skin has already faded, and he has replaced it with a healthy wheat-colored skin.

Xiao Ci patted his arm with increasingly clear muscle lines, and said, "Pay attention to your body, and bring more Huoxiang Zhengqi Water to prevent heatstroke."

Cheng Huan let out a "huh" and lowered his eyes silently, "After the summer vacation, will you stay at home and study? Or..."

Xiao Ci knew what he wanted to say later, so he nodded.

"No, it's too dangerous." Cheng Huan said, "You forgot last time..."

"If it really doesn't work, I won't go to the training camp, and I will accompany you to find it."

"No, training is important," Xiao Ci coaxed him, "Stop thinking about it, don't worry, I won't go to such a dangerous place again."

Cheng Huan didn't say anything more, and nodded, "Then...that's fine."

After Xiao quit the teaching building, he saw Jiang Chao's Rolls-Royce waiting for him not far away, which attracted a large group of girls to stop and watch.

Jiang Chao rolled down the car window, raised his sunglasses, and clicked his tongue at him, "Get in the car."

With such a simple action, the eyes of so many little girls are straightened.

Xiao Ci laughed secretly in his heart, saying that he didn't know when Jiang Chao's stinking problem would be corrected.

Facing countless screaming eyes, I got into the car. The air conditioner was turned on in the car, and it was very cool. The moment I got into the car, my body shivered, and the heat all over my body was swept away.

Xiao Ci sat in the co-pilot's seat, and Jiang Chao leaned over to fasten his seat belt.

This semester, Jiang Chao has basically been taking him to and from school.

Xiao Ci finally couldn't bear to ask Jiang Chao, "Don't you think it's a waste of time?"

Jiang Chao spread his hands, "If I don't send you to and from school, I have nothing else to do."

So you just... Xiao Ci said, "Can't you drive a racing car like other young masters, pick up girls or something?"

"My family runs the racing track, so I've been tired of it for a long time." Jiang Chao pinched Xiao Ci's face and smiled, "As for picking up girls, isn't that what you're doing?"

Xiao Ci: "... Get lost!"

During that summer vacation, Xiao Ci did his summer homework in the morning, and went to work in restaurants in the afternoon and evening.

The police in the police station took a DNA data sample from him and told him that the country has now established a national unified DNA database.In this way, once the data comparison is successful, it can help him find his brother.

Xiao Ci didn't dare to have too much expectation for this, but he couldn't help it, looking forward to it from time to time.

The restaurant where he worked part-time was still the one during the winter vacation.Because of his long hours of work, sometimes one person can even do the work of two people, and he has never made any mistakes.The boss specially raised his salary, which is the same as that of regular employees.

One day, the boss called him to the grocery room and told him that the restaurant had recruited a new child about his age, and asked him to take the child with him to familiarize himself with the operating environment of the backstage.The boss also specifically told him that if someone from above came to investigate, he would hide the child.Otherwise, it will be punished as child labor.

Xiao Ci nodded, thinking that the child's family conditions are probably not very good.

On the day the child entered the job, there was a heavy rain in Guangzhou.Xiao Ci was ordered by his boss to pick up the child from the nearest subway station with an umbrella.

As a result, Xiao Ci didn't take two steps to go out, when he saw a little boy with his head down, limping towards this side in the heavy rain.Xiao Ci instantly felt that this scene looked familiar. After realizing that this should be the new employee, Xiao Ci ran over and held up an umbrella for the little boy.

The little boy looked up and was taken aback: "...Brother?"

Xiao Ci suddenly realized after hearing that voice, isn't this the same kid who took the physical education exam in May?what do you say that is……

To be honest, this little boy took off his school uniform and cut his hair, the change is not ordinary.Before, Xiao Ci only thought that he was a little nerd with a somewhat handsome appearance.Now, upon closer inspection, there is a bit of handsomeness between the brows that has not yet fully bloomed.

Xiao Ci nodded, "Come with me."

He took Xu Cong into the restaurant.Xu Cong was drenched, his hair and eyebrows were dripping with water.Shrinking body, like a puppy soaked in water.Xiao Ci let him sit on the stool and went out to find a towel for him.

This afternoon, there was no one in the restaurant, so Xiao Ci took him to familiarize himself with the working environment first.

"The usual job is to wash vegetables, wash dishes, and serve dishes. After you have worked for a long time and gained experience, the boss may also ask you to help cut vegetables and handle the spoon." Xiao Ci took him around in the kitchen , pointing to the large steel basin full of meat on the ground, and said, "We have to skewer this basin of mutton this afternoon, because when the rain stops tonight, there will be many customers."

Xu Cong nodded, and Xiao Ci asked again: "It's raining so much outside, why don't you wait a little longer at the subway station, and insist on running here in the rain?"

"I'm afraid I'll miss the time," Xu Cong said in a quiet voice, "It's my first day at work, and I want to make a good impression on the boss."

Xiao Ci didn't say anything more, let him sit on a small stool, and taught him how to skewer mutton skewers.

Xu Cong was a little surprised, "Brother, with such a big pot, can we finish it in one afternoon?"

Xiao Ci said, "Actually, these are my own measurements. It's your first day at work today, and it's raining again. I don't want you to work. I just want to teach you how to string this first."

Xu Cong lowered his eyes and whispered, "Thank you bro."

"Come on, let me teach you, take it." Xiao Ci handed Xu Cong a long steel skewer, and taught him how to skewer those greasy and bloody mutton pieces.

Xu Cong's hands are very white, with smooth and delicate skin. Except for the slight calluses on the place where he holds the pen all the year round, it doesn't look like a hand that often works. Instead, it looks like the hands of a young master whose fingers do not touch the sun. .

Facts have proved that Xiao Ci's guess is right.

Xu Cong's hands were clumsy, and he didn't have much energy. He couldn't skewer a few pieces of mutton. If he was not careful, his hand was pricked by a steel stick.He gritted his teeth slightly in pain, but held back, not daring to show it.

Xiao Ci checked his hand and found that it was not punctured. He felt relieved and said, "Let's go here first today. There is a plank bed in the utility room upstairs. If you are sleepy, you can go up and rest for a while."

Xu Cong didn't leave and said, "I'm sorry, brother, I..."

He said cautiously: "Usually at home, my parents are reluctant to let me work, am I... stupid?"

Xiao Ci sighed in his heart, his face calm, "Say, it's normal. When I first came here, I couldn't do anything. Just learn and learn, and you will get better."

Xu Cong said "hmm", but still didn't leave, and Xiao Ci didn't chase him away either.Let him copy his hands and watch from the side.

That afternoon Xiao Ci skewered a whole steel basin of mutton, his fingertips were wrinkled and white in the blood, and his hands were shaking from exhaustion.Xu Cong also helped, but the efficiency was really low. Xiao Ci didn't let him work for too long, so he sent him to rest.

In the evening, as expected, the rain stopped, and the business of the restaurant was extremely booming. The guests came like sardines one after another.After all, Xu Cong was disabled, so Xiao Ci didn't let him serve the guests, but only let him help the chefs in the kitchen.The work of serving food is almost covered by myself. After three or four hours, my waist will be exhausted.

It wasn't until nearly ten o'clock that there were fewer customers.Holding the handrail of the stairs, Xiao Ci moved to the second floor step by step, and went to the grocery room to take a rest.

In the room, Xu Cong was studying on the bed by the dim lamp.Seeing him coming back, she got up immediately, poured him a cup of tea, and handed it over carefully, "Brother, drink some water."

Xiao Ci took the water, glanced at the book on the bed, and found that it was a compulsory course in high school mathematics, so he asked, "Have you got your high school entrance exam results yet? Where do you plan to go to high school?"

"The High School Attached to Normal University." Xu Cong said.

Xiao Ci nodded. The High School Affiliated to South China Normal University is the best high school in Guangzhou, not one of them.Whether it is the quality of teachers or students, it is the top level in the province, and it is also among the best in the country.It's really a thousand miles stronger than his Huazhong.

Of course, for such a good high school, the admission score is naturally quite high.

Xiao Ci gave him a thumbs up, "Excellent, how many points did you get?"

"736." Xu Cong's voice was not loud, which is generally the case for introverted people. No matter how good their grades are, they always feel a little embarrassed when they say it.

736, this is definitely a super academic.Even Xiao Ci was slightly shocked, and could not help but move closer: "It must be the top ten in the city."

"I can't do sports, I didn't get in."

"It's okay, it's really good." Xiao Ci said, "How did you learn to reach this level?" After coming to Guangdong, it was the first time I met someone who was at the same level as me, or even higher than me. Xiao Ci couldn't help but want to ask him for advice.

"Well..." Xu Cong smiled shyly, "Just... because my family's conditions are not good. I want to study hard, get admitted to the best university in China, work hard to earn money, and honor my parents. So I set a plan for myself. First, I was admitted to the small goal of the High School Attached to Normal University, and then worked hard towards that goal, and kept learning. I also performed a little better in the senior high school entrance examination, and my final score was more than ten points higher than I estimated. I reached 740 separated."

"Strong", Xiao Ci sighed sincerely.At the same time, I couldn't help feeling a little regretful, if I could go to the High School Attached to Normal University... I immediately shook my head, thinking that it's better now, if I went to the High School Attached to Normal University, I wouldn't be able to meet Jiang Chao and the others.

Xu Cong blushed a little from Xiao Ci's praise, as if he wanted to get around this topic as soon as possible, and he wanted to pour water for Xiao Ci again, but Xiao Ci raised his hand to block it, and said, "Don't drink, if you drink again, you'll have dinner at night." bathroom."

In this way, Xiao Ci and Xu Cong worked together every day, and gradually became acquainted with each other.

Once, a very dangerous thing happened.

At that time, Xiao Ci was serving dishes to the guests. With a glance, he saw a group of uniformed people coming from the corner of the street.Immediately, after putting down the dishes, he ran to the kitchen, grabbed Xu Cong, whose face was blackened by the oily smoke, and led him into the toilet.

But Xu Cong didn't know what happened, so he whispered, "Ah, what's wrong? Brother..."

Xiao Ci stuffed him into the toilet, got in himself, said "shh" to Xu Cong, fastened the latch, put his ears on the door, and listened to the movement outside.

The boss's voice flattered, "Cigarettes, cigarettes..."

Footsteps sounded round and round, slowly approaching, obviously looking for upstairs.

The toilet is small, two people standing in it, hot and cramped.After Xu Cong realized it, he was startled: "Urban management?"

Xiao Ci was still listening to the movement outside, frowning and nodding slightly.

Xu Cong also leaned forward, and Xiao Ci stepped aside to let him listen.Xu Cong hugged the wooden door, opened and closed his lips, and asked in a low voice, "If we are caught, will we be recorded in the file?"

Xiao Ci: "I don't know..."

Before the words were finished, there was a knock on the wooden door, Xu Cong trembled and almost fell to the ground, but fortunately Xiao Ci supported him from behind.

The person hammering the door outside said: "Boss Zhao, someone reported you for employing child labor."

"It's nothing, it's nothing, whoops! Don't dare to hire child labor..." The boss's voice was trembling.

"What's in there?" The man knocked on the door twice more.

Boss: "Uh, inside, inside..."

Seeing that the matter was going to be ruined, it was too late to say it, and then Xu Cong suddenly screamed: "There are people inside, don't knock!"

As soon as the words came out, Xiao Ci's jaw almost dropped.

I don't know if it's because the voice change hasn't finished yet, what Xu Cong said just now sounds like a woman's voice.

Even... a bit fucking sweet...

No need to look, Xiao Ci can almost guess how embarrassing the two people outside the door must be at this moment.

There was an angry stomping sound, the footsteps gradually faded away, and even the voice of the boss smiling and apologizing gradually faded away.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier when someone went to the bathroom? It's a lady, look how embarrassing it is!"

"I'm wrong, I'm wrong, hehe..."

Xiao Ci: "..."

"You are quite capable..."

Xu Cong said embarrassingly: "I, alas, I... brother, I am not afraid of your jokes. Because of the voice, people always laugh at me as a woman."

"Don't pay attention to those people," Xiao Ci patted him on the shoulder, "I think you are quick to react, very manly."

Xu Cong lowered his head, "Thank you bro."

Another time, when Xu Cong helped chop vegetables, he accidentally cut his hand.The wound was not very big, but the bleeding couldn't stop.When the boss saw this posture, he wanted to get rid of himself. It happened that there were not many people in the restaurant that day, so he asked Xu Xiaoci to leave work early, and asked Xiao Ci to take Xu Cong out to find a pharmacy to find a way to stop the bleeding.

When Xiao Ci took Xu Cong out of the restaurant, it was already dark.There are not many people on the road, and occasionally one or two cars pass by.The street lamps came on one by one, casting a soft golden light.

Xu Cong held his injured finger, lowered his head, and walked slowly with a limp.

Xiao Ci walked outside Xu Cong, using his body to block the probing eyes of passers-by.He didn't want to make Xu Cong anxious, so he deliberately slowed down his pace.

"Does it still hurt?" Xiao Ci asked.

"Well... a bit," Xu Cong said, "brother, do you think I'm stupid?"

Xiao Ci didn't understand: "Huh?"

Xu Cong walked away with his head sullen for a while before saying: "I have been working for so many days, and I have not been able to help my brother. I wanted to help cut vegetables, but I cut my fingers. Brother Lian accompanied me out, I don't know if it will make the boss unhappy..."

It was only now that Xiao Ci came over. He found that Xu Cong seemed to care about other people's opinions, and no matter who he got along with, he always had a little bit of careful flattery.

He rarely smiled at Xu Cong, touched Xu Cong's head, and said, "It's okay, when I first started working, I was not as good as you."

Xu Cong's eyes lit up, "Brother, when did you come out to work? Did you also graduate from junior high school?"

Xiao Ci: "This..."

While talking, the two had already walked downstairs to Xiao Ci's house. Xiao Ci originally wanted to take him to a small clinic next to his residence.Thinking that they have already reached the door of the house, it is time for Xu Cong to recognize the door.He pointed to the small window on the fifth floor and said that I live here.

Unexpectedly, when Xu Cong heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief as if grasping at a straw, and asked, "Brother, do you have a Band-Aid at home?"

"Yes," Xiao Ci said, "what's the matter?"

Xu Cong immediately said, "Basically my fingers don't bleed anymore. Just put a band-aid on it. Brother, can you go home and get a band-aid for me? I'll wait for you below."

Xiao Ci's heart moved, he guessed that Xu Cong didn't want to go to the clinic, and originally wanted to persuade him, after all, it would be safer to go to the clinic.But when he thought of Xu Cong's half-limped leg, he swallowed these words silently.

Xiao Ci said, "Then you come up with me, don't wait below."

Xu Cong looked puzzled, Xiao Ci said again: "Don't worry, my family is just me, no one else."

Only then was Xu Cong moved, nodded, and followed Xiao Ci upstairs.

After entering the house, Xiao Ci turned on the light and said, "The room is small, don't be disgusted." He asked him to sit on the bed and rest, and went to find the band-aid by himself.

Xu Cong looked around and saw the photo on the bedside.

His eyes lit up, and he couldn't help looking closer.

There are two babies who look about the same age, one mother is holding and the other is holding.The two babies are looking around, not knowing what they are looking at, but they are not looking at the camera anyway.The baby's parents are all facing forward, with bright smiles on their faces.

Xu Cong couldn't help asking, "Brother, are you the one up here?"

Xiao Ci just turned out the box of Band-Aids covered with a thin layer of dust, and snapped his fingers.

He nodded, walked to the bed and asked Xu Cong to hold out his hand.

Xu Cong stretched out the injured finger obediently, and watched as Xiao Ci first applied the potion on him, and then patiently and meticulously put on the Band-Aid.

Under the light, Xiao Ci's expression was slightly condensed, and his facial features were indescribably handsome.

Xiao Ci put the Band-Aid on and pressed the end again.

Xu Cong asked, "Brother, when will your parents come back?"

"Don't come back," Xiao Ci sat on the bed, leaning against the wall, resting with his eyes slightly closed.

"why?"

"No reason," Xiao Ci was so tired that his breathing was a little rough, "There are so many reasons."

Xu Cong didn't dare to speak any more, bowed his head, and silently picked his nails.

There was a moment of silence in the room.

Xiao Ci was afraid that the little guy would eat his heart, so after thinking about it, he still said: "They are all in their hometown, they didn't come over."

After getting the reply, Xu Cong's half-suspended interest seemed to be revived again, and he asked boldly, "Then... who is you in the photo? Is the other child your brother?"

Xiao Ci always gave way to him on weekdays, but now he also raised his heavy eyelids, held the photo in his hand, and wanted to point it out to him.

It was rare for Xu Cong to be so interested in one thing, so he got very close.The two teenagers were head to head, Xiao Ci's fingers pointed at the two babies in the photo, and he was stunned for a moment.

Of the two people above, which one is him and which one is the elder brother?

Xiao Ci often looked at this photo before, but he had never felt this sudden confusion.Something seemed to jump in his heart, making him feel a little weak all of a sudden.

He actually forgot which one was himself and which one was his brother in the photo.Well, if there is such a day, the elder brother will stand in front of him as it is.Can he pick his brother out of the crowd at a glance?

He only wanted to find his brother, never, never... never thought about it...

Xu Cong shook his head, looked at him who was thinking, and said, "Brother, where's your brother?"

"...I don't have a younger brother," Xiao Ci said, "the man above is my elder brother."

"Oh," Xu Cong said, "where does he go to school now?"

"In..." Xiao Ci's eyelashes trembled under the light, "In my hometown."

For some reason, the warmest part of Xiao Ci's heart seemed to be awakened. He turned his head to look at Xu Cong, who looked down at Xu Cong.Xiao Ci said, "My hometown is Jiange, have you heard of it?"

"Eh..." Xu Cong didn't dare to look up at him, "The Jiange in 'The Jiange is tall and Cui Wei'?"

"Yes!" Xiao Ci said, "Have you heard of it?"

Xu Cong scratched his head, "No, isn't this an ancient place name? This place still exists now?"

Xiao Ci: "..."

Yeah, he's getting excited about something.A small place like Jiange,