Cinderella's Gypsophila

Qi Yan tried his best to pretend to be asleep.

However, after all, there was a strange living person beside him.

Even the air was different, and I couldn't fall asleep all at once.

Under the quilt in winter, it is freezing cold everywhere.

Qi Yan also felt cold, and habitually reached out from under the quilt to a familiar place, only to find that the place was empty, and the switch of the electric blanket was missing.

Where's the blanket?

He frowned and stood up, looking for the socket.

The socket was still plugged in, and I followed the white wires, and found a red light... Hehe, the case was solved, where did the only electric blanket go?

Of course it was moved to the side where my brother was asleep!

Beside him, Cheng Cheng was reading a book with the bedside lamp on.

He has a nice profile profile and a high nose bridge.

Slightly drooping, the eyes are a warm smoky gray.

The dim light dyed the skin, and it was plated with a faint golden yellow.

Seeing Qi Yan getting up, he thought it was the noise that caused him to rest, so he quickly dimmed the light: "Xiao Yan, is it too bright? Then I will turn off the light and go to bed early..."

Before the words were finished, the door was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

Meng Xinlan stood at the door with her hips crossed, and her voice was high-pitched and loud: "Xiao Yuan, what time is it? You still don't sleep! You don't have the body to stay up late, don't you know?"

After she finished yelling, her eyes suddenly swept to the half cake left on the bedside plate, and she got stuck for two seconds.

"Ah! Xiao Sheng, why don't you eat the cake I gave you?"

Cheng Cheng: "I've eaten it, the half...is Xiaoyan's."

Meng Xinlan's face changed a few times, from red to white to purple, it was very beautiful.

Her voice became sharper, obviously anxious, ashamed and annoyed: "What did you leave for him, and he won't eat, didn't you see!" As she was about to put away the plate, she winked at her son wildly.

Qi Yan smiled skinny.

One step ahead of her, grabbed the half of the cake: "Auntie, I wasn't hungry just now, but I want to eat now."

After finishing speaking, he wolfed it down in front of his face.

How to eat how delicious, how to appease her how to eat.

Meng Xinlan's face turned green, and she was not prone to seizures. She muttered "waste" and "quickly sleep" in her mouth, took the empty plate and walked out very unhappy.

"Oh, by the way, Aunt Meng." Qi Yan called out to her with puffy cheeks and squinted eyes.

"What are you doing!"

"It's nothing, it's just... men and women are different." He licked the corner of his mouth and smiled, "Next time you enter the room, can I trouble you to knock on the door first?"

Meng Xinlan was already on fire, but immediately exploded upon hearing the words.

"Knock on the door? Why! You still want me to knock on the door? This is my house. Am I breaking the law if I enter my son's room? Just ask you if it's breaking the law?"

Qi Yan's house is only a few tens of square meters in size.

As soon as she called, Qi Yan's father rushed over immediately.

Meng Xinlan crossed her waist and complained to him: "Look what your son said, asking me to knock on the door before entering the room? Why, your family can't accommodate our mother and daughter? You also told me that men and women are different! Heh, little I don’t know if my hair has grown or not, and I don’t know the difference between men and women?”

Qi Shengbin hadn't had time to comfort her yet.

I saw my son jumping up from the bed, standing on the quilt and starting to take off his clothes.

In such a cold winter, I took off my pajamas and pajama pants, and instantly I was completely naked.Shivering in the cold night.

Qi Shengbin stared: "..."

"what are you doing?!"

Qi Yan: "Let her see if the hair is fully grown, doesn't she want to see?"

Qi Shengbin couldn't stand it anymore, rushed over, and thought it was absurd to want to beat the child, so he could only curse in a rough voice:

"Stinky boy! Don't you want to show your face, you quickly put on clothes for me!"

He also wanted to tease his son, but was stopped by Cheng Cheng.

Cheng Cheng: "Uncle, Mom, it's so late, it's time to go to bed. Stop arguing and go back."

The naked buttocks are close in front of her eyes, dazzling white.

Cheng Cheng turned his head away from looking.

But he also saw black and purple on the side of the boy's thigh, and many bruises from the beating, which was shocking.

……

Finally, both parents left, Qi Yan went back to bed.

Cheng Cheng: "Xiao Yan..."

"I'm sleepy, I can't hear, don't talk to me."

Cheng Cheng: "..."

He wanted to ask about his injury, but he didn't know how to ask.

Qi Yan: "If your mother can't knock on the door tomorrow, I'll buy a lock and nail the door after school. I will do what I say!"

The lights are off.

Biting his lip, Qi Yan curled up into a ball under the chilly quilt.

Cold, it's really cold.

It was so easy to barely fall asleep, but I dreamed of that day——

That day, grandma came to pick up my younger sister with a tricycle wiping away tears, and complained and reprimanded his father, while my younger sister wailed and hugged her father's leg, begging that she didn't want to leave.

Qi Yan is 11 years old this year, and his younger sister Qi Yue is only seven years old.

A seven-year-old girl, with her mother not around, tied crooked pigtails with colored rubber bands.

She is still young, and she still doesn't know what cheating is, what is mistress, she only knows that her mother is sick and living in the hospital and can't see her anymore, and her father suddenly doesn't want her anymore.

"Father—!" "Brother—!" "Father, woo, Xiaoyue will be good, Xiaoyue doesn't want to leave—!"

In the end, she was carried onto the tricycle, crying heartbreakingly.

Qi Yan was severely pulled by his wrist by his father, crying until he couldn't make a sound, and watched helplessly as his sister went away and disappeared.

He woke up suddenly.

Couldn't sleep at all.

Getting up, the faint moonlight leaked into the room.This is his house, his room, but there is an unknown boy sleeping beside him, his sleeping face is so peaceful and peaceful.

...Why?

His younger sister might cry at grandma's house tonight.

This mother and son made her homeless, they made him and his sister homeless.But the son of a bad woman can still sleep soundly in his room.

The moon is covered by clouds.

Qi Yan looked coldly at his brother's defenseless sleeping face.

It suddenly occurred to me that last year, the Chinese teacher arranged for them to read famous short stories during the summer vacation.

He was assigned to Chekhov's "Drowsiness".

A 13-year-old girl, smiling at the end, strangled a tiny baby.

At that time, Qi Yan read it sincerely, which was both shocking and bewildering.

A year ago, he still had a happy home.A gentle mother, a hard-working father, and a lovely younger sister.A family of four, once thought he was the most carefree boy in the world.

It is simply impossible to imagine the situation of oppressed orphans.It is even more unimaginable to face an "enemy who will not allow him to live" who wants to strangle him to death at a young age.

Never thought that one day, he could imagine it too.

……

Qi Yan got up.

Holding the pillow and quilt, I went to the sofa in the living room.

No matter how much he hates, he will not easily get on himself for such a mother and son.

not worth it.

He has good grades and a bright future ahead.Also take care of mom and sister.

The sofa was cold.

But it was better than sleeping next to Xiaosan's son.

The winter night is silent.Qi Yan curled up on the sofa and shivered, trying to close his eyes and breath into his cold hands, when suddenly the door of the master bedroom opened.

Meng Xinlan went to the bathroom, and was startled when she suddenly found someone on the sofa, and said "Oh".

At first she thought it was her son and was very nervous.

"Xiao Sheng, why did you run out! It's so cold outside, how can this be done!"

Until the faint moonlight came through the window, she could clearly see the boy's face on the sofa.

"Yo~ it's you."

"I love sleeping on the sofa so much, why not just sleep here from now on?"

She was so angry that she dragged her slippers to the toilet, then Shi Shiran yawned lazily and went back to the master bedroom.

The door frame slammed, and Qi Yan clenched his teeth desperately.

Breathe hard, close your eyes and fantasize wildly that you will grow up very fast, achieve a career, and then burn down this house.

Although Meng Xinlan and his father's family of three were crying in the embers, he took his mother and sister away to a happy home.

His thin body trembled constantly, as if about to be submerged by something.

Calm, calm...

Don't get mad, it's not worth it.

not worth it.People who won't even look at it in the future are not worth it.

I do not know how long it has been.

He was dying of cold.

The fingertips were so cold that they were stiff, but they were suddenly held gently by something that warmed you.

Heart flutters.

……

Qi Yan opened his eyes.

Under the faint moonlight, my brother put on a piece of clothing, tilted his head, and was standing by the sofa looking at him.

Smokey gray eyes, with a hazy and gentle light floating, and a worried expression.

"Xiao Yan, why did you come out? Did I disturb you by talking in your sleep?"

"Don't sleep here, it's cold on the sofa."

"Go back to bed, okay?"

"I'll try not to disturb you, go back, okay?"

"..."

It was pitch black and dead silent.

Qi Yan ignored him.He just hid under the quilt and quickly wiped away the tears that suddenly welled up in his eyes.

Don't cry, don't cry, he said to himself, what is there to cry?

Enough is enough, don't let the enemy see your weakness.

……

Cheng Cheng was not in a hurry, he just waited for him silently in his heart.

In the end, Qi Yan hugged the quilt and pillow and went back to the room with him.

Who would be proud if he froze to death?It's not that Meng Xinlan is proud!

He will not be so stupid that relatives hurt enemies quickly.

The bed is also cold, not as cold as the sofa.Cheng Cheng: "Xiao Yan, why don't we change the bed to sleep? You sleep on my side, it's warmer here."

Qi Yan shook his head.

He wouldn't dare to use the electric blanket and silk quilt exclusive to his new brother, so he wouldn't be fooled.

Believe it or not, if Auntie Meng finds out tomorrow morning, she will definitely make a fuss and let him be beaten to death by his father?

Cheng Cheng: "Then stretch your feet over here."

Qi Yan: "No need."

Cheng Cheng didn't say anything, Qi Yan closed his eyes.

Suddenly, there was a rustle in the blanket, Cheng Cheng stretched out his hand, held Qi Yan's fingertips in the cold blanket, and wrapped it in the palm of his hand.Under the moonlight, his eyes were still very gentle.

Very warm.

It's warm, though.

However, these temperatures are all stolen from me.Qi Yan gritted his teeth and thought.

My room, my father, everything you own is stolen from me.Thief!

A thief, even gave me alms with stolen things, with an innocent face.

Grievance and hatred filled my heart again, and my teeth creaked.

But at the same time, icy feet stretched out secretly.

The quilt over there was really warm, and his ice-like toes touched his brother's feet, and he flinched.

Brother: "Xiao Yan, your feet are also very cold."

As he said, he took the initiative to rub Qi Yan's feet with his ankles to warm him up.

It was quiet, Qi Yan tried hard to fall asleep, but his stomach started to growl.

"Xiao Yan, are you hungry?"

Qi Yan: "..."

"Are you hungry?"

Qi Yan: "Why are you talking so much nonsense? Go to sleep!"

Actually hungry.

In the middle of the night, I was very hungry.

It seems like I'm getting hungry every night.Qi Yan asked some other boys in the class. They were all eleven or twelve years old, and they were all at the age of just beginning to develop. Many of them had the same uncontrollable appetite as him, and they were like hungry wolves who couldn't eat enough every day.

Cheng Cheng: "I'm just the opposite. I often can't eat anything, but my mother always forces me to eat."

"If you force yourself to eat it, you will feel uncomfortable in your stomach and you will not be able to sleep well."

As he spoke, he was suddenly a little happy: "Then Xiaoyan, why not do this, and you will help me solve the cake supper in the future, okay?"

Qi Yan didn't make a sound.

He was tired, his hands and feet gradually warmed up, and he fell asleep.

Had another dream.

He was praised as "smart" by his neighbors since he was a child, and he has always been the child with the best grades in his class.Since the first time I learned pinyin in kindergarten, I have been number one in every exam, and I have never gotten No.2.

Mom often comes to pick him up from school.

Teachers also like to announce the grades of new tests before school is over.

Among the parents of children waiting at the door of the class after school, the mother is always so conspicuous, so beautiful and gentle.

Every time she hears the teacher praise her son by name, her eyes will definitely shine with pride.

The brightness of that light, he really... misses it more than anything else.

"Xiao Yan, Xiao Yan?"

Cheng Cheng heard Qi Yan sobbing in his dream, and gently pushed him, but Qi Yan didn't wake up.

"Xiaoyan..."

Cheng Cheng got up and gently wiped away the tears for him.

so poor.want to hug him.

I still remember a few years ago, when he saw Qi Yan for the first time, it was a scorching heat with the sound of cicadas, and it was dazzlingly bright outside the window.

He was half asleep and half awake, when suddenly an extremely beautiful boy with eyes like black glass beads appeared in front of his hospital bed.

She tilted her head to look at him, curious and lively.

Then the boy smiled at him, showing two missing front teeth like little flowers swaying in summer.The whole person is carefree and sunny.

At that time, Qi Yan was still a little baby fat.

The arms are also fat and tender.In Cheng Cheng's gloomy life, he has never seen such a cute little thing.

Totally dumbfounded.

For the first time know what is elated.

At that time, he was seriously ill and couldn't get out of bed, and he didn't have much strength to speak.But he really tried to get up, especially wanting to talk to this little angel.

Later he knew that it was the child of his mother's friend Uncle Qi.

Later, his mother told him one day that she planned to marry Uncle Qi.

She said that Uncle Qi and his wife had divorced a long time ago, and Uncle Qi would become his father after they got married, and Uncle Qi's son would become his younger brother.

Cheng Sheng was overjoyed.

He had no father since he was a child, and now he finally has a father.

Uncle Qi has always been very kind to his mother, and he is very relieved that he takes care of her.Not to mention, the cute little angel who has always wanted to meet again will become his younger brother in the future...

So nice, so happy.

Cheng Cheng had been looking forward to it for a long time, and everything finally came true.But I never expected that Uncle Qi, who has always been very gentle and kind, would have such a fierce attitude towards his younger brother at home.

Why?He doesn't understand.

Not only Uncle Qi, but also his mother's attitude towards his younger brother was cold.

Cheng Cheng is actually very helpless at this point, his mother has such a temperament, irritable and fussy, the neighbors don't like her, and often say that she is mean behind her back.

Not only did her neighbors get along badly with her, even when she was accompanying him to treat illnesses in the hospital, he always quarreled with doctors and nurses.

He did not know how many times he persuaded her.

It's useless, every time I say change, never change.

Cheng Cheng sighed softly.

... No wonder Xiao Yan felt so wronged.