Same Bed Different Dreams

Zhou Jingci was leaning on the leather sofa. He was indifferent by nature. Apart from reading and watching exhibitions, he had no hobbies on weekdays.Wei Xiao is not around, and to him, going home is just sitting there alone.

This is already the third day since Wei Xiao disappeared, which has never happened before.Not going home, not going to the company, not getting through the phone, not replying to the message... It's as if the world has disappeared.

The things that Zhou Jingci disdains most in his daily life, he has done them all in the past few days.

No one knows where Wei Xiao went.

Zhou Jingci knew that he had done a lot of mistakes, maybe he didn't deserve to be loved by Wei Xiao at all, let alone be trusted by this person.But until now, Zhou Jingci refused to believe that Wei Xiao would really break up with him without giving him an explanation.

They have been together for 20 years, from young to middle-aged.Even if Wei Xiao was completely disappointed in him, even if Wei Xiao didn't love him anymore, he wouldn't just disappear into his life completely without saying a word.

He was no longer a young man, Wei Xiao knew that he couldn't stand it.

Yet he was still worried.

Worrying about Wei Xiao getting drunk, worrying about Wei Xiao not eating well, worrying about his already fragile and abnormal stomach, worrying about his nerves that have been tense for more than [-] years for Tesco...

Seeing that Zhou Jingci was in a state of panic all day long, Wei Zhao would go to Zhou Jingci's place to sit down every night after returning from the laboratory.She didn't understand what happened to her two elder brothers, nor did she understand business and equity. She only felt that for her two elder brothers, the biggest conflicts were nothing more than daily chores.So, she asked naively, "Did you quarrel with my brother? Worried about my brother going out to fool around?"

Zhou Jingci's face was pale, he bit his lip, shook his head, and said leisurely, "We had a big conflict. But I'm not worried about going out and fooling around. He, he won't be nice to others."

It doesn't matter whether he is too naive or too confident, Zhou Jingci knows in his heart that even if Wei Xiao refuses to have him, he will not disappear without leaving a few words for himself; even if Wei Xiao hates him to the core, And you won't be with someone else without clearly saying you broke up.Having been in love for twenty years, he still has this understanding of each other.

Although Wei Zhao often dislikes Wei Xiao's behavior, she trusts her own brother when it comes to matters of principle.What's more, she watched Zhou Jingci and Wei Xiao step by step to today. The relationship between the two of them is inseparable and inseparable. They are friends, brothers, comrades-in-arms, lovers, and most of each other. The life of a person is an existence with broken bones and connected tendons.

So, Wei Zhao comforted, "Brother, don't worry, my brother may just go out to relax, this is his home, his relatives are here, where can he go?"

Only then did Zhou Jingci come to his senses, he thought, yes, Wei Xiao lived to be 36 years old, and of all his relatives, only himself and Wei Zhao were left.Where else could he go?

But the uneasiness in his heart and the throbbing right eyelid all pushed him into deeper worries.

Zhou Jingci didn't want Wei Zhao to worry, so he smiled vainly and said, "Zhao Zhao, go back. I'm fine."

Wei Zhao looked at him reluctantly, and then wanted to say something, but was pushed away by Zhou Jingci, "Go back quickly and have a good rest."

After washing up, Zhou Jingci lay on the bed. He couldn't fall asleep all night, and stayed up from dark to dawn with his eyes open.

He couldn't sleep well when Wei Xiao was away.

The night was too long, and Zhou Jingci thought a lot. Those fragments that he thought would fade in the river of time, those past events hidden in the leak of time, movies usually played in his mind in turn.

Wei Xiao loved him and loved him since he was a child, no matter how hard and difficult their life was together, Wei Xiao would always give everything to him.This time, Zhou Jingci didn't want anything, he just wanted Wei Xiao to come back, to return to his side.

I still remember that Wei Xiao had a hard life when he was young.Once, Zhou Jingci saw the purple swelling on Wei Xiao's head at a glance. He had heard that Wei Jun had a bad temper and quarreled with others all day long because of some health care products, but he didn't expect him to treat him His son is also so cold and ruthless.His heart trembled twice, and he wanted to reach out to touch the bag on Wei Xiao's head, but in the end he just hung his hand in vain, not daring to touch it.

Seeing him like this, Wei Xiao thought it was a little funny, he held Zhou Jingci's hand, touched his head, "It doesn't hurt anymore."

Zhou Jingci curled his lips, how could it not hurt.

There was a cunning flash in Wei Xiao's eyes, and he said to Zhou Jingci, "Blow it, blow it, I won't hurt anymore."

Zhou Jingci had a good heart, and he trusted Wei Xiao wholeheartedly. Hearing what Wei Xiao said, he really put his mouth together, and the warm breath hit Wei Xiao's forehead moistly and hotly. Itchy, and felt that Zhou Jingci was really a child soaked in a honeypot, even the air he exhaled was sweet.

The situation at Wei Xiao's family was getting worse day by day, Zhou Jingci looked at the scars on Wei Xiao's body and the bruises in front of his eyes every day, and he could only feel distressed.He secretly stuffed money into Wei Xiao's bag several times, sometimes one or two yuan, and even ten or eight yuan, but Wei Xiao always frowned and said to him, "Don't do this in the future."

Wei Xiao treated Zhou Jingci very well. Many times, Zhou Jingci even felt that Wei Xiao treated him better than his own sister, and treated him like a younger brother.Since getting acquainted with him, Wei Xiao never spoke coldly to him again, and only when he wanted to give him money or buy something from the store, Wei Xiao would put away his usual cynical look and say to himself sternly, "I don't want yours. Money, and I won’t sell you anything.”

Wei Xiao didn't allow him to buy things in the store. Wei Xiao always gave him everything from a small popsicle or an eraser to the lamp and water glass on Zhou Jingci's desk.

Zhou Jingci was grateful in his heart, but he was also very embarrassed. As time passed, he never dared to mention money to Wei Xiao again.

Later, one time, Wei Xiao didn't come to school for a whole week.Zhou Jingci was very anxious, but Wei Xiao's family didn't have a phone, so no matter how worried Zhou Jingci was, he couldn't get in touch.Zhou Jingci waited for three days. On the fourth day, he couldn't hold back anymore. He found the address on the contact card of his home school in his class, and planned to go to Wei Xiao's house to find him in person.

Zhou Jingci has always been afraid of Wei Jun's viciousness, so he took a look at his shop before coming here, and made sure that Wei Jun was dozing off in the shop at this time, so he dared to come to the door.

Although Zhou Jingci has a good relationship with Wei Xiao, Wei Xiao never takes him home.Zhou Jingci naturally knew why.Therefore, this was the first time Zhou Jingci visited Wei Xiao's house.

He knocked lightly on the door twice, - "Boom, boom."

A few seconds ago, there was still movement in the room, obviously he heard Wei Zhao calling "Brother", but no one opened the door for him.

He refused to let go, and knocked "dong dong dong" a few times, but still no one came out.

Zhou Jingci no longer insisted.His arms hung down, but he didn't leave, waiting outside the door for a long time.It was so long that he heard the conversation between the two brothers and sisters in the house clearly.

He understood why Wei Xiao didn't want to see him, and he understood Wei Xiao's only pride and stubbornness in front of him.So even though he was worried, he just stood with his head down for a long time, and then left silently.

To this day, Zhou Jingci has never told Wei Xiao that he actually heard all of what he said that day.

A week later, Wei Xiao reappeared in the classroom with a long scar on his head.Teachers and classmates were all overwhelmed by his eccentricity and cruelty, and the originally messy classroom suddenly became quiet.Zhou Jingci licked his lips, took Wei Xiao's arm, and carefully looked at the scar across his head, and the bruises on his face, neck, and arms.His mouth opened and closed, but no words came out.

The cold temperament on Wei Xiao's body instantly melted away. He touched the soft hair on Zhou Jingci's head and said with a smile, "Stupid." After speaking, he took out the test papers and homework books accumulated in the drawer hole , Three steps to the trash can, all thrown away.

The class teacher's face became ugly, but he didn't speak.

Zhou Jingci hesitated to speak, and saw Wei Xiao lying on the table in front of him, falling asleep.

Since then, Wei Xiao has become less and less concerned about his studies. Everyone has nothing to do with him. The teachers of all subjects hate and ignore him. All the students are afraid of him and despise him. I feel sorry for him and love him.

Zhou Jingci knew that since Wei's mother left, the burden of the family fell on Wei Xiao all of a sudden.He has to help the shop early in the morning, and looks after the shop at night, so there is very little time for a good rest in a day.He is also at the age of growing his body, so it is natural that he has worked very hard.

Wei Xiao became the thorn in the head of the whole class, during and after class, if anyone disturbed his slumber, he would definitely get his cold gaze, and then tremble all over with fright.

His stature has grown like crazy, and he has drawn 1.7 meters [-] before the second year of junior high school, and he has caught up with his father. In addition, Wei Xiao works day and night, with a heavy workload, and he has developed muscles. Rao Wei Jun would not dare Let alone those students in the class who play tricks on him and pick on soft persimmons?

He is different, not only in the experimental class, but in the whole school, he is the most special one.

No one can control him, and no one wants to control him.Unable to invite parents, a life with no one to take responsibility for, and a youth with nowhere to rely on, he grew up in the mud, and everyone felt that he would eventually rot in the mud.

Wei Xiao has a hot temper. With Zhou Jingci by his side, he always restrains himself, but when Zhou Jingci is not around, he can't control anything. He is full of firepower, and whoever provokes him will look good on him.

The young man who fought with him was able to go from the playground to the teaching building in just half a year.He is tall, strong, and rarely misses. Either he beats this one screaming, or beats that one rolling all over the floor. As for him, he doesn't even give the scumbags a look, and walks away gracefully.

By the second day of junior high school, Wei Xiao became more and more busy. The couple who used to set up a stall for breakfast now bought a storefront and opened a small restaurant, even cooking lunch and dinner.Therefore, Wei Xiao not only had to help in the morning, but also had to wash pots and serve dishes at noon, earning twice as much money as before, and he was naturally more tired.

Zhou Jingci felt distressed when he saw it, but he couldn't help it.He can only give Wei Xiao full understanding and support.

The homeroom teacher hated iron for being weak, and kept saying to Wei Xiao, you have to be responsible for your own life, no matter how difficult it is, you have to remember that you are a student.

Wei Xiao just smiled and didn't bother to answer.

Zhou Jingci on the side had a sore nose.For Wei Xiao, the head teacher's teachings are nothing more than superficial kindness, the overlook from the superiors and successful people, and have no value in Wei Xiao's life.Zhou Jingci thought silently in his heart, maybe the teachers didn't know how hard and difficult Wei Xiao was, but they were just ashamed to admit their incompetence, so they used the so-called success, struggle, and hard work to demote Wei Xiao to nothing not worth.

In fact, it's not that they don't know that the school can't save Wei Xiao, and no one can save him.

Zhou Jingci never persuaded Wei Xiao to work hard and study hard. He knew that no one worked harder than Wei Xiao.

Cicada yelled endlessly outside the window, and it was Xia Tian in a blink of an eye.

At the end of the 90s, the labor market was loosely regulated. Wei Xiao, who was only 14 years old, found a job as a plasterer on the construction site. He sometimes stood on a tripod, and sometimes lay on the ground, putting putty, criticizing dust, and jointing , he does everything.

The summer in J City is dry and hot. The construction site started early, and the supervisors began to shout at five or six o'clock. When it was ten or eleven o'clock, it was almost time to stop work. If they continued to work, the workers would suffer from heat stroke.

Whenever he was resting, Wei Xiao would find a shady place and wait for the handyman to distribute food with his fellow workers.The food on the construction site is very poor, sometimes steamed buns, sometimes pancakes, no vegetables and no meat, only some pickled mustard is available.Wei Xiao is not used to mustard mustard, he would rather eat steamed buns soaked in cold water.

After eating, Wei Xiao would lie down on the cement floor and sleep for a few hours with other workers regardless. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the next shift started again, and he would work until it was getting dark at seven o'clock. They left work in twos and threes.

After Wei Xiao went home and rinsed, he had to cook for Wei Zhao.His good cooking skills were developed at that time.After cooking, he was tired and panicked, his legs and hands were trembling, the weather was hot, and his stomach felt nauseated, and he couldn't eat anything.

He hurriedly stuffed some food into his mouth, barely filling his stomach, and went to the store to take over from Wei Jun.Wei Jun would go to the chess and card room every night to play for several hours. If Wei Xiao didn't go, the store would have to close.

Zhou Jingci often went to the store to look for him. He no longer mentioned shopping, but just moved a chair and sat on the side with his brother.

Wei Xiao was exhausted during the day, and dizzy at night, and sometimes he couldn't speak a word for the whole night.Zhou Jingci was not angry either, it was too late for him to feel distressed, they just sat quietly, there was no need to do or say anything.

After closing the door at night, Wei Xiao and Zhou Jingci will go home together, parting at the gate of the community, looking forward to meeting tomorrow night.

Wei Xiao made a lot of money in one summer vacation, not only enough to cover his food and clothing for a semester, but also able to send Wei Zhao to elementary school smoothly.

It was hot in July, and the weather turned cold. In a blink of an eye, they were in the second year of junior high school. After a summer of hard work, Wei Xiao became extremely dark and thin. After getting along with his co-workers for a long time, he has acquired countless bad habits, and he has no student temperament at all.Everyone is afraid of his strength, but no one wants to talk to him.However, he is also reluctant to speak to others.As long as he can see Zhou Jingci, as long as he can look at Zhou Jingci, he will not feel lonely.

Sometimes Zhou Jingci can't stand Wei Xiao's bad habits, can't stand him running to the rooftop to smoke after class, can't stand his rude behavior, can't stand the swear words that come out of his mouth, and can't stand his rudeness when he treats others ...But every time he saw Wei Xiao's exhausted face, touched the calluses on his hands, and saw his thin body, Zhou Jingci would only be filled with pity.

Sometimes, Zhou Jingci would feel that even though Wei Xiao is now 36 years old, even if he has become a successful businessman, there are always a few moments when he is just a child, a child who needs to be protected, understood and cherished by himself .

But what did he do?Knowing how proud Wei Xiao is, knowing how much Wei Xiao values ​​e-buy, knowing how angry Wei Xiao will be.

He knew exactly what would happen.

Zhou Jingci covered his eyes.He had had so many, so many opportunities to confess, he could obviously choose another way, he clearly knew how much Wei Xiao loved him...he knew everything.But he still chose the cruelest one.