Confession of Rebirth

Gu Xiu dropped her chopsticks angrily, and ran upstairs sullenly.All they heard was the sound of the door closing.

The atmosphere in the room instantly became awkward.

"Sit down quickly, sit down quickly," Aunt Gu Chen stood up, helped Gu's father and Gu's mother greet the guests, and explained in passing: "Don't talk to him, this bastard is angry with me. Because I said something to him in the afternoon, Always make fun of me."

The folks in the village laughed and said nothing: "I won't sit down. It's late at night, so I won't delay your dinner. Let's talk tomorrow."

After the guests left, Mother Gu quietly picked up the bowls and chopsticks, filled a large bowl with Gu Xiu's favorite dishes, and sent them upstairs to Gu Xiu.

Aunt Gu Chen didn't take it seriously: "You two are used to it. If you don't eat, let him go down, starve him twice, and see if he dares to show his temper at the dinner table."

Gu's mother said with a gentle smile, "It's just the first day for the child to come back."

Aunt Gu Chen pouted.

Mother Gu went upstairs with the bowls and chopsticks.The cousin of the Gu family came to Gu Chen's side, and asked gossipingly, "Brother, what's the matter with you and Gu Xiu?"

Gu Chen glanced at his cousin.The cousin pouted, and reluctantly changed her words: "What's the matter with you and Brother Xiuxiu?"

Gu Chen said: "It's nothing. Eat your food, and don't ask children about adults."

The cousin of the Gu family gave a "cut" and muttered, "You are only three years older than me!"

Gu Chen picked up a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs for his cousin.

The cousin of the Gu family shut her mouth angrily.

After dinner, it was almost ten o'clock.Gu's mother arranged for Yang Fan to sleep in the guest room, and the aunts and a few aunts helped Gu's mother pick up the table, and they all dispersed in a swarm.

After taking a shower, Gu Chen returned to his room, lying on the bed extremely tired.Before I took out my phone, I heard someone knock on the door.

Mother Gu pushed open the door and came in with a cup of hot milk.Putting the milk on Gu Chen's bedside table, he asked softly, "Chen Chen, what happened to you and Xiu Xiu? Mom, you two hardly talked at the dinner table today."

This has never happened before.

Gu Chen sat up and asked Mama Gu to sit by the bed.Gu's mother said earnestly, "Even if Xiuxiu did something wrong, you are an older brother, so you should let him go."

Gu Chen organized his words and said patiently: "Mom, since I was a child, you have always told me that I am an older brother, and I have to protect my younger brother and give in to my younger brother. But you have to know, I can't bear him forever, and I can't bear him forever. It's impossible for him to let anything go."

Mother Gu sighed, and took Gu Chen's hand.

Gu Chen continued: "I know you are worried about Gu Xiu. I am afraid that he will think wildly if he knows that he is not the Gu family's own. But our Gu family has nothing to do to him. He wants to dig into the horns of himself and insist on thinking things in a wrong way. his own business."

Listening to Gu Chen's tone, Gu's mother sighed again: "How come it has reached this level!"

Gu's mother said: "Xiuxiu has been thoughtful since she was a child, and she is a very sensitive child. But I believe this child's quality is not bad. You two brothers, is there any misunderstanding?"

Gu Chen looked at Mama Gu's worried look, and he could actually understand it.Who would want to believe that the quality of the child they have raised for 18 years is not good!

If it hadn't been for the misfortune in his previous life, Gu Chen wouldn't want to believe that the younger brother he once held in his hands and protected, Gu Xiu who was raised as his own son by Gu's parents and mothers, actually had no affection for the Gu family at all.

"Mom, you also said that Gu Xiu has been very thoughtful and sensitive since he was a child. Maybe he has nothing to do with our Gu family." Gu Chen thought for a while and said, "Don't worry too much. You take him out of the river. Fishing it out, raising him with good food and clothes, and paying for him to go to college, has done his utmost benevolence—”

"You can't say that." Mother Gu interrupted her son and said, "I didn't raise Xiuxiu for the sake of benevolence and righteousness. I think that even if you two brothers have conflicts, it won't go to the point where benevolence is exhausted. If you have any dissatisfaction, Just say it’s okay.”

"Gu Xiu thinks that I should let him do everything. My life should revolve around him, and I can't be better than him, and I can't be more likable than him. But I want to live my own life." Gu Xiu Shen looked at Gu's mother, and had a showdown: "What did he tell you about me when he came back this afternoon?"

Mama Gu didn't say a word.

Gu Chen said again: "Mom, I know that in the hearts of you and Dad, Gu Xiu and I are your own sons. But in my heart, Gu Xiu is no longer my younger brother. I will not, because of any request from him, Affects my own choices and interests. Can you understand that?"

What Gu Chen asked was "can you understand", not "can you understand", so mother Gu knew that Gu Chen was determined to separate from Gu Xiu.

Mama Gu sighed slightly.She always felt that no matter how stiff the two brothers were arguing, it was just children playing their temper.But she understood Gu Chen's temper better - once he made up his mind, ten bulls couldn't pull him back.

Mother Gu didn't know what happened between Gu Chen and Gu Xiu.I always feel that according to what Gu Chen said before, even if I get angry again, it's not to the point of breaking off friendship.But she also understands her son's heart - if Gu Xiu hadn't acted too decisively, Gu Chen's attitude would never have been so tough.

But no matter what Gu's mother asked, the two brothers hesitated and refused to make it clear.Gu's mother and Gu's father were sandwiched between the two brothers, and they were anxious enough.But there was nothing he could do.

Gu Chen looked at Gu's mother sighing, and persuaded: "Don't worry about it. Maybe after a while, Gu Xiu will be able to find his biological parents. At that time, there will be blood-related relatives who love him and dote on him. Don't worry about us."

"If Xiuxiu's biological parents really cared about him, they wouldn't have put him in the bathtub and washed him down the river. His background is so pitiful, you are an older brother—" Gu's mother looked at Gu Chen's face, He hesitated to speak, but finally said nothing, and sighed: "It's getting late. You should rest first. It's tiring after a day of tossing around."

Gu Chen nodded: "You also go to bed early."

Gu's mother returned to the bedroom, and Gu's father asked angrily, "How is it?"

Mama Gu shook her head.

Papa Gu said: "Then don't worry about it. Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. When the children grow up, we as parents can't take care of them. Just don't make trouble."

"But--"

"Don't think about it. Go to sleep. You have to get up early tomorrow morning!"

Silent all night.

Early the next morning, under the influence of his biological clock, Gu Chen woke up on time at four o'clock.Gu Chen glanced at the time on his phone, thought for a while, turned over and continued to sleep.

Open your eyes again.It's past six o'clock.

Gu Chen got up from the bed, and after washing up, he sat at the table and read the materials for a while.At about seven o'clock in the morning, Gu Xiu knocked on the door and asked Gu Chen to go out for dinner.

Gu Chen closed the book, and as soon as he got up, he saw Gu Xiu staring at the book on Gu Chen's desk with a complicated expression: "Professor Xing really thinks highly of you!"

Gu Chen was too lazy to talk to Gu Xiu.Gu Xiu said to himself: "I heard that Professor Xing also recommended you to join the project of developing the old city in the west. You are just a freshman, and you can participate in this level of project, and you can also be listed in the "Economist" Are you particularly proud of publishing an article?"

Gu Chen frowned.Gu Xiu continued: "You can be proud if you are proud. Why do you speak ill of me in front of your parents? Are you deliberately sowing discord and wanting my parents to have opinions on me?"

Gu Chen frowned more and more tightly: "Take medicine if you are sick, don't spread hysteria here."

Gu Xiu sneered: "In front of my mother, you arranged me and said that I spoke ill of you in school. How is this behavior different from what Wang Miao, Xia Tian and the others did? Why are you so lofty? Isn't it the same as relying on spreading rumors to win me? Parents' partiality?"

Gu Chen just felt it was ridiculous: "I'm lying about you?"

"Isn't it just spreading rumors?" Gu Xiu was very wronged: "Then tell me, when did I speak ill of you? When I was in school, when was I not talking for you? Every time you have an accident, I am the first It's time to stand up and help you explain to everyone. Maybe sometimes I'm stupid and can't speak, which makes everyone misunderstand you. But it's not my fault, right? Those people want to think wildly, what does it have to do with me? Why do you tell your mother I speak ill of you outside?"

Hearing Gu Xiu's words, Gu Chen felt it was ridiculous: "Don't treat everyone as fools. Do you really think everyone can't see what's on your mind?"

Gu Xiu said confidently: "You don't like me. Of course, no matter what I do, you don't like it. You say I have ulterior motives, but you should show evidence? What did I do wrong? Do I care about you and take care of you?" Is it wrong to help you wash your clothes and cook?"

"Why are you two brothers arguing again?"

Seeing that Gu Xiu and Gu Chen didn't go downstairs for a long time, Gu's mother could only come up and call for someone.From a distance, I heard Gu Chen and Gu Xiu arguing in the room, and Gu's mother had a headache: "Grandpa, grandma, grandpa, grandpa are still waiting for you to eat!"

Gu Chen didn't speak.Gu Xiu said aggrievedly: "Mom, I just want to explain to my brother. I think he misunderstood me deeply. He always blamed me for not helping him or standing with him at school. But don't you often talk to me? We said that peace is the most important thing when you go out. My brother got into an argument with two other classmates in the dormitory on the first day of school. I was worried that they would unite to bully my brother, so I went to apologize for my brother. Brother Just because of this incident, I have been brooding about it, and I feel that my elbows are turning outward. But you said, can you blame me for this?"

Mother Gu looked hesitant.

Gu Chen looked at Gu Xiu: "This reason sounds good, haven't you thought about it for a long time?"

Gu Xiu didn't answer Gu Chen's words, and turned to look at Gu's mother: "Mom, look, my brother always has such a big prejudice against me, and I can't help it at all."

Mother Gu looked at Gu Chen.

Gu Chen said: "Let's go downstairs to eat!"

After speaking, go downstairs first.

Gu Xiu looked at Gu Chen's back, with unstoppable grievances on his face, took Gu's mother's hand and complained: "Brother is like this at school. He doesn't listen to my explanation at all. He always feels that I want to harm him. The two of us There is no way to communicate."

"Mom, do you think my brother also dislikes me? I don't think I'm born in the Gu family, so I don't have the same heart with you? Does he also dislike me like auntie and the others? "

"I know, I shouldn't lose my temper yesterday. But I'm also very wronged! I've been out for so long, and I finally came home. I want to share with you what happened in school. My aunt always interrupts me, and Deliberately misinterpreting my meaning."

Gu's mother looked at Gu Xiu, sighed, and said, "Let's go eat first."