Drowning Reborn

Jiang Zechen cooperated with Jiang Zehan to go through all the procedures for the stock carte blanche, and then had a meal with him before returning to school relaxed, like a normal person.Of course, he naturally found out that Jiang Zehan was a little surprised that he signed the name so happily, but he didn't take it to heart. After all, he signed the agreement calmly and happily, and he didn't suffer any losses, let alone think that Jiang Zehan had any concealment or calculations. So even if Jiang Zehan seems a little out of his mind now, he will recover soon, and he has nothing to worry about.

Of course, Jiang Zechen did not forget to call Mrs. Jiang about this matter.Contrary to Jiang Zechen's surprise, Mrs. Jiang did not become hysterical or even objected. She just kept silent for a long time before sighing softly.

"I expected it a long time ago." Mrs. Jiang's voice was a little helpless and powerless, "Although you have been saying that you want to test Jiang Zehan or something, deep down you just hope that he will really treat you well? Emotionally, you If you have already paid first, you will lose, as long as he coaxes you a few words, you will happily give him everything he wants—what a silly boy."

"...I didn't hand over everything after being coaxed casually..." Jiang Zechen held the mobile phone, a little embarrassed, "I just gave the agency right to my brother, and the shares are still in my hands, and they are still mine. ah……"

"As long as you have the power of attorney and your trust, why can't you turn yours into his? No matter how strict the law is, there are still so many people who are taking advantage of loopholes, aren't they? Those who seem to have rules and regulations A strict and reasonable contract may actually have countless deliberate loopholes. It is too simple to deceive a child like you who knows nothing about it. Chenchen, you are still too young and too gullible. It's not as simple as you think." Mrs. Jiang sneered, and after giving Jiang Zechen a head-on blow, she didn't say anything more about this topic, "Okay, let's not talk about this, because I thought of it a long time ago. So I have already made preparations. I bought another house in City B a long time ago, and the decoration and furniture have been done. I always feel that I am a stranger and a guest. The Jiang family belongs to Jiang Zehan. It is time for our mother and I to move out and have a new home. Come and see me next weekend, let’s decorate you s room."

Mrs. Jiang's voice became softer, with a hint of longing, "Mom knows you don't like business, you're from the company, but acting is also pretty good. As long as Chenchen is happy, mom will be happy too. My son is really good at this. It’s a talent, it can’t be wasted. And I’m thinking about it, now we have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of our lives. Since Chenchen is not interested in those things, then my mother won’t argue. But in the future when filming Be careful, don't get hurt again, you know? I really scared my mother to death last time."

Mrs. Jiang was chattering, and Jiang Zechen answered casually while listening, with a relaxed smile on his face.His mother is willing to give up her thoughts about Jiang and support him to become an actor. This is actually the best news for Jiang Zechen. As for whether Jiang Zehan will embezzle his shares in the name of an agent like Mrs. Jiang... Jiang Zechen Shaking his head, he didn't intend to continue thinking about it.

——Since you have already done it, then don't regret it, and Jiang Zechen really doesn't want to believe that Jiang Zehan actually has such an idea, which will make him feel like a fool after signing the agreement, complacent and relaxed.

——Although his previous actions were indeed impulsive and hasty, Jiang Zechen did not intend to withdraw his agency rights because of Mrs. Jiang's one-sided remarks. He wanted to trust Jiang Zehan, and believed that he would not do any small tricks in private to infringe his interests.

——No matter what, since the trust has been delivered first, let's trust it to the end for the time being. It is not his style to backtrack without evidence.

After hanging up the phone, Jiang Zechen changed his clothes and went to the botanical garden with his roommate and some classmates to gather scenery - they were divided into a group, and the final exam of the acting class was to take a group as a unit and shoot a sketch by himself drama.

A group of students were jokingly taking photos in the botanical garden, telling each other short jokes they had conceived, and then trying to perform them. In a blink of an eye, the afternoon passed.

While the students were discussing where to go for dinner, Jiang Zechen suddenly received a call from Jiang Zehan.

Without thinking too much, Jiang Zechen said hello to his classmates, went to the side and picked up the phone. Jiang Zehan's voice from the phone sounded a bit cold, as if he was not in a good mood, "Xiaochen, where are you now?"

Jiang Zechen frowned suspiciously, and his original relaxed mood suddenly dissipated, and he replied cautiously, "I'm in the botanical garden, and I'm preparing for the final homework with my classmates in advance...Brother, what's wrong?"

"I have something to do with you." Jiang Zehan's answer was a bit ambiguous, but his tone softened slightly, "Which door are you closest to now?"

"...East Gate." Jiang Zechen said truthfully, still a little apprehensive, and couldn't help asking, "Brother, what's the matter? Don't scare me?"

"Is the event over?" Instead of answering Jiang Zechen's question, he asked a new question. Jiang Zehan's voice was accompanied by the sound of the engine starting, which made Jiang Zechen a little startled, "It's over, it's over."

"That's good. I have something to talk to you about. You go to the east gate and wait for me. I'll be here soon, understand?" It was too comfortable, but the uneasiness in his heart prevented him from asking too much, he just responded softly, and then he heard the other party hang up the phone.

——It seems... This is the first time that Jiang Zehan hung up on his phone so simply, without even saying goodbye... Jiang Zechen felt even more uncomfortable, and it made him a little uncomfortable.

——When we parted in the morning, it was still the same as usual... Even if we wanted to turn our backs, it shouldn't be so fast?

Not wanting to think deeply about the reason, Jiang Zechen just turned around and found his classmate, and told him apologetically that he had to leave first because he had something to do, and that he would pass the dinner this time.

Although a little disappointed, everyone knew that Jiang Zechen was different from them. He always had various arrangements for announcements, and he didn't ask too many questions. After agreeing that he would treat guests next time as compensation, he let him live.Leaving the other students who were still sorting things out, Jiang Zechen left first and hurried to the east gate of the botanical garden.

Outside the east gate, Jiang Zechen saw Jiang Zehan's car parked on the side of the road at a glance. After he got a few steps closer, the car window on the sidewalk side slowly lowered, revealing the situation inside the car.

The afterglow of the setting sun dimmed the light in the car. Sitting in the driver's seat, Jiang Zehan tilted his head slightly, staring at him with deep eyes, reflecting the orange setting sun, with a hint of danger.Jiang Zechen stopped involuntarily, feeling that if he continued walking, he might encounter some trouble...

"Xiaochen, come in." Seeing Jiang Zechen stopped outside the car door, Jiang Zehan waved to him and called, his voice was as peaceful as usual.

Smiling to himself that he might be overthinking, Jiang Zechen collected himself, opened the door and sat in the passenger seat, Jiang Zehan immediately started the car, turned the steering wheel slightly to the left, and drove into the driveway.

There was a soft "click", the sound of the door lock being locked, and the window of the passenger seat was slowly raised. Suddenly, the whole car fell into a closed state, which made Jiang Zechen feel a little uneasy.

"Brother, what do you want to say to me?" Jiang Zechen twitched the corner of his mouth, and broke the silence first, with some tentativeness.

"Today, my mother came home and said that she bought another house in City B and planned to move there." Jiang Zehan said slowly.

"Oh, I also heard from my mother about this. She feels that she is not used to living at home. After all, she has been in the United States, and it has been less than two years since she came back..." Jiang Zechen nodded, still puzzled, "Brother...you Don't want mom to move away?"

- Shouldn't it be?Jiang Zechen really doesn't think the relationship between his brother and his mother is so good, it's just that the tit for tat is not so obvious...

"If it's just her moving out, I would really like it." Jiang Zehan curled his lips, with a slight mockery in his tone, obviously a bit impolite.Pausing for a moment, Jiang Zehan turned his head to look at his younger brother, "What about you? Then where are you going to live?"

"Me? I... live in a dormitory!" Jiang Zechen gave full play to his rare quick wit, and chose an answer that sounded factual, reliable, and did not violate his will or offend others—of course, it was just a sound.

Jiang Zehan chuckled lightly, laughing so hard that Jiang Zechen was a little hairy. He felt that this answer was obviously not liked by his elder brother, but it was not good for him to directly say that he lived in his current home. Firstly, it seemed a bit too flattering, and secondly... After all, it was his mother who moved out, and he didn't want to disappoint her.

"Before my mother moved away, she told me a lot." Jiang Zehan didn't get too entangled in this issue, and soon went straight to a new topic, but it was a pity that Jiang Zechen hadn't breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart raised again—— — Obviously, this "says a lot" and definitely not what he wishes to reveal...

--Oops!I forgot to tell my mother to be careful!She won't tell all the things that were discussed before for a moment's pleasure, right?Jiang Zechen felt that his breathing was a little disordered. He always knew that his mother was impulsive and not very smart, but because she behaved well recently, Jiang Zechen actually relaxed his vigilance...

Seeing from a sideways glance that his younger brother was calm on the surface, but the hairs all over his body were blown up, Jiang Zehan smiled bitterly, sharply, and furiously.

——Jiang Zechen suddenly remembered the public compulsory course "Introduction to Marxism" that he had the most headache in college... He probably was going to see Marx soon! QAQ "Mom said, you never believed in me, and always thought that I would take away your shares." Jiang Zehan's voice was very calm, but there was a vortex that seemed to crush everything under his calm, "Why do you think so?"

"...Because... TV dramas and novels are written like this...?" Jiang Zechen blurted out, and then felt that he was purely looking for death, but he certainly couldn't say it was the experience of his previous life.

——Go to his previous life, who would believe this! QAQ

——Of course, it is impossible for anyone to believe the answer he gave.

Jiang Zehan laughed back in anger, and slammed on the brakes.Jiang Zechen's body almost slipped from the passenger seat due to inertia—this is what happens when he forgets to fasten his seat belt.

After finally stabilizing his body, Jiang Zechen looked around reflexively, and found that the car had driven into a small alley without knowing when.Immediately, all kinds of bad plots flooded his mind——Jiang Zechen felt that he really shouldn't watch so many detective suspense horror movies...it's too scary! The courtyard walls on both sides of the QAQ alley block the slanting sunset light, making the light in the entire alley and the car even darker. Jiang Zechen swallowed and warned himself that the next scene cannot be a plot of killing and dismembering the body. The person sitting next to him is His elder brother finally moved his flickering eyes to Jiang Zehan who had been staring at him.

"That is because of the messy plots of TV dramas, you think I will harm you?" Jiang Zehan asked again.

Jiang Zechen was silent.

"Those are all lies and made up." Jiang Zehan gritted his teeth.

"...Art comes from life, and I have heard such examples in reality..." Jiang Zechen tried to relax his voice. If he could get away with it, he didn't want to make it as serious as a showdown.

"Can others be the same as us?!" Also, he couldn't figure out why his younger brother thought so, so Jiang Zehan had to accept such an answer for the time being—although such an answer made him even more incredible.

"...Aren't they all brothers and sisters?" Jiang Zechen was a little puzzled.

"We have grown up with each other since we were young!"

"But people are selfish, and it's not uncommon for people to ruin their relationship for the sake of profit!"

"In the end, everything else is just an excuse, you just don't believe me." Jiang Zehan's voice was a little cold.

Jiang Zechen felt that his whole body seemed to be captured by Jiang Zehan's gaze, and he couldn't move. He opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't say "believe" or "don't believe", because it was too simple and too deliberate.

"...I want to believe you, but... I don't dare..." Jiang Zechen suddenly felt a little wronged—in fact, maybe at this moment in his life, the person who should be wronged should be Jiang Zehan, but he still felt very wronged , because in the previous life, his trust was indeed torn to pieces by this person in front of him. Even if he tried hard to repair it in this life, it was still tattered and full of potholes.

The accusing Jiang Zechen made Jiang Zehan dumbfounded for a moment.

——He never knew that his younger brother was so insecure, was it his nature?Or did he do something wrong to make his younger brother have no sense of trust in him?

Jiang Zehan didn't understand, this sense of powerlessness made him at a loss what to do, and Jiang Zechen's pitiful appearance made him unable to get angry.

- Frustration, complete defeat.

"What's going on?" Jiang Zehan lowered his tone, held Jiang Zechen's shoulders, and made him face himself, "Tell brother, what did brother do wrong that made you so uneasy, Xiaochen?"

"...It's not that my brother didn't do well." Jiang Zechen lowered his head and shook his hands—after all, it was futile to try to fool around in front of Jiang Zehan, after all, did he suddenly come to a showdown like this?

"Brother, do you still remember, when I was in the first... or the second year of junior high school, my father took us to... your grandpa's house?" Jiang Zechen said slowly.

Jiang Zehan thought for a while, then with his excellent memory, he quickly searched out the situation at that time, "I remember."

——After returning home, his younger brother was obviously wronged and looked uncomfortable. This was the only time Jiang Zechen went to Wang's house, and the only time he was wronged when he didn't know it. Of course Jiang Zehan remembered it clearly...

"At that time, I was playing alone in the back garden of my brother's grandfather's house, and then... I heard someone talking..." Jiang Zechen twitched the corners of his mouth. He couldn't cry now, and he didn't want to use any acting skills to deceive him. Showing herself in front of Jiang Zehan, she felt a little bitter and self-deprecating.

"I heard them say that you dote on me because you want to strangle me, a potential competitor, in the cradle, so that I won't be able to snatch the Jiang family that should belong to my brother, and this method is told by your grandpa and grandma. your."

Jiang Zehan's pupils shrank suddenly, and he felt that his heart stopped beating in an instant.He never expected that this "plan" that he had forgotten all about would suddenly surface at this moment, and there was no room for maneuver between him and Jiang Zechen.

"...So...you came home that day...you were very upset, and you said...you hated them?" Jiang Zehan's voice was dry and hoarse, the situation happened so suddenly that even he himself didn't know how to explain it .

—explain that he never thought of doing it that way?This is deceptive.Jiang Zehan finally knew that his younger brother was always smart, and he knew clearly beyond his imagination.A child who is only in the second grade of junior high school and has been spoiled all the time suddenly hears about this kind of thing, but he doesn't cry, make noise or question, but just keeps everything in his heart, even he doesn't notice it. Compared with his Jiang Zehan He hardly backed down, so... would he believe such a deception?

——Truthfully admitted that he had indeed thought about it and done it before, but gradually forgotten it unconsciously?Then he swore that Jiang Zechen didn't trust him before, it became a joke, a complete farce, and he slapped himself in the face.He deserves to be distrusted and guarded against. What else can he use to make his younger brother trust this "brotherhood" that has been mixed with impurities from the very beginning?

——Heaven's evil is forgivable, but self-inflicted evil cannot live.

Jiang Zechen lowered his eyes and nodded slightly. In fact, he didn't want to reveal everything, because it might cause an irreparable rift in the relationship between him and Jiang Zehan.

But often, the development of the situation is beyond the control of manpower, so he has racked his brains since he was a child to think of ways to deal with it, and seized every opportunity to plant a foreshadowing, so as not to fall into the situation of being questioned in case of a final showdown. Unresponsive dilemma—unexpectedly, the rainy day plan a few years ago was really used...

——The foreshadowing was buried too early, and Jiang Zechen almost forgot it as early as it was—of course, it was only almost.

Jiang Zehan was silent for too long, so long that Jiang Zechen finally couldn't help raising his head, and found that he was still looking at him, and the emotions in his eyes were so complicated that it was difficult to describe.

"...Sorry, Xiaochen." Meeting Jiang Zechen's almost non-complaining eyes, Jiang Zehan withdrew his gaze as if he had been burned, and said with difficulty, "I... didn't want to lie to you, indeed, once ...I have such an idea..."

"...Well, I know, the past... I don't want to care about it anymore." Jiang Zechen nodded, and finally he was able to ask the question he had been looking for an answer bluntly, "I just want to know—— What about now? Do you still think so? Do you still regard me as...the object of calculation, or...I am your real family, brother?"

"I don't want to calculate you at all now, and I even forgot when I lost the idea of ​​calculating you. I just want to protect you and help you. You are my real and only family. My dearest Dear, most important brother." Jiang Zehan's expression was solemn, his eyes were frank and sincere, without any trace of falsehood, Jiang Zechen's eyes gradually lit up following Jiang Zehan's words, he felt that this was enough, and he could hear With this sentence, with this guarantee, everything he has done has finally paid off and has meaning.

"Even if I did something wrong, but at this moment I have given you all my feelings. You can't even give me your trust. Isn't this a bit too cruel for me?"

The smile that Jiang Zechen just evoked froze on his face, and then turned into astonishment and horror.The hand that fixed the back of his head was so powerful that he couldn't dodge it at all. The lips were rubbed by the other pair of lips, and even the slightly opened teeth were pushed into his mouth and hooked his tongue.Jiang Zehan leaned over the gap between the driver's seat and the co-pilot, clinging to him, and wrapped his other arm around his waist, pulling him more tightly into his arms.

Jiang Zechen was stiff and unable to react at all. He felt that there must be something wrong. Shouldn't he re-establish a sense of trust in each other after the showdown, and then continue to be good brothers of brothers and sisters? Breaking gold or something like that...?

——What kind of trouble is this suddenly hugging and gnawing on? !

—You got the wrong script, dear? ! QAQ