Pick up a general at the door of the crew

"He...he's a heartless bastard!" When he walked to the door, he could vaguely hear what the woman outside was saying. Wei Zhonghou paused for a moment while holding the doorknob. The woman seemed to be leaning against them The door is talking.

"I've done so many things for him, he left as soon as he said, never thought about my feelings! I even gave birth to a son for him!" This is obviously not the woman that Wei Zhonghou and the others met before, her His voice was a little hoarse from crying.

"Sister, there are guests in this room..."

The one with a lower voice was the woman at the cash register. Wei Zhonghou heard Ji Zhou turn over on the bed mountain, so he didn't listen any more and opened the door directly.

——almost got slapped in the face by the woman standing at the door.

However, the other party was already drunk, so he didn't notice anyone here at all.She had heavy makeup on her face, and she didn't have the slightest resemblance to the embarrassed little cashier next to her.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry." The little cashier nodded apologetically, "My sister drank a little wine, and soon, I pulled her away very quickly, I really bothered you."

"I'm not leaving!" Before Wei Zhonghou could speak, he heard the drunken woman beside him yelling, "Why should I go! I want to stay here, I want to stay here and wait for him to come back!"

"Sister!" The little cashier who always seemed submissive in front of Wei Zhonghou frowned, "Calm down, let's go back to the room, shall we? Xiao Jia is still waiting for you."

"Xiaojia?" Hearing this name, the woman whose eyes had been slackened looked sober, "Yes, I still have Xiaojia..."

"It's Xiaojia." Her sister stretched out her hand, and lowered her voice at the same time, "Xiaojia misses her mother, and she cried until you were hoarse today."

Xiao Jia is probably the little kid who is willing to hug Ji Zhou's thigh when he has nothing to do.

Wei Zhonghou leaned against the door, just looking at the woman who drank too much with his arms around his shoulders, his emotions seemed to have eased, and he followed her sister and took two steps forward unsteadily.

"What's the matter?" Wei Zhonghou turned sideways and saw Ji Zhou who was dressed came over and gave him a suspicious look. He was a light sleeper, but the noise outside made him unable to fall asleep at all.He came over with his coat on and stretched his head to look, "Who is at the door?"

The woman who had already taken two steps forward suddenly stopped and turned to look over.

It happened to meet Ji Zhou's puzzled eyes.

Ji Zhou's gaze only stayed on this woman for a second, then turned to look at the little cashier he knew, "Why..."

But he heard the woman who had been shouting before whispering softly: "Ji Hai..."

Except for Wei Zhonghou who couldn't figure it out, the other two people were all stunned.

"Sister..." The younger sister nodded to Ji Zhou in shame, and tugged at her sister's cuff, "You must have misunderstood the person."

The woman shook off her younger sister's hand, and walked slowly in front of Ji Zhou, reaching out to touch Ji Zhou's face, but her eyes were perplexed, as if she was looking at someone else through Ji Zhou: "Ji Hai... "

"I have admitted the wrong person." When her hand was about to touch Ji Zhou, Wei Zhonghou frowned and blocked it, "You have admitted the wrong person."

"A Hai, why did you leave me alone?"

The woman didn't respond when she was stopped for a while, her eyes were still looking at Ji Zhou, tears fell from her wide-open eyes, and the inferior cosmetics on her face were even worse, especially her eyes.

But even so, this woman cannot be called not beautiful.

"I'm really sorry." Her sister pulled the woman aside with all her strength, "I'll take her back right away, it's really disturbing your rest..."

"It's okay." Ji Zhou hurriedly said, there was a little trembling in his voice, which made Wei Zhonghou turn his head to look at him a few times, but he couldn't control his voice, and even smiled very reluctantly, "I I want to ask, who is that Ji Hai? Is it... very similar to me?"

……

"Ji Hai is my brother-in-law."

The younger sister is called Zhou Ai.She was only eighteen this year, and she was admitted to a major university in the city to study fashion design, but this time she was taking a break from school to go home to help take care of her sister, and also take care of the store by the way.

The drunk woman sat next to Ji Zhou, looking at Ji Zhou without blinking her bloodshot eyes.Wei Zhonghou wanted to draw Ji Zhou to his side several times, but was suppressed by Ji Zhou's pat on the back of his hand indiscriminately.

"My sister's mental condition is not very good." Zhou Yan poured a glass of honey water and coaxed her sister Zhou Yuan to drink it. "This is what my parents said. In fact, I think my sister is very good. It seems that this situation is only occasional. She is rarely drunk. That is, since my brother-in-law left..."

Wei Zhonghou felt Ji Zhou's whole body tense suddenly, he leaned forward slightly, and the few words he opened his mouth, Wei Zhonghou could clearly feel his voice trembling in his ears.

"You said, your brother-in-law is gone? What do you mean?"

"Alas." Zhou Yan sighed, "Actually, I think my sister thinks too much. She suffered from postpartum depression after giving birth to Xiaojia. My brother-in-law wants to make money and has no time to accompany her, so she just thinks about things by herself." Thinking about it. But my brother-in-law hasn’t been back for almost half a year, but he will definitely come back for the Chinese New Year.”

Hearing this explanation, Ji Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, but he still couldn't let it go.

He didn't know what he was excited about, obviously...

"Oh, by the way, if you don't look carefully, you and your brother-in-law are a bit similar." Zhou Yan tilted his head and glanced at Ji Zhou again, and his face blushed obviously after seeing Shang Ji Zhou, "With a big brother Stars are also very similar, but you look better."

"Do you have...do you have a photo?" Ji Zhou couldn't speak clearly because he was nervous, "I can, can I have a look at your brother-in-law's photo?"

When Zhou Yan was looking for a photo, Ji Zhou looked at Zhou Yuan who was sipping water but kept staring at him.

The makeup on Zhou Yuan's face was wiped off by her younger sister with a wet towel, and she felt a lot greener.Just as Ji Zhou expected, she looks good, the kind of beauty that makes people look very comfortable.Especially after the whole person calms down.

Wei Zhonghou was a little dissatisfied with Ji Zhou's gaze, he held Ji Zhou's face with both hands and asked him in a low voice, "Ji Hai is... your brother?"

He remembered that Ji Zhou said that he had a younger brother, but when he mentioned that younger brother a few times, Ji Zhou always had an attitude that he didn't really want to mention it, and Wei Zhonghou once made Wei Zhonghou think that this younger brother had already passed away.

"But your brother should be about the same age as me?" Wei Zhonghou's attitude was much more rational without that kind of emotional bondage, "Then he is only twenty this year, and the child is already one year old..."

He didn't finish the rest of the sentence, because he knew that Ji Zhou should understand what he meant.

"I know." Ji Zhou whispered.He knew what Wei Zhonghou said, but what if?If that person is really his younger brother, if he misses it again, he will really regret it for the rest of his life.

He didn't explain too much about his younger brother to Wei Zhonghou here, or if his younger brother really... He wouldn't, and couldn't take the initiative to bring it up until he was sure that his younger brother was still alive.

Just like no normal person would really tear open a scar by himself.

"There are a few photos from the past." Zhou Yan walked over with a few developed photos, "There should still be some in my sister's phone, but that..."

"It's okay." Ji Zhou opened the corner of his mouth, trying to control his body so as not to look too impatient.However, after Zhou Yan handed over the photo, he hesitated instead.

It was Wei Zhonghou who reached out to take it, he didn't look at it, and put the photo in Ji Zhou's hand.

"How about?" Ji Zhou swallowed, and whispered into Wei Zhonghou's ear, "General, please help me take a look."

Wei Zhonghou squinted at him, sighed slightly, took the four photos and turned them over.Ji Zhou sat beside him, wanting to see, but hesitated a bit.Wei Zhonghou just glanced at it and put the photo back, "It's not like that."

Probably because his tone was too firm, Wei Zhonghou hesitated and added: "I don't look like it."

Ji Zhou opened his mouth to smile, but he couldn't lift his face at all.The muscles of the whole person seemed to be stiff, and he didn't know what kind of mentality he was looking at those photos——

But after seeing it clearly, he was stunned.

"I really don't think so." Wei Zhonghou has been paying attention to his expression, "This person's smile is not as good as yours. It's so stiff and dark."

"Ji Hai has always been darker than me." Ji Zhou reached out and touched the smiling person on the photo. He could cover his entire face with one finger, but apart from the skin color, many people would think that This is Ji Zhou when he was young.

Ji Zhou raised his head to look at the hesitant Zhou Yan, and slowed down his voice, "How old is your brother-in-law?"

This question probably made Zhou Yuan a little embarrassed to say it, but facing Ji Zhou's smiling face, she couldn't refuse, "Actually, my sister and brother-in-law are not married yet, but don't have any objections to unmarried pregnancy , The relationship between the two of them is really very good, the two of them have been together since junior high school, and have been graduating from high school, and then..."

She looked at Ji Zhou's face from behind, and said nothing.

In fact, what she didn't say, Ji Zhou can almost guess based on his experience.

"Then you...excuse me, do you have Ji Hai's contact information?" After Zhou Yan later realized that he showed a vigilant expression, Ji Zhou hurriedly waved his hands, "If I'm not wrong, I might be his brother."

"No way..." Zhou Yan said so, but he began to fiddle with the mobile phone in his right hand unconsciously, "Although you two look alike at first glance, there are so many similar people in this world. Watching TV, there was a celebrity who looked very similar to my brother-in-law, and my brother-in-law even boasted that it was his...brother?"

Ji Zhou nodded while maintaining a smile, "Hi, I'm Ji Zhou."

Zhou Yan couldn't close his mouth wide open anymore. He was prone to blushing, but now he opened his mouth wide open and was completely at a loss.

"Well, I... I have a phone here, but I don't know if I can get through." Zhou Yan changed to holding the phone with both hands, "Usually it's my brother-in-law who calls us."

"It's okay." Ji Zhou smiled, wrote down the number, and got up to go back. "You have worked hard these past few years."

"It's okay, it's all a family, there's nothing hard or hard." After Zhou Yan waved his hand generously, he returned to his original twitchy temper, "That...brother-in-law and brother-in-law..."

Ji Zhou stopped and looked at her, "Just call me brother."

"Well, brother, can you sign me?" Zhou Yan said this a little hesitantly. After all, she is still a girl who has just grown up. She will be at a loss when she sees a star. "I didn't recognize it before, and I didn't expect it." There are stars coming here in a small place like ours.”

After signing Zhou Yan's name, Zhou Yan comforted Zhou Yuan who was closely behind Ji Zhou and returned to the room. Only then did Ji Zhou realize that his hand holding the phone was wet.

Because of nervousness and excitement, his original drowsiness was completely gone.

Wei Zhonghou stood beside him, shook his shoulder, and did not speak.But it seemed to give him a pillar to rely on.

It took a long time for Ji Zhou to sit on the bed and speak, his voice seemed hoarse after he hadn't spoken for a long time, "My brother, that is Ji Hai. He is eight years younger than me, but we have always had a good relationship, and there is no generation gap. When I was kicked out for coming out of the closet, he was the one who secretly took out my wallet and ID card in a small way."

"We have always been in touch." Ji Zhou raised his hand and wiped his face, even though he knew that Ji Hai was still alive, he still couldn't let himself cross that hurdle.

The last time Ji Hai approached him, he had just accepted a role in a TV drama, and he wanted to nod and bow down to accompany investors to dinner, and he wanted to be a good guy who would beat and scold in the crew.At that time, Ji Hai was only fifteen, and he hadn't finished junior high school, so he called and said he didn't want to go to school.

Different from Ji Zhou's lawless middle school appearance when he was a child, Ji Hai's temper at that time was like that of Ji Zhou who has been sharpened now. When I hugged his waist and didn't let go.

Even being whipped several times by his father with a belt.

Ji Zhou can still think of Ji Hai holding back his tears and trembling with pain and not crying. He always wants to be nicer to his younger brother, to be nicer to him, to spoil him, and not to let him eat it in his life. It was a little bitter.

Even if he didn't want to go to school, Ji Zhou didn't say anything harsh. He couldn't go out at will due to his status at that time, so he had to persuade him little by little on the phone.There is nothing more important than academic qualifications. Even Ji Zhou with mediocre grades would have to struggle step by step for that college diploma, let alone Ji Hai who already had good grades.

However, Ji Hai never regretted that time. He said that he had already skipped class, and now he was tutoring others, so he could earn money to support himself.

His personality is rarely so stubborn, Ji Zhou was puzzled and wanted to ask him to meet, but because he had to go out to other cities for filming, he could only slow down and let Ji Hai wait for him to go back.

Unexpectedly, Ji Hai would never go back.

"I didn't know that Ji Hai ran away from home until half a month later." Ji Zhou lowered his head, and from the perspective of Wei Zhonghou, he could see his fragile spine, which seemed to be easily broken, "Me too Only then did I realize that my parents had divorced long ago and each had a family. My brother was like a ball that none of them wanted, rolling around. I haven’t contacted my family for a long time, and I never thought he was so young. One of my kids kept it all from me."

"After I went back, I found out that he had been with a girl before he left." The old house waiting to be demolished, after his parents left, only Ji Hai was left.However, every time he called his brother, he always looked like a happy family.

It's no wonder that Ji Hai persuaded him to go home at the very beginning, but in the end he told Ji Zhou not to come back.

Because there is no home anymore.

"Those old neighbors usually don't have any entertainment, they just talk about other people's family's good and bad. They said that my brother made the girl's belly big, and then the two children eloped." Ji Zhou raised the corners of his mouth, With an unsmiling arc, "The girl's parents divorced, and she followed that gambler's mother. I went to that woman and gave her all my savings, but I only heard her talking drunkenly over there. Saying something like they're all dead."

later……

Ji Zhou's hands trembled involuntarily, he desperately hoped that he would not be able to remember what happened next, but that scene was clearly presented in his mind, torturing him day and night over and over again.

"Later I heard that someone picked up a dead body beside the moat. The dead body had been soaked to pieces, and its body..." Ji Zhou subconsciously approached Wei Zhonghou's back, as if he could make himself complete the sentence, " I have my brother's ID on him, and I got a bank card and ID card for him."

Those things are now locked in the small iron box next to his bed. He has never taken the initiative to look at them again, but he will definitely take them with him every time he moves.

He thought it was his brother's relic, or maybe it was an ordinary object that was only on his mind in the whole world.

Wei Zhonghou patted Ji Zhou on the shoulder, and then hugged him without letting go.He didn't ask about Ji Zhou's parents, if Ji Zhou didn't mention it, naturally it wouldn't be a good memory.

Ji Zhou turned to look at Wei Zhonghou: "I want to make a phone call."

The mobile phone was in his hand, and Wei Zhonghou knew that his words were not meant to avoid or ask him, but to say it as if it would make him more courageous.

"Hit." Wei Zhonghou picked up Ji Zhou's mobile phone, he held it tightly, but he seemed to lose his strength after Wei Zhonghou put his hand on it.Wei Zhonghou, who had never seen Ji Zhou like this before, paused for a moment before unlocking the phone's lock screen.

The screensaver picture is a selfie of him and Ji Zhou in the hospital that day. The smile on Ji Zhou's face is very real and contagious.

After unlocking it, he saw that the page was the number that Zhou Yan gave him. Without Ji Zhou's hesitation, Wei Zhonghou directly pressed the dial button.This action made Ji Zhou raise his head abruptly, but he just clenched his fist loosely and did not stop him.

In fact, the connection time of the other party was not slow, but those few seconds were like letting Ji Zhou do a bungee jump.

"Hey! Who?"

Loud voice, with the hoarseness of an old smoker, and an accent that Ji Zhou couldn't quite hear.

Not Ji Hai.

Wei Zhonghou stuck the phone to Ji Zhou's ear.

"Who? Why don't you speak?"

Just when the other party was cursing and about to hang up, Ji Zhou said in a trembling voice: "Is Ji Hai there?"

"Haizi! Someone is looking for him!"

The man didn't ask anything, and just yelled not far away.The opposite side was very noisy, like the feeling of being in a food stall. He heard someone say something, but the person holding the phone said impatiently, "How do I know, a man."

It was another chaotic sound that was infinitely amplified. When Ji Zhou felt that he was about to suffocate, he heard a somewhat clear voice saying——

"Which one?"

Wei Zhonghou saw Ji Zhou raised his arms and covered his eyes.

Probably because I haven't heard any response, I can hear the other party's puzzled 'hmm', and then asked with a good attitude: "Are you still there?"

"...Aren't you dead?" Ji Zhou's voice was hoarse as if he was crying, and every word he said seemed to exhaust his strength, "Little brat."

silence.

Ji Zhou's current voice may not be recognized by anyone who knows him well, but on the other side of the phone, he seems to be able to guess who he is.Ji Zhou didn't speak any more, and the other party didn't hang up either.

"...Brother." Ji Hai's voice at the beginning was quite calm, but it seemed to be a fuse. He seemed to have lost his ability to speak, and would just keep repeating this word, "Brother, brother, brother!"

In the end, he even cried out the word.

Ji Zhou thought he would talk a lot, for example, Ji Hai was still alive and nothing happened, why didn't he just come to him?And what about his wife and child?How did he get here all these years?Is the rebellious period convulsions all that long?

But he didn't realize what he was trying to say until now.

"Get out of here tomorrow, I'm in your hotel." He hesitated, and finally added, "Is there any money left?"

"Brother..." Ji Hai squatted on the ground holding his phone and nodded while wiping his tears. It took him a long time to realize that Ji Zhou couldn't see it at all, "I'll fly back tomorrow!"

"You still have an airport in this poor place? Call me when you arrive tomorrow. I still have work tomorrow, so I hung up."

"Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Brother!" Ji Hai suddenly opened his mouth and called him again.

"What else?"

"It's okay, I just wanted to call you."

"Still stupid."

If there is anyone in this world who can make Ji Zhou treat him with such an almost disgusting tone, Ji Hai is probably the only one left.Ji Hai has seen the days when he fought and rebelled, and heard his ugly complaints. All his immaturities are known only to his younger brother.So during the phone call, he faced his younger brother, and naturally, he took on his previous tone and attitude.

It didn't make Ji Hai feel the slightest sense of strangeness, as if the five years of life and death between the two of them were all fake.

Every word Ji Zhou said seemed to be very relaxed, only Wei Zhonghou could see Ji Zhou's arms covering his eyes were trembling.

"Hang up." He didn't let go of his arm, and he said this to Wei Zhonghou who had been holding the phone for him.

Wei Zhonghou put his phone aside and yawned, "Are you sleepy? Go to sleep."

He didn't ask any questions, and stuffed Ji Zhou into the quilt in a completely forceful way, with his arms around his waist.

"Close your eyes and go to sleep. Didn't that chirping little sparrow in Saipan mean that he will take my part in the first scene tomorrow? If you can't keep up with him, he will kick you out." Wei Zhonghou's voice was a little lazy in Jizhou's ear He said he was sleepy, but in fact he was not sleepy, but this was the only excuse to keep Ji Zhou from thinking wildly.

Obviously finding his younger brother is a good thing, but Ji Zhou looks like he is about to cry.Wei Zhonghou himself has never had the feeling of regaining what was lost. In many cases, what he lost is something that he will never get back. He has no way to comfort him, so he can only turn the topic to filming.

Even he himself felt stupid.

Ji Zhou put down his arm, and lightly held Wei Zhonghou's wrist, his voice was hoarse: "I still want to hug your thigh tightly, how can I be willing to be kicked out?"

Wei Zhonghou's hand moved up to cover his eyes, unlike what he had imagined, there was no moist feeling.

"I'm fine." Ji Zhou's voice finally carried a bit of his usual smile, "Anyway, there's no need to rush to see Ji Hai, and you don't have to worry about him running away if you know where his lair is."

"Don't worry." Wei Zhonghou's words were really vague, "If he dares to run away again, I will catch him back."

"I thought you would break his legs if he dared to run."

"It's all one family." Wei Zhonghou rubbed his forehead against the back of Wei Zhonghou's neck, "What are you talking about?"

family.

These three words seemed to be trapped in Ji Zhou's heart, it was soft and warm, so comfortable that Ji Zhou wanted to cry.

"General." He said softly, Wei Zhonghou's breathing had slowed down, and he just responded to the title through his nasal cavity.Ji Zhou didn't turn around, his back rested on Wei Zhonghou's chest, and with the slow ups and downs of his breathing, Ji Zhou's breathing involuntarily changed to the same frequency, "I really can't let you go more and more."