Inferior by Nature

I keep touching him?

Have it?

With this question in mind, I opened the door and went out of the bathroom.

A diner who was going to the bathroom happened to come outside, and when he saw me coming out, he wanted to go in, but I stopped him in time.

"Sorry, there are still people inside."

Hearing the words, the other party had a strange face, looked in the direction of the toilet, then at me, and stood still without moving.

On the way back, the waves were a bit big, and the boat bumped badly.I was very uncomfortable from being bumped, and I started to close my eyes and meditate.

Shaking and getting sleepy just after eating, she fell asleep without knowing it, and woke up to find that her head was resting on Ran Qingzhuang's shoulder, and the boat was about to dock.

I quickly sat up, very nervous, glanced at Chen Qiao and Mochi who were sleeping sprawled not far away, and whispered to Ran Qingzhuang: "I didn't mean to..."

Seeing that I was awake, Ran Qingzhuang didn't say anything, moved his shoulders, and kept frowning slightly, looking very uncomfortable.

I raised my hand, wanting to press him, recalling that not long ago he said not to touch him, and I held back.

Since he doesn't want to have physical contact with me, then I don't want to be annoying.

Ran Qingzhuang and the others were all drunk, and it was not easy to drive even on the island. Chen Qiao contacted another person to pick us up early in the morning.

The car is a seven-seater, which is fairly spacious.As soon as he got in the car, Ran Qingzhuang crossed his arms after meeting the driver, leaned back in the seat and fell asleep.

Chen Qiao was sitting in the passenger seat, probably because he had slept on the boat, he looked very energetic in the car and kept talking to the driver.

The driver's real name is unknown, his nickname is Big Beard, his face is thickly haired, his chin is surrounded by black fluffy cheeks, and his two eyebrows are almost connected together, which is worthy of his name.

The bearded man said: "I heard that your kid has been promoted, and now you are also a team leader?"

"It's okay, it's okay." It's okay, but Chen Qiao's words are full of embarrassment.

"Don't forget brother when you get developed in the future."

"That must be, no one can forget you if you forget it."

The internal structure of the club is pyramid-shaped. Jin Feisheng is the boss, also known as the godfather, and his son Jin Chenyu is called the little boss.Below Jinchen Island are the veterans and core figures of the group, such as Ou Hua, Kong Tan, Ran Qingzhuang and the like, who are the sharpest minions of the Jin family and the leading wolves raised by them.

The head wolf is the commander, and the lower head is a pyramid structure with them as the top, divided into squadron leaders, small leaders, and ordinary soldiers.The organization may seem loose, but it is actually tight.It is difficult for the lowest level to know the high-level decision-making, and the godfather will only hand over the really important business to his most trusted subordinates.

Chen Qiao's promotion to the team leader was just his first step in the Union Group. From then on, as long as he was still up and down on this road, he would go all the way to the squadron leader and head wolf. After a few years, he might become a leader. Senior cadres like Kong Tan.

The lights in the car were not turned on, just relying on the dim moonlight reflected from outside and the lights from the car.The small half of Chen Qiao's side face in the front is highlighted by the twilight, making him look very immature, like a child. I can't compare him with that poisonous snake Kong Tan.

The four of them got out of the car and entered the elevator together. When Chen Qiao reached the floor, he said "ah" as if he suddenly remembered something, then turned to me and said, "Brother Ning, I have to lead a team on a business trip these two days. Shu follows you. Don't worry, Mochi is very reliable, and the car is very stable."

"Where are you going on a business trip, why don't I know?" Before I could speak, Ran Qingzhuang suddenly spoke.

Chen Qiao made a big "X" in front of his mouth with his index fingers, and said, "Brother Yao, you know the rules, I can't say that."

At first, I thought that the people on these paths were the most unruly, but gradually I discovered that there are rules everywhere here. If you make a wrong step, and accidentally break the rules, you may be lost forever.

Ran Qingzhuang didn't ask anymore, the elevator door opened, and Chen Qiao, wearing the pair of sunglasses I bought for him, made a handsome gesture of "see you" to us, and went down with Mochi.

Smug.

I waved my hand funny and said goodbye to both of them.

"Pay attention to your own safety." Ran Qingzhuang, who has always been cold-spoken, changed his usual tough guy style, and actually told Chen Qiao intimately, which surprised the three of us.

Seeing that the elevator doors were about to close, Chen Qiao finally came back to his senses and smiled brightly.

"Okay!" He waved his hand vigorously until the elevator was completely closed.

The car fell silent, and I saw Ran Qingzhuang frowning, with a worried look on his face, and deliberately made a few jokes to ease the atmosphere.

"We are like a pair of parents sending their children on a long journey." I said.

Ran Qingzhuang didn't stretch his brows when he heard this, his eyes turned sideways as if looking at a psychopath.

I shut up all of a sudden, knowing that he didn't like this description, so I didn't say anything more sensible.

As Chen Qiao said, Mochi drives very steadily and is reliable. He is never late, but he rarely talks to me, and always maintains a polite and distant attitude.

On the third day after Chen Qiao left, I was correcting Jin Yuanbao's bow-holding posture, when Jin Chenyu came to visit suddenly, didn't say anything, just sat quietly and listened.

I was nervous, and Jin Yuanbao was more nervous than me, so he quit after two notes and told his brother to leave quickly.

"Didn't you say that you want to play the tune for me? Why can't you practice well while I'm sitting here?" Jin Chenyu smirked, and gracefully picked up the black tea cup on the small table beside him and took a sip .

"Go away." Jin Yuanbao ran to grab his arm and dragged him towards the door, "I will let you know when I want you to listen. If you don't ask you to listen, don't come here!"

In the entire Jin family, no, in the entire Lion King Island, this young master is probably the only one who dares to say such things to Jin Chenyu.

"Okay, okay, don't drag me, the tea is spilled out." Jin Chenyu carefully maintained his balance, returned the teacup to the small table, turned around and rubbed it at his younger brother's head, rubbing the gold ingot Had to scream.

"Wait, I'm going to tell Dad that you bullied me!" Jin Yuanbao covered his hair with both hands, his face was flushed with anger, like a little hedgehog with fried fur.

"Are you still suing? How old are you and you still always ask your father to help you out?" Jin Chenyu flicked Jin Yuanbao's forehead lightly, and smiled, "I'm right in front of you, you won't take revenge on me yourself ?”

Jin Yuanbao covered his brow that was hurt by his bullets, pouted his lips, his eyes were slightly moist.

I was afraid that the young master would get out of control when he cried, so I wanted to be a peacemaker and try to persuade the two brothers.Don't want to say anything, Jin Yuanbao shouted loudly, and rushed towards Jinchenyu like a cannonball, and bit his arm when he jumped on it.

"Huh? Why are you still biting people?" Jin Chenyu said, but there was no anger on his face, and he was not in a hurry to break free.

It's like... playing with a puppy in the period of teething, all the culling and biting are within the allowable range, but it is just a kind of training for it to grow up and be able to catch prey better.

Jin Yuanbao clenched his teeth and did not let go, his saliva wet Jin Chenyu's sleeves.

At this moment, Butler Feng hurried in from outside the door, bent down and whispered something in Jin Chenyu's ear.There was a smile on Jin Chenyu's face, and his eyes turned cold almost instantly.

He hooked the gold ingot and pulled the man away, wiped his sleeves with a tissue, stood up and said, "Okay, I won't make trouble with you, and learn the piano with Teacher Ji, and I will come to see you next time."

The young master staggered backwards and fell to the ground, wiped his mouth indiscriminately, poking off the fibers in his mouth, and raised his head to make a strange face at Jin Chenyu.

"Don't come, I will bite you again!"

Jin Chenyu seemed to be in a hurry, he didn't even have time to greet me, so he turned around and strode out.

I didn't know what happened until the end of class, when I waited for the gate with my cello on my back as usual, but Mochi was nowhere to be seen, and I felt uneasy in my heart.

Logically, I shouldn't connect these two small things together. Mochi may not have arrived in time because he accidentally fell asleep, and Jin Chenyu's face suddenly changed because an official he was familiar with fell off the horse again. Change.But for some reason, there seems to be a sixth sense in the dark, which involves my thoughts and makes me unable to stop thinking about the worst.

Did something happen to Ran Qingzhuang?His identity was discovered?Or is Kong Tan going to do something again?

I frantically took out my phone and was about to call Ran Qingzhuang when Mochi's car came slowly and stopped in front of me.

He quickly got out of the car, put the piano in the trunk for me, lowered his head, and said in a weird tone: "Sorry, brother Ning, I'm late."

I saw his nose was reddish and his eyes were bloodshot, and I couldn't help asking: "What happened?"

The vehicle drove out slowly, and Mochi couldn't stop crying while driving.

After all, he is also an imposing seven-foot man, suddenly crying like a gold ingot, how can I not panic?

"What happened?" I asked again, frowning.

"Ning, brother Ning..." He choked up and couldn't make a tune, and finally the car couldn't go on, so he had to double flash and stop on the side of the road, "Pineapple boy, he's dead."

He dropped a thunderbolt, and I was stunned for a while before realizing that he meant that Chen Qiao was dead.

Everything was so sudden, the shock overwhelmed all emotions, I just found it incredible.

The Chen Qiao he was talking about was the Chen Qiao who was eating with us two days ago?Is it the lively and cheerful Chen Qiao who introduced himself as Pineapple on the first meeting, and asked me to call him Pineapple?

"Why..." As soon as I opened my mouth, I realized that my voice was hoarse and hard to distinguish, so I had to clear my throat and try again, "How come?"

"The specifics... I don't know. I only know him. He was responsible for escorting a batch of goods to the north, but he was targeted by the police. They set up a card to stop him and asked him to stop... He didn't stop and drove off the road. , and later..." Mochi burst into tears, crying uncontrollably, "then the car lost control, and he even drove the car over the cliff."

Mochi cried for a long time, and I sat in the co-pilot without urging him, and let him vent his overflowing sorrow.

It may have been more than ten minutes before the crying gradually died down. Mochi wiped his face and restarted the engine.

"One day, I will kill those stinky policemen and avenge him!" He gritted his teeth and punched the steering wheel, with hatred that shocked me.

When I got back to my residence, it was still like a dream, without any sense of reality. I always felt that Chen Qiao was joking with me.As long as I am vigilant, he will jump out from any corner of the house and shout "surprise" the next moment.

However, waiting left and right, the house was quiet and no one came out.

This world has lost a young man named Chen Qiao...

I thought he was younger than me, so he should have lived longer than me, but the world is unpredictable, he is actually shorter than me who is sick.

I just... just bought him new sunglasses.

If he had been persuaded to leave the Jin family and Lion King Island earlier, would the ending have been better?

I should have advised him that day.

I didn't have much appetite for dinner, so I ordered the kitchen's food delivery service, and after just two mouthfuls of noodles, I couldn't eat anymore.

Blindly switched TV channels, repeated several times, and finally chose a comedy variety show. I wanted to change my mood, but I couldn't laugh at all.

I curled up on the sofa and dozed off, until late at night when I heard the door lock ring, I woke up suddenly.

Ran Qingzhuang opened the door and entered, meeting my eyes.Pausing at the door for a moment, he said nothing, walked in and took off his coat on the sofa, and then turned into the bathroom.

The sound of the water lasted for an hour. Seeing that he hadn't come out, I was a little worried and knocked on the door.

"Ran Qingzhuang?"

There was no reply in there. I guess it was the same situation as when I gave him ginger juice before. I heard it, but I just didn’t want to talk to me.

I instinctively pushed the door open and went in. As soon as the door opened, I coughed twice uncontrollably, choked by the steam and thick smoke surging inside.

Ran Qingzhuang was barefoot, with one leg bent, and sat slumped on the ground leaning against the wall, with a lot of soot and cigarette butts beside him.

He raised his head to look at me, and slowly spit out a mouthful of white mist between his thin lips, obviously he didn't say anything, his eyes were dry and clear, strangely, but I had the illusion that he was going to be unable to hold on any longer.

His body is full of strength and his will is indestructible, but he is indeed exhausted and can no longer continue to pretend to be in front of others, so he can only use this clumsy method to hide in this only space that is not monitored, and take a short breath for a while.

I closed the door behind my back, walked up to him, and asked, "Are you okay?"

Staying in the bathroom for a long time made his hair a little damp.Holding a cigarette between his hands, he just looked up at me like this, without saying a word, just staring straight and unblinking.

My heart tightened, I really couldn't stand him like this, I hesitated, but I still squatted down, opened my arms and gently pulled him into my arms.

He let me embrace me docilely, raised his hand in mid-air, the unburned cigarette was still caught between his fingertips, he didn't scold me, and didn't push me away.

I stroked the back of his neck and the short stubble on the back of his head, my nose was filled with the strong smell of tobacco.

After a long time, he said hoarsely: "There is no goods in the car...Jin Chenyu used him as a bait, he was so stupid, and died for an empty box."

If it wasn't right next to my ear, his voice would almost be drowned by the sound of water.

"You ask how I got used to it?"

The back of my heart was suddenly pressed, and Ran Qingzhuang hugged me back, tightly, without leaving a single gap, as if a person who was about to freeze to death was absorbing the last bit of warmth from a living person.

"I'm not used to it." The strength around me grew stronger, he said, "I'll never get used to it."