Brother Christine

The cold ice pack was applied to the face that had subsided for a long time, and it felt cool. He lay comfortably in his brother's bed, squinting his eyes lazily and pretending to be dead.

He eats and drinks and waits for others to serve him. Counting today, it is already the fourth day that he has been bedridden.

Three meals a day are provided by someone, either Song Ding or his mother.The homeowner enjoys one-third of the mother's love, and recently he is in a very comfortable mood. He walks erratically, humming a little song, and after delivering the meal for the first time, he came back to add a thick quilt to him, and tried to kiss him secretly. At a certain moment, he punched a panda in the eye.

Severe high fever, the first day he felt light all over, almost unconscious, just remembered that his mother cooked for him and put it on the table, leaving a note saying "no need to wash the dishes", he went there to eat like a dream, and he was floating again. He fluttered back to the bed and fell asleep, and then a pair of shameless big hands pinched his face and reported the news to him.

The voice close to his ear said that his parents were divorced, and they had a break-up meal together at noon, and the guest invited by the man was in a western restaurant, which was quite formal.

In a daze, Shen Qing subconsciously felt very strange.

There is nothing to delve into about the breakup meal. After all, Jiang Jifeng has been playing this kind of decent and elegant gentleman for decades. If there is no such thing as him and his brother, the men are acting and acting, maybe it would be true. Even I have evolved into it, maybe I will really become such a person in the future, and then overshadow all the previous ones.

But in the western restaurant, Shen Qing always felt that it was very awkward for Jiang Jifeng and his mother to go in together.

Red wine steak and pasta, melodious piano music, two people who don't eat western food very much, holding knives and forks they are not used to, sitting face to face, looking at each other who is not a lover, the more romantic the restaurant, this The more embarrassing it is when the meal is broken up.

Regarding the division of property and the jointly owned house in the urban area, Shen Jing didn't mention a word when she came back. Shen Qing guessed that she probably left the house completely. The man's son, in a sense, was still under her instigation, so he was already ashamed, let alone dared to ask for anything else.

School is about to start, but Jiang Xiao's body still needs to be recuperated slowly. If no one takes care of him, the root cause of the disease will fall again. Shen Jing agrees to go with them and go over there to take care of the brothers' daily life.

Jiang Xiao asked Huo Ye to help her mother find a job as a teacher in a primary school student guidance institution near M University. The salary starts at [-] a month. Those with experience and achievements are preferred. Teacher Shen Jing has been working for most of her life. The award-winning record is full, and it is more than enough to be a tutoring class teacher.

The person was introduced by Huo Shi, and the salary and treatment are naturally better than others. The one-month internship period is free of charge, and he will officially join the job after he goes there.

Shen Jing quit her job here.The reason is that she has been buried for too long, and she wants to go to the big city to earn a lot of money. She dislikes the low salary offered by the small town school, and expresses her dissatisfaction with her year-end bonus of only [-]. , succeeded in angering the superiors, usually the approval would not be completed in a month or two, but this time several official seals were withheld in succession, the speed was unimaginable, the leaders who were scolded wanted to let her go out immediately.

School is about to start, but both Jiang Xiao and Shen Qing are seriously ill, one is still in the hospital, Shen Jing has been very busy recently, and has become a full-time housewife, running around the hospital and home, cooking, washing, cleaning and cleaning the house every day, changing things Make nutritious meals for three people.Song Yu didn't bother to take care of his own affairs anymore, and wandered around Shen Jing in a stinky and shameless manner every day, as if his mouth was filled with honey. The beautiful aunt, Aunt Conch, and Fairy Mother could shout anything when she went down to earth, or she just followed Jiang Xiao Shouting mom together, shouting so quietly that he was old, and blushed every day with embarrassment.

Shen Qing felt that if he had a bit of the brazen spirit of Song Yu, he wouldn't be able to get to where he is now with his mother.

Now the relationship between mother and son is very delicate, Shen Qing knows that his mother still minds, when a woman comes to his house to deliver food and bowls, she will not talk to her except "wake up", "go to sleep", "do you want to eat?" He talked about other things, and he didn't wait too long for cleaning. He moved the floor sweeping robot of Song Yu, and finished wiping the tables, chairs and furniture in three to four minutes.

It's already very good, Shen lightly rubbed his face against his brother's pillow, rubbing back and forth with his fingertips the drop of blood along the edge.Compared with his brother, he and his mother are already on good terms.

Another three days later, the wound on Jiang Xiao's back had healed, and it was time to remove the stitches, and he would be discharged from the hospital after the stitches were removed.Shen Qing's high fever has long since healed. In the past few days, apart from eating, showering and going to the toilet, he has become fatter by lying on the bed and pretending to be dead. He took a taxi early in the morning and went there to pick up people with his mother and Song Yu.

Jiang Xiao didn't know that Shen Qing fell ill, and at someone's behest, none of the people who came to deliver the meals told him. Jiang Xiao felt that Shen Qing was still angry with him and missed him so much recently that he didn't dare to tell anyone. information.

The boy in the window mirror, although he has no hair, is still handsome in a different way, but his ex-lover refuses to see him, the more Jiang Xiao looks at himself, the more ugly he feels.By the last day, the cranky and already neurotic man fell into serious self-doubt, and kept thinking, how could there be such an ugly person in this world?

Jiang Xiao got up in the morning, opened the window again to look at the scenery outside the building, while looking at himself in the mirror, waiting for the joyful "Master" or the gentle "Xiao Xiao" to sound behind him.

As soon as he settled down, his thoughts hadn't drifted far, when he heard the door creak and push, Jiang Xiao closed his eyes and let out a soft sigh.

In the end, he still didn't want to come to see him after all.

But the expected voice didn't sound, so Jiang Xiao turned his head to look.

Tall and tall, wearing light gray loose pajamas, with deep eyes, plump and handsome, with a shiny bald head, his facial features are as finely carved. At the first glance, his heart is pounding, and if he concentrates for a few seconds, he will already Heartfelt promises again.

Shen Qing fixed his heels at the door, watching him quietly, his amber eyes were light, reflecting the figure of the person opposite.

No matter how many times we meet again, no matter what he becomes, what he pretends in his heart is only him.

After half a month's absence, Jiang Xiao was also amazed by the sudden appearance.Shen Qing was wearing his black overcoat, covered in thick black, with new boots on the soles of his feet, with a restrained temperament, a deep and solemn expression, and an overly solemn sense of ceremony, he suddenly felt that this person was not here to pick him up. His, but to pick up his urn.

Jiang Xiao couldn't help but took a few steps forward.

He really wants to be more enthusiastic, and when he meets his old lover, he must show his optimistic, positive, sunny and confident mental outlook, so as to show that he can live a good life without him.But after looking at each other, he just wanted to go and hug him.

"It's white, fat." Shen Qing commented, then stepped in, sat on Jiang Xiao's bed, turned his back, looked down at the phone, and ignored him.

Jiang Xiao couldn't help being a little annoyed.

what is this? !

Both Shen Jing and Song Ding pretended to be blind, they couldn't see their flirting, one was carrying a lunch box, the other brought thick clothes for Jiang Xiao, came in in a hurry, put down things in a hurry, Song Ding followed his conch mother and went outside find a doctor.

Shen Qing ignores him, and he also ignores Shen Qing.

Jiang Xiao dragged the stool, picked up the lunch box, and was about to eat on the TV table facing the end of the bed.

Shen Qing glanced at his wrist, got up, took the things in his hand and helped them put them away.

"Thanks." Jiang Xiao didn't look at him, sat on the stool, and started twisting the lunch box to arrange the dishes.

"It's okay." Shen Qing continued to sit back and play with her mobile phone.

For today's breakfast, meat sausage, egg dumpling and three fresh buns, a bowl of egg custard with fragrant sesame oil, and a small bowl of sweet rice porridge that must be eaten every day.

In boring and lonely days, Jiang Xiao is most excited only when opening meals every day. Opening a box of lunch is like opening a blind box, and every time you open a floor, there are different surprises.

But today, because of Shen Qing's visit, Jiang Xiao's meal was not very enjoyable.People didn't come expecting people to come, people came and ignored them, and he didn't want people to come, but if he wanted to find something to say, he didn't know what to ask.

It is to ask that since the parents are divorced, we can no longer be brothers in the future, what are we going to do in the future?Or did she ask Shen Qing if she thought he was bald and ugly, so she didn't see him for such a long time?Or ask that kid Song Yu seems to have a crush on you, you stay in that house all day, have you ever been raped or something?

"That," Jiang Xiao ate with his head down, cleared his throat, and said, "Let's go back the day after tomorrow. You can communicate with your high school classmate and buy the ticket first."

"Buy it." The person behind said.

Five people, Song Miao bought the tickets for the three of them when they went home. This time, he should buy the tickets, and Yin Kuojiang was brought along.

Someone Yin started school seven days later than him, clamoring that he wanted to send the Buddha to the West, but he insisted on going there to have a look, Shen Qing was too lazy to expose his intentions.

Huang Zhong also wanted to send him to the West Paradise, and he wanted to go with him. Shen Qing and Yin Kuojiang jointly persuaded him to leave and let him stay where he was cool.

If you like it, you should stop it in moderation. Excessive entanglement will only cause trouble to others, and it will not be good at all, and it will also affect your image of being still infatuated in the eyes of other girls, which is unnecessary.

Huang Zhong sighed, turned around and set foot on his way home, waved his hand, and said, let time dilute everything.

Shen Qing was quite relieved, otherwise he really didn't know what to do with that box of bodhi beads.

"The second child's house is two-bedroom," Jiang Xiao said again, "You and mom can live together, I'll live in the dormitory."

"You live with mom." Shen Qing said.

"You paid for it."

"You are sick."

Jiang Xiao: "..."

"I'm ready," Jiang Xiao turned to look at him, "And I'm not a person of any status, how can I let my mother serve me?"

"I'll move there in the second half of the year." Shen Qing also looked up at him, "Didn't you say that the application won't work out, so it's not worth bothering Huo Ye over this matter."

"That's so troublesome." Jiang Xiao frowned, "Half a year and a few months have passed, and I have to move again when the time comes. We are all very busy in junior year, no..."

"I said I'll move in," Shen Qing stared at him, "Did I tell you to move out?"

"Ah?" Jiang Xiao was taken aback.

He had been out of his mind for too long, and he almost didn't understand what it meant.

His eyes are shining, and the corners of his mouth are raised!

It has nothing to do with love, he just wants to be with Shen Qing.

As Shen Qing wrote in the novel, what they mean to each other is no longer any kind of emotion, they are each other's breath, whether it is a brotherly relationship or a lover relationship, it is just a way to maintain breathing.

"Don't think too much," Shen Qing poured cold water on others: "Zeng Shenghao said that the living room is large, and you can install a partition and open a single room."

"It's okay," Jiang Xiao smiled, "I can sleep on the sofa."

Shen Qing gave him a white look.

"Your novel," Jiang Xiao had nothing to say, "Why didn't you charge money after reading it?"

"I won't write anymore." Shen Qing said.

"Why?" Jiang Xiao raised his eyebrows.

No matter how heart-wrenching it was at the time, he felt that this autobiographical story was very meaningful.Once a person lives, there are too few things that can really be left in this world. If you can't become a big man, can't make any earth-shattering feats, it's okay to leave a story behind you.

He thought that Shen Qing's original intention of writing this book was also the same.

"What do you think?" Shen Qing stared at him, "How do you know my password?"

"If it's because of this matter, you won't write it," Jiang Xiao nodded at him: "I apologize."

"I asked how you guessed it."

"Too smart," Jiang Xiao said with an innocent face, "I can't help it."

"roll."

"Your way of thinking is too simple," Jiang Xiao told the truth, "You only choose important dates as passwords since you were young, so it's easy to guess."

"Oh." You're still out of your mind, so you come to insult his IQ?

"Keep writing," Jiang Xiao persuaded, "I want to read it."

"Do you want to watch?" Shen glanced at him lightly, "Do you vomit blood after watching it? Or continue to commit suicide after watching it?"

"I won't be so stupid anymore," Jiang Xiao shook his head, "I still have to live."

"Why should I listen to you?"

"Don't listen to me," Jiang Xiao said, "Shen Qing, I hope you can follow your heart."

"What I wrote before," Shen lightly paused, "many of them are wrong."

Apart from Jiang Jifeng, he always felt that Jiang Xiao was being wronged behind something he couldn't see.

"That's so wrong," Jiang Xiao encouraged, "The adaptation is not entirely true, just write it according to your own ideas."

"If I continue to write," Shen Qing lowered her head and picked her finger, and asked, "Will you still read it?"

"Of course, I'm your most loyal reader," he smiled, "I'm still your hero."

"I don't write stories that make people happy."

"You are writing our story." He came over, leaned over and hugged him: "Shen Qing, I will try my best to make our ending better."

In the long-lost embrace, Shen Qing closed his eyes and leaned against his brother's face, feeling the slightly higher body temperature on the man's skin through a layer of fabric.

"Brother." He called him softly.

"Huh?" Jiang Xiao stretched out his hand to stroke his hair.

"Don't regret it." He arched his head and rubbed his stomach.

"Regret what?" He smiled and scratched his chin with his fingers.

"I'll literally make you vomit blood."

***

After a short hug and tenderness, the brothers shook hands and made peace.

Jiang Xiao felt that, as a person whose heart was hit once, he was already indestructible.Last time, it was because all the conflicts had accumulated together. If the incident with his father hadn't happened, he would have changed to a bright place with green hills, green waters, singing birds and fragrant flowers, and just read Shen Qing's novel. uncomfortable.

Originally, the two of them were alone in the room, and it was a good time to open up and have a serious talk. Jiang Xiao wanted to explain clearly to Shen Qing what happened on Valentine's Day. When Shen Qing heard the phrase "about my mother", she immediately signaled to stop.

He probably knew more than his brother, when he first speculated about Jiang Jifeng maliciously, so it's not hard to imagine how broken his brother was when he knew some facts.Now, "father" has completely become a past tense, and they don't need to list his "crimes" one by one to complete the complement of unknown information.For both parties, there is no other benefit except to make each other hate each other even more.

There is no need to tear open the wound that has healed. If it has to be done, that person should not be his brother.

After a while, Jiang Xiao was taken to remove the stitches, Shen Qingmei, Shen Jing, Song Yu and the others waited outside, first went to pay the hospitalization fee, went through the discharge procedures, then found a corner outside, squatted on the ground to smoke .

It's hard to get over the water, but fortunately, he has a hard-skinned face. He first went back to the APP and marked "continue to update this article" under the copy, and then went to the editor, saying that he was not going to delete the article again, and he would serialize it for free in the future.

Milk powder sent an emoji of a little dinosaur spinning around happily, without asking anything else, she encouraged her with "Come on", and Shen Qing replied "Thank you".

The "Public Opinion Attack Four" made enough noise on Jiang Xiao's WeChat a few days ago. Knowing that the other party was discharged from the hospital today, they all went to Shen Wei's WeChat to send money, four 666, the words are the same, we love you.

The evildoer asked to send flowers by name, the second master wanted to give a fruit basket, Yaoji wanted to give eggs, Kexin wanted to give medical wristbands and woolen caps, and even sent samples of his own pictures, saying that Jiang Xiao would be cool wearing them.Shen Qing looked at these people who said something wrong, and felt that they were his brother's true love.

The gift is still secondary, the key is that these scheming boyandgirls all instigated him to buy it as a gift to his brother, the matchmaking was too obvious.

He replied "We're fine", Shen Qingquan accepted it bluntly, it's out of his heart, if he doesn't accept it now, he will have to worry about it when he goes back to school, his brother probably doesn't want to mess up his bald hospitalization Everyone knows.

Jiang Xiao didn't see Shen Qing after disconnecting the wires, so he took out his phone and sent someone a message:

—Why don't you come again?

The other party replied:

- what?

—Look at me, I thought you were gone again.

Shen Qing didn't return.

After Jiang Xiao finished changing his clothes, he picked up his phone and found that the other party hadn't replied yet. After thinking about it, he thought that he might be too hypocritical, so he deleted the message.

No matter what the other party thinks, he can't see it anyway.Since he couldn't see it, then this sentence was never sent, and this embarrassment never existed.

The hat was brought by Shen Jing. There were two hats hanging together in the room. She got the wrong color and gave him Shen Qing's black hat.Jiang Xiao didn't say anything, just took it and put it directly on the head.

A group of people left the hospital with big bags and small bags, and Shen Qing had already ordered a car outside.

A man in black stood in the ice and snow, his back leaning lazily against the car door, his frozen skin was stained red, with cigarettes in his fingers, and a thin blue mist around him, as if he was hiding in a foreign land The gentle demon in the movie exudes psychedelic temptation with every gesture.

Jiang Xiao was taken aback.

"Tut tsk tsk," Song Yu smacked his lips beside him, "A beauty in the world!"

"The beauty in the world is not yours." Jiang Xiao stepped on him, squeezed him behind, and walked towards Shen Qing with two pillows in his arms.

Song Yu snorted.

Shen Jing also snorted, and said "I don't learn well", and followed the driver to put things in the trunk.

"Okay?" Shen Qing glanced at his hat, and let his body open the rear door for him.

"The head is healed, and the nose will be seen in the hospital when we get back to school." Jiang Xiao got into the car and passed him sideways, and someone helped him by the arm.

Shen nodded lightly, closed the car door, took the last two puffs of cigarettes, turned around and sat in the passenger seat.

Someone who had already padded the backrest on the back seat looked at the person in front who put his head down and fastened his seat belt, and silently put the pillow back.

Before the others got into the car, Jiang Xiao stared at the indifferent person in front for a while, and then called him.

Shen Qing didn't look back, and said "um".

Jiang Xiao reached out and lifted his seat, "Are you still angry with me?"

"Yes." He answered neatly.

"I was wrong."

"What did you promise me?"

"I'll be fine in the future, don't be angry, ah," Jiang Xiao leaned over behind him, reached out and shook his shoulder, flattering him, "Live well, and be with you."

"Take your hand away." Shen Qing turned her head away and looked out of the window, "I'll be annoyed when I see it."

"You are so cruel." Jiang Xiao complained, withdrew his hand, and sat back.

Shen Qing ignored him.

A nearby fruit shop was doing promotions, and the horns were blare. Shen Jing couldn't bear the discount, so she trotted all the way to grab it with her wallet in her pocket. Song Yu followed closely in the footsteps of his conch mother, dialing and scanning WeChat codes while walking, Excited to rush with people.

The driver outside closed the trunk, leaned against the car outside and began to puff.

Inside the car, it's quiet.

Jiang Xiao couldn't take it anymore, and opened his mouth to call him again.

"Shen Qing," Jiang Xiao said sincerely, "I really know I was wrong..."

"Jiang Xiao," he choked up, "You are the cruelest person."

Heart tightened, Jiang Xiao didn't speak.

That night, he was not the only one who was injured.

At that time, blood was pouring into his ears, there were many voices, even his father's scolding could be heard indistinctly, but he could clearly hear the kneeling of Shen Qing who rushed over to hug him.

His knees vibrated and muffled, they slammed on the glass shards, the screeching sound of the glass piercing through the flesh, and the heart-piercing screams from above his head. He could even feel the heart of the person who was hugging him in those few seconds. It stopped beating.

What kind of heart-wrenching despair must it be, to suffocate one step ahead of those who want to die?

He broke his promise, Shen Qing said that he would not spare him, they hugged and discussed death and the future, but they never thought of a prophecy, his life is Shen Qing's life, the two are tied together , should be inseparable, but he chose to end it on his own, how is this fair to Shen Qing?

But he didn't know what to do except the three words "I'm sorry" that he was tired of saying.

In the distance, Shen Jing and Song Yu were carrying two large bags of apples and pears, with triumphant smiles on their faces, they rushed towards the car, the people in front stopped making any noise, Jiang Xiao had no choice but to take out a pack of tissues from his pocket , pulled the sleeve to block the wrist, and handed it over the light shoulder.

"They're here," Jiang Xiao persuaded softly, "It's all my fault, you can punish me however you want, don't cry."

"I didn't cry." The person in front sniffed and threw the tissue back with his hands.

"Okay, okay," Jiang Xiao sighed, fiddling with the tissue bag with his fingers, and his tone was a little aggrieved, "Then tell me, how can you forgive me?"

"Hey! Everybody! Open the window!" Song Yu leaned over and knocked on the car window.

Jiang Xiao lowered the car window and glanced at him: "What?"

"Do you want to eat apples?" Song Yu held up the apples and said, "Our mother said that the frozen pears should be boiled in water, so you should pick the apples first."

"Let's go, there's no one to eat." Jiang Xiao waved away people.

"That," Shen Qing suddenly pointed to the person outside the window, and said, "You wear that."

Jiang Xiao followed his gaze.

Jiang Xiao didn't wear the super kawaii hat he bought, but Song Yu wore it himself.At this time, the man was shaking his head and scratching the window, showing the newly bought fruit to the two people in the car. The little bear's ears were turned up, and the little brown scarf flicked and bumped into the car door from time to time, making crackling noises. movement.

"That," Shen wiped his eyes lightly, and looked back at him, "on the day you go back to school, you wear that back."

Jiang Xiao: "..."

His image, his integrity, his majesty, his personality, his arrogance...

"Will you wear it?" Shen Qing asked.

"Uh... that..." Jiang Xiao's face twisted: "Can't you wear someone else?"

"Oh," Shen Qing turned her head back again, "Forget it if you don't wear it."

Hold!This bastard!

"Wear it!" Jiang Xiao closed his eyes and gritted his teeth: "If you let him wear it, just wear it!"

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