What if the beta cannot be marked?bite him!

Chi Jinxian didn't understand!But his legs subconsciously softened, and he didn't know whether it was caused by the current powerful Lu Zhi or what Lu Zhi said.

Lu Zhi's breath sprayed all over Chi Jinxian's ears, Chi Jinxian couldn't hold back and shrunk his neck, but seeing him making a little movement, Lu Zhi almost instinctively increased the strength of his hand , Chi Jinxian hurriedly said: "I understand."

After expressing his attitude, the low pressure of someone behind him was still very heavy. After chasing him for two years, he hadn't seen Lu Zhi like this before. Chi Jinxian said again: "I don't run away. Brother Lu, I like you, why should I run away?" Ah. I'm not running."

Such words seem to have a soothing effect, and the strength in Lu Zhi's hand really loosened up a little.

But the two of them remained in a stalemate for a while.After a long while, Lu Zhi said in a deep tone of "En", and really chose to believe his words, and slowly let go of Chi Jinxian, and even took a little step back to distance himself from the person. , but only a little.

With her head down, Chi Jinxian gently rubbed her other wrist that was pinched red with the good hand that was holding her schoolbag, and turned her body very slowly.

They are very close, the hem of each other's school uniforms touches each other, inheriting the stalemate posture of the two masters at this time, like a secret love story about to be whispered between lovers.

"Look up at me." Lu Zhi's voice suddenly sounded from above his head.

Chi Jinxian's heart shuddered, but he lowered his head even lower.After the breathing of the people around him became obvious, he stammered and whispered, "Brother Lu... we have something to do, we'll talk about it later... okay?"

Chi Jinxian had already confirmed in his heart what Lu Zhi wanted to say when he was blocked here, and it was nothing more than drawing a clear line with him to prevent him from chasing after him shamelessly in the future.This time, he suddenly became honest for a week. Just in case, Lu Zhi definitely hoped that Chi Jinxian would keep being honest in the future.

Hearing this, there was no one talking beside him, only Lu Zhi's steady but still somewhat heavy breathing.

The classroom was so quiet that a needle could be heard, and it seemed that even each other's heartbeats could be heard clearly, and there was nothing to hide.Chi Jinxian was not a temperament that could be calmed down, and this week's avoiding Lu Zhi had almost exhausted his whole life's skills. At this time, he was face to face with people, but the atmosphere of having nothing to say was too suffocating. up.

Chi Jinxian couldn't stand the atmosphere, he was digging at the edge of his schoolbag with his fingers restlessly, and just when he was about to say something, Lu Zhi's unrecognizable joy and anger finally came from above his head.

"Why didn't you reply to my message?"

After saying that, Chi Jinxian paused for all his small movements, and quickly raised his eyes and glanced at Lu Zhi guiltily.Seeing what kind of eyes Lu Zhi was looking at him, a feeling of numbness suddenly went straight to the nerve center uncontrollably, and Chi Jinxian's slightly protruding Adam's apple rolled unconsciously.

The tone of the voice was not much different from that of the person involved at this time. Lu Zhi's eyes were very heavy, as if nothing outside could shine into his pupils.But now he is staring at Chi Jinxian without blinking, as if there is only one person in those eyes at this moment.

"Answer." Lu Zhi said.

"I, I..." Chi Jinxian only dared to take one look, and then quickly lowered his eyelashes, "I...I don't dare."

Lu Zhi said: "The reason."

"...You hate Beta." Chi Jinxian said in an extremely small voice.

Obviously, the conversation between the two is very normal, but I don’t know if it’s because Chi Jinxian has never been in touch with Lu Zhi for such a long time in the past few years, and the huge loss and grievance suddenly came out during the active inquiry of another party. sprouted.

Not to mention the classroom, there may not be many people in the current campus. In such a quiet environment, Lu Zhi could clearly hear his answer in a whisper.

He didn't respond, but his brows furrowed at some point.

Chi Jinxian whispered even more: "...you will hate me."

Accompanied by these words, Lu Zhi frowned even deeper.

He didn't seem to know what to say, and he seemed to regret and impulsively left Chi Jinxian here.A hint of irritability was evident in Lu Zhi's too dark eyes, as if he suddenly encountered a problem, but he didn't know how to solve it.

The person in front of him stopped talking for a long time, and the loss and grievance just now turned into other things in the blink of an eye, and Chi Jinxian began to fear that Lu Zhi would really say what he didn't want to hear.

When people might really plan to do this, Chi Jinxian moved his body to open the door, and preemptively said rather stubbornly: "Brother Lu, don't say you hate me, I will be sad...I want to go home." He I also wanted to say that I'll come to coax you when you're not so unhappy and don't care so much, but Chi Jinxian felt that Lu Zhi might not want to hear such words, so he didn't say any more.

Before the matter was completely resolved, he probably couldn't go home, because Lu Zhi didn't mean it at all.

When he heard what Chi Jinxian wanted to do, he only heard a slight "click", Lu Zhi stretched his hand over Chi Jinxian and screwed the lock on the back door.

Chi Jinxian was really wronged this time.

He raised his eyes and looked at Lu Zhi, with a pitiful posture that made his eyes red.He complained, his voice trembling with no confidence: "What are you doing?"

Lu Zhi was silent.After a while, he raised his arm, and stretched out a hand with sharp bones facing up to Chi Jinxian's eyes. — is a gesture of asking for something.

Chi Jinxian was slightly stunned, the grievances in his heart disappeared first.He didn't understand what Lu Zhi meant. He lowered his eyes to look at his hand, raised his eyes to look at the person, and repeated this several times. Chi Jinxian still didn't understand, so he could only ask in a low voice, "What's wrong...Brother Lu."

Lu Zhi kept his posture unchanged, but the breath around him became colder for some reason, but he didn't scare Chi Jinxian anymore.Two seconds later, he reminded him word by word: "Milk, roses, love letters. Give them to me."

Chi Jinxian's brain crashed and he even held his breath, then he heard Lu Zhi say again: "You know how many days are missing. If you miss a day, you can make up for me in the classroom. If you can't make up, you don't have to go home gone."

Chi Jinxian blinked twice slowly, and after realizing what Lu Zhi said, he was caught off guard by a huge sense of unreality, and he said in disbelief first, "Ah? ... what? ?”

Lu Zhimu was expressionless.

Chi Jinxian fully reacted, and when he spoke again, his face was flushed with excitement. He didn't know whether it was nervous or what, he stammered and said: "Ten, ten days! I know, but I... ...I didn't bring it with me, I originally wanted to give it to you next week, next week...I'll go home and get it!"

When Lu Zhi didn't move, Chi Jinxian quickly expressed his attitude: "I will come. I like you."

So what if you don't believe it, and you can't really keep people in the classroom all the time.

Lu Zhi withdrew his hand and asked, "How long will it take to go home?"

Chi Jinxian: "15 minutes!"

"Half an hour back and forth?" Lu Zhi asked in confirmation.

"Ok!"

Lu Zhi grabbed the schoolbag on the table and put it on one shoulder. He unlocked the back door, opened it, and went out with Chi Jinxian. After arriving at the school gate in 10 minutes, the car that was usually responsible for picking up Lu Zhi was parked on the opposite side of the road in a very low-key manner as usual. Lu Zhi only glanced over there and didn't go there, which was a gesture to tell him to wait.

"Is one hour enough?" Lu Zhi stopped and stood where he was, and asked.

Chi Jinxian nodded immediately: "Enough!"

"Well," Lu Zhi looked at him, "I'll wait for you here. I haven't received anything after an hour, so you don't have to send it in the future."

Before the words fell, Chi Jinxian turned around and ran, and said while running: "Brother Lu, wait for me!"

He was running fast, and the evening breeze brushed over the corners of his clothes, blowing his clothes back and making his figure thinner.

The waistline seems to be able to be held by the palm of the hand as long as it is grasped.

Lu Zhi really stood there, looking at Chi Jinxian's figure who was running more and more shallowly.

Until he turned a street and was never seen again.

"Is that the young master of the Chi family?" Suddenly, a question came from beside him.

Lu Zhi retracted his gaze and glanced at the butler who had already walked beside him - usually he was the one who came to the school to pick him up - when his father was still there, he also took care of Yan Yue.

"En." Lu Zhi responded.

"I said, why did you come out so late today and talk to someone inside?" Fang Shou asked softly, his tone was relaxed and unrestrained when he was alone with Lu Zhi.

Hearing this, Lu Zhi lowered his eyelashes halfway, and gave another soft "hmm".

For a long while, he seemed to be talking to the other party, but it was more like talking to himself: "He hasn't talked to me for a long time."

There was a gentle wind around them, brushing the hair of the two of them, but no words appeared again.

Fang Shou looked at him sideways, and he didn't know who he saw on him, it seemed to be Yan Yue, but it looked more like Lu Zisheng.

Until I don't know how long it has passed.

"...Uncle Fang."

Fang Shouying: "Yes."

"Is Ai Duoyan still looking for my dad's notebook?" Lu Zhi asked.

"Maybe." Fang Shoudao, "But I'm here at home, so don't worry too much."

Lu Zhi didn't respond, his eyes dimmed.

"No one knows where the young master's notes are," Fang Shou said, "Even if he doesn't avoid me every day to look for them, there is a high probability that he won't find them."

"...I didn't find it either."

Lu Zhi finally responded with an "um", and stopped looking for new topics, and stood there straight.

He said he would wait there, but he really never took a step away.

15 minutes passed, and Chi Jinxian should be home.

"Little dad, little dad, little dad—" as soon as he entered the garden of the villa, Chi Jinxian shouted loudly while running on the cobblestone path without slowing down.

Yuan Si Bai heard his cheerful and eager tone from afar, his bedroom on the second floor was facing the garden in front, he hurriedly opened the window, saw Chi Jinxian running fast, and frowned, "Run slower."

When he went downstairs to the living room, Chi Jinxian also pushed the door in panting.

"What's wrong with running so fast? I came back a bit late today." Yuan Si Bai poured him a glass of water, wanting him to rest, but Chi Jinxian didn't have time to drink, and hurriedly said, "Daddy, help me put it in my schoolbag." Fill ten cans of milk, and I'll go upstairs to get the love letter!"

"...Ah?" Before Yuan Si Bai could react, Chi Jinxian rushed upstairs in three steps at a time.

The vigorous posture almost hit Chi Sui who was going downstairs with the computer, and Chi Sui was so frightened that he quickly lifted the computer up to escape, and turned his head and shouted: "Little bastard, the computer has been knocked into the air, the company's Do you redo the data?"

"Oh, I'm sorry," Chi Jinxian ran into his room and shouted, "Dad, don't be so stingy."

Chi Sui: "..."

Chi Sui straightened his head and continued downstairs, asking Yuan Si Bai, "What's wrong with him?"

"I've been depressed since I got sick until today, why did I look so happy and crazy just now?"

Yuan Si Bai stuffed milk into Chi Jinxian's schoolbag, and shook his head: "I don't know either."

After saying that, the figure of the little bastard rushed out of the bedroom and went downstairs again, Yuan Si Bai was so frightened that he frowned and raised his head to reprimand him lightly: "Chi Jinxian, don't go down three or four stairs at once, and still run so fast, What if you fell down?"

"Oh. Got it." Chi Jinxian suddenly became more honest, and when he was beside Yuan Si Bai, he raised his face and smiled at others, making it embarrassing to lose his temper.Yuan Si Bai wanted to say a few more words but was blocked back in his throat.

I had to ask softly: "What happened, it looks like I'm in a good mood."

Hearing this, Chi Jinxian's eyes were bent, and the inside was full of heart-stirring light like broken stars.

He said, "I'm sending Brother Lu a love letter rose!"

He stuffed ten cans of milk and ten love letters into one schoolbag. Since the two items were not the size of a fingernail, half of the schoolbag was already taken up at a glance.

If you put ten more roses in it, it will be really full.

……Rose?As soon as Chi Sui sat down on the sofa and put the computer on the office coffee table, an alarm sounded in his heart, and he immediately looked up to search for Chi Jinxian.

Immediately, the shadow of Chi Jinxian breaking through the door with a pair of large scissors remained in his eyes for a second.Chi Sui widened his eyes, stood up tremblingly, pointed at the door and shouted: "Chi Jinxian, why are you going, Chi Jinxian! Come back to me—"

"Yuanyuan! That little debt collector is going to pluck my garden! You hurry up and take care of him!" Chi Sui looked at Yuan Sibai asking for help, with a sad and angry expression on his face.

Combined with Chi Jinxian's depressed and excited performance during this period of time, it seems that the little romance of dating a few years ago has been aroused a little bit. Yuan Sibai probably understood the direction of the matter. He clenched a fist with one hand and pressed it to his lips. On the side, he coughed ambiguously.

Said: "Let him go."

Chi Sui: "..."

Chi Sui was angry: "I don't want it! Those are the flowers I planted for you! This little bastard... actually wants to squeeze ten of my branches at once. "

After finishing speaking, he stopped asking for help, and went to Chi Jinxian in arrogance, and a pair of slippers were pulled out of the weight of the leather shoes.

Yuan Si Bai had no choice but to follow out together in a hurry: "...Chi Sui."

When we arrived in the garden, Chi Jinxian's figure was revealed through the transparent glass flower gallery - he was squatting and carefully and carefully cutting the fiery red roses with scissors.

After two years of plucking, he has already become familiar with how to prune. In just a short while, Chi Sui saw that he had already prune six branches!

Chi Sui looked at his delicate and beautiful flowers like this "fragrance fades away", and his heart ached so hard that he shook his finger: "Give me, little bastard..."

"Dad, I love you," Chi Jinxian looked up at him, smiling brightly, "You are so handsome!"

Chi Sui: "..."

Chi Sui stayed where he was, and after a few seconds, he curled his lips and squatted down.

With his elbows resting on his knees, his hands resting on his cheeks, he stared at Chi Jinxian without blinking like a child, and muttered with a sigh: "Ten, he cut off my ten roses..."

Yuan Si Bai beside him couldn't hold back a chuckle.

Chi Sui turned around and looked up at him sadly, Yuan Si Bai coughed and cleared his throat, and stopped laughing.

"... Alas," Chi Sui continued to mutter, "I really can't help my father, even roses can't be kept."

Yuan Si Bai coughed again, his cheeks blushed a little.

After Chi Jinxian finished cutting, looking at the ten most beautiful roses in the garden today, he persuaded: "Dad, I haven't been in the garden for ten days. Before that, I always had one rose a day. One rose a day is the same as ten roses. Ten branches of the sky, there is no difference."

Of course this is the reason, but when he suddenly saw him walking out of the garden with a bunch of roses in his arms, Chi Sui felt a heart attack.

He said, "Shut up."

"Okay, stand up quickly." Yuan Si Bai grabbed the man's arm and whispered, "Like a child, what does it look like?"

Chi Sui raised his head resentfully, pointed at Chi Jinxian with his big hand, and said, "I also came here from his time."

Yuan Sibai sighed from the bottom of his heart.

"You despise me." Chi Sui said, his eyebrows drooping, and he said thoughtfully, "My son came to collect debts, squeezed my roses, and my wife doesn't love me anymore, and scolded me."

"When did I scold you?" Yuan Si Bai patted Chi Sui on the shoulder lightly, he raised his eyes to look at Chi Jinxian who was packing the roses, and reproached softly, "Don't talk nonsense."

After finishing speaking, he seemed a little embarrassed, and he said even more softly: "I love you, I love you - I will go buy roses with you in a while, and you will plant them when you come back. Is that okay?"

For so many years, Chi Sui has had a special place to buy flaming rose branches, otherwise his garden will most likely be bald by Chi Jinxian if he doesn't plant new ones.

This type of rose has very dense petals, which are gathered together layer by layer. The color is more beautiful than the Huoshaoyun in the sky, and the flowers are as big as the palm of a person.The important thing is that it will bloom all year round, as if it will not be baptized by the four seasons.

Each petal has a faint fragrance, but the smell of the whole rose is still neither strong nor pungent.

It may be due to the variety. Fiery red roses are more difficult to raise. You can’t see too much sun, let alone see the sun, too much wind and rain, and you can’t see nature. It is fed, but it does not bloom.

I think back when Chi Suigang vowed to plant a rose manor for Yuan Sibai, he also said that he would plant the most beautiful rose in the alliance for him. The plan was carried out three times, but all of them died, which almost made him doubt his life.

He came back and planted three times, but all the flower branches died.

In the end, Yuan Si Bai really couldn't bear to see him continue to mistreat plants, so he asked him to stop immediately. Chi Sui didn't believe in evil, and bought a large number of flowering branches and seedlings back.

A curved glass flower gallery was also installed for this Rose Manor, and the dome can be opened and closed by remote control.Although three batches of rose seedlings died before, the experience of failure is also experience. Chi Sui is especially concerned about the fourth batch of roses, when to open the dome to let the flower branches absorb the natural wind and sunshine, and when to close the dome to let them stay in the greenhouse , Chi Suimen Qing'er.

The hard work paid off, and the fiery red rose finally grew into a flower!And one is more beautiful than the other.

Every day when the window facing the back garden is opened in the bedroom, the fiery red color is like a new life, giving people dazzling and infinite power.

"Then what are you waiting for?!" Chi Sui stood up from the ground, his eyes lit up, he grabbed Yuan Si Bai's wrist and walked towards the living room, saying, "Change now!"

Yuan Si Bai was dragged by him subconsciously to keep up with his footsteps so he didn't stagger, and quickly told him to slow down, and said, "I see that you are not just going to buy roses with your posture."

"That's right." Chi Sui was in a good mood, so happy that he almost ran, "Go on a date with my wife."

"An'an is still at home."

"It's not that we won't come back, it would be nice if we come back sooner." After speaking, he turned to look at Yuan Si Bai, pretending to be pitiful and complaining, "Yuan Si Bai, are you lying to me? Don't you want to go."

"...Go, go right away." Yuan Sibai pushed him and said, "Let's go."

Chi Sui immediately beamed with joy, and immediately yelled to Chi Jinxian who had already packed the roses: "Chi Xiaoan, your little dad and I are going out—be good yourself."

The two of them didn't avoid Chi Jinxian at all when they spoke. Chi Jinxian was so sour that he wanted to sigh, but he still had a bunch of roses in his arms, so it was not good to save face, so he waved his hands obediently: "Bye, let's go quickly." , come back and bring food."

Yuan Si Bai's wrist was still being pulled, and he couldn't stop at all, so he turned his head and asked quickly: "Are you still going out to deliver roses? Come back quickly after delivering them, and remember to send me a message."

"Let's go Yuanyuan."

Chi Jinxian: "Got it."

When Chi Jinxian happily returned to the living room with Rose in his arms, his two fathers had long since disappeared.He didn't know that Chi Sui could change clothes so quickly, it was amazing.

But maybe it was the reason why Chi Sui pulled Yuan Sibai to go on a date. The word date was lingering in his mind like this. He looked at the roses in his arms—because they hadn't been sent for many days, they were packed one by one It was a bit of a waste of time, so Chi Jinxian cut a larger wrapping paper and wrapped ten fiery red roses together to form a small bouquet.

He seemed to be in the mood of planning to go on a date, and he could hardly control his throbbing heart.

The steps of trotting to the school gate are brisk.

—

Lu Zhi had been waiting at the same spot for 45 minutes, but he didn't show the slightest impatience. What Chi Jinxian looked like when he left, is what he looks like now.

Fang Shou stood next to him for almost the same amount of time, and he repeated what he had asked not long ago: "Xiaozhi, do you want to wait in the car for a while?"

Lu Zhi said, "No need."

It's late autumn, and the days are no longer so long. The sky that was still covered with burning clouds half an hour ago is only a little red now, and it's darkened.

At the corner, a figure in a blue and white school uniform came into view, Lu Zhi said, "Uncle Fang, go back to the car first."

Fang Shou responded and turned to leave.

Holding a rose in his arms, Chi Jinxian ran over with a seemingly heavy schoolbag on his back, with an excited expression on his face.

When he ran in front of Lu Zhi, he was almost out of breath.

"Lu, brother Lu... one, one hour... huh?" He held the flower tightly with one hand, and gently pressed the other hand on the abdominal cavity, maybe he was a little out of breath because he ran too fast.

"No." Lu Zhi said, "There are still 10 minutes, you can talk later."

Chi Jinxian calmed down and breathed for a while. Fortunately, his father always forced him to exercise together, and his physical fitness was not bad, and he recovered almost after a while.

"Brother Lu, here it is!" Chi Jinxian stood up straight, his eyes were filled with the last red fire in the sky, which could not be extinguished.He handed the roses to Lu Zhi's eyes, "Ten roses, none of which fell in a day, and all of them were made up."

Lu Zhi stared at him for a while with lowered eyes, and then his eyes fell on the fiery red bouquet.

In the past two years, he has never reached out to accept Chi Jinxian's rose love letter, and it seems that he has never thought about this scene. Lu Zhi was a little dazed at this moment—even though he asked for it himself after school.

After a long while, Lu Zhi gently raised his hand.The knuckles touched the bottom of the wrapping paper, and there was a sound that someone was about to accept it.

Chi Jinxian's heart was pounding, and he let go, but the rose did not fall to the ground. He stared at the perfect fiery red approaching Lu Zhi's embrace without blinking, his eyes became even brighter.

And at this moment, he actually felt that this scene was somewhat familiar.Lu Zhi stood in front of him, hesitantly thinking about whether he should pick up the rose, Chi Jinxian always felt that he had seen it somewhere.

After a moment he remembered that he had seen it.

dreaming!

It was still the kid whose face he didn't see clearly from the beginning to the end.He felt that the kid thinking about whether to pick up roses must be the same as Lu Zhi now.

I don't know why I suddenly remembered this, but just thinking about it, Chi Jinxian couldn't help but smile a little, as if he really "chased" Lu Zhi when he was a child.

"Oh, there are also love letters and milk!" Chi Jinxian took off the schoolbag, unzipped it, and planned to take out the contents.But just seeing the milk, he felt that he couldn't hold it with both hands, so he should not overestimate his strength, so he looked up at Lu Zhi, "Brother Lu, I want your schoolbag, put the things in it."

Hearing this, Lu Zhi held the rose with one hand, and with the other hand grabbed the schoolbag strap and handed it to Chi Jinxian without any objection.

The latter immediately took it and started stuffing things into it.

One minute later, all the things in Chi Jinxian's hand and schoolbag became Lu Zhi's. Satisfied, Chi Jinxian returned the schoolbag to Lu Zhi, smiling with big white teeth.

Lu Zhi reached out to take it, and put it on one shoulder, his expression unchanged.

The sky is getting darker and darker, and the real night will come completely in less than half an hour.

The two were very close, and the slightly darker sky did not affect them looking at each other unscrupulously and clearly.

Chi Jinxian hadn't felt a real sense of down-to-earth for what happened today, he felt that he had to ask him how Brother Lu felt about him now!

It's just that as soon as his words started with "Brother Lu, I...", he was interrupted by Lu Zhi's indifferent but serious tone.

"Chi Jinxian." Lu Zhi called out the name.

Chi Jin responded: "Ang. What's the matter, Brother Lu."

Lu Zhi took a deep look at him, and suddenly said inexplicably, "Isn't it amazing when you call 'brother' and 'brother' across the screen?"

"..." Chi Jinxian was a little confused, and said slowly, "...huh?"

Lu Zhi said again: "Why didn't you shout in front of me?"

"..."

From the day he started chasing Lu Zhi, after having Lu Zhi's contact information, Chi Jinxian across the screen really never called "Brother Lu", and always called him a more intimate name, especially when he realized that Lu Zhi never corrected him, so he was even more frightened.

And when the two faced each other, Chi Jinxian was so honest that he didn't even dare to say "Brother".

It's almost like the word "counseling" is printed on the forehead.

Chi Jinxian didn't understand what Lu Zhi meant, but Lu Zhi's words aroused his cleverness and shame in the past, and he lowered his eyelashes, not daring to look at people anymore.

He blinked: "I..."

"Call it." Lu Zhi suddenly said, with an undeniable force in his tone.

Chi Jinxian stared at the ground with his eyes wide open, his ears turned red.

He seemed to understand what Lu Zhi meant.

The wind picked up at night, blowing through the corners of the two of them one by one, it seemed that the surrounding atmosphere could only be enhanced by the wind.

But the wind slid over the edge of Chi Jinxian's ear, reminding him of the scene when Lu Zhi pressed him against the door and talked in his ear just after school, and his ear became even hotter. up.

Chi Jin expressed her heart, why is she starting to be ashamed again, the passionate little rose shouldn't be like this!

He raised his head slightly, and quickly met Lu Zhi who was still watching him quietly, then quickly moved away, and looked at each other again.After a while, he opened his mouth slightly and said, "...Brother."

There was a slight movement in the cellophane of the rose bouquet, as if someone's hand couldn't hold back and gently squeezed it, but it was fleeting.

Lu Zhi didn't change his face: "Yes." Then he continued, "There are more."

Chi Jinxian raised his hand and rubbed his ears, his eyes wandered from east to west, east to west, and completely stopped looking at people.

A few minutes later, he whispered softly, "Brother."