unrequited love forbidden

brother

Sister-in-law, the future

Standing outside the door was a 24-year-old young man, wearing a dusty overalls, looking handsome and friendly, "Hello, I am the neighbor who lives across the door from you, and my name is Yi."

"Hello." Jiang Xiao had no impression of this person at all, but the other party was polite, and he nodded politely, "Is there anything wrong?"

"Brother, do you have a Torx screwdriver at home?" The other party raised his hand, the screwdriver in his hand looked slippery, and the damage was miserable.

Jiang Xiao was silent for a moment, then turned around and took out a toolbox from the cabinet in the entrance, and picked out one of the same model for him.

"Thank you, brother." The man took it, and suddenly pointed at his hair before entering the door, "There are vegetable leaves on the hair."

"I said that there must be..."

"It's kind of you too."

"It's not that you're doing me a disservice, I've already finished."

"Who am I doing this for? You are called Yun."

"Last night night shift at home to catch up on sleep..."

Jiang Xiao closed the door, blocking the noise from the opposite door, and turned his head to look in the mirror. As expected, there was a vegetable leaf stuck in his hair, and his chin and cheeks were a little bruised, which looked very scary.

After taking a shower, it was completely dark outside, and he called his grandpa while brushing his hair, "Grandpa, I won't make it today, um, the teacher suddenly has an exam at night, um, okay..."

Jiang Xuelin's voice sounded full of anger, Jiang Xiao turned on his phone and lay on the bed, the neon lights outside the window were flickering and the traffic was busy, his eyelids gradually became heavy.

"Grandpa, who are you calling?" The dark and thin child squatted on the edge of the wheelchair and asked Jiang Xuelin with his face up. He squinted his eyes and rubbed vigorously under the streetlights.

"My eldest grandson." Jiang Xuelin looked down at him.

"Then grandpa, do you have a grandson?" Fu Zhi asked curiously.

"Just this one." Jiang Xuelin said patiently: "Don't run around in the future, the nurse is looking for your parents."

"Well, I remember." Fu Zhi nodded, "The hospital is so big, it's bigger than our home, that's why I got lost."

Half an hour ago, the nurse pushed Jiang Xuelin down to get some air, only to see the child lying in the bushes watching the ants. He waited for a long time but did not see the child's parents, so he had to ask the nurse to call for help.

"Dad is not my dad." Fu Zhi shared with him, "He always beats me, it hurts."

Jiang Xuelin frowned, "Where's your mother?"

"Mom ran away." Fu Zhi didn't seem to understand the meaning of "run", "Qianqian said that I was a little oil bottle, and my mother ran away because she was unhappy."

"But I have a brother!" Fu Zhi became excited as he said, and gestured to Jiang Xuelin, "My brother is super powerful! Very tall! Superman! He even took me to eat meat!"

It seems that there is still a reliable one, Jiang Xuelin heaved a sigh of relief.

"Grandpa, do you have an older brother? Is your older brother powerful?" Fu Zhi asked him.

"Uh..." Jiang Xuelin was silent for a while, "Yes, but he died long ago."

Fu Zhi stood on tiptoe and patted his arm, "Grandpa, your brother must have become a star."

Jiang Xuelin reached out and touched his head.

Not long after, the nurse came with the child's brother.

The other party seemed to be about the same age as his grandson, but his hair was long, and he looked sluggish. When the other party approached, Jiang Xuelin saw that the child's face was blue and purple, and there was a bloody hole at the corner of his eye. Knowing that the bastard beat him up, it looks so pitiful.

"Brother, did dad beat you?" Fu Zhi saw his appearance, the smile on his face disappeared without a trace, looked up at him cautiously, and murmured: "I'm sorry, brother."

"It's not him." Fu Qingzhou's voice was cold, and he looked at Jiang Xuelin in the wheelchair, "Master, thank you, the child has caused you trouble."

Fu Zhi stood by and lowered his head in shame, not daring to speak.

Although he liked his brother very much, he was also very afraid of his brother. Fu Zhi was more afraid of making Fu Qingzhou angry than being beaten by his father.

"What's the trouble? Children are like this." Jiang Xuelin waved his hand and said with a smile to Fu Zhi: "Go back with your brother."

Fu Zhi nodded obediently, raised his hand and waved at Jiang Xuelin, "Goodbye, old man."

"Hey, goodbye." Jiang Xuelin waved his hands, watching one big and one small walk towards the ward building.

The nurse helped push the wheelchair for him. The two of them were talking, and Jiang Xuelin suddenly paused, "This kid's brother is not sensible."

"Huh?" The nurse was puzzled.

"He's about the same age as my grandson, yet he calls me uncle." Jiang Xuelin shook his head, "It's outrageous."

The outrageous kid's brother is taking a taxi.

"Brother, are we going home?" Fu Zhi looked very nervous, although Fu Qingzhou denied that the wound on his face was caused by Fu Jianhong.

But Fu Zhi had a serious psychological shadow on this matter, and even thought that if he got gastroenteritis again, he would not have to go back.

"I won't go back." Fu Qingzhou stopped a taxi, "I rented a house next to the school, let's live there first."

Fu Zhi followed him into the back seat of the car, and shouted in surprise, "New home!? No dad!?"

"Well, there is no Fu Jianhong." Fu Qingzhou closed the car door and said to the driver, "Master, Ping'an Lane behind Yinan Garden Community."

Half an hour later, the taxi stopped in front of the small alley.

Fu Qingzhou led Fu Zhi into the alley, and walked around for more than ten minutes before stopping at the end of an alley.

The vermilion-painted gate is pitted with peeling paint, and an old tractor is parked in front of the gate. When you walk in, you will find a crowded and cramped yard, the ground is covered with red bricks, and there are two gates in the southeast and north. There is also a rusty iron ladder leading to the roof, and a few rooms built above can be vaguely seen.

The courtyard wall was covered with green creepers, several intertwined clotheslines were hung with clothes, and dim incandescent lamps were hung on the wall, and the greasy smell of cooking mixed with noisy human voices rushed towards us.

Fu Zhi looked at the unfamiliar courtyard curiously and timidly. A bloated middle-aged woman in a nightgown came out of the north room and looked at him. She lowered her eyelids disinterestedly and bent over to pick up the door. Shoes hanging out to dry.

There was the sound of a child crying from the room on the south, and a shirtless man poked his head out from the illegal room on the second floor and cursed, "Will your mother coax the child! It's so noisy!"

The little girl with a schoolbag bounced into the second room on the south side. The couple in camouflage uniforms and green rubber shoes just put down their bags and were about to open the door. "Why did you come back so late?"

"I went to a classmate's house to play." The little girl said with a smile.

Fu Qingzhou led him to the room on the far east and right, and opened the old-fashioned lock on it. There was a bit of coldness in the stale smell.

The orange light illuminates the whole room, and the end can be seen at a glance. There is a gauze board next to the door, and a double wooden bed is placed on top of it, which barely separates a sleeping position.

On the other side of the door is a greasy tea table and a dusty sofa, besides a brown cloth two-wheeled suitcase and a large woven bag, there is nothing else.

"Stay here for a while." Fu Qingzhou closed the door. Although there was no sound insulation at all, it was better than nothing, "I will move in a few days."

He has limited money now, so he can only afford to rent this kind of house, but in front of this area is Yinan Garden, where Jiang Xiao lives, and then directly to the No. 10 Middle School. It takes at most [-] minutes to walk, which is not bad.

Fu Zhi, however, was much more excited than he was. He ran around the place where the nails were bigger three times with great interest, and sat on the dusty sofa and shouted happily: "Brother! New home!"

Fu Qingzhou's reaction was indifferent. He and Fu Zhi were not close or related, and he had no feelings for him. The reason for bringing people along was that he didn't want him to die without knowing why.

"I'll send you to kindergarten tomorrow." Fu Qingzhou said to him, "You have to go to elementary school next year, so you have to study hard."

Fu Jianhong never let Fu Zhi go to kindergarten at all. He went to enroll Fu Zhi this afternoon. He threw all the little money he had saved into it, otherwise he wouldn't be reduced to living here.

Although this amount of money seems insignificant to Mr. Fu, it is a disaster for Fu Qingzhou and Fu Zhi now.

Fu Qingzhou took out his pockets and found 98 yuan and thirty cents, which was the only savings they had left.

Gotta find a way to make money.

Fu Zhi looked helplessly at the money in his hand, "Brother, will we still have meat to eat in the future?"

"Yes." Fu Qingzhou spoke concisely, seeing Fu Zhi's nervous expression, he comforted him, "If you really don't have any money, go to your sister-in-law to borrow it."

Fu Zhi's eyes widened, "Sister-in-law?"

Fu Qingzhou looked down at the small peach pit in his hand, the red rope was wrapped around his fingers, "In the future."