[First time] Burn it, brother-in-law!

After lunch, Ah Chu was not idle, so he called Liu Ah Si and cleaned up the bedroom.Ah Ci offered to help, but his brother directly rejected it, and sent him to the nursery to play with the child.

And Aizhong Aihua has always been taken care of by Mrs. Liu, so naturally he doesn't bother him.Ah Ci looked at the sleeping little faces of the two nephews, with mixed feelings in his heart—he envied them for being able to dream sweet dreams so carefree, without knowing the pain of life and death; he also felt sorry for them, Sooner or later, he will have to face the reality of being abandoned by his mother; he is still a little ashamed of them, because his car accident indirectly caused them to lose their loving grandpa.

Thinking of this, he got up and walked out of the room.

When passing the bedroom next door, I saw Ah Chu stepping on a chair to take off the wedding photo.Looking at his brother's thin back, Ah Ci felt an indescribable sadness in his heart.After standing silently for a while, I heard heavy footsteps coming from the other side of the stairs, thinking that Liu Ahsi was carrying heavy things upstairs.Ah Ci was inexplicably disturbed, as if he was afraid of being seen through his emotions, he hurriedly turned and left, and entered his father's room.

He looked around the bedroom, the furnishings were the same as before.The rocking chair by the floor-to-ceiling windows and the cup on the bedside table seem to be patiently waiting for the owner to return. I don’t know if they also have regrets when they bump into him who opened the door.

He walked to the bed, stroked the warm yellow blanket, and when he turned around again, he was caught off guard and saw the portrait on the wall.

Through the glass frame, his father looked at him lovingly with a three-pointed smile.

"Father." He called softly and shed two lines of tears, "I should have thought it would become like this, but I just never dared to think about it this way."

Father was still smiling, as if he had been frozen in that period of time, and he would never bicker with him with his beard and eyes.

Emotions erupted at this moment, and Ah Ci fell face up on his father's bed, crying bitterly.

After an unknown amount of time, Ah Chu opened the door and walked in.

Ah Ci hastily put his arms on his eyes to cover up the tears.

"Still hiding with me?" Ah Chu closed the door, walked up to him, and dragged him up. "I'm not an outsider, you don't have to hide your emotions in front of me."

Ah Ci lowered his head, choked, and said, "You've done enough, I don't want to worry you anymore."

"I'm even more worried about you like this! The pain in my heart is like a festering wound. It can't disappear without leaving it alone. Only by squeezing out the pus, applying medicine and bandaging it can it heal slowly." Ah Chu pressed On his shoulders, he said sincerely, "Cry as soon as you want to cry, don't suppress yourself anymore. Dad Quanxia knows, and I must hope that you can get out of the shadow of the accident and start again... Try to pour out your pain, I can Understand how you feel."

"You won't understand! Dad's death, Ronghua's death, all of these are caused by me!" Ah Ci put his hands on his head, fingers inserted into his hair, feeling a little out of control, "That car accident was man-made! If I hadn't tried to test the suspect, I wouldn't have become a bull's-eye! It was I who got my father and Ronghua down..."

"No! You are innocent!" Ah Chu hugged Ah Ci tightly and comforted him, "Listen to me, you are just the victim of the accident, the real guilty one is the murderer who caused the car accident. So, don't blame me anymore For the sake of my father, Ronghua, me, Aizhong Aihua, everyone who loves you and needs you, please be tolerant of yourself."

The words full of tolerance moved Ah Ci deeply. He no longer restrained his sorrow, hugged his brother's waist, and cried like a stubborn little boy who just lost a fight with the neighbor's child.

Ah Chu gently stroked his hair, and waited until he was crying, and said: "Your bedroom is occupied by Aizhong Aihua, you can live in my room from today. I will put your things in the utility room They are all on display, let’s see if there is anything else I need, and I will let Liu Ah Si go buy it.”

Ah Ci wiped his face: "Don't bother, I'll just sleep in Dad's room."

"No! You can't sleep here. There are too many memories of the past in this room. I'm afraid you will... Moderate venting can release stress, but immersing in this kind of sadness for a long time is not good for healing. During this time, I and You live together, it's convenient to take care of. When you recover, I will move to the guest room downstairs. "

"How can I occupy the magpie's nest like this? Let me live in the guest room directly, anyway, I have almost recovered..."

"What do you mean a dove occupying a magpie's nest? Who is a dove? Who is a magpie?" Ah Chu stared at him, a little angry, and the heaving of his chest became obvious. Divide the Chu River Han boundary?"

His face-changing speed was a bit fast, and Ah Ci didn't realize it for a while, wondering how could a casual idiom make him understand the level of "separation"?But when Ah Chu is sick, don't worry, don't get sick again because of such a trivial matter!Ah Ci changed his mind and thought again, it is obvious that the elder brother's illness needs more care now, and it would be good to have a caregiver in the same room, so he followed Ah Chu's arrangement.

After washing in the evening, Ah Ci was lying on his brother's bed, with his arms on the bedside table, and he flicked and pulled the switch of the desk lamp. The whole room was dimmed with the movements of his fingertips. The desk lamp belonged to him. That's right, there is also the tire-shaped clock on the wall... Ah Chu's arrangement in this way must be to give him a sense of belonging and treat this place as his own room.It's a pity that his tough and individual ornaments don't match the romantic style of the whole room, and they seem a bit nondescript.

Ah Ci glanced at his watch, slightly surprised.His brother has been in the bathroom for almost half an hour, and he hasn't finished washing yet!It seems that the problem of cleanliness is really serious.He yawned, finally stopped torturing the lamp, and stuffed his arms back under the covers.The quilts are all new, and they feel very comfortable——A Chu cleaned up thoroughly, and there was no trace of He Yashu's existence in the room.Ah Ci was not sure if this was also a manifestation of cleanliness, but this reaction was very extreme, and he faintly felt Ah Chu's hatred for He Yashu.

Ah Ci sympathized with Ah Chu very much, and also sympathized with his late father.He thought, if his father hadn't passed away, he would be terribly disappointed to find out that the daughter-in-law he had been looking for for many years was such a heartless and ungrateful person... He thought about it for a while, and the more he thought about it, the more tired he felt.Before Ah Chu finished taking a shower, he fell asleep.

Unexpectedly, the dream was more cruel than reality.

He saw Ronghua's blood-stained face, witnessed his father's pain when he had a heart attack, and finally Ah Chu... Pressing his chest, Ah Chu asked in a trembling voice, "Ah Ci! Do you want me to die? We are brothers! Are you going to kill me with your own hands?"

Ah Ci shook his head eagerly, wanting to explain, but Ah Chu didn't listen at all, and closed his eyes forever with hatred...

"No!" Ah Ci yelled, woke up with a start, sat up and panted heavily.

Ah Chu was sleeping next to him, and was woken up by him, turned on the light, and looked at him worriedly: "What's wrong with you? Are you uncomfortable? Or are you having a nightmare?"

Ah Ci was still in shock, met Ah Chu's gaze, calmed down, and said, "I had a terrible dream."

"What did you dream about?" Ah Chu patted his back with one hand, "Don't worry about it, it will make you feel better if you say it."

"...I don't remember, I just remember it was terrible." Ah Ci lowered his head uncomfortably.

Ah Chu looked at him for a while, then sighed: "If you don't remember, don't think about it...it's still early, let's sleep a little longer."

Ah Ci nodded, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and lay down with his back to Ah Chu, but he couldn't get back his sleepiness.

"Ah Ci." Ah Chu's voice was very calm, "Dreams are always reversed, don't worry too much about it."

Ah Ci didn't respond, and tried to breathe naturally, trying to pretend to sleep to the end.Before I knew it, I actually fell asleep.

When he woke up again, it was almost noon.

The moment he opened his eyes, he was so dazed that he didn't know where he was, and it took him three seconds to remember that he had moved back home.Those painful memories quickly came to his mind, he thought of the death of his father and Ronghua, Ah Chu's illness, and the suspicion of Chen Haoshan.My mind was in a mess, and it was painful.He rubbed his temples, barely got up, didn't even change his pajamas, and went directly to the next door to see his two nephews.

On the crib, a little guy was grinning and crying loudly, kicking away the bottle in Mrs. Liu's hand with a look of disgust.The other one is easy to fool, holding the bottle with two small meaty hands and refusing to let go, eating very happily.

"Are they twins? They don't know how to advance or retreat together!" Ah Ci picked up a toy and shook it in front of the crying child, trying to divert his attention, but unfortunately it didn't work at all.

Aunt Liu said with a bitter face: "It's better for them not to advance or retreat together. If the two cry together, it's really overwhelming."

"Yes." Ah Ci nodded, agreeing with her opinion.Pointing to the crying child, he asked, "Is this the elder brother or the younger brother?"

"He's the elder brother." Aunt Liu pointed to the sole of the child's foot, "There is a mole here, but the younger one doesn't."

Ah Ci raised his eyebrows slightly, and wiped away the child's tears: "If you are picky about eating, you will be shorter than Aihua!"

Ai Zhong didn't agree with him at all, and still cried hard at the top of his throat.

Ah Ci heard the crying sound, it was like a magic sound piercing his ears, and he felt his head hurt even more.

He frowned and went downstairs.Ai Zhong's crying has not stopped, but the volume has decreased slightly.He complained about the sound insulation effect of the house again in his heart, and at the same time wondered, why didn't he hear crying in the bedroom separated by a wall?

Seeing that he was awake, Uncle Niu hurriedly filled a bowl of hot porridge and handed it over, saying that he would strictly follow the doctor's orders and never change the recipe on his own.Ah Ci smiled wryly and drank the porridge, thinking that even if the steak was put in front of him now, he would not be in the mood to eat it.

Uncle Niu has worked in this family for many years, and he is deeply touched by these recent events.He comforted Ah Ci a few words, and when he talked about the old man, he also shed tears.Ah Ci didn't cry, his mind was buzzing, watching Uncle Niu's upper and lower lips open and close, like a pantomime.

"Uncle Niu." Ah Ci couldn't help interrupting his emotion about the impermanence of the world, "Do you have any cigarettes?"

……

Uncle Niu is not a smoker, so naturally he has no cigarettes in his hand.Even if there was, he wouldn't dare to give it to Ah Ci—this old cook has always regarded Ah Chu's medical advice as an imperial decree. In his eyes, providing Ah Ci with cigarettes is tantamount to poisoning the porridge!How could he do such a thing?

Ah Ci had expected this kind of result, but his head was so painful that it was about to split open. If he didn't ask him for cigarettes, why should he ask Mrs. Liu and Ai Zhong Aihua for it?After getting a negative answer, Ah Ci pinched his head helplessly and went back to the room to lie down.

After lying down for a while, the door was pushed open suddenly, and Ah Chu's voice came: "Why are you feeling uncomfortable? Go to the hospital!"

"No need." Ah Ci turned his head and glanced at Ah Chu, probably Uncle Niu made a small report and called his brother back from the company to discipline him - it's just a cigarette, it's fine if you don't give it, is it so exaggerated? "I'm just a little confused."

Ah Chu put his hand on his forehead to make sure he didn't have a fever, then took out a box of Zhonghua cigarettes from his pocket and threw it to him.

Ah Ci felt his head was going to explode, so he didn't care about being polite, so he took out a cigarette and held it to his lips, before thinking of looking for a lighter.

Ah Chu looked very gloomy, and took out the lighter he had handed over from his younger brother as a birthday present at the hospital last time, and pursed his lips to help him light a cigarette.

A was seriously injured in a car accident, and he had never smoked during his hospitalization. Even he himself thought he had successfully quit smoking.But at this moment, he felt very painful, as if every cell was clamoring: give me cigarettes!Give me a cigarette!

Ah Ci smoked silently, his body gradually relaxed, and his headache also eased a lot.He looked at Ah Chu through the smoke, feeling that he couldn't see it clearly: "Didn't you say that smoking is bad for your health, and you have always opposed it? Why..."

"I can't take care of that much now, as long as you don't have mental problems!" Ah Chu sat on the side of the bed, looking into his eyes, "I know it's difficult for you to accept Dad's death in one day, but you can't do that." Toss yourself! You must understand that the only thing you can do for Dad now is to take care of yourself, instead of complaining about yourself like this!"

"I don't have one." Ah Ci couldn't find the ashtray, so he could only flick the ash into the trash can, "It's just some other troubles."

"Can you let me know what it is?"

Ah Ci looked at the cigarette in his hand, hesitated for a while, and then said, "Brother, you have worked too hard recently."

Ah Chu stared at him: "Why did you say this suddenly? I can think that you don't want to talk about your heart, are you trying to interrupt?"

"It's not an interruption." Ah Ci bit his lip, and decided to let go, "I said you worked too hard because yesterday I mentioned that the car accident was man-made, but you forgot to ask me if the real culprit has been brought to justice."