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

It's the end of the year again, and everyone is busy.Gu Xichao was busy with publicity rehearsals, Yang Muchu was busy with banquets, Yang Muchu was busy with statistics and summarization, only Cui Lueshang was in a panic.

Out of sympathy, Ah Ci occasionally came out to have a few drinks with Zhui Ming when he was free.But this guy is really an optimist, completely unaffected by his elder brother's cheating, his little life is still wonderful, and occasionally he bakes some biscuits for Aci to bring back to Aizhong Aihua.

Ah Ci picked up a piece of biscuit and put it in his mouth, it tasted okay.He raised his eyebrows and asked, "You don't want to rely on virtuousness to defeat your opponent, do you?"

"Wrong!" Zhui Ming shook his index finger, "If this trick worked, Yingzi would have already succeeded!"

"Then you're not in a hurry to regain the lost ground, why are you baking biscuits?"

"I baked biscuits because I had nothing to do! I'm playing hard to get, pretending to date Fu Rong, and making him jealous! Hey, it's already working." Zhui Ming said proudly, "I asked Fu Rong to come to my house the day before yesterday. , Waiting and waiting until my brother didn’t come back, we started playing game consoles...Hey, let me tell you, playing games can really last all night. Don’t believe me, I tested it.”

"Very few people are as bored as you are." Ah Ci curled his lips, thinking of the gossip between his elder brother and Gu Xichao who "played video games all night", he still found it incomprehensible, "Your brother knows that you played video games with the girl all night Does he believe it?"

"He didn't say anything, just advised me not to play too late." Zhui Ming became more and more excited, "Don't play too late! Do you understand? He has already started to mind!"

"Is there such a meaning? He just said it casually, right?" Ah Ci admired Zhui Ming's imagination.

"You don't understand, my brother wants to save face, he won't say it too bluntly when he's jealous." Zhui Ming was still immersed in the plot he had imagined.

Ah Ci smiled and didn't hit him again.After all, it is not easy to face setbacks optimistically.Maybe Gu Xichao just happened to eat this set!Who can tell what will happen in the future?

A few days later, Chau Ming came to the sub-bureau, begging Ah Ci to help him investigate, and pointing to the window, he said that if Fu Wanqing became his sister-in-law, he would jump from the window.

Judging from his tone, Miss Fu is not far from being eliminated.Ah Ci suddenly felt a little sympathetic to this girl, she was still kept in the dark, she never imagined that the future brother-in-law, who was superficially easy to get along with, would have such an incompatible idea.

……

During the Spring Festival, Ah Ci was assigned to the temple fair area to support security work.It wasn't until after the Lantern Festival that the level of prevention and control was finally adjusted that he got a two-week vacation.Coaxing the two little guys to play around at home every day, on the contrary, I am more tired than when I go to work.And Ah Chu is still busy with socializing, leaving early and returning late.

One morning, when Ah Chu was about to go out, Ah Ci flipped through a book of fairy tales, and pointedly said to his nephews: "The sorrow of a rich man is that he does not own wealth, but becomes a slave to wealth. Not as free as a bum."

After hearing this, Ah Chu turned around and asked, "Are you talking about me?"

"Tell fairy tales." Ah Ci raised the fairy tale book in his hand, "Don't worry too much."

"Can you not be too careful! I am a slave now, busy all day long, and always being ridiculed by the largest shareholder."

Ah Chu rarely mentioned things in the business field, and Ah Ci didn't like to inquire about them.Now that he heard that the elder brother had suffered a lot in the company, he immediately frowned and asked, "How could this be? Who is the biggest shareholder? Are your shares much smaller?"

"Yeah, it's out of proportion." Ah Chu cried poorly with his shoulders drooping, and suddenly couldn't hold back his laughter, "Boss, if you feel sorry for me, please stop making sarcastic remarks." After finishing speaking, he quickly walked out the door.

Ah Ci was stunned for a moment before realizing that Ah Chu started his business with half of the inheritance left by his father, so the biggest shareholder is actually himself... I almost forgot that talking around people is an inherent vice of the little black rabbit.

"Why did he call you Master? What is Master?" Aihua raised his head and asked.

"Uh, this..." Ah Ci didn't know how to explain the meaning of the word for a while, so he said casually, "It means the same as a handsome guy."

Aihua's eyes lit up, and he said to Aizhong, "Then you can call me boss too!"

"No, you're not handsome." Ai Zhong grabbed Ai Hua's curly lock of hair on his forehead, and said, "Your hair is messy, and uncle's is smooth." No way, in his heart, the definition of handsome is uncle so.

"Then you're not handsome either!" Aihua countered, pointing at his brother's forehead.

Ah Ci looked down at the two nephews, and smoothed their hair with his fingers, but he couldn't change the natural curvature of the hair.He should have noticed that they were all self-made rolls.When the hair is short, it is not visible, but when it is a little longer, it will curl up in disobedience.He thought it was because of sleep pressure, but he didn't care.This time it was the first lunar month, and the interval since the last haircut was relatively long, and the length of the hair reached a record high, so it was curly even more unscrupulously, as if it had been cast by a spell—a spell from He Yashu.

He still remembers that when he was a child, He Yashu wore a small white dress and a curly hair, just like a little princess who came out of a fairy tale.It's no wonder that his elder brother, who is a fairy tale lover, would say silly things about his love for a century.

"Boys." Ah Ci pressed the two brothers who were still arguing about "handsome" and suggested, "Let's go to the hair salon in the afternoon to change our look, and we'll definitely look handsome in no time!"

……

On February [-], the dragon raised its head, and there was a long queue in the hair salon.

After waiting in line for about an hour, it was Ai Zhong Aihua's turn to get a haircut.But the wait was worth it. Ah Ci looked at his nephews' small buttheads, and his mood brightened. For the first time, he agreed to go to the fast food restaurant that Ah Chu explicitly banned for dinner.

"Delicious!" Ai Zhong took a bite of the hamburger, dancing with excitement.

Aihua didn't even have the time to talk, he munched on the hamburger, sucked the sauce sticking to his fingertips after eating, and looked at Aci eagerly: "Uncle, can I buy another one?"

Ah Ci couldn't bear to refuse him, but thinking of the tragic situation of the two of them having gastroenteritis last time, he had no choice but to say: "Next time, I won't feel well if I eat too much."

Aihua quickly shook his little meaty hand and said, "It's not for me to eat, but for Dad to take it home."

"Can't you give me some eye drops? You think the complaint is not enough, and you want to take a sample to keep the certificate?" A Ci smiled.

"Dad has never eaten it before, so he doesn't know that hamburgers are so delicious." Ai Zhong wiped his mouth with a napkin, innocently supported his younger brother's point of view, and tried to help persuade his uncle, "If he eats it, maybe he won't object in the future .”

"Maybe I'll peel off my skin." Ah Ci glared at them, and seeing the confused faces of the two brats, realized that this was not easy to understand, so he changed his words to persuade them to give up, "We'll just buy him He doesn’t know how to eat either, he came back when he was full outside.”

The two children had to give up, and silently ate up the French fries with ketchup.

When I came out of the fast food restaurant, it was snowing, and the two children cheered and opened their hands to catch the snowflakes.Ah Ci looked at them with envy.Only children can afford the word "chic", unrestrained and free and easy, and go with the situation, and forget the regret of not letting dad eat a hamburger while playing.As they grow older, will they be as rebellious and assertive as free curly hair?One day, they will form their own three views, and they can look at the world with calm and objective eyes. How will they look at the extraordinary brotherly relationship between their father and uncle?Ah Ci didn't dare to think about it, nor could he predict how many years the nephews could rely on him obediently?Thinking of this, an irresistible sense of oppression arises spontaneously.People are always like this, only when they enter the countdown can they understand the preciousness of time.

The snow was getting bigger and bigger, and Ai Zhong made a small snow ball, calling "Uncle" and running over to hand it to him.Unexpectedly, the sole of his foot slipped and he stumbled.Ah Ci hurriedly picked him up, brushed off the muddy snow on his clothes, and asked him if he hurt from the fall.Ai Zhong looked down at the falling snow ball, and shed tears in grievance.

"It's okay, uncle can fix it." Ah Ci wiped away his tears, gathered up the torn pieces of snow, and comforted his nephew, "Add more snow, now it's an upgraded version, it's much bigger than before ? Take it well, don't drop it this time..."

Ai Zhong's eyes were still red, but there was a smile on his face.He pushed the snowball back and said, "It's for you."

"Thank you." Ah Ci looked at him with relief, feeling much relieved.They are indeed He Yashu's sons, and also his nephews brought up by Yang Muci himself. No one can break the bond of blood and affection.Even on that day, he is confident that he can repair the emotional rift like a snowball.Breaking the tendons connecting the arms, as long as there is a heart, there is no knot that cannot be untied.

"Uncle, can this be eaten?" Aihua grabbed the snow with two hands, but couldn't make a small snow ball, looking at the "upgraded snowball" in Ah Ci's hand, couldn't help swallowing.

"No." Ah Ci squeezed the snack guy's face and said, "I'll take you to eat ice cream another day."

Aihua immediately finalized the date with him: "Which day is the next day?"

"It depends on your performance. I can take you to the ice cream shop only if you don't tell your dad about eating hamburgers and French fries."

"At that time, I want to eat chocolate."

"I want strawberries..."

……

When the three uncles and nephews got home in the evening, the child's father hadn't come back yet.

Ah Ci rubbed the short hair of the two little guys, coaxing them to take a bath.The two children were very playful, and after taking a bath, they rolled on the floor in their bathrobes. Ah Ci raised his hand and slapped each of their buttocks, and then they calmed down and sat on the sofa obediently to play with models.

Ah Ci leaned against the French window, staring at the white snow all over the sky.Not long after, his brother's car entered the hospital.

Ah Chu didn't seem to drink much, and his walking posture was quite normal, but he spoke surprisingly little.He hurried into the bathroom, and after a brief wash, he lay down on the bed and rested.

Ah Ci leaned over to him and said, "Today I took Ai Zhong Aihua to the hair salon and cut my hair short."

"Well, I saw it just now." Ah Chu said with his eyes closed.

"Why don't you ask a question when you see it? Or do you think it's too short?"

"No, it's pretty good." Ah Chu still didn't open his eyes, and answered very perfunctorily.

Ah Ci saw that he didn't want to talk more, so he walked out of the room with his mobile phone and called Zhuiming.

"Zhouming, today my eldest brother invited people from the company to dinner, did your brother also go?"

"It's not just my brother, even I was called away. I'm not allowed to have a sip of wine or meat, only millet porridge." Zhui Ming complained endlessly.

Ah Ci didn't care what they ate, so he directly changed the subject: "Did anything unpleasant happen?"

"Ah? No? I can't tell you that. Halfway through eating, I slipped out to chat with Brother Li... That's right! When I returned to the private room, the atmosphere was not right. Everyone except Brother Xiaoyao didn't smile. Oh, your elder brother said he almost lost control or something. I guess Brother Xiaoyao lost control, he dared to explode everything when he drank too much, and he always admitted the wrong person! Last time he hugged my brother in the car and didn’t let go..."

"I didn't ask last time, I just said tonight." Ah Ci interrupted his pursuit, and continued to ask about the dinner, "Was your brother in the house at the time? He didn't tell you what happened?"

"He is indeed there, but he didn't say anything. When Brother Li and I went back to the house, he said that it is not easy to take a taxi in snowy weather, and then dragged me away first. Your elder brother also said that the banquet is over, and everyone should go back to rest early .Generally, Brother Xiaoyao loves to hear the news, and they don’t know what’s going on today... Tell me, could it be that Brother Xiaoyao leaked the matter about my elder brother and Fu Wanqing?”

"No, they have made it public, are you afraid of others breaking the news?"

"What if it's the news of their breakup?" Zhui Ming's voice was still a little excited.

Ah Ci was speechless: "...Go and have your sweet dreams, good night."

After hanging up the phone, Ah Ci analyzed the information provided by Zhui Ming.Although it is fragmented in the most critical places, some valuable content can still be extracted from it.For example, Helian Xiaoyao must have exposed something about Ah Chu, otherwise, with Ah Chu's character, he would dig deep into the gossip that has nothing to do with the matter, so he wouldn't give up like this.But Gu Xichao was in such a hurry to leave?Could it be that the focus of the revelation has something to do with both of them?

Ah Ci lay back on the bed, looking at his elder brother's sleeping face, he couldn't understand him more and more.

After an unknown amount of time, Ah Chu opened his eyes, looked at him sideways, and said in a very serious tone, "Ah Ci, I regret it."

Of course Ah Ci understood what elder brother was referring to.It's just that everything came too suddenly, and he opened his mouth empty, unable to say a word.

"You're still young, you haven't married yet, and you don't have a child of your own..." Ah Chu didn't leave him room for negotiation, and said to death in one breath, "We shouldn't have crossed the line in the first place. It's too late to go back now." .From today, I will move downstairs to sleep."

"You bastard!" Ah Ci thumped the bed angrily, and the reaction force made him wake up with a jolt... Fortunately, it was just a dream.He breathed a sigh of relief, but inadvertently met Ah Chu's gaze—the same deep gaze as in the dream.

"Who are you calling an asshole?"