I make your medicine

"Brother, why don't you have a birthday?" Little Li Ze just received his favorite toy as a birthday present, and gave half of each snack he bought from a big supermarket to his brother. He sat in Li Che's arms and watched him play with his mobile phone. Black and white Tetris, looking up curiously at his brother's slightly pricked chin.

Li Che lowered his head and deliberately rubbed his chin against him, causing the child to laugh endlessly. He continued to play the game and said with the classic special effect sound: "I'm done."

And that day was only May 22, six months before Li Che's birthday.

Li Ze never remembered the picture of his brother celebrating his birthday. He always remembered that he was receiving presents and shopping for photos while his brother was always watching. The person who blows the candles was never Li Che.

Li Ze's tears slid down his chin, he watched Li Che hang up the phone and walked towards him, watched Li Che raise his hand to touch his head, but he couldn't hear what the man said.

"Today is your birthday?" He repeated, Li Che's expression paused slightly, with a beautiful smile still on the corner of his lips, and he opened his mouth to speak.

can not hear.

Li Ze wiped his face and murmured: "So you never celebrate your birthday, so she doesn't like you."

So when Li Che came out, Li Mingchen was the most annoyed, while Chen Sumei's reaction was flat, with no major fluctuations.

Li Che pressed the back of his head, as if urging him to go into the house to do something, but Li Ze couldn't hear a word, the buzzing in his ears gave him a headache, he turned his head to look at his brother, biting Ya said, "She treats you so well now." Li Ze gasped, his voice trembling after biting, "It's because you made money."

Li Che was stunned, looking at Li Ze's furious eyes and frowning, he took a step forward, and before he could speak, Li Ze yelled angrily: "Because you made money! She is so careful!"

Li Ze staggered and panted heavily, Tang Ren caught him when he almost fell, his tinnitus gradually subsided, and he heard Tang Ren's serious voice above his head: "He has a fever."

Li Che immediately approached, and his warm palm touched Lize's forehead, which was scorching hot.

"I'm looking for medicine." Li Che turned and walked towards the drawer under the TV cabinet.

Li Ze was a little dizzy from the fever, he stared dizzily at his brother squatting rummaging through boxes and boxes, and babbled in a crying voice.

"Why do you make me hate you?"

"Why didn't anyone tell me?"

"I...why did I scold you?"

Li Che paused, his cheek muscles twitched, and the blush around his eyes stayed for a moment.

Lize couldn't stand still, Tang Ren sideways placed him on the sofa, listening to him still talking on his own.

"I'm just an idiot."

"No one told me."

"You never celebrate your birthday, and you lie to me too."

Li Che walked over with the thermometer and antipyretics, Tang Ren took the medicine and went to the kitchen, Li Che stuffed the thermometer into his younger brother's armpit, he stood by the sofa, Li Ze sat up and looked up at him with tears in his eyes Flow down the corner of the eye to the ear.

"You lied to me too."

Li Che's chest was throbbing, and he smiled and rubbed his cheek roughly, "You are still quibbling when you say you are a little girl, what is it if you are not a sister if you cry like this?"

Li Ze grabbed his clothes and buried his face in them. He remained silent, but his shoulders kept shaking, weak low cries and hot air hit Li Che's body through the clothes.

"Who said it's only my birthday, I went out with my friends, you just don't know."

"Fart!" Lize sobbed, but it didn't affect his momentum.

Li Che's comforting hand patted the head in his arms, "Who are you talking about farting?"

Li Che continued to cry, and Tang Ren came out with the prepared medicine. Seeing the 1.8-meter tall man crying in the boss's arms, he couldn't help but feel a little funny.

"Don't rub your snot on my clothes, get up and drink your medicine."

Li Ze remained motionless, continuing to tear his clothes and cry.His brother tugged at his ears, "Are you ashamed and let others see the joke?"

"Just look!" Li Ze raised his head, rubbed his face roughly with his arms like a broken pot, and rambled in a hoarse and delirious voice: "Anyway, you two have to sleep sooner or later."

"Tsk hiss!" Li Che glanced at Tang Ren quickly, then slapped his "sister" on the head again, "Cry quietly if you want to cry, don't talk nonsense."

Tang Ren's ears were faintly red, and he handed over the cup, and also glanced at the boss. The two looked at each other, and quickly avoided seeing each other. One sat back to clean up the cake, and the other fed the medicine to the child.

Li Ze had a high fever of 38 degrees Celsius, and even taking antipyretics had little effect. Sitting on the sofa, his hands and feet were already weak and he fell back. Li Che and Tang couldn't bear it, so they worked together to help this heavy patient In the hospital, Tang Ren was almost always half-embracing Lize because he was worried that the boss's hand injury hadn't completely healed.

There was a smell of disinfectant in the quiet room, and the patient was sleeping on the recliner with his brows never loosened, looking very uncomfortable.

Tang Ren bought three bottles of water, but Li Ze's was still warm. Li Che checked the time and whispered to him, "You have to go to work tomorrow, so go back first, I'll watch."

Tang Ren sat on the chair next to him, "It's okay, you can't mess with him alone."

Li Che pulled out the pedals, his mind felt weak for a while, and he didn't try to persuade him much.

"Let him sleep in my room at night, I'll just sleep on the sofa." Tang Ren took a sip of water and followed the example of the boss and lay down. The lights on the ceiling were dazzling, and he lowered his eyes to look at the rows of seats in front of him.

"No, you sleep in yours, let him sleep in mine."

"You two sleep together, and I'll sleep in one room by myself." Li Ze's voice was so hoarse that Si Si Lala felt pain for him when she heard it.

He half-opened his eyes and looked like a dead fish. He didn't know when he woke up, but he looked normal than when he had a high fever.

"Tsk." Li Che turned his head to look at him, "Are you alright?" As he spoke, he pressed the back of his hand to his forehead, let alone, he really retreated.

"Yeah." Li Ze looked at his brother, his eyes began to turn red again.

"Drink water." Li Che unscrewed the bottle cap for him, and the little patient took a sip directly from his brother's hand, which was warm.

After drinking, he leaned back on the chair and stared blankly at the window beside him.

He didn't want to go back, and originally planned to postpone it until the day of the winter solstice. He didn't know how to face his mother, what to say, what look to use, what movements to make, he didn't have a clue.But she said that today is the anniversary of his grandfather's death, and he followed his parents to visit his grandfather's grave since he was a child, so he couldn't find a reason to refuse.

It used to be a public fundraiser in the suburbs, dilapidated and simple, but now it has been replaced by a cemetery with better conditions, and the stone monuments are reflecting light.

Standing in front of the kindly portrait of his grandfather, he suddenly thought of a question.

"Why doesn't my brother come to visit the grave?"

Chen Sumei didn't answer.Li Ze was keenly aware that something was wrong, since he knew the cause of his father's death, every silence of his mother may lead to a fact that he is unwilling to accept.

Knowing that he was unwilling to accept it, he wanted to find out the root cause.

Because that is his brother.

After returning home, Chen Sumei smiled and made him a table of meals, but he couldn't concentrate on his favorite food. He asked over and over again: "Why doesn't my brother visit the grave?"

Chen Sumei's blood pressure soared after being questioned by him. Seeing him refusing to take a bite of the food, as if he thought she was dirty, her emotions finally accumulated to the peak and burst out.

"Because my dad died! My dad died when he was born!"

"If it wasn't for him, your grandfather wouldn't have fallen down the stairs. He was born, and the father who worked so hard to raise me is gone!"

"Are you happy?! Satisfied?"

"My brother, my brother, my brother, once you come back, open your mouth and shut your mouth about my brother."

"You came back to accompany me, not to cause trouble in front of me!"

After she vented, she regretted it almost immediately. She watched Li Ze's immature eyes climbing to unbelievable and a kind of pain that made her flustered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

She heard Lize murmuring in a low voice: "No wonder he never celebrates his birthday, no wonder you have always disliked him."

With bloodshot eyes, Li Ze asked softly, "Mom, you are so kind to me, why do you let my brother watch?"

"Sleep when you're tired, and I'll call you when it's over." Seeing that the child wasn't very energetic, Li Che patted his head again.

"elder brother."

Li Che stared blankly, looking at the listless Li Ze.

It's been more than ten years, the last time I heard this sound brother, Li Ze was still at the age of rolling in the mud.

"Hmm." He responded in a low voice.

"Brother." Li Ze called again.

"Ah."

Tang Ren closed his eyes and listened, the fingers on his chest moved regularly.

Li Ze's proposal for a single room was not accepted in the end. Li Che's room had a double bed, and it was enough for the two of them to sleep on one side.

When he woke up the next day, Li Che was calling for leave on his behalf.

"Yes, I suddenly had a high fever last night, so I won't go today."

"I'll go in the afternoon."

Hearing the sound, Li Che turned his head and saw Li Ze standing by the bathroom door with his swollen bright eyes wearing a hurdler vest and his voice was miserable.

"Please take half a day off, he will go back to class in the afternoon."

"It's all right, the fever is gone, um, okay, thank you Teacher Zhang."

Li Che hung up the phone, "Don't you want to take another day off?"

Li Ze pulled it up from the hem of his clothes, scratched his chest, and said in a rough voice, "No, it will delay your dating."

Li Yuan was going to move into their dormitory at night, in order to restore some of his bad image, he had to go back and help.

His brother's voice came leisurely into the bathroom: "Well, I still have some eyesight."

Li Ze: "..."

At the dining table, Li Ze was drinking porridge and glanced at the opposite side from time to time. Li Che had eaten with Tang Ren a long time ago. Now, looking at the files on the phone, his big eyes flickered from the corner of his eye.

"Speak up if you have something to say." Li Che leaned on the chair indifferently, without looking at him, and continued to read the content of the document.

"Is it because of grandpa?" Because of grandpa, a mother would be lukewarm to her child, Li Ze couldn't believe it.

"En." Li Che replied to the assistant's message after reviewing the things, then put down the phone and looked at his younger brother, and said flatly: "Mom had a hard life when she was young, and grandpa raised her alone."

He couldn't describe the significance of his grandfather to Chen Sumei. When he was young, his father told him that his grandfather was such a kind and kind person, and he was the most important person in his mother's life. Let him not blame his mother.

Chen Sumei is a competent mother who takes good care of Li Che, but as long as there is no comparison, she will always be fine. Only after giving birth to Li Ze did Li Che know what a normal mother is.

But it doesn't matter anymore, his heart has been harder than ordinary people since he was a child, these things have hardly caused him to have too many emotional ups and downs.

But Li Ze couldn't. Although his family was poor, the child was raised in a honey pot. His parents loved and indulged his brother, and his psychological endurance was not much stronger than that of potato chips.

He lowered his head and drank the porridge in a muffled voice, but he didn't see a bite of vegetables, and he sniffed while drinking.

Li Che laughed softly, picked up some fried vegetables for him with his chopsticks, and teased: "Don't just drink porridge, eat some dishes, sister."

Li Ze rolled his eyes and glared at him, held the bowl and faced the wall without looking at him, and sniffed secretly.