mutual benefit [gl]

After walking out of the school gate, Ji Cixi led Ji Xu across the road, but unexpectedly Chen Yuanzhen was standing beside him.

Ji Cixi gathered the collar of her coat that had been blown up by the wind, and her hair mistook her eyes, so she could only squint her eyes and look at Chen Yuanzhen suspiciously through the scorched yellow street lamp.

Chen Yuanzhen shrugged his shoulders, staring at the constantly flashing traffic lights.

"I didn't drive." She said lightly.

The traffic light changed at this moment, and as soon as the little green figure came on, Chen Yuanzhen smiled and stretched out his hand to hold Ji Xu, ignoring Ji Cixi, like a demonstration, the two of them crossed the road on their own.

Ji Cixi watched the two of them cross the road with cold eyes, and when Chen Yuanzhen reached the other side of the road, he waved at her triumphantly, as if announcing his victory.

She sighed secretly, and ignored the two of them, but turned around and walked slowly along the original road with her head down.

Seeing this, Chen Yuanzhen slowly lowered her raised hands.She wanted to pull Ji Xu to rush over again, but just watched Ji Cixi's back walking forward little by little, her hand holding Ji Xu first tightened slightly, and then slowly relaxed.

"Beautiful sister, do you think my aunt is angry?" Ji Xu timidly raised his head and asked her.

Chen Yuanzhen turned her eyes, she wanted to comfort Ji Xu, but she saw the thin silver chain on Ji Xu's neck first.

She reached out and gently pulled the chain out of Ji Xu's collar, and saw the rings on the chain.Chen Yuanzhen looked up at Ji Cixi who was on the other side of the road.

The cold wind blew on Chen Yuanzhen's face mercilessly, she felt that her cheeks had become stiff, she sniffed, and carefully tucked the silver chain into Ji Xu's collar.

She stretched out a finger and tapped Ji Xu's forehead, and said softly: "No, let's go."

Chen Yuanzhen held Ji Xu's hand again as he spoke, she did not go to look for Ji Cixi this time, but walked forward along the road under her feet just like her.

She walked all the way, but her eyes lingered on Ji Cixi who was across the road.

Chen Yuanzhen deliberately slowed down his steps so that he could look at Ji Cixi's back sideways.

She had carefully looked at Ji Cixi's front face before, but never had a good look at her back.

Ji Cixi is indeed very thin, a little too thin.Even though she was wrapped in a loose coat, her back still looked like a bamboo pole swaying in the wind.

It seems that it can fall down at any time, and it can be broken at any time.

"Ji Xu,"

Chen Yuanzhen looked at Ji Cixi from a distance, and spoke softly.

"Ok?"

"Do you... know what your aunt used to be like?"

Ji Xu gave a strange "huh?", then shook his head.

"do not know."

"Then when you first met your aunt, what was she like?"

Ji Xu mused and raised his head, imitating the people on TV, poking his soft chin with his fingers, thinking.

"Hmm... the first time I saw my aunt... my mother led me to stand at the door of my aunt's house. My aunt opened the door, but she looked at my mother as if she were a stranger."

Chen Yuanzhen nodded, "Well, you continue."

"My mother asked me to say hello to my aunt, but my aunt ignored me. Then my mother cried and talked to my aunt a lot, but my aunt also ignored her. Later...the grandparents next door came out to watch, but my aunt still Didn't say a word, just looked at Mom."

"The neighbors have all gone out to watch, your aunt still hasn't talked to your mother?"

Ji Xu nodded vigorously.

"Well, it's my mother who is always talking, and my aunt just looks at her and listens to her."

"Then... Later, how did you live in your aunt's house?" Chen Yuanzhen asked softly.

"Because mom passed out later on." Ji Xu's voice became smaller and smaller, "I didn't realize it at that time, but my aunt had already hugged mom and sent her to the hospital..."

While talking, Ji Xu wanted to cry, but he sniffed again, trying to suppress the soreness in his eyes.

Chen Yuanzhen couldn't bear it, she didn't intend to cause the child's sadness, so she was about to ask Ji Xu to stop talking, but Ji Xu didn't stop, but said again:

"My aunt... I still remember the first sentence she said to me in the hospital."

Chen Yuanzhen's eyebrows moved slightly, and he asked curiously, "What is it?"

"My aunt asked me why I didn't cry."

"Why...don't you cry?" Chen Yuanzhen looked down at Ji Xu with some doubts.

"Well... My aunt also said that I should cry. She has been waiting for me to cry, until the palm of my hand is about to bleed. But I, but I just don't cry..."

Chen Yuanzhen's heartbeat suddenly seemed to miss a beat.

She raised her eyes blankly to look at Ji Cixi who was still walking opposite to the cold wind.

"Why don't you cry?"

Chen Yuanzhen suddenly felt very depressed in his heart for a moment, and gradually clenched his other hand into a fist.

At that time, Ji Cixi... What kind of expression, what kind of mood did she ask this sentence?

She wanted to know, but dared not know.

She was really scared, afraid that Ji Xu would tell her that even when Ji Cixi said that sentence, his face was expressionless.

It is precisely because it is too turbulent that it is necessary to suppress it desperately.

"So Ji Xu..." Chen Yuanzhen's voice became a little trembling.

"You...why didn't you cry then?"

"Mom doesn't allow me to cry." Ji Xu replied, "Mom said that my aunt doesn't like to see children crying, so she doesn't allow me to cry."

As Ji Xu said, he sniffed again, and Chen Yuanzhen turned his eyes, only to realize that Ji Xu's eye circles were already red. He couldn't speak clearly just now. It turned out that he had been biting his lips, and he was trying not to let himself shed tears.

Chen Yuanzhen raised her hand, she wanted to touch Ji Xu's head to appease him, but seeing Ji Xu holding back tears, her hand hung in the air and hesitated again.

In the end, she just helped Ji Xu put on the hat that came with his down jacket.

She went around and squatted down in front of Ji Xu, stroking his still delicate lips with trembling hands.

"Don't bite your mouth...it will hurt."

Ji Xu's tears rolled uncomfortably in his eyes, cooperating with the cold winter wind, and finally rolled down his cheeks in disobedience.

"But beautiful sister..." Ji Xu cried to Chen Yuanzhen.

"I think... I think my mother is wrong!"

Chen Yuanzhen reached out and wiped away Ji Xu's tears, and asked softly, "What did your mother... say wrong?"

"Auntie, she...she doesn't dislike me crying! She doesn't dislike my mother either!"

The last sentence, Ji Xu cried out.

It wasn't until hearing Ji Xu's words that the stone hanging in Chen Yuanzhen's heart finally fell heavily.At this time, she let out a long breath as if she had fought with someone for a long time and finally won the victory.

She grinned, but that smile didn't last long, and it transformed into an extremely heartbroken expression. She wiped away the tears hanging on Ji Xu's face with her cold hands, perhaps because of panic, she He couldn't even control the strength of his own fingers, leaving a few red marks on Ji Xu's face.

"Yes, you are right, Ji Xu. You are right, you are right..."

Chen Yuanzhen repeated "You're right" meaninglessly, not knowing whether he was speaking to Ji Xu or to himself.

When she looked back at Ji Cixi's figure again, she found that Ji Cixi had never raised her head, she was only looking at the road under her feet, whether it was the cold wind blowing on her body, or the passers-by who brushed past her, all these Things seem to be non-existent to her.

In the eyes of outsiders, Ji Cixi is a person who is difficult to get close to.

From my sister's point of view, my sister is a lonely and self-reliant person to the extreme.

But in Chen Yuanzhen's view, Ji Cixi was a dazed person.

A person who doesn't understand others, and no one understands.

The author has something to say: If Ji Xu cried, Ji Cixi could let her sister in earlier.In fact, she has been waiting.

After thinking about it, I still listed this part as a separate chapter.