soft hedgehog

At ten o'clock at night, Liang Yuchen took a taxi to the Fifth People's Hospital.

The emergency room was on the west side, and the taxi parked at the wrong door. He ran from the north district to the west district in one breath, and was panting heavily when he rushed into the emergency room.This is a crowded place no matter how late it is. There are many people in the corridor holding medical records, wearing masks, wearing white coats, and crying.

He lifted all the curtains on the first floor, and finally saw Ji Tong in the third room where the wound was bandaged. Even his back was at a loss, and his hands were tightly twisted in front of him.

"Tongtong."

Hearing this, Ji Tong turned around, ran towards him as if he had received an amnesty, and raised his eyes to cloud the fog: "Brother!"

Liang Yuchen looked up and down, and saw that the leg of his right sweatpants was loosely rolled up, and there was a bandage wrapped around his calf, which should be just a scratch.

He felt a little relieved, and asked in a deep voice, "Where is the person you hurt?"

"Going to take a film." Ji Tong pulled the sleeve of his right hand with his left hand, and looked back to the other side of the corridor, "Brother, what should I do, the doctor said it seems to be a fracture..."

Liang Yuchen asked: "What's going on?"

"I went to ride with them, and everyone took off the handlebars while playing." Ji Tong avoided his eyes and stammered, "accidentally...accidentally rushed onto the lawn."

His eyebrows twitched: "How many times have I told you to be careful when riding a bicycle, why don't you just refuse to listen?!"

"I--"

Before he finished speaking, a man and a woman at the other end of the corridor walked slowly towards this side with a young man on his arm.Ji Tong hid behind him like a frightened bird.

Liang Yuchen understood immediately, and asked, "Which student and parent?"

Ji Tong bit his lip and nodded, holding tightly to the back of his shirt with both hands.

There was no open wound on the child's leg, but it was obviously in severe pain. The sweat oozing from his forehead was glistening, and he was gasping slightly.The doctor put the man on the hospital bed and sat him down, and called the orthopedic doctor to put a plaster on him. The two parents frowned and watched over him, not leaving a single step.

For a long time, no one paid attention to the two brothers.

Such a thing is not a small torment on the conscience.

Liang Yuchen knew that hiding was impossible, so he pondered for a moment, and took the initiative to go in and report his family: "Uncle, Auntie, I am Ji Tong's elder brother."

The eyes of the two adults turned sideways in an instant.

The person who was hit by Ji Tong's bicycle was a junior named Yang Hongliang.His mother also looked young, sitting on the bench in the room, with a designer bag on her lap, her face well-made, and her father also looked like a man with a head and face, wearing a suit at night.

Mother Yang glanced at him coldly, got up and walked outside, apparently to ask the teacher for a crime.

But no matter how difficult she was, she deserved it. Liang Yuchen stood upright, silently followed her to the corridor.Looking at their backs, Ji Tong felt stuck in his throat, and after hesitating for a while, he finally followed them out.

"Your brother was riding a bicycle on the sidewalk and hurt my son, do you know?"

"I know, I'm really sorry." He felt guilty for the first time, and lowered his head, "Just now I have informed my brother about the situation, and he is fully responsible."

Mother Yang felt sorry for her son, so naturally she would not buy it so easily.She was angry and anxious, raising the corners of her eyes to challenge him.

"I would like to ask you, how did your parents educate you? Is the school a place to study or a place to play with cars! My son was standing on the grass, and now he was hit by your brother and fractured. Who can I ask for reasoning? !"

The two hands folded together and slapped crisply. With each slap, Ji Tong's body in the corner trembled slightly.

Liang Yuchen could only apologize repeatedly: "It was my younger brother's fault from beginning to end to hurt your son. He is young and ignorant. I will definitely strengthen discipline in the future." sorry."

Ji Tong's back was pressed by one hand, bit his lip and bowed: "Auntie, I'm really sorry..."

"What's the use of apologizing?" The woman's eyes were like arrows, her resentment was endless, "I'm hurt, I'm sweating in pain, you go and replace him?"

After a pause, he seemed to think of something more exasperating, and his eyes were red with anxiety: "Our child has an important grade test next week, and he has been preparing for half a year. How can he go now that his legs are like this?"

Looking at this matter from her point of view, it was undoubtedly a disaster.

Ji Tong pulled the seam of his trousers with his hands, feeling guilty in his heart, and said weakly, "We will pay..."

He thought that all losses could be measured in money.

"Do you think we have no money?" The voice of the other party suddenly rose, staring at him as if he was humiliated, "I'll break your leg and pay you tens of thousands, are you willing?!"

Ji Tong was so frightened that he swayed back, and his waist was once again supported by a hand.Turning his head, Liang Yuchen's eyes were reproachful and serious: "From now on, don't talk anymore."

It's rare for him to be so strict, so Ji Tong immediately shut his mouth tightly.

"Auntie," Liang Yuchen said softly, "see if this is okay. I know that health is priceless, but you must let us bear the medical expenses, otherwise our conscience will be disturbed."

He also said: "According to what the doctor said just now, as long as you are careful after putting on the plaster cast, Yang can move around. I go to the same school as him, so I think in order not to delay his class and exams, and you two to go to work, from now on From tomorrow, I will take him to and from class, carry him up and down the stairs, bring him meals, and follow him wherever he goes for exams until he removes the plaster cast."

Exchanging one person's time for another's time is the best way right now.

"you?"

Mother Yang is suspicious.How true can a young man in his early twenties take what he said?

"Yeah.", "Anyway, I'm responsible to the end."

Ji Tong's throat was dry, and he didn't dare to look at his brother again, so he could only stare down at the floor paint in the corridor.

The other party restrained his anger slightly, turned back to look at his son, and the high-pressure period finally stopped.

The night was tumultuous and long.Liang Yuchen ran upstairs and downstairs, paid the fee, got the test results, called a seven-seater Buick at one o'clock in the morning, carried Yang Hongliang all the way from the emergency room to the front of the car, repeatedly asked the driver to be careful on the road, and promised to pick him up early tomorrow morning Morning class, and will communicate with the school to waive his extracurricular time this semester.

He sent the Yang family away exhausted. He couldn't drink a sip of water all night. Before leaving, he went to the bathroom and washed his face with cold water at the sink. He put his hands in front of the table and didn't speak for a long time.

Ji Tong stood right behind him, and the mirror showed a bewildered face.

"Brother..." He knew that he had caused a lot of trouble.

He has been quiet ever since he was ordered not to speak, not daring to make any noise to be annoying.This time the outsider left, and he could finally speak again.

"Brother, are you tired?"

He tentatively hugged his brother's waist from behind, asking for him.

Liang Yuchen pushed it away without saying a word. He was startled for a moment, then leaned over to hug him, and said softly, "Brother, talk to me, I know I was wrong."

"You really know you're wrong?" Liang Yuchen's voice was exhausted, and water was dripping from his wet hair on his forehead.

"Really, really," he kept nodding behind, looking at his brother through the mirror, "I don't dare to ride a bike at school again."

At least for a period of time in the future, he will not dare to cause trouble again, and he does know that he is afraid.

Liang Yuchen finally stopped pushing him away, turned around, leaning against the edge of the water platform with his waist, his eyes were dark and deep.

"More than this," he said, "more than this."

Ji Tong hugged him face to face, he was very intimate because of his guilty conscience, and looked at him puzzled.

Liang Yuchen said: "Tongtong, you should grow up, my brother won't always be on call."

Ji Tong was stunned for a moment, interpreting his words as a reproach.

"Why, you don't want to talk to me anymore?"

He knew he was wrong, but he didn't think it was serious enough for his brother to fight him again.

Liang Yuchen was hard-hearted yet soft-hearted. Facing his begging eyes, he couldn't speak harsh words anymore, and stretched out his arms to hug you back: "I'm your brother, and I won't ignore you. But I also have my own life, and it's impossible to surround me 24 hours a day. Follow you."

Ji Tong was only willing to listen to the first half of the sentence, and threw himself on him, with his cheek against his chest, his powerful heartbeat in his ears, and he felt extremely stable in his heart.

"What about your life and my life? We are a family. We go to school and go home together. Can we be separated? You are my brother now, and you are also my brother when you are seventy or eighty. You have to control me and let me go. You said it yourself, you can’t say nothing.”

Family, these three words are Liang Yuchen's lifeline.

His blood is getting warmer, and anyone who rests his chin on Ji Tong's head counts. "

The lights in the bathroom were dim, and the air was filled with the unique smell of hospital disinfectant. The two hugged each other like this, without speaking for a long time, until the sound of footsteps came from the door, and they separated without a sound.

It is not easy to take a taxi near the hospital, and Liang Yuchen was reluctant to call a special car, so he took Ji Tong out of the street first.

It was too late, even the moonlight looked tired, and he was exhausted all over.Maybe everyone's patience has a limit, but obviously he hasn't reached that red line yet.

Because Ji Tong followed him every step of the way.

"Brother." Ji Tong asked, "Do you think there are brothers like us in the world?"

Liang Yuchen had ghosts in his heart, and the drowsiness was instantly blown away by the wind. He looked at the few cigarette butts on the ground that were casually discarded: "I don't think there is anything special about us."

"It's not special." Ji Tong felt that he didn't understand what he meant, and shook his cuffs lightly, "I mean our relationship is better than that of ordinary brothers. Could it be that you were born into the wrong baby? Maybe it was my mother's fault in the first place." give birth to you."

Only he can say such things.

Liang Yuchen was in a better mood: "Don't make it up, I have a mother myself."

Ji Tong smiled: "Then, don't tell my mother about this, brother."

He is afraid of being beaten.

"I know."

"I'll pay you back the medical expenses some other day."

"Didn't it mean that the relationship is better than ordinary brothers?" Liang Yuchen turned to look at him sideways, "Why pay it back, I can still take out the money."

Ji Tong stuck out his tongue.

After walking for a while, the two stopped and waited for the car.Ji Tong asked again: "Brother, are you really going to carry that classmate Yang tomorrow?"

Liang Yuchen put both hands in his trouser pockets, and rubbed the dormitory door key with his right hand: "I have to do what I promised, and it's really inconvenient for him to be alone."

Ji Tong said: "Understood, then I'll buy you breakfast, and I want to do my part."

Express your apology.

When the car arrived, Liang Yuchen pushed him into the back row: "Master, go to the neighborhood I'm targeting."

Ji Tong opened the car door: "Aren't you going back?"

"I'm going to live in school," he said, "I'm going to get up early tomorrow, so I don't need you to send it to me. Help me pack a few more clothes and take them back to school. I won't be going home for a while."

After speaking, he slammed the door shut.

Night taxis drive fast and the roads are smooth.In the driving car, Ji Tong turned around and leaned on the back seat to look at Liang Yuchen's profile, and found that his brother hadn't moved a step, growing there like a tree.

Later, it gradually became far away and could not be seen.He turned around and sat down, but there was something strange in his heart, he always felt that his brother seemed to lack something compared to when he came to the hospital.

In fact, it’s nothing special, it’s Nati Rose.Maybe it fell in the corridor, maybe it fell in the ward, lost it, it is difficult to find it again.