Husband's Fingertips

The next afternoon, Mu Wenxuan rushed back from the provincial capital with a bunch of medicines.

Xia Mu found that from the first time Qiu Jiyan saw his father, he was like a hedgehog with spikes erected, and his whole body was full of anger and hatred.

Although He Xiangning's mother didn't have a good opinion of this new son-in-law, since her daughter had already made her own choice and had a son with him, she always had to live with face.

But her grandson completely ignored these things. No matter how well she tried to persuade him, Qiu Jiyan kept a straight face and never said a word to Mu Wenxuan.

Xia Mu saw Qiu Jiyan's resentment towards his father.

After all, it was his father who snatched his mother away from a six-year-old child with his own hands. How could such a child's pain and despair of losing his mother not give rise to deep-seated resentment?

He didn't know how to comfort Qiu Jiyan who was furious in front of him, and the more anxious he became, the more he stammered, and he probably couldn't say anything pleasant.

Fortunately, it's a holiday now, so why not take him out to have fun.

The Qiu family's grandma didn't want this kind of awkward atmosphere at home all the time. When Xia Mu said that she wanted to take Qiu Jiyan out, she readily agreed, but she just reminded her to be careful.

Miaoxiang Town itself is located in a mountainous area, and the town is surrounded by wild mountains full of snow.

Qiu Jiyan felt uncomfortable, so he didn't speak, and walked forward along the path. Xia Mu had to follow behind. After walking for a while, the two realized that they had reached the hill at the north end of the town.

The snow on the mountain didn't smell like melting at all, and it was much colder than in the town.Soon, the tips of their noses turned red from the cold.

Looking at the blurred houses in the town in the distance, Qiu Jiyan squatted down and made a big snowball, and threw it over there forcefully.

Although he was young, he was very strong. The snowball landed on the trunk of an old tree in the distance and made a "bang".

"What kind of tree is that? There seems to be fruit on the tree!"

Qiu Jiyan pointed at the tree curiously, and walked over quickly.

"That's called... snow pear, it's... a specialty of ours... after being beaten by snow... it will...be tastier!"

Standing under a tall tree, the two could faintly smell the faint fragrance of pears.

"I'll climb up to pick it!"

Without further ado, Qiu Jiyan hugged the tree trunk and wanted to climb up.

Although he was not short, and he was also strong, but he was a child in the city, and he had never climbed a tree since he was a child. He used all his strength, but he fell down just a little bit before going up.

"I... I'll come, you wait!"

Xia Mu gently took Qiu Jiyan's hand and asked him to stand aside.Heh heh on the palm of his hand, he began to climb up the tree.

Although he doesn't have such vigorous skills, but after all, he grew up in this mountain forest, and climbing trees is not difficult for him.It's just that the temperature on the mountain is very, very low now, and the hand that was grasping the tree trunk became red with cold in a short while, as painful and itchy as a cat scratching.

He gritted his teeth and persisted, constantly looking at the branches with brown frozen pears that were getting closer and closer, and occasionally glanced at Qiu Jiyan, who had been raising his head under the tree.

He seemed to see the anticipation in those bright black eyes, and for a moment, both hands seemed to forget the pain.

Finally picked a few frozen pears, Xia Mu felt that his hands were completely numb from the cold, and finally put the pears in the pocket of the cotton coat.

It was easier to get down the tree, but he almost lost his foot, mainly because his hands didn't quite listen to him anymore.

When he got down to the ground, Xia Mu desperately blew air on his red and swollen fingers, and at the same time motioned Qiu Jiyan to take a pear from his pocket.

"Look, there's still ice on it. It's delicious when you go home and melt it with water."

When a few frozen pears gradually softened in the water basin, exuding an increasingly sweet fragrance, Qiu Jiyan was not in a hurry to taste them. He frowned and looked at Xia Mu's hands covered with frostbite ointment.

The two of them were still children after all, and they didn't know that in such a low temperature on the top of the mountain, exposing their hands for such a long time would definitely cause frostbite.

At night, Qiu Jiyan gently pulled Xia Mu's shoulder, "Do you still hurt?"

Xia Mu kept her eyes open and couldn't sleep because both hands hurt badly.However, he was afraid of affecting Qiu Jiyan's sleep, so he never dared to move his body.Unexpectedly, the boy did not fall asleep either.

"No...it's okay, no...it doesn't hurt."

"Well, go to sleep."

Xia Mu felt that Qiu Jiyan didn't seem to reject people thousands of miles away when he first saw him, but most of the time, he still had a straight face, didn't know what he was thinking, and didn't talk to himself much.

Not only did he not like to talk to himself, but he also never showed how much a long-lost child misses his biological mother to He Xiangning.

The two of them seemed to be getting more and more used to sleeping in the same bed.

Several times when Xia Mu woke up in the middle of the night, he would find that unconsciously, the two people who were originally back to back had turned into a sleeping position embracing each other.

And what made him feel shy was that every time, he was hugged by that boy.

That boy who was obviously younger than him, in his chest, was strangely filled with a kind of solidity and heat that made Xia Mu feel worthy of relying on.

And that boy breathed steadily and regularly, spraying it on his face and between his lips, it was hot, making him feel that the following night was extremely sweet.

One afternoon, two people who were doing their homework in the house suddenly heard Mu Lin's crying from the yard.

Xia Mu ran out in a hurry, the little bully outside the door was covered in snow and mud, with snot and tears all over his face, he looked like a down and out bandit.

"What... what's wrong?"

"Brother, Da Maha, Da Maha, they bullied me. In the alley, they took away my ball, the ball bought by Dad, woo woo...Brother, help me get it back, woo woo."

Xia Mu frowned. He knew that the guy nicknamed Da Maha and his gang were all young gangsters in Miaoxiang Town, but these guys who had already gone to school snatched something from a four-year-old baby. It was too much.

He hesitated for a moment, and to be honest, he was a little nervous and scared.After all, he, who has never caused trouble, still has a lot of fear in his heart about taking the initiative to find a group of gangsters to reason.

"They still call me a bastard, saying that my mother is in the city with my father to make broken shoes, woo woo, brother, what are broken shoes?"

Xia Mu felt a strong flame rushing up from his heart.

For a moment, he didn't know where the tension and fear had gone. At this moment, there was only steaming anger and uncontrollable impulse left in his mind.

"Mu Lin, you wait, brother will help you get the ball back!"

At this moment, anger even made him forget his stuttering.

Just as he was about to lift his foot, a figure taller than him walked by.

"I'll go with you."

It was Qiu Jiyan.

When several wild boys who were playing football in the alley saw Xia Mu and Qiu Jiyan beside him, they stopped chasing the ball by coincidence. ,

"Hey, isn't this 'Er Wood'? Why, come to ask for a ball for your brother? It's only been two and a half days since the holiday, and I'm getting bolder!"

"Brother Ma, didn't you see that he brought a helper here? Look at that kid's dick, tsk tsk, he seems very difficult to mess with!"

"It's not easy to mess with? Cut, isn't it like that 'Er Wood', a little hairy kid who hasn't grown any hair yet, how can there be pus!"

A few half-children had hippie smiles on their faces, and they didn't take Xia Mu and Qiu Jiyan seriously at all.

Xia Mu's face was a little purple and red, "You...you...give us back the ball, don't...don't bully the children! Bullying... bullying the children, what...what kind of ability!"

The boy named Da Maha was the tallest and strongest, and Mu Lin's ball was always under his feet. Hearing Xia Mu's words, he laughed twice, kicked the ball far away.

"I bullied you, you can take me..."

There are obviously three words "how" behind him that he didn't say, Xia Mu only felt that there was a figure rushing out beside him, and kicked the kid down to the ground with a few neat kicks towards the big horse. My stomach is straight.

Although Qiu Jiyan's movements were fast, Xia Mu could see clearly that Qiu Jiyan didn't just kick indiscriminately, but used the movements called Taekwondo that he had seen on TV.

The old saying "Catch the thief first" seems to be very reasonable. The big maha held his stomach and couldn't get up on the ground for a long time. The other boys who were weaker than him looked at each other, and they didn't dare to charge together like they usually do in group fights. come over.

Qiu Jiyan pointed at Xia Mu, and shouted to Da Maha and the other gangsters on the ground, "I tell you, he is my brother, and whoever dares to bully him in the future, I will destroy anyone!"

It was very late at night, but the two boys in the same bed didn't seem to be asleep.

"You...how...you...haven't slept yet?"

"I haven't had a massage for several days, and I feel uncomfortable all over."

"You...you often press...massage? Go...where do you go to press?"

"Well, I've been used to massage since I was a child, and the family hired a grandfather who specializes in massage for us."

"Oh, yes...that's it, I know, right...by the way, today you...you called me brother, I know...I know you mean...you told them, actually...actually you...you still look down on stuttering I'm so useless again, right... right?"

"No, what I really look down on are people who don't want to get rid of their shortcomings."

"Then...then if...if I get rid of my stutter, you...can you always call me brother?"

After Xia Mu's question, Qiu Jiyan seemed to be silent for a long time.

Next, Xia Mu heard a sentence that didn't seem to come from the mouth of a ten-year-old boy, a sentence that made him recall and lament for many years.

"No! Because your whole family, including the woman who gave birth to me, will never, never be my relatives!"

The winter vacation is not over yet, and He Xiangning's illness is not known to be due to the effect of the medicine, or the good relationship after seeing the mother and son, but he slowly recovered, and it seems that there is no serious problem.

On the day when Xia Mu returned to school during the school holiday, the head teacher on the podium emphasized the safety of the students during the holidays. The students on one side were whispering excitedly because they hadn’t seen each other for many days. Only Xia Mu, for some reason, only felt a wave of Intense restlessness, restlessness.

For some reason, he had an inexplicable feeling of sadness... Qiu Jiyan was leaving.

When he hurried home, the mischievous Mu Lin was hugging He Xiangning's leg, so honestly he didn't cry.

And his stepmother was standing by the door, her eyes were completely swollen from crying.

The house is astonishingly quiet, without the kind grandma, without...that cold noodle who would help him fight...Qiu Jiyan.

It turned out that the Qiu family could no longer tolerate their favorite eldest grandson staying outside for so long, Mrs. Ding forced Qiu Yueming to come to Miaoxiang Town in person, and brought Qiu Jiyan and grandma back to the capital together.

Without even saying goodbye, without even seeing him for the last time, that boy really left.

Xia Mu suddenly felt empty in his heart, and his whole body was like an inflatable doll that had been sucked out of air, becoming deflated from the inside out.

He slowly returned to his hut, where the quilt that the two slept together was neatly folded, and the pillows shared by the two were on top.

There seemed to be a corner of shiny things protruding from the gap between the pillow and the quilt.

Xia Mu walked over quickly, removed the pillow, and underneath was a cartoon Doraemon badge.

This badge has been hanging on Qiu Jiyan's schoolbag. Xia Mu likes that cute shape very much. He secretly held it in Qiu Jiyan's hand to see it many times.

Once, when he was touching the badge, Qiu Jiyan walked in, glanced at him, but said nothing.

So, now that it is placed under the pillow, did Qiu Jiyan leave it unintentionally, or did he intentionally keep it for himself as a souvenir?

Xia Mu would rather believe it was the latter, and she believed it for 16 years.