hope and gift

After sending Mu Chengming away, Teng Jiangyan threw the dishes into the dishwasher and planned to go out.Although the temperature today is neither hot nor cold, but the sun is really strong. Before he even took a few steps on the road, he felt as uncomfortable as a salted fish that had been baked repeatedly.

In a few dozen days, it was time to prepare for the dissertation defense. Teng Jiangyan didn't really want to go to a crowded library, so he simply took the borrowed books and notebooks to the professor's office to get them.But after a while, he received an email from Mu Chengming. The email was a bit large, with two attachments.Teng Jiangyan glanced at the title briefly and then dropped it aside to download. He planned to go back tonight to talk about it and continue with the matter at hand.

When he returned home in a daze and knocked over the medicine box that Mu Xiao gave him, he finally realized that his weak body had a fever again.

The mobile phone that Mu Xiao gave him fell out of the medicine box and fell to the ground, even the tempered film broke a long crack.He stared blankly at the mobile phone lying quietly on the ground for a long time, and finally felt the pain in his skin due to the fever.It was as if there was a spinning top in his head, disturbing his life, and in the end he just lay on his side on the ground to feel more comfortable.

He remembered that the last time he had a fever like this was when he kissed Mu Xiao for the first time, it was so many years ago that he couldn't even remember clearly.But at that time, I was in a daze and didn't know which personality was dominant, but no matter which personality it was, the desire to get close to Mu Xiao never seemed to change.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help laughing wryly, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably.Mu Chengming's words to him echoed in his mind over and over again, warning him over and over again that Mu Xiao was going to get married soon, and there was no room for maneuver in the matter.

The current Mu Xiao should be preparing for the wedding.

As he thought about it, his consciousness began to gradually drift away again.In the end, he simply closed his eyes, allowing the tears to flood but could not flow out, but just like that, he still fell asleep.

I don't know how long it took, but he vaguely felt that someone stuffed something into his mouth, fed him water, and when he woke up, he found himself lying flat on the bed as soon as he opened his eyes.

His head still hurt very much, but there was something cold on his head, which made him feel a lot better.So he was about to turn over and sit up to see who was coming, but he touched the hand of a person beside him.

To be precise, his finger touched the ring on the man's hand.

Teng Jiangyan immediately withdrew his hand as quickly as an electric shock.

He hastily tore off the heat-reducing patch on his forehead and threw it aside, then patted his hot cheeks hard to wake himself up, and after hesitating again and again, he finally had the courage to turn around.

As soon as he turned around, he saw Mu Xiao lying on the side of the bed, sleeping soundly. He didn't even take off his clothes, and his hair was still in a mess. It looked like it hadn't been cut for a long time.

Although Teng Jiangyan's hands and feet were weakening now, he still insisted on reaching out and touching Mu Xiao's cheek, the touch was very light, as if he was afraid of disturbing Mu Xiao.Mu Xiao's cheeks were very cold, for a person like him whose whole body was hot, it was like an object with some kind of fatal attraction, which made him unable to bear to let go.

But Mu Xiao woke up after sleeping for a while, and when he opened his eyes, he saw Teng Jiangyan sitting and touching his cheek with his hand.Teng Jiangyan's fingers were as hot as a fire, which made Mu Xiao tremble, and he became sober in an instant.

"Why did you wake up? Go on to sleep for a while. I gave you antipyretics, which should have an effect later." After speaking, Mu Xiao stretched out his hand to pinch Teng Jiangyan's palm and then touched his forehead. On his forehead, he muttered again worriedly, "Why is it still so hot?"

Seeing him sitting up, Teng Jiangyan reluctantly withdrew his hand.He stared at his outstretched palm for a long time, and then said eagerly: "Is this not a dream?"

When Mu Xiao heard him speak with such an expression and such a tone, he felt that the apex of his heart was pinched severely, and it was painful but also a soreness like an electric shock came from the sole of his foot.

Before Mu Xiao could speak, Teng Jiangyan stretched out his hand and carefully touched Mu Xiao in front of him, tears could not stop streaming down.He stretched out his hand to wipe away his tears, grabbed Mu Xiao's clothes corner with sobs, and whispered: "Don't leave again, okay?"

"Just wait for another half a year." Mu Xiao stretched out his hand to wipe away the tears from Teng Jiangyan's reddened eyes, and coaxed him like a child.He reached out and picked up the sleeping pills on the bedside table, shook them in front of Teng Jiangyan, and said righteously: "Don't take any more, if you can't sleep, I'll come and accompany you."

Teng Jiangyan was a little confused for a while, not knowing whether Mu Xiao really said this or he had hallucinations.So he withdrew his hand and asked tentatively: "But your father..."

"I have already retired, and letting him announce any news will not affect me anymore. What can he do with me? The main reason I have stayed in HAL for so long is to attract 'Sun Yunyun', and now my goal has been achieved. After they discussed it, I will leave the team." Mu Xiao poked Teng Jiangyan between the eyebrows, and said with a smile: "Why, do you think he, Mu Yueru, forced me to quit?"

When Mu Xiao said this, he suddenly became silent again. He only stretched out his hand to pinch Teng Jiangyan's shoulder, and said with self-blame: "I just didn't expect him to attack you. During this time... I am sorry for you."

When Teng Jiangyan heard this, the grievance accumulated in his heart before could not be controlled, and a puddle of water rushed up, making his nose sore and painful, but he still held back his tears.

Why did this person appear when he was most desperate, why did he comfort him appropriately when he was saddest, why did he appear in front of him who was defenseless like this.Why is this person unwilling to give himself a chance to stop liking him like this?

He bumped his head into Mu Xiao's shoulder, gritted his teeth and said, "Mu Xiao, I really hate you."

"Hate it, I feel much better when you hate me. Mu Chengming told you about my past, and now I have nothing to hide from you." When Mu Xiao said this, he took out the wallet in his pocket. A USB flash drive triumphantly shook twice in front of Teng Jiangyan, "This is some evidence he gave me, and it's also thanks to you that I can convince him."

Teng Jiangyan frowned, combined with the meaning of Mu Xiao's words, he remembered the email Mu Chengming sent him.That email is still in the computer, and I didn't even have time to read it. Is the content in it actually related to Mu Xiao's past?But if it's such an important thing, how could Mu Chengming post such a hasty title, so that he didn't pay any attention at all?

"I didn't read it. The title of the email Mu Chengming sent me was too simple. I thought it was a courseware." Teng Jiangyan struggled to get out of bed and tried to turn on the computer, but Mu Xiao pushed it back with one hand.

Teng Jiangyan's heart sank, and a bit of loss and sadness instantly spread to his chest.

He had expected Mu Xiao's attitude at first, but when he wanted to return to his thoughts and experience, when Mu Xiao still resisted his pursuit of the past, he must be lying if he said it was not uncomfortable.Four years and four years have passed between them, together they have been together for eight years, but they still can't make friends with each other. Is it because my persistence is wrong?

Teng Jiangyan's heart was ups and downs, but he could only follow Mu Xiao's wishes and lie back on the bed. As soon as he lay down, his head hurt more and more.

Mu Xiao noticed his slightly changed expression, and tore off another antipyretic patch for him to stick on, and stretched out his hand to gently massage his temple.While rubbing, he lowered his head and looked at Teng Jiangyan's half-closed eyes, and chuckled lightly: "Are you going to sleep?"

"If you can't sleep, just close your eyes for a while." Teng Jiangyan tried his best to restrain the disappointment in his heart, and said to him in a calm and flat tone.

"That's just right. I haven't finished the story I told you last time, so I don't know if you would like to continue listening." Mu Xiao said to himself, increasing the strength of his hands, "Mu Chengming didn't say anything. It’s also very good, I wanted to tell you these things myself, but I never had the chance before.”

Teng Jiangyan's ears were a little ringing from his sudden increased force, and he couldn't distinguish the meaning of Mu Xiao's words for a while, and when he realized it, he only thought that he was thinking too much and delusional, and had hallucinations. listened.After another long time, he turned his head and stared straight at Mu Xiao, and said in a hoarse voice with some disbelief: "You said... are you willing to tell me?"

"Yes, of course." Mu Xiao couldn't stand his scorching eyes and turned his face away in embarrassment. Of course, the reason was mainly because of the long-standing guilt in his heart, "You owe me four years first, and I owe you four years." In the next year, our two calculations will be even, okay?"

Before Teng Jiangyan could say anything, Mu Xiao blocked his words again: "After the balance, we will not owe each other, and we will start again. But the four years I owe you still have three months. Can you wait for me for three months?"

In the first four years, Teng Jiangyan was not unwilling to be with Mu Xiao, but was forced to separate from him due to various human factors, but the subsequent meeting was unable to be honest because of the deviation of memory and the changing state of mind.At that time, Mu Xiao faced a half-crazy, half-stupid and even stubborn person, but he still never gave up and accompanied him to return to normal. Could Mu Xiao at that time be in the same state of mind as he is now?

He actually waited a long time for Mu Xiao's words.

After four years of ups and downs, no matter whether the two people are in love with each other or not, they will be separated by a huge gulf due to various entanglements of cause and effect, and it is absolutely impossible to get back together in a short time.Even if they are really together despite everything, their feelings for each other will gradually be wiped out due to various previous knots.

After all, the two words "fate" are really too difficult to quantify, and he and Mu Xiao really agreed with the four-character "destiny" - there is fate but no fate.

But thinking of this, Teng Jiangyan couldn't help but feel a lot better.He lifted Mu Xiao's little finger, and said childishly: "Okay, Lagou, no one is allowed to go back on his word."

But he himself never thought that after hearing what Mu Xiao was about to tell him, he would be the first person to go back on his word.

"The relationship between my family is quite complicated. Since it was Mu Chengming who sent you the email, let me start from him." Mu Xiao sat up on the bed and found a comfortable position, "Mu Chengming is my cousin. Brother, his father is me, my second uncle, an honest man..."

Mu Chengming was supposed to be an ordinary child from an ordinary family, with excellent grades and good moral character.His father, Mu Yuelou, is an upright teacher of the people. Although his mother is a waiter in a small restaurant and her education level is not high, she is really hardworking and simple.

His grandparents lived in a small mountain village for generations. His grandfather was a blacksmith who did manual labor, and his grandmother planted the acre of land at home.Speaking of which, his grandfather should have been a cadre in the army, but because of a fight during the team review, he was criticized and fired after being reported, so he had to go back home and continue to be his blacksmith.

When they gave birth to Mu Yuelou, it was already the couple's second child.The first child's fortune was poor, he died young, and his death was particularly miserable.Therefore, when Mu Yuelou was born, the whole family treated him like a treasure, and specially invited a fortune teller to do the calculation.After the fortune teller got his birth date right, he praised him again and again, saying that he is "the reincarnation of Wenquxing, and he will be a man of great learning and great promise in the future."

This said, the whole village knew that there was a golden phoenix in the Mu family's grass nest, and they came to persuade the Mu family and his wife to send the child to school and stop doing farm work.Later, Mu Chengming was really upbeat. He got four three-good students in the first two years of elementary school, and was praised as "excellent in character and learning" everywhere he went.

So the grandparents and grandparents began to plan together to have a daughter and get married early, and took the gift money to Mu Yuelou to marry a daughter-in-law in the future. Even the name was determined by Mu Yuelou, and she was called Mu Yueru.

But the plan couldn't keep up with the changes, and the pregnancy was born in October, but unexpectedly it was another boy.The family members held the mentality of whether the child would be able to make a fortune, and asked the fortune teller to do the calculation. The fortune teller shook his head and said that the child's fate was "the four evil spirits of breaking the army" and the appearance of "treacherous hero".

Grandparents don't understand, but just hearing about this "treacherous hero", they feel that this child will definitely not be a good person in the future, and they want to discard it several times.But Mu Yuelou refused, and guarded his younger brother life and death, almost eating and living together, so that the family members had no chance of attacking him.After Mu Yueru grew up, the family didn't think about it anymore.It's just that when he was about to go to school, his family didn't agree with him learning knowledge and going out to harm others, so he insisted on refusing to pay the tuition.After Mu Yuelou found out, he ran around to pick up bottles every day, and when school started, he abruptly scraped together Mu Yueru's tuition.

Later, when Mu Yuelou took the college entrance examination, his scores were among the highest among them. It was no problem to go to a top university, but he filled in the free student registration form of the normal university in the province behind his parents' back. Yue Ru goes to school.This action made my grandparents almost lose their temper at the time. They beat the "very harmful" Mu Yueru half to death that day, and went to the entrance of the village crying and saying that he should not have been born.

Later, Mu Yuelou graduated as scheduled in four years, but no matter how excellent his grades were, he had to return to the local area to teach for ten years before he could go to another position.But no matter where he taught, he finally had a stable salary, so he was able to support Mu Yueru to take an ordinary economics and trade college all the way until Mu Yueru graduated.

But just after graduation, Mu Yueru joined Fang's family because Fang Shimei was pregnant.

And Mu Yuelou was dragged on a blind date by his parents, married a woman with an innocent family background, got married, and lived a fairly stable life, just talking about the fortune-telling sentence of "big promise" when he was a child, it is worthy Made a joke about drinking during the Chinese New Year.

Mu Chengming heard these things from his grandparents, because at home Mu Yuelou kept silent about everything about Mu Yueru, and also let him have less contact with Mu Yueru.But Mu Chengming has always been very puzzled, why the good brothers who have been in love with each other since they were young, now seem to be turning against each other.

Mu Chengming's family is not considered rich, and the school where they live in the house can only be considered self-sufficient.On the other hand, Mu Yueru, since entering Fang's family, eats well and wears expensive clothes, and always takes luxury cars to pick her up when she goes out.The two brothers are really one heaven and one earth. When the villagers have nothing to talk about, they will inevitably bring this "promising" rich man Mu Yueru with them.

Originally, they lived an ordinary life as before, and the two families would never meet, but at this juncture, Mu Chengming's mother had a car accident.

The driver of the minivan was driving fatigued. After hitting Mu Chengming's mother, he didn't stop. After hitting another four or five cars, he died on the spot.But the van driver was dead, but Mu Chengming's mother was not dead, but it was all like that. Living is more painful than dying.

Mu Chengming's mother suffered comminuted fractures, intracranial hemorrhage, and multiple soft tissue injuries. Although the rescue was successful, she was still in a deep coma. It is very likely that she will be a vegetable for the rest of her life. paraplegic.

There was even a month-old life in his mother's womb, and with this car accident, he bid farewell to this world forever.

The high cost of surgery had already spent all the money his family had in recent years, and the school managed to raise money for him once, but the money for follow-up treatment has always been a big problem that cannot be solved.

At that time, Mu Xiao was younger than Mu Chengming, and it was the first time he saw his second uncle and cousin when he came home from school.The cousin is submissive and timid, while the uncle is sitting on the sofa in the living room, carrying out the word "meticulous" from beginning to end.But if you look closely, you will find that his fingers are clasped tightly on his knees, and his fingers are still beating rhythmically unconsciously.

It was scrupulously tense.

Mu Xiao didn't know who they were. He looked at the nanny for a long time before the nanny came to his senses and said respectfully, "Master, this is your second uncle and cousin."

After listening to this, Mu Xiao looked the two of them up and down curiously, and then greeted them in an easy-going way: "Hi, uncle, cousin, if you need anything, just tell the nanny, I'll do my homework first , I won’t accompany you.”

There was an official tone in Mu Xiao's words, with a hint of glibness, and he didn't know who he learned from.But he didn't want to listen to the two people's reply, so he went straight back to the room and went to do his own business.

He pinpointed the time for Mu Yueru to come back, sneaked out through a crack in the door, and quietly ran to the stairs to listen to what they would say when they met.

"I know you need money and how much you want, so just tell me." Mu Yueru's voice was neither salty nor dull, but also a little arrogant, as if the person talking to him was not his brother, but an ant. people.

"I don't know how much money your sister-in-law needs for her body. You can borrow some from me first, and I will definitely pay you back later." Mu Yuelou said, his voice even tinged with a hint of begging.

"Repay it? What do you want to pay it back?" Mu Yueru sneered, "Do you want to talk about your selfless provision of my education before, or... do you want to exchange your son?"

"Don't go too far." Mu Yuelou's tone was tinged with anger when he said, "I can ignore the things you did, as long as you have your own reasons, but Cheng Ming is yours. Nephew, you still have no feelings?"

"Emotions? Parents, when they want to kill me over and over again, why don't you ask them if they have feelings?" Mu Yueru paused, then sneered and continued: "Put away you That hypocrisy, the things you did before, weren't they just to set off your kindness for others to see?"

"Xiao Chen, take this kid to find Mu Xiao on the second floor, and let the two of them stay and play. I have something to discuss with him. By the way, come down later and make me a cup of coffee."

After Mu Xiao heard this, he rushed back to his room, pretending to be serious and reading, waiting for the nanny to bring Mu Chengming in.