Ferocious Dog of Old

There are dozens of days left before the college entrance examination, and many things should be put on the agenda.

For example, fill out this form and that form, such as physical examination, such as Tao Huainan, who has to start submitting applications.When filling out the form in class, Pan Xiaozhuo would fill it out for him, or Chi Cheng would take it home at night and help him fill it out.

It was supposed to be the time for his elder brother to send him care, but Tao Xiaodong didn't show up recently.Every time Tao Huainan called him, he was either on a business trip or he had something to do, and he just wouldn't come back anyway.

"You have something to hide from me, Tao Xiaodong?" Tao Huainan asked hesitantly on the phone.

"What can I do?" Tao Xiaodong's voice was very hoarse, and he felt that he was struggling to speak on the phone, "I'm busy, I will go back to see you after I finish my work in two days."

"What are you busy with?" Tao Huainan asked him while grabbing him without letting him hang up the phone.

"The store has been busy recently, there are activities," Tao Xiaodong laughed hoarsely over there, his voice rough and dry, "I'll go home after I'm busy. Do you miss me?"

"Nonsense." Tao Huainan frowned, pulled the edge of the sofa and gently scratched, "Can I still miss you?"

Tao Xiaodong was silent on the phone for a while, then smiled and said, "I miss you too."

"You'd better not hide anything from me," Tao Huainan told him, "You can't hide anything from me."

"It's okay," Tao Xiaodong said again, cleared his throat, and said, "Let's study, brother hang up first."

Tao Huainan is a very sensitive child. There are only these few people in his world, so he knows everyone well. He can hear the state of mind from the tone of his voice, and he can pick out any wrong words very sensitively.

So he instinctively felt that Tao Xiaodong had something to hide from him, but Tao Xiaodong kept his mouth shut and didn't say anything.

This made Tao Huainan always have one thing in his heart, and when Tao Xiaodong came back, let him feel it.

At noon in Chicheng's classroom, Tao Huainan lay on the pillow and couldn't sleep for a long time, his eyes blinked back and forth but wouldn't close.Chi Cheng glanced at him, reached out to touch his eyelashes, and asked him, "Why don't you sleep?"

Tao Huainan was touched by his eyelashes, so he blinked twice, scraped Chi Cheng's fingers with his eyelashes, and tugged at the corner of his mouth: "I'm not sleepy, I can't sleep."

Tao Huainan didn't sleep every day, sometimes he just lay down for a while.So Chi Cheng ignored him and let him lie on the side.Tao Huainan put his hand on Chi Cheng's leg, and tapped lightly on Chi Cheng's leg with his fingers without rhythm.

Shi Kai came back early today, saw Tao Huainan obediently lying there, thought he was sleeping, and sat down lightly in the back seat.Before he sat down on his buttocks, he heard Tao Huainan say, "Brother Kai."

Shi Kai laughed: "I haven't slept yet."

"Didn't fall asleep." Tao Huainan sat up and turned to talk to him, "You came back so early today."

Shi Kai said "hmm" and said, "You lie on your back, I'll just sit here. There are chocolates in it, did Brother Chi get you some?"

Tao Huainan said "no".

"Take it away and eat it later, I brought it for you in the morning." Shi Kai smiled and took away a small piece of dry leaf stuck to the back of Tao Huainan's clothes, "Brother Chi and I won't eat it."

Tao Huainan said, "Brother Xie Kai."

In fact, Tao Huainan doesn't like to eat very much recently, and his heart is overwhelmed, which makes him suffocate.The matter of the college entrance examination is weighing on him, and the matter of his brother is also weighing on him.

The chocolate was brought back to the classroom and given to Pan Xiaozhuo. Pan Xiaozhuo didn't have much trouble with Tao Huainan recently, and Tao Huainan didn't talk to him, so he didn't say anything.But this does not affect the relationship between the two of them, a pair of young deskmates have always been very good.

Pan Xiaozhuo took good care of Tao Huainan and helped him make this Luo Na.

Tao Huainan actually asked him once, why Pan Xiaozhuo took the initiative to be at the same table with him, took him to study, and took care of him.Pan Xiaozhuo didn't say anything at first, because introverted children are always not good at expressing their thoughts.Later Tao Huainan couldn't hold back and asked again, and Pan Xiaozhuo said, "You helped me that time in the cafeteria."

Tao Huainan was quite surprised. He still remembered that Pan Xiaozhuo said, "I dropped your lunch box, and when you came back to your senses, you said 'it's all right'. When Ji Nan got angry, you also spoke for me."

Speaking of these inevitably made people feel embarrassed, Pan Xiaozhuo turned his face to the side and said, "I was scared to death at the time."

Things that have passed long ago, now I don’t feel ashamed to mention them, Pan Xiaozhuo complained in a low voice: “I don’t know where the water came from on the ground, I’m so unlucky, how can I step on it so accurately…”

Tao Huainan couldn't help laughing, and asked him, "What were you thinking at the time? You didn't say a word, but you just said sorry to Ji Nan and it calmed down."

"What am I thinking, I'm just stupid," Pan Xiaozhuo felt his head buzzing when he remembered the scene at that time, "The rice bowl was crackling and fell, and the cafeteria was still echoing, everyone looked at me, I almost ran away gone."

Tao Huainan was so teased by him that he lay on the table and laughed for a long time.Pan Xiaozhuo is indeed a slow person, and now that the two of them are so mature, he can talk about this without the burden.Tao Huainan said: "Later, you really went to give money. Those two brothers were scared when they saw you, and you are also amazing."

"I'm afraid they will come to me," Pan Xiaozhuo pursed his lips, and he wanted to laugh a little, "What if the two of them remember when they come to me and ask for money."

"They both said they don't want it, so you give it back." Tao Huainan said.

Pan Xiaozhuo: "Once you regret it, how can you fix it by calling me out at the door of the shift?"

Tao Huainan laughed again, and said, "Those two brothers are going crazy when they hear that."

"I'm crazy, he asked me to ask for four thousand!" Pan Xiaozhuo whispered.

Tao Huainan was so teased by him that the two boys laughed together, looking at them at the front and back tables, thinking that they were sick.

Pan Xiaozhuo asked him, "Are you happier?"

Tao Huainan nodded and said he was happy, and after a while he said, "I'm not unhappy, Xiao Zhuo. I just miss my brother a little bit."

Tao Huainan is not superstitious, but he has had too many dreams recently.I don't know if it's because Tao Xiaodong hasn't come back, but Tao Huainan can't let go of his holding on. He always dreamed about his brother, dreamed that his brother was holding him when he was a child, and there were some bad things.

These dreams were disturbing, Tao Huainan just wanted Tao Xiaodong to come back and show him.

Xiaodong came back after another week, with Brother Tang.

Tao Huainan had been waiting at home that day, sitting on the sofa and pinching his watch from time to time, when the sound of their footsteps finally sounded in the corridor, Tao Huainan stood up.

The intuition of the blind is accurate, because all their senses except the eyes are sharp, and they can catch all the clues.

Tao Huainan didn't show his face, and he was still talking as usual, but his heart sank little by little.

Xiaodong's pretentiously natural tone, Chicheng's hesitant "Brother" followed by an unnatural pause, Brother Tang's explanations and jokes with a smile, all of these are abnormal.

Tao Huainan touched his brother's face and asked softly, "Why have you lost weight?"

Xiaodong said he had a cold.

Brother's hair is gone. He used to have handsome half-length hair, which was often tied up nervously. Now the top of his head is bald.

Brother Tang said that they broke up, and Tao Xiaodong wanted to break up with him.

Tao Huainan's heart ached, but he still only held Brother Tang's hand and said, "He cares about you very much."

Chi Cheng didn't talk to his brother, and Tao Huainan didn't hear a word from them.Brother's hair is gone, he's thinner, and there's such a big scab on his mouth, Chi Cheng would definitely ask about it normally.But that day Chi Cheng didn't ask a single word, and Tao Xiaodong didn't take the initiative to say anything, all of these were imperceptibly deliberate.They must have made eye contact, Tao Huainan couldn't hide all of this.

After brother and Tang left that time, Tao Huainan sat on the sofa and didn't speak for a long time.

After tidying up, Chi Cheng came over and touched his shoulder. Tao Huainan was startled and shivered suddenly.

Chi Cheng looked at him in surprise: "What's wrong?"

Tao Huainan was still in shock, he was too fascinated just now, he didn't hear Chi Cheng's footsteps.Tao Huainan took two deep breaths and said, "I didn't notice."

Chi Cheng patted his head.

Tao Huainan held his hand, put his face against his palm, closed his eyes and said, "Xiaodong has something to hide from me."

Chi Cheng said "hmm".

"What's wrong with him..." Tao Huainan's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he said to Chi Cheng, "I'm scared."

Tao Huainan is very timid, he doesn't care about many people, but these few people can't have anything.He himself can get sick and have accidents, but these people can't.

Tao Xiaodong didn't come back for a long time, but when he came back he lost so much weight that he didn't even have hair.

This was too scary, Tao Huainan couldn't help himself to think about many possibilities, each of which could scare him to death.

"Has he had chemotherapy?" Tao Huainan asked Chi Cheng.

Chi Cheng thought for a while and said, "It's not like, besides, the last physical examination was fine."

"I think it's very similar." Tao Huainan thought about the feel of touching Tao Xiaodong's face. He was so thin and haggard. "Otherwise, why did he lose his hair?"

In fact, Chi Cheng was also frowning all the time, Tao Huainan couldn't see it, but Chi Cheng could tell from the moment his brother entered the room that something was wrong with him.Tao Xiaodong shook his head at him not to let him ask, and Chi Cheng didn't find a chance to talk to him alone.

Tao Xiaodong's mouth is very hard, and he will not be able to ask what he doesn't want to say.He didn't want himself to know, so Tao Huainan pretended not to know.When the brothers were on the phone, Tao Xiaodong returned to his previous hippie smile, and Tao Huainan also cooperated with him.

There is a small group of four at home, including the four members of their family. Tao Xiaodong occasionally posts something interesting in the group.Usually no one pays attention to him. The two younger ones have to go to school, and there is no time for classes all day long. Brother Tang is even worse. He doesn't even touch his mobile phone during working hours.

One day Tao Xiaodong talked in the group in the morning, and Tao Huainan chatted with him for a while.

Before the class, Tao Huainan sent a sentence: "Let's start class, Xiaodong work hard!"

Just as he took off the earphones after speaking, the phone vibrated again.

Tao Huainan put on the earphones again, and when he clicked on it was a voice from Tao Xiaodong: "Let's talk about it, brother, you know my situation, I don't think I can do anything else after arranging the pictures at hand, I'm out of ideas. "

Tao Huainan was suffocating and his fingertips were trembling uncontrollably. He wanted to listen to it again, but found that his brother had withdrawn it.