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Shen Xi's silence was too long, until Zhou Jingtang's mind gradually lost its confidence from the beginning.He squatted for too long, so he sat next to Shen Qi and said to him: "Qi Qi, we missed ten years, don't miss it again in the future, okay?"

Zhou Jingtang was a little panicked, he was afraid that Shen Qi would say something wrong.He was afraid that a bad sentence from Shen Qi would cost him half his life.

Shen Qi seemed to have calmed down, and said to him: "Give me some time, I'll think about it, okay?"

"How long do you want to think?" Zhou Jingtang asked worriedly.

"A month."

"No, it's too long."

"Half a month..."

"No, I..."

Shen Qi compromised: "One week, before the New Year, I will definitely tell you the answer, is that okay?"

Zhou Jingtang didn't dare to say no, if he insisted on an answer at this moment, then the answer would definitely not be what he wanted.A week is not too short, and he still has a chance.

It was cold at night, Zhou Jingtang drove Shen Qi back home.

Shen Qi went upstairs, but Zhou Jingtang had no intention of leaving. He opened the car window and smoked a few cigarettes, and after more than half an hour, he called Xu Yang.

"Yang Yang, is it black?" Zhou Jingtang said, "Come out, I'll take your brother home, and he's still in front of your house. Would you like to go out with your brother Zhou for a while? It's very interesting to have a black bar."

In less than a minute, Xu Yang ran out of the villa, put on a down jacket while running, and said excitedly after getting into the co-pilot: "Driving in the black is interesting, and the bar is also interesting, let's go!"

Zhou Jingtang smiled, thinking that this is indeed a half-grown child.

Xu Yang sniffed and said casually, "Brother Zhou, are you so addicted to smoking?"

"I couldn't hold back today," Zhou Jingtang said, "I won't smoke in the future."

He knew it, Shen Xi didn't like it.

What Zhou Jingtang took Xu Yang to was the famous Qing Bar in Jincheng. It was a high-end atmosphere but quiet and casual. They were all people who drank quietly.

Lin Yuan and Ning Zhe have been playing here for half an afternoon, and they are a little drunk now.They were surprised to see that Zhou Jingtang brought a strange boy. After hearing Zhou Jingtang's introduction as Shen Qi's younger brother, Ning Zhe asked, "Brother?"

Xu Yang raised his chin proudly and said, "Of course I'm a real brother. Don't you see that I'm as good-looking as my brother?"

"Why is one surnamed Shen, one surnamed Xu, one with the surname of the mother and the other with the surname of the father?" Ning Zhe asked again.

Xu Yang was annoyed: "My mother's surname is not Shen either. My brother's adoptive mother's surname is Shen."

Adoptive mother?Ning Zhe felt that there was a lot of information behind this. He glanced at Zhou Jingtang, and after confirming that the other party had no intention of stopping him, he began to use Xu Yang's words.He asked, "How could Shen Qi be adopted?"

"What adoption?" Xu Yang said angrily, "That bad woman took my brother away secretly, my parents didn't even know that my brother was still alive, and when they found out, my brother didn't even know he was in Liucheng. How hard it is."

Zhou Jingtang was secretly surprised, and gave Ning Zhe a look to signal him to continue talking.

Ning Zhe asked: "When did your parents find your brother?"

Xu Yang was straight-tempered and outspoken, but he was not completely out of his mind. He stared at Ning Zhe and asked, "Why are you so concerned?"

Ning Zhe was so embarrassed that he could only look at Zhou Jingtang helplessly.

Zhou Jingtang understood, and leaned over with a glass of beer, put it on Xu Yang's shoulder familiarly, and said like a good brother: "We are classmates with your brother, we care about it."

"Brother Zhou, if you want to chase my brother, just say so," Xu Yang said straight away.

Zhou Jingtang froze for a moment, then raised his eyebrows and smiled, it seems that this kid is not as stupid as he looks.Now that he had reached this point, Zhou Jingtang stopped beating around the bush and said directly: "I can feel that your brother doesn't like me, but he seems to have a lot of concerns."

Xu Yang just smiled: "Why don't you ask him yourself?"

Zhou Jingtang wanted to ask him if it was useful, why should I ask you.

Xu Yang said: "I don't know what's going on between you two, anyway, my brother is like this, he can pretend things in his heart, if I tell you about him, I can't do it."

Zhou Jingtang took a sip of wine suddenly, leaned aside and did not speak.Seeing this, Xu Yang patted him on the shoulder and said, "My brother, you have only one way, treat him better, and be nicer."

There were not many people in the bar, Xu Yang looked up and saw Zhong Chenglin and Zhang Hao coming in from the door, he subconsciously wanted to hide for a while so that they would not know that he was drinking here, but Zhong Chenglin stopped him before he could turn around up.

Xu Yang poked his head out from behind Zhou Jingtang, and greeted bravely: "Brother Hao, Brother Chenglin, what a coincidence."

Zhong Chenglin walked towards him: "It's not a coincidence, your brother asked me to catch you and go home."

Zhou Jingtang and Zhong Chenglin were considered acquaintances, and they had met Zhang Hao once, so they took the initiative to say hello when they saw this situation: "Hello, what's your name?"

Zhang Hao smiled: "Zhang Hao, Hengyi's Mr. Zhou, right? It's better to meet each other than to be famous. I've admired him for a long time."

Lin Yuan and Ning Zhe also responded beside him: "When you come, you are friends. There are many friends and many paths in Jincheng."

Xu Yang didn't intend to leave, Zhong Chenglin couldn't force him, so he simply sat down.There were more people all of a sudden, Ning Zhe changed a booth and asked the waiter to serve the wine.

"Anything you want, I'll treat you this time," Ning Zhe said.

Zhou Jingtang looked at Zhang Hao, recalling the scene in Liucheng that day, he held a wine glass and asked casually, "What does Mr. Zhang do?"

"Just call me Zhang Hao," Zhang Hao said, "It's just a general doctor."

"Yo, which department?" Ning Zhe asked.

"Psychology," Zhang Hao replied.

Zhou Jingtang already had a guess in his mind, so he smiled and stopped talking.

Ning Zhe and Lin Yuan have been in the circle of Jincheng for many years, and they are better than anyone else in talking nonsense when they see people, and they are hot people in every scene.Both Zhang Hao and Zhong Chenglin were playable, but the four of them hit it off immediately, and it didn't take long for them to exchange cups.

In the corner are Zhou Jingtang and Xu Yang, Xu Yang is afraid to drink, Zhou Jingtang is not that interested.

After the show ended, Zhou Jingtang called several surrogate drivers and sent them all home.

He tossed and tossed until the latest, and it was almost early morning when he returned to the apartment. He opened the door and entered the room alone, and fell asleep on the sofa before he had time to go to bed.

He slept very restlessly, and his dreams were intermittent, and he seemed to see Shen Qi several times.

The next day when he opened his eyes again, he had a terrible headache, everything he saw was blurry and double images, and his throat hurt too much. Only then did Zhou Jingtang realize that he had caught a cold.

He took the phone and called Shen Qi without thinking.

As soon as the phone was connected, he said to Shen Qi in an aggrieved tone: "Qi Qi, I seem to be dying..."

Shen Qi asked a few words, but Zhou Jingtang didn't hear clearly, and continued stubbornly: "I might really be dying, don't forget me."

The phone hadn't been charged all night, and it was completely on strike at this time. Zhou Jingtang couldn't hear the voice from the other side, so he picked it up and looked carefully, only to find that the phone had been turned off.He felt tired, so he simply changed his position and continued to lie down, without any intention of moving.

When Shen Qi arrived, Zhou Jingtang's door was tightly closed. He found the property owner and went upstairs together. After opening the lock, he saw Zhou Jingtang on the sofa.

When he received a call from Zhou Jingtang, his first reaction was that Zhou Jingtang was pretending, but after the call failed, he became very anxious again.He asked Xu Dongcheng for Zhou Jingtang's address, and Xu Dongcheng specifically contacted Hengyi's assistant to get it.

After Shen Qi entered the room, Zhou Jingtang woke up, but he didn't wake up thoroughly. Seeing Shen Qi, he thought he was still in a dream, turned over and continued to sleep in a daze.

Shen Qi found a thermometer and measured it for him, and when he took it out, it was already 39 degrees.

Burned out.

The sick Zhou Jingtang didn't have a trace of hostility, his cheeks were as red as tomatoes, and when he opened his eyes, it made people feel not very smart.When Shen Qi took his temperature, he unbuttoned him, turned over slightly, and saw the bright tattoo on the back of his neck.

Shen Qi was not surprised that the unassuming pattern appeared on Zhou Jingtang's body.It's just that he doesn't quite understand why Zhou Jingtang tattooed a tree on the back of his neck.

Shen Qi looked twice more curiously, reached out to touch it, and Zhou Jingtang, who was suddenly awakened, grabbed his wrist.

The temperature in his palm was extremely hot, and after seeing Shen Qi's appearance, he smiled innocently, and asked him: "Have you returned yet?"

His voice was a little hoarse: "This is Shen Muxi's home."

Shen Qi seemed to be petrified, his whole body's sense of touch seemed to be only his fingertips, the originally smooth skin made him feel that the lines were distinct, and every minute of temperature became vivid.

Zhou Jingtang was still leaning into his arms, and the 1.8-meter tall man wanted to hug his waist and act coquettishly: "You are my home."

At that moment Shen Qi seemed to understand what Zhou Jingtang meant.

Zhou Jingtang wants to be a tree for Shen Qi to live in.

Shen Qi wanted to be Zhou Jingtang's home.

In the end, Shen Qi still pulled Zhou Jingtang up, he couldn't carry him on his back, so he had to help him go downstairs, the Xu family's driver was waiting downstairs.He took him to the hospital.

The doctors and nurses were busy back and forth a few times, but Shen Xi still sat on the bedside chair in the ward with a dazed look.After the nurse finished the infusion stand and left, Shen Qi stared at the infusion tube in a daze.

There was no expression on his face, but his heart was like boiling water. After staring at the infusion tube for a while, he stretched out his hand to touch Zhou Jingtang's forehead, and felt relieved after confirming that the temperature had dropped a little.

Shen Xi has a lot of things to say to Zhou Jingtang, and what he wants to say the most is actually thank you.He wanted to say thank him, thank him for being here all the time and never giving up.

When Zhou Jingtang woke up, Xu Dongcheng and Xu Xiaoxiao were in the ward. The father and daughter were chatting quietly. The first thing they did when they saw him wake up was to ring the bell beside the bed to call the nurse.

The nurse came over and took his temperature again, making sure that the temperature had almost dropped, but the consumption was too much and he needed rehydration.

"My brother went down to buy food for you," Xu Xiaoxiao said, "Brother Zhou, you are really not sick, it's amazing."

Shen Qi bought porridge back, sent Xu Dongcheng and Xu Xiaoxiao home, set it up for Zhou Jingtang, and let him eat it by himself.

"It's really good to be treated after being sick," Zhou Jingtang said with a smile.

Shen Qi watched him eat porridge bit by bit, and suddenly asked him: "What tattooed on your neck?"

"A tree," Zhou Jingtang answered him while eating, in a very casual tone.

"Why... a tree?"

Zhou Jingtang ate porridge very happily. Hearing this, he just smiled, raised his eyebrows at Shen Qi, and said, "There's no reason, what kind of tattoo did the little rooster get when tattooing."

Shen Qi let out an "oh".

After eating and drinking, Zhou Jingtang's mental state improved a lot, and he lay on the hospital bed and instructed Shen Qi to peel apples for him.

Shen Qi lowered his head to peel the apple, the skin never broke, his eyes stayed on the apple, but he spoke out.

He said: "These years... I have had a good life. After you left, my mother also passed away. My mother, Ms. Shen Qingzhu, should be regarded as my adoptive mother. When her daughter died, she treated me as my mother. She was raised by her daughter, and she was very successful, because it took me many years to figure out that I am not her daughter. Don’t you know? I later changed my gender, which is quite shameful, and people will probably talk about it better Year."

Zhou Jingtang put away his idle look, sat up on the hospital bed, looked at Shen Qi seriously, and listened to every word he said.

Shen Qi said: "I fell on my leg back then, and now my feet are not so smooth, but it didn't have a big impact. Later, I got sick, went crazy, and made trouble. When I think about it carefully, it's not decent. Medicine, anti-depressant, anti-anxiety, and anti-schizophrenia, don’t you think it’s funny? I’m not sure if the medicine is useful or not. Anyway, the stomach is broken after eating, the stomach acid and stomach pain are not falling, and the hair is still falling out. a lot of."

When Shen Qi said this, the apple had broken its skin. He raised his head and smiled at Zhou Jingtang, a very faint smile, then lowered his head and continued to peel, and continued: "There is no baldness, just like trees shedding leaves in autumn, no That's right. I'm living a good life now, Uncle Xu and Aunt Ruan treat me very well, although I still dream about my mother all the time. Oh, by the way, there is one more thing I must tell you."

Zhou Jingtang didn't come back to his senses for a long time, there were too many inexplicable emotions in his eyes looking at Shen Qi.

After peeling Shen Qi's apple, he stood up and handed it to Zhou Jingtang, saying to him: "My mother probably wants a daughter too much, she secretly gave me a lot of estrogen. In layman's terms, it's me I can't have a baby."

Zhou Jingtang didn't catch it firmly, and the apple fell straight onto the cup as soon as it reached his hand. He picked it up in a hurry, and the hand holding the apple was trembling uncontrollably.

He looked at Shen Qi, unable to say a complete sentence for a long time.

"Scary, isn't it?" Shen Qi laughed out, with a dark expression, "If I hadn't said it myself, I would have thought it was scary. But these are all true, no matter how scary they are."

"It's not scary," Zhou Jingtang said, "My heart aches."

His heart seemed to be cut by a knife, and the softest part he cared about the most was gouged out by life.

Shen Qi emphasized again: "Jingtang, I will not be able to have children in the future."

Zhou Jingtang took a bite of the apple stiffly, with puffed cheeks, looked at him, smiled vigorously and said, "Nonsense, who can give birth to a big man? Look at me, I can't give birth either."

"I'm serious……"

"Shen Qi," Zhou Jingtang called his full name, became serious, and said to him, "Since I decided to continue liking you that year, I have already decided not to have children."

"Do not lie to you."