Two Continents

Driven by the urgent need to finish his studies quickly and support his brother, Ji Kaifeng worked very hard in school, skipped two grades in a year, and went straight to junior high school.

From time to time, he would meet Bai Nana at school. Bai Nana's clothes were pretty good. After all, she was his younger brother's youngest daughter. The uncle's family gave the best clothes to his niece and daughter.Probably because every time his nephew overwhelmed his unworthy son, coupled with his aunt's sour pillow, the uncle really had no pity for his nephew Bai Che.

Bai Nana was picked up by her aunt when she went to and from school, and sometimes when she happened to run into her brother and Ji Kaifeng, she would turn around and leave, which meant that she didn't want to talk to her brother.Nothing could be seen on Bai Che's face, but Ji Kaifeng could feel his brother's sadness from the extra cigarette butts in the kitchen at night.

Later, there was a turning point in this matter. A little girl in her early ten years old experienced a sudden collapse of her warm family, and her temperament would change somewhat.Bai Nana was spoiled by stars and moons since she was a child, but now her personality has become surly.They pissed off their senior sister at school activities, and the senior sister gathered a group of high school gangsters to block them in the alley.

Every time Ji Kaifeng went to the off-campus convenience store to stock up on snacks and special cards for card collecting games to sell, he would pass through this alley, just in time for the scene where Bai Nana was being pulled by her hair.

He actually didn't want to care about it, because Bai Nana always made his brother sad.Bai Nana also saw him, Ji Kaifeng thought for a second that she was going to call for help, but Bai Nana gritted her teeth and turned her head to fight with boys and girls who were older than her.

Hey.

Ji Kaifeng came together with a rebellious mentality, and uncontrollably retracted his steps as soon as he passed them, turned around and joined the melee.Who is this kid, Ji Kaifeng? He survived by fighting with real gangsters at the age of seven or eight under the influence of his bastard stepfather in Yangguo.

As soon as he came up hard, he raised his fist and started beating people.This was not enough, just picked up a brick and smashed two or three gangsters to death.Ji Kaifeng vented all the anger of seeing his brother working hard but being helpless during this period of time on the other party, and in the end his eyes were red like crazy.

The final result was that Ji Kaifeng beat five or six opponents to the ground at the cost of hurting one arm, and escaped two cowards.Of course, Bai Nana also put in a lot of effort. When her brother arrived at the scene and saw the "little crazy woman" sister, he almost didn't recognize him.

Ji Kaifeng didn't want to go to the hospital, and didn't want his brother to spend money, but in the end, Bai Che took him to the hospital with his back collar.Ji Kaifeng was as imposing just now, but now he is being coaxed by his brother.

Bai Nana bit her lip and said nothing. It was a long time before the aunt came to pick her up. The aunt was not quiet when she came, and kept blaming Bai Nana for delaying her cooking time.Overheard by Bai Che, he frowned and stopped his aunt: "Nana, she has been bullied, you can't say that about her."

Auntie is used to doing things at her uncle's house, as if she is superior to others, not to mention that her employer dislikes her, and now she is reduced to a lonely nephew, who will drag Bai Nana away as soon as she rolls her eyes and ignores him.Bai Che stretched out his hand to hold her arm: "You hurt Nana."

Ji Kaifeng glanced over, and sure enough, Bai Nana's wrists were bruised.

The aunt's chest rose and fell, and her voice was loud: "How can you be so spoiled!" After speaking, she wanted to pull Bai Nana away, but Bai Che directly protected her sister behind her, and looked at her aunt coldly.Auntie didn't seem to know what Jikoude is. Although Bai Che's eyes trembled for a moment, she continued to yell: "Sure enough, he is a wild boy without a father! He has no education! Don't delay my mother's business!"

Now Ji Kaifeng's eyes were red again, and he was about to jump up and beat up the old woman.Auntie trembled from Ji Kaifeng's appearance, and ran away trembling.Only then did Bai Che put his arms around his sister's shoulders and let Bai Nana come out from behind him: "I'll take you back later."

Bai Nana suddenly hugged her brother's neck in aggrieved way and burst into tears, hiccupping: "I don't want to go back to uncle's house! I want to go with you!"

Bai Che knelt down and hugged his younger sister as well. He might have been wrong at the beginning, thinking that Nana had a similar standard of living at her uncle's house, but he didn't expect that even the aunt who lived in her house had the same attitude towards Nana.But Nana would have a big gap in her material life if she followed him, Bai Che was weighing bitterly in his heart.

In the end, Bai Che brought Bai Nana back to where they lived now, and let her sister choose.Sure enough, the gap was too great for Bai Nana's well-off life. She didn't even dare to step into the old house where her brother lived, as if the dark corridor was a monster with a big mouth open. Live forever in misery.

Bai Che was able to notice his younger sister's hesitation sensitively, and he just smiled dotingly, so that Bai Nana would not have such a big psychological burden. It was rare to take the two little guys to a restaurant outside for a meal and then send Bai Nana back to her uncle's house .Bai Che specially sent some things to his uncle. Now that his sister is under someone else's roof, she has to bow her head.

Ji Kaifeng secretly rejoiced that Bai Nana did not join their lives, and he could continue to monopolize his brother, while contradictoryly despised that Bai Nana could not accept her brother's poverty, and even made his brother spend money today.

After that, when Ji Kaifeng met Bai Nana at school, Bai Nana would take the initiative to say hello to him, and even waited for his brother to pick up Ji Kaifeng after school, and then took a look at her brother from a distance.

Ji Kaifeng's first little wish didn't last long. One night, Bai Nana knocked on the door of their house crying.

"Nana?" Bai Che was surprised, and asked gently what happened to Bai Nana.

I saw Bai Nana dragging a small suitcase, with a small face covered with tears: "Brother! I'm going to follow you! I don't want to go back to uncle's house!" During Bai Nana's intermittent crying, Bai Che knew that although The food and clothing did not treat Nana badly, but the aunt and the live-in aunt were not friendly to Bai Nana. She even overheard the aunt talking about her father and brother with the aunt. Bitter.

Bai Nana couldn't take it anymore, and left the uncle's house in a fit of anger.

Bai Che comforted his sister for a while, then began to tidy up the room, letting Bai Nana settle in the room tonight for the rest of the night.He asked Ji Kaifeng to go to bed with Bai Nana and sleep outside by himself, but Ji Kaifeng slipped out again and squeezed with his brother on the narrow sofa outside.

Ji Kaifeng buried his head in his brother's chest, smelling the smoke on his body and listening to his brother's heartbeat.Although Bai Che had his eyes closed, Ji Kaifeng could feel that his brother was awake all the time, and he didn't want to expose his brother, so he just quietly hugged his brother like a small animal.

The way the uncle's family educated their children was wrong. Compared with material satisfaction, Bai Che was more worried if his sister grew up in such an atmosphere.As if making the final decision, Ji Kaifeng lay on his brother's chest and felt his brother exhale, and finally fell asleep in the middle of the night.

Although he didn't have much hope that his uncle could give him Nana's support, Bai Che came to the door the next day to apologize and ask for more money.As expected, I didn't ask for it, and only gave a little living expenses.

Bai Nana's expenses were much higher than Ji Kaifeng's, and Bai Che didn't want to make his sister feel wronged, so he worked desperately to earn money.Ji Kaifeng often finds Bai Che lying on the table and falling asleep tiredly before finishing his meal. Originally, his brother was saving his own food, but now he often didn't even finish his meal. It's lost weight.

Only the careful Ji Kaifeng observed this change, and Bai Nana is still adjusting to her life with a huge gap.In her previous life, she was full of respectable uncles and aunts, and playmates of the same age who were also from wealthy families.

Now facing an old grandpa who collects waste in the dilapidated community in the old city of Haitian City, she suddenly withdrew her hands in panic, letting the old grandpa's hand that came to grab the broken wiring board in her hand be emptied.

The old man seemed embarrassed too, and wiped his dirty hands behind his back before bending over to pick up the wiring board on the ground.This scene was seen by Bai Che who came out to throw out the garbage. He helped the old man pick up the wiring board, tidied up the old man's woven bag, then knelt down and looked into Bai Nana's eyes: "Is this how I teach you to treat others? ?”

Bai Nana pursed her lips and lowered her head, she really didn't want the old grandpa's hands covered in mud and ashes to touch her.

Her brother sighed: "Nana, you must not only look at a person by their appearance. Just now, the old man donated all the money he sold for scraps to the mountain area." This is also Bai Che chatting with the night market stall owners in the community I just found out.

Seeing his younger sister's aggrieved look, Bai Che rubbed her head: "Okay, brother didn't blame you."

Then they went upstairs to go home, Bai Che was cooking in the kitchen, Ji Kaifeng and Bai Nana were doing their homework in the dining room.His brother seemed a little tired after cooking, so he just let the two little things eat first and went to bed by himself.

Bai Che didn't wake up, Ji Kaifeng lifted the curtain separating the living room and the kitchen and climbed onto the sofa bed to look at his brother carefully.He had already noticed that Bai Che's face had turned pale these few days, and he was very worried whether his brother was sick.

Ji Kaifeng looked at his brother's arm from his eyelashes, a little bruise on his arm attracted his attention, so he took the flashlight that was spared when the power went out on the coffee table, looked carefully at his brother's arm, and suddenly burst into tears It couldn't stop pouring out.

His brother had several pinholes and subcutaneous congestion on his arm.

Then I got in touch with the tuition fees they were about to pay next semester, and his brother's abnormal physical condition these days, his brother went to sell blood...

A kind of stuffy emotion blocked Ji Kaifeng's chest like a volcanic eruption, making him go crazy, and subconsciously buried him tightly in his brother's arms, waking him up.

Bai Che half-opened his eyes: "What's wrong, Xiaofeng?"

Ji Kaifeng was speechless all the time, just whimpered.

"elder brother……"