Virgin and Rabbit

In the early morning of the next day, Duan Nian was awakened by the heat, feeling a small stove in his arms. He opened his eyes and saw Tang Mianjin trying to grab his eyelashes.He grabbed the child's hand and put it aside, saying, "Wake up."

Tang Mianjin didn't look very comfortable, but he was very full of emotions, and said happily, "Good morning, brother."

Duan Nian got up to help him get dressed, and was startled when he touched his body. The child was extremely hot, and Duan Nian noticed that his body was hot and red. He touched his forehead, quickly put his clothes on, and stuffed him again. Back under the quilt: "Lie down! What's going on, why don't you say you're uncomfortable?"

Tang Mianjin was reprimanded a few times by him, but he didn't care too much, and said with a flat mouth, "I miss my brother, I don't want to sleep."

Duan Nian was choked by his words, and he couldn't say anything harsh, so he could only tell him to lie down obediently and tell his aunt to call the doctor.

As a result, after calling the doctor before going upstairs, Tang Mianjin had already fallen asleep again.Duan Nian wanted to let him rest, but he didn't call him. He flipped through the book beside him and tucked the quilt to wipe his sweat from time to time. He didn't assess the seriousness of this matter in his heart.

No matter how mature Duan Nian is, he is still only a child in his early eleven or twelve years old. He never thought that, with endless fear and bewilderment, he would drive such a long way in the cool summer night in the torrential rain. How much pressure is on the body.Therefore, when the doctor came in a hurry and found that Tang Mianjin couldn't wake up at all, Duan Nian panicked. He patted the unconscious Tang Mianjin and called "Mianmian" a few times, but Tang Mianjin wrinkled his face tightly and did not respond.

Doctor: "Oops, the situation may be a little serious, so I have to rush to the hospital..."

The people from the Tang family were going to pick up Tang Mianjin after talking with Duan's mother on the phone last night, but Duan's mother said that Tang Mianjin had just fallen asleep and they would wait until the next day when the situation was better, so the Tang family planned to go to Duan's house the next day.

Unexpectedly, as soon as I went there, I went to the hospital again.

Outside the ward, Tang Shuxiu was sitting with his brows tightly furrowed, while the others were standing or sitting with solemn faces.

Although Tang Mianjin developed a fever in the Duan Zhai, upon further investigation, the Tang family's poor supervision was the root cause of Tang Mianjin's sneaking out, so neither side had any position to condemn the other.

After a long time, Tang Shuxiu sighed softly, and said, "It's our fault. We acted too hastily. I didn't expect Mianmian to rely so much on Young Master Duan."

"..." Duan Nian didn't speak.

He failed to protect Tang Mianjin well.

That child who only wanted to go back to himself and was so dependent on himself, he didn't even want to tell himself that he was uncomfortable, just to be able to stay by his side for a while, but what did he do?Tang Mianjin was a child and didn't understand the pros and cons. How could Duan Nian let down his vigilance when he heard Tang Mianjin say he missed him, causing his condition to worsen?

Tang Shuxiu saw that Duan Nian's complexion was not good, and comforted him: "Young Master Duan, don't blame yourself, I don't blame you, Mianmian is not in good health, and she will definitely have a fever after being exposed to the rain..."

Duan Nian shook his head.

Tang Shuxiu didn't speak anymore, her own troubles had not been resolved yet, so she really didn't have any extra thoughts to comfort Duan Nian.

Their family has been separated from Tang Mianjin for so many years. To Tang Mianjin, they are completely strangers who appeared out of nowhere. They all know this fact in their hearts, but they just don't want to look at it directly.Accepting without an emotional basis is like taking by force. From Tang Mianjin's point of view, of course he would choose Duan Nian who has been with him for several years, and it is only natural to alienate them.If you want to blame, you can only blame them for not persuading the eldest brother to let them reconcile with the fourth brother for so many years. Instead, they took a chance and thought that the power of time would make them reconcile again, but they failed to predict the accident.

To some extent, they abandoned the fourth brother's family half-heartedly.

She raised her hands to cover her eyes, regret flooding her heart like a tidal wave.

Under the care of the doctor, Tang Mianjin's temperature gradually dropped, and he opened his eyes the next day.

At that time, Duan Nian was eating on the first floor of the hospital. Duan's mother, who was with him, answered the phone during the meal, her eyes widened slightly in shock, and after hanging up the phone, she said to Duan Nian with a bit of pity: "Nian Nian , Mianmian was taken away."

Tang Mianjin had a fever and his brain was burnt out, and he forgot what happened before. The Tang family took Tang Mianjin back, without the burden of emotional separation this time, and he walked very neatly.

Duan Nian paused for a moment with the hand holding the food, and only said, "Oh."

After a little surprise, what remains is the awareness that has been established long ago.

It doesn't matter, even if the child forgets himself, it doesn't matter.

What I have to do is to become his invisible barrier from now on to protect his safety, and at the same time, I have to become stronger for this.

Duan Nian continued to pick up vegetables, with unshakable firmness in his lowered brows and eyes.

Zhang Lianzhi loves her child very much. On the day he was born, she decided to name him "Nian", hoping that when he grows up, he can be a man and do things with one heart and one mind.

As she expected, her son never wavered in what he believed in.But sometimes she also wonders, is the expectation condensed in the name at that time too strong?

The first time she thought this way was when her son met a kid named Tang Mianjin.

Knowing the child is more like the mother, when seeing Duan Nian and Tang Mianjin's daily relationship, Zhang Lianzhi knew that this child might have a great influence on his son in the future.

Ordinary children may be obsessed with one thing for as long as two or three years, but it will gradually disappear as they grow up; but Duan Nian is not.Zhang Lianzhi didn't know what his son's resolution was when he was unknown, but he witnessed his son's infinite patience with the children who were sticking to him, and even in the long years of being separated from him, he became more and more serious day by day. Desperately going to all kinds of Sanda, Taekwondo, and swordsmanship classes, learning guns, knives, and all kinds of hot and cold weapons, she knew that even if her son never said anything, the weight of that child named Tang Mianjin in his heart would fade with time. Only increase, not decrease.

Duan Yihong, the father of the family, is very satisfied with his son's diligence, but Zhang Lianzhi sees some clues from it.

From needing bodyguards to protect himself, to being able to protect himself, and even later to "take jobs" in order to exercise his body and mind and increase his experience, Duan Nian, like all the heirs of the Duan family in the past, even moved forward step by step faster and more urgently than his predecessors. Stand alone.Only occasionally, when Zhang Lianzhi opened the door of his son's room, he would see him silently flipping through the yellowed and outdated photo albums.

When I was a child, Zhang Lianzhi said to Duan Nian: "In the future, I will bring a beautiful wife back to show my mother~"

Duan Nianhui raised his head and said loudly, "Okay!"

When he was thirteen or fourteen, Zhang Lianzhi said to Duan Nian: "Ten years later, we will see Duan Nian come back with a daughter-in-law."

Duan Nian would be silent, then shook his head and said blankly: "I don't know if I will marry a wife in the future..."

Until puberty, when Duan Nian walked into the house covered in sweat after practicing Sanda every day, Zhang Lianzhi would occasionally jokingly ask: "Did you see a girl you like in class today?"

Duan Nianhui raised his eyes to look at her while wiping his sweat, and said earnestly: "You know there is no such thing."

No.

I don't know when, the inexplicable sense of responsibility that comes from firmness slowly deteriorated into another kind of emotion.

And Zhang Lianzhi knew that it was impossible for her, Father Duan, and everyone else to change this emotion.