not as sweet as you

Huo Xingzhou and the brothers and sisters at the head of the family are not close, and because of the occupations of Huo Yeshan and Wu Suyan, the time to get together with them is even more limited.

He didn't like to deal with these eccentric people, but he didn't expect to provoke him on his own initiative.

Yanyan was crying while pointing the way, sobbing and unable to understand, Huo Xingzhou didn't even bother to listen, after all, he just went in the right direction.

As soon as he turned around the alley, he saw Luo Xing being hugged tightly by Huo Jiaming, Huo Jiazhou pinching his neck and pressing on the firewood piled by grandma behind him, red bills scattered on the ground, and one sticking to Luo Xing's neckline superior.

Luo Xing struggled, his right cheek was swollen high, a bright red five-finger palm print, Huo Xingzhou's blood surged up all of a sudden, "Hey."

Huo Jiazhou was taken aback and turned his head.

Huo Jiaming was timid, and immediately let go of the sound as soon as he heard the sound, Luo Xing struggled to break free, holding on to the firewood and coughing heavily.

The noisy alley suddenly fell into silence, Huo Jiaming looked at him in a low voice, "Cousin."

Huo Xingzhou ignored him, walked up to Luo Xing and gently helped him up, touched his swollen cheek, and asked softly, "How is it, does it hurt?"

"It's okay, it doesn't hurt." Luo Xing shook his head, resisted the tingling pain on his neck, and smiled with difficulty: "Why are you here?"

Huo Xingzhou put Yanyan, who was crying and hiccupping, into Luo Xing's arms, and said softly, "Yanyan was frightened just now, you go to find your aunt first, and I will find you later."

"No!" Luo Xing knew that Huo Xingzhou must want to fight with some brothers. Although he was wronged by the beating, he couldn't let his grandpa know because of the New Year's Eve.

And...and Huo Jiazhou already knew about their relationship, if he stabbed his grandfather in front of him in anger, what would happen then?

They must not be allowed to conflict.

"I'm fine, don't fight with them." Luo Xing held his hand and said hastily.

His grievances are trivial, but Huo's father and mother Huo's bad face is a big one. They wanted to see their jokes. How could he let such a thing happen!

"I know, I won't fight with them, just be reasonable." Huo Xingzhou smiled and touched his face: "You don't believe me?"

"But..." Luo Xing hugged Yanyan, saw his face darken, frowned and said: "If you leave without Yanyan, he will cry again later, you don't want to scare him, do you?"

When Luo Xing heard this, he turned his head to look at Yan Yan, his eyes were red, and his expression that was about to cry in the next second was filled with distress. He hurriedly hugged him and turned sideways, and said with a thousand words: "Then you are not allowed to fight."

"Got it, let's go."

Huo Xingzhou looked at the back of him leaving, sneered, took off the down jacket and threw it on the firewood stack, rolled up the sleeves of the sweater, moved his wrist a little, and punched Huo Jiazhou in the face hard.

boom!

Huo Jiazhou was hit and fell to the ground by accident. He lost consciousness on the right side of his face instantly. His mouth was full of fishy sweetness. He moved his mouth and spit out a mouthful of bloody saliva and half a tooth.

"You're fucking sick!" Huo Jiazhou got up from the ground, rushed over and tore at Huo Xingzhou, "You hit your cousin because of a bastard? Your brain is covered in shit!"

Huo Xingzhou's back hit the firewood, and it hurt, he frowned slightly, raised his foot and kicked, and pressed Huo Jiazhou on the firewood with his backhand, stopping almost half an inch away from the protruding dead branch.

"Your mother is a bitch, what are you? If it weren't for your father's relationship with our family, I would have killed you a long time ago, and you still have the mouth to curse people here?" Huo Xingzhou sneered, pinching his hands. His neck asked: "Who did that slap just now?"

Huo Jiazhou remained silent and sneered.

Huo Jiayu stood there in shock, trembling and wanted to run, but was stopped by Huo Xingzhou: "Wait." As he spoke, he glanced at the cowardly Huo Jiaming: "Tell me, who beat you."

Huo Jiaming glanced at Huo Jiayu tremblingly, shrank his neck without daring to speak, and took a few steps back with his tail between his legs and his chest hunched.

"It wasn't me... I didn't hit him, it was him first..."

Huo Xingzhou let go of his hand, stepped forward and looked into Huo Jiayu's eyes, "Tell me, why are you looking for Luo Xing?"

Huo Jiayu was so guilty that she didn't dare to look at him, her lips trembled twice to avoid her eyes, and said in a whisper, "No, I didn't ask him for anything."

"Why didn't you look for him? Did you slap that slap on his face yourself? Do you think I'm stupid or are you stupid?" Huo Xingzhou laughed lowly, raised his hand to brush the collar of her down jacket, and looked at her coldly Frightened eyes.

"What do you want to do! Are you going to beat your sister for a classmate?" Huo Jiayu couldn't help but took two steps back, and he grabbed her neck and cut off all the air in an instant.

She reached out to grab his wrist in pain, but she couldn't move it a little bit. The fear of suffocation rushed into her brain instantly, and she waved her hands violently, "Let... let go..."

a long time.

Just when she was about to suffocate to death, Huo Xingzhou finally let go of his hand, his voice was so soft that he could barely hear, "I don't hit women, but you hit my baby, I can't forgive you."

Huo Jiayu's face was bruised and purple, struggling in pain, and the moment he let go, he fell to the ground with force and burst into tears.

"Hit yourself."

Huo Jiayu was stunned, staring blankly at Huo Xingzhou's indifferent face, and even forgot to breathe.

Huo Jiazhou was also stunned. He suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he broke one of his most precious models. Although he was very sad, he still didn't say anything.

One year, Huo Xingzhou bought a pair of sneakers that were limited to five pairs in the world, and Huo Jiaming borrowed them to wear them, and they broke a little, so he didn't say anything, just gave them to him.

……

He has always had that kind of careless temper that doesn't care about anything, as if nothing can make him angry.

It was only then that Huo Jiayu realized that they just didn't touch his real treasure.

"What are you waiting for?" Huo Xingzhou squatted in front of her, smiling a little, but his words were extremely cold: "I don't hit women, but your father is different..."

Huo Jiayu's shoulders trembled, she gritted her teeth, closed her eyes, raised her hand, and slapped herself hard.

"Enough!"

Huo Jiayu got up from the ground crying, pushed Huo Xingzhou hard, and ran away wiping her tears.

Huo Xingzhou turned around and saw Huo Jiazhou who was still standing there, bent down to pick up the red bills from the ground, stacked them one by one, and stuffed them through his neckline.

"Humiliate people with money? You can do it with such a small amount. It's not shabby." Huo Xingzhou walked back to the firewood stack, took out his mobile phone, unlocked it, and threw it in his face: "The password is six ones, how many times do you want to turn it?" How many."

What Huo Jiazhou hated the most was Huo Xingzhou's appearance of being wealthy and arrogant. He was immediately pointed at, and said indiscriminately: "I just humiliated him, what's wrong, he is willing to be played with by your ass, because he is interested in money! Grandpa's money!" Ring, does he deserve it?"

Huo Xingzhou frowned. Before he came, he guessed that it was because of the ring, but he didn't expect that they even knew about the two being together!

"What did you say!" Huo Xingzhou turned his head, his eyes instantly filled with a strong ruthlessness, "You fucking... court death!"

"stop!"

When Huo Xingzhou's hand was only a few centimeters away from Huo Jiazhou's face, a voice sounded, and he stopped his hand instantly.

"mom."

Wu Suyan looked at the children, glanced around with serious eyes, then looked back at her own son, "Xing Zhou, even my brother dared to hit me, come here."

Huo Xingzhou licked the wound on the corner of his mouth, raised his hand to pick up the down jacket on the firewood pile, picked up the phone and threw it into his pocket without looking at it, and sneered.

Wu Suyan helped Huo Jiazhou up, patted the plaster on his body, and said distressedly: "Don't be as knowledgeable as my brother, I will ask your uncle to teach him later, he is becoming more and more lawless."

Huo Jiazhou shook off Wu Suyan's hand coldly, and snorted coldly: "No need."

"Hey Jiazhou..." Wu Suyan moved her lips in embarrassment, sighed and turned back to look at Huo Xingzhou, "Tell me, why did you fight?"

"How do you know I'm fighting here? Luo Xing told you?" Huo Xingzhou smiled and hugged his mother's shoulders, and said lightly: "What does he know as a kid? I'm playing with my cousin, making gestures." .”

"Stop flirting with me, be serious!" Wu Suyan looked at him, her head ached with anger, "How many times have I told you, keep your temper and don't quarrel with them, grandparents are getting old, day after day, you……"

"Xingzhou, come here."

Before Wu Suyan finished speaking, Huo Yeshan interrupted him. He stood at the end of the alley with a serious expression that Huo Xingzhou had never seen before.

When he saw it, he knew it was a big deal.

-

The whole family gathered in one room, and grandpa sat on the main seat, his chest heaving violently with a livid face.

The second aunt and the third aunt were crying and making noise, while Huo Jiayu buried her head in her mother's arms and wiped her tears, crying miserably.

Grandma sat in the corner holding her scared words, coaxing him in a low voice, while Luo Xing stood awkwardly on the other side, biting her lip lightly.

"Dad, don't get angry, just let the children fight when they are noisy. Whoever didn't fight when they were young, I would always fight with my brothers at that time. It's not a big deal." The aunt comforted the old man softly. , smiled and glanced at the right side: "Sister-in-law, you coax Yuyu, brother will definitely have to teach the boat a lesson later, let's forget about the family."

When the third aunt heard this, she immediately exploded, stood up suddenly, pointed at her aunt's nose and scolded: "Oh, just say one thing and forget it? A family? Who is a family with them? A family beat their sister I don’t say she’s a sister anymore, she’s just a girl from someone else’s family, and he went up there with a slap in the face? How did she get educated, beat a girl?”

My aunt was supposed to be a peacemaker, and she didn't want to embarrass the quarrel in the first year of junior high school, but it turned out to be a misfortune. She pointed her nose and scolded her, and her face flushed with embarrassment.

Uncle Huo Xingzhou pulled his wife to protect him behind him, and when he was about to speak, she pressed her hand and said, "Sister-in-law, what you said is not right, you have to look at it for Dad's sake as well as your elder brother's." Well, you don't get annoyed by pointing at me and scolding me, but aren't you afraid of biting your tongue when you say such things in front of your parents?"

The second aunt had been watching the show all the time, but when she caught sight of her son walking in with a bruised face, she burst into tears: "Zhou Zhou, what's wrong with your face!"

Huo Jiazhou turned his head and refused to speak.

The second aunt dragged his arm to grandpa, crying loudly: "Dad, take care of your good grandson and see how he beat Zhouzhou. We are going home to celebrate the New Year, not to come back to be beaten." Yes!"

The three of Huo Yeshan came in from the door, and frowned unanimously when they saw this scene.

Wu Suyan walked up, smiled at the old man first, and then said apologetically: "Second sister, Xingzhou is ignorant, so I apologize on his behalf. I feel sorry for Jiazhou being beaten like this, so don't..."

"Go away, who told you to pretend to be kind!" The second aunt pushed Wu Suyan away, picked up a cup and threw it at her, but Huo Yeshan blocked it with a dodge.

"Zhouzhou is filial, he came here specially to spend the new year with the old man, and almost lost his life here." The second aunt cried while hugging Huo Jiazhou, stared at Wu Suyan fiercely and asked, "Wu Suyan, what are you so worried about!"

Wu Suyan frowned slightly, "Parents are the last to know about children fighting, and they won't tell me in advance, what kind of heart can I have, second sister, don't get angry and mess up..."

"I'm angry? Are you not angry when your son is beaten like this?" The second aunt sneered, and said bitterly: "Yes, our family is not as rich as you, and the son we raised is not as expensive as you, but Zhouzhou We also grew up holding him in the palm of our hands, and he is also our baby, if you hit him, how could you hit him!"

As Second Aunt said, she rushed over to hit Huo Xingzhou, but he grabbed her wrist.

"Row the boat!" Huo Yeshan's face darkened, "Let go."

Huo Xingzhou let go of his hand, and the second aunt rushed forward and beat him several times, causing the ears of the crying people in the whole house to hurt.

Luo Xing stood on one side, as if the tip of his heart was suspended by a thread, watching Huo Xingzhou's red eye circles from the pain of being beaten, what happened today was all because of him.

It would be great if he was firmer and didn't accept that ring.

It would be great if he could hold back last night and not kiss Huo Xingzhou.

It would be great if he... didn't come with Huo Xingzhou to celebrate the new year.

What Zhao Jiulan said is right, he is a scourge, he can only bring pain to others and make everyone suffer.

He should be quiet and not disturb anyone. If he doesn't come, they will be able to live happily this year, just like before.

"Okay, stop arguing!" The old man patted the table and coughed angrily: "Xing Zhou, tell me what happened."

Huo Xingzhou glanced sideways at Luo Xing, walked up to his grandfather in a proper manner, and said with a chuckle, "It's not your fault, Grandpa."

"I?"

Wu Suyan whispered: "Speak well."

Huo Xingzhou groaned, and said: "Cousin and the others knew that you gave Luo Xing that crap, so they blocked him at the entrance of the alley to force him to hand it over. Luo Xing probably refused to give it, so he was beaten by his cousin." Slap. Don't you know, my classmate's ears are not very good, after this slap, he might not be able to hear in the future."

After a pause, Huo Xingzhou turned his head to look at Huo Jiazhou again, and said with a sneer, "My cousin is even more awesome. He took out a wad of money and threw it on Luo Xing's face, humiliating him."

The old man's face became uglier the more he heard it, and the faces of several aunts were also pale and speechless. Wu Suyan coughed: "Okay."

"Grandpa, my classmate came to our house to celebrate the New Year. He thought I was bored by myself and came here specially to accompany me. I have the responsibility to protect him." Huo Xingzhou tilted his head, glanced at Luo Xing with a smile, and said silently: "Don't be afraid, I'm here."

Luo Xing nodded very lightly.

The old man's chest heaved violently, and he said with an angry smile: "Okay, my grandson...now he has learned how to throw money at people, you have taught him a good son and a good daughter!"

The second aunt and the third aunt avoided the old man's gaze, after muttering for a long time, they suddenly got excited, and said sharply: "If you don't give us that ring, we have no objection when you receive it yourself, but you can't give it to an outsider. What is he?"

"That's right, that's not some street stall that's only worth a thousand or eight hundred. It was handed down from your ancestors, and it's worth at least eight million. If you just give it to an outsider, Zhouzhou and the others are afraid that you will be cheated! You Instead, blame us?"

"I knew you were thinking about this ring. As I said, I can give it to whoever I like. If I like this child, I will give it to him. It's not your turn to worry about me!"

"Beat someone just for a ring, or kill someone if it's more expensive? You should take good care of your children for me."

Huo Jiazhou saw the old man leaning towards Huo Xingzhou again, and couldn't help but said, "Grandpa, don't be fooled, Huo Xingzhou is gay! He and that Luo Xing are simply gay!"

Bang!

The cup in the old man's hand fell to the ground in an instant, it fell to pieces, and the tea spilled all over the floor.

The sound of crying and quarreling instantly stopped, and a quiet needle could be heard clearly when it fell on the ground. When Huo Xingzhou clenched his fingers, veins burst out on the back of his hand.

The old man didn't speak for a long time.

The second aunt was also frightened, she opened her mouth in a daze, and pulled Huo Jiazhou: "There is no evidence to say this."

Auntie reacted the fastest, turning her head to look at Luo Xing who was standing nervously in the corner, her slender face was full of panic, her fingers were tightly grasping the hem of her clothes, and she looked at them anxiously.

Luo Xing didn't hear it, and for the first time hated the fact that he couldn't hear it.

What did they say?Why are you all looking at me, is it... Did Huo Jiazhou tell the story about him and Huo Xingzhou?

Huo Jiazhou looked at Huo Xingzhou's livid face triumphantly, and said mockingly: "Last night, when I came back to get things, I saw the two of them kissing in the kitchen!"

"I said so." Second Aunt looked at Huo Xingzhou and Wu Suyan with disgust, and said sarcastically, "No wonder I brought an outsider back to celebrate the New Year. It turned out that I was really thinking about the family heirloom."

"Brother and sister-in-law, this is not okay. Xingzhou is still young, so he can't let him learn badly. You are busy with work, but you can't let your child do this."

"Yeah, it's too embarrassing to say it. Our old Huo family has never had such a scandal. How can I meet people if others find out."

"Oh, the family is unlucky."

The old man remained silent all this time, listening to the noisy chatter, sarcasm overtly and secretly, and looked at Huo Yeshan with a headache, "Is there any smoke?"

Huo Yeshan paused, turned around and left.

The old man doesn't smoke, neither does Huo Yeshan, but there are cigarettes from others outside, he quickly found a box, and handed it to the old man along with the lighter.

The old man took a drag on his cigarette, lowered his head, and kept his fingers on the edge of the table without speaking.

After quietly smoking a cigarette, the old man pressed the cigarette butt on the table. When the smoke was extinguished, he raised his head and looked at Huo Yeshan quietly: "Do you know? This matter."

Huo Yeshan nodded.

Huo Yeshan looked at the old man and took a deep breath. He must tell the old man about this matter, but he didn't expect it to be in such a situation.

The truth was revealed unexpectedly, and he didn't know how to calm down the old man's shocked mood for a while, he just hoped that he would stop getting angry.

Huo Xingzhou walked to the corner, took Luo Xing's hand, and pulled him back to the old man.

Luo Xing tried his best to break away from his hand, shook his head and apologized: "I'm sorry, it's all...it's my fault, I shouldn't...shouldn't have come with you."

"It's not your fault, don't take the blame." Huo Xingzhou pressed his hand and said in a low voice, "Everything is mine."

"No...no way." Luo Xing was too afraid of hurting their family, so he couldn't help but shrink back: "We...we don't want to be here..."

Huo Xingzhou's face darkened: "You are not allowed to back down! Look at me!"

Luo Xing looked at Huo Xingzhou's eyes with tears in his eyes, felt the faint anger and suppressed emotions on his body, raised his hand to wipe it, and shook his head: "I can't... can't..."

"If you don't want to be kissed by me in front of grandpa, just obey me." Huo Xingzhou raised his hand, wiped his tears with his fingers, and said softly: "I want you, no matter what, even if you die, I will I want you."

Luo Xing's heart ached.

Huo Xingzhou pulled him back to the old man, knelt down straight with Luo Xing, looked into the old man's eyes neither humble nor overbearing, and said, "Grandpa, I wanted to wait until later, but since Huo Jiazhou revealed this matter , I have no intention of hiding it, and I will not wrong Luo Xing again."

The old man's pupils shrank slightly, and before he had time to speak, Huo Xingzhou said again: "His name is Luo Xing, he is 17 years old, he is at the same table as me, a student selected by the province to come to our school."

"He can get No.1 in our school in every exam. He will give me lectures, persuade me to go to university, and won many gold medals in competitions for the school. He will translate my dad's book into French and publish it. He also plays Go. Very good."

"He has such a bright future. He is omnipotent and knows many things, but he is willing to abandon everything and be with me who has nothing."

"I can't live up to his liking."

Huo Xingzhou didn't say that I like this person regardless of gender. Instead, he introduced Luo Xing in a serious manner, told his strengths, and let the old man know that the two of them can be together.

It was Luo Xing's sacrifice.

If he still dares to apologize to Luo Xing, then he is really nothing.

The old man gritted his teeth and listened to him, and the shaking of his hand pressing the edge of the table was visible to the naked eye. He saw them kneeling in front of him, one looked at him neither humble nor overbearing, and the other dared not look up with red eyes.

"Tsk, what you said is really touching. You can like a man so much that it makes you cry? Wu Suyan, you gave birth to such a deformed and perverted son. Are you disgusted?" The second aunt sneered.

"If it were me, it would be so embarrassing... Heh."