Brother Christine

The car stopped at the gate of the county hospital, and Jiang Xiao asked him to continue running according to the original route.

The driver looked at him bewilderedly.

The car was taxied by Shen Qing, the route map is also at Shen Qing's place, and the final payment is also paid by Shen Qing, the driver only earns money after completing the order, Jiang Xiao sent the driver away just now on the grounds that he didn't want his younger brother to know that he was sick , Then called another car and set off to find Song Yu.

"Young man," the second driver got into the car and looked back at him after putting away the luggage, and asked, "Is it No. 36, Qingzhang Road?"

"Ah."

Song Yu's house is on the other side of the town, a two-story old-style building, sandwiched in a row of colorful shops and supermarkets on the side of the main street.

I sent a message to the other party on Jiang Xiao Road. When I was about to arrive at the station, I saw a tall boy wearing slippers from a distance through the window. He was wearing a hat and wrapped in a green dinosaur cartoon pajamas, and he was walking downstairs with a long tail. He sighed and stomped his feet, and when he saw his car coming, he raised his hand and waved at him.

Jiang Xiao also drove the window and beckoned to people. After getting out of the car, the driver went to the back to carry the luggage, and Song Ding came up to help him carry the things.

"Brother Xiao, long time no see." The other party looked at him with a smile, "You're still as handsome and shining as before!"

"You too." Jiang Xiao nodded at him, and came down with the milk box.

"Why isn't it wine this time?" Song Yu raised his eyebrows.

"It's for your stomach." Jiang Xiao took the box handed over by the driver, bowed his head and paid for it, "It's full of carbonated drinks and beer, and it will be sterilized sooner or later."

"Ah," Song Yu glanced at the bag of medicine hooked by Jiang Xiao's middle finger, and said with a chuckle, "You're still as venomous as before!"

"Be normal if you're polite enough," the two entered the room together, Jiang Xiao turned his head to look at him, "Otherwise I'll think you're driving me away."

"Oh, you are shameless, Zhong Wuyan if you have something to do, and Xia Yingchun if you have nothing to do, if you don't contact me for three or four years, you will run to my house and live there, you are too embarrassed!" Standing at the entrance on the first floor, the big dinosaur snorted and tilted Standing on the wall with his body and hands blocking the way of the person, he stretched his arms and raised his chin towards the person, "Quickly, hand over my slippers!"

"Isn't this the Chinese New Year with you?" Jiang Xiao took out two pairs of slippers from his bag and threw them on the ground, and changed them together with others.

"Forget it! It's still Chinese New Year!" Song Yu knew what he wanted, and led the people to the upstairs room, saying, "There is a water dispenser and a separate bathroom in the room, and the washing machine is also inside, so I don't need to teach you to brush your teeth and pee. Come on, eat and drink by yourself, don’t expect me to cook for you, my game room and the place where I sleep and work are downstairs, the meal time is [-]:[-] am and [-]:[-] pm during the day, if you want to eat, you can send it in advance Give me the news, I won't be your babysitter, I won't serve anyone, I won't wait when it's overdue!"

Jiang Xiao nodded in response, threw all the food to him, dragged the box into the house by himself, and closed the door with a bang, keeping the people who kept banging away from the door.

"Old rules," Jiang Xiao said, "Don't enter my room."

The other party scolded him for being shameless outside the door, and then disappeared automatically.

Without interfering with each other, there is a tacit understanding between them.

The room is better decorated than when Jiang Xiao came before, and the equipment is much more complete. There is a TV, air conditioner and heater, a water heater and a kettle, and there is a pack of unopened disposable paper cups under the drawer, and there are disposable slippers on the shoe cabinet at the end of the bed. , Judging from the layout, this is a single room in a small hotel.

Unless Jiang Xiao was blind, he wouldn't be able to tell that the other party had become a charterer, and he lived in a small apartment for a fee.

After packing up his things and going to the bathroom, Jiang Xiao turned on the faucet, and the water that just came out was still hot.

In such a small house, in order to save electricity, you have to plug in the plug of the water heater before taking a bath, and wait for the red light on the water to boil to turn green before washing.Jiang Xiao tried the water as soon as he came in, but he didn't expect the water to be so hot even after the plug was unplugged in a house that had been cleaned up.

For a moment, the feelings in his heart were complicated and difficult to discern, so Jiang Xiao immediately went outside to get his mobile phone and send him a message:

—Did you drive away the original tenants?

The other party replied:

—Brother, you are really smart, why don’t you go to heaven?

Jiang Xiao frowned tightly:

——It’s inappropriate to drive people away during Chinese New Year, why don’t you tell me the truth?

—He lives in a big hotel for free now, the environment is much better than mine, OK?

- you pay?

- Nonsense, isn't it, otherwise it would be useless to ask someone to clean the house for you!

Jiang Xiao: "..."

—Okay, don't talk nonsense, you can either come down and give me three bangs, or do what you should do

Jiang Xiao is not a hypocritical person, he plugged his phone back in, and while changing his clothes, he sent a message:

- Thanks, well deserved, give me a reason

The other party waited for a while, as if thinking, before replying one by one:

—Who knows, as long as I change someone else, I don't bother to care, but who made you Jiang Xiao?

—A person who is both awesome and fucked up, he is so glorious when he becomes the provincial champion, tsk, didn't he come to me for refuge in the end?

—Honestly, I really want to throw stones on your feet right now

—But, since I called you brother, I still admire you more

—I feel so in my heart, you are more capable than me, if you don’t want to admit it, you have to admit it, I hoped that you could become like me countless times, because I think we are the same person, also abandoned by the world, no one cares and no one loves , we should fall together as companions, hide together in a dark corner and rot into rotten maggots

—Unfortunately you are not, we were not the same people from the beginning, but now I am quite glad

Jiang Xiao didn't know what to say, Song Ding was just like his name, he wasn't a fun guy, he knew it a long time ago, of course he wasn't a nice guy, that's why he often hang out with him back then.

Jiang Xiao paused and asked:

—For what?

— I am glad to hear your voice again, glad to meet you again, and seeing your doggy appearance that is neither human nor ghost, I understand that I still hope that you live well

Jiang Xiao: "..."

Song Duck:

—Brother, do you still feel ashamed of yourself now?

The person who replied "Fuck off" didn't bother me any more, just as he was about to put down his phone to take a shower, Jiang Xiao received a message from Shen Qing:

— Brother, are you here?

- I sleep on your bed, I want you to hug me

It was only less than an hour apart, and I couldn't bear it anymore.

No reply, turn off the screen and go to take a shower.

No one knows Shen Qing's temperament better than him, and that person will most likely look for him, even though he has emphasized to him more than once that he wants to be alone for a while.

But it didn't turn off the phone, so if Shen Qing didn't go to look for him, of course the two would be fine, if he went in vain, he would need to give Shen Qing an explanation.

After taking a shower, Jiang Xiao lay back on the bed, stretched his tired limbs comfortably, and finally felt a little relaxed.

In a strange place, no one cares about him, there is no need to explain, let alone cater to anyone, this is the kind of place he is looking for, and Shen Qing can't give it to him.

Turn off the lights, close your eyes, and the phone on the bedside table vibrated again.

About to fall asleep, Jiang Xiao was too lazy to move.

After lying down for a while, the air was quiet, but I was still worried about it and couldn't sleep.

Jiang Xiao couldn't hold back and stretched out his hand to grab it.

—I'm not your real brother, we can do it

Bang!

Can't bear it anymore!

The mobile phone was violently smashed against the door!

Bang bang slammed into the wooden door and the tiled floor one after another, there was a cracking sound from the screen, the phone was smashed apart, and the chip was smashed out, Jiang Xiao's eyes were red, he stared fiercely at the rotten pieces on the ground, his fists clenched tightly dead tight.

At night, he was full of hostility.

The next day, seven o'clock in the morning

In the living room, there was pinging, pinging, pinging, frying with a spatula, the whining of the range hood, and the movement of tables, chairs and coffee tables.

The familiar movements on the morning of the fourth day of every year.

Shen Qing hugged his brother's quilt, buried his head inside and covered his ears, rolled over a few times irritably, trying to continue falling asleep, but was still woken up by the muffled sound of a table corner hitting the ground.

Staring at the ceiling above his head in a daze, he was about to touch the phone next to his pillow.

Looking through WeChat, Yaoji Huangzhong and the others wished him a happy new year, and even Guan Rui sent him a small red envelope.

Did not hear from his brother.

Turning off the phone, Shen Qing closed her eyes and was quiet, resisting the urge to send "I miss you" to his brother again, got out of bed and took a shower.

There was a guest coming to their family that day, and it was a distant junior relative who had received favor from his family earlier and was the only relative who was willing to visit his father during the Chinese New Year.The man's family is not rich, and he buys a box of Mengniu pure milk every year, or a big bag of 20 yuan finger biscuits, and drags his family and four people to his house for dinner.

Since his mother got married, she has attached great importance to this rare relative. The meal at noon on the fourth day of junior high school is also the most sumptuous meal other than the New Year's Eve dinner.

As a dead-faced stepson who doesn't know how to chat with others and has no outstanding achievements, according to the usual practice, Shen Qing can only have breakfast at the same table with his parents today.

But he didn't plan to have breakfast with his dad again this morning.

After washing up, she went to the kitchen, Shen Qing took a small plate from the cabinet, and went to the dining table to pull shredded pickles and fried cabbage with sausage.

Fucking stare at him.

Shen Qing picked out a few more slices of sausage for herself.

"What's the fuss again, you can't bloom in the living room, can you?" Seeing that the situation got worse, Shen Jing stretched out her chopsticks and hit the back of his hand.

Shen Qing stood a little far away from her, and continued to pick with her head down.

"Shen Qing, I'm talking to you," Shen Jing stared at him and wanted to get angry again, "You're deaf..."

"Okay, the child can eat wherever he wants." Jiang Jifeng stopped Shen Jing and looked up at Shen Qing, "Where's your brother? I saw you coming out of your brother's room this morning? Why are you alone? ?”

"He went to live at a classmate's house." Shen Qing said.

"Running out again?" Jiang Jifeng frowned, "Is he talking endlessly? He's already in his twenties, and he plays with his temper at every turn, regardless of what time it is. The New Year's Eve is making trouble again, no If you don’t let people live in peace when you come back, why don’t you let people live in peace when you come back?”

"My child, it's normal to have a bit of a temper," Shen Jing persuaded from the side, "Don't blame him too much, they young people are quite private, Xiao Xiao has a lot of friends, it's okay to know a few weird people, Don't just think about that, he is still young, and the days to come will be long, and the child will be annoyed if you push him too hard."

"He doesn't care about himself, I'm thinking about it for him, that kid doesn't appreciate it," Jiang Jifeng snorted coldly, then turned his head and said to Shen Qing, "Whose house did your brother go to? Come, let him come home and eat."

"I won't go, I won't look for it, I don't know." With a cool expression on her face, Shen Qing turned around and left with the porridge and plates.

"Shen Qing," Shen Jing frowned, "Why are you talking to your father?"

With a bang, Shen gently closed the door and did not reply.

"This kid!" On the coffee table, Shen Jing complained, and turned her head to look at the opposite side with some embarrassment.

One son ran away from home, and the other son was out of his mind. Jiang Jifeng was also very disturbed, but he still smiled at the woman across from him and comforted him softly: "It's okay, let's eat."

In the bedroom, Shen Qing sat at the desk and chewed sausage, opened the drawer, crumpled up the gift bag bought for ten yuan yesterday afternoon, and threw it into the wastebasket.

Mingyan kept it as a favor for his brother, and rewarded Hu Hao with the lighter when he returned to school.

His father drove his brother away, and his brother didn't reply to his messages, and no one hugged him to sleep, so he was unhappy today.

After the meal, Jiang Jifeng went out to the park to exercise, Shen Jing knocked on the door and asked someone to wash the dishes in the kitchen, she had to prepare stew for the noon guests.

After charging the phone, Shen Qing lazily got up from the bed and followed his mother to help in the kitchen.

"Do you still have any money?" Shen Jing was peeling an onion by the side of the trash can, and asked back.

Squeezing some dishwashing liquid on the oily plate, rubbing his fair and slender fingers back and forth in the bubbling yellow oil stains, Shen lightly lowered his head and flushed the water, saying "um".

"The convenience store in the north has already opened, and I remember it is a spicy hot pot restaurant next to it," Shen Jing went back to the cutting board to cut vegetables, and explained, "It's almost noon, you go out after you finish cleaning the house, the money your father gave you Save some money, they will leave around seven o'clock in the evening, and you will come back at that time."

"Ah."

"If you can get in touch with your brother, please do so quickly," Shen Jing glanced at him, "You know what your brother's status is in your father's relatives, and his absence last year was enough to make people laugh behind their backs. If you don't go to the table to meet relatives after you get home, your father will lose face even more."

"Ah."

"When I go downstairs later, let's see if our bicycle downstairs is still full of air," Shen Jing said, "If it's out of air, remember to cheer up."

"You want to ride a bike?" Shen Qing looked up at her.

"At the end of the semester, a student in our class brought a mobile phone to the exam, and was caught and refused to hand it in. He had a conflict with the invigilator, and he didn't come the next day," Shen Jing said, "I'm going to make a home visit tomorrow."

"Can't you just make a phone call?"

"That kid is usually pretty good," Shen Jing said, "It's good for studying, I have to go and have a look, I don't believe he would do such a thing."

"Oh."

"Remember to cheer up." Shen Jing went to get meat from the refrigerator.

Shen Qing looked back at her back, turned her head, and lowered her head to clear the plate.

Suddenly, Shen called her softly: "Mom."

Shen Jing's back stiffened.

Shen Qing seldom talks, she was basically a mute in the past, when the mother and son talked, this person only had a few short words except um oh oh oh oh, and he seldom took the initiative to address her.

Most of the time, he doesn't call her.She always felt that this was just that man's son, even the man who forced her.

Most of the time, she hates him.

"What's the matter?" The voice softened a little, and he closed the refrigerator quietly, and stood with his back facing him, washing the meat with his head bowed.

"I'm pretty good at ordinary times." Shen lightly paused, "Good study."

The air was quiet, and then, the kitchen knife chopped rhythmically on the cutting board.

Without a response, Shen Qing packed the dishes, washed his hands and left.

"I know," a quiet voice sounded from behind him, snorting slightly resentfully, "Don't be shy."

The corners of the mouth slightly curled into an arc, forming a tiny dimple on the rosy cheeks.

"Ah."

Went out at 10:30, the weather was fine, just as Shen Qing went downstairs, she bumped into the electric tricycle of his relatives and was driving this way.

He lowered his head to cover his face, buttoned his black hat, pulled the chain of his clothes to his head gently, put his chin on the neckline, pretended to be a transparent person, and passed by the excited family of four who were laughing and discussing.

Familiar four-person group, with faces that are unfamiliar every year when they meet, the laughter is left behind, Shen Qing lowers his head and walks forward, feeling that it is not right to say "his relatives" in his heart just now.

It should be a relative of his father's family.

His mother is a cook, and he is a person who avoids suspicion.

The pace of fleeing in a hurry stopped suddenly.

Shen Qing turned her head and glanced at the balcony of the master bedroom on the eighth floor of his house——

Not long after his father came back, he changed his clothes and was lying there stretching and basking in the sun, laughing and greeting the four people who were about to enter the building below.

He didn't think there was anything wrong with it before, but this year it might be because of his brother, he suddenly felt that something was wrong.

where?

Touching something in his pocket with his fingertips, Shen Qing suddenly turned around, took out his phone and opened his suspended novel.

Went to the convenience store, took a bottle of mineral water, refused the female clerk's accusation, dragged the high stool in the waiting area lightly, hid himself in the unnoticed shadow, bowed his head and turned back to Chapter 1, to watch him write down Text:

The first time I heard about him, my mother was going to marry another man.

The taxi hired by the man came to pick us up, and the car passed the village...

Squinting and staring at the phone screen carefully, fingers turned the cap of the mineral water bottle.

Loosen, unscrew.

Song Yu squatted on the ground, guarding a pile of smashed mobile phone parts, raised his head and drool, and looked back at the bastard lying on the bed with his head covered and pretending to be dead.

The smash last night scared him half to death. He thought he was really going to commit suicide this time, so Sa Yazi ran to the door and knocked on the door to ask what was going on, but Jiang Xiao yelled back with a loud "Get out", shameless Moody, he called him up again in the morning and asked him to fix his phone right away.

"You self-righteous bastard!" Song Yu scolded him: "Take people as people! Just like you fell into it! How the hell am I going to fix it for you!"

Jiang Xiao was annoyed and ignored him.Turning over with the quilt in his arms, he let go of his chaotic mind.

I have dealt with electronic equipment at home for so many years, the wiring has been broken so many times, and I heard that even the computer mainframe has been blown up. If Song Yu has no real skills, he is not worthy of being an otaku. .

"Fuck, you're awesome!" Song Yu held the chip in his hand and fiddled with the fragments on the ground with his head down, but he couldn't even put the whole body together. He clicked his tongue and said, "I see, you don't need to repair it, just look at it." , the screen is broken into slag, the screen fluid has leaked into this virtue, and the motherboard is cracked in two cracks, why do you repair it! You old man just rushed to buy a new one and smashed it to death !"

"Get out," said the person wrapped in the blanket.

"You just get lost," Song Yu slapped the chip on the table, swept the pile of debris behind the door with a broom, and said, "China Mobile is opposite my house. If you are really in a hurry, get up and buy it yourself."

"You go buy it."

"Brother," Song Yu laughed angrily, "Can we show some face?"

"No cash."

"I'll lend you."

"I don't borrow money."

"I give you."

"unnecessary."

"I think you are shameless!"

Jiang Xiao suddenly lifted the quilt and sat up, staring at him.

Suddenly, he was dying of illness and sat up in fright, Song Yu preemptively fired and dragged the dustpan back.

"Bring the phone." Jiang Xiao got off the bed and opened his hand towards the person.

"What are you doing?" Song Yu took a step back and handed him his phone.

Jiang Xiao lowered his head and opened WeChat, unlocked it with his face, then set up and added an account, logged in, glanced at the message, and then transferred [-] to someone, then switched the account, and clicked to collect money.

"Buy the ones at this price first," Jiang Xiao ordered, "If you can make a bargain with your relationship, then you can bargain. A few hundred dollars cheaper is still money."

"Damn it!" Song Yu glared at him, reaching out to snatch the phone.

Jiang Xiao didn't give it right away, went to the table to turn on the computer, downloaded a WeChat, scanned the QR code to log in, and then canceled the account added on the other party's phone.

He is different from Zeng Shenghao, he is a poor man, no one is rich and self-willed, no matter how annoying, chaotic, and no longer wanting to receive news from the outside world, he must always pay attention.

He cooperates with a brand company. After returning to school, he will be a tutor for the child last year for a week. The parents of the other party may contact him at any time. Every time the school starts, there are many things, and the tutor may call him. Have to be on call all the time.

But it's still annoying now, WeChat messages are temporarily blocked, Jiang Xiao doesn't plan to get out of bed or eat today, he throws his phone to Song Yu, slumps back to bed with his computer in his arms, and prepares to be a useless person for a day.

Song Yu waved his arm and gestured wildly at him, then slammed the door and went out to take out the trash with a displeased face, taking the chip on the table with him.

Jiang Xiao leaned back on the head of the bed, clicked a piano piece, turned it louder, and opened the browser.

The day before he went home, he checked the information on the Internet, clicked here and there, somehow he clicked on a post bar, it was a question-answering technique shared by the bar owner who went ashore after the postgraduate entrance examination, he was delayed by other things before he had time to save it after reading it, and now It can only be found in the browsing history.

The finger nodded.

Browsing history is empty.

Jiang Xiao stared at the blank space, closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead.

I forgot when the record was emptied, drank back the wine, and drank my mind stupidly.

Enduring his irritability, Jiang Xiao resumed his browsing history again.Click "Tools", glance at the blank page, close the browser page, press "win+r" to open the running panel, enter "%appdata%" and press Enter, find the file "sogouexplorer"... click with your finger .

My mind was confused, and after a long time of operation, I only retrieved yesterday's records.

Yesterday, there was only one log-in information for the background of the novel author.

Jiang Xiao frowned, and suddenly remembered the phrase "write something and sell it" that Shen Qing said at the New Year's Eve dinner table when he gave his father a gift.

At that time, I thought that the little liar was just making up a lie, but looking at it now, it seems that he really underestimated him.

Quite curious, I don't know what kind of long and brilliant opinions a taciturn person like Shen Qing would have.

After clicking in, the account number and password that had been saved automatically changed to a blank space in seconds. Jiang Xiao only glimpsed an account called "Dongfeng", but he didn't know the password.

I tried my own birthday, but couldn't get in, and tried the birthdays of the other three people, but it didn't work either.Although he knew that if he set the other party's birthday as a password, it didn't mean that the other party had to do so, but Jiang Xiao still had some resentment in his heart.

If you can’t get into the backend, you just search in your browser. There are several names called “Dongfeng”, but the author of a website will not have the same name.

Jiang Xiao accurately clicked on Shen Qing's pen name.

Dongfeng: "Ten Years of Engraving"

Protagonist: Qing Shen, Xiao Jiang

In just eight words, Jiang Xiao gasped.

The emotion and shame welling up in his heart immediately flooded his body, he didn't know that Shen Qing used this method behind his back to commemorate the story between them.

After reading the copy, he glanced at the readers who were frantically urging updates, and was ready to be scolded and abused. Jiang Xiao hung his fingers for a long time, hesitating, and after 2 minutes, he still couldn't hold back and clicked in: