fourth rebirth

After finishing two servings of steak, two servings of fruit salad, one serving of French fries, and one serving of corn chowder, Chi Zhe covered his stomach and sat on the hotel's soft and spacious sofa with an extra-large serving of ice cream.

Ice cream in winter, hot pot in summer, this is the real anti-seasonal delicacy.

Chi Zhe swallowed a big mouthful of ice cream in one gulp, thinking so.

As for the invisible confession... Chi Xiaozhe blinked those big eyes innocently, hey, is there such a thing?

Didn't he just go to see his friend today, after molesting and anti-molesting, he was finally defeated and then came back depressed and had a big meal?

Did something else happen?No, it's just an ordinary day.

Um, by the way, Sekisaki's clothes are too tight, I forgot to ask him where the injury is.However, speaking of "replenishing form with form", since Sekisaki can only lie down for the next few months, the only major muscle exercise he can do is to sit up, so the amount of use of a certain part must be quite large. ?

Well, give him chicken butt soup tomorrow.

But one meal a day doesn't seem to be enough, does it?How about replacing his breakfast, lunch and dinner with a whole ass feast?If you get tired of chicken, you can replace it with duck, goose, or pork. Most animals still have that part.

Hey, I'm such a friend.

Automatically ignoring the process of checking Guan Qi's medical records, biting the spoon, Chi Xiaozhe seriously thought about using his privileges to "seek benefits" for his friends.

As a second-generation ancestor whose highest purpose of life is to get by, Chi Zhe has devoted himself to the ranks of seeking benefits for his friends.His enthusiasm is so high and his attitude is so positive, it is guaranteed that he will forget about meeting a certain friend today in the next second.

As for the others... A person who is said to have never heard any confession thought to himself: As long as I pretend it didn't happen, with Sekisaki's personality, there shouldn't be any trouble, right?

Guan Qi is indeed a knowledgeable and interesting person, of course he didn't make trouble.Facing the "replenishment meal" served by Chi Zhe, he drank it with a smile on his face without changing his expression, and expressed his high praise for the gentleness, consideration, virtuousness and decentness of his friends... and a series of IKEA and IKEA qualities.

It was Chi Zhe who made the trouble.Gritting his teeth and listening to Guan Qi's enthusiastic appreciation for himself with a distorted smile, Chi Xiaozhe said that he should carry forward such a beautiful quality!

So for several days, Guan Qi's three meals a day, plus afternoon tea and supper became special offerings.So, so...the one who was tenacious from the hail of bullets and looked like some kind of undead reptile finally fell...and fell under the special parts of some edible creatures... This is a great victory for birds to attack human beings!

A certain unscrupulous person with a guilty conscience lingered after receiving the notice from the hospital, and did not go to a certain ward until midnight.

The white room, the white walls, and the white sheets, against the backdrop of the night, the whiteness is a bit oozing.Maybe it's psychological factors, maybe it's too dark this night, or maybe it's because the man is really weak, Chi Zhe always feels that the man lying on the hospital bed is also pale.The bronze-colored skin seemed to have been stripped of its undertone-like pallor in just one day, and the man's vitality, enthusiasm, and smile seemed to have been taken away as well.All that was left was this pale and empty body.

Chi Zhe held his breath subconsciously, and stretched his trembling fingers under the man's nose.

Phew, Chi Ran breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he was breathing.

Gently helping Guan Qi tuck the quilt, Chi Zhe leaned against the wall and tiptoed to leave.

"Why, you didn't say hello to me when you came?" A bedside lamp suddenly lit up behind him, a man with a warm orange color and a gentle smile sat under the lamp, and the lamp cast a warm layer on him. gold.

"That, ha ha." Chi Zhe rubbed his nose with a dry smile, thinking of what he had done in the past two days, his face was burning hot.

How naive, he silently spurned himself.

"Come and sit." Guan Qi smiled, reaching out to pat the soft bed.

Thinking of someone's "misunderstanding" a few days ago, Chi Zhe hesitated for a while, then moved a chair from the small living room next to him and sat on it.

Guan Qi didn't speak, and watched Chi Zhe calmly moving the heavy mahogany chair, waiting for him to sit down.He poured a glass of warm water for Chi Zhe, handed it over, and then said calmly: "Chi Zhe, I thought we were still brothers, the one and only kind."

Under the dim light, Guan Qi's black eyes became more and more deep and indifferent, which was very incompatible with the warm color.

"Well, I, I just..." Chi Zhe didn't know what to say, "You said not to do things that would misunderstand you." His voice was low.

Um?real?Guan Qi lowered his head and looked into Chi Zhe's eyes with a smile. Chi Zhe mustered up the courage to raise his head, his eyes were full of seriousness.

Seeing Chi Zhe like this, Guan Qi hooked the corners of his mouth in satisfaction, and changed the subject: "Chi Zhe, do you remember how long we have been in this world?"

"13 years." How could it be forgotten.

"It's been 13 years," Guan Qi sighed, "I'm almost 50 now. No wonder," he lowered his head, with a self-deprecating smile, "I'm starting to soften my heart, and I'm starting to recall the past."

"...Yes." Chi Zhe also sighed silently in his heart, some things became more and more vivid in his mind over time, for example... Chi Guoliang and Zhang Jing, Chi Zhe once saw them, would he not There was such a big reaction.

"...I just dreamed about them." Guan Qi's voice was soft and transparent.

"?" Who?Didn't Sekisaki's parents die young?Chi Zhe was full of doubts,... No, Guan Qi has adoptive parents!

"I dreamed of the time when I saw them for the first time." Guan Qi didn't notice Chi Zhe's distraction, but lay half-lying, looking at the pure white ceiling, with rare fragility and confusion in his eyes.

"At that time, my mother was wearing a red coat with a floral dress underneath, and the flowers on it seemed to be flying when she walked."

"Actually, she treats me very well. Really, at least... When I'm not comparing with her husband, I'm a very important person in her heart."

"She told me stories, all of which were foreign fairy tales, beautifully packaged books, with English on them. At that time, I thought she was the angel in the story, who came to save me..."

"When I was young, my grades were very good. As long as I got [-] points in the test, she would kiss me. People at that time were reserved and thought it was not serious. But I liked her kissing me and hugging me very much. You'll feel like you're her own child."

"At that time, the relationship between people was much closer than it is now. The upstairs and downstairs were all in the same factory. They went to work together and took holidays together. If there was something to call, they were all very enthusiastic. It's just...there were more people, and the career Too much. I knew that I was not their biological child when I was very young. Therefore, when I was young, I always studied very seriously and made career planning very seriously. I was afraid that one day I would lose what I am now, so..."

……

Guan Qi talked a lot, a lot, as if he wanted to compress all his childhood experiences into one night, talking like an old lady.But Chi Zhe listened very seriously, he knew what it was like to miss it like this.A little pain, a little thought, but the water flows slowly, and eventually it will be able to drip through iron and stone to make a heart.

"But compared to her husband, I'm nothing."

"When I was young, I liked fish very much, crucian carp, grass carp, herring, all kinds of fish. But that..." Guan Qi paused, "That man doesn't like it, so there are very few fish on the dinner table. , he thought fish was disgusting. At that time, I could only eat fish on rare days, like Chinese New Year or birthdays.”

"Once, I was sick and wanted to eat fish very much, but at that time I didn't know why the man stayed at home all day. My mother was really good to him, because he didn't like it, didn't like the hospital, I don’t like the smell of fish, even though her adopted son was so sick that he couldn’t eat anything, she still didn’t send him to the hospital, let alone stew a fish for him.”

"However, she still has feelings for his adopted son. So she began to think of a way, and finally she really thought of a way."

"She excused that her kitchen was broken, so she went to the neighbor's house and borrowed their pot to stew a large pot of milky fish soup. Then she used fish soup instead of water and stewed a bowl of fish soup egg custard. It was tender and smooth. Eggs, delicious fish soup, I finally got an appetite and ate something. It was the best thing I have ever eaten in my life, really.” Seki said this with a smile on his face, Shallow warm smile.However, Chi Zhe felt very cold and shivered.

"Because of this, I thought that even if she was not as good as that man, she still liked me after all, just like her own child. Unfortunately, I was wrong again." Guan Qi's voice was calm and indifferent.

"I still remember that when I was in the second year of junior high school, the final exam had just ended. According to the schedule, I reviewed step by step, and finally surpassed the person who had been in front of me since the beginning of school, and became the first one. I am very happy, my favorite math teacher is the vice principal of our school, he secretly told me that if I can continue to maintain this grade next year, then he will recommend me to go directly to the high school of the school without taking the exam.”

"I couldn't wait to go home and wanted to tell her the news. I didn't even put the paper in my schoolbag, just waved it like a hero wielding his own sword and ran all the way home."

"She gave me a hug and a kiss on the forehead as usual. I murmured that I was not a child anymore, but I was happy in my heart, she liked me, I think so. Then she gave me a bag, not heavy, inside It was packed like a few books."

"Don't look at how tall I am now, in fact, I developed very late. At that time, I just reached her shoulders. She lowered her head, rubbed my head, and told me in a familiar and loving voice, that bag Here are the documents that the man forgot, let me deliver them to their factory."

"I agreed awkwardly. I went downstairs, raised my head, and I could see her figure. She stood there with a smile on her face, looking at me tenderly, like a mother looking at her own child. Excited, shy, and apprehensive eyes. At that time, I thought she might really be my mother."

"Then..." Guan Qi laughed suddenly, "Facts have proved that I am being passionate again."

"Blood, scars, torture... I was like a bulldog in captivity, screaming and pounced on the same kind. Not for the bones, just for the fun of some superiors who think they can overlook all living beings, and then..."

"Live longer."

"At that time, I was not afraid of death," Guan Qi looked into Chi Zhe's eyes, "Really. Maybe it's like what the old man said, the younger the children, the more they remember where they came from, and the less they miss this world."

"I live for a question: At that time, did she know what it was for me. Later, I finally found out."

Guan Qi paused for a long time, and when he spoke again, his voice was hoarse: "It turned out that there was not one person who defected, but two. She betrayed for that man, and she knew what was inside."

After Sekisaki finished speaking, there was a long silence in the room.

"You still remember her, in fact, you still regard her as your mother in your heart, don't you?" Chi Zhe may be slow on other issues, but such things...

Sekisaki acquiesced.

"You didn't treat her badly." Chi Zhe pointed out, "You never took revenge on them, and even sent the woman to a nursing home after she was half-mad, so that she would have no worries about food and clothing."

"...Maybe." Guan Qi sighed, this is a bad debt that no one can figure out.

"Tomorrow I'll cook egg custard for you, fish soup." Chi Zhe suddenly said this without beginning or end.

Ok?

"Well, that's it, I'm leaving." Chi Zhe picked up the coat hanging on the back of the chair, turned and left.

After leaving the hospital gate, looking at the dark sky, Chi Zhe called Chi Ran.

"Sister, I want to stay in Kyoto this Chinese New Year."

"..."

"Well, Sekisaki... It's too deserted to spend the New Year here alone, especially in the hospital."

"..."

"Then parents..." Chi Zhe rubbed his feet back and forth on the ground anxiously.

"..."

"Well, thank you." Chi Zhe showed a relaxed smile.

"Hi, Daddy." Chi Ran hung up the phone, put on the bear slippers specially prepared by Qiao's mother, hugged a dolphin doll that was the same height as her, and walked to Chi Yiqing's study with a smile on his face. Sweet smile, sweet and lovely voice.

A senior government official who was rumored to be ruthless, iron-blooded and arrogant trembled, and the black pen tip scratched the document under his hand.

"Chi, Chi...Ran?" The last time his daughter called him that, it was because he suddenly had two more nephews.This time... Chi Yiqing looked at his daughter's pink baby face like a junior high school student, took a deep breath, calm down, calm down.It won't be worse than last time, even if there are two more children, it's normal.

"Daddy, your son is getting married, and we're going to prepare a dowry for Chi Xiaozhe." Chi Xiaoran, who had no sense of being classified as a dangerous creature, dropped the bombshell with a smile.

"..." Very well, um, it wasn't that Chi Ran suddenly brought a woman back and told him that this was his daughter-in-law.

……

……

Damn it!He would rather have multiple daughters-in-law than multiple sons-in-law!

After the birth of his own children, Chi Yiqing, who was determined to be a good father and a civilized person, finally couldn't help but swear.

In the early morning, the warm winter sun made people warm, and people in twos and threes walked out of their dwellings to feel the rare winter warmth.On days like this, Chi Zhe stayed in the spacious and bright kitchen of Guan Qi's house, cooking, uh... egg pancakes?

Throwing away the cake on the plate for the nth time, Chi Zhe took a deep breath and told himself to be calm, calm.

Compared with the hard boiled omelette the first time, this time has improved a lot.At least, uh... the cake is a little thicker?

After taking a deep breath, Chi Zhe continued to make the N+1 egg custard.

Chi Zhe is a very interesting person. When it comes to fooling around, he is better than anyone else at pretending to be foolish.Speaking of seriousness, he has more perseverance than most people, such as the company that has spent ten years studying to be a director, constantly on the verge of bankruptcy and constantly injecting funds, or the egg custard in his hand.

After wasting an entire trash can of eggs, Chi Zhe's egg custard has finally evolved from egg pancakes and lunar surface to a common and edible home-cooked egg custard.

The tender egg custard swayed like a pudding with the shaking of the transparent glass bowl.Satisfied with putting the finished product in the insulated food box, Chi Zhe went to the hospital.

"Well, the taste is okay." Guan Qi scooped up a spoonful. The egg custard was tender, and the fish probably hadn't been fried with ginger first, so it still had a slight fishy smell.

"That's, who am I." Chi Zhe was terrified, this was his painstaking effort for several hours.

After Guan Qi swallowed the small bowl of egg custard, Chi Zhe said, "How about it? Actually, the egg custard I made isn't that bad."

"Yeah." Although it was a bit fishy, ​​it was not so unbearable for a person who would never change without fish.

"So, in fact, she didn't cook that deliciously, did she?"

Guan Qi paused his hands, thought for a while, and a bitter yet relieved smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "...Yes, they are almost the same."

Chi Zhe didn't seem to notice the change in Guan Qi's face, "By the way, I called home last night," he shrugged at Guan Qi, "For the sake of you being a patient, I decided to sacrifice For a moment, I will stay here this year to spend the New Year with you."

"……okay."

When the fireworks were in full bloom all over Kyoto, under the brilliant colors, two young people exchanged New Year greetings in a ward, and then smiled at each other.

But at this moment, thousands of miles away in the south, a girl was busy packing the tableware, while raising her head with a smile from time to time, and when she touched the man's telepathic eyes, she quickly blushed and lowered her head.

"There's only one year left." Chi Ran looked out the window, watching the fireworks dissipate, and muttered to himself.

yes.There seemed to be a sigh in the air.

"Chi Ran." There was a sudden sound of footsteps behind him.

"Dad." Chi Ran turned around and saw a man in home clothes.

"Going to the capital, be careful, the time is coming, some people will drag their backs when they are dying."

"Ok, I know."

After the new year, Chi Zhe received good news, and Guan Qi received a news that he didn't know whether it was good or bad.

Chi Ran is coming to Kyoto.

Not to play, but a student who skipped class for a whole year finally remembered that he still needed to go to school.

"Hi." Chi Ran greeted Guan Qi and his younger brother with a smile.

Now that his sister is here, Chi Xiaozhe is embarrassed to squeeze space with Guan Qi.

Since they live together, Chi Zhe naturally has a say in the living conditions.Under his strong suggestion, Chi Ran finally chose a 7-story building in a certain district in Kyoto, and bought the sixth floor of it.

The three rooms of more than [-] square meters are opened up and it does not look cramped. It is a bit far from the central area, but it is very convenient to park and drive.The only regret is probably because the appearance does not match the house price. There are very few people in this community, and the building they are in even has only their family.

When Chi Zhe was depressed about the disappearance of his imagined neighborhood life, Guan Qi looked at Chi Ran thoughtfully, and Chi Ran returned a very sweet smile.

It's one thing to pamper your younger brother, but another to be safe.

During the days of waiting for the renovation, Chi Ran asked Chi Zhe to lead her around the old city of Kyoto with great interest.Although Guan Nan took them all there the last time he came, but the time was too short after all, and he missed a lot of scenery.Come again, there is no time limit, and naturally you need to watch it carefully.

"This is the mansion of the prince at the end of the previous dynasty. It is said that although the prince had no ambitions in his life, he had a very high quality in art appreciation... When the country was founded, it was bought by a big family at that time... and it was rebuilt... But it still maintains The old look...until the last century...reopened after renovation..."

At the gate of the Wangfu, the director with a loudspeaker introduced the upcoming Wangfu to the tour group members around her at the top of his voice.Even if it is just after the new year, there is an endless stream of people traveling to Kyoto.Many people travel alone with their families. Although they have a lot of freedom, without a tour guide, they often miss a lot of scenery.Therefore, when I saw a tour guide introducing to the group members, I naturally dragged my family and walked over to prepare for the tour guide.

"...Sister, in fact, if you want, we can ask for a tour guide. I just saw that there is a travel agency there." Chi Zhe looked at Chi Ran who had been listening to the tour guide's introduction, and said cautiously.

"Ah? Oh." Chi Ran suddenly came back to his senses, "No, I'm sorry, I was distracted just now." She rubbed her face, as if trying to clear her mind, "Come on, let's go in."

"Look at this table, it's more floor space than we usually use, right?" The female director with a sweet and clear voice introduced to the group members in a place like a study, "This is actually a table for children from a wealthy family at that time. The desk used may be used by the original little prince."

Ancient children's table?

Chi Zhe also glanced curiously.

Compared with the lighter color of wood, the table legs are made of thick round wood, with outward skimming and obvious side legs. There are patterns of birds, fish and flowers on the corners and sides of the table.

Tsk tsk, it seems that the ancients actually knew something about child psychology, Chi Zhe couldn't help admiring, he didn't notice Chi Ran's slightly gloomy expression.

"This bed is for a princess to sleep on. You can see the decorations on the four sides of the bed and the number of layers."

"However, do you feel that this bed and this room are different from the ones you have seen in other places? Yes, that's right, this place has actually been remodeled. It is said that the big family who bought it at that time... That’s why it’s not blocked directly like other places, but open to visit.”

Listening to the tour guide talking about the passing time, several hands have unconsciously stroked the bed back and forth.The pattern on the bedside, the decoration at the head of the bed, the pillow mat on the bed,...

Chi Zhe listened with gusto, Chi Ran... Slowly closed his eyes.When it was opened again, there was a clear sky inside.

When we visited the garden, there were finally fewer people. After all, such a garden may have been a rarity in the past, but compared with the gardens in the south, it is not very impressive.Nowadays, people's eyes are all very critical by various media networks. Not many people are willing to waste time staying in such a place.