Rooted

In the back of the car, Gan Hezhi sat quietly and obediently in the passenger seat without speaking, his whole body exuded a faint fragrance after taking a bath.

Fu Wensheng noticed it the moment Gan Hezhi opened the car door, but because the window was open, the scent dissipated quickly.

Fu Wensheng glanced at the mirror, and out of the corner of his eye, he noticed that Gan Hezhi's hair was still a little wet.

Very particular, Fu Wensheng thought silently, as expected of a person who insists on standing up to enter the door even if he has limited legs and feet.

When the car arrived at the residence of the two elders, Fu Wensheng turned off the engine and told Ganhe to get out of the car.Gan Hezhi unbuckled his seat belt and walked out with his schoolbag in his arms.

Fu Wensheng saw it and called him, "Leave your schoolbag in the car." Gan Hezhi opened the door again and put down his schoolbag.

Fu Wensheng watched from the side, feeling that Gan Hezhi was a little dazed.

As soon as the two entered the door, Ms. He Sheng yelled, "If you don't come again, I'm going to call to remind you!"

Gan Hezhi came in and called out, "Aunt He." "Uncle Fu." Then he went to the kitchen to help serve the dishes.Fu Wensheng was going to help at first, but seeing Gan Hezhi gone, he didn't join in the fun.

Ms. He Sheng avoided Gan Hezhi's hand, "I don't want your help! Go and sit on the table!"

After the dishes were served, Ms. He Sheng washed her hands, walked up to Gan Hezhi, suddenly reached out to hold Gan Hezhi's face, and screamed strangely, "How did Xiaozhi lose so much weight! The flesh on his face! School starts It's still there!"

Comrade Fu Yin also said while sitting on the sofa, "Xiaogan has lost a lot of weight."

When Fu Wensheng heard what they said, his eyes moved to Gan Hezhi's face.

With his face held in his hands, Gan Hezhi couldn't speak, and was in danger of drooling at any time, so he patted Ms. He Sheng's hands anxiously.

Ms. He Sheng let go of her hand, pulled La Ganhezhi's school uniform, and was still observing, "The clothes are empty, and there must be no flesh on his body."

Gan Hezhi smiled, "Maybe I have a lot of homework recently, so I lost a little weight."

Ms. He Sheng wanted to say something more, but Comrade Fu Yin advised her, "Let's eat first."

During the dinner, Ms. He Sheng kept adding vegetables to Ganhezhi, trying to make up for all the missing meat on Ganhezhi's face in one meal.

In Ganhezhi's bowl, vegetables were piled up into a hill, and Ms. He Sheng snatched the fish that Fu Wensheng was about to serve with his chopsticks as quickly as lightning, and piled it on top of the hill in Ganhezhi's bowl.

Ms. He Sheng, "Last time you said that the school's sauerkraut fish is delicious. Eat it. I think I'm not bad at it."

Fu Wensheng gave up the pickled fish and turned to pick up other dishes.Comrade Fu Yin was also intercepted a few times, but he was still struggling, and occasionally peeked at Gan Hezhi's small bowl.

Ms. He Sheng was too curious, and kept asking Ganhezhi this and that, asking how her classmates were getting along, how the teacher was doing, and asking Qianhezhi if she had enough pocket money, asking wherever she thought of, like a bottomless pit .

When Fu Wensheng heard Ms. He Sheng ask about pocket money, he remembered that he had never given Gan Hezhi anything like this.

He subconsciously took a look at Gan Heyi, who was trying to pick up the rice, his cheeks puffed up while chewing, frowning and looking at the more and more food in the bowl, looking very distressed.

"There isn't much money to spend in school, Aunt He..." Gan Hezhi patted his empty pocket, "Enough."

Comrade Fu Yin also asked Gan Hezhi if he could keep up with his studies.

In contrast, Fu Wensheng, who was the main force picking people up, became the most silent one.

Fu Wensheng looked at the three people who unconsciously formed a triangle, and considered whether he should also show his concern, so he seized a gap and objectively stated to Gan Hezhi, "Your hair has grown long."

Gan Hezhi froze for a moment, and then asked in confusion, "I just cut it in the dormitory last week, did it grow again?"

The two elders glared at Fu Wensheng who spoke, with doubts in their eyes, "Why don't you take the children to get their hair cut?"

Fu Wensheng choked, feeling the pain of a scumbag, and decided to keep his mouth shut.

After a meal, the four of them sat on the sofa in the living room and watched the news, chatting one after another. It felt like a blink of an eye, and it was almost nine o'clock at night.

Comrade Fu Yin was the first to notice the time and reminded them, "It's getting late, and it's not safe to drive on the road any later."

Fu Wensheng also looked at the time, nodded, and stood up from the sofa.

Seeing Fu Wensheng's movements, Gan Hezhi also stood up and walked behind Fu Wensheng.

"Would you like to stay here tonight, anyway, I'm cleaning the room regularly." Ms. He Sheng looked back at the direction of the room, "Although there is only one bed, you are all boys, so just squeeze. "

Fu Wensheng thought of the size of the bed he had slept in for many years, and the bodies of two grown men would be placed on it. Just thinking about the possible degree of crowding already made him feel suffocated.

Fu Wensheng refused on his own behalf, and then he planned to ask Gan Hezhi, only to find that Gan Hezhi was looking at him.

Fu Wensheng was about to interpret Gan Hezhi's gaze, but Gan Hezhi had already turned his gaze away.

"No... Aunt He..." Gan Hezhi shook his head, the expression on his face gave people a feeling of difficulty for no reason, "There are a lot of homework for the National Day, I will write it early when I go back, and if I don't know, I can ask my brother."

The call of "brother" made Fu Wensheng slightly distracted, and he was still a little out of state until he drove on the road.

The car drove to the intersection, stopped in front of the red light, rushed forward, and was strangled back to the original place by the seat belt.

In the co-pilot seat, Gan Hezhi watched the scenery outside the car window quietly, and did not express dissatisfaction with the sudden brake.

Fu Wensheng recalled that Gan Hezhi called him "Mr" from the time when Gan Hezhi was working as a housekeeper in Zhoumi Garden, and continued until Fu Wensheng had brought him home.

Fu Wensheng himself didn't comment on this name, it was just a name, and Fu Wensheng didn't see the need to change it.

On the contrary, when Ms. He Sheng heard this title again during the holiday, her brows were tightly frowned, "Xiaozhi should change his mouth, didn't he receive a change fee on his birthday?"

She put her hands on Gan Hezhi's shoulders, and pushed the thin boy to Fu Wensheng, as if offering a gift, so that Fu Wensheng could see those dark eyes full of confusion, "From now on, we will be a family, and you will be two brothers. "

Fu Wensheng had never had a pet before, but he had an inexplicable feeling that this was the look in the eyes of a puppy that had just been brought home when it faced an unfamiliar environment and owner.

Gan Hezhi was pressed on the shoulder by Ms. He Sheng, unable to escape, so he could only call "Brother" instead. When he said it, his voice was like a kitten's meowing, but it was not so loud, and his face was flushed after he yelled.

Fu Wensheng still remembered the scene at that time. He originally understood Ms. He Sheng's behavior as a sense of meaningless ritual, but when he saw Qian Hezhi lowered his head and blushed, looking embarrassed at himself, he felt a little bit in his heart. The narrow meaning made the other party bark again.

Human's bad taste, Fu Wensheng thought so at the time.

It's a pity that after that, when Gan Hezhi was alone with Fu Wensheng again, he still called "Mr."

When it is the elder's turn, he neither calls "Sir" nor "Brother".A task that can be easily completed with a single shout, Gan Hezhi had to run a long distance to reach him, sweating a little from the tip of his nose, "Uncle and aunt are calling for dinner."

The red light turned green, and Fu Wensheng stepped on the gas pedal.

Gan Hezhi yawned with his mouth crookedly open, his yawned eyes turned a little red, Gan Hezhi reached out and rubbed the corners of his eyes, looking sleepy and tired.

Fu Wensheng noticed it, and said that he still had a little time to get home, and if he was sleepy, he could squint first.Gan Hezhi was very obedient, nodded, closed his eyes, and leaned on the seat to rest.

The light in the car was very dark, only the instrument panel was lit with a faint light.Fu Wensheng didn't turn on the radio or music, and there was only the slight sound of the engine and the turn signal in the car.

Fu Wensheng ran into a red light again.

He stopped the car, waited for a few seconds, and looked aside.

It wasn't too obvious from the front, but now from the side, he found that the cheekbones on Gan Hezhi's face seemed to protrude too much, and he didn't seem to be so thin before, especially when the old house was about to be raised.

Reminiscent of the reaction of the two elders when they first met, and the slightly reproachful eyes when they parted with Comrade Fu Yin, Fu heard the sound and realized that he didn't care enough for Gan Hezhi.

From this point of view, perhaps Qian Hezhi had foreseen that Fu Wensheng would not be a qualified elder brother from a very early age, so it was reasonable to refuse to call him "brother".

Gan Hezhi suddenly shivered.

The air conditioner was turned on in the car at the moment, and Fu Wensheng hadn't noticed that Gan Hezhi might catch a cold if he slept like this, but he was almost driving home anyway.

The car was parked in the garage, and the lights in the car turned on automatically, illuminating Gan Hezhi's sleeping face, which was lying on one side. Some of his long bangs slid to one side, revealing most of his forehead.

Fu Wensheng reached out to pat Gan Hezhi's shoulder, but when he raised his eyes, he saw bruises and inconspicuous swelling on Gan Hezhi's forehead.His hands were hanging, and the whole person was silent in place, having bad associations.

Gan Hezhi soon woke up by himself, and asked in a daze, "Have you arrived yet?"

Fu Wensheng withdrew his hand and said, "Well, we're here."

Gan Hezhi nodded, opened the door, then slid out of the car with his schoolbag in his hands, and fell straight down. With an "uh", the 1.7-meter-long man disappeared into the darkness.

Fu Wensheng was taken aback for a moment, then got out of the car, went around to the other side, and helped him up from the ground.

Gan Hezhi's schoolbag fell to the ground, and the stationery inside collided with each other, making a loud noise.

Seeing that Gan Hezhi had stopped, Fu Wensheng wanted to let go of his hand and was about to pick up Gan Hezhi's schoolbag.

Gan Hezhi's eyes trembled, as if he was terrified,