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Mu's house is not far from the school. It's good that there is no traffic jam. It takes less than half an hour to get to the school by car.

But Meng Yinan didn't have a car, and taking public transportation was troublesome.It takes 500 meters to walk to the bus station. After three stops, I need to change to the subway, and I have to change lines on the way. I have to walk an intersection from the subway station to get to the school gate.

Counting the time of waiting for the bus, transferring and walking, this set will take at least an hour.

Before he came to the city, he went to school just across the road, so of course he is not used to it now.

Meng Yinan wanted to apply to live on campus the day he registered. He didn't know anyone at the time, and he thought it would be very difficult to live in Mu's house.If you live in school, you can save seeing Meng Du every day.

But Meng Du was unwilling, not only did not follow Meng Yinan's wishes to sign the application for living in the school, but also told the teacher that their family had such a big house, how could they live in the school.

After returning to Mu's house, Meng Du said that he could ask Mu Zhong to arrange a driver to take Meng Yinan to school, and introduced him to Meng Yinan like a master, saying that the cheapest car in Mu's house cost 80 yuan. People who ride in this kind of car are all people of status, Meng Yinan is also lucky, and following him can enjoy such blessings that others can't enjoy.

When Meng Du was young, he yearned for luxury cars and mansions, and wanted to live a life without worrying about food and clothing. Now that he is flying on a branch, he wants to show off everything he does.

In the Mu family, he watched his words and expressions, and he was very careful in what he said and how he said it, but there was no need to hide it from Meng Yinan.When he said to let Meng Yinan take a luxury car and show it to his classmates, Meng Yinan was not surprised. He already knew what Meng Du was thinking, and it was purely for this reason that Meng Du refused to let him live in school. Be vain.

Meng Yinan had heard a saying somewhere before, the less a person has, the more he will show off. This sentence was tailor-made for Meng Du.

People like Meng Du have been poor for most of their lives, but if they have something, they will definitely show it off, just to prove that they are living a better life than others think.He cares that he has no money and feels ashamed, so he has to tell others that he has everything.

If it was for gaining popularity and saving face, Meng Yinan didn't think much of it, but it was more than that.

What Meng Yinan hates the most is that Meng Du clearly knows how hard it is to live in poverty, and knows that the amount of money cannot measure the quality of a person, but he wants to use this to classify people into different ranks. rich.

I don't know what the state of mind is.

In short, Meng Yinan refused with the words "It's okay if you can't live in the school anyway, the school is not far away, I will go by myself".He was unwilling and not used to being picked up and sent off by others, and he didn't want Meng Du's vanity to be satisfied by him.

But the school is still a bit far away, and it takes a lot of time to go back and forth every day. It doesn’t matter to him to take a taxi once or twice. It’s not enough to spend such a small amount of tens of dollars every day, so he can only choose to ride a bicycle.

He has not been to school for a few days since he transferred to another school, and he has been sick at home recently. It was not until Mu Zhanxi said that he would go to school with him that he realized that autumn is here and the weather will only get colder. Cycling is not an option.

Fortunately, when he realized these problems, Meng Yinan no longer needed to think about how to solve them.He just needs to follow Mu Zhanxi.

But then again, how did Mu Zhanxi go to school?

Meng Yinan wanted to know very much, so he asked.

Mu Zhanxi walked in front of him, towards the gate of the community, and replied as he walked, "Hitch a ride."

"Hitch ride?" Meng Yinan was at a loss for a moment.

Mu Zhanxi didn't speak, but he didn't have to answer, because they saw a sapphire blue car as soon as they left the gate. Tall off-road vehicles parked on the side of the road.

The window of the co-pilot slowly lowered, and a boy wearing the same school uniform as them stretched out his hand and waved: "Brother Mu, good morning—"

It turns out that this is what the windmill means.

Meng Yinan quickly recognized that this person was one of the classmates who often came to Mu's house to play games, because even if the face was unfamiliar, he was familiar with this voice, and it was the loudest among them.

Maybe he was also the one who called last night.

After the man greeted Mu Zhanxi, he quickly saw Meng Yinan who was following behind, and said "Hey" exaggeratedly, and put one hand on the car window, in a surprised tone: "Where is the little girl, strange Beautiful. Hey, let me tell you, bro, these days, you ignore everyone who comes to you, thinking that you are terminally ill and in the ICU, and the nurse sister doesn’t let you play with your mobile phone. Wait, wait, why does this little sister look strange..."

When he came up to him, Meng Yinan finally saw clearly that he was a thin and thin young man, his vitality was too bright, he stretched out one arm outside the window, he was not sitting properly, he looked like a fool, and his words were like peas. It's the same as crackling and pouring endlessly.

"Huh, boy? Is it a little O? How does it feel... No, is he differentiated?"

The man looked at Meng Yinan with wide eyes, and probably saw that he hadn't differentiated yet, and had made up some unhealthy content in his brain, then suddenly turned his head to look at Mu Zhanxi, and said jokingly, "You can do it, bro, really Shameless, you can do anything to a child who hasn't grown up..."

"Cao Xicheng," Mu Zhanxi interrupted coldly, "keep your mouth shut." As he spoke, he went to pull the door of the rear seat.

Cao Xicheng smiled, but he was not afraid of him at all: "Good brother, what are you doing so fiercely?"

Then he turned his attention to Meng Yinan again, and coaxed the children to say: "Little brother, why do you have long hair? Hey, come here, let my brother touch your braid, okay? Just touch it, boy The hair I keep is different from that of a girl, this is the first time I have seen..."

Cao Xicheng raised his hand and waved, beckoning Meng Yinan to go over, Meng Yinan frowned, subconsciously leaning behind Mu Zhanxi.

It's not that he has never met this type of people before, and he is not afraid, but most of them don't have a good impression.Moreover, this person is Mu Zhanxi's classmate, so his dislike cannot be made too obvious.

"No, why are you shy? My brother won't do anything to you."

Just as Meng Yinan was about to speak, he saw Mu Zhanxi take a step away to block Cao Xicheng's sight, and stretched out his hand to block Meng Yinan's shoulder, as if to protect him, with an obviously impatient expression: "Cao Xicheng, don't bully him .”

Mu Zhanxi opened the car door to let Meng Yinan get in, and then got in himself.

Cao Xicheng was dissatisfied and said, "Why did I bully him? This is called intimacy. How can I bully someone like me, Uncle Li?"

The driver, Uncle Li, was used to Cao Xicheng being noisy with his friends, so he reminded him to close the windows, and then started the car to take them to school.

Cao Xicheng withdrew his hand, and after sitting for a few seconds, he couldn't sit still anymore, and turned his head to tease Meng Yinan: "Hey brother, what's your name, how old are you this year, and where do you go to school?" His gaze Zhuo Zhuo is obviously very interested in this strange beautiful child.

Meng Yinan swallowed and was about to speak, but Mu Zhanxi spoke first: "It's in the junior high school next door."

"Oh——" Cao Xicheng elongated his voice, "The first grade? The second grade? Or the third grade? What about the name, I haven't said what it's called yet."

"The third day of junior high school," Mu Zhanxi paused, "Meng Yinan."

"Meng Yinan, little brother Xiao Meng, his name is pretty nice." Halfway through speaking, Cao Xicheng suddenly thought of something, and suddenly realized, "Hey brother, the surname is Meng, is it the one your father found new..."

Mu Zhanxi didn't speak.

Cao Xicheng was already leaning sideways on the seat, but when he saw Mu Zhanxi's expression behind him, he gradually lost his voice.

He and Mu Zhanxi grew up together, and although they have very different personalities, they have always had a good relationship.Cao Xicheng basically knows Mu Zhanxi's temperament, what he likes and dislikes, what's wrong with him, and where the bottom line is.

He usually speaks freely, because he knows that Mu Zhanxi doesn't care about it, and if he really wants to make Mu Zhanxi angry, he will immediately make up for himself.So he changed the subject and said with a smile: "No wonder I thought brother Yinan was cute when I first saw him just now. He turned out to be our own brother. Brother, why didn't you inform me, otherwise I would have returned to our house with the quilt in my arms yesterday. Really?" Yes." It looks like a son with a different surname left behind by the Mu family.

Mu Zhanxi didn't answer this time because he was too lazy to talk to him.

Knowing that Mu Zhanxi was not angry, Cao Xicheng turned his attention back to Meng Yinan: "Brother Yinan, have you had breakfast yet?"

Meng Yinan shook his head and said, "Not yet."

"Then wait at the gate of the school to eat. I just didn't have breakfast. You haven't tried the snacks near our school..." Cao Xicheng said in front of him, talking about what kind of steamed noodles the school has, which one is which Steamed buns are so delicious, Meng Yinan must try them.

Meng Yinan was holding a lunch box in his arms, not knowing what to do.

Mu Zhanxi said that he could have breakfast on the road, but he didn't bring it out to eat after listening to Cao Xicheng's talk just now. Now that we've talked about it, it's not good to bring his own food.Besides, he doesn't know if Mu Zhanxi's breakfast is enough to share with Cao Xicheng, or else he should stop eating it, reject Cao Xicheng's invitation to have breakfast together later, and find a place in the school where no one is around to eat it by himself .

After all, it's my brother's breakfast, he always eats it, and it's really delicious.It was better than anyone Meng Yinan had ever seen cook before.

Thinking of this, he looked at Mu Zhanxi.

His elder brother tilted his head, and stopped listening to certain people's nonsense since he didn't know when, and looked out of the window a little distractedly.

The young man has short, clean hair, revealing a section of his neck, and a little natural light in his eyes.

He is clean and introverted, just like the sky outside the window at this moment. Although there is no rising red sun, there is a layer of light floating in the sky, which is neither dazzling nor gloomy.It's the start of a good day.

When he was with Mu Zhanxi, Meng Yinan rarely had the opportunity to look at him like this.Because as long as Meng Yinan looked at him, Mu Zhanxi would first ask him what's the matter, and help him solve any difficulties.

From the outside, Mu Zhanxi is not a warm and sunny person. Those who are not familiar with him will probably think that he is rational and independent, even indifferent, and not easy to get along with.In fact, on the contrary, he is very concerned about what happens around him, and he is very careful and willing to take care of others.

There may be many caring people in the world, but not everyone is willing to take care of others.

Mu Zhanxi is like this, so he is a very good brother.

Thinking of this, Meng Yinan moved his eyes slightly down, because Mu Zhanxi turned his head sideways, so Meng Yinan could see the glands on the back of his neck.

It was an inconspicuous little undulation, quietly hidden under the skin, very well-behaved and harmless, not at all like Alpha's glands.It's not the same as Meng Yinan's.

Meng Yinan herself is still in the development stage and has no differentiation.I heard from the teacher that after the development period, the glands will gradually change with the differentiation process, but he has not studied what the differentiated glands will look like, nor has he looked at his own glands with a mirror.

He just touched the raised piece of skin on the back of his neck, thinking that it was different from Mu Zhanxi's.So it's all his fantasy to say what looks like or not.

With Cao Xicheng around, even if the other three hardly spoke, he still had a way to stay calm.In his own words, this is called enthusiasm, unlike Mu Zhanxi who is as cold as ice.

Cao Xicheng said whatever he wanted, and said that they went out to play when they were in junior high school, because Mu Zhanxi was too cold and not talkative, and scared the kindergarten children to tears.

He spoke with embellishment, and he knew how much he had fabricated. Out of ten or so sentences, Meng Yinan believed half of them.However, Meng Yinan was still very happy to hear it, and accepted Cao Xicheng's overly familiar character - he wanted to hear more about Mu Zhanxi's childhood, which always felt very fresh.

The car soon arrived near the school, and Uncle Li left them at the corner of the street where there were not many people.

Meng Yinan got up and went out at about the same time as usual, and today he had a ride, so it was really early.

At this time, the high school has not started the morning reading, and Cao Xicheng said that he would go out to eat something, and there was still time.Meng Yinan's morning reading time was later, so he had more time, so he was not in a hurry.

So at the kind invitation of Cao Xicheng, the three of them went to a small noodle shop nearby.

Cao Xicheng wanted to eat beef noodles early in the morning, saying that he was hungry because he didn't eat last night, so he asked Mu Zhanxi and Meng Yinan to look at the menu by themselves, and he treated them.Having said that, he started to chatter again: "Brother Mu, I called you yesterday and you ignored me, you know how sad I am."

Mu Zhanxi ordered two steamed buns and light red bean porridge. Seeing that Meng Yinan had no objection, he placed the order, and then said to Cao Xicheng, "Really? I didn't see it."

"You two just eat this. You said I'm treating you, why are you being polite?" Cao Xicheng wanted to change the dishes, but Mu Zhanxi said that Meng Yinan couldn't eat too much oil, so he had no choice but to give up, and said with emotion: " Otherwise, look at our brother, who is beautiful and juicy, sitting here obediently and not talking, how sensible and cute. My cousin is like that mad dog, skipping class every day to go out to play, and refuses to change after repeated admonitions. People don’t know where to go to fool around, they can’t find it, and they always make trouble for me!”

"Guess what happened to that kid. I didn't know who I provoked a few days ago. After going out to play, he was beaten with a black nose and a swollen face. I asked him what was wrong and refused to say anything. The worst thing was that he almost lost his children and grandchildren." "As he said, Cao Xicheng clenched his hands into fists, and made a "stab" motion towards his waist, "He was treated terribly by others. You said he is a Beta, why go out all day? He doesn't care if he is wild." Now, you still have to catch up with me."

The steamed buns and porridge that Mu Zhanxi ordered came to the table soon. One serving of porridge was quite enough, so he divided some from the empty bowl, and gave the smaller bowl to Meng Yinan to let him eat properly. Don't be overwhelmed.

Cao Xicheng went on to say: "My aunt's tears almost flooded my house. In the end, my mother couldn't help it. She asked me to go to the hospital to see the boy every day, deliver three meals a day, help him go to the toilet, wash his face and wipe his arms. Watching him prevent his little minions from getting in...it's killing me."

Mu Zhanxi is too clear about how watery Cao Xicheng's words are.

Cao's family is well-off, and his cousin's family is not far behind. Cao Xicheng will take care of the caregivers?Besides, this guy can't manage himself well, and he still takes care of his cousin... Mu Zhanxi didn't know where to start when he wanted to answer him, so he hummed briefly.

"I was hoping that you would ask me to go to your house to play games. The hint was so obvious yesterday. How are you? Just hang up on me. Your brother's heart is really broken."

Mu Zhanxi didn't raise his head: "Busy."

"What are you busy with?" Cao Xicheng clung to this, "What can be more important than your own brother?"

Mu Zhanxi finally took a look at Cao Xicheng, with cool eyes, as if explaining or choking him on purpose: "No. My brother is sick."

"Which brother are you?" Cao Xicheng didn't realize it for a while, so he said it smoothly, and then he realized, "Ah, you mean brother Yinan? Why is he sick?"

"Well, high fever." He paused for a moment, then slowly added, "It's almost 40 degrees, and I've been unconscious for three days."

"Oh, good guy, it's 40 degrees, my head is burning stupid..." Cao Xicheng was speechless now, the more important thing than his own brother was another biological brother.He had no choice but to scratch his hair: "I said, just give him porridge, and if you don't know it, you think you are treating a child harshly."

"But that's not the reason why you hung up on me," Cao Xicheng muttered, and finally turned to Meng Yinan, "No wonder my brother's face is pale. How did you do it? How are you doing now? Are you feeling better?"

Meng Yinan shook his head and said it was okay, he was almost better, then obediently bowed his head to eat.

Cao Xicheng talked too much nonsense, saying that Meng Yinan didn't pay much attention, and he didn't know his cousin Meng Yinan, but he heard Mu Zhanxi's words clearly.

It's probably because Mu Zhanxi's tone of voice has his own characteristics, the words are few and flat, and there are not many emotional ups and downs, so it is easy to distinguish when he is a little emotional.

For example, in the sentence just now, he clearly only said that he had a fever, but the tone was the same as when Meng Yinan was asked to explain why he went to the disco earlier, which made people feel thumped.

After eating two spoonfuls of porridge, Meng Yinan secretly looked at him, didn't dare to turn his head, just glanced at him slightly sideways.

Mu Zhanxi was looking at him.

"Cough, cough cough..." Meng Yinan accidentally choked himself, covered his mouth and coughed, a piece of paper was handed to him, he bowed his head to thank him, and covered his mouth with the paper, it took a while to calm down down.

Cao Xicheng said on the opposite side: "Brother, you should be careful when eating, and no one will chase you away. Eat slowly, there is still more time."

"Well, good." Meng Yinan whispered that it would be slower.

A cup of warmed hot water appeared beside him, and the hand holding the cup was slender and very beautiful.

It was handed by Mu Zhanxi. Meng Yinan didn't dare to look up at his face, but just looked at his neckline, took the cup and said thank you brother.His hand touched Mu Zhanxi's, but Mu Zhanxi didn't let go. After waiting for a while, Meng Yinan looked up at him.

The young Alpha was sitting with the backlight, his eyes were downcast, his eyes were dark, Meng Yinan couldn't tell what gave him such a feeling, eyes, nose, or mouth?Maybe neither, maybe both, he felt that Mu Zhanxi was in a good mood at the moment.Inexplicably, there is still a little... the meaning of playing tricks?

"Be careful, don't choke on the water." He said so, let go of his hand, and let Meng Yinan take the glass.

Holding the water glass, Meng Yinan caught a glimpse of a smile flashing across his brother's eyes before he lowered his head, but it was so fleeting that he couldn't catch it.

Did you read it wrong?Meng Yinan thought so, Mu Zhanxi hadn't smiled at him yet.It's not so much that he never laughed, but that he always sighed and called Meng Yinan's name slowly before.It seems that the kid Meng Yinan is very easy to be helpless and doesn't know what to say.

Meng Yinan lowered his head and sipped water, thinking for a while but couldn't think of what Mu Zhanxi would think.On the contrary, the feeling left by the finger touch just now seems to be still on the skin, itchy, and has the same temperature as the warm water in the cup.

The author says:

Xiaomeng's daily insight: My brother is also a super brother today.