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I don't want to be your brother anymore, I want to be your boyfriend;

Haidilao needs to make a reservation in advance for dinner, but Fu Annan swiped his cell phone and didn't know who to call. After a peaceful exchange, the seat was available.

Only Xu Ziqin could figure out how to eat hot pot on a hot day.

The box is booked on the second floor by the window, and the pedestrian street is downstairs. Fortunately, the sound insulation effect is good, and it is not too noisy.The waiter ordered the food, and the food was served very quickly. It is likely that Uncle Fu's acquaintances have ordered it.

The young master loves making prawn slippery with his hands, no matter which hot pot restaurant he must order, and he must do it by himself every time.

He felt that the shrimp smoothies produced by the waiter did not taste right, and he didn't know if it was an illusion.

The young master can't eat spicy food, so Uncle Fu ordered the tomato pot to satisfy his preference. Of course, the young master was the biggest one present, and no one objected.

When Xu Ziqin was grilling shrimp, the splashed hot soup almost scalded his hands, and he paused, not like an old hand at all. Bai Jiang couldn't stand it anymore, so he helped him out.

Bai Jiang Gula's shrimp slips are just the right size and round in shape.The young master poured him a glass of juice, leaned closer and asked him in a low voice: "Did you work as a waiter in a hot pot restaurant before? The shrimp slides down so well?"

Bai Jiang's hand eased, and after a while he put the empty plate back into the cart.

The atmosphere between the father and son on the opposite side was clearly not in the right mood. The careful Bai Jiang didn't want to start a conversation at first, but wanted to have a quiet meal to end it, but the young master couldn't stay idle at all. I can't stand it at all.

He had no choice but to smile flatteringly and say, "I've done it before."

Xu Ziqin became even happier with a suppressed smile, and leaned into his ear and asked: "Which one? Is it delicious? Next time you take me to eat? Don't do it next time. Let's do it this weekend. Finish all the homework tonight. Weekend After playing in the afternoon, let's go eat together."

After a while, he added: "Does their house have air conditioning?"

Bai Jiang: ...

The old man's expression was not right all the time. When Bai Jiang was drinking water, he noticed that he was staring at the bubbling hot soup in a daze, and would not serve the food. Occasionally, his eyeballs would glance at Xu Ziqin's face.

Every time the young master and Bai Jiang had a happy chat, he would look displeased, but he couldn't stop it, the chopsticks and bowls were making a lot of noise, and his anger obviously couldn't be suppressed.

During the whole process, the young master just focused on eating, and didn't notice any abnormality at all, but Bai Jiang was sensitive and observant since he was a child. Several times, he felt that the old man sitting across from him was about to erupt at any moment, and pointed at his nose and yelled at him.

And Bai Jiang just kept a polite smile the whole time.

Of course, he was thinking too much.After all, the boss of a multinational company was sitting across from him, not a peddler on the street. Even if he couldn't stand it anymore, he couldn't bear to quarrel with two students in public.

It's really degrading.

When Bai Jiang caught the prawn slippery, the young master kicked his chest and spilled the red soup all over the table. Xu Ziqin pulled a piece of paper to help him wipe it off with a blushing face and guilt, and asked all kinds of things for fear that he would burn his hands.

The old man frowned more and more, covered his mouth and nose and coughed a few times, and then forced a smile on his face, scooped up a few more shrimps with a colander and sent them to Xu Ziqin's bowl. Of course, he did not forget to top up the cup with coconut milk: "Little Qin, you have a good relationship with this classmate."

Xu Ziqin was startled.

It can be seen with the naked eye that Bai Jiang's hand beside him trembled slightly, and the fish ball that was planned to be put into his mouth also died halfway and fell back into the bowl, splashing the oil saucer.

Fu Annan knew about the composition of the Qin family. He was going to marry Qin Yang, and he and Xu Shangwan were also classmates. How could he not know about Bai Jiang's identity?

The old man said this kind of tone in secret, obviously he didn't want Xu Ziqin to recognize this brother?

Just classmates.

The young master was puzzled, what qualifications does an outsider have to judge his own affairs?Still make an appointment to have dinner and talk face to face?Is it too much?

"Grandpa Fu, he is my brother." Xu Ziqin said without changing his expression.

"Ah...it's my brother." The old man sighed with emotion as if he had just woken up from a dream, "It's all my fault! I didn't recognize him, and he looks nothing like him. This is Xu Shangwan's son? What's his name?"

The old man pretended to be crazy and turned his head to ask Fu Annan. Fu Annan looked at Xu Ziqin's livid face, lowered his voice in embarrassment, and said with a compensatory smile, "Bai Jiang!"

"Look at my memory!" The old man patted himself on the head, "It's useless when you're old, don't keep your name. I'll remember it when you say it."

The old man started picking things up again, and asked with a half-smile: "You used to study in Yucai, Xiaoqin's mother took a lot of effort to transfer you to No. [-] Middle School, right?"

Bai Jiang didn't say a word.

Xu Ziqin held his brother's hand and kept paying attention to the changes in his expression.

"Little Qin, there are not many Yucai students who are on the road. A living example, just last week our company hired a security guard with a high school degree, who graduated from Yucai.

He looks tall and big, so what's wrong with him?

However, being a security guard is exhausting, not to mention that the salary is not high, and he is still unpopular.This young man still has to study well in order to have a better way out and future, right? "

No one answered the old man's words, and it happened that there were a few shouts from somewhere outside the window, full of vulgar and dirty words. Eat the same pot of rice, and are children of the same person, how can there be such a big difference in IQ and ability?"

Naturally, Bai Jiang's hands hanging under the table were criss-crossed and clenched together, his impetuous temper was about to stand up and shake his fist several times.

The old man pointed at Sang and scolded Huai, obviously meaning something, and the young master knew it well, but after all, Uncle Fu was kind to him, Xu Ziqin had to give him face, and he couldn't tear his face, which would be embarrassing in the future.

Xu Ziqin threw the chopsticks in his hand: "The hot pot in this restaurant has a bit of a strange smell!"

He turned his head and asked Bai Jiang beside him, "Are you still eating?"

Bai Jiang and the young master had a face-to-face meeting, and it was almost a soul-to-heart connection. Bai Jiang took a sip of the iced sour plum soup and hiccupped.

After losing the fire, he got up and pushed the chopsticks and bowl in front of him: "It's quite weird, it's disgusting!"

After all, he dragged Xu Ziqin around the waiter who was about to serve the food, and went downstairs with a lot of aura and majesty.

The two people who were left on the table were stunned, and the waiter put down a large plate of mutton rolls, and said carefully, "If you need more food, you can contact me at will." Only then did they realize that the two teenagers were gone.

Fu Annan looked around outside the window with his neck stretched out. The old man beside him was full of anger, and his anger rose. How could he have suffered such a shame? He slapped the table and said, "Uneducated! Is this Xu Shangwan's seed? Xiaoqin If you live in the same room with him, you will learn bad things sooner or later!"

"Dad, what you said just now..." Fu Annan sat back in his original position, uttered a word, but was blocked by his father's sharp eyes, and sat down wearily.

The old man roared: "I'm telling the truth! Those who come out of that kind of family, what will happen in the future! What does the Qin family think? Let this kind of person stay with Xiaoqin! Those who are close to vermilion are red and those who are close to ink are black. What if Xiaoqin fails in her studies in the future? Such a good child."

"This is someone else's housework...don't meddle in it." Fu Annan muttered in a low voice.

"Let me tell you! Whether the Qin family lives or dies has nothing to do with us, but Xiaoqin must grow up healthy and happy!

This is the promise of the year!Qin Li's old fox is scheming, and the city is deep. If he wants to turn his back on him, then don't blame me for turning his back on him and revealing all the bad things he did back then! "

The old man snorted and turned away, leaving behind a hale and hearty figure.

In the empty box, Fu Annan drank the drinks on the table in one gulp. After a while, he squeezed out a peaceful smile, straightened his suit, and followed.

The heat wave hit the street layer by layer. The two tough boys didn't walk for long before they were so hot that they were sweating all over. They were hungry and hot, and the young master felt that he was about to evaporate from the world.

I found a KFC and ordered a set meal casually. After taking two sips of iced Coke, Xu Ziqin felt that he was alive again: "It's cool!"

The little kid at the next table chirped and wanted to eat ice cream, but his mother refused to buy it because it was too expensive, and then the little kid couldn’t screw it up and his mother turned on the crying mode. Temperament bought him a cone so that he could find peace.

He didn't know if it was worth spending money on cleaning before, but now he thinks it's worth it anyway.

He bought two more, and when he handed one to Bai Jiang, Bai Jiang kept drooping and didn't pick it up, so the young master had to stuff it into his hand: "Eat, don't be angry, I don't know that old man Sudden invitation to dinner with us just to ridicule you! Crazy! If I knew it, I wouldn’t have gone. I don’t care about the hot pot meal!”

Bai Jiang was amused by him, and when he took the cone, he licked it casually, and the young master stuffed a popcorn chicken into his mouth coquettishly: "Brother! Don't listen to him, anyone who says Yucai will be worthless, The admission rate of No. [-] Middle School is so high. Every year, some people drop out of school to grow sweet potatoes and move bricks.

Don't be angry, you promised me before, we will go to Beijing to go to university together, you have to protect me. "

After repeating the good words, Bai Jiang seemed to have turned on the shielding mode, unmoved at all.The young master's mouth was parched and his heart was broken, he pouted and licked the cone coaxingly.

I can't coax it anymore!

He is not a person who likes to talk nicely. Usually, no matter who is right or wrong, it is his cousin who coaxes him in different ways.He has never comforted others, and he doesn't know what to say to make them feel better.

Really angry?

Xu Ziqin let out a long breath, and looked sullenly at the service desk customers ordering food one by one.

It was only when the corner of his mouth was touched suddenly that he regained his composure. When he turned around, Bai Jiang was crumpling up a paper towel with cream on it and throwing it on the dinner plate.

Raising his hand, he wiped the corner of Xu Ziqin's mouth clean: "The mouth is covered with cream."

"Brother, are you not angry anymore?" Xu Ziqin went to hold his hand, smiling like a child.

Bai Jiang withdrew his hands, pretending to be serious: "I'm not angry, I just think it's a waste. I didn't eat a few bites of the hot pot, and I came here to eat KFC again."

The young master sneered: "Is it still possible to eat in that kind of place? Uncle Fu is such a nice person, I thought his parents were easy to get along with, but it seems I was overthinking it.

Is it amazing to be rich?My grandfather is also very rich. He treats people very kindly, so he won't say that kind of thing with a gun. "

Xu Ziqin remembered the situation when Bai Jiang first came to his house, and did not continue.

In fact, he is not as kind as he said.

All kindness is for oneself.But... As for Bai Jiang, everyone seems to be the same.

Uncle and aunt didn't look good, grandpa and grandma didn't even give him a chance to sit at the dinner table, and even when I first met him, I said those stupid things that I gritted my teeth.

It seems that I am the only one who is not qualified to say such things.

Bai Jiang sneered, swallowed the ice cream in one gulp, and looked at the young master after a while: "Do you think... I will be successful in the future? You may not believe me when I tell you, but I myself think that I will just pass by like this in the future.

There is nothing wrong with what the old man said. Without your mother, I might move bricks at a construction site, work as a security guard in a security room, or deliver couriers in a courier company. "

Xu Ziqin paused as he sipped the Coke, listening to him in disbelief.

Bai Jiang said: "I skipped class to go to Dou Jingzhe's father's courier company to move goods, three hundred days. I asked you to meet at the gate of Hanhai Community to give money to the security guard on the day of Xiaonian, because I used to work there as a security guard." .Delivering goods during the day and working as a security guard at night, you can earn up to [-] a day."

Bai Jiang smiled meaningfully, and pointed to the set meal in front of him: "A set meal of 358 is nothing more than scanning a QR code and paying a sum of money for you. But it's different, you think I will To eat a KFC meal with the money of working hard for a day, just to save the so-called face?"

Xu Ziqin stared blankly at the young man in front of him, as if Bai Jiang at this moment was not like an 18-year-old boy, but a middle-aged man who had gone through vicissitudes and could not see the future and hope.

Every word and every sentence is mature like a peer.

He never thought about what a meal of KFC would mean to Bai Jiang.

"Brother..." Xu Ziqin lowered his head, "I know."

"You don't know..." Bai Jiang said coldly, "You will never know. Every once in a while, a story happens in Huangbeizi Lane. The alleys there are intertwined, like a maze, and all the people who live there Everything is trapped in a sealed box, and the end can be seen from the beginning of birth.

Go to school to educate talents, finish high school casually, girls marry early, and boys who are capable can learn a trick to get close to them, and they will live like this for a lifetime.They were married before they were . . . "

The Coke in the young master's hand was squeezed out of shape.

marry?

Underage?

These two words alone seem to be no problem, but the combination is incredible.

"Can you see the future?" Bai Jiang narrowed his eyes, and tears fell from the corners of his eyes in an instant, silently, "The dumb and Lei Zi got married on the 29th day of the year, and the five thousand I borrowed from you is just a follower." Money. Although Lei Zi is a little bastard, every time I see him, I want to kill him, but Dumb is my friend Dou Jingzhe and I grew up together. She is going to get married, and we want to bless her. I can't stop those who are full of passion Is your youthful spirit useful?"

"Why!" Xu Ziqin roared, "It's not fair!"

"Yeah, it's not fair, but so what? I can help her for a while, but I can't help her forever. She is a mute, and if she doesn't marry Lei Zi, she will always meet the next one, which may be worse and more hateful.

Xu Ziqin, do you understand?Some things can't be changed, and they can't be changed, just like other people's opinions, which have been deeply ingrained in their minds. "Bai Jiang finally said stubbornly, "I only have you..."

"Brother! I'm sorry." Xu Ziqin held his hand.

"What are you sorry for?" Bai Jiang smiled, "I'm used to it, I don't care what other people think. I just want to tell you that no matter what others say or do, as long as you have a clear conscience. If you go forward boldly, I will I will help you around the back, as long as you need me, I will always be behind you."

That is to say, from that day on, Xu Ziqin never ordered the 358 set meals at KFC again.

Before the two went home, they went to the supermarket specially. Originally, they planned to buy a bunch of snacks in the classroom. Xu Ziqin, who pretended to be a big money in front of the whole class tomorrow, became a little more frugal, and directly listed the items on the note. Snacks were cut in half, and all imported ones were deleted.

He felt distressed, Bai Jiang's previous wages were only five hundred a day.

Why should I spend so much money on these meaningless shows?

There were not many people in line. When Xu Ziqin was about to scan the QR code at the checkout, Bai Jiang took out his mobile phone to pay the bill. The action was very fast, as if he had thought about it a long time ago.

268 yuan of snacks and three bottles of cooling spray, a total of 60.

"I'm done paying." Bai Jiang walked out of the supermarket with big bags and small bags in his arms, with a satisfied expression on his face.

The previous loss was swept away by a supermarket shopping.

"I'll transfer the money to you." As soon as Xu Ziqin poked Bai Jiang's WeChat, he threw a plastic bag in his hand.

Without a hand to transfer the money, I had to put the phone back in my pocket: "Then I'll go back and transfer it to you."

"I've said it all! Your brother, although I don't have as much money as you, I can still afford this amount of money. How can I ask you to pay for my brother's picnic? It's not in vain. You called me for so many days Brother?"

Bai Jiang stroked the fur on the top of his head, like petting a cat, "Have fun with your cousin tomorrow."

As soon as he entered the door with a bunch of snacks, he was caught by Wang Zijie who planned in advance to wait for the rabbit. Wang Zijie took two packs of barbecue-flavored potato chips from his bag, and went back to the house to eat them in order to prevent his cousin from killing people. went.

Xu Ziqin didn't have time to talk to him, and drank a big mouthful of ice water to refresh himself.After walking two kilometers with a large bag of snacks, my body was almost covered with prickly heat.

Cooled off by the air conditioner, when he came out of the refrigerator downstairs to serve ice grapes, he passed by and knocked on his cousin's door: "Cousin! The potato chips you just ate were originally for you tomorrow, you eat them now, tomorrow Don't steal from me."

Sure enough, Wang Zijie cried and howled like ghosts and wolves, and the young master smiled and went back to the house to tidy up his schoolbag.

Going to have a picnic with Bai Jiang tomorrow afternoon, except for the necessary snacks.By the way, bring sunscreen and sunscreen spray.

With great interest, he pushed Bai Jiang to help him pull a big box out of the cabinet, and there were everything in it.

This convenient box is a travel necessities that Aunt Sun prepared for him, just in case.He found another difficulty in stuffing the medicine for bruises into his bag.

Summer hat!

As soon as he said it, he rushed to Qin Yang's room and took out two hats he bought on a trip to Sanya before and stuffed them.

In less than half an hour, the room was turned into a mess, as if it had been robbed.

At this time, Bai Jiang, a little expert at home, showed his super tidying ability, and it only took a quarter of an hour to go from a mess to a new look.

The young master put a straw hat on his head, and eagerly picked out a light blue sun protection suit from his closet to change for him, trying to see if the size fit him.

"Just right!" Xu Ziqin said, "Fortunately, I asked my mother to buy two for laundry last year. Tomorrow we will each have one. You wear blue, and I wear green. Brothers' clothes."

The young master looked at it for a while, and the more he looked at it, the happier he became. He insisted on putting his arms around Bai Jiang, and the two of them posed for a photo.

The young master is not a man, so he sent it privately to Wang Zijie, so angry that his cousin bombarded him with speech and idioms: "Xu Ziqin, you are an ungrateful, ungrateful, heartless dog! Yes, say this is your lifeblood! Put it on for the bastard now! Do you want to show some face? Is your lifeblood so cheap?"

Xu Ziqin burst into joy: "He is my brother, you are my cousin, it's different."

"Bastard!" Wang Ziyou cursed and quit the voice chat, "Go find your brother, brother or cousin, choose one!"

The young master happily counted the accompanying items for the last time, making sure that nothing was left behind, and then took off his T-shirt and went to take a shower.

"Xu Ziqin." Bai Jiang called him suddenly.

"Brother..." Xu Ziqin turned to look at him, "What's wrong?"

Bai Jiang's eyes never wanted to fall on his fair upper body, but whenever he spoke, he looked at him without knowing it, and his face turned red unknowingly.

Xu Ziqin was silly and rubbed his face: "You are blushing."

Bai Jiang turned his head to the side, rubbed his face, and slipped his hand to his arm, pulling him to sit on the edge of the table: "I want to tell you two things."

"Tell me." Xu Ziqin took off his outer pants.

After Bai Jiang paused for a moment, he turned his face away from him, almost making up his mind: "Tomorrow, I won't be able to accompany you to the picnic."

The air in the room suddenly froze.

The overflowing smile froze on his face in an instant.

Xu Ziqin pushed him away: "What do you mean? What do you mean you can't have a picnic?"

He had a half-smile, and then said: "You paid for me because you want me to go with others. If you don't go, you won't be burdened. Is that what you mean?"

"That's not what I meant. I have something to do tomorrow. I promised Dou..."

Xu Ziqin said: "You also agreed to be with me! In your eyes, if you promise others, you can't break the contract, and if you promise me, you can refuse casually without psychological pressure, right?"

"No." Bai Jiang said firmly.

"Then why didn't you tell me..." Xu Ziqin looked at him, "Look at me like an idiot preparing you sun protection clothing, sunscreen, and buying you favorite snacks and a refreshing spray. It’s so funny, so stupid, isn’t it?”

Bai Jiang took Xu Ziqin's hand and held him tightly.

"Let go!" the young master roared.

"Xu Ziqin, I have one more thing to say!" Bai Jiang looked at him.

"Do you like to talk or not! It has nothing to do with me!" The young master didn't have the heart to listen to him talking nonsense.

Bai Jiang suddenly laughed and pressed down, pressing Xu Ziqin on the table.One hand was pressed tightly against him to prevent the back of the head from being hit, and the two got very close. He whispered in his ear in a breathless tone, and finally whispered softly: "There is one more thing. That is, I don't want to be your brother anymore, I want to be your boyfriend."

With a buzzing sound, Xu Ziqin's mind was completely blank. Xu Ziqin hysterically pressed a kiss on his lips, "I like you, Xu Ziqin."