To rely on others is to promise each other

Chapter 8

For several days in a row, Pei Shanqing was unable to change the fact that Jiang Yubai was losing his temper. The specific manifestations were: he proposed that he didn't want to have porridge for breakfast, refused the cold medicine that Pei Shanqing handed over, and declined Pei Shanqing to take him home, etc.

Even when they were squeezed into the same bed to sleep at night, there was still a pillow distance between the two of them. Pei Shanqing tried to get close to Jiang Yubai, but in the end he was too embarrassed to hug him to sleep like he did when he was a child.

Although this is the best shortcut to coax children, since we are all men, it is inevitable that we will have physiological reactions in the morning, and it would be too embarrassing if we push it.

This morning, Pei Shanqing woke up early before the alarm clock rang, stared at the back of Jiang Yubai's head in a daze, and suddenly remembered that he had been having some messy dreams since he started having a temper tantrum with him, basically they were all about Some trivia about the past of the two.

Jiang Yubai's hair has grown a lot, and the dark brown hair tail pokes on the skin around the neck, trembling slightly with the ups and downs of breathing, making the skin fairer, and gradually turning into a lighter color under the sunlight .

Pei Shanqing stretched out his hand in a strange way, lifted his over-long hair, and lightly touched the soft skin hidden underneath. I don't know if it was his illusion, but he vaguely felt that even the roots of his ears were stained. Layer powder.

Pei Shanqing's breath was stagnant, and he turned his fingertips, and touched the thin shiny hair on his ear, and was immediately caught by Jiang Yubai's outstretched hand.

Jiang Yubai looked at him calmly after a while of rubbing against the quilt, with a heavy sleepiness in his voice: "What are you doing?"

Pei Shanqing inexplicably tightened his lower body, hunched his back guiltily, curled his legs, and said haha, "Your hair is a bit long, isn't it? I'll take you to have a haircut this weekend?"

Jiang Yubai stared at him for a while, let go of the hand that restrained him, sat up and said lightly, "I have an appointment on the weekend, so I'm not free." Then he went to the bathroom to wash up.

Pei Shanqing was taken aback, and kept chasing after Jiang Yubai, asking, "Who did you date? A man or a woman?"

Jiang Yubai brushed his teeth and didn't answer. It took him a long time to spit out the foam in his mouth, and he answered the second half of the sentence: "Man."

Pei Shanqing snorted, feeling like he was dealing with a rebellious adolescent son, but after hearing that the date was a boy, why was he still worried?

Pei Shanqing couldn't figure it out, turned around depressedly and went to the kitchen to work on breakfast, the two of them finished eating in silence and went to school, Pei Shanqing asked as usual if he needed to pick him up, but he flatly refused as usual.

In the laboratory, Pei Shanqing was sitting on a chair and straightening his insulating gloves. Ji Xiao next to him leaned over and bumped him on the shoulder: "What's the matter with you? You're so unhappy, are you mad at your child?"

"I'm not angry." Pei Shanqing said, "He was angry with me."

"It's interesting to be rebellious. Tell me about it and make me happy too." Ji Xiao smiled shamelessly.

"Fuck you." Pei Shanqing raised his hand and slapped him, and said, "Do you still remember last week when you suddenly had to accept the report early? It was the time when we rushed all night together before stepping in to hand it in. I originally We agreed to pick him up from school, but let him go temporarily."

Ji Xiao was silent for a moment, then asked incredulously, "That's it?"

"Well, that's it." Pei Shanqing nodded.

Ji Xiao: "... You are not raising a younger brother, nor are you raising a child, you are raising an ancestor."

"The ancestor is the ancestor. The key point is that he doesn't take cold medicine, and his nose always gets blocked when he sleeps at night. I'm afraid he will lose his temper one day."

Ji Xiao cast a weird look, and complained: "You are like that resentful woman who has been puaed, and you are still used to it like this. I don't think you can be saved."

Pei Shanqing replied bluntly: "You're the one who hates my wife, get out of here."

Ji Xiao laughed a few times, then hooked his shoulders sullenly, and said, "Thinking about it better, he might not be targeting you, maybe he's just in a bad mood."

"Ji Xiao, you have to know that if I can stay at the top of my grade during middle school and not be biased at all, let alone a bad mood, I can laugh out loud in my dreams."

"Oh?" Ji Xiao asked back, "Then is he having fun?"

"He didn't. He's like a doll with no expression. It's just nice to put there." Pei Shanqing twitched the corner of his mouth, thinking of the scene in the morning again, and felt a little itchy in his heart.

"Hey, did you take what I told you last time seriously? Don't be such a crap thing as school violence." Ji Xiao suddenly became serious, "Don't take it seriously, I passed by that place a few days ago In a key junior high school in the city, a child was beaten so badly that his glasses fell far away."

"He is also from that school." Pei Shanqing said, suddenly remembered that Jiang Yubai was also a little short-sighted, but he didn't usually wear glasses: "What does he look like? Do you know his name?"

"It's quite quiet. It seems that the surname is Cheng. The child's voice is too low to hear clearly." Ji Xiao said, "Could it be your brother? Shouldn't your brother be surnamed Pei?"

"Oh, that's not him. My brother's surname is not Pei, but Jiang. We are not related by blood." Pei Shanqing said, "Jiang Yubai."

Ji Xiao laughed: "Yu Bai, Shan Qing, your family is quite good at naming, and you have a couple."

Pei Shanqing was stunned for a moment, and asked: "Where did you find out that they are a pair, don't they all have a color?"

"Have you fed your compulsory education to dogs? You don't even know Du Fu's quatrains?" Ji Xiao cleared her throat and recited: "Jiangbi's birds are white, and the mountains and blue flowers are about to burn."

Pei Shanqing thought: This is really a coincidence, my nickname is Ranran, could it be that they really decided on the name after discussing it?

"If you want me to tell you, you'd better go to the school gate and wait for your brother after school. After this semester, you will take the senior high school entrance examination. Don't make any problems." Ji Xiao suggested.

"You think I don't want to pick him up? I'm afraid that something will be delayed, and I'll regret it and he'll be angry with me again." Pei Shanqing laughed angrily, "Plus, every time I asked him if he wanted me to pick him up, he would Say no, what can I do?"

Ji Xiao's gaze became indescribable: "Your brother seems like the kind of savage girlfriend in the short video, why don't you try to listen to him the other way around, or just want to be more domineering?"

Pei Shanqing was silent for a moment, reluctantly accepted Ji Xiao's description, and asked, "Can this work?"

"Try it, what if your younger brother eats this set?" Ji Xiao didn't think it was a big deal to watch the excitement, "You buy some snacks or something, and it's over if you coax it."

"Okay, let's treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor."

The incandescent tubes in the classroom would go out for two seconds from time to time, and then return to normal. Ten minutes before the bell rang, the students fell into an endless commotion, and there was always the sound of whispering conversations.

Jiang Yubai didn't pack his things in advance like the others. Under his deliberate evasion, Pei Shanqing started to go home late these days. When he went back to the empty room, he always felt uneasy.

Cheng Guo said to him, "Aren't you going home?"

Jiang Yubai opened the physics competition questions, and the pen was spinning between his fingers: "Don't worry, do the meeting questions before leaving."

"Then go to the study room on the fifth floor, there are more people there." Cheng Guo picked up his schoolbag while the bell rang, and said, "I'm afraid they will come to trouble you again."

Jiang Yubai didn't refute. He looked at the classmates who stood up and prepared to clean up, and prepared to go upstairs with their books.

The students filed out from the classrooms, rushed into the stairs, pushed each other towards the door, Jiang Yubai went upstream in it, inexplicably thinking of the youth Pei Shanqing once had, and wondered if he had ever been like In this way, for whom to choose this.

Jiang Yubai shook his head lightly, trying to get the messy thoughts out of his mind, but after taking a seat in the self-study room, he found a man and a woman sitting in the seat not far in front, and there was an exercise book between them. With her head down halfway, she was writing the process of solving the problem on the paper. The girl's eyes fell directly on his side face, and she smiled and listened to his unhurried explanation.

Jiang Yubai felt that this scene was a bit dazzling, so he quickly looked away. It was pitch black outside the window, only the path leading to the school gate was lit with unextinguished lights, shining brightly to illuminate the way home.

Looking at the parents waiting outside, Jiang Yubai began to feel irritable. The formula letters in front of him became more and more annoying, and the chuckle from time to time in front of him was particularly ear-piercing.

He put down his pen and walked out of the self-study room, but he was lost in the long corridor. He wandered around in the teaching building. The end of the stairs was shrouded in darkness. through the heavy door.

The wind was howling on the roof, and his blown hair blocked his eyes. He stood still for a moment, walked to the edge and stood still, his fingers covering the cold guardrail, recalling the estrangement of the past few days. Emotions dissected.

Jiang Yubai paid a lot of money to persuade his parents to return to China, and he stubbornly chose the key junior high school that Pei Shanqing had attended, as if walking the road he had traveled and seeing the scenery he had seen would make him truly happy. Became his classmate in the class next door.

Jiang Yubai would not dream of being at the same table with him, but just trying to find traces of liking in repeated hopes and failures, but Pei Shanqing is his brother, the person who once hugged him to sleep and held his hand, the relationship between them The distance seems to be close at hand, but it is like a gap.

Jiang Yubai buried his face in his arms in the gradually raging cold wind. In the past three years, he didn't even know when his heartbeat started, and he didn't know how it evolved to be so difficult to restrain now.He never convinced himself, so he had to allow himself to sink into sin.Perhaps it was because of being close to Pei Shanqing again that his heart began to agitate again.

"This is wrong." Jiang Yubai persuaded himself, "He should have hope that can be chased, instead of drawing a prison like me, trapped in paranoia over and over again and unable to escape."

Jiang Yubai thinks that his likes are not worth mentioning. To Pei Shanqing, they are useless waste, not even as good as every item in his room, because they can be placed in front of him openly, but his likes cannot.

It is wrapped in layers of thick ribbons, thrown into the bottomless abyss of the heart, grows wildly in the hope that penetrates, and then is choked to accept separation.

Jiang Yubai looked at the crowd leaving, and shed a tear very lightly, imagining the ending in the near future.

Suddenly there was a slight noise from behind the door, and Jiang Yubai turned his head vigilantly, and asked sharply at the door, "Who? Who's there?"

But no one answered except for the sound of the wind. Jiang Yubai's roiling thoughts gradually calmed down. He estimated that it was time to go home, so he brushed the messy hair in front of his forehead, and raised his foot to go downstairs to pack his things.

He pushed the iron door lightly naturally, frowned after standing still, and then pushed it resolutely after three seconds of silence. There was the sound of wood colliding with metal from behind the door, as if being tightly pressed by something. stuck.

Jiang Yubai's brain was spinning rapidly. The iron gate leading to the roof is usually not locked, but now it is suddenly stuck. Naturally, someone is behind the scenes. As for who it is, the answer is ready to come out.

Jiang Yubai raised his cold voice: "Those outside, open the door for me, or you will have a better time tomorrow."

The sound of frantic footsteps came along the crack of the door, and gradually disappeared. Jiang Yubai stood in the middle, raised his foot and tried to kick the door open, but turned his head to the night and closed his eyes to no avail.

He thought: How about jumping off from here, so that you don't have to look forward and backward, and bother yourself for the impossible wish.