You are not allowed to like me!

Chapter 24

"Twisted melons are not sweet."

Qiao Nan shrank his feet in embarrassment, and whispered: "Why don't I do it myself."

Pei Xu raised his eyes to look at him, with a smile in his eyes, but he didn't let go of his strength in his hands at all, his fingers held his slender ankles in his palms, preventing him from pulling them back: "Don't move, it will be fine soon."

Qiao Nan moved uncomfortably, but he didn't struggle anymore, and could only let him continue to clean up.

After washing the wound, Pei Xu carefully wiped off the water stains with a clean towel, and finally wrapped his feet properly with a blanket: "Okay."

Taking out a wet tissue paper and wiping his hands slowly, he sat down next to Qiao Nan again, unzipped the jacket, and opened his arms to him: "Do you want to sleep?"

Before worrying and worrying, he didn't get a good rest at all. Qiao Nan was indeed tired and sleepy, but Pei Xu's spacious embrace seemed warm and filled with a sense of security.

After hesitating for a moment, Qiao Nan gave up resisting, leaned into his arms honestly, and said in a strong nasal voice, "Then I'll just squint for a while, and you wake me up when the helicopter arrives."

Pei Xu responded in a low voice, wrapped him in a jacket, and patted his back with his palm: "Go to sleep."

This time, Qiao Nan fell into a deep sleep. Halfway through the journey, he vaguely heard the hum of the propeller spinning, but before he opened his eyes, he was lulled back to sleep by a gentle voice.

When he woke up again, he found himself lying on a hospital bed.I was dripping on the back of my hand, and my feet were wounded and wrapped in gauze.

Pei Xu, on the other hand, was sitting on a chair beside the hospital bed with a laptop on his lap and was processing things.

"When did we come back?" Qiao Nan sat up with his elbows propped up.Turning my head and looking out the window, I found that it was already dark outside: "How long have I been sleeping? Where are the others?"

"I only slept for four or five hours. The doctor said that you have been too tense these two days and your body needs to rest." Pei Xu poured him a glass of warm water: "The rest of the people are in other wards, and physical examinations have been arranged , except for Qiu Ran who is a little more serious, the most serious thing for everyone else is a low-grade cold and fever."

Only then did Qiao Nan feel relieved.

Pei Xu asked again: "Are you hungry? I asked Zhao Bo to buy porridge to keep warm."

It was fine if he didn't say anything, but when he said it, he was indeed a little hungry, and Qiao Nan nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.

Pei Xu put down his notebook and brought over the thermos.Originally, he wanted to feed Qiao Nan, but Qiao Nan felt that his feet were a little scratched, and this posture was too exaggerated, so he insisted on eating Pei Xu by himself, so he regretted giving up.

Qiao Nan drank the porridge slowly with the thermos in his arms, then picked it up and put it on the bedside table, swiped it with his fully charged mobile phone, and found that the news feeds were all related to the disaster in Guibei. He clicked on the hot search list on Weibo, Sure enough, four out of the top ten hot searches are related to the disaster in Guibei.

After reading several news reports, he realized that the disaster in Guibei was much more serious than he had imagined.

This time was actually the worst flood disaster in Guibei in ten years. No wonder the driver who had promised to pick them up had disappeared, and the police had not come into the mountain to look for them for a long time.

"How is the situation in Fengxi Village now?" The news said that Shitai County was one of the hardest hit areas.

"Most people have moved to temporary safe refuges, but the disaster was sudden. A small number of people who were not evacuated in time were trapped in the flood. The government has dispatched troops to rescue and rescue the disaster." Seeing his worried expression, Pei Xu also Added: "I asked the rescue team to participate in the disaster relief, and sent two batches of supplies, and everything will be fine."

Qiao Nan thought of the grandmother who embroidered Miao clothes for him, and Ming Da who painted the sun on the wall, and he didn't know what happened to them now.His mood was obviously depressed: "When I get better, can I go and see them?"

In many evening videos, Qiao Nan would share with him some people or things in Fengxi Village.Knowing that he had lived in Fengxi Village for more than half a month and developed feelings for the villagers, Pei Xu did not stop him: "Okay, you should have a good rest first, and I will go with you when you recover."

Qiao Nan nodded, and after eating half a bucket of porridge, he felt drowsy again.

Probably because the shadow of being trapped in the mountains has not disappeared, even when he fell asleep, his brows were furrowed, facing Pei Xu, his body curled up insecurely.

Pei Xu tucked the quilt for him, looked at his trembling eyelashes, held his hand, and leaned over to kiss his forehead lightly like a feather: "Good night, sweet dream."

Qiao Shi'an and his wife, who received the news, arrived at Ziyun at two o'clock in the morning.

Because of the bad weather, the flight was delayed or canceled, so they asked their assistants to drive over for fear of delaying the time.

When Zhao Bo received the person, he was startled when he saw the haggard two, and quickly led him to the ward: "The doctor has already checked, and Mr. Qiao is fine. Boss Pei has been accompanying him in the ward, maybe it is the phone Turned the volume to mute and didn't receive the call."

"It's fine," the tense expressions of the husband and wife eased a little.

In fact, Pei Xu had already sent them a message to report that they were safe, but it was hard to be a parent without seeing them.

"Let's go up and see him." Zhou Ruo said.

This hospital is a relatively high-end private hospital in Ziyun City. Qiao Nan's ward is on the fourth floor of the inpatient department.

Zhao Bo led the two of them in and knocked lightly on the door, but there was no response.

"The doctor said that Young Master Qiao needs to rest. Boss Pei hasn't closed his eyes since last night until today. He may have fallen asleep." He explained, and then gently opened the door.

The couple relaxed their movements and entered the door, only to find that the two of them had indeed fallen asleep.

Qiao Nan was lying on the hospital bed with a ruddy complexion, and he was sleeping peacefully; Pei Xu just fell asleep sitting on the chair beside the hospital bed, with an open laptop on his lap.

Qiao Shi'an wanted to wake him up and let him go to the hotel to rest, but Zhou Ruo stopped him.

Mouthing "Don't quarrel with them", Zhou Ruo stepped forward cautiously, put away the laptop on the bedside table lightly, and was about to get up straight to leave, but her eyes accidentally glanced at the hands of the two brothers. hand.

——Qiao Nan's hand stretched out from under the quilt, and he held Pei Xu tightly.

It's a gesture of clasping fingers.

Zhou Ruo froze for a moment, and immediately froze in place.

At this moment, Pei Xu opened his eyes when he heard the movement, and saw Zhou Ruode fixedly looking in a certain direction, following her gaze, Pei Xu's eyebrows twitched, but he let go of his hands very naturally and stood up: "When will uncle and aunt?" Arrived? Sorry, I fell asleep."

Qiao Shi'an said: "I just arrived, I just wanted to take a look quietly, but I didn't expect to wake you up."

"Nannan was frightened in the mountains, and he couldn't sleep well. I just wanted to be with him, but I accidentally fell asleep." That's what he said.But there was obvious fatigue on his face.

Hearing what he said, Zhou Ruo's expression became more natural: "Xiao Zhao said that you haven't closed your eyes all day and night, so you and Uncle Qiao are here to watch over here, you go and have a rest."

Pei Xu nodded without refusing: "Then I'll go to rest first, and come back tomorrow morning."

Afraid of waking Qiao Nan up, they didn't talk any more. Pei Xu took his computer and went to a nearby hotel with Zhao Bo.

Zhou Ruo looked at his back, then at the sleeping Qiao Nan, frowning slightly.

Under the insistence of Qiao Shi'an and his wife, Qiao Nan had to stay in the hospital for three days before being discharged.

He felt that there was no serious problem, but the blisters on his feet were not healed, which affected his walking a bit, so he asked Pei Xu to borrow a wheelchair for him, and pushed him to visit classmates one by one in other wards.

Zhao Yutong was taken aback when he saw him sitting in a wheelchair, and said exaggeratedly, "What's wrong with our hero?!"

Qiao Nan rolled his eyes at him: "The hero's feet hurt and he doesn't want to walk."

Zhao Yutong was choked, and changed the subject after a while: "Everyone is getting better, Lao Li has booked a bus, and is going to take the high-speed back to Nanjiang the day after tomorrow. Are you with us?"

Qiao Nan shook his head: "My parents are here too, so I won't be with you. And I want to stay for two more days before going back to Fengxi Village to have a look."

"Then I can only see you in Nanjiang. My parents were so anxious after hearing the news that they couldn't go with you." Zhao Yutong shrugged helplessly.

……

After visiting his classmates one by one, Qiao Nan returned to his ward.

When Zhou Ruo and Qiao Shi'an came back from lunch, they bumped into Pei Xu pushing him back.The two brothers, one standing and the other sitting in a wheelchair, were talking with a smile on their lips, with an intimate gesture.

Her expression moved slightly, and she quickly covered it up. She stepped forward to take the wheelchair over with a smile, and said to Pei Xu, "I asked my assistant to pack the meals. You go to eat first, and I will take care of Nan Nan."

Pei Xu's eyes were dim, but he didn't show it. He nodded without any abnormality, and handed Qiao Nan to her.

Since last night, Zhou Ruo's attitude has been a little subtle.

This is probably the intuition of a mother. She did not act aggressively, nor did she raise questions hastily. Instead, she separated the two decently and calmly, reducing the chances for the two to get along.

Pei Xu didn't know how much she saw.

When facing Qiao Shi'an and his wife, he has been careful to hide his feelings, and he has not done anything that would cause misunderstanding or vigilance. Only last night's carelessness made Zhou Ruo aware of it.

He lowered his expression and turned to leave.

Qiao Nan then asked Zhou Ruo, "Why did you send my brother away?"

Zhou Ruo laughed: "You can see that?"

Qiao Nan curled his lips: "I can't finish so many dishes by myself, but it's just right for two people to eat."

Zhou Ruo didn't explain too much, pushed him into the ward, and laid out the food on the table, showing a bit of mother's tenderness: "A girl named Qiu Ran came to you in the morning, you didn't Wake up, she will go back."

Although she had doubts in her heart, her years of experience as a lawyer prevented her from making a conclusion immediately, but chose to insinuate carefully.She purposely said with an ambiguous attitude: "The girl is good-looking, she is in the same class as you, and she came to see you specially, what's your relationship?"

"You sent my brother away just to ask this?" Qiao Nan took a sip of the soup, a little speechless.

"You have also reached the age of dating." Zhou Ruo said tactfully.

"But she doesn't like me, maybe she just came to thank me?" Qiao Nan guessed: "She fell in love with my brother before, and even asked for WeChat."

Zhou Ruo was taken aback: "And then?"

"No more. My brother refused."

Zhou Ruo sighed regretfully: "That girl is beautiful and looks like she has a good personality. Why don't you fight for it? Speaking of which, your brother is not young, and I haven't seen him take her home. Had a girlfriend."

"My brother is so busy, how can he have time to fall in love?" Qiao Nan immediately complained to his brother: "And he told Qiu Ran that he has someone he likes."

Although Pei Xu denied it in the bathroom that day, Qiao Nan was still a little dubious.

Zhou Ruo was a little surprised, recalling the scene he saw last night, and wondered if he was thinking too much.

The two brothers grew up together, especially Qiao Nan, who may be due to the lack of parental care since he was a child, and he is especially dependent on Pei Xu, his elder brother. Even though they are both in college now, they are still the closest to Pei Xu.

And there was no abnormality in Qiao Nan's words.

Zhou Ruowei frowned unobtrusively, hoping that she was overthinking.

Three days later, Qiaonan was finally released from the hospital.

After completing the discharge procedures, he went to Fengxi Village.

Days of heavy rain finally stopped, and the flood had just subsided. In order to keep their homes, the villagers couldn't wait to join the post-disaster reconstruction project.

The off-road vehicle ran over the stagnant water and stopped in front of the village.

Looking from a distance, you can see that many stilted buildings have been washed away by the flood, and the villagers are working together to clean up the ruins.

Qiao Nan saw many familiar figures in it.

Seeing them, the owner of the house who lived in him put down his work and said hello, "Are you all right?" He explained with some apology: "You guys didn't come back after going into the mountain all night. We wanted to go into the mountain to find them, but who knows If there is a flood, I don’t care about it.”

Qiao Nan didn't mean to blame them, saying that everyone was fine, and asked about the situation in the village.

"People are fine, but the house has collapsed, and the year's harvest is gone." Speaking of these, the man showed a heavy look on his face.Then he remembered something, asked Qiao Nan to wait, ran to a place where a lot of furniture and sundries were piled up, rummaged for a while, and brought a bag over.

"A lot of things were washed away by the flood, and the rest should be yours."

Qiao Nan opened it and found that the bag was filled with drawing boards, paints and other sundries left by them.Unexpectedly, he actually helped put them away.In fact, the paint on the drawing board was basically useless after being soaked in water, but Qiao Nan did not refuse the other party's kindness. After thanking him, he moved it to the trunk of the car and put it away, ready to deal with it after leaving.

When he put away his things and turned back to the village again, he saw Mingda standing on the steps and waving at him.

"Mingda!" He strode forward excitedly, seeing that the little girl was fine except for her dirty clothes, he was relieved: "Where is grandma?"

"Grandma is going to cook." Mingda said.

The stilted building of Mingda's house is quite old, and it also collapsed in the flood.There are only one old and one young in their family, and there are no adult men. The reconstruction of the house depends entirely on the help of the villagers, and the grandmother goes to help cook the big pot.

Mingda was very happy to see him, before saying a few words, he took his hand and motioned him to follow her.

Taking him to the small tent where his family lived temporarily, Mingda went in and searched for a while, and then took out a picture scroll.

She held the picture scroll in both hands and handed it to Qiao Nan, her big and black pupils were like two clean black pearls.

"What is this?" Qiao Nan took it hesitantly. After unfolding it, he found that it was the pair of "Hope" that he was planning to take to the exhibition.

He put away the painting after he finished it, and didn't take it with him when he went into the mountain. He thought it had been destroyed in the flood, but he didn't expect Mingda to properly preserve it for him.

"Thank you."

Qiao Nan put away the painting and thanked her very seriously.

Mingda shook his head, put his hands behind his back, pursed his lips and showed a shy smile.

Qiao Nan stayed in the village to help for a long time before leaving.

Before leaving, he discussed with Mingda's grandmother for a long time, and finally agreed that he would sponsor Mingda to study.He also deliberately left his mobile phone to Mingda and taught her to use WeChat, so that even if he is thousands of miles away, Mingda can often contact him.

Mingda held the mobile phone preciously and sent them all the way to the entrance of the village.

Qiao Nan sat in the co-pilot, watched her figure get smaller and smaller, and said, "It would be great if I could help them. Grandma's embroidered Miao clothes are very beautiful, and Uncle Lu's bamboo crafts are also very delicate."

The people of Fengxi Village have lived in the closed mountains for generations, and they are no more lazy than anyone else, but because of the closed environment, backward education and other factors, they are far behind.

They deserve a chance to live better.

Pei Xu glanced at him in the rearview mirror, and said, "Nan Xu subsidizes poverty alleviation projects in Guibei every year. I will mention it this year, and pay more attention to Fengxi in the future."

Looking at the rolling green hills outside, Qiao Nan said softly, "I also want to do something for them."

After returning from Fengxi, the family prepared to leave.

After the heavy rain stopped, the flight returned to normal, and the family of four flew directly back to Nanjiang.

Qiao Shi'an left after only two days in Nanjiang because of the many things in the group, but Zhou Ruo pushed off many things for the first time and stayed in Nanjiang for the time being.

Pei Xu guessed the reason for her staying, and only stayed at Qiao's house for two days, and then moved back to the Boting Mansion on the pretext that the company had too many things to do, and sent Qiao Xiaobai back to Qiao's house by the way.

Qiao Nan was a little dissatisfied in his heart, but he also knew that he must have delayed a lot of things when he went to Guibei, so he didn't have the nerve to play tricks and persuade him to stay.

It happened that after Lao Li found out that he was back, he took advantage of the summer vacation to arrest him and asked him to help prepare the art exhibition. Qiao Nan went out every morning and returned at night, so tired that he fell asleep and fell asleep, so he didn't have the heart to bother Pei Xu anymore.

On the other hand, Zhou Ruo lived in Qiao's house for more than a week, and found no clues after several side-steps. In addition, the law firm's affairs could not be delayed any longer, so he left for Yanjing.

On the day Zhou Ruo left, Pei Xu learned the news and went to send him off.

During the boarding break, Zhou Ruo hesitated to ask something several times, but he didn't say anything.

She is actually a very strong woman, and she never drags her feet when making decisions at work. Only when facing her own children, will she be so indecisive and stagnant.

Even if Pei Xu is not her own child.

Pei Xu watched her walk into the boarding gate until she could no longer see anyone, then turned and left.

On the highway back to Xunan Technology from Nanjiang Airport, it happened to pass by the Binjiang villa area. Pei Xuyao ​​glanced at it, then looked away, stepped on the accelerator, and the black Bentley sped past, leaving the villa area behind.

When Qiao Nan finally got out of the heavy work of preparing for the art exhibition, three quarters of the summer vacation had passed.

The preparations for Lao Li's art exhibition are almost complete, and the time is set for August 26, so he can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

As soon as he relaxed, he found a very serious problem.

——In the half a month after returning from Guibei, apart from him taking the initiative to contact him, there were only a handful of times when Pei Xu contacted him, and he never came back even once.

Qiao Nan was startled by this discovery and sat up from the bed.

He carefully reviewed the wechat chat records of the two of them in the past half month.

Video x3, but none exceed 10 minutes.

There are quite a lot of chats and conversations, but most of the time without talking a few words, his brother will end the conversation with reasons such as "going to a meeting" and "working overtime".

Let alone come to see him.

Before, he was so busy that he didn't notice these details at all. Now that he has leisure, he recalled it carefully and found that it was not his illusion, his brother was really cold!

This is not right.

Qiao Nan tried to send him a WeChat message: [Brother, I'm done, do you want to have dinner tonight? (＾ー＾)】

It also comes with a cute cat stickers expression pack.

As a result, there was no reply after waiting for 10 minutes.

Qiao Nan suddenly became emotional. He quickly changed his clothes and decided to go to the company to block people in person to see what his brother was doing, but he ignored him.

But when he arrived at Xunan Technology in a fast car, he was told by Zhao Bo: Pei Xu had been on a business trip for a week.

Qiao Nan returned disappointed, poked Pei Xu's head angrily, and muttered dissatisfiedly.

You can't ignore people on a business trip, right?

Not long after Qiao Nan left, Pei Xu received a message from Zhao Bo.

He clicked on the WeChat chat box with Qiao Nan, and saw a message "Master Qiao patted you" displayed at the bottom of the dialog box, and then saw that prompt was quickly withdrawn.

The corners of Pei Xu's mouth curled up involuntarily, and he could even imagine how cute his expression was when he retreated in a panic.

His fingers lightly stroked the dialog box, but he could only pretend that he didn't see anything.

Pei Xu took off his glasses, leaned his head on the back of the chair, forced himself not to listen or think, and tried to get rid of Qiao Nan's shaking shadow from his heart.

But no matter how many times he tried, he couldn't do it.

He opened the mail again.

These days, he was able to make up his mind not to look for Qiao Nan, all because of the email from old K.

He greedily looked at these photos one by one, but he was still not satisfied.

Qiao Nan, who was too active, aroused the delusions buried deep in his heart.

After hesitating again and again, he finally found out the software hidden in the encrypted folder.

It was just that when the monitoring remote connection was successful and Qiao Nan's figure appeared on the screen, he quickly turned off the software again.

Reason and greed seesaw repeatedly, but there is still no definite result.

Looking at the computer screen expressionlessly for a while, Pei Xu lit a cigarette a little annoyed.

The spicy nicotine taste barely calmed the restlessness, but the thoughts lingering in the mind still linger.

He is not in Nanjiang, so there is no way to find Dr. Chen.

After smoking two cigarettes, Pei Xu picked up the car keys and left the hotel.

Driving around the street aimlessly, he randomly found a bar and went in.

There were not many people in the bar after six o'clock in the afternoon, dynamic rock music was playing from the speakers, colorful spotlights were flickering, the bartender was slowly wiping glasses in front of the bar, and there were only a few customers in the booths.

Pei Xu ordered a glass of vodka and found a corner to sit down.

In addition to the necessary entertainment, he actually rarely drinks.His alcohol capacity is not bad, but he just hates the feeling of losing control of his mind after being drunk.

But tonight he made an exception.

Reason is slipping into the abyss, and he needs stronger stimulation to correct this dangerous tendency.

The strong wine entered his throat, and the spicy alcohol ignited his taste buds, but he didn't even frown.

In the grotesque bar, the handsome men in suits and leather shoes were eye-catching enough.

Someone approached with a glass of wine: "Handsome guy, can you drink away your worries?"

Pei Xu raised his eyes and did not miss the provocation in the other party's eyes. He raised his hand to loosen the tie, his protruding Adam's apple rolled, and impatiently spit out the word "roll".

"True murder."

But even the cursing voice is sexy.

The man sat down opposite him with great interest, shook the wine glass, and raised the fingers that were holding the wine glass in an elegant arc: "Look at this, you are trapped by love, and you can't ask for it?"

Pei Xu gave him a cold look and ignored him.

"Let's all come here gay, why lie to yourself?" Seeing that he didn't speak, the man became more enthusiastic: "My name is Bai Zhi, let's make friends." He put on light makeup, the end of his eyes was deliberately elongated, and the bar was dark The bright light hit his fair face, more bewitching than a goblin.

Few men could refuse his invitation.

"Twisted melons are not sweet, why don't you try other melons, which are...sweet." Bai Zhi deliberately prolonged the ending, raised his glass and touched his wine glass, trying to hook his fingers with the opportunity, But Pei Xu's gaze was fixed on the spot.

Pei Xu didn't wear glasses when he went out, and his long and narrow eyes were half drooping now, when he raised his eyelids to look up at people, he showed a [-]% impatience, which was completely different from usual fierceness.

Shocked by his aura of not letting others in, Bai Zhi muttered softly: "It turns out he's still a lover."

Pei Xu ignored him, drank a glass of vodka by himself, paid the bill and went out.

He casually leaned against the pillar at the entrance of the bar and called Peng Yi.

Peng Yilai was taken aback when he picked him up. He had been with Pei Xu for two years, and he had never seen him look so gloomy, like some kind of beast that was about to choose someone and devour him.

"Boss Pei, are you okay?" He unconsciously lowered his tone.

Pei Xu sat in the back seat, didn't answer his question, just said: "Go back to the hotel."

The author says:

Nannan: Why is my brother ignoring me again?

Nannan: I'm angry, Nannan: Come and coax me!

Brother Pei: .