soft hedgehog

Chapter 38 Drinking a Pot of Vinegar

Have someone you like?

Ji Tong's heart jumped like a cliff.After being in a trance, he thought he heard it wrong, and asked anxiously, "Do you mean you like it?"

Just as Liang Yuchen opened his thin lips, a boy with disheveled hair came over and patted him on the shoulder.

"Liang Yuchen, you can do it. The elementary school girl chased here to confess her love, and it has been spread all over the high school. What's the matter, are you off the list?"

In this way, we will divert the topic just now.

After a few gossips, the boy raised his chin towards Ji Tong: "Your brother came to see you again, so you still go to the ten o'clock topic discussion?"

"Go," he remembered the appointment at ten o'clock, "I'll be with you."

Then he gave Ji Tong an order to evict the guest: "Go back to the dormitory, I have something to go."

Ji Tong didn't move, and grabbed his arm violently before he turned around, fearing that he would be separated: "Brother, you haven't answered my question just now."

It's such a big deal with someone you like, if you can't say a few words, can it be considered as finished?

The warmth of the palm covering the arm is nostalgic, but Liang Yuchen didn't want to delay any longer, let alone show his feelings hastily, so he dismissed him with a simple sentence.

"Just as you heard."

After speaking, he went upstairs with the boy.

Pedestrians passed by in twos and threes, and Ji Tong stood there blankly, watching his brother's back, covered in moonlight, gradually disappear into the entrance of the yellow-painted gray dormitory building.

It was less than 300 meters away from the French Academy, and he spent twice as long as before, with all his thoughts on his feet, repeatedly recalling his brother's last sentence along the way, recalling Liang Yuchen's tone and expression when he spoke, and anxiously speculated about the truth. Fake.

Is brother serious?

Is it to prevaricate the girl who doesn't like it or it is true.If it was just to prevaricate, it might not be so solemn to tell him again.But if it was true, why didn't I know it before?

He and his brother often hang out on weekends, and they always find time to meet each other when they are in school.Since when did my brother fall in love with someone, and he has never revealed a single word in front of him.

Do you feel that you are young and don't understand emotional matters, or are you afraid that you will mess up his good deeds?

There are a thousand and 1 questions in my mind, tangled like knotted wool balls, and I can't figure it out no matter what.

The birds rest on the treetops, the cicadas hide at the bottom of the leaves, and summer has not come yet, which makes him irritable.

Back in the dormitory, Wang Teng was already lying comfortably on the bed, and started gossiping from the moment he entered the door: "What did your brother say just now, he really doesn't like that girl?"

It sounds like a pity, as if he could pick it up.

Ji Tong unloaded his backpack and threw it aside, and sat on a chair with his back facing him: "I don't like it."

"I don't like that kind of thing. I like that kind of thing." Wang Teng put his elbows on the bed and propped up his upper body. "He is really demanding. That girl looks pretty good to me, what do you think?"

When the other two heard it, they asked what kind of girl they were, and the whole dormitory was aroused by this topic.

In the past, they often talked about each other's love and secret love, and they often chatted in the middle of the night.Ji Tong couldn't get excited tonight, and said inappropriately: "I don't see anything good about it."

"The two of you are brothers, right? Both of you have such high requirements." Wang Teng teased, "He looks good, has a good figure, and is infatuated with your brother. Why can't he?"

Ji Tong, who was always eloquent, was suddenly dumb and couldn't answer anyway. He stared at a computer that was not turned on for a long time and then murmured: "The personality doesn't match, and the age doesn't match."

Hou Jin responded, "Personality is another matter. Why doesn't age match? That girl has a bachelor's degree, so she's three or four years younger than your brother, isn't it good?"

Ji Tong started talking nonsense: "Maybe my brother likes older than him."

"No way," Wang Teng objected, "Your brother obviously likes younger than him."

"How do you know?" He turned his head and looked at the upper bunk.

Wang Teng answered mysteriously: "A feeling. Your brother may like seventeen or eighteen years old."

Everyone snorted: "Which man doesn't like seventeen or eighteen years old?"

Ji Tong's mind was in chaos, and he couldn't listen to their discussion anymore.

After the lights went out, he ran to the corridor to call his brother, and the phone rang five times before answering, and he kept counting.

"elder brother."

"En." Liang Yuchen's voice was full of tiredness.

"You've slept?"

"Just laying down," the voice was very low, probably because he was afraid of waking up his roommate, "what's the matter?"

Ji Tong held the mobile phone in his right hand, and his left hand was wrapped in the sleeve of the sweater. At first, he leaned on the window and looked in the direction of the postgraduate dormitory building. How could he see it so far away?Then he turned around in a low mood and leaned against the wooden window sill.

"Brother, do you want a girlfriend?"

The first sentence must be the most important question, what he wants to know the most, and he can't help it.He is used to self-willedness, so he insisted on asking clearly.

The phone was silent for a while.

"Why do you ask that?" Liang Yuchen didn't answer directly.

"You said it at night," Ji Tong's heart was pulling his lungs, his lungs were pulling his stomach, and there was no place in his body that felt comfortable, "If you have someone you like, doesn't that mean you want to chase after him?"

Liang Yuchen finally understood the purpose of his call, maybe his younger brother didn't want to be with others by himself.

Perhaps the possibilities between them were not as small as he had imagined.

He calmed down and asked himself as calmly as possible: "Why do you care about this issue so much?"

Downstairs in the dormitory, he pestered him endlessly asking questions, and now he made a special call late at night to pester him, it was impossible just out of curiosity.

It's a pity why Ji Tong didn't even think about it himself. After thinking about it, he could only answer vaguely: "I'm afraid you won't care about me after you have a girlfriend."

This sentence is true.Thinking that Liang Yuchen might revolve around another person in the future, and he would gradually fade out of his life, Ji Tong felt lost.But he didn't know that Liang Yuchen was also disappointed by what he said just now.

"Just for this?" Liang Yuchen forced himself into confusion.

"Then what else could it be?" Ji Tong poked his fingers out of his sleeves, scratching at the edge of the window at a loss.

The hope that had just been ignited was extinguished again, Liang Yuchen didn't know whether he should believe it or not.After calming down for a while, Ji Tong asked again: "Brother, will you meet Brother Sewang?"

The exact same words as that night last winter, only when it was a joke but now it is serious.

He could only say no: "No matter who I'm with, I'm your brother."

After speaking, the mouth is full of bitterness, who are you with?Use words to fool your heart.

Hearing this in Ji Tong's ears, it was tantamount to indirectly admitting that he planned to find a girlfriend.Instead of being moved, I was disappointed like never before.

For a moment, he stopped breathing suddenly, his legs were exhausted, and he sat down on the cold concrete steps against the wall: "What kind of person is the other party, isn't it good-looking?"

What kind of person is worthy of his brother's heart.

Liang Yuchen said, "It looks good."

His brother is certainly good-looking.

"What about your personality?" Ji Tong couldn't control his mouth, he insisted on asking clearly, "How about your personality?"

"If you can't explain a sentence or two, don't inquire about it." He refused to answer this question, fearing that the answer might sound suspicious.

Ji Tong was as anxious as looking for a girlfriend by himself: "I want to know if she is qualified enough to be my sister-in-law, and if she can treat my mother well."

Talk nonsense in different ways.

Liang Yuchen said: "Maybe I won't be able to catch up with the disappearance."

Hearing the perfunctory, Ji Tong's hand gripping the trousers became weak, but his mouth was hard: "That's right, you're so poor, the girl might not be willing to be with you."

Liang Yuchen said calmly, "I know."

Of course he knew.

Ji Tong said good things and bad things: "Why don't you just stop chasing, so as not to embarrass yourself."

But it took me a long time to wait for a response.

He couldn't help but intensify: "Really, brother, let's forget about it."

I wanted to wait for an affirmative answer, or just scold him for being ignorant, but I didn't expect that after a long time, I would wait for a sentence: "I want to try."

There were no lights in the corridor, and everything was silent.

Ji Tong sat quietly, keeping his eyes on the steps below, counting the dust.He wanted to stop it, but he couldn't make up a reason anymore, so he could only purse his lips and let the noise in his heart go up and down, even he couldn't hear it clearly.

Maybe he just said something his brother didn't like to hear, otherwise Liang Yuchen wouldn't say anything?

After a while, there was a faint voice, "Did you wake up?"

Xi Jiacheng should have woken up.

Liang Yuchen asked Ji Tong to hang up the phone: "It's getting late, go to bed, my roommate is going to bed too." But he didn't mention whether he slept or not.

Ji Tong was helpless, wondering if his brother was angry with him, so he said anxiously: "Brother, say good night to me."

Liang Yuchen was slightly taken aback.Like holding him stubbornly in the hospital, wanting him.

"Good night," he said, before hanging up the phone.

Ji Tong listened to the busy tone, and moved his numb legs under the moonlight, feeling like he was afraid of the future and the sadness of predicting the future. He thought about these two words repeatedly, worried that he would never hear them again.

This night was difficult for every second, he tossed and turned in bed unable to fall asleep, woke up Hou Jin who was in the next bed several times, and could only lower his voice and say sorry repeatedly.In the early morning of the next day, dark circles wider than the eyeballs hung under his eyes, and his whole body looked like he had been punched by one side, and he was very tired and symmetrical.

No matter what he asked in the next few days, Liang Yuchen refused to tell him the girl's name, her grade, or her major.

Ji Tong asked, "Is it Beibei?"

Liang Yuchen was helpless: "She is my younger sister."

Ji Tong took the risk of both brothers being assassinated by Yang Xiao and asked, "Is it Ji Qingyang?"

It's the end of the road.

"Are you going to ask all the girls in Pingcheng?" Liang Yuchen frowned, "Go and recite a text if you have time."

Ji Tong didn't ask any more, he knew it meant he didn't want to say anything.But he has other tricks.

He thought, although Liang Yuchen refused to talk about it, he must meet someone.

On weekends, he asked Liang Yuchen to go home. Liang Yuchen said that he had something to do at night and asked him to go back first.

Now that Yang Xiao has a family, he no longer messes around with him, so he begged Zheng Beibei to let her accompany him to find out who his future sister-in-law is.

If it were someone else, Zheng Beibei would never plan to ignore this nonsense, but since the other party was Liang Yuchen, she became interested and immediately agreed to take a trip with Ji Tong.

She also wanted to know what kind of person could win Liang Yuchen's favor.

The two of them would lie in ambush on the side of the postgraduate dormitory building as soon as it was dark, and when Liang Yuchen appeared, they would follow the bus. The driver thought they were criminals and almost turned them over to the police station on the spot.

When the meter jumped to 50 yuan, the bus arrived, and the two also called to stop, tiptoed out of the bus, followed Liang Yuchen, who was carrying a paper bag, and turned left and right into an alley.

Zheng Beibei pouted at him: "Brother Yuchen mentioned a gift for your sister-in-law?"

The oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea in Ji Tong's heart were immediately overthrown by the word "sister-in-law", and he said angrily: "I don't know, stop talking, lest he hear."

Zheng Beibei was not annoyed after being teased by him, and looked at him leisurely: "If you are angry, don't send it to me."

Ji Tong said in a low voice, "I'm not hot."

"It's up to you to recognize it or not." She had a penetrating expression, "But I think this is quite strange."

"What's so strange?"

"Didn't you say that he hasn't caught up yet?" She said, "Is there any reason to bring gifts to the door if he hasn't caught up? It's not condolences to the poor."

Ji Tong tensed his nerves and stopped answering. He saw Liang Yuchen stop at the gate of a courtyard house and knocked on the door. An elderly man wearing a coat came out to greet him.

The night was dark and the distance was far away. Neither of the two could see the man's face clearly. They looked at each other: Did you both see the parents?

So he stood behind the stone lion in the next door for a long time.When Zheng Beibei turned his head again, he was startled.

Ji Tong's whole body was like an eggplant beaten by frost, and his face seemed to be about to cry.

In fact, there is one thing she can't see, otherwise she should be shocked again, and that is Ji Tong's heart.

She pushed Ji Tong: "What's wrong? Is that why you don't want your brother to have a girlfriend?"

Ji Tong nodded, then shook his head vigorously again: "No, how is it possible."

"Then what are you doing with that look on your face?"

"I'm happy for him." Once again, my words didn't match my heart.

There is something in Zheng Beibei's words: "I don't know if my mother will marry her daughter in a few years if you are as happy as you are."

He pressed the pain back and turned his head to look at the wall, No. 33 Beiyao Hutong.Going forward, it must be number 35.

Zheng Beibei looked at his expression and asked, "Are you remembering the house number?"

Ji Tong didn't speak.

She suddenly became serious: "Ji Tong, I seriously advise you. Brother Yuchen's life is not easy, and falling in love is even more difficult. You'd better not throw a stick here because of some inexplicable possessive desire. It's meaningless."

Inexplicable possessiveness?

Ji Tong was extremely surprised, and his already rotten heart couldn't take it anymore. He couldn't care less about the silence of the night, so he hid behind the stone lion and yelled at her.

"He's my brother. Of course I know it's not easy for him. Need you to tell me?"

"Also, what is inexplicable, where does the possessiveness come from?"

He memorized the house number just to find out who lived here afterwards, it was curiosity at best, nothing more.

Zheng Beibei didn't reply, just looked at him, and inexplicably thought of a word: fierce and soft.

Just looking at each other angrily, the circles of his eyes gradually turned red.

After a while, Zheng Beibei looked away lightly: "Okay, I won't argue with you, this vinegar is enough for you to drink a pot tonight."