Caring for brother

Chapter 13

How Xu Shengyao talked about his diversion of Diao Diao's attention, and how Diao Diao insisted on asking him to be frank about the source of "Xu Xidi" is not mentioned for the time being, let's take a look at the instigator Ao Lan What's the situation with Ren?

After Ao Lanren returned to China in his 20s and started operating chain restaurants and bars, the catering companies under his name have opened all over the first-tier cities in the past ten years. There is more than enough for life.

He didn't make any achievements in business, so he simply hired professional managers to run the company, but he personally followed every store from site selection to decoration-he was far more concerned about the industry he had worked hard for than he said. What is said above is more important.

This time, the restaurant, which was expected to open during the Spring Festival, had already been renovated before the new year. He hadn't come back to inspect it because he was on vacation in the southern hemisphere at that time.Now returning to China, the first task is to inspect the new restaurant.

This time, a western restaurant is about to open. It takes the light luxury route, and the per capita consumption is about [-] yuan. The decoration is more business-casual.The decoration company of the new restaurant had cooperated several times before, and Ao Lanren recognized the design style and decoration quality very much.Early this morning, the two parties met at the entrance of the new restaurant. As soon as the designer and the construction leader saw him, they hurriedly surrounded him to say hello.

The foreman knew that he was a heavy smoker, so he specially prepared a pack of good cigarettes. When he saw him coming, he offered him one, and called him "boss Ao" graciously.He doesn't know how good Ao Lanren's family background is. He only knows that he is their big customer. Although he is very picky about the quality of construction, he settles the money very happily. He has no pretensions and never treats their construction team badly .

Ao Lanren took the cigarette and took two puffs, then raised his chin to signal the designer to open the door.

The designer respectfully invited Ao Lanren to advance. He was about to take a step, when he looked down and saw the cigarette between his fingers. He couldn't help but recall the scene in the hospital yesterday when Ye Fan called him revenge for the underworld.

Forget it, smoke less.

He threw away the cigarette and crushed it on the ground, then pushed open the door and led a group of people towards the back kitchen deep in the restaurant.Ao Lanren is used to looking at the back kitchen first, then the toilets, boxes, and finally the hall. Whether the back kitchen is clean and bright will affect the chef's mood, and the chef's mood will be fully reflected in the quality of the dishes.

Restaurants generally use metal doors with glass to separate the hall and the back kitchen, which can not only prevent outsiders from entering indiscriminately, but also when there is a fire, the thick metal door can help delay the fire source and allow time for everyone to escape.

Because the previous few cooperations were smooth, Ao Lanren was very relaxed, talking and laughing with them while opening the metal door of the back kitchen.

Unexpectedly, with the opening of the metal door, the strong and pungent smell of natural gas hits the face. Ao Lanren took a big breath unpreparedly, and immediately coughed violently, tears and snot poured down, and his legs were so weak that he almost fell down .

The foreman and designer who were following him all smelled the thick and deadly natural gas smell, and were terrified. Fortunately, they were experienced and responded in a timely manner, dragging Ao Lanren back by one arm alone. .

Everyone held their breath, and retreated out of the restaurant. The short distance of tens of meters, they walked with fear, every step seemed to be a race against death.

Ao Lanren coughed violently outside the restaurant for a while before he could catch his breath. The first thing he did was to scold the foreman bloody.The newly renovated restaurant had such a big accident of a natural gas leak. If he opened the door with a cigarette in his mouth just now, even if there was only a little spark, it would definitely be enough to blow him to pieces!

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During dinner, Xu Shengyao received a call from Ao Lanren at the dining table. The good brother on the other end of the phone repeated what happened today, saying that if he hadn't remembered Ye Fan's poisonous words before entering the restaurant, he would not have put down the cigarette .

Even now, Ao Lanren still feels terrified when he thinks back to that scene in the morning.

He said exaggeratedly: "I don't even know whether to say your brother is a crow's mouth or a master of knowledge. If it weren't for him, I would probably be in the intensive care unit right now! Your brother is such a big baby!"

Hearing this, Xu Shengyao took a look at Ye Fan who was sitting opposite him, and just caught Ye Fan sneakily pulling carrots onto the table.His younger brother is mean-mouthed and picky about food, so he doesn't look like a master who knows things like a god.

This is how he always helped himself and his friends in the most critical matters in the short few months after returning to China.Although Diao Diao has a temper tantrum from time to time, compared to his rebellious past, now he is as obedient as an angel.Not only did he get rid of the habit of swearing, he also stopped contacting his old friends, he seemed to have grown up overnight, and became more honest and obedient.

Thinking of this, Xu Shengyao got up and picked a piece of his favorite sweet and sour pork ribs and put it in a bowl.

Ye Fan stared at the pork rib confidently for a while, then poked it again, and asked him, "Would you be kind enough to bring me some food? Could it be made of carrots?"

Upon hearing this, Xu Shengyao immediately put the pork ribs from his bowl into his own bowl, and then put the carved carrot on the ribs plate under Ye Fan's chopsticks.

Ye Fan: "..."

Xu Shengyao: "Eat."

Ye Fan took two mouthfuls of raw carrots and was unwilling to eat any more. It happened that the little black dog he raised under the dining table was scratching his leg, so he secretly threw the carrots to the dog while Xu Shengyao was not paying attention.

The dog has grown bigger and bigger since it entered the gate of Xu's house. It has only been a dozen days since it was adopted, and it has grown half a head taller and weighed two catties heavier.After learning that the dog was a large dog, Ye Fan immediately called Xiaomo's parents.Xiaomo's grandmother thought that the little black dog was a small dog, so she promised Xiaomo to take the dog home after her condition stabilized. Now when they heard that the dog was a large dog, the two old people were very embarrassed.

Ye Fan heard her hesitation, and offered to adopt this dog. If Xiao Mo wanted to play with it, he could come to visit him at any time.

Now that you have decided to keep it, you can’t always call it “feeding” or “feeding”.

Because of its young age, this dog always likes to rub against Ye Fan's body and act like a baby. Ye Fan likes dogs, and every time it acts like a baby, he will touch it.He even specially prepared a square comb with dense teeth for it. Every evening, while combing its thick curly hair, he would softly say "scratch here" and "scratch there". It was named "Niao Nao", and it was always called in front of Xu Shengyao.

Every time he yelled, Xu Shengyao would glance at him. Ye Fan deliberately didn't meet his eyes, and when Xu Shengyao turned his head back to continue working, he would bury his face in the puppy's fur and secretly laugh.

In fact, Xu Shengyao will not be angry because he has the same name as a dog.At the beginning, Diao Diao called him "scratch" until he was ten years old. Then, something happened, and Diao Diao suddenly resisted him. He was like a little hedgehog that grew spikes overnight, and he always spoke aggressively to him. , Every time we meet, we call him by his first name.After returning to China this time, Diao Diao's attitude was obviously relaxed, but he still only called him by his first name and never called him brother. Xu Shengyao didn't care, and didn't force him to call him such a thing.

He just waited for him to figure it out slowly.

After dinner, Xu Shengyao was reading the newspaper in the living room, while Ye Fan was playing with the dog.It's obviously an ordinary scene, but three months ago, Xu Shengyao didn't even dare to dream that his rebellious brother would stay by his side obediently.

The two stayed together quietly for a while, and suddenly Ye Fan called out, "Scratch."

Xu Shengyao glanced at him as usual, just in time to see the little black dog stuffing its paw into Ye Fan's hand.

After 5 minutes, Ye Fan called again: "Scratch!"

Xu Shengyao glanced at him again, this time he saw the little black dog circle around Ye Fan, scratching his arm with its paw.

For the third time, Ye Fan also called out: "Scratch! Scratch!"

The puppy was whimpering anxiously, wagging its tail, circling and rolling, looking very pitiful.

Xu Shengyao couldn't bear to see him always teasing the dog like this, so he asked him: "Why do you always call it? You just ignore it after you call it."

Ye Fan looked up into his eyes, and said with a smile, "Who said I was barking a dog?"

"..." Xu Shengyao thought that he had heard wrongly or misunderstood Ye Fan's meaning, so he didn't respond immediately, and he didn't finally know for sure that Ye Fan was calling him until he went through the words over and over again in his mind three times. .

But it was he who hesitated for a few seconds, but gave Ye Fan the illusion that Xu Shengyao was unwilling to respond to him.In fact, Ye Fan was not as confident as he looked on the surface. When he called out "scratch", he felt very nervous.He named the dog Nau Nao at first, just to test his brother's attitude, but Xu Shengyao didn't care about this name at all.

This time he called him directly, and Xu Shengyao didn't even raise his eyebrows.

... That's right, his brother is 35 years old this year, how can he be the same as ten years ago, because he was coaxed to smile because of his flattering "scratch", and he wanted to carry his brother on his shoulders and take him to pick it off. Star.

Ye Fan felt that the countless psychological constructions he had done before were all in vain. He was like a little rooster who was defeated in a fight and refused to admit that he was defeated. Do you hear me?"

Seeing that he had lost his temper for some reason, Xu Shengyao simply put down the newspaper in his hand, and looked at him quietly for a long while, until he saw that he could no longer hold on, and turned his head aside in embarrassment.

Only then did Xu Shengyao speak slowly, and he asked, "Since you know my name is 'Xu Xidi', tell me, what do you call me?"

The bright red color crawled from Ye Fan's neck to his ears, he gritted his teeth, and honestly called out the address that had been lingering in his heart for a long time: "...Brother."

At this moment, Xu Shengyao thought of a lot.He thought of the wrinkled baby he stood in front of the hospital bed 20 years ago, he thought of the slurring appearance of the child in his arms when he was learning to speak, he thought of the rebellious appearance of the teenager during the rebellious period, he thought of drinking The burning pain when the bottle was hit on the head...these memories buried in the depths surged out from the bottom of my heart when the sound of "brother" came to my ears.

"Well," Xu Shengyao sighed, and raised the corner of his mouth: "I'm good at fishing."

Ye Fan's goosebumps almost rose from the shout of "Diaodiao". Ever since he was 15 years old, he never let his elder brother call him by his nickname.Now that both of them are adults, it's really disgusting to regain their childhood nicknames.However, the only purpose of his return this time is to reconcile with his elder brother. Now that his wish has been fulfilled, he wished he could get bored with Xu Shengyao a little more, so that he could make up for the years he had missed.

He hugged the puppy in his arms and rubbed it fiercely. He was just being happy when he suddenly felt a pain in the top of his head. He yelled out, and looking up inexplicably, it turned out that Xu Shengyao had pulled several hairs of him.

Xu Shengyao asked: "Does it hurt?"

Ye Fan stared: "Of course it hurts!"

"It's good that it hurts. You are so good, I thought I was dreaming."