life partner

Chapter 9

Oh, about two days before the winter vacation, Xu Jing started to catch up with his homework.

Xu Jing has a problem, that is, as soon as he relaxes, something goes wrong with him. A child who worked hard in school, when it's holidays...

What is the homework?

It can be used to light a fire!

Xu Cheng’s homework for winter vacation has already been done, and he reads books in his free time. He has read almost all the books at home, but since the neighbor next door has become Liu Yu, Xu Cheng’s books are almost endless. Constantly provided.

Liu Yu heard from Li Huiyao that Xu Cheng loved reading, so she took out some good books she had read and handed them to Xu Cheng through Li Huiyao's hands.

When Liu Yu reads, he simply reads and has no habit of taking notes. In addition, he cherishes books well and protects them well, so his books are similar to those in bookstores. Will not work.

Xu Jing tilted his neck, watching his brother ponder over his books again, feeling a little angry in his heart, "I don't even have time to write, why don't you help me."

Xu Cheng paused, raised his head, and blinked his eyes like glass, a little aggrieved, "Didn't you say that the handwriting would be recognized?"

Xu Jing choked, a little bored, but stopped talking, buried her head and began to write quickly, leaving Xu Cheng sitting aside, the atmosphere was a bit cold, Xu Cheng just sat there, staring blankly at Xu Jing who seemed to be angry, full of anger The face is helpless.

After a while, Xu Jing raised one eye to peek at his brother, only to find that his brother was crying silently.

He was startled, stood up in a hurry, pulled a tissue, covered his brother's swollen eyes, and kept apologizing, "I was wrong, brother, don't cry, I was just joking with you , I didn't mean to ignore you, brother, brother, don't cry, you are my ancestor if you cry."

But Xu Cheng was still crying.

Xu Jing was afraid that his mother would know that she made her brother cry again, so she locked the door in fright, in case his mother came in suddenly, and he still had time to hide his brother.

Xu Jing hid in the room and kept coaxing his brother.

Come on, it's really useless for him to be the younger brother, and he has to coax his crying brother.

Xu Jing frowned, scratched his forehead in some annoyance, stared at his brother's tear-filled eyes, finally couldn't help it, leaned over viciously, bit Xu Cheng's mouth, and said vaguely: " If you are crying, I will bite you to death."

Xu Cheng belched, and stared at Xu Jing in a daze.

The tears stopped in an instant, but the throat was still twitching.

His expression was dull, like a little puppet, Xu Jing stepped back a little, rubbing his fingers against the tears on his brother's face, and looked at Xu Cheng with an awkward expression, "Don't cry, I will cry when you cry. Just feel uncomfortable, you are my brother, you should take care of me, don't make me feel so uncomfortable, okay?"

Xu Cheng hiccupped again...

After a while, he slowly let out a broken "... yes".

At this time, Li Huiyao's voice came from outside the house, "Turn off the lights, you should go to sleep."

Xu Jing raised her neck and shouted, "Got it."

Immediately, she dragged Xu Cheng to bed, Xu Cheng took off his coat, leaving a thin dress on, Xu Jing turned off the light, and quickly got into bed.

He and Xu Cheng are two quilt burrows, Li Huiyao was afraid that the two brothers would snatch the quilt if they slept differently, so she gave them each a quilt, but Xu Jing would automatically put it under his brother's quilt after sleeping in the middle of the night.

After not sleeping for a while, Xu Jing automatically opened the hole in the quilt. He groped in the dark, finally touched Xu Cheng's hand, squeezed it carefully, and Xu Jing leaned against his brother again, Finally, he showed a satisfied smile.

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At the end of the winter vacation, when the students came to school, there was a preliminary test. When Liu Yu handed out the test papers, he heard a lot of complaints from the audience. He tapped his fingertips on the roll paper and smiled comfortably.

"Do your own thing, don't whisper to each other, it's two class time, and when the time is up, close the paper."

The rustling of the students' pens on the scroll resounded in the classroom. Xu Cheng took half a beat. He looked up at the blue winter sky, and twirled the slender pen around his fingertips before he began to answer the questions. .

Liu Yu's eyes swept over the students one by one, and suddenly he frowned, walked to Liu Ran's desk, flicked the table with his index finger, and looked down at his nephew indifferently.

Liu Ran raised his head and looked at Liu Yu provocatively. There was a small square piece of paper hidden in his curled palm, which was densely covered with tiny handwriting.

Liu Yu pulled his hand away, the veins on his forehead tensed, "Stand up."

But Liu Ran didn't move, and still looked at him with that irritating squint.

Liu Yu repeated what he said just now, "Stand up for me." He lowered his voice, restraining his anger.

In his opinion, Liu Ran is his nephew, and they are relatives who are related by blood. Liu Ran should be someone who understands himself and stands on his side, instead of always adding troubles to himself, trying to provoke him and provoke him exist.

"Whoa..."

Suddenly, Liu Ran got up from the chair, and the chair hit the back table with a loud noise, which made the students raise their heads and looked at them in surprise.

Liu Ran had an unruly look on his face, but he didn't know how ridiculous the arrogant expression on his face looked to others.

At this moment, Liu Ran suddenly turned his head and pointed at Xu Cheng behind him, "Teacher, you see Xu Cheng is already lying on the table, everyone knows that he is a fool, how could he do it so fast, he must be cheating. "

Regarding Xu Cheng's IQ problem, it has probably been a topic discussed secretly by the students, but no one has ever said it publicly. At this moment when Liu Ran mentioned it, the atmosphere in the classroom was a little stiff for a while. Looking at each other, they didn't dare to discuss, but the excitement of gossip was faintly shining in their eyes.

Xu Cheng paused, his pretty face was expressionless, he didn't look at Liu Ran, he just stared at his test paper, paused, and said: "...these questions are very simple, no need to cheat."

Liu Ran's face froze, his expression was very embarrassing, and there were whispers in the classroom, the students looked at him mockingly, Liu Yu frowned tightly, and pulled Liu Ran's clothes, "You don't have to do this test paper , Go and stand in my office."

Liu Ran looked at Liu Yu angrily, moved his lips slightly, and said two words silently.

Liu Yu's whole body was stiff, her knuckles stretched into straight lines, she took one last look at Liu Ran, turned around and stood on the podium, and looked at her own nephew coldly.

The relatives he relied on, the family affection he dreamed of, will always be like this, even if he is longing for, those relatives will still leave him. Liu Yu still remembers that when Liu Ran was young, he held his fingers softly. When looking at his "uncle", that cute and lovable look.

It's a pity that this kind of Liu Ran, after growing up and having his own worldview, refuses to accept himself anymore.

Xu Cheng turned his head, his face was a little confused, just now he saw Liu Ran's slightly moving lips, what was he talking about?

abnormal?

He looked at the teacher standing on the podium, and at this time Liu Yu also looked at him, with a gentle smile on his face, Xu Cheng quickly lowered his head, his eyelashes fluttering.

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When I went to the cafeteria for lunch at noon, Xu Jing was in the front row. From a long distance, I saw his brother walking slowly, the brilliance in his eyes flashed, Xu Jing waved, "Brother, come here, it's my turn soon!" gone."

Xu Cheng and the others were always a few minutes late in class at noon. After class, there was a long line of people queuing at the window. Fortunately, Xu Cheng had his younger brother to help line up and jump in line.

Xu Cheng was next to his younger brother, Xu Jing was a head shorter than him, but leaning against Xu Cheng's side, he didn't look short at all, his aura seemed to be of the same generation as Xu Cheng, and there was a tall man standing behind Xu Jing. Some slender boys, Xu Cheng gently tapped the back of Xu Jing's hand with his fingers, and the thick eyelashes trembled like drums.

Xu Jing didn't care, and started the introduction anyway.

"This is my brother Xu Cheng, he is so smart, he won the first place in the exam."

Xu Jing patted the boy, then looked back at his brother, "This is my classmate Li Haoxi. He is not very smart, but he likes science. Look, the hair on his head was burned by science."

Li Haoxi twitched the corners of his mouth, lifted the square eyes on the bridge of his nose, looked at Xu Cheng eagerly, and called out, "Hello, Xu Jing's brother."

Xu Cheng didn't look at Li Haoxi, nor did he speak.

Li Haoxi's throat choked, and he brushed the burnt hair on his forehead in embarrassment.

This is the first time Xu Jing introduced his friend to his brother. Xu Cheng knew that Xu Jing wanted to integrate himself into this circle. People need to communicate with each other. Jing, he should go out and talk to more people, but... Xu Cheng can't do these things.

He turned his head and glanced at his brother, Xu Jing's eyes were full of anticipation.

But Xu Cheng felt an indescribable feeling in his heart, similar to panic.

He felt that his brother didn't want him anymore.

Maybe it's because I'm tired and think I'm annoying, maybe it's because I finally understand how much responsibility it is to protect someone all the time.

So, at that time, he answered Xu Jing in the most wrong way.

"This is your friend, none of my business."

Naturally, after saying this, Xu Cheng regretted it.

In fact, he didn't know what kind of emotion regret was.

But when he saw the stiff look on Xu Jing's face, the expectation in his eyes turned into surprise and anger, "If you say it's none of your business, then we have nothing to say, Li Haoxi, let's go."

After speaking, he didn't even look at Xu Cheng.

Li Haoxi scratched his head in embarrassment, glanced at Xu Jing's brother, and shouted, "What about lunch?" Xu Jing didn't reply, snorted coldly, and pulled him away.

Xu Cheng stood there helplessly, staring blankly at his brother's back.

He felt that at this moment he had a little understanding of what it felt like to regret.

My heart felt empty, as if the air had leaked out, and I could still hear the whistling cold wind in my ears.

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