Rebirth of Brotherly Love

Hearing An Ze say thank you, An Luo felt embarrassed instead.In fact, An Luo himself didn't know the reason for rushing to the hospital in such a hurry. It seemed that there was a voice in his heart telling him that he had to rush there.All the actions last night were only out of distress and righteousness for An Ze.Especially at the moment when he hugged her and wept silently, his heart was so soft that it almost melted...

"No thanks." An Luo quickly changed the subject, "What are your plans next?"

Anze was silent for a moment, and said: "Grandpa must not let this matter know, otherwise his heart can't bear it, maybe he will..."

Speaking of the old man An Guangyao, An Luo couldn't help but feel a little uncomfortable.In addition to heart disease, he still has guilt towards his daughter Anzhi and second son An Yuqiu in his heart. If he learns that his only remaining son and daughter-in-law also passed away in a car accident, he will definitely be triggered by excessive sadness. heart disease.

An Ze wanted to hide his grandfather's thoughts, and An Luo naturally agreed very much.

An Ze continued: "I will inform An Yan and An Mo to hold a funeral for my parents when I come back. The funeral doesn't need to be too extravagant, and we don't need to invite too many relatives and friends. It's just our brothers and Zhou's uncle and cousin. Dude, just go to the grave and simply pay respects. As for grandpa, just tell him...Parents have gone abroad."

An Luo nodded, "Well, that's fine."

An Ze turned off the computer, stood up and said, "I'll call An Yan and An Mo first, and I have to go to the hospital later." After a pause, he looked at An Luo and said, "Go back Rest, this matter has nothing to do with you, you don't need to be busy with this."

An Luo was silent for a while before saying, "I'm still your brother in name. If I don't show up at this time, it will arouse suspicion from others. I'd better go to the hospital with you."

An Ze frowned and thought for a while, then said, "Okay, thank you for your hard work."

"……It's ok."

Because he knew that the other party was not his brother, An Ze's tone became polite and unfamiliar. An Luo was not used to such a tone. He suddenly found that what he liked the most was actually An Ze looking into his eyes. The way he looked when he was seriously called "brother".

***

At around ten o'clock in the morning, An Luo and An Ze came to the hospital together, and met An Mo and An Yan who rushed over. The two of them went to the mortuary to look at the corpse, and then An Yan hugged An Luo in the corridor. cry.Compared to An Ze's silent cry, An Yan cried very pitifully. Hearing his sobs, An Luo could only touch his head helplessly, and comforted him in a low voice: "Don't cry..."

This comfort made An Yan cry even more sadly, An Mo's eyes were also red, and he secretly wiped his tears there.

At this moment, An Ze's expression was calm, and he silently passed some tissues to An Yan and An Mo.He had already cried, and he completely vented the repressed sadness in his heart last night. His fragile side was probably only seen by An Luo.

The next step is to cremate the remains, choose a cemetery, and hold a funeral.

The An family brothers were so busy arranging the funeral affairs for their parents, and trying every means to hide it from their grandfather, it can be said that they were physically and mentally exhausted.After a few days, Anze lost a lot of weight, even the stubble on his chin grew out, his eyes were bloodshot, and he looked extremely tired. An Luo couldn't stand it, so he ate it for Anze A sleeping pill, let him catch up on sleep.

It's ridiculous to think about it. In the past, when An Luo often suffered from insomnia, An Ze always thoughtfully brought him pills to feed him, but now it's An Luo's turn to take care of An Ze, and he rarely takes the initiative to care for others. An Luo, it seems a bit clumsy to do this kind of thing, but fortunately, An Ze was completely focused on his parents' funeral and didn't notice it.

The funeral was scheduled for the next weekend, and the cemetery was chosen to be in the same cemetery where Anzhi and An Yuqiu were.

On the day of the funeral, it rained lightly again in the sky. In the pattering drizzle, everyone brought the ashes of An Yudong and Zhou Bizhen and buried them together.

An Luo wore a black suit and black gauze on his arms. As the eldest son of the An family, he was the first to bow.

Looking at the portrait of the husband and wife, An Luo's mood is actually very complicated. An Yudong died in a car accident before the police arrested him, which may be better than the result of being sentenced. The pity is that Zhou Bizhen was implicated innocently... Of course, this It's just An Luo's guess. Whether Zhou Bizhen is related to the drug cartel is still unknown.

Seeing An Ze and An Yan bowing deeply in front of the tombstone with sad expressions on their faces, An Luo couldn't help but sighed softly in his heart. Although the death of An Yudong and Zhou Bizhen made people sad, at least they were happy with their sons. There is no stain left in my heart, which is the only little good in this tragedy.

An Luo met Anze's two uncles at the funeral, and only then did he know that Zhou Bizhen was the youngest daughter of the Zhou family. Uncle Anze, who was in business, also put down his work and flew back. Zhou Chengping's family and Zhou Yueping's family were all present. Anze's two uncles stood in front of the grave, sobbing and weeping at his sister's portrait.

The atmosphere of the funeral was quite depressing, and the cries of the elders plunged the An family brothers into sad memories again.

It wasn't until the afternoon that everyone gradually stabilized their emotions and left the cemetery one after another.

At the gate of the cemetery, An Luo and An Ze were called over by his uncle.

Anze's uncle said earnestly: "I know that Mr. An has separated the two companies in order to prevent conflicts between you brothers. Even so, you are still the closest relatives to each other. No matter who has difficulties in the future , the other person should help, you are all descendants of the An family, you are the best brothers, I hope you will always remember this."

An Ze glanced at An Luo, and said calmly, "Uncle, don't worry, brother and I will take care of each other."

Anze's uncle nodded in relief, "Yueping and Chengping don't understand business matters at all, so they can't help you much, but your uncle and I are still in the mall at least." The man stretched out his hand and patted Anze's shoulder, "If you encounter difficulties in the future, come to me at any time, don't be polite to me, you know?"

"I know, thank you uncle."

"Well, it's time for me to go back, and you all should go home and have a good rest for a few days."

Zhou Yueping's parents got into the car one after another and were sent away by the driver.Zhou Yueping drove here alone. When he got to the car, he stopped suddenly, turned his head and said to An Luo, "An Luo, come here, I have something to tell you."

An Luo walked up to him and asked suspiciously, "What's the matter?"

Zhou Yueping opened the car door, "Get in the car and tell me, I'll take you back by the way."

An Luo looked back at An Ze, saw An Ze nodding, then turned around and got into Zhou Yueping's car.

Zhou Yueping was the only person other than An Yang and An Ze who knew that his identity had been exposed. An Luo always had an inexplicable affection for him in his heart, probably because he was a psychiatrist by profession.

At the beginning, because he was worried about Zhou Yueping next time, An Luo went to check his details. Zhou Yueping did go abroad to study after graduating from high school. During his study abroad, he didn't even have time to fall in love. I went to take a doctorate exam...probably because I really love the subject of psychology.

Zhou Yueping looked at An Luo carefully, and asked softly; "How is your physical condition recently? Is your head still hurting? Did you think of anything else?"

An Luo shook his head and said, "No."

Zhou Yueping was silent for a while, and then said: "After hearing what you said last time, I went back and checked the literature for research. Hypnosis can only stimulate the relatively shallow memories in your subconscious. If you want to recall more and more Deep memory may require direct physical stimulation of your brain."

An Luo, who was a layman, was very at a loss about this, and turned around and asked, "Can you explain in more detail?"

Zhou Yueping nodded, and patiently explained: "That's right, the principle of human memory generation is the interconnection between nerve cells, which is similar to the information network composed of a large number of nerve cells, and the hippocampus acts as a network in this process. The most important is the function of the transfer station. For example, when you hear a person’s name for the first time, your brain will convert the information and store it temporarily in the hippocampus. If it is not used for a long time, the information will be automatically deleted by the hippocampus , which is the so-called forgetting. Once the name is mentioned repeatedly, the hippocampus will transfer it to the cerebral cortex to form a longer and even permanent memory. "

"Your cerebral cortex has not been seriously damaged. It is reasonable to say that memories can be retrieved. Those memories still exist, but there is an accident, which makes the information unreadable. I asked my tutor abroad, and his suggestion is Perform direct physical stimulation on your cerebral cortex, and completely open the pathway for information reading..."

"However, the risk of this approach is quite high. If the intensity of stimulation is too low, it will not be effective. If the intensity is too high, it may damage your brain or even turn you into a vegetable. Moreover, this approach requires craniotomy..."

"Personally, I still don't recommend you to try it. It's too risky, think about it for yourself."

An Luo was silent for a long time before making up his mind, and whispered, "I won't try."

Unexpectedly, he refused so decisively, Zhou Yueping was startled, and turned around to ask: "You...don't you really want to restore the memory that belongs to An Luo?"

An Luo said in a low voice: "I wanted to restore An Luo's memory at the beginning, just to find out the truth about An Luo's kidnapping, but now there is no need. Besides, once I use this method to forcibly open An Luo's memory, I will gradually I don't know who I am, and I don't want to be his substitute. I don't think An Luo himself wants another person to live with his memory."

The investigation on this matter has completely disrupted his original plan. An Luo didn't want to waste any more time on it. He said calmly that that An Luo had nothing to do with him. Moreover, An Ze had already decisively put forward the idea of ​​a clean break. Even unintentionally drove him away...

Why should he stay here with the cheek to go and find out the truth in a ridiculous way?And why take the risk of becoming a vegetable to forcefully remember the memory that only belongs to An Luo?

Even if he remembered the memories An Luo stored in his mind, he was still not the brother An Ze loved.

***

On another weekend after the funeral, An Luo finally got the passport and visa he had applied for.

This week, An Luo and An Ze haven't seen each other again. An Ze's mood has stabilized, and he goes to work in the company as usual every day. He has always been able to bear it. Make him sad, but it is impossible to break him.

An Yan has also returned to the crew. The filming of Endless 2 is coming to an end. The conflict between him and Xu Shaoqian seems to have been resolved. The news on the Internet is all about the positive promotion of the movie. The early promotion of Endless 2 is very good. Look Coming to the award ceremonies of major film festivals at the end of this year, An Yan will definitely not return empty-handed.

An Mo found a job as a teacher at an academy of fine arts. The school was in a university town in the suburbs. He also moved away from An's house for the convenience of going to work.The studio run by his parents was converted into a small exhibition hall by him, which can be regarded as a memorial to his parents.One of the walls is full of his own paintings, and the framing of the pictures is very unique, such as a shell on the beach, a ray of sunshine in the corner of the street, or a small umbrella in the drizzle. Mo likes to draw these details very much. It can be seen that he is a very careful and sensitive person.

An Ze, An Mo moved away one after another, and An Yan seldom went home because of his status as a celebrity. An's house seemed to be empty all of a sudden. At night, only An Luo and An Guangyao, grandson and grandson, had dinner together. Compared with the lively days when the four brothers and An Yudong and his wife were together in the past few days, the home where only the grandparents and grandchildren were left seemed a bit bleak.

After dinner that night, An Guangyao was sitting in the living room watching TV. An Luo walked up to him and sat down, and finally expressed his decision, "Grandpa, I plan to go abroad."

An Guangyao was startled, and said with some disappointment, "Xiao Luo, you want to go too?"

He seemed to have noticed something, and he looked at An Luo with unconcealable sadness.

An Luo avoided his gaze, and said in a low voice: "The business that Dad went to Canada to discuss before has not been finalized, and I have never discussed business with foreign businessmen before. This time, I will treat it as studying abroad."

An Guangyao was silent for a moment before saying, "When will you be back?"

"Probably... in a few months."

Lying to this old man made An Luo feel a little uneasy in his heart, but An Luo really didn't want to stay in this place any longer. The longer he stayed, the more he would be influenced by the people of An's family, and he even had "If I were the real An Luo Luo" such a terrible thought, he didn't want to lose himself because of it.

An Guangyao seemed to believe An Luo's explanation, he patted the back of his hand with a smile, and said, "You are still young, so it's good to go abroad to practice and experience, remember to take good care of yourself abroad."

"I know……"

The two were talking, when there was a sound of opening the door, An Luo turned around in surprise, and met An Ze's gaze.

How can he come back?

It was already very late at this time, it seemed to be raining outside, Anze's hair was drenched on one side, and he was still carrying a big suitcase in his hand.He entered the house to change his shoes, dragged his suitcase to the living room, glanced at the two of them, and said, "Grandpa, what are you talking about? Are you still asleep?"

An Guangyao asked suspiciously, "Why are you back?"

An Ze said: "The decoration of my house is very uncoordinated. I hired a decoration company to modify it according to the drawings I designed. During this time, I plan to go home first."

"So that's how it is." An Guangyao said with a smile, "You two brothers have a good understanding. You came back just as your brother was leaving the country."

An Ze and An Luo looked at each other, relatively speechless.

After a moment of silence, An Ze said, "Brother is going abroad? It's a coincidence."

An Guangyao nodded, "Well, I'm sleepy and go to bed first, you have a good talk with your brother. It's the first time he has traveled so far, please help him pack his luggage."

"Okay, good night Grandpa."

After An Guangyao left, Anze turned around and put the suitcase in the bedroom, but when he came out, he found that the light in the living room was off, and An Luo had already gone back to his room.

Anze pushed open the door of An Luo's bedroom and found that he was packing his things with his head down.His bag was empty, and there was nothing in it. Watching him bend over to organize the extremely simple file bag, Anze suddenly felt a slight pain in his heart.

After standing aside in silence for a long time, An Ze whispered, "Don't you bring some change of clothes?"

An Luo lowered his head and said, "No need, these are your brother's clothes, I will buy them myself in the future."

Probably those words like "you will never replace my brother" were too decisive a few days ago and hurt him. Now he seems to mind these things very much, drawing a clear line between himself and "Brother Anze", He didn't even want to take any of the clothes that his brother had worn.

An Luo quickly packed his luggage. His luggage was very simple, only his passport, visa, air ticket and some money.

When he came to this world, he was alone, and when he left, he also wanted to be more chic, and he didn't want to take anything with him.

An Luo stood up, turned around, looked at Anze who was standing aside, and said in a low voice: "I thought that if you were not at home and I left, grandpa would be lonely...can you I am really happy to come back to live at this time... I know that the decoration problems you mentioned are all excuses, you are a person with a big picture, and you can come back when you need it most, so I also believe that the home is in you With hard work, it will definitely get better.”

Anze's heart trembled slightly, such words sounded like farewell.

After a moment of silence, Anze pretended to be nonchalant and asked, "What did you just say... mean?"

An Luo explained with a calm expression: "I have made all the arrangements for the Hua'an Hotel. You can temporarily take my place after you go there. I hired an assistant a while ago, named Yu Tingting, who is a very smart girl. The work efficiency is also extremely high, and she will do her best to assist you in the future."

"..."

"To survive in this world, I have to temporarily borrow your brother's ID card. Except for this, I will not take anything that belongs to him. You can rest assured that after a while, I will find a way to re-apply for an ID card , and send your brother’s back to you.”

An Ze lightly clenched his fists beside him, and after a long silence, he whispered, "Have you decided where to go?"

"Since I have decided not to see you again, there is no need to tell you where I am going, anyway... I will never contact you again." An Luo paused, lowered his eyelashes, and said softly, "It's late, go to sleep. "

"...You should also go to bed earlier." Anze turned around stiffly and left the bedroom.

An Luo looked at his back, and suddenly wanted to stop him from saying something, but when the words came to his lips, he was stopped by his movement of closing the door.

What exactly do you want to say?Maybe even An Luo didn't think it through clearly. At that moment, the idea of ​​wanting to keep Anze to say something might just be a subconscious impulse.

***

The next morning, when An Ze woke up, An Luo was no longer there. He just left An's house without saying goodbye, perhaps because there was no need for goodbye between them.

At eight o'clock in the morning, Anze went to work in the company, and when he entered the office, he heard a text message.

Anze took off his suit and hung it on the hanger, walked to the desk and sat down, took out his mobile phone, and saw a line of text jump out on the screen.

Unread text message, form An Luo: "I'm leaving."

Simple three words, and a period representing the end.

An Ze looked at these three words, and suddenly felt sore eyes. He didn't even want to open this text message, as if doing so would mean the real end between them.Although he had never had anything to do with this An Luo, when An Luo really left, An Ze suddenly felt inexplicably reluctant.

Now, his parents passed away at the same time, and even the last shadow of his elder brother had to leave. From then on, in Anze's world, perhaps only the deepest loneliness remained.

Anze was silent on the phone for a long time, finally took a deep breath, calmed down, clicked on the text message, and typed four words with stiff fingers: "Safe trip."

The text message was sent successfully, but never received a reply.