brotherly innocence

Ye Rong lay on the bed for two days, Shui Mi didn't grind his teeth, he just felt dizzy and weak.

He always felt that this was a nightmare, but he couldn't wake up from the nightmare for a long time.

Pillowing his arms, closing his eyes, in front of his eyes was his elder brother's smiling cheek, as if he was asking, "A Rong, why is your face so ugly? Did you cause trouble again? A Rong, are you going to annoy your fifth brother again? Sixth brother, your second brother?" No one is allowed to touch brother's hand pot, why are you so naughty?"

Ye Rong turned over, and a clear and tender voice came: "Second brother, are you awake?"

Ye Rong opened his eyes and turned around, a little girl with a baby face, flushed cheeks, holding a black cat in her arms, looking at him and smiling.

"Brother, my name is Yueyue." She said.The pure eyes are as clear as spring water, making people feel forgetful when looking at them.

The cat in his arms "meow..." and jumped to Ye Rong's bed.

Yueyue hurriedly went to catch the cat, stroked the black cat's fur, and said, "Xiao Hei, are you so powerful? Seeing that you have an older brother, you won't be with me, and only be close to your older brothers." She said enviously, "Brother's life is really good, he is a son. Why isn't Yueyue a boy? Daddy said that all daughters lose money, so it's better to have a cat." Ye Rong guessed that the concubine in that litter didn't know this either. The girl is the daughter of the concubine of which room, and she keeps calling him brother.

Ye Rong smiled at her, the smile was bleak, thinking that she was influenced by the old idea that men are superior to women at such a young age, it is chilling to hear.

"Second brother, why don't you eat? Eldest brother just ate three bowls of rice. The aunt has been crying, saying that she hasn't given elder brother a good meal all these years." Yueyue stroked the black cat and said: " If she can become a son by starving, Yueyue would rather starve."

Ye Rong was amused by her innocent words, suddenly heard the door knock, looked up, and saw Chu Yaonan coming in.

"Yueyue, let your second brother rest, you took the cat out to play." Chu Yaonan grabbed the black cat from Yueyue's hand, lifted the skin from the back of its neck and threw it aside.The cat flipped aggrievedly, "Meow...", fell to the ground and turned over and rushed out the door. Yueyue also shouted "Xiao Hei, Xiao Hei" and chased it out.

"Are you still playing with your temper?" Chu Yaonan sat beside his bed, his leather jacket was slightly open, exuding a charming aura, he reached out to touch Ye Rong's forehead as if coaxing a wayward little brother.Ye Rong shook his head in disgust and walked away.Chu Yaonan didn't blame him, and said in a low voice, "It doesn't matter whether you recognize your father or not. Everyone in Jianghu knows that Brother Rong, Qingdaotang, is the precious son of Boss Qin of the Lan Gang. Think for yourself, those people Dare to offend Dad? Can Dad lose such a big face in the Jianghu and let everyone in the Jianghu know that his son does not recognize him?" Chu Yaonan snorted and reminded in a slow tone, "Right now we have to take a step back and find someone who can get the best of both worlds. way."

Ye Rong knew that Chu Yaonan was scheming and cunning, and had confronted him many times. Qing Daotang suffered a lot from this kid, so he didn't know what bad idea he had.

"You want to go back to the Qingdaotang, and you don't want to stay in the Blue Gang. I like your loving and righteous nature, and I hope I can help you. However, we have three chapters in the agreement. If you agree to me, I will go and talk to Dad for you. You go back to Qingdaotang, if you don't want to, we don't have to talk."

Chu Yaonan proudly raised his eyes and looked down at Ye Rong who was lying on his side on the bed, Ye Rong remained silent.

"First, if you are in Qingdaotang, you have to go home and live for two days on weekends to fulfill your filial piety, isn't it too much? If you don't see your biological parents, how can you talk about loyalty and filial piety?"

"Second, you are not allowed to make enemies with the Blue Gang, and you are not allowed to disclose the business secrets of the Blue Gang to Qingdaotang."

"Nonsense!" Ye Rong scolded, how can he be that kind of villain.

"That's the best. Third, you can't say 'Father', but you respectfully say 'Master', isn't that an insult to you? Also, Dad is a filial son. When the old grandmother comes back in a few days, the old man's lifelong wish is to hug you." Grandson, no matter what, you can't disappoint the old man, even if you are filial, you have to put on a smile to deal with it."

Ye Rong listened, these conditions were not harsh, and did not force him to recognize his father, but he was wondering why the Qin family suddenly bowed their heads?Is there really nothing to do with him?

"Don't think we're afraid of you, it's just that we don't want to go on in such a stalemate and lose both."

Ye Rong looked at Chu Yaonan suspiciously, the sinister and vicious Chu Yaonan, he actually came out to be a good person, and wanted to let him go back to Qingdaotang, could there be something strange about it?Ye Rong lay on his side with his back to him, and closed his eyes without saying yes or no.

"Of course, I'm also helping myself." Chu Yaonan said in a low voice, with dark words and malicious intentions.Ye Rong suddenly realized how much of a threat he would be to Chu Yaonan if he stayed in the Qin residence.

"If it were me who dared to be stubborn with my father, I would have been beaten to pieces by the old man long ago. The legs are on your body, if you want to run, you can run. It's just that everyone in the rivers and lakes gives Lan a face. Where can you go? Where can you go? They will also be sent back to Dingjiang." Chu Yaonan said proudly, when Chu Yaonan left the room, his father had already been waiting impatiently in the corridor.

Chu Yaonan said: "If dad is fishing, he can't be too impatient. Dad will wait patiently when he goes back. Second brother will definitely give in before tomorrow morning."

Chu Yaonan raised his head to look at A Biao, his close follower, his eyes flickered, and A Biao smiled knowingly and turned away.

Seeing the master leaving hesitantly, the third aunt slipped over against the wall, pulled Chu Yaonan aside and asked anxiously: "Nan'er, do you have a clue about what your father ordered? That little bastard is still there." If you are willing to bow your head and recognize the master, how can you tell the master tomorrow morning? Your father will not really beat you to 'hang a duck', right? Oh, my mother's heart is beating non-stop. If you are really hanged by the old man into the corridor to beat you up Let alone those goblins feasting their eyes, we can't afford to lose this face. It is rumored that you Nan Da Shao was stripped naked by the old man and hanged upside down on the beam of the house and beat you to 'hang a duck'. How will you behave in the world in the future! "

"Sister Gui, be good, be good, your eyes are blue and you're not pretty anymore, go to bed quickly. Tomorrow, Shanren will have a plan." Chu Yaonan pushed her to the bedroom, but he took a deep breath in his heart, secretly Think about how to get out tomorrow.

Ye Rong tossed and turned on the bed, his hands and feet were bound tightly, and his body had limited room to move.

His mother, Niu Shi, came in with a bowl of rice soup, and said with tears in her eyes, "Rong'er, if you don't want to recognize your father, you can't spoil yourself like this. If something happens to you, your mother will die." Ye Rong closed his eyes. How can he accept this reality, he is the evil son of the master who seduced the servant girl, a shame, a joke, and the mother has kept him hidden for all these years.

"Adan came here today." Niu said, "Originally Nan Shao wanted to ask Uncle Jiang to persuade you, but I heard from Adan that something serious happened to Qingdaotang. It was confiscated, there was some heavy smoke in it. Mr. Jiang asked people to negotiate the matter, it seemed that something was wrong, He Erye was arrested and sent to the prison, and the Qingdaotang was about to be sealed up. It was a mess over there. .”

Ye Rong was about to get up, but was restrained by the tightly bound ropes on the bed. He remembered that some time ago, because of his second brother He Wangyuan, he proposed to do a tobacco business to save Qingdaotang from the deficit.The brothers argued fiercely, he and his fifth brother Xue Hui almost fought, but it was the eldest brother who came forward to stop them and strictly prohibited the tobacco business.But the second brother has always been obedient to the elder brother, is it true that the second brother is really going to cause trouble for the upper body?The annoyance and anger in his heart made him wish he could rush back to Qingdaotang to see what happened.

"Rong'er, please give in to the master. At least let the master let you go back to Qingdaotang to see Mr. Jiang."

When his mother said a word, he had an idea. Could it be Boss Qin's trick?

So, without hesitation, he replied with a word "No!"

After getting up early and having breakfast, Boss Qin wiped his mouth with a napkin, glanced at Chu Yaonan and asked, "My young master, I've had enough food and drink, where are you going to get beaten? Oh, there are many female relatives in our building. If it was really a beating like this, the servants inside and outside would all look at it..."

Chu Yaonan accompanied him with a bright smile and said: "If Dad wants to hit Nan'er, when can't you? It's not all based on Dad's words. It's just that doing it at this time will fall short. My son was originally considered good, but last night Jiang Tao The husband and wife come to persuade, the second brother will definitely change his mind, who would have imagined that something unexpected happened, and He Lao Er from Qingdaotang got into trouble, and the French consulate was involved, and many people from Qingdaotang were arrested and sent to prison."

Boss Qin was stunned when he heard that, he opened his mouth and asked, "What trouble caused the consulate?"

Chu Yaonan wrote lightly: "Didn't my son ask someone to go to Qingdaotang to inquire about it?"

Seeing that his father was still sullen and unwilling, Chu Yaonan went up to him and said, "Father, the heat is almost here, let's give it to my son after two days. When Jiang Tao is willing to come and persuade Ah Rong, the second brother will definitely let him go." I will kowtow to recognize my father with all my heart and soul.”

Boss Qin looked down at his son, with a charming appearance and a shrewd smile in his eyes.He lowered his face and said unwillingly: "Stop talking nonsense, go, find a hemp rope and a whip, go find a place in the living room, take off your pants and hang them up, let Dad give you a good beating."

"Father!" Chu Yaonan said aggrievedly.

"Go! Go!" Boss Qin pretended to be angry, "I even bargained with my father, I see that your skin is itchy."

Knowing that his father might not be really angry, Chu Yaonan looked at his father in embarrassment and teased him, and was about to find an excuse to plead, but he heard a scream from upstairs: "It's not good! Someone died! The second young master, he, he, he is dead!" Already!"

Boss Qin got up with a whoosh, left Chu Yaonan behind and rushed upstairs, heading straight to Ye Rong's room, stunned by the scene in front of him.

Ye Rong, he was half-hanging under the bed. The hemp rope that bound his hands and feet was originally tied at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed. At this moment, the piece of rope that was originally tied at the head of the bed was somehow wrapped around Ye Rong's neck, and his whole body was half-stretched. The whole body is hanging, and the neck is tied in the rope, but the person is motionless, like a stiff corpse.

"Rong'er! Rong'er!" Boss Qin cried out in shock, "Come on, come on, come on quickly!"

He dragged his son to the bed with difficulty, and reached out to untie the rope around Ye Rong's neck.Ye Rong's lips had turned dark purple, his empty eyes were expressionless, and his body had no warmth.Boss Qin frantically tore at the hemp rope around Ye Rong's neck, shouting: "Come on, come on! Rong'er, wake up, wake up, Daddy is here, Daddy is here, don't be afraid!"

"My son!" Niu rushed into the door, exclaimed, his body jerked, his legs went limp, and he fell to the ground fainting.Hulala, a group of people filed in, screaming in shock.

Chu Yaonan followed closely, and hurriedly untied the rope. Ye Rong, who was placed on the bed, lay flat on his back, motionless, with his chin upturned, his head upturned, his empty eyes staring straight ahead, and he couldn't turn around. respite.Boss Qin suddenly understood a word, lingering on his last breath.

The rebellious little wolf that once struggled under his palm, that restless little beast that seemed about to bite when he let go of the restraint, is now lying quietly on the bed motionless. Jumping, kicking and struggling, it will never be so stable.

Boss Qin suddenly had some sour feeling in his heart, as if he drank a sip of old vinegar suddenly, and his heart was burning like a sting. The worry, pain and panic were covered by this sour feeling, and he shouted a few times: "Rong'er, Rong'er, talk to daddy." Just one sentence came out, and the sockets of eyes became moist.After decades of wandering in the rivers and lakes, killing people like hemp, licking blood with a knife, it seems that they have never thought about the taste of tears, sour and astringent, pouring down their throats.At this moment, it would be better if the son lying on the bed struggled and kicked stubbornly in his arms like yesterday, and he didn't want him to lie down so quietly.There is no restraint, and he is no longer worried about him running away and recalcitrant, but he would rather his son still be so disobedient to him, at least he can know that he is safe and sound, and it is more difficult to bear than the fear of suffocation like a knife hanging around his neck at this moment.

Ye Rong opened his mouth slightly, breathing hard, his dying appearance made him anxious.

Crying all around, Boss Qin shouted decisively and furiously: "Get out of here, Lao Tzu! Get out of here."

"Open the doors and windows, hurry! Open!" Chu Yaonan calmly ordered, "Everyone go out, the air needs to circulate here. Go out, everyone go out!"

Chu Yaonan rushed forward, undid the buttons of Ye Rong's clothes, and with a snap, the shirt was torn, revealing his chest.

"Where is the doctor? Where is the doctor? Go and call!" Boss Qin roared, and his subordinates ran away.

Boss Qin hugged Ye Rong's head, patted his cold cheek and said, "Stinky boy, you're fine, you look at dad, you..." Boss Qin yelled for a while, seeing Ye Rong's stubborn eyes come back to life Feeling aggrieved again, he just looked at him like that, his Adam's apple squirmed, and he opened his mouth slightly, but he was silent, staring at him with blank eyes, as if he wanted to say something.

Feeling sad for a while, I hugged him and started crying.

Chu Yaonan was startled. He had never seen his father cry. Since he was a child, he felt that his father was an unshakable King Kong in the Buddhist temple, with wide-eyed anger and extraordinary abilities.My father was cut several times, and his whole body was bloody and lying on the sickbed, but he tried to comfort him and said: "Nan'er, don't cry, don't cry, a man only bleeds, not tears."

The father who never shed a tear actually cried, crying so painfully.

It seems that tears are a kind of luxury, just like the noble surname "Qin", unattainable.

He just watched quietly from the side, his eyes became moist and gradually blurred.He tilted his head, feeling sad for some reason.