My rival won't let me fall in love early! !

Qi Yuzhou responded perfunctorily: "Yeah, he's too busy right now, why don't you hang up first and call you back later."

The phone didn't hang up, and the voice continued: "I'm his brother, now give Yuan Rong the phone."

"You're his brother? It doesn't matter if you're him—"

"Wait, brother?"

Hua Yihe, who was sitting next to him, saw Qi Yuzhou standing up and walking back and forth in front of him, his expression changed from cloudy to sunny, and his attitude changed 180 degrees: "So it's brother Zhuo, I'm so sorry, Yuan Rong's phone screen doesn't show notes, so late I thought someone was making a harassing call...Huh? Are you coming? That's great, ah, Yuan Rong is fine, we're shopping, he's in the fitting room Change clothes here. I’ll send you the address, no problem.”

After the call ended, Hua Yihe looked at him quietly.

"Why are you looking at me like this? Brother Zhuo is here, aren't you happy?" Qi Yuzhou sat next to him and poked secretly, "Remember to keep it a secret when you go back in a while, don't say anything, I want to give them a surprise .”

Hua Yihe nodded and said nothing else.

Anyone who has a good relationship with Yuan Rong knows his elder brother Yuan Qingzhuo.During the years of rapid growth of adolescent hormones, it is easy for boys to have friction and estrangement. Yuan Qingzhuo's ability to eliminate the hostility of Yuan Rong's friends towards him and easily gain their respect shows that he does have some tricks.

Originally, Hua Yihe also thought that Yuan Rong was a good brother, but since he accidentally heard Yuan Qingzhuo's questioning tone of Yuan Rong's speech on the phone that day, he felt that something was wrong.

Why did Yuan Qingzhuo talk to his younger brother with that attitude? Could it be that their relationship has been tense recently?

Just as he was thinking, the curtain of the fitting room on the front left suddenly opened, and Yuan Rong changed into new clothes from the inside out and came out: "Let's go, let's go to checkout."

Qi Yuzhou went to take a taxi outside the store, Hua Yihe stopped in front of him to pay, which made Yuan Rong very embarrassed, and also a little coy when he spoke: "Yihe, why did you pay so fast? Pass it on to you again, and you must accept it.”

He is thin-skinned and doesn't like to take advantage of his friends. Hua Yihe smiled: "It's okay, these are nothing. It just happened that I couldn't attend your birthday party at the beginning of the month, so I can compensate you by paying for you."

Yuan Rong nodded.

When they returned to the bar, Wang Qinchuan had already taken someone to watch the surveillance. The bar manager knew that many of these high school students were from Shicheng, so he quickly apologized, led them to a quiet box upstairs, and re-opened a few bottles. liquor.

Wang Qinchuan said angrily: "Although the monitoring is a bit blurry, you can almost tell that the girl stole something. Yuan Rong, do you know that you were deceived?"

Just returning to the closed room from the cold outside, Yuan Rong's head was dizzy. He glanced at Wang Qinchuan, nodded slightly, but didn't answer. His neck and cheeks had been burning since he drank alcohol. Even the consciousness is a little unclear.

"That watch must have six figures at least," someone said, "Go back and file a case at the police station, and the police uncle will definitely catch you."

Everyone chatted and comforted Yuan Rong again, and then started drinking again.

Yuan Rong was a little hot, so he also drank a few sips of iced water, and then he regained consciousness for a while.He blinked, and saw Qi Yuzhou sitting on the pool table at the other end of the box and waving at him with a smile: "Yuan Rong, I heard from Qin Chuan that you are good at the game, play two strokes with me?"

"It's definitely not as good as yours. Don't you often take your girlfriend to play..." Yuan Rong stood up and was about to walk over when he suddenly felt his body sinking, and his stomach was rolling over and over, which made him uncomfortable.

Qi Yuzhou didn't notice his discomfort, and still invited: "Come on, if you can't do it, you can change to a crane."

Yuan Rong took off the coat he just bought on the sofa, tugged at the neckline of the turtleneck sweater, trying to dispel the heat: "I'll do it."

They went to the pool table, took a club each, and started playing.

Qi Yuzhou likes to play all kinds of competitive games, and he is a gambler who doesn't care about the probability of winning or losing at all. According to his mantra, the more exciting things are, the more interesting they are. Therefore, every girlfriend of his is obtained by betting with others.As long as he wants, he can play anything as a game and try his best to win, even learning.

Yuan Rong was out of shape, and when it was his turn to serve, he half-bowed holding the stick.Suddenly, I felt dizzy and couldn't concentrate.

This shot was not strong enough, and the ball missed the hole, and Qi Yuzhou whistled: "Hey, why are you so absent-minded, is it possible that you are still thinking about the sister who lied to you just now?"

Yuan Rong's face darkened, and he put down the stick: "It's just a mistake, come here."

Qi Yuzhou smiled and scored three more goals.

Finally, it was Yuan Rong's turn to score. He took a deep breath, bent down immersedly, and stared at the center of the ball to draw an auxiliary line. Perhaps because of nervousness, he felt his wrist trembling slightly, his fingertips were cold, and he couldn't hold the ball. pole.

At this moment, a shadow covered his entire body.

Before Yuan Rong could react, someone grabbed his wrist, the cue fell off, and fell to the ground with a clatter.

Not far away came Qi Yuzhou's greeting voice: "Brother Zhuo, you're here so soon." Several other boys in the box also followed suit, only Wang Qinchuan remained silent.

Just coming in from the outside, Yuan Qingzhuo was still air-conditioned. He grabbed Yuan Rong's wrist with one hand, turned his head slightly and nodded to the people on the sofa as a response.

Yuan Rong stood up straight with the corner of the table, staggered back a bit, and was firmly supported by Yuan Qingzhuo.

The latter's gaze moved down and wandered to his wrist, his eyes sharpened.

"Rongrong, where did the watch I gave you go?" Yuan Qingzhuo asked with a soft smile.

This happened to be the question that Yuan Rong was most unwilling to answer at this moment. He knew that if he told the truth, he would be ridiculed by Yuan Qingzhuo again. Thinking about it this way, the picture had been automatically completed in his mind, and Yuan Qingzhuo would definitely use it. Said in a mocking tone: A watch can be cheated by someone, I have never seen such a stupid person.

"Talk, where's the watch?" Yuan Qingzhuo asked again.

"Don't ask, are you annoying?" Yuan Rong's temples hurt, he shook off his hand, stepped back to distance himself from him, "I'll throw it away!"

Yuan Qingzhuo's smile froze for a moment.

Qi Yuzhou is the closest person to the pair of brothers, and he is the only one who can clearly feel that there is something wrong with the atmosphere between the two of them, so he immediately started talking to each other: "Brother Zhuo, sit down quickly, if you want to drink something, I'll give it to you." No. Yuan Rong was so happy today, so he drank a few glasses, maybe a little too much, and lost it in the bathroom."

Several other people quickly followed Yuan Li: "Yes, that's right, Brother Zhuo, let's sit down and have a drink together, long time no see."

"Drink too much, don't you?" Yuan Qingzhuo's gaze fell on his younger brother's face, and he walked up to him again, "It's okay, I'll go to the bathroom with you to find it." After speaking, he dragged Yuan Rong out.

what……

Qi Yuzhou blinked in surprise, and looked at the others.

What are you looking for? Yuan Qingzhuo couldn't find it today even after removing all the floor tiles in the bar toilet. Yuan Rong frowned and resisted: "Isn't it just a watch? There are many more at home, I don't want to go find it with you—— "

After finishing speaking, he suddenly closed his eyes, as if he was enduring something.

Yuan Qingzhuo turned around to look, under the dim light, he noticed Yuan Rong's uncomfortable expression, and his face finally became completely gloomy.

The slightly cool big palm covered his younger brother's forehead, and the scorching temperature scalded his palm. Yuan Qingzhuo pulled Yuan Rong into his arms, and put his fingers on the side of his neck, still hot.

He turned around and glanced at the boys sitting around the tea table: "He's sick, why do you want him to continue drinking?"

Everyone present stood up and asked in concern, "Yuan Rong, is Yuan Rong sick?"

"It was clear that she was fine while eating. Yuan Rong's face has been so red since he drank too much. Brother Zhuo, did you misdiagnose him?"

Wang Qinchuan pushed aside the crowd and came up: "Yuan Rong, are you okay, do you want me to take you to see it?"

Before he got in front of the two, he saw Yuan Qingzhuo pick up Yuan Rong's coat from the sofa, put it on him skillfully, and then naturally put his arms around his shoulders: "No, I'll take him to the hospital ,You guys continue."

This time Yuan Rong was not given a chance to resist, Yuan Qingzhuo dragged the person away, and the box became very quiet again.

Wang Qinchuan put on his clothes and went out quickly, but was stopped by Qi Yuzhou: "What are you worrying about with Brother Zhuo here, Yuan Rong is definitely fine, don't disturb the relationship between his brothers and sisters."

Wang Qinchuan glared at him: "Don't say that in the future." After speaking, he rushed out of the door.

There were too many people in the bar lobby. He looked at the back of Yuan Rong being dragged away by Yuan Qingzhuo, and ran up anxiously, but today it seemed that someone deliberately opposed him, and there always seemed to be such a few distances between them. Personally, no matter how hard you try to catch up, you can't catch up.

After leaving the bar, Yuan Qingzhuo put Yuan Rong into the back seat of the car, drove to the nearest hospital and went to the emergency department.

"38.9 degrees, already a high fever," the nurse said, "Come with me, go to the hospital bed and get ready for infusion."

Yuan Rong was quietly manipulated by Yuan Qingzhuo, and he didn't even struggle when he was hugged. He was always restraining himself from fighting the stomachache, and didn't care about receiving any information from the outside world.

Before lying down on the bed, Yuan Qingzhuo touched his forehead, and before the nurse came, he began to hang the bottle, with skilled and professional movements.

"What about me?" Yuan Rong frowned and continued, feeling his voice was a little hoarse, "Why did I see Qin Chuan at the door of the ward? Am I hallucinating?"

"He has been following," Yuan Qingzhuo lightly mocked, "It's not your illusion."

"Oh, then tell him, let him go back first." Yuan Rong lay flat on the bed, feeling a little uncomfortable in his stomach, and then turned into a side-lying position again, "It's not good if Qin Chuan gets sick after being out in the cold for too long gone."

Yuan Qingzhuo tore open the packaging bag of the infusion needle, and laughed angrily when he heard the words: "Why should I pass the message on to you? Yuan Rong, you are really capable when you have a fever and are still worried about others."

"..." Yuan Rong closed his eyes and snorted, "I know you have this attitude."

"Stretch out your hand and get an injection." Yuan Qingzhuo ordered.

"I'm going to wait for the nurse."

"There are so many people in the emergency department, you would have been burned to death by the time she came," Yuan Qingzhuo said condescendingly, "Don't let me use force."

"..."

It was useless to struggle in front of Yuan Qingzhuo, he raised his left hand slightly, and temporarily switched to his right hand: "This one."

Yuan Qingzhuo sat beside the bed and adjusted the infusion tube, his handsome side face was displayed in front of Yuan Rong, and his slightly frowning expression seemed rare and serious.

Yuan Rong glanced twice, then deliberately moved away, and finally couldn't help but look back, staring at the movements of Yuan Qingzhuo's hand: "You, take it easy."

"Don't talk." Yuan Qingzhuo dropped three words expressionlessly.

At this moment, Wang Qinchuan walked into the ward. Seeing that Yuan Qingzhuo's movements of inserting needles were too smooth, his face changed slightly, and he lifted the white curtain to call out: "Sister Nurse!"

No one responded to him, so he came back and hurriedly interrupted Yuan Qingzhuo's movements: "Brother Zhuo, you are not doing well, after all, you are not a professional, what if you make a mistake?"

Yuan Qingzhuo had already finished the whole needle injection session, so he turned around and looked at Wang Qinchuan fixedly, with a half-smile: "No mistakes, I often gave Rongrong infusions when I was young."

After speaking, he turned into a good brother again, and carelessly rubbed Yuan Rong's hair: "Wait, I'll get a cup of hot water."

When Yuan Qingzhuo left the room, Wang Qinchuan went to the hospital bed and looked at Yuan Rong: "Are you all right, how do you feel now?"

"It's just a fever, and it's not a serious illness. Don't worry." Yuan Rong sat up on the bed.

"It's fine," Wang Qinchuan sat down beside the bed, "Yihe and the others called me just now and said they would come to see you."

Yuan Rong shook his head: "Let's forget it, just go home and sleep after the transfusion, don't worry about me."

Wang Qinchuan took out his mobile phone: "Then I'll tell them."

The two of them continued to chat about other things. Wang Qinchuan saw Yuan Rong's lazy and unwilling to speak, so he didn't let him speak, and kept talking by himself.

As he spoke, Yuan Rong's face became paler and paler. He suddenly frowned, covered his stomach, and said in distress, "Qin Chuan... stay away from me."

After the words fell, Yuan Rong immediately vomited out while supporting the bed.

This startled Wang Qinchuan, he quickly stood up and took a few steps back, and asked worriedly, "Damn, do you really just have a fever?"

Invisibly, there seemed to be a hand constantly stirring in his stomach. Yuan Rong was so uncomfortable that he couldn't speak. He made a movement to keep Wang Qinchuan away, and cold sweat flowed down his forehead to his pointed chin.

Wang Qinchuan was stunned for a moment, and before he could go out to call a doctor, Yuan Qingzhuo had already passed him and walked forward.He put the freshly connected cup of hot water on the bedside table, quickly helped Yuan Rong up his back, and looked up at Wang Qinchuan: "Bring the trash can at the door."

"..."

Wang Qinchuan turned around and picked up the trash can, and saw Yuan Qingzhuo took it and put it beside Yuan Rong's bed, and then took out a few pieces of paper to help him wipe his sweat.

Yuan Rong clenched the corner of the quilt tightly and spit out again. Yuan Qingzhuo felt his nervousness and uneasiness, so he raised his head and cast a glance at Wang Qinchuan, who was stunned, and said coldly, "You can go first if there is nothing else. He doesn't like having outsiders around."

It is true that Yuan Rong has a thin skin and cares about his own image in the eyes of others.

Wang Qinchuan hadn't reacted yet, and his words lost a bit of momentum. He felt like a clown standing in front of Yuan Qingzhuo who knew nothing about nursing knowledge: "Oh, oh, okay, I'll go now."

When he walked to the door, he still looked back at the brothers on the hospital bed in disbelief.

This, is this the brother?

Everyone around thought that Yuan Rong and Yuan Qingzhuo were biological. Only Wang Qinchuan knew that Yuan's family was a reorganized family. It can be seen that Yuan Qingzhuo's concern for Yuan Rong really didn't seem to be pretending, and he was a stepbrother who took care of Yuan Rong. People's movements are too skilled.

From the moment Yuan Rong spit it out, Yuan Qingzhuo put it in the trash can, wiped sweat, fed water, wiped the floor and other actions with ease. Although he didn't speak, his expression was gentle, and there was nothing in his eyes. son disgusted.

Wang Qinchuan suddenly felt that it was meaningless for him to help Yuan Rong compete with his brother. Whether it was intentional or not, they had already excluded everyone from the brotherhood. Yuan Rong didn't want to be ashamed in front of outsiders, and this outsider didn't include Yuan Qingzhuo.Conversely, Yuan Qingzhuo might target Yuan Rong and make fun of Yuan Rong, but he would never hate him. The reaction at that moment just now is the best proof.

He, an outsider, has been involved for a long time and can't get involved at all. Invisibly, there is a transparent barrier between him and the two, and he is simply superfluous.

Wang Qinchuan left depressed.

In the ward, Yuan Rong vomited for a while and vomited out her stomach, only then did she feel less uncomfortable in her chest and her stomach settled down.

Yuan Qingzhuo handed the glass to his lips: "Rinse."

After rinsing his mouth, Yuan Rong felt that the other party was gently wiping his mouth with a piece of paper, so he rubbed it twice, and threw the paper towel into the trash can.

In fact, the reason why Yuan Qingzhuo took care of patients so skillfully was because Yuan Rong had a serious illness when he was a child.At that time, Yuan Rong lay at home and grew mushrooms every day. He could not get out of bed or go out to enjoy the air. He could only take medicine, sleep, and get injections and infusions.

This kind of disease requires a long period of recuperation, plus his appetite was surprisingly poor in the hospital, and he lost [-] pounds in half a month. His parents had no choice but to agree with him to go home. Yuan Qingzhuo took the initiative to take the responsibility of helping him with the infusion.

During that period of time, Yuan's family business was on the upswing, and Yuan's parents were so busy that they could only go home very late every day.In addition to taking care of his younger brother, Yuan Qingzhuo also needs to learn how to cook and handle housework.

Which man didn't like to go out to play or run when he was a teenager?Yuan Qingzhuo also loves to play, but every time he left Yuan Rong alone at someone's house in order to go out with his classmates, the guilt in his heart would deepen.Seeing the younger brother on the bed blinking weakly at him, my heart began to boil uncontrollably.

This is his own brother, no one else has.

Yuan Rong only has one elder brother like him, if he doesn't love him a little more, who else will do it?

Just asked myself a question like this, Yuan Qingzhuo spontaneously awakened the attribute of brother control, not to mention that Yuan Rong was sick because of him, thinking about this, the guilt is even deeper.During that time, Yuan Qingzhuo was inseparable from Yuan Rong every day, and since then, he has become more familiar with Yuan Rong.

As long as the child frowns or curls his lips, Yuan Qingzhuo will know what he means.

This is how the skills of caring for others are developed slowly.

Even if the relationship between the two is estranged, some fetters can still be reflected in the details of every move, Yuan Qingzhuo can't hide it, and Yuan Rong can't ignore it.That's a dependency built up over the years that no one can break.

Sitting on the hospital bed, Yuan Rong glanced at his left wrist, and realized that there was no watch on it, and only a sudden scar was exposed on his wrist, so he couldn't help being stunned.

He was in a daze, feeling his Adam's apple tightened, Yuan Qingzhuo held something on the back of his neck, and asked in a calm voice, "What is this, a hang tag?"

Yuan Rong stretched out his hand to touch, and came across the hard cardboard in Yuan Qingzhuo's hand: "...I forgot to cut off the clothes when I bought them."

Yuan Qingzhuo glanced at his fair neck: "You just bought it?"

"Yes," Yuan Rong opened the bedside table, "Do you have any scissors? Cut it."

Yuan Qingzhuo put both hands on it, but for some reason, the hanging tag fell off like a magic trick.

"When did you buy this dress? Is it related to your fever?"

Yuan Rong said, "Well, I accidentally wet my clothes and went to buy a new one. I guess I got sick on the way there."

The hang tag fluttered into the trash can, and Yuan Qingzhuo's question followed closely: "Who made it wet?"

This question... the scene was so chaotic at the time, how could he have time to watch it.

Yuan Rong touched his nose, pulled the quilt unconsciously, and heard Yuan Qingzhuo say in a threatening tone: "It's better to tell the truth, don't let me bother to learn from your classmates, otherwise you It's dead."

"..."

Yuan Rong had no choice but to briefly tell him what happened, but did not give details about the girl who took his watch.

I thought Yuan Qingzhuo would laugh at him, but he just frowned and said: "Don't hide anything from me in the future, and you must report to me when you go out."

With short hands and a soft mouth to eat people, Yuan Rong will not go against him at this juncture: "Oh." Anyway, you can fool around for a while, there will always be other ways when the time comes.

"Don't try to play tricks," Yuan Qingzhuo narrowed his eyes, "You don't want to be cleaned up by me either."

Yuan Rong: "..."

Nearly two hours had passed since the infusion was over. Yuan Qingzhuo took his temperature again. He still had a fever, but it was not particularly serious. So after he went to the pharmacy to get the medicine, he took off his coat and wrapped Yuan Rong back. The family rested.

Parents are out of town these days, and there are only the two of them at home. Yuan Rong simply took a hot bath at home, then went back to bed and fell asleep, not even replying to the messages from his friends.

After eleven o'clock in the evening, the phone suddenly vibrated. In the dark room, Yuan Rong was in a deep sleep, her beautiful eyebrows were knit together, as if she was struggling in her sleep and refused to wake up.

The door was pushed inward a crack, the light from the corridor hit the carpet, Yuan Qingzhuo approached silently, took the phone to the corridor to answer.

"Hey?"

It happened to be Qi Yuzhou who called: "Brother Zhuo, hehe, what a coincidence."

Yuan Qingzhuo glanced at the sleeping figure in the room, and said in a deep voice, "He's asleep."

Qi Yuzhou hurriedly said that it didn't matter, and when Yuan Qingzhuo asked about today's affairs, he reported the itinerary in detail on the other end of the phone. The watch I was wearing was given by you, but the loss of the watch today was purely an accident, so don’t blame him. In fact, after knowing that the watch was lost, Yuan Rong was already very sad, otherwise he wouldn’t be wearing a cool dress I spent so long looking for my wet clothes in the dark outside the bar, let this matter be over."

Yuan Qingzhuo's hand holding the phone tightened slightly, his eyes fell on the light and shadow on Yuan Rong's face, and he whispered, "I won't blame him."