no longer ordinary friends

Zhou Zhicheng was too sleepy to move, so he glanced at Zhou Bingcheng and said, "Go and open the door for Jiang Xianghuai."

Zhou Bingcheng's palms were a little wet, he wiped his clothes, and said impatiently: "Why did you let him in, let him wait outside the door."

Holding a box in his pocket, he was sitting opposite Jiang Li, his dark pupils were serious and focused, just as he was about to speak, Jiang Li asked, "Have you brushed your teeth?"

Zhou Bingcheng froze for a moment, then shook his head, wondering if he had bad breath, but he didn't dare to take a breath.

Jiang Li said, "Go and brush your teeth first." She turned her head and asked Zhou Zhicheng for a toothbrush.

Zhou Zhicheng simply sat up, ran to the store in front to get three toothbrushes and a box of new toothpaste, thought for a while and took another one, then went to open the small door of the canteen, poked his head out, and at a glance Seeing the tall figure standing by the door, he said to him, "Come in."

This small door is very short, and Jiang Xianghuai had to bend down to get in. As soon as he entered, Zhou Zhicheng saw the bruises on his face and the red bloodshot eyes. He himself was open and frank, and smiled at her. All of a sudden, because of the scars, he was inexplicably hideous.

Zhou Zhicheng looked back, as if he didn't see anything.

Zhou Bingcheng grabbed the toothbrush and went to brush his teeth first. He brushed it three times earnestly, and came out after feeling that his breath was fresh.

When it was Zhou Zhicheng and Jiang Li's turn to wash up, Zhou Bingcheng raised his eyelids and glanced at Jiang Xianghuai coldly. Seeing that his cheekbones were swollen, he looked away again.

Instead, Jiang Xianghuai took the initiative to talk to him: "Do you want to propose?"

Zhou Bingcheng frowned, with a displeased look on his face: "If you mutter louder, everyone in the county can hear it."

"Everyone else needs a brother to propose." Jiang Xianghuai touched his nose with a smile.

Zhou Bingcheng's tone was cold: "Since last night, I have no brothers."

Jiang Xianghuai wanted to say something else, Zhou Zhicheng came out of the bathroom and gave him the toothbrush: "You go and wash up too, there are disposable towels inside."

Sitting next to Zhou Zhicheng, Jiang Li asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with Jiang Par? Could it be that we were drunk a few hours ago and kicked him?"

Zhou Zhicheng had already guessed it. In all likelihood, it was Zhou Bingcheng who hit him. He should have known about the time she and Jiang Xianghuai had been together.

Seeing the two of them whispering, Zhou Bingcheng pulled the corner of his lower lip: "Zhou Zhicheng."

He called her by her full name, with a serious look on his brows, completely out of the usual carefree manner, she only saw this look when she was in the sixth grade of elementary school.

At that time, she was small and immature, so she was easily bullied when she looked at her. However, her grandfather stuffed a lot of snacks in her schoolbag, and she also had some money in her pocket. It was only a matter of time before she was targeted.

One day, when she and Jiang Li were on their way home from school, they were surrounded by bad boys and girls from junior high school. They robbed her of the snacks and money in her schoolbag on the grounds that she disrespected them when she just passed by. , squinting at people.

She also explained seriously: "I don't disrespect you, I'm short-sighted and don't wear glasses, so I can't see."

Those people laughed loudly: "Yo, it's still a four-eyed frog."

After they laughed, they were ready to take their things and leave.

Jiang Li called to stop them: "Do you know who her brother is?"

"Who?"

Jiang Li said loudly, "Nanri County's county tyrant Zhou Bingcheng!"

In exchange for the answer of the second class, this group of people couldn't stop laughing. They had never heard of this name. Is there a county bully in Nanri County?

Jiang Li grew up in a poor family, and when she saw that they had snatched Zhou Zhicheng more than fifty yuan away, she wanted to run away. Pushed to the ground, her palms were scratched, and a girl directly pulled her collar up, trying to hit her.

Zhou Zhicheng opened his eyes wide, rushed over, and hit the girl hard with his schoolbag: "How dare you hit Li Li!"

There was confusion and shouting.

This group of hateful people bullied the elementary school students, threatened them again, and left contentedly, leaving the two elementary school students sitting on the ground in embarrassment and crying, their knees and hands were torn.

Jiang Li said: "Let's go and tell your brother, your brother is in high school, and he will definitely be able to beat them."

Zhou Zhicheng hesitated, sobbing, "But he can't even beat me. Every time I beat him, he just goes to complain to Grandma."

Jiang Li cried even louder.

When it was dark, Zhou Bingcheng found them. He obviously ran to many places and was out of breath. He suppressed his anger: "Zhou Zhicheng, what are you doing here after school? Are your bones itchy? You are only in elementary school. Want to rebel?"

When he got closer, he saw her dirty school uniform and tears on her face, and her expression was even more serious: "Zhou Zhicheng, have you been beaten?"

"I do not have."

Zhou Bingcheng sneered: "Don't tell me, you beat someone and lost?"

Zhou Zhicheng: "I was robbed of money."

"……How much?"

"One piece of 50 yuan and some change."

"Where did you get the 50 yuan? Didn't Grandpa only give you a few dollars?"

"I stole it from your drawer. I'm going to buy a novel to read." Zhou Zhicheng replied naturally.

Zhou Bingcheng was silent for a while: "It's the first time I saw money being stolen so confidently."

He stared at her seriously for a long time, with a solemn expression, and asked if she had been beaten somewhere else?

He took out a wet towel from his pocket, wiped away her tears vigorously, wiped away the dirty marks on her face, pulled her up, patted the dust on her body, and cursed angrily: "I only know that the nest Li Heng, I only bully your brother every day, if someone wants to rob you, give it to her? You are so stupid, take me tomorrow, and I will beat them."

Zhou Zhicheng complained: "Jiang Li was also beaten."

Zhou Bingcheng seemed to have noticed that little Jiang Li was there at this time. When he helped Zhou Zhicheng up, she had already dusted herself off, carried her schoolbag, and stood quietly aside.

He said casually: "Okay, help her get revenge tomorrow."

The three of them went home hand in hand, Jiang Li remained silent and kept his head down, silently listening to the conversation between the brother and sister next to him.

"Today is Monday, brother, have you skipped class?"

"The classroom is lent to the society for exams, and tomorrow is also a holiday."

"Then there are many of them, can you fight alone?"

Zhou Bingcheng bragged: "Tomorrow I will call 20 men."

"Okay, then can you also grab 50 yuan from them, so that I can buy a few more novels, let's grab 100 yuan, Jiang Li also wants to read novels."

Zhou Bingcheng pinched her face heavily: "Do you have a conscience and want your brother to go to jail?"

Of course, Zhou Bingcheng finished his speech. Although he said he was going to beat those people, as soon as he finished his harsh words, the police he called came and arrested the group of bad boys and girls.

Primary school student Zhou Zhicheng felt that her useless brother was not passionate at all.

After many years, Zhou Zhicheng, an adult, saw her brother's serious face again, and knew that he thought she was worthless and being bullied again.

Zhou Bingcheng had no expression on his face: "You were bullied by Jiang Xianghuai back then, why didn't you tell me? He still has the face this time, and grandpa and grandma treated him so well."

Zhou Zhicheng smiled: "It's not that serious, it's just that he's not suitable for a couple, but, as an older brother, he treats me very well."

Seeing that he was about to refute, she blinked and told the truth: "When I was in college, how many times have you visited me at school? Have you brought me food? Do you know my daily classes? Do you know my favorite class? Which professor? Do you know when I started looking for an internship? You don't know, but Jiang Xianghuai knows."

Zhou Bingcheng was speechless. Not only did he not go to see it himself, but he also asked Jiang Xianghuai to watch it and personally sent the sheep to the tiger's mouth.

Zhou Zhicheng had already looked away, and persuaded: "It's all over, there's no point in beating him. I've also been in a relationship with He Jinyu. He came here for work. He's your friend. Grandpa and Grandma should be nice to him, not to mention, Grandpa was sick at the time, and he helped a lot, and in this regard, not many exes can do it."

Zhou Bingcheng also knew that it was precisely because Jiang Xianghuai helped Grandpa find a doctor that he didn't directly send him out today.

At the corner of the bathroom door, Jiang Xianghuai was standing against the wall, lowering his eyes slightly, a cluster of flames in his chest slowly extinguished. Compared with her hating him, he was more afraid that she would be so calm now, as if she had completely let go of the past , she doesn't care about him, and the privileges she gave him in the past are no longer exclusive to him.