To rely on others is to promise each other

Jiang Yubai's appearance undoubtedly provided a prerequisite for his success.

Because almost no one could take advantage of those pleading, moist and pitiful eyes, so they could only bow down and obediently obey his request.

The weakness that Jiang Yubai showed unintentionally is like the temptation that a flytrap involuntarily exudes when hunting. It is a net wrapped in honey that descends overwhelmingly. Gather it up and imprison it by your side.

It's a pity that Pei Shanqing is not sensitive to all perceptions by nature, like a single-celled organism that has lived for tens of thousands of years. When faced with temptation, he chooses to stay still to protect himself, just like Pei Shanqing is now slapping Jiang Yubai away without changing his expression. hands.

Pei Shanqing thought that he needed to rest, instead of the two of them facing each other for useless emotional output. In order to prevent himself from being affected, he just wanted to put him to sleep as soon as possible: "I'm not medicine, what's the use of being with you, hurry up sleep."

Jiang Yubai naturally didn't expect the situation to turn out like this. Those misty eyes stared at Pei Shanqing, and he still reached out to him without giving up, just like holding back tears after losing a beloved toy when he was a child I beg my brother to hug me.

"elder brother."

But Pei Shanqing didn't say anything, just gave Jiang Yubai a look in the slightly dark room, then turned and left.

Jiang Yubai's outstretched hand fell back on his lap. He lowered his head and stared at the empty palm. The high fever made his thoughts dull. As if to confirm something, he grabbed the air twice.

Pei Shanqing didn't stay at ease in the bedroom, and when he came out to check again because he was worried about him, what he saw was the dejected Jiang Yubai and his tears.

Drop by drop, countless, overflowed from the eye sockets, refracted the blurred light in the falling midair, and spread out the palm of the hand foolishly to catch it.

At this moment, Pei Shanqing's throat seemed to be blocked by a bitter and hard object, and there was nothing to relieve it, so he sat silently beside Jiang Yubai, gently tore off the package of the antipyretic patch, and then Put your hands on his forehead.

Jiang Yubai looked up at him, his tears still couldn't stop flowing, his throat felt a little uncomfortable, and his voice became hoarse: "Brother, I feel so uncomfortable."

In fact, Jiang Yubai's subtext was: "You stay with me".Although Pei Shanqing didn't understand it, he could fully understand this kind of psychological and physical pain, which was definitely a kind of helpless sadness.

Pei Shanqing inserted five fingers into Jiang Yubai's soft and fluffy short hair, gently rubbed his drowsy head, and said in an adult tone: "Jiang Yubai, don't hold on, just sleep for a while when you feel dizzy."

And Jiang Yubai was clearly looking at him, but Pei Shanqing felt that he was a little confused, and he just regarded himself as his dead father.

Because Jiang Yubai tilted his head and asked him sincerely: "Father, why didn't you come back after I woke up?"

Pei Shanqing's heart trembled, but it was only for a moment, and then Jiang Yubai lay on his lap like a puppy, stretched out his weak arms around his waist, and murmured to himself: "I'm so uncomfortable, Am I going to die too?"

Jiang Yubai was drenched in the rain and had a fever, so he couldn't even grasp his wrist as hard, but his index fingers were hooked together, which meant that if Pei Shanqing hugged him lightly, he could break free.

But he didn't do that, Pei Shanqing raised his hand unnaturally, hung in mid-air and hesitated for a moment, then chose to hug Jiang Yubai's body in a vague way, stroking his back with his generous and warm palm.

"Sleep, I'm here, you can't die."

Pei Shanqing's experience living with others for the first time was poor, probably because he had to take care of sick patients, he could not sleep well all night, he always struggled with sleepiness, got up and went to the sofa in the living room to watch Jiang Yubai, constantly using his palms Heart to test the temperature between his forehead.

But fortunately, Jiang Yubai didn't have a fever for too long, maybe the medicine that was forced to feed had an effect, making him sleep peacefully.

In the early morning, Jiang Yubai sat up with a drowsy brain, rubbed his sleepy eyes, and looked at Pei Shanqing who was busy baking bread in the kitchen. Before calling him, Pei Shanqing came out with a plate.

"Wake up? Come over for breakfast."

Due to the cold and fever, Jiang Yubai's throat was aching, so he could only chew dry slices of bread in small mouthfuls, and needed to drink some water from time to time to help him swallow.

Pei Shanqing was so nervous that he didn't notice his discomfort. After eating, he handed him the cold medicine: "Take the medicine first, and I will drive you back to pick up your luggage."

"Thank you brother."

Jiang Yubai swallowed the last bite of bread with difficulty, swallowed all the pills under Pei Shanqing's gaze, raised his head and drank the water in the cup, changed his clothes silently and went out with him.

The school uniform Jiang Yubai wore yesterday was not dry after washing, so Pei Shanqing temporarily found a piece of his own clothes for him to wear, but he was not as strong as Pei Shanqing, and the sweater he put on felt more like a sack, making him look more Thinner.

When Pei Shanqing turned the steering wheel, he glanced at Jiang Yubai through the rearview mirror, and said casually, "You are too thin, are you usually picky eaters? Or do you have any taboos?"

Jiang Yubai tilted his head to look at the receding scenery outside the window, pinched the corner of his clothes with his fingertips awkwardly, his mouth and nose were almost buried in his collar: "Don't eat ginger."

"Is there nothing else? It seems that you are very picky eaters." Pei Shanqing thought for a while, and did not force him to continue to give an answer, "Forget it, I will ask you before cooking, if there is something you don't like Just remind me to order the ingredients, otherwise I always forget.”

"It's okay, you can cook what you like." Jiang Yubai replied, "I can eat anything."

Pei Shanqing also knew that he was embarrassed to speak, so he burst out laughing, and joked: "It's so easy to feed? I'll buy you ten catties of dog food tomorrow, just make do with it."

Jiang Yubai smiled lightly, but didn't speak again.

Pei Shanqing stared at the road ahead, and said frankly to him: "Jiang Yubai, I'm actually just a college student, and my ability to live may be limited to supporting myself, and I don't even have experience in raising dogs, let alone taking care of you. A living child."

Jiang Yu interrupted him for the first time: "I'm fifteen, I'm not a child anymore."

Pei Shanqing couldn't help laughing: "Then which kid had a fever and cried yesterday and refused to take medicine? He also crawled into my arms and acted like a baby?"

Jiang Yubai kept his mouth shut and did not speak, and an atmosphere called embarrassment fell into the carriage.

In this subtle stagnation, Pei Shanqing cleared his throat and continued: "Well, what I mean is that sometimes I will be busy and may not be able to take care of you, so you still have to be more self-reliant."

"I know, I won't cause you trouble." Jiang Yubai added in a low voice: "Brother, don't drive me away."

The distance was not far, and when he finished speaking, Pei Shanqing happened to park the car downstairs.He unbuckled his seat belt, raised his hand and patted Jiang Yubai's head by the way, "Don't think so much, I didn't say to drive you away. Let's go, I'll accompany you up to pack your things."

The Jiang family's house was to be sold for cash according to the will. It should be Jiang's father's preparation for Jiang Yubai's ability to complete his studies. After all, the child can be fostered with relatives, but no one will pay for the tuition in advance.

The agent has probably already been here, everything in Jiang Yubai's room was cleaned up except for the things in Jiang Yubai's room, the furniture was covered with clean white dustproof cloth, and the pot of Milanese flowers on the balcony was still there, swaying slightly in the breeze branches and leaves.

Jiang Yubai approached and touched its leaves, and then looked at the empty transparent fish tank next to him. Seeing Pei Shanqing approaching, he quickly concealed his loneliness, and said with a smile: "There used to be a scarlet fish tank in it." The fish is very beautiful, but unfortunately I can’t show it to you now.”

"Huh? What about the fish?" Pei Shanqing asked.

Jiang Yubai shook his head, and guessed, "I told the agent before that I don't want anything except mine. Maybe someone who came to see the house took it away."

This is a typical mentality of being dependent on others. I am afraid that bringing too many things with me will cause trouble to the foster family, so I pretend to be calm and abandon those nostalgia and nostalgia that may cause trouble.

The two were relatively speechless. After a moment of silence, they walked into Jiang Yubai's bedroom one after the other and began to pack things.

Pei Shanqing originally thought that a spoiled child like Jiang Yubai would be able to get all the things he likes. After losing the care of his parents, the room must be messy.

But unexpectedly, Jiang Yubai's room is very simple. There are two vertical bookshelves and two photo frames on the desk. The wall is covered with light gray wallpaper and there are no decorations. The room is also very tidy .

Pei Shanqing picked up the photo frame and looked at it. One was a family portrait of Jiang's family of three, and the other was a family portrait taken when his grandfather was alive. The young Jiang Yubai was standing beside him, holding his hand, and looking at the camera Show a big smile.

Jiang Yubai didn't have many things to take away. In the end, all he packed were two boxes of clothes and a large cardboard box of personal belongings.

While waiting for Jiang Yubai to organize the closet, Pei Shanqing idly shifted his gaze to the open cardboard box.

Inside are basically Jiang Yubai's textbooks and tutoring handouts, as well as some unfinished exercise books. His notebooks are all soft-covered notebooks, which look very simple and tall.

Pei Shanqing was born to be bad, and he was not controlled by his parents. He was not very strong in his studies. After he went to college, he had the idea of ​​passing forever. He often reviewed before the exam, not to mention the good habit of taking notes in class.

Anyway, having nothing to do, Pei Shanqing took out a book in the brown outer packaging, and was about to read it to pass the time, when Jiang Yubai suddenly turned his head and called him: "Brother."

Pei Shanqing raised his eyes, held the notebook with one hand, and asked, "What's wrong? Do you want help?"

Jiang Yubai seemed to be a little short-sighted. He put on glasses while tidying up his things. He closed his eyes and rubbed his Jingming acupoint, and begged, "I'm a little dizzy. Can you go to the kitchen and get me a glass of water?"

Naturally, Pei Shanqing did not refuse. He put the notebook back in place and went to the kitchen without seeing Jiang Yubai's next move.

The moment Pei Shanqing left the bedroom, Jiang Yubai walked quickly to the side of the cardboard box, opened the notebook he picked up just now, glanced at it, and then pressed it to the bottom of the cardboard box without changing his face, and then took other books Cover tightly.

After he finished all this, Pei Shanqing came in with a water glass, took out a hard candy from his pocket and handed it to him: "I see you didn't eat much in the morning, is it hypoglycemia? Eat a candy and rest for a while Let's pack it up."

"Thank you brother."

Jiang Yubai reached out to take it, put the sugar into his jacket pocket, and sat on a chair to sip warm water.

Pei Shanqing was still thinking about that beautiful notebook, stood there and looked around, muttering: "Hey, I put it here just now, why can't I find it?"

Jiang Yubai listened to his doubts, and his long eyelashes trembled and drooped to cover the hidden look in his eyes. After searching for a long time, Pei Shanqing suddenly realized, and asked Jiang Yubai: "Did you hide that notebook just now?"

Jiang Yubai played dumb: "What notebook? Isn't it in the box?"

"The color is wrong. The one I just took was brown." Pei Shanqing pointed to the other colorful books stacked on top, and said firmly, "You must have hidden it."

With a smile on his lips, Jiang Yu asked back, "Why am I hiding it? It's just a notebook, what's so shameful about it? Brother, just read it if you want."

"I can't tell." Pei Shanqing had already confirmed the fact in his heart, and joked with him: "What if it's some pretentious diary you wrote before, or a nasty love letter to your crush? Let me see it." Appropriate."

Jiang Yubai understood the teasing meaning in his words, and the smile on his lips became more obvious.

"Well, indeed."