In the silent place

Jiang Dong sat in the living room, looking at his mother busy in the kitchen, then turned to look at his cousin's closed bedroom door, sighed, closed his eyes, and leaned weakly on the sofa.If the old lady hadn't told him that his cousin had just been discharged from the hospital and now suffered trauma to his leg, he would have been fooled almost.He was six years older than his cousin, and to this day he still vaguely remembers the first time he saw him.My aunt came back from the hospital with him in her arms. He was no bigger than him, and he was wrapped in a mattress with only his red face showing. He closed his eyes and neither cried nor made trouble.It was the first time he saw a newborn baby, and he was a little scared besides the novelty.It's so small, it seems that if you pinch it, it will break.When he grew up, he occasionally teased him for a while, but it was not long-lasting, and he got tired of it after a while.Rather than being with a small child, he prefers to go out with his classmates to play pinball and shoot cigarette cases.Before his cousin left the compound at the age of four, the most vivid thing in his memory was that once he pushed a small cart and took him to play in the hospital not far from the door, and his cousin reached out to let him hug him, but he didn’t know what happened , One of them lost his grip and fell down, and his front teeth hit the car.At that time, my cousin was crying, and the bib on the front was covered with blood. He was so frightened that his heart was in his throat, and he quickly put him back in the car and pushed him home.那一次姑姑什么都没有说，他却被老娘骂了个半死，连一向最疼爱他的奶奶都揍了他的屁股几下。During the intervening years, they had little contact. When they met again, he was already a third-year student, but he was so thin that it was unbearable to look at.At that time, he really thought he was going to die.Seeing him suffering from the pain, he thought cruelly that it would be better to die, maybe it would be better to die.He never knew that a person could have so many tears, which seemed endless. Whenever he saw his mother's tears, he felt that he had sinned deeply, why did he have such thoughts.He had to admit that although his mother cried a lot, she was stronger than the men in the family, as if all the tears had turned into a kind of strength to support her.

Liu Rong took off her apron and walked out of the kitchen. Seeing that her son was in a trance, she patted his shoulder and pointed to the door of her nephew's room. "Look at him, I'll go out and buy something."

"What to buy? I'll go."

"Buy some dates, you don't understand, let me go."

"You look down on me too much, don't you just buy a date. Just tell me where to buy it, and I will go."

It was rare for her son to be so active. Liu Rong smiled and stopped insisting. "It's the supermarket at the intersection of Fushun Road."

"Oh, I know." Jiang Dong said and stood up.

"Buy the ones in bulk, on the first floor."

"Okay." Jiang Dong responded, turned into the house and took a coat, threw the car keys and walked out the door.

When Bai Yutang pushed the door and walked in, Bai Jintang was sitting in the comfortable boss chair talking with Lu Fang on the phone.Seeing his younger brother coming in, he quickly waved to him.

"Well, I see...Okay..." Bai Jintang hung up the phone and looked at his younger brother.In the past few days, there have been reports on the Internet and on TV about the stabbing of the male number two of "Worthy", and even the employees of the company are whispering about it.Thinking of the painstaking efforts his younger brother put into this drama, Bai Jintang was also worried. "How is the matter with the crew going?"

"I found a rescuer." Bai Yutang stood with his back to Bai Jintang, reached out to open the window, took out a cigarette and lit it.

"Who are you looking for?" Bai Jintang asked.

"Tong Yu Festival." Bai Yutang looked out of the window, exhaled a long puff of green smoke like a sigh, the smoke circled in front of his eyes for a while, and was slowly blown away by the wind.

Bai Jintang didn't make a sound.He knew the man and had seen his plays.At the beginning, he had intended to sign into the Bai family, but he didn't want to be preempted by his competitor, Liangcai Entertainment.

"I'm going on a business trip the day after tomorrow. I may be away for more than two months. I'll come over to say hello to you."

"What about the local drama? Come back and shoot again?"

"All of them were transferred to other places for filming. Tong Yujie still has a movie in the works, and the crew must consider him."

"Well. He's so popular recently, it's not easy for you to invite him." Bai Jintang sighed.

Bai Yutang stretched out his hand, and brushed the cigarette ash out of the window, without making a sound.

Bai Jintang couldn't help feeling a little puzzled when his younger brother didn't reply for a while.If this is normal, the other party will definitely have to ask a few questions, whether he is popular or am I popular.Such a boring situation is really rare. "Isn't everything settled? Why are you still keeping a cold face and worrying?"

"No." Bai Yutang replied, turned around and bent down to put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray.

"It's noon soon, your sister-in-law will bring Yun Rui over later, so we can have dinner together." Bai Jintang said with a smile.

"Okay." Bai Yutang finally smiled.

Around eleven o'clock, sister-in-law Xia Xijia brought Yunrui to the company.As soon as Bai Yunrui entered the door, he saw Bai Yutang sitting on the sofa, Sa Yazi ran over, curled up his legs and hopped onto his uncle's lap.

"Uncle, why don't you come to see me?"

"Isn't it here?" Bai Yutang patted his little nephew's head and said with a smile.

"That's not counting. You came to see my dad, not me." Bai Yunrui was almost 5 years old, and he was like a villain.Holding his uncle's neck, he looked unhappy.

Bai Yutang was amused by his little nephew, pinched his little face and said, "Uncle knows he was wrong. To make up for it, uncle will treat you to whatever you want to eat later."

"I want to eat McDonald's. Coke, French fries, and ice cream." Bai Yunrui said a lot without thinking about it.

"Okay, first ask your parents if they agree or not."

Bai Yunrui slid down from his uncle's lap and began to get tired of hugging Xia Xijia's thigh. "Mom, my uncle promised to invite me to McDonald's, so you can go too."

What kind of question is this?Bai Jintang and his wife looked at each other and smiled.Xia Xijia smiled and said: "Then you promise not to bully the little sister in the kindergarten in the future, and I will let you go."

"I didn't bully her." After speaking, Hei Liuliu's eyes rolled, and he immediately changed his words: "Well, I won't bully her in the future. Let's go to McDonald's together." Then he ran to hug the uncle.

Bai Jintang shook his head helplessly, his son completely regarded him as air. "Let's go, I have a meeting in the afternoon, go early and return early." He said, got up and walked to the door, and picked up the coat from the hanger.

Bai Yunrui hadn't seen his brother-in-law for a long time, so he was overthinking it.It stuck to Bai Yutang's body all the way, like a piece of chewing gum.Bai Yutang really loved him and let him ride on his neck, attracting the attention of many company employees along the way.He didn't care, he teased his little nephew, and walked out of the company's gate while talking and laughing.

On the second floor of McDonald's, several people found a place by the window and sat down.Bai Yunrui grabbed the french fries and ate them happily.

"Yun Rui, you can go to his house with your uncle today, and mother will pick you up tomorrow, okay?" Xia Xijia teased her son with a smile.

Upon hearing this, Yun Rui put down the French fries.Looking at her mother with bright eyes, she pursed her mouth and said, "Then are you coming with Dad?"

Bai Jintang finally regained some face, shook his head helplessly and smiled. "Your mother said that she will pick you up tomorrow, so of course you will go by yourself."

"Does my uncle's house have a big forklift?"

Upon hearing this, Bai Yutang smiled and asked, "What forklift?"

"It's just a car with a claw that can reach high."

"He doesn't have one, but ours does." Bai Jintang was overjoyed.For a while, the flat land next to the house was built, and my son was like a demon every day. The first thing he did when he got up every morning was to look at the big crane parked outside the window, and he liked it so much for some reason.

"That's not going." Bai Yunrui said, turning to look at his uncle. "Uncle, I'll go when you have a big forklift at home." He said, grabbed a piece of French fries and started eating.

"Brother, I think Yunrui might become an architect in the future."

"Come on, it's good that he doesn't cause trouble for me."

"When he grows up, if he is really interested, I think it would be good to learn from your Fourth Brother Jiang." Xia Xijia said with a smile.

"That's a good idea." Bai Jintang agreed.

Once adults have children, many topics revolve around the children.Bai Yutang didn't feel bored at all, he liked children and thought they were innocent and cute, especially Yunrui and Lu Zhen, two brats, each more than a lover.

"Speaking of which, I was beaten once when I was young, and it was because of you." Bai Jintang told about his childhood, and he still feels wronged up to now.

Bai Yutang smiled without saying a word.To say that his parents are indeed much more lenient towards him than his brother.With his mother protecting him, no matter how angry his father was with him, he would only yell a few words at most, but never beat him.

"If it wasn't for me, you would have been lost long ago. You might have been abducted by human traffickers, and you might be a thief now." Bai Jintang was still muttering.

"You don't care about me, I know the way too." Bai Yutang quibbled.

"Come on, you, how old were you at that time, you don't even remember anything."

In fact, Bai Yutang didn't have any memory at all, if he did, he remembered it all from his brother's occasional poor vernacular.His brother said that it was winter at that time, and he was not too old, so he ran outside by himself with a scarf.When his brother saw it, he quickly stopped him and asked him where he was going.As a result, he said that he was going out to find his mother. It is said that he was quite like a little adult at the time.Of course his brother didn't let him go out by himself, so he coaxed him, but he didn't listen to anything and just insisted on going out.His brother had to take him out together.It took two bridgeheads to turn back.On the way back, I met an uncle who came out on a bicycle to look for them, and he carried the two of them home without saying a word.The family has been turned upside down, and they thought they had been abducted.Relatives and friends all dispatched to look for them nearby.To say this is true, he really has to thank his brother.

"This is a thank you." Bai Yutang said to Bai Jintang.

"It's been so many years, and now you suddenly realize your conscience?" Bai Jintang glanced at him with contempt on his face. "And just a McDonald's meal, you really know how to send people away."

Xia Xijia sat beside her and pursed her lips and kept laughing.In fact, she has always felt that the two brothers have a good relationship, but they don't usually move around.

"Mom, I'm going to go on the slide." Yun Rui finished eating, and began to rely on others again.

"You two talk, I'll take him downstairs to play for a while." Xia Xijia said, pulling Yun Rui down the stairs.

Seeing the back of his wife walking away with his son, Bai Jintang smiled slightly, turned his head and asked his brother, "Did you go back and think about what I told you when you came last time?" He didn't want to mention the matter, and he felt that it was hopeless, but he still couldn't help asking.

"I said yes, do you believe it?" Bai Yutang picked up the hamburger, put it in his mouth and took a bite.

Bai Jintang was left speechless by what he said, shaking his head and exhaling.He is a sandwich between his father and younger brother.He understands both sides, but both sides are also bullshit.If things go on like this, I don't know when the matter will be resolved.My younger brother's career is now on the right track step by step. Although it can't be said that it is in full swing, it has achieved considerable results.It was too difficult for him to give up.And on the father's side, someone really needs to find someone to take over.My father's health has not been very good in recent years. My mother just called two days ago, saying that my father's old problem of protruding lumbar discs has recurred, and his back pain is excruciating.Lying at home is still not leisurely, a phone call in a while.He also felt helpless when he heard it, but it's a pity that even if he said it out loud, my brother has his own plans, and unless he wants to, no matter what he says, it won't work.

Bai Jintang glanced at his brother, picked up the Coke and took a sip, and said: "I'm on a business trip, take care of your health."

Suddenly there was a bitter taste in my heart.That person had said something like that before, but it was kind of true.Bai Yutang laughed at himself secretly, picked up the napkin and wiped the corner of his mouth, and said, "Yes, I see."

The next day Jiang Dong accompanied his cousin to the hospital to change the dressing.Seeing that he couldn't walk a few steps, he stopped to breathe, his body was not as good as before, and he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart. He should have put him at the hospital door first.

Jiang Dong raised his hand and pressed the elevator button, turned his head to Zhan Zhao and said, "Don't rush to open the bookstore, wait until you get better."

"En." Zhan Zhao replied panting slightly.

The two took the elevator upstairs, and after a while, a female doctor came to change Zhan Zhao's dressing.

"The wound is fine, I'll give you a normal bandage."

"Okay." Zhan Zhao replied.

Jiang Dong looked at a large black and purple lump in the middle of his cousin's calf on the tibia, and the side seemed to be a little swollen, and asked the nurse worriedly, "Are you all right? There seems to be a lump, please show me again."

"It's bound to be swollen after being knocked like this. Go home and apply a hot compress, take some medicine for promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, anti-inflammatory and pain relief, and it will be absorbed slowly."

Before changing the dressing just now, Jiang Dong had already explained his cousin's situation in detail, but he was still a little worried, so he couldn't help reminding him: "He has aplastic anemia, so he is afraid of traumatic infection, you can take a look at it again." .”

"Don't worry, there is no sign of infection in the trauma, and the subcutaneous bleeding will be absorbed by itself in a few days." The female doctor explained patiently with a smile. "If there is a situation, come to the hospital at any time."

"Okay, thank you then."

"You're welcome."

After changing the bandage, the two walked out of the hospital.Jiang Dong asked Zhan Zhao to wait for him at the door, went to the parking lot to pick up the car, and then walked around the front door to pick him up.Zhan Zhao got into the car, smiled gratefully at his cousin, suddenly remembered something, and said, "Cousin, let me take you to the bookstore."

Jiang Dong did have this intention in his heart, but he was a little worried about the other party's body, so he asked hesitantly: "Your body?..."

"It's okay. You drive anyway, and I don't need to walk."

He is going on a business trip tomorrow, and it will be nearly three months before he leaves, so the opening of the book bar may not be in time.To be honest, if he wasn't worried about his cousin's health, he would have spoken by himself.Thinking about it, Jiang Dong turned his head and grinned at the other party. "Okay, then let's go play for a while."

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