i might like my brother

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"Your brother still doesn't answer your phone?" He Jia was spinning the pen beside him, but the paper was passed to the back desk.

"Ah."

"What kind of operation is he doing? Slag you?"

"Let's write your paper." Li Chibin bowed his head to help, and ignored him.

"Ask me..." He Jia didn't write the paper, but continued to change the pen.

--

The room was very dark, Li Tunan sat opposite Li Chibin, reached out his chopsticks and knocked on his bowl:

"Hurry up and eat, I'll send you to study at night after eating."

Li Chibin regained his composure, bowed his head and took two mouthfuls of porridge: "I'm full."

"I'll go back to the house and pack up and leave." Li Chibin said he was going back to the house, but he went up to the second floor and turned directly into Li Tunan's room, picking up the phone on his desk.

Turned to Li Chibin's phone and called, the phone hung up automatically after a few beeps - no one answered.

"What are you doing in my house?" Li Tunan stood still at the door at some point, which startled Li Chibin.

"Nothing." Li Chibin put down the phone guiltily.

"Why, your brother doesn't answer your phone, do you think he will answer me?" Li Tunan didn't rush to leave, but sat by the bed instead: "The previous week was closed for treatment, it is not suitable for external stimulation, so don't call him .”

Seeing that Li Chibin was still worried, Li Tunan continued to retreat: "Let him come back to you when he is done."

"I want to see him."

"Li Chibin," Li Tunan turned his back to him, couldn't see Li Tunan's expression clearly, but his tone didn't sound very good: "You should grow up too."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't you think you interfered too much with Li Jinzhi? Does he have to surround you every day?"

"But me and him..."

"I know you two," Li Tunan straightened his collar, "It's so obvious that I still can't find it? Your father is not an idiot.

"I watched you two grow up. I know Li Jinzhi better than you. This kid is stubborn and refuses to talk about anything... Why do you think he treats you so well? Hitting a broken bone and putting him in the hospital? Why does he hang around you every day? You say he’s in love and he’s in love with you?

"Do you think this is liking? He is a patient. He treats you well just to subconsciously make up for his guilt, but he is right. You shouldn't let him continue to feel guilty."

Li Chibin didn't speak.

"Okay, you can pack up your things and go to class. Don't think about running out of things every day. It's the third year of high school. Take it easy." Li Tunan turned around, turned to Li Chibin, and left.

--

"I'll transfer the money to you. You can buy a pair of couplets and some dried fruit. Forget about firecrackers. Don't let them go." Li Tunan confessed and Li Chibin told him: "Let me see If you buy randomly, your pocket money next month will be gone!"

"Understood." Li Chibin rolled his eyes: "Is my brother going home?"

"I don't know, probably not."

"Then I'll ask myself." Li Chibin knew that Li Jinzhi's closed treatment ended last month, but he never contacted him, and started to fasten the tassel pendant on the sofa.

"As you wish." Li Tunan hung up the phone directly.

Li Chibin first sent a message on WeChat, then thought that Li Jinzhi's WeChat had not been used for a long time, so he called again.

The ringing lasted for a long time, and finally hung up automatically again.

Li Chibin's trembling hands calmed down just like that.

--

The New Year seems to be a one-night event, and it’s over with Li Tunan eating melon seeds and chatting. Li Tunan’s annual vacation is not too leisurely. He has to read company documents at home in the morning, and he can only spare time in the afternoon. Accompanying my son to do housework and occasionally going out for a stroll, I have to be called back to the company from time to time.

But Li Chibin is not without gains, at least he stole the address of the hospital in Li Tunan's room.

Li Tunan carelessly put Li Jinzhi's medical records together with the company documents. Li Chibin looked at the latest update and it was a week ago, and the doctor's evaluation was poor.Li Chibin had memorized the address and phone number of Binnai Hospital, and was going to go back and ask if there was any news there.

Li Tunan returned to the company before his seven-day annual leave was enough, saying that he was still busy recently.

The snow stopped in the afternoon, and Li Chibin took a nap and had nothing to do, but was called out by the aunt next door to help sweep the snow.Li Chibin wore pajamas, plush slippers, and casually put on a down jacket before going out. Although it was cold, it was Li Chibin's habit to be too lazy to change clothes.

Li Chibin held a broom and swept a small path on the road at the door, lazily stepping on the snow, making a creaking sound.What Li Chibin likes to step on most are the crisp avenues covered with dead leaves in autumn and the soft trails covered with snow in late winter.

Hearing a creaking sound not far away, he looked up and realized that it was He Jia.

"How did you come?"

"Come to your house for dinner, I called you several times and you didn't answer." He Jia said in a high-sounding way: "Isn't it your birthday today, the day before the Lantern Festival."

"Ah? I forgot." Seeing that the sweeping was almost done, Li Chibin went back to the house with the broom in his hands: "Let me tell you first, no one in our family can cook, so we can go out to eat when you come."

"Hey, the world of two, how wonderful." He Jia gave him the game controller he brought: "Didn't you say that your original one was broken, and it happened to be a birthday present for you to get a new one."

"When did your conscience find out?"

"Cut," He Jia grabbed Li Chibin's arm and went out, "Hurry up and treat me to dinner, I'm starving!"

Li Chibin lazily agreed to "OK, OK", and went back to the house, put on a down jacket and sweatpants over his pajamas, and was ready to go out.

He Jia looked around in Li Chibin's room, and Li Chibin came over and told him to leave. He Jia regained his composure and waved the ID card he was holding: "Brother Bin, the photo on your ID card is so cute."

"Nonsense." Li Chibin raised his eyelids, put on his sneakers and went to press the elevator, but he didn't see He Jia put his ID card in his pocket by the way.

--

"What to eat?"

"Hot pot?" Li Chibin tucked his hands in his pockets, greedily blowing on the heater and air conditioner in the taxi.

"Success, you have the final say."

There weren't too many people in the hotpot restaurant at the moment, so Li Chibin took a piece of mutton and cooked it, poked it in the sesame sauce a few times and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Do you want beer?" He Jia opened a bottle, weighed it and asked him, and poured it into the glass in front of Li Chibin after getting tacit approval.

"Hey, your brother has been away for a long time, and there is no call, so you don't miss him?"

"Nonsense, but I think it's Li Tunan who's obstructing it. Maybe Li Jinzhi has changed his phone a long time ago. It turns out that that one can't get through." Jinzhi will affect his treatment, who knows if he will tell Li Jinzhi, 'Don't contact your brother, it will affect his study'? I know Li Tunan too well, he can indeed do this."

"As long as you can figure it out yourself," He Jia raised his glass, "Why don't you ask him face to face?"

"What face to face?"

"Actually, this is my birthday present for you." He Jia fumbled in his bag for a long time, and threw a ticket on the table. It was an [-] o'clock flight tonight.

"Are you crazy? It's already seven twenty!" Li Chibin's first reaction was that it was almost late.

"Don't be afraid, I'm holding your passport and ID card." He Jia continued to take out the ID card he just found in Li Chibin's bedroom from his bag: "And it's more than ten hours later than ours, you Never miss your birthday."

"Dare you?" He Jia scooped up the potatoes and flipped them in the chili oil.

"But I'm still wearing pajamas!"

He Jia choked on a mouthful of pepper and coughed for a long time: "You just come out to eat with me in your pajamas?"

"Forget it, it's not illegal to fly in pajamas." Li Chibin convinced himself, took a lot of documents on the table and ran away, scaring the waiter into thinking that he was trying to escape the order.

Li Chibin walked to the door and turned to He Jia and said, "Thank you."

He Jia Chili was still choking in his throat, and waved him away.

--

The voice of the female announcer on the plane was gentle and sweet, reminding passengers of precautions.Sitting next to her was a little girl with black double ponytails, wearing a pink cotton padded jacket, took off her earphones and asked Li Chibin:

"Wouldn't it be cold if you wore that?"

Li Chibin lowered his head only to find that part of his pajamas was exposed, and hurriedly straightened his collar embarrassingly.

The girl deliberately struck up a conversation with him, turned her head and continued to ask him:

"I'm going to visit my relatives, where are you going?"

Li Chibin looked down at the plane rising slowly. In the dark night outside the window, the city's red lights converged into a large net enough to cover the surface, like red magma gushing out of an ancient cave.

Li Chibin was fascinated by it, so long that the girl turned her head inexplicably, intending not to answer him anymore.Li Chibin showed her a nice smile:

"I'm going to see my boyfriend."