silent garden

At 06:30 in the morning, Zhou Huailuo's cell phone rang for an unknown number of times.The mobile phone was on Xia Qi's table, Xia Qi took it over and glanced at it, saw the word "Qiong" on it, pushed Zhou Huailuo to wake up, and handed him the mobile phone.

"Your brother's phone number."

"Hmm." Zhou Huailuo pressed the answer button and muttered, "Hello?"

"Zhou Huailuo! Where did you go!!" There was a loud roar from the other side, which sounded like a heart-rending sound.

Through the handset of the mobile phone, Xia Qi was shocked by Zhou Huaiqiong's exasperated and desperate voice.Feel bad.

The parties involved were quite calm and calm.Zhou Huailuo wiped away the confusion of just waking up, his face was clear and his eyes were light.However, when he spoke, his tone of voice was cheerful and sweet.

"I'm here with Xia Qi... I was wrong, brother. I drank some beer last night, and you know that I poured a glass of beer. If I get dizzy, I can't go back, and I can't drive after drinking, right... I drank too much, I didn't see the incoming call, my phone is on mute, the laboratory must be muted... I know, I know, I will wait for you here, and the location will be sent to you immediately, bye."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Huailuo looked up at Xia Qi: "I'll send the location to my brother, is that okay?"

Xia Qi: "... yes."

Zhou Huailuo stood up on his elbows, sitting on his two calves in a naive and alluring posture, bowed his head and made a serious positioning.After posting, he looked up and saw Xia Qi staring at him.

"What's the matter?" He seemed to see through Xia Qi, and said, "You haven't seen me lie, are you surprised?"

I have never seen it.

Mingming has a cold face, but he speaks like a baby with all his might.Obviously able to drink, but claiming to pour a cup.Mingming turned on the ringtone of the mobile phone, nonsense that the mobile phone is muted.These are all Zhou Huailuo that Xia Qi has never seen before.

When I woke up, I felt that my brother had changed.

But Xia Qi doesn't like to find out other people's reasons, nor does he like to comment on other people's words and deeds.Shaking his head, he said, "It's okay, I'll make breakfast. It will take half an hour, and you can sleep a little longer."

Then go to wash.

Zhou Huailuo's words came from behind: "I'll charge it with your charger for a while!"

"Up to you." He turned on the faucet, and Zhou Huailuo said something else, but he didn't hear clearly.After washing up, I went downstairs to make breakfast.

Zhou Huaiqiong came from nowhere, and arrived half an hour later.

Xia Qi just set the table.Hearing the doorbell, he went out to open the door, and bumped into a wall of people head-on.Taking a closer look, Zhou Huaiqiong's complexion was terribly gloomy, with bloodshot eyes faintly visible in his eyes, as if he hadn't slept all night.

……Excuse me.Xia Qi silently apologized in his heart.I didn't say it because I felt that I hadn't done anything wrong.

Zhou Huaiqiong asked: "Zhou Huailuo is..."

"inside."

Hearing the answer, Zhou Huaiqiong suddenly relaxed his tense expression and nodded.Taking a breath, he raised his hand and patted his face, as if to relax his expression.It really worked. After taking the photo, his whole face looked less tired and more polite.

"He didn't bother you last night, did he? He's always a little unreasonable with people he knows and trusts. I hope he didn't bother you too much."

This appearance is similar to that encounter at the top hotel in the city center.It's just that he didn't pay attention to Xia Qi at all at that time, but now because of his brother, his attitude is so solemn that there is even a hint of respect.

Xia Qi nodded slightly, "It's okay, there's no trouble."

As a result, this breakfast became a three-person meal.After breakfast, Zhou Huailuo was pushed into the car by Zhou Huaiqiong, who took care of him and sent him to school.Xia Qi helped drive Zhou Huailuo's car to the school.

He wasn't in front of them, otherwise he would definitely refresh his understanding of his senior brother - Zhou Huailuo, who had carefully prepared for his brother last night to get drunk on someone else's birthday, was in front of Zhou Huaiqiong himself, and he couldn't tell that he was unhappy at all.He also asked a lot of questions about the birthday party with great interest.

"...So, sister Chen is very happy to be coaxed by you?"

"Very happy." Zhou Huaiqiong raised her lips slightly, it was a confident smile that was determined to win.But he didn't seem to want to talk about it, and immediately changed the subject, "Zhou Huailuo, you have to promise me that this kind of situation will not happen again in the future."

"What?" Zhou Huailuo looked innocent, blinking, trying to be cute and obedient.

Zhou Huaiqiong caught a glimpse of his appearance from the corner of his eye, and he couldn't help softening up: "Don't answer the phone like this again, if you want to hang out with others, send me a message first, okay?"

Zhou Huailuo lowered his eyes and muttered: "I didn't mean it, I didn't have time to think about it..."

The side face of his lowered head looked aggrieved, weak and sad, and his slightly closed eyelashes covered his eyes, as if he was trying to hide his deepest emotions.

Zhou Huaiqiong took a look, and her heart softened even more.

There was a moment of silence in the car.

After a long time, Zhou Huaiqiong touched the back of Zhou Huailuo's head with a divine hand, and murmured, "I'm sorry, baby, I'm sorry...I can't..."

"I know." Zhou Huailuo shook his head, just avoiding Zhou Huaiqiong's palm.He tilted his head, with a bright smile on his face, and clear and clean eyes, "If you really like her, I can change it."

"Baby……"

"Stop calling me that. If I change it, you change it too. Start today, start now, and start with the next sentence."

"precious……"

"parking."

"What?" Zhou Huaiqiong thought he had heard wrong.

Zhou Huailuo put his hand on the doorknob and repeated, "Stop."

He looked so determined, the clarity in his eyes was withdrawn and turned into normal.That usual is very dazzling.Because that made Zhou Huaiqiong feel that he was nothing special in his heart, just his elder brother.An older brother who is just like the rest of the family.

This is wrong, he opened his mouth and said, "Why do you have to stop? I'll take you to school."

"I'm not a child anymore." Zhou Huailuo said calmly, "I don't need my parents to send me to school anymore. And you see, I have a car and can drive. Recently, my driving skills are getting better and better, and I can't be troubled in the morning and evening rush hours. I."

"But……"

"Stop the car quickly, I'm going to drive my own car." Zhou Huailuo moved his hand on the doorknob, Zhou Huaiqiong was startled when he thought he was going to open the door just like that.Hit the emergency brake to stop.

Zhou Huailuo immediately opened the door and went down.He paused outside the door, bent over and waved his hand into the car.There was no special expression, and he didn't speak.Then, he stopped Xia Qi behind him.Opening the door and getting into the car, he slipped away without any hesitation.

After a while, the car drove past Zhou Huaiqiong's car.It was actually Zhou Huailuo who was in the driver's seat.He watched the car go away and finally disappeared from sight.He sat slumped in the car, feeling his heart ached to be broken.

They both knew this day would come and each was ready for it.But no matter how I prepared, I still couldn't stop my heartbreak.

His beloved little baby must be heartbroken now.

Xia Qi didn't ask anything.After changing the car to the school, the journey took 10 minutes, and Zhou Huailuo drove quietly for 10 minutes.It was still early when I got to school.After opening the door of the laboratory, Zhou Huailuo locked himself in a small instrument room.

"Dong dong." It was almost time for the official start of work, Xia Qi went to knock on the door, "Brother..."

"Let me stay a little longer, so I won't delay today's progress." Zhou Huailuo's voice was low and depressed.

"……"All right.Xia Qi let go of his hands and gave up.

Zhou Huailuo really just stayed for a while longer.At eight o'clock sharp, he opened the door and came out.His face was sullen, his eyes were red.He and Xia Qi looked at each other, and the corner of his mouth pulled, not hiding his grievance at all.But other than that, there is no more performance.

He took out a mobile phone charger from his pocket, connected it with a data cable, and stuffed it to Xia Qi: "When I unplug the battery, I get used to it, so I put it on. Return it to you."

Xia Qi took it and stuffed it into his pocket.

Zhou Huailuo said: "I saw that your mobile phone was automatically turned off in the morning, you should charge it quickly, in case you are also found by someone."

Hearing this, Xia Qi paused slightly.Nodded, "Yeah".Then he went to charge the phone with kindness.

After half a minute, reboot.The scene is just like Zhou Huailuo's calculation.Three missed calls from Fei Tianlan, nearly [-] WeChat messages, rich in content, including text, audio, pictures, small videos... In short, it is quite spectacular.

Xia Qi glanced at the information roughly.

Fei Tianlan initially asked him where he was, what he was doing, and why he didn't answer the phone.Later, it seemed that I didn't care about this anymore, and started sending him pictures and small videos endlessly.Half of it is a beautiful landscape photo, and the other half is a photo of an engineering site.There are also a few withdrawal records, I don't know what they are.

By sending these things over, Fei Tianlan wanted to tell him that things would go well according to his visual inspection, and he wanted to share his joy with him.

In the past, he complained to him about the ups and downs of his career, the hypocrisy and sinisterness of the workplace, and the group of ambitious "assholes" in the Sanjiang headquarters.This is the first time he is elated to share success.

Xia Qi looked at these messages repeatedly, feeling sour and sweet in his heart.

"I'm so envious." Suddenly, Zhou Huailuo drifted past.

Xia Qi didn't look back, and quickly blocked the phone screen.

Zhou Huailuo said aggrieved and resentful again: "It's really unfair, I will tell you everything, but you won't show me two messages."

Xia Qi was speechless.Not only does he not have the experience of talking about youthful thoughts with others, he also has no interest in exchanging youthful thoughts with others.

"You didn't tell me yourself. You told me when I told you that I saw it. If someone else told you that he saw it, you would tell others from the bottom of your heart."

As he spoke, he quickly typed "Congratulations. I'm going to work first." Then he threw the phone into the drawer.Only then did he turn around and look up to meet Zhou Huailuo's frustrated face.

"You are so cruel." Zhou Huailuo said.

"Coldness makes people recover quickly." Xia Qi slapped a notebook on his chest even more ruthlessly, "The same goes for work."

Zhou Huailuo left sadly.First, he took two steps towards Tian Hua, thought for a while, and maybe felt that the new junior brother was not a good person to confide in, so he sighed, then turned around and walked towards the small instrument room.

Xia Qi looked at his back silently, with sympathy in his eyes that Zhou Huailuo wouldn't show in front of him.

And, envy.

People see others as good.Zhou Huaiqiong stayed up all night looking for his younger brother.Whether it's the gut-wrenching roar, the tired and red eyes, or the subtle adjustments that are trying to show a good state, in Xia Qi's eyes, they are all moving and enviable.

He thought that instant gratification might not work.

Because people are too greedy.When children see other people's good toys outside, they will want to have them themselves.When he saw other people being affectionate and loving, he also began to want Fei Tianlan to keep him in his heart.

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