Fragrance of peaches and plums

It was too late to send Xia Zhengyu home.I talked with grandma for a while, time passed, and Wen Xi was about to go back.

In the past, Xia Zhengyu didn't think there was anything bad about this big city.Ever since Wen Xi resigned from his job and went back to his own home, he suddenly realized that the city was too big and troublesome. The one-way journey between the two districts was more than an hour, which squeezed their limited time even more pitifully.

"I don't want you to leave, why don't you stay at my house, grandma knows everything anyway." Xia Zhengyu went downstairs with Wen Xi on the pretext of throwing out the trash.

Wen Xi smiled and said: "That's not good, you should be considerate to your grandma, she is already very enlightened."

Xia Zhengyu mumbled something vaguely, but Wen Xi couldn't catch it, and asked him what he said, but he clearly said "nothing", and then asked, "Have you thought it through yet?"

"What?" Wen Xi was a little dazed at first.

Xia Zhengyu said quickly, "Lu Huaiting's proposal."

oh.It was two weeks ago.On the first day of school, Lu Huaiting mentioned it, but Wen Xi never said a word. Although Xia Zhengyu told himself not to interfere, he was always curious.Just holding back for half the night, I finally thought, it's always okay to ask.

"I remember that his family was quite rich, and his business was quite big. In the past... Anyway, he used to talk a lot." Xia Zhengyu said such things reluctantly.

Wen Xi said: "I won't go."

Hearing this, Xia Zhengyu was startled.I didn't expect him to be so decisive, but I was puzzled: "Why? Although I don't think he is a good person, he is right. One is your mother and the other is your brother."

"Zhengyu, do you believe that the same blood is not necessarily the same species." Wen Xi turned to look at him.

There are words in these words, and there are stories in the words.Xia Zhengyu moved his lips, but didn't speak casually. He went to the trash can to throw away the trash in his hand, and then walked back.

"You're not good with them, are you?"

Wen Xi raised the corner of his mouth: "It's not bad, it's just that I don't belong to the same people."

Xia Zhengyu hesitated for a moment, made up his mind, and asked, "Then are you willing to tell me?"

Wen Xi raised his hand with a smile, and lightly squeezed his shoulder: "I'm willing to tell you anything."

Thus, Xia Zhengyu heard Wenxi's childhood growth story for the first time, and knew the reason why his family became what it is today, and also knew that he and Lu Huaiting were really good brothers who were really close to each other.

All teenagers have grand fantasies about the future. Wen Xi said that he and Lu Huaiting once scribbled their blueprints with colored chalk on the roof.The age difference between the brothers, who are six or seven years old, has hardly been reflected for a long time.They receive the same social information, exchange views with each other, engage in pure debate for different views, and enjoy it equally.

He also once thought that he and his mother were similar.Compared with his father, he felt that his mother's aggressiveness and chicness were more genes in his body.In the future, in society, becoming a successful and powerful person like my mother is the life I yearn for.

Until the summer when he finished high school, he went to Dai Wanqing's company for an internship, and found out how Dai Wanqing's success was built.

"What is it?" Xia Zhengyu asked subconsciously.

Wen Xi took a deep breath and smiled.Already peaceful in the smile - the self he remembered was not smiling peacefully.

"Capital grows by sucking blood. I may have been unlucky. When I first came into contact with this society, I saw the scene where my mother indirectly contaminated human life for her own benefit. At that time, I didn't bear it. Now, I don't want to fight with the tiger." accomplice."

Dai Wanqing used to be in his heart, perhaps not a good mother in the traditional sense, but an admirable woman.She is beautiful and generous, elegant and decent, not close to her children, but gentle.

If you look at her by the standards of an independent woman, then she is perfect.In particular, she followed Lu Huaiting's father, not as a dependent, but as a person in power, which is even more admirable.What outsiders say about her is full of awe.

Therefore, he used to be proud of his mother and full of admiration.Because of this, when his mother showed her cold and even inhuman side, her image collapsed extremely thoroughly, and the impact on him was extremely serious.

That year, during his second week in the company, a project that required the demolition of an old factory came before him.The workers in the factory shouted that they could not get the compensation they deserved, and they tried their best to prevent the demolition of the factory. For this reason, they took turns to occupy the factory.

One night, he followed a supervisor to persuade the workers, and the negotiations fell into a stalemate soon after.The supervisor called Dai Wanqing for instructions. Before the call was over, a worker came with an oil drum and threatened with extreme emotion that they would die together.

"Then how do you solve it?" Xia Zhengyu asked nervously, his heart beating in shock.

Wen Xi bit her teeth, with a tense expression, and said, "We withdrew, but the factory still caught fire."

"Who did it?"

"Worker."

"You quit, why do they want to?"

Wen Xi held his breath for a moment, and said: "They are too easily stimulated, and it is too easy to commit impulses, but the final responsibility is hard to blame. But when bloodshed happens, both sides will take a step back, and the final winner is still the company."

Xia Zhengyu looked at him: "Victory is based on human life, they are equivalent to killing people."

Wen Xi was silent.

"You can't agree with this kind of practice, so you alienate them?"

Wen Xi replied: "Not at that time."

Huge shock and questioning held in my heart for a long time, and the first person Wen Xi talked about and tried to discuss was Lu Huaiting.

However, he soon discovered that Lu Huaiting had no sense of guilt about this, but calmly deciphered it, and came to the conclusion: the reason why the workers were so extreme that they finally leaked the oil drums and caused a fire must be "our side" that contributed to the flames.

"12 years old, he was only 12 years old at that time." Wen Xi opened his mouth and took a big breath, as if to clear his mind, and said, "He proudly praised my mother's methods, saying that she was thunderous and courageous, and her courage was amazing."

That's Lu Huaiting's nature, treating human life like nothing.Xia Zhengyu thought.

He paused, and reached out to hold Wen Xi's hand: "So, when I told you that he went to stimulate my grandma, you believed my judgment, right?"

Wen Xi curled up his five fingers and clasped his five fingers: "I believe it. I know, he did it on purpose, and he can do it."

After hearing this, Xia Zhengyu sighed and nodded.

Visually checking that there was no one around, he approached Wen Xi and hugged her neck lightly.After nightfall at the end of August, the air began to be cold, and the two of them approached each other, feeling a bit of warmth in contrast.

"Wenxi, wait for me. I will grow up. In the future, I will not be worse than Lu Huaiting, and I will definitely help you."

Hearing this, Wen Xi smiled, and raised his hand to touch his neck: "Why do you compare yourself to him?"

"I've outmatched him, and I can guarantee that you won't be snatched away by him." Xia Zhengyu said with a cold snort.

This is the cutest thing about him, he is not falsely modest about his intelligence, nor is he guilty of hiding his childishness, he dares to show others anything.After hearing this, Wen Xi gave a "huh" in approval.

"Why do you really agree?" Xia Zhengyu stepped back and stared at Wen Xi.

Wen Xi: "If you think so, I can only follow you."

Xia Zhengyu: "You... oh, forget it, it's almost nine o'clock, you should go."

The story was told for half an hour without knowing it, and it was indeed a bit late.Xia Zhengyu pushed him out of the community, the two said goodbye on the side of the road, and went back separately.

After telling Xia Zhengyu about the past, Wen Xi's own mood was also a little inexplicably blocked in the review.The mother and younger brother he met at the age of seventeen or eighteen was his deep understanding of the multifaceted nature of people.

Because of his handsome appearance, his growth experience was not very friendly.Therefore, he is clear about the fact that people are bad.But he always thought that his blood relatives, decent blood relatives with good looks, should not be bad people.

However, it turns out that they are a more cruel species.

This kind of cruelty was not only for outsiders, but also for him - there was one more thing that he didn't tell Xia Zhengyu.

Two years after the factory incident, when he fell ill and was admitted to the hospital, the disease was misdiagnosed at first, and he was given a three-month death notice.At that time, Dai Wanqing resolutely gave up on him.

She was so methodical. She inquired clearly about the elder son's condition and expenses in the hospital, and then made some estimates, then left "enough expenses" and fled, unwilling to spend any more time for her child.

At that time, Wen Xi recalled the tenderness and beauty of his mother in his past life, only to realize that there was no element of love in it.Yes, just appreciation for his intelligence and potential.And what maintains their warm and affectionate appearance is the mother's expectation that he will become an arm in the future.

——He is not a son, he is a usable talent to be cultivated.

The same goes for Lu Huaiting.When he knew that his brother's life was not long, and the future they envisioned could not be realized together, he seldom appeared in the hospital.The older brother, and not the older brother, is the partner of choice.

And obviously he was the one who betrayed the blueprint and road drawn by the two of them first, and later he hated Wen Xi for treating a stranger whom he had never met before treating him better than himself.

When Wen Xi was thinking deeply, he felt strange, why didn't he discover Lu Huaiting's thinking in the past?This is obviously very unruly and contrary to common sense logic.

This point, has never been able to figure it out.Probably, it's a brother filter.

Later, Xia Zhengyu's mother found out about his illness and rediagnosed him, only to find out that it was just a common anemia-type disease.There is a possibility of death, but with proper treatment and recovery, recovery can be achieved.

During that time, half of his desire to survive came from the accumulated resistance to his mother and younger brother for two years and the immediate hatred, and half came from Xia Zhengyu's mother's positive encouragement to him, and the letters he kept writing to Xia Zhengyu.

He didn't know the name of the child of the doctor who saved his physical life and mental collapse. He only knew that it was a brat who had a real mother's love but was misunderstood and separated from his feelings.

He called him X, and in the last sentence of every letter, he would tell this X who made a mistake, don't let his life paper be marked with such a big X.

He didn't know whether Xia Zhengyu still blamed his parents later, and whether he kept that fork in his life.Therefore, this matter was temporarily swallowed by him in the embrace just now.