The two elder brothers slept in it, and the two younger ones were tinkering with making candied haws in the kitchen. The last time I made it was just boiled sugar and sprinkled with sesame seeds. This time I upgraded, Chi Cheng also ordered chocolate, which was melted into chocolate sauce and wrapped with strawberries and orange slices, and put it in another box to freeze.
The whole room smelled of caramel and chocolate. The two professors of Chinese medicine glanced at it from time to time, but they didn't say anything or chatter.
Tao Huainan's own is also frozen, it won't taste good if it is not frozen.
It took several hours for Tao Xiaodong to come out, and when he came out, he closed the door lightly.
Papa Tang asked, "Are you still sleeping?"
Tao Xiaodong nodded and said with a smile, "I'm tired, so I have to sleep until tomorrow morning."
"Are you asleep too?" Tom said next to him, "I won't be able to sleep again later at night."
"I squinted for a while and didn't sleep well." Tao Xiaodong replied.
In terms of sleeping, Tang Suoyan is the eldest child in the family. He always has to be accompanied by someone when he sleeps. When he is not at work, when does he sleep and when does Xiaodong accompany him.
A few years ago when Chi Cheng was not around, the two of them would sleep in the afternoon on weekends, and Tao Huainan would also sleep when he was bored, and the three of them would sleep all afternoon.
Many weekends have been so deserted.
"Where's the candied haws?" Tao Xiaodong asked.
Chi Cheng glanced at the refrigerator and raised his chin. Tao Huainan couldn't see his movements, but he was also miraculously consistent. He raised his chin coldly in the general direction of the refrigerator.
Tao Xiaodong burst into laughter with a "puchi", and when he stood up and passed by, he pressed on the heads of the two of them, and said, "Just pretend you two."
Xiaodong squatted in front of the refrigerator and ate a few. The two former professors couldn't bear to eat cold food like this. After a few words of advice, they went back to their room to rest.
"The chocolate is delicious," Tao Xiaodong was quite surprised, "it's not too sweet, I thought it was a panic."
When Tao Huainan heard it, he turned to Chi Cheng: "He ate my chocolate again?"
Chi Cheng said, "Do a lot."
"Tao Xiaodong, you're kind of cool." Tao Huainan didn't know what to say about him, "Don't you like candied dates?"
"I can eat whatever I want," Tao Xiaodong closed the lid and put it back after eating, and went to the bathroom to wash up again, "I've run out of food."
"Brother!" Tao Huainan shook Chi Cheng's wrist.
Chi Cheng didn't show any expression on his face, but the cold heart on his face made him soften, Chi Cheng said, "Brother is teasing you."
Tao Xiaodong has not been serious all year round, especially in the past two years.
When Tao Huainan didn't have a younger brother, he still looked like a brother. Now that the younger brother is back, not only Tao Huainan is happy to see him, but Tao Xiaodong also seems to be younger.
"Don't just focus on what's in front of you, baby," Tao Xiaodong said to Tao Huainan when he came back from the wash and sat next to him, "Brother Ku will leave in a few days, and there will still be only two brothers and you at home."
Tao Huainan turned his head away, not wanting to hear this.
"When it's cold, windy, rainy, I'll have to pick you up. If you don't get along with me now, you won't be able to get a taxi." Tao Xiaodong said leaning there.
Tao Huainan leaned against Chi Cheng and stopped talking.
What Xiaodong said was right. After the year is over, those who should go to school should continue to go to school, and those who should go back to work should also go back.
No matter how reluctant Tao Huainan was to bear Chi Cheng back to Beijing, it is impossible for Chi Cheng not to leave forever.
Chi Cheng went back on the seventh day of the lunar new year, just like when he came back, he left with his bag on his back. Tao Huainan said he was going to see him off, but Chi Cheng refused and told him not to make trouble.
Tao Huainan didn't appear too disappointed, although he looked like a child when he was around Chi Cheng, but in fact that was intentional to show his side, and when Chi Cheng was about to leave in the morning, he still smiled and helped pack his things.
"I'll find you when I have time." Tao Huainan whispered.
Chi Cheng said "hmm", rolled up the two T-shirts and put them in the bag, and said, "If you go, I'll kill you."
Tao Huainan laughed haha, forgot his head and leaned on Chicheng's side, his voice became softer: "Then what should I do if I miss you?"
"Who do you miss?" Chi Cheng glanced at him, "Miss me?"
Tao Huainan nodded and said, "Yeah."
"I can't think about it." Chi Cheng said flatly, "I don't know you well."
Tao Huainan still smiled, tilted his head and asked upwards, "Have we not made up yet?"
"Otherwise." Chi Cheng said.
Tao Huainan said, "Okay," he lifted Chi Cheng's clothes and kissed him on the stomach: "It's not good."
After Chi Cheng packed his things, he zipped it up and put the bag aside. Tao Huainan sighed, and asked, "Then if I send you a message, can you reply me?"
Chi Cheng said, "It depends on my mood."
Tao Huainan said "OK", stood up and pulled Chi Cheng to the wall next to the door. The brothers didn't come over in the kitchen, so Tao Huainan hugged Chi Cheng's waist and kissed him quietly.
The little brother left, and once Tao Huainan returned to before liberation, all the good times during this period were gone.
Every day I go to the hospital by myself, and I call a car to come back after get off work. Sleeping at night hugging the pillow by myself, no one can complain when I am angry.
A puppy without a little brother is the loneliest. It has already adapted to this kind of life before, but it is always uncomfortable to come back after a good taste.
And the little brother is really cold, Tao Huainan always has a way to soften his heart when he is at home, but now that he is so far away, Tao Huainan has nowhere to use his tricks, Chicheng doesn't often reply to his messages.
It seemed that the month in between had passed by in vain, and it was back to before Chi Cheng came back this time.
—The candied haws were eaten by my brother, and I was not willing to eat them, so he ate them all for me.
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Chi Cheng didn't return, and he didn't know if he saw it or not. Tao Huainan picked up his mobile phone and arrived at the hospital. After changing his clothes, he became the gentle and steady brother Tao again.
Chi Cheng's cell phone rang twice here, took it out of his pocket to look at it, and yelled in front of him: "Chi Cheng, leave your cell phone to me!"
Chi Cheng lowered his eyes and picked up his phone again.
The juniors from the first research and the second research are all there, and the two doctoral brothers above are also there. The boss has called people out for a meeting in the past two days.
"If you look at your phone again, you'll stand outside! You're the only one with a phone!" The leader has a bad temper, and he'll blow up at any point. Fan Guo said that he's just a half-crazy academic.
Fan Guo shrank his neck and giggled happily, and said, "Boss, scold him!"
Tao Huainan confiscated the messages all afternoon, and there was no reply every time he looked at his phone, thinking that it was really not good if he didn't reconcile, and he didn't have the status to make a phone call.
Xiaodong's message arrived on time: I will pick you up and wait.
Tao Huainan: Hey.
Xiaodong glanced at his reply, smiled and put down the phone.
The child is happy every day. Tao Xiaodong has not seen him in this state for several years, and now he feels at ease when he sees him happy. In fact, before Chi Cheng left, they chatted once, but Tao Huainan didn't know about it.
Tao Huainan went to the hospital that day, and Chi Cheng went to the store.
There are few people in the store at this time, and none of the out-of-towners have come back. Tao Xiaodong didn't make an appointment with a client that day, and the two brothers chatted for three hours on the fourth floor, which was deserted.
This was supposed to be a somewhat awkward conversation, but there was nothing embarrassing or not between the brothers, and if Xiaodong didn't want to be awkward, the atmosphere wouldn't calm down.
Tao Huainan can speak, but he may still be worse than his brother.
"This small talk between our brothers has been postponed for several years." Tao Xiaodong put his arms back on his arms and looked sideways at his younger brother. "Tell me? What are you two brats doing behind my back?"
Chi Cheng laughed before speaking.
He seldom did this. He first smiled, and before he spoke, his attitude softened a bit.
"Why do you smile when I let you talk?" Tao Xiaodong raised one corner of his mouth, "I have never seen you so willing to smile."
Chi Cheng called out "Brother".
Tao Xiaodong replied: "Say."
"It's just like that, I can't hide it from you." Chi Cheng put his hands in his jacket pockets, and he always looked small in front of his brother, smiling a little.
"What's going on? I can't guess." Tao Xiaodong shook his head and said deliberately, "I don't understand."
Xiaodong had to say something clear, so Chi Cheng could only say, "I can't let Tao Huainan go."
Tao Xiaodong looked at him, and it took several seconds before he put away the smile on his face and became serious.
"Brother Ku, you've grown up so much, I don't seem to have talked with you about your relationship much." Tao Xiaodong sat up straight and said, "At first I thought you were young, so I couldn't talk about it, but then you got older, and you left before you had time to chat. .”
Chi Cheng sat by and listened, and said "um".
"You haven't come back these few years. I know you have it in your heart. I raised you. I know what you are like best." Tao Xiaodong put his hand on the back of Chi Cheng's head and rubbed his short hair, "How about I'm not going to fly to Beijing to lay the steps for you, if you can really put it down, it's not you."
Chi Cheng didn't say a word, nor did he refute his brother's words.
"Brother has never thought of taking care of the matter between you and Tao Huainan. I haven't thought about it before, and I don't want to do it now." Tao Xiaodong said, "I'm most at ease in whoever owns Tao Huainan in this world. I have to arrange it." The second place. The little annoying spirit was brought up by you, and this will not change at any time."
"I didn't stop you when you left. One is that it's really good to go to school, that's where you should go. The other is that the two of you are tied too tightly. You haven't seen the outside world, and you haven't seen anyone else. It's not impossible to be together, but if it's because you haven't seen others and you're so tied together, that's wrong."
Tao Xiaodong spoke to him sentence by sentence. At this time, Xiaodong was talking to his younger brother as an older brother.
"Brother asked you to come back in the past five years, not to let you come back and take care of Tao Huainan. He has grown up and no one needs to take care of him. Brother asked you because this is your home. Whether you are angry or hate, your home is here. Here, you have to come back sooner or later."
"Now that you're back, you've gone outside in the past few years, you've made the breakthrough, and everyone else has seen it. Now that you say you still can't let Tao Huainan go, then I'll believe you." Xiaodong said When I was here, I raised my eyebrows and smiled, and asked Chi Cheng, "Is it more annoying if you haven't met? What's there to worry about about annoying people."
Chi Cheng also laughed, and said, "It's not that annoying."
"But brother Ku, I just want to mention one point, you should understand it in your heart." Tao Xiaodong became serious again, and said to Chicheng, "The reason you said 'can't let go' is because you have been in control of his habits for so many years and feel that He has to be yours. If you can’t see him getting sick and suffering, just let it go like this. It’s another kind of embarrassment, and you can’t change anyone from the bottom of your heart. Some words are hypocritical, as long as you understand it.”
Chi Cheng looked at Xiaodong and said, "I understand."
"Don't tell me, as long as you really understand."
Tao Xiaodong's hands were still on Chi Cheng's head, stroking gently. They used to lead Chi Cheng home in winter, and held Chi Cheng's hand in summer nights, walking through the neighborhood without street lights. At that time, he hugged Tao Huainan with one arm and held him with the other.
"Brother believes you are in love, and Tao Huainan is also in love." Tao Xiaodong tugged at Chi Cheng's ear, treated him like a child, and said with a chuckle, "But feelings, after all, have variables."
"I hope you two are doing well, don't let your relationship deteriorate and you don't go away for many years, because I'm his brother."
"But I also have to tell you, it's not easy to spend a lifetime with a blind person. One day I really don't like it that much. I don't like it anymore. I feel tired. Then don't tie yourself up. What should I do? I hope you will Let yourself have a good life, don't feel wronged, because I am also your brother."