Before going to bed at night, there are two quilts symbolically placed on the bed. The half-children sleep dishonestly, fearing that the two of them will be robbed by the cold at night. When they woke up in the morning, the two children were tightly wrapped in one quilt, and the other quilt was rolled into a strip inside the bed against the wall. Not to mention being quilt, even Tao Huainan's old blankets were kicked out of the bed and piled aside.
Tao Xiaodong looked at them at the door. Tao Huainan was curled up in a sleep, with half of his face buried in the quilt, only the top of his head was exposed. Chi Ku stretched out one arm outside the quilt and put it on Tao Huainan's body, as if wrapping it around or hugging her.
Tao Xiaodong left early and didn't call them both before he left. He has to go to the law firm in the morning, and he made an appointment yesterday.
Chi Ku came back and Tao Huainan slept so comfortably. Every cell in his body felt safe. No matter how he turned over, he would not be separated from him. There was always one piece that would be next to him. This sense of security made him feel safe all night long. Falling asleep, not even having a dream.
Chi Ku woke up earlier, and the time he went back made him need to be vigilant all the time, his nerves were tense at all times, so it was difficult to fall asleep. Tao Huainan slept warmly next to him, and the pajamas on his body were also warm and fluffy. I don't know when I turned over and twisted the pajamas, and piled them on the top half, revealing half of my belly.
Winter pajamas are thick, and it is uncomfortable to pile them up like this, and it makes you panic. Tao Huainan fell asleep uncomfortably, frowning slightly and moaning, rubbing his upper body on the bed but failed to get his clothes off.
Chi Ku reached in and pulled his clothes off, but Tao Huainan couldn't pull them off because he was pressing him sideways. Chi Ku lightly pressed his back and buckled himself, Tao Huainan fell asleep and said "uh", Chi Ku put his arms around him and pulled his clothes off. After tearing it off and smoothing it out, Tao Huainan snorted in comfort, and Chi Ku moved him back to the previous position.
Tao Huainan was like a little pig when he fell asleep, and he couldn't wake up no matter what. Chi Ku stretched out his hand, and gently scraped along the arc of his jaw with his index finger.
Children grow up very fast. Looking back, the time piled up every day is like pressing fast forward. I don’t know when it has reached the present.
The two of them went to school late, even if they skipped a grade in elementary school, they were still more late than the students of the same year. There are thirteen or fourteen classmates around, and they are fifteen late. If he goes to school at the normal age of six, he should be in the third grade of junior high school. In addition, he is self-sensible and precocious, as well as his clever mind, the angle of slow thinking and comprehensiveness are not on the same line as junior high school children.
He never told Tao Huainan how he got back, he just didn't want to tell him on purpose.
If Tao Huainan found out, he would have to cry again, Chi Ku didn't like to see him cry. A beautiful child should smile, smirk or smile with a small mouth and a bad idea, but should not cry, crying is not beautiful.
During the time Chiku went back, he was beaten many times and reported to the police four times.
The police don't like to take care of my father beating his son, especially in rural areas in remote areas. In the traditional concept, it is only natural for Lao Tzu to beat his son. If the child is disobedient, shouldn't he be taught a lesson
Chi Ku's cell phone is also so broken, every time Chi Zhide hit him Chi Ku put the cell phone on the cabinet and recorded it, and Chi Zhide dropped it later. It's useless if you drop it, and I have prepared a lot of copies.
This last time was also the worst time Chi Ku was beaten. Chi Ku kept provoking him, provoking a drunk who was so drunk that his eyes were red. In the end, he was beaten until he vomited blood. Grandma called him a lunatic, and Chi Zhide and him were both lunatics. Grandma didn't want Chiku to go back, she was used to the peaceful life of the past few years, the old man was confused, she felt that the uneasy life now was all because of Chiku and Chi Zhide's return.
Chi Ku was beaten so hard that he couldn't get up on the ground, the old lady watched all this numbly with cloudy eyes. Chi Zhide left, Chi Ku lay down on the concrete floor in winter for half an hour before he regained his strength. Chi Ku sat up and covered his chest and coughed for a few minutes, coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood, then stood up on the ground, went to the hospital for an injury assessment, and called the police.
Massive soft tissue contusion, bronchial rupture and bleeding, mild concussion.
Chi Kuo took the injury identification sheet, bit him to death and didn't let go. After that, Chi Zhide was detained for 15 days, and Chi Ku went to the hospital. The hospitalization fee was paid in advance by the police station, and it will be paid after Chi Zhide's detention period expires.
Chi Ku came back only when he was almost healed and stopped coughing up blood, otherwise he would scare the little blind man to death by coughing up blood every day. It was also fortunate that Tao Huainan was blind, if he didn't take a bath and change clothes, he would be able to see the large wounds on Chi Ku's body at a glance.
Tao Huainan didn't know this, Tao Xiaodong did. That's why Tao Xiaodong was so angry yesterday when Chiku swung his chair to fight. His anger had been accumulated since Chiku was deliberately beaten. Chi Ku is too desperate in this regard, he only needs the result he is sure of, and he doesn't care what happens to him in the process, regardless of the consequences, this is definitely not possible.
Tao Xiaodong had to take care of him in this matter, otherwise it would be really easy to cause trouble.
Chi Ku's four police reports, his injury appraisal, and the video of him being beaten, holding these things in his hands, no matter whether Chi Zhide can be sent in for a sentence of one or two years, and he can file a lawsuit to get custody and custody enough.
Tao Xiaodong and Chiku are in a de facto adoption relationship. It stands to reason that this lawsuit is too easy to fight. The problem is that Tao Xiaodong is not enough to support him. He's not yet thirty-five, and he's not married, so it's not easy to get Chi Kuo to him.
But these are trivial matters, they can't be awarded directly to Tao Xiaodong, and the big deal is to go through the procedure of the orphanage, and then let Dahuang and his wife adopt his younger brother.
Chi Ku like this is the most trouble-free way for Tao Xiaodong. It can permanently sever the entanglement with Chi Zhide, which gives Tao Xiaodong complete confidence.
But Tao Xiaodong didn't need such a hassle from the bottom of his heart. Now Chi Ku is enough to hide from Chi Zhide, Chi Zhide is so stupid after drinking alcohol, Chi Ku can play him to death, Chi Ku can't catch up with him even if Chi Ku wants to run away, that's why Tao Xiaodong didn't catch Chi in the first place Bring back the bitterness. If he knew that Chiku was going back with this idea, Tao Xiaodong couldn't have let him do it. Chi Kui is fifteen years old, and it will only be three years until the eighteenth year. Even if Chi Zhide came over to toss a few times, it took him several years to delay giving him money.
It's really not worth it to Tao Xiaodong to let Chiku be beaten like this to save trouble. Tao Xiaodong was startled and really angry at Chi Ku's attitude of not treating himself as a human being, and wanting to do something without dying.
So Tao Xiaodong didn't talk to him much during this time, which was the first time in these few years.
The school's punishment came down three days later, and both sides gave the result of expulsion from school and stay in school for probation. This is just falling down lightly, which sounds heavy, but in fact, as long as you don't cause trouble and make mistakes in the future, you will be fine, and your student status will not be really expelled. The school just wanted to calm down the matter, and neither side could tolerate whoever was serious about this matter.
The two brothers continued to go to school again, and Tao Xiaodong was in charge of the lawsuit, so there was nothing to worry about.
Chi Ku came back this time and became a man of the hour. The chair he swung under the watchful eyes of the public and his state at the time were enough for a junior high school student.
When Chiku was fighting, many boys in the class helped out, and the monitor and the back desk took the lead and participated. They are all in the same class, regardless of whether they are close or not, members of their own class cannot be bullied by other classes. The loyalty and inexplicable sense of community in the boys' bones make them unable to watch coldly.
So Chi Ku can no longer ignore anyone like before, and ignore anyone with lowered eyelids. Now he has to say hello when he meets people, even if he raises his chin and makes eye contact, he can no longer be independent from everyone.
Tao Huainan is happy to see this, he feels that the younger brother is more peaceful, and he is happy that the younger brother is popular.
But good popularity belongs to good popularity, that is between boys.
There was nothing wrong with the girls, they always mentioned things late and Tao Huainan didn't mind, anyway, the school committee couldn't do it.
The teacher asked Chi Ku to continue to attend the promotion class every afternoon, but Chi Ku refused to go, so the teacher called Tao Xiaodong. The school committee also came to persuade Chi Ku, and asked him in a low voice, "Why don't you go?"
Tao Huainan was eating oranges next to him, pretending not to listen to what they said, but actually focusing all his attention on his right ear.
Chi Ku said, "No reason."
The school committee persuaded him a few more words, Tao Huainan ate up the whole orange and didn't remember to keep it for Chi Ku. After eating, he lay gently on the table, with one ear exposed, listening to them.
Later, when the school committee left, Chiku stretched out his hand to flick Tao Huainan's ear.
Tao Huainan sat up, leaned over and said, "She said she still wants to go to class with you."
Chiku ignored him.
Tao Huainan also felt that Chiku should go to class, at worst he would not drink water or go to the toilet in the afternoon, he would not even lift his buttocks nailed to the chair, just waiting for Chiku to reassure him. But thinking about Chi Ku and going to and from class with the school committee, and being rumored by the girls in the get out of class that they were dating, Tao Huainan was a little reluctant.
Even more unwilling than before, Tao Huainan's desire to monopolize him has become stronger and stronger since he came back from Chiku this time.
"Why don't you go?" Tao Huainan asked knowingly.
Chi Ku didn't even look at him, and replied casually, "Why do you say that?"
"I won't say it," Tao Huainan blinked, "you say it."
Chi Kuan finds him annoying, so he takes out the books for the next class from the desk and ignores him.
Tao Huainan, the little annoying spirit, started to make trouble again, he got closer and kept mumbling, insisting on asking why.
The slowness made him babble, and impatiently threw the sentence "Because you are annoying", satisfying Tao Huainan's little thought and only trying to keep his ears clean.
Tao Huainan acted as if he hadn't heard the last two words, and finally felt comfortable. He wanted to hear this sentence because he had to ask, but he was really embarrassed when he heard it.
It's shameful not to go to class, Chi Ku's grades must be improved, the school is waiting for them to work hard to become the number one in the high school entrance examination. Later, Chi Kuo said that it was okay to go to class, but I had to take Tao Huainan with me.
So after the last two classes every afternoon, Tao Huainan would also carry his schoolbag and follow to the lecture theater to listen to the class that the top 50 students in the school were going to attend. The best students in the whole school were all here.
Tao Huainan is a little blind man, so he doesn't think there is anything wrong with hanging around here, maybe he can get a bit of a good student atmosphere. But he really couldn't understand it, and he couldn't see the steps to solve the problem. This was much more difficult than what he usually taught in class.
Sometimes when Tao Huainan was really bored, he would sleep in the last row of the lecture theater, covered with Chiku's overcoat. The good students are fixed by the teacher to sit in the first few rows in the middle, so that they can see the blackboard clearly and stay closer to the teacher so that they can hear clearly.
Chi Ku turned his head to look at the sleeping Tao Huainan from time to time, and had to glance at him every once in a while.
Now the whole school knows this pair of brothers, the young teacher sees Chi Ku always looking over there, and even joked about Chi Ku, saying, "Don't look, your brother can't be lost."
The students around laughed softly, and they all knew that Chi Ku was fighting because of his brother.
The teacher went on to say: "Whoever loses this house can't lose it. The teacher has to help you look after it. Now this is our house to protect animals."
The students were still having fun, and they all looked at Tao Huainan over there.
The sound of the teacher's lecture stopped, the rhythm of listening to the ears changed, and the animal protection woke up. Sitting up straight, he turned his head blankly, but couldn't see anything. I squeezed my watch, raised my hand to my ear and listened to the time. It was more than half an hour before school, so I pulled my clothes and went to sleep again.
Chi Ku then lowered his head to solve the problem, and was teased by the teacher for a long time, but there was not much expression on his face. It's just that his expression is very peaceful, and the corners of his eyes and brows are clearly soft.