Tao Xiaodong didn't come back until a few days later, and was rushed by Tao Huainan as soon as he came back, and the boy missed his brother.
"I'm cold, get up first." Tao Xiaodong rubbed the back of his brother's head, looked at him and said, "Why are you so skinny?"
"Xiao Chi locked it up for me!" Tao Huainan finally had someone to sue, and wanted to point to Chi Cheng's direction but didn't know where he was, so he put down his hand again, "He won't let me go out every day!"
Chi Cheng took his brother's suitcase over, and Tao Xiaodong asked him with a smile, "Let him grind it out for you?"
"It's okay," Chi Cheng said, "I'm used to it."
When brother came back, Tao Huainan had another tormenting target, so if Chi Cheng didn't take him out, brother would be fine.
Tao Xiaodong didn't see Tao Huainan shivering and throwing up in the middle of the night with a fever. He only knew that Tao Huainan had a cold on the phone. It was impossible for the two younger ones to tell him that the fever was so severe.
Seeing that they are so happy now, there is nothing that they can't go out, Tao Huainan woke up early in the morning and asked him to go to the store together, Tao Xiaodong readily agreed: "Let's go."
Tao Huainan finally felt elated, and said to Chi Cheng, "I'm going out now!"
Chi Cheng didn't speak, handed him the coat, turned around and left.
Tao Huainan took it and put it on slowly, the movement became slower and slower as he passed through.
After a while, Chi Cheng's voice was still not heard, and the movement gradually stopped.
"What are you dawdling about?" Tao Xiaodong came over to urge him, "It takes a long time to get dressed."
Tao Huainan listened for a while again, but he did not hear Chi Cheng's voice. After hesitating, he took off his coat again: "Go by yourself, I won't go."
Tao Xiaodong looked at his brother, not understanding him at all: "What's wrong with you?"
Tao Huainan put down his jacket: "My bitter brother seems to be angry with me, so I won't go with you."
"Ah?" Tao Xiaodong poked his head to look at Chi Cheng who was sitting there wearing shoelaces, "Where did you come to the conclusion?"
"Anyway, I'm not going." Tao Huainan took off his shoes, touched the wall and walked into the house to find Chi Cheng, muttering, "I don't want to make him angry, he will never end."
"Okay, then you stay at home." Chi Cheng put on the shoes slowly after putting on the laces, "I'll go with brother, you take care of the house."
Tao Huainan was stunned for a moment, only then did he realize that he was being teased, he hurriedly stroked the wall and went back, put on his coat quickly: "You can only scare me."
"Why don't you say that you play too much?" Chi Cheng hung the mask on his ears, afraid that he would catch the wind when he went out.
"You kept silent on purpose." Tao Huainan continued behind the mask.
Chi Cheng stopped talking to him, put his hat on the back of him, covered him tightly, and led him out the door.
Even though I was covered so tightly, I still coughed for a long time in the store, and I sat there covering my mouth and coughing muffledly. Chi Cheng patted him on the back and brought him a glass of water.
"Xiao Nan's physique is a bit weak." Brother Huang swayed over and gave Tao Huainan a lozenge.
"Well, I cough in winter." Tao Xiaodong just came back, and he didn't have any customers today, so he had to go out for other things in the afternoon.
Tao Huainan put a piece in his mouth, feeling the cool breeze.
"I heard your sister-in-law chatting yesterday." Brother Huang looked at the two younger ones and said to Tao Xiaodong, "What's the matter, where is Xiao Chi going to study? Are you planning to go to those good schools?"
"Not yet, let's talk." Tao Xiaodong also looked at the two of them, "It depends on where he wants to go then."
"Then what about Xiao Nan?" Brother Huang asked.
"Go back to the school for the blind." Tao Xiaodong said.
Before Brother Huang could speak, Chi Cheng seemed to be about to speak, Tao Huainan was the first to say, "I don't want it."
Tao Xiaodong said to him: "Don't be self-willed, baby, you can't just pass high school, you also have to take the college entrance examination."
"I'm not going to a school for the blind." Tao Huainan frowned, and leaned closer to Chi Cheng, "I still have to follow my bitter brother."
"That depends on you being able to keep up." Tao Xiaodong also had a bit of unbearable expression in his eyes, but it was impossible to allow the two of them to mess around all the time, "Which one do you think you can get into?"
Tao Huainan opened his mouth, but he couldn't answer this question.
He couldn't pass the exam anywhere, and ordinary schools couldn't teach him at all, and they wouldn't accept him. The schools that Chi Cheng can get into are all top-notch, and the teaching resources are already so tight, how could it be possible to cram such a resource-intensive person into the school. Moreover, it is too risky to put a blind student in the school. If something happens to him, the school will have to take responsibility.
Tao Huainan groped to the side, Chi Cheng stretched out his hand, and Tao Huainan gently grabbed it.
"You don't need him to go to a school for the blind, brother." Chi Cheng looked at Tao Xiaodong and said, "I can teach him in high school, just follow me."
"Your time is tight in high school, you don't have enough time for yourself, so take care of him every day." Tao Xiaodong shook his head, "He has to learn to be independent sooner or later, don't get used to it."
Tao Huainan's heart was broken when he heard these words.
"It's enough, I'm used to it." Chi Cheng scratched Tao Huainan's palm with his thumb, and then said to Tao Xiaodong, "Don't bother him bro, he'll be sick again when the ignition is on."
Brother Huang laughed when he heard it, and said to Tao Xiaodong: "If you say a few more words, Xiao Nan will cry."
Tao Huainan didn't want to cry, but it was really uncomfortable. He pursed his lips and said nothing, feeling uncomfortable that he couldn't decide his own destiny. He didn't want to be separated from Chi Cheng, but the reality was that no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get into the same high school as Chi Cheng.
"Sooner or later, there must be such a day." Tao Xiaodong looked at his brother, feeling pain in his heart, "You can't be tied together for the rest of your life, you live your life on your own, and one day you have to let go."
The word "let go" made Tao Huainan subconsciously hold Chi Cheng tighter.
"I'm about to cry." Chi Cheng looked at Tao Huainan, squeezed Tao Huainan's hand, didn't say anything more, just smiled and said to his brother, "Don't mess with the crying brother."
Tao Xiaodong also twitched the corner of his mouth and told Brother Huang to say something else.
After being blind for a long time, Tao Huainan is very used to the blurred light perception. Occasionally, Tao Huainan is also happy when the sun is particularly strong, as if his eyes are also bright and majestic. But when people are alone, they always feel that the whole body is dark, Tao Huainan is even more so. The blackness in loneliness is the blackness that can drown people's hearts, it is eternal and boundless.
Children are not afraid of the dark, they will cry when the lights are turned off at night, but Tao Huainan has always turned off the lights at an age when other children are still afraid of the dark.
Tao Huainan kept the lights off until he had Chi Cheng when he was eight years old.
Chi Cheng is his night light. It can let him know that there is someone next to him when he stretches out his hand at night, and can pull the pillow cover with him alone.
"What are you thinking about?" Ge and Huang were still talking, Chi Cheng asked next to his ear.
Tao Huainan shook his head lightly.
When he came here in the morning, he was still happy. The soles of his shoes were soaked by squeaking in the snowdrifts swept out of the store entrance. He didn't know that the store staff smiled and followed him. Mopping the floor behind him until Chi Cheng asked him to step on the soles of his shoes on the mop. At this moment, all the joy is gone, and the light in the big eyes is also gone, dimmed.
The time when his brother was not at home made Tao Huainan feel a little flustered, thinking of many things very simply.
It was like bringing them all back to reality when Brother came back. Just like what my brother said, sooner or later he will have only one person left, and the people he loves will have their own lives.
"What about acting in your head?" Chi Cheng spoke in a low voice, whispering to him, his lips could touch Tao Huainan's ear, "Where did the acting go?"
He was so annoying that Tao Huainan's emotions were scattered by him.
"Did you act until I left you and left?" Chi Cheng didn't know what to think of, and even smiled when he spoke, "Then why haven't you cried yet?"
It's so annoying!
Tao Huainan stretched out his hand and pushed him away, and turned his head to the other side to not listen to him. Tao Huainan couldn't see that Chi Cheng was smiling now, Chi Cheng had a nice smile, very different from his usual self, but Tao Huainan never saw it once, and never saw it again.
Chi Cheng reached out to touch his hair, and when he came over again, he secretly said to him: "I won't leave you, stop acting."
Tao Huainan blinked and looked at him. His "seeing" is just turning his face in that direction, which can express the meaning of "seeing", but he cannot get the result of "seeing".
Chi Cheng moved closer, and pressed the tip of his nose against him. It was quite forceful, and it hurt Tao Huainan.
Tao Huainan frowned, rubbed his nose, and said, "It hurts..."
Chi Cheng also rubbed on his nose, and pinched again after rubbing.
Growing up in Tao Huainan for so many years, my brother always gave him what he wanted. However, Tao Huainan never asked for much, but there were always some things that my brother couldn't give.
This year's New Year's Eve, they didn't go anywhere, they just spent it at home.
In the evening, when brother and Chi Cheng were making dumplings, Tao Huainan was sitting at the dining table, with his head resting on his hands. Chi Cheng stuffed a shrimp into his mouth, and Tao Huainan opened his mouth to eat it. Tao Xiaodong looked at him with a smile, and suddenly said, "Don't grow up, baby."
Tao Huainan nodded and said, "Okay, it won't be long."
"Don't grow up, Xiao Chi." Tao Xiaodong said again.
"I have to grow," Chi Cheng pressed his hands into a dumpling, put it down and said, "I grow by myself, both of you stop."
Tao Xiaodong smiled, but said nothing.
Tao Xiaodong was twenty-five when Chi Cheng came back, and now he is over thirty.
Children are growing up, adults are becoming mature, time will not stop for anyone.
Tao Xiaodong didn't let go of the matter of going to high school, when and what to do, if Chi Cheng's grades were not so good, Tao Xiaodong wouldn't be worried. Children who are ignorant and adults can't follow suit. It is nonsense to be admitted to a key high school but not to study. Sooner or later, Tao Huainan had to learn to be alone, and they all had to be ruthless.
Can't really let Chi Cheng only live for Tao Huainan, those two brothers are too selfish.
Tao Huainan was disobedient for the first time in this matter, he was stubborn, he pursed his lips and said, "I'm just selfish, I want to always be selfish."
Tao Xiaodong was reluctant to speak harshly to him, so he decided to send Tao Huainan to a school for the blind. No one was more reluctant than him.
When Brother Dang's bowl of water was level, he was determined to be ruthless, but he couldn't be more ruthless.
Chi Cheng has always had big ideas, he won't change what he says.
He kept telling Tao Huainan that he would not abandon him, and he would do everything he promised Tao Huainan. That year he said he came back before school started and didn't come back in the end. That should be the only time that his words didn't count. The consequence of his not counting was that he saw Tao Huainan, who was limp and unpopular with his eyes closed, in the toilet cubicle of the school.
In the high school entrance examination this summer, Chi Cheng didn't write a composition in Chinese, and the last big question in mathematics was empty.
The teacher and the school were shocked when he was selected. He was originally the most hopeful to win the city's junior champion.