Fan Guo is only twenty-two, and has already entered the second year of graduate school. This is a little genius, and he skipped grades all the way since he was a child. He and Chi Cheng are students of the same school, two parents brought out by the same teacher.
Another classmate who doesn't talk much is Chi Cheng's roommate, and Fan Guo calls him "Brother Guo".
The topics the three of them talked about were incomprehensible to others. When Tao Huainan had nothing to help, he would go to see if there was anything he could do, and usually he would not get too close.
In the evening, Tao Huainan went back to the hotel first, cleaned himself up before Chi Cheng came back, and returned the bathroom to its original place. Chi Cheng came back and went directly to take a shower. This time he didn't leave after the shower. He came out and sat on the bedside to watch his phone while wiping his hair and ears. Then he turned on his computer and kept typing on the keyboard.
Tao Huainan was lying on his side with his back to him, his mind spinning rapidly, thinking of what he had to say so as not to break the current atmosphere and not appear abrupt.
The door was knocked, Tao Huainan sat up to open the door, Chi Cheng had already stood up and went out.
The person who came was Tao Xiaodong. Brother Tang was still in the hospital and Tao Xiaodong came back first.
"Come here and chat for a while." Tao Xiaodong didn't know what to eat, put it aside and said, "The patient gave it, you two eat."
"Have you eaten yet?" Chi Cheng put Tao Xiaodong's shoulders on him and pushed him in, then closed the door behind him.
"Eat casually," Tao Xiaodong walked in and saw Tao Huainan sitting on the bed, went over and flicked him on the head, "Are you ready to sleep?"
Tao Huainan said, "No."
When Chi Cheng came back, he was still sitting on his own bed, with a younger brother sitting on either side of the bed. Tao Xiaodong looked at this scene, smiled and pulled a chair to sit in the middle.
Tao Huainan patted his bed, motioning him to come and sit down.
Tao Xiaodong waved his hand and said, "The pants are dirty."
He has never been very particular about his work, and his pants are covered with dust wherever he sits.
"Busy?" Tao Xiaodong asked Chi Cheng again, "Is it delaying you?"
Chi Cheng knocked a few more times, turned off the computer, and said, "It's over."
It has been many years since the three brothers sat together like this. It used to be like this every day, sometimes Tao Xiaodong would sit on the sofa, Chi Cheng would sit next to him, and Tao Huainan wouldn't necessarily be lying on which brother's leg, it could be any one, just touch whichever pillow. It was a very common thing at that time, but looking at it now, it is inevitable that there will be a sense of life and uneasiness after many years.
Tao Xiaodong was careless as the older brother, and there was nothing uncomfortable about it, but he also knew that the two little ones were a little struggling now, so he threw Brother Tang to the hospital by himself, and ran back to see the time.
"You two haven't seen each other for many years, and I still haven't had time to ask you." Tao Xiaodong naturally sat with his legs apart, "What's the matter? I feel like my brother and brother have changed?"
He went straight to the topic when he came up. Tao Xiaodong intentionally took Tao Huainan with him when he came out this time, and he didn't tell him that Chi Cheng would also come. He also wanted to use this time to ease the relationship between the two. The two brothers had been fighting for so many years, and Tao Xiaodong tried to get the two of them together a few times to chat, but both of them were stubborn, and he couldn't fix anyone.
It was so easy to come out this time, Tao Xiaodong would never let the two of them go back in such a daze.
"Neither of you is like me, and I don't know what's going on," Tao Xiaodong leaned back on the chair, sighed helplessly, "I've lived in my forties, and I haven't been angry with anyone for more than a year. , friends who have a good relationship probably haven't had trouble at all."
"Have you checked it yourself? How many years has it been?" Tao Xiaodong looked at the two of them, raised his eyebrows and asked, "It takes so much effort? What kind of deep hatred is there between the two brothers?"
According to Tao Xiaodong's habit in the past, he had to take his two younger brothers out to eat or drink tea, and chatted about other things to make the atmosphere more relaxed before continuing. But this time the schedule for coming out is very tight, there is no big time to spare, and it is almost ten o'clock now, Tao Xiaodong doesn't have so much time to create atmosphere and go around in circles, so he speaks directly in every sentence.
"The biggest responsibility for the two of you to this day is mine. It's okay to say." Tao Xiaodong said, "Brother didn't do well."
Originally, neither of them answered what he was talking about, but now when he said this, both of them spoke. Tao Huainan said "Don't say that", and Chi Cheng said "No".
"How should I put it, it's good to raise a child, or to be an older brother," Tao Xiaodong leaned on his leg, bent his back, rubbed his face, and said, "In the beginning, I always drove ducks to the shelves, and I was a half-sized man. My son, I still don’t understand. Think about it, when brother Ku brought me back, I was actually the same age as you two now, and now I see you are just children, so I don’t know how those years passed.”
Tao Xiaodong has held back some words for many days, and this time he came out prepared, thinking about these words in advance. Or it can’t be said that I want to say this time. In the past few years, Tao Xiaodong has stepped from his thirties to his forties, and his life has reached a new stage. His views and angles on many things are also different from before. They chat.
"Brother Tian Yi has read many books on how to raise and educate children every year since the child was born. The children are raised very well. I didn't read those at that time. It seems that I didn't have them at that time. , I will confuse you all in a daze."
"At that time, what I was most worried about was losing money to you. I was afraid that I would not be able to support myself. So at that time, my brother only knew how to make money. You two were only in elementary school and junior high school. I dared to throw you two at home and put them on the children of today. I didn’t even dare to think about it. But at that time, my brother really only thought about this, always thinking that if you have more money, you can give you a better life, children, you will grow up soon, we all grow up like this.”
Some things cannot be mentioned, as long as they are mentioned, they will poke at the softest part of people's hearts. Tao Xiaodong is really good at talking, and he can bring people's emotions back to the years when they groped and grew up together. Tao Xiaodong was going crazy earning money in those years. He worked like that for more than ten hours a day, and went on business trips tirelessly.
When he mentioned this, no matter how hard his heart was, he couldn't harden himself. That was the ten years that the three brothers had laughed and laughed, and it was a good ten years that could not be erased no matter what.
Chi Cheng put the towel around his neck. Although there was no obvious expression on his face, his eyes were always downcast, and his expression seemed to soften a little.
Tao Huainan's eyes were already red, it was already a dream for Tao Huainan. It was the best of the best, and always has been.
"Looking back now, many things were wrong. At that time, I thought it was enough to give you freedom. Children don't like being controlled. Let the two of you grow up slowly, and let you have a little secret from me. I didn't take it back before. It's something." Tao Xiaodong laughed at himself, "It shouldn't be, you two are children, let the two of you guide each other to grow up, how can it be, the child is the parent of the child, nonsense."
"Brother Tang also told me that this matter is still up to me. From the very beginning, the bottom line for you two was wrong, making you feel that you can make decisions on your own, and think about things from the perspective of other people's children. no the same."
Tao Xiaodong seemed a little tired from sitting. He stood up, stomped his legs, and sat down again.
Chi Cheng tilted his chin to the side of him and asked him to come and sit.
Tao Xiaodong didn't care about the dirty pants anymore, and sat on the quilt of Chi Cheng's bed.
"Later, two younger brothers, one passed away and the other fell ill. It was all because of me, and it was all because of me."
Tao Huainan was already in tears over there, Tao Xiaodong leaned over and patted his leg, and continued, "Let's bring things back today, we can't really stop entering a house for the rest of our life, can we? Who is right? Wrong, you two are fighting and fighting, and I don’t listen to you two, it’s better for you two to fight, and everything will be brought down after a fight, and all the anger that doesn’t go well will be released.”
Tao Xiaodong stood up, stood there looking at the two younger brothers who had grown up but were still very young, and said, "Brother is over forty, you can't keep in touch if I don't connect in the middle, then when I get old Are you done? Wait for me..."
Tao Huainan interrupted him with a sound, raised his head and frowned, not letting him continue.
Tao Xiaodong then smiled: "Come on, I'll be back."
It's true when you say it back, the young ones still can't handle the old ones, Tao Xiaodong came in with a few words, and caught up many emotions in people's hearts. After catching up, he left, leaving behind a sentence, "Today is all thanks to brother", and put the most acute crux on himself.
Tao Huainan's nose and eyes were still red, so he took out a piece of paper and wiped his snot, then folded and folded the snot paper and put it on the bedside table.
After putting it down, he hesitated and called "brother".
Chi Cheng didn't make a sound, waiting for him to speak.
Brother has said so much, Tao Huainan can't be stubborn and silent, but Chi Cheng is really unfamiliar to him now. They used to be as close as another self in this world, but what happened and what was missing in the middle made this intimacy disappear after all.
"Brother is right, I was wrong." Tao Huainan opened his mouth after a while, he turned in the direction of Chi Cheng, and spoke in a difficult but serious manner, "I have no position to say this, this sentence is useless, my brain is not good enough , There are many things that I can’t understand.”
After seeing off his brother, Chi Cheng stood by the bed and did not sit down when he came back. Now he is standing next to Tao Huainan, looking down at him. Tao Huainan raised his face and said to him: "I'm stupid and stubborn, you...don't forgive me. Brother, I just hope..."
The door was knocked again, interrupting Tao Huainan's words.
Chi Cheng didn't open the door, but just stood there looking at him.
Tao Huainan then finished the sentence with the knock on the door: "I hope you don't live unhappy because you hate me. I hope you have many friends, a good life... and a lover. Brother never let you go, he has Two younger brothers, he loves you very much."
I didn't finish the rest of the sentence, the knock on the door was too loud, it really seems inappropriate to say these things now.
Tao Huainan got off the ground and went barefoot to open the door. There were Fan Guo and Brother Guo at the door.
"What are you two doing, you haven't opened the door?" Fan Guo yelled at the door and came in, "Brother Chi, why don't you answer the phone, the boss is looking for you like crazy, halfway through the conversation you are gone, the boss is still waiting You!"
Chi Cheng was still standing just now, with his back to them. Tao Huainan stood silently by the wall, listening to Fan Guo's always energetic voice, and did not return to his bed.
They were really busy, Guo Ge came with a computer, he set it up on the table, and said, "Brother Chi, let's take a look."
"What are you doing?" Fan Guo came over to look at Chi Cheng, "You're busy, why are you in a daze, bro!"
Chi Cheng turned around and glanced at Tao Huainan first. Tao Huainan put his hands behind his back and leaned against the wall, trying not to take up space to make room for them.
"Go to your house." Chi Cheng raised his chin, not sure if it was an illusion, but hearing his voice felt a little heavy.
"Oh, brother, is he going to bed?" Fan Guo looked at Tao Huainan, who was wearing pajamas, and then at Chi Cheng, and said with a smile, "Hahaha, brother is so gentle, so good! Yes The kind of boy who doesn't like to talk, feels warm again."
The topic suddenly fell on himself, Tao Huainan didn't react too much: "I..."
Before finishing the rest of the sentence, Fan Guo seemed to like him very much, and stood in front of Tao Huainan talking to him.
Chi Cheng had already left with his computer in his hand, and signaled to Guo Yiyang as he walked, "Let's go."
Guo Yiyang grabbed Fan Guo's collar and walked away, and greeted Tao Huainan: "Rest early, Huainan."
Tao Huainan pulled the corner of his mouth and smiled, saying "Good night".