When Xiaodong went to see their room in the morning, they both slept soundly. With Chi Cheng's back turned, Tao Huainan was holding a hem of his clothes. Tao Xiaodong smiled, turned around and went out again.
Tang Suoyan got up to go to work, and the two brothers calmed down to clean up. Tao Xiaodong asked in a low voice, "What day is it today? Does he have any classes?"
"Tuesday," Tang Suoyan said, "it's the second quarter in the morning."
"Don't worry, just call him when I come back later." Tao Xiaodong pulled a piece of clothes and changed, "I'll go get them some delicious food."
"What's delicious?" Tang Suoyan, with water on his hands after washing his face, tapped the back of Tao Xiaodong's neck with his fingers, and asked him with a smile, "You three brothers are behind my back to eat delicious food?"
Tao Xiaodong grabbed his hand, scratched his wrist, kissed it again, and said in a low voice, "I won't cheat on you, brother Lin has always asked me to taste it, I'll taste it first, if it's delicious, let's go next time, Carry them behind your back."
Tang Suoyan's wrist was really uncomfortable and sore in the past two days, and there was nothing he could do about the sequelae of the old injury. He didn't say it or show it, but Xiaodong still knew it.
"I'll fix it for you when I come back tonight. Is there any surgery during the day?"
"Four operations," Tang Suoyan bit his chin, "it doesn't hurt."
Tao Xiaodong took out the razor, shaved with one hand and patted Tang Suoyan's waist with the other. The two of them were tired and crooked every day, and they always looked at each other with affection in their eyes.
Compared with the two older ones, the two younger ones are much more uncomfortable.
Tao Huainan woke up and touched the side first, then retracted his hand reassuringly, and closed his eyes again. Chi Cheng woke him up by touching him, and looked back.
Tao Huainan pretended not to wake up, and put his arms around Chi Cheng.
Chi Cheng's voice was hoarse after just waking up: "Don't pretend."
Tao Huainan hadn't had such a complete sleep for a long, long time. He slept soundly, and now he just felt his whole body was limp.
"Good morning, little brother." Tao Huainan stopped pretending after being exposed, retracted his arms, and smiled a little obediently just after waking up, "Did you sleep well?"
Chi Cheng sat up, got out of bed, put on his shoes and went to the bathroom.
Tao Huainan rested on Chi Cheng's pillow for a while, and squinted for a few more minutes before he was willing to get down.
Xiaodong came back with food, and when he opened the door, Chi Cheng was standing in front of Tao Huainan, leaning over, and the two of them were facing each other. It was really close, Xiaodong was stunned for a moment, unable to figure out the situation, and didn't know for a moment whether he should say hello and then change his shoes, or turn around and go out first.
When Chi Cheng heard him open the door, he stood up straight, took two steps back, and said, "He said his eyes hurt."
"Ah," Xiaodong said with a smile, "no need to explain."
Sitting on the sofa, Tao Huainan raised his face and asked Chi Cheng, "Is it red?"
Chi Cheng said lightly, "No."
"Fake it," Xiaodong came in after changing his shoes, pinched Tao Huainan's chin and looked up at his face, "I think you're just pretending."
Tao Huainan didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Is that what I have to do?"
"You were like that when you were a child," Tao Xiaodong pinched his face, "Stop being coquettish, come over to eat."
Tao Huainan responded, and went over to help carry the bowls and chopsticks.
Xiaodong really wronged people about the pain in his eyes. Tao Huainan felt uncomfortable in his left eye when he came together in the morning. Before my brother came back just now, Tao Huainan raised his hand to rub it from time to time, but Chi Cheng ignored him at first, and then said: "What are you doing rubbing your eyes?"
Tao Huainan said, "It hurts a bit."
Chi Cheng looked at him for a few seconds, then came over and bent down to look closely at his eyes. The two were really close, and when they breathed, each other's breath could pounce on each other's face. Tao Huainan lowered his eyes subconsciously, and Chi Cheng asked him, "I see your eyelashes?"
Only then did Tao Huainan say "ah", and quickly raised his eyes again.
Chi Cheng lifted his upper and lower eyelids to look, but didn't see anything. At this time, Xiaodong came back, just bumping into this scene. It's better to be early than to be timely. Xiaodong's eyes have been turning back and forth between the two brothers since he came in, looking back and forth.
After eating, Tao Huainan put on his coat and carried his schoolbag to go to class. Chi Cheng glanced at Xiaodong, and Xiaodong said, "He can go by himself."
"I'll be right back after class." Tao Huainan took his blind stick, said "bye", opened the door and left.
The door was gently closed, and Xiaodong asked, "He has really grown up, hasn't he?"
Chi Cheng looked at the phone and said "hmm".
"What do you think, little brother?" Tao Xiaodong turned his face to look at Chi Cheng, and asked with a smile, "The little carrot head that you pulled little by little."
Chi Cheng put down the phone, didn't speak for a while, and said after a while: "It's changed a lot."
"Is it getting better or worse?" Xiaodong asked.
Chi Cheng thought for a while and said, "Okay."
Xiaodong didn't understand why, he shook his head, put his hand on his younger brother's shoulder, and said to him, "It's good or bad, I'm not used to it, is it? It's different from the kid you are familiar with."
Chicheng didn't speak, Xiaodong said again: "This is time. I haven't seen you for five years, you are still you and he is still him, but it's not the same as it was five years ago. It's the same with brother, everyone is the same, time has passed It’s gone and can’t be found.”
With Tao Xiaodong and Brother Tang present, almost all members of the family are here, and the atmosphere has not cooled down.
Tao Huainan's eyes were a little inflamed, Tang Suoyan dripped eye drops for him, Tao Huainan raised his head for a long time, but when he sat upright, drops of water still fell, and it looked like a teardrop on his face.
His cell phone kept ringing, and Jiang Ji kept sending him messages on WeChat. After Tao Huainan finished taking the eye drops, he touched the phone and turned it on. He had nothing to say and just listened.
"Have you heard the song?"
"Hasn't there been any movement in the past few days? You won't say anything in the group!"
"Are you going tomorrow? Hello!"
"Hey!"
"Tao Huainan!"
Tao Huainan wiped away the drops of water on his face, and returned a voice message: "I haven't seen the news, I'm not going, my little brother is back."
Just now Jiang Ji's voice of "Tao Huainan" was a little irritable, Tao Xiaodong glanced over here and asked, "Which friend is this?"
Tao Huainan said, "Jiang Ji, I said it before."
"Ah," Tao Xiaodong nodded, "I remember."
Chi Cheng watched the movie on the far side, his eyes fell on the screen, he didn't turn his eyes away, and showed no expression.
After a while, Tao Huainan got Little Pidun out, pushed him to the side of Chi Cheng, and sat next to Chi Cheng's legs. Chi Cheng retracted his legs and did not move his position.
Tao Huainan's cell phone rang again, but this time he didn't listen and turned the cell phone to silent.
Chi Cheng said, "Go if you have something to do."
"It's fine," Tao Huainan said immediately, "I'm not going anywhere."
Xiaodong made an annoying noise next to him, and deliberately said to Tang Suoyan, "I'm not going anywhere either."
Tang Suoyan stuffed a small tomato into his mouth: "Don't be annoying."
Tao Huainan didn't mind being teased by his brother, he smiled and sat next to Chi Cheng to listen to the movie.
Three days is really short, and it will be gone before the taste comes.
Chi Cheng had to go back, Tao Huainan had class in the morning, and Chi Cheng would probably have already boarded the car by the time he came back from get out of class.
Tao Huainan was reluctant to wake up early in the morning, but there was nothing he could do. He followed Chi Cheng and whispered, "Brother, I'll pick you up when you're on vacation, okay?"
"You can take a break," Chi Cheng said calmly, ignorantly, "You are not needed."
He has always had this attitude towards Tao Huainan these two days, whether he is cold or not, but he is not eager. Tao Huainan didn't care about his attitude, and continued, "Don't forget to pick up my clothes from the laundry. Brother Tang bought them for me. They are very valuable."
Chi Cheng didn't say a word, Tao Huainan said again: "Leave your clothes to me, okay?"
When he spoke, he leaned against the wall with his hands behind his back, listening to Chi Cheng wash up. Chi Cheng rinsed his mouth and spit out the foam in his mouth: "Go to class, stop nagging."
Chi Cheng's indifference has been firmly hanging on him, Tao Huainan can't let it loosen.
Tao Xiaodong drove Chicheng to the station, and Chicheng said that he would come back if he had time during the Chinese New Year.
"There's enough time. If you don't come back, I have to fly to Beijing." Tao Xiaodong said, "If I don't go, some children will go."
"Don't let him go," Chi Cheng said, "There are too many people during Chinese New Year, it's chaotic."
"Let him toss it around," Xiaodong smiled, "it won't break if you squeeze it."
— Is your little brother gone
Pan Xiaozhuo asked on WeChat.
-"gone."
Tao Huainan replied while walking on the road.
Pan Xiaozhuo: Then I'll go find you this afternoon
Tao Huainan: "Tomorrow, Xiaozhuo."
Pan Xiaozhuo: Today!
Tao Huainan: "I'm a little sleepy today, I want to go back and sleep."
Pan Xiaozhuo: That's fine, you come to see me tomorrow, and we'll go eat noodles with sauce.
Tao Huainan said "OK" and put the phone away.
It hasn't been cold these days, and I even sweat a little while walking on the road. Tao Huainan didn't take a taxi when he came out of school, and walked slowly with his navigation on. He didn't want to go back, Chi Cheng had already left, Brother Tang and Brother Tang weren't there, and he was heartbroken when he returned to the empty house.
The snow that fell before has almost melted away in the past few days, and there are not so many obstacles on the road. Walking like this is not tiring. Tao Huainan walked for a long time, and when he got up the stairs, he found that he had unknowingly reached their old house.
Tao Huainan came back often. He took out the key and unlocked the door, leaned his blind stick against the door, opened the shoe cabinet and took the slippers.
The heating in the old area is not so good, it may also be because there is a lot of scale in the pipes, the old house in winter is not as warm as Brother Tang. Tao Huainan got a little hot from walking outside, so he took off his coat and hung it at the door.
The last time Tao Huainan came back, he hung a small pumpkin pendant on the window handle, which was given by a female student in the class. Tao Huainan went to pick it off, and opened the window to let the wind in for a while.
He is so familiar here that he can accurately go to any position he wants without reaching out or touching the wall.
Tao Huainan yawned and walked slowly to the room. This is the room where he and Chi Cheng used to be. There is only one pillow on the bed now, and he took the other one to Brother Tang. The one he is now sleeping on is the one.
After a yawn, Tao Huainan was about to sit by the bed when he suddenly stopped.
He stood there defensively, frantically groping around, but only touched the wall. Tao Huainan turned towards the bed, held his breath and asked, "Who?"
The surroundings were still quiet, but Tao Huainan didn't relax at all, he still asked vigilantly, "Who's there?"
The blind man's perception of the environment was very keen. Although the other party did not make a sound, Tao Huainan still caught the sound of the cloth rubbing when he stepped into the room.
But there is only so much he can do. He knows that someone is there, but he has no choice but to do anything about it. No matter what the other party wants to do, he can't resist it.
Tao Huainan frowned, standing there in vain, his mind quickly thinking about the different ways he should deal with the different identities of the other party.
His keenness was not unreasonable, there was indeed someone in the room. When Tao Huainan turned the key, he was sleeping here, and when Tao Huainan walked in, he deliberately didn't make a sound.
But in the end, I still couldn't bear to see him scared.
"I."
The other party suddenly made a sound, and Tao Huainan froze in place, too surprised to speak.
"It's okay." He sat up straight, looked at Tao Huainan and said, "Don't be afraid."