"Please sit down." Sheng Min closed the door and turned around to see Sheng Hui sitting down on the sofa.
I hadn't noticed it because the lights in the corridor were dim, but now I discovered that Sheng Hui had a scratch on his cheekbone. When I looked closely, I saw a faint blue under his eye sockets.
"Did you have a fight with someone?" Sheng Min asked subconsciously.
"What's it got to do with you?" Sheng Hui was as ungrateful as ever, as if he was fighting with Sheng Min, and gritted his teeth and said, "Don't pretend that you care about me. Who cares?!"
Sheng Min looked at his fierce expression and couldn't help but frown. He didn't know where Sheng Hui's anger came from, and he was so justified. Although he and his younger brother were indeed never close.
When Sheng Hui was born, Sheng Min had just started kindergarten. In his not-so-clear memory, Wang Shuying showed a kind of preference for this infant that he had never experienced before. She held him in her arms all day long, while directing Sheng Min to mix milk powder for him and rock the cradle.
She forced her eldest son to take good care of her younger son, but on the other hand she was wary of him. Once Sheng Min got too close, she would immediately order him to get away like a lioness protecting her cubs.
But at that time, Sheng Zhe was still there, so Sheng Min had some room to breathe. He was young and didn't know how to read people's faces, so he didn't feel it was difficult.
There were even a few times when Wang Shuying was out, and Sheng Zhe took him and Sheng Hui to the park near their home. On the lawn, under the sun, Sheng Hui ran towards him and called him brother, and he thought it was a good thing to have a younger brother.
He was willing to take care of him, which was as it should be, because he was his older brother.
But soon after, as Sheng Min was chosen to be a child star by chance, Sheng Zhe was diagnosed with a disease and passed away soon after. After a series of dramatic changes in life, Sheng Min discovered in a daze that his younger brother had grown a pair of eyes full of resentment like his mother.
"Why don't you speak?" Sheng Hui's impatient voice brought him back to his thoughts.
"I don't have anything to say." Sheng Min wiped his half-dried hair. "You came all the way here. What do you want to talk to me about? You didn't even tell mom. She's very worried about you."
"She?" Sheng Hui looked at Sheng Min with disdain and a hint of mockery.
If it were in the past, Sheng Min might have tried to persuade her, but now he really isn't in the mood to do so.
"Just tell me straight." He said lazily, "I'll take you to the airport after that."
"You want to get rid of me like this?" Sheng Hui stood up suddenly after hearing this, "If you don't give me the money today, I won't leave."
Sheng Min felt a headache when he heard this word. Compared with Wang Shuying, Sheng Hui asked him for money only a few times. Most of the time, he didn't need to show up himself, but just hid behind Wang Shuying.
He is the wolf, the crab with bared fangs and claws in the conch, the beneficiary of the parasitic relationship. Only when he cannot get the supply he wants will he reveal his ferocious face.
The lights in the living room shone brightly on Sheng Hui's angry face. He followed some fashion trend and dyed his hair a dirty orange, which made his skin look even darker.
They really have nothing in common. Sheng Min realized this with some sadness as he looked at Sheng Hui and Wang Shu's faces which were becoming more and more alike. Is this why he cannot be favored
In fact, he was not too sad about this kind of thing. He just felt upset. He walked to the table and swallowed two paroxetine pills with water. He felt nauseous after swallowing the pills before he had dinner. He tried to calm down, turned around and whispered, "I don't remember you left money with me for safekeeping?"
“Fuck.” Sheng Hui cursed angrily, pointing at Sheng Min’s nose, “Are you looking for trouble on purpose? Didn’t Wang Shuying tell you that I wanted to buy a house?!”
"I did. You said you wanted to train... Are you going to train?"
Sheng Min asked. Sheng Hui didn't answer, but glared at him with gritted teeth, his eyeballs seemed to fall out of their sockets.
Sheng Min lowered his eyes and drank another sip of water, not looking at him: "I've also said that if it's really necessary for training, I can rent a suite for you. In fact, I've already bought you a car, and my home isn't too far away..."
"Do you want to tire me to death?!" Sheng Hui said angrily and forcefully, "You are not without money, why is it so difficult for you to buy a house?"
This unreasonable look reminded Sheng Min of Sheng Hui's arrogance in snatching toys from children in the yard when he was a child. It was really hard to control the urge to sigh: "You are almost twenty, not two years old. Dad is gone, I take care of you without any complaints, but you are already an adult..."
"Stop it! You obviously can't stand seeing me doing well. Just because you didn't buy me a house, Xu Yi is no longer friends with me." Sheng Hui yelled.
"Who is Xu Yi?" Sheng Min frowned, his mind moved, and he recalled the earliest time, when all the excuses of training and exams had not been used, Wang Shuying first mentioned buying a house for Sheng Hui, and it seemed that she was saying that he was in love.
"Your girlfriend?"
"That bitch." Sheng Hui gritted his teeth and said, "You just despise me for not having money, but you dare to dump me?!"
"Where did you learn these words?" Sheng Min couldn't bear to hear the foul language.
"That's right. I didn't wrongly accuse her. What's the good of her finding that lover? Isn't it just that her family has some money and bought him a shabby house in front of the school? She actually dared to look down on me with Qiao, let me see how I deal with her..."
"Sheng Hui!" Sheng Min interrupted him harshly, "I don't know what happened between you two, but you can't talk about a girl behind her back like that. Not everyone will love you unconditionally and accommodate you like your mother does. She may not be with you because she just doesn't like you. You should have gotten used to the fact that there are things in this world that you can't have."
"Don't speak for that bitch. She just hates the poor and loves the rich! What do you know? You are just a TV comedian!"
Sheng Hui couldn't hear a word he said. No matter how serious Sheng Min's words were, they only added fuel to the fire. His anger almost burst out of his head, "It's all your fault!" He couldn't help but jump up and down, losing his mind, like a primitive man whose intelligence had not yet been civilized. "It's all your fault. You ruined my business. You bought a house for yourself and not for me. If you bought it for me, she wouldn't have broken up with you! Why do you have it and I don't!"
"Because every penny I spend is earned by myself, and every penny you spend is from me." Sheng Min looked at him, exhausted, "I can buy it for you, but can you promise that this is the last time? After buying it, you will not ask me for a penny again, and mom will not ask me for a penny again?!"
"I can!" Sheng Hui said with veins bulging on his face, gritting his teeth.
"Okay." Sheng Hui smiled and nodded, "Words are not enough, write a certificate."
As he said this, he turned around to get a pen and paper. Sheng Hui saw that he was serious and immediately panicked. He loudly regretted, "No. How about I ask you for money? You should give it to me. You owe me this."
As he spoke, he reached out to grab the paper and pen from Sheng Min's hand.
"What do I owe you?" Although Sheng Min was thin, he was half a head taller than him. Sheng Hui didn't have any advantage, so he calmly questioned him, "I'm only three years older than you. I raised you to adulthood. What do I owe you?"
"How come you don't owe me!" Sheng Hui couldn't get it, and couldn't think of any words to refute. He seemed to be cornered and shouted without thinking, "If my dad hadn't picked you up, you would have frozen to death on the street. You owe my whole family, and of course you owe me too!"
At that moment it was as if the world was paused for one second. In fact, Sheng Min did not realize what Sheng Hui had said at that moment. She just felt a buzzing in her ears, which even hurt her eardrums, and her brain went blank.
What happened before his eyes was like a stretched slow motion motion. He saw Sheng Hui suddenly cover his mouth and take several steps back in panic.
It turns out that when people are in extreme panic, they can really have such dramatic reactions, Sheng Min thought absentmindedly.
Sheng Hui was so panicked that he bumped into the decorative cabinet next to the dining table, and the ceramic ornaments shattered to the ground.
How could this be
Amid the crisp sound of cracking porcelain, Sheng Min was thinking calmly, but suddenly his hands lost strength and the paper and pen fell to the ground.
He looked at Sheng Hui and said softly, "Say it again."
"I didn't say anything." Sheng Hui realized that he had made a big mistake and shook his head repeatedly, "I, I..."
He really couldn't figure out what was going on, and before he could finish his words, he dodged Sheng Min's attempt to grab his hand, opened the door and ran out. He was in such a hurry that he fell on the carpet at the door, got up without stopping, and disappeared without a trace.
"elder brother!"
Yang Xu, who was standing guard outside the door, was extremely anxious when he heard the loud noise in the house. He almost wanted to bang the door, but then he saw Sheng Hui running out. He rushed over and saw Sheng Min standing there with a pale face on the broken ceramic pieces. His head got hot, and he also chased after Sheng Hui in the direction he had just gone: "Stop right there!"
The whole building was filled with the sound of their footsteps chasing each other.
Sheng Min felt tired, so he slowly squatted down and rested his head on his knees. Many scenes flashed through his mind like a kaleidoscope: the cold floor, the endless scolding, the red paint splashed on the door by the debt collector... and then the look of Sheng Zhe who was hesitant to speak before his death.
"Xiao Min." he said.
What did I say? I can't remember.
Yang Xu came back again, dejected.
"Where are the people?" Sheng Min asked.
"I didn't catch up. Do you want me to..."
“No need.” Sheng Min shook his head, “No need to chase.
"Brother." Yang Xu called him hesitantly and asked carefully, "Are you okay? ... Did they bully you again?"
"No." Sheng Min's Adam's apple moved, "Pour me a glass of water."
"Oh, okay, okay." Yang Xu quickly poured him a cup of warm water.
Sheng Min stood up on the sofa and finished drinking. He held the cup in his hand and was stunned for a while: "Is Sheng Hui gone?"
Yang Xu looked at him in surprise, her expression looking like she was about to cry: "Brother, what are you asking? Don't scare me, what's going on?"
"Oh, you just said that. I forgot."
Sheng Min's hair was not dry yet, and water drops fell on her eyelashes as if she was crying. But her voice was very steady, just a little weak, "It's okay, Yang Xu, it's okay... Go call a waiter to clean it up, and then calculate how many things are broken and compensate them... Go ahead, I'm here, I'm not going anywhere."
He urged her twice before Yang Xu walked away, looking back every few steps.
Sheng Min looked at the mess on the floor, and it strangely overlapped with the scene on his birthday when Wang Shuying and Sheng Hui broke into his house and crushed the cake.
He scrabbled his hair that was covering his eyes and took out his cell phone from his coat. When he swiped past Li Xuan's name, he paused for a second and finally dialed another number.
"Hey, Director... Can we start work tomorrow?" Sheng Min stared at the dirty orange hair on the ground, "Well, let me tell you... I have something to discuss with you."
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