Although Bai Xu said that he would study in seclusion and prepare for the college entrance examination, in fact, he didn't really spend any energy on his studies.
Even if he hires a professional manager to help him manage the company's affairs, Bai Xu still has a lot of work to do by himself, and he spends more time on how to accompany (harass) Bai Duan—even if It is impossible to meet every day, but several hours of video calls are the daily life of the two. Since they haven't seen each other for four years, they always have endless topics to talk about. They share their recent life with each other and chat about what happened in the past four years. A few hours are fleeting.
Several months later, during the winter vacation, Bai Xu took Bai Duan out of school, and the two returned to Bai's house together. After four years of absence, they spent another Spring Festival for four.
When they opened the door and saw Bai Xu following behind Bai Duan, the parents of the Bai family almost wept with joy.
During this period of time, they have also been paying attention to the vicissitudes of the Zheng family, and learned how Bai Xu got to that position step by step and gained a firm foothold. When other people talked about this matter, their tone was always envious and jealous, but what the Bai family and his wife cared about was how much Bai Xu had suffered and suffered for this.
Others wished that they could have a son like Bai Xu who was the pride of heaven, but the Bai family couple, who had been each other's parents for six years, hoped that the other party would grow up as ordinary as Bai Duan.
——As the so-called "a loving mother gives birth to a defeated child", perhaps it is because the Bai family and his wife never had the hope of "making their son a success", so Bai Duan has always been ignorant and innocent, and it seems that he never grows up.
—Well, I always feel that my stupid son seems to be spoiled even more stupid after he went to the capital to go to college and met his brother again.
Although Bai Xu has been thinking about Bai Xu in his heart, the four years have still left a deep mark on them. The Bai family and his wife have always blamed themselves for not being able to protect Bai Xu, causing him to go through four painful years, and they dare not call themselves his parents anymore. .
Four years have changed Bai Xu too much. When he was wearing a long windbreaker and standing beside Bai Duan in a white down jacket with dignity and elegance, no one would believe that they were the same age with only one year difference. people.
Bai Duan still looks like a student, young and immature, but Bai Xu has already stepped into the world of adults, and even achieved fame, with extraordinary aura in every move, which made the Bai family and his wife subconsciously put him in the same generation, and couldn't help it. Three points of respect for the belt.
At the dinner table, Bai Mu frequently used public chopsticks to pick up vegetables for Bai Xu, persuading him to eat more, and Bai Xu readily accepted all the orders, and praised Bai Mu's craftsmanship in a rather nostalgic tone, coaxing him to eat more. Mother Bai smiled happily. Father Bai talked with him about things in the mall. The two chatted happily and shared their experiences and insights without any secrets. For a while, they even felt a sense of compassion.
On the contrary, Bai Duan, the little ancestor of the family, was completely ignored by the Bai family couple. At any rate, Bai Xu still paid attention to him, which didn't make him a transparent person.
After the meal, Bai Xu took the initiative to clean up the dishes, and slipped Bai Duanti into the kitchen to help him arrange the clean dishes.
The two brothers have obviously been used to this kind of thing for a long time, they don't need any words to cooperate with each other tacitly, and from time to time they get together, meet each other and whisper a few whispers, lowering their voices and playing around.
Bai Mu stood at the door of the kitchen, looked at the pair of brothers with a smile, and couldn't help but sigh that the relationship between them was still as good as when they were children—even, it seemed to be better.
Looking at it, Bai Mu finally felt that something was wrong.
She saw Bai Xu put his arms around Bai Duan's neck, pulled him into her arms, lowered his head and kissed his forehead, and Bai Duan seemed to be accustomed to this, rubbing his cheek against his face with a smile.
Immediately, Bai Mu's expression became weird—Bai Xu and Bai Duan were very close when they were young, and it was common for them to kiss each other's cheeks, but when they entered primary school, this kind of action gradually became less and less, so the Bai family couple I didn't care much about it. Now that he really has grown up, why did he start to revert to his old ways
Bai Mu's mind was a bit messy, but the two brothers turned their heads to see Bai Mu after washing the dishes, but they didn't show any surprise or guilty expression. Instead, they greeted her very normally, and one of them leaned over and held her arm One arm led her back to the living room to watch TV, while the other one carried the washed fruit plate and followed behind her step by step.
Bai Duan and Bai Xu's calm reaction made Bai Mu suppress the doubts in her heart again, until it was time to go to bed, Bai Xu rejected Bai Mu's proposal to clean up the guest room for him, expressing that he hoped to still live with Bai Duan ——The euphemistic name is "remembering the past".
Mother Bai wanted to refuse instinctively, but she always felt a little guilty towards Bai Xu, unable to be tough in front of him, and eventually lost to the brothers.
After watching the two of them wash up and go back to their room to sleep, Bai Mu always felt uneasy. She tossed and turned on the bed for a long time, then quietly got out of bed and ran to the door of the brothers' room to eavesdrop, and found that there was no strange noise coming from it. Then he returned to his bedroom with a heavy heart.
Bai's father was lying on the bed reading a book, when he saw Bai's mother coming back, he took off his reading glasses, with a puzzled expression on his face: "What are you doing?"
"I'm a little uncomfortable." Mother Bai lifted the quilt and went to bed, her tone worried, "I always feel that Dudu and Xuxu are too close."
"Aren't they always like this?" Father Bai yawned and turned off the bedside lamp.
"But they were still young at that time! Have you ever seen seventeen or eighteen-year-old boys who are about to grow up always stick together and kiss on the cheek?" The more Bai Mu thought about it, the more she felt something was wrong.
Father Bai was silent for a while: "Xu Xu has grown up. He knows what he wants to do and the way he wants to go better than most adults. Although we raised him for six years, when we succumbed to the Zheng family, He has already lost his qualifications to discipline him."
"...I understand that." Bai Mu replied sullenly.
"As for Dudu, we've all seen his stubbornness before." Father Bai sighed, "The child who doesn't like studying like that skipped two grades abruptly in order to go to the capital to find his brother, and even passed the national key exam. , to be honest, if it were me, I would not have the perseverance and tenacity."
Bai Mu was speechless.
"If you can manage it, I will definitely support you. After all, this road is too difficult. But the problem is, neither of us can control these two children." Father Bai said helplessly, "We have experienced a loss. The child is sad, do you have the heart to do it again? And this time, we may lose two children. We are already old, and our energy is not as good as when we were young. None of it matters."
"I know, I know..." Bai Mu's voice was a little choked up, "I'm not an unenlightened person, if I were someone else's child, I would definitely say 'sexual equality'... I just, just can't bear to let them suffer , don't want them to be criticized by others... "
Father Bai turned over, hugged his wife into his arms, and patted him gently: "When the children grow up, they must have their own lives. I think Xu Xu is very good. The two of them grew up together Feelings, even if we can’t be lovers, we are still brothers, Dudu will not suffer. Xuxu doesn’t have to worry, he has the ability to protect himself, even Dudu. We can’t live too pessimistically, the relationship between the two of them has always been so good , maybe they can stay together for a long time? Instead, they are forced to separate. With the stubbornness of these two children, it is definitely impossible to live a good life."
It was rare for Bai's father to ramble like this, and Bai's mother leaned in her husband's arms, listening to his comforting, and finally calmed down a little.
The chatter in the room didn't subside until late at night, but it was obvious that the Bai family couple who suddenly heard the news didn't sleep well, and woke up just after the sky brightened.
—However, they did not expect that someone would get up earlier than them.
When the Bai family couple finished washing and came to the living room, they found that Bai Xu had already prepared breakfast and was serving it to the dining table.
Seeing the Bai family couple, he was not surprised at all, and smiled slightly: "Dad, Mom, are you awake?"
Bai's father and Bai's mother have complex expressions—this child used to say "uncle and aunt" yesterday, but now he calls "parents" again. What does this mean? !
Bai's mother was no more calm than Bai's father, she opened her mouth to ask, but was interrupted by Bai Xu: "I know what you want to ask, let's eat first, we'll talk after dinner."
Father Bai pressed his wife's shoulders, and the two of them sat down together, having a tasteless breakfast. Afterwards, he wiped his hands and looked at Bai Xu: "Xu Xu, you can talk to me in the study."
"Okay." Bai Xu replied with a smile, but turned around and walked into the kitchen, brought out another breakfast, and put it in front of Bai Mu, "Mom, Xiao Duan should wake up now, but he must be too lazy to wake up in winter." , can you deliver this breakfast for me?"
Bai Xu's tone was so natural and forceful that Bai Mu subconsciously took the plate, and then she realized what she had done, and was a little embarrassed for a while.
Fortunately, she really wanted to have a private chat with Bai Duan, so she went to Bai Duan's bedroom without saying anything, just in time to see Bai Duan wriggling on the bed wrapped in a quilt, but unwilling to get out of the bed.
Mother Bai's expression became even more complicated - Bai Xu even mastered Bai Duan's schedule so accurately, she really didn't believe it at all if they said that there was nothing tricky about the two of them.
Sighing, Bai Mu put the dinner plate on the bedside table, sat by the bed and patted the quilt roll.
The quilt was rolled, and Bai Duan's confused voice came out: "Brother, I don't want to get out of the quilt, you feed me~"
Bai Mu twitched the corners of her mouth, she was so angry and funny: "Who did you ask to feed you?"
The quilt rolled up for a while, and after a while, Bai Duan slipped out of the quilt silently, and smiled flatteringly at Mother Bai: "Mom, good morning~"
After saying hello, he immediately fixed his gaze on the dinner plate on one side, and stretched out his hand to start eating, but was gently patted away by Bai Mu.
Bai Duan withdrew her hand, her eyes felt aggrieved and accusing, but Bai Duan really picked up the egg pancake with a paper towel, and handed it to his mouth: "Hey, eat it!"
Bai Duan was taken aback, she was in a bad mood. He subconsciously avoided the food in his mouth, and looked at Bai Mu like a ghost: "Mom? What stimulated you?"
"Don't you want someone to feed you?" Bai Mu glared at him angrily, "Why, brother can feed you, but mother can't?"
Bai Duan smiled mischievously and didn't know how to refute, but he was no longer a child, and he really couldn't accept his mother's feeding calmly, so he had to reach out and grab the omelette.
Fortunately, Mother Bai was not stubborn and let go as Bai Duan wished. Looking at Bai Duan happily eating breakfast, she sighed deeply: "Din Duan, have you really decided that you want to be with Xu Xu?"
Bai Duan didn't expect her mother to cut straight to the point, without any foreshadowing, and swallowed the unchewed omelet in a moment of nervousness, almost choking on it.
Patting his chest, Bai Duan timidly raised his eyes to look at the calm Bai Mu, but his eyes and tone were extremely firm: "... Well, yes, I want my brother to be together for the rest of my life. "
Mother Bai's heart sank slightly - four years ago, Bai Duan used such a tone and eyes to express that she would study hard and go to the capital to find her brother as soon as possible. At that time, they didn't take it seriously, thinking that he was only hot for three minutes, but Bai Duan did it, no matter what difficulties he encountered, he never changed his mind.
"When you are together, you will definitely receive a lot of strange looks and criticism." Bai Mu raised her hand and stroked Bai Duan's messy hair.
"I don't care about those." Bai Duan said with a relaxed tone, "What's more, my brother will protect me."
"But what if he no longer protects you if you separate?" Bai Mu was worried—compared with Bai Xu, who had been honed to indestructible by wind and frost, she was obviously more worried that she had been well protected and had not experienced any storms. youngest son.
"How is it possible!" Bai Duan pouted her lips, her tone was firm, "My brother can't be separated from me, we will always, always be together!"
"Even if a man and a woman fall in love and get married, they still break up and divorce. Wouldn't it be even more insecure for two men?" Bai Mu tried to reason with her youngest son.
"Others are others, but I am different from my brother and others!" Bai Duan retorted dissatisfied.
Looking at her youngest son who was dazzled by love, Bai's mother felt very sad, and deeply regretted that she had raised Bai Duan into such an innocent and ignorant appearance.
But the mistake has been made and cannot be changed. Mother Bai sighed, hugged Bai Duan into her arms and rubbed it: "If Xu Xu bullies you in the future, don't hide it and tell mom, okay?"
Although she still didn't care about Bai Mu's words in her heart, Bai Duan finally felt her worry, and nodded obediently: "Well, yes."
After having a heart-to-heart talk with the youngest son, Bai's mother left the room and met Bai's father and Bai Xu who also left the study.
Obviously, the conversation between the two went very well. Bai Xu couldn't hide his joyful mood, and he looked proud, while Bai's father looked calm, looking at Bai Xu with more approval.
Without asking, Mother Bai knew the outcome of the conversation, so she couldn't help but glared at the two of them.
Father Bai and Bai Xu were stared at inexplicably, Bai Xu touched his nose, and silently endured the contempt from "mother-in-law" or "mother-in-law", while Father Bai followed behind his wife in desperation, trying to appease his full stomach An angry white mother.
Watching the Bai family couple leave, Bai Xu turned around, pushed open the door of Bai Duan's room, and showed a gentle smile to the lover on the bed.
And Bai Duan also turned to look at him, smiling brightly and narrowing his eyes.