It was quite cold at the moment, even though Kou Chen was wearing a long coat, he still felt like he was being blown through when he stood in a place like the Hutongkou where the old north wind concentrated.
But Huo Ran was still sitting on the iron chair in a daze, not speaking or moving.
Crying seems to be not crying, but the corners of his eyes are always wet, and every now and then there will be a little bit of light that slides down to the chin.
He didn't speak, and Kou Chen couldn't find anything to say, so he just stood there for several minutes.
Huo Ran was wearing less clothes than him, and it was probably already blown out by now, but Kou Chen didn't dare to say a word.
No matter how he thought about it, it was all caused by him. If he hadn't picked up the Overlord Bear, maybe the aunt wouldn't have said that, and Huo Ran would have been fine.
But Bawangxiong really made him upset. That cousin kept arguing with Huo Ran for beating and scolding Bawangxiong, so he couldn't hold back.
If it weren't for making sausages, it was a bit of a deterrent to him, and it was Huo Ran's relatives.
He is also in a mess now and can't organize his language. One is that he doesn't know how to comfort Huo Ran, and the other is that he can't control himself. He keeps pondering what the aunt's words mean.
After standing for a few more minutes, Kou Chen couldn't stand the cold anymore. Since he couldn't speak, let's do it.
He mustered up his courage, reached out his hand slowly, and touched Huo Ran's chin lightly.
Huo Ran's chin was still wet. He touched it, but Huo Ran didn't scold him.
After hesitating for a few seconds, he took the mask out of his pocket and wiped it a few times on Huo Ran's face and chin.
Huo Ran finally moved and looked up at him: "Don't you have a tissue?"
"No," Kou Chen was a little embarrassed, "I changed my coat when I went out."
"Oh." Huo Ran lowered his head and touched his pocket, only to find a mask.
After sighing, he pulled the corner of Kou Chen's coat and wiped it on his face.
"You are also wearing my clothes," Kou Chen said. "You can just wipe it with that."
"It's wiped," Huo Ran glanced at his sleeves, "Maybe there's still snot... Are you obsessed with cleanliness?"
"No," Kou Chen said, "but if you really wipe your nose, don't tell me specifically, although I don't have a cleanliness addiction."
Huo Ran laughed, smiled twice and then lowered his head and wiped his eyes.
Kou Chen didn't feel very well. The little mung bean bird that Wei Chaoren had raised for three years before died. He and Wei Chaoren suffered together all afternoon, not to mention Huo Ran.
He pulled up his jacket, put a bag on Huo Ran, wrapped him in his clothes and hugged him.
It can block a little wind, and you can cry with confidence.
However, Huo Ran seemed to have finished crying, and after wrapping in his clothes for a while, he patted him on the buttocks.
"Is it better?" He tore off his jacket and looked down at Huo Ran.
"It's alright," Huo Ran stood up and took a deep breath with the mask over his face, "I have to go to the hospital quickly and give my grandma the clothes, she's very particular."
"I'll call for a car," Kou Chen took out his mobile phone to call for a car, and added, "I'll accompany you."
"No need..." Huo Ran said.
Kou Chen was suddenly depressed for a while, unable to speak.
But Huo Ran stopped for a second, and then changed his mouth: "Okay, you can come with me."
Kou Chen looked up at him.
"But don't tell my parents what happened just now." Huo Ran said.
"Yeah." Kou Chen quickly nodded vigorously.
He really wanted to ask what the aunt was talking about, but he didn't dare to ask him now even if he was given eight hundred darlings, he was afraid that Huo Ran would hit him with the unfinished fire just now.
What he didn't expect was that when Huo Ran went out to the alley to wait for the bus, he said again: "I'll tell you what happened after I go to the hospital."
"Actually..." Kou Chen felt a little embarrassed after hearing what he said, fearing that after Xu Zhifan's "privacy", Huo Ran was worried that he would think too much, he hesitated, "If you don't want to say it, it's fine."
Although he really wanted to know, the sudden reaction just now was obviously something that made him extremely unhappy.
"Really?" Huo Ran turned to look at him.
"Fake." Kou Chen gave up in a second.
Grandma Huo Ran was a fat old lady with a smile. She looked very healthy. When Huo Ran brought Kou Chen into the ward, she wanted to get out of bed and pour water for them both.
"Hurry up," Huo Ran said, "can we let you pour water?"
"I haven't seen this classmate before." Grandma said.
"You haven't seen any of his classmates." Mom said beside him.
"This classmate is good-looking," said grandma. "Children now look good-looking."
"That's not necessarily true," Huo Ran said. "I'll bring an ugly one to open your eyes another day."
Grandma couldn't laugh.
Kou Chen sat beside the bed: "There are definitely ugly ones, but I'm definitely the best looking."
"Yes." Grandma nodded.
Huo's father was not in the ward. The nurse that Huo's mother hired for the old lady put all the clothes they brought into the cabinet. Kou Chen was a little nervous beside him. Compared with the calmness he saw with Huo's father last time, he has I feel guilty that I just bullied Huo Ran and then bumped into someone else's mother.
"Last time I heard Uncle Huo tell you about you, it's pretty awesome, isn't it?" Huo's mother looked at him, "It's a good fight."
"No," Kou Chen rubbed his nose and smiled, "I can't beat Huo Ran."
Huo Ran glanced at him.
"If Huo Ran can't beat him, then it's not good at all. Huo Ran is useless." Huo's mother hugged Huo Ran and rubbed his head.
Huo Ran's hair stood up from the rubbing, and he sighed: "My classmate is here, save me some face."
"Okay, let's go and play. It's really easy to have two more days off. Grandma is fine now," said Mother Huo. "Eat yourself in the evening. If you don't want to be alone, you can find someone to play at home. …”
"I'll go." Kou Chen said immediately when he saw the needle.
"That's good," said Huo's mother, taking her wallet and stuffing some money into Huo Ran's pocket, "buy some snacks and fruits or something to eat at night while playing games or watching movies."
"Yeah." Huo Ran nodded.
When he came out of the hospital, the darkness that was already overcast was already dark. Kou Chen looked at his phone: "Where to eat? What do you want to eat?"
"Is there any takeaway for the hot pot?" Huo Ran asked.
Kou Chen was stunned: "Yes, hot pot takeout?"
"Well," Huo Ran pulled the collar, "the air is too bad, I don't want to stay outside, my eyes hurt a little."
"Okay," Kou Chen called for the car, "go to... your house?"
"Yeah," Huo Ran said, "stay at my house at night, if I was alone at home before, I would call Xu Zhifan and the others to come over. Hu Yi is not in a good mood this time, Xu Zhifan... I have something to do at home, so I don't call them. already."
"Okay." Kou Chen suddenly felt a lot happier than before.
Huo Ran was a little surprised when the hot pot delivery came. He thought that the delivery was probably soup and hot vegetables, and he had to boil a pot of water.
Unexpectedly, what was delivered directly was a huge... takeaway bucket, which contained a bucket of already-cooked soup base, as well as a large cabbage and sauce.
"It's very convenient." Huo Ran said.
"Where is your pot?" Kou Chen asked in the kitchen.
"I'm coming." Huo Ran went into the kitchen, took out the pots and pans, and went in to get a spoon, chopsticks, and a small bowl for dipping. .
After he put the things on the table, Kou Chen finally had a chance to do it. He divided the chopsticks and put them on the side of the bowl, and then rubbed his hands together: "Hey, we are all alive."
Huo Ran glanced at him: "Are you working at home?"
"Also," Kou Chen sat down and watched Huo Ran press on the induction cooker, "Aunt Wang brought me a bowl and I brought it out, as well as vegetables."
"Then you just followed me and didn't help you." Huo Ran said.
"You didn't give it to me either." Kou Chen said.
"Oh!" Huo Ran shouted, "Your model doesn't have a program to automatically pick up things, right?"
"...Do you owe it?" Kou Chen laughed.
"Drinking?" Huo Ran asked.
"Listen to you." Kou Chen said.
Huo Ran took out a bottle of highland barley wine from the cabinet: "Try this, it's been stored for several years, it's 52 degrees."
Kou Chen took the wine bottle, looked at it, and poured two glasses.
Huo Ran never mentioned the previous matter, and he didn't dare to ask.
When the bottle of wine ran out, Huo Ran stopped his chopsticks, got up, drank a glass of water, and sat on the sofa: "You clean up, will you?"
"Yes." Kou Chen nodded.
Clearing the table, of course not, he usually waits for Dad to stack the dishes before he takes them into the kitchen, and yarding dishes in the dishwasher is his forte.
However, Huo Ran kept staring at the TV and didn't look at him. He didn't realize that he almost threw several bowls on the ground when he entered the kitchen.
"Let's put it there." Huo Ran said.
"There's a dishwasher." Kou Chen saw that there was a dishwasher in the kitchen, so he insisted on putting the bowls away, and turned on the machine before he came out.
Huo Ran was watching with his phone.
"Who are you talking to?" Kou Chen fell to his side and slid into the sofa.
"My eldest uncle." Huo Ran said.
Kou Chen was stunned for a moment, then turned his head immediately: "What?"
"Apologies," Huo Ran frowned and threw the phone on the coffee table, "I don't want to say it anymore, so I can't say it again!"
Kou Chen didn't care about his upbringing or privacy, and like a dog with a bone, he threw his phone to the coffee table and saw the chat.
- I apologize to you on behalf of your aunt, we all know that your brother's incident was an accident
The following is a line of words that Huo Ran typed but did not send out.
- I don't want to hear it anymore, okay
Kou Chen froze in place until the screen of his phone went black, then he turned his head and asked softly, "Your brother..."
In the middle of the question, he suddenly shut his mouth, remembering the words that Huo Ran didn't say, and he didn't want to listen or say it.
Kou Chen felt that his IQ might not be too full.
But Huo Ran didn't get angry or react too much, and his voice was quite calm: "It's okay, you ask me if I'm not depressed."
"Oh." Kou Chen breathed a sigh of relief, sat back on the sofa, and put his arms around Huo Ran's shoulders.
"I don't remember anything, they all said it," Huo Ran stared at the TV, "that I had a younger brother who died before he was one year old."
Kou Chen didn't move or make a sound.
"It fell off my grandma's bed," Huo Ran said. "My mother said it was an accident. She felt very uncomfortable when she mentioned it, but they still have to talk behind their backs. Whoever wants to have a second child will say it. Look at Huo Ran. , pushed his brother out of bed and fell to his death..."
Huo Ran tried his best to control his voice, but he was still a little trembling when he said the latter.
"Fuck." Kou Chen was a little shocked and couldn't say anything else for a while.
"They were obviously there, and they knew that I was asleep when I entered the room," Huo Ran said coldly, "Or it's because of me, maybe it makes them feel good, and it's more attractive when they tell people right and wrong. Li, after all, it's not your own child who died."
"No more." Kou Chen tightened his arms.
Huo Ran said before that he fell into a ditch when he and Dad Huo went to the wild, and Mommy Huo almost divorced Dad Huo over this matter. At that time, he didn't quite understand, was it such an exaggeration.
I get it now.
They have already lost a child.
"This thing I don't know at all, this little brother I don't remember at all," Huo Ran said, "In their eyes, it's just talk, no matter what grandma says, don't mention it, it will scare me, it's useless, after I'm four or five years old , I didn't hear them say it."
Kou Chen didn't know what to say, so he wrapped his arms around him and rubbed hard on his arm.
Scared
Huo Ran is so afraid of the little black house, so afraid of ghosts...
"My aunt said that the child doesn't remember things, so it's fine not to mention it in the future, he doesn't remember." Huo Ran said.
"How is it possible, I was four or five years old when I was poked on the railing, I remember it clearly," Kou Chen said, "is your aunt's IQ not very good, or your cousin's IQ is not high, so I think others can't remember it. "
Huo Ran glanced at him, the corner of his mouth twitched, and then he couldn't help laughing: "Can you not mention the fact that you were poked on the railing at this time?"
"I'll just pick up a chestnut." Kou Chen squeezed his fingers and raised his hand.
"Do you want to eat chestnuts?" Huo Ran suddenly said, "There is a family of fried chestnuts in the back door, and they can be delivered to you with just a phone call. The taste is not bad."
"Okay." Kou Chen responded immediately.
Huo Ran took the phone and turned on the screen. The previous dialog box appeared first. He clicked Send and sent the sentence that had not been sent before. Then he blocked his eldest uncle, exited smoothly, and clicked on From the phone book, I dialed the number of fried chestnuts and asked for two bags of fried chestnuts with sugar and two cups of hot chocolate milk.
"You blocked him?" Kou Chen asked.
"Well, I have blocked several of our relatives," Huo Ran said. "If anyone makes me uncomfortable, I will block after scolding me."
Kou Chen smiled.
"If you don't stop me today, I might hit my aunt, it's so sudden, I'm so angry that I'm going to explode," Huo Ran said, "My dad probably didn't expect her to say this suddenly, or she wouldn't. Let me get it."
"My main reason is... You are so uncomfortable, you are... crying," Kou Chen said a little embarrassed, and he didn't know why he was embarrassed, "I..."
"When did I cry?" Huo Ran said.
"Huh?" Kou Chen was stunned and didn't understand why he asked, but he quickly recalled, "It should have been when you were thrown into the alley, then you suddenly stopped cursing, you should be crying. "
"Yes," Huo Ran nodded, "It's not uncomfortable to cry in anger."
"Angry?" Kou Chen was stunned again.
"You, you are very angry, you want to beat people up, you want to slap your ears," Huo Ran looked at him, "suddenly someone carried you, ran away, and ran out eight hundred miles away, not angry. ?"
"...Fuck!" Kou Chen only reacted at this time, "Are you really fake? I really... feel bad for you, I don't want you to stay there anymore, you know, I was very regretful at the time, If I didn't fuck with your stupid nephew, I wouldn't let your aunt say something like that..."
"She didn't know what medicine she took today, maybe you..." Huo Ran looked at him and said with a smile, "Fuck, you looked like a triad when you were at her house today."
"It's like that when I'm angry," Kou Chen said. "I was very angry at the time. Your cousin's yin and yang words are not over yet. If you say that he picked it up, I can slap him in the face on the spot."
"My own, how could it be picked up with such good genetics." Huo Ran said.
Kou Chen paused and laughed.
Huo Ran first followed him with a hehe, then leaned on the sofa without holding back and laughed for a long time.
"Kou Chen." Huo Ran called him after laughing.
"Huh?" Kou Chen tilted his head.
"Come." Huo Ran said.
"What are you doing?" Kou Chen asked without waiting for him to answer, and immediately pouted, "Is there one?"
"Are you Bo Bo'er?" Huo Ran smiled and sat up straight, hugged him sideways, and hugged him tightly, "Kou Chen, thank you, thank you very much, you don't have to worry, I usually don't think about it. stand up."
After speaking, he hugged him for a long time before letting go of his arm, and gave Kou Chen a strong kiss on the forehead: "MUA!"