flawed

Chapter 126 Ask for nothing

The northern winter was longer than Qi Nuliang's imagination.After the summer, in winter, it seems like a dead-faced relative from my hometown suddenly came, and then never left.

Hongcheng is wet and cold in winter, but as long as the Spring Festival is over and the sun shines for a few days, there will be a breath of spring soon, and it will be completely warm in March.However, Beijing has already turned off the heating, and after the vernal equinox, the biggest snowfall of the whole winter has fallen.

Beginning in the afternoon, the snowflakes drifted bigger and bigger, and in the evening, there was no sign of stopping at all, and everything in sight was white.

Xuetian got dark earlier, and Qi Nuliang got off work before five o'clock.He asked Jiang Yu when he would pick him up, and Jiang Yu said that he might have to work overtime for a while and could leave at seven o'clock.

Qi Nuliang went home first and prepared all the ingredients for dinner. 06:30, go out on time.

Snowy roads are slippery and traffic jams. Usually, it takes half an hour to get to Jiang Yu's company. Today it took more than 40 minutes.

Jiang Yu came out from the company's gate, walking with long legs, and the hem of his clothes was windy.He took a few steps to the side of the road, opened the door and got in the car.

With the door closed, the cold and snow were isolated from the outside.The heater was on in the carriage, and there was a damp warmth, full of his familiar atmosphere.

"It's so cold today." Jiang Yu rubbed his hands together, breathing into his palms.

Qi Nuliang handed him a bag of fried chestnuts.The sugar-fried chestnuts had a sweet aroma, and when they were placed in Jiang Yu's hands, they were still scorching hot.

"Eat something to fill your belly."

The afternoon was very long, and Jiang Yu was most afraid of the cold and impatient of hunger. Every day when he came home from get off work, he was hungry.But ever since Qi Nuliang came to pick him up, the first time he got in the car, he would always bring him something to eat, including but not limited to roasted sweet potatoes, fried chestnuts with sugar, beef patties, roujiamo...

Jiang Yu felt that he was like Pavlov's dog in the experiment. Every time he was about to get off work, he was looking forward to seeing Qi Nuliang. On the day when the number was limited, he was extremely disappointed.

After dinner at home, the two watched TV together for a while.When it was time to go to bed, Jiang Yu went back to the room.Not long after, Qi Nuliang knocked on the door and went in, holding a new bed of cotton wool in his hand.

"It's cold today, so cover it thicker at night, and I'll change the quilt for you."

Jiang Yu touched the soft and white cotton, and asked, "When did you buy it, why don't I know?"

"My eighth sister sent it here a few years ago. At that time, I kept warming, so I didn't need such a thick quilt."

"You said Bamei Rong sent it to you?"

Qi Nuliang nodded, keeping his hands on the ground: "She said that acquaintances brought back good cotton from Xinjiang, and asked someone to make a lot of quilts by hand. It's not easy to buy such quilts outside, so I asked her to send me two quilts."

Jiang Yu grabbed the quilt's hand and gave a pause: "Why is she so nice to you?"

"The old neighbor who has known me for so many years..." Qi Nuliang immediately sensed that there was something in the other party's words, looked up at Jiang Yu, and found that his face was stretched, and explained, "Anyway, she can't use it up, and I can't use it up anymore. Give money, not take it for nothing.”

"Can she sell it so readily when other people give it money? Since it's such a good thing."

Qi Nuliang looked at Jiang Yu and frowned, "Is it interesting for you to say this?"

"It's boring, but it's just annoying."

"What is there to be upset about? I can't have a friend or acquaintance anymore?" Qi Nuliang sighed, "Besides, Ren Bamei has been dating for a long time. She said that this cotton was brought to her by her boyfriend. .”

"Did she have a boyfriend?" Jiang Yu's face immediately relaxed, "When did it happen?"

"Many years."

"When will she get married?"

"What does it matter to you?"

"Next time you call, you tell her that if she gets married, I will definitely send a big red envelope. Congratulations to her for finally marrying herself after so many years."

"..."

Qi Nuliang spread the newly made quilt on the bed: "Don't be annoying on purpose, go to bed quickly, and go to work tomorrow."

Qi Nuliang tidied up the dirty sheets, Jiang Yu shrank into the thick new quilt, pulled the quilt to the head, and stared at him with only a pair of eyes: "Brother."

"What?"

"I'm so happy." Jiang Yu winked at him, "I don't want anything in this life."

The snowy night is quieter, and the sound of horns on the distant highway is drowned in the whistling wind.

This humming wind almost runs through the entire winter in Beijing. In the past, Qi Nuliang fell asleep quickly accompanied by the sound like white noise, but tonight he felt a little insomnia.

He also changed into a new quilt. The thick and fluffy quilt should have been warm and comfortable to cover his body, but because of Jiang Yu's words "I have nothing to ask for", he was agitated, and his back was a little sweaty.

He tried to take off the quilt to dry, but felt cold again after a while, so he quickly covered it.Then he turned over frequently under the quilt, unable to find a comfortable position, his mind was in a mess, and his thoughts drifted far away.

Back then, he ran from Hongcheng to Guangdong without saying a word, and completely severed contact with Jiang Yu.It seemed decisive, but in fact he knew very well in his heart that he couldn't let go.

He started working in a textile factory, from [-] am to [-] pm every day, with a two-hour break at noon, and worked twelve hours a day.Work is tiring and boring, but he thinks this is good, and when he gets tired, he goes back to the dormitory and falls asleep.In addition to work, I eat and sleep every day, and I have no time to think about other things.

He didn't think about anything, he didn't think about what would happen if Jiang Yu left him, and he didn't think about Jiang Yu's outrageous feelings for him, but there were some things that he couldn't restrain if he didn't want to.

The default city of the weather forecast on his mobile phone is not Guangdong, but Beijing; the official account he follows is not Emotional World or Beauty Radio, but Tsinghua University; he listens to the morning news of the capital at seven o'clock every morning...

He is the only male textile worker in the textile factory, and the other men are all engaged in maintenance and transportation.At that time, he lived in a ten-person dormitory with men of other types of work. After getting acquainted with each other, he also chatted.

Others talk about their wives and children, and more often they talk about the women in the nearby massage parlour.Qi Nuliang has no wife or child, and he doesn't go to the nearby massage parlor. Most of the time, he just listens and doesn't talk much.

But as long as he opened his mouth and talked, the topic always revolved around Jiang Yu.Talk about how much the child suffered when he was a child, how sensible he is when he grows up, how good his academic performance is, and how popular he is at school.

Others asked others in Guangdong why they listen to news from the capital every day.He said that his younger brother was studying in Beijing, studying at Tsinghua University.

The others didn't believe it in their hearts, and at least they boasted a few perfunctory words.But some people bluntly said that Qi Nuliang was bragging that if his brother could go to Tsinghua University, sows could climb trees.

Qi Nuliang couldn't hear such words, so he immediately took out the photo of the admission notice in his mobile phone and showed it to people.The man still didn't believe it, and satirized the pictures he posted on the Internet, putting gold on his face, saying that he was his younger brother.

This remark provoked Qi Nuliang to dig out the two cut-out news reports in the back of his wallet about the number one student in the college entrance examination in Hongcheng County.The names and surnames in the report, the photo of holding the scholarship and the photo of Qi Nuliang's life in the phone are also completely consistent, proving that what he said is all true.

The person who raised the bar became furious and scolded Qi Nuliang for being abnormal and having something wrong.

If there is nothing wrong, how can there be a man in his 30s who does not marry a wife and have children, and does not even go to the massage parlor.

And his younger brother doesn't have the same surname as him, and he doesn't look alike at all.Who knows if it's really his brother, or some other shady relationship.

Qi Nuliang was clumsy with his tongue and couldn't understand or speak, so he got angry and punched the opponent with his fist.

The man became cowardly as soon as he was beaten, and only yelled.Qi Nuliang was also persuaded by others, he also knew in his heart that he could not cause trouble anymore, so he did not beat up the other party.The leader of the factory came to coordinate the next day, and Qi Nuliang paid [-] yuan in compensation, so let's forget about it.

Someone later told him that the person who argued with him was jealous of his younger brother's excellence, because the person's own son committed a crime shortly after entering high school and entered the juvenile detention center. Couldn't help but say a few sour words.

Even so, Qi Nuliang resigned from his job afterwards and did not work there anymore.In the days to come, he rarely mentioned Jiang Yu to others.

He cared about what the man said about him being wrong, because with those words, even talking about Jiang Yu and thinking about him became a crime.

But how could he not want to?From the age of 12, he brought up the children little by little, from a thin and dirty child when he first met, to Yingying Yuli, a prospective high-achieving student at Tsinghua University when he left.The kitten and puppy have been raised for six years, and they all have feelings, let alone a person, such a well-behaved and excellent person.

What's more, he pours everything into the other person—his ideals, his ambitions, his life, his meaning, and naturally all his emotions and all his love.

Of course he loves Jiang Yu, the way he loves his younger brother and his only family member.There is no such thing as abnormal love, nor is it faulty love.

And he also thinks that Jiang Yu's feelings for him should be the same, because the child is too young and he can't distinguish clearly, so he misunderstood.

After seven years, he now knew that Jiang Yu hadn't misunderstood anything.That child is really so rebellious, no matter what, he will go all the way to the dark on the sinful road.

What about himself?

Whether he has a clear conscience or a guilty conscience, he still can't even ask himself.

If in the dead of night, at this moment when no one knows, he would ask his own heart and go for a walk on that cliff...

"elder brother……"

An indistinct cry dispelled Qi Nuliang's wandering thoughts.His eyes snapped open, and he pressed his ear to the wall uncertainly.

After a while, there was another short "Brother" from the other side of the wall, as if being chased by something, a terrified cry.

Qi Nuliang knocked on the wall: "Jiang Yu?"

There were a few "hmm" on the other side, and there was a commotion in the hands and feet.Through the wall, the weakened voice could hear his painful cry for help.

Qi Nuliang got up and hurried to Jiang Yu's room.

He must have had another nightmare.Twice before, Qi Nuliang got up to go to the toilet at night, and also encountered Jiang Yu's nightmare of "hmmmmhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh).

It was so hard when he was a child, and he never had a nightmare.People are so old, I don't know when I got this problem of restless sleep.

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