flawed

Chapter 69 Is it wrong?

Zhou Zhiheng and Li Cui had known Jiang Yu for so long, and they were used to him being aloof. They were a little confused when they suddenly saw him like this.

There was a weeping Rong Xiaodie on the same road, and Jiang Yu's bicycle didn't have a back seat, so everyone had to go all the way to the fork in the road, and Li Cui handed Rong Xiaodie who was leading Jiang Yu.

Jiang Yu looked at Li Cui in surprise: "Why?"

"Take the family."

"It's not like she can't walk." After saying this, Jiang Yu pushed the cart and walked forward.

"Hey, you are such a brother." She hung Rong Xiaodie's schoolbag on her shoulders, "Okay, don't cry, we are going this way, you go and chase your brother Jiang Yu. "

"I'm not her brother, so I just said it to scare those people." Jiang Yu said without turning his head.

Divide the four into two teams, two by two each go to one side.Jiang Yu still pushed the cart and walked in front, Rong Xiaodie followed behind him sobbing and crying.Probably because she was annoyed by her crying, Jiang Yu kept frowning.

He happened to pass by a small shop, and he went in and bought a pack of snacks for Rong Xiaodie.

Rong Xiaodie looked at him with tears in her eyes, she didn't know why, so she didn't dare to reach out to pick it up.

"Can you stop crying?" Jiang Yu asked impatiently.

In this way, Rong Xiaodie understood and took the snacks.In exchange, she pursed her lips tightly, trying to suppress her sobs, and stopped crying.

After eating snacks, I have arrived near home.Rong Xiaodie lingered on the aftertaste of her fingers, rushed up and obediently called "Brother Jiang Yu".Jiang Yu ignored her, she went to hold Jiang Yu's hand again, but Jiang Yu dodged it: "Don't pull me."

This made Rong Xiaodie a little wronged and more at a loss.

Jiang Yu helped her fight off those bad guys who bullied her, and even bought her snacks, which was obviously good for her.When he shook off her hand, he was obviously bored with her.

Rong Xiaodie herself couldn't figure out whether Jiang Yu liked her or hated her, but she knew that she liked Jiang Yu very much now.So he leaned up again, but this time he didn't go to hold his hand, but just supported his bicycle seat.

Walking into the courtyard, Jiang Yu felt that he should tell Bamei Rong about Rong Xiaodie being bullied at school, so he locked the car next to Qi Nuliang's car and sent Rong Xiaodie home.

Bamei Rong opened the door and saw her daughter was covered in mud. She was so startled that she raised her voice: "What's wrong with you, this is? Did you fall into a pit while walking?"

"It was done by some boys." Jiang Yu said, "Do you want to go to school to find her teacher?"

Bamei Rong's complexion changed a few times, but she didn't speak.

And Jiang Yu saw Qi Nuliang in her room through the open door, his expression changed, he pushed Bamei Rong away, and went straight in.

He stabilized his mind: "Brother, why are you here?"

Jiang Yu's sudden appearance pulled Qi Nuliang out of his deep pain towards Yao Huilan.

At least, after going through those ups and downs, the child is still standing in front of him.This comfort seems to have pushed away all the suffering in the past, and also pulled him into the current peace and stability, allowing him to finally breathe a sigh of relief.

Qi Nuliang supported Jiang Yu's shoulder like a crutch, so that he could still stand up and walk down.

"Nothing, let's go home."

The two returned home together, but Jiang Yu was full of suspicion. What was he doing with Bamei Rong?

There is only one thing for a man to go to her. Could it be that his brother is also doing that?

When Jiang Yu thought of this possibility, his heart tightened.He thought of the strange men who had come and gone in the house when his mother was alive.I remembered when I was a child, watching those men hug my mother's waist and kiss her face from the crack of the door.There was nothing more annoying than that, and no one hated these people more than he did.

No, Qi Nuliang is different from these people, he will definitely not do such a thing.

Jiang Yu suppressed the unhappiness in his heart: "Brother, why are you at Bamei Rong's place?"

"Nothing, just asking something."

"what's up?"

"It's not important." Qi Nuliang turned his head and went into the kitchen.

Just to ask something, it doesn't look like he is lying, Jiang Yu thinks he is overthinking, he knows that his brother is different from other men.

After dinner, Jiang Yu did his homework, but Qi Nuliang didn't go inside to watch TV as usual, but sat on the sofa and smoked, facing the direction of another bedroom, his eyes were a little blank, and he didn't know what he was thinking .

It was very late at night, Jiang Yu finished his homework, raised his head and stretched his waist, and found that Qi Nuliang was still sitting there, it seemed that he didn't even move his place.

"Brother, don't you go to bed yet?"

Qi Nuliang came back to his senses: "I'll sleep with you tonight."

After the hard times were over, he bought a new bed and moved into the master bedroom, which was also not spacious.Except that the bed and mattress are new, he hasn't touched anything else, the wardrobe, the clothes in the cabinet, and the dressing table.It seems that as long as there are traces of Yao Huilan, there is still a trace of comfort in this life without her.

But now, those traces only remind Qi Nuliang of what happened there.

"Okay, I'll help you bring the quilt." Jiang Yu made the bed, returned to Qi Nuliang, and pushed his shoulder, "Brother, the bed is made, go to sleep."

Qi Nuliang pulled Jiang Yu over, holding his arm with both hands.The young Yuxiu stood upright in front of him like a little tree, Qi Nuliang looked up at him for a while, his thoughts were flooding, it was unbearable, so he hugged him.

His heart convulsed violently at the thought of what the child had gone through.

Jiang Yu didn't know why, but he didn't refuse such closeness. He raised his head and rubbed Qi Nuliang's palm on the back of his head: "Brother, what's wrong with you, are you unhappy?"

"Are you too tired from work?" Jiang Yu put his hands on his shoulders and squeezed them gently, "I'll help you massage."

Qi Nuliang pressed his hand, the child was overly caring and sensible, which made him even more sad.He has experienced too much suffering that he shouldn't have experienced. If he hadn't grown up in such an environment, he would be a favored child of heaven.

"Jiang Yu, study hard."

"Ah."

"Only by studying well, can there be another way out."

"I know."

"I'm a rough person, and I don't have much culture. What I say may not be right. But you listen to me about this matter."

"Well, I listen to you."

Jiang Yu did what he said, and he got No. 1 in their grade in the final exam without accident.

Qi Nuliang took him to celebrate, and when he went downstairs, he saw Bamei Rong chasing Rong Xiaodie all over the yard with a broom.The little girl screamed and ran away, but there were no tears on her face.She saw that Qi Nuliang and Jiang Yu seemed to have seen a savior, and hurried to hide behind them.

Qi Nuliang snatched the broom from Bamei Rong, and the woman grabbed her from side to side like an eagle catching a chicken, and scolded her: "The test is five points, I told you to test five points, I will beat you up, your brain Can you enlighten me?"

Rong Xiaodie hides behind Qi Nuliang.Someone protected her, so she finally dared to talk back: "I have improved compared to last semester, but you still hit me."

It's okay not to say this, but Bamei Rong went crazy with anger when she heard that she got two points in the last exam.The disheveled hair asked Qi Nuliang to step aside, and the little girl cried heart-piercingly when she saw this, and asked Qi Nuliang to save her.

Jiang Yu stood aside with arms folded, watching the farce with cold eyes.

Originally, it was none of his business, but Qi Nuliang's attitude that he was in charge, but in fact he couldn't, really worried him.He didn't want to see Qi Nuliang and Rong Bamei argue too much.

"Let Rong Xiaodie come to my house during the holidays, and I will teach her."

The movements of the three stopped at the same time, and they all turned to look at Jiang Yu.

He said it again: "Tomorrow at seven o'clock in the morning, let Rong Xiaodie come over, and I will teach her to study."

Rong Bamei put down her beating hand, Rong Xiaodie closed her crying mouth, both of them couldn't believe Jiang Yu's initiative to propose such a suggestion.

Qi Nuliang thought they were worried, and added: "Xiaoyu is the first in the last grade, and it's not a problem to deal with the girl's elementary school problems. Don't worry, she won't be taught badly."

"Seven o'clock, I haven't woken up yet..."

"Shut up, you just want to eat and sleep all day long, why don't you be reincarnated as a pig?" Before the little girl could finish complaining, Eighth Sister Rong grabbed her and interrupted her.When she turned her head to Jiang Yu, she was a little embarrassed and at a loss, "Thank you then, I will let Xiaodie come up tomorrow."

"From seven o'clock to nine o'clock, let her come and leave on time." It is also a reminder to Bamei Rong, don't even think about leaving the child at his house, she can do her "business" wantonly.

Rong Bamei nodded knowingly.

Thinking back, Jiang Yu also knew that besides stopping his brother and Rong Bamei from arguing, he still felt that Rong Xiaodie was too poor at studying.With her like this, if she wants to study hard in the future, she may not have a chance.For this girl, he can't say that he likes or hates it, but just has a little sympathy and pity.

It's just that he doesn't know when he started to feel pity for others.

Fast forward to the New Year.

This year's Spring Festival was very prosperous, with new clothes and delicious food, watching the Spring Festival Gala, and setting off fireworks, but Jiang Yu noticed that Qi Nuliang was not in a good mood.Speaking of this period of time, he always felt that men were preoccupied.He asked insincerely, but he didn't want to say more.

On the first day of the new year, the two of them went to visit Yao Huilan's grave together for the first two years, but this year, Qi Nuliang let Jiang Yu go alone.When he returned to the countryside, he said he was going to visit his father's grave, but actually he turned around the bamboo forest behind the village and the small river at the head of the village, trying to find some reasons for everything he did from these past pictures. Come.

During this period of time, he thought a lot, thinking about Jiang Yu, Yao Huilan, Jiang Minggui...

He never regretted beating Jiang Minggui to death with a shovel before, even if he spent eight years in prison for it, he had no regrets.As a man, he only felt that he had done what he was supposed to do, and whenever he thought about it, his heart would surge and he would feel like a hero.

This emotion accompanied him from adolescence to adulthood, from prison to release, until the first time he saw the wandering Jiang Yu and saw how pitiful that child was, his faith was slightly shaken.

When the peach blossoms were almost finished, he went to Yao Huilan's grave again.

He stood there quietly, the breeze brushed the remaining petals on his body, he touched the strange photo on Yao Huilan's tombstone, and murmured: "Xiaolan, am I wrong?"