Until the Spring Festival came, Li Huaicheng was thinking about the question Zhou Ziyou asked him before the holiday—does he also regard Jiang Siyuan as his best friend?

If it was before the night when the cold war with Jiang Siyuan started, he might have answered yes without hesitation, but when Zhou Ziyou asked him that day, he was silent.

He began to be unsure of the relationship between himself and Jiang Siyuan, and he didn't know what position Jiang Siyuan placed in his heart.

It's like a best friend, but it's different from the feeling for Zhou Ziyou. It's like a younger brother who wants to take care of, but it's different from the feeling for Li Huaixin. It's not just a friend or a relative, but another kind... …his subconsciously resisted feelings.

"Huaicheng?" Seeing that Li Huaicheng had been staring at the strawberries on the fruit plate for several minutes, Li Huaijin asked suspiciously, "What are you thinking?"

Li Huaicheng turned his eyes slightly, and just as he was about to speak, he felt the phone vibrate next to him. Under Li Huaijin's surprised gaze, he picked up the phone eagerly.

It was a QQ message sent by Zhou Ziyou, who posted a picture of him smiling brightly on a deck chair by the sea wearing flowery shorts and holding a glass of orange juice. Attached text: Zhou Shuai, handsome, tall and handsome, invincible in the universe, wishes Orange Juice a Happy New Year! ! !

A trace of disappointment flashed across Li Huaicheng's eyes, and he put the phone back on the sofa. Li Huaijin next to him smiled and asked, "Zhou Ziyou?"

"Yeah." Li Huaicheng picked up the phone again, and after pressing Happy New Year to send it, just as he was about to put the phone down, the vibration sound came again.

Zhou Ziyou returned quickly over there—Chengzi, Yuanzi called me just now. He didn’t go to Italy. His parents and he went back to Yishi for the New Year. He might be back after the fifth day of the lunar new year. When I come back, let’s call Go to Tao He and He Dong to have a meal together.

Li Huaicheng's eyes fell on the three words that were particularly prominent on the screen, and it took him a long time to reply with one word: good.

"What's the matter?" Li Huaijin was keenly aware of Li Huaicheng's emotional changes, thinking of his abnormality during this period, he couldn't help asking: "What happened to the school?"

"No." Li Huaicheng put down his phone and said with a smile, "I'm wondering when Brother Xing and Sister Jin Yuan will get married."

Li Huaijin heard the words: "Didn't Miss Jin say that she would come back at the beginning of the year? Then the wedding shouldn't be postponed for too long, right?"

He also knew Zhang Xing's family. Although he hadn't met him so far, he had a good impression of the Zhang family who treated his younger brother well, so he also knew something about Zhang Xing's failure to get married.

One month before Zhang Xing and Jin Yuan got married, even the invitations had been prepared but before they could be sent out, Jin Yuan received a notice to go abroad to study for half a year. She planned to refuse, but it was Zhang Xing. He and the Zhang family advised her not to miss the opportunity, so the wedding was postponed.

But everyone knew that the wedding was postponed, and Zhang Xing must have felt sad. When he had set the date for the wedding, he called Li Huaicheng excitedly for three hours, and every bit of happiness in his tone.

"I hope so." Li Huaicheng smiled, then lowered his head absent-mindedly.

Seeing this, Li Huaijin's eyes darkened slightly, but now he is really sure that Li Huaicheng has something on his mind, and it may still be something that makes him very distressed.

While Li Huaicheng and Li Huaijin were talking, Jiang Huaikang, who was standing at the door of Li's house, clenched his hands tightly and his face was gloomy.

He didn't go back to Li's family for the Spring Festival this year. It should be said that since he moved out of Li's house, he hasn't spent every Spring Festival with Li's family. So this year's Spring Festival, he planned to go out to find someone to indulge Playing around for an annual vacation, unexpectedly received a call from Wang Guihua right after leaving the house.

To be honest, when he heard Wang Guihua's voice, he didn't recognize who it was.

At first, he thought it was someone who made a wrong call, until Wang Guihua pierced his ears with a sharp crying voice, and the key words let him know who was on the other end of the phone.

"...You must help your brother! Your brother Jiang Bao has always been a good boy, it was that girl who seduced him!"

When Wang Guihua over there said that, Jiang Huaikang suddenly realized that he seemed to have a so-called biological mother, who had never been in contact with him since he left Shashi, and asked him hoarsely during the Chinese New Year to help him His younger brother—the idiot who was kicked by him and accidentally healed.

Jiang Huaikang was full of impatience, especially when he heard Wang Guihua's vague crying, this impatience rose to the peak, he said coldly: "He is not my brother, don't want me to do anything for you, when I left your house But when it was time, everything was settled, we have nothing to do with each other, so don't call me again in the future."

Over there, Wang Guihua stopped crying, and then her voice was not only sharp but also filled with venom that could pierce eardrums. She said, "If you don't help your brother settle this matter, then I will come to Qing City to ask Li's family personally." , It doesn’t matter if they resent me, I will use the truth of the year as a bargaining chip, then your brother and I will have a hard time, and you don’t have to go on, let the Jiang family go to hell together!”

Jiang Huaikang retorted subconsciously: "What do you know? Do you think that people like you can know the truth about the Li family?"

Wang Guihua's voice was so calm that it made one's hair stand on end. She said, "Of course I know. I also know who the person who took you away is and what he wants you to do. Just watch, whether it's for helping your brother or for our family. Die neatly together."

Wang Guihua's last words were soft and cold, causing Jiang Huaikang's back to be covered with cold sweat for no reason. For a moment, he seemed to see Wang Guihua's calm and creepy eyes when he was in the hospital that day. Staring at him blankly, it made him numb from the tips of his toes to the strands of his hair.

After Wang Guihua hung up the phone, Jiang Huaikang paced back and forth in the room with a pale face. He really didn't believe that Wang Guihua's identity could know anything, but her determined tone made him feel a little guilty. Maybe she really knew something?

He really wanted to call that person to ask what to do, but since he called that person once, he could no longer contact that person. If that person needed to contact him, he would always use a string It was like calling him with a number in a hurry, but when calling back, it showed an empty number.

Just when Jiang Huaikang was fidgeting, Wang Guihua called for the second time. She said to Li Huaikang in a calm tone this time: "If your brother can't get out of prison within three days, I will come to Qingshi immediately. .”

The contact time between that person and Jiang Huaikang has never been regular, but that person seems to be staring at him and the Li family. Every time there is any disturbance, that person will contact him immediately. This feeling of being secretly watched makes While Jiang Huaikang was terrified, he felt an unexpected sense of security, as if someone was watching him and protecting him all the time.

However, three days later, that person never called, but Wang Guihua kept threatening him with one call after another.

Jiang Huaikang originally thought that since the person did not call, it should mean that Wang Guihua was not threatening, but thinking of some information that Wang Guihua had faintly revealed, he felt that Wang Guihua might really know something.

With this suspicion, Jiang Huaikang stood at the door of Li's house, raised his hand again and again but never had the courage to ring the doorbell, suddenly he saw a familiar figure from the corner of his eye, Jiang Huaikang's eyes flashed, and he hid in the grass .

When Li Huaicheng received Jiang Siyuan's call, he had already had dinner and was playing with Li Huaixin and Chu Qi.

At that time, he didn't look at the caller ID, so he picked up the phone and asked who it was.

There was silence for a long time, Li Huaicheng looked at the caller ID belatedly, and after seeing Jiang Siyuan's name, he paused for Chu Qishunmao's hand, clenched his fist and placed it on his lap.

Li Huaicheng: "Jiang Siyuan?"

"So you know who I am." Jiang Siyuan's voice was low, and he seemed a little wronged when he said the last sentence, "I thought you deleted my number."

Li Huaicheng was stunned when he heard what Jiang Siyuan said, and subconsciously said, "How is that possible."

"You haven't talked to me for 29 days. I thought you didn't want to see me anymore. You didn't even talk to me during Chinese New Year."

Li Huaicheng pursed his lips, walked to the French window and said, "I sent you a text message."

"That's your mass message." Jiang Siyuan said, "There are only four words, Happy New Year, and there are no punctuation marks."

On New Year's Eve, Li Huaicheng typed a long text on his mobile phone, deleted and added, changed and changed, from a few hundred words to a few tens, and then from a few tens to a few hundred, and finally when the New Year's bell rang The second it sounded, he deleted all the previous words and just sent a happy new year.

From that moment on, he would look at his phone every few seconds, text messages and phone calls of replies and blessings came one after another, but the note name he wanted to see never appeared.

From the beginning of winter vacation to New Year's Eve, and from New Year's Eve to the third day of junior high school, during these 22 days, Li Huaicheng wanted to call Jiang Siyuan more than once, but thinking of the time difference and Jiang Siyuan's inexplicable attitude and his own inexplicable feelings, his finger slipped The dial key couldn't be dialed, but Zhou Ziyou got the news that Jiang Siyuan was in Yishi for the New Year.

"Are you in Yishi now?" Li Huaicheng looked out the window at the sky where there was only a ray of light left, his voice was weak and soft.

Jiang Siyuan: "No...I'm going back to Qingshi today."

Li Huaicheng's eyelashes trembled slightly, and it took a long while before he hummed lightly, and Jiang Siyuan didn't make any more noise, and there was only the sound of each other's shallow breathing on the phone.

Li Huaixin took Chu Qi from the living room to the courtyard, chasing each other happily. Li Huaicheng noticed that she was only wearing a not-so-thick sweater. He frowned and opened the French window and said, "Huaixin, come in! Add some clothes before going out." Play."

Li Huaixin ran over and hugged Li Huaicheng grinningly. Li Huaicheng is now 1.8 meters [-]. At the age of seven, she was only as tall as Li Huaicheng's stomach. Her face still had the fat of a baby when she was young. When she laughed, she had black eyes. Filled with bright smiles.

"I won't be cold if I hug my brother!"

Li Huaixin was never afraid of Li Huaicheng's pretentious and severe reprimand, she knew that no matter what she did, her brother would never really get angry with her.

Sure enough, Li Huaicheng couldn't be angry, so he could only call Chu Qi back, close the French windows, and lightly reprimanded: "Little rascal."

When Li Huaicheng finished speaking, Jiang Siyuan's soft, almost whispering voice came from the other end of the phone. After hearing what he said clearly, Li Huaicheng's expression paused, and he pushed open the French window and walked to the front of the garden.

Li Huaicheng stood still and replied softly: "What did you just say?"

"It's nothing." Jiang Siyuan said quickly, "I just want to wish you a happy new year. Since you still have something to do, I'll hang up first."

The moment Jiang Siyuan finished speaking, a gust of cold wind blew across Li Huaicheng's cheeks, and he heard the rustling of the leaves in the courtyard being blown by the wind, accompanied by the faint sound of the wind, his faint voice sounded: "— sorry."

It seems to be an apology without reason, but it also seems to be a targeted apology. It is not known whether the meaning of the target is the indifference during this period of time or something else.

Jiang Siyuan looked up at the dark windows of the familiar room on the second floor, took a step back and looked away, and said, "It's a little noisy over there, let's talk about what else to meet, I'll hang up first."

The cold wind penetrated into the collar from the empty neck, Li Huaicheng looked down at the mobile phone restored to the main screen, the corners of his naturally upturned mouth were slightly pressed into a straight line, and he did not move for a long time.

It wasn't until a familiar voice sounded that he subconsciously repelled, that Li Huaicheng came back to his senses, looked in the direction of the voice, and found that it was outside his own door.

"Uncle and aunt, I beg you..."

Jiang Huaikang's voice outside the door was crying, Li Huaicheng looked cold, and turned to go back to the house.

However, what Jiang Huaikang said in the next second made him stop.

He said: "I really have nowhere to go, uncles and aunts, please help me because of the fact that we have been together for more than ten years... Since I returned to Qingshi, my biological mother has been calling me every day to threaten me , Now that Jiang Bao committed a crime and raped his classmate, she also forced me to come to you... I'm so scared..."

Li Huaicheng's complexion changed slightly, his brows furrowed a little bit, Jiang Bao... raped his classmates.

As these words drilled into the ear, the memory of the previous life suddenly emerged.

He was also at the same age at that time. Not long after he came to Qingshi, he and Cheng Xin helped cook in a small restaurant. That day he practiced knife skills until midnight, and when he got home and lay down, he received a call from Wang Guihua.

Wang Guihua's voice was full of shock and anger, and the tone of her conversation with him was the same as before: "Hurry up and find a way to collect 10 yuan. Your brother has an accident, and you must ask for 10 yuan to be released on bail."

At that time, when he heard the word bail, he fell asleep and woke up in an instant. He asked, "What's wrong with him? Why should he be released on bail?"

Over there, Jiang Aiguo was already impatient, and a cursing voice came: "You don't care what he is for, I tell you a little bastard, don't think that you can grow wings and fly if you are not in Shashi, if you dare to be disobedient and do something If you don’t dare to do things or don’t do what we say, I will break your leg again, and this time I won’t let you have a chance to heal!”

"Hurry up and collect the money. If you can't, your father and I will come to Qingshi to find you. Then I will let you take the blame for your brother. You are a cheap life anyway!"

At that time, he was ignorant, and he was only eighteen or nineteen years old. He had just run away from home, and he always thought that as long as he earned enough money, his parents would look at him one day.

But it was that time that made him completely see his position.

In the eyes of his parents, his life is not worth as much as a finger of Jiang Bao, who organized a group of gangsters to take sex with female classmates.

Unexpectedly, in this life, Wang Guihua would force her own son for Jiang Bao.

Father Li's cold tone came through the door wall: "What do you want us to do? Help that rapist brother get away with it?"

"Please..." Jiang Huaikang's voice was a little fuzzy, and it sounded even more bleak in the cold winter air, "I don't want my biological mother to find me, uncles and aunts, I really have no other choice..."

"We have nothing to do." Li's father's voice was a bit colder than the cold winter wind, "Also, I don't want you to appear at the door of Li's house. If there is another time, Li's house will stop you. All material support."

Jiang Huaikang's crying suddenly increased, as if he couldn't stand Li's father's cold and disgusting voice, he burst into tears.

"Husband..." Li's mother's voice was soft, and she stopped her husband from speaking again, and then she turned to Jiang Huaikang and said, "We will never take care of the Jiang family's affairs, and what your brother Jiang Bao did is too heinous. I don't know why you came to intercede for him, but as Zhiming said, live a good life in the future and don't come to Li's house again. If possible, it's better to have less contact with your biological mother..."

Jiang Huaikang's crying stopped suddenly, and the outside was quiet for a few seconds, and suddenly he heard him crying: "I also want to live in peace, but my biological mother never let me go, the threats day and night made me I can't go back to a normal life at all, she even said that if something happens to Jiang Bao, she wants me to be buried with him, and wants me to die with them...I'm just very scared..."

Li Huaicheng's frowning brows no longer loosened. He shouldn't have believed Jiang Huaikang's words. From Zhang Xing's dictation, he knew that Wang Guihua still had at least some mother-child affection for Jiang Huaikang, although it didn't look like he had been with Jiang Huaikang since childhood. There are so many older Jiang Baos, but there is nostalgia and guilt mixed in, so he won't hate him enough to say such vicious words to his son.

However, he had heard and experienced all these words in his previous life.

After he learned that Jiang Bao had committed such evil deeds, he rejected Wang Guihua and Jiang Aiguo's request, and later told them over the phone that Jiang Bao must learn a lesson if he made such a mistake, and that innocent girl would also must be protected by law.

However, from that day on, Wang Guihua would call him from time to time, threaten him, and even curse him to die. He also heard from Wang Guihua in his last life what Jiang Huaikang said just now. to a lot.

So when Jiang Huaikang said this, there were waves of nausea and vomiting in his heart.

Li Huaicheng didn't listen any more, he entered the room and went upstairs directly, opened the door and sat behind the door, looking up at the bright moon outside the window, his fingertips twitched uncontrollably.

With ten fingers connected to his heart, Li Huaicheng took out his phone with trembling fingertips, and when the screen lit up, he opened the address book.

His gaze was fixed on the first number in the call record, his fingertips were hanging but not pressed, and Li Huaicheng's lips were tightened.

"Hello... Huai Cheng?"

Jiang Siyuan was surprised and came with a slightly hoarse voice. Li Huaicheng heard Guan Shui's voice, and only then did he realize that he didn't know when he touched the dial button.

"What's the matter?" Jiang Siyuan's voice approached the microphone and became even hoarse, "Is there something wrong?"

Li Huaicheng slowly opened his tight mouth, and opened his mouth again when he wanted to hang up the phone.

"I forgot one thing that ruined a girl's life."

Li Huaicheng's fingertips turned white while holding the phone, and he covered his eyes with one hand, feeling a sense of powerlessness and self-blame.

Such an incident happened in the last life, he obviously knew about it long ago, but he put it aside because Jiang Bao was stupid, but Zhang Xing also told him that Jiang Bao had returned to normal, and told him that Jiang Bao had returned to normal. He, Jiang Bao, went to school, but he completely forgot about it.

If he could have remembered even a little bit at that time, that girl's life might not have been ruined by a scum like Jiang Bao.

Hearing what Li Huaicheng said, Jiang Siyuan stopped breathing and asked, "What girl, why do you say that?"

Li Huaicheng didn't answer, Jiang Siyuan listened to the sound of breathing over there, was silent for a long time, and then slowly said: "Although I don't know what happened, but I know that it is impossible for someone to forget something and destroy a person In a lifetime, there are many factors that destroy a person. It may be the environment, the person with malicious intent, or the relatives around her. These may be the leading factors or the incentives, but they definitely do not include what you said forget."

"Moreover, there are many factors for a person to forget something. Whether it is the forgetting caused by the loss of one's own memory over time or the forgetting caused by the unimportant information conveyed by the outside world, it shows that the forgetting is not the person. original intention."

"Only those who hurt others intentionally or unintentionally will destroy others. But the Li Huaicheng I know is definitely not such a person."

Li Huaicheng slowly lowered the hand that was on his eyes, Jiang Siyuan's voice was soft and firm, without the slightest hint of coldness when he hung up the phone for an hour.

Just like every time before, whenever he needed, he would always appear by his side in the most suitable posture, no matter what he looked like before, at every critical moment, he would be the person he most wanted to see Arrived.

Maybe... that's why he fell in love with Jiang Siyuan who was younger than him by more than one round.

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