Ferocious Dog of Old - Chapter 68

[Chapter 68]

After holding back for a long time, I finally feel comfortable now. Tao Huainan fixed his pants, and Chi Cheng took him down with his arm. The two came out of the small shed and smelled the air outside. Tao Huainan took a deep breath and said, “I was so excited when I heard the door rang and knew that you were back.”

This sounded like thinking about them too much, but in fact, he was holding back. , Can’t wait to come back and take him to the toilet.

“You don’t care who looks at you or not, what are you doing?” Chi Cheng said to him again.

“That’s too ugly,” Tao Huainan quickly shook his head and refused, “Why don’t you teach something good.”

Tao Huainan is a child who is very afraid of being ugly. What an inappropriate move. This is also related to Tao Xiaodong and Chi Cheng’s good teaching. When they were young, the reminders that “the first level, the second level and the third level can’t be done” made Tao Huainan behave like normal children, or even better than them.

“Auntie is so enthusiastic. She kept letting me eat fruit last night. I want to go to the toilet when I lie down at night.” Tao Huainan went to the toilet and didn’t wash his hands. He said, “Did you not sleep again last night? Can you rest later?”

Chi Cheng said yes.

Tao Huainan said, “Then I’ll sleep with you for a while.”

Many things are often coincidental, and they seem very interesting under the coincidence.

For example, when Tao Huainan and Chi Cheng met, he panicked because his brother didn’t come back, so he said the first sentence to Chi Cheng and asked Chi Cheng to find him a bottle.

Now I am back in this village, and I am also doing the same funeral. The first thing Chi Cheng did when he came back was to hug Tao Huainan, but the first thing Tao Huainan whispered eagerly in his ear was because of this.

Tao Huainan laughed and said, “Why do I always want to pee.”

Chi Cheng also smiled softly, and pressed Tao Huainan’s pout of hair: “Who knows about you.”

I haven’t washed my hair, so I can’t press it now. After washing his hands, Tao Huainan said to Chi Cheng, “Can you help me pour water, I want to wash my hair, but I always find it smelly.”

Living in the village is the real “fireworks”, and firewood is used to burn the kang. , so there is always a faint smell of burning straw around, and the smell is always on the pillows and quilts. Even if the clothes can’t be changed, the smell on the hair still wants to be washed.

Chi Cheng boiled water with a pot, half scooped hot water and half cold water, and the water continued to pour slowly. Tao Huainan took a basin under his head and carefully washed his hair.

The little boy is always clean and delicate. It is uncomfortable to not wash his hair for a day, and the little things are fine. Chi Cheng is not so troublesome. When washing his face with an inch head, he will wash it with a handful on the top of his head. It doesn’t matter if it is cold or hot.

Auntie is not so careful, or there are no new towels at home, Tao Huainan will naturally dry after washing in the morning. Uncle Tang’s family are all simple and hardworking people. Tao Huainan’s hair was still dripping with water, and he said, “Why don’t I go out and shake it? It will dry in a while.”

Chi Cheng looked around for two times and saw nothing, so he took off his coat and put it on Tao Huainan. He then raised his hand and took off the T-shirt inside. The T-shirt covered Tao Huainan’s head and he grabbed it back and forth, and Tao Huainan touched it back and touched Chi Cheng’s bare waist. Tao Huainan even sighed and said, “I’m such a big trouble.”

Chi Cheng wiped Tao Huainan half-dry with his own clothes, patted his butt and said, “That’s it.”

Tao Huainan touched Chi Cheng’s hand. The clothes inside, it’s definitely not going to be worn. Chi Cheng didn’t care about this, he just had to put it on his body. Tao Huainan stopped him with a “hey”, took off his clothes for Chi Cheng, then put on his brother’s coat and pulled the zipper all the way to the end.

Chi Cheng simply dipped some washing powder and rubbed his clothes. In fact, after two days, his clothes smelled bad, but Tao Huainan didn’t care.

Tao Xiaodong was still talking outside. Chi Cheng came out and put the washed T-shirt on the clothesline. Tao Xiaodong was quite puzzled: “What happened to the clothes?”

Tao Huainan said, “Wipe my hair.”

Tao Xiaodong was speechless for a while, and said, “I really gave you two.”

Today’s time has passed, and the ashes can’t be buried when they get back, they have to wait until tomorrow. In the end, one more day of staying alive, the three brothers will go back tomorrow morning as soon as the ashes of the old man are buried in the ground.

Chi Cheng had to be at Chi’s house today, and he didn’t set up any spiritual shed, so he didn’t prepare in advance. In the yard, a table was simply made for an offering table, and tributes and portraits were placed.

Chi Cheng hadn’t slept for two days and two nights, so he went to sleep on the kang in the house for a while. Usually no one sleeps on the kang. The old man only slept on a single bed before his death. One of the low kangs had collapsed. The kang leather was uneven and covered with a thin layer of ash. There is a low cabinet on one side of the kang with some sundries on it.

Chi Cheng didn’t take off his shoes, and Tao Xiaodong’s bag was pillowed under his head. Tao Huainan originally thought that someone would always come in. Wouldn’t it be good for the two of them to sleep here, so he didn’t go up and just sat beside Chi Cheng’s lap with his hand on his lap. Later, Chi Cheng closed his eyes and called out “Tao Huainan”, Tao Huainan responded and slowly climbed up.

Tao Huainan rested on Chi Cheng’s arm, and Chi Cheng lay on his side and held him in his arms. Tao Huainan also hadn’t slept for almost two nights. Now he was next to Chi Cheng. Although there was the smell of fireworks and dust around him, he still couldn’t match the sense of security that Chi Cheng’s breath gave Tao Huainan.

They fell asleep in this position, and both of them slept soundly. Tao Xiaodong came over after a while and found an empty space beside them. He took two pillows from the car and put them down, one was placed under Huainan’s head, otherwise Chicheng’s arms would go numb later, and the other would fall asleep on his own.

In the middle, Tao Huainan woke up once, and was awakened by the sound of something falling to the ground outside. When I woke up, I heard that there was still a breath next to me, frowned and tentatively reached out to touch it, and when I touched my wrist, I knew it was his brother, and his expression suddenly relaxed.

On one side is his brother and the other is Chi Cheng, this small space is too safe.

The three brothers slept in it for half an afternoon. Chi Cheng woke up first. When he woke up, Tao Huainan also woke up, and Chi Cheng patted it.

When Chi Cheng woke up, Tao Huainan turned to a warm place in his sleep again, and slept a little longer next to his brother.

In the evening, they went to their hometown to have a meal at Uncle Tang, and they filled a table again. Tao Xiaodong was talking to Uncle Tang, and Chi Cheng and Tao Huainan went home first after eating. The clothes washed in the morning were already dry, so Chi Cheng took them down and put them on for Tao Huainan. In addition to the unpleasant smell of paper dust and smoke, Tao Huainan finally had a light fragrance of washing powder.

That night, Tao Huainan followed Chi Cheng all the time. He would accompany Chi Cheng quietly when he did anything. They had long been accustomed to this way of getting along with him.

The night in the village was very dark and cold. Tao Huainan was not afraid of the dark. They were sitting in the yard holding hands. Chi Cheng put one of Tao Huainan’s hands in his hand and played with it. Kneading the fingertips and rubbing the pulp of the fingers, the warmth between the fingers is transmitted to each other, making the cold autumn night a lot softer.

Early the next morning, the old man’s ashes were buried in the ground.

Chi Cheng was draped in white linen filial cloth, and kowtowed several times while listening to the instructions.

After all this was over, Tao Xiaodong led the two of them to the Tao family’s parents to burn some paper. Tao Xiaodong bought two cemeteries in their cemetery, which were filled with old things of his parents, and their portraits were pasted on the stele. Usually, they seldom went back to their hometown. During Qingming and Zhongyuan, they went there to send flowers.

The front of my parents’ graves is very clean and free of weeds. I can see that my uncle often comes to clean up. Tao Xiaodong led the two brothers over to have a look. Tao Xiaodong sat on the ground and chatted with his parents for a while.

That year, Tao Xiaodong was twenty-five when he buried his parents here, and now Tao Xiaodong is thirty-six. In the early ten years, his changes have not been small, nor big. Tao Huainan has grown into a handsome boy since childhood.

Time seemed to fly by so fast, and it went from there to here in a blink of an eye, but it was all piled up day by day. After Tao Huainan lost sight of his eyes, his parents told Tao Xiaodong that they were sorry for him, and that his younger brother would have to drag him for the rest of his life. Tao Xiaodong never thought of that. He glanced at Tao Huainan, turned around and asked with a smile, “How is it? Did your little son make me handsome?”

Tao Xiaodong glanced at Chicheng again and said, “This is the third son of our family.”

Thinking about it, it feels wrong: “He is one year older than Xiao Nan, so that must be the second child of our family. It is not me who is able to grow so well, but Xiao Chi brought it. I am the one who pays, no matter what. Son.”

Tao Huainan has few scars on his body, and he doesn’t usually bump into it often, which is very difficult for the blind. Last time Tao Xiaodong took him with medical aid, and his brother took him and fell all over, and his forehead was blue. Blind life is full of dangers, and if one is not careful, a wound will be added to the body.

Tao Huainan has never been seriously injured, and he is squeamish and afraid of pain. Someone who takes good care of them has the conditions to be afraid of pain, otherwise the pain will come out early.

For almost 4,000 days, Tao Huainan grew up in Chi Cheng’s hands, and every inch of his growth was watched under Chi Cheng’s eyes. Chi Cheng held his hand and grew up slowly. The intimacy between them can’t even be inserted into Tao Xiaodong. They have always had a small world that only belongs to them. This is Tao Xiaodong’s acquiescence.

So many things may not be right, but Tao Xiaodong never cared about them, just be happy. Life is not easy enough, no matter what he should or not, Tao Xiaodong has always been used to children, he has been used to it for so many years, and it will be like this in the future.

Tao Huainan and Chi Cheng took a total of three days off. Pan Xiaozhuo gave Tao Huainan a stack of notes when they went to school on Thursday. Tao Huainan was confused when he touched the thickness, and asked, “Why are there so many?”

“This book is too many, there are not many pages in each, and I have organized some documents for you, and I will send them to you at night.” Pan Xiaozhuo pushed his glasses. , said to Tao Huainan, “You ask your little brother to print it out for you, and you can back it according to the frame.”

“Okay,” Tao Huainan nodded, “Thank you Xiaozhuo.”

He thanked him solemnly, and Pan Xiaozhuo said solemnly. You’re welcome. After speaking, both of them thought it was funny, Tao Huainan smiled and said, “Why do we both pretend to be polite every day.”

Pan Xiaozhuo said, “It’s all up to you.”

Tao Huainan added, “When I say thank you, that’s what I mean. It means, you don’t need to reply, it seems that we are very fake after replying.”

After speaking, the two of them laughed softly again. Tao Huainan’s hands were cold when they touched each other, so Pan Xiaozhuo stood up and closed the window.

He is always like this. He is very careful about small things, but when he does something, he is silent and silent. Tao Huainan was quite used to not talking to him, and Chi Cheng didn’t like to talk. Most people don’t like people who don’t talk, they feel cold and easily misunderstand their emotions.

Pan Xiaozhuo is generally popular, and others don’t dare to talk to him. If he didn’t like to communicate, he didn’t know others well. When he was there, others didn’t come to talk to Tao Huainan very often, for fear that Pan Xiaozhuo would get angry. In the eyes of my classmates, this is a typical academic tyrant with a little weirdness, and I don’t like to be in contact with him.

But the two of them at the same table talk every day. In fact, they are the same after they get to know each other. They are ordinary boys who also have normal emotions and jokes.

When Tao Huainan came back from vacation, Pan Xiaozhuo was more enthusiastic than usual for him. Although it was not obvious, he was keenly caught by Tao Huainan.

“Why are you talking so much today? You don’t usually talk so much.” Tao Huainan moved towards the same table, “You… do you miss me?”

Pan Xiaozhuo quickly turned his face to his face . On the other side: “What!”

“I think you are!” Tao Huainan said with a little slyness on his face, and said quickly in a low voice, “You feel bored after I won’t be here for a few days? No one is talking to you, right? ?”

Pan Xiaozhuo “shush” him and asked him to speak softly: “In class, the teacher will look at us later.”

“Look at your coy look,” Tao Huainan said with a snort, ” You’re awkward.”

Pan Xiaozhuo was also an awkward child, he was more than a year younger than Tao Huainan. Tao Huainan and Chi Cheng both went to school late, so they skipped one level, otherwise they would be bigger than the students in the same grade. Pan Xiaozhuo went to school early again. He had just turned six years old when he went to school, and he was the youngest in the class.

Because Tao Huainan asked if he missed him, Pan Xiaozhuo’s face became hot for a long time.

The little boy never expressed himself, and he never said such things to anyone. He felt embarrassed when Tao Huainan pointed it out. He wanted to pretend to say something naturally, but he didn’t say it for a long time.

Between classes, Ji Nan stood on tiptoe at the corridor window and shouted “Tao Huainan”.

Tao Huainan heard it and turned towards that direction. Ji Nan said, “Come out and get something.

” When Pan Xiaozhuo heard the bell rang, he hurried out and moved very neatly. Ji Nan smiled and said, “You are very clever now?”

Pan Xiaozhuo looked at him and said, “Hurry up, my class teacher won’t let people from outside the class follow you. Contact.”

Ji Nan laughed, but refused to give it to him: “Didn’t your class teacher come?”

Pan Xiaozhuo, a typical good student, was in awe of the teacher, frowned and looked back and forth, and urged Jinan: “Hurry up.

Ji Nan just gave it to him and said, “I just went downstairs and gave it to Brother Kai. Let’s eat together.” Pan

Xiaozhuo hurried back to the classroom after taking it, trotted back to his seat, and put something on Tao Huainan’s lap. Let go and said, “Brother Kai gave it.”

He just relayed Ji Nan’s words directly, without thinking. After I finished speaking, I felt uncomfortable, and said again: “That’s what he called, it should be that Kai in your little brother’s class… Brother Kai.”

“Brother Kai is Brother Kai,” Tao Huainan said indifferently. , reached out and touched, it was two boxes of desserts cut into pieces, he touched Pan Xiaozhuo’s arm and asked him, “Is it the same?”

Pan Xiaozhuo glanced at it, shook his head and said, “One black and one green.”

“Then you pick one . ”

I don’t want it,” Pan Xiaozhuo said quickly, “you can eat it yourself.”

Tao Huainan then casually touched one and stuffed it into his table bucket, and said, “What Brother Kai gave is delicious. He sent my little sister to open a dessert shop. The little desserts made are very good.”

What else did Pan Xiaozhuo say, the teacher had already come in, Tao Huainan whispered “Shh”.

I missed three days of classes when I returned to my hometown, and Chi Cheng had to make up for it according to Chi Cheng’s request for him. Chi Cheng was self-disciplined, and he studied late every night after he came back.

There are no new courses to learn in the third year of high school. The whole year of high school is a review, and the courses are completed in the second year of high school. It takes more than two hours to complete the comprehensive paperwork, and after the homework is completed and additional paperwork is done, it will be midnight.

Tao Huainan didn’t sleep either. After Chi Cheng finished studying, Tao Huainan would sit on his back and give him a massage for a while.

My brother is on a business trip again. He is always busy these days. Dr. Tang is a little dissatisfied with this. Last time, Tao Huainan heard my brother and Dr. Tang talking sticky there.

When people are in love, it is really different from usual. People who are rough are also delicate, and people who are cold are not cold.

Tao Huainan thought about his brother and Dr. Tang, and felt that it was very good now.

Tao Huainan pressed for a while, Chi Cheng pulled him down and said, “Go to sleep.”

Chi Cheng turned off the light, and the two kissed for a short while, Chi Cheng put his arms around Tao Huainan’s stomach, and then went to sleep each. .

[End of This Chapter]