Ferocious Dog of Old - Chapter 71

[Chapter 71]

There are only dozens of days left before the college entrance examination, and many things should be put on the agenda.

For example, filling out this form and that form, such as a physical examination, such as Tao Huainan has to start submitting applications. When filling out the form in the class, Pan Xiaozhuo fills it out for him, or he brings it home to Chi Cheng to help him fill it out at night.

It was supposed to be the time when his brother gave him care, but Tao Xiaodong hasn’t shown up recently. Every time Tao Huainan called him, he didn’t come back if he wanted to go on a business trip or have something to do.

“You have something to hide from me, Tao Xiaodong?” Tao Huainan asked hesitantly on the phone.

“What can I do?” Tao Xiaodong’s voice was so hoarse that he felt that he was struggling to speak on the phone. “I’m busy, I’ll go back to see you in two days.”

“What are you busy with?” Tao Huainan wouldn’t let him Hang up the phone, grab him and keep asking.

“The store has been busy recently, and there are activities,” Tao Xiaodong laughed hoarsely over there, his voice rough and dry, “Go home after you’ve been busy for a while. Do you miss me?”

“What nonsense?” Tao Huainan frowned, and pulled a piece of the edge of the post, “Can I still miss you?”

Tao Xiaodong was silent on the phone for a while, then smiled and said, “Brother also wants to You.”

“You’d better not hide anything from me,” Tao Huainan told him, “you can’t hide it from me.”

“It’s okay,” Tao Xiaodong said again, cleared his throat, and said, “Let’s study, Brother hang up first.”

Tao Huainan is a very sensitive child, there are only a few people in his world, so he knows everyone very well, he can hear his mood from his tone, and he can say anything wrong. Pick out very sensitively.

So he intuitioned that Tao Xiaodong had something to hide from him, but Tao Xiaodong kept his mouth tightly shut and didn’t say anything.

This made Tao Huainan always have one thing in mind. When Tao Xiaodong came back, let him touch it.

At noon in Chicheng’s classroom, Tao Huainan lay on the pillow for a long time and couldn’t fall asleep, and blinked his eyes but couldn’t close them. Chi Cheng glanced at him, reached out to touch his eyelashes, and asked him, “Why don’t you sleep?”

Tao Huainan was touched by his eyelashes, so he blinked twice, scratched Chi Cheng’s fingers with his eyelashes, and pulled the corner of his mouth. : “I’m not sleepy, I can’t sleep.”

Tao Huainan didn’t sleep every day, sometimes he would lie down for a while. So Chi Cheng ignored him and let him lie on one side. Tao Huainan put his hand on Chi Cheng’s leg, and his fingers tapped lightly on his leg without rhythm.

Shi Kai came back early today, saw Tao Huainan lying on his stomach, thought he was sleeping, and sat down in the back seat with light movements. Before he could sit down, he heard Tao Huainan say, “Hello, Brother Kai.”

Shi Kai laughed, “I haven’t slept

yet .” It ‘s very early.”

Shi Kai said with an “um”, “You lie on your back, I’ll just sit here. There’s chocolate in it, can Brother Chi bring it for you?”

Tao Huainan said “no”.

“I’ll take it and eat it later. I’ll get it for you in the morning.” Shi Kai smiled and took away a small piece of dried leaf stuck to the back of Tao Huainan’s clothes, “Neither I nor Brother Chi will eat it.”

Tao Huainan said, “Brother Xie Kai. ”

Actually, Tao Huainan doesn’t like to eat very much recently, and he is so overwhelmed with things that he can’t breathe. The matter of the college entrance examination weighed on him, and the matter of his brother also weighed on him.

Pan Xiaozhuo gave the chocolate back to the classroom. Pan Xiaozhuo didn’t make much trouble with Tao Huainan recently, and Tao Huainan didn’t say anything. But this does not affect the relationship between the two, a pair of small tablemates have always been very good.

Pan Xiaozhuo took good care of Tao Huainan and helped him to draw up this rhona.

Tao Huainan actually asked him once, why Pan Xiaozhuo took the initiative to be at the same table with him, study with him, and take care of him. Pan Xiaozhuo didn’t say anything at first, introverted children are always not good at expressing their thoughts. Later, when Tao Huainan couldn’t hold back and asked again, Pan Xiaozhuo said, “You helped me that time in the cafeteria.”

Tao Huainan was surprised. He still remembered that Pan Xiaozhuo said, “I threw your lunch box. When you recovered, you said ‘it’s all right’, and when Ji Nan got angry, you also helped me.”

Speaking of these, it is inevitable that people will Embarrassed, Pan Xiaozhuo turned his face to one side and said, “I was so frightened at the time.”

It’s not ashamed to talk about it now, Pan Xiaozhuo whispered, “I don’t know where the water came from on the ground, too much. I’m unlucky, how can I step on it so accurately…”

Tao Huainan couldn’t help laughing, and asked him: “What were you thinking at the time? Don’t say a word, in fact, if you say sorry to Ji Nan, you will lose your breath.

” What am I thinking, I’m just stupid,” Pan Xiaozhuo felt his head buzzing when he remembered the scene at that time, “the rice bowl was cracked and fell, and the cafeteria had some echoes. Everyone looked at me, and I almost ran away. .”

Tao Huainan was amused by him, lying on the table and laughing for a long time. Pan Xiaozhuo is indeed a slow-moving person. Now that the two of them have matured, he can talk about this without the burden. Tao Huainan said: “Afterwards, you really went to send money. Those two brothers were scared when they saw you, and you were amazing.”

“I’m afraid they will come to me,” Pan Xiaozhuo pursed his lips, and wanted to laugh a little, “If he When did you two come to me for money when you remembered?”

“They both said no, so you can send it back.” Tao Huainan said.

Pan Xiaozhuo: “Once you regret it, what will you do if the station gate calls me out to give you money?”

Tao Huainan laughed again and said, “The two brothers are going crazy when they hear it.

” I want four thousand!” Pan Xiaozhuo whispered.

Tao Huainan was so amused by him that the two boys laughed together and looked at them both at the front and back tables, thinking they were sick.

Pan Xiaozhuo asked him, “Are you happier?”

Tao Huainan nodded and said that he was happy, and then said, “I’m not unhappy either, Xiaozhuo. I just miss my brother a little bit.”

Tao Huainan is not superstitious, but he has had too many dreams recently. I don’t know if it was because Tao Xiaodong never came back, Tao Huainan’s heart couldn’t let go. He always dreamed of his brother, that he was holding him when he was a child, and some bad things.

These dreams are annoying, Tao Huainan just wants Tao Xiaodong to come back and show him.

It took another week for Xiaodong to come back, with Brother Tang.

Tao Huainan had been waiting at home that day, sitting on the sofa pinching his watch from time to time, the sound of their footsteps finally sounded in the corridor, and Tao Huainan stood up.

Blind people’s intuition is accurate, because they have all senses except their eyes, and they can catch all the clues.

Tao Huainan’s face was not obvious, and he was still talking as usual, but his heart sank little by little.

Xiaodong pretended to be natural, paused unnaturally after Chi Cheng’s hesitant “brother”, and explained and joked with a smile, all these were abnormal.

Tao Huainan touched his brother’s face and asked softly, “Why are you so thin?”

Xiaodong said he had a cold.

My brother’s hair is gone. I used to have handsome half-length hair, which I often have to tie up, but now the top of my head is bald.

Brother Tang said that they had broken up, and Tao Xiaodong wanted to break up with him.

Tao Huainan’s heart clenched, but he still only held Brother Tang’s hand and said, “He cares about you very much.”

Chi Cheng didn’t speak to his brother, and Tao Huainan didn’t hear a word from them. Brother’s hair is gone, people are thin, and there is such a big scab on his mouth, normal Chi Cheng will definitely ask. But Chi Cheng didn’t ask a word that day, and Tao Xiaodong didn’t take the initiative to say anything, all of which were deliberately not easy to detect. They must have made eye contact, all of which could not be concealed from Tao Huainan.

After brother and brother left that time, Tao Huainan sat on the sofa without speaking for a long time.

Chi Cheng came over and touched his shoulder. Tao Huainan was startled and shivered suddenly.

Chi Cheng looked at him in astonishment: “What’s wrong?”

Tao Huainan was still a little frightened. He was so fascinated just now that he didn’t hear Chi Cheng’s footsteps. Tao Huainan took a deep breath and said, “I didn’t pay attention.”

Chi Cheng touched his head.

Tao Huainan took his hand, pressed his face to his palm, closed his eyes and said, “Xiaodong has something to hide from me.”

Chi Cheng said “um”.

“What’s wrong with him…” Tao Huainan’s eyelashes trembled, and he said to Chi Cheng, “I’m afraid.”

Tao Huainan is very timid, and he doesn’t care about many people, but these few people can’t do anything. some. He himself can get sick or have accidents, but these people cannot.

Tao Xiaodong hasn’t come back for a long time. Once he came back, he lost so much weight that he had no hair.

This was so scary, Tao Huainan couldn’t help thinking about many possibilities, each of which could scare him to death.

“Has he undergone chemotherapy?” Tao Huainan asked Chi Cheng.

Chi Cheng thought for a while, and said, “It’s not like, let’s say the last physical examination was all right.”

“I think it’s very similar,” Tao Huainan thought about the feeling of touching Tao Xiaodong’s face, so thin and haggard, “otherwise, why would there be no hair. ”

Chi Cheng was actually frowning all the time, Tao Huainan couldn’t see it, but Chi Cheng knew from the moment his brother entered the room that something was wrong with him. Tao Xiaodong shook his head at him and didn’t let him ask, and Chi Cheng didn’t find a chance to speak to him alone.

Tao Xiaodong’s mouth is very hard, and he can’t ask what he doesn’t want to say. He didn’t want himself to know, Tao Huainan pretended not to know. When the brothers called, Tao Xiaodong returned to his old hippie smile, and Tao Huainan also cooperated with him.

There is a small group of four people at home, and there are four members of their family. Tao Xiaodong occasionally sees something interesting and posts it in the group. Usually no one pays attention to him. The two young people have to go to school and have no time for class all day. Brother Tang is even more so, and he doesn’t even touch his mobile phone during work hours.

One day Tao Xiaodong was talking in the group in the morning, and Tao Huainan chatted with him one by one.

Before the class, Tao Huainan sent a sentence: “Let’s go to class, Xiaodong works hard!”

Just after he took off his headphones, the phone vibrated again.

Tao Huainan put on the headphones again, and clicked on a voice from Tao Xiaodong: “Let’s talk about it, brother, you know my situation. Tao Huainan suffocated his breath ,

his fingertips shaking uncontrollably. He wanted to listen to it again, but found that his brother had withdrawn it.

[End of This Chapter]