Ferocious Dog of Old - Chapter 80

[Chapter 80]

Chi Cheng didn’t come back that winter, Tao Xiaodong even made a detour to Beijing when he was on a business trip, but Chi Cheng still didn’t go back with him, saying that he had found a part-time job and made an appointment.

During the Chinese New Year, Chi Cheng transferred an account to Tao Xiaodong, saying it was New Year’s money.

Tao Xiaodong also gave him a return, with a postscript: I and Tang Ge gave it, come back soon next time you have a holiday!

When Chi Cheng left, he didn’t take anything, Tao Xiaodong shoved a card with him, and had a large amount of money in it. On New Year’s Eve, Tao Xiaodong sent a video to Chi Cheng. Tao Huainan was sitting next to him. After the video, he silently stood up and went back to his room, standing in a place where no matter how Tao Xiaodong was sitting on the sofa and shaking his phone, he could not be photographed.

In the video, Chi Cheng and Tao Xiaodong said, “Happy New Year bro, bring

something to Tang bro.” “I’m happy, so happy,” Tao Xiaodong said to him, “Everyone talks about a New Year’s Eve reunion, but I didn’t make it, how can I be happy.”

Chi Cheng didn’t answer him, just smiled.

After the video hung up, Tao Huainan walked out of the room and returned to sit next to his brother. Tao Xiaodong asked him, “Why don’t you talk to my brother?”

Tao Huainan shook his head and said, “He doesn’t want to see me.”

“That might be the case,” Tao Xiaodong said.

The brothers didn’t know what happened to them before Chi Cheng left. Tao Huainan didn’t say it, and Chi Cheng didn’t even say it. Tao Xiaodong only knew that the two of them must have had a fight, but he couldn’t imagine how ruthless it would be.

Tao Huainan shook his head again, and said softly, “He doesn’t even want to come back, and he hates me.”

Tao Xiaodong went to Beijing to pick him up and failed to pick him up. Chi Cheng was so determined that he didn’t want to come back. Tao Xiaodong said, “There is so much hatred between brothers.”

Tao Huainan did not speak, and sat quietly.

Fireworks were not allowed to be set off in the city, but some people were still secretly setting them off. Tao Huainan heard the distant thumping sound outside, and remembered so many real and fake fireworks set off by Chi Cheng for him.

The speakers for the fireworks on the balcony are still in the cabinets in their room and may have been broken.

Every time Tao Xiaodong goes to Beijing, he goes to school to see Chi Cheng.

Chi Cheng has grown a little taller and stronger than before. The hair is shaved short, and he likes to wear dark clothes. The tall and thin boy has become completely handsome, and he is the kind of cool boy who is tugging.

Tao Xiaodong teased him: “Isn’t it very attractive? Have you made a target?”

Chi Cheng was put on his shoulder by his brother, and turned his head: “What are you doing?”

“It’s okay to do it, it’s big.” Tao Xiaodong patted him and said , “Brother doesn’t care about you.”

Chi Cheng still didn’t turn his head back, his stinky temper didn’t like to talk about it.

At the beginning, the two brothers agreed to chat after the college entrance examination, but due to various reasons, they finally failed to chat, and then there was no need to chat. Now the two brothers are tacit, and they don’t mention the things that they wanted to talk about back then.

Tao Xiaodong is a sociable person. He never makes people feel uncomfortable when interacting outside. He speaks in a moderate manner, and he never says those inappropriate words. But Chi Cheng is not an outsider, and he is a brother after all.

The two children had been arguing for so long, and Tao Huainan never let him mention him at home. Now that he came out, in front of Chi Cheng, Tao Xiaodong still had to coax him.

This is the first time Tao Xiaodong mentioned Tao Huainan to Chi Cheng.

The words were still in a normal tone of voice, as if they were just talking about other things and mentioned something incidentally: “I don’t know what happened to the two of you, so I won’t help you to persuade him. Sometimes he thinks about things from a different angle than ours. When I get angry, I can’t go home.”

Chi Cheng obviously didn’t want to say this, he stirred the coffee cup, turned his head to look out the window, and didn’t say anything.

Tao Xiaodong said, “There is not only him in the family, but also me. What’s the matter? I don’t even recognize me when I get angry?”

Chi Cheng frowned and said “no”.

“If you don’t have you, you should go home. We are not every family. What do you always do at school during the holidays?” Tao Xiaodong added, “I don’t want to pay attention to him when I go home. We have so many houses, and you two live in one. .”

Chi Cheng drank the coffee that made him mess up, without any expression on his face, he just said: “You will always be my brother.”

Chi Cheng’s temper, although Tao Xiaodong doesn’t know the difference between them. What happened, but I also know that Chi Cheng is not easy to coax.

It was indeed not coaxed well, Chi Cheng still did not come back during the winter and summer vacations of the second year. Every time Tao Xiaodong went to Beijing, Chi Cheng would come out to see him immediately. If he knew the time in advance, he would wait for him at the airport or the high-speed rail station.

Brother still recognizes it, but he can’t go home.

When the winter of the second year was almost over, Tao Huainan made another old mistake.

He started not to speak again, not for a long time, and tossed it a few times.

Tao Huainan was very active in going to the doctor and went there by himself. Dr. Qi has been in contact with him all the time. Tao Huainan will often go to his hospital if he has no classes since college, and Dr. Qi will let him. Not as a patient, just let him go and see, and do whatever he can. Later, Tao Huainan learned that there are several blind counselors in his hospital.

The blind counselors are very busy, and every time Tao Huainan goes, their time is full. Many patients who come for counseling will appoint a blind counselor, perhaps because they can’t see, it can make people more psychologically relaxed.

When he came this time, he said hello first: “Dr. Qi has a good New Year.”

“Okay, did your brother give you a red envelope?” Dr. Qi was typing on the keyboard, and there were several doctors in the office.

Tao Huainan said, “Here it is,” then sat beside him and waited.

After a while, Dr. Qi took time to look at him and asked, “Did you come by yourself?”

Tao Huainan nodded and said distressedly, “It seems that there is trouble again.”

Dr. Qi was still very calm, as if it was nothing: “I see, I’ll talk about it later.”

Fortunately, this time it wasn’t too much trouble. Occasional small twists and turns, and soon recovered.

In his sophomore year, Tao Huainan won a scholarship. The department took great care of him, and every time he went to the school for the blind to give him a set of test papers, and then asked the teachers of the school for the blind to help him correct it.

The exam questions were all the same. Tao Huainan won a first-class scholarship in the department based on his grades. Eight thousand yuan was given to his brother when he went home.

This year, he also participated in a marathon jogging organized by the Association for the Blind. For 42 kilometers, Tao Huainan worked hard and persevered, but in the end he only finished half of the race.

The volunteer gave him a bottle of water. Tao Huainan was sweating and his throat was so thirsty that he was smoking.

This year, he was still in the small piano shop in front of the school, and learned the guitar from the couple who opened the shop. A clean boy, wearing a checkered shirt, sitting beside the glass and playing the guitar quietly, occasionally playing the wrong note and smiling embarrassedly.

Others passing by the door of the store looked at him through the glass for a while, then picked up their mobile phones and took a picture of the boy who was smiling and healed.

This year Tao Huainan unexpectedly received a confession from a girl.

Tao Huainan had just packed his things after class, put his schoolbag on his back, and was groping for his blind stick at the table. With a faint fragrance on her body, the girl handed the blind stick to him.

Tao Huainan said “thank you”.

Girls are from different majors in the same college, and they can always meet in public classes in the college. The girl walked towards the school gate with him and bravely said that she liked it.

Tao Huainan was surprised. After a while, he smiled and said thank you, “I’m sorry, can’t you tell? I like boys.” The

girl was even more surprised than him, her eyes were all round, and she couldn’t see it again for a long time. After a while, he asked in a low voice, “Is it true? You are not trying to reject me, are you?”

“Really,” Tao Huainan replied calmly, “I heard that boys who like same-sex are easy to recognize. I thought girls would be very accurate.”

“No!” Although the girl was rejected, she didn’t She felt frustrated. After all, she didn’t have anything to be frustrated with because she didn’t have a sexual orientation. “Are you sure? Do you already have a boyfriend… a friend?”

Tao Huainan thought about it and said, “I don’t have a boyfriend, but I really only like boys. For sure.” The

girls have a wonderful psychology and are very cute. One second she was an anxious little girl, but the next second she instantly became a sister, and she even praised: “You are so brave, you speak so frankly.”

From the classroom to the school gate, I completed two mentalities in a short way. When they parted, Tao Huainan said goodbye to her, and the young lady cheered him on, saying that she would not speak out and would help him keep secrets.

“It doesn’t matter if you say it out,” Tao Huainan smiled warmly. “Everyone is very tolerant now.”

They used to live in a house far away from Brother Tang’s hospital and Tao Huainan’s current school. Xiaodong has other houses, but none of them are as close as Brother Tang’s.

It turned out that nothing at home was moved, only some clothes were taken.

Tao Huainan also brought an extra pillow.

When he was looking through the closet to pack his clothes, Tao Xiaodong pulled out a stack of Tao Huainan’s old blankets.

Tao Xiaodong showed it to Brother Tang and said, “You can’t sleep without a blanket when you are young.” Tang Suoyan

said, “Many children have a sleeping habit, some touch their ears, some bite things, and some like Xiaonan. Those who recognize pillows and quilts.”

Tao Huainan hadn’t covered the old blankets for a long time, he always thought they had thrown them away, but they were all kept in the cabinet in their room.

Tao Huainan reached out and touched it, the touch was still very familiar, and when he touched it, he recalled many memories from the past.

“Would you take it? Maybe it’s better to cover it when you’re insomnia?” Tao Xiaodong asked.

Tao Huainan still often suffers from insomnia. Other things are good, but this has not been good.

“Don’t bring it, leave it here.” Tao Huainan touched it again. The fluff of the blanket was washed and bald, and it was really old. Holding the pillow in his arms, he lowered his head and rubbed his face.

When Tao Huainan was a child, he recognized blankets when he slept, and now he recognizes pillows.

Sometimes I can’t fall asleep, sometimes I sleep very deeply. I sleep on my stomach and put the pillow between my stomach and the bed. I will wake up in the middle of the night. I wake up and turn over and hug the pillow up. Occasionally, I slept too wildly, and I slept in the direction of the pillow, with my arms and legs draped, and my head covered, and I slept like a sloth hanging on a tree.

Chi Cheng has been gone for more than two years. If Tao Huainan has a dream and falls asleep, he will still open his mouth and call out a name when he wakes up.

To be completely awake to remember, no one can agree long ago.

Tao Huainan sat up with his pillow in his arms, stunned with long hair.

After the daze, put the two pillows in place, fold the quilt skillfully, get up and put on clothes and wash. After school, it can be done by one person, just like every day.

Life seems to be the same as before.

But if you think about it carefully, everything has changed.

[End of This Chapter]