(BGM in this chapter: Eason Chan's "I Don't Love Much", a very beautiful song, and probably the song that fits the plot the most.) ）

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Brother Jiu took Sjepan back to the house with a belly full of fire, he changed his clothes, and ordered him to bring a bucket of well water.

He put Stepan's scalded hand in the icy cold well water, and Stepan was so scalded that the back of his hand was blistered.

Damn, it's all an incident born of the scourge of the old ten! Brother Jiu thought resentfully, if this is in modern society, if the ice cubes are taken out of the refrigerator for the first time to dissipate heat, the burns will not be so serious, if it is so hot today, what will happen if it is infected.

Seeing that the well water did not have much effect, Brother Jiu ordered him to get the ointment for the treatment of burns, and he asked Sjepan to take off his coat and trousers, and then carefully applied the ointment to Sjepan's injured skin.

While he was doing all this, Sjepan honestly didn't dare to move, and he didn't dare to ask what was going on. Sjepan could feel that the atmosphere was not good, and Brother Nine was angry.

Otherwise, you won't be pulled up and left halfway through the meal.

I was busy until the afternoon, and when I heard Sjiepan's belly beating like a drum, Brother Jiu remembered that in fact, this guy didn't eat anything today. While scolding the tenth elder brother, he instructed the kitchen to prepare quickly.

He told Sjepan that he would wait a little longer and let the kitchen make his favorite shrimp corn fried rice.

Si Jie Pan asked the Ninth Elder Brother anxiously if he had quarreled with the Tenth Elder Brother.

It's okay if he doesn't ask, but when he asks, the fire of Brother Jiu can rise again!

"We shouldn't be there today! I expected that this meal would be a good wine banquet without wine! Staying at home doesn't make such a big deal! ”

Sjepan hurriedly persuaded him: "People didn't mean it. If you get so angry, Brother Ten will be sad. ”

"He's upset? He won't be upset! He thinks you're a pervert! ”

As soon as Brother Jiu wrote these words, he saw Si Jiepan stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and retracted his hand.

Brother Jiu regretted it a little, he shouldn't have said it so bluntly and hurt Sjepan.

So he hurriedly said, "So I told him to play by himself!" Let's never go to his house again! Let him be noble! ”

Seeing that Si Jie Pan still lowered his head, Brother Jiu thought about it and said, "Lao Shi is a natural fool!" Ignore him! ”

As if he was afraid that Stepan would not know the stupid word, he wrote it all over again in English and Russian.

"But he's your brother." ”

These words made Brother Jiu even more popular: "I have more than ten or twenty fucking younger brothers!" My brother and brother are in a big group! He's a fart! One more of him, not too much, no less! ”

After he finished speaking, he remembered the past and felt a little sad.

"Earlier, the old thirteen quarreled with the fourth brother, and he laughed at others, and told me that he was different from the old thirteen, and he would never quarrel with me in this life - look at it now, isn't it a slap in the face? He's also a fucking pervert, as if he's so normal! Could it be that those things in his head don't change their mind?! Can a normal person draw those things he draws? One day, when I was annoyed, I sent all the naked women and naked men he painted to Huang Ama! ”

At this moment, fried rice was brought from the kitchen, and Sjepan smelled the rice and couldn't help but swallow. Brother Jiu laughed, it seems that the big thing can't stop the heart of the foodie.

Brother Jiu used a silver spoon to feed the bowl of fried rice to Si Jiepan, and the fried rice was filled with dried bamboo shoots, green beans, shrimp, and fine diced ham, and the kitchen also served a bowl of winter melon and scallop soup.

Seeing him so cute, Brother Jiu also smiled: "Isn't that very good!" Hmph, you shouldn't have eaten someone's wine today! Let's eat at home and live faster! ”

The big quarrel at the banquet soon became known to the eighth elder brother, and the eighth elder brother blamed the tenth elder brother, what he meant was that if you invite people over for dinner, you should respect other people's habits, and as the host, you should take care of guests with limited mobility. If he hadn't treated Sjepan as a guest, he shouldn't have invited Brother Jiu and them over in the first place. Inviting people to the banquet, and holding back their stomachs to teach others and laugh at others, who doesn't want to turn their faces? What's more, the tenth elder brother is the younger brother, how can there be a younger brother in the world to teach the elder brother?

At the end, the eighth elder brother sighed: "Old ten, is Lao Jiu's sexual orientation more important, or is he more important?" Even if he bends, so what? Even if he has been bent since he was a child, he is also your own brother. ”

"Where is he bent? He's clearly angry! Brother Ten said resentfully, "What else is 'starting at twelve o'clock at noon'...... Isn't this a gamble? He's obviously not gay, so why should he mix with gays? ”

"Look at you, here you go again." Eighth Elder Brother shook his head, "Yes or no, is it really that important?" Are you planning to have a relationship with your ninth brother just for such a thing? ”

Brother Ten lowered his head and stopped talking.

"Are you going to just stay frozen until we move out of the Great Qing Dynasty after the year?"

"So, what to do?"

"Go and admit your mistakes." Eighth Elder Brother said very simply, "In my opinion, Lao Jiu didn't do anything wrong, and Si Jiepan didn't offend you, so it's all your own fault for making this happen." It's not that you don't know Lao Jiu's temper, he won't take the initiative to come to you to reconcile. If you don't want to lose this brother, you have to admit your mistake to him. ”

So in this way, the eighth elder brother accompanied the tenth elder brother and came to apologize to the ninth elder brother.

The ninth elder brother wanted to say that he couldn't see it, but when he heard that the eighth elder brother was also here, it was difficult for him to refuse again. So after thinking about it, he still took Sjepan to the front hall.

As soon as they met, Brother Ten looked very aggrieved, and he apologized to Brother Jiu, saying that he said the wrong thing that day, and it was not good to do things, which caused Si Jie Pan to be burned. He won't say anything more about the ugly ones.

Brother Jiu lowered his head and listened, but he didn't make a sound.

When the eighth elder brother saw him like this, he persuaded: "Old Nine, it's not that you don't know that Old Ten's mouth can't spit out ivory. He replied in his heart, and he said it out of his mouth. ”

"So I don't blame him either." The ninth elder brother didn't look at the tenth elder brother, but said lightly, "Since you have a diaphragm in your heart, then don't meet, why apologize?" Apologizing is also embarrassing him. ”

Brother Ten was so anxious that he wanted to cry, so he choked up and said, "Brother Jiu, I didn't mean to...... That porridge is also the Chaoshan porridge I specially prepared for one night, don't you like to drink this? I was going to entertain you and Sjepan, but you left without touching a mouth......"

Eighth Elder Brother sighed and said, "Old Jiu, why are you doing this? Lao Shi grew up with you since he was a child, and he is the closest to you. Suddenly, there is a Sjepan, and you only care about taking care of him all day, and you have less to do with our brothers. Old ten, he's not in a hurry, that's strange. ”

The ninth elder brother knew that what the eighth elder brother said made sense, so he just kept silent.

Eighth Elder Brother said again: "I don't think it's wrong for you to be like this, and I also know that Sjepan needs to be taken care of." But don't you have to be considerate of other people's feelings? ”

After a long time, Brother Jiu finally said, "I don't blame Lao Shi. I won't talk about it again in the future. ”

When Brother Ten heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

But before leaving, the eighth elder brother hesitated for a long time, and still said: "Lao Jiu, a few of us understand you, and other people outside may not be able to understand you." Do you really want to continue this state of affairs until the end of the year? ”

Brother Jiu looked indifferent: "What's not to do?" If you don't understand, he won't understand 10,000 words. I only want to stay with people who understand, starling, am I also wrong? ”

Eighth Elder Brother sighed softly: "Old Nine, don't worry too much about what I say." Is Sjepan really as fragile and incompetent as you think, and can't leave you all the time? Is it that Sjepan can't live without you, or are you inseparable from him? ”

When Brother Jiu heard this, his eyes suddenly became cold: "What does Brother Starling want to say?" ”

"Look, it's going to jump again, what's the matter, you also have an extra nuclear weapon button?" Eighth Elder Brother smiled bitterly, "Old Nine, I know that Sjiepan is very important to you, and you want to do your best to compensate him." But can you really give what people want? ”

The eighth elder brother said goodbye and left, and the ninth elder brother sat in the front hall in a daze, still thinking about what the eighth elder brother said just now: Is it Si Jiepan who can't do without you, or can you not do without him?

This sentence turned out some truths that Brother Jiu had never been aware of.

…… Perhaps, he just wanted to get close to Sjepan in the name of "care", so that he could be by his side at all times. As for the reason, it's simple.

He was so lonely.

Brother Nine sat in the chair in a daze, and Sjepan sat beside him obediently, after a long time, he felt that Brother Nine had not moved, so he was a little uneasy, he stood up with the chair and walked to Brother Jiu.

Only then did Brother Jiu come back to his senses, and he smiled bitterly: "I forgot about you." ”

He got up and led Sjepan back to his study.

At this time, the kitchen happened to send the afternoon snack, the content was jujube paste yam cake, yam snow white, faintly revealing a little bit of jujube paste red, like a smudge, amber plate support, a ray of golden sunlight, quietly through the window lattice, sprinkled on the small and delicate dessert, it looks like a great food photo in a magazine.

Originally, Brother Jiu was not a person who liked to eat, and he basically didn't stick to snacks or anything. For many years, the kitchen was only responsible for his three meals, but lately, because Sjepan was here, the kitchen work has become much heavier, and in addition to the main meal, he also has to prepare all kinds of snacks and desserts, which is not idle for a moment.

And Si Jie Pan also did not refuse to come, and Brother Jiu didn't remember that there was anything he didn't like to eat.

"You, the more you eat, the fatter you get, but you like this high-calorie dessert again." Brother Jiu said while feeding, "If you don't exercise just by eating, if you continue like this, you will have to become a big fat man." ”

Sjepan couldn't hear him talking to himself, and was still eating the yam cake with gusto.

Brother Jiu laughed, he put down the spoon, reached out and touched Sjepan's face: "Look, what are you fat?" When you first arrived, your thin face was full of bones. Zhun Bao eats instant noodles at home. ”

As if he understood, Si Jiepan pressed his hand on Brother Jiu's hand and looked at him with a smile.

At that moment, Brother Jiu's heart suddenly trembled.

The eighth elder brother's words came to his mind again: "Can you give everything that people want?" ”

The words of the eighth elder brother were like a sharp arrow, piercing the heart of the ninth elder brother.

Yes, he can give Sjepan a lot of things, food, clothing, shelter, transportation, all kinds of details of life, he can take care of it, even if he can't do it himself, there are a large number of slaves as a reserve. Even if Sjepan can't get better for the rest of his life, it doesn't matter, the money from Brother Jiu's family is enough for them to sit and eat for a hundred years.

But is that really all people need?

It's not that he doesn't know what Sjepan really wants, but as Eighth Brother said, can he afford it?

That night, Brother Jiu tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, and even the plain white moonlight on the head of the bed made him feel anxious and burning, and it made him uncomfortable.

For the first time, he began to think about the future of himself and Sjepan.

Before this, perhaps out of the need to cover his ears and steal the bell, he always refused to look forward, always holding a kind of unwarranted hope that "there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain", hoping that time can solve all problems.

But when Eighth Elder Brother asked like this today, Ninth Elder Brother finally understood that time would not help him solve any problems.

He finally had to admit that such an ambiguous state was not only bad for him, but also a harm to Sjepan, should he let his family stay by his side as an unknown "friend" for the rest of his life? This is too cruel for Sjepan, even if he becomes disabled, people are dignified.

But what if not? Is it forcing Sjepan to accept the reality and accept that he is the kind of person who enters a normal marriage?

In this way, what is the difference between him and that Shen Peilun? Moreover, it was precisely because of Shen Peilun's marriage that Schipan broke up with him.

As you can imagine, Sjepan is not a fool who can tolerate such a thing.

However, he can't just push Sjepan out of the house because of this, ignore it, this guy is like this, how can he survive without someone to take care of him? In modern society, there may be relevant institutions to assist and have corresponding social support, and in the Qing Dynasty three hundred years ago, where was there a way to live with a severely disabled person like Sjepan......

Brother Jiu couldn't sleep, and neither did Sjepan beside him, maybe he ate too much during the day, he was a little indigestion, and Brother Jiu just watched him rub his stomach.

He simply took Sjepan's hand and asked him if he was sick to his stomach.

Si Jiepan shook his head and wrote in the palm of Brother Jiu's hand: "The jujube paste yam cake during the day is so delicious!" I'd like to have another piece. ”

Brother Jiu sneered, with such a large amount of food, he simply took a big step towards the physique of a sumo wrestler.

Then he said, if you like to eat, I'll call the kitchen tomorrow to make it for you.

Sjepan nodded, he leaned his face on Brother Jiu's shoulder, Brother Jiu stroked his blonde hair with his hand a little bit, and his other hand was in Sjepan's hand, and he wrote nonsense without a match.

Writing and writing, Brother Jiu suddenly felt that Sjepan was writing his name. He was stunned for a moment, and then, he could feel the other party's fingers and write in the palm of his hand: I, love......

The third word, only a single person was written, and Brother Jiu suddenly woke up!

He pulled his hand back and sat up sharply!

Sjepan sat up in fright!

He opened his blue eyes in horror, shook his head desperately, hid his hands behind his back, and bowed his body, and shrank back timidly, looking frightened, like a child who had fallen into a catastrophe.

The shape of his mouth is saying, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry......

Looking at him in a daze, Brother Jiu could feel that in his heart, the resistance that was subconsciously aroused just now was like the waves of the ebbing tide, fading in waves.

Instead, there is a strong intolerance.

He leaned over and slowly put his hand on Sjepan's shoulder, wrenching him to the body and motioning for him to lie down.

Then, Brother Nine also lay down and hugged Sjepan again.

He could feel that Sjepan was shivering, he curled up in a ball, his hands clenched into fists against his chest, and he didn't dare to touch Brother Jiu.

Brother Nine sighed, brushed away the loose blonde hair on his forehead, and then pressed his lips to it.

He could feel that the person in his arms slowly stopped shaking, and the muscles in his body, which were originally stiff and tight, oozing with cold sweat, relaxed and soft, relaxed and soft.

The temperature returned to him, and Stepan cautiously reached out and hugged Brother Jiu, and a very soft, whimpering gasp came from his throat.

At that moment, there was an inexplicable emotion that hit Brother Jiu hard.

Yes, maybe there is something that he is not destined to give to Sjepan. But he always had what he could give, and he couldn't just give up on Sjepan so easily. The road ahead is already very difficult, haven't you been prepared for this a long time ago?

It would be a big mistake to hastily abandon this guy and leave him in pain just because he couldn't see the future.

Thinking of this, Brother Jiu finally put his mind at ease.

(To be continued.) )