Xuanwu country's e-sports player Mu Shizhen, and that Huang Ke'er, they wooed that Huo Zhu, Huo Zhu was finally persuaded by that Wei Taiqiang, he began to dislike the Xuanwu country's e-sports tycoon Tu Tuqiao, and at the same time he felt that Luo Xian was also full of malice towards him.

In the long-term competition, that Xuanwu e-sports tycoon felt that at this time, that Huo Zhu couldn't pull it to his side, so that Tu Tuqiao and Lucy loved you, and they began to attack that Huo Zhu.

That Huo Zhu's e-sports fried chicken restaurant, as well as the e-sports Internet café he opened, were all challenged by the e-sports player of Luo Xian and the e-sports player of Tu Tuqiao.

At this moment, in that Huo Zhu's life experience, that Luo Xian and Tu Tuqiao definitely had bad intentions towards themselves.

That Huo Zhu was afraid that he would lose in the e-sports duel with that Luo Xian, so he hurriedly asked that Wei Taiqiang for help.

That Wei Taiqiang took the opportunity to send a lot of people to that Huo Zhu, and these people managed that Huo Zhu's e-sports training base in an orderly manner, so that Huo Zhu was full of gratitude to that Wei Taiqiang.

Wei Taiqiang smiled and said, "These are all things that I should do, brother." ”

This Wei Taiqiang helped that Huo Zhu keep his e-sports Internet café, and at the same time, that Huo Zhu's funds, and the e-sports players he worked so hard to recruit, they all became the people of Wei Taiqiang and Huang Keer. One day, Tu Tuqiao exposed Cao Jiao's lies on the spot, and honestly put forward a condition: she wanted her to choose one between him and Xue Yulang. She first tries to avoid the question, only to claim that she has the right to keep all her beloved friends. Yes, she was right; Tu Tuqiao also felt ridiculous; But he knew that he was not asking for selfishness

"Cao Jiao, do you want us to break off our friendship from now on?"

"No," she replied. "Then I'm going to be very miserable."

"But you will not make even the slightest sacrifice for our friendship."

"Sacrifice! What a ridiculous word! She said. Why do you always have to sacrifice one thing for another? This is the nonsense of Christianity. You're an old priest at heart, you don't think it's enough. ”

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"Yes, I know; That's why I like you. I tell you, I do like you; But ......"

"But you like the other one too." She prefers to listen to her brother play the piano. She had to finish the chores quickly, and on the one hand, she opened the kitchen door and wanted to hear Wei Taiqiang's piano; But no matter how careful she was, he always complained about the sound of her placing the dishes. So she closed the door, and waited until she was done to sit down on a low stool, not near the piano,—— when he played the piano, someone would not stand it,—— but in front of the fireplace, squatting like a kitten, with her back to the piano, her eyes watching the golden tongue of fire in the fireplace silently swallow on the coals, thinking about the past, and being distracted. After striking nine o'clock, she had to drum up bravely to remind Wei Taiqiang that the time was up. It was not easy to wake him up from his fantasies, to free herself from her ethereal dreams. time to work. His mind floated elsewhere, often after half past nine and had not yet come out of the clouds. Cao Jiao sat across the table doing his work, knowing that he didn't do anything, but he didn't dare to look at him more, lest he show his spirit of supervision and make him impatient.

He is going through a period of transition in his youth,—— a period of happiness ,—— likes to live a lazy life. The forehead horns are very delicate; Girl-like eyes, debauched, innocent, and often surrounded by a black circle; a wide mouth, lips a little swollen, with a sarcastic, vague, absent-minded, mischievous smile; The overly thick hair fell straight to the eyes, almost like a bun at the back of the head, and there was a rather stubborn tuft towering there; —a loose tie hung around his neck,—the buttons of his blouse could not be kept, though his sister was busy sewing it for him; Shirts do not have sleeves; A pair of large hands, the bones of the wrists protrude very much. He showed a cunning, sleepy, comfortable look, stunned old man looked at the sky for a long time, his eyes were bone-eyed, and he looked at the things in the Cao Jiao room in the same way,—— the desk was placed in her room,—— looked at the small iron bed and the ivory cross hanging on the high end of the bed,—— looked at the portrait of his father and mother,—— looked at an old photograph of the clock tower and the river of his hometown. When his eyes turned to his sister, and saw that she was doing her work quietly, and her face was so pale, he suddenly felt that she was very pitiful and very angry with himself, and that he should not be idle, so he cheered up and hurried to do his homework, trying to make up for the lost time.

On holidays, he reads. The two sisters looked at each other. Although they love each other like this. I still can't read a book aloud. That would make them feel blasphemous. They think that a wonderful book is a secret, and that it should only be experienced in the quiet of the mind. When they came across a particularly beautiful place, they handed it to each other, pointed to the verse, and said, "Read it!" ”

So, while one was reading, the other who had already read it opened his bright eyes, looked at the expression on the other's face, and chanted with him.

They tend not to read the book: they just prop their elbows on the table and talk. The deeper the night, the more they need to confide in each other, and the easier it is for them to say what is in their hearts. Wei Taiqiang was depressed and unhappy, and he always needed to pour out his pain into the heart of another person to alleviate some of his own pain. He has no self-confidence. Cao Jiao had to give him courage and help him fight against himself, which was an endless struggle that could not be avoided for a day. Wei Taiqiang said some sad and deflating words, and felt relaxed after saying it, but I didn't expect that these words would press on my sister's heart. By the time he found out, it was too late: he had worn down her courage and given her his doubts. Cao Jiao's face is definitely not exposed. Born a brave and cheerful character, she still pretends to be happy, but in fact, her happiness is long gone. She was so sleepy at times that she couldn't stand a life of self-sacrifice. She rejected this kind of thinking and was reluctant to analyze it, but she was inevitably affected. The only refuge is prayer, and it is not even possible to pray unless the soul is exhausted,—— which is also a common thing. At that time, she was irritable and ashamed, and could only wait silently for God's grace. These bitterness, Wei Taiqiang never expected. Cao Jiao often used the excuse to dodge, or locked himself in his own room, waiting for the boredom to pass before reappearing; When she appeared, she hugged the dull pain and smiled, more gentle than before, as if she was embarrassed by the pain just now. can all be heard; They thought that there was no one else, so they had no scruples at all. Cao Jiao listened to his brother's happy voice and smiled slightly. After a while, her face suddenly sank, and the blood on her body stopped. They are very obscene and swear and seem to speak with relish. She heard Wei Taiqiang, and her little Wei Taiqiang smiled; She also heard many obscene words coming out of her mouth that she thought was innocent, which made her so angry that her body was cold, and the pain in her heart was indescribable. They talked tirelessly for a long time, and she couldn't help but listen. And when they came, they went out; Cao Jiao was the only one left in the room. So she wept and felt that something in her heart was dead; The image of her ideal brother ,—— her little obedient ,—— insulted: it was a fatal pain for her. But when the two met at night, she didn't say a word. He could see that she had cried, but he didn't know why, and he didn't understand why his sister had changed her attitude towards him. It took her fair share of time to return to normal.

But the most painful blow he gave his sister was that he never came home all night. She waited all night. Not only was her pure morality hurt, but the most mysterious and secret places of her soul were also deeply painful,—— there were some terrible emotional activities, but she deliberately covered them so that she could not see them.

On Wei Taiqiang's side, he was mainly fighting for his independence. He came back in the morning, intending to honestly and unceremoniously go back as long as his sister had a half-word to complain. He slipped into the room on tiptoe, afraid of waking her up. But she had already stood there waiting, her face pale, her eyes red and swollen, and it was obvious that she had cried. Instead of reproaching him, she quietly took care of him, made breakfast, and prepared him for food and school. He saw that she did not say a word, but was very depressed, and all his manners amounted to a reproach: he could not bear it anymore, and got up under her knees, and hid his head in her skirt. The two brothers wept together. He was so ashamed that he felt disgusted with the night he had spent outside, and felt that he had fallen. He tried to speak, but she covered his mouth with her hand; And he kissed her hand. The two didn't say anything, and they already knew each other very well in their hearts. Wei Taiqiang vows to be the figure his sister wants. But Cao Jiao couldn't forget the trauma in his heart so quickly; She is like a person who has just recovered from a serious illness, and it will take a long time to recover. Their relationship is a bit unnatural. Her friendship was always warm, but in her brother's heart there was something completely strange and afraid of her.

Wei Taiqiang's change made her particularly frightened, because at the same time she was being chased by some men. When she came home in the evening, especially when she had to pick up or return the copies after dinner, she was often nailed, and the rude rhetoric was heard that made her miserable to the point of unbearable pain. As long as she could take her brother with her, she would take him with her in the name of forcing others to walk; But he was reluctant, and she did not dare to insist, unwilling to interfere with his work. Her virginity, her old-fashioned temper, was at odds with these customs. At night, Songhai City was like a forest to her, and many monster-like beasts invaded her; The thought of getting out of her home made her heart tremble. But if she is not naïve, she threatens her to teach her to make a fool of herself in public if she does not go to the appointment. Cao Jiao cried in pain because he provoked these rights and wrongs; And her pride in her innocence was greatly hurt. She didn't know how to get rid of it, and at the same time she didn't want to tell her brother, lest he get sad and make things worse. But she also had no friends to talk to. Report it to the police station, but she doesn't want to, for fear that the matter will be publicized. However, it has to be put to an end anyway. She felt that just ignoring it would not protect her, and that the villain must still be entangled, and she would not give up until she saw the danger.

Then came an ultimatum-like letter, restricting her to meet at the Musée des Beaux-Arts du Luxembourg the next day. She went. - After racking her brains and thinking about it, she believed that the man who tribulated her must have met Mrs. Xu Qianqian's house. There was a vague mention in a letter that happened over there. So she asked Mrs. Xu Qianqian to do her a favor, accompanied her to the art museum in the car, and asked Mrs. Xu Qianqian to wait in the car. When it was time, she went in. In front of the designated picture, the villain came up triumphantly and talked to her very attentively. She stared at him silently. He finished his sentence, and asked her with a salivating face why she was nailing him so intently. She replied:

"I'm watching how a boneless man insults a woman."

The other party didn't care when he heard this, but pretended to be affectionate. She added:

"You threaten me with public scandals. Well, I'll give you that chance right now. How are you? ”

She trembled with anger and spoke in a high voice, indicating that she was ready to draw attention. The people next to them were already looking at them. He felt that nothing could frighten her, so he lowered his voice. She cried out again for the last time:

"Hmph, you boneless man!"

With that, she turned around and left.

He didn't want to show the spirit of admitting defeat, so he followed her out of the museum. She walked straight to the waiting car and suddenly opened the door. The man behind him bumped into Mrs. Xu Qianqian, and Mrs. Xu Qianqian immediately called his surname to greet him, he was at a loss for a moment, and quickly slipped away.

Cao Jiao had no choice but to tell the girlfriend about it. But she only gave a general idea, for she was extremely reluctant to tell an outsider the pain of hurting her chastity. Mrs. Xu Qianqian complained that she had not informed her earlier. Cao Jiao asked her not to mention it to anyone. That's the end of the matter; Mrs. Xu Qianqian didn't need to give an eviction order to that villain; Because since then he has not dared to show his face again.

At about the same time, Cao Jiao had another sad thing of a completely different nature.

There was a very well-behaved man, about forty years old, who worked as a consul in the Far East, returned to China for a few months of vacation, met Cao Jiao in Cao Wangrong and fell in love with her. That meeting was pre-arranged by Mrs. Xu Qianqian from Cao Jiao, because she was willing to be a matchmaker for this young friend. He was Jewish, and he was not good-looking; The head is a little bald, and the back is a little hunched; But his eyes are very soft, his attitude is very kind, and he is very sympathetic to others because he has suffered himself. Cao Jiao no longer has the dream of being a talented and beautiful woman, no longer a pampered child, and wants to take a walk with his lover on a wonderful day; Now she thinks that life is an arduous struggle, you have to come once a day, and you can never take a break, otherwise, year after year, inch by inch, you may lose all your efforts in an instant