Chapter 407 You are also very good
Xu Yanfeng was not interested in other people's personal affairs, but he had to admit that when he was in college, he was indeed jealous of Zhou Du and curious about the relationship between Zhou Du and Xia Xi. That is a relationship that is much closer than ordinary friends, but it is not a relative.
"I have a sister from the same mother, who was born on the same day as me, only ten minutes later than me." Zhou Du looked at the stars in the distant sky, raised the goblet, and took a sip of wine.
Xu Yanfeng's thoughts froze and he stared at him in disbelief: "Xia Xi is your biological sister?"
Could it be that there is another secret behind Xia Xi’s life experience...
For a moment, Xu Yanfeng's mind wandered and he thought of many situations, even involving the emotional relationships of the previous generation.
Zhou Du was originally in a depressed mood when he mentioned this matter. After being disturbed by Xu Yanfeng, all those negative emotions dissipated, leaving him speechless and laughing.
He looked at Xu Yanfeng as if he were looking at a person with intellectual problems: "Mr. Xu is still drunk."
Xu Yanfeng: "..."
Zhou Du let out a deep breath and put the wine glass aside: "My biological sister died. When she was seven years old."
Xu Yanfeng was silent, and all the messy associations in his mind were instantly cleared.
"She is very beautiful. Although I am a twin, we look nothing alike." Zhou Du said, "She is very clingy to me. No matter what I do, she follows me like a tail. Sometimes I I still find her annoying, so I go out to play secretly without her.”
There was a pause for several seconds. Zhou Du seemed unwilling to mention what happened next, but he finally said: "I killed her. She looked at me longingly that day and begged me to take her with me when I went out to play. I relented and allowed her to follow my friend and I. A friend suggested that we go to the wild. Crossing the river to play in the temple on the opposite side, I wanted to carry her across, but she insisted on crossing by herself. I didn't know what I was thinking at the time, but she actually agreed. I was in front, and when I turned my head, she had already fallen into the river. It rained a few days ago, the water level rose, and she disappeared in the blink of an eye..."
His sister was not rescued.
When the professional search and rescue team rescued her, she was no longer breathing.
My grandparents cried heartbrokenly, my mother fainted on the spot, and my father seemed to have had his back broken and his back was bruised, and he had aged several years.
They blamed him for why he was so playful and why he didn't take good care of his sister. But after blaming him, they thought that he was also a child and couldn't let go after seeing that scene with his own eyes, so they hugged him and cried.
She scolded him and cried.
Zhou Du himself also knew that there was no room for exculpation in this matter. It was his fault and his carelessness that killed his sister. He alone caused the tragedy for the whole family.
Time may heal wounds, but it cannot erase memories.
During that time, he had dreams every night, sometimes nightmares, sometimes sweet dreams. The nightmare was that he watched his sister being swept into the water and swallowed by the turbid water. He was so anxious on the shore that he was sweating profusely and was helpless. The sweet dream was that his sister fell into the water. He jumped in, grabbed his sister's hand in the rushing water, and pulled her up.
However, when I woke up from the dream, there was nothing.
His sister would never come back.
He lived in self-blame and guilt, as if he was stuck in a quagmire and could not get out no matter how hard he struggled. He even thought about going to the place where his sister fell into the water and jumping down to stay with her. Since she likes playing with him so much, he should go and accompany her. Otherwise, the little girl will be too lonely and scared.
But he can't do that.
Everyone around him said to him sympathetically and lovingly, Zhou Du, your parents have only one child left for you. You must grow up healthily and peacefully, and honor them well in the future.
His grandparents also often told him, you must be obedient and don't do dangerous things. If something happens to you, our whole family will not survive.
He lived in confusion with the hope of his family, living in pain and suffering.
After the summer vacation, he went to school and met Xia Xi. She seemed to have suddenly changed, and two moles appeared on her arms, which were not there before. Zhou Du looked at her, and in a daze, he seemed to see his sister. The positions of her two moles were exactly the same as his sister's, one big and one small.
Zhou Du felt that his sister must have been reluctant to let him go and came back to accompany him in another way.
Xia Xi heard about his family's affairs. Although she couldn't agree with his thoughts, he looked like he couldn't live any longer. She gave him a lot of comfort and treated him like an older brother. She would chat with him whenever she had something to do and make him happy. .
Her existence was more like a kind of sustenance for Zhou Du at that time. As they grow older and both of them mature in thinking, Zhou Du gradually realizes his own absurdity, but he has also become accustomed to treating Xia Xi as his sister.
Xia Xi also didn't want him to live in the shadow of killing his sister, burdened with guilt all his life, and unable to live a normal life, so he began to deliberately guide him to stop calling him brother.
Later, after many years, Zhou Du came out completely and began to live for himself, carelessly, looking like a carefree and careless libertine, heartless.
Xia Xi knew that he was alive, and only occasionally called him "brother" when she asked him to do something, and he accepted it calmly without any stress.
However, every time he heard Xia Xi call her brother, he still thought of his sister and could not refuse any of her requests.
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The party didn't end until late at night, and Xia Xi was really sleepy.
Rooms were opened in the hotel, and everyone could go and rest on their own when they were tired, but Xu Yanfeng insisted on taking Xia Xi back to their home. It was not the home they usually lived in, but the renovated villa.
Ion Heng's school is closer.
Zi Heng was already asleep. Xu Yanfeng wrapped him in a coat and carried him into the car. Zi Heng woke up and saw his parents beside him. He didn't say anything. He closed his eyes again, snuggled into his father's arms and fell asleep again.
The driver drove ahead and the road was clear for the rest of the night.
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Xia Xi leaned on Xu Yanfeng's shoulder and dozed off. Xu Yanfeng tilted his head, rubbed the top of her hair with his chin, and reminded softly: "We are almost home."
Xia Xi said a sticky "hmm", forced herself to cheer up, and asked, "What were you talking about with Zhou Du before? I see you guys chatted for a long time." The two people's auras didn't get along well, and they couldn't look at each other. It seemed like he had a lot to say.
Xu Yanfeng did not hide anything: "He told me about you."
Xia Xi: "We?"
"He said that for a while, he thought of you as the reincarnation of his sister."
"..." Xia Xi was silent for a moment, and most of his sleepiness disappeared, "He even told you this? He never mentioned it to outsiders."
"Maybe he drank too much." Xu Yanfeng sighed, "I didn't expect that he looked outlandish and had such a past. No wonder there is always a special intimacy between you. However, he said that he spent a summer vacation , why did you suddenly change?”
Xia Xi scratched the corner of his eyes: "Actually, I have always had long hair. It was too annoying to wash my hair during the summer vacation, so I went to the barber shop to cut my hair short. The barber was not very skilled and gave me a special cut. It's so short that it doesn't even cover my ears. It looks completely different from before, like a big change. It just so happens that Zhou Du's sister has short hair. When he saw me, he thought we were similar, but his sister and I don't look alike. Like.”
"What happened to the mole?"
"This is also a coincidence." Xia Xi said, "A mole appeared on my arm for no reason."
"Isn't it two?"
"There's only one." Xia Xi turned sideways and showed him the mole on her arm, "The other one looks like a mole, but it's not. Xuanxuan was naughty during the summer vacation and stuck it in with a pencil lead, but I don’t know why, but that little black spot hasn’t gone away. You see, it’s still there after so many years.”
With so many coincidences put together, it's no wonder that when Zhou Du saw her, he thought his sister was back.
Or maybe, in that state of mind, he also wanted to grab a piece of driftwood and turn the pain into motivation to live.
This is why there is such a thing as "spiritual sustenance".
Xia Xi: "Zhou Du is a very good person. Although I had the intention of helping him at first, later I really regarded him as my brother."
Xu Yanfeng kissed her forehead: "You are also very good."
The car stopped and their home arrived. Looking up, the entire villa was brightly lit. It looked a bit cold from the outside, but there was no doubt that it must be full of warmth inside.