He Qianmin kept looking at the school gate, staring at every person who came out, afraid of missing Jiang Chen. He was also a little worried that Jiang Chen would think it was rude of him to come over without informing him in advance.
But the moment he saw Jiang Chen coming out, his nervous and anxious mood was quickly thrown to the back of his mind. His eyes lit up and he waved his hand and shouted, "Brother!"
Jiang Chen paused and looked in the direction of the voice.
He Qianmin ran to Jiang Chen in a few steps, and after seeing Jiang Chen's surprised expression, he pursed his lips: "Brother, you said I could come to see you, so..."
"Wait!" Chen Xu raised his hand, interrupting He Qianmin's words, walked up to him and carefully looked him up and down for nearly half a minute, then turned to look at Jiang Chen, looked at him repeatedly several times, and said in a daze: "Is this your brother? Your biological brother?"
He Qianmin paused after pushing Chen Xu away and looked past him at Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen pulled Shen Xu away and asked He Qianmin, "Did you come here after school?"
"Yeah." He Qianmin glanced at Chen Xu: "Brother, who is he."
"My friend, Chen Xu." Jiang Chen gently kicked Chen Xu, signaling him to come back to his senses, and said, "This is He Qianmin."
Chen Xu breathed a sigh of relief: "He's not your brother! I was wondering, how could I not know that you have a brother?" He turned around and said to He Qianmin with a smile: "Hello, I'm Chen Xu, one of Jiang Chen's best friends."
"Hello." He Qianmin nodded casually, turned to look at Jiang Chen, and said with a tense face: "Are you going home?"
"No, I'm going to eat hot pot." Jiang Chen said, "Do you want to eat hot pot? If not, then we will--"
"I'll eat it!" He answered too quickly, and He Qianmin's eyes wandered for a moment: "I haven't eaten hot pot for a long time."
Jiang Chen smiled and said, "Let's go."
He Qianmin suppressed the raised corner of his mouth and followed Jiang Chen closely.
Shen Xu fell a few steps behind, looking thoughtfully at the two people walking side by side in front of him, muttering in his heart: "They look so similar, it can't be Uncle Jiang outside... Ahem, it's impossible, absolutely impossible, don't think about it anymore."
He patted his forehead and took a few quick steps to catch up with the two of them.
Inside the hot pot restaurant, the table was filled with ingredients and the three of them were sweating profusely while eating.
Jiang Chen picked up the last piece of beef and put it into He Qianmin's bowl under Shen Xu's resentful eyes, saying, "Eat less at night, or you'll feel uncomfortable later."
He Qianmin nodded obediently, took the time to glance at Chen Xu, and lowered his head to eat meat.
Chen Xu's mouth twitched, and he complained: "He ate the most tonight. Since you asked him to eat less, you should give me that piece of meat."
Jiang Chen drank a sip of sour plum soup: "He is still growing."
"I'm growing too!" Chen Xu sat up straight, his expression very hurt: "Although I'm seventeen! But I also have great potential for growth, okay!"
Jiang Chen was too lazy to pay attention to him. Seeing that He Qianmin had already wiped his mouth, he put down the sour plum soup in his hand and leaned back: "Tell me, why did you come to me today? Why are you unhappy?"
He Qianmin froze and tightened his face: "I came here just because I wanted to, who else said I was unhappy."
"If you don't want to talk about it, forget it." Jiang Chen retracted his gaze, stood up and said, "I'll go pay the bill first, you can come back early later..."
"I didn't do well in the exam!" He Qianmin held Jiang Chen's hand tightly. Seeing Jiang Chen looking down at him, he suddenly felt aggrieved for some reason. His eyes were covered with a layer of mist uncontrollably, and he whispered, "I'm not happy because I didn't do well in the exam."
"Where's the test paper?" Jiang Chen rubbed his head and asked gently, "Did you bring it?"
Chen Xu also comforted him: "It's normal to not do well in the exam. It's normal. Brother Chen Xu, I didn't do well in the exam either. It's most important to keep a calm mind. A person's grades can't mean anything. For me... Shit - this is not a good exam?"
Seeing He Qianmin's test paper and the complete score sheet inside, Chen Xu covered his chest and patted his shoulder with a fake smile: "Little boy, ranking seventh in the whole grade, is that what you call a bad test?"
Jiang Chen looked over his test paper carefully and said, "You lost the most points in memory questions and Chinese and English essays. You can improve these with more practice. The next best thing is geography... I'll help you look over the test paper when you get back. I'll make a detailed answer sheet for the questions you missed, and then give you a few test papers with similar questions. You won't make mistakes after doing a few of them."
He Qianmin looked up: "Really?"
Jiang Chen nodded: "Your test scores are already very good, there is no need to be unhappy."
"Seventh... what's so good about it?" He Qianmin said with drooping eyelashes: "There is a huge difference between first and seventh."
"Is there a big difference between seventh and forty-seventh?" Chen Xu nudged He Qianmin with his elbow and pointed at himself. "I got forty-seventh. To prove myself, I have to surpass forty-five people. There are so many people ahead of me. What can I say? You got seventh. There are only six people ahead of you. Why not just defeat them one by one? There's nothing to be sad about."
"Why are you forty-fifth?" He Qianmin asked, "Aren't there forty-six people ahead of you?"
Chen Xu raised his chin and pointed at Jiang Chen who was looking at the test paper: "The other one is your brother, from Chenghua, right? Did you know that he got 742 in the joint exam of three schools? He ranked first in the exam and is known as 'Jiang Shen'. But these are not the main points. The main point is that he is my brother. How can brothers fight each other? I will let him go."
He Qianmin snorted a cold laugh from his nose: "Ha."
"You don't believe it, right?" Shen Xu leaned over, hooked his arm around Jiang Chen's neck, raised his chin and said, "Tell your brother whether we are brothers or not, and whether I am giving in to you or not."
Jiang Chen folded the paper and said, "Yes, let's go."
Shen Xu raised his eyebrows proudly: "Did you hear that?"
He Qianmin glanced at him and took a few quick steps to catch up with Jiang Chen.
When we came out of the hot pot restaurant, it was already eight o'clock in the evening.
Jiang Chen rejected Shen Xu’s proposal to continue to the next stall, ignored He Qianmin’s expression of not wanting to go home, and stuffed him into the car.
"Send me a text when you get home."
He Qianmin grabbed the phone and thought about what Jiang Chen had just said. The moment he got off the car, he sent a text message saying he was safe. After receiving Jiang Chen's reply, he put the phone in his pocket and walked in humming a song.
"…It's nothing. Just do well in the next exam. One success or failure doesn't mean anything. Only with setbacks can we make greater progress."
His mother's figure came from the restaurant, and He Qianmin turned around and walked into the restaurant.
He glanced at He Qianjian, who rarely had a dark face, and felt happier. He sat over and said, "Mom, what are you talking about?"
"Tell me about your brother's results in the joint entrance exam." Yang Yun placed the ribs on He Qianmin's desk and said, "Mom saved you your favorite sweet and sour ribs. Next time you come home so late, remember to call me, otherwise your dad and I will be so worried about you."
He Qianmin curled his lips: "I'm not a child, there's nothing to worry about."
He Yanfeng came down from upstairs and happened to hear this. He laughed and scolded: "You still know to come back. I thought you went to someone's house for free food again."
"I have indeed eaten." He Qianmin picked up a piece of pork ribs and said with a smile, "But I can still eat a few more pieces."
Yang Yun pinched his face, turned to He Qianjian and said, "Dabao, you should eat too, don't think too much."
He Qianmin put down his chopsticks, crossed his arms and smiled at He Qianjian, saying, "Yes, failure is the mother of success. Some things don't have to be done the best to be right, because some people can't be compared. This is what you said to me yourself, why can't you use it to encourage yourself?"
He Qianjian lowered his head and ate without saying a word.
Yang Yun glared at He Qianmin and signaled him not to speak.
He Qianyu swung her legs and asked curiously, "Second brother, who did you go to dinner with?"
He Qianmin raised the corner of his mouth: "My brother."
He Qianyu pouted: "You lied to me, my brother is obviously at home."
He Qianmin glanced at He Qianjian and sneered: "I don't think of him as a brother."
He Yanfeng slapped him, but he wasn't too angry: "How did your brother offend you recently? Will you talk to him nicely?"
"Qian Min." Yang Yun frowned and said, "No matter how big the conflict between brothers is, you can't say such words. Apologize to your brother now."
"Why?" He Qianmin put down his chopsticks heavily, stood up and said word by word: "If I had a choice, I would never be his brother."
"He Qianmin!"
He Qianmin went straight upstairs.
He Qianjian looked up and smiled helplessly: "Mom and Dad, it's okay. Qian Min is in a rebellious period now. I can understand. Maybe he was in a bad mood at school today, so he came back to vent. Let him be."
He Yanfeng shook his head: "This brat is getting more and more irritable. Since he has already eaten, let's eat first."
After dinner, He Qianyu brought dessert and fruits upstairs.
Sitting in the living room were only He Yanfeng, Yang Yun and He Qianjian.
He Yanfeng saw He Qianjian's unhappy expression and asked with a smile: "The results are out. Did you not do well in the exam?"
He Qianjian clenched his fists: "Second."
"Second place is pretty good too." He Yanfeng said with a smile, "You've always been first place before. Occasionally experiencing what it's like to be second place is also a kind of life experience, isn't it?"
Yang Yun also comforted him: "Yes, Dabao, it's okay to be second. Don't be unhappy. Don't put too much pressure on yourself."
He Qianjian hummed softly and lowered his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.
Seeing this, He Yanfeng sighed inwardly and said, "It's good to be competitive, but being too competitive or too focused on gain and loss is not a good thing. Qian Jian, you have had it too easy since you were a child. It's a good thing for you to temper your character when you encounter setbacks. Besides, if a person's life never has challenges, isn't it a bit boring?"
"I know, Dad." He Qianjian raised the corner of his mouth and said gently, "It's just my first mistake. I'm not used to it. I'll be fine after a while."
He Yanfeng patted his shoulder and said with a smile: "That's right, this is my son."
He Qianjian lowered his eyes, hiding the cold light in his eyes.
He didn't like challenges at all, and he didn't like or allow anyone to step on him, especially when that person was Jiang Chen. This made him feel like a thorn in his throat. He had to think of some way to make Jiang Chen...
"There is one more thing. The results of the physical examination are out. I don't know what went wrong with the blood test. Your blood type is different from before." He Yanfeng said, "It just so happens that your uncle Xiang will come to our house tomorrow morning. Don't eat when you get up in the morning. Wait until he draws your blood before eating, and ask him to take it back to the hospital on the way."
"Different blood types? How is that possible!"
He Qianjian raised his head suddenly, his voice was hoarse and full of panic during the transformation period.
The author has something to say: He Qianmin: Brother, I didn’t do well in the exam, I feel bad.
Chen Xu: I am here to comfort you! (After looking at the results) I am not your brother.
Jiang Chen: Be good, I’ll help you with your tutoring.
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