Chapter 89 Which brother will Xingxing help?
It quickly darkened outside the clinic.
After Xingxing finished dispensing medicine for the last patient, he lowered the bamboo curtain hanging at the door but did not close the door.
When they returned to the backyard, his brother had already lit a charcoal fire. He carried him over and placed him in front of the fire. He naturally grabbed the hand that had taken his pulse today, pinched his wrist and began to massage it carefully.
Seeing this scene, Qiuqiu couldn't help but sigh, how come every brother becomes a good brother in front of Xingxing?
It seems that no matter what their personality is, after they meet the stars, their ability to love will automatically awaken. It's magical.
"Xingxing wants to live here forever. Don't you want to keep walking?" Wei Jinan asked for his brother's opinion while massaging his wrist.
There are a few washed sweet potatoes placed on the edge of the charcoal fire basin in front of me, and they are now emitting a faint sweet aroma from the smoke from the flames.
The room is quiet and peaceful.
Xingxing nodded, "We'll go later."
He left the frontier in order to find the path he wanted to take in the fog after leaving his brother behind.
Now that he had found the road, Xingxing wanted to stop, slow down, and walk steadily forward on this road a little further.
"Then I will write a letter home to your uncle and brother, as well as your grandmother in Kyoto tomorrow. Would you like Xingxing to write one to them as well?" Wei Jinan let go of his brother's wrist, picked up the fire tongs on the side, and casually turned over the roasted sweet potatoes in the charcoal basin.
Xingxing's eyes were fixed on his movements. She responded softly when she heard what he said. Then she thought of something and moved her small stool to sit closer to her brother.
Then, like a kitten, she lay obediently on her brother's lap, resting her chin and face on her arms, staring at the flames and asking slowly, "Brother, what are you going to do?"
Wei Jinan paused and asked calmly, "What should I do?"
Xingxing shook her head and did not expose her brother's attempt to conceal his secret. She changed her head to a more comfortable position and changed the subject, "How old does a child have to be to be considered grown up?"
Wei Jinan smiled, rubbed the lazy kid lying on his knees, and replied casually: "When you grow to my height, you will be considered grown up."
Xingxing felt that her two brothers were fooling her.
Because the other brother gave the same answer at the beginning.
But the two brothers are of different heights.
"Do you have to grow up to do many things?" Xingxing continued to ask.
Wei Jinan was a little curious about why the child suddenly mentioned the topic of "growing up". After thinking for a while, he asked cautiously, "What does Xingxing want to do?"
But Xingxing shook her head and said, "It's not Xingxing, it's my brother."
"Me?" Wei Jinan was surprised.
Xingxing left his lap, looked up at him, and emphasized: "It's my two brothers~"
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Wei Jinan was a little confused.
He began to turn the sweet potatoes over again. This time, the sweet smell of the sweet potatoes was mixed with a little bit of burntness. Xingxing could see that one side was burnt.
"What exactly does Xingxing want to say? Why does he ask if he can do it when he grows up?" Although Wei Jinan asked this, as smart as he is, he already has a rough answer in his heart.
Sure enough, he got similar answers from the children.
"Rebellion~"
What an understatement.
Wei Jinan didn't even have time to put down the tongs and cover his mouth.
He held the fire tongs and stared at the daring little guy with an unfathomable look for three full seconds, then laughed and asked, "You are only five years old, do you know what rebellion is?"
"Well, rebellion means that all my brothers want to be emperor~" Xingxing still spoke with a powerful punch.
Wei Jinan: “…”
I can't pretend to be calm this time.
He put down the tongs, stretched out his hands to pinch the child's soft cheeks, and threatened fiercely: "You are finished, you actually guessed such a rebellious idea of mine, in order to prevent you from leaking the secret and causing me to kill all nine clans, I decided to shut you up forever now, believe it or not?"
Xingxing raised her little face and let him pinch it. She blinked her round, clear eyes and said in a daze, "Kesu...dedede, I am one of your nine clans?"
Wei Jinan: “…Puff!”
After he understood, he couldn't stop laughing.
"Then what kind of unlucky little star are you?" He let go of the child's rosy cheeks, even feeling a little sad for him, "Why is it that no matter which brother rebels, you are always implicated?"
Xingxing puffed up her face and said with extra seriousness, “Xingxing is not afraid of this.”
"What are the stars afraid of?" Wei Jinan felt that the more he looked at his brother, the cuter he became, and the more fun it was to play with him, the more fun he had.
Can't put it down, becoming addictive.
Xingxing's pale, childish eyebrows wrinkled slightly. She ignored her brother's attempt to change the subject and said with a stern face, "I'm afraid you guys will fight..."
Both brothers have hidden ambitions.
Both brothers wanted to sit on the hard and cold dragon throne.
The stars can't put them both on it to sit in a row, and it doesn't seem to be possible to take turns sitting one, three, five, two, four, and six...
In fact, Xingxing has been thinking about this matter for a long time.
Two years ago, when he found out that his two brothers had the same ambition, he tried to find a way to solve the problem, but until today... Xingxing decided to throw the problem back to the person who created it.
Just like my brother, I tried to change the subject.
Xingxing frowned, looking at her brother who was smiling and not caring at all, she pursed her lips and sighed, and became even more worried.
Wei Jinan was really teased by his younger brother like a bright sunflower. Under the slightly condemning look of the little boy, he coughed lightly, tried to correct his attitude, and asked seriously: "If Xiaowu and I were to fight in the future, who would Xingxing help?"
"Brother?!" Xingxing's eyes widened in shock when she heard such an unreasonable question.
Wei Jinan tried hard to hold back his laughter and looked even more serious. "Since you insist on asking, I also want to get an accurate answer as soon as possible. Xingxing, tell me, who are you helping?"
Star:"……"
The child stared at his brother blankly for a few seconds, then reached out and grabbed his sleeve, saying softly, "Brother, the sweet potatoes are ready, can you take them out quickly?"
My brother laughed very loudly in his heart.
It’s so noisy that it makes the stars’ ears ring.
He didn't really want to continue chatting with his childish older friend.
Who knew that things would change, and today his brother was unwilling to let him go.
When peeling the sweet potato skin, "This sweet potato is so hot, Xingxing, please tell me you can help me. If you do, I will peel the biggest, sweetest, softest baked sweet potato for you."
Xingxing sighed: "...Brother, the big one is not cooked yet."
When feeding him the sweet potato, "Xingxing, smell it. Doesn't it smell good? Do you want to eat it right away? You said you would help me in the future. If you do, I will give it to you!"
Xingxing was helpless: "Brother, it's hot, blow it first~"
When I was wiping my mouth and washing my hands after eating the sweet potatoes, I said, "Xingxing, I'm going to be angry. This time I'm going to be really angry, the kind that no matter how you try to comfort me, it won't work, unless you tell me that you will only help me when you grow up."
Xingxing pursed her lips and covered her brother's disobedient mouth with her hand.
"Brother, shh~"
The child's soft little face was extremely serious. He stared at his brother's eyes which were full of smiles and said word by word: "Brother, don't ask. I won't help anyone!"
Wei Jinan was slightly surprised.
But Xingxing continued, "I haven't grown up yet. I'm still a five-year-old child, so children shouldn't answer very difficult multiple-choice questions. If you ask again, my brother will be a bad guy."
The troubled children first put a hat of condemnation on the bad guy.
Wei Jinan tried hard to control the corners of his lips that were rising wildly under his brother's palm, and nodded obediently to show that he understood.
When Xingxing let go of her hand, what she saw was a brother who seemed honest and well-behaved.
Xingxing's eyes curved, and after scolding her brother, she began to coax him again: "Brother, no matter who of you becomes the emperor, you must live well. When I grow up, I will become a great doctor. I will work hard to make you all live a long life."
After hearing these words, Wei Jinan, who had been laughing happily just now, couldn't laugh anymore.
He rubbed the child's head randomly, and his heart felt like it was pricked by a soft needle.
It doesn't hurt, but it's just very sore, and I have trouble breathing, and even my eye sockets feel uncomfortable.
When he fell into bed, Wei Jinan's mind was still filled with the extremely serious expression on the child's face when he said those words.
He opened his eyes and looked at the small dark figure sleeping in his arms, and finally pinched the child's cheek in annoyance.
"You sleep like a piglet."
Poor you brother, I have never heard anyone say that I will live to be a hundred years old in my life.
Everyone in the State of Li, from the emperor and his ministers to the common people and beggars, conceded that the best outcome for him, a son of the Wei family, was to die on the battlefield.
The loyal bones are buried in the yellow sand, and the body is wrapped in horsehide.
Men of the Wei family should die on the battlefield, in fighting. Before and after death, their body and soul should all exist to protect the country and the people.
If they were to survive, they could only live on the frontier, wearing leather armor and riding on horseback.
If they died, they could only die on the frontier, on a battlefield defending the country and the people.
Even the Wei family themselves think so.
Wei Jinan felt that he was born with a rebellious nature, otherwise he would not have come up with such a rebellious idea when he followed his father to the battlefield.
He did not doubt that he had done something wrong, but he was afraid that his relatives and the people would know his thoughts.
Because he knows that he will only receive endless accusations and abuse, and the surprised and disappointed looks from his relatives.
They may even be expelled from the Wei family and removed from the family tree.
Wei Jinan was already prepared to bear eternal infamy and be cursed by millions of people.
Even just now, when Xingxing pointed out what he was thinking, his first reaction was to change the subject.
Because he was afraid that the child's clear eyes would reveal the disappointment and condemnation he expected.
But he was prepared for everything, just like he was ready to be beaten and scolded if he had done something wrong.
He was ready for everything and mentally comforted himself that it was okay.
In the end he was not beaten.
He was stuffed with a candy by Xingxing.
Xingxing said that Xingxing was also involved in the great crime that led to the extermination of nine clans, and Xingxing was not afraid.
The little kid was actually afraid that the two brothers would fight...
What a naive and childish idea!
Wei Jinan heard his own laughter at that moment.
It's not about being amused, but about the joy and relief that comes from getting an unexpected result.
He began to question the stars, and he kept asking questions all night long.
What he actually wanted to ask was not who Xingxing would help when he grew up, but rather: Will Xingxing really always understand his brother?
The five-year-old Xingxing said that he wanted to be one of his brother's nine clans that were exterminated.
What about the fifteen-year-old? What about the twenty-five-year-old?
Wei Jinan has always been greedy. He wants too many things: power, status, wealth, and life...
But tonight, he suddenly felt that none of this seemed so important.
What he wanted more was what the little miracle doctor Xingxing had said, that is, to live a long life.
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