The ship docked at the port of Moon Bay. Shi Jin turned his head to look at Li Jiuzheng standing two steps behind him and asked, "Have you arranged the hospital affairs?"
Li Jiuzheng nodded, smiled at him, and replied, "Several of my senior brothers will take turns to go to the hospital to help me, and Mr. Gua Er has also helped me with various procedures. I can stay here for at least half a year."
"It won't take half a year. We can stay here until the end of April at most." Shi Jin frowned as he thought of the annual Daoshang meeting.
Li Jiuzheng noticed his mood and asked hurriedly, "What's wrong?"
After a total of two days of flying and boating, Li Jiuzheng had slowly sorted out his emotions and turned back into the silly brother who always smiled at Shi Jin warmly. As they spent more time together, he became more and more attached to Shi Jin.
If you stick too close, some things will slowly be exposed. Shi Jin found that Li Jiuzheng could capture his emotional changes very quickly and carefully, almost to the point that when he just raised his hand to scratch his head, Li Jiuzheng could find that he was worried about his hair growing too long. Shi Jin
felt a little creepy at first, and even wondered if Li Jiuzheng could read minds and wanted to avoid him, but he quickly suppressed the defensiveness and fear of Li Jiuzheng that arose from the original owner's memory. After careful observation, he found that Li Jiuzheng only cared about him, and observed him more carefully and attentively. Moreover, this careful care was only directed at him. For others, Li Jiuzheng put on another mask, appearing polite and cold and isolated from the group.
At this time, Li Jiuzheng only relied on his brief and tiny frown to discover his slight emotional change. After he got used to it and tried hard to understand, he had no other thoughts in his heart except helplessness. And he really didn't know what to do with Li Jiuzheng. He couldn't hit him or scold him, or say harsh words to him. He wanted to talk to him but didn't know where to start. It felt like there were sensitive points everywhere, and they would explode if they were poked at random.
Why did he inexplicably feel like a teacher facing sensitive adolescent students and couldn't find a way to educate them?
"Xiao Jin?" Li Jiuzheng couldn't wait for a response, so he took a step forward in confusion.
Shi Jin was called back to his senses, and he looked sideways at him. He thought of something, his eyes lit up, and asked, "Fifth brother, have you ever played a jet ski?"
Li Jiuzheng looked at him in confusion, shook his head hesitantly, and said, "No... Xiaojin, do you want to play, I can go and find out..."
"I'll take you to play! Let's go, get off the boat first." Shi Jin patted his shoulder, then turned and rushed into the ship's lounge. Seeing that Lian Jun had finished talking to Lu Shan, he hurried forward to hold his wheelchair.
"What happened? You're so happy?" Lian Jun saw that he was in a rare high spirits recently, and asked with a smile. Shi Jin
bent down and kissed him, and said, "I'm going to take my fifth brother to make up for his childhood. Will you be jealous?"
Lian Jun's smile faded, and he nodded very honestly: "Yes." Those were obviously benefits that belonged to him alone.
"Then I'm happy about this." Shi Jin pinched Lian Jun's face boldly, smiling like a cat that stole some fish, and deliberately said, "You just work hard, I'll go to the mountains and the sea to find fun things for you, don't be jealous, I still love you the most."
Lian Jun pulled his hand down and held it, bit his finger with his head tilted, and asked, "Who did you learn this from?" Shi
Jin smiled foolishly without saying anything, kissed him hard again, then pushed his wheelchair and ran happily towards the deck.
...
After getting off the ship, everyone rested for a while, had lunch, and then Shi Jin sent Lian Jun to take a nap, and he took Gua Jiu to one side and muttered for a long time, and also took Li Jiuzheng, who lived next door to him and Lian Jun.
More than an hour later, Lian Jun woke up. After getting up, he didn't see Shi Jin anywhere. Confused, he called Gua Yi who was waiting outside and asked, "Where is Shi Jin?"
"He took Dr. Li to play jet skiing." Gua Yi replied.
Lian Jun frowned when he heard this. He looked through the window in the direction of the bay and vaguely saw some movement on the sea. He said, "Let someone keep a good eye on him. Tell me when Shi Jin comes back."
Gua Yi replied.
Lian Jun was relieved. He suppressed the feeling of loss in his heart that he was left by his lover. He came to the big study and stretched out his hand to open the door.
The sound of motorcycles and waves came from behind the door, mixed with the voice of Shi Jin.
"It's not this button! Keep your direction steady... Don't be afraid, this one can't flip over... Yes, that's it... Fifth brother, let's go somewhere farther away."
Lian Jun was stunned and immediately looked in the direction where the sound came from - a tablet computer on the desk.
Gua Jiu, who was guarding the study, explained: "This is a live broadcast. It was opened by Shi Jin on an internal platform of Mie's subordinates. The account and the live broadcast room have been encrypted and protected. Only you can see it."
Lian Jun came back to his senses, rolled his wheelchair to the back of the desk, and looked at the tablet screen.
On the screen, in the shaking camera, Li Jiuzheng was adjusting the speed of the jet ski a little unfamiliarly, looking in the direction of the camera from time to time, and then an arm stretched into the camera from a very close distance and swung towards Li Jiuzheng.
"Fifth brother, don't look at me all the time. Look ahead of you and pay attention to the direction." Shi Jin
's voice rang out again, also from a place very close to the camera. It was obvious that this live broadcast was broadcast from Shi Jin's perspective. The camera was probably attached to Shi Jin's chest, so you could only see what Shi Jin saw, but not Shi Jin.
The expectation on Lian Jun's face faded, and his face was expressionless - he didn't want to see Li Jiuzheng's back at all.
"Shi Jin said that if it's broadcasted like this, you will feel more involved." Gua Jiu saw that he didn't seem to like this perspective, so he explained carefully.
Compared to the sense of involvement, Lian Jun certainly wanted to see Shi Jin's face more. He looked at the shaking live broadcast screen, tapped the armrest of the wheelchair with his finger, and said, "Let Gua Liu find someone to follow them and use a drone to film them."
Gua Jiu had expected this to happen, so he quickly responded and took out his mobile phone to call Gua Liu.
Lian Jun listened to Shi Jin's voice that occasionally sounded in the live broadcast screen, looked at the clear blue sea, and felt the lively atmosphere over there transmitted through the screen. His expression gradually relaxed, and the corners of his mouth curled up - this guy always has a way to make people happy.
The drone was soon in place, and the screen in the live broadcast room was divided into two, one half was Shi Jin's first-person perspective, responsible for recording his voice, and the other half was Shi Jin's figure captured by the drone.
Lian Jun asked Gua Jiu to adjust it again, and adjusted the picture captured by the drone to occupy the entire screen, and Shi Jin's first-person perspective was reduced and placed in the corner. He took a good look at Shi Jin's heroic figure riding a jet ski, and then he was satisfied, collected his thoughts and started working.
Having "noise" in the ears while working should be a very distracting thing, but Lian Jun's work efficiency is surprisingly high today. Every time he finishes processing a document, he will look up to see what Shi Jin is doing in the live broadcast. His posture is relaxed, and it is obvious that he is in a good mood.
Guajiu and Guayi looked at each other and smiled.
...
When Shi Jin was halfway through playing, he found a drone above his head. After a quick thought, he understood what was going on. He smiled and waved at the drone, then increased the speed of the jet ski and rushed towards the sea farther away with joy.
Li Jiuzheng heard Shi Jin's happy shouts, turned his head and looked at him, a little stunned - the blue sea and blue sky, his family by his side, this is probably the most beautiful scenery he has ever seen in his life... It feels like a fake.
"Fifth brother! What are you in a daze, let's go, we'll ride around for another round and then go back, to pick some fruit." Shi Jin approached him and greeted him, his tone natural and friendly.
Li Jiuzheng came back to his senses, looking at Shi Jin's happy and excited look, the corners of his mouth slowly curled up, imitating his appearance, raised his voice and responded, and followed him.
Is this the feeling of playing with family? It's so happy, I feel like I will faint from excitement at any time... But I can't faint, I can't let Xiao Jin down.
...
Li Jiuzheng just felt that he fell into a beautiful dream. In the dream, he was with his only brother every day, playing in the water today, climbing mountains tomorrow, building castles on the beach on sunny days, lying on the window listening to the rain and watching indoor movies on rainy days, and occasionally helping his brother who fell behind in homework. What he saw with his eyes was sunshine and clear water, and what he heard with his ears was laughter and birdsong. He was so happy that even if the world was going to end in the next second, he could die with a smile.
It was an overly warm winter, and he wanted to sink into the warm sunshine and sleep forever.
"What are you thinking, Fifth Brother? The fruits on this tree are good. Help me take down my phone, and I'll go pick some."
Another afternoon, Shi Jin took Li Jiuzheng to pick wild fruits in the forest on the south side of the island. He held a camera stand in his hand and adjusted the camera position from time to time. His skilled posture made him look like a professional outdoor anchor.
He waved at the camera and said, "Don't worry, I'm very good at climbing trees, and I guarantee I'll get down safely." As
soon as he finished speaking, a line of small words appeared on the chat interface of the live broadcast room on the mobile phone screen, where the number of viewers was always 1: Be careful.
Shi Jin immediately started to giggle when he saw this, and happily stuffed the phone into Li Jiuzheng's hand. He rubbed his hands, climbed up the tree in a few steps, and whooshed towards the branch with wild fruits hanging on it.
Li Jiuzheng waited nervously below with his phone in his hand, following Shi Jin's figure and circling the tree trunk, as if ready to catch him at any time.
"Enough, I'm going to pick it." Shi Jin climbed to the right position, lowered his head and waved at Li Jiuzheng and the phone in his hand.
Li Jiuzheng's face turned pale, and he suddenly dropped the phone, picked up a stone from the ground, and threw it at Shi Jin.
Xiaosi screamed: "Jinjin, be careful!" Shi Jin's
expression changed, and he quickly turned sideways and retracted his hands.
Bang!
The stone hit the side of where Shi Jin had stopped before, and hit a small green snake that suddenly poked its head out from a branch.
"Hiss, hiss, hiss--"
The snake was hit and fell to the ground with a scream of pain.
Li Jiuzheng was frightened. The snake had obviously been knocked down, but he was still worried. He immediately picked up a stone and leaned over. He tightened his face and smashed the snake's head hard. He didn't let go until the snake was bloody. His eyes were heavy, full of cold murderous intent.
"Don't hurt Xiao Jin, don't try to take Xiao Jin away."
This was something he had held with great difficulty, and it could not be destroyed by anyone or anything! Absolutely not!
The snake had been dead for a long time, but Li Jiuzheng still didn't stop. The stone was covered in blood, and his fingers, face and clothes were also stained with blood. He looked a little scary.
Shi Jin was shocked by Li Jiuzheng's sudden outburst. After coming back to his senses, he frowned and hurriedly climbed down from the tree. He quickly approached Li Jiuzheng and held his shoulders, twisting him to face him.
The two looked at each other, and Li Jiuzheng's murderous intent was too late to be restrained. Shi Jin faced him head-on, and his body suddenly stiffened. Some memories and emotions emerged uncontrollably, forcing him to let go and take a step back.
Seeing this, Li Jiuzheng suddenly came back to his senses. He looked at his hands, then at his blood-stained clothes, and finally at the bloody snake corpse behind him. His heart trembled, and the stone in his hand fell to the ground. He hurriedly wanted to wipe the blood off his hands. He wanted to touch Shi Jin but was afraid of rubbing the blood on him. He said anxiously: "No... Xiao Jin, don't be afraid, it won't hurt you again, and I won't either, don't..."
Shi Jin took a deep breath to suppress his overflowing emotions, walked forward to pull him up from the ground, pulled up his T-shirt to wipe the blood off his hands, and said: "Fifth brother, thank you for protecting me."
Protect?
Li Jiuzheng was stunned and looked at him blankly.
"Fifth brother was so cool when he smashed the snake just now. It was so accurate and powerful. Let's eat snake meat tonight." Shi Jin smiled at him, patted his shoulder affectionately, and then found the phone that had fallen to the ground.
He adjusted the camera and showed himself intact to the camera first, explained what happened just now, then took his mobile phone and moved to the side of the snake body, muttering: "Just now this guy tried to attack me, and Fifth Brother helped me kill it. Lian Jun, do you like eating snake meat? Although the head of this snake was smashed, the body is still there. It should be enough to make a dish."
In the study, Lian Jun, who didn't know the truth and was anxious to go there in person, stopped what he was doing, listened to Shi Jin's mumbling, looked at his profile in the camera, slowly sat down, swallowed his fear, frowned and typed: Nonsense!
Shi Jin saw this rare exclamation mark, touched his nose with a guilty look, and said: "Don't be angry, I didn't expect there would be a snake on the tree... Isn't there Fifth Brother here, he's a doctor, I'm safe, don't worry."
Lian Jun got even angrier when he heard this, and called him directly. Shi Jin quickly answered the phone, holding the phone and whispering to comfort him.
Li Jiuzheng stood behind Shi Jin, listening to his slightly coquettish mumbling into the phone, his tense body relaxed a little, looked at his hand that had been wiped clean of most of the blood, and squatted on the ground as if exhausted.
Did he protect Shi Jin?
That's good... I didn't scare him, that's good.
In the end, Shi Jin really brought the snake's body back, and he praised Li Jiuzheng's great achievements to everyone he met. After knowing that Lian Jun couldn't eat snake meat, he found a vacant lot on the side of the two villas, picked up firewood and made a small fire, processed the snake meat, marinated it, and grilled it on wooden sticks.
"It smells so good." Shi Jin smelled the fragrance of the snake meat, and was so happy that he almost bubbled. "This must be delicious. Thanks to my fifth brother today, I can eat fresh game."
Li Jiuzheng was praised again. He didn't show anything on his face, but he was very embarrassed in his heart. He said, "If you like it, eat more, Xiao Jin."
"We'll each have half. Fifth brother, you haven't eaten snake meat yet, right? Try it today... Or how about we go catch wild rabbits tomorrow? Rabbit meat is also delicious." Shi Jin looked forward to suggestions and raised his arm to hold his shoulders, intending to get him used to physical contact with people.
Li Jiuzheng looked at his approaching face, the corners of his mouth curled up a little, and he nodded. Shi Jin
saw him smile, smacked his lips, and smiled too - this is what life is like, when happiness accumulates enough, pain slowly fades, and time is the best medicine.
...
In a blink of an eye, the New Year arrived. That day, everyone went to the mountains, seas and forests to get ingredients. Even Lian Jun was pushed onto the boat by Shi Jin to go out to sea to help fish. Everyone prepared ingredients together, cooked together, and then ate together, set off fireworks, and celebrated the New Year.
At midnight, Shi Jin cooked the dumplings that everyone had made together for the New Year's Eve, and gave everyone a bowl, saying, "A new year, a new beginning. Whoever eats the coin in the dumpling will be the lucky one next year. Come on, it's time to test your luck!"
Gua Er laughed and scolded, "You are the only one with so many ideas. You must have secretly stuffed the dumpling with the coin in it into your own bowl." Shi
Jin frowned and blocked his mouth with a piece of fruit.
Li Jiuzheng looked at Shi Jin with a smile, picked up the chopsticks and stirred the white and plump dumplings in the bowl. Remembering that he and Shi Jin had made these dumplings together, his smile widened, and he picked up one and put it in his mouth.
"Um!" He suddenly covered his mouth.
Everyone at the table looked at him, all showing an expression of "no way".
Li Jiuzheng also looked at the crowd, his eyes widened, slowly loosened his hand, and spit out a coin from his mouth.
"Shi Jin, you cheated! You didn't even leave this dumpling for Jun Shao!" Gua Er mercilessly exposed Shi Jin's trick.
Lian Jun looked at the bowl in front of him, expressionless, and had no intention of picking up his chopsticks.
Li Jiuzheng was stunned and turned his head to look at Shi Jin. Shi Jin
didn't expect Gua Er to be so mean and sow discord. He rushed over and hit him with a hammer, gritting his teeth and saying, "Who said there was only one dumpling with a coin in it? Go eat your dumpling, you're the only one who talks too much!"
Everyone laughed. Li Jiuzheng looked at the coin in his hand, slowly closed his palm, held the coin tightly, pursed his lips and smiled - his younger brother secretly gave him the luck of the next year, so cute.
His smile was too pure, full of childishness, his eyes were slightly curved, and it seemed that there were stars called happiness in them. Shi Jin saw it from the corner of his eye, and suddenly he felt something tense in his heart suddenly relax. He turned his head to look at the gently surging sea in the night, and let out a long breath.
The child who grew up in pain finally learned to laugh truly, which was not easy.
He let go of Gua Er, walked to Lian Jun, hugged him from behind, and buried his face in his shoulder.
"What's wrong?" Lian Jun raised his hand to hold his arm and looked at him sideways.
"Happy New Year." Shi Jin whispered and explained in a low voice, "There are three dumplings wrapped in coins, and there are two in your bowl."
Lian Jun was stunned, then smiled, turned his head to kiss his hair: "You really have learned bad things... Thank you, Happy New Year."
...
On the fifth day of the New Year, Lu Shan called.
"I know that disturbing your New Year celebrations at this time is very depressing, but I really can't delay any longer. The leaders of Wumen and Qianye came to Taiwan to find me in person, showing great sincerity. If I delay any longer, they will probably get suspicious." Shi
Jin, who was nestling on the sofa and teaching Li Jiuzheng how to play mahjong, was stunned when he heard this, frowning and looking at Lian Jun behind the desk.
Lian Jun had expected this call to come back, and looked at Shi Jin soothingly, and said to the phone: "It's normal. This year's meeting is about to start, and they should want to stabilize the alliance before the meeting starts."
"Then do I accept their sincerity?" Lu Shan asked.
"Take it. When I contacted you, which one of Meng Qing and Qi Yun was the leader?"
"Meng Qing from Wumen."
Lian Jun understood: "It's him. He is a bit arrogant and likes to be in the lead. Compared with him, Qi Yun from Qianye is much more cunning. You should pay more attention to Qi Yun and don't get too close to him."
"I understand."
The conversation paused for a moment. Both of them understood that the real battle was about to begin.
"Probably after this meeting. Be prepared." Lu Shan spoke again with a sigh.
This was not very clear, but Lian Jun responded: "I have already made preparations. But you, pay more attention to yourself and don't get yourself into trouble. And, thank you for helping me to delay until now."
Lu Shan suddenly laughed and said, "Stinky boy, how can you talk to your aunt like that? I have been struggling for so many years, it is not easy to get into trouble." She paused after speaking, and added, "You have to be well, see you at the meeting."
"See you at the meeting." Lian Jun hung up the phone, but he didn't expect that the door of the study was suddenly pushed open from the outside, and Uncle Long, who had been locking himself in the laboratory since entering the island, appeared at the door.
"Don't see you at the meeting yet." Uncle Long spoke, speaking word by word, "The latest examination report is out, Jun Shao, you can use the medicine."
Bang.
Shi Jin dropped the tablet in his hand, stood up suddenly and asked, "Uncle Long, what did you say?"
Uncle Long looked at him and said, "I said that Master Jun's body has reached the standard for medication. In addition, I have some bad news." Shi
Jin hurriedly asked, "What bad news?"
Uncle Long clapped the information in his hand and said, "I once said that the residual poison in Master Jun's body will definitely become active again after taking the medicine. Unfortunately, this poison is more stubborn than I expected. It has not been used yet, and it has shown signs of becoming active. I speculate that , this change should be caused by the gradual improvement of Jun Shao's physical functions. "
Lian Jun came out in a wheelchair, held Shi Jin's hand, comforted him, looked at Uncle Long and asked: "You mean, I'd better take the medicine as soon as possible?"
Uncle Long nodded and said: "Yes, preemptive strike is useful for people, and also for toxins. Let the toxin struggle to its death under the pressure, and let it become active and strong before suppressing it with medicine, the former is definitely safer and less harmful."
Everyone understood this, but now there is a problem in front of everyone. It's not long before the April Dao meeting. If Lian Jun takes medicine now, then by April, he is likely to be in the most painful period of torture by the toxin, and it is definitely not suitable to show up in public.
But Lian Jun had to attend this year's meeting. The four families were about to form an alliance, and Mie could not show any weakness to the outside world at this time.
"After taking the medicine, how long will it take to completely remove the toxins?" Lian Jun continued to ask.
Uncle Long glanced at Shi Jin, whose expression had become very ugly, and replied: "At the fastest, it will take three months. At the slowest, it may take half a year to a year. It's hard to say. Your treatment is not only about removing toxins, but also about body repair and conditioning after the removal of toxins. These two are combined and cannot be rushed."
At the fastest, it will take three months. Now there is not even two months left before the meeting in April.
Shi Jin clenched his hands.
Lian Jun frowned and pondered, then asked: "Can the time for taking the medicine be--"
Shi Jin squeezed his hand hard and said: "Don't joke with your body."
Lian Jun stopped talking, and seeing that his expression was really ugly, he stood up and hugged him, and touched his hair soothingly. He was at a loss for a moment. Shi Jin
hugged him back, frowning.
Treatment and conflict finally collided, what should I do now.
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