The Court of Hidden Truths and Whispers Chapter 9

Carter Xing took a breath and looked at the five boys standing on the opposite side of the street.

With a sullen face, he turned and walked into an empty alley next to the community.

There are fewer people here, so it’s easy to bring them here.

He remembered when he was in elementary school, a group of third graders had a fight with sixth graders, also in this alley. Ethan Ning was also in sixth grade at the time. He ran over with a group of people from his class, kicked a boy of the same grade to the ground, and shouted to the third graders to run first.

All the little boys in the group ran away, but Xiao Carter Xing refused to run away. He turned around to pick up bricks and was about to attack them, but the people led by Ethan Ning had already knocked them all down.

Carter Xing's mother brought some plaster for bruises and injuries and brought little Carter Xing to thank them. Ethan Ning's mother took it with a gloomy face and slammed the door shut.

Even till he grew up, Carter Xing still couldn't figure out how Ethan Ning's mother, who had such a domineering personality, could give birth to a child as gentle and cold as Ethan Ning. After thinking about it for a long time, he felt that it was probably because he took after Uncle Ning.

Carter Xing's mother is a hot-tempered person, but she is kind-hearted and beautiful. Carter Xing has a good appearance, just like his mother, with a high nose, thin lips, deep eyebrows and eyes. The older he gets, the more manly he becomes.

There were not many people in the alley at this moment. There was only a small street lamp at the entrance of the alley between two residential buildings, and the occasional passerby.

Carter Xing picked up a discarded broomstick and held it in his hand. He did not put down the basketball bag on his back, and half of his face was hidden in the darkness.

Just in terms of height, he was half a head taller than the people who came today, not to mention his aura. Carter Xing used all his bluffing skills on the field, and when he lowered his brows, he instantly became 2.28 meters tall.

Among the five people in front of him, three were smoking cigarettes. As soon as Carter Xing smelled the smell, he thought of Ethan Ning.

This gave him a stimulation and he straightened his back even more.

There was a guy wearing a baseball cap who seemed to be the leader to light the fire. He asked as soon as he opened his mouth: "Carter Xing?"

"No nonsense."

Carter Xing was too lazy to talk to him, so he waved the pole in his hand in the air after he finished speaking.

With a gloomy face, Carter Xing continued, "We can go to the stadium to play one-on-one, one against nine, or a bullfight, or we can play one-on-one or together here, it's all fine."

The tip of the stick drew a circle on the brick floor at his feet. Carter Xing looked ruthless and threatened: "As long as I don't fall down today, don't follow Ethan Ning anymore. Otherwise, I will find someone to come, and it won't be as easy as just dealing with me."

It was a five-on-one fight, and Carter Xing turned it into a fight with weapons by picking up a pole. He picked up a pole and swung it, specifically hitting people's arms.

There was a gust of wind in his ears and the alley was filled with shouts that were sometimes high and sometimes low. Carter Xing couldn't tell whether it was fists or legs that were hitting him, but he just felt the pain.

The ones who were in more pain than him were the five men. They rushed up together and tried to hold Carter Xing down, but failed. Instead, they were kicked by Carter Xing and knocked to the ground. Then they were hit on the wrist by a stick, and he could not exert any strength for a long time.

Carter Xing felt a sudden pain on his back, turned around and kicked him, hitting him again with the stick!

A boy who stood up shakily nearby uttered a curse word and yelled, "Where's Ethan Ningn?"

Someone who was standing far away and didn't dare to rush over jumped up and cursed: "What the hell, that man's name is Ethan Ning, where is he? Get out!"

The sound was too noisy for Carter Xing, so he cursed in a low voice, which he couldn't even hear clearly, and rushed forward to kick him again, so fiercely that blood seemed to come out of his eyes.

The guy with the baseball cap swung his fist to hit Carter Xing, but his arm was grabbed and he was kicked in the abdomen. He staggered back several steps, glaring and shouting: "Tell Ethan Ning to get off. I'm here to deal with him today. Who do you think you are..."

The pole in his hand was broken and snapped into two pieces, one in each hand. His throat was hit by someone's knife and it was so painful that he swallowed a mouthful of bloody saliva, which was scratched uncomfortably.

Carter Xing's voice was hoarse: "I'm his Fcuking man, who the hell are you?"

He didn't look at the surprised expression of the guy in the baseball cap, but instead hit the person who rushed towards him with another blow with great force!

The basketball bag was dirty under his feet, so he picked it up with the basketball inside and threw it at someone. The bricks on the wall hit Carter Xing's face so hard that it was covered with mud.

The street lights at the entrance of the alley reflected the figures of several people hurrying by. After another two or three minutes, Carter Xing stopped beating with the broom handle that was broken in half.

There were three people lying in front of him, unable to get up. Carter Xing was kneeling in the middle of the alley, breathing heavily. Half of his face was covered in blood, and his hands were bruised and bleeding. Blood was dripping down in strings and merged into a pile of pebbles at his feet.

After two people ran away, Carter Xing estimated that someone would come soon, so he didn't dare to delay. He slowly stood up with the help of the wall and threw the pole in his hand to the ground.

Carter Xing growled in a hoarse voice: "Are you coming again? Do you still dare to follow Ethan Ning?!"

Now I feel pain all over my body, and my throat becomes hoarse every time I breathe.

The one lying on the ground rubbed his neck with his eyes narrowed, his voice was filled with tears: "Fcuk... I'm not coming anymore..."

Carter Xing sneered, gripping the rope of the golf bag without even wiping the blood off his palm.

"Ethan Ning was the former leader of our school team. If you dare to come again, I will call the school team to beat you up!"

After Carter Xing finished speaking, he closed his eyes, wiped the sticky sweat around his eyes, and looked at the street light at the entrance of the alley.

After taking a breath, Carter Xing trotted out of the alley carrying the golf bag, squatted in the corner to rest for a while, stood up, took off his coat, turned it inside out, and put the bloody side inside.

He ran to the car on the side of the road and looked at his profile in the rearview mirror. Sure enough, he saw the redness and swelling at the corner of his mouth. When he opened his mouth, it hurt.

Carter Xing took out his cell phone from his basketball bag, checked that the screen was not cracked, breathed a sigh of relief, took it out and called Grace Ren.

Carter Xing coughed, and then spoke in a frighteningly low voice: "Grace Ren, buy some alcohol gauze."

Grace Ren was playing cards with someone over there. When a king came out, she was about to shout, but she got a call from Carter Xing and was shocked: "Oh my god! Boss, what's wrong with you?"

Carter Xing was in so much pain that he stood at the gate of the community and didn't dare to go in. The light in Ethan Ning's window was still on. What if he looked at him?

He took another look and saw that the curtains were drawn, so he felt relieved. He lowered his head and walked into the community: "Stop talking nonsense, hurry up, or I'll die here!"

When the young men at Grace Ren's card game heard that Carter Xing was in trouble, they couldn't sit still anymore and shouted on the phone, "Who is this idiot?"

How could Grace Ren say anything? If she said one more word, this Fcuking matter would get out of hand and it would be over. She had to go and see what Carter Xing was doing first.

Several boys quickly ran to the clinic to buy gauze, alcohol, and a bunch of plasters, took three taxis, and rushed to Carter Xing's home.

Carter Xing was lying on the bed, with his clothes half lifted up, when he heard a knock on the door. He saw seven or eight people following Grace Ren, and angrily asked, "Who the hell told you to bring so many people here?"

Grace Ren's neck shrank: "Damn, something happened to you, we were almost scared to death..."

Carter Xing sighed, thinking that this was also his fault. He opened the door and let everyone in, then closed the door. He looked at the time and estimated that Ethan Ning should have gone to bed by now.

He directed Grace Ren to go to the kitchen to pour Coke, brought out several cups, and briefly entertained them. He told them what happened tonight, with gauze still biting his mouth. He ordered as he pulled: "No one should cause trouble. If they come again, we can discuss this matter later."

The brothers nodded and poured Coke down their throats. Carter Xing put on the gauze, poured alcohol on his arm, raised a glass of Coke and clinked glasses with them: "Cheers."

Seeing him like this, Grace Ren also got angry and had to follow him: "Let's do it!"

After a group of people left in the middle of the night, Carter Xing took a bath with hot water and went to bed. When he looked at the time, it was already three or four in the morning.

He slept without any dreams all night until noon. Carter Xing got up from the bed and washed up, but he didn't have the strength to get up and look for Ethan Ning for breakfast. There were bruises on his face, so he had no choice but to lie down for the whole day.

Ethan Ning didn't see Carter Xing when he got up early in the morning. He thought that he and Grace Ren went to the police station too late last night and couldn't get up. After school in the evening, he ran to Carter Xing's house and listened for a while, but heard no sound.

He couldn't sit still anymore, so he turned on his phone and sent a message to Carter Xing.

Do Not Disturb: Are you there?

After holding the phone for a while, Carter Xing replied with a "Here!"

Ethan Ning finally breathed a sigh of relief. She had been restless and panicked the whole day, but as long as Carter Xing was okay, she was glad. She was worried that something might happen to the child when his uncle and aunt were not around.

Carter Xing calculated the time and thought Ethan Ning should have been home by now. He opened the curtains and looked downstairs, and sure enough, the window was lit.

I didn't dare turn on the lights at night, for fear that Ethan Ning would come back and see me.

Carter Xing took out his cell phone and called Grace Ren, asking her to send some more medicine over. Thank you, brother.

Grace Ren came over with medicine in her arms, and she scolded Carter Xing for not going to the hospital, and she also scolded the group of people for not following the rules when fighting five of them at once. Her constant nagging gave Carter Xing a headache.

After taking the medicine and going to bed, Grace Ren turned off the small desk lamp in the room for Carter Xing and scolded him: "Wait until your injury is healed before walking around."

Carter Xing nodded and agreed quickly: "Okay."

Grace Ren never expected that Carter Xing had made all kinds of plans, but at this moment when he came downstairs, Ethan Ning opened the door and called him. Grace Ren didn't dare to move a step, for fear of scaring Ethan Ning and getting killed by Carter Xing.

Ethan Ning frowned and asked, "Where did Carter Xing go?"

Grace Ren swallowed her saliva and started making up a story: "He lives at my house. He, he has a competition this afternoon and asked me to come over to pick up something..."

Ethan Ning hesitated for a moment, nodded, and let Grace Ren go back.

After Grace Ren left, Ethan Ning still felt something was wrong.

He took the key in his pajamas, went upstairs and knocked on the door. He knocked for ten minutes but no one opened the door. He thought Carter Xing was really not at home.

He didn't know, he just lay there and didn't dare to open the door.

Your face and waist are not healed yet, are you looking for a beating by opening the door?

Ethan Ning was wearing slippers and was extremely cold, but he stood at the door of Carter Xing's house for more than ten minutes. Then he sighed and went downstairs.

The next day, senior year had a day and a half off. Ethan Ning went out early in the morning in his school uniform to give extra lessons to the elementary school students in the building next door. He taught math, which was easy to teach.

After a day and a half, I earned two hundred yuan at the student price, put it in my pocket, and went home happily.

Ethan Ning wanted to buy himself a teaching supplement book, which cost a little over 80 yuan, but he couldn't bring himself to buy it. He felt it would be a shame to spend the money he earned. He held the money in his hand and thought for a long time, then went to the bank to deposit it.

He used his online banking to transfer the money to Carter Xing. After he transferred all 200 yuan, he had more than 110 yuan left, which he asked Carter Xing to use to buy some delicious food.

If you can't bring yourself to buy it, give it to Carter Xing to buy it, and then use the money to buy something delicious...

Ethan Ning finally spent the money comfortably.

Carter Xing is still growing at this age, no matter if it is appropriate now or not, he has to grow. Ethan Ning remembers that when he was in the first and second year of high school, the boys in his class wanted to have five or six meals a day, drink a big can of milk, and some even eat eggs to build muscles.

Carter Xing was lying on the sofa watching a basketball video. He took the money and sent a message to Ethan Ning.

Let’s eat together tonight.

After sending the message, Carter Xing sat up and changed the gauze. His hands still smelled of alcohol. He changed into his coat and sneakers, glanced at Ethan Ning and turned on the light in his window. He guessed that Ethan Ning should be reading in the bedroom, so he went out without worry.

Carter Xing went to the bank to withdraw money, exchanged it for banknotes, and went to the Xinhua Wenxuan Bookstore in Tianfu Square.

It was around six or seven o'clock and the bookstore would be closing soon. Carter Xing hurriedly bought the supplementary book by comparing it with the picture sent by Ethan Ning.

Taking the book home, Carter Xing entered from another door of the community, bypassed Ethan Ning's window, went upstairs carefully, and was busy for a while. It was past nine o'clock, it was dark, and the barbecue stalls on the street were set up. He finally went out in the dark.

He stood by the barbecue stall, with the money he had earned from playing soccer in his pocket, picked out a lot of meat, selected some vegetable skewers, handed them to the boss, and grilled a fish.

Carter Xing looked at the grilled skewers for a while and told the boss to add more spicy vegetables, the super spicy kind, and less meat and fish.

He knew that Ethan Ning didn't like spicy food, so Ethan Ning would have to eat more meat later.

How can we eat bread and noodles all day long?

Carter Xing took the barbecue worth more than 100 yuan and ran to the snack stand next door to get two bowls of white rice. He covered it with his hands and it was still quite warm.

At half past nine, Carter Xing knocked on Ethan Ning's door, put the supplementary textbook on the table, handed the barbecue to Ethan Ning, and said while taking off his sneakers: "Brother, you haven't had dinner yet, I haven't had dinner either, you can eat with me..."

The two of them sat in the living room eating skewers. Carter Xing also bought a bottle of yogurt for Ethan Ning and a can of Budweiser beer for himself.

Ethan Ning looked at the bottle of yogurt and guessed what it meant, but said nothing.

There was no table in the living room of Ethan Ning's house, so they found a newspaper and spread it out, then sat cross-legged. Not caring about anything else, they dragged out the desk lamp, plugged it in, and sat opposite each other to eat barbecue in the light of the lamp.

Not long after eating, Carter Xing saw Ethan Ning's hand hesitating for a long time on the vegetable skewers, and then he couldn't bring himself to eat the peppers. He picked up the fish meat with chopsticks and ate it bite by bite.

Carter Xing finished all the spicy skewers first, gave all the meat to his brother like a treasure, and urged his brother to eat the white rice as well, to ensure a balanced nutrition, do you understand?

When he was almost done eating, Carter Xing started to cry out in pain from the spiciness. He felt pain in his wounds when he ate something spicy, so he drank a sip of wine, kept silent, and ate a few mouthfuls of rice to swallow the chili.

Sweat overflowed onto his forehead. Carter Xing didn't notice it and lifted up his clothes to fan the wind. When he put them down, it was too late.

Ethan Ning's eyes never left Carter Xing throughout the whole process, and when she glanced at him, she even saw the gauze wrapped around his waist.

For an instant, he felt as if his head had been hit violently by something sharp.

It hurts so much.

Ethan Ning held the bowl, unable to swallow the food in his throat.

Ethan Ning took a deep breath, looked at the stiff Carter Xing with an indifferent look, and said calmly: "Is this the reason why you haven't gone out these days?"

Carter Xing was stunned. He didn't expect that after all his planning, he would be stunned by the heat.

"elder brother..."

"Who beat him up? Was it the group of people from No. 6 Middle School?"

Ethan Ning put down his bowl and chopsticks, staring at Carter Xing: "I know they are looking for me, so I told you not to follow me."

Carter Xing was stared at like that and couldn't say a word.

He had indeed acted on his own initiative in this matter. He was beaten and scolded, but that was his own business. He didn't want to affect Ethan Ning at all...

Something like "Don't hurt yourself for me" or "I don't need you to protect me"...

Ethan Ning couldn't say it, nor could he face himself like this.

He took a deep breath and felt his heart ache.

Ethan Ning stretched out his hand, wanting to touch Carter Xing, but stopped in mid-air.

He held the bottle of Budweiser beer, his eyes were red, and his words were somewhat incoherent: "Beer is definitely not okay, how about liquor? I still have money, Carter Xing, I will buy you some medical alcohol..."

Seeing him like this, Carter Xing felt like a real idiot!

If he hadn't lifted her clothes, there wouldn't have been so much trouble and his brother wouldn't have felt so guilty.

Carter Xing saw that he couldn't eat anymore, so he put away the bowl and went to the kitchen. When he came out, he went to his brother and whispered, "Brother, change the medicine for me."

When Ethan Ning heard this, he felt Carter Xing's nervousness and his breathing trembled.

When I got closer, I could clearly see the light blue at the corner of Carter Xing's mouth. It had faded a lot, but if I looked closely, there were still traces.

Ethan Ning felt a pain in his heart and said calmly, "Carter Xing, you can stay at my place tonight."

He asked Guan Carter Xing for the key to the house, ran upstairs to get the medicine, and even took down the toiletries.

As soon as the door was closed, Ethan Ning handed the things to Carter Xing and urged him to go wash up.

Ethan Ning didn't read the book tonight. He couldn't continue reading and made Carter Xing lie down on the bed.

Carter Xing took off his clothes by the corners, revealing his muscular upper body...

His chest rose and fell with every breath, and every inch of it was filled with the meaning of young love.

Ethan Ning's ears turned red. She didn't dare to look at his face. She pinched the gauze and carefully lifted it up a little.

The wound was covered with Yunnan Baiyao mixed with blood scabs, the flesh and blood were hideous, the wound was horrifying, and the surrounding area was tinged with the light yellow of iodine. Ethan Ning's eyes were red, he twisted the cotton swab, and cleaned it bit by bit.

Carter Xing's breathing became rapid, and he looked at Ethan Ning's white neck, ears, and Adam's apple rolling up and down.

He had never dared to imagine that Ethan Ning could change his medicine.

He wanted to move, but Ethan Ning reached out to stop him. He then touched Carter Xing's forehead and made sure he had no fever or inflammation before applying new gauze on him with confidence.

When applying the alcohol, he didn't dare to look at Carter Xing's frowning and patient expression.

After bandaging and taking some oral medicine, Ethan Ning helped Carter Xing to sleep, and asked him to sleep facing inside so that he would not touch his wound later.

Even that night, Ethan Ning did not go to bed at all. He dozed off sitting against the wall beside the bed all night. He set the alarm on his phone to vibrate at six in the morning. When Carter Xing woke up at seven, Ethan Ning had finished packing and looked energetic.

That night, Ethan Ning sat down until midnight and lay down on the edge of the bed.

Just like Carter Xing was lying down that day, he looked at the young man in front of him and took a deep breath.

Ethan Ning leaned over, held his breath, pressed his forehead against Carter Xing's, and gently touched his nose with his.

The evening breeze gradually deepened, the autumn moon and the Milky Way, the breaths of the two people intertwined with each other, and the stars in the sky were so gentle that they hid half of their light...

The affection at this moment is hidden in a corner of the city, suppressed in Ethan Ning's consciousness, bound by rules and regulations, clamoring madly, trying to break free from the cage in his heart.

The coldness at the corner of his mouth was about to touch Carter Xing's lips, and Ethan Ning closed his eyes.

Ethan Ning bit the corner of his mouth almost to the point of bleeding, and suppressed the desire to K!ss her.

too difficult.

He sat up slowly, took his cell phone to charge, ran to the living room and squatted for a while, then couldn't help but took out a cigarette and smoked.

Ethan Ning closed his eyes as he took one sip after another. The desire in his heart grew taller and taller, wrapping around his neck and strangling him so that he couldn't breathe.

He is simply not the same kind of person as Carter Xing.

There is no movement in the rational future planned by Ethan Ning.

But whenever the word "future" is mentioned, he subconsciously thinks, how can there be no future in his life?

Ethan Ning even felt that tying Carter Xing to a person like him with family defects and character flaws was like dragging Carter Xing into the quagmire, from which he would never be able to get up again.

He didn't dare to face it. If Carter Xing no longer liked him one day, what would he be?

What does it matter?

"Ethan Ning, a senior in Shizhong High School, has excellent grades, good looks, and great basketball skills. Apart from his aloof personality, there is almost nothing wrong with him..."

Ethan Ning will always remember other people's comments about him.

But no one knows that his "cold personality", which may seem cool and cold to outsiders, is actually a character flaw to him.

I want to communicate, but I can’t speak. I want to laugh, but I can’t.

That night, Ethan Ning squatted in silence, with his head buried in his knees, a cigarette between his fingertips, and lifted the wristband up his arm a little, leaving a cigarette scar on the side of his wrist.

There seemed to be a burnt smell in the air.

Ethan Ning didn't know if there was something wrong with his nose or if it really hurt.

He stood up, put out the cigarette B*tt, hid it in the trash can, and tore a piece of paper to cover it.

After cleaning up, Ethan Ning saw the teaching supplementary book on the shoe cabinet, which was the one Carter Xing bought in the afternoon.

Under the light of the street lamp outside the window, Ethan Ning carefully took the book and gently opened it.

As my fingertips turned a page, the hearts made of banknotes fell everywhere.

Carter Xing folded the more than 100 yuan in banknotes left over from buying teaching supplementary books into a heart shape and stuffed it into the teaching supplementary books he bought for Ethan Ning.

Flipping through it, I saw a heart almost every ten pages.

All fell out.

Under the moonlight in the middle of the night, the love that was spread all over the ground...

Ethan Ning's eyes turned red.

He went to pick it up while choking.

Monitor carefully.