[Comprehensive] The Fate of Two Lives

The first time Yuan Ansi saw his brother was at the end of a gray winter.

It was very cold that day, and he was wearing a thick kimono and a white scarf.He stood on a local step by the door, raised his eyes slightly, and saw the boy.

——At that time, he was wearing a black kimono, and his hair was tied with a strip of white cloth. He seemed to be mourning someone.He stood beside his father expressionlessly, his face looking a little pale.The boy looked like a piece of black paper from a distance, as if it would fly away with a slight wind blow.

Unlike children of the same age, the boy didn't like to talk very much when he first came to our family.But my father said that this is his own brother, so the two will live together in the future.

The boy lived in Yuan Ansi's room that night.It's just that when he arrived at his room, the other party was standing alone outside the room with his pillow in his arms, as if hesitant.

"You come in, it's okay."

Yuan Ansi felt that his elder brother was a little too shy, so he stepped forward and pulled him into the room.

The boy raised his eyelashes slightly and glanced at him, but unexpectedly there was no resistance.

"You will sleep next to me from now on, haha, you will finally not have to sleep alone at night!"

Yuan Ansi said this alone, then looked at the boy.The other party ignored him, and still stood there silently.

"You just said something! It's embarrassing for me to talk to myself!" Yuan Ansi said with some dissatisfaction, stepped forward and forced the other party to sit down.

"Hey, what's your name?"

The other party was silent for a while, and finally spoke:

"Yuan Zhengping."

"Well, my name is Yuan Ansi." Yuan Ansi nodded with satisfaction, and continued: "Father said that you are older than me, so you are my older brother. You must take good care of your younger brother in the future!"

——Speaking of being an older brother, he is also taller than himself, but he looks surprisingly thin.Did you not eat well before?

"Thank you, I will try my best." Yuan Zhengping replied softly.

After that, Yuan Zhengping was still not very talkative.Facing the greetings from other aunts, he turned his head and ignored them.Even when his father asked him to talk, he just answered mechanically as if answering a question, completely unable to talk to him calmly.

Yuan Ansi just felt a little strange, he often pestered his brother, trying to find topics to chat with him, but most of them could only get a monosyllabic answer.

Why is he always so depressed... Obviously everyone can get along well...

Until one day, Yuan Ansi had just returned from his calligraphy class. When passing by the corridor, he suddenly heard his aunt talking to another aunt.

"That child is really annoying, who is showing such a dead face all day long!" One of the women said with a look of disdain.

Yuan Ansi's heart moved slightly, then he stopped and listened quietly.

"I heard that the child used to live with his grandma, and he moved here after his grandma died. It's really pitiful." Another woman said this.

Is it because of this reason... No wonder I can't cheer up all the time...

"I grew up in a random place since I was a child. No wonder I have no education. It is far worse than my family's Ayan." The woman said with a look of disgust.

An unknown fire rose in Yuan Ansi's heart, saying behind his back that his brother was fine, and comparing him with that ignorant Yuan Yuyan was really too much.

But it's better for me not to go out for the time being, and I'll tell my father about it when I have a chance. After all, it would be a bit abrupt if I just walked out like this, and the other party might also bear a grudge against me. a trouble.

Just when he was about to turn around and leave in another direction, he heard the other party say a word again:

"Also, is that kid named Yuan Zhengping really a member of our family? Maybe he's a bastard."

"If such a bastard stays in the family and becomes the head of the family in the end, wouldn't it be..."

Yuan Ansi squeezed the paper in his hand, finally couldn't hold it back, turned around and walked out, squinting at the two of them and said:

"I think who the head of the Yuan family is, and it has nothing to do with you outsiders, right? Just talking about this kind of thing openly, what will happen if your father hears it?"

When the two of them saw Yuan Ansi, their faces showed a panicked expression for a moment, and they both smiled and said:

"Oh, isn't this Yuan Ansi? Didn't you go to calligraphy class? Why did you come out so early?"

Yuan Ansi looked at her silently, but still didn't say anything.

"Oh, I was joking with your aunt, An Si, don't go out and talk nonsense." His aunt said with a smile, and took out a candy from her pocket, "Come on, take this candy." Go eat, children, don’t just listen to the corner, it’s so impolite.”

Taking a deep breath, Yuan Ansi suppressed the anger in his heart before reaching out to take the candy.

"That's good." The woman said with a smile, but felt a pain on her face.

Seeing Yuan Ansi threw the candy viciously into the opponent's face, turned around and ran away.

——He didn't want to stay any longer. If he continued, he was afraid that he would do something outrageous again.

After running all the way to the backyard, Yuan Ansi stopped under a bare cherry tree, and sat down slowly while leaning on the trunk.

Sure enough, my xinxing is still far from enough.

"Actually, you don't have to."

A familiar voice came from next to his ear, Yuan Ansi turned his head suddenly, and saw Yuan Zhengping standing not far from him, with a calm expression on his face.

"What happened just now...you saw it all?"

Yuan Ansi felt a little embarrassed, it was rare for his brother to see his gaffe... Wait, doesn't this mean that he also heard the conversation between the two just now?

"What they said just now...are you..."

"I didn't worry about it." Yuan Zhengping interrupted him, his tone was still very flat, "I've heard that many times, and it doesn't matter a long time ago."

"You can talk to your father." Yuan Ansi said a little indignantly.

"So what if I say it? If I say it, I can drive those annoying flies out?" Yuan Zhengping sneered, "And I don't want those flies to notice me."

"........."

It seemed that it was the first time hearing Yuan Zhengping say so many words, Yuan Ansi was silent for a while, and finally said:

"Don't be too sad... Birth, old age, sickness and death are unavoidable for everyone. Instead of being too obsessed with the irretrievable people who died, it is better to care more about the important people who are still living in the world."

This is what his father said to him.Because when he was a child, he had been thinking about his dead mother, and finally it was his father's words that solved the knot in his heart.

Since the lost things cannot be restored, we must cherish the important things in front of us.

"Important things? Are you talking about yourself?" Yuan Zhengping looked at him for a while, and finally asked like this.

"Ah? Eh? Wait for that...I..."

Hearing what the other party said, Yuan Ansi felt a little at a loss.

"But having said that, besides my father, it seems that only you can be regarded as my "important thing" in this place."

Yuan Zhengping and Yuan Ansi sat down together under the cherry tree, looking at Yuan Ansi's eyes, but the alienation from before was gone.

"I....."

Yuan Ansi suddenly felt a little embarrassed, and buried his face in his knees, secretly looking at the other party.

"Actually, the reason I haven't spoken much is not because my grandma passed away." Yuan Zhengping continued, "It's just that I simply don't like this place. So I don't want to have a good relationship with the people here."

"But why do you have to treat me like this! Obviously I have always been very good to you!" Yuan Ansi asked with some dissatisfaction after hearing this, "Father has always cared about you, why don't you Would you like to have a good time with him?"

"That's because... Once you put your affection into something, when you lose it, you will pay double the affection to make up for it." Yuan Zhengping held his chin and said in a daze, "If you can If not, I hope to lose the memory of those important people, or stay away from him from the beginning. If you don’t invest in emotion, you won’t get that kind of harm.”

"Is that so... It's so hard to understand..." Yuan Ansi was a little puzzled, and put his chin on his knees, "But you still have a good relationship with me, you said I don’t want to but you still came to see me.”

"Uh..." Yuan Zhengping was stunned, and after a long silence, he buried his whole head in his knees, and said in a muffled voice:

"How should I put it... Maybe I think that if I was alone all the time, I would die lonely like that..."

"You are really a troublesome person." Yuan Ansi asked with his chin in his hands, "You are only one year older than me, but I always feel that you can say some very dry and difficult words."

"But don't worry, I will work hard to live a good life, otherwise if I die one day, you will be very sad, right?"

——It was just a joke at the time, but it was not until he grew up that he realized that if he accumulated a lot of loneliness, he would really die.

The cherry blossom tree that day has long been ruined, but he knows that even the ruined cherry tree will have a new life one day.

After that day, they gradually became acquainted.In addition to him, his attitude towards everyone has also improved.

One day, some outsiders came to the house.Those people wore visiting kimonos with family crests, and they seemed to be members of a large family.

It's just that the aunts in the family are not close to those people. Obviously, the family background of these people must be relatively poor.

Along with those people came a young girl who looked about eighteen or nineteen years old, and was much more delicately dressed than the other people next to her.It's just that there is another big scar on her face, extending from the face to the neck, which looks very scary.

"What? You brought your ugly daughter over again for a kiss?"

Looking at this group of people, a woman shook her head with disgust, and looked at the girl with a strange look.

"The ghost girl should not be brought out casually, how unlucky it is."

"He is not a ghost girl, but his face was burned by fire when he was a child." As if unable to bear the other party's sarcasm, the woman next to the girl raised her head and said, "And this marriage was arranged a long time ago. of."

"Who cares if he is, isn't this woman an ugly monster? Even if the head of the family agrees to this marriage, the child will not agree to it, right?"

The girl bit her lips lightly, her fingers sank into the flesh of her palm, but she didn't say anything.

"Want to marry my son? Let's not talk about me first, you can ask him if he agrees?"

As the woman spoke, she greeted the boy beside her, and pointed at the girl casually,

"Yu Yan, I want you to marry this woman. Do you agree?"

"Mother, stop joking. This woman is not as good-looking as our maid. Let me tell you, no one wants her even if she is sold to the water tea house."

The young man who had nothing to do at the side casually echoed his mother and said.She herself doesn't like such an ugly monster, and wants him to marry this girl back home?That's impossible, right?

"Shut up!" The girl's mother finally couldn't bear it anymore, and shouted at the boy.

"Hey, the bitch is about to bite someone. Sure enough, there is no tutor." The woman joked, "Then tell me, does anyone in our family want your daughter?"

"I want."

As soon as the woman finished speaking, a cold voice sounded from behind her.Yuan Zhengping walked through the crowd, and grabbed the girl's hand in front of everyone.

"You want?" The woman stared at her for a long while, then smiled helplessly, "Isn't Zhengping too young? Then the age difference is at least seven or eight years old, children shouldn't make trouble here .”

"I said, I want it."

Yuan Zhengping spoke word by word, looking at the woman with ice in his eyes.

The girl stood there in a panic, seemingly at a loss for such a scene.

Yuan Ansi was also puzzled. Although he also hated women's behavior, he didn't expect Yuan Zhengping to stand up directly.

"Laughing at other people's pain points at will, and taking pleasure in uncovering other people's scars, this is everyone's demeanor, it is really a face for Yuan's parents."

Yuan Zhengping stood in front of the girl and said, the girl froze for a moment, she hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand, but tears flowed down unconsciously.

"you...."

"Zhengping, don't make such a joke casually."

When the majestic voice sounded, everyone immediately shut their mouths.The man came out from behind everyone, grabbed Yuan Zhengping's hand, and glared at the dazed woman at the side.

"I'm really sorry. If there is anything else, let's talk in the house. Some people in our family are not polite, so please be more tolerant."

The man said politely, and invited them to his study.

When the few people left, the girl passed by quietly, and leaned into Yuan Zhengping's ear and whispered:

"Thank you."

However, Yuan Ansi, who was standing in the distance and witnessed all this, was somewhat inexplicable.

Brother, what the hell is he thinking...

The author has something to say:

It probably told the story of Yuan Zhengping who just left Honmaru and came to Yuan's house.....