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Lu Xi was not the Lu family's own child—Lu Chunjiang knew it, Lu Xi knew it, Wang Meilan knew it, everyone knew it.

Lucy was more than seven years old and almost eight years old when she was led in.Lu Chunjiang had just passed his 11th birthday at that time, and he clearly remembered that it was a Tuesday afternoon, which was nothing special.Spring in the north is very short, up to three weeks.He found that there were fresh green buds emerging from the willow branches, and the poplars would bloom in a short time, and the caterpillar-like "nothing to do" fell all over the ground.

Lu Chunjiang hung a woolen rope around his neck, and tied it with the copper key of the house.But today is a bit strange, both parents are at home.He kicked off his sneakers, and saw a child beside his mother, with a slender body and a big head. Because of his thinness, his eyes were particularly eye-catching.It's still spring, and the child is wearing a sweater that doesn't fit well, and the hem falls to the knees, like a funny skirt.

"Who is he?" Lu Chunjiang changed his slippers, washed his hands with soap, "Mom! I'm hungry! Give me the money, and I'll go buy leek pancakes!"

"Quanzi, this is your brother. Come, Panpan, this is your brother." Mom took five yuan, "Take your brother to buy pancakes to eat, and then buy two steamed buns. The rest is yours."

At that time, fifty cents could buy a steamed bun, but later the price went up, seven cents, nine cents, one yuan, all the way up to one yuan and five.Lu Chunjiang eats a small table at school at noon, and his daily pocket money is at most one yuan.He was thinking about saving money to buy the "Slam Dunk" comic book, which costs 15 yuan for one copy and [-] yuan for [-] copies. The complete set costs more than [-] yuan.He has saved [-] yuan and is the richest among his classmates.But money is not a problem right now, he stared at his mother and asked, "My brother? Where did I get my brother?"

Lu Chunjiang has two cousins, one cousin and two cousins.He had never seen this head-beating kid.Mom was embarrassed, and Dad was lying on the sofa and watching the news. Hearing this, he said in a muffled voice, "It's your brother! Don't worry about you, hurry up and buy steamed buns."

"I don't want a brother!" Lu Chunjiang yelled, "You gave birth to a child behind my back?"

Mom said, "No." Panpan hid behind her, and she pushed him out to show Lu Chunjiang, "How nice to have a younger brother, to play with you..."

"I can play by myself!"

"Hey you little bastard, why are you talking to your mother?" Dad finally got up from the sofa, grabbed Lu Chunjiang, and handed him a ten-yuan note, "Go, go down and buy snacks, don't you want that card— —”

It took a long time for Lu Chunjiang to figure out the whole story: Panpan is the child of a distant relative in the countryside from his mother's side. He said that he was a distant relative, but in fact he has no blood relationship with that relative.No one knows who Panpan's biological father is, probably not even his own mother.She is a very carefree woman with a "bad style". Later, she followed that relative, but within a few days, she ran away again under the pretext of working, and left Panpan behind.Some people say that she died outside, some say that she married someone in the south and gave birth to a new child, and some say that she was kidnapped into the mountains... There are different opinions.Relatives do not want to raise Panpan, a cheap son.It happened that Lu Chunjiang's mother went back to her hometown to visit the grave, discussed with her husband, and took over the bean sprouts.

At that time, the economic conditions of the Lu family were reasonable.Lu Chunjiang's father was a small cadre in a state-owned enterprise, and his income was stable. His mother used to work as a salesperson in a shopping mall. After saving some capital, she rented a small door in the newly opened tea wholesale market and started a business.Lu Chunjiang has a new bicycle and new sportswear, but he doesn't want to have a new brother at all.He had been an only child for 11 years, and suddenly a new child came to the family, who wanted to share his room, his toys, and even his parents.Panpan transferred to his elementary school, for which he was ridiculed by his classmates, Qi Lei yelled strangely, "Lu Chunjiang, your mother adopted a child bride for you!" up.

After returning home, he cried and asked his mother, "What are you doing, get me a younger brother? I don't want a younger brother, and none of my classmates have younger siblings!"

The mother touched her son's head. This woman is very aggressive in doing business outside, but she whispered softly at home, "You are stupid, when did your mother hurt you? You are young and don't understand. When you grow up, you will understand." , it would be nice to have a brother or sister."

"What the hell!" Lu Chunjiang wiped away tears, "He looks so ugly!"

"You silly child, let me tell you, it's boring to be alone. Your mother and I have an older sister and a younger brother, and your father has two younger brothers. What about you, you are the only child, and you have been used to being alone since you were a child. You think it's good, but it's not at all. good."

"Okay, I'll play by myself, I'll play with Dapeng, I won't play with him!"

"You have to think this way, your mother and father can crawl now, what will you do when you grow up and we are old and unable to crawl?"

Looking at his mother's young face, Lu Chunjiang said in a daze, "You won't grow old."

"Yes, people will grow old. Birth, old age, sickness and death are human nature." Mom laughed, with a gentle swirl at the corner of her mouth, "Oh, when you grow up and marry a daughter-in-law, what will you do if your daughter-in-law won't let you carry me? "

"I don't want a wife." Lu Chunjiang hugged his mother, "Let's live together. If you can't move anymore, I'll carry you upstairs."

"Fool, how can you not marry a daughter-in-law! If you don't marry a daughter-in-law, where will your mother take care of her grandson?" The mother laughed, "Look, when your mother is old and sick, someone else will have only one child, can you be busy? ? You have a younger brother, and you two can rely on each other. Doesn't this save you?"

"No." Lu Chunjiang acted like a baby in her mother's arms. She smelled good, like "nothing busy", with a bitter and sweet fragrance.It's a pity that my mother didn't live to the day when she couldn't crawl. When Lu Chunjiang was 14 years old, she was diagnosed with cancer on the tail of Qiu Qiu.It was too late to find out.Surgery, chemotherapy, nothing worked.Lu Chunjiang watched her mother lose weight day by day. Chemotherapy caused her to lose a lot of hair. She couldn't eat and vomited when she drank water.When she died, she didn't look like her anymore.Lu Chunjiang hugged his mother's portrait and didn't cry.On the contrary, Panpan, whose name was changed to Lu Xi, burst into tears. Two adults supported him, and he was like a loach, sliding down non-stop, being picked up, and then sliding down again.

The next spring, Lu Chunjiang went to school by bike.Spring is so short, the wind blows over the mountains and roars across the plains.The poplar trees are blooming, and "nothing to do" is everywhere.Lu Chunjiang was writing an English paper, and suddenly smelled a bit of bitter sweetness, and suddenly a bean-sized tear fell from his eyes.

He has no mother.

Lu Chunjiang stared at the phone for a long time in a daze.Lucy blocked him, and he couldn't see the dynamics of his circle of friends. At 05:30, he got up and went to the kitchen, fried the shredded potatoes and heated up the steamed buns.After a while, the takeaway ordered by Lu Xi also came.Lu Xi came out of the room, sat at the table and ate the rice noodles in the plastic bowl.The rice noodles were raw white, and the chili oil stained his lips red.Lu Chunjiang broke the silence, "Don't just eat this, it's not healthy."

Lucy didn't even lift his head.

"Panpan," Lu Chunjiang chewed on the steamed buns, "Are you leaving on the fifth day?"

"Ah."

"In such a hurry."

"busy."

Lucy is only in her third year, and she is not working anymore, "Your winter vacation is so short? Please stay at home for a few more days, you haven't been back for two years..."

Lucy shook his head.Not seeing him for two years, he lost the baby fat, his outline is much clearer than before, and his chin is still pointed.Lu Chunjiang ate the shredded potatoes silently. Seeing that Lu Xi was almost finished eating, he asked tentatively, "Brother, you, are you talking about friends?"

This time Lucy finally looked at him.Although he is not as skinny as he was when he was seven or eight years old, his eyes are still very big, and the eyeballs are surprisingly black. "Yes, we talked.——Are you satisfied?"

Lu Chunjiang froze while holding the chopsticks.Lucy got up and packed up the plastic box and disposable chopsticks, then got into the room and slammed the door.Lu Chunjiang smelled a faint smell of butter in his nose, he gnawed on the cold steamed buns tastelessly, comforting himself and said, he should be happy, didn't he push Lu Xi away two years ago?