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12 years ago, Bai Xiao was 12 years old and was in the first grade of middle school, and Bai Qi was 15 years old and was in the first grade of high school.

Bai Xiao's house is much closer to Bai Qi's boarding high school than Bai Qi's house.Every week or half a month, Bai Xiao would take the No. 6 bus to see Bai Qi with an insulated bucket and schoolbag on his back. Sometimes there were potatoes and chicken nuggets in the insulated bucket, sometimes fish-flavored shredded pork, and sometimes a Bowl of braised noodles with pork beans.

It takes half an hour to go to his brother Bai Qi's high school, and this half hour is often the longest half hour for Bai Xiao.

The time spent with my brother is half an hour, and this half hour is often the half hour that Bai Xiao looks forward to and loves most in a week or half a month.

The journey home also takes half an hour, but Bai Xiao always hates this half hour and is unwilling to use adjectives to modify it.

But overall, this one and a half hours is the only way for Bai Xiao to survive a week without breaking down.Even though she was in the third year of junior high school, even if her elder brother went to college, these trivial pleasures accumulated one and a half hours and one and a half hours were the source of her livelihood.

Bai Qi Yu Bai Xiao is a god, omnipotent in learning, sports, painting and music, and cowardly and obedient Bai Xiao, is a more shocking existence than God, Bai Qi is the only appearance Bai Xiao wants to be.

One day in mid-May 12 years ago, at 5 p.m., it was still hot, Bai Xiao wiped his wet forehead with his hands, and then wiped his sweaty and sticky hands on his trousers. Step into the campus.

The old doorman was already familiar with the little girl who came regularly, smiled at her and let her go.

Bai Xiao has been here many times, so she no longer looks around curiously, she uses her other hand to protect the thermos, and walks straight to the teaching building where her brother's class is located.

The teaching building 12 years ago could barely be called young, and it hadn't been painted pink to make people laugh.As soon as Bai Xiao took a few steps closer, he saw a row of chattering girls.

"Wow, the peonies painted by Bai Qi are so beautiful, they look like real ones."

"That's right, I don't even look at how he has won awards from the city!"

"Bai Qi is not as handsome as you say."

"Being a man mainly depends on talent. If you want to look handsome, go to class four and watch Chen Shao."

There was another burst of laughter, and the girl who was teased smiled shyly.

Every compliment made the smile on Bai Xiao's face bigger, as if it fell on her.By the time she reached Bai Qi's side, she had successfully exposed eight teeth.

"Brother, my mother fried fish-flavored shredded pork."

The girls' discussion suddenly became louder.

Bai Qi turned around and smiled at his sister, and said softly, "Xiaoxiao, go sit down by the railing and eat first. I'll finish this engraving right away."

Bai Xiao tilted her head to read the bulletin board. There was a beautiful peony flower on the board board. The petals were layered on top of each other. The pink golden stamen trembled slightly. It was lively and fragrant, as if it was really amused by a gust of wind.

And the elder brother is holding on to a piece of yellow chalk, painting a deer next to the peony, a white deer.The white deer is sticking to the blackboard, but it seems that it will jump out in the next second. The huge antlers seem to be coated with a layer of gold powder. The sun shines from the side of the elder brother, and his face is almost melted into the setting sun. In the slanting light, the young beard on his chin glowed a warm brownish yellow.

"Completed!" My brother clapped his hands and shook the chalk on his clothes, "Xiaoxiao, let's go."

Bai Xiao regained consciousness and grinned again, "Okay."

"Hey, great talent, the cow you drew doesn't look like it at all." A frivolous but pleasant voice came.

Bai Xiao turned to look at the source of the voice, a beautiful sister.

is she really prettyMany years later, when Bai Xiao recalled this scene, he might not give an affirmative answer, but at that time, the girl with her high ponytail and her white, tender and small ears with rhinestone earrings was really unusual.Her school uniform is also different from other girls. There is a rose on the hem of the dress. The rose is drawn with a red watercolor brush. Bai Xiao could almost see the straps of her lavender underwear.

"My brother's painting is not a cow, but a deer, a deer in the forest." Bai Xiao shouted loudly, and turned his eyes to his brother for proof.

The elder brother didn't respond, he just glanced at the girl indifferently, then picked up the thermos bucket in Bai Xiao's hand.

Seeing her brother ignoring her, Bai Xiao, who was somewhat lacking in confidence, finally let go of her hanging heart and followed her brother with her chest out. When she passed that girl, she did something she had never thought of.

Bai Xiao scratched his lower eyelids and made a face at the girl.

The crisp laughter like jade beads falling on the plate: "Little sister, do you know that there is an idiom called a cow chewing peonies?"

Bai Xiao didn't know, and quickly put the word behind her, just like she didn't know whether her brother glanced at the girl lightly in that evening, or returned her a helpless but gentle smile.

Bai Xiao just looked back at the poster for the last time. The huge and beautiful peony is full of strength and vitality. Its huge antlers are coated with a layer of golden brilliance by the setting sun, which is more dazzling than the sun.

In the summer vacation of 2010, Bai Xiao and Bai Qi sat cross-legged in front of the TV and watched Bai Qi’s rented disc "Nine-Colored Deer". It's the same, exactly the same.

Bai Xiao couldn't remember what his brother said to him that day.Even if she could recall the opening and closing of his mouth, she couldn't make out his words.

He said... what is he going to be?

A sudden brake brought back Bai Xiao's long thoughts, and she rubbed her sore forehead.

"Xiaoxiao, are you okay? We're home."

"Brother, you shouldn't have drawn deer back then." Bai Xiao looked directly into his brother's eyes.

"Xiaoxiao, what deer are you? Get out of the car." He had already opened the driver's door.

He doesn't remember either.

Bai Xiao looked through his brother's classmates, and knew that one of them had been cut in the middle, and what was cut was just the part of the message. Bai Xiao remembered that on that page, there was a girl's name written in a domineering way and a string of Every swipe of the phone number is hard to read, but who knows whether Bai Qi has dialed that string of numbers?

Some things can be ignored, but they will never disappear on their own initiative, right?

The author has something to say:

Bai Xiao's character development is beginning to take shape!I wonder if the cuties have such a gentle and skilled big brother like Bai Qi?

"Nine-Colored Deer" is a work of Shanghai Art Company in 81. It is in the style of ink painting. I selfishly believe that ink painting can better represent the artistic achievements of Chinese animation.It is assumed here that Bai Xiao and Bai Qi have never watched "Nine-Colored Deer" before.