Met in early autumn of 2001

In the small living room, Xun Lang was sitting on a wooden chair, listening to Xu Yihui's rambling talk about Lu Xiaofeng, and looking at the kitchen which is integrated with the living room from time to time.There, Xu Yichen was holding a spatula in one hand and lifting the oil pan with the other, adding lard to the smoking iron pan.

Xu Fang cracked three eggs into a bowl, added salt and monosodium glutamate, and beat them neatly.She turned her head to look at Xu Yihui who was gesticulating in the living room, pouted her lips, turned her head to look at her elder brother and said, "Brother, let me cook, you go greet your friends."

Xu Yichen looked up, just in time to meet Xun Lang's eyes, calm and without any disturbance.Looking away, Xu Yichen didn't say anything, took the porcelain bowl in the hands of the little girl, poured the broken eggs into the pot in a circle, and then sprinkled the diced pickled radishes into it. After a while, a plate of radishes Ding scrambled eggs are out of the pan.

Xun Lang watched Xu Yichen's skillful movements, and silently licked his lower lip.Xu Yihui on the side was already hungry and his stomach was growling. He could smell the smell, and immediately lost interest in chatting. He stood up and pulled his slippers to prepare the dishes.

Xu Fang came over with scrambled eggs, Xun Lang stood up and stretched out his hand to help, Xu Fang smiled and dodged it, and said in Mandarin, "No, no, Brother Xun, sit down."

Xun Lang nodded, but he didn't really sit down. He looked up to see Xu Yichen walking over with a pressure cooker through the heat with a rag, his eyelids jumped and he immediately went up to him, but his hand was outstretched in mid-air, but he couldn't help much.Seeing how he wanted to help but couldn't do anything, Xu Yichen sighed and said, "Just sit and wait to eat."

Only then did Xun Lang take back his hand in embarrassment, and retreated to sit in his original seat.Seeing this handsome guy listening to her elder brother like this, Xu Fang couldn't help laughing out loud, causing Xun Lang to look at her.

Xu Yihui brought the bowls and chopsticks, Xu Yichen served a bowl for Xun Lang first, then gave it to his younger siblings, and finally himself.The tea table is the dining table. Apart from Xu Yichen's scrambled eggs, Lou Meili's fried peanuts and pickled salted duck eggs are the dishes.

"Brother Xun, you're welcome!" Xu Yihui greeted, then picked up the bowl and ate his own.

Xun Lang nodded with a smile, and reached out to pick up a piece of diced radish and scrambled eggs.Xu Yichen didn't move the bowl, and after he took a bite, he asked, "Is it salty?"

The pickled radish was already salty, but Xu Fang added salt when she beat the eggs just now.The taste of the three of his own brothers and sisters is heavy, he worried that Xun Lang would eat too much.

Xun Lang did think it was a bit salty, but it was just right when paired with porridge.He raised his eyebrows and held his chopsticks again, shook his head and said, "No, it's delicious!"

Hearing his praise and seeing that he was not restrained, Xu Yichen felt relieved, smiled and turned to ask how his younger siblings were doing recently in dialect.

Xun Lang couldn't understand, but listening to Xu Yichen and his younger siblings talking about the family, he felt warm and warm in his heart, as if he was a part of the family.

After breakfast, Xu Fang poked her waist and ordered her second brother Xu Yihui to wash the dishes. Xu Yihui was also used to being "slaved" by this younger sister on weekdays, so he went without saying a word.

"Brother, let's talk, I'll go back to the room to do my homework first." Xu Fang finished wiping the table, said something to Xu Yichen and Xun Lang, and went back to her bedroom.

There was neither TV nor radio at home, so Xu Yichen felt that it would be boring for Xun Lang to sit with himself like this, but after thinking about it, he didn't know what to do.

"Do you sleep in the same room as your brother?" Xun Lang suddenly turned his head and asked.

Xu Yichen was stunned for a moment, nodded and said, "Well, we have lived in the same room since we were young." Speaking of this, Xu Yichen stood up and walked to his and his younger brother's bedroom, and Xun Lang naturally followed.

The bedroom is not big, with a wooden bed that can sleep two people, two simple desks, and nothing else.Xu Yichen watched Xun Lang's eyes turn back and forth and finally landed on the bed where Xu Yihui hadn't even made the quilt after getting up, scratched the back of his head embarrassedly, and pulled the wooden bench under his desk: "You sit here."

After speaking, he immediately turned around and folded the quilt.He and Xu Yihui slept in the same bed but each had a quilt. Although he only came back once a month or even two months after going out to work, Xu Yihui still kept his half of the bed unoccupied, and his quilt was folded Neatly.

Xu Yichen's desk was very tidy. On one side were two stacks of books from the largest to the smallest, and on the other side a glass plate was pressed against the table, with photos in between.After Xun Lang sat down, his eyes were drawn to him.

Xu Yichen folded the quilt and turned around, seeing Xun Lang leaning forward, looking at the photos with great interest, and bending down as he walked up.

"This is when you were a child?"

Xun Lang raised his mouth and pointed to a black and white photo with faded paint, on it was a little boy about three months old.It was summer when the photo was taken, the little boy was wearing a bellyband, and the person who took the photo deliberately parted the baby's two fleshy calves, exposing the bird so majestic.Looking at that chubby little face again, with a grin and a smile, it looks almost like Xu Yichen now.Xun Lang immediately decided that this was Xu Yichen's centenary photo, and he liked it very much.

Xu Yichen looked at the photo along Xun Lang's fingers, turned his head and blinked his eyes twice, neither saying yes nor no, just smiled and asked, "Why do you think this is me?"

Xun Lang replied naturally: "It looks very similar to you now." Very cute!

After Xu Yichen listened, he nodded and smiled until his eyes narrowed.

Xu Yihui walked in after washing the dishes, saw the two of them leaning together in front of the desk, and asked in surprise: "Brother, what are you looking at?"

His eyes scanned the photos, and finally landed on the photo that Xun Lang pointed out just now, and immediately screamed: "Brother!!!"

The sound was so loud that Xu Yichen and Xun Lang were startled, and they hid their bodies back to make their buzzing ears feel better.

Xu Yihui poked the centenary photo with his hand depressed, and asked the smiling Xu Yichen: "Brother, why did you find this photo of mine?" I can't think of what it's called in an extracurricular book.

"..." Xun Lang was at a loss: "Is this a photo of you when you were young?"

Xu Yihui cried with a mournful face: "Isn't it? I'm so stupid that I want to cry!"

Xun Lang: "..."

Xu Yihui pulled his hair, and regretfully wanted to lift the glass plate to get the photo.Xu Yichen pressed his hands on the glass plate to prevent him from taking it, and said with a very happy smile: "Didn't you want this photo? Then it is mine now."

"What? Brother, don't collect such stupid photos that make me want to cry!"

"It's not stupid, I think it's cute!"

Xun Lang looked at them puzzled: "Why does the person in this photo look so much like your brother, but not you?"

Seeing that his brother insisted on protecting that photo, Xu Yihui finally gave up.He sat down on the plank bed and stopped talking.Xu Yichen was in a good mood, he wiped the glass panel with his hands, and explained to Xun Lang with a smile: "Because we looked alike when we were young, but later on Yihui grew more and more like my dad, and there is no shadow of him when he was young. The photos he took when he was a child look like mine. Don’t you think it’s weird?”

Xun Lang nodded, and asked again: "What about your Bairizhao?"

Xu Yichen shook his head: "I haven't taken a hundred-day photo." When he was born, his parents were busy. Apart from taking care of their own fields, they had to work for others to earn money when they were free.By the time the parents realized that they wanted to take their son's [-]-year-old photo, the son was already more than seven months old, so they gave up.These words were also said by Lou Meili to Xu Yichen, with a sense of guilt.Xu Yichen also felt that it was nothing. Although it was a bit regrettable, it was not that important.

Xun Lang also realized that the situation in Xu Yichen's family was different from his own, so he didn't ask why, but silently wanted to love Xu Yichen more urgently in his heart.