springtime

"Brother, I want to eat ice cream." Luo Manzhi shook Luo Shixu's arm.

Luo Shixu ruthlessly rejected her: "It's so cold in winter, don't eat cold food."

"Where are we going next?" Luo Manzhi asked.

"Go to see the musical fountain." Luo Shixu said, "Can you walk? Do you want to carry you?"

"Carry me!" Luo Manzhi shouted with open arms.

Luo Manzhi jumped onto Luo Shixu's back with ease. Luo Shixu took her to take the elevator, and walked into a jewelry store on the way. She bought a bunch of hairpins and rubber bands, put them in a flower bag, and held them in her hands to play. After playing around, she clipped one of her favorite pair of bowknot clips on Luo Shishou's head, and clipped the other on her head.

The other party found out and warned Luo Manzhi to give her three seconds to take off the clip. After Luo Manzhi finished, he said, "Call your brother Cen Ran and ask where he is."

Luo Manzhi whispered: "You beat it yourself."

"It's the first time I've seen you being so cowardly." Luo Shixu said, "I finally found someone who can restrain you."

The two bargained all the way, Luo Manzhi complained: "He is so fierce."

"Accompany you to eat fried chicken, take you to the hotel, and take you shopping, isn't it good for you? I think he's fierce." Luo Shixu asked.

Luo Manzhi wept bitterly: "I think if he's here, you two are eating fried chicken, going to the hotel, and shopping, and I'm the extra one."

"You little girl is quite sensitive." Luo Shixu said, "Will you hit me or not? If you don't hit me, I'll let you down and walk by yourself."

Luo Manzhi dialed the phone awkwardly, and Cen Ran answered it quickly, and asked gently, "Have you and brother come out yet?"

"Brother Cen Ran, my brother and I have come out." Luo Manzhi muttered, and pronounced the word "brother" deliberately, but the other party was still lukewarm, as if he had seen through her little trick, and let her Like a little hedgehog, it raised its spines to provoke.

Cen Ran was waiting for them at the gate of the building, also carrying a bag in his hand.Wearing a light gray overcoat and a high-necked white sweater, seeing them coming out, a smile finally appeared on his expressionless face, he took out the scarf from the bag and wrapped it around Luo Manzhi's neck, saying: "Brother Cen Ran sent you a your present."

He tied the scarf in a beautiful knot, and Luo Manzhi was both happy and shy, hugged her brother's shoulders tightly, and said to Cen Ran, "Thank you, Brother Cen Ran!"

"Did you go to the library to blackmail elementary school students?" Luo Shixu asked.

Cen Ran said: "High school students are stupid and have a lot of money, so they voluntarily make offerings."

Originally, the man didn't really believe what Cen Ran said, so Cen Ran took out his mobile phone and showed him this year's physical competition rankings, and then said: "You can write a few words at will, you don't need to copy my answer at the end, I can directly Imitate your handwriting."

He made a test paper as a demonstration, and sure enough, the handwriting could not tell the real from the fake. The high school student was stunned, swearing, and said, "It's too awesome."

In fact, it can be more similar, but it is easier to imitate good-looking characters. This herringbone is too ugly, otherwise he would have returned to the building and waited.The high school students surrounded him, watching him seem to be doing addition and subtraction within ten digits in kindergarten, and easily finished their homework. Before leaving, they were still reluctant to leave, and asked if they could leave a contact information. When the summer homework is due Also please.

Cen Ran left her mobile phone number and said that there would be a [-]% discount for group buying.

He and Luo Shixu briefly narrated it, and Luo Shixu sighed: "Tongcheng's economy is really developing rapidly, and all freshmen in high school have this level of consumption."

The awkward Luo Manzhi, who was full of hostility just now, was bought by this scarf. Not only did he not mind Cen Ran being by their side, sharing her brother with her, but he also held Cen Ran while watching the musical fountain. hands, jumping up and down between the two tall men.

"My mother made lion heads at home today and made a lot of egg dumplings. Remember to come tomorrow." Cen Ran reminded Luo Shixu, "Will Manzhi come?"

"Her parents will pick her up tomorrow." Luo Shixu said.

"I want to eat lion's head too." Luo Manzhi looked up at her brother with difficulty.

Luo Shixu said, "Did you have anything to eat when you got home?"

Luo Manzhi became anxious, and replied, "I will slap you first."

"I'll talk to your dad tomorrow." Luo Shixu said, "Don't act like you're being generous."

"What about your father and my father, isn't my father your father?" Luo Manzhi sighed, "Brother, why don't you want to go back to Weidu?"

Luo Manzhi turned to Cen Ran and said, "Brother Cen Ran, Weidu is so much fun, there is a bigger music fountain!"

Cen Ran nodded, and then Luo Shixu said: "Your elder brother Cen Ran went to Weidu by himself in junior high school because of the math competition, and he didn't pay for it himself. Look at you."

Luo Manzhi thought of his math test paper, closed his mouth and calmed down. He brought it here because he didn't want it to fall into the hands of his parents again. They looked at it and were about to get angry at the bright red numbers.

Luo's father said that she and Luo Shixu are brothers and sisters, how can there be such a big gap, except that their eyes look alike, their speech and behavior are not alike at all. Luo Shixu doesn't need him to care about him, he has been sensible since he was a child.

When they arrived at the hotel, Luo Shixu asked her to correct the math test paper by herself, and to show some sincerity to her parents tomorrow.

"Am I very ignorant?" Luo Manzhi was melancholy, "I'm not smart, I'm not like you at all."

"Why do you want to be like me?" Luo Shixu asked, "Not even the mentally retarded can do this difficulty, you have to learn to think by yourself."

"If you are smarter and more sensible, mom and dad will have less trouble, and don't have to watch me get annoyed to death."

"Then the troubles turn on yourself, will it be all right?"

Luo Shixu didn't plan to teach Luo Manzhi any of the questions. The questions were very basic. Luo Manzhi had attended so many remedial classes since he was a child, and he could learn these things just by listening.

"Isn't it good? I carry it alone." Luo Manzhi scribbled on the draft paper.

Luo Shixu said: "People who like you will feel bad."

Luo Manzhi said: "Then I will feel sorry for him too, alas, it sounds like a tongue twister."

"A balanced and long-term relationship is shared by each other. Your parents are anxious for you out of instinct. Don't you want to let them worry less in your heart? I'm going to write this question soon, and it takes half an hour to fill in the blanks."

Luo Shixu doesn't believe that Luo Manzhi can't do it. Although it's outrageous to say it, Luo Manzhi really doesn't even have any ideas about the knowledge that Luo Shixu knew before elementary school.

In math class, she was too busy reading novels. She knew a lot of characters at school, but it was a pity that she only read novels and did not do homework, so her handwriting was bad.

"I'll teach you." Cen Ran said, "You first copy these two numbers vertically, and multiply them crosswise."

"How to cross?" Luo Manzhi looked at Cen Ran with bright eyes.

Cen Ran wrote down two numbers casually, and gave her an example. Luo Manzhi copied the result he calculated crookedly, and he said: "You took the wrong ride, it should be 238."

"You know the answer without counting?"

Cen Ran circled where she made a mistake and said, "I can do a little mental arithmetic."

"How much is 56x78?"

"4368."

"What about 81x626?"

"50706."

"That's so powerful!" Luo Manzhi was startled, and said, "Can mental arithmetic be so fast?"

Hearing his sister yelling over there, Luo Shixu was playing games nearby, and wanted to say that he had started to worship Cen Ran now, and he had avoided it before, then Luo Manzhi dropped his pen and said, "Brother, You are more handsome than my male god!"

Cen Ran changed from "brother Cen Ran" to "brother", and successfully captured the heart of the little girl. Luo Manzhi was excited, but was dismantled by her brother: "When you were watching a movie, you still had trouble with me, saying that you are not related by blood. You can't call me brother directly."

"My mother told me! It's too affectionate to call my brother directly. You can't call anyone other than your own brother and boyfriend!" Luo Manzhi changed the address back after finishing speaking, "Then I thought of it! Brother Cen Ran is in a relationship. ?"

Cen Ran said, "We talked about it."

"It's a little late." Luo Manzhi said frustratedly, "It seems that love still has to come first..."

Luo Shixu couldn't help asking: "You are a seven-year-old child, can you have something else in your mind besides love? It's also good to decorate cartoons."

Cen Ran asked Luo Manzhi to hold the pen and continue to teach her homework, saying, "I don't have a younger sister, so you can be my younger sister."

Luo Manzhi said: "Who are you dating? Don't you accompany her during the Chinese New Year? Do your parents know, and if they find out, will they talk about you?"

"It should be bigger than your parents' reaction." Cen Ran said calmly.

Luo Manzhi sighed, and said: "It seems that good grades are not a gold medal to avoid death, er, I won't do the next question either."

Asking Cen Ran to do winter vacation homework for a group of high school students, he can quickly solve all of them without any effort, and tutoring Luo Manzhi in mathematics is a completely different experience.

Life is worse than death, really life is worse than death.

In less than half an hour, Luo Shixu was tired from listening beside him. He felt that two people who were not on the same channel were trying to communicate unilaterally.

"Look at the cage where chickens and rabbits are in the same cage, do chickens and rabbits have different legs." Cen Ran said patiently, "Just assume that they are all chickens..."

"Chicken legs are different from rabbit legs, but, but..."

"It's not the shape, it's the quantity. One has four legs and the other has two legs." This is the fifth time Cen Ran explained it. He felt that before Luo Manzhi collapsed, he would despair first.

Luo Manzhi wrote on his stomach: "I see, that's fine."

Cen Ran is not a person who likes to discuss topics, and sometimes he prefers to think independently. When explaining important and difficult points to the classmates, he mostly talks to others and rarely communicates.There is a big gap in the level of everyone in the junior high class. Some people would rather ask the teacher when they encounter a question they don’t understand, for fear that Cen Ran will think the question is too simple and it will be a bit embarrassing.

It is estimated that I have not encountered Luo Manzhi in the past 17 years, and the questions asked make people laugh and cry.

At first I wondered why I only scored more than [-] points in the math test, but now that I think about it, it is quite a lot to get more than [-] points in the test.

After teaching the whole paper, Cen Ran felt that he was about to have doubts about the world.

Luo Manzhi tried to be coquettish: "Brother Cen Ran, can I still ask you if I have any questions that I don't understand?"

Before Cen Ran answered politely, Luo Shixu said first: "No, don't harass Cen Ran, and don't send him random messages or phone calls."

"Why?"

Luo Shixu hugged Cen Ran's back, opened the door, turned his head and explained to Luo Manzhi: "His partner will be jealous."

He walked out of the hotel top-heavy, and just entered the elevator at home when a text message from Luo Manzhi came to Cen Ran's cell phone: Thank you brother Cen Ran, brother Cen Ran had a good dream today!mwah!

Luo Shixu looked at the screen, and remembered that Luo Manzhi liked her male god because he was good at mathematics, so he was a little sour, and said, "This time, you have subdued both of the Luo family."

After listening, Cen Ran smiled wryly and said, "I'm dying to bear it."

"How does it feel to be called brother?"

"You have the right to speak on this issue, right?" Cen Ran glanced at him after finishing speaking, "Being like a brother everywhere."

"When you called Brother Xu, there were no ups and downs. Being called Brother by Luo Manzhi would give you a headache, but being called Brother by my sweetheart was sweet." Luo Shixu put one hand in his pocket, seeing that the floor was approaching, and the other A hand that was holding Cen Ran was released.

Cen Ran is more tired these few hours than the exam preparation period before the event, and he has no energy to chatter with Luo Shixu. Before getting out of the elevator, Luo Shixu grabbed him, pecked him on the forehead, and said, "Darling, do a good job." Dream."

He smiled and said, "Okay, brother."

·

On New Year's Eve, someone set off firecrackers here early in the morning.Luo Shixu sent Luo's mother to the station, and then went to the high-speed rail station to pick up his father and Aunt Liu.

He has hardly had any contact with Aunt Liu. Right now, that person is standing with his father, who looks like a middle-aged man in his 50s or [-]s. Apart from dressing a bit more expensively, his mother looks younger and more beautiful than his mother. Seeing Luo In the second half of the sequence, it was embarrassment and half thanks, and I greeted him.

Luo Shixu led them to the hotel where Luo Manzhi lived. Luo's father took a look at the environment and said, "Manzhi won't wrong himself wherever he goes."

As soon as they met, Luo Manzhi held his schoolbag nervously and said, "Dad, Mom, let's negotiate first!"

"Yes, I think Manzhi is wrong in this matter, but you shouldn't look through the diary, this is her privacy." Luo Shixu said, "Manzhi, you tell them yourself, and they promised to listen to your thoughts."

Ms. Liu lowered her head and said, "I didn't mean to, the little girl's room is too messy, I won't do it in the future."

"You always promise like this every time." Luo Manzhi rolled twice on the bed, "This time I must write a guarantee! I swear!"

"I swear to you." Luo's father reflected on himself for a few days, and felt that he was too extreme, "But you also have to know your own mind, and push your nose every time. You don't learn well at a young age. A score, let you go to school and go to the grave."

Luo Manzhi took out the test paper in his schoolbag and said, "I corrected it! You have to correct it too."

The math test papers are all about the correct solution process. Father Luo took a look, his face improved a little, and he said kindly: "See how long you can maintain this attitude."

"I need a good tutor." Luo Manzhi immediately put forward his request, "If there is one, I will immediately take the first place in the class."

"Famous teachers from all over the country are here to be your tutors. Tell me, who else is better than Teacher Zhu?" Ms. Liu said.

Luo Manzhi said, "Brother Cen Ran is like that."

I haven't seen you for a few days, and another name I haven't heard of pops up. Ms. Liu is puzzled: "Who is Cen Ran?"

"Have you met Cen Ran?" Father Luo was also puzzled.

"He is very good at giving lectures, he is very patient, and he never despises me!"

Luo Shixu thought that Cen Ran didn't even bother to dislike you, so he said, "Cen Ran is my classmate, and he gave Manzhi a few questions yesterday."

As for the details, he didn't say anything, and gave Luo Manzhi a look, telling her not to tell her parents about more things, and even made trouble for his brother before leaving. Luo Manzhi didn't continue talking, and the room Quiet.

"Go back, your grandpa and grandma will make you three delicacies dumplings." Father Luo said.

They went to the front desk to check out the room. Luo Shixu stood at the door, stroked Luo Manzhi's hair, and said, "Don't cause trouble, you know?"

Luo Manzhi stuffed the pair of bowknot clips he bought yesterday into Luo Shixu's hands: "At first I wanted me and you, but now I'm giving mine to Brother Cen Ran, and you can hand it over to him for me."

"Your elder brother Cen Ran may not want it very much." Luo Shixu said so, but accepted it anyway, and said, "Thank you, be good when you go back."

Ms. Liu took Luo Manzhi to the side of the road to take a taxi. Luo's father stood beside Luo Shixu, and they stood silently for a while.

"Aren't you going back to Weidu together?" Father Luo broke the silence.

Luo Shixu said truthfully: "We are not a family now, you and them are."

Luo's father lit a cigarette. His addiction to smoking has become more and more serious in recent years, and he turned to another topic: "You and Cen Ran are destined."

Luo Shixu's thumb pinched the pulp of his index finger. Facing Luo's father's temptation, his expression remained unchanged and he said, "Yes."

"You said I'll ask Manzhi, will she answer me, the three of you have been together these days? It's weird, why is it always Cen Ran? He was the neighbor before, and he was the one who answered the phone last time , this time it's him again."

"Isn't this fate?" Luo Shixu said, "They got a taxi."

Not far away, Ms. Liu stopped a taxi and waved to Father Luo.

Father Luo has worked so hard in the mixed circles of society for so many years. He has never seen anything. Not only has he seen it, but he is also very sensitive to it. If you give him a little clue, he will be able to catch the truth. Those things have been at home for a long time. The Lomu cannot observe.

His son is taller than him, and he already looks like an adult, he said: "When I grow up, I have to bear the consequences for everything I do. I don't want my son to—"

"Dad." Luo Shixu interrupted him, not letting him finish the sentence, "You chose your own life, and I am also choosing mine."

They didn't say anything from the beginning to the end, but there was a tacit understanding between the father and son who completely understood each other's meaning.

The car drove away, Luo's father finally only sighed, took a deep look at Luo Shixu, and left a sentence: "Don't let your mother collapse again."