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This is Xu Wenyuan's first year in his new home.

Originally, he insisted on going back to his hometown, because it was impossible to leave his father alone in the mountains for the New Year's Eve thirty, but then Xu Yongshan discussed with Jiang Xiaomei to take his father with him, and he didn't leave.

The day of New Year's Eve was very busy. Early in the morning, Jiang Xiaomei asked Xu Wenyuan to wake up his younger brother to post Spring Festival couplets. wipe the glass.She also prepared some pickled vegetables and bacon for a big dinner at night.

Xu Wenyuan rolled up his sleeves and said, "Let him sleep a little longer, I'll do it."

Jiang Xiaomei grabbed the rag and went straight to the second floor: "No, Wenyuan, let me tell you, you can't always spoil your brother like this. It's just one day a year. What else can he do if he is not active in getting rid of the old and welcoming the new?"

Xu Zhiyuan sleeps upside down on the bed and loses his image.

In the morning, he was so sleepy that he held on to his brother's arm, so Xu Wenyuan had no choice but to stuff a pair of pajama pants into his arms to act as his own hand, so that he could get away.At this moment, Jiang Xiaomei saw this virtue as soon as she lifted the bed, and directly "slapped" two slaps on his ass, which made Xu Zhiyuan jump up in shock.

"Mom, why are you spanking me!"

Jiang Xiaomei scolded while tugging at the pants in his hand: "Look at you, you are not too young! What does it look like to hug your pants while sleeping! It's just that Wen Yuan doesn't despise you!"

Xu Zhiyuan yawned, muttered and lay down again, pulled Xu Wenyuan's pillow, sniffed and hugged him.

"Leave me alone."

"Wake up while still sleeping! Brush your teeth, wash your face, have breakfast, and help your brother post Spring Festival couplets!"

"I'll sleep a little longer, just 5 minutes..." Xu Zhiyuan turned over and was pulled up by his mother's ear.

"Not even for a minute! Get up!"

"Ah, let go! Ms. Jiang Xiaomei, you are child abuse!"

"Don't talk nonsense and go! Your brother has been working for hours early in the morning, so I'm too lazy to..."

Xu Zhiyuan stared in a daze, put the toothpaste in his mouth, walked back to the bedroom from the toilet, sat on the bed and began to be dazed.Xu Wenyuan saw him like this when he came up from downstairs, he couldn't laugh or cry, so he went to the bedside and pinched his chin.

"Open your mouth."

"what--"

The older brother helped brush his teeth, the older brother helped wash his face, Xu Zhiyuan was cleaned up like a marionette by his brother and brought downstairs, and continued to be fed, Jiang Xiaomei was so angry that he almost swung the broom again.

Before the war started, the doorbell rang.

"Who is it?" Xu Zhiyuan asked casually with a piece of bread in his mouth.

"Wenyuan's father, it's not suitable for you Uncle Zhao to celebrate the New Year at home alone, we just want him to spend the New Year with us."

Xu Yongshan's driver picked up Father Zhao all the way from the village, and it took more than half a year to meet him. The idiot father didn't forget his son.

With a smirk, he took out a few candies from his pocket and stuffed them into his son's hands, and one to Xu Zhiyuan who was beside him.

"Thank you, Uncle Zhao! Hello, Uncle Zhao!" Xu Zhiyuan said sweetly.The sugar had melted a bit, and there was a smell of cheap saccharin, but he still ate it with relish.

Xu Wenyuan was not allowed to work when Jiang Xiaomei had a guest at home, and the two brothers chatted with Lao Zhao.This was the first time Xu Zhiyuan saw the way his brother and his own father got along - it was so boring that it would explode.

The idiot father didn't ask, Xu Wenyuan didn't know what to say, he poured water for him, got fruit for him, handed him paper towels when his hands were dirty, caring for him without saying a word.

Xu Zhiyuan chewed the half bowl of pomegranate handed over by his brother and said, "Brother, did you do the same with Uncle Zhao at home?"

"How?"

"That's it, you play with you and he plays with others, there's nothing to say."

"Well, almost."

Xu Zhiyuan blinked and asked the fool, "I'll take you to play for fun!"

The fool didn't understand, he just repeated his words, Xu Wenyuan explained: "He doesn't understand."

Xu Zhiyuan waved his hand: "Who said that! I think he is very happy! You wait for me!"

He ran back to the room and gave the idiot all the toys at the bottom of the press box. There was a Rubik's cube, all kinds of crafts he folded, boats, paper airplanes, and so on. The idiot father couldn't take his eyes off him.

"You can't, it looks like you're someone who can't play!" Xu Zhiyuan filled a basin of water, and the paper boat didn't sink on the water, making the idiot laugh out loud.

"I will! In our village there are tadpoles, frogs, fish, and crows..."

"Turtle, right? I know you've said it several times! Did you just play with it? You caught it and ate it!"

Xu Wenyuan scratched his head: "That can't be helped. If you are hungry, you can only solve the problem of eating first."

"Then follow me, I'll teach you how to read it!" Xu Zhiyuan put a Rubik's Cube into Xu Wenyuan's hand, "Turn each side to the same color, try."

It took Xu Wenyuan a lot of time to understand the principle when he played for the first time. The second time was much better, less than half a minute, and the third time was even shorter. The Rubik's Cube was dazzled in his hands, and even the idiot father didn't play boat anymore , looking at them eagerly.

Xu Wenyuan asked him: "Are you... playing?"

The idiot father nodded happily.

This is the first time Xu Wenyuan has "played" with his father. In his impression, the relationship between him and his father since he was a child is simply to take care of and be taken care of. He runs around for three meals a day. Instead, he is a little bit like today. Overwhelmed, but have to say, it feels amazing.

Xu Yongshan watched silently for a while, and said to the idiot father: "Old Zhao, I have something to discuss with you. Your son is going to be registered with our family. The school has urged you several times to go through the procedures for transferring from rural areas to urban areas. The matter of transferring schools is out of order.”

Xu Wenyuan froze, and the idiot father next to him was concentrating on studying the Rubik's Cube with his head down, not sure if he understood or not.

The atmosphere was a bit dignified, Jiang Xiaomei hurriedly smoothed things over: "Old Xu, what do you think you are doing with this thing for Chinese New Year? Let's talk about it after the Chinese New Year. Go to the kitchen and help me roll out noodles when you are free. I have to make dumplings later!"

Xu Zhiyuan bumped his brother's arm, Xu Wenyuan: "It's okay, I'll move back after graduation."

"Is it all right?"

"It's okay, it's just a little lump in my heart."

Xu Zhiyuan put his hand on the back of his brother's hand and rubbed it.

At noon, a few guests with large and small bags came to visit.

This person's surname is Wang, and he is an executive of Xu Yongshan's company. He brought his whole family to pay Xu Yongshan a New Year's greeting. He has a very close relationship with him, and most of the customer resources are in his hands.

The man brought his daughter over, who looked about the same age as Xu Wenyuan, and said that she just entered the first year of high school last year.

During the meal, she was arranged to sit opposite Xu Zhiyuan. The little girl blushed and did not dare to raise her head. She only glanced at Xu Zhiyuan quietly. She had never seen such a good-looking person, just like someone who walked out of a magazine.

Xu Zhiyuan pretended not to know, and kept helping his brother's idiot father with vegetables.

The man surnamed Wang saw his daughter's thoughts, toasted several times, and slowly brought the topic to Xu Zhiyuan.

"Xiaoyuan is going to take the high school entrance examination next year, right? Ah, a year younger than our girl, it's pretty good."

Xu Yongshan waved his hand: "Hey, what's the matter, I just don't worry!"

"It's normal, young people, just need some vitality."

Xu Wenyuan helped his brother remove the coriander from the small soup one by one, leaving a small piece, Xu Zhiyuan picked it out for his brother, Xu Wenyuan came over to eat naturally.

Their family is commonplace, and it looks strange to outsiders, especially when there is a foolish adult next to him. The little girl keeps looking at the foolish father with curious eyes, seeing that he has caught the meatball several times. Didn't pick it up, just laughed out loud.

Xu Wenyuan glanced at the little girl lightly, this glance made her tremble, she felt scared for no reason, and his meatballs fell back into the soup with a "crack".

Xu Zhiyuan was still digging out the uneaten dishes in the bowl to give to his brother, Xu Yongshan hated him to death: "You said you are old, how do you eat?"

Xu Zhiyuan said confidently: "I don't like to eat these, it's not like you don't know!"

"You don't like to eat, others want to eat, you smashed everything, who will clean up the rest for you?"

Seeing that the flames of war were about to ignite again, Jiang Xiaomei hurriedly held down her husband to smooth things over: "Oh, let's forget about the New Year's Eve today, Xiaoyuan should pay attention in the future!"

"It's a mother like you that spoils him!"

"Hey Comrade Xu, can you say a few words less? Will you let people eat?"

Xu Wenyuan peeled a bowl full of shrimp and pushed it to his younger brother, and got half a bowl of fish for his father, then wiped his hands and said, "It's okay, just give me what he doesn't want to eat."

Xu Zhiyuan's heart warmed up, if he didn't think that the guests were still there, he really wanted to swoop on his brother's body and rub against him.

Xu Yongshan paused for a while with his chopsticks.

The Xu family has a lot of weird rules and pets are not allowed. This is not difficult to understand because Jiang Xiaomei is allergic to fur.But I don’t know why we can’t set off fireworks during the Chinese New Year, so Xu Zhiyuan has always envied other people’s children since he was a child. He can prepare fireworks and firecrackers early, and he can stay up late at night and set them off with his father. The crackling is very lively.

For this reason, Xu Zhiyuan always complained that his parents were too boring and had no sense of adventure, so he missed a lot of fun.

But this year is different, this year he has an extra brother.So he secretly hid some fireworks at home years ago.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, the two pretended to go to the newly released Lunar New Year movie with their classmates, and they rode bicycles to the abandoned factory building five kilometers away to set off fireworks.

It was very cold that day, Xu Zhiyuan lay on his brother's back, wrapped his hands tightly around Xu Wenyuan's waist, and laughed along the wind that blew past his ears as he went downhill.He had never sat on the back seat of someone else's bicycle, and he seemed to be flying happily at this moment.

His brother asked him in front: "Is it cold?"

Xu Zhiyuan screamed and said loudly: "It's not cold! I'll hold you tighter when it's cold!"

He did, in fact, and heard his brother's strong heartbeat coming from ahead.

But they were unlucky that day, Gao Sheng became dumb when he put it on, Xu Zhiyuan watched him fall on his head, his mind was blank at the time, he forgot to hide, he just felt a force throw him down on the ground.Then something exploded next to his ear, because he was so close that it shocked his eyes, and he was stunned.

When he came back to his senses, he found that Xu Wenyuan was lying on top of him, protecting him tightly, not even showing a hair, but he himself was motionless.

The night was silent, and Xu Zhiyuan suddenly became frightened.

He thought Xu Wenyuan was dead, right?Killed by bad fireworks?Will it be in the headlines of social news tomorrow?Xu, a third-year student at Yude Middle School, was sentenced to X years in prison for manslaughter. After that, he didn't have to take the exam, and spent his youth behind bars.

Xu Zhiyuan moved his body: "Brother...Brother?"

He found himself dumb and his voice was shaking.

After a while, Xu Wenyuan finally asked gently: "Are you all right?"

What a fool, Xu Zhiyuan thought bitterly.He groped for Xu Wenyuan's face in the dark, afraid that his hand would be covered with blood, but fortunately it was dry, but a little cold.He went to touch his head again, and felt that the ends of the hair felt a little delicate to the touch.

Xu Zhiyuan frantically turned on the flashlight to illuminate Xu Wenyuan, only to see that a large part of his hair was burned off at the back of his head, and it looked a bit funny like a dog chewing on it, and the low-quality high-quality materials that had exploded on the side were scattered all over the floor.

"Fool! Big fool!" he scolded.

There was no barber shop open on New Year's Eve, so the two could only go home obediently and be scolded. Xu Wenyuan insisted that he played with fire and accidentally burned his hair. He was given a meal and grounded for a week.

Foot restraint is also a tradition in their family, because Xu Zhiyuan is restless.

And Xu Wenyuan's head was also forcibly shaved by Jiang Xiaomei with a clipper, making him look like he just came down from the mountain just like Liang Chen.