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Time passes very slowly in the mountains, and I don’t worry about getting up early for class, so naturally I don’t have to eat and sleep.

Xu Zhiyuan lay on the slope and squinted for a while, feeling that his brother seemed to be touching his hair, of course, it might be the wind, anyway, it was quite comfortable, he closed his eyes after touching him, and when he opened them again, he found that it was already afternoon. Sleeping so refreshed is a comfort I have never had before.

He wasn't hungry after eating apples and corn before, so now he thought of exercising his muscles and bones.

There is a river at the foot of the mountain that is crystal clear. It is probably what Xu Wenyuan once said, a magical river that can catch turtles and tadpoles in summer.Xu Zhiyuan went over to look for a long time and found nothing. He had a brainstorm and got excited. He took off his clothes and plunged into it. The huge waves startled Xu Wenyuan.

Although the river is not deep, he doesn't know how his younger brother's water quality is, and the river water in this field is unpredictable after all. If there is something wrong with his younger brother, how can he explain to Xu Yongshan and Jiang Xiaomei.

"Xiaoyuan! Xiaoyuan!" He jumped to the shore and shouted.

There are only his echoes in the mountains, and the calls of unknown birds.The surface of the river was calm, not even a single bubble, as if Xu Zhiyuan had never been here, as if he was the only one here all this time.

Xu Wenyuan's palms were sweating, and before he even took off his clothes, he was about to jump down, but Xu Zhiyuan suddenly appeared from the other side of the river, his long hair flung a string of water droplets under the sun, his slender body looked Get up and shine.

Xu Zhiyuan laughed, and happily splashed water on his brother's face, quite satisfied with the fact that he successfully teased Xu Wenyuan.

When Xu Wenyuan saw him alive and well, his heart fell to the ground, and he didn't feel annoyed when he was covered in water. He just stood by the river and watched silently. As he watched, an illusion slowly developed in his heart, as if I have returned to the old days when the sun rose and the sun set and rested, but the difference is that in this miserable time, there is such a shining person to accompany me.

When the sun was setting, Xu Wenyuan took his brother back home.His father had already woken up, and sat on the threshold to watch the wind, singing a little song he didn't know where he learned in his mouth.

Xu Wen called him from a distance, and his father seemed to understand, and smiled when he turned to look at him.

"Dad, Zhiyuan is here, Xu Zhiyuan."

The fool grinned and smirked, clapping his hands together: "Brother! Brother!"

"It's not your brother! It's me! Mine! Do you know that you have an extra son?"

The fool understood the word "son", and he seemed even happier. He touched his body with a red face for a long time, and took out two candies that had melted a little. Maybe they were left by some children when they didn't want them. , or when bullying him.The fool stuffed the candy into Xu Zhiyuan's hand.

"Sugar! Son!"

Xu Wenyuan wanted to stop him, but Xu Zhiyuan peeled the candy openly and swallowed it.He grinned and said loudly, "Hey! Dad!"

This cry made Xu Wenyuan almost hold back, the corners of the eyes of a person who has been bullied for more than ten years without shedding tears no matter how hard he was bullied.

His younger brother is so obedient, so obedient, he wants to rub him into his heart and treat him well for the rest of his life.

They ate dinner at the third aunt's house. Both her sons went to study in the county, and she and her husband were the only two at home. It's boring to talk to each other for a long time, so it's usually deserted. Now With the addition of two young people, the room suddenly became lively.

The third uncle and the third aunt are very enthusiastic, and they are one of the few good people in this village who take care of Xu's family.They made a table of good dishes and greeted the two children to eat.

Xu Zhiyuan didn't eat much, and all his thoughts were on the basket of mille-soled cloth shoes on the top of the kang. He had never seen such a thing in the city, and he dared not touch it, but he was really curious, so he ate a few mouthfuls and glanced at it before lying down. The two took a few glances.

The third aunt said: "Haven't you seen this before? Just play with it, it's not worth anything."

Xu Zhiyuan got permission and happily crawled over to study.The third aunt saw that he was interested, so she specially grabbed a dial made of beef leg bones, and while spinning it like a top, she explained to him: "Let me tell you, don't look at these hemp shoes as ugly, the bottom is solid." No matter what mountain road you go, the stone will not break!"

Two or three strands of thin rope were twisted and twisted in her hands, and slowly twisted into a magical hemp rope, and then used it to hold the sole of the shoe. After a while, the thick shape came out.

Xu Zhiyuan took the dial, and started to learn how to draw a calabash according to the same pattern, and it turned out to have a good appearance.

The third aunt praised him in amazement: "Why is this baby so skillful, he has learned kung fu now! It's amazing, if this is a female doll, whoever marries it will be very lucky!"

Xu Zhiyuan was a little happy to hear that the words were rough and reasonable, and said carelessly: "Then I am a boy, and whoever marries me will be lucky!"

The adults all thought he was joking, and pretended to reprimand him laughingly: "What are you talking about! Boys are going to marry a wife, and when they give birth to a big fat boy, your parents will laugh so hard!"

She praised Xu Wenyuan for being blessed again, and after talking for a few minutes, Xu Wenyuan finally came to his senses, bowed his head dully and vaguely responded.

For a moment just now, he didn't know why, but his mind was full of his younger brother's appearance of "being a bride and marrying a man". With snow-white skin and long black hair, if he wore the big red wedding gown shown on TV, he would definitely look very good. Looks better than anyone else!

This weird thought startled him, his heart was "thumping", and he didn't raise his head after a meal, as if he had done something bad, for fear that others would find out his abnormal thoughts.

Going back in the evening, Xu Wenyuan asked his aunt to borrow a quilt to spread on the kang, so that his brother could be wronged on it for a night, and then go back in the car tomorrow morning.He said that he was used to being able to sleep on the floor, but Xu Zhiyuan insisted on dragging him to the kang to sleep together.

The two were at a stalemate. During the dispute, Xu Wenyuan kicked over the iron box under the bed. With a "clang clang clang" sound, the empty jar fell to the ground, and he was stunned.

This jar is Xu Wenyuan's small treasury for hiding money. Over the years, he has been farming and selling vegetables with the old man, saving money on food and expenses, plus the little money left by the old man before his death, so to speak, he has saved a thousand dollars and left it in the jar. , I think it can be emergency in case something goes wrong.Anyway, people from all over the world know that their family is poor, and no one would go to their house to steal, let alone his idiot father, why is it gone?

He went to the next room to find his father and asked him if he had seen the money in the jar.

His father faltered, and didn't dare to look at him when he rolled his eyes. Xu Wenyuan knew something bad was going on in his heart.

"You don't want to tell me, do you? Then I will leave with my brother tomorrow and never come back!"

He deliberately threatened his father, the fool panicked and said, "I, I, I... medicine...!"

"Medicine? What medicine?"

The fool thought for a long time: "Cure all diseases!"

A fool can't speak idioms, and a fool can only imitate people, Xu Wenyuan felt cold: "Let me see!"

His father trembled from the bed and found a box of three-no products that looked very inferior. There was no batch number, no ingredient list, no contraindications for use, and even no production date. There is a cure.

Isn't this a liar?

The idiot father also leaned over flatteringly and said: "People have said it! Eat well!"

Xu Wenyuan was trembling with anger. He grabbed his father by the collar and said, "You have been cheated! Thousands of dollars! It's all gone!"

His father didn't react when he heard this sentence, Xu Wenyuan yelled several times, he seemed to understand, his face was pale, he grabbed the sheet like a child who did something wrong and said: "I don't want to get sick, I don't want to get sick ..."

"Who said you were sick!"

"They all said..."

"You let them talk!"

"I want to make money, I want to buy you shoes!"

His father's illness is good and bad. Sometimes he thinks he is a fool who doesn't understand at all, and sometimes he seems to know everything.

Xu Wenyuan grabbed his father's hand and slowly released it. He put his arms around his father's slightly bent shoulders and murmured: "It will be fine, it will be fine, I will help you heal."

Xu Zhiyuan heard the voice and followed, but he didn't enter the house, and stood at the door watching for a long time.

The next day Xu Wenyuan went to the village committee to report to the police, but they didn't take it seriously at all, and just said: "A while ago, a group of people did come to give some health lectures in the auditorium every day, and gave small gifts, everyone. We all thought it was good and we didn’t care, who would have thought that it was a liar selling fake medicines, where are we going to arrest people now that they’re all gone?”

Xu Wenyuan said angrily, "Can't you catch the police or the police?"

"Oh, which policeman is free to run for you, a little thousand!"

"That money is our lifesaver!"

A member of the village committee sipped tea and said slowly, "Anyway, people are running away now, so you can only spend money to learn a lesson, like your father, it's not what I said, you should send it to the orphanage as soon as possible, Save yourself trouble, everyone."

Xu Wenyuan clenched his fists, his face flushed red.

But what's the use, this is the way it is in this world, other people's words are mild, no matter how angry they are, they will only treat him as a child in the end, and send him away with a few words of comfort. The glass of the village committee was stopped by Xu Zhiyuan.

He hugged his back tightly, kept helping him take deep breaths, and when Xu Wenyuan calmed down a little, he took out all the cash on his body and stuffed it to him, saying, "Brother, just forget about the money and you'll be fine, you leave it to us." Dad, I will buy your shoes for you from now on!"

After returning from his hometown, Xu Wenyuan had a chat with Xu Yongshan, but he refused to change his household registration.

"The village committee said that if you want to change your household registration, you won't be able to inherit the homestead in the future. The only thing that can be left to me is this house, and I won't be able to enjoy all the preferential policies for land sales at that time. I think it's really not worth it."

Xu Wenyuan's attitude was sincere, and what he said was well-founded. Xu Yongshan couldn't think of any words to refute for a moment. After being silent for a long time, he sighed: "Forget it, forget it, it's not a big problem if you can't get a registered permanent residence. Private ones can be settled with a little money. As for In the future, if you are admitted to a public school in high school, you will still not be able to escape this procedure."

The study door was opened a crack, and the evening sun came in, casting a shadow on the corridor.

Xu Yongshan patted him on the shoulder: "Although the household registration has not been transferred, I still treat you like my own son, and you are still Zhiyuan's elder brother. This will never change."

Xu Wenyuan let out a "hmm", and looked out of the study lightly.

Xu Zhiyuan didn't know how long he had been leaning against the wall to listen. Anyway, he had a lot of messy thoughts in his head, such as whether he should buy something to congratulate the two of them officially becoming brothers, or that he would be able to say "I am a brother" in school from now on. Call me brother to beat you."When his brother came out of the study, he was lost in thought, the door opening startled him, he wanted to run out of guilty conscience, but unfortunately standing on his legs for a long time was not easy, he staggered and almost fell, Xu Wenyuan hurried over to help him.

"...You guys finished talking?"

The elder brother hesitated for a moment and said, "Well, it's over."

Xu Zhiyuan didn't answer, and waited impatiently for his brother to say more.

Xu Wenyuan straightened him up, and gently withdrew his hand: "Let's not enter for now."

Xu Zhiyuan was stunned, and after a long time, he gently lowered his hand and picked at the seam of his trousers: "Oh."

That night, when Xu Wenyuan came out of the shower, he found that his brother had already fallen asleep curled up on the upper bunk wrapped in a small blanket. The boy's thin back stretched out in an arc, and his long black hair was wetly stuck to his fair neck. superior.

Xu Wenyuan looked at it for a while, then silently turned off the light.