The contentment of rebirth

Chen Weiwen remembered an event that happened in his previous life.

In fact, no matter how poor the academic performance of the Chen family's children was, they would not be serious enough to be called parents by the teacher, but in the sixth grade, the eldest brother's head teacher called them parents.

Chen Weiwen didn't know the specific reason at that time, and he didn't understand. He only knew that when his parents came back that day, they beat up his elder brother severely, making his already bruised and swollen elder brother look like a pig's head, and then his mother hugged him. Watching the eldest brother cry.Later, when I grew up, I heard from my mother that it was actually because my elder brother’s schoolbag was used from the fourth grade to the sixth grade. The elder brother’s personality is more active and playful than Chen Weiwen. The schoolbag has faded and faded. , the zipper was broken, and even the strap was broken twice, which was stitched by my mother stitch by stitch.

At that time, a classmate in the class lost a pen that was said to be very high-end. Those students surrounded the elder brother and directly pointed out that the elder brother took it and asked him to return it.The eldest brother denied that he didn't take it himself, but those students actually uttered insults, and satirized the old schoolbag of the eldest brother, saying, "You are so poor, you can see that you use such an old and broken schoolbag, that pen is my father's pen." You bought it for me for 80 yuan, would you not be tempted? Poor man, if I had such a broken schoolbag, I would have thrown it in the trash, and I would be too embarrassed to go up and step on it. How can you have the face to come out to meet people? ? It's useless to see that your father is a coward..."

The eldest brother couldn't take it anymore, so he broke out and singled out the four students. The result was self-evident. The eldest brother lost and was beaten up with bruises and swollen faces, but the four students were also having a hard time. hand.

The elder brother is about to graduate from the fifth grade now. Young people like Chen Weiwen don’t know much about it, and they don’t care much about it among their classmates. But the students in the fifth and sixth grades are different. They have begun to grow into teenagers and accept Some concepts of the adult world, dislike the poor and love the rich are also the beginning of their contact with some ugly views of this adult world.

Chen Weiwen stopped doing his homework, turned the pencil unconsciously in his hand, and looked up at the stove. The elder sister and elder brother were busy preparing dinner for the family.

Brother, I will not let you be wronged like this again.

7 brothers

After dinner, the three children who were studying all nestled on the table to do their homework together. Chen Weiwen quickly finished his homework and picked up the three notebooks and two packs of pencils that the teacher rewarded today. The pencils that the teacher rewarded It's not the kind of wooden pencil that Chen Weiwen uses now that needs to be sharpened with a knife, but a mechanical pencil, which is suitable for Chen Jiayin and Chen Weijun in the senior grades.

"Big sister, big brother, this is for you." Chen Weiwen left a notebook and two pencils, and then gave the remaining two notebooks to each of the eldest sister and brother. As for the pencils, there are five in a pack, and the two of them happen to be alone. four.

"This?" The siblings looked at the notebook and pencil in front of them, and wanted to refuse. After all, this was rewarded to him by the younger brother's teacher, and they could not take it. "Big sister, big brother, you see, I have already kept a notebook for myself. I don't need such a thick notebook now. I also keep this one for the third grade. It's useless to give me two more. It's better to give it to you."

"The pencil is the same, I already have two, and I still have this," Chen Weiwen said, shaking the wooden pencil in his hand.

It is said that children from poor families are in charge of the family early, Chen Jiayin and Chen Weijun more or less understand what the younger brother means, it's not just that he doesn't need as much as he himself said.The two looked at each other without saying anything, nodded, and said to Chen Weiwen with a smile: "In the future, if someone bullies you at school, tell your sister (brother), and your brother (sister) will help you beat them away."

"Well, okay, if someone bullies me in the future, I will say the names of my sister and brother." Chen Weiwen raised a smile, "Then brother, I have something I want you to help with."

"Oh? Okay, tell me, what's the matter?" As long as he has it, there is nothing he can't give his brother.

"I want to exchange schoolbags with you."

"Change schoolbag?" Chen Weijun was taken aback. He didn't think about his younger brother's new schoolbag. He thought it was because his younger brother thought the schoolbag he was using was too old, so he wanted to change his new schoolbag. He didn't think too much about it. The head agreed: "Okay."

"Okay." Chen Weiwen turned around with a smile, picked up the new blue schoolbag on the side, and handed it to Chen Weijun, "Here, I will exchange it with you."

Now Chen Weijun was really stunned. He even forgot that his younger brother rewarded him with a new schoolbag today.The younger brother wanted to give him the new schoolbag. Chen Weijun lowered his head, feeling a little sour in his eyes for no reason.

He thought that no one at home knew what happened at school, and thought that his smiling face when he came home every day was natural from the heart, but unexpectedly, it was still...

Suppressing the tears in his eyes, he raised his head, and wanted to persuade his younger brother, but he heard his younger brother's voice slowly: "Brother, this schoolbag teacher also rewarded another student in the class, I don't want it." Use the same schoolbag with others, especially in the same class."

Stuffing the schoolbag into my brother's arms, I saw my brother's red eyes, and Chen Weiwen, who was smiling just now, couldn't bear to break it off, so he finally had to tell the truth, "Besides, my brother's schoolbag is bigger than the one I use now. The three-generation single pass is much newer, at least I still use the second generation."

Hearing the three-generation single biography, Chen Jiayin and Chen Weijun couldn't hold it back, and burst out laughing, and the atmosphere that was still a little heavy just now became lighter, "Well, okay, wait a minute, I'll put the book Take it out." Chen Weijun accepted his brother's wishes without further delay.

Chen's father and Lu's mother watched the interaction between their brothers with satisfaction. While feeling that their son had grown up and become more sensible, they also noticed that the second son was a little different. Although the second son was very well-behaved before, he still had a playful side. It's just that the games they play are more civilized. They don't play in mud and get dirty all over their bodies, and they don't go out to play crazy with other children, making parents need to go to other people's houses to apologize or something.

In the past, the three young children would still quarrel and sometimes fight. Anyway, big vs small, two vs one, no one suffers.But it’s different now. Weiwen no longer fights with his younger siblings, nor does he quarrel with them. Not only is he willing to give in, but he also supervises them. Sometimes they quarrel and mediate, which makes Chen’s father and Lu’s mother feel quiet at home. I have improved a lot, and I no longer hear the cry of the child, and I no longer have to worry about the three little ones.

Perhaps on the surface it seems that the second son has not changed much, he is still the same well-behaved, still the same obedient, he goes to school and does his homework normally, but you will find that there are many differences in the details.He became much quieter, and sometimes he would just sit in a daze without doing anything, or just read books borrowed from his classmates, and stopped playing with his younger siblings. He knew how to care for his elder brother and help his elder sister. I also know how to tell my younger brothers and sisters not to run around and pay attention to safety...

Chen's father and Lu's mother are not well-educated, so they don't know what's going on with their son's change, but they don't think it's too abnormal. The son is still their son, and his personality doesn't change. He just grows up inexplicably. , sensible.Although I don't know the reason, but in addition to feeling relieved, I feel relieved.

In fact, the whole family has felt Chen Weiwen's changes these days. Chen Jiayin and Chen Weijun feel that his younger brother has become fond of reading books, likes to be in a daze, and has become sensible. Chen Weijun and Chen Jiaxin feel that his brother has become less fond of telling them stories. They have become more generous, and they no longer compete with them for anything.

For the first one, the twin sisters don't like it very much. They don't have any games to play. Now that this game is missing, the two can only develop new games by themselves. For the latter one, the twin sister My brother said he liked it very much and was pleasantly surprised.

In the year when the twin siblings were born, Chen Weiwen's family moved to the building they are living in now, because they had no money to build up only one floor. I live in the old house, and the money to build the house is the money my parents saved from rubber tapping in Hainan.

Because they moved to live here in the building, Chen Weiwen and his brothers and sisters lost a lot of fun in their childhood, and they didn't have playmates of the same age, because the children of the neighbors in the building were all the same age as the eldest sister, and they were not familiar with them.There are no alleys where you can venture around, and the buildings are closely connected; in front of the door is a cement road, and the traffic is very dangerous. Parents strictly forbid them to play in front of the door; behind the house is a The large citrus groves are guarded, well, because they can’t climb trees, they can’t steal citrus; there is no small river around, they can’t practice swimming, and there are no fish to catch.

Generally speaking, the children in their family can only play on their own, playing indoor games, and their partners are all from their own family members.The combination of so many objective conditions has caused the children of the Chen family to be relatively quiet. No matter boys or girls, they have hardly touched or had disputes with children from other families.

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On Monday, Chen Weiwen went to school with his elder brother's schoolbag that was [-] to [-] percent newer than his own. Sure enough, the class leader also carried the new black schoolbag that he got yesterday.

When Chen Weiwen walked into the classroom carrying an old schoolbag, he clearly felt that more people were paying attention to him than usual. Obviously, they all