Brother Christine

At night, a white Volkswagen with flashing lights.

From a long distance, I saw two familiar big boxes on the stop sign in front of me. Jiang Jifeng didn't see anyone, so he pressed the car horn vigorously twice, and then saw two big and small boys jumping out of the boxes like rabbits. .

The two boys were shoulder height, both wearing hats, one was wearing a puffy short cotton jacket, the other was wearing a thin black windbreaker, but the clothes on top were still not as conspicuous as their attractive long legs underneath, The two brothers stood under the dim streetlight, dragged the box to the side of the road, and waved at him twice.

His son, and her son.

In the mirror, the man is in a happy mood, with a smile on his face, his curved eye tails carved deep wrinkles on his slack white skin. Before going out, he deliberately pushed his hair forward to cover it, but now the black hair is mixed with silver threads, making him look a bit old.

Jiang Jifeng parked the car in front of the two brothers, opened the trunk, and went out to help someone with their luggage.

"Dad." Jiang Xiao handed over the box and called out first.

"Well," Jiang Jifeng took Shen Qing's suitcase from the back, put it in the trunk, and glanced at him: "You still know how to come back?"

"There's still something to do at the school," Jiang Xiao smiled, and put the suitcase in by himself, "I'll go back after the new year."

Shen Qing stood in front of his brother and helped him push the box inside.

"Leave on the seventh day?" Jiang Jifeng asked.

"Let's go on the sixth day," Jiang Xiao said, "otherwise we won't be able to catch up with the time."

"Are you going to college or high school?" Jiang Jifeng frowned and asked, "Doesn't high school only start on the sixth day of the third year?"

"There is a part-time job to do." Jiang Xiao said.

"Can't I afford you?" Jiang Jifeng asked.

Jiang Xiao didn't speak.

"Go home." Shen gently dragged his brother into the car.

Standing at the back, Jiang Jifeng raised his eyebrows strangely as he watched the two people who were tugged together enter the back seat.

"Is this reconciliation?" Jiang Jifeng got into the car and looked back at Shen Qing.

Shen Qing said "um", and stood next to his brother, reaching out to touch his brother's back where the mirror could not see.

Jiang Xiao leaned on the seat, put aside the small fireworks in his hand, and gave him a hand behind his back.

"It's a good thing. As an adult, it would be shameful to throw a child's temper," Jiang Jifeng said in a relieved tone. He started the car, turned on the lights, and said, "If I hadn't told you, if your brother hadn't If you want to live in school, the two of you live together as soon as you get in touch, and you will be better soon, look, now you have only lived in the same dormitory for half a year, and it is so good, how much time you brothers have missed in the past ten years!"

The two brothers secretly hooked their fingers back and forth, nodded in agreement and listened to the training.

"I'll tell your mother when I get home later, so that she will be happy too," Jiang Jifeng said, "To prepare for the dinner tonight, she was very busy today, and she cooked a lot of dishes, and we even made shrimp Ball dumplings, I will wait for you to go back to the pot. I see that both of you go to school but are very thin. Go back and eat more good ones. Wash early at night and rest early. After 12 o'clock, you will be one year older next year. gone."

The two nodded in agreement, feeling relieved.

No matter where people are wandering, home is where the heart belongs. No matter how many rifts there are between each other, some people still miss the happiest.

Their father came to pick them up wearing new clothes, a light gray jacket with a lapel collar, a middle-aged style, plain and restrained, put on a tall and thin man, it is a bit inappropriate to say that he is approachable, but the two brothers stared at the man. With a broad back, only this word came to mind.

"Father" has long been unfamiliar to them, and so is "father's love". Every time the brothers get warmth and care from a man, they dare not take it for granted.

But Jiang Jifeng was indeed happy today, the smile on the corner of his mouth never disappeared, he either chatted with Shen Qing or Jiang Xiao on the way.

I asked about the military training of the two brothers, as well as their roommates in the university. They said that they were afraid that people with a personality like Shen Qing would easily offend others if they lived on campus. Knowing that they are getting along well with each other now, they felt relieved. When they mentioned the National Day, they couldn’t help complaining. About Jiang Xiao's sausage, talking about ruining her mother's good intentions, Jiang Xiao pulled her hand out of Shen Qing's hand and put it back into her pocket.

Shen Qing didn't say anything, but echoed his father's words, and was more considerate than his brother.

Jiang Jifeng also talked about Shen Qing being an internet celebrity. Shen Qing said he would not be an internet celebrity. His father nodded, saying that he is good-looking and he can know it. There is no need to expose it on the Internet for everyone to see. If you meet someone with bad intentions and get into trouble, you will be the one who suffers.

Shen nodded lightly to listen to the training.

Jiang Xiao held his head high and snorted disapprovingly.

Jiang Jifeng glared at Jiang Xiao in the mirror.The eccentric person immediately silenced.

Finally, talking about the final grades, Jiang Jifeng found that the two sons were first in one department and first in the other class, and their laughter became brighter.

Jiang Xiao’s Fengyoujing is not for nothing, but it’s not as crazy as it was before. Now it’s only applied to the eyes. It’s necessary to go to the library at the end of the semester. Go to the earliest place every day to occupy a seat next to the plug, and carry snacks and water glasses on your back Computer, leaving early and returning late, running back and forth between the library and the dormitory.

There is a hot water pipe on the second floor of their library, next to the toilet, and there is often the sound of flushing. He eats there during his preparations for the exam, so as not to disturb other students studying in the library.

Shen Qing received few jobs at the end of the semester, so in order not to make his brother look down on him, he also put in some effort to score 90 on the difficult ancient Chinese, which was 2 points higher than Lin Qi Xing Lu who tied for No.8.Sixiu even read through the textbook and found that there were not a few pages to memorize except for the water-filled nonsense, but in the end he didn't get 99, [-] points.Shen Qing suspected that old man Liu was targeting him because of the mid-term incident, but his grade points were not much different, so he still didn't need to make up for the mid-term results.

Jiang Jifeng thought that Shen Qing would start to receive a scholarship in the second half of the year, so he opened his mouth to praise, but Shen Qing interrupted his father's sweet dreams before he finished pronouncing the first syllable.

He was only the first in the final grades, not the comprehensive test. Let alone the awards, he didn't have a place in the selection of party members in the first half of the year.

He only participated in two activities, and he did not join any of the clubs. His brother took advantage of his position to ask for QR codes for some activities from friends. Some of them expired after he forgot to scan them, and he was too lazy to ask his brother for them. Now Pirates Dream points are only thirty points.

He has never participated in a competition, never published an article, and he is not an official in the student union, and he is not able to get the defense. The 1000 National Award is hard to come by, and the [-] yuan won by running first is not easy to tell his father. How it came about, the last bunch of words trying to explain came to my mouth, and I just said "I can't do it".

If you can win an award, you can win an award, if you can't win it, you can't, there is nothing to explain.

His father stopped the car downstairs, and upon hearing this, he turned to look at Jiang Xiao.

Jiang Xiao pretended not to see, and turned his head to stare out the window.

Shen Qing didn't see the two of them coming out like this, so she told his father to open the trunk, push the door and get out of the car to help his brother with the luggage first.

"You are an older brother." Jiang Jifeng opened the door and got off the car, casually confessing to Jiang Xiao: "Usually help your younger brother more."

"I'm a big brother," Jiang Xiao said, "not a wishing bottle."

"I don't mean that," Jiang Jifeng looked at the person dragging the box behind, then turned his head to look at Jiang Xiao again, and said, "I just hope..."

"What do you want, tell him yourself." Jiang Xiao interrupted his father, turned around to help Shen Qing carry the box, and said to his father: "He will be 19 soon, and I understand what you mean."

Jiang Jifeng choked.

Today's New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve, Jiang Xiao doesn't want to have trouble with his father now.When carrying the suitcase upstairs with Shen Qing, Jiang Xiao turned around and saw his father walking behind them with his head bowed alone, so he took the initiative to stop by the side of the ladder and wait for someone to come up.

Shen Qing stopped and stood on the other side.

"Why don't you leave? Are you tired? Let me take it." Jiang Jifeng passed by Shen Qing's side, helped him get the suitcase, and reached out to pat him on the back.

Shen Qing tilted his head to look at him.

"Why are you wearing so thin?" Jiang Jifeng frowned, "Didn't you bring a cotton coat?"

The person in the cotton padded jacket directly carried the box up the stairs and left.

"It's hot in the car." Shen Qing raised his head and glanced at the person who turned up the stairs, then at his father, and then stretched out his hand to pull the zipper of his clothes to the end.

The cotton coat was too thick, and when his brother hugged him, he liked to knead his back shoulders, with his palms along the sides of his spine, stroking his back.If you wear cotton clothes, it will look bloated, and it will be inconvenient for his brother to reach in and touch him.

The palm of his brother's palm has some yellow calluses, like a piece of dry and rough abrasive paper, which scratches the skin, slightly hurts, and slightly itches. When he hooks his fingers, there is a hint of teasing, which makes people feel dry flustered.That feeling fascinated him.

"It's too hot at home. The radiator is newly replaced this year, but you still need to wear more clothes when you go outside." Jiang Jifeng went upstairs with others, and asked casually: "Your brother will leave after staying for a few days, you have to stay for a few more days ?"

"I have a classmate," Shen Qing replied, "Look at her."

"A girl?" Jiang Jifeng was quite interested.

"male."

Jiang Xiao's house is on the eighth floor, a unit residential building in the old city. There is no elevator, and the property is poor.

The trash can at the bottom of his house is full of flies in summer, and there are rotten cabbage piles littering the streets in winter. There used to be a retired old couple who lived opposite the house. A few years ago, the old man was killed in a car accident. The perpetrator went private, took the compensation, and went to live with his daughter. Now he rented the house to two dishwashers, and only collected the rent.

The dishwashing worker is nearly [-] years old and came from the countryside. I heard that it is a pair of old sisters who have become grandmothers. After their grandson landed, the two of them went to work together in the restaurant in the town to earn money for milk powder.

When they first moved in, they visited his house. His mother served melon seeds and fruit tea and sat with them all afternoon. The old sister took advantage of her mother to go to the kitchen to make hot tea. She took two plates of melon seeds and left without saying hello. , and took away a medium-sized bronze horse ornament of more than 600 on the cabinet next to the door of his house.Later, I heard from somewhere that his parents were married for the second time, and the family relationship was not very harmonious, and the two brothers were in conflict. The old sister thought it was unlucky, so she sent the horse back.

Afterwards, the two families had no contact with each other, his parents were too lazy to talk to each other, and the old sister didn't want to get in trouble, so she pretended not to see them when they met each other. When Jiang Xiao arrived at the door with the suitcase, the older sister's old lady was pasting couplets at the door.

If you don’t go home during the Chinese New Year, you will get three times the salary. Only one day off is New Year’s Eve. The old lady who is the elder sister is reluctant to give up the money and always waits until the New Year is over before going back. My sister is here alone.

Jiang Xiao didn't intend to pay attention to her, and just reached out to knock on the door, he saw from the corner of the eye that the old lady had picked out some paste and smeared it on the horizontal batch, and the feet were about to be pasted on the door beam, her hands were shaking so crookedly that it was very laborious, Jiang Xiao saw I'm not used to it, so I went to help post it.

The tall male creature that suddenly approached was like a monster, and it was still bursting with ecstasy incense. The old lady was shocked, and she shrank her neck and looked up at him.

"Who are you?" The old lady asked warily.

Jiang Xiao didn't go home very often when he lived in school, and he didn't show up in college for more than a year. The old lady looked at his face, and slowly squatted down and reached back to touch the scissors on the ground.

"The boy from the opposite door." Jiang Xiao returned, his head was about the height of the door, he raised his hand and pasted the banner on it, after finishing the work, he wiped the hot paste on his hand, wiped it with a piece of paper, and picked up the suitcase Just go back.

"Oh—!!" The old lady put down the scissors, looked him up and down with her eyes wide open, and shouted, "Boss! Why are you so tall! It's scary! Have you started working this year?"

"No," Jiang Xiao knocked on the door, and replied, "We have to wait a few more years."

"What are you waiting for?" the old lady yelled, "Your father's hair has turned white!"

"I'm still in school."

"Going to school is just gnawing on the old! Nowadays, college students are like Chinese cabbages everywhere. After graduation, they still can't find a job!" It’s a bit of a shame, the money in your pocket, isn’t it all from your parents?”

"Here we come!" The female voice was extremely excited when a knock was heard on the door.

"I earn money by myself." Jiang Xiao frowned, supported the box, and replied.

"If you have money, don't rush to buy a house, buy a car and marry a wife, what education do you need!" the old lady shouted again.

Jiang Xiao's face darkened, and he ignored it.

He didn't hear an answer, and the air returned to the cold. The old lady shrank her neck and glanced at him again, muttered a few words in distaste, packed her things and went into the house.

When Shen Jing opened the door, she saw Jiang Xiao's dark face.

Startled for a moment, then smiled with the corners of his mouth, Shen Jing opened the door and let go: "Come in, come in, it's cold outside today, the dishes are all ready, just served on the table, give me your luggage first, you go first Wash your hands, what about your dad and them?"

"They're in the back." Jiang Xiao missed Shen Jing's hand, tried to make himself look kinder, and nodded towards them: "I can do it myself."

"That's all right," Shen Jing wiped off her apron, smiled at him, turned around and walked towards the kitchen, and said, "Then I'll hurry up and order the dumplings. They will come in later, and you can serve them first!"

"Thank you." Jiang Xiao nodded and went back to the house to pack his things.

Earlier when Jiang Jifeng married his original spouse, he was planning to have two children. When buying a house, he needed three bedrooms, one living room, one bathroom and one kitchen. The family members of the male and female parties each contributed some money, and the couple lived in one room, allowing brothers and sisters Brother lives separately.

Back then, the fine for having a second child was not as harsh as it was later, only a few thousand. Jiang Jifeng could earn it all back in two months. His original partner was a school belle in college, with many friends and old acquaintances from above, and wanted to get involved. Opening an account, that is, handing over cigarettes and inviting people to eat a few meals, is nothing compared to the desire to have children.

For the first two years when Shen Jing's mother and son moved in, the two adults immediately lived together without the nerve, Jiang Xiao and his father shared a room, Shen Jing lived in one room, and Shen Qing lived in one room.Later, when he got older, Jiang Xiao wanted to have his own independent space even though he felt a hundred thousand grievances in his heart, and he didn't want to sleep next to his father. Jiang Jifeng took advantage of the opportunity to live with Shen Jing and let him move to the Shen Qing next door.

The two brothers are small second bedrooms, a hut of more than ten square meters, with a long wooden desk against the wall facing the side of the bed, a single wardrobe at an oblique corner to the door, and a single bed covered with blue and white striped sheets. It's narrow, and now a big man who is nearly 1.9 meters tall carries a suitcase and pushes the door to go in. Before he even steps his legs, he feels that there is no way out.

Jiang Xiao looked down and glanced at the bedroom he had been away for a long time. It was a strange and familiar feeling he felt after returning home from school countless times.

There is some resistance and disgust, but it is a place that is very close.

He once hid in this room, peeping through the crack of the door, happily watching his parents talking and laughing outside and signing the divorce agreement. He also clenched his fists in silence under the quilt during countless days and nights when thoughts and hatred burst out. In the summer vacation when a foreigner entered the house, he copied a stool and smashed the glass windows of this room, his arms were bleeding and his head was covered with glass shards. He was locked up by his father. Every second, he was banging on the door, shouting and cursing!

He made the whole family jump around.

He himself is not at peace.

Less than three years, less than ten years old.Here he endured ecstasy, cried silently, hurt himself, yelled heart-piercingly, begged, and became hoarse in despair and helplessness.

His hut, his love and hatred, in this place where all the secrets in his heart are hidden, he also... secretly liked it.

Every moonlit night when he brought people back from escape, he lay on his bed, quietly feeling his heartbeat and blood flow.

He had insomnia, staring at the corner of the ceiling covered with cobwebs, dazed and distracted.Being alone in a room, alone, and empty around him always made him feel that something was missing.He tiptoed to the wall and listened to the voice of the little mute next door.

The little mute can't talk, he can only pour water and drink water, soak his feet in the basin on the ground, shake the quilt to make the bed, and when changing new clothes and shoes, he drags the full-length mirror at both ends of himself, back and forth in the room Turn around and take pictures.

When the other side is done with the chores, he will suddenly feel lost when he hears the sound of the little mute turning off the lights. In the silent winter night, when he hears him sneeze suddenly, the corners of his mouth will rise unconsciously, and he can occasionally feel it. The little mute was listening to him, wearing slippers to make noise deliberately, and approaching the wall where he was eavesdropping, eavesdropping on him who was eavesdropping on him.

All kinds of feelings between each other are earlier than expected.

On the bedside table was the Jade Buddha pendant that the little mute bought for his mother. It was packed in a small delicate box of gold silk and red silk. After finishing the luggage, he collapsed on the bed, with his outstretched arms drooping beside the bed, touched the side of the box with his right index finger a few times, and fell asleep with his eyes closed.

He and Shen Qing didn't sleep last night. Those who work hard are in better spirits than him today. Since the last time he was ill and received an infusion, Jiang Xiao felt that his excited and aggressive blood had been injected with water, and he often felt a sense of emotion. His body is weak, and he can't do anything. If he stays at school and continues to repeat that mechanized pattern, he will collapse sooner or later.

When he comes back this time, he should take good care of him.

The brain was exhausted, the whole body was limp, and he was about to fall into a dream in the chaos, when the door creaked suddenly, a long thin needle was pierced in the quiet air, the friction made the nerve ache, Jiang Xiao frowned impatiently, Raise your arms to cover your eyes.

Shen Qing pushed the door open and came in. Seeing his brother move, he moved closer and called him "Brother, it's time to eat".

Pleasant sound.

Nerves relaxed again, Jiang Xiao said "hmm" lazily, and raised one eyelid to glance at the bedside.

The legs with beautiful lines hang down from the end of the bed, and the slender and well-proportioned body has a different style. Hairy head, blinking at him.

Shen Qing's eyes flashed, and suddenly she kicked the door with a slam, and leaned over and jumped on it!

"Hey, you—!" Jiang Xiao was startled, and immediately wanted to sit up on the bed.

Shen pressed down lightly, then pushed down the bounced person again, pinched his brother's chin, closed his eyes and kissed his lips.

"Shen Qing!" Jiang Xiao couldn't help but nudged him, "Didn't you say before you came here that you should do these things at home?"

"Brother," Shen Qing held his hand vigorously, pressed the top of his head, blocked the man's mouth, and kissed him again: "I didn't answer."

"You..." Jiang Xiao half-pushed, complained in a low voice, "You didn't even lock the door."

"What are you afraid of, huh?" Shen Qing squeezed his palm hard, and sneered in a low voice: "I didn't say I wanted to mess with you."

"You, you..." Jiang Xiao was pinned down halfway, and asked in a daze, "Shen Qing, is that you? Have you changed back?"

"Brother, he's too stupid to understand what you really want." Shen smiled lightly, put his palm on his brother's shoulder lightly, and coaxed: "Brother, I will love you in the future..."

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Jiang Xiao blushed and changed into a pair of pants.

The cotton coat was also ripped off, and he took a thin gray shirt from the cabinet. He asked Shen Qing to wash his hands first, and tidied up the sheets in the room and remade the bed. With the pendant for his mother, he went to the living room for dinner.

In their family, Shen Jing will not shout for dinner like other mothers. Jiang Xiao is irritable and likes to be quiet. A champion must always have some privileges. No matter whether he goes back to his room to do homework or to rest, he can only ask others to knock on the door for dinner, and no one is allowed to shout.

This habit is a tacit understanding that the father and son have formed since Jiang Jifeng's original partner left and the two years before Shen Jing came home.

The one who studies hard, carries the certificates home one after another, wins his father's face in front of others, and the one who serves behind others attentively, obeys his son's wishes if he can, buys whatever he eats, As long as Jiang Xiao could speak out, Jiang Jifeng would never hesitate to give what he wanted.

During the two years when he lost his mother, Jiang Xiao was also a young master who wanted wind and rain.

At that time, his father's salary in the working class was considered to be at the upper-middle level, and he had a lot of pocket money. Whether it was for himself or for his brothers and friends, Jiang Xiao was quite generous.Regardless of his temper, as long as he is the most handsome, tallest, best graded, most moral and humane person in the whole school, and the one who is the most generous in his actions, brother Xiao should be the one with the highest status in everyone's mind The boss of the group should be the King of the Mountain who is well-received, surrounded by crowds, and has a large number of fanboys and fans.

Round table, dishes piled on top of each other, the King of the Mountain sits facing south, the main seat.

He used to not go to the table to eat, but stayed at home for more than a day anyway, bought some snacks by himself, or went out to eat some skewers or beef noodles. Later, his father couldn't understand him and forced him to come out for dinner. Jiang Xiao and him Dad was so angry that he sat on the main seat and beat him to death. Later, when he got used to sitting, his dad also acquiesced.

The family of four took their seats, and there was no sound of firecrackers outside the window, but in front of the wall covered with golden awards, the TV was playing the Spring Festival Gala performance, and the background sound was festive and joyful.

This year when Jiang Xiao came home, he had a great reunion, and Shen Jing was more generous than what he made last year. Ten dishes and two soups, tomatoes and eggs, stir-fried cabbage heart, mapo tofu, eggplant with minced meat, fried green peppers with sausage, stir-fried beef tenderloin, and cauliflower in a dry pot , sweet and sour pork ribs, rapeseed shrimp skin, boiled pork slices, and stewed a fat white striped chicken. The chicken soup is rich in fragrance, floating all over the room. The big sea bowl of chicken, the color of the oil flower is from light to dark, and it is spread in three layers.

Jiang Jifeng likes to drink fish head soup, and the fat head fish that Shen Jing bought has a milky white soup, bubbling with a rich and delicious fragrance, which attracts one's index finger.

Chatting during the dinner, Shen Jing was more surprised than happy about the brother's reconciliation.

Although these two people used to treat each other as empty people before, and they were considered harmonious at home, but behind the scenes, she often heard the two choke and hate each other. She also knew Jiang Xiao's temper. The fight was considered good, and she reconciled so quickly, she is not as big-hearted as Jiang Jifeng.

However, Shen Qing fell in love with chasing Jiang Xiao, she always knew that, even to a certain extent, she was responsible for it.

Just because Shen Qing was such a thin-hearted and cold-hearted kid back then, she couldn't hold anyone in her eyes at all. She hoped to win the favor of her stepson, and also hoped that Shen Qing and Jiang Xiao could get along well, so on the way here, she gave Shen Qing He talked a lot about his brother who was about to meet, and created an almost godlike image for that man.

Knowing son is like mother, Shen Jing raised him until he was eight years old, she knows best what Shen Qing likes.

Different from the clumsy and naive children of the ignorant children in the countryside, the new brother is handsome, clean and handsome, he doesn't speak dirty words, and he doesn't defecate anywhere. Because he lost his mother, he is only nine years old, and he has the shadow of an adult in him.

The new brother is the first in grade. He has won prizes in urban and provincial competitions. He is better than him and more perfect than him. It's the computer, it's the playground of the big shopping mall, and it's also famous brand fashion clothes, it's a person from another world.

The new brother is the object of his classmates at school, and he is a sensible and well-educated good boy at home. He is also the object he can rely on after moving in.

As long as he is willing to treat the new brother well, the new brother will also like him.

Shen Qing always remembered these words his mother said, even after seeing the most violent and dark side of his brother, he still couldn't pull out the seeds his mother planted in his heart.

Follow his brother, a spell implanted in the bone marrow.

Growing up in a closed and backward environment, he was too ignorant, knowing that someone could shine like that, as if he hadn't seen him yet, just hearing what his mother said, he had already started to like it.

Entering the room, the sun was shining on the little boy, and the golden light fell on the ground around his feet. There was a half bottle of orange soda on the mahogany coffee table, and there were two thin legs dangling on the sofa. Wearing Spider-Man's black shorts, when he first frowned and looked at them, his face was full of confusion, like an innocent deer who was deceived.

He is a lovely and perfect god, and his heart beats for him.

After the full meal, Shen Jing and Jiang Jifeng gave red envelopes to their two sons.The aesthetics of young people is different from that of the older generation. When buying new clothes, they are afraid that their children will not like them. They give some cash as pocket money for the Chinese New Year, and let the brothers buy whatever they want.

Shen Qing got a green Lhasa card, five pink banknotes, Jiang Xiao also got two red envelopes, which add up to ten pink banknotes.

For a well-off family, meaning is enough. If you give too much money, you will not be able to make enough money when the family needs money, and you have to ask for it back.It's not appropriate for my son to be coaxed like before when he is so old.

After receiving the money, the two brothers also want to give gifts. Shen Jing Jiang Jifeng saw the luxurious little gift box that his son took out, and was about to reprimand him for spending money indiscriminately. Unexpectedly, Jiang Xiao's gift was placed beside Shen Jing's bowl. The light thing was placed in front of Jiang Jifeng, and the couple were immediately stunned.

dare not answer.

This sudden gesture of friendship was even more inconceivable than the sudden reconciliation between the two brothers.

"Mom, we're all one family." Jiang Xiao stood up and opened the lid of the box, pushing in front of Shen Jing: "You've been troubled for so many years, there's nothing to be ashamed of."

"This thing is expensive." Tears welled up in his eyes suddenly, Shen Jing was also a little excited, he reached out to touch but didn't dare to touch it randomly, looked up at Jiang Xiao a few times, wanted to laugh and cry, and blamed: "What are you doing, this is, I'm old, and you still buy this kind of thing to waste on me, as long as mom knows what you want, don't give it away again in the future."

He planned to say "um" to finish the matter, but from the corner of his eye, he saw the eyes of someone on the opposite side frequently looking in this direction, so Jiang Xiao lowered his head and asked, "Mom, do you like it?"

"Very beautiful," Shen Jing couldn't stop the smile at the end of her eyes, "Thank you, Mom."

"As long as you like it." Jiang Xiao agreed with a smile.Shen Qing also took out the bracelet and handed it to his father, saying that he worked part-time in the library, wrote some things and sold them, and bought them with money.

When it comes to jewelry and jade, Jiang Jifeng is not an expert. Looking at the circle of black pearls and gold Pixiu lying in the box, the color is lustrous and the texture is pure, and he feels very beautiful. But to estimate the price, he thinks it is five or six at most. Bai, definitely not as expensive as Jiang Xiao gave Shen Jing.

Seeing that Shen Jing had accepted it now, the child was annoyed by what he wanted to tell him, so he thanked him with a smile, and put it on his hand directly.

"Thank you too, Dad." The iron tree bloomed, and the eternal ice finally melted. Jiang Jifeng smiled gratifiedly, and was very satisfied with the performance of the two brothers tonight.

His father is a person who pays attention to rituals, it is not elegant to take out all the black plastic bags at once, Shen Qing stood beside his father, touched the pack of cigarettes with his fingers in his pocket, hesitating whether to give it away together.

"Okay," Shen Jing wiped her eyes with a smile, put away the small box, stood up and greeted Shen Qing: "Clean up the table when you are full, save the hot soup and put it outside to dry first, pour out all the dishes that can fit together In a plate, there are steel wool balls newly bought in the kitchen. Be careful not to tear them. The dish soap is still on the side of the gas. I will scoop out the remaining soup in the pot. You wash it first, and I will Come and clear."

Shen Qing made a "hmm", withdrew his hand, took off his coat and put it on the sofa next to him, rolled up his sleeves and came over to pick up the bowl.

"Okay, okay, it's Chinese New Year, the child just came back, we just come," Jiang Jifeng blocked Shen Qing's overstretched arm, got up to clean up the dishes, and raised his head to greet Jiang Xiao: "Find a box, put the The empty wine bottles on the table were cleaned up and moved down, and I went downstairs to look at the stairs."

After drinking and burning, Jiang Xiao was coughing and looking for water all over the table, he nodded in response, got up and went to the back to get the box.

"Shen Qing, don't be idle, go and help your brother," Shen Jing turned to the kitchen, turned around and urged: "Go down and go to the South Supermarket to see if Lao Zhang's house is still open, and buy a few bags of glutinous rice balls return."

Shen Qing said "um", and put on his coat again.

"Wear more," Jiang Jifeng turned around and said, "Do you have any money?"

"Yes." Shen Qing turned around and went to his brother's room.

"Hey, why are you going?" Jiang Xiao coughed, took out the box to bottle it, and called him.

"Bring you a coat." Shen pushed the door lightly and went in.

"Oh." Jiang Xiao scratched his head and laughed.

"Look," Jiang Jifeng watched Shen Qing enter the door, turned around and said with a smile to the person squatting under the table: "Your brother likes you so much."

Jiang Xiao and his father looked at each other, their eyes met, and suddenly he was burned by the gratified eyes. He lowered his head a little uncomfortably, and stretched out his hands to rub his still slightly swollen stomach.

"Isn't it?"

……

Putting on their clothes, the two brothers carried the two dozen empty beer bottles on the dining table and went downstairs. Jiang Xiao even asked his father for the car keys, saying that something was left in the car.

"If you want to go out to play," Jiang Jifeng said at the gate, "don't leave home too far."

"I didn't lie to you this time, something really fell," Jiang Xiao went downstairs with the others, raised his head and shouted: "My little firework!"

"Don't order it outside, who knows that people don't care about this, there are patrols at night," Jiang Jifeng ordered before closing the door: "I really want to play, and then play after fetching water in the house!"

"understood!"

Going downstairs, the voice-activated lights are not very effective, you have to stomp your feet hard, Jiang Xiao turned upside down and carried the box down the narrow stairs, and the knocked glass bottle kept dangling.

"You should use the original plastic bag," Shen Qing looked at the person whose head was covered, and said, "It can be carried away with two hands."

"You just said it now?" Jiang Xiao also reacted.

During the meal, his father drank alcohol, and he drank a lot with him. He mixed white wine and beer together, and his brain became foggy. He just listened to what his father said. Shen Qing kept his head down while eating, and his mind was much clearer than his .

"Listen to Dad." Shen Qing said.

Jiang Xiao snorted.

There are also wine bottles from other houses on the wall at the entrance of the building. People from this building and the buildings next to it are all piled up together, like a wall of beer bottles.

There was a beggar in their community, who would pick up bottles with a big dirty cloth bag when he was free, and then drag them to the garbage dump near Pinglong Town to exchange for money.

Not everyone is willing, but the property is unreliable, and the beggar is very shrewd, he can't be caught, and he can always sneak in.In the early years, I would go upstairs and knock on the door to beg for food. If I didn't give food, I would knock hard. I had to take something to leave before I would let this house go.There are girls who live alone who have been harassed, children who have been locked up to do their homework and have been scared to cry, and newly married couples, beggars knock on the door in the middle of the night to take advantage of the bustle and movement, insisting on asking for a favor.

Putting the wine bottle and protecting one party is a rule agreed by the three parties over the years, the property owner, the residents, and the peerless undead beggar.

When Jiang Xiao was young, he thought about knocking Shen Qing unconscious and tying him up, and giving that beggar his son. Then he thought about it, he couldn't afford so many empty bottles to feed them, beggars are so poor, and Shen Qing is so poor. What should I do if I can eat, but I will starve to death in the end?

At that time, when he thought that such a round and fat little Shen Qing would starve to death, he would still secretly feel sad in his heart.

The snow stopped, and the thin snow piled on the bare tree branches. The dark green holly on both sides of the street was also covered with a layer of white soft particles glowing with silver light. The street lamps were dim yellow, illuminating the empty street. , the door lights of Zhangjia Supermarket are on.

The cold wind made both sides of their faces numb, and the two of them wrapped their clothes tightly in their pockets and walked side by side on the empty road. Jiang Xiao and Shen Qing recalled this, and felt that they were fools back then.

"You can't get rid of me," Shen Qing narrowed her eyes, and the heat of her breath was dissipated in the wind, "I will run back by myself."

"Would you be willing to throw you to a beggar? My heart aches even if I'm hungry and thin. Your brother still has a bit of conscience." Jiang Xiao laughed, and was about to put his hand into Shen Qing's pocket, "Come on, warm me up." warm."

"I want to eat glutinous rice cakes, Nestle's." Holding the cigarette case in his pocket, Shen lightly looked ahead: "You buy it for me later."

"Cold food just after eating?" Jiang Xiao snorted, dropped his hands and slapped his butt, "Aren't you full?"

"I need to eat three." Shen Qing said.

"What should I do if I have a stomachache?"

"Forget it if you don't buy it."

"Buy, buy," Jiang Xiao glanced at him angrily, turned his head to look around, then hugged Shen Qing abruptly, tilted his head and kissed the man's mouth, and pinched his face with his big hand: "Smelly