Heartbreaker

Raig never understood how he could have such a useless father.He got into a fight with the boy next door because he had stolen a few stalks of corn from their cornfield.His father wanted to make peace with the matter, but Raig refused, and shouted fiercely, "If they steal once, they will steal the second time, and I won't allow it!"

He was more anxious than his father to take care of the things in the house. As soon as it got dark, he plunged into the pen to count how many sheep and pigs there were in the house.

Every animal in the family was marked with black charcoal by Reiger.His younger brother, E Mu, bit his finger and lay down by the fence to watch his elder brother being too busy amidst the bleating of pigs and sheep.

Raig said seriously, "Em. Livestock and food are our family's property, so we must keep them safe, not even a hair can be taken away by others."

Eminem shook his confused head, "It's just a hair, they want whatever they want."

Reige bared his teeth and nodded his head, "You know what a fart. Who is the big brother? Listen to me!"

Therefore, Raig, who lost the corn, took his younger brother Eminem, carrying a shovel aggressively, and went to settle accounts with the boy who stole the corn.At this time, when the adults were working in the fields, the two brothers caught the boy in the low room, kicked open the door involuntarily, and beat the boy's astonished face violently!

"Dare to steal my corn, I want you to look good!"

The brothers were six years old and the other five years old, but the boy they beat up was 11 years old.The boy only got the first hit with the shovel, and then he grabbed a long stick beside the barn, swung it in the air, and immediately knocked the two brothers to the ground, laughing triumphantly.

The boy grinned grinningly and spat, "I stole it, what do you think? You two idiots, come to find trouble again, and I'll hit you once!"

That afternoon, Eminem dragged Laige, who had a bruised nose and a swollen face, and was beaten by a big boy from the door of other people's house to his own door with a wooden stick.Reig kept punching and kicking the boy desperately, but it seemed to Eminem that he was hitting the boy with a stick.They were beaten by the boy in embarrassment at the door of their house, and it wasn't until their father came back from the farm that he slapped the boy on the head furiously!

The man said angrily, "What's going on?"

The boy was knocked to the ground with a slap, his head was bleeding, and he wailed, "Ah, Raig's father beat someone!"

With a roar, Laige rushed over, his father grabbed his back, and opened his mouth to curse, "I'll kill you, I'll kill you!"

The farce ended when the father of the two brothers personally slaughtered a pig, cut off the most delicious part of the meat, and delivered it to someone's door.

Ah Mu remembered that the day his father slaughtered a pig, his elder brother couldn't stop him, so he just sat on the ground and cried heartbrokenly.His father, a farmer with a tired face, said to Amu, "Amu, I will go to someone's house to apologize. Later, help your brother up from the ground and serve him some soup."

The yard still echoed with the cry of his brother.Amu said, "Dad, brother said you are useless. It is obvious that someone stole from our house, but you went to chase him to make amends. Brother said, if you were not so useless, mother would not have been stolen by other men." .”

Eminem clearly remembered that at that time, his father's eyes were red, and the tall and honest man almost shed tears, and walked out of the house in a slump, as if he had aged several decades in an instant.

As soon as his father left, Reig got up from the ground with tears in his eyes, and ran into the house to drink soup by himself.Eminem hesitated to sit next to the eldest brother, and said hesitantly, "Brother, Dad seems very sad. I must have said something wrong."

"No, Eminem, that's the truth." Raig sucked on the hot soup and said bitterly, "If you can't look after your own things, you deserve to be robbed!"

A Mu sat silently aside, broke off a doughnut, stared at the white section in silence for a long time, and said, "Brother, I miss my mother."

Reige snorted, and said in a nasty voice, "Damn it. That bitch, betrayed us and ran away with a dog man. She's sorry for us, but I don't miss her at all. Even if she dies outside, she doesn't care about our business!"

****

The two brothers did not expect that just six years later, their mother who had eloped with someone would really come back.The woman was holding a black-haired boy in her arms, standing timidly at the gate, and was almost splashed all over by A Mu who was pouring water at the gate.

That night Eminem was crying in the house, while Raig stood on the threshold, his eyes were red, and he shouted with a willow whip, "Whoever let you into my door, get out!"

The boy led by the woman turned his head to look at Raig, his black eyes turned indifferently, and he glanced at her.The woman let go of his hand hesitantly, and the black-haired boy walked like the wind, dodging Raig's whip without a trace, and grabbed the corner of his clothes, "Brother."

Raig pushed him furiously, "Who the hell is the brother of the bastard!"

The black-haired boy was pushed to the ground, and instead of grinning and crying like other children, he walked back to Raig persistently, raised his face and said, "Brother."

"Get out of here!" Reige cursed, but he didn't push the boy away. He pointed to the woman's nose and said, "Say, what are you doing back here? I'll tell you in advance that every penny and piece of land in this family is Not a single animal belongs to you!"

"Laige..." The woman raised her haggard and pale face, forced a smile, and tried to stroke Laige's head, but received a vine whip on the back of her hand.She clutched the back of her hand in pain, and stepped back timidly under the stare of her own son, "You...is your father there? I want to find him, but where is your father, Reiger?"

"My father..." Laige gritted his teeth, and clenched the cane tightly, tears welling in his eyes, "You still have the fucking face to mention my father..."

"Father is dead!" said Amu, who was crying loudly in the house. "He died ten days ago, and no one could save him. He was still chanting your name before he died. I hope you can come back to see him for the last time." Just a glance. But you came back late, everything is too late!"

That night, the woman did not step into the former home until the end.She is like a mist that comes and goes without a trace, dissipating in the dawn light in the blink of an eye.Some people said that the woman left her hometown again, and some said that she committed suicide by jumping into the river, but in any case, Laig and Eminem never saw the woman again.

Eminem misses his parents sometimes, and complains that his elder brother shouldn't be so unfeeling to his mother.Reig wrinkled a fierce face every time, shouting that he had done nothing wrong.The two brothers fought several times because of this, until one day, Ah Mu, who was lying on the ground and clutching the bulging pustules on his forehead, suddenly heard his brother crying in grief, throbbing like a molar to the dying donkey.

"So what if I killed her?!" Reige cried out in a broken voice, "So what if she did! She was the one who let us down first, and I did nothing wrong!"

Emu, who fell to the ground with blue eyes, stared blankly at his elder brother who was crying and rolling on the ground. He saw that the eldest brother who usually stretched his teeth and claws like a hedgehog was now as fragile as a grasshopper hit by a tree fruit.

For some reason, he didn't find it funny, but only felt sourness and pity in his heart.My brother is talking hard, he is lying, he just doesn't want to face the truth.Ah Mu thought, but brother understands better than anyone else, otherwise, if he felt that he did nothing wrong, why would he cry so sadly?

****

Eminem began to face up to the only "relic" left by their former mother, their half-brother, Ai Er.To be honest, he likes Ior a lot, unlike he and Raig who inherited his father's thick brows and wide face, Ior has a face that girls like, with sharp eyebrows, a heroic face, and a pair of dark eyes that are deep and dark. Like a dark river with no bottom.

And Raig grabbed Eminem by the collar and threatened fiercely, "If you dare to let that bastard enter the house, I'll fucking kick you out!"

At first, Eminem was a little afraid of Ai Er, because the little boy was unsmiling, sitting in the yard like a stone statue, unpredictable.But soon he discovered that Ai Er was very close to him and Raig from the bottom of his heart, but he was only afraid of causing the other party's resentment, so he patiently waited for the day when they let go of their guard.

"Second brother."

Eyre called him "Brother" for the first time.Eminem thought happily, I have a younger brother!He carried his elder brother behind his back, and often stole some food and clothes from home to feed and clothe Aihe.Lai Ge refused to let Ai Er enter the house, so Eminem secretly looked for Ai Er in the middle of the night holding the bedding, fearing that the other party would be cold.Fortunately, Ai Er was smarter than he imagined. He dried the hay during the day and huddled in the haystack to sleep at night, so he could avoid the cold wind.

Ai Er was woken up in the middle of the night by Ah Mu's shaking, and looked sleepily at the other party spreading the thick and warm quilt for him. After a long silence, he choked up and said, "Thank you, second brother."

"You're welcome, brother should do it." Amu happily rubbed Ai'er's head.Ai Er wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said, "Second Brother, does Big Brother still hate me?"

"...Uh." Ah Mu scratched his head in embarrassment, "That's right. The elder brother has a temper made of ice, and he can't be pulled back easily, nor can he be melted... But don't worry, the second brother will help you persuade him..."

"No need, second brother." Aihe said, a gleam of light flashed in his dark eyes, "Just please tell me what elder brother likes and wants--I will help him realize it."

****

Ah Mu secretly felt that his younger brother was not simple.While he and his elder brother were plowing the land and grazing cattle, rushing to the market early in the morning and late in the evening for a penny of twenty soles, Ai Er went to a blacksmith's shop as an apprentice.He mastered the skill of forging iron and swords, and because of this, he met a group of swordsmen with strong martial arts in the iron shop, and asked them for advice.

Aiye is already very intelligent, and he can draw inferences with a little bit of advice. In addition, he is friendly and clever in dealing with people, so he quickly mastered swordsmanship and can play it well.

Eminem said worriedly, "Aihe, my brother scolded you again yesterday. He said that you didn't do your farm work well, and that you went to the smithy all day to fix useless things, which would drag him down."

Aie smiled, "Don't worry, Second Brother. Big Brother will stop complaining soon."

A year later, Ai Er participated in a swordsmanship tournament held in a neighboring village.He didn't report to any of his elder brothers that day, and he disappeared from dawn to dusk.When night fell, he held the roast goose and pork legs he bought from the market in one hand, and a cloth bag stuffed with coins in the other.With a long sword on his back, he came back from the neighboring village in good spirits.

Eminem remembered that it was the first time his elder brother let Ai Er in the door.The younger brother handed in all the coins in the bag, as if he had never been abused by Reiger, and gently called "Brother".

Although Raig was humming unhappily, Eminem could understand that he was in a good mood.The three brothers shared the roast goose and pork leg, and from then on, Raig never drove Ai Er out of the house.Ah Mu was very relieved, thinking that although the elder brother hadn't recognized the younger brother, Ai Er finally had a room to live in, so he didn't have to suffer from the cold outside late at night.

The longer he gets along with Ai Er, the more he feels that his brother is not simple.He once heard from an old man in the village that some people are born shallow, like paper, which can be seen through at a glance, and broken when poked.But some people are different. He is like a whirlpool, mysterious and unpredictable. The more you watch, the more you can feel the irresistible force.

Eminem felt that his younger brother Ayer belonged to the latter group.Whenever he saw Ai Er practicing sword against the scarecrow tied in mid-air, he would think that Ai Er actually has many similarities with him and Rieger.Ir's nose and eyes resembled Raig's, and his mouth and ears resembled him, but there was a huge difference between them, an invisible but important difference.

That distinction, which he didn't understand until many years later, was "vision."Sometimes, compared with ability and experience, a person's "vision" determines the position and height he can reach in the end.

That's why, the three of them went to Wangcheng together to enlist in the army, and he and his eldest brother were just ordinary city guard soldiers—it was supposed to be like this, but later Laige got into a drunken brawl and was punished by his superiors. Assigned to the stables to look after the horses.

And their younger brother is the silver knight of the current king.

The author has something to say: the interlude is about the end of three chapters, and there will be some important information =v=