When my brother was three years old, I was five years old.

One day we were playing on the dock with a few children in the village, and a few bold and water-savvy brothers and sisters were swimming in the river, but we couldn't, so we could only watch the brothers and sisters on the shore like fish in water, diving, racing, and fighting freely and happily in the river.

"Sister, look, there are shrimp, and screws!" My brother seemed to have discovered a new continent and pulled my arm excitedly.

I fixed my eyes on the surface of the river in front of me, and on the cement slab where the river touched the pier, it was covered with green moss, and dense screws were attached to it. There are also some small shrimp and tadpoles swimming around in the river.

If there is a rice basket, put it in the water will definitely overflow the box and return with a full load.

My brother and sister, who had just been playing in the river, had swam to the other side of the river, and there was a date grove on the other side, and they were presumably going to climb the tree to pick fruit.

As I was engrossed, I heard a "plop" next to me, and my brother fell into the water!

Just now my brother was still playing by himself, fishing for fish, shrimp, and screws with his small hands, and I was just stunned, and my brother accidentally fell into the river.

At this time, I should have shouted for help, but in a nervous and frightened state, I was dumb for a while, and I wanted to shout but couldn't, so anxious that I was sweating profusely. My heart suddenly rose to my throat, and I was terrified.

"Isn't that the second child of Xiaobo's family?" An adult on the bridge passed by and saw a child in a red vest on the river falling into the water, struggling desperately, and without saying a word, plunged into the water and rescued my brother ashore.

My mother was giving a haircut, and Aunt Xu hurriedly ran over outside: "Ah Hua, it's not good, your little second son has fallen into the water, go and take a look!"

My mother cut off a piece of the guest's bald hair with a pair of scissors, and the scissors fell to the ground with a "snap", and my mother ran out of the porch with a pale face and rushed to the dock, thinking of countless possibilities.

"Ah Hua, it's okay, fortunately, the color of this kid's vest is conspicuous, I stood on the bridge and looked, this is not your little second son!" Uncle Qiang, who saved my brother, "reported" the situation to my mother with a frightened face.

My brother was rescued, he spit a few mouthfuls of water and woke up, and now he is like a nobody, looking at my mother with a pair of big glass-like eyes, with a cute smile, and his fleshy face is slightly red in the sun's light, like a small blooming flower, so brilliant that the sun is eclipsed.

"Thank you, thanks to you, otherwise I would have jumped into the river......" My mother felt scared, although it was summer, her back was already shocked into a cold sweat, and she hugged my brother tightly in her arms, touching and kissing. "Xinhe'er, you scared my mother to death, if something happens to you, your mother won't be alive......"

"Ah Hua, Haohao, this child will have a blessing if he doesn't die, maybe it's the nine lives of the tanuki prince! It's okay, but your family was quietly frightened, and I didn't know how ......to shout for help" Uncle Qiang became a hero who acted bravely, and everyone praised him, but he was a little embarrassed, and he had nothing to say.

The speaker has no intention, and the listener has the intention. My mother came to her senses, glared at me with angry eyes, and whispered a sentence: "Go back to you to settle the score." ”

No one else heard, but I heard it clearly and shuddered. I could perceive a fury churning in my mother's chest, like a boiler that was about to explode due to excessive pressure.

My mom took my brother's hand and asked for warmth all the way, and I silently followed them, like an outsider.

When I got home, my mom changed my brother's clean clothes and went into the kitchen. The two of us were like, watching my mother slice the ginger, put in the brown sugar, boil over high heat, and then change the heat to low for about 10 minutes, a bowl of freshly baked ginger brown sugar tea was served on the table, which was for my brother to ward off the cold.

"Phew-hoo-Haohao, Mom is blowing you cold, come, Mom feeds you!"

My brother learned to serve his own dishes and drink soup early, and my mother was overflowing with motherly heart and was still immersed in fear. At this moment, only by doing it herself, can her hanging heart be relieved a little!

"Your sister is muddy, you don't know what to shout when you fall into the river, it's really stupid, baby, drink the ginger tea, otherwise you will have to get an injection if you catch a cold!"

My brother obediently drank the ginger tea, and my mother led him to the Bodhisattva again.

"Thank you to the great mercy and compassion of Guanyin Bodhisattva to bless Hao Hao and be safe! Hao Hao, quick, kowtow to the Bodhisattva three times, today thanks to the Bodhisattva to bless you, I didn't take your life. ”

My brother knelt on the futon and kowtowed three times.

At this time, my father came back, and when he saw my mother's resentment, he asked with a smile: "Ah Hua, what's wrong? Is there a guest who is embarrassing you? Tell me, I'll fix him!"

"No......! You almost didn't see your son!" my mother glared at me again, anger coming back up. "It's this dead girl, I asked her to take her brother well, but she took her brother to the dock to play, Hao Hao also fell into the river, fortunately Qiangzi found out that Hao Hao saved a small life, this girl didn't know how to shout when she saw her brother fall into the river, I don't know if she deliberately wanted her brother to ......"

My mom didn't say it all, but I understood that she suspected that I wanted to deliberately drown my brother so that no one would compete with me for favor, but my mom really thought about it, and I never thought so.

There are some women in the neighborhood who have nothing to do, and they often instigate our sibling relationship: "Your mother doesn't like you anymore when she has a brother!" "Your mother doesn't want you anymore!" ......

I was saddened by these words, but I never thought of harm, I was only five years old, could I have such a city government that wanted to drown my brother?

My dad listened to my mother's complaints, sighed, no punishment or blame, and glanced at me lightly, that look made me feel cold more than scolding me and beating me.

At night, my mother asked me to kneel, and I knelt on a washboard, which was made of hard material, and my knees hurt not long after kneeling.

"Don't move, just kneel honestly and think about what you've done wrong!" my mother said this and went back to my room to accompany my brother.

"The moon is pooping, and there is a daddy in the belly,

Daddy came out to buy vegetables, and a grandma sat in his belly,

Grandma came out to embroider and embroider glutinous cakes,

The glutinous rice fell into the well, and became a toad,

The toad stretches out its feet, and the magpie becomes pricked,

Magpie on the tree ......"

There was a nursery rhyme that my mother used to read to me, and now she was using it to lull my brother to sleep.

I had tears in my eyes, the grievances in my heart were greater than the pain in my knees, and the heartache really surpassed the pain caused by my body.

Since then, I have become more sensible, more reticent, and more introverted.