Chapter Thirty-Five: Once Upon a Time

In a word, there is a big difference between saying it yourself and saying it to others.

Bai Li Tang emphasized twice, she is his sister. There was no emotion in this, just like an ordinary little gossip. However, when these words came out of the mouth of Baili Shangliang, the elder brother, she trembled obviously.

At the age of nearly five years, there shouldn't have been too many complicated emotions. But for a child who has few people to care for, there is something different.

When the little boy Baili Shangliang said this sentence "You are my sister", the tone was like choosing the owner of a thing, with a domineering possessiveness, not gentle at all, but at least he said it.

For the first time, Xiao Baili Tang felt that his survival had something to sustenance.

She lifted her head from the crook of his arm and responded, "Well, I'm my brother's sister." He spoke in a thick nasal voice.

Just like the feeling of a child, in the days to come, the little boy Baili Shangliang will bring his sister from time to time when he reads and plays, he takes her to his little friend group, and loudly declares, this is my sister, you all have to treat her well in the future, of course, the most important thing is to treat me well first.

Then a group of children of different sizes surrounded the little Baili Tang who was timidly hiding behind his brother, Bai Li Tang always felt too rusty at first, and among the children and teenagers, she was the youngest. But after a long time, she began to like this brother's group again, and she seriously felt that this was what childhood should be.

Sometimes, Baili Shangliang will take Baili Tang and the two of them go fishing together, saying that the fish caught are more delicious.

Baili Tang didn't know how to fish, so she only sat next to her, holding her chin with both hands, and singing the ballad that her brother forced her to learn in the alleys of Wangcheng.

The little boy Baili Shangliang has almost grown into a big boy, but Xiao Baili Tang still has a childish voice.

In the twilight sunset, she began to sing:

"It was dark and the rain was coming. The figure on the lonely steps, the light smoke of the sunset returns. Where's the sound? The shepherd's flute is secluded. ”

She vaguely knew that it was a song written by a young woman who had just been married and sang to her husband, who was grazing herd.

On one side of the sky the sun was setting leisurely, and on the other side of the sky there were dark clouds that suddenly crushed and piled up, and the signs of rain became more and more obvious, and the woman became more and more worried about her husband, and heard the faint sound of the shepherd's flute, who played the tune, the woman did not know, she was just worried that she missed her husband.

Of course, at that time, Baili Tang didn't know much about the meaning of this song, and Feng Yasong didn't understand much of it. All she knew was that Lu Dao sang in a low voice in a childish voice.

And by the time she understood, she had grown up. She never sang like that again.

Sometimes Baili Tang is tired of singing, and Baili Shangliang has not caught a single fish.

The impatient little boy would put down the fishing rod, stand up dejectedly and go elsewhere: "Forget it, let's stop fishing, ask Nian Niang in the kitchen to make us fish to eat!" ”

Only then did Xiao Baili Tang obediently close his mouth, stop the song he hadn't finished singing, get up and follow his brother with small steps. It's really a little too well-behaved sister.。

Time flies, more or less reading the child's affection.

Judging from the bystanders, the young boy Baili Shangliang did not treat his sister very well, his usual commanding tone, his consistent self-centeredness, and the only bit of protection was to declare his ownership of her like others.

But these are enough in Xiao Bailitang's eyes. Her life is getting happier and happier, she wakes up every day and knows that her brother will take her to play again, it's good not to be alone.

But life is not as good as imagined, on Xiao Bailitang's fifth birthday, Baili Shangliang brought a distant cousin to celebrate her.

It was also a snowy day.

The weather was very cold, and the family made big cotton clothes, and they didn't forget to leave two pieces for this unfavored young lady.

Bai Litang wore a newly issued cotton coat and happily stood in the yard waiting for her brother to come over to help her celebrate her birthday.

She has never had such an event as a birthday celebration since she was born, and when her brother brought it up, she timidly worried that her father would be angry, so she refused and shook her head in refusal.

But Baili Shangliang insisted very much: "You are my sister, how can you not have a birthday, they forgot, my brother can't afford to lose this memory." ”

She had always listened to her brother's words, and she made a promise.

I heard my brother say that it is interesting to celebrate the birthday together. probably thought of the term that she couldn't summon everyone in such an embarrassing identity, and then changed her mind and said, a cousin wants to come to me to learn literacy, just right, let her come over, and the three of them can get together at a table.

Bai Litang is actually not very interested in the three of them or anything, she just wants to stay by her brother's side. Until the strange girl of her age suddenly appeared in the courtyard, she still thought the same.

What is the name of the little girl, and the later Baili Tang can't remember. I just remember the not very friendly eyebrows, the very annoyed attitude.

"Hmph, you actually look better than me, no wonder my brother didn't accompany me to practice calligraphy, and asked me to accompany you to celebrate your birthday, hum! Leprechauns! ”

Xiao Baili Tang pulled his sleeves and retorted: "If you don't want to come, you won't come, I didn't ask you to come." ”

The little girl burst into tears when she heard this, and suddenly stretched out her hands and pushed over, this action was so unexpected that Xiao Baili Tang didn't react for a while that she was attacked.

Xu that little girl was just jealous and wanted to push her down on the snow, but bad luck came up, but the position where Baili Tang stood was the edge of the pool, she stumbled, and fell straight back into the cold and biting pool water, making a huge splash on the meager ice.

The newly changed cotton clothes absorb water very much, dragging the begonia that will not drain the water to sink, and the weak little body is under the thin ice water, like a lonely little flower.

Fortunately, Baili Shangliang appeared in time, and when he saw his sister fall into the pool, he immediately took off his robe and went to save him.

"Since you can't swim, don't stand by the pool, stupid girl!"

In the middle of the sound, the little boy Baili Shangliang hugged the choking Xiaobaili Tang ashore and said angrily, the bodies of the two were already trembling after being soaked in the extremely cold water.

The night breeze in the middle of the summer three watch queen, has been completed into a soon marryable Baili and the eaves when talking about this matter, the tone is still very slow and light, and the smile that gradually rises on the corner of the mouth cannot be faked in the extremely quiet night.

Hua Wei listened half soberly and half confused, and secretly thought in her heart, it seems that that incident has a lot of weight on this eldest sister.

"He said, don't stand by the pool if you don't know how to swim, he scolded me for being a stupid girl, but I think it's very warm and warm, from childhood to adulthood, that's the real person who is good to me...... You know, what I told you, some memories were told to me by others, and some were pieced together with vague impressions, but I really remember that thing, and I remember it very clearly......"

Through the weak light of the lamp, Bailitang's eyes reflected a shadow like autumn water, and the voice of telling the past became more and more ethereal and gentle.

Peeling back the door of memories covered with rust, one year at the handover of winter and spring, Baili Tang was very sick, Baili Shangliang took a bag of candy and threw it at her bedside, "Here you go, you have to eat it all, and Lang is not allowed to pay for it." ”

Another time, she was holding a pen under the tree to practice calligraphy, Baili Shangliang came over, looked at her words, knocked on her head a few times, shook his head and said: "Your words are so ugly, you really lose the face of the Baili family, from today on, give me a few hours of practice every day, my brother will teach you!" ”

When Xiao Baili Tang was seven years old, a woman walked into Baili's house with a girl of her age, and threatened to bring her daughter back to see her father.

As if infected by this commotion, a woman came with a little girl.

Then a young woman came with a little boy.

The old lady was angry and scolded them for being liars. It's just that Bai Liye rarely bowed his head honestly, and they all recognized the identities of these children.

When things were in trouble at Baili's house, Baili Shangliang was very unhappy and ran to a place with beautiful mountains and rivers outside the city every day.

"Hmph, there is another broken shoe, I won't admit that I have other brothers and sisters, Daddy is not afraid of dying in sex, I have a stupid sister like Ah Tang, it's enough." He said angrily, while holding Xiao Baitang's hand tightly and running towards the pasture, "Brother will take you to shear sheep!" I know the old man who was herding sheep. ”

Baili Tang doesn't understand what's wrong with a few more people in the family, and her mind is obviously not as complicated as the much-loved Baili Shangliang.

Anyway, it's good for her to be able to see her brother.

My brother would praise her peach blossom crisp for being delicious, would say that she was as beautiful as a begonia flower, and would take her to play. Nothing else.

However, the intersection of human life and personality is still so complex in the unpredictable world and people's hearts, so complex that it is impossible to speculate. Sometimes a small change can throw the whole trajectory in a completely different place.

In the thirty-ninth year of the emperor's fate in the world, the daughter's festival of Wangcheng was very lively, and with the permission of Mrs. Liu Su, Baili Tang, who had been playing very well with the two unfavored sisters, was dragged to participate in the festival together.

Before leaving, the close maid dressed up Baili Tang carefully. In this year, Baili Tang, who has almost turned twelve years old, has been very beautiful, and there is a faint girl's posture.

Because the three daughters' families were still a little jealous, Baili Tang ran to the eldest brother's yard and wanted to ask Baili Shangliang to accompany him.

A pink smoke yarn scattered skirt came into view, with the golden silk thread like the fetal hair embroidered on the clothing of the begonias, a blooming flower, natural and splendid, and the person's elegant and beautiful image of each other, wonderful.

Baili Shangliang, who was already a teenager, was practicing calligraphy in front of the case, and when he raised his eyes and saw his sister who was dressed very well, his expression was stunned, and he frowned and said: "Who taught you to dress like this?" ”