I asked about my brother's birthday that day, and I thought: My brother has always been kind to me, and I want to give him a gift. As for what gifts, I didn't think about them at the time, I just wanted to go down the mountain to see if those shops were suitable.

Obviously, he only went down the mountain to play once, but he still pestered his brother to go down the mountain, and he didn't want his brother to know that he wanted to choose a gift for him, so he said that he wanted to go to the market to play. I asked my brother, "Can I just go out with Ying'er for a day?" Just go for a day... Go early, then go back in the afternoon, soon..."

The senior brother sternly rejected me, "I didn't do it for a day, I only went down the mountain to play, how do you know how to play?" I'll have to talk about it in a few days. ”

I asked, "How many days will it be?" ”

Senior brother just looked at me, I could read the displeasure in his eyes, and hurriedly covered his mouth to signal that he would not ask again, and then he shifted his gaze to the book again, and I found that he was not reading "Spring and Autumn" now, but "The Mean".

It's another old-fashioned book that I don't like. After all, compared to these, I still prefer the folk word book, and the various stories recorded in the book are also very interesting, and there are also books that record the stories of the rivers and lakes.

envied the bloody rain on the rivers and lakes, and secretly vowed: In the future, I must be a chivalrous and righteous woman.

And it didn't take long to go down the mountain to go out to play, and I already knew that my senior brother would not agree, and I felt a little disappointed. However, he was more motivated, and whenever he had time, he went to Elder Yun to find a task to do. I take on tasks like helping to clean up, and even getting up early to help with meals, and I keep taking them down among the tasks that Elder Yun has put out.

Elder Yun asked me because I went too often, "Why are you taking on so many tasks?" Aren't you tired and panicked? Ying'er was stunned and said, "So much." ”

"Because I want to save money."

I'm just saying that without much explanation. Elder Yun knew about the departure of my parents, so he didn't ask about this matter, he felt that I should be just because my father and mother were not around and I didn't have any money, so I was insecure after all, and it was understandable that I wanted to save money.

Because I've been like this for the past few days, I even have less time to talk to Ying'er. When I returned to the room in the evening, Ying'er asked me, "I've been busy saving money these days, do you want to give a birthday gift to my senior brother?" ”

"yes."

I didn't hide it from Ying'er, but I was too busy during this time, and I did forget to tell her. My brother has been very kind to me and has always been very accommodating to me, of course I want to give him a nice gift, and I believe Ying'er is understandable.

"Big brother, I don't think he has anything he particularly likes. What do you want to send? ”

"I haven't figured it out yet. Let's save up for a while, and then find a way to go to the market. ”

"Senior brother won't rest assured that you will go out alone, right? And we're so far from the market."

"Then please come with me."

Ying'er glanced at me, and said in a weird way, "Now you think of me." ”

I grabbed her hand and rubbed it on her shoulder, and she pushed my head away with a look of disgust, "Go away." I stopped, and after a while the two of them laughed together.

I've been busy saving money, and by the time I'm finally done at night, it's almost past the time for my senior brother to practice swords, and I've been thinking about whether to go or not, but in the end I still didn't bother him.

I didn't go for days. I couldn't sleep at night, and I didn't think about going to the square to have a look, but I felt that it was too deliberate, so I simply didn't go, turned over and over, and finally rubbed it up again.

No, I still want to go. In fact, the senior brother didn't ask why I hadn't gone to see him practice swords recently, but I still wanted to explain, because I was too busy and wanted to talk to him.

At first he walked as fast as he could, but finally he grabbed his clothes and began to trot, running faster and faster until he reached the square.

It's just that I put on a piece of clothing that is not thick, and it is a little cold in the wind. I didn't see my brother, maybe he was gone, and he was a little lost. Step by step, he walked to the tree.

The traces brought by the sword qi seem to be deeper, and you can feel a very strong aura when you touch it lightly, so that the senior brother has no longer practiced sword here, but the tree that was scratched by the sword qi still has a strong aura of anger.

Senior brother, do you hate it so much? So why do you......

Why save me.

"Coming today?" Behind him came faintly the voice of the senior brother.

"Isn't Senior Brother gone? Why are you still here? ”

"Something has been dropped, come back and see if you can find it."

"What is it? Is it important? Can I help you find it? ”

"It's the pendant of the sword that my mother gave me before."

This is the first time I've heard my brother talk about his mother, and now is not the time to pursue this. I didn't know what to say, but I just said something in a hurry, "Then I'll look for it with you." "I remember that the pendant was two small white beads with an emerald bead in the middle, and I asked for it clearly, and I have been looking for it with my senior brother.

But the pendant is not too big, and I don't know where it fell. The senior brother kept looking for it everywhere, and he was very anxious, and he even kept picking up the grass to check, but he never found it.

"Where have we been?" The senior brother frowned and kept muttering, "It should be here." ”

No matter how I looked for it, I couldn't find it, and at that time I didn't know what that little pendant meant to my brother. It was a relic of his brother's mother, and he looked at it from time to time.

He not only loves beads, but also keeps himself firmly in mind the hatred of destroying the door back then.

I searched with him for a long time but never found his pendant. My brother asked me to go back to sleep, and I persuaded him to go back and rest. He just shook his head, his eyes empty.

It wasn't until the sky was a little bright that the senior brother left here in despair, looking very worried. When I saw him again, he didn't seem to be any different except for his empty eyes and a little listlessness.

Although he said on the surface, "It's okay, if you lose it, you can lose it." But I could still understand the loss in his eyes.

After all, it was something that the late mother gave me.

Since then, I have gone from actively going to Elder Yun to accept the task, to looking around here whenever I have time, looking for the pendant that Senior Brother has lost.

I understand too well, I understand too well that my father and mother have passed away, and for my brother, maybe this little pendant may be something very important to him. I searched for several days and found it in a bush.

At that time, the pendant was already very dirty, wrapped in a thick layer of earth, and the beads had lost their luster. I took care of it and finally gave it to my brother.

The senior brother, who seemed to be listless for several days, suddenly came back to his senses and asked, "Did you find it?" ”

"Hmm."

"You sent it back."

"Hmm."

Later, the senior brother cried and kept saying, "You sent it back." ”

Maybe it was fate, the day I found this pendant and returned it to my brother, it was my brother's birthday. I watched him smile, but tears kept dripping.