The grandfather was so angry by the second brother's actions that he kept chanting "the family is unlucky", and the eldest aunt and the second aunt gloated with a look of schadenfreude. Knowing that silence was the most powerful response at this time, my mother came up silently and took my hand.

I suddenly understood my mother's hard work, and the happiness of the second brother is not something that anyone can control or help, only by his own efforts. Wei Eryue couldn't run far before he was chased by the second brother, and the second brother stretched out his hand to support her, but he didn't expect to be broken away by her. It was in this process that Wei Eryue suddenly lost her balance, she shook a few times, and saw that she was about to fall on the cold and hard cement. The second brother finally lived up to the expectations of me and my mother, he reached out and helped Wei Eryue up with a heroic attitude of saving beauty

The next progress does not need to be repeated, Wei February's heart has experienced a dangerous situation with grievances in his heart, and with mixed feelings in his heart, he hugged his second brother and burst into tears. The second brother never said it in his mouth, but in fact, he was a meticulous person. Of course, he knew that Wei Eryue had been wronged, so he immediately hugged her back. He hesitated for a few seconds, and finally solemnly made his promise. I can't imagine what the second brother's affectionate style looks like, but in this way, Wei February's half-push and half-on-the-spot agreed to his proposal.

Two days later, I was dragged by my second brother to Nanjing Road to pick a wedding ring. He walked from Yongan Department Store to Sincere Company, probably because he paid too much attention to it, and the second brother, who had always been chic, inevitably became a mother-in-law. He struggled between rubies, sapphires and diamonds for a long time, and I could only helplessly and innocently accompany him for a long time. Later, even the clerk couldn't stand it. She was embarrassed to say anything, so she could only tell her second brother that no matter what style, the most important thing was that heart.

With this episode in between, the course of events is fundamentally reversed. The jewels that were too glittering were dazzling, but in the end, they chose a plain gold ring. He told me that in the Western mindset of wedding rings, it is all about promise, and even royalty and aristocrats sometimes choose the simplest plain style. But where others can't see, they put a lot of thought into it. For example, the initials of two people are engraved, or a love motto, such a finger has a deep emotional value compared to a bejeweled pigeon egg.

What I didn't expect was that the second brother had a more profound reason for doing this. She says a diamond-encrusted ring can now buy almost a house in the city, let alone buy it for necessities. Now he is the only one who can provoke the beam in the family, and even Wei February's own presumably will not agree to him using so much money to buy a ring.

I looked at the second brother, and suddenly I was in a trance, no matter how big my nerves were, I had already discovered that the second brother had been secretly arranging the retreat of the whole family during these days. As soon as we walked out of the store, I asked him very bluntly if he had received any news, if he could not even keep the concession, and the whole family had to be displaced again.

The second brother looked at me meaningfully, his eyes were as sharp as knives, and a premonition flashed in my heart, maybe he already knew that I was testing him. However, after a few seconds of silence, he did not expose my intentions, but chose to tell the truth. He said that with the current international situation and the domestic war situation, it is really difficult to say whether the concession will fall. Since the defeat in World War I, the Germans have been subjected to sanctions and oppression by European countries, and they have long been holding back their strength to save themselves from the situation they are in. Their revival plans have actually started a long time ago, and the rapid development of their technology is by no means an overnight thing, many things are inextricably linked, and only a few people realize it later.

His words just corroborated Gu Zuoyan's last remark about the persecution of the Jews by the Germans, and I felt nervous, so I asked him again, if the Germans dragged Europe into the war, what would be the impact on China? Will they be like the Russo-Japanese War, running to the borders of the Chinese to fight, and in the end it is not the common people who are unlucky?

The second brother shook his head, the Germans are really hard to say. However, at present, from Chairman Chiang to all the commanders of the military department, they are all bent on learning from Germany, and the central military is equipped with a full set of German armaments. The Great Powers had not yet declared war on the Germans, so they could not affect the situation at home. As for the future, it is difficult to say, after all, international politics is rapidly changing, and it affects the whole body.

I nodded, reassured. My second brother and I walked side by side on the streets in early winter, and the sycamores on both sides had already shed their golden yellow, leaving only bare tree trunks. I don't know who did it because the color was too white, or if it was a psychological factor, but I felt that there was only Xiao Suo left in my eyes, and I was a slim loss in my heart. We walked in relative silence for a while, with very few people on the road, and there was no one in the shop that was always full of customers.

When I was a child, my second brother's favorite pastry room and I somehow closed, and the two of us looked at each other, but neither of us spoke. It took a long time for the second brother to break the deadlock, and he told me: "Maybe he will propose to her as soon as Wei February graduates next year, and if everything goes well with my grandfather, then everyone will be happy; But if my grandfather insists on obstructing it, I will definitely not give in this time, and then I may have to take February to find a place to live temporarily, and my mother will ask you to take care of it. ”

I happily promised him: "You can rest assured, my mother and I are doing well during the time when you are not at home, even if you are not there, it will be fine." As for grandpa, he is a knife-mouthed tofu heart, plus people of their age always pay more attention to the majesty of their parents. Think about it, our generation doesn't expect you to count on anyone, the eldest brother is now uncertain about life and death on the battlefield, how can grandpa be willing to let you go. I said, you just put your heart down, and if you have a baby in February, grandpa will be happy to come and pick you up in person. ”

When the second brother saw that I was full of confidence, he naturally followed my words: "You have been like a god since you were a child, I naturally believe in you." ”

In fact, both of us know that with such a stubborn personality as grandpa, the marriage between the second brother and Wei Eryue is by no means a simple matter. But just as we are self-defeatingly optimistic about war and the tragic status quo, sometimes the spirit of Ah Q is indeed the only healing medicine.

My second brother and I seem to have not had such an open and honest conversation for a long time, and since his disappearance and return, there has been an extra layer of estrangement between me and him, but for various reasons, neither of us has broken down.