He stayed at home for half a month that summer. The little junior sister has learned a lesson, and she will call him every two days. Most of the time he listens, she says, or he asks, and she answers.

Going to see your classmates again?

Well.

Male or female?

There are men and women.

What are you doing?

Eating, playing cards, singing.

……

He never felt like a vinegar jar and would still create this deliberate silence. Waiting for her to coax him carefully. Sometimes, when he listened, he suddenly became irritable. If a boy says two more words or two more words, he will be impatient. The little junior sister can coax him, but there is a bottom line, once he said to hang up the phone, she didn't beg him softly, just bye bye and hung up. He held his phone in his hand and was stunned for a moment, smiling bitterly at the slanting sun outside the window. I called the third child again and asked him to go out for a drink at night.

He drank alone, and the third child accompanied him. With the swallow in their arms, the two of them muttered and peeked at him, and they didn't ask much.

In the end, he couldn't bear it.

Is there an end?

Although he is the second among his brothers, he usually doesn't speak, and his words are short and fast, and he is used to being domineering.

Eh, you're getting more and more human, you know?

The third child always jumps far when he speaks, but he gets to the point.

Except for the little sister, you should have no joys, sorrows, and sorrows. It's good that you just keep it the way you are. Go on.

Originally, he was just blocked by the little sister's phone. The on-demand broadcast of the third child is timely and appropriate. He watched the swallow snuggle in the arms of the third child, and knew in his heart that he just wanted the little junior sister to be by his side all the time. I haven't seen her for half a month, and he thinks about her tightly. She has a colorful life every day, and in addition to reading, he just misses her. So he was unbalanced when he heard her, how could he not feel that she missed him much, at least not as urgently as he was.

After taking a leave of absence from his mother, he plans to return to school to continue the progress of the project. Carrying his schoolbag out of the door, the ghost sent a taxi to the long-distance bus station, he stood on the side of the road where he saw off his little sister, and a car to the suburbs drove slowly. Got on the bus and bought a ticket, and sitting on the crowded bus, he couldn't help but turn up the corners of his mouth. An hour and a half of driving, stop and go, stop and carry passengers at any time, the smell of smoke in the car, the smell of gasoline, the smell of men's sweat, he is a big man who wants to cover his nose, I really don't know how such a cold little person as the little sister stopped on this fish tanker. When he got off the bus at the terminal, he made a phone call to his little sister.

It sounds like the little girl hasn't woken up from a nap. A hoarse voice, and he didn't speak in a daze.

He stood on an unfamiliar street and read out the names of the shops on the street one by one.

I don't know when the little girl suddenly came to her senses.

What are you......?

Well, I just got out of the car.

……

Wait for me, fifteen minutes to be there. No, ten minutes and ten minutes!

Splashed his face with water, scratched his hair in the mirror, and hurriedly tied his ponytail as he walked. I ran as hard as I could to the guest house outside the living quarters. The heart was about to jump out of my throat with the sound of thumping footsteps. No, I couldn't run anymore, so I stopped, bent down and put my hands on my knees, gasping for breath while searching for my brother's figure.

I finally saw my brother standing in front of a cold drink shop, drinking Coke in the shade. When the four eyes met, he waved at me calmly, and the corners of his eyes and eyebrows remained silent. When I saw my senior brother at this time, I remembered that he probably came to Xingshi for yesterday's phone call. I cheekily pretended to be casual and walked up to him and took a sip of his Coke. The cool carbonated drink was poured down, and a belch burst out loudly. I really want to find a crack in the ground and see my brother looking at me with a frown.

Brother, why did you come here all of a sudden?

Freeloader?

No, isn't it......

The senior brother took a sip of the drink can, ignored me, and watched intently the coming and going of the street.

I left my hometown at the age of seven and came to this development zone with my mother, who had been transferred to the army. Now that I'm 19 years old, it's no longer a deserted saline desert, and pedestrian streets, supermarkets, and commercial and residential buildings have been developed in large areas. Compared to the noisy metropolis, it is clean, cozy, and has a lot less hustle and bustle. There are a few sparse pedestrians on the street, and the walk is leisurely. The sun was bright, and there was a cool breeze sitting under the parasol. I don't know what my brother is looking at, I just play with my fingers and occasionally look up at my brother.

I was always crushed by my brother's aura, he didn't speak, I didn't dare to squeak.

You grew up here?

Seven and a half years old, to be exact.

Well, no wonder.

What the?

My brother ignored my problem and stood up and carried his schoolbag on his back.

Let's go.

Oh.

After taking two steps, I stopped and looked at my senior brother with blank eyes. While glancing at the ice cream in the freezer behind him. Senior brother reluctantly turned around, bought a box and handed it to me with Lu Xue. I pursed my lips in triumph and held back my laughter.

Walking into the door of the living quarters, I suddenly felt weak for no reason, and the three floors upstairs was my father's office, which was walking on the main street across from us. Take a deep breath, you can't hide from what you should have come.

I led my brother through a corridor of vines and vines to my childhood alma mater. I dug into the ice cream and stuffed it into my mouth as I pointed it out to my brother. The entrance is a renovated lighting court, basketball, volleyball, badminton, all have their own venues, opposite is the former technical school, the company has become another office building of the administrative logistics department after the end of the technical school, the right hand side is the school, the entrance is the primary school, and then go inside is the junior high school, the standard 400-meter playground, shared.

That's where you practiced your shooting skills?

Well. Do you look at the low wall over there?

Well?

The scar on my knee was the result of jumping over the wall at that time.

How many steps do you have to jump off the wall?

The living area is actually very small, compared to the city I have seen when I grew up.

It doesn't matter how far or near it is, it's cool to jump over the wall.

The senior brother glanced at me with a wry smile, looked at the sports field from afar, and then turned his head to look at the old school building and the running track where weeds grew during the holidays.

Isn't it tattered?

Do you dislike it?

Of course I don't, I like this. Every time I have a vacation, I have to come back and walk around by myself.

Well, that's good.

During the day, everyone was at work, and there was hardly anyone to see when they walked around. My nervousness slowly eased. The senior brother turned and walked back. I also left the school.

And then what?

My brother stopped, turned his head and asked me.

I couldn't guess where he wanted to go, and tentatively asked, should I eat at home at noon?

Your home?

Well.

After saying that, I was silent, not daring to look into my brother's eyes. Of course, my brother knows that we are still in love with each other in front of my family. It took a lot of courage for me to say this.

The senior brother didn't ask any more questions, nor did he answer me exactly. Walked the same way for a while.

What time does the bus to school depart?

Half past one in the afternoon.

After a while, I thought about something.

Brother, are you going back to school?

Well.

Of course, I knew that my brother would not stay, but I was reluctant to let him go. I rolled my eyes, trying to push the tears back. Pretending not to care, I turned my head to the side, afraid that my senior brother would see my strangeness. But a senior brother is a senior brother, and my slightest hint of wind and grass can't escape his fiery eyes.

My brother finally took my hand and held it in the palm of his hand.

Didn't you hang up on me yesterday?

……

I'm about to cry.

This time I'm in a hurry, and when you say hello to home, I'll visit your little piggy nest again.

I stared at him in disgust, tears hanging from the corners of my eyes, and tears broke into laughter.

He scraped away my tears with one finger and squeezed my hand hard and walked towards the station.

I called my parents separately from the public phone, saying that I was eating out with my classmates, and reported the name of my current best friend at home, and confused the past. We found a small restaurant, a small seaside area, the seafood is fresh and cheap, the seasonal conch and clams, a plate of snail slices dipped in mustard juice, a pot of clams stewed tofu.

The time to eat was a bit long, and I was in a hurry when I got on the bus, and I almost didn't have time to say goodbye, and the car was about to leave. I'm going to shed tears again. I don't know why, it's all kinds of reluctance and reluctance.

I can't help but come back early.

Senior brother tapped my head and pinched my bottom and twisted it. The driver looked at us in the rearview mirror and smiled, and I was embarrassed to let go of my brother's hand.

I'm so attached to my brother.

I suddenly realized that I couldn't live without him.