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"Huh!"

At the commissary at the intersection, groups of neighbors are rubbing mahjong and chatting about the sky. At the entrance of the long street, teenagers in school uniforms are speeding on skateboards on the old cement road.

"Aunt Chen is in good luck today."

It was Min Qian, the youngest son of the Murao Gao Zhengnan family, who is 13 years old this year. In the first year of junior high school in Qiaowai, he would step on his skateboard home from this long concrete street every day after school. The fresh broken bangs of the student's head, the white and clean face, and the height of nearly 1.7 meters have always been a fixed scenery on this street.

He would greet the neighbors on the side of the road every day when he went home, his big eyes were crooked when he smiled, his pointed chin and the baby fat on his cheeks that had not yet been shaken off, and his pink pouting mouth, the neighbors said that he looked like his mother and was as delicate as a girl.

Usually Min Qian listens to the song slowly when he goes home, but today he is in a hurry, the skateboard is fast, and the neighbors in the commissary have just heard his voice, and the person who turned his head has disappeared.

Min Qian almost knocked open the big iron gate in the yard, the old big iron door made a creaking protest sound, and Min Qian had already pushed open the door of the house with a skateboard, and when he entered the door, he didn't raise his head, put the skateboard next to the shoe rack, shouted "I'm back", and then stepped on the heel of the shoe, rubbed the shoe off, and walked barefoot through the living room corridor upstairs.

His mother, Sister Min Yu, and stepfather, Gao Zhengnan, turned around, and they had already reached the corner of the stairs.

Min Qian went upstairs and opened the door at the corner of the stairwell, which was his brother Gao Yas's room.

Gao Yasi is 16 years old and is in his first year of high school at the experimental middle school. The neighbors all said that Gao Zhengnan was blessed, he was honest, and his two sons looked like their mothers, tall and handsome. The younger son is fresh and delicate, the elf is cute, and the eldest son is handsome and steady, sunny and handsome.

Gao Yas sat on a wicker chair on the balcony and read the comics, and smiled slightly when he heard the sound of the door being opened, and did not raise his head. He didn't even have to guess, there could be no one else who would open his door in this way except his clingy brother and his cheap sworn friend.

As soon as Min Qian pushed open the door, he rushed in and said, "Brother, I have a piano competition after the exam, will you go and cheer me on?" ”

Gao Yas is a typical shepherd boy, with developed limbs and a good mind, but he just doesn't have any literary and artistic cells, and he can't be interested in art. On the contrary, in addition to his personality is not literary and artistic, his younger brother Min Qian has shown amazing talent in singing and dancing, calligraphy and painting, guitar, and drums. After all, it wasn't born by the same parents.

Gao Yas stretched lazily, "Aren't you always the first with or without refueling?" I didn't go, I was bored. ”

Min Qian was not happy when he heard this, walked to the balcony, sat on Yas's lap, and looked aggrieved, "That's different, I'm already in the junior high school group this year, and I won't compare with a group of little kids anymore." ”

The sixteen-year-old boy was hilarious to hear the clingy thirteen-year-old boy say that others were "little kids".

"Get out of the way." Gao Yasi picked up the book and patted Min Qian on the forehead, Min Qian got up obediently, "You are not a little kid when you go to junior high school, let alone sixteen or eighteen, you don't even have fourteen, and you dare to say that others are little kids?" ”

"I don't care, anyway, I don't have to compare with people younger than me," Min Qian pouted, stroked his messy bangs, and said coquettishly, "Brother, you just go, you didn't go to this autumn game." ”

"Didn't I have a basketball game then?" Yas was a little apologetic, he didn't really want to go, looking back, except for the fall game, which happened to coincide with the school basketball team tryout, he didn't miss every big or small game Min Qian participated in.

"I'll see if there's time, I'll go if there's one, and if there's no ......"

"It's a holiday during the game, you must have time!" Min Qian complained with a complaining face, and his childishness was exposed.

Yas smiled secretly in his heart, picked up the comic and pretended to read the book, and was really snatched away by Min Qian, "Don't look at it, you are much more handsome than Rukawa Kaede, if Rukawa Kaede can run out and fight you, he is definitely not your opponent." ”

Yas glanced at Min Qian arrogantly, "Not enough, not enough." ”

"You can pick my CF outfit." Stinky brother, I know you're here again. Min Qian complained secretly.

Yas succeeded in his goal, and secretly rejoiced in his heart, but he still had to pretend to be unmoved and continue to read the comics.

"Okay, brother~" Min Qian snatched Yas's book, put it aside, and continued to sit on Yas's lap coquettishly, "Look, Brother Ke Yang has been busy tutoring recently and has no time to play games with you, I'll play with you." ”

"You're going to play a game with me?" Yas smiled evilly, and Min Qian faintly sensed danger, but nodded obediently. Then Yas pushed him away, and the evil smile became eerie, and he stood up directly, and said quickly: "I'm going to tell your mother, you want to play a game with me." ”

The dead rib was caught, Min Qian's face changed greatly, and he glared at Yas angrily, but soon turned his face and cried out like a mournful cry on Yas, "Brother~"

"How do you call my brother?!" Then there was a crisp sound, and a wail, and later when Min Qian went to the toilet, there was still a big slap mark on his buttocks. "Do you still play games? Still playing games with me? The skin is so tender, why is the skin so thick? "After the spanking, it's the face, and the fleshy face doesn't pinch it twice, Yas always feels sorry for its feel.

Min Qian was in pain, and slapped Yas's hand to beg for mercy, "Brother, don't dare, don't dare." ”

The two brothers quarreled for a long time, and Yas was tired before he was willing to let go of Min Qian. Min Qian pouted, stroking his pinched red cheeks, he kept complaining that the baby fat on both sides of his cheeks that couldn't be removed even after being so big was pinched by his mother when he was a child.

"Brother, I let you beat it, and I scolded you, go it." Min Qian still continued to pretend to be pitiful.

"Not enough, not enough." Yas Thief glanced at Min Qian with a glittering light, and then moved his gaze to the computer, "Let's play two games first." ”

Min Qian instantly realized, "Brother, you are really inconsistent." ”

"Go back to your room."

The weather is unusually warm, the winter in the south is like a joke, in the afternoon still wearing a thin coat, after the sun sets, the temperature plummets by nearly ten degrees, and the cold wind comes, so cold that people shrink their necks into their collars.

On the day of the winter vacation, the square outside the Children's Palace ushered in the most lively day, and it was no longer the exclusive territory of the uncles and aunts who danced aerobics. Every year, the Municipal Palace of Culture holds a literary and artistic competition for children from elementary school to junior high school.

Tonight is the day of the piano competition. Parents led children with bright makeup, gorgeous costumes, and cotton clothes to the square one after another. Min Qian is the same, he has grown a lot in height in a year, and the British-style suit that Min Jieyu made for him last year no longer fits. This year, Min Jianyu personally rushed to a European-style court robe, a white ruffle collar shirt, a black tuxedo, cropped trousers with shiny small leather shoes, and a bow, like a prince, completely killing those males in the square. Their family standing in the square is a sight, except for Gao Zhengnan like a joke.

Min Qian has participated in such a large-scale competition for 3 years, except for the second place in the primary school group in the first year, and the first place in the last two years, this year is the 4th time he has participated in the competition, and the first time he has entered the junior group, so he has been very excited. I had long urged my mother to put on makeup and go out, but when I arrived at the square, I waited for half an hour and the teacher of the piano store did not come.

Some of the children who participated in this year's competition were those he knew and those he didn't. What he wants to know most is the young lady who won the junior championship last year. He played the song he played last year when the young lady won the championship, and this year he wants to show his hand and take home the championship trophy of the junior group.

Min Qian's teacher came, and with a few students who participated in the competition, Min Sister Yu led Min Qian to greet the teacher, which was nothing more than those kind words of thanks. Yas was not interested in this kind of artistic stuff, and he was not interested in the kind of polite words that were inconsistent with his heart. If it weren't for Min Qian, he wouldn't have bothered to take a look even if he passed by.

Yas looked boredly at the crowd of people coming and going, sighing at the parents who frequently put pressure on their children, and lamenting how free he was. Then he was locked by the sudden sound of high heels hitting the ground, and his eyes swept over the shiny black boots, the knee-length hip skirt of the woolen plaid area, the white stand-up collar sweater, the open black woolen coat, the long dark brown curly hair, the fair face with gold-rimmed glasses and big red lips, and the whole body was a capable strong woman's momentum, which reminded him of his own mother abroad.

Yas looked away with some disdain, and his eyes swept to the girl behind the woman. The girl has long black hair that fascinates boys, bangs are braided with whips behind her ears, her face is a little like Min Qian, her chin is pointy, her cheeks are a little baby fat, she is wrapped in a black loose over-the-knee down jacket, faintly revealing the skirt of the dark dress, and her feet in dark lace-up shoes follow the woman with small steps.

Yas stared at her face, and the ugly expression on his face looked like Min Qian had just finished training by Sister Min. Yas decided that it should also be a child who was going to compete, and silently muttered in his heart, another child who was even more sad than him, he didn't want him anymore, and he still intervened in his life from time to time, fortunately he lived with his father and aunt, otherwise he would rather scavenge and wander.

The competition started, starting with the primary school group. Min Qian sat in the audience and watched with them, no matter whether it sounded good or not, whether they could understand it or not, Gao Zhengnan and Min Sister Yu both looked appreciative and intoxicated. Min Qian looked at Yas from time to time, Yas was really not interested, and he was not interested in looking at the group of parents who didn't understand and pretended to be intoxicated, and when he saw Min Qian looking at him, he stared at Min Qian with a loveless look. Later, as he had done before, he yawned twice, leaned back in his chair and fell asleep. It wasn't until the end of the primary school group that Min Qian was about to go on stage before he was woken up.

Yas really didn't disappoint Min Qian, and listened to the whole piece soberly, although he was tired of listening to it at home. The funniest thing is his father, when Min Qian finished playing and repeated "My son, my son" to the parents around him, he and Min Sister Yuting tacitly whitened Gao Zhengnan's eyes. Min Qian's performance won the highest applause since the opening, and the next one was so average that Yas began to get confused again. When he woke up again, he was woken up by a burst of applause, and at first he thought it was someone who had finished the applause, but when he opened his eyes, he found that the performer had just come on stage. His seat was in the front row, and he could see that it was the group of judges and teachers who took the lead in applauding.

It's not calm before it starts playing, so it's not calm, it can't be an insider.

Yas was silently worried about Min Qian. Yas glanced at the judges' seat with disdain, and then glanced at the stage screen---- Yayun piano player, Lin Xi. In the end, Yas set his eyes on the contestants, and it turned out that he saw the girl in the square. Taking off the heavy cotton coat, wearing the gradient dark blue dress alone looks pretty good, and the silver sequins on the dress shine under the stage lights, as if wearing a Milky Way on the body. She faded from the timidity of following the woman, confidently and calmly walked onto the stage, introduced herself and the repertoire to the audience in a clear and gentle voice, and then sat down gracefully at the piano and began to play. The spotlight has been on her, and her every move makes the galaxy on her body shine.

When Yas was at home, he heard Min Qian play a lot of tunes, but he didn't even hear the melody of Lin Xi's tunes. The melodies rise and fall, sometimes like a trickle, sometimes like stormy waves. It's like telling a story of ordinariness and unwillingness. He moved his gaze to the big screen, which read, "Originalβ€”the sea of the stars that year".

Yas was unconsciously attracted by the sound of the piano and at the same time focused his eyes on Lin Xi's body, her long hair dancing with the swing of her body, and her hands struck the keys flexibly and gracefully. Her face was white, her lips were pink, her eyes were slightly squinted, her eyelashes were shiny, and the wisps of bangs that fell off inadvertently fluttered left and right in front of her forehead, and there seemed to be a sea of stars in her eyes. The stars lingered in her hair and fell on the deep blue sea. The gauze skirt swayed slightly, the sea rose gently with gentle waves, and there were the reflections of all the stars on the surface of the sea, and at the end of the sea was her face.

At the end of Lin Xi's performance, there was thunderous applause, and it was the group of judges who took the lead in applauding, but Yas no longer felt that there was a shady scene, because his hands also felt deeply numb. Min Qian pouted his signature little mouth and returned to his seat, the whole family knew that he was going to lose, Yas pouted and shook his head provocatively, Min Qian sniffed, and drilled into Gao Zhengnan's arms with an aggrieved expression, Min Sister Yu slapped him on the ass and asked him to sit down. He sat down obediently, and then began to complain, "That woman is so bad, playing a song last year was so simple, I thought she was so level, underestimated the enemy, I knew that it was more difficult for me to make the first one, or I also wrote an original song myself." ”

"You're embarrassed to say it, making you proud and making you not study hard." Min Sister Yu said while pretending to hit Min Qian's arm.

"Auntie, don't fight, he may not be able to win if you change the song." Yas said that faintly, and then was glared at by Gao Zhengnan.

"Brother," Min Qian sat up straight all of a sudden, his mouth pursed high, "How can you hurt people more than Brother Yang Yang?" ”

"Tell you the truth." Concise and to the point, with a look of defiance and ridicule.

Gao Zhengnan patted Min Qian on the shoulder through Min Sister Yu, Min Qian turned his face to look at Gao Zhengnan aggrievedly, but when he saw his mother's gloating expression, he pretended to be even more aggrieved, and sat with his head drooped and silent.

"Okay, okay, next time we work hard, we won't fight for the first place this time, let's try to win an award, and the excellence award is okay." Yas patted Min Qian's back insincerely, Min Qian killed with a slap in the face, and Yas snickered.

"I'm at odds with her, next time I'll kill him by surprise." Min Qian's angry appearance amused the family.

"Don't worry too much about the child's family, isn't it that there is no result yet, even if you don't win the championship, our family is humble." Gao Zhengnan's fatherly comfort, Min Qian sniffed hard, pretended to be very moved, turned his head to look at Yas fiercely, and raised his chin.

Yas pursed his lips and touched the bangs on Min Qian's forehead twice, "Okay, okay, let's go home and play Chopin's etudes smoothly first, and play it passionately." ”

Then, Min Qian's face darkened, and his hand grabbed Yas's waist, and a scream and demonic laughter were mixed with applause.