The second brother came out of the bathroom and saw me with a giggling face.

"Laughing at what?" He asked, staring at me suspiciously.

"When you wake up, you will have oil residue powder to eat, happy!" I said, "Second brother, you are really a god, how do you know that I am up at this point?" ”

The second brother walked to the sofa and said, "Who said I bought it for you?" I bought it for myself. ”

"No matter! I'm going to eat it anyway. "I tore the fritters along the midline, inserted one petal into my bowl of soup, and laid one petal across the other bowl of noodles. When I was a child, our family of four ate noodles, and we only bought two fritters each time, and tore them open, one thin stick per person, and this habit has been retained until now, and it has become natural.

"Did you brush your teeth?" The second brother also threw a pillow to the coffee table, sat on the ground with his back against the sofa, took another piece of flour, bit the fritters in his mouth, and opened the lid.

"Didn't you brush it before going to bed last night?" I took a bite of the dough sticks that had been filled with the soup and replied as a matter of course.

The second brother took the fritters out of his mouth, stared at me in disbelief and asked, "I ate last night, do you still eat today?" ”

"I didn't eat last night!" I replied, "Not only for dinner, I didn't even eat lunch yesterday, and now I'm so hungry that my chest is pressed against my back." ”

"Who told you not to eat it? Or are you so poor that you have no money? ”

I lay on the coffee table half-over, busily put a chopstick powder in my mouth, stuffed my mouth swollen, and said inarticulately: "I came back with a special stomach to eat well." ”

The second brother snorted disdainfully: "It's so dirty! Look at your look! Alas...... How to get married! He shook his head helplessly.

"If you can't get married, you can't get married, who is rare?"

The second brother glanced at me unexpectedly, and later I realized that what I said was exactly the same as what he said when he was a child. My parents thought about my reputation as a broom star, and they were worried that no one would dare to marry me when I grew up, so he patted his chest and said, "If no one marries, no one marries, who is rare?" Fifteen is at home, and we will raise her for the rest of our lives! ”

"I'm at home anyway, me! I have already thought about it, my sister-in-law is a well-informed person, she shouldn't mind that I occupy a room, if the future second sister-in-law can't see it, or you have a child, I can't let the room out, move to the independent guest room on the third floor, and almost, build a shed next to it as a kitchen, eat and live on the top floor, so that you can't see it. "I took the opportunity to take a sip of soup. In fact, the soup is very simple, a spoonful of lard residue, a spoonful of minced shallots and two pieces of white radish, the taste is clear but not light, sweet and refreshing. There are seven or eight companies selling oil residue powder in Tao Town, but none of them can make Aunt Xu's taste, the soup is either light or too greasy, occasionally there is a good boil, and the powder is too soft, saying a thousand ways and ten thousand, after all, it is Aunt Xu's fried powder that no one in the whole Tao Town can match.

The second brother snorted coldly and said, "You think long-term!" ”

"But, second brother, can you also find someone like your sister-in-law? In that case, the rest of my life will be better? I looked solemnly at him and said, "Or do you really like cabbage?" I have her phone, do you want it? "When I was in Shen'an, living next door to me was a beautiful girl, named Mengmeng, she blushed inexplicably every time she saw the second brother, I saw her deliberately wandering near my house several times, obviously just to meet the second brother unexpectedly, the second brother greeted her, she was so nervous that she couldn't even speak, stumbling and said: "Liu... Second Brother Liu...... Morning! I teased my second brother privately and asked him what he thought, and he said, "It's good!" Cabbage-like. Since then, all the beautiful girls who approach him have become cabbages in my mouth.

The second brother glanced at me obliquely, and in the next second, the chopsticks fell on my head. "Eat your powder! You can't stop eating anything! What do I want you to agree to? ”

I wailed exaggeratedly, rubbed my head with my hand, and argued: "The relationship between my sister-in-law and sister-in-law is also very important!" ”

The second brother has been back from the army, and his girlfriend has not been broken, I thought that it would not be long before I would have another sister-in-law, but who knows that I still haven't even seen the shadow of the second sister-in-law. I'll correct my statement, I've heard and seen it, and there are a lot of people chasing after the wind, but there is no long-term real character, in the early years, my sister-in-law was still full of interest, but after being disappointed again and again, she was also indifferent, sighing and saying that it was empty words to see how good it was, as long as it wasn't brought home, it was all talking, no play!

The second brother ignored me, apparently not taking my protest seriously.

"By the way, why do you eat it on the coffee table?" I pointed to the rectangular camphor dining table behind me, "Is that an ornament?" ”

"It's too big!" The second brother didn't raise his head, "Besides, I eat downstairs on weekdays, so I don't need it." ”

"Why don't you put it here?" I looked at him inexplicably, and then I sighed again, "This is for the future second sister-in-law and nephews!" ”

"That's for you."

"Huh?" I was flattered, "For me?" ”

"Yes! For you to cook dumplings and roll meatballs. ”

I laughed twice and said, "I thank you!" Are you doing this for me or for yourself? ”

"Say whatever you want!"

When he was young, the second brother caused trouble twice in three days, and the eldest brother punished him for not having food every time in order to make him have a long memory. I was worried that the second brother was hungry, so I often took advantage of the eldest brother's time to add rice, secretly poured the rice in my bowl into the leafy vegetable gang under the table, rolled it into rice balls, and then quietly stuffed it to the second brother when the eldest brother was not paying attention. Sometimes, the third brother will cover for me, and when I roll rice balls, the third brother will secretly add rice to my bowl to avoid gangs, otherwise, the eldest brother will definitely wonder how I can eat a whole bowl of rice in half a minute. Eating a certain kind of food as a child slowly becomes a habit, and finally it becomes a preference, probably something like rice balls! The second brother loves to eat rice balls - the rice balls I make also love to eat meatballs, all kinds of meatballs.

A bowl of rice noodles with oil residue had been cleaned, and there was not even a drop of soup left, and I smacked my lips and said, "Ah! It's delicious! After all these years, the taste hasn't changed at all! As he spoke, a pair of chopsticks silently stretched out into the second brother's bowl. The second brother raised his arm slightly, and my chopsticks only touched the edge of his bowl.

"Stingy! Don't you eat it often? "I hummed.

"Who told you I eat a lot?"

"That's more than I do!"

The second brother turned his head to meet my baba eyes, but after all, he was defeated, he threw the chopsticks on the coffee table, and pushed the only small half bowl of noodles in front of me, "Give it to you, give it to you, give it to you!" Look at your two dogs, your saliva is almost flowing into the bowl, I can't eat it! ”

I grinned and said, "Second brother is the best!" ”

"I haven't eaten it in a long time! Three months ago, Aunt Xu accidentally slipped when she was soaking rice, and she kept the shop that was reopened yesterday. The second brother said slowly.

"Oh? It's okay, right? I asked as I ate.

"It's okay with a leg injury, but I'm getting older and my body isn't as good as before." The second brother paused, and said with a little hesitation, "She asked you just now, asked me if you were okay in Shen'an, and said ......."

"Say what?" In my memory, Aunt Xu is still a little aunt in her thirties, with a big twisted bun on the back of her head, her eyes as black and bright as her hair, and a pair of small pear sockets under the corners of her mouth when she laughs. I was not yet five years old when my mother died, just like the third brother to his biological mother, I don't have much memory of my mother, but I am closer to Aunt Xu. I still remember that day, I hid in the corner of the wall and secretly looked in Aunt Xu's shop for a long time and didn't dare to speak, I was afraid that she would be like everyone else, call me unlucky, and then drive me away. Aunt Xu found me and asked, "Who's outside?" I walked out timidly, and Aunt Xu smiled and said, "I'm still thinking about which beautiful doll it is, it turns out to be Qingqiu!" I called Aunt Xu softly. Aunt Xu asked me if I wanted to eat noodles, and I shook my head and said, "No...... Be...... It's my second brother who is sick, he can't eat, and I'm afraid he will die. So, I ...... I want to buy a bowl of noodles, but ...... I don't have any money, I ...... Can I help you wash the dishes? I can sweep the floor, wipe the table, and do a lot of work. Aunt Xu listened, thought for a while and said, "That's okay! Today's market day, a lot of people come to eat noodles! You have to wash it clean! Otherwise, I won't give you powder. "Actually, whether I wash the dishes or not, Aunt Xu will give me powder, but she knows that I won't ask for her powder for nothing, let alone take her money for nothing.

"She said she didn't know if she would be able to see you before she died." The second brother opened the coffee table drawer, took out the remote control inside, and turned on the TV, the TV was playing the noon news, the news said that it was snowing in Jilin, the first snow since the beginning of winter, the snow was not heavy, just covering the ground.

I stared at the TV for a long time, and then said, "She...... Do you know I'm back? ”

The second brother didn't take his eyes off the TV, and replied lightly: "I didn't say it." ”

"A few more days! Maybe...... When it snows......" I said dreamily.

The second brother tilted his head and glanced at me, stood up, and walked to the kitchen. The kitchen is large, but there are no pots, no stoves, no dishes and no bowls, only a milky white thermostatic electric kettle. He took the only two mugs out of the cupboard, rinsed them under the tap, filled them with water, and walked back to the couch to sit down, one on the coffee table and the other in his hand.

The cup on the coffee table belongs to me at a glance, and the cup is painted with a beautiful Mid-Autumn Festival Chang'e running to the moon: Chang'e fairy valerian fluttering with a red-eyed jade rabbit in her arms, dancing solo, behind Chang'e, in the bright lonely moon, stands alone in the cold and lonely Guanghan Palace, the sky is high and cold. I think if I were Chang'e, I probably wouldn't have taken the immortal pill that belonged to Hou Yi.

I thought that my second brother's cup also had a picture on it, but I found that he was holding the cobalt blue kiln glazed string pattern porcelain cup I used to drink water last night. I remember that he took photos to show me before, the eldest brother painted a water cup with different patterns for everyone in the family, the eldest brother and sister-in-law are different patterns of "dragon flying phoenix dance", the third brother and the third sister-in-law are different styles of "queqiao meeting", mine is Chang'e running to the moon, nephew Xiaohai is "the sea is inclusive", and the second brother is "like a tiger with wings".

"Where's your tiger wings?" I picked up my Chang'e and ran to the moon, took a sip of water, and asked him.

"I saw that tiger had a pair of wings on it, and I thought it could fly, but in the end," the second brother pointed to the dining table behind me, "and fell from there, and was crushed on the spot." ”

"I'll go back and buy a water sticker on the Internet, and I'll stick it on your cup." I held the chopsticks and pointed to the cup in my second brother's hand and said.

"Water stickers? No! The second brother said disdainfully, "If you have the ability, you can make one for me." ”

Half of the second brother's bowl of oil residue powder has been emptied by me, I put the chopsticks on the edge of the bowl, and said unashamedly: "Look down on me? My dad is Liu Dawan! ”

"Then you give it a try, don't lose our father's face!"

"People are in the face!"

"Then you can be careful, don't lose people."