Chen Hong had been silent, her head lowered, staring at her toes. The cool breeze of early summer ruffled the hair on her forehead, and the slightly turned up strands of hair bent on her white jade-like forehead, and I noticed for the first time that Chen Hong looked very beautiful when she lowered her head.

I'm waiting for her to give me an answer.

After a while, Chen Hong finally raised his head and said, "You just said that I look at you like that, either because I like you, or you look like someone I know very well, right?"

"Yes, that's what I said."

"I don't think I'll like you, I mean, the kind of love between men and women."

Chen Hong's eyes were still burning, but I was a little disappointed, this damn vanity.

"I understand." I say.

"You don't understand." Chen Hong suddenly smiled mysteriously, and said, "Are you a little disappointed?"

"No, no." I waved my hand in a bit of shame and panic. "I'm not at the point where people love me, people are self-aware."

"Do you know why I can't possibly like you?" Chen Hong asked again. She stared at me and seemed to enjoy seeing me look embarrassed again.

"I don't know. There is no reason for this kind of thing. ”

"Because you're my brother."

Chen Hong suddenly said this.

"What?" I think I may have misheard.

"I say, because you're my brother."

Chen Hong said very clearly and sincerely.

"Hehe, this, I'm your brother?" I repeated it again, thinking that either I was nervous or she was crazy.

"Hmm." Chen Hong nodded vigorously.

"But my surname is Zhou, and your surname is Chen." I laughed and said, the more I thought about it, the funnier it became.

"Do I have such a beautiful sister? Why doesn't it look like me? You're not my dad's illegitimate daughter, are you?"

"It's normal for you to think I don't look like you. Because we are indeed half-siblings. Chen Hong said calmly.

I opened my mouth wide and it took me a while before I said, "Is it true?"

Chen Hong suddenly burst into laughter, and then said, "I lied to you, haha, do you really believe it?"

I said, "I don't believe it, I just performed with you." ”

"You were scared just now."

"Hey, is that possible?"

"You're scared, you must be wondering if what I'm saying is true. So I'll tell you the truth. ”

Chen Hong leaned against a poplar tree, brushed the long hair in front of her forehead, and continued.

"Honestly, you should have guessed that you are very much like my brother, my half-brother. There really is no other person in this world who can be more like you. In fact, I sometimes think that this is not an elephant at all, but that you are my brother. ”

When Chen Hong said this, he stopped and asked me softly: "Zhou Xu, I really see you as if I see my brother, you are exactly the same, really." ”

She began to look at me with fiery eyes again, and it is only today that I understand why there was an indescribable intimacy in the way she used to look at me.

"Do you want to hear my brother's story?" Chen Hong asked me.

"If you want to hear it, you can say it." I nodded.

"Then you can walk with me over there." Chen Hong took my arm and snuggled up to me naturally.

I took her to a star fruit tree where there was a stone chair. As I walked, I was still looking around, for fear that some familiar classmates would see it.

After sitting down, Chen Hong naturally snuggled up to me, as she had done for many years, and slowly told me about her brother.

"When my mom married my dad, my dad already had a son, my brother, who was five years older than me. My dad was divorced, and after he left his ex-wife, he lived alone with my brother until he met my mom. After the two of them got married, they gave birth to me again. Unfortunately, it wasn't a long time, and eight years after they got married, my dad died, from brain cancer, when I was seven years old. ”

"Although my brother and I are brothers and sisters with the same father and difference, we have a very good relationship, and I don't know why, but I am very clingy to him and like to be with him. The two of us like to stick together in everything, especially good, he is really good to me, and he protects me everywhere, especially after my father died, he is just like my father, and he really responds to the words of the eldest brother as a father. It's just that my dad died early, and my mom still has to work, so I can't take care of the two of us. When my brother was a freshman in high school, he suddenly said that he didn't want to study, so he has been mixed up in society, sometimes like a little rascal, and my mother can't do anything about him, after all, he is not biological. ”

"But he loves music, he likes to play guitar, he likes to go crazy. I often hear him play guitar for me. That Zhang Ning, whom he met when he was in a street band before, was a drummer, and they played and sang together like brothers, carefree all day long but had nothing to do. ”

"My brother has been in society for a long time, and he has never had a serious job and does not study. But suddenly one day, he said that he was going to go to university, and we all thought he was crazy, he was talking crazy, and my mother didn't believe that he would be admitted to college at all. ”

"Later we learned that he was serious, he begged my mother to give him a chance, for the first time in front of my mother to be very obedient and well-behaved, begged my mother to help him buy all the high school textbooks and all kinds of revision materials, and read the books like crazy, day and night. Later, I also signed up for the high school class, and the band stopped doing it for a long time. ”

The year after that, a miracle happened, he actually got into college. At that time, I was also happy for him, and he told me before the college entrance examination that year that he wanted to go to college in his dreams. Finally, he realized his dream, he was in a good mood at that time, and the day after receiving the notice, he found his former brother again, and found Zhang Ning and them to sing on the street. ”

Speaking of this, Chen Hong suddenly stopped, and after waiting for a long time, she still didn't speak again.

When I turned my head to look at her, I suddenly found that in the afterglow of dusk, Chen Hong's eyes flashed with tears, and the sadness involuntarily made my heart throb, which was the heartache I was once familiar with, the pain I had encountered by the pond in front of the rental house.

"And later?" I took a big breath to calm my mind and asked her again.

Chen Hong was completely immersed in the memories, she sat like a sculpture under the sunset, but she was silent.

"Am I really like your brother? I'd love to meet him. I spoke. It's just that it's not pleasant for me to talk alone, and the only answer to me is the summer breeze.

Chen Hong suddenly stood up and said to me, "I'm sorry, what nonsense I just talked about, will it make you annoying?"

I said no.

"I miss my brother." Chen Hong said, suddenly hugged me, her tears flowed down like raindrops, and she couldn't control it.

"Brother, I'm sorry." She whispered.