know the enemy

At around three o'clock in the afternoon, Mu Xian came to pick up Lu Jia. Before Lu Jia left, he almost forgot to take his scarf. It was Mu Wenran who stopped him and wrapped it around him himself.

Mu Wenran had never taken care of children younger than himself, so he hid half of Lu Jia's face in the scarf, and finally patted him on the head and said, "Go, see you next time." He emphasized intentionally or unintentionally "next time".

Mu Xian was a little surprised when he saw this scene. He thought that his nephew would not take care of children, and was even prepared to meet Mu Wenran's cold gaze when he came, but he didn't expect him to get along well with Lu Jia.

Seeing that his nephew finally had some sparks, Mu Xian was willing to be the driver, and in the next few days he dutifully went to Bai's house to pick him up on time.

During this period, Bai Yi quarreled countless times, asking his mother why Lu Jia didn't do his homework.

Lu Jia smiled and said, "I'm going to play with my brother, I don't need to do my homework."

Bai Yi's teeth itch with hatred, but he was the one who refused to go to Mu's house at first, and now he is too embarrassed to mention it.

In the past, he and Lu Jia wrote together, but now he can only write his winter vacation homework alone by his mother at the desk with tears in his eyes every day.

This huge difference made Bai Yi feel sad to death.

In fact, Lu Jia didn't go anywhere easily. After several days of observation, he found that Mu Wenran was the only one in the Mu family. The nanny would occasionally mention the owner of the family, that is, Mu Wenran's father, but never. Mu Wenran's mother was mentioned.

Lu Jia's environment, his background, and family all made him unexpectedly sensitive to this aspect, so even though Mu Wenran didn't say anything, Lu Jia could guess.

This gave Lu Jiayu a sense of mission—he had to protect this brother.

Therefore, during the past few days at Mu's house, Lu Jia has been trying his best to make Mu Wenran happy.

Mu Wenran dug out checkers and game consoles from the utility room, of course these were not his, he never played with these things.

When Luke came, he put those game toys in a row for Luke to pick.Pick one every day, and Mu Wenran will play with him.

This model is a bit like a parent with a child, and it is obviously perfunctory.Mu Xian couldn't help but laugh, but Lu Jia actively cooperated with Mu Wenran.

At the beginning of playing checkers, he even thought about losing to Mu Wenran quietly, but it turned out that he didn't need to deliberately lose to Mu Wenran - he basically never won.

At the end of the game, Lu Jia's eyes were red with anxiety, and he couldn't understand why he always lost. He sat cross-legged on the sofa, grabbed his ankles, got angry with himself, cried himself out, and kept low. Wipe away tears.

Mu Wenran paused, put down the checkers, and asked him, "Why are you crying?"

The nanny had been secretly observing the two of them, and finally couldn't help reminding Mu Wenran in a low voice: "Brother, let me go."

Naturally, Lu Jia heard these words, his shoulders shook even more, and he couldn't hide his sobs.

Mu Wenran withdrew his checkers and took another step of Lu Jia's checkers: "You won."

The nanny sighed and looked away, her young master really doesn't know how to coax children.

Holding back his crying, Lu Jia blushed, shook his head and said, "You, let me...not count."

"Then do it again." Mu Wenran said and set the chess again.

Lu Jia really didn't want to play anymore, but Mu Wenran arranged the chess well, so he still played chess obediently.

At the end of the game, Lu Jia gradually calmed down, but still choked out from time to time.It's out of control, and there's nothing he can do about it.

Seeing that he was about to win, Lu Jia felt another surge of enthusiasm, but he tried his best to hold back and made a wrong move.

Mu Wenran raised his eyes to look at him, Lu Jia scratched his head embarrassingly, and pointed to his position: "It's up to you, you'll win if you walk here. You should have won..." At the end it almost became a mutter, "Don't let me cry... My own problems, you have no reason to let me." He was a little discouraged, feeling that he was really bad. He was originally playing with his brother, but he couldn't afford to lose and cried first.

Mu Wenran put the chess piece into the box, "I do it voluntarily." Lu Jia loves to cry, he saw it last time, if this is the child from the Mu family, he would have turned around and left.He hated crying children the most, but Luke was different. Luke was different from most of the people he met. They wanted to stay away from him, but Luke wanted to get close to him.The most rare thing is that he doesn't hate Luke crying, and he doesn't find Luke's crying annoying.

But only to the point of not being annoying.

So Mu Wenran didn't go to comfort Lu Jia, and Lu Jia really didn't need to be comforted, he could always wipe away his tears after crying, and smiled and said "I'm fine" to those who were worried about him.

After putting away the checkers, Mu Wenran didn't put it in the toy cabinet, but threw it back into the storage room.He thought that Lu Jia would not want to play this anymore, so there was no need to let it appear outside.

At that time, Mu Wenran was indifferent and alienated, completely opposite to Lu Jia.As a matter of course, he wrapped himself in cold armor, and even later, only Luke was willing to take the trouble to correct him and tolerate him.

After a few days of getting along, Lu Jia liked this brother more and more. Mu Wenran would not compete with him for TV like Bai Yi did, and would not force him to do homework like his aunt. However, he is good-looking, even if Lu Jia wants to get angry, he will never stop slapping this face.Bai Yi is different, Bai Yi looks like a monkey, but also very skinny, Lu Jia really couldn't help waving his fist.

He thought Mu Wenran was very nice. There was only Mu Wenran in such a big house, and his father was often not at home. The nanny left work after finishing dinner. It was normal for Mu Wenran not to talk.This is too lonely, Lu Jia has aunt, uncle and Bai Yi who can play games, but Mu Wenran, he seems to have nothing.

But Lu Jia will visit his grandparents' house during the Chinese New Year, so he can't come to Mu's house again.Lu Jia is very happy every New Year, but this year he has troubles, he is afraid that he will leave, and Mu Wenran is alone again, so he will go to Mu's house for the last time in January On the way, Lu Jia asked Mu Xian, "Will you celebrate the New Year with your brother?"

Mu Xian: "Yes, we will go back to our hometown during the Chinese New Year. There are many people there. Does Lu Jia want to go?"

Lu Jia shook his head: "I'm going to grandma's house, and I'm going back to grandma's house with my aunt at thirty." He said again worriedly, "The uncle can take good care of my brother."

Mu Xian couldn't help laughing: "How old is your brother Wen Ran, do you still want me to take care of you?"

That day, Lu Jia stayed until the evening and had dinner with Mu Wenran before leaving. Before leaving, he said to Mu Wenran, "I won't come during the Chinese New Year, and I will tell you a happy new year in advance."

These days, Lu Jia's scarves are all wrapped by Mu Wenran. He has become very proficient. He wrapped a circle around Lu Jia's head and said, "Happy New Year."

Lu Jia was about to leave, but Mu Wenran was still holding on to his scarf. Lu Jia was dragged back, confused.

Mu Wenran: "Come back after the Chinese New Year?"

Luke gave an OK gesture, Mu Wenran smiled softly, and let go of his scarf: "Goodbye."

"Goodbye brother."

A few days before the new year, my aunt took Bai Yi and Lu Jia to buy new clothes, and bought the same coats for both children, the yellow ones were very conspicuous.Bai Yi despises the ugly coat and refuses to wear it anyway, but Lu Jia has no objection, the coat comes with a hood, it is very thick, and he doesn't even need to wear a scarf.

It happened to snow the day before New Year's Eve. Lu Jia and Bai Yi were having a snowball fight outside. Bai Yi was chased and beaten by Lu Jia, calling for help while running: "Mom, look at Lu Jia! Look at him!"

Aunt picked beans on the balcony and watched: "Hahahaha."

On New Year's Eve, they were going to have a New Year's Eve dinner at their grandma's house. Bai Yi and Lu Jia got up early and got dressed. After getting dressed, they sat on the sofa and watched TV, waiting for the adults to finish their work and go out.

Bai Yi was still holding on to the remote control, he deliberately didn't want Lu Jia to watch it, so he kept pressing the remote control, so he didn't feel at ease watching a station.Lu Jia's mind was not on the TV, otherwise Bai Yi would have been beaten. He suddenly jumped up from the sofa, making Bai Yi tremble with fright.

Lu Jia ran to look for his uncle, his eyes were shining: "Uncle, do you have Uncle Mu Xian's phone number?"

Lu Jia wanted to call Mu Xian, so he used his uncle's mobile phone to call.

Lu Jia: "Happy New Year, Uncle."

Mu Xian glanced at the phone number: "Lu Jia?"

"it's me."

"Looking for Wen Ran?"

"Yep."

Mu Xian: "Then wait a minute, he's not in the main hall now, I'll look for him."

"it is good."

After a while, the person on the phone changed: "Hello, Luke?"

Lu Jia was very happy: "It's me, it's me, brother, Happy New Year!"

Mu Wenran walked to a place where there were few people: "Happy New Year."

Lu Jia sat back on the sofa, Bai Yi looked at him curiously, he waved his hand at him, like chasing a puppy, Bai Yi curled his lips in dissatisfaction.

Mu Wenran held the phone in one hand, and went to open the door with the other. The room was full of laughter and laughter. As soon as the door opened and a foot stepped out, everything fell into silence.

Mu Zhangcheng was busy at the company and could only come back at dinner time. Mu Xian was chatting with his cousin's son.Several children of the same generation as Mu Wenran were told by their parents not to get too close to Mu Wenran.This is the default "rule" two years ago. Every family's children are treasures, so I don't want to be pushed downstairs by Mu Wenran "accidentally".

Mu Wenran didn't expect that Lu Jia would call, and Lu Jia was talking about the experience of the past few days on the other end of the phone.

Mu Wenran was a little jealous. He had been jealous since the beginning. Lu Jia was always happy and carefree.But even so, he still listened, occasionally responding with a sentence or two.

Lu Jia asked him suddenly: "Uncle Mu Xian said that there are many people over there, is it lively?"

Mu Wenran turned around and glanced at the window, "It's lively." Although the excitement had nothing to do with him.

"Oh that's good." Lu Jia said, "I just want to say happy Chinese New Year to you, and then I'll come and play with you after the Chinese New Year."

"……okay."