The river is about to burn the mountain

After dinner, Jiang Wan took Jiang Zhan's arm for a walk by Yuxiu Lake.

The night wind blows the aroma of the four seasons crabapple.

Jiang Wan was in poor health when she was young, and she couldn't go to school. The tutor who taught painting led her to paint the flowers and trees here with elegant watercolors on sunny afternoons.

The long-lost tranquility and comfort, but for someone who just knelt all afternoon, it is hard work. "...Sister, am I still your younger brother? I don't want to take revenge like this?"

"What are you talking about, put it on for me again,"

Jiang Wan saw it right away, and then patted him on the back when he was slouching.

Jiang Zhan sighed helplessly, but the woman beside him turned around and walked towards the resting gazebo in front of him, holding his brother's hand.

Perhaps the servants didn't pay attention to watering the flowers during the day, and there was a lot of mud on the bluestone steps. Jiang Zhan was slightly lower, and with one hand, he immediately hugged Jiang Wan.

"Ah! Slow down!" Jiang Wan exclaimed, wrapping her arms around Jiang Zhan's neck.

"Don't move around, you will be in a hurry when it gets dirty."

The suede-soled high heels she is wearing tonight must not get wet.

Jiang Zhan hugged a woman effortlessly, striding across the muddy steps, up the steps of the gazebo to a clean place before putting her down.

Jiang Wan landed in peace of mind, pretending to be annoyed and hammered him: "How old is it? Don't tell me in advance!"

Jiang Zhan rubbed his nose and didn't think anything was wrong: "...did you eat explosives? When you come back, you will get angry with me everywhere...,"

Jiang Wan and Jiang Zhan are only three years apart.

Jiang Wan was the first child. When she was pregnant, Ms. Gu Manman, whose heart was as big as the Pacific Ocean, didn't realize it at all until her belly magically swelled up.Jiang Yan dragged someone to check with a solemn expression, and when the results came out, Jiang Yan still had the same cold coffin face, while Gu Manman beside him was as joyful and excited as a bright sunflower.

It's just that she had just returned from watching the aurora in the small town of Inari, Finland, and she didn't take proper measures to keep warm in the ice and snow. Jiang Wan was born in less than a month.

Because of this, Jiang Wan had been weak and sickly since she was a child, and Gu Manman felt guilty for her carelessness during pregnancy, and she gave infinite love to this precious daughter.

In the first two years, Jiang Wan always had a cold followed by a fever, and occasionally cried when she was given medicine and injections. Ms. Gu Manman would cry with her in distress. Even Jiang Yan would be scruples about that destructive battle three points.

Therefore, Jiang Wan was honored to be the only child that Jiang Yan coaxed personally.

In the summer afternoon, the sun leaked through the dense forest leaves. The little girl was holding a drawing book and pointing to the brilliant pink crabapple in full bloom.

"Brother, there is a lot of water here. You carry me there. I want to paint flowers."

She wore soft and white leather shoes, as beautiful as a doll.

It was hot and humid in the afternoon, the little boy squatted in the shade under the gazebo, his hair was completely soaked, he wiped his face carelessly, and turned his head.

"I won't go, go by yourself, don't bother me."

The little girl couldn't believe it when she was rejected, her younger brother would always follow her before, why not today?But these are the new shoes she saw in the window a few days ago.

The sun was getting stronger and stronger, Gu Manman was still taking a nap, only the ups and downs of cicadas, Jiang Yan who came back frowned slightly when he heard the quarrel, and after making sure that the woman was not sleeping on the side of the gazebo and couldn't hear it, he didn't hear it at all. Too lazy to care.

But after hearing the girl's gradually rising cries, the man cursed secretly and walked towards the garden behind.

I don't know if there was a dispute between the two children. Anyway, the picture book fell into the muddy puddle of accumulated rain.

When the little boy saw his father, his expression changed in fear.

"Don't cry," Jiang Yan hugged the little girl: "Be quiet, what do you want?"

Even though his father's voice was very soft, his words still could not be disobeyed.The little girl stopped her voice and sniffed, "I wanted my brother to hug me to draw, but my brother refused to hug me, and even pushed my drawing book away."

"Come here, pick up your sister's picture album, and apologize."

The boy bent down to pick up the album in the mud, stepped forward and said in a muffled voice, "I didn't push you, I'm sorry, give it."

He didn't think it was dirty, but when he handed it over, the girl's white princess dress was completely stained with muddy water.

"Wow!", in the quiet afternoon, the clean little princess burst into tears.

"Don't cry anymore!" Jiang Yan said, remembering that the woman in the bedroom was about to wake up, he managed to show his only patience: "Don't wake up mom, I'll teach him a lesson for you, okay?"

Jiang Wan was also threatened by Gu Manman to "teach" her by pouring out the medicine secretly, but every time in the end, it was just a gentle embrace, a fairy tale before going to bed, and a good night kiss.

She was cared for since she was a child, so she naturally didn't know how different her father's lessons were from her mother's lessons, and she didn't know that because of her thunderous rain and small tears, she was behind the younger brother who only dared to hide under the gazebo to wipe away the tears. How miserable it was to be repaired by my father.

At night, she tossed and couldn't fall asleep, and tiptoely wandered in the corridor, seeing her brother's door half closed.

The girl pinched the lace of her nightgown with her fingers tangled.

She lied this afternoon.The picture album wasn't pushed by her younger brother, but she accidentally dropped it.However, no one in this family would blame her, would they?

The girl walked in lightly with her skirt in hand, a corner of the quilt was on the ground, and when she accidentally lifted the thin quilt covering her brother, she was so frightened that she almost screamed.

The boy instantly turned over and held her wrist without turning on the light. When he recognized her, he immediately let go of his grip.

"Don't cry, I was wrong."

He hurriedly apologized, and then went to check her slender wrist, afraid that he had used too much strength just now.

And beside his bed is the milk cup that his mother left when she came to see him at night.

"I'm sorry about what happened in the afternoon. My mother has already told me that I'm a man and I can't make my sister cry."

He remembered what his mother said, and took out a small bunch of wilted crabapple flowers from the drawer and handed it to her.

"Mom said you were an angel sent from heaven, but you were taken away by bad guys when you were a child. Children who lose their wings will be in pain every day. I'm sorry... I didn't know you were in more pain than me."

The boy regretted what he said in the afternoon, and wondered whether the bouquet of flowers could be forgiven. He used to leave the toffee to her, so it should be okay, right?

"Sister, my father has already taught me a lesson, can you forgive me? This bouquet of flowers is for you, and I won't make you sad again!"

On that summer night, Gu Manman inadvertently planted a rare seed of warmth into the boy's heart in a gentle and beautiful way.

Even after that, he grew up as a teenager in rounds of cruel purgatory, his personality and skills were more and more similar to his indifferent and cruel father.But that seed was so lucky that it was able to take root and germinate in his only moment of ignorance and softness, until it grew into a silent tacit understanding, which was extremely precious.