Mint-Stained Shirt

Xiao Yuan took off the striped vest that was soaked by the water gun, and threw it in the laundry tub.Xiao Jincheng's voice came from outside the window: "Xiao Yu'an! Are you hiding? Xiao Muting is looking for you everywhere! Where are you?"

Where can I tell you?Xiao Yuan frantically found a clean vest and changed it on. The one he took off just now was wet by Xiao Jincheng. This disaster saved up all his pocket money, bought a top with a water gun, and barked in the yard all day long. People, and put the blame on Xiao Muting.

Every time he saw Xiao Jincheng's face that was about to die of laughter, Xiao Yu'an felt that he was very lucky. He only had one older sister and no younger brother.Xiao Muting is so miserable, Xiao Jincheng is such a wicked younger brother, seeing Tian'er making troubles outside, he will provoke Xiao Muting when he comes home.

Xiao Muting is Xiao Yu'an's cousin, but Xiao Yu'an doesn't think he is a younger brother, so he was born one day later than Xiao Muting. Since he was a child, he felt that it was his mother's fault that she gave birth to him late.

When I first remembered, Xiao Muting poked him in the face and asked him to call him brother, so he definitely didn't want to.The two children fought over this matter, and a group of adults watched the show.Anyway, neither of the two regiments can hurt the other, so they just fight casually. Not long after the fight, Xiao Muting came to force him to call him brother again.

It wasn't until Xiao Jincheng was born and Xiao Muting had a real brother that he stopped putting on airs with him.

A group of Xiao family children live in the yard of their grandparents. Although their parents are busy, they come back to visit whenever they have time.A few children's toys are indispensable, but how can I say that, where there are people, there will be rivers and lakes, no matter how many toys there are, boys of the same age will still be red-faced.

Although Xiao Jincheng was always against his brother, he became a family again when he snatched toys.Xiao Yu'an was able to fight with Xiao Muting, but he couldn't stand up to Xiao Jincheng's troubles, and he was defeated most of the time.

At this moment, Xiao Yu'an thought again, if only he had a younger brother, at least he could restrain Xiao Jincheng.

But if the younger brother is as disgusting as Xiao Jincheng, then it is also a problem.

How about a younger brother?Is it better not to have a brother?For 11-year-old Xiao Yuan, it was a difficult problem in the world that he could never figure out.

Just now, he was playing military chess with Xiao Muting downstairs. They played well at first, and each had a winner or loser, but Xiao Jincheng was on the sidelines messing around, moving the chess pieces around, and running around the table holding a water gun.Summer was already hot, he was annoyed by Xiao Jincheng, lost a game in a daze, Xiao Muting laughed triumphantly as he scratched the chess pieces.

As soon as he thought about it, he understood.Xiao Jincheng had already discussed it with Xiao Muting and made trouble on purpose, otherwise how could Xiao Muting not be affected at all?

He hadn't fought with Xiao Muting for a week, and now he got angry and wrestled again.Xiao Jincheng, the troublemaker, danced with joy, jumped onto the sofa and sprayed water on the two of them.

He always liked to be clean, and couldn't bear the feeling of being wet, so he hurried upstairs to change his clothes, and threw Xiao Muting away.

Summer is the most colorful season among the four seasons, its existence seems to be concrete, and the cicadas outside are like a golden bell, covering people up.

Xiao Yu'an thought the "golden bell" was ringing too loudly, and wanted to close the window, but when he got to the window, the hand holding the window suddenly stopped.

The courtyards are next to each other, like a chessboard of military chess, separated by a path and a thick tree in the middle, a small figure appeared on the trunk of one of the trees, struggling to climb up.

The child was wearing a khaki vest with stripes of different thicknesses. From a distance, it looked similar to the one that Xiao Yuan threw in the basin.

In summer, there are too few clothes to choose from. Girls can still wear short skirts and dresses, but boys can only change into tank tops and shorts. Anyway, there are only a few designs and colors. Even wearing a T-shirt is too hot to panic.

Xiao Yu'an had seen that child before. He was from the Ming family next door. He was small with round eyes and was always alone.The adults in the family sometimes talk about the Ming family, explaining that there is only one child in the family's grandchildren, named Mingshu.Mingshu was thrown away by his grandparents when he was born, and his parents were busy with their own affairs, and never came back to visit him all year round.

Probably because there was no one to play with, Mingshu climbed the tree alone to play.Xiao Yu'an watched him climb trees several times, but he didn't know what fun it was to climb trees.

Cicadas also like to climb trees, and Mingshu hugs the tree trunk like a big cicada climbing up.

Xiao Yu'an watched it for a while, and was amused.

"Xiao Yu'an! Come out!" Xiao Muting shouted outside the door, "What are you hiding from!"

Did I hide?Xiao Yu'an thought, I just went upstairs to change clothes.

Xiao Jincheng was still patrolling downstairs with a water gun, jumping up and down and yelling: "Xiao Yu'an is scared of being beaten! Xiao Yu'an is hiding!"

"You guys stop making trouble." Elder sister Xiao Jinlan is in junior high school, everyone is a lady, and finally can't stand the three younger brothers who are arguing, and she comes out of the study to uphold justice, "Grandpa cut the watermelon, come and eat it!"

The weather is close to 40 ℃, no one does not love iced watermelon.As soon as he heard that there was watermelon to eat, even the most annoying Xiao Jincheng obeyed, dropped the water gun and ran to the wooden table in the yard.

Xiao Yu'an pushed the laundry basin to the bottom of the bed, opened the door and went downstairs.

When Mingshu struggled to climb onto the branch and sat down, Xiao Yuan was no longer in the room.

He stretched his neck to look around, and found that a group of brothers and sisters in the Xiao family were eating watermelon, and the grandfather of the Xiao family was wearing a white vest, shaking a cattail fan, enjoying the shade under the shade of a tree.

The angle of the branches was not particularly good, he had to tilt his body to see each of them.

He usually doesn't like to climb this tree, but he can see the tree in Xiao's yard most clearly. He has climbed it too many times, and the branches seem to be broken.He was afraid of falling, so he had to change to another tree to climb.

Every time he climbed the tree, he would be scolded by his grandfather.

Grandpa doesn't like him climbing trees. He thinks climbing trees is a very uneducated thing, and it will stain his clothes.

He actually doesn't like climbing trees, but he is too short, only 5 years old, and only when he climbs a tree can he see the Xiao family's children playing games.

He has no brothers and sisters, and his parents don't come back to see him. His grandparents are very fierce, not as kind as Xiao's grandparents.He has never spoken to the brothers and sisters of the Xiao family, but he likes to watch them play. The one named Xiao Jincheng is the naughtiest and has the loudest voice. The one named Xiao Yuan often fights with the one named Xiao Muting. Watching them fight is more interesting than watching cartoons. It was fun, he gambled with himself, today he bet on Xiao Muting to win, and tomorrow he bet on Xiao Yuan to win.

Treat yourself to a mint popsicle if you win the bet.

Gradually, he found that it was very unfair for the brothers of the Xiao family to fight. Xiao Yu'an was only one person, but Xiao Muting had a younger brother.Xiao Jincheng always likes to make trouble and make some small moves, Xiao Yuan is at a disadvantage.

Although still young, the little man already has the psychology of sympathizing with the weak.Mingshu felt that Xiao Yu'an was pitiful, and he didn't even have a helper in the fight.

Sitting on a branch, he swayed his legs and picked his fingers, thinking that if he was the younger brother of the Xiao family, he could help Xiao Yu'an.

But he is not.He is a child of the Ming family.

Thinking of this, he pouted sadly.

The first time he climbed a tree during the Spring Festival, it was because he heard the laughter of the Xiao family.He was extremely envious, and always thought—why am I not a child of the Xiao family?That way, I can play with them too.

The tall trees are like a dream-making place.He secretly looked at the Xiao family, imagining that he was the youngest child of the Xiao family, well, let Xiao Yu'an be his younger brother.In the future, if Xiao Jincheng made trouble again, he would hug Xiao Jincheng's leg.

Because he is a good brother.

He climbed the tree for half a year, but no one in the Xiao family noticed him.He was a little happy and a little sad.He is actually quite timid. He wants to play with others, but he dare not.

After all, grandpa said that climbing trees is very uneducated.He didn't want the brothers and sisters of the Xiao family to think that he was a child without a tutor.

He is very well behaved.

Xiao Jincheng was the quickest to finish eating the watermelon, and then picked up the water gun and slapped people. Xiao Muting was slapped, and quickly threw the watermelon rind over.Xiao Yu'an didn't want to fight anymore, but being caught between Xiao Muting and Xiao Jincheng, his new clothes suffered again.

The three boys fought in a mess, Xiao Jinlan couldn't control it anymore, and went upstairs with the watermelon.

Seeing the fight over there, Mingshu's eyes lit up.

But at this moment, Grandpa's voice came from under the tree, "Up the tree again, come down for me!"

Mingshu was most afraid of his grandpa, so he retracted his neck reflexively, and crawled down the stairs. He didn't step on the last few steps, and fell to the ground, his eyes turned red immediately from the pain.

Grandpa looked at him sternly, and shouted, "Go back and change!"

The courtyard wall blocked the line of sight, but it couldn't stop Xiao Jincheng from shouting.Mingshu's heart itch when he heard that, it seemed that Xiao Yu'an and Xiao Muting had teamed up to clean up Xiao Jincheng. He really wanted to see how Xiao Jincheng was cleaned up, but he was dragged into the house by his grandfather and couldn't see anything.

After being educated, Mingshu settled down for a few days, but he didn't have a long memory. Taking advantage of his grandfather's absence, he found another tree and climbed up.

The brothers of the Xiao family were still playing happily, but he didn't see Xiao Yu'an this time.

Xiao Muting and Xiao Jincheng have been arguing for several days. Because Xiao Jincheng got doubles last time, he chased Xiao Muting every day and asked - am I your real brother?

It made Xiao Yu'an calm down.

The environment of the retired cadre compound is good and spacious. Xiao Yuan was too lazy to stay at home and listen to the fight between Xiao Muting and Xiao Jincheng, so he took a picture book about adventure and planned to find a cool and quiet place to read for an afternoon.

When passing by the path next to Ming's house, he heard small movements from above, looked up, and saw that child from Ming's house hugging the tree trunk, with one foot hooked on the branch, unable to get down or up, he was in a hurry Woo hoot.

Mingshu didn't expect to meet Xiao Yuan at this time.

He had never climbed this tree before, and he felt uncomfortable after sitting on it. He wanted to change a branch, but stepped on a branch and broke it.

He couldn't fall to the ground, he was so frightened that he was about to cry, his eyes were red from holding back.

The elder brother of the Xiao family, who was always watching from a distance, stretched out his hand towards him, "Do you want to come down?"

He was suddenly not afraid, but he didn't respond immediately.

This was the first time he heard Xiao Yuan's voice clearly.Xiao Yu'an didn't talk much when fighting, and what he heard most was Xiao Jincheng's voice.

Xiao Yu'an's voice was much more stable than Xiao Jincheng's.

"Do you want to come down?" Xiao Yu'an asked again.