stepping into the night

It's Ruan Yun's birthday. My mother asked for leave in advance and bought a lot of dishes to cook. The dishes on the table are much richer than usual. Even the cake Ruan Chu chose is expensive but tastes good. .

After Ruan Yun made her wish, she blew out the candle in one breath, and the lights in the room came on again.

The family ate the cake lively, and it was almost nine o'clock when the meal was over. The next day was Sunday, and Ruan Yun didn't have to go to class, but she still consciously went back to the small bedroom to do her homework. Ruan Chu and her parents After chatting about the recent situation, he knocked on the door of the small bedroom, and entered with a pink gift box tied with a yellow bow.

"Brother?" When Ruan Yun came to open the door and saw the things in his hands, she was stunned for a moment. Seeing that Ruan Chu put the box in her hands, she smiled and said softly to her, "Congratulations to our little one." The princess has grown another year, happy birthday, Xiaoyun."

"Thank you." Ruan Yun pursed her lips, her nose felt a little sour, she took a step forward holding the box and buried her face in Ruan Chu's arms, sobbing a few times, Ruan Chu gently grabbed her shoulders and smoothed it on the back of her head Shun.

"If the princess cries again, it won't look good." Ruan Chu said.

Ruan Yun refused to get up from his arms, and it took a while before she heard her nasal voice: "Brother, you don't need to buy me presents, I don't need anything. You should also be good at school." Eat, you can't just focus on work and make money, sister Yuanyuan called me two days ago and told me that you are doing part-time jobs all the time after school, and you don't even have time to eat."

"No, she said it too seriously," Ruan Chu's heart softened for a while, "University is much easier than high school, and it's normal to be busy for a while at the beginning of school, just like when you first started high school. There are things to do, right? The school will also provide work-study positions, and it will be easier when I change jobs in two days, and if there are questions that I don’t understand, I can still ask my brother.”

"Don't worry," Ruan Chu reassured her in a soft tone as much as possible, "My brother is now able to earn money so he can start a part-time job. The situation at home will be better every day. Don't think too much, you'd better The main thing is to concentrate on studying, and play happily with your little friends when you are tired, and my brother is there for everything."

"Yeah." Ruan Yun nodded, sniffed softly, then straightened up and came out of Ruan Chu's arms with red eyes and some embarrassment, and unwrapped the yellow bow on the pink box.

Ruan Chu was also a little apprehensive when she opened the present, fearing that Ruan Yun would not like it.

On the black velvet in the box is a beige gauze princess dress, the skirt is embroidered with patterns layer by layer, and there are two butterflies on the puff sleeves. The lights in the room fall on the skirt like flowing Like water patterns, it is very beautiful, but it is not too complicated and solemn to be worn as daily clothes.

This is a skirt that Liu Yuanyuan saw in the shopping mall when she came back from vacation to go shopping with Ruan Yun last time. It was placed behind the clear and unstained glass window, and Ruan Yun couldn't help but look at it a few more times.Liu Yuanyuan noticed it, and asked her if she liked it. She was afraid that Liu Yuanyuan would buy it as a gift for her, so she shook her head hurriedly, but still couldn't help turning her head to look at the window a few times, but she didn't expect Liu Yuanyuan to notice it. Ruan Chu mentioned this matter to her when she asked for her opinion on birthday presents.

The price of that dress was not low, enough for Ruan Chu to deliver a month's worth of takeaway at the milk tea shop. Liu Yuanyuan was a little hesitant when she mentioned it to him.

Every girl will have a princess dream at a certain stage, but this era that is too harsh on girls does not allow them to keep such a dream. Over time, the innocence of the little girl is quietly hidden in the bottom of my heart.

Ruan Yun also had such a dream.

But she has seen her father working late at night, with calluses and new wounds on his hands, dragging his whole body to wash carefully so as not to wake up the sleeping two children; People yelled to do this and that, and I heard my classmates say that they saw their brother in a certain Chinese restaurant.

But she can't share anything for her family. All she can do is to throw away these unrealistic fantasies, try to get good grades in the test as much as possible, and do more housework.

This caused her to ignore that her brother had been silently guarding her "princess dream".

"Do you like it?" Ruan Chu paid attention to her expression, but found that his sister didn't have the expected smile on her face, but her eyes were red as if she was about to cry. This made him nervous, afraid that he didn't get it right. Gift.

Ruan Yun felt that she would choke up when she made a sound, so she could only keep nodding her head, Ruan Chu was relieved, raised her hand and touched her hair lightly: "Then I'll go out first, you can try it out Appropriate."

"it is good."

Ruan Chu gently wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with a tissue before turning around and going out from the small bedroom, closing the door for her.

Ruan Yun quickly changed into a new skirt and came out. The size of the skirt was just right. She was well-proportioned, neither too thin nor too fat. Her whole body is brighter, and because she is a little restrained and shy, she holds up the skirt with both hands, really like a princess from a Disney animation.

The repeated praises from her parents and elder brother made Ruan Yun feel a little embarrassed, she carefully sat down on the sofa with her cheeks flushed, holding the hem of the skirt, and gently touched the layered embroidery patterns on the hem of the skirt with her fingertips.

The siblings sat on the small bench in the middle, with their parents behind them, and the family of four took a simple family portrait with their mobile phones, discussing how to find a suitable time to wash it out and put it in the photo album at home.

However, Ruan Chu only took leave from the milk tea shop, and had to rush back to school at night. After taking the family portrait, he got up and prepared to go back to school. In his pocket, when his father took him to his bedroom to get wood, he wanted to give him living expenses, but Ruan Chu refused.

After Ruan Chu left, Ruan Yun returned to the small bedroom and reluctantly put on the skirt and turned around in front of the full-length mirror attached to the wall to see how the skirt looked when it was raised, then carefully took off the skirt and folded it up. , When I took the pink gift box, I saw a blue envelope and letter paper with a cute cat pattern, and there was 500 yuan in the envelope.

To my dear sister Ruan Yun:

In the first memory of my life, you were already a little girl wearing a pink pettiskirt, double ponytails, holding the hem of her brother’s clothes and going to school with her brother in a soft voice. At that time, we and our parents Still living in a rented house.You are very sensible, it seems that before you understand what is responsibility and what is sharing, you have already begun to learn to be considerate.

I still remember that Mom and Dad have to go to work and have no time. When I went to pick you up from the kindergarten, all the children left, and you still obediently sat on the small bench at the door holding the popsicle that was distributed in the kindergarten. When I saw me, I smiled so much that my eyes turned into crescents, and then I rushed towards my arms unsteadily, and stuffed the melted popsicle into my hand, saying that you left it for my brother and my parents, It can be half of one person.But silly sister, the kindergarten only gave each child a popsicle, and you yourself have never tasted whether it is sour or sweet.

At that time, I thought, I have the cutest sister in the world, I hope she can be more carefree, not so sensible, and can lose her temper with her brother. She should be pampered and raised like a princess.

Today, our little princess is 16 years old. In two years, she will transform into a real princess, step out of this home that has been warmed by her cuteness, and bravely embark on her own future journey.But at any time, you must remember that there are parents, mothers and elder brothers who are always behind you to protect you, and you can confide to us all the words.

May you always be happy and free from worries.

Brother Ruan Chu

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It was close to eleven o'clock when Ruan Chu arrived at the school, and the access control on weekends was twelve o'clock, so there was still plenty of time. When he passed by the milk tea shop, he subconsciously stopped to look, and as expected, he saw that he was tidying up slowly at the bar. Lin Jiang, who is doing things, there are not many people going to the cafeteria to buy things now, and all the other employees in the store have left, only him is left.

On the one hand, Ruan Chu wanted to restrain his feelings towards Lin Jiang that were a bit too far away, on the other hand, he couldn't control his desire to get closer to Lin Jiang.

When Ruan Yun changed into that skirt and came out, Ruan Chu suddenly realized that the younger sister he had been protecting since childhood had grown into a big girl who would be pursued and admired by boys of the same age.She will no longer follow behind her eagerly like she did when she was a child, calling softly "brother", and she is not suitable for throwing herself into her arms to laugh and play with her like she did when she was a child. She will leave this place one day. Home, to start a new family with your significant other.

This is an inevitable result, but it inevitably makes Ruan Chu feel a little empty.

In fact, he had already considered the future a long time ago, and he was ready to live alone, but when he met Lin Jiang, and now unknowingly drew closer to Lin Jiang to the present tacit close distance, he I also feel that the loneliness of living alone seems a little unbearable.

All kinds of thoughts that had been suppressed back to the bottom of his heart, not wanting to distance himself from Lin Jiang, clamored to the top of his heart again.

"Ruan Chu?" Lin Jiang's voice suddenly pulled Ruan Chu back from his thoughts, and then he came back to his senses, and found that he had walked into the youth restaurant and habitually lay down by the bar.

"Senior." Ruan Chu blinked, and called him obediently, with a depression in his tone that he didn't realize.

Lin Jiang knew about Ruan Chu's leave today, but Ruan Chu didn't send a message to explain it to him. He was also afraid that he would appear abrupt if he asked rashly, so he had to restrain all the emotions in his heart that wanted to ask about his itinerary for today.

"What's wrong?" Lin Jiang paused, his voice softened, but he still didn't ask Ruan Chu why he asked for leave, "The store launched a new style today, do you want to try it?"

"Huh?" Ruan Chu was stunned, and asked absently, "But the store is about to close, and it's very troublesome to make one, will you still make it for me?"

"Yes." Lin Jiang raised her hand and rubbed the top of his hair gently, then turned around and took out the cleaned mold again, and started to make milk tea for Ruan Chu.

If it had been before, Ruan Chu would have refused right away, he didn't want to trouble others because of himself, but today he was lying on the quiet bar, looking at Lin Jiang's tall and straight figure and his smooth and beautiful movements when mixing milk tea, suddenly I couldn't muster the strength to stop Lin Jiang.

I don't know if Lin Jiang deliberately slowed down the speed of making milk tea. Ruan Chu looked at his movements, and his heart, which was a little empty, seemed not so uncomfortable anymore, as if he was born when someone he cared about cared about him. A certain kind of sweetness was lightly filled.

Ruan Chu looked at Lin Jiang's back for a moment, his thoughts drifted away and back, and finally condensed to the softest part of his heart and poked lightly, taking root into an uncontrollable bud.

——He seems to have fallen in love with Lin Jiang.