The actor became popular again after wearing a book

The speaker also became the first friend he made in class.

After school in the afternoon, the setting sun is getting lower and the cicadas are still singing.

After saying goodbye to his deskmate, Wei Nian packed his schoolbag and prepared to leave school.

Wei Nian walked out of the school gate and came to the small alley next to the school gate. Since it was not a main road, there were relatively few people, but this was the only way he had to go home.

Not far away, a few punks who looked like junior high school students looked at Wei Nian, wondering what they were talking about.

"Hey, look at that kid over there. It seems like you've never seen it before. The school uniform is so new and he looks so good-looking. He must be a kid from a rich family. How about..." one of them said.

"Let's go," said another.

Several people quickly surrounded Wei Nian.

Wei Nian was terrified by the scene and stayed where he was, unable to move his feet.

"Hehe, where do you want to go? Go home?" One of the tall ones spoke first.

"I..." Weinian was too nervous to speak.

At this time, one of the tall and fat boys quickly walked up to Wei Nian, grabbed Wei Nian by the collar, and said in a bad tone, "Do you have any money? Give it to Laozi Huahua."

"I have no money, my family is poor." Wei Nian timidly responded.

"Fuck! If you don't hand over the money to me today, don't think about leaving!" The fat man grabbed Wei Nian's collar fiercely, clenched his right fist, and was about to hit him.The surrounding people also gathered tighter.

"Hey! What are you doing?!" A clear and loud voice sounded behind them.

The two of them turned around and saw that it was Yang Jiugeng.Several people scattered when they saw Yang Jiugeng.

One of them immediately walked up to Yang Jiugeng and said, "Yang Jiugeng, what's wrong?"

"He's my younger brother!" Yang Jiugeng snapped.

Weinian felt great joy in his heart, and immediately walked to Yang Jiugeng's side.

Several people immediately apologized to Yang Jiugeng.

"Brother Geng, I'm sorry. I didn't know he was your younger brother, and this brat didn't even say..."

"You didn't hit him, did you?"

"No, no!" One of the boys hurriedly explained.

The tall boy bumped Yang Jiugeng's arm and asked, "He, is he really your brother?"

"Kao! Of course it's true, could it be false?"

"Kao, why didn't I know that you had such a younger brother, who was still in elementary school, and he even personally escorted him home."

"You know what a fart! Do I know you very well? Get out of the way, get out of my way!"

While speaking, Yang Jiugeng took Wei Nian's hand, walked towards the end of this short alley, and walked onto the sidewalk next to the main road facing home.From behind came the boy's yelling: "I'm kao! Yang Jiugeng! Didn't it just take you two extra coins last time, why don't you!"

Yang Jiugeng turned around and yelled back at him: "Yes, I'm not! Pay me back if you're a bitch!"

He seemed very excited, Wei Nian's hands were clenched tightly.

The boy made a face at him, walked over with a group of people from the other side, and disappeared at the end of the alley.

On the way home, the two fell into silence again.The setting sun elongated their figures, and they passed by one after another electric poles that were as silent as they were.The vegetation in summer is very vigorous, and the humming of cicadas on the huge green canopy keeps on going, one after another.But when the evening wind kissed their first arms, it was already slightly chilled.

Yang Jiugeng kicked the small stones scattered on the ground along the way, and deliberately lifted them to the feet of the pedestrians in front of him. If he saw someone tripped by the small stones he kicked over, he would show a contemptuous smile on his face.

Li Weinian quietly followed beside him, secretly watching his every move, it was hard for him to understand Jiu Geng's behavior.In his opinion, Yang Jiugeng, who is already in the first grade of junior high school, would not do such a boring and childish thing.Unless he, is a child with ADHD...

Another year, the summer evening is cool, the setting sun is getting shorter and the shadows are long.

After walking through the intersection where the two of them had an awkward dispute in the morning, they were almost home.

"Hi, are you hungry?"

Wei Nian was startled by Yang Jiugeng's sudden words.Wei Nian quickly stopped thinking about Jiu Geng just now.

"Let's go to the canteen to buy something to eat." Yang Jiugeng's abrupt words startled Weinian again.

Walking into the canteen by the side of the road, Yang Jiugeng picked out two packs of spicy sticks. After paying, he smiled and handed one of the packs to Wei Nian, saying, "Go on."

Weinian slowly stretched out his hand to take it, and said, "Brother, this doesn't look good after eating..."

"It's okay to eat once in a while, you little brat just has a lot to do."

"Oh." Wei Nian looked at him: "Then why don't you buy it for me tomorrow, how about it?"

Yang Jiugeng looked at him strangely.

When they got home, the door was unlocked, and the two went straight inside.Liu Juanli was cooking in the kitchen. There was no range hood. Liu Juanli was choked by the heavy oil fumes and coughed.The other places are quiet, and Yang Jiugeng's father is still not there.

"Hey, why are you back so early today?" A woman's shrill voice came from the kitchen.

Yang Jiugeng let out a "hmm".Then he closed his eyes and threw his schoolbag into the room, then returned to the living room, jumped on the sofa, picked up the remote control and turned on the TV.

Li Weinian looked at him calmly, walked into the room slowly, put his schoolbag on the table, took out the homework left today and put it on the table, then walked out of the room to the kitchen to help his mother wash the vegetables.

While cooking, his mother asked him, "How was school today?"

"It's okay." Wei Nian said calmly.

"How is your classmate?"

"They've been nice to me."

Liu Juanli knew the character of this son, so she didn't expect him to say anything more.

"That's good. Mom hopes that you will study hard in the future and get along with your classmates, you know."

"En." Wei Nian responded obediently.

The meal is on the table, and the twilight is all together.Liu Juanli asked Wei Nian to turn on the lamp.

When Wei Nian came out with the dishes, he didn't see Yang Jiugeng in the living room.Then he walked to the door of the bedroom and yelled inside: "Brother, it's time to eat!"

No one answered for half a day.Wei Nian opened the door curtain, just as Jiu Geng was coming out of it, Wei Nian was knocked backwards, Yang Jiu Geng grabbed his hand to prevent him from sitting on the ground.

"It's time to eat, brother."

"I heard it!" Yang Jiugeng gave him a sideways glance, and went straight to the table to grab the chopsticks.

The dining table for three was very quiet.

After dinner, Weinian and his mother huddled in the kitchen.Wei Nian washes the dishes in front of the sink while his mother tidies up.

"Weinian, I think you get along well with your brother."

Wei Nian paused for a few seconds, and then said "hmm".He always chooses only the most conservative and safest answers.

"Mom rarely sees you get along with people so well on the first day. Uncle drives a taxi and is rarely at home all day long. You have to get used to it. Mom will be busy after two days of work, so there is I can’t come back to cook for you when I’m free. When I’m free, I’ll make some dishes at home, and you and your brother will heat them up and eat them. You’re growing up now, so you can’t be picky eaters, you know?”

Wei Nian still let out a "huh".It seems that we can only live on instant noodles in the future, Wei Nian thought with some disappointment.

At night, there are thousands of lights.In the evening, Wei Nian went back to his room to do his homework, but Yang Jiugeng didn't dare to stay alone in the living room with Wei Nian's mother, for fear of being scolded, he also said that he had to do his homework, so he slipped into the room.For this reason, Liu Juanli specially moved a stool from the living room and put it in the room.As soon as Liu Juanli left, Yang Jiugeng found a comic book from the drawer and lay down on the bed looking lazily, not bothering to touch the schoolbag beside him.

After watching for a long time, Yang Jiugeng changed his posture several times, and Yang Jiugeng's waist hurt.In the past, he was always at home alone at night, so he could do whatever he wanted, even go out and go crazy, as long as he got home before his dad handed over his shift.He glanced at the desk and saw that the kid was doing his homework in the same posture all the time.

"Hey, why haven't you finished it yet? How come there are so many homework in the fifth grade of elementary school? I didn't have as much homework as you in middle school. Why do you always procrastinate when doing things?"

Li Weinian rolled his eyes at him, and said: "This school speaks much faster than my original school. I have to make up for what I didn't learn. Otherwise, I won't be able to understand in the future."

Yang Jiugeng smiled and said, "I never understood it in class."

The summer night is quiet and the sky is low.Under the dim light, the family is doing their own things. ?

☆, drink up fragile

?Two or three months have passed, Wei Nian and Yang Jiugeng are no longer on the same road, and they never seem to be on the same road.Yang Jiugeng, who is active by nature, always feels awkward every time he walks with the taciturn Li Weinian.Yang Jiugeng always came home late after school and didn't know what to do outside, but it wouldn't be a good thing anyway.On the contrary, Li Weinian goes home on time every day and never stays on the road for an extra minute.Every time he comes home from school, he always heats up the lunch left by his mother in the dark kitchen alone, and waits for his brother to come back to eat.Sometimes, when my elder brother comes back very late, the dishes are already cold, so I will reheat them in the next year.

Every night, Wei Nian turned on a desk lamp in his room to do homework and read books, while Yang Jiugeng watched boring TV programs in the living room, laughing from time to time.Except on weekends, parents often come home at night after they fall asleep.

The father who drove a taxi for a day always lay down on the bed in the bedroom exhausted as soon as he got home, while the mother walked into the bedroom of the two children gently to tuck the quilts for the two children who had fallen asleep.

Therefore, during the day, the family has almost become the world of the two children.

One night, the mother went into the children's bedroom.While tucking in the quilt for Wei Nian, Wei Nian suddenly opened his eyes wide in the quiet night, looking at him.

"Niannian, you haven't slept yet, it's already midnight." Mother asked softly.

"I can not sleep……"

"Do you want me to sing you a lullaby like you did when you were a child?" Mother smiled and said, "I'm leaving, go to sleep."

"Ah."

At school, Wei Nian gradually became familiar with his classmates. He is friendly and has good grades, so he is not annoying.The layout of the school is gradually becoming clear.The students also forgot that he was Yang Jiugeng's younger brother, and they no longer felt afraid of him.It's just that no one knows that Yang Jiugeng sneaks away to sleep in the reading room on the fifth floor with Wei Nian every day at noon.This became a secret shared by the two of them.In fact, the reading room was just a place where Yang Jiugeng used to skip class and sleep, but now it is the place where Wei Nian takes a nap.

From summer to autumn.In the reading room on the fifth floor at noon, you can always see these two children.One took a nap on the smooth table top, while the other flipped through comic magazines on the other side without any sleepiness.

Entering December, the weather is getting colder.The clothes on the children gradually changed from short-sleeved to long-sleeved and then to several pieces.

The well-behaved Wei Nian also has a bad habit, that is, he doesn't like to wear too many clothes, because he thinks wearing too many clothes will make him look bloated and ugly and very uncomfortable.In late autumn, two pieces are almost his upper limit.Mother sometimes does not listen to discipline.

One day at school, the weather cooled down a lot.A gust of evil wind blows off pieces of autumn leaves.

When Wei Nian was in class, he was shivering from the cold, but he didn't tell his classmates.

At noon, Jiu Geng still took Wei Nian to the reading room to take a nap.

Time passed by minute by minute.

"DiDi... DiDi..."

Yang Jiugeng's electronic watch rang, and he got up and walked over to pat Weinian, but Weinian was sound asleep.

"Wei Nian, Wei Nian." Yang Jiugeng called softly.

Still no response.

Finally he saw that Wei Nian's cheeks were flushed, as if he had a fever.

"Wei Nian!" Yang Jiugeng yelled.

Wei Nian suddenly mumbled something, but his eyes were still closed.

Yang Jiugeng imitated his youthful forehead.Hot feeling.

No, I really have a high fever.

Yang Jiugeng was frightened. He himself rarely gets sick and has no experience in taking care of patients.When this happens, I really don't know what to do.

After a while, Yang Jiugeng lifted Wei Nian with his back turned.

He went downstairs with Wei Nian on his back, and walked quickly to the school's infirmary.

"Kao, this kid looks so thin, why is he so heavy." He was talking to himself while walking.

In the school's infirmary, seeing a child carrying another child, the doctor immediately took Wei Nian from Jiu Geng's back and gently put him on the bed.

"Uncle, what's wrong with my brother?" Yang Jiugeng asked anxiously.

The doctor carefully looked at Wei Nian who was still asleep, and then touched Wei Nian's forehead.Said: "This child has a bad cold and has a fever. I will write you a list. You can take it to the classroom and ask for leave."

"En." Yang Jiugeng responded hastily.

The doctor gave the sick Wei Nian an IV, and found a quilt to cover him up.

Yang Jiugeng first went to Li Weinian's class to ask for leave, and then took the list to his own class and asked for leave for himself on the grounds of "taking care of his sick brother".When returning to Wei Nian's class to help him pack his schoolbags, Yang Jiugeng inevitably caught the curious eyes of the Wei Nian students who were in class.

Back in the infirmary, Yang Jiugeng moved a stool and sat beside Wei Nian's bed.After sitting for a few minutes, he felt very bored, so he found a few comics from somewhere, and read them very engrossed.

Li Weinian, who was ill, felt powerless all over his body, as if he had lost his body and left only a soul floating there.Sometimes I feel drowsy and unconscious, and sometimes I feel like I am falling into a bottomless black hole.

As time went by, he felt more and more conscious, and the effect of the infusion began to appear. With his eyes closed, he could even hear the voices of people around him clearly.

"Hey, hello, how long are you going to stay here? Is my brother so good-looking? If you've seen enough, get the hell out of here?" This was Yang Jiugeng's voice, and he sounded a little unhappy.

"Just leave if you tell me. Yang Jiugeng takes care of his younger brother, what a rare scene, how can I miss it." This is another voice, a little strange, as if I have never heard it before.

"I kao, are you fucking tired of living?"

"Why are you so fierce? Seriously, this is the first time I've seen you care about others. You don't really treat him as your own brother, do you?"

"My family's business is none of your business."

"Don't think that I don't know about your family's crap. Then I'll give it to me that I've lived near your house for so long. It's spread all over the neighbors. He's just a little oil bottle brought by your stepmother. Don't you tell me It would be nice to die him, and treat him so well?"

"Who is the little oil bottle? Wang Hongsen! Say it again if you have the ability!" Yang Jiugeng was gnashing his teeth angrily, and when he was about to jump up and go mad, he suddenly heard Wang Hongsen say: "Hey, kid is awake, you speak so loudly, Let's wake up the patient."

Weinian opened those big glasses and was staring at the ceiling in a daze.

Yang Jiugeng immediately dragged Wang Hongsen to find a doctor who was in another room.

Wei Nian, who was lying on the bed, gathered his mind and finally saw clearly what was in front of him.He saw himself lying alone in the small but empty infirmary, covered with a white quilt.It was already evening at that time, the afterglow of the setting sun came in through the small window on the wall, the air was even thinner and cooler, with thin dust floating in the orange light.

When they came out of the infirmary, Yang Jiugeng and Wang Hongsen, one on each side, carried Wei Nian who was still a little confused, and walked slowly on the way home.

"Brother..." Wei Nian suddenly spoke.At that time, a gust of autumn wind blew past his mouth.

"what happened?"

"I'm thirsty, I want to drink water..." Li Weinian said slowly, his watery eyes widened, his face was still very red, and his lips seemed to be very dry.

Yang Jiugeng immediately said to Wang Hongsen: "Wang Hongsen, help me watch him here, I'll go buy a bottle of mineral water."

"Heh, it looks like he's really a real brother." Wang Hongsen took the schoolbag from Yang Jiugeng's hand, and helped Li Weinian to sit on the railing of the street tree next to him.

In the drowsy Wei Nian, in the afterglow of the sunset in the late autumn evening, he watched Yang Jiugeng run further away on the road... He felt that he was no longer the fragile child who was sick at his aunt's house and no one cared about him. up. ?

☆, the new year suddenly arrives

? After drinking water, Wei Nian felt that his lips were much moister.When he was about to get home, Yang Jiugeng bid farewell to Wang Hongsen, and walked to his home with Wei Nian.

At the door of the house, he supported Wei Nian with one hand, and took out the key to open the door with the other, which seemed to be extremely strenuous.

After entering the room and putting his younger brother on the sofa, Yang Jiugeng rushed into the kitchen and found that his mother had no food left, so he came out with a bitter face.

Seeing his brother like this, Wei Nian hurriedly asked, "Brother, what's the matter?"

"It's over, your mother didn't keep food."

Yang Jiugeng sighed, and sat down on the sofa, next to Wei Nian.

"By the way, Wei Nian, you haven't completely recovered from your illness, do you want to call your mother?"

"No." Weinian said firmly.

Yang Jiugeng had already guessed that Wei Nian would answer in this way, so he said: "You brat just loves to show off, if you continue like this, if you get seriously ill again, I won't care about you."

Li Weinian blinked his big eyes, and said seriously: "I'm really fine, I've been asleep for most of the day, and I usually just take a nap when I'm sick."

"You are sick, if you don't tell your mother, who will cook?"

"I do it myself!"

"You are sick, how do you cook! Are you angry with me on purpose?!"

Yang Jiugeng's words made Wei Nian fall into silence.

After a while, Wei Nian said lightly, "I don't like to trouble others."

Yang Jiugeng was stunned when he heard this.

What kind of child is this?If his mother is someone else, is there anyone in this world who is closer than his parents?What is he thinking?What kind of past does this 11-year-old have.But if you think about it carefully, don't you and Wei Nian have the same situation?The same divorced family, the same free-range children who no one cares about.

When Yang Jiugeng was stunned, Wei Nian had already got up and walked into the kitchen.

He was standing by the sink again.Wei Nian at this time seemed to be much taller than a year ago.

When Wei Nian was washing vegetables, Yang Jiugeng walked in and said, "Hey, can I help you?"

"No, you will only do me a disservice!" Wei Nian said.

"If you don't want it, then don't. Then I can go out to watch TV." With that said, Yang Jiugeng walked out.

Today's dinner was made by Wei Nian, although there were only two dishes, and although the taste was not as good as that prepared by mother, the two of them still ate with gusto.Maybe it was moved by Wei Nian, after the meal, Yang Jiugeng didn't go out to play, but collected the dishes and washed them for the first time.

After the final exams, the winter vacation is fast approaching.During this holiday, my parents are still busy outside every day. My father drives a taxi and hardly sees him all day long. My mother has found a new job and is busier and more tired.The adults always leave the two children at home.

Li Weinian spends most of the day studying in his room, while Yang Jiugeng always hangs out with a bunch of cronies, not knowing what he's doing.Although the two have very different personalities, they still have a common hobby, which is reading manga.When both of them have nothing to do, they often go to the bookstore to look for comics together.In the bookstore, you can often see these two children, each holding a comic book, sitting on the ground and looking at each other absorbedly.Because the two only look at it but not buy it, sometimes they will attract scary eyes from the bookstore owner.At this time, Wei Nian would be so frightened that he would tug on Jiu Geng's skirt and say, "Brother, let's go quickly. It's okay to change to another bookstore."

Yang Jiugeng would answer him like this: "Be thick-skinned, it's okay, and your eyes can't kill people." So the two continued to read comics in the bookstore wantonly.

When Chinese New Year was about to come, Liu Juanli bought some quick-frozen dumplings from the supermarket and put them in the refrigerator. Before she left, she asked Wei Nian to cook them for her brother when she was free. Afterwards, she disappeared and did not come back for the whole annual vacation.

It's New Year's Eve again, and many people in the community hang up fiery red lanterns and paste Spring Festival couplets in front of their doors.

"Green bamboos don't have a three-point view, and red plums are repaying the spring of Wanjia."

"The world is full of flowers in spring, and the Fulin Courtyard is always safe in all seasons."

Passing through the door of other people's houses, the festive Spring Festival couplets are everywhere, but in the eyes of the two children, it really becomes a bright red desolation.

Some children younger than them and their families set off firecrackers on the path, and red debris was all over the ground.The air is filled with the smell of nitrate, we call this: the breath of the year.

That evening, Wei Nian took the quick-frozen dumplings out of the refrigerator, threw them into a pot and cooked them, and then ate them with his brother.The whole dinner, neither of them said anything.

After dinner, they lay on the sofa in the living room and watched TV, only to find that today's TV is extremely boring, with neither cartoons nor TV series.

Afterwards, the two had nothing to do, locked the door and walked out of the house, wandering aimlessly in the streets of the city. The biggest feeling was that the whole world was occupied by red and noise.Of course, there is also the laughter of the whole family.It's too jarring.

The night was bleak, and the streets were full of carnival, with children running and stepping on the firecracker shavings all over the ground.Only Wei Nian and Jiu Geng walked lonely in the hustle and bustle around them.

Unknowingly, they passed an abandoned open space and came to the roof of an abandoned small building.They were pleasantly surprised to find that the view here is extremely wide, and they can even skip the low-rise houses in front of them and see the high-rise buildings in the city center in the distance.

They stared at the night sky and sat on the roof for a long time, and Wei Nian almost fell asleep on Jiu Geng's shoulder.Until the night got darker, one after another fireworks suddenly bloomed in the sky.The colorful fireworks bloom silently in the dark night sky, gorgeous and eternal.The night sky was instantly reflected into day.The roaring sound is endless.

"Brother, those rich people are really stupid. They spent so much money on fireworks, and everyone saw them in the end. We can enjoy other people's fireworks without spending money."

Yang Jiugeng smiled: "No way, who told them to be rich." There was a little helplessness in the comforting words.

In this way, the two watched the fireworks show on the roof all night. It was not until two or three o'clock in the middle of the night that the carnival crowd gradually dispersed, and they walked home unsteadily.

Until many years later, Wei Nian recalled the scene of watching fireworks with his brother when he was a child, and couldn't help it.That night, big and big fireworks bloomed in the night sky, gorgeous and eternal.Just like the relationship between them, not relatives, but thicker than water.

As soon as they entered the house, the two of them took off their clothes in a state of extreme sleepiness, threw the clothes on the bed and fell on the bed, and fell into a deep sleep.

Years later, before the Lantern Festival, their school started reporting.

The two passed another semester safely, and Yang Jiugeng finally entered the second year of junior high school. ?

☆, re-exposing old wounds

? After Yang Jiugeng was promoted to the second year of junior high school, he became more unscrupulous than when he was in the first year of junior high school.Like a runaway wild horse, he became more and more influential and appealing among junior high school students. He formed gangs inside and outside the school all day long, and continued his path of bad boy.

Weinian feels that the distance between himself and Jiugeng is getting more and more distant.

At this time, Yang Jiugeng would no longer go to the bookstore to read comics with Wei Nian as before, or go to the canteen in the community to buy snacks. Recalling the fireworks watched with Yang Jiugeng on New Year’s Eve, Wei Nian felt strange and beautiful. Can I go back?

The 14-year-old Yang Jiugeng is no longer the old Yang Jiugeng who collapsed on the sofa as soon as he got home, no longer the elder brother who makes faces next to Wei Nian or bullies him to tease him, is no longer the one who sits There is a boy who quietly reads comics by his side.Yang Jiugeng became Wei Nian's "brother ruffian".

Wei Nian's life can be described as extremely regular.He is completely the standard "good student" and "good boy" in the eyes of parents and parents.Go to school, leave school, go home, eat, do homework, sleep.Every day is two o'clock and one line.Yang Jiugeng was very curious about why an unsupervised child had to study so hard, and then he thought about the stark contrast to himself. If it weren't for his father's occasional beatings, he would have no idea what he would have become.

Starting this semester, parents are busier at work, and it is difficult to see them all day long.It's hard to understand why parents are so relieved to leave their two children at home. Perhaps, this is what many parents look like.In order to give their children a better life, they rush to work all day long, but they ignore their children's true feelings. Maybe what the children want is just a company.

At noon, Yang Jiugeng rarely accompanied Wei Nian to the reading room to take a nap.

Sometimes, when Li Weinian opens the reading room with a small card, he always thinks of the scene when his brother brought him here for the first time.That was last year, when Li Weinian was 11 years old and Yang Jiugeng was 13 years old.

Now, only Wei Nian is lying on the empty table in the reading room, looking at the empty room.A faint sense of fear filled the air, but after he fell asleep quietly, he no longer felt the fear.In his dreams, he always meets his mother when he was young and beautiful. In his dreams, his mother hugs him, kisses him, and takes him to the park to play on the carousel.

One day after the last class at noon, Wei Nian was packing his schoolbag while talking with his classmates when suddenly he saw a familiar figure passing by the window.

That figure came over, tilted the window and shouted: "Weinian, come out quickly."

"Oh, what's the matter, brother?"

"You'll know when you come out."

Wei Nian seemed to be very happy, he put on his schoolbag and walked out bouncingly.

"Brother, what's the matter?" Wei Nian asked.

"You will know when you come with me." Yang Jiugeng said.

Walking out of the campus, Yang Jiugeng brought Li Weinian to a milk tea shop, ordered two cups of chocolate milk tea, and found a seat to sit down together.

"Hey, how did you know that I like chocolate-flavored milk tea?" Li Weinian asked.

"My kao, I've been with you for so long, don't you know that my brother is for nothing?"

"Oh..." Wei Nian's expression showed a little disappointment.

"What? Are you unhappy?"

"It's nothing." Wei Nian said calmly, sipping milk tea.

"Dangdang, Dangdang." As he said, Yang Jiugeng took out a gift box from behind, and waved it in front of Li Weinian's eyes.

"Brother, how do you know that today is my birthday?"

"Haha, isn't it written in your household registration booklet and your student ID card?"

"Well, it's nice of you, hehe."

"Can I take it apart?" Wei Nian asked.

"It's up to you, we don't need to be so particular about our children's birthday."

Wei Nian carefully unwrapped the gift layer by layer. When he opened the box, he saw a delicate pen and a small copybook.

"Brother, why did you give me this..." Wei Nian asked.

"I saw the teacher's comment on your composition, which said 'Your handwriting is very neat, but not well written, please practice more'." Yang Jiugeng said.

"Okay, you actually peeked at my homework!"

"I was wrong, okay..."

"Ok."

Coming out of the milk tea shop and walking on the street, the afternoon sun was a bit dazzling.

Seeing that Wei Nian still lowered his head dully and kicked the small stones on the road, Yang Jiugeng asked, "What's wrong? Isn't the gift you gave me bad? Why are you unhappy?"

Wei Nian hesitated to speak, and finally said softly: "Actually, today is not my birthday..."

"Huh?" Yang Jiugeng was a little surprised.

"why?"

"My real birthday is in March, the day Haizi committed suicide by lying on the train."

"Ah? Why did you change it?" Yang Jiugeng was a little surprised.

Li Weinian said softly: "Before my mother gave birth to me, I had an elder brother, that is my real elder brother, and his birthday is today." Weinian's tone was a bit whimpering, and he continued: "He I died of illness when I was [-] years old, and my grandmother said that I was born to live for him. So after I was born, my mother changed my birthday to my dead brother’s birthday.”

So I often think, if that child hadn't died of illness, then I wouldn't have been born, so for this world, I am redundant, I am a child who shouldn't be born, a person who shouldn't exist in this world.

Why would Wei Nian think this way?No.How could he be redundant?He worked so hard, so desperately, lived so earnestly and firmly, without fear, and without hesitation.He looks so cute and handsome, with a full sky, a high nose bridge, long eyelashes, crystal black eyes, and when he turns his big eyes, it makes people clean up like drinking ice water in the dog days.

Is it because of this that a boy is so alien to his mother?It was because of this that he was born with natural self-blame and guilt, and all of this was not his fault at all.

"No, that's not your fault." After Yang Jiugeng finished speaking, he turned his head away, and then said softly, "All these faults are the fault of adults, and the faults of others have nothing to do with you."

Afterwards, the two walked and fell into silence with each other, each kicking small stones on the ground.

This is the first time that Wei Nian has told Jiu Geng about his life experience, and it is also the first time.

Back at the door of the house, Wei Nian was about to take out the key in his pocket to open the door, when Yang Jiugeng suddenly said to him solemnly: "Brother, return your pen to me."

Wei Nian was startled and said, "Why?"

Yang Jiugeng continued: "I want to give it to you on March 3?"

Wei Nian looked at him with wide eyes, and said, "You are stupid, can you take back gifts you give to others? Is there such a thing?"

Jiu Geng said: "Good boy, do you want to blackmail me for double presents?"

Weinian pushed open the door and turned on the light. Under the light, he smiled until his eyes narrowed. ?

☆, helpless life

One day, when Wei Nian came home, he found Yang Jiugeng's father sitting on the sofa, smoking desperately with a cigarette in his hand. White smoke rose, and the table was covered with cigarette butts.The stubble around his mouth was much thicker than the previous few days, and his eyes were full of decadence and haggardness.Hearing the sound of the door opening, the mother came out of the kitchen immediately.

"Yo, I'm back every year."

Mother walked up to Weinian again, and said to Weinian, "It's nothing, you can go in and do your homework. I'll call you out when the meal is ready." Weinian nodded obediently.Sitting at the desk, but full of thoughts.He knew something must have happened.

On this day, the three of them had dinner without waiting for Yang Jiugeng to come back.There was a hint of terror on the dull dining table.Today's dad seems very angry, making the glass loud when pouring water.Before he finished his meal, he dropped the bowl and chopsticks, and sat down on the sofa to smoke again.Wei Nian was so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe.

After dinner, Wei Nian went back to the room and sat down at the desk again, preparing to review today's content.After turning a few pages in the textbook, I heard the sound of Yang Jiugeng opening the door, followed by a heart-piercing roar from outside, although I was sitting in the room, I could still hear it clearly.

"You stinky boy, you still know to come back?! Damn, what time is it now? Where have you been fooling around?"

Yang Jiugeng was so frightened that he lowered his head firmly and said nothing.

"Don't say it? Don't say it, right?"

Then, Yang Kang slapped his son hard without saying a word.A huge and bright red palm print was left on the side of the son's face.

Before Yang Jiugeng came back to his senses, Yang Kang went up and punched and kicked his son mercilessly, and yelled, not knowing what he was talking about.

Liu Juanli quickly ran out of the bedroom and tried to persuade her husband.

After a while, Jiu Geng returned to the bedroom under the protection of his mother.Looking at Yang Jiugeng, Wei Nian asked: "What's wrong? Why is Dad so angry today?"

"How do I know? It's really inexplicable!" Yang Jiugeng covered the wound on his face, threw his schoolbag and lay down on the bed.

The next day, my mother told Wei Nian that yesterday, my father