growing up porcelain doll

◎There is a tradition here that if a close relative in the family dies, they cannot go to another house during the New Year's Day for two years.This is the first novel since the death of Liu Xiyue and Gong You...◎

There is a tradition here that if a close relative in the family dies, they cannot go to another house during the New Year's Day for two years.This is the first New Year after the death of Liu Xiyue and Gong You. After discussing with each other, it is better to take the two old people from their hometown to celebrate the New Year, and send them back after the Lantern Festival.

When the old man came home, he would sleep in the master bedroom, Liu Danqing would sleep with his daughter, and Cheng Yan would sleep with his two sons.Fortunately, when Gong Qing moved here, they changed the two brothers to a very big bed, and now the three of them can sleep completely.

Whenever grandparents see Gong Qing, they always think of their daughter and son-in-law who passed away. They always look at Gong Qing for a while and then start to wipe their tears.What Gong You said before was correct, Gong Qing's eyebrows and eyes are actually somewhat similar to Liu Xiyue's.

Cheng Yu knew that Gong Qing's heart was still sensitive, and seeing the old man cry would make him miss his parents even more, so he always interjected at the right time to break the sad atmosphere and make everyone feel better, especially his younger brother Gong. Qing.

In fact, Gong Qing has always been very concerned about not making that call that night, so that he can listen to his parents' voices for the last time and tell them that he misses them very much, maybe they can go away in peace after half an hour .

Gong Qing took a deep breath, seeing her brother who was trying to change the subject, she felt warm in her heart.Cheng Yue, a silly girl who has always been heartless, suddenly understood what her brother did today, as if she had opened her eyes, so she squeezed the second brother's hand beside her, and then threw herself into the arms of her grandparents to act like a baby , Let the atmosphere at home be completely joyful, and sweep away the gloomy clouds and mist just now.

Gong Qing smiled secretly, and said with emotion in her heart: Even the little girl has begun to know how to read people's faces and guess people's hearts.

The year as a whole has been pretty good. The three generations of grandparents and grandchildren live together in the same room. There is no need to go outside to meet relatives and friends, and there is no need to deliberately invite anyone to come and sit at home.It's fine to pay New Year's greetings on the phone. Without those cliche politeness, everyone is much more relaxed.

The old man got up early in the morning, went downstairs and went back to breakfast after the morning exercise. After the whole family got up, the meal was ready. After breakfast, Cheng Yan took the old man and the child to the market, while Liu Danqing stayed behind. Clean up the house at home, or prepare ingredients for noon.Sometimes everyone doesn’t want to go out, so they just watch TV and play cards and games together. If there is nothing to do, the family drives to the suburbs. In short, life is comfortable and peaceful.

It's just that after this year is over, Gong Qing has developed a habit of holding her brother's arm when she goes to bed.

When he first moved here, due to the stimulation he received before, he was always awkward while trying to keep a distance from this family, and at the same time couldn't help but want to integrate into this family, so he behaved a lot of times. They are all extremely unnatural. When I sleep at night, in order to seek a sense of security, I always curl myself up in the quilt.He never slept with his brother under the same quilt, because he didn't feel fully wrapped up.Later, after he integrated into the family, he naturally shared the same private space with his elder brother. When sleeping, he leaned against his elder brother together with the quilt. Sometimes when he woke up in the morning, he would find that he was hugged by his elder brother together with the quilt. In the middle of the bed, sometimes the upper half of the two people are covered with their own quilts, and the legs exposed outside are crossed. Most of them wake up from numbness when they wake up in this position.

During the Chinese New Year, two boys and a big man sleep in the same bed, and there is no room for one person and one quilt.So the brothers covered a quilt.This was the first time since Gong Qing grew up that he slept in the same bed with someone other than his biological father. Before going to bed, he still felt a little nervous, and he didn't know how to place his arms and legs when he lay there.And Cheng Yu was afraid that the quilt would let the air in and make his younger brother catch a cold, so he naturally hugged him into his arms and pressed the quilt tightly.

My brother's pajamas smell good, like the fragrance of laundry detergent; my brother's body also smells of milk-flavored shower gel, which is sweet; my brother's arms are so warm and soft.Gong Qing thought so, he quite liked sleeping with his brother like this, not only comfortable but also a sense of security, the previous discomfort had completely disappeared, and he fell into a sweet dream in a short while.

But when you sleep with someone in your arms, you will feel uncomfortable if you put a heavy head on your arm for a long time, so in the middle of the night, Cheng Yu would draw his arm back and put it beside him in a daze, and then grope for his little brother's little hand hold him.And when Gong Qing felt that the arm under her head was gone, she would grope for the arm in the quilt, then leaned over to stick it closer, hugged her brother's arm and continued to sleep.

Such small actions happened repeatedly during the more than 20 days of the holiday and finally formed a habit.After the Lantern Festival, the grandparents returned to their hometown, and before the father moved out of their room, he asked if he would help take the younger brother's quilt out of the cabinet, and the two brothers replied in unison: "No." Rubbing his younger brother's neck, he said to his father with a playful smile: "From now on, we will sleep under the same quilt. I have to sleep with my arms around him, otherwise he can't sleep and I can't sleep either."

He raised his hand to pat Gong Qing's face, and asked, "Is it?"

Gong Qing smiled cooperatively and nodded: "Yeah, yes."

One weekend after school started, I originally planned to go to practice the piano together, but Cheng Yu temporarily told him that his classmate's birthday was today, and he was dragged out to the party by his classmates. Gong Qing stayed at home to do homework and read books, and then went to her sister's room Watch her draw.

At 09:30 in the evening, Cheng Yu hadn’t come back yet. Gong Qing was lying on the bed boredly flipping through the book “Don Quixote” which he brought from her uncle’s study. The names of the characters were too long, and he couldn’t read some obscure sentences I understand, I swallowed it for a long time and didn't figure out what it was about. He couldn't understand why this kind of book that couldn't be read became a world famous book. He just thought that this book was not as good as Maupassant's short stories anyway. , is not as interesting as Sanmao's Journey to the Desert, and even Aesop's fables are more readable than it.

He silently sorted the books he was reading in his heart, until 10:30, he was sleepy and his brother hadn’t come back yet, he was about to ask his aunt what time he would come back when he heard the door outside “click” It opened with a bang.

After a while, Cheng Yu entered the room with two packs of chicken chops and a box of skewers, and said with a smile, "I know you haven't slept, so get up and eat!"

No one can resist the temptation of deep-fried skewers and barbecue, not to mention that since my brother entered the room with the things, the smell of food overflowed from the bag and gradually filled the whole room, making people salivate.

He laughed and jumped out of bed, walked to the desk and asked, "Have you given it to my sister?"

Cheng Yu smiled and complained: "She is so fat, what else does she eat? Every girl can't control her mouth at all." He said so, but his body was very honest, so he still took a Packed chicken chops and a few skewers and went to the next room.

Gong Qing was also quite helpless towards his elder brother, who enjoys beating and stimulating his own sister all day long. She dislikes and loves her at the same time, which is really a child's heart.

Cheng Yu seemed very happy that night. Gong Qing only thought that her brother had a good time because her classmates celebrated their birthdays. After eating chicken chops and barbecue, they fell asleep as usual.

Two weeks later, Gong Qing suddenly heard some students in the class discussing the reason why he was sent to the hospital last semester. He took out the sack and rubbed it against the ground, and was beaten for half an hour.However, their heads were covered, so they couldn't see anything, and the beating person didn't make any noise except moving his hands and feet, so the group of Thorny Heads were beaten for no reason, and they didn't know who the perpetrator was. Can suffer a dumb loss.

This incident spread wildly in the school within a few days. The little classmates who had been bullied by those people all happily talked about how they were beaten and bandaged in the hospital, as if they were Witnesses do.But no matter whether the fact is true or not, everyone spreads it ten to ten times, and if it is not true, it will become true. At the same time, the group of perpetrators are almost blown into gods and saviors by their group of elementary school students.

Gong Qing listened to the general idea, and did not believe that it was an earth-shattering feat like the others. He felt that Thorny and the others were sent to study schools, where the children were basically problem students and were subject to control. But everyone is used to it, even in the study school, they have to rank everyone in their bones, and let everyone recognize who is the boss by force or something.Maybe it was because the prickly head fought for the boss and got the real Tai Sui's head, or maybe it touched the tiger's butt, so Tai Sui or the tiger gave them a slap in the face to make them realize the reality.

Although he believed in his heart that the real situation should be this way of thinking, the result is still very satisfying to him.The world is full of reincarnation, who will the heavens spare!The wicked will reap their rewards!

But a long day later, he realized that his brother was not only the Tai Sui, but also the tiger whose butt was touched.But in this way, he became the piece of soil on Tai Sui's head, and the lump of meat on the tiger's butt. This setting made him very regretful that he blurted out this sentence when he was gloating.

Life was uneventful, and after Gong Qing entered the sixth grade, the course content and academic pressure increased a lot compared to before.Although elementary and junior high schools are compulsory education, and junior high schools are divided according to the neighborhood of residence, but junior high schools and elementary schools are different after all.Junior high schools still have to face the senior high school entrance examination and the problem of enrollment rate, so even though the policy does not allow junior high schools to be divided into tall, short, fat and thin, and requires fair educational resources and balanced teachers, facing the reality of serious educational involution, everyone is secretly competing , unstoppable.

After Gong Qing went home every day, she studied for an hour and a half more than before, most of which were connected with the junior high school curriculum.Cheng Yu is also about to face the senior high school entrance examination this year. His goal is the city's No. [-] middle school, the key point of Nanshi high school, so he consciously increases his study time after returning home after evening self-study.Every night, the two brothers lie quietly on both sides of the desk, studying head to head.

Cheng Yu studied later than Gong Qing. In order to accompany her brother and create a good learning atmosphere for her brother, Gong Qing always took her brother's textbooks for the first grade of junior high school to read by herself after finishing her own books, and together with her brother After marriage, he tried his best to see what he could understand by himself, such as Chinese and English, memorized ancient poems, translated and translated classical Chinese, memorized English words, and tried not to disturb his brother's study quietly.Sometimes when I was studying mathematics, I ran to ask my aunt when I saw something I didn’t understand. Anyway, my aunt is a math teacher. Occasionally, when I really don’t want to move, I will ask my brother to explain it to him.

Occasionally, Cheng Yu was tired from studying, and when he looked up, the younger brother opposite him was still studying with him, and he would feel a particularly happy state of mind. He always thought in his heart: My brother is so kind, so kind!

Cheng Yu turned his neck and stretched again. Today's study task is finally coming to an end.He turned the pen and looked at the younger brother opposite. He was still lowering his head and calculating something on the draft paper. Under the reflection of the desk lamp, his eyelashes cast a light shadow on the lower eyelid. The miniature fan is extraordinarily beautiful.

Cheng Yu suddenly said to Gong Qing: "Brother, you really look good."

"I see, thank you." Gong Qing said perfunctorily without raising her head.

Cheng Yu was suddenly happy, and said with a smile, "If you go to junior high school, there must be many female rats who like you and want to be your girlfriend."

Gong Qing said indifferently: "If I hadn't become disabled at that time, the possibility of such a thing is quite high."

Cheng Yu was a little curious and asked, "Why do you think you can grow disabled?"

Gong Qing finally raised her head to look at Cheng Yu, and said, "Do you still remember that dark and fat boy we saw when we went to practice the piano last time?"

Cheng Yu thought for a while, then nodded and said, "Remember, that kid looks like a tiger, and it seems that even children's clothes can't fit him."

Gong Qing nodded and said: "Yes, he is my deskmate at the old school. A few years ago, he was thin and small, with a baby face and a little baby fat. He looks cute. Teachers and classmates especially like him. Well, it's only been a while, and the whole person has changed a lot, he himself said that he is disabled, so the appearance is unreliable."

Cheng Yu glanced at himself in the mirror thoughtfully. It seemed that he was not as cute as when he was a child, and his skin was a little darker than before, but it was okay. His classmates said that he was quite handsome. .He smiled and looked at Gong Qing again, and said, "He is him and you are you. Your face is kissed by an angel, and the shelf life is very long."

Gong Qing burst out laughing when she heard it, packed up her things, got up and patted Cheng Yu, and said, "Okay, then let me touch you, pass on the power of an angel to you, and guarantee that your face will always be young!"

Cheng Yu smiled and took Gong Qing's hand and caressed his face: "Touch it, touch it, let me look as good-looking as you!" The two of them fell into a sweet dreamland after laughing.