Brother Christine

It was snowing heavily outside the window, and in front of the indoor mirror, Shen Jing tied a red and white silk scarf with diagonal stripes around his neck, overlapping on the golden jade Buddha statue that he often wore around his neck.

The white wrists wearing jade bracelets brushed the thick mink fur, and the wide and warm coat added some grace and richness to the thin figure.The lapel of the clothes was fastened with a black-purple crystal brooch, and she sat quietly in front of the dressing table and fiddled with it, then took a small delicate bottle, and applied some essential oil to her hair.

In four years, the fine folds on the skin have faded, and the original vicissitudes of life have been restored to the appearance that a beautiful woman should have.

I just dyed my hair yesterday. From the thick black dyed with white silk before, it was dyed into a new and fashionable deep chestnut color. The long hair was also cut short and curled fluffy.The eldest son sent her an international express last week, a box of lotion essence bought from the Chanel store in Paris, and a lipstick in exquisite packaging in Russian.

Just looking at the gift, you can tell that the two are getting together again.

During the year when the eldest son went to France as an international exchange student, the second son also traveled around the world.Except for the time when she went to Australia for a fashion show in August, every time Shen Qing went to a business trip, she had to take a long detour by plane to France to find his brother to fool around with.

When Shen Jing was at work yesterday morning, she just had a phone call with Shen Qing. The other party took a picture of her knee-less snow from an overlooking angle. Her long legs wrapped in black pants were stretched with knee pads, inserted in the reflective and crystal-clear snow. , like a popsicle stick, coordinates Yakutsk, Russia.

Angry and distressed, Shen Jing complained to him a few words, so he couldn't stay at home to find a stable job, and had to go out to do this job to ask for trouble, which is what he deserved.

M University is not an ace major, and it is quite difficult to find a job after graduation. When Shen Qing was in her junior year, Shen Jing asked him to take the postgraduate entrance examination and take the Ph.D. Still close to home.

Shen Qing nodded and said yes, turned around and finished the credits in half a year ahead of schedule, and officially joined a fashion company as a model.

The scene of deja vu, once in high school, and again in college, Shen Jing was so angry that his lungs were about to explode, and he was not allowed to enter the house for three months, so that he could reflect on her!

Shen Qing said, money is quick to do this, his brother needs money to study in graduate school, he needs money to go abroad to study, food, housing and clothing, and everywhere, even if her mother's monthly salary has risen to [-] now, she can support two people at the same time He couldn't afford to pay for the exam, and when his brother came back, he planned to start a business with Huang Zhong Chengke and the others. Even if there was a policy subsidy for college students to start a business, he still needed more funds to make him lose money.

More importantly, Shen Qing and his mother seriously emphasized:

He really hated going to school.

If there is neither his mother nor his brother in the school, he will stay in that lifeless and rigid world, and he will have no time to move forward. He will either smoke to death, or be suffocated to death sooner or later.

Shen Jing had nothing to do with him, she was an adult in her twenties, she couldn't control her, she just said that you don't regret it in the future.

As a model, his mother has warned him long ago that it is impossible for a person in this industry to live a life of youth, but Shen Qing will not feel regretful.

The first and second volumes of his "Ten Years of Engraving" were all published when he graduated from university, and all the manuscript fees he earned were saved, and he is still continuing to write novels part-time.

But working behind closed doors can't produce inspiration, Shen Qing feels that she has to run around while she is young.

In the past, in small villages and small towns, I always felt that the whole world was just one acre of land. My vision was narrow, and my mind was also narrow. I had never seen the big world before. In my heart, I couldn’t put it down except for the messy things at home. In addition, it is impossible to say that there is no regret.

At this stage, he still has enough energy. His brother has his own dreams, and he wants to indulge them completely.

Shen Jing couldn't help being soft-hearted, and told him to wear thicker clothes when he wasn't working, Shen Qing responded, and asked her if she and Peng Lei were together during the days when he and his brother were away.

Shen Jing turned cold-blooded for a second, and rolled back.

There is no plan to remarry in this life, and Peng Lei is only talking about loyalty in the world, and the two sons don't come back often. When she encounters something at home alone, the other party just comes to lend a hand. Occasionally, the class is too lazy When cooking, she will also take care of the other party's business.

Both of them are so old, Peng Lei doesn't have that kind of thought, she doesn't lack money or rely on her, and it's embarrassing to have any childish love.

If fate is willing to favor them and let them meet earlier, maybe there will be some romantic fate, but people have to accept their fate, and she is enjoying good fortune now, which means that she should have been that miserable person in the first half of her life.

There are gains and losses. At this age, everything is transparent. She will not expect things that are too far away from her, and she will make up for the mistakes she has made for those who are close to her.

Today, when the two sons returned to China, Shen Jing spent so long just to pick them up at the airport.

Go out, take a taxi, this community is in the university town, there are too many leaders' wives, the driver sees her dress and temperament, greets her attentively, gets out of the car and opens the door for her.

Shen Jing never sat in the co-pilot, leaned on the back seat, closed her eyes and rested.

The brooch given by the eldest son was pinned to the fur given by the second son. At first, the silk scarf was worn out early, and Shen Qing bought her a few new ones later.

The jade bracelet was given by Vice President Huo. Their family lived here and took care of each other a lot.Shen Jing knew that he was also a workaholic, working overtime every day, drinking and socializing too much, last year he had stomach bleeding a few times, that guy's boyfriend was studying abroad now, Huo Ye deliberately concealed it, and the other party didn't know anything.

On the day of Shen Jing's visit, he ran into Huo Ye in the office with a relapse of his stomach problem, and the secretary was outside the door, but he was sweating profusely and still holding back.The big man's mind is quiet and he doesn't understand. The other party asked her to keep it a secret. She has nothing to do, so she cooks fish stew every day as a nutritious meal and sends it to the company to replenish her body.

Huo Ye also has a private doctor, but no matter how many medications he takes, he can't keep up with socializing and drinking too much. Shen Jing has put in a lot of effort in eating, and it took more than a year to help people recuperate their bodies.Huo Ye joked with her, saying that when he stopped being a teacher, he wanted to hire her as a personal nutritionist.

Shen Jing smiled and answered.

She can do anything, she is a person who has not even had time to have her dreams.

In her best years, she was turned into a country woman who was bound by the three obediences and four virtues by her close relatives. Everything about her was arranged by someone, and all she had to do was obey and be grateful.

She also wanted to struggle upwards. Being a teacher may be the only chance in her life to break free from her fate. She tried her best to become better, but those poor and stupid children dragged her heart.

A dilapidated village, a kind of bondage, many years in a blink of an eye.

But she still went up in the end, but the man who gave her the opportunity was also the killer who strangled her hope. She chose to let go under the gentle persuasion of the man who raised the notice countless times.A man marries her to have a family. The woman in the family has already left one, and he will not allow another one to leave.

She is inferior and cowardly, she owes him a lot, she can only obey.

Close your eyes, open your eyes, and it will be many years.

There was crystal liquid flowing out of the corner of his eyes, and somehow he suddenly felt emotional, wiped his eyes quietly, rubbed his fingers against the plush and soft collar, and smiled.

It's almost Chinese New Year, and there are quite a lot of people at the airport. Shen Jing found a row of chairs and sat down, and sent a message "Where are you, I'm here" among the three people.

—Mom, you find a place to sit first, we have to wait a while

Before the sentence was finished, the person was dragged into the toilet cubicle. When Jiang Xiao was pushed and shoved by the anxious people, he shook his fingers and clicked send.

"Your uncle!" Jiang Xiao glared at the person at the door, then quickly lowered his head and withdrew the message.Resend again.

"Brother! Hurry up!" Shen Qing locked the door, unbuttoned his clothes while tugging at him, put his arms around his brother and buckled it into her arms, and kissed hurriedly under the man's jaw: "There are few people now! You choose quickly! Front or back?"

"I just changed my pants," the phone slapped to the ground, Jiang Xiao made a wrong step, was pushed against the door on the back, hugged Shen Qing and kissed fiercely, "You can't wait to go home Say more?"

"Whoever seduced me on the plane just now knows exactly what's going on!" Shen Qing grabbed his waist, refusing to budge an inch, "Brother, do you choose or not? Or let me choose for you?"

"Fuck! Choose the back! The back is cool!" Fingers touched the tense line of Shen Qing's back, and his mind gradually turned into a gallop. Jiang Xiao shouted, "More oil!"

"I know." Shen Qing smiled, took out a tube of ointment from his pocket, and turned the person around...

……

……

The toilet was in a mess.

When it was finally about to end, Jiang Xiao bent down to pick up the phone from the ground, and Shen Qing bumped into it again abruptly, almost hitting his head into the pit...

With a stinky face, Jiang Xiao went out to get luggage, Jiang Xiao wiped his phone repeatedly with a wet towel, and kept a distance of three meters from Shen Qing.

Thinking about it carefully, they have been on and off together for almost six years, and Jiang Xiao has 1 loves and 1 anger for Shen Qing's persistent and inexhaustible fighting ability.When it's cool, it's naturally very cool, and at the moment of being spoofed, I can't wait to tear people up with my backhand.

Shen Qing expressed her innocence, and leaned over to rub against his brother, saying that he thought he was implying that.

"Fuck your uncle's hint!"

Pulling the suitcase, he didn't want to talk to him, the place from the door was very cold, Jiang Xiao took out a dark gray cashmere scarf from his schoolbag and wrapped it around his neck, then put his schoolbag on his back, and waved his hand in the direction of Shen Jing.

Shen Qing smiled and followed.

His scarf of the same style, together with his luggage, was brought home by his colleagues from the filming team yesterday.The company's air tickets are only reimbursed for those who go back together. He doesn't travel with others every time, but he can still save some shipping costs every time. It's great to come back for a few hundred yuan to eat skewers.

Seeing the tall boy in the distance waving to her, Shen Jing quickly stood up and greeted her.

We haven't seen each other for a year, there is time difference between regions, and they don't often make video calls. Seeing this child again, she felt a little dazed.

The stubborn little boy who was always angry with her had grown into a tall and handsome mature man in a blink of an eye.He was wearing a knee-covering windbreaker, and inside was a tailored and sewn high-end black suit. The luxurious and exquisite clothes were put on him, and he had an extraordinary demeanor. He was always different from the boys who walked side by side in jackets, but they were very harmonious. .

The elder brother who is mature and prudent, and the younger brother who is always young and self-willed.

"Mom." The elder brother and the younger brother came over and nodded their greetings.

"Well," Shen Jing smiled, and took his luggage, "The jet lag hasn't reversed yet, I'll go back and rest later, and I'll cook something delicious for you two in the evening."

"I'll help him carry it." Shen Qing took the luggage, stood between his brother and his mother, and walked out together.

"Are you wearing long johns?" Seeing that the trousers were so loose, Shen Jing lowered her head and pulled Shen Qing's trousers.

"This is plush." ​​Shen Qing saw her newly dyed hair, and said casually, "The fur inside is the same color as your head."

Shen Jing: "..."

Sounds right, but something doesn't feel right.

"Mom," Jiang Xiao tugged at him, hurried over to interject, smiling, "Are you guys on vacation too?"

"Not yet, we have to wait another two weeks," Shen Jing slapped the people around him, and replied, "The school is pressing hard, and we have to keep up with other people's rhythms after class, alas, this year's holiday That's three days less than last year."

"Take a break," Jiang Xiao persuaded, "If you feel tired, let's ask for leave. It's not worth his thousands of dollars, so don't ruin your body."

"If you don't want to work, just stay at home." Shen Qing waved for a taxi, put the luggage with the driver, and said with a tilted head, "We can afford you."

"I don't need you two to support me," Shen Jing brushed her hair back, her posture was luxurious and graceful, "I have money."

Jiang Xiao looked at each other lightly and smiled.

That's right, Teacher Shen is also a rich woman now, so there is no need for them to support her.

Depart by car and go home.

The two rested at their mother's side all afternoon, and quietly cooked a table of dishes at night. After a full meal, the three of them sat in the living room watching TV and chatting together.

Talking about his plan for next year, Shen Qing said that he will be on vacation for the first half of the year, and he plans to rest at home and write novels.

Shen Jing was quite surprised, and asked him if he had become a vagrant.

I didn't tell her that I suffered a back injury at work, the company lost a lot of money, and the boss forced him to rest. Shen Qing opened his eyes and told nonsense. It was because of his talent that he was already a master in the industry. He has to put on airs and play big names, he is on paid leave, and he is not short of money.

Jiang Xiao was annoyed and laughed, and sat quietly on the side, listening to people talking nonsense to his mother, stroking Shen Qing's back with the palm of his hand back and forth.

"Where is Xiao Xiao?" Shen Jing looked at him with her head: "You have worked hard studying outside, so let's rest for a while when you come back."

"I went to work after the new year," Jiang Xiao replied with a smile: "My mentor knew that I was going to start a business, so he wrote a letter of recommendation to him, asking me to go to his friend's company to gain experience first."

"Hasn't it been a month?" Shen Jing frowned: "Why are you holding on so tightly?"

"I'm 24 this year, and I'm going to be 25 soon," Jiang Xiao said with a smile, "Time waits for no one, and I can't delay it."

"Oh, yes, how did it pass so fast?" Shen Jing glanced at the calendar hanging on the wall, and said with emotion, "Tell me about you two, what a good age, what a good condition..."

Jiang Xiao sat on the side lightly and smiled, without saying a word.

All parents in the world have the heart to embrace grandchildren.Shen Jing occasionally regrets it. As she grows older, she often loves to visit nearby kindergartens and see children from other homes walking with naive steps, sliding on slides, swinging on swings, playing in the sand, and hiding in the arms of adults and acting like a baby.

She had also been a mother, but she had never experienced the happiness of being a mother. She was young and energetic, and her heart was full of fire, and she didn't give her son much love. Now it's too late to envy her and regret it.

She failed to be a good mother, so God deprived her of the right to be a grandmother. Fate tortured her heart and punished her every day in such a way that she could remember her whole life.

At night, Shen Qing sneaked into his brother's bed, hugged and chatted with someone.

"Brother," Shen Qing said in the dark, "She's so lonely, you can give her a little grandson."

"Hey, if I can give birth," Jiang Xiao sighed, and kissed his forehead: "I'll give you seven, and her seven, so that you can play without repeating the same thing for a week."

"Brother," Shen chuckled softly, "Are you a pig? You gave birth to so many cubs?"

"You are the pig, which one of us can eat the most? Huh?" Jiang Xiao squeezed his face, tucked the corner of the quilt for him, and whispered: "I have already thought of the baby's name, seven for you , called Changjiang No. [-], Changjiang No. [-], No. [-]... until Changjiang No. [-]."

"Well," Shen chuckled, "What about it for Mom?"

"Our mother seems to like girls more." Jiang Xiao thought about it seriously, and said, "Let's call it Dongfanghong. Dongfanghong is No. [-], No. [-], No. [-]... also ranked No. [-]."

"What an awesome name," Shen chuckled, "Will the police station handle it for you?"

"Hey, isn't this the same nature as those called patriotism?" Jiang Xiao said, "If it doesn't work, let's change it to Hongqi, Xiaohongqi No. [-], Xiaohongqi No. [-], and Xiao... No. [-]."

"Brother," Shen Qing tugged at his little flag, and smiled lowly, "Why are you so cute?"

"You're cute too," Jiang Xiao smiled, bent over and pecked the person's lips, "It's cool, soft and sweet, even there it's fragrant."

"Huh?" Shen bumped him lightly: "Where is it sweet? Where is there?"

"That's where it is," Jiang Xiao said with a smile, "It's a place that only I have ever been in."

"Brother Smelly," Shen Qing buried him in his arms and bit him, "It's really shameless."

"I am brother smelly, you are treasure smelly..."

"You're lying, you just said I'm fragrant..."

"Really," Jiang Xiao smiled sullenly, pinched his chin and kissed him, "Come on, come on, is it a Xiangbao or a smelly treasure, I have to go in again to find out..."

……

The night is quiet and the people are not quiet. The clear light enters the house through the window, and a pool of spring water rises when the ground falls.

……

No one was invited for the New Year's Eve dinner, the family of three ate at Shen Jing's place, and as usual during the Chinese New Year, they ordered meals from outside restaurants.

Shen Qing doesn't want to think back to the busy scene of his mother's cooking with a spatula on this day every year, and also doesn't want to recall that heartbreaking nightmare back then, even though he knows that his brother and Song Yu have always been in contact, and occasionally Will pay there.

But that's his brother's own business, like a person who knows how warm and cold the drinking water is, no matter what, they are all blood relatives, and it is impossible to make a clean break.

Jiang Jifeng came here to find someone on his brother's birthday last year, insisting on seeing his brother.Song Yu brought it here, but he really couldn't control it. The old man thought his son was going crazy.

But the other party didn't tell the old man that Jiang Xiao had gone abroad, and Song Wu's heart was also very hard. He didn't want to bring Jiang Xiao and his son back together, so he deliberately led him to Shen Qing.

When Jiang Jifeng saw him, his heart immediately turned cold, his lips twitched with thoughts, knowing that it was impossible to see his son again, two lines of old tears flowed out, he bent his back, turned around and was about to leave.

Shen Qing invited him to a meal, gave him some money, and told him through the window after he got in the car, "He is with his mother now, he already knows everything, you will come later , he won't want to see you either."

"You liar, you're a total deceit!" Jiang Jifeng threw the money on his face, lowered his head and wiped his tears, "If you don't come, you won't come, and I don't want to see you again!"

Shen Qing shrugged indifferently.

Jiang Jifeng didn't want to talk to him, he slammed the window and sat on the other side of the back seat.

Shen Qing stood on the spot, watching his car gradually move away, the wind was full of red banknotes flying all over the sky, and a soft sorry.

Men used to live more carefully than women, but now they are old and out of shape. His brother will definitely feel distressed when he sees him, but he also knows that his brother never goes back because he is afraid that his heart will soften.

In this case, he will be the bad guy for his brother.

He is more ruthless, he has resentment.His mother was just a servant in Jiang Jifeng's eyes. He could tell from the first sentence of his novel, "A man can be rented out to pick us up", that the man didn't like them in his heart.

She has a car and is on vacation, knowing what will happen when a widowed teacher takes her child away from that small village, but she still chooses to let her face it alone.I would rather drive to the entrance of the town and lie there all morning, waiting to pick up ready-made ones, than drive there myself and be a real man.

He said that he has been in love for many years, but he couldn't even stand this test. He was overwhelmed by ecstasy at the time, but he ignored such an obvious problem.

but--

Shen Qing left the window, turned back to the newly bought small fireworks on the table, lit one herself first, closed her eyes and silently made a wish:

Hope we all get better.

With a sound of gada, the fireworks are extinguished and the world is brightened.

Shen Qing opened her eyes from the darkness and looked towards the door.

"Hey, just light it up by yourself first?" Jiang Xiao came in after taking a shower, turned on the light, then pulled the slippers and stretched his arms to hug him, rubbing his chin on the man's shoulder: "Smelly treasure, why don't you wait for me to come with you?" ?”

"When I went out to buy today, it was snowing outside," Shen Qing felt a little itchy from his hair, she threw the scorched stick into the water with a smile, also put her arms around his brother's waist, and kissed the man's face with her head tilted. After a while, "I'll try to see if I can light it."

"Come on, let me have a look." Jiang Xiao took the man's hand and went to the table together to look, "How much did you buy?"

"It's not much, just five yuan." Shen Qing took half of it and handed it to him, saying, "Mom doesn't like to play with these things. I'll buy her some balls of wool. She wants to knit sweaters for us this year."

"Tsk," Jiang Xiao took it, and smiled: "Mom is really hiding something, I thought she could only knit scarves."

"I don't know either." Shen Qing took out a lighter from her trouser pocket, lit it and tried the fire, and said, "She said she learned it from the video. When I was a child, I saw her fiddling with wool, but I didn't see anything formed. s things."

"Not formed?" Jiang Xiao raised his eyebrows.

"It's just...well," Shen Qing thought about the wording carefully, and said, "She can weave a ball of yarn into another ball."

"Isn't that just a lump?" Jiang Xiao couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud: "It seems that she really worked hard."

"Maybe we are not here, she is too boring," Shen lightly lit their fireworks: "We will go home in a few days, just in time for her vacation, let's take her to live for a while."

"En." Jiang Xiao nodded.

"Last year we watched the fireworks together on the streets of Paris," Shen Qing smiled and looked at him: "This year it's not so romantic, but I'm still by your side, do you have any wishes?"

"Yes," Jiang Xiao smiled, pulling people to close their eyes together: "Come on."

"Then I'll count down," Shen Qing closed his eyes and smiled, counting down softly: "Three, two, one..."

Three seconds of silence.

Jiang Xiao opened his eyes.

At the same time, the cell phone in Shen Qing's trouser pocket rang suddenly.

"Huh?" Shen Qing joked while taking out her mobile phone: "You wish to jump to me?"

"It would be great if that's the case," Jiang Xiao smiled, took a pile of burnt sticks in his hand, knelt down to pack them up, and said, "If they ask you for a job, you can't go, it's Chinese New Year, Don't run around."

Shen Qing stood in front of the window and didn't return.

Frowning slightly, his eyes were fixed on the words of the person who just sent him a message in his Weibo message dialog box:

—Hello, are you the author of "Ten Years of Engraving"?

— Is this really based on a true story?

— Could you tell me the time and place where this story happened?

— Excuse me, is the boy named "Xiao Jiang" called Jiang Xiao?

— May I ask in the article that he misses his mother very much, did you rewrite it based on the character prototype, or did he say it himself?

—Sorry, I saw your book in the bookstore just now, and I was a little emotional. If you are a witness to this story, can you answer me?

-Hello……

With her hands trembling uncontrollably, Shen Qing suddenly turned to look at his brother!

His brother was holding a basin, opened the door and walked out.

Looking back, emotions were burning wildly, Shen Qing pursed her lips tightly, with the last sliver of reason, and said this sentence:

—Who are you from Jiang Xiao?

The message from the other party will be replied within a second:

-Mother.

—if he still admits me.

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I didn’t give up on Chapter 96, but Chapter V is really hard to change, alas, I remember the bloody lesson this time

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