The figure is an illustration Xiao Qian is a primary school classmate of the second brother. She is not tall, not short, not fat, not thin, white, and has big eyes. She is "a little bit" beautiful! When I entered the junior high school freshman training, I saw her chatting with a group of boys near the basketball court. Her hair grew longer, dyed deep and light brown, and looked more beautiful than before - it should have become quite outstanding!
As soon as she saw me, she ran to me, handed me a bag of milk tea, and said affectionately: "Sister, welcome to our school. If you have something to do later, you will come to find the sister. The sister will cover you!" I knew she would treat me so well, because of the second brother.
I have two older brothers. The eldest brother is seven years old. I study in Tainan University and seldom go home.
As soon as he came home, he told me to study hard. I think he and his parents belong to the same country. My second brother is my country, because he is only one year older than me. Although we sometimes quarrel, we always support each other and cover each other when it is critical.
The second brother is very cool. He has a long face, big eyes and thick black eyebrows. Girls wrote notes to him in the third and fourth grades of primary school. He didn't respond to the note and always looked at it and threw it away.
After entering the senior grade, the second brother received more notes, but he was still cool. He went crazy with basketball all day long and didn't look at any girl more. If I ask him who he really likes, he will stare at me and scold me fiercely: "abnormal!" We often laugh at the second brother: "What a principle!"
But after junior high school, the second brother changed. His voice became thick, his throat was protruding, and his height was also like the weeds in spring, rushing upward desperately. For a while, he rubbed ginger on his chest every day, saying that he could grow chest hair, but when he smeared it with red, swollen and inflamed hair, he didn't grow half of it. Instead, I scolded him: "abnormal!"
The second brother attended a primary school reunion during his second year of junior high school. That day, after they had dinner together, they went to sing KTV for one afternoon. After that, many girls called him, and Xiao Qian was the most frequent one.
Xiao Qian calls her second brother almost every day, asking him about every little thing in his life - from what to eat for breakfast, to what to say in PE class, to what the teaching director says. Two people are laughing.
The second brother also seems to be interested in Xiao Qian. Although every time after the phone call, he would hypocritically say "really boring", but when the phone rang, he pushed his chair in a hurry and ran out to ask: "Is it mine?"
If it was my mother who answered the phone, Xiaoqian would pretend that it was my classmate who wanted to ask about her homework. When I answered the phone, she would chat with me about "something" and then ask me to transfer the phone to my second brother.
Of course, I won't betray my second brother, but they have been talking on the phone for too long. Every time they talk for an hour or two, even I think it's a bit excessive.
Mom finally became suspicious. One day, she gave her second brother a lecture, warning him to concentrate on his studies in the future, not to "engage in men and women", and stipulated that every phone call he made in the future should be ended within five minutes.
The second brother was very angry. He talked back to his mother loudly and said, "Talking on the phone is not about men and women. Don't 'discredit' me!
"Smashing?" Her mother's eyes were so big that she turned to take a letter from the TV and threw it on the table, saying, "Look for yourself. What is it? There are many wrong words! She said I was" smearing "? I want to see how you can" bleach "!"
It was a letter sealed in the "Kitty Cat Envelope", full of words like "missing you", and the signature below was "Xiao Qian, who hopes to have a chance in this life". There were seven or eight wrong words on the letter, which was also circled in thick red ink.
"Why did you open my letter?" The second brother became angry with embarrassment. He crumpled the letter into a ball and roared. I saw his fists clenched and blue veins protruding from his forehead.
"Because I'm your guardian!" Mother also raised her voice, slapped the table and roared, "Look at this letter, to what extent! You can't read books well, and still want to fall in love?"
"It's another matter whether the degree is good or not. Anyway, you can't open my letter, which is disrespectful!" The second brother may also be angry. I've never seen him so cruel to his mother.
That night, they quarreled very hard, and in the end, they didn't fight out any results.
After the quarrel, the atmosphere at home was still very hot, and everyone threw the door with a bang.
This is the first time my mother opened the letter without permission, and also the first time she yelled at us "patting the table". I think she must be unbearable. As for that letter, it had been crumpled into a ball by the second brother in the fierce "war" and thrown into the garbage can without any pity - just like the notes written to him by those girls before.
I want to ask the second brother: "Why did you throw away Xiaoqian's letter? Was it a moment of anger? Or did you really care about her? What are you going to do in the future?" But I dare not ask.
After this incident, my mother never opened our letter again, but my second brother's face smelled for weeks. He is fierce to his mother and to me. Every time Xiaoqian calls, he doesn't talk much, just answers with the phone receiver. I know the second brother is not afraid of his mother's scolding. He is not afraid of his mother now. So, is it because there are so many wrong words in Xiaoqian's letter that he feels humiliated, so he is so indifferent to her?
The content of this book is selected from "Brother's Secret Note", which is authorized by Tsinghua University Press.
