Xiao Yuan took off the striped vest wet with the water gun and threw it in the dirty clothes basin. Xiao Jincheng's voice came from outside the window: "Xiao Yu'an! Are you hiding? Xiao Muting is looking for you everywhere! Where are you?"
Where can I tell you? Xiao Yuan hurriedly found a clean vest to put on. The one he took off just now was wet by Xiao Jincheng. This scourge saved all his pocket money, bought a top-fitting water gun, and spent it all day in the yard. Man, after smearing it, he even put the blame on Xiao Muting.
Every time he sees Xiao Jincheng's face that is about to laugh, Xiao Yuan feels that he is very lucky. He has only one elder sister and no younger brother. How miserable Xiao Muting is, with such an immoral younger brother Xiao Jincheng on the stand, seeing Tian'er making trouble outside, he will provoke Xiao Muting when he goes home.
Xiao Muting is Xiao Yu'an's cousin, but Xiao Yu'an doesn't feel that he is a younger brother, so he was born one day later than Xiao Muting. Since he was a child, he felt that it was his mother's fault that his mother gave birth to him late.
When I remembered it, Xiao Muting stabbed him in the face and asked him to be called brother, then he would definitely not be willing. The two children fought over this, and a group of adults watched the play. Anyway, neither of the two dumplings can hurt anyone, so they can just fight, and it won't be long after the fight is over, Xiao Muting comes to force him to call him brother again.
It was not until Xiao Jincheng was born and Xiao Muting had a real younger brother that he stopped pretending to be a brother to him.
A group of children from the Xiao family all live in the yard of their grandparents. Although their parents are busy, they come back to see when they have time. A few children's toys are indispensable, but what to say, there will be rivers and lakes where there are people, and no matter how many toys, boys of the same age will still be red-faced.
Although Xiao Jincheng was always against his brother, he became a family again when he grabbed toys. Xiao Yu'an was able to fight with Xiao Muting, but he couldn't stand Xiao Jincheng's troubles, and he lost most of the times.
At this time, Xiao Yuan thought again, if he had a younger brother, at least he could contain Xiao Jincheng.
But if the younger brother is like Xiao Jincheng, it will be troublesome.
Have a brother? Still no brother? For 11-year-old Xiao Yu'an, it was a world problem that he could never understand.
Just now, he was playing military chess with Xiao Muting downstairs. It was a good game, and there were winners and losers. However, Xiao Jincheng kept messing around, fiddling with the chess pieces for a while, and running around the table with a water gun. It was already hot in the summer, he was upset by Xiao Jincheng, lost a game in confusion, Xiao Muting slapped his chess pieces and laughed triumphantly.
As soon as he thought about it, he understood. Xiao Jincheng had discussed it with Xiao Muching long ago and deliberately made trouble, otherwise why would Xiao Muching not be affected at all
He hadn't fought with Xiao Muting for a week, and now he got angry and started fighting again. Xiao Jincheng danced with joy, jumping on the sofa and sipping water on the two of them.
He always liked to be clean, and he couldn't stand the feeling of being wet the most, so he hurried upstairs to change his clothes and got rid of Xiao Muching.
Summer is the most colorful season in the four seasons. Its existence seems to be figurative. The cicadas outside are like a golden bell, covering people.
Xiao Yu'an thought the "Golden Bell" was too loud and wanted to close the window, but when he walked to the window, the hand holding the door suddenly stopped.
The yards are next to each other, like a chessboard of military chess, separated by a small road and a sturdy tree in the middle. A small figure appeared on the trunk of one of the trees and was climbing hard.
The child was wearing a khaki vest with stripes of different thicknesses. From a distance, it looked similar to the one Xiao Yuan threw in the basin.
There are too few clothes to choose from in summer, girls can still wear short skirts and dresses, and boys can only change tank tops and shorts.
Xiao Yu'an had seen that child. It was the child of the Ming family next door. He was small and had round eyes. He was always alone. The adults in the family sometimes talk about the Ming family, indicating that their grandchildren are the only child named Mingshu. Mingshu was left behind by his grandparents when he was born, and his parents were busy with their own affairs when they were away, and they never came back to see him at the end of the year.
Probably because there was no one to play with, Mingshu just climbed the tree to play alone. Xiao Yuan watched him climb a tree several times, but he didn't know what fun it was to climb a tree.
Cicadas also like to climb trees, and Mingshu looks like a large cicada holding the trunk and climbing up.
Xiao Yuan watched for a while and was happy.
"Xiao Yu'an! Come out!" Xiao Muching shouted from outside the door, "What are you hiding!"
Did I hide? Xiao Yuxin thought, I just went upstairs to change clothes.
Xiao Jincheng was still patrolling downstairs with a water gun, roaring while jumping: "Xiao Yuan is afraid of being beaten! Xiao Yuan is hiding!"
"Don't make trouble." My elder sister Xiao Jinlan is in junior high school, and everyone is a girl. Finally, she can't stand the three brothers who are making troubles. She came out of the study to preside over justice, "Grandpa cut the watermelon, come and eat it!"
When the weather is close to 40°C, no one does not love iced watermelons. As soon as he heard that there was watermelon to eat, even the most annoying Xiao Jincheng obeyed, dropped the water gun and ran to the wooden table in the courtyard.
Xiao Yuan pushed the dirty clothes basin to the bottom of the bed, opened the door and went downstairs.
When Mingshu struggled to climb to the branch and sat down, Xiao Yuan was no longer in the room.
He stretched his neck and looked at it, and found that a group of brothers and sisters in the Xiao family were eating watermelon. The grandfather of the Xiao family was wearing a white vest and was swinging a palm fan to enjoy the shade under the shade of a tree.
The angle of the branches is not particularly good, and he has to tilt his body to see each of them.
He usually doesn't like to climb this tree, but the tree that can see Xiao's yard most clearly has been climbed too many times by him, and its branches seem to be breaking. He was afraid of falling, so he had to climb another tree.
Every time he finished climbing the tree, he would be scolded by his grandfather.
Grandpa doesn't like him climbing trees, thinking that climbing trees is a very uneducated thing, and it will stain his clothes.
He actually doesn't like climbing trees, but he is too short, only 5 years old. Only when he climbs a tree can he see Xiao's children playing games.
He has no siblings, and his parents don't come back to see him. His grandparents are fierce, not as kind as the Xiao family's grandparents. He hasn't spoken to the brothers and sisters of the Xiao family, but he likes to watch them play. The one named Xiao Jincheng is the naughty one and has the loudest voice. The one named Xiao Yu'an often fights with the one named Xiao Muching. Watching them fight is more interesting than watching cartoons. It was fun, he bet with himself, betting on Xiao Muting to win today, and betting on Xiao Yu'an to win tomorrow.
Treat yourself to a mint-flavored popsicle if you win.
Gradually, he discovered that the brothers of the Xiao family fought unfairly. Xiao Yuan was only one person, but Xiao Muting had a younger brother. Xiao Jincheng always likes to make troubles and make small moves, and Xiao Yuan suffers a lot.
Although still young, the little man already has the mentality of sympathy for the weak. Mingshu felt that Xiao Yuan was pitiful, and he didn't even have a helper in the fight.
Sitting on the branch, he dangled his legs and picked his fingers, thinking that if he was the younger brother of the Xiao family, he could help Xiao Yuan.
But he is not. He is the child of the Ming family.
Thinking of this, he pouted in sadness.
During the Spring Festival, he climbed a tree for the first time because he heard the hilarity of the Xiao family. He was very envious, always thinking - why am I not the child of the Xiao family? That way, I can play with them too.
The tall trees are like a dream place. He secretly looked at the Xiao family, imagining that he was the youngest child of the Xiao family, well, let's be Xiao Yu'an's younger brother. In the future, if Xiao Jincheng makes trouble again, he will hug Xiao Jincheng's leg.
Because he is a good brother.
He climbed the tree for half a year, but no one in the Xiao family noticed him. He was a little happy and a little sad. He was actually quite timid. He wanted to play with others, but he didn't dare. He was eager to see it. If he was discovered, what if he was not allowed to watch it
After all, my grandfather said that climbing a tree is very uneducated. He didn't want the brothers and sisters of the Xiao family to think that he was a child without family education.
He is very nice.
Xiao Jincheng finished eating the watermelon as quickly as possible, and then picked up the water gun to slap someone, Xiao Muting was slapped, and hurriedly threw the watermelon rind over. Xiao Yu'an didn't want to fight anymore, but caught between Xiao Muting and Xiao Jincheng, his new clothes suffered again.
The three boys scuffled into a ball, Xiao Jinlan couldn't control it anymore, and went upstairs with the watermelon.
Seeing the fight over there, Mingshu's eyes lit up.
But at this moment, Grandpa's voice came from under the tree, "Climb up the tree again, come down!"
Mingshu was most afraid of grandpa. He shrank his neck in a conditioned reflex and climbed down numbly. He didn't take the last few steps and fell to the ground, his eyes red with pain.
Grandpa looked at him with a stern face and shouted, "Go back and change your clothes!"
The courtyard wall blocked the view, but it couldn't stop Xiao Jincheng's shouting. Mingshu was itching to hear it, it seemed that Xiao Yuan and Xiao Muting joined forces to clean up Xiao Jincheng. He wanted to see how Xiao Jincheng was cleaned up, but he was dragged into the house by his grandfather, and he couldn't see anything.
After being educated, Mingshu rested peacefully for a few days, but he didn't have a long memory. When his grandfather was not at home, he found another tree to climb up.
The brothers of the Xiao family were still having fun, but he didn't see Xiao Yu'an this time.
Xiao Muching and Xiao Jincheng have been arguing for several days. Because Xiao Jincheng was beaten last time, he chased Xiao Muching every day and asked—Am I your brother
But let Xiao Yuan clean up.
The retired cadre's compound has a good environment and is spacious. Xiao Yuan was too lazy to stay at home and listen to Xiao Muting and Xiao Jincheng's fight. He took a picture book about adventure and was going to find a cool and quiet place to watch it for an afternoon.
When he passed the path next to Ming's house, he heard a small movement from above, and when he looked up, he saw that the child of Ming's house was holding a tree trunk with one foot hooked on the branch, unable to come down or go up, and was in a hurry. Woo hoo.
Mingshu did not expect to meet Xiao Yuan at this time.
He had never climbed this tree before, and he felt uncomfortable after sitting on it. He wanted to change branches, but he stepped on a branch.
He couldn't fall to the ground, and he was so scared that he almost cried, and his eyes were red with suffocation.
The elder brother of the Xiao family, who was always watching from a distance, reached out to him, "Do you want to come down?"
Suddenly he was no longer afraid, but he didn't respond immediately.
This was the first time he heard Xiao Yu'an's voice clearly. Xiao Yuan didn't talk much when he was fighting, and what he heard most was Xiao Jincheng's voice.
Xiao Yu'an's voice was much more stable than Xiao Jincheng's.
"Do you want to come down?" Xiao Yuan asked again.