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"A Zheng, A Zheng, can you help your aunt pick up your sister from school?"
"good."
11-year-old Wen Zheng took a can of mango-flavored milk from the refrigerator and went out.
She said she was out of school, but in fact, she was going to a painting class. I don’t know when it started, but Wen Zheng’s ears were always filled with: “A Zheng, my sister is crying again, go and see what’s wrong.” “My sister has caught a cold, A Zheng, help her cover the quilt.” “A Zheng, my sister climbed up a tree and can’t get down.” “My sister spilled her paint, A Zheng, help clean it up.”
"A Zheng, A Zheng..."
The adults in the family are busy with their lives, and as a little adult, he learned how to take care of his younger sister early on. Today is no exception. The training class is not far from home, just two streets away. Wen Zheng usually rides bicycles with his friends in these alleys and is very familiar with this area.
He arrived at the door of the training class. The school bell rang and the children came out laughing with their schoolbags on their backs. Xia Tangyue, with twin ponytails, came out holding the hand of Chen Yanqiu.
"Ah Zheng is here." Chen Yanqiu waved to Wen Zheng, and then said to Xia Tangyue: "Your brother is here to pick you up."
Seeing what Wen Zheng was holding, Xia Tang jumped on him, put her arms around Wen Zheng's neck, and said in a baby voice, "Brother!"
Afraid that she would fall, Wen Zheng hurriedly held Xia Tangyue's arm and pulled her off his back. After steadying her, he put the cold milk in his hand on her cheek.
"Give."
Xia Tangyue stretched out his short little hand to take it, holding the box, and let Wen Zheng insert the straw into it.
On a hot summer day, Xia Tangyue felt refreshed after taking a sip of ice-cold milk. She rubbed her brother's cheek and said, "Brother is the best to me. He is the best brother in the world."
"Let's go home." Wen Zheng gently stroked his sister's head with his palm, held her hand, and walked along the way home. They met a few little boys who usually rode bicycles with him.
One of them came over curiously, bent down and stared at Xia Tangyue: "Hey, is this your sister? She's pretty."
Another one followed suit and said, "Little sister, how old are you? Brother will treat you to ice cream."
"Go away." Wen Zheng pushed away the two young men who were looking around, grabbed Xia Tangyue's slender wrist tightly, and pulled her back behind him to block her tightly: "This is my sister. If you look at her again, I'll dig her eyes out."
Wen Zheng was usually the leader of the kids on the whole street. The little boys were shocked by his rare violent temper and they all shouted "Hey" and ran away. One of them even dropped half a sesame candy when he ran too fast.
Ice cream…Xia Tangyue looked up at the back of Wen Zheng’s head, hugged his back, leaned out, and blinked her big eyes: "Ice cream, I want to eat it, brother."
There is a small shop on the corner of the street with an ice cream cabinet at the door.
Xia Tangyue stopped timidly not far away and didn't dare to go any closer. She had never bought anything by herself and was afraid.
Wen Zheng comforted her: "Go get whatever you want to eat, brother has money."
He guided Xia Tangyue to open the freezer door and encouraged her to take it herself. At first, Xia Tangyue was a little panicked, but after seeing so many ice creams, she became bolder and took three of them. Unfortunately, her hands were too small to hold them, otherwise she would have liked to take another mango ice cream.
After paying the bill, Wen Zheng took Xia Tangyue's hand and walked home slowly. Seeing that she ate too quickly and her mouth was dirty, he carefully wiped it with a tissue.
"Brother, you eat." Xia Tangyue, who was eating like a little cat, raised his hand and handed the ice cream to Wen Zheng's mouth.
Wen Zheng took a bite of the place where she had bitten. Xia Tangyue narrowed her eyes and smiled, pinching Wen Zheng's cheek: "Brother, are you a bear? Why are you so tall and strong, just like a bear?"
"If my brother is a bear, then you are also a bear, because we are brother and sister."
"My brother is a bear. My brother is a bear."
After eating the ice cream, Xia Tangyue asked Wen Zheng to carry her on his back again. She lay on her brother's warm back, her cheek against his sweat-soaked school uniform. Wen Zheng always had a faint cedar scent mixed with the unique sunshine scent of a teenager, which made her rub her nose unconsciously.
"Brother, walk slower." She shook her feet, still holding the popsicle stick in her hand.
Wen Zheng deliberately shook her when he heard this, and Xia Tangyue was so scared that she quickly hugged his neck. He laughed softly, but still slowed down his pace. The setting sun stretched the shadows of the two people very long, overlapping each other, and it was impossible to tell whose outline was whose.
Xia Tangyue ate too much ice cream and started to have diarrhea at night. She went to the hospital, got an injection and took some medicine. Then she lay sick on the bed. Suddenly, a shadow fell on her cheek. She opened her eyes in a daze and found Wen Zheng sitting by the bed looking at her with a guilty look on his face.
"It's my fault that I didn't take good care of you." He covered his face with regret. Xia Tangyue reached out and patted his thigh.
"My stomach hurts, brother, rub it." She didn't actually understand what her illness had to do with her brother. She just felt very uncomfortable and wanted someone to rub her stomach.
"Okay." Wen Zheng lifted her quilt a little, rubbed his palms together to warm them up, and then pressed them on her lower abdomen.
Xia Tangyue rolled over on the pillow twice, squinted her eyes, and hugged Wen Zheng to lie down together.
The brother and sister hugged each other. Xia Tangyue leaned on Wen Zheng's chest and snored steadily. Wen Zheng saw her adorable appearance and pinched her delicate nose.
"Stupid sister."
In the blink of an eye, his stupid sister went to primary school. Now, not only does he have to pick her up and drop her off at school every day, he also has to be her "tutor".
"Math is so hard." Xia Tangyue wailed at the math test paper in front of her. Wen Zheng tapped her head lightly with a rolled-up book: "With me here, it won't be a problem for you."
"Look, first of all..."
Of course, as an older brother, I usually help my younger sister with any handicraft homework she has to do.
Including but not limited to: saving my sister's collapsed pottery jar, reshaping the three-dimensional outline of the crooked bear pendant she carved, and being begged by her to be a makeup model on Children's Day, and taking a photo with her with exaggerated blue eyeshadow.
However, during his youth, the gentle and strong brother Xiong also had times when he couldn't hold on.
On the rainy night when the typhoon hit, Wen Zheng, who was already in high school, carried Xia Tangyue all the way back home from the training class. His school uniform was soaked with rain and stuck to his body.
But he didn't have time to take care of himself. Instead, he cleaned up his wet sister and sent her back to her room. Then he took off his wet clothes and took a hot bath in the bathroom.
Twelve o'clock midnight.
He came out of the bedroom feeling dizzy and curled up on the sofa to take his temperature. The mercury stopped at 38.5℃ and was trembling slightly.
The room was dim. Wen Zheng went to the kitchen to get a glass of water. After taking a pill, he planned to rest on the sofa. As soon as he lay down, he heard rustling sounds from the direction of the stairs, and the faint fragrance of a girl instantly invaded him.
"Brother, what's wrong with you?" Xia Tangyue came closer nervously. She had gotten up to go to the bathroom, but she vaguely saw someone lying on the sofa.
Wen Zheng moved a little, half sat up, stared at Xia Tangyue's worried face in the dark, and smiled slightly: "It's okay, go back to sleep."
I don't believe it! Xia Tangyue wrinkled her nose and reached out to touch Wen Zheng's face, "It's so hot, brother has a fever?"
Wen Zheng held her hand helplessly and coughed softly: "It's really okay, brother has taken medicine, dear sister, go to bed quickly, otherwise you will not have the energy to attend class tomorrow."
"No." Xia Tangyue stubbornly sat next to Wen Zheng, raised his head and said to him: "I want to sleep with you tonight."
"You..." The dim light concealed the blush on the boy's face. Wen Zheng stood up and refused, "No, you can't sleep with me."
"Why not? When I was sick before, you always slept with me. Why don't you let me sleep with you now that you are sick?" Xia Tangyue followed Wen Zheng into the room.
Wen Zheng got into bed and covered the corners of the quilt tightly: "It was possible before, but not now. Be good and go back to your room to sleep."
"Humph! Who wants to listen to you?" Xia Tangyue dragged the small wooden chair to the head of the bed stubbornly, and the chair legs scraped harshly on the floor, "I want to stay here."
At first, she forced herself to stare at Wen Zheng, but then her eyelids became heavier and heavier. In the dimness, it seemed as if someone gently held up her tilted head. When she opened her eyes again, the morning light had already filtered through the gap in the curtains. She was lying on the small bed in her room, with two buttons of her pajamas tied incorrectly.
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