"Hey, Brother Yi, if I'm caught sneaking my sister into the water, can you block a few blows for me when my dad hits me?"

Before entering the water.

Sheng Xi asked Sheng Yi this.

The latter glanced over calmly, his expression somewhat speechless: "You speak as if I won't be spanked."

Sheng Qi, who was standing next to him, looked like it was no big deal: "Brother Yi, Brother Xi, what are you afraid of? With Yuan Yuan here, she will plead for us and everything will be fine."

From childhood to adulthood, whenever the brothers made a mistake, no matter how big or small, as long as the youngest sister complained in front of the elders, they would be let off immediately - the sister was more used to it than a get-out-of-jail-free medal.

As he spoke, Sheng Qi turned his head and asked for confirmation: "Yuanyuan, you will beg for mercy, right?"

Sheng Yuan had already changed into a small diving suit, her beautiful almond eyes were full of excitement for getting into the water. Hearing this, she said, "Yes, I was the one who asked my brother to take me out to play, so you can blame me if you want."

Sheng Yi frowned, expressing his disapproval: "These are two different things, Xiao Yuan, your psychological burden is wrong. You can do whatever you want, and any problems are our fault."

Sheng Xi: “+1.”

Sheng Yi: “+2.”

In fact, it’s not a big problem.

There were three or four professional diving instructors on site to accompany them throughout the process. Before Sheng Yuan arrived, the three brothers had already dived to test the waters four or five times and were already familiar with the procedure.

Sheng Yi said, "Ah Xi, you stay here to keep watch. Ah Qi and I will accompany Xiao Yuan into the water."

"Okay, but you have to come up and replace me halfway through, otherwise it's not fair. I also want to go into the water with my sister," Sheng Xi raised his own rebuttal, "and I just saw a very beautiful fish underwater. It was amazing when I shone a searchlight on it, but neither of you knew where it was, but I knew it, so I have to take my sister to see it."

Sheng Yi agreed: "Okay."

While the banquet in the front hall was in full swing, on the deck of the cruise ship, several brothers took their sisters to experience their first deep diving project in their lives.

* The banquet was coming to an end, and the cruise ship turned around and returned to its original route. The guests were free to move around, and most of them returned to their rooms to rest.

Sheng Yuan's secret dive into the sea was finally exposed.

Sheng's mother came to look for her daughter, wondering why it took her so long to change her clothes. When she pushed the door open, she saw Sheng Yuan's hair draped over her shoulders, which had not yet been blown dry. She immediately understood everything.

"You, you," Sheng's mother pointed at her daughter with an angry expression, "You are making trouble with your brothers again. You think your brothers will listen to you, right?"

He scolded her, but actually there was no trace of blame in his heart.

Sheng Yuan stuck out her tongue, then thought for a moment and said, "That's not right, Mom. Isn't it always said that it's only the older brother who brings the younger sister to play around?"

"Don't I know you? You've always been the one who orders your brothers around. How dare your brothers order you around?" Mother Sheng knew everything and said lovingly, "Okay, go change your clothes quickly. Everyone is waiting for you to have dinner."

Everyone was not referring to the guests who came to the banquet - after the banquet, the Sheng family set up a separate table, and after entertaining the guests, they sat down to have a meal together as family.

When Sheng Yuan followed her mother to the box, she happened to see her third uncle "interrogating" Sheng Xi with a sharp look, while Sheng Yi and Sheng Qi were frantically pretending to be invisible people, fearing that they would be affected.

Sheng Xi spread his hands and confessed: "Dad, can you not be so fierce? We really just swam a few laps in the swimming pool and didn't go anywhere."

After saying that, Sheng Xi saw Sheng Yuan coming in, and immediately ran over as if he had seen a life-saving straw: "My sister is here! If you don't believe me, ask my sister!"

Sheng San looked over and said, "Yuanyuan, is that what Brother A-xi said? Are you just playing in the swimming pool?"

Just like Sheng Yuan's situation, Sheng Xi's wet hair was also caught.

Receiving the hints from his three brothers' eyes, Sheng Yuan remained calm and nodded innocently: "Yes."

"Oh, if that's the case - then I'm relieved." The seriousness on Sheng San's face melted away in an instant, and then he turned his head, looked at Sheng Xi, and said blamingly: "Then why didn't you tell me earlier, wouldn't it be better if you just told me clearly earlier?"

“?” Sheng Xi’s eyes widened.

Didn't he say that? If he hadn't lost his memory, he would have just been talking about the swimming pool, right? Sheng Xi was mad on the spot, and was about to rush up to defend his father, but was quickly stopped by Sheng Yi and Sheng Qi.

Sheng Yi is the eldest one - although he and Sheng Xi are twins and are almost the same age, but maybe because he has the reputation of being the older brother, his personality is relatively calm.

He knew very well that the diving incident had been exposed long ago. Several people thought they had concealed it well, but in fact the elders just asked a staff member on the scene and found out everything. Now he was willing to play deaf and dumb and be fooled just to appease his sister.

Sheng Yi told Sheng Xi to quit while he was ahead.

"Okay, let's all sit down and eat."

After my uncle gave the order, everyone took their seats and the matter was completely put aside.

After dinner.

The male elders had a chess table set up and took turns playing chess, while the female elders sat aside and drank tea and chatted.

Several children were playing darts in the recreation room just off the door, but when it came to grouping, they had a disagreement about who should their younger sister be grouped with in order to be fair.

The conclusion after the debate is that neither is fair.

Finally, it was Sheng Yuan who said, "Then let's not form a team. The four of us can fight on our own."

Received unanimous approval.

Thus, on one side, there was the silence of the bloody and twists-and-turns chess game played by the elders, and on the other side, there were the constant joking and leisurely sounds of the younger ones.

The two mixed together do not seem abrupt, but instead have a different kind of warmth and beauty.

The accident happened at this time.

"Director Sheng! It's bad! The deck on our floor suddenly caught fire!" A waiter rushed in, his uniform dirty and his expression panicked: "Director Sheng, two Mr. Shengs, follow me through the fire escape to the floor where there is no fire!"

The three men present immediately protected their wives and then called the children. Hearing the noise, several people playing darts also rushed out.

The waiter yelled, "This way! Quick!"

Sure enough, there was thick smoke billowing out of the open door.

The three brothers followed closely behind their elders, protecting their younger sister.

But at this moment, Sheng Yuan suddenly stopped.

She seemed to be separated from all her family members with solemn expressions. She lowered her head, her long hair covering her face. She held one of her brothers' hands tightly, begging, shaking her head, and repeating.

"Don't go, don't listen to him, don't go..."

But no one listened to her, or perhaps no one could hear what she said at all.

She didn't know which brother she was holding, as his face was blurry and she couldn't see clearly.

In an instant.

All the sounds, all the people, disappeared.

It was dark all around.

Another sound came like a flood.

The sound of collapse, high-temperature explosions, screams, cries for help... In the end, the only thing that remained in Sheng Yuan's ears was the sound of despair.

"Yuanyuan, mom and dad love you."

"Yuanyuan, what should I do? Brother is really worried about you."

"Yuanyuan, you must live well."