Chapter 3

Chu Xiaoyi decided to go home on the afternoon of the first day of the new year. The news instantly filled the house with happy air.

The family members are preparing food materials in the house, while Chu Xiaoxiao sneaks out alone to find sister Yang Yin. Chu Xiaoxiao has always been a ghost. She slipped away from her parents' sight, but was noticed by her careful brother-in-law.

My brother-in-law's milk is usually quiet, low-key and quiet. She watched the little girl open the door of the yard, quickly put down the vegetable basin in her hand and said, "Xiao Xiao, where do you want to go, I'll go out with you?"

"No, I'm in the community and I'll be right back!" Chu Xiao was wrapped in a thick and warm cotton padded jacket. She didn't want to be caught up by her brother-in-law's milk and ran out.

My brother-in-law stood up and shouted, "put on your hat!"

Chu Xiaoxiao had to put on his cotton padded clothes and hat, like a fully armed little doll, skipping to the door of the community.

Yurongtai community is strictly managed and covered with monitoring. Even takeout and express can't enter, and the safety factor is very high. Therefore, the family had no objection to Chu Xiaoxiao's running out. They knew that she went to play with Yang Yin in the guard room of the community.

There is a low bungalow in the remote part of the community, which is the dormitory of the community security guards. Yang Yin is 15 or 16 years old. Now she is in high school. She only lives in yurongtai during the holiday and is responsible for cleaning and cooking for her father. Her father is the guard of the community. A large group of people in the family stay in the countryside of the next province and live on their father's income.

When Chu Xiaoxiao arrived at the dormitory bungalow, Yang Yin was frying garlic seedlings in a small pot, and the aroma of oil smoke floated out along the slit window. Yang Yin opened the door for Chu Xiaoxiao, then turned back and closed the fire and filled the dishes. She asked, "did Xiao Xiao eat? Do you want to eat some?"

Chu Xiao shook his head and said honestly, "I ate at home."

Yang Yin nodded when she heard the speech. She quickly put the food into the lunch box and said, "sit and wait for me. I'll come back after I deliver the meal."

Yang Yin put on her old pilling coat and a hot lunch box, so she was ready to go to the gate of the community to deliver food to her father on duty. Before leaving, she closed the dormitory door and reminded Chu Xiao not to run around. Only then did she leave in a hurry.

There is not much space in the security dormitory. Iron upper and lower bunks, mottled wooden tables and wooden chairs filled with spices occupy a lot of places. With the accumulation of water basins and warm water pots in the corner, it is completely full. Chu Xiaoxiao was not surprised at this. She took out a small chair from under the wooden table and sat on it skillfully, waiting for Yang Yin to return.

The wooden table was covered with Yang Yin's learning materials. Chu Xiaoxiao glanced at the math problems at random and browsed down in turn.

Within a few minutes, Yang Yin returned with a meal. She simply took the pot as a bowl, ate the rest of the meal, and went outside to wash the kitchen utensils.

Chu Xiao saw that Yang Yin finally put the pot away and knew that the other party's work was over. She pointed to the numbers on the exercise book and said aloud: "sister Yang Yin, this question is wrong."

"Really? Let me see?" Yang Yin hurried over while drying her frozen red hands with a towel. She carefully checked it for a long time, then showed a relaxed smile and said with emotion, "it's really wrong. Xiao Xiao is really powerful."

Yang Yin immediately took a pen to correct the answer. She was very serious about her homework and tried to brush the questions in her spare time. Chu Xiaoxiao also studied English with Yang Yin before. They read the English version of little prince together. Later, Chu Xiaoxiao's level gradually surpassed Yang Yin. Yang Yin was not angry, but asked Chu Xiaoxiao to practice oral English with her.

Yang Yin is a special presence among Chu Xiao's friends. Their age and family are very different, but somehow they have a good relationship. Now Chu Xiao doesn't understand the secular rules of making friends. She has a unique way to know people, which is to judge according to each other's emotional color. When she first met Yang Yin, she saw the red heart. It was the first time she saw the red heart outside her family. Naturally, she was very fond of Yang Yin's heart.

Although sister Yang Yin's language talent is not too high, she can pick persimmons with bamboo poles, weave beautiful bracelets with colored ropes, and bake fragrant small potatoes, which is omnipotent in Chu Xiaoxiao's eyes. Chu Xiaoxiao couldn't discuss with his happy family. He could only find the trusted sister Yang Yin and tell his troubles.

"Do you have a biological brother? And you're coming back soon?" Yang Yin was stunned when she heard the news, and a trace of distress appeared on her face. "It's really a little hard to do..."

"But dad said he would like me. The problem didn't seem too serious." Chu Xiao was a little nervous and didn't be comforted by Chu Jiadong's words. She had heard a lot of brother Yang Yin's black history before. She was very alert to the creature named brother.

Yang Yin rarely sneered: "of course, you won't rob him of his family property. You can earn betrothal gifts for the family when you marry. Why does he hate you?"

Yang Yin instantly projected her experience on Chu Xiaoxiao. She was a little agitated at the thought of the troubles that the other party was about to face.

Although Chu Xiaoxiao's intellectual development is higher than that of her peers, she still can't understand some words and said, "what is bride price?"

Yang Yin tried to explain for a long time. Chu Xiaoxiao suddenly realized it and then retorted, "Mom and dad won't sell me!"

Yang Yin was silent for a moment and said, "that's because your family's conditions are OK now, so I won't be in a hurry to let you get married and earn betrothal gifts, just as I can still study now. If one day our family is very short of money, it's estimated that I have to go back to the village to get married and can't go to school."

"You think your parents are good to you now, but it's not yet a difficult time. I've seen many of them." Yang Yin's face showed her precocious age and calmly revealed the facts. Many people around her didn't even have to go to high school. They worked at home before marriage, and betrothal gifts were used to subsidize their brothers.

Chu Xiaoxiao thought of the lively and cheerful atmosphere of the family and inexplicably felt that Yang Yin's words were quite reasonable. Chu Xiaoyi did seem to have a great weight at home and showed his status before he arrived. She lowered her head slightly uneasily and hesitated, "is there no way?"

Yang Yin thought for a moment and said helplessly, "no, just bear it for the moment. You are so smart now. You must have a good score in the college entrance examination. At that time, choose a university far away from home. The farther you run, the better."

Chu Xiaoxiao: "is sister Yang Yin going to run away, too?"

Yang Yin nodded: "yes, I won't give up studying. I'll be admitted to a university in the south at that time."

Chu Xiaoxiao didn't stay in the security dormitory for too long. After asking for help, he said goodbye to Yang Yin. After she came home, she was a little dejected. First, she was worried about her brother and was anxious; Second, it was inexplicably sad to think that Yang Yin would leave sooner or later.

Chu Xiaoxiao holds his iPad, but completely loses his usual learning enthusiasm and has no intention to open foreign language videos.

On the other side, Chu Xiaoyi sat in the nanny car. He looked at the door of the familiar community and sat motionless. When he Xin, the agent, saw that he was quiet, he said, "let's get off the bus. We've already arrived?"

There was no one else in the car. Chu Xiaoyi suddenly smiled and said with emotion, "I left the door with my luggage. Then my father chased and scolded in the back, so that I can't come back."

He Xin looked at the complex and nostalgic look on Chu Xiaoyi's face. For a moment, he didn't know what to say, so he could only keep silent.

"If you have the ability, don't come back! I have the right to be without your son!"

This is what Chu Xiaoyi, 18, heard at the gate of yurongtai. At that time, he ignored his father and followed his agent to get on the bus. He just wanted to pursue his singer dream. Chu Xiaoyi still remembers his father's furious face after he was left behind. His face was red with anger and stared at himself in the car, looking like he wanted to eat people.

Chu Xiaoyi abandoned his studies and his family and went to the company to practice alone. At that time, he couldn't wait to prove himself to his father. He wanted to stand out and shine. He knocked down the stubborn and arrogant Chu family building, but he fell miserably first.

Chu Xiaoyi's company soon closed down. With little compensation, he lived in a huge city without a fixed place, and there was no platform to realize his dream. Xiao Bi's mother persuaded Chu Xiaoyi to go back to school and look for good opportunities in the future, but he refused.

Chu Xiaoyi doesn't want to face the Chu family building disheartened and don't want to beg from each other again. From the moment he left home, a fire was burning in his heart, so that he couldn't bow to his father. Chu Xiaoyi frantically looks for a job, contacts new brokerage companies everywhere, and wanders around in a friend's house or cheap residence. He has a rebellious period of stubbornness.

Meanwhile, for the first time, Chu Jiadong put down his strict father's airs and humbly begged Chu Xiaoyi to go back, even once jealous and choked. It was the first time Chu Xiaoyi saw his father subdued, but he didn't feel any sense of victory at all. Instead, he was hammered to the ground. He was like a whimsical child who proved nothing but his incompetence.

Chu Xiaoyi refused his father. He always felt that if he chose to go home at that moment, he would no longer have the courage to go out. He didn't know when he had an illusion. As long as he spent the money his father gave him, he would be a low head and can't stand up. He has no right to ask for anything.

"What on earth are you gambling with me? Will I hurt you?"

"I just want to prove you wrong."

Chu Xiaoyi still remembered his father's injured eyes at that time. The other party seemed to be deeply hit. Chu Jiadong followed up with his son several times, but Chu Xiaoyi avoided him, refused to go back, and did not accept economic support. Chu Xiaoyi consciously avoided the news at home and didn't even want to see his mother. Fortunately, he found a good company soon and his career was slowly on track.

Today, Chu Xiaoyi has a high popularity, but he still doesn't think he can beat his father. Chu Jiadong gradually gathered up his hard thorns and became cautious and cautious in front of Chu Xiaoyi. He was not convinced of his son's achievements, but seemed to be forced to compromise. This is the most powerless thing for Chu Xiaoyi. He doesn't even have the chance to win. His father directly abandoned his son and surrendered.

However, Chu Jiadong's worries gradually came true and still haunted Chu Xiaoyi like a shadow. Chu Xiaoyi's high school education was ridiculed. His not outstanding singing and dancing level was attacked by black powder. Coupled with the coldness of the music market, he had to change his career to acting. He made some achievements in film and television, won an award with low gold content, and was teased and sneered at by black powder as if he had made mistakes in everything.

Chu Xiaoyi worked hard outside the home and didn't even dare to contact his parents too much. It took years. He was afraid of dissatisfaction and helplessness in the eyes of his family, and he was even more afraid of the other party's heartache and compassion, which made him feel that he had completely failed.

He wanted to have a paradise hall, which was walking into yurongtai's house, but now he came here in a muddle, still full of confusion.

Chu Xiaoyi looked at the door of the community and said blankly, "why did they have a second child? Even if they abandoned the number and practiced again, it should have been five years ago?"

Chu Xiaoyi left home at the age of 18. He felt that even if his parents wanted to play the trumpet again, they should work hard at that time. Why did they take action in the past two years?

He Xin cried and laughed: "are you still thinking about it? Just go home and ask?"

He Xin is not an only child. He has a lot of brothers and sisters in his hometown and doesn't pay too much attention to the affairs of the Chu family.

Chu Xiaoyi lowered her eyes and said, "they didn't discuss with me. They don't respect my opinions at all. Is it necessary for me to go back?"

He Xin saw that his artist was dead and motionless, and said in a high voice, "don't flirt with me! I'm not a girl under the age of three. People may not remember!"

Chu Xiaoyi expressed dissatisfaction: "aren't you angry about this?"

He Xin: "do I have so much anger? I have not only younger sister but also younger brother. You can't blow up immediately?"

He Xin, not only a brother, naturally doesn't understand the distress of an only child. He is still more than a round older than Chu Xiaoyi. When his parents gave birth to his brothers and sisters, they would not discuss it. That's not to say that he was born. He Xin had to change diapers for his brother and sister at that time. He wanted to be as angry as Chu Xiaoyi. I'm afraid he would have died alive.

Chu Xiaoyi was secretly annoyed and felt that He Xin couldn't go together. When he was studying, all his classmates were only children, and none of them had their own brothers and sisters. Of course, it was difficult to accept them in mentality. Chu Xiaoyi thought more and more, and began to blame the national policy. Why did he suddenly open the second child?

Chu Xiaoyi: as the only child of his predecessor, he should oppose it first!

Chu Xiaoyi finally stood at the door. Although his father had long been kind to himself, he still didn't have the courage to knock. Seeing that Chu Xiaoyi had no action, He Xin helplessly reached out and knocked on the door for him.

When the familiar door opened, the happy faces of the whole family appeared one after another, followed by a cheerless greeting.

"Xiao Yi is back!"

"Come inside quickly. Is it cold outside? It's hard work!"

"Oh, this is your agent. Come in and sit down, come in and sit down..."

"Happy new year, everyone. I won't bother much, just send Xiao Yi back."

"Won't you rest at home? I'm leaving now?"

Inside the house, Chu Xiaoxiao unhappily turned up the volume of the iPad, trying to block the lively voice in the living room, so as to suppress his inner irritability. However, her quiet days didn't last long, and she was interrupted by Xiao Bi who knocked at the door.

Xiao Bi knocked on the door. She put her head in from outside and shouted, "Xiao Xiao, your brother is back. Don't come out soon!"

"Oh -" Chu Xiao replied weakly, but her mother obviously didn't notice her little emotion.

Chuxiao reluctantly put down the iPad. She slowly walked to the door, opened a small crack in the door, and secretly observed the situation in the living room.

Chu Xiaoyi seemed to feel it. At random, he glanced at the petite figure behind the door. It was a little girl in yellow home clothes, most of whom were hidden in the house. Her eyes were like kittens in the night, casting tentative and vigilant eyes.

Chujiadong noticed his eldest son's distraction and immediately followed each other's line of sight to see his sneaky little daughter. He quickly waved, "Xiao Xiao, your brother is back!"

Chu Xiaoyi looked at the little girl rubbing against her father like a snail, but he didn't look up at himself, but hung his small head. He still couldn't accept his cheap sister emotionally, but after several years of social beating, he was calm, smiled and said, "Hello, Xiao Xiao, I'm your brother."

Chu Xiaoyi shows a standard professional fake smile. Now his acting skills are growing, and he has taken countless magazine posters, so he won't be knocked down by such small scenes. No matter what his inner thoughts are, at least he won't tear his face.

The little girl looked up like a white glutinous rice ball. Her face was young, her eyes were bright, and her pupil color was slightly shallower than that of an adult. She quietly watched Chu Xiaoyi for a long time and didn't answer immediately. A moment later, she lowered her eyes and said, "hello."

Chu Jiadong didn't expect his little daughter to be so cold. He quickly rubbed each other's small face, smiled and invigorated the atmosphere, handed the steps and said, "is Xiao Xiao shy? He can't speak when he sees his brother?"

Chu Xiaoxiao didn't struggle in his father's arms, but silently let him rub around. She didn't know what to say to Chu Xiaoyi, and even couldn't digest the emotion she had just received.

Chu Xiaoyi's heart is gray blue, like the misty sea, rolling with forbearance and agitation. His smile was as bright as the sun, but his heart was filled with heavy emotions and didn't like her at all. This was the first time Chu Xiaoxiao felt strong resistance to others, even stronger than the kindergarten teacher, which made her uneasy.

This is her own brother, but he hates himself and pretends to like her.

The young Chu Xiao still doesn't understand many principles. She still lives on the intuition of small animals and judges each other with her special ability. Her attitude towards others is like a mirror, which directly projects each other's emotions on her face. Who likes her, she likes who; Who hates her? Who does she hate.

After the initial greetings, the family pushed Chu Xiaoyi's luggage into the room and prepared dinner with enthusiasm. Chu Xiaoyi and Chu Xiaoxiao's rooms are busy. They can only share a room embarrassed and awkward and stay in the living room without saying anything.

Chu Xiaoyi brushes his mobile phone without soul. Chu Shaw shrank in the corner to see piggy page. No one of the two people looked at it.

Chu Xiaoyi didn't really want to talk to his cheap sister, but as an adult, he felt the atmosphere was wrong and said, "are you learning English by watching this?"

Chu Xiaoyi had just chatted with his mother. Hearing Chu Xiaoxiao's language talent, he found a topic at will.

Chu Xiao looked at him in surprise. She still didn't understand the strange greeting concepts of adults and why they hated each other. She could only vaguely say, "well."

Chu Xiaoyi listened to his sister's voice like a mosquito and said, "do I think this can learn English well?"

Chu Xiaoxiao was silent for a moment and said, "not necessarily."

Chu Xiaoyi: "why? Have you learned it?"

Chu Xiaoxiao lowered his head and continued to watch the cartoon. He replied, "everyone learns different things from it."

Chu Xiaoyi: "what's the difference?"

Chu Xiaoxiao finally raised her head and turned the picture of the pink pig to him. She said faintly, "some people can learn English, while others can only learn pig barking."

On the iPad screen, the pink pig timely uttered a pig hum, inexplicably showing a bit of irony.

Chu Xiaoyi: "??"

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