Beautiful big brother who lives next door

As soon as Huo Yuchuan stopped his bicycle, he heard a clear shout floating down from the third floor and landing on top of his head:

"Chen Tao—bring up the gas from the first floor!——"

He got out of the car, took a few steps back on the spot, raised his head and moved outside the rusty awning, to a position where his vision was no longer blocked by the old iron sheet, but Chen Tao's brother, who had finished shouting, had already retracted. window.

It was as if he took the sound of his bicycle coming just now as Chen Tao.

Chen Tao's house is a three-and-a-half-story self-built bungalow in the countryside.It is consistent with the style of many self-built houses that have sprung up in this rural area in recent years. The foundations of these flat and low buildings are of different standards. The machines are scattered scattered, and occasionally a few birds that are unique here will fall on the iron outer box.

Huo Yuchuan returned to the main entrance of Chen's house, stretched out his hand and pushed the iron door in front of him, but it was unlocked.He lifted the gas tank with one hand and entered the door.

Chen Tao's grandma lives alone on the first floor of the Chen family.The elderly grandma has bad ears and often cannot hear the footsteps of people coming from outside.

Huo Yuchuan passed by the dusty mesh door, and the sound of an old radio came from inside. It was the local weather announcer who was speaking:

"Land weather: cloudy and sunny; nearby sea: cloudy with showers, 29~34°C. Please pay attention to sunstroke and sun protection..."

They are a small county by the sea, and the daily weather forecast is divided into land and sea.In the distorted human voice broadcast, Huo Yuchuan changed his shoes at the stairs.

He left after a while, and didn't intend to disturb the Chen family's grandma to stand up and come out to meet him.

The traditional decoration of people's homes in County A is still in the style of the millennium.Metal handrails, stone-faced steps.He was climbing the stairs with the heavy blue tin can in his hand, and when he passed by the hall door on the second floor, the figure of Chen Tao's mother just came out from behind the door to meet him.

She heard the sound of someone going upstairs, and when she came out, she saw the gas tank Huo Yuchuan was holding in one hand.

"Chuan!—"

Aunt Chen raised her voice, called out to him, and said, "Oh, why did they tell you to do this! Just leave it alone, you can just let it go, Auntie will come later!"

The fat woman seemed to complain angrily: "The two brothers!"

Although he is a neighbor, Huo Yuchuan seldom comes here because Aunt Chen is always too warm to him.

His people stopped on the stairs leading to the third floor at this time, nodded and greeted her, and then went upstairs: "It's okay, aunt. I'll just take it."

"Is it heavy? Why are you free today!"

Huo Yuchuan said, "Well, I'm looking for Chen Tao."

Aunt Chen, who was wearing an apron, was standing at the bottom of a flight of stairs, looking up while leaning on the handrail.

Huo Yuchuan was the same age as her son. He was a young man of his age, and his expression did not change when he was carrying a weight of several tens of catties with one hand, and he did not see any effort.

"Where did that stinky boy Chen Tao go? Auntie called him back, you can sit with your brother Ji Jin first, haven't you seen your brother Ji Jin for a long time?"

Huo Yuchuan replied: "No need, Chen Tao knows I'm coming - I'll go up to Auntie first."

"Okay, then you can go by yourself. Brother Ji Jin is on the third floor! You know that?"

Huo Yuchuan responded.He carried the gas tank and went up.

Without the sound of conversation, the silence in the house is obvious.

Before yesterday, the third floor of Chen's house was still vacant and dusty.But the stairs he was stepping on now seemed to have been mopped and washed, reflecting the light coolly.

When climbing the last flight of stairs, the smooth terrazzo floor of the third floor and a silver-gray suitcase spread out on top appeared in the field of vision.

Huo Yuchuan looked up and heard the sound of slippers.

A figure in a white vest stepped out from behind the door frame a few steps away.

Huo Yuchuan hadn't seen this brother Ji Jin for five years.Suddenly they met each other, separated by a certain distance, the two young guys paused visibly to the naked eye.

"Brother Jin."

He shouted.

It was a taller and slender young man than he remembered.Ji Jin on the opposite side seemed to take some time to recognize him.But Ji Jin also heard the following conversation just now, and then she showed a smile, and called him strangely and kindly: "Yu Chuan?... You are here."

If it was said that he was still a bit born just now, but with his smile now, Huo Yuchuan suddenly recognized him better.Nothing else, but Ji Jin's smile is so characteristic that it's hard to forget.

Ji Jin has already stepped forward a few steps.He stretched his legs and kicked the suitcase blocking the way aside, and quickly reached out to take the gas tank in his hand: "Why did you carry it up?"

Huo Yuchuan saw that he was still clutching a rag in his hand, thinking that Ji Jin, who just came back, was still cleaning the third floor.He dodged very politely: "Brother, where do you put it?"

The thing in his hand was heavy, so Ji Jin didn't push or pull it, and instead pointed him in the direction of the bathroom a few steps away: "Come here."

Huo Yuchuan walked forward as he said, and when he heard Brother Jin's voice, he followed him and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you."

Very fresh polite language.It's the kind of thing that people here don't say every day.

Chen Tao's elder brother was adopted halfway.Ji Jin only came to live with the Chen family for a while in her sophomore year of high school, and left home after she was admitted to university.

It is not new that a child with a different surname lives in the Chen family.

Ji Jin is five years older than them, and even before, he couldn't play with Huo Yuchuan and other young boys.However, when the two met just now, they were still a little unfamiliar with each other.

At this time, Huo Yuchuan put the things on the bathroom floor, and made a heavy and dull sound.

"That guy Chen Tao asked you to do it?" Ji Jin asked him from behind.

Huo Yuchuan: "No, I didn't see him when I came up."

"Ah." Ji Jin guessed that she had instructed the wrong person with that yell just now, and smiled apologetically at Huo Yuchuan: "Chen Tao is so annoying, he hasn't come back yet."

It's annoying--swearing is light too.Huo Yuchuan glanced down at the blue tin can: "Put it on, bro?"

"You know how to install this?" Ji Jin looked a little surprised by the fact that a child younger than him installed gas: "Okay, thank you."

Huo Yuchuan bent his back and looked down, found the valve and began to operate without looking.

There are no well-laid natural gas pipelines in their area. When the gas is used up, they can only rely on manpower to move these heavy tanks up and down.

The third floor of the Chen family was added later. The Chen family had been redecorated after Ji Jin went to college. Ji Jin's room should have been moved up at that time.

But it is reasonable to say that the Chen family, which has already installed solar energy, can't use it, but Ji Jin's room does not.

Ji Jin stood there watching him work.The air fell silent for a moment.In order not to be cold, he started looking for a topic: "I haven't seen you in a few years, you are so tall now." He leaned on the door frame, paused, and added with a smile: "And you are so handsome."

He's a big guy, and he didn't have any trouble carrying things that weighed dozens of catties just now.When I was in college, the person in front of me seemed to be a 13-year-old child, or 14?

The sentence that said he was handsome was what Ji Jin really wanted to praise.This seaside boy he had known before had grown from a dark and quiet child into a handsome and tall young man.Dark wheat-colored skin is not ugly, but has a healthy sense of beauty - but it seems that Huo Yuchuan himself does not feel this way.

Coupled with the fact that he has been exercising all year round, Ji Jin guessed that it was the time when he was very popular with girls.

Huo Yuchuan responded, and chatted politely with Ji Jin: "Brother Jin, are you on vacation?"

"Yes, come back from vacation." Ji Jin asked, "I remember you graduated from high school this year, right?"

"Ah."

"That's it. Then do you use the unified move or the single move?"

"Single move and high level are both reported."

"Really, I remember that high-level students also have to take the college entrance examination, so you went too?"

"Ah."

"We would..."

……

Except for the space for storing sundries, only Ji Jin lives here on the third floor, and the environment should be more secluded.In such an overly quiet air, the two of them chatted one after another.

Back then, Ji Jin was just a half-year-old boy who was five years older than them, and he couldn't play with them at all.

Chen Tao used to hate Ji Jin's adopted son more than anyone else, but his attitude changed completely later.

So his memory about Ji Jin is actually very limited, and with the blank years in between, there is nothing left in his mind now.I only have a distant impression of this excellent brother Jin.

"Are you here to ask Chen Tao to hang out?" Ji Jin's voice asked him.

Huo Yuchuan removed the pressure reducing valve from his hand and replied, "No. He didn't go to class today."

Ji Jin "Huh?" After a moment, he said, "...I didn't hear that he still has classes today. Did you come here specifically to find him?"

Huo Yuchuan was lowering his head at this time, and saw a sudden white light occupying the corner of his eyes. He glanced over and saw a pair of white legs under the men's shorts standing at the door.

Ji Jin's figure will not be unattractive, it is the proportion of the body measured by the examiner with a ruler during the admissions examination.

Ji Jin learned to dance.I studied for many years before coming to them, and later took the art test.

Before he appeared, the county had rarely heard of a boy who learned to dance. Everyone was watching him curiously, thinking that Ji Jin from outside was very different from them in every way.

At that time, a group of children would stand behind the door frame and peek at the back of Chen Tao's legendary big brother who could dance.

Before Huo Yuchuan could answer, he heard Aunt Chen's shout from downstairs, telling the people upstairs to go down.

"Jin—"

Ji Jin turned her head and responded, and said "wait a minute" to him, and she went out first.

The sound of slippers outside went downstairs.

After finishing the work on his side, the sound of slippers outside came back again.

Huo Yuchuan wanted to say hello to Ji Jin and went back first.As soon as the person turned to the door, a large basin of freshly cut watermelon meat and washed grapes appeared in front of him.

Ji Jin was holding the big white porcelain bowl in one hand: "Come."

Huo Yuchuan backed away a little, avoiding the bowl of fruit: "Don't eat it bro. I should go. The gas is installed, take a look."

Ji Jin: "Why did you leave?"

"Well, there are still classes over there."

Ji Jin didn't say anything more.However, Huo Yuchuan's people escaped and came out of the bathroom door, and when they looked up, they saw a piece of water-red melon meat being handed to his mouth.

It was very close, and the tip of the nose was filled with refreshing and moist watermelon smell for a moment.

Seeing that his hands were inconvenient after finishing the work, Ji Jin directly picked up a piece of melon meat from the large white porcelain bowl and held it to his mouth.

"I've washed my hands." He smiled and said to Huo Yuchuan, took out some pretense of being a brother, and ordered: "Eat."

In order to feed him, Ji Jin had to raise her arms and wait.He was staring at his mouth and said, "Eat."

Huo Yuchuan paused, then lowered his head and touched his hand, and was fed a piece of melon.

The freshest, crispest and sweetest seasonal watermelon, the sweet juice will overflow in your mouth once you bite. "I didn't lie to you," Ji Jin looked at him with a smile: "Is it sweet?"

"……Um."

Ji Jin continued to eat a piece by herself.Two scallion-white fingers grasped a piece of water-red crispy melon flesh, and after putting it into his mouth, the two fingertips were wet with watermelon juice.

This scene always makes people feel a little subtle.Was this the same hand that fed him just now?

Huo Yuchuan swallowed the chewed melon meat.

"Are you still eating?" Ji Jin handed the bowl out.

"No."

Ji Jin didn't persist this time, he hummed as expected.Looking at him with a smile on his lips.

"Your personality is really quiet," Ji Jin said with a smile, "If Chen Tao would be here, you might not have the chance to see the shadow of the watermelon."

Huo Yuchuan only said: "It's okay." Then he said: "I'm really gone, brother."

At this moment, Aunt Chen's loud voice suddenly sounded a few steps away.

"Have you eaten the fruit?"

The third floor was already quiet, so when her voice came out suddenly, it was easy to startle people.Both of them turned their heads to look, and saw Aunt Chen appearing there silently at some point, without even hearing the sound of footsteps.

I don't know when it was there.

She didn't seem to realize that she appeared suddenly, but she still warmly greeted: "There is not enough, you can eat."

"Enough," Ji Jin called out, "Auntie."

"Aunt" is how they call it here, no matter if it is an aunt or aunt, everyone can call it aunt.

Aunt Chen looked at the second person with a smile again: "Where is Yu Chuan, have you eaten yet?"

She was holding another basin of freshly washed fruit in her hand.

It wasn't until she asked herself that Huo Yuchuan seemed to understand her intention of going upstairs.He responded: "Eat."

The watermelon is not cold, it is a freshly opened melon.It seems that it was bought from outside just after he came.And Ji Jin seemed to have expected that Aunt Chen would ask him this.

He recalled the scene when Ji Jin suddenly wanted to feed him watermelon just now.

Huo Yuchuan said calmly, "I'm leaving Aunt Chen."

Aunt Chen warmly asked Ji Jin to keep the downstairs door locked for a while.

Ji Jin sent him all the way downstairs, and the two of them changed their shoes and went out, passing by Grandma's room, where the channel had been changed to babbling opera.

It's much hotter outside than inside the house.There is a row of potted plants in front of the gate, small pomegranate trees and plumerias.The rich oily green leaves set off the face of the person, and Ji Jin seemed to have turned white again.

"Children grow up fast, remember, you just came to me before..." Ji Jin smiled, he lowered his head, and reached out his hand to draw a height on the lower part of his chest. After the gesture, he went first Surprised a bit.

Ji Jin raised her eyebrows.It seems that he hasn't forgotten all of them. He remembers more clearly than he imagined.

He watched Huo Yuchuan lead the car to leave, and sent him off politely: "Slow down."

"Let's go bro."

Huo Yuchuan turned his head and saw Ji Jin standing by the iron gate still smiling at himself.

It's been too long, and I vaguely remember his special smile, but I don't remember how special it is.But just now, he suddenly remembered.

It turned out to be very beautiful.

Ji Jin was born very white.The facial features were beautiful, and a very thin mole was dotted on the man's white chin, as if a very thin mole had just been removed from that spot.

It's not ugly, maybe it's because of the natural beauty of this face, it bends its eyes and smiles, with a little bit of charm, bright and charming.