Embrace each other

Inscription: I just like to hear them say to me: Wei Xiaoduo, you are a blessing.Of course I couldn't tell him that the real reason I said this was that I didn't want to mention Bai Yu again and again, and then explain who Bai Yu was to people again and again.

My mother was right, when we were young, we had a lot of fun. If my mother hadn't given me long hair, she wouldn't be able to tell which one was me among the five of us.

Actually, it’s not all my fault. There are three families living in our street, with a total of five children.The third child Cheng Shao, the second child Cheng Tao, and the eldest brother Cheng Wei are brothers born to a mother. Bai Yu was fostered by his grandma's house since he was a child. His parents and his sister are said to have settled in Qinghai because of work. He can also be regarded as a child who was spoiled by the next generation.As you can see, I am the only girl among the five children.In this growing environment, how can I be a lady.

As long as I can remember, the five of us have been hanging out every day. The eldest brother Cheng Wei and Bai Yu are two years older than my second child. Although my second child and I were born in the same year, he is two months older than me. His elder brother, but because of his height advantage and his lack of self-importance when playing, he really couldn't bear the heavy responsibility, so he had to let my second child scream.The third child is easier to satisfy, because of his young age, we just let him follow us wherever we go.He trotted all the way, tired and sweating profusely, and never tired of it. Later, as he grew older, he only liked to chase after Bai Yu. In his own words: They are better-looking, so they are naturally the same.Well, who made him handsome.

Although Cheng Wei is the same age as Bai Yu, he has a more stable personality than Bai Yu. Whenever the four of us have disputes, he is the one who comes out to resolve them. We always call him Big Brother except Bai Yu. Wei screamed, not polite at all.

Bai Yu is the king of ghost ideas among the few of us. All the accidents I encountered since I was a child were related to him. My mother said that when I was very young, Bai Yu liked to hold bugs and pretend to put them on my hair. I would be scared to cry, but gradually I stopped crying. Later, I imitated his example and put worms on the head of the third child. Seeing the third child cry made me feel beautiful.Once I remember my aunt chatting with my mother and said: "Xiaoduo is beautiful and delicate, but this temperament is just like a boy." Not bad, dare to ask for anything else.

What my mother said is not an exaggeration at all. Up to now, all the scars on my body are all from my childhood. Of course, Bai Yu is the one who caused it!

I vaguely remember that in the summer when I was ten years old, in the hot afternoon, the cicadas were too lazy to scream, and the adults were taking a nap, only us energetic children were sitting under the big tree in front of my house, happily Digging a big sandpit, I wanted to spread some dry grass and sprinkle some sand on the dug sandpit, and then perfectly turn it into a trap, but before it succeeded, Bai Yu was attracted by the buzzing sound from the tree .

"Wei Xiaoduo, there's a big hornet's nest on your tree." Bai Yu excitedly pointed at the hornet's nest on the tree branch.

"It's really there, why didn't I find it before?" Brother Cheng Wei stood up and stared at it

"Then let's get out of here quickly, the wasp sting hurts." The second child hid behind Cheng Wei.

The third child and I didn't feel that the danger was approaching step by step, and we stared at the hornet's nest curiously.Looking at the buzzing swarm of bees, thinking of the sentence in the nursery rhyme, the little bees are busy collecting honey.

It's just that they couldn't tell that what was in front of them was not a harmless and cute little bee, but a giant hornet that could kill people at any time.

"Cheng Wei, do you dare to take them away?" Bai Yu looked at Cheng Wei excitedly.

"It's nothing to dare, it's just stinging them." Cheng Wei looked at me and the third child worriedly.

"It's okay, just let them hide"

Bai Yu said that he found a long pole from nowhere, and tied a plastic bag on it.I stood under the tree and watched him complete a series of actions intently. Finally, he lit the plastic bag with a lighter.

In an instant, the wasps were like ants on a hot pot, and then they flew towards us like a fountain full of anger.

"Bai Yu, grab Xiaoduo and run!"

Before Cheng Wei finished speaking, he watched a hornet flying towards me.In a panic, before Bai Yu could hold me back, the menacing wasp landed between my eyebrows. I didn't even have time to be afraid, and the severe pain hit me instantly.

I covered my head in a hurry, ran home while crying, plunged into the arms of my mother who had heard the news, and burst into tears.

"What's the matter?" My mother asked anxiously.

"Did you hurt your eyes?"

"Auntie, Xiaoduo was stung by a wasp," Cheng Wei who came in later said cautiously.

"Is it the wasp on the tree in front of the door?"

"Yes"

"It's okay, it's okay, the swelling will subside in two days, I thought I broke my eyes. You guys are so brave, you dare to touch a hornet's nest. If you stung your face, can you get a wife when you grow up?" I asked. Mom said that she didn't know where to grab a handful of something like alkali noodles, and covered the place where I was stung by the wasp.

"Should I go to the hospital and have a look, don't be a poisonous wasp," my dad said worriedly beside him.

"It's okay, just sting it. The swelling will be gone. Besides, if it's really a poisonous hornet, it's useless to look at it!" My mother is so confident that she has never made fun of my life. My father looked at my mother suspiciously. The one-stop treatment method also dispelled her doubts.

Thanks to her, under her timely and ineffective treatment, there is still a scar between my eyebrows, a round dimple the size of a grain of rice. If my dad had persisted, maybe my otherwise pretty face would have disappeared. It's even more perfect, and there is no need to go around in a circle and explain to people that it was brought from the mother's womb.

Later, Cheng Weige said to me when he heard me explain this to others: "It's not shameful to be stung by a hornet. Who didn't do a few shameful things when they were young."

I said, I just like to hear them say to me: Wei Xiaoduo, you are a blessing.Of course I couldn't tell him that the real reason I said this was that I didn't want to mention Bai Yu again and again, and then explain who Bai Yu was to people again and again.After all, I like Bai Yu's secret that no one can know.Besides, he has been away for so many years, and according to his personality, he has already started an unknown number of new lives.Why do I live in the memory of him.

I don't know if it's a psychological reason, but after my mother put that stuff on me, I really stopped crying.He just stared resentfully at Bai Yu who came in with them.

"I wanted to pull you, didn't I have time?" Bai Yu looked at me confidently.

"I'm going to tell your grandma, you stabbed a hornet's nest." I pouted angrily, with tears still hanging on my face.

"I like to sue, be careful!" Bai Yu shouted at me

"You are narrow-minded, you are an idiot" I shouted not to be outdone.

"Okay, why are you playing and complaining about Xiaoyu? No one will play with you after you are like this." My mother turned around and said to Bai Yu, "It's okay, Xiaoyu. Auntie won't tell grandma." He completely forgot that I was a victim, and even spoke like Bai Yu.If she knew her words, she would have successfully aroused the jealousy of the child at that unreasonable age, and she would definitely regret not taking my side at that time.

Later, because Bai Yu didn't stop me in time, and because my mother didn't speak up for me, I hated Bai Yu for a long time. What children hate is nothing more than not talking to him and giving him cold eyes when playing.But it was also the day when I discovered Bai Yu's weakness for the first time.From now on, whenever he messes with me, I'll scare him by telling his grandma. Although it's a bit despicable, it's extremely useful.

Cheng Wei's family has many children, and his parents don't care about having more, so we usually gather at his house to do homework after school.Cheng Wei's mother likes girls, and I am the only one in our alley, so I can always experience the different kind of care from her.When I was young, I often said: I want to be a child in her house.My mother always said: Go ahead and let your aunt take care of you for a few days, but we have agreed that our family will not return the goods.Under my mother's coercion, I never dared to say such things again.

After school that day, I still ran to Cheng Wei’s house, and as soon as I entered the door, I shouted: “Brother, I’m here to do my homework.”

"Your brother went out to buy a pen, he will be back later," Bai Yu said without raising his head while writing his homework.

"I won't talk to you." I stubbornly walked past him and put away my schoolbag.

"You're so stingy, even girls are stingy," Bai Yu finished, and continued to do his homework with his head bowed.

"You're so stingy, if you didn't hold me back, would I have a scar?" I looked at Bai Yu stubbornly, feeling that we could fight if he just said one more word.

"You're just stingy, why don't you just leave a scar. I also have scars that were accidentally left on my body, and I'm not the same as you." Bai Yu put down his pen and looked at me not to be outdone.

This tense atmosphere made the second child and the third child who were playing on the side look at each other, and no one dared to speak.

"I'm different from you. I'm a girl. If I get scars, I won't be able to get married. If I can't get married, I'll stay at home forever. Then you marry me," I argued.

"Marry as soon as you marry, hmph, what's the big deal" Bai Yu is like this, he never let me like Cheng Wei, I think this is why I always have disputes with him.The war between the two of us was also temporarily calmed down because of his unwilling compromise.

From then on, whenever the adults chatted together after tea and dinner, this conversation between Bai Yu and I always made them happy for a while.

"Xiaoduo, why did you reconcile with Bai Yu?"

"Well, anyway, he said that if I can't get married, he will marry me."

"Bai Yu, when will you marry Xiaoduo?"

"When she can't get married"

Then, amidst the laughter of the adults, we also laughed foolishly.

Later, although the scar was still there, as time went by and the growth of age, the words that were said were gradually stranded in the past, and in the days that followed, no one could remember them.