Chapter 984: The Ancestral Brother 1
Shengxia has an older brother who has been in the family for three generations.
He's used to it.
This is a living antique.
Sometimes he appears, sometimes he disappears.
Sometimes it pops up suddenly.
I don’t know what grandma gave my third brother to eat. When it rains, the children will run home.
Today is his college graduation day.
Zhang Qilin: . . . . .
He asked the blind man to drive Shengxia home.
Black Bear: ...
In the midsummer, holding the hard-cover graduation certificate, the tassel of the bachelor's cap swayed with the flow of people, looking a little silly.
The sun made the back of his neck hot, and his mind was filled with the noise of the farewell dinner and the melancholy of parting.
Until he saw a figure standing under the old locust tree at the school gate.
He was wearing a black T-shirt and a large hood pulled down very low. He looked like a bronze artifact forgotten by time, with a built-in cooling effect - it was the third-generation elder brother, Zhang Qilin.
Shengxia tripped and almost dropped the certificate.
"Brother?!" His voice cracked, "Why are you here?"
Shouldn't this ancestor be hiding in some deep mountain forest, or suddenly appearing in his kitchen to steal the pickles made by his grandmother?
A graduation ceremony, an occasion full of "human touch", is seriously inconsistent with his style!
Zhang Qilin didn't say anything, but just raised his chin and motioned him to look to the side.
There was a Wuling Hongguang parked next to it.
Really, it was brushed red.
The car window rolled down, and the black-haired man in sunglasses grinned with his white teeth and whistled at Shengxia: "Hey! College student! Congratulations on your graduation! Get in the car, we are here to take you home to eat grandma's braised pork!"
midsummer:"……"
He looked at Zhang Qilin's cold and aloof temperament, then looked at the dazzling red car and the black bear in the car with a smile like a sunflower.
This combination is very much like a pair of bickering lovers.
Zhang Qilin seemed to think that the car was too eye-catching, and he pulled the brim of his hat down again, revealing only his tightly pursed thin lips.
He opened the back door and got in quickly and decisively.
"What are you standing there for? Are you waiting for your third-generation brother to open the car door for you?" Hei Xia Zi urged.
Shengxia quickly got into the back seat with her certificate, sitting side by side with Zhang Qilin.
A smell mixed with soil, moss and some very faint cold breath came into my nose. Well, the third generation brother went to the fields again.
This is yin energy and you need more sun exposure.
"Brother, did grandma ask you to come?" Shengxia asked casually.
Zhang Qilin said "hmm" as a reply.
He looked out the car window at the campus scenery rapidly receding, his eyes blank, and no one knew what he was thinking.
Shengxia knew that in fact, the third-generation brother was not thinking about anything, and his mind was empty.
"No!"
Hei Xia Zi answered quickly, holding the steering wheel with one hand and gesturing with the other.
"The mute received a text message from your grandma - 'Xiao Xia has graduated, pick him up, and there will be plenty of braised pork.'
You didn't see his speed. He appeared from some corner in a flash!
Faster than a zongzi popping out! "
Zhang Qilin: “…”
No, Sheng Wan said she made him two pieces of braised chicken.
Of course you can't say that.
He silently turned his face to the other side of the car window.
The corners of Shengxia's mouth twitched.
For this living ancestor, grandma's "all-you-can-eat braised pork" meant all-you-can-eat braised chicken nuggets. His three-generation brothers loved eating chicken, and he would not snatch it from them now that he had grown up.
No wonder I stopped to look for my memories today.
The car merged into traffic.
Shengxia is holding her graduation certificate, with her third brother, who is silent and dazed, on her left, and the chattering Hei Xia Zi in front of her.
Maybe he can live off his parents.
Grandma said that the family didn't need him to struggle, he just needed to think about what his dream was.
But he has no dream. If he has one, it is to not work, just eat and wait for death, and hug other people's cats and pet other people's dogs.
His excitement about graduation had dissipated a lot.
"By the way," Hei Xiazi glanced at the brand new graduation certificate in Sheng Xia's arms through the rearview mirror and said in a sly tone, "College student, you've graduated now, what are you going to do in the future?"
Zhang Qilin finally reacted and he was also curious.
He watched Shengxia grow up, and it seemed like he didn't have any dreams.
So it seems that this diploma is of no use.
Shengxia silently hugged the diploma tighter. Grandma said that her job was to look after her brother.
But, Brother Zhang is not someone he can keep an eye on.
"Just eat and wait to die?"
He said uncertainly.
He really has no idea.
Hei Xiazi laughed loudly: "Did you hear that?"
This is a living grandson.
Zhang Qilin closed his eyes completely and refused to communicate.
Shengxia looked at the street scenes passing by outside the window, and then looked at her brother who was resting with his eyes closed beside her.
Forget it, get used to it.
It's because he has grown up that his brother no longer likes him.
When he was a child, Brother Zhang often held him in his arms.
Brother Zhang no longer likes him ever since he drew a map on his bed.
Grandma said that he not only peed his pants on Brother Zhang, but also pooped on him.
midsummer:....
He was just a baby at that time, so no one would say that to him.
That's the age when he can't control his pee and poop.
Zhang Qilin touched Shengxia's head.
Shengxia: Well, I forgive you for ignoring me just now.
Zhang Qilin was thinking that Sheng Wan didn’t have much time left.
The car drove towards home where the aroma of braised pork was wafting.
Sheng Wan was already at the door.
The white-haired old man can vaguely see her exquisite appearance back then. Back then, Sheng Wan was a warm and proud girl.
She dragged Zhang Qilin away with one hand and hid him.
When Zhang Qilin got off the car, he looked at Sheng Wan and walked over obediently to listen to her chatter.
Even with a head full of white hair, she is still the little girl she was back then.
Hei Xia Zi also got out of the car at the back and put his hand on Sheng Xia's shoulder.
"The mute is really favored. How about it, are you jealous, Xiao Shengxia?"
"Why would I be jealous? That's my grandmother and my brother. I will be the one taking care of my brother from now on."
Hei Xia Zi chuckled and said, "Mute, you are lucky to have met a good person."
"By the way, where's your mother?"
"My mother is a mercenary. She knows about grandma's situation. They have already said goodbye. They are much more carefree than us."
Black Bear: ...
Really, the people of Sheng family are really free and easy.
That little girl was really amazing back then.
Even this silly guy next to me is not someone you can easily mess with.
"Let's go, we'll go too."
"Sheng Wan, the blind man is here to see you."
"Here you are. Come over here quickly. You are saying bad things about me over there."
Sheng Wan held one child in each hand, and Sheng Xia followed behind, saying, "Grandma, there are no regrets."
The courtyard was filled with the rich aroma of braised pork, mixed with the smell of firewood from the old stove, like a warm net covering your head.
The other pot was filled with braised chicken pieces.
There was also a clay pot containing boiling mutton.
Sheng Wan never stopped chattering, from the osmanthus tree in the yard to the pickled vegetable jars in the backyard, as if she wanted to cram all the decades of time into this meal.
"Little Qilin, look how beautifully the osmanthus flowers are blooming. They are much more prosperous than the last time you came.
Stand up straight, little blind man, and don't lean on the little unicorn like a boneless person!
Ouch, the meat needs to be dried, Xiaoxia! Xiaoxia, come in and help watch the fire!"
Sheng Wan was full of energy and commanded with confidence.
Shengxia responded, quickly put her precious graduation certificate back into the house, and went into the kitchen.
Grandma was incredibly energetic, but he knew in his heart that she was gathering her last bit of strength to make the occasion a success.