He wrote two words on the paper, "Brother". He pointed to the word "brother" and said to his younger brother, this word is pronounced "brother", and he pointed to the word "brother". This word says "brother", and my brother is me. "Brother" means having a brother first, then a younger brother. Without you, there is no me.
In the year when he was born, family planning was strictly enforced, and people who gave birth to a second child in the village either hid in other places or were fined. Only he, the second child born aboveboard, is not strong at home, but because of his brother, who was born with congenital brain disease, that is, mental retardation as the saying goes.
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Mother raised the small bamboo pole in her hand and said to her brother, never touch him, remember? His parents even forbade him to enter their room for fear that he would hurt his brother. Even if he eats, he is allowed to eat alone in his cabin. He often squats in front of his parents' house and looks out of the room. Seeing my brother makes my mouth water with laughter.
In fact, when he was very young, he was deeply loved, but when children of the same age had learned to talk and walk, his eyes glazed over and he couldn't say a word. After checking that it was a brain disease, grandparents vented their grievances on their mother, who imposed them on him and was often beaten for a little thing.
Sometimes, the mother holds her brother in the sun in the yard. He approached cautiously and excitedly tried to touch his brother's face. His mother pulled his brother aside like a plague and shouted at him. Don't touch his brother Do you want to infect him?
On one occasion, while his parents were away, he looked at menstruation's younger brother from a distance, still laughing and drooling. Aunt felt sour in her heart, waved to him and said, come, touch my brother's hand. But he quickly dodged, lisped and said intermittently, don't ... don't touch, spread ... infection. ...
Aunt cried that day. He stretched out his hand to wipe tears for his aunt and was still laughing.
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My brother has grown up slowly and has learned to babble. Several times, my brother staggered out his arms to him. He is so excited that his mother always rushes to take him away.
Looking at other children with popsicles in their hands, he licked his lips and felt hot and thirsty. The children said, if you crawl on the ground like a dog, I'll give you the popsicle. He learned, but instead of giving him popsicles, they laughed their heads off.
Always slow to move, he suddenly got up from the ground and made a sudden snatch like crazy, which shocked the children. He ran home with a popsicle high and low, and the popsicle kept melting all the way. When he ran home, only a little pity was left. My brother is playing in the yard. When his mother wasn't looking, he held the popsicle up to his younger brother and said, Eat, eat, eat.
Mother only watched him draw a picture for his brother with a small stick, so she rushed over and pushed him away. He fell to the ground, and the only remaining popsicle pole fell to the ground. He looked at it for a while and cried with a wow.
My brother learned to call people, but no one ever taught him to call him brother. How he wishes he could be called a brother by his younger brother like all his older brothers. For this reason, whenever my brother plays in the yard, he will shout, Brother, brother, three meters away. He wants his younger brother to hear and learn to call him brother. One day, he continued to call brother, brother, when his mother called him and played. At this time, my brother suddenly looked up at him and even called out to his brother clearly.
He had never been so excited. He clapped his hands and jumped up. Suddenly, he ran over and hugged his brother hard. Tears and saliva flowed to his brother together.
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He was called "idiot brother" since he was a child, and he hated it. So he looked at his brother who had been smirking at him, and his heart was full of disgust.
Once he got into a fight with someone because of the name "idiot brother". He was pinned down by that classmate, and suddenly the other person's body left him lightly. He was his brother.
He has never seen his brother lift the boy with such great strength and fall to the ground. The boy immediately rolled on the ground and shouted pain. He is scared and in trouble, and his father will definitely hit him. At that moment, he hated his mother. Why did he give birth to a fool as his brother? He gave his brother a hard push and shouted angrily, Who told you to mind your own business, you idiot? My brother was pushed against a tree and looked at him stupidly.
That day, his father made him and his brother kneel side by side on the ground. When the bamboo pole fell mercilessly, his brother lay on him. Trembling with pain, he said, hit, hit me.
A few days later, relatives in the city brought candy that they had never seen before. His mother gave him eight pieces and left three pieces for his brother. This is not the first time. He accepted it naturally. The next morning, my brother knocked on the glass outside the window and smirked at him. He reached out on tiptoe with two pieces of candy in his dirty palm. He paused and made no answer. By the time my brother reached out again, it had turned into three pieces of candy. That's my brother's only three sweets, he said vaguely. Eat, my brother will eat.
I don't know why, but this time he suddenly didn't want it. My brother was so anxious that he stamped his foot and couldn't speak. He just peeled off the candy paper and stuffed it in his mouth.
When he was eating sugar, he clearly saw the tears in his brother's eyes.
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On the day I got the college admission notice, my parents were so happy that my brother jumped and jumped with joy. In fact, my brother doesn't know what a university is, but he knows that he had a quarrel with his family. Nobody calls him a fool now, but "Wang Jun is his brother".
The night before he left home, my brother still refused to enter his house, just gave him a flower bag outside the window. He opened it and found some new clothes. My aunt made it for two brothers a few years ago, or it was sent by the city's menstruation.
It turns out that my brother has never worn new clothes for so many years. However, he and his parents never noticed. Only then did he find that his brother's clothes were worn out and his trousers were so short that he looked like a clown. His nose is a little sour. For so many years, what did he give his younger brother except the disgust in childhood and the neglect when he grew up?
My brother is still a smirk many years ago, but his eyes are a little more expecting. He knows what this expectation is. Although my brother doesn't know that he has grown taller, he doesn't know that the style of clothes is too old to wear. But he pretended to accept the clothes and measured him happily. He asked, "Brother, is it nice?" My brother nodded very hard and opened his mouth wide when he smiled.
He wrote two words on the paper, "Brother". He pointed to the word "brother" and said to his younger brother, this word is pronounced "brother", and he pointed to the word "brother". This word says "brother", and my brother is me. "Brother" means having a brother first, then a younger brother. Without you, there is no me.
He taught me repeatedly that day, and my brother insisted on pronouncing those two words as "brother", but he kept saying them intermittently but firmly, brother, brother. He cried when he walked out of his brother's door. His brother told him that in his heart, his brother will always come first. No brother, no brother.
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For a rural child, college life is particularly exciting, and he almost forgot that he has a brother who suffers from encephalopathy.
When his mother called him at the post office, his brother went with him. Mom said a lot. Finally, mom said, tell your brother, too. After my brother answered the phone, there was no sound for a long time. My mother took it and said, I hung up. Your brother cried. He painted on his chest, which means he missed you.
He wants his mother to give his brother the phone again. He wants to tell his younger brother that when he comes back, he will teach him to write and bring him candy and snacks that are only available in the city. However, he started to answer, so he hung up. Because he saw the curious eyes of his classmates in the dormitory, he didn't want them to know that he had a silly brother.
In the summer vacation, he bought candy and snacks. On the way, he stuffed a piece of candy into his mouth. Suddenly, he remembered the candy that his brother forced into his mouth when he was a child. His throat is tight and the candy is in his mouth, which is slightly bitter.
For the first time, when he got home, he looked for his brother and shouted all over the yard, brother, brother, I'm back. Look what I brought you. However, he never found the brother who only giggled at him, the brother who was still wearing suspenders in his late thirties. His father told him with tears in his eyes that a month ago, your brother went into the river to save the drowning children, and he couldn't swim himself. When he pushed the child up, he couldn't get up ... The father squatted on the ground and cried and said, we owe that child too much!
He sat alone by the river, and his memory of his brother was sometimes clear and sometimes vague. He took the paper out of his pocket and wrote "Brother" on it. This is his word. Here are two crooked and illegible words. Only he can see that this is written by his brother.