"Teacher, are you looking for me?" Xiao Jiu just came back from outside and didn't even have time to change his clothes.

Seeing the other party's dusty appearance, Mr. Qingxi asked nonchalantly, "Where have you been these past two days?"

"In the city, with my brother."

Sensing that the other party's tone was wrong, Xiao Jiu became suspicious and asked, "What's wrong?"

Unexpectedly, Mr. Qingxi half-closed his eyes and glanced at Xiao Jiu lightly, "Did you forget that you still have a little sister on the mountain?"

Xiao Jiu paused.

"I almost ran down the mountain to look for you last night. I cried until midnight and didn't stop crying. Your sixth brother had a headache due to the noise. He had no choice but to send him to me."

Forehead……

Hearing the dissatisfaction in the other party's words, Xiao Jiu glanced at Mr. Qingxi, feeling a little guilty, "Ying'er is usually well-behaved and obedient, but last night... thank you for your hard work, teacher."

After saying that, he bowed his hands and bowed.

Mr. Qingxi waved his hand and after speaking, the anger in his heart disappeared. He could only say a few words to Xiao Jiu: "No matter how well-behaved and sensible you are, you are only five or six years old. As an elder brother, you should not act so carelessly."

Yes Yes Yes……

Xiao Jiu knew it was his fault and accepted criticism humbly.

After talking for a while, Oxfam's surprised voice came from outside the door, "Junior brother! You are finally back!"

Xiao Jiu turned his head, and a small figure immediately jumped into his arms and hugged him.

A low cry came from his arms, and Xiao Jiu gently patted the little girl's back and comforted her softly.

After Oxfam bowed to Mr. Qingxi, he calmly sat down on the cushion next to Xiao Jiu, "You don't know, your sister can really cry when she cries! She is no less generous than my sister!"

It's a pity that he has never coaxed his sister, but he was tortured by this little girl Xiao Ying, and he deeply realized the pain of coaxing a child.

"Now it seems that you are still good." He sighed and muttered in a low voice, "I don't want to take care of children anymore..."

Of course, Xiao Jiu is not really a real child. She is playing with Oxfam and she doesn’t know who is taking care of whom.

Caressing Xiao Ying's head, Xiao Jiu replied: "You are indeed troublesome for Senior Brother Xiaoliu."

"Oh, it's okay..."

Although it is a headache when the little girl cries, who knows that she is the younger brother's sister? If something happens, he has to help take care of her.

He took the little girl back to his residence from the teacher and comforted her for a while before coaxing Xiao Ying to sleep.

Xiao Jiu said before leaving that he would be back in one day. It took some time to study things, so this delay meant another day was lost. To be honest, it was also Xiao Jiu's fault.

He actively apologized to Xiao Ying.

Xiao Ying was silent for a moment and suddenly asked, "Brother Xiaojiu...are you really my brother?"

Xiao Jiu's heart skipped a beat as she stared into Xiao Ying's eyes with a calm expression on her face, but she began to have doubts in her heart.

She said softly, "That's natural. You, me, brother, the three of us will always be each other's closest relatives. You will always be my sister, Xiao Jiu."

Only Xiao Ying in the world would call him brother Xiaojiu.

Xiao Jiu taught him to call him this name, and Xiao Ying has been calling him that since I don't know when.

Xiao Ying's eyes were as red and swollen as walnuts. She rubbed the hem of her skirt uneasily with her little hands. She lowered her head and whispered softly: "But...but they said...that we are not biological brothers and sisters. You are different from me and my eldest brother..."

I don’t know who made these gossips in front of the little girl.

Warm palms gently fell on the top of the little girl's soft hair. Xiao Jiu sighed softly, "You are still young. Even if I tell you some things, you still don't understand. But are you willing to believe me?

Do you believe those who say such things?"

Xiao Ying raised her head and said anxiously: "Of course I believe brother Xiaojiu!"

"That'll be fine."

There are some things that it's too early to tell the little girl now.

Xiao Jiu said with a firm voice: "Now, brother Xiaojiu can tell you seriously. You will always be my sister, Xiao Jiu, and my brother's sister. The three of us will always be brothers and sisters."

The solemn and solemn words made Xiao Ying feel the determination in Xiao Jiu's heart, and she unconsciously felt relieved. Then she heard Xiao Jiu ask, "Can Ying'er tell brother, who told you those words before?

?”

A cold light flashed in her calm eyes. Xiao Ying didn't notice anything was wrong. She thought about it, poured out everything she knew, and thought: "He is my brother's senior brother, um..."

"They said that we are not biological brothers and sisters, but orphans who were taken in by the dean together."

"You are the dean's direct disciple, and your status is different from ours..."

The little girl frowned, recalling the few words in her mind with a serious and troubled expression, "...and said that I shouldn't stay here, it's not polite."

In fact, there were many, many other words. She didn't quite understand what they meant, but she felt very wronged and uncomfortable.

Xiao Ying's voice suddenly dropped, feeling lost and depressed.

Xiao Jiu didn't speak. He only stopped stroking the little girl's hair, and his face was calm and almost expressionless.

Their eyes met, and as time passed by, Xiao Ying seemed to feel the inexplicable coldness around her, and was slightly stunned, feeling a little at a loss.

When he noticed the little girl's uneasiness, Xiao Jiu immediately smiled and said, "Which of my senior brothers said this? Does Ying'er know?"

"I know. My eldest brother and I met them when we were walking before, and my eldest brother told me about them."

"Oh? Who is it?" Xiao Jiu asked curiously.

"They are brother Xiaojiu's seventh and eighth senior brothers."

"It turns out it's them..."

The voice was almost a whisper, soft and peaceful, and there was nothing wrong with it.

At the same time, the darkness in those eyes, which had been calm and indifferent all year round, gradually deepened, like the dark clouds approaching before a storm, with the force of crushing the city, cold and alluring, and the gaze was so deep that there was no trace of light.

Holding the little girl in his arms, patting her back repeatedly, Xiao Jiu told the little girl about all the grievances and injustices they had suffered over the years in places he couldn't see.

"Wait...wait..." Xiao Jiu calmed the little girl's emotions with a friendly expression, and he didn't know whether he was talking to Xiao Ying or to himself.

When he becomes strong enough, when his power becomes strong enough...

"When my brother grows up, he will protect Ying'er well. When the time comes, no one can bully you!"

Those who stand at a lower level will always be suppressed by those at a higher level.

If they can't stand up, then they will overturn those who are pressing them; I am the top, and all living beings will bow their heads.

The ambition and desire to become stronger were once again like a sweeping fire, burning into Xiao Jiu's eyes and heart, turning into a raging flame.

Mr. Qingxi and others discovered that Xiao Jiu has become more deep and reserved recently, and more unpredictable.

"Junior brother, what's happened to you recently?"

"...Are you unhappy?" After Mr. Qingxi finished his lecture, the two of them were packing up the letters on the desk, and Oxfam asked hesitantly, tilting his head slightly.

To say that I am unhappy is not accurate.

Oxfam couldn't tell whether Xiao Jiu was happy or angry. He just felt that the other party seemed to have changed somewhere recently, but he couldn't tell where the change had occurred. An inexplicable feeling hung in his heart.

Xiao Jiu shook her head and said calmly, "No. It's just that I've grown up a little bit more."

"Pfft~" Oxfam instantly forgot the strange feeling in his heart before, laughed out loud, and said with a smile: "What day have you not grown up? How come you have grown so fast in the past few days? I haven't seen you grow taller.

Ah, hahahaha..."

Oxfam suddenly understood that it turned out that he had been doing it for a long time because his junior brother's habit had returned.

Well, this disease is called - he feels like a mature adult again.

Ha ha ha ha……

The more I thought about it, the funnier it became. Oxfam was smiling from ear to ear.

Xiao Jiu looked at him helplessly, is it so funny?

The two of them were talking and laughing when, at that moment, two handsomely dressed teenagers walked right past them.

"Eh?" Lexi was suspicious, and lowered his voice and said in Xiao Jiu's ear, "Junior brother, why did you offend your seventh and eighth senior brothers?"

Look at those eyes that don't squint and look at people as if they are nothing. A big-hearted person like Oxfam can feel their dissatisfaction with Xiao Jiu from their recent words and deeds. There is no reason why Xiao Jiu can't see it.

But when he heard this, he just smiled, his still childish face as white as jade, his expression gentle and pure, but what he said was hard to tell whether it was a joke or a casual sentence.

"Senior Brother Xiaoliu, what you said is contrary to what you said. From the perspective of etiquette and principle, if you want to offend me, it is they who offend me."

"But I can only say that they and I have different paths and do not work together." Xiao Jiu sighed. We are not from the same place, and we cannot go together after all.

Oxfam somewhat understood what he meant, and sighed in a low voice, "If we can't get along, then we can't get along. You and our senior brothers love you."

After saying that, the young man hugged Xiao Jiu with his strong arms, fully demonstrating his love as a senior brother.

"So what do you want to do now that your little junior brother has grown up? Become a big businessman like my father?"

Oxfam asked jokingly with a smile.

He heard his father mention the cooperation with Xiao Jiu and thought that Xiao Jiu was interested in making money, and he did have a talent in this area.

But of course this is impossible.
To be continued...