Your Elder Brother Chapter 10

Brother Le asked Ethan Wei to work the daytime shift first, and then switch to the night shift after the plaster on his arm was removed.

The night shift in the nightclub is paid very well, with two groups of people working in shifts, and each shift is only four hours, but the pay is three times that of the daytime shift, which means that he only needs to work four hours a day to allow his family to live a very comfortable life - of course, the ones who get the high salaries are the thugs, not the little brothers like Ma Zi who have to work hard to clean the sanctuary.

With Ethan Wei's qualifications, he was originally not eligible to work this glorious night shift. In order to show his closeness to him, Brother Le personally contacted the manager and asked for an exceptional promotion.

Ma Zi was extremely envious, but Ethan Wei showed no joy at all. Instead, he smoked even more heavily.

The future was dangerous and confusing. Even though Ethan Wei was a money-grubber, it was difficult for him to express his joy at the extra income.

On this day, Song Lily and Jake Wei came home from school. Ethan Wei cut a small watermelon weighing more than two kilograms into two halves and asked them to each eat half with a spoon. After eating, they went to do their homework.

Song Lily sat cross-legged on the sofa, his mouth full of watermelon soup, and said excitedly while eating: "Brother, Sister Niuniu is dead."

Ethan Wei was stunned: "Who?"

"Sister Niuniu, you are so tall, you have two dimples on your face, your eyes look like this, you comb your hair... like this, you live in the small bungalow in front..." When Song Lily described her eyes, she stretched out her hands to open her eyes, and when she described her hair, she pulled her own hair. She was gesticulating while talking, all using body language. It was obvious that there was a reason why she failed the Chinese language test in the first grade.

Ethan Wei leaned back and moved away from her: "Sit still and talk properly, you're spraying me in the face---dead? How did he die?"

"He died like this." After Song Lily finished speaking, she rolled her eyes and leaned aside holding her half watermelon. A line of watermelon juice flowed out from the corner of her mouth.

Ethan Wei: ...

Although his little sister was still young, she had an extraordinary ability to imitate and see through the phenomenon to the essence. For the first time, Ethan Wei felt that it was a pity that this girl was not good-looking, otherwise, when she grew up, she might be able to become an actress.

Jake Wei added calmly, "He died from eating rat poison."

Song Lily revived from his death state and asked hurriedly: "How did you know?"

Jake Wei said calmly, like a man who had seen a lot of things: "She was foaming at the mouth and her face was that color. She must have died from eating rat poison. I've seen that before."

Song Lily said admiringly: "How come you have seen everything? Is rat poison delicious?"

Jake Wei's eyebrows jumped at her question, which was much stupider than expected. Three seconds later, he decided to cooperate with this idiot with insufficient blood supply to his brain, so he said in a serious tone: "It's okay, colorful, the red one tastes like watermelon, and the green one tastes like apple. Mice love it."

Song Lily asked eagerly: "Is it crisp?"

Jake Wei: "Crisp."

Ethan Wei: ...

Jake Wei is a child after all, and Ethan Wei can actually see that he sometimes pretends to be stupid, but Ethan Wei always thought that Xiaoyuan was trying to please Lily and never thought about himself.

...After all, he has received very little care in his life, and even he neglects himself.

Ethan Wei had originally just heard about this matter, because he could not remember who "Niuniu" was through Lily's description. But this matter that he ignored did not pass. In the evening, Max and Jason bought vegetables together and came to his house to cook. When serving the dishes, Max deliberately kicked Ethan Wei in dissatisfaction: "I am here to serve you, right? Don't sit there and wait for food, don't you still have one hand? Go and get the bowl and chopsticks!"

Ethan Wei raised his voice: "Pockmarked!"

Ma Zi agreed promptly and was about to do the work for him, but was frightened by San Pang's glare and shrank back.

"Pockmarked man," Ethan Wei stood up slowly and said pertinently, "You are really a coward!"

Ma Zi was not ashamed but proud, and said happily: "Yes!"

Ethan Wei: ...

Ethan Wei wandered to the kitchen, opened the cupboard on tiptoe, and glanced lazily into the small room. The two little brats had finally quieted down, each occupying a corner of the table, doing their homework.

Ethan Wei's mood suddenly improved uncontrollably. He felt that with these two little breathing creatures in the room, it felt like home.

"Qian'er," Max suddenly said, "Look after our little sister Lily these two days. Don't let her run around after school."

Ethan Wei casually responded: "What's wrong?"

Max said: "You know Niuniu, right?"

Ethan Wei: "Hmm?"

"The one who lives in the front with pigtails is one year older than Lily." Max glanced into the room of the two children and whispered in Ethan Wei's ear in a low voice, "The girl died this afternoon. She died of rat poison."

Ethan Wei was too lazy to listen to other people's troubles. He couldn't even think about his own troubles, so he looked at Max impatiently and said, "I think you are bored, Fatty. All day long, you are either talking about matchmaking or the trivial matters of three mice and four eyes. You..."

Max slapped his injured arm with a serious expression and said, "Keep your voice down!"

"Shh... I Fcuk you..."

Max said seriously, "Listen to me! That little girl was abused. She was timid and didn't dare to tell the adults for several days. It was hot these two days. I heard that her Vag!n@ was festering. I don't know how much pain she suffered. She didn't dare to say anything. Yesterday, she didn't think it through and committed suicide by eating rat poison. Can you please pay more attention to your sister?"

Ethan Wei frowned and looked at him: "Nonsense..."

"Who is talking nonsense to you? Who is talking nonsense about this? The person is dead! Am I so wicked?" Max glared at him, "I'm talking to you seriously, keep a close eye on our sister these two days, do you hear me?"

Ethan Wei stretched out his hand on his waist and gestured in confusion: "That kid has skinny arms and legs. If you poke it there, it will just be a chopstick. What's so good about it? Who is he? Is he sick?"

"It's hard to explain to your stupid grandson. All you know is money and fighting. What else do you know?" Max waved his hands impatiently. "Some people just can't get hard with normal women. Some like children who haven't grown up, and some like men. Niuniu's mother is almost crying like a psycho. She yelled that she would call the police. Now she is locked up at home by her grandmother."

Hearing the word "man", Ethan Wei frowned uncomfortably and asked again: "Why don't you call the police? Is her grandmother old and suffering from dementia?"

"The old lady is not very smart. She thinks if the matter is reported to the police and it gets out, her family won't be able to hold their heads up. Well, anyway..." Max suddenly stopped talking here, because when he looked up, he saw Jake Wei lying on the side of the kitchen door at some point, and he didn't know how much he heard.

Max was shocked: "Oh, this unlucky child, why is he walking so quietly, like a weasel!"

The weasel Jake Wei had no expression on his face, as if he hadn't heard what they were saying. He straightened his chest and raised his head and said, "I'll help my brother carry the dishes."

"Hey, this little weasel is quite filial!" Max slapped Jake Wei on the back of his head with a palm-leaf fan-like slap, almost covering his little head, and hurriedly pushed him on the back, "Go quickly."

After saying this, he and Ethan Wei looked at each other, and they both stopped talking about the topic at the same time.

For several days afterwards, Ethan Wei picked up and dropped off the two children from school.

It was a small, run-of-the-mill school where the students started too late in the morning and finished too early in the evening, and it was very difficult for Ethan Wei to coordinate with their schedules.

The mornings were barely bearable, but the afternoons after school were particularly bad. It was past three o'clock, and it was still early for Ethan Wei to get off work, so he had to run back and forth with his arm in a plaster cast. Every day he rushed to the elementary school as fast as he could, hurriedly took the two kids home, bought each of them a fifty-cent "double popsicle", then locked them both in the house, and ran back like lightning as if he were reincarnated.

Literally, he really ran with his legs. Because Ethan Wei was going to transfer to the night shift, many people secretly disliked him. He was afraid of wasting too much time and giving others the opportunity to talk about him, but he was reluctant to spend that little bit of money on the bus.

In this way he developed a pair of sprinting legs that could outrun buses.

Song Lily, that heartless girl, didn't feel sorry for her brother at all. She was quite satisfied with such a life, because she had one and a half "double sticks" to eat every day... The extra half came from Jake Wei. Jake Wei would usually break the double stick in half and eat half himself first, and the remaining half would usually go to Lily.

Lazy and gluttonous---He has completely figured out the character of this little sister and is very good at dealing with her.

After running back and forth like a donkey pulling a mill for more than ten days, when Ethan Wei went to the hospital for a follow-up checkup, the doctor scolded him on the spot and gave him a serious warning: "If you do this again, you will grow an arm with eighteen bends on the mountain road!"

Ethan Wei felt quite embarrassed because Ma Zi was waiting outside with his two little ones. The one big, two small and one water had never seen the world. Ethan Wei felt it was very embarrassing to be scolded in front of them. His authority as the eldest brother was undermined.

Jake Wei didn't say a word. He felt as if his heart was hit and it was sore and painful.

He developed a manly desire to protect something, but his body remained childish and immature.

The contradiction between the growing desire for strength and the limited physical conditions of children constituted Jake Wei's main psychological contradiction before adolescence.

In the middle of the night, Ethan Wei heard some noise coming from the kitchen. He reached out and found that the boy next to him had gotten up. Ethan Wei rubbed his eyes and cursed, then walked into the kitchen and turned on the kitchen light. While blocking the glaring light with his hand, he said impatiently, "Why are you still awake in the middle of the night?"

Jake Wei was dragging a long steel pipe and looked up at him innocently.

The half of the kitchen connected to the balcony is usually used for cooking, and the other half is used to store various sundries, including various weapons that Ethan Wei casually threw in there.

Jake Wei dragged out a scrap steel pipe from the pile of debris. This time he deliberately picked a shorter one so that he wouldn't have to drag it on the ground shamefully like last time. When he held the weapon in his hand, he felt very powerful.

Ethan Wei was stunned: "What are you going to do with it?"

Jake Wei glanced at his newly bandaged arm, straightened his chest and said, "I'll take her to school, so you don't have to come tomorrow. I'll bring Lily back, and when we get home I'll make sure she doesn't run around and lock the door."

When he said this, he did so with a self-righteous attitude, as if he were a little adult who could take on responsibilities.

Ethan Wei felt a little uneasy. This boy he picked up was not an ungrateful person. He was sensible and caring. However, Ethan Wei still frowned rudely. He picked up Jake Wei with one hand and turned on the tap to wash his dirty hands: "How can you be so patient? Wash your hands and go to bed. If you make trouble again, I will beat you up!"

Jake Wei obediently did not argue. Although his elder brother had a bad expression and his words were unpleasant to the ear, Jake Wei did not care. Instead, he liked to listen. He was a child who had been truly abused and could tell the difference between true malice and different forms of concern.

However, although Jake Wei did not say anything at the time, the next day when Ethan Wei was not paying attention, he still stuffed the water pipe into his schoolbag.

In the afternoon, when Ethan Wei came to pick someone up at the usual time, he saw Xiaoyuan and Lily walking towards home halfway.

These two brats didn't even wait for him and were so bold as to go home on their own.

Because they were on the other side of the street, the two of them didn't see Ethan Wei, and Ethan Wei didn't go over, but just followed from a distance behind.

Although he was well-nourished and had grown a little, the little boy was only two fingers taller than the little girl. However, he was like a powerful protector, with a serious expression, holding his sister with one hand and holding a dirty steel pipe with the other, and walking the short distance home as resolutely as if he was breaking through the Tianmen Formation.

Ethan Wei felt both amused and annoyed. He watched the two children all the way home. Jake Wei very seriously asked Lily to go into the house first. Then he held up the ridiculous steel pipe like an underground worker, and stuck his head out to carefully scout around the house. He failed to detect any enemy, but found that his brother was standing at the foot of the wall not far away with his arm hanging, looking at him.

Jake Wei was stunned for a moment, then he saw that Ethan Wei not only did not get angry at him for acting on his own, but smiled at him instead.

Ethan Wei raised his extremely thin chin, which was unique to young people, and nodded at Jake Wei, indicating him to lock the door.

Jake Wei obediently turned around and went into the house, locked the door, climbed onto the bed, pulled open the curtains, and lay on the window. He watched Ethan Wei light a cigarette, smoke it silently, and then took a break and turned around and left quickly.

"Brother hasn't even had a sip of water." Jake Wei thought.

That night, when Ethan Wei returned home, he was surprised to find someone had prepared a glass of boiled water for him in the enamel pot on the table. He reached out to touch it and found it was neither cold nor hot, just the right temperature.

The next week went on like this. Jake Wei took Lily home from school alone, and Ethan Wei followed them from a distance, watching them get home, lock the door, and leave.

Finally, nearly a month had passed since Niu Niu's incident, and no other unpleasant incidents had occurred nearby. Jake Wei seemed very reliable, so Ethan Wei decided not to pick them up anymore, and the three of them returned to their normal lives.

As a result, something really happened.