I felt my heart trembling, I didn't understand.

What is glory and wealth?

Isn't it good for our family to be together?

Even though my brother is always lying in bed, I am tired every day, but he still secretly gives me good things to eat.

He cares about me and I care about him.

Isn't that good for a family?

Why are mom and dad's concern so scary?

"Phew!"

The window opened, and my mother's dark face suddenly appeared in front of me in the candlelight.

"What are you eavesdropping on? You useless waste!"

Then suddenly, she became beautiful, as if her mood had improved.

"It's okay, you are the backbone of our old Shen family, and your mother's incense will rely on you. When we have money, you will definitely be cultivated into the best girl!"

I was extremely scared, but my originally malnourished face couldn't get any paler.

I trembled and shivered.

"Mom, I'm just hungry, I'm about to faint, the rice I ate today was not enough..."

She looked at me fiercely.

"Fine, I'll put an egg in the pot for you, go eat it."

Dad suddenly appeared, looking at me gently.

"Yes, and there's a bowl of noodles, it's still warm in the big pot. Look at you, this child, your mother thinks about you every night, otherwise do you think the food you secretly eat every night just magically appears?"

The voice was incredibly gentle, and his face seemed to have put on an affable mask. I didn't understand.

I just felt a rift between now and just now.

But I still nodded and went out, laughing foolishly as before.

"Okay, mom and dad, go to sleep."

After walking a long way, I still felt a chill down my spine.

The darkness of the night enveloped my heart.

I went to the kitchen and ate that bowl of noodles.

Cold, with the firewood long extinguished.

Walking past my brother's room.

I still couldn't understand, because this was an almost closed room.

Mom seemed determined not to let a ray of light into the room.

Her explanation for this was.

"A boy needs delicate care, what if the sunlight burns my son's skin?"

I didn't understand, flowers and plants all need light, why doesn't my brother need it?

The chickens and ducks in the house need to run around, but my brother has been lying down.

Suddenly, there were short and long sounds coming from my brother's room.

It was my brother.

I pushed the door and entered, the room was so dark that I couldn't even see my hand in front of my face, it didn't look like a place where a person lived, it looked like a place where something dead was kept.

Like my grandpa, after his death he was buried underground in a dark coffin, burying all the vitality and sins.

"Xiaoyi, you're here? Come here, I saved a few pieces of braised pork for you at noon."

My brother's voice came, and I carefully moved in the darkness.

Fortunately, I used to go hunting on the mountain when I was hungry, and coming back at night was a common occurrence, so I got used to it after falling a lot.

"Be careful, don't bump into things."

I carefully found an oiled paper bag, and when I opened it, it was the braised pork I had been craving all day. Feeling the greasy texture, it stirred up my gluttony.

"Thanks, brother."

After saying that, I started eating like crazy, the aroma filled my nostrils.

At that moment, I felt like this was the best and happiest time in the world.

Even though my brother said next to me.

"In a few days, I'm going to start raising bricks, and my parents promised me that after this period of time, they will let me go to school."

He smiled with curved eyes and a joyful expression in his eyes.

But I didn't expect that raising bricks would be so terrifying.