my stealth fighter

Chapter 77 Pride
Urban area.

An ordinary apartment building.

It's not near the city center, but it's not as remote as where Jiang Chanji lives. The location is good, there are schools, hospitals and supermarkets nearby.

Chen Yiyi entered the elevator of the apartment building and pressed the floor button.

The elevator starts and ascends smoothly to the designated floor.

She stepped out of the elevator, took out her key, opened the door, and entered her theoretical home.

It was quite late now, and as a high school girl, if she didn't say hello in advance and came home so late, the family must be anxious, but she knew that no one would care when she came back.

"Bah! I won't eat this! This is not good!"

At the dining table, a ten-year-old boy was sitting like an emperor, spitting the food in his mouth onto the ground.

"Okay, baby doesn't want to eat, so let's not eat."

The boys were sitting on the left and right, a man and a woman, coaxing him in every possible way.

The woman didn't blame the boy for his impolite behavior, but just picked up the food he vomited with toilet paper and threw it into the trash can.

A table was full of food, and there was a huge birthday cake in the middle.

"Come on, baby, try this, steamed sea bass without a single thorn!" The woman scooped up the most tender piece of fish with a spoon, carefully checked that there were no thorns, and handed it to the boy's mouth.

"And this, nearly 2000 yuan a butter crab, bought just for you!" The man pried open the crab shell with a crab eating tool, and then scooped up the full crab roe and crab meat with a spoon and sent it to the boy's mouth side.

The boy was very fat, with a fat head and big ears at a young age, with a napkin around his neck, and even so, a lot of soup and greasy stains on his clothes.

He doesn't need to pick up the food himself, he just needs to open his mouth, his mouth is full of oil, and he spits it out if he doesn't like it a little bit. If it suits his taste, if he thinks that the man and woman are feeding too slowly, he just grabs it.

Whether it's fish or crab, he only eats the best part and doesn't eat the rest.

Soon, there was a mess on the dining table. If the etiquette teacher of Hongye College saw this eating, he would be so angry that he would explode on the spot.

He was not more than a year or two younger than Zixuan, but he felt like...a giant spoiled baby.

The man and the woman are obedient to him, no matter what he does, he greets him with a smile, whispers and coaxes non-stop, and his doting eyes are expressive, just like how many people dote on their pets, but he is not a human animal A harmless pet, but a child, a child growing up to become an adult one day.

Chen Yiyi walked into the room on her own, and glanced at the scene she was used to, without any disturbance in her eyes.

The three people in the room were her parents and younger brother, and she was superfluous here.

If outsiders see such a scene, they may think that the parents of this family are patriarchal, but this is not the case, at least this is not the whole reason.

A long time ago, before her younger brother was born, her parents in her memory were still very kind to her, but the birth of her younger brother changed everything.

The birth of the younger brother was not smooth from the beginning of the mother's pregnancy, and there were several crises of near miscarriage in the middle, coupled with the dystocia at birth, which almost killed the mother, and the younger brother was almost unable to be born in this world.

After he was born, his younger brother was weak and sick, and he had a fever at every turn. His parents always carried him to the hospital in the middle of the night to go to the emergency department, and became a frequent visitor to the hospital.

It may be because of these reasons that since he was born, his parents began to dote on this child, taking care of him everywhere, for fear that he would die young—if it is a few months old, or a child of one, two, two or three years old, it doesn’t hurt to take extra care of him , It's human nature, but with the growth of my younger brother, this kind of excessive doting not only did not decrease, but became more and more sick.

The energy of parents is limited, and it is difficult for two children to be equal. The more attention one gets, the less attention the other gets.

If life is a video game, then there must be an invisible progress bar of favorability, which is slowly sliding from the middle to one side irreversibly.

Chen Yiyi knew that her younger brother was weak and sick, so she gave way to her younger brother and never argued with him, including her parents' attention, and would take the initiative to take care of her younger brother when her parents were not at home.

Later, after the younger brother became sensible at the age of four or five, he learned to observe words and expressions like a cunning puppy. He knew that his parents loved him more, so he tested his parents' bottom line step by step.

In the beginning, they robbed her of pocket money, then spit in her meals, and later developed into tearing up her homework, and throwing things at her when she lost her temper was commonplace.

Parents always said that her younger brother was still young and sickly, so she asked her to give way to him.

In fact, my younger brother's health was not so bad at this time, and he no longer often had colds and fevers, but the impression of him being weak and sick has been deeply rooted in the minds of his parents. No matter how tall or fat he is, he is still the one who needs to be taken care of in their hearts of seedlings.

Chen Yiyi put up with it, but it didn't bring good results. Gradually, it became normal for her to be bullied by her younger brother, and her family got used to it.

The connivance of the parents made the younger brother intensify, and later, in the name of learning to paint and need a studio, he even seized her bedroom and forced her to sleep in the storage room.

The so-called painting is nothing more than random graffiti. I spent a lot of money on training classes and didn't learn anything. Because other people's children are learning, so my parents also enrolled my younger brother in the class.

After entering elementary school, my younger brother's academic performance was not very good, and his ability to take care of himself was extremely poor. The teachers at the school were worried about him, but his parents always said that his younger brother was still young, so he just needs to grow up.

It's as if when you reach a certain age you become someone else overnight.

From the first night she slept in the storage room, she knew she was an extra in the family.

She tries to avoid appearing in front of them as much as possible, and often hides from them at home. As long as they can't see her, she won't be bullied.

Later, her parents and younger brother seemed to really lose sight of her. Even if she walked in front of them, as long as she didn't make special noises to remind them, they would turn a blind eye to her...

It would be fine if it was just like this, but her classmates and teachers gradually couldn't see her, and she was gradually marginalized in the class, but it didn't matter, because she graduated from junior high school soon.

She doesn't know what to do in the future. If she is too young to work, no one will want her, and others may not see her, but she goes to high school... her parents probably won't pay her to go to high school.

Her family was originally a well-to-do family, but since her younger brother was born, she has been spending money like water, and of course it is all spent on her younger brother. The baby carriage must be imported, the milk powder must be imported, the vegetables must be organic, and the clothes must be famous brands. Yes, in order to strengthen the body, all kinds of nourishing medicines in TV commercials are indispensable... Which well-off family can withstand such a long-term toss?

Although it seems that there is no shortage of money, the family's financial situation is actually quite stretched.

When Chen Yiyi was about to graduate from junior high school, everyone was planning for the future. There were a few female students who were going to apply for Hongye College. I only went on the last day, and the reason for going was because there was no tuition fee.

Then her life changed...

There is no room for her to intervene in the happy scene of a family of three.

After she entered the house, she went into the storage room where she lived alone, took off the school uniform of Hongye Academy, and changed into the old casual clothes.

The casual clothes are a bit small, and they were bought by her parents a few years ago. Later, her parents stopped buying her new clothes, so she can only wear school uniforms, from junior high school uniforms to Hongye College uniforms.

But what she's going to do next, it's not appropriate to reveal her identity, so she has common sense to change into casual clothes.

"Come on, baby, it's time to eat cake!"

"Papa will light a candle for you!"

The leftovers on the table have been removed, and there are several plates of fresh fruit next to the huge ice cream cake.

Dad put candles on the cake, and Mom was peeling apples with a knife.

The younger brother's stomach has been rounded, and he is smiling like a fool.

Chen Yiyi has already forgotten when was the last time her parents celebrated her birthday.

Dad put ten candles on the cake, got up and said, "Turn out the lights and light the candles!"

With that said, he turned off the lights and lit ten candles with a lighter.

"Happy birthday to you~"

"Happy birthday to you~"

The parents clapped their hands and sang the birthday song in unison.

In the eyes of those who don't know the inside story, what a beautiful picture of family happiness!
The younger brother laughed wildly, and blew out the candle in one breath.

"Okay, turn on the light and cut the cake!"

Dad stood up, turned on the lights in the room again, cut and divided the cake with a plastic knife and fork, and distributed the cake with the most ice cream to the younger brother, while the younger brother shook his head, meaning to ask his mother to feed him.

The mother smiled and fed the cake to the younger brother one bite at a time with a spoon, while the father took over the previous task of peeling the fruit.

"Huh? Where did you put your peeling knife?" Dad asked, holding the apple.

"It's there..." Mom pointed at the dining table, "Huh? That's weird, I remember I put it there just before you turned off the light... Why didn't it disappear?"

"Did you remember wrongly?"

"It shouldn't be... If you look carefully, it should be right next to this..."

The younger brother thought that the cake was too slow to feed and started to make a lot of noise.

"Forget it, don't look for it, you can go and get another one, the baby will eat fruit later, the baby will only eat the sliced ​​ones, not the whole one." Mom waved her hands impatiently, and turned her face full of smiles Continue to feed the cake to my brother.

"Okay." Dad smiled, "I'm afraid you misplaced the knife, what if you hurt the baby?"

"How come? My baby is a pimple in my heart, isn't it baby?" Mom said dotingly.

The happy scene disappeared.

Chen Yiyi closed the door and left the house, holding a fruit knife in his hand, and plunged into the darkness outside again.

(End of this chapter)