The brother who once helped me fight is no longer in contact with me.

Do you have a brother? Just make a phone call and he will be there immediately.

Do you have a brother who is always there whenever you want to drink.

Do you have a brother who skipped classes together, climbed over walls, fought together,...

I just had a video call with an old classmate, we know each other. It has been more than ten years, and before this video call, we had not seen each other for 2 years.

Dong Lei is my most loyal brother, and he is now delivering express delivery in his hometown.

Some time ago, Dong Lei sent me a WeChat message saying: "Xiao Nao, he committed a crime and was sentenced to 8 months. When he is released from prison next week, let me pick up Xiao Nao together."

< p> During that time, I was in the darkest moment. I had just changed my job and was unfamiliar with everything. I was always being crushed by the old employees and I devoted every minute to my work.

I thought for a while and replied to Dong Lei. I couldn't go back because I was too busy at work.

Later, Dong Lei said that Xiao Nao’s wife has been waiting for him for a long time. Now she is preparing for the wedding. The three of us brothers haven’t seen each other for a long time. Please take leave and come back to attend the wedding. The position of best man will be reserved for you.

I took a look at my work schedule, and I happened to be on a business trip to Qingdao next week. I thought about it and said, I am too busy at work and have to travel. Dong Lei, I won’t go, please bring the gift money with you.

He said in a low voice instantly: "We brothers haven't been together for a long time. It's been too long and good brothers have grown apart."

In the end, I still didn't go back. I comforted myself. Brothers are always good brothers.

Dong Lei called me and said that he and his wife were visiting Tianjin. They hadn’t seen each other for a long time. Beijing is not far from Tianjin and he would spend a few days with them.

I said no problem, I will go to Tianjin this weekend. You and your sister-in-law are here for your honeymoon, and you must meet your sister-in-law no matter what.

The company wanted to bid that weekend, and everyone in the department worked hard for two days and two nights without a wink on the bidding documents, which were to be submitted to the bidding company on Monday morning.

I called Dong Lei on Friday night and told him that I had an urgent matter to deal with and could not go to Tianjin to accompany him. Dong Lei said it doesn't matter, there will be many opportunities in the future.

I comforted myself in my heart that it doesn’t matter, they are all good brothers and will not hold grudges.

Today I looked through Dong Lei’s circle of friends and saw that their daughter was half a year old. That’s when I found out that Dong Lei’s family had a child.

The more I watched, the more uncomfortable I became. I sent a WeChat video to Dong Lei. I asked him why he didn’t tell me that he had a daughter. Dong Lei said, "I feel like you are too busy, and your development in Beijing is on the rise. Please don't think too much about it and tell me when you have your second child."

During our video chat, Dong Lei was still laughing and joking, but we all lamented that we could never go back to the days when we played together. The relationship between us brothers is becoming more and more distant. Dong Lei also doesn’t like my circle of friends, and we rarely chat in the brothers’ group.

On my way to get off work, I saw three men having sex and drinking beer on the side of the road. They looked very much like us in the past.

I remember when I was in college, the three of us, Dong Lei and Xiao Nao, were sitting in Lao San Bai Hutong and wanted to have some barbecue. There were three boxes of big green sticks next to us. drink wine.

When I was drunk, a few gangsters looked at me with disdain.

I said: "What are you worried about?"

"Look at how you drink, look at you"

Before I could say anything, Dong Lei picked up the beer bottle next to him and slapped the gangster on the head with the bottle On the top, I saw the blood on his head mixed with beer flowing down.

I was so frightened that I woke up instantly. Several gangsters nearby threw their fists at Dong Lei. I quickly stepped forward to protect Dong Lei.

In this way, we got into a fight, and all three of us were beaten until our noses were bruised and swollen. We moved to another place and continued drinking. Each person had a bottle of deadly old snowflakes. After touching each other, they looked at each other's pig-headed faces, laughed, and then blew the bottle.

At that time, I felt that the three of us were brothers for life and would never be separated.

Recently, I discovered in their friend circles that they each have new friends, but Dong Lei and Xiao Nao still play together, and I am the only one drifting in Beidiao.

Sometimes when I look back at the road I have walked, I see that the people around me have somehow lost them while walking. Behind the avatars lying in the list, how many people's photo albums have turned into a horizontal line; how many hundreds of pages of chat records have turned into the current indifference.

Some people say that those who can walk away are not friends.

I don’t agree at all.

The most comfortable distance between people is not to stick together all the time, but to be relaxed and distant.

Don’t come back to me, Dong Lei and Xiao Nao. I’m done with Beijing. I’m waiting for me to go back and my brothers will continue to sit together, drink, have fun, and brag.

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