My half-blooded brother In the afternoon, I picked up the phone to hear an unfamiliar voice. -"Aunt?" -"Who's that? eh...Brother Wen!" -"Oh,XX.It's you! ...Bring your mother." Later my mother told me Brother Wen's gonna drop by to visit us.By us I mean me, my mother, and our old father in bed. Brother Wen's house is half an hour's drive from mine.I hurried to change my sloppy pajamas to tight jeans, then brush my teeth, wash my face and even put on a facial mask. I felt a kind of excitement that has long be absent. As I was peeling off the facial mask in the bathroom, the door bell rang. When I walked into my father's bedroom, I saw the broad back of Brother Wen standing before father's sickbed.He was watching him when I patted on his arm from the back,"It's been a long time." He turned to me in a slightly startled face,"No, you can't say 'it's been a long time'. It's more than that. Let me count, how many years is that?" He looked at me for a while, without saying anything like" You are a big girl now".