He took off the child's tattered straw sandals, wrapped the palm of his hand around her injured area, and asked softly, "Did you hit your foot just now?"
Does it still hurt?
” The little girl was stunned, and then quickly shook her head, trying to pull her foot out.
Her twinkling gaze forced tears back like a frightened cat, biting her lip and looking terrified to escape from the man's arms—her dirty clothes contrasted with his clean, light-gray robe.
This scared her even more.
However, the man did not let her go.
He was still motionless, the little girl's heart was beating like thunder, and she didn't even know that the swollen lumps on her feet were gone.
Over there, the men and women looked at the gold leaves and were so happy that they couldn't keep their mouths together.
"I'm sorry, I don't hurt, I don't hurt."
The little girl apologized again and again, and she reached out to push him, but her hands left two black dirty marks on his sleeve robe.
When the little girl saw this, her face immediately turned pale, and her small body trembled slightly.
"Don't be afraid, your clothes will be dirty, just wash them."
The man's voice was soft, without the coldness of talking to the couple before.
Unexpectedly, when he said this, the little girl trembled even more.
His mouth moved, but he couldn't say a word.
In her mind, such gentle words meant that the other party harbored anger that would break her hands and feet, at least in the past.
She would rather the other party lash out and beat her up at the beginning.
That would make you suffer less.
"I'll take you out of here, and from today onwards, far away from here."
He rubbed the little girl's watery black hair and smiled wryly.
The little girl looked at him blankly, as if she were looking at a strange person.
This girl has the best growth up and down her body, and the only one with this black satin hair is it.
It was as if the little nutrients she had tried her best to absorb were all grown in her hair, and her little face was thin and yellow, and her skinny appearance made his heart clogged up.
Obviously there shouldn't be this kind of emotion, this is the first time they have met!
The man put away his smile and stood up with a gloomy face.
Holding the little girl and leaving straight away, he walked out of the fence yard, and the couple behind him found him leaving.
"Son, go slowly!"
"Come back next time—" The woman's voice couldn't hide her joy, and his gaze became even colder, like three or nine days, and he could freeze to death.
The man said angrily: "You dead mother-in-law, how can there be a next time for this kind of thing?"
” "Anyway, the wild child who picked it up from the stream in the mountains, maybe when he went to chop wood and picked up another one?"
The woman gestured, laughing strangely, and the shadow behind her was pulled into a distorted appearance of teeth and claws by the sun.
These words all entered the man's ears, and he held the child in front of him higher, but his shoulders just covered the little girl's gaze looking backwards.
As I walked through the bamboo forest, there was a sudden rumbling from behind, followed by the sound of rushing water.
After a long time, a man who went to the field to weed passed by humming a little song and carrying a hoe.
The man stopped in confusion, looked around again, and muttered, "Wrong?"
” No, it won't!
He grew up in this village since he was a child, and it was impossible for him to go the wrong way.
The man walked forward a little further, then fell to the ground screaming—a hole the size of a village fishpond somehow in a place he knew!
It happened to be the house of the Li family, a woodcutter at the head of the village, and the entire yard of his house fell into the big pit along with the bamboo fence.
The man crawled over to look as he shouted, the light of the setting sun only touched the inside of the crater, but the sky was bright enough for him to see inside.
The green water of the lake is muddy and looks like it has begun to settle.
The couple were floating on the water, dead of exhaustion.
The man was facing the sky on his back, his mouth wide open, revealing his yellow, black teeth.
The woman floated face down on the water, and next to her two big fat pigs, which were not dead......
By this time, the man had already walked out of the confines of the small village.
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On the way, he didn't ask the little girl's name what her name was, but directly gave her a name - Ximu.
The meaning of bathing in the sunset, the soft and gentle name, and the little girl is very compatible.
It's just that the little girl is still timid, even if he touches something at random, he can scare her.
It can be seen how this child is terrified all day long.
The man took her into a carriage, and the little girl was very obedient, and she was often flattered by his kindness to her.
Even though he was cautious and didn't dare to speak, the smile on his face, which was missing half of his front teeth, slowly began to increase.
The man drove, and she sat right next to him.
Like a cat.
"Why aren't you curious about where I'm going to take you?"
The man asked her as he lit a fire to cook, and the light of the fire jumped in his face.
She bit her lip for a long time, and finally held back a sentence: "Is this important?"
” After speaking, her much cleaner little face turned white and quickly apologized.
The man looked at her in a daze for a while, then said, "You're right, it's not important." ” The little girl had a mouth with missing front teeth, and she couldn't react for a long time.
At night, she took the initiative to collect a lot of dead leaves, spread them on the side of the carriage, and then shrank them up and curled up in a ball.
The man looked at her suspiciously: "What are you doing here?"
” "Sleep, sleep."
The little girl sat up, her dark eyes full of caution.
He was stunned for a moment, then sighed and pulled her up: "Go and sleep in the carriage, this place is cold and cold, how can you sleep?"
” The little girl couldn't believe her ears until she lay on the soft futon he had taken out of nowhere, and thought she was dreaming.
He was lying next to her, with his back against the wall of the car, but his thin body was like a mountain protecting her.
"Why don't you run away?"
He asked.
The little girl shrunk under the covers, revealing only two puzzled eyes.
He repeated: "The two people you call your father and mother are not good to you, why don't you run away?"
” Although he knew that it was a good thing for him that she didn't run away, he couldn't help but ask.
"They picked me up, and they were my saviors."
The little girl said seriously, and there was even some self-blame in her clear eyes, "It's just that I'm too stupid and always let them worry about it." ” He sneered, worried?
It was just a casual command, treating her like a cow and a horse.
"You're not an ordinary child, you can survive without them taking you away."
He said something inexplicable.
Before she could wonder, he said, "Helpers, they told you themselves, right?"
” "Hmm."
The little girl nodded and smiled shyly: "I'm stupid, I don't understand a lot, my father taught me."
Bundle firewood, pull firewood, cut grass and cook to feed the pigs......
Many, many, many!
” She spoke to him intermittently, and after a while she fell into a deep sleep.
The man bent his feet, supported his forehead and looked at her for a long time, and finally stretched out two fingers to press the little girl's eyebrows: "You don't have to remember those damn people, from now on, you are just a sunset." ”