Whenever it was late at night and Li Menglong couldn't sleep, he would enter the empty water tank placed in the center of the yard, curl himself into a ball, and look up at the stars in the sky.

The mouth of the tank is not big, and you can only see the stars in the circle of the tank, like a frog in the well. But only at this time does he feel that he is the safest, the freest, and the happiest. The world in the tank is his world, a world that belongs only to him.

In this tank, he is the master, he is God, who can give birth to anyone, and whoever dies will die.

And the small sky that belongs only to him is the blue board he unfolds his imagination. Here he imagines his past life, imagines what he will become after his death, and when he thinks of the wonderful things, he will be overjoyed and dance.

But the starry sky showed him not all the good things. Sometimes he would see his parents in that small starry sky. He reached out to grab them, but he couldn't catch anything.

Whenever this happened, he would curl up harder and hug himself harder, imagining that he was in the arms of his parents, with a gentle and satisfied smile on his lips, and he fell asleep sweetly.

Perhaps only in dreams can he see his father, mother, and have a home.

However, this usually happens. Li Menglong will be awakened by a basin of cold water the next day. After a long time, Ying Er talked about this matter. It turned out that on that night, Li Menglong shouted in the jar, "Dad! Mom! Home!", Ying Er was an orphan and had lost her parents since childhood. According to the old beggar later, Ying Er cried for a long time that night. Maybe the next day Ying Er used cold water to water Li Menglong because Li Menglong reminded her of her past relatives that night, which was a kind of revenge.

But later Ying Er said that her original actions were to make Li Menglong sober, no longer indulge in the past, and to face the present bravely.

Of course, whether this statement is true or false, Li Menglong didn't care about it, but this habit was preserved. From then on, as long as Li Menglong got into the tank and went to bed at night, Ying Er would wake him up with a basin of cold water the next morning. This lively and cheerful day lasted for nearly a year. Li Menglong thought that his life would be finalized, and later he learned a craft, marry and have children, have birth, old age, sickness and death, but later, the life of a thing made his life rewritten again.

(End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!