The sky in June is like a child's face. It can change at a moment's notice, especially the climate in mountainous areas. It was clear just a moment ago, but in the blink of an eye a dark cloud came, and then there was a strong wind.
It's going to rain.
Outside an inconspicuous cabin at the foot of the mountain, a woman in green coarse cloth was hurriedly carrying firewood into the house. If the firewood got wet from the rain, cooking at night would be a problem, and she would have to rush in.
Just store enough dry firewood before it rains.
Behind her was a little girl of four or five years old. Seeing her clumsiness, she wanted to come up to help, but she accidentally knocked her to the ground. The little girl suddenly cried in aggrievedness.
The woman heard her cry, looked at her with a frown, and said, "Xiaomei, go into the room, you haven't finished the homework I assigned you yet!"
"No, when grandpa comes back, I will tell him that you hurt me!" The little girl simply rolled on the ground, and her clothes were immediately stained with dust.
The woman sighed, simply ignored her, and was busy with the work at hand.
When the girl named Xiaomei saw that her rogue tricks didn't work, she climbed up in a daze, patted the dirt on her body, and stood there looking at her. She knew how powerful her grandfather was, and if she came back and saw the dirt all over her body,
, I will definitely hit myself!
Big raindrops sparsely hit the ground. Xiaomei was afraid of getting wet, so she quickly got into the house and asked the woman: "When will my grandpa come back?"
"You wait at home, I'll give Grandpa an umbrella." The woman said, took off an umbrella from the wall, and was about to go out.
"No need, I'm back." An old voice appeared at the door. Xiaomei's eyes suddenly lit up and she rushed forward.
"Grandpa, grandpa, aunty bullied me!" Xiaomei raised her little face and complained to grandpa.
"Xiao Mei, what's going on? Why did your aunt bully you?" Grandpa put the ax in his hand on the wall and asked her with a smile.
"She asked me to do my homework and pushed me down." Xiaomei pointed at the woman and said.
"Grandpa, I didn't push her on purpose, I just accidentally knocked her down when I was holding firewood." The woman defended quickly, looking a little embarrassed.
"Forget it, don't take it seriously, Xiao Mei, you go to the back room to play first, I have something to ask auntie." Grandpa said, sitting on the wooden chair.
Xiaomei obediently went to the back room, and there were only two people left in the front room, an old man and a young man.
"Girl, haven't you remembered who you are?" the old man asked doubtfully.
"Hmm... I don't know." The woman answered, looking at the old man.
"Is your name Xia Ruoxue?" the old man suddenly asked her.
"Xia-ruo-xue?" A look of pain appeared on the woman's face. She held her head hard with her hands and shook her head desperately.
"Since I rescued you, no less than ten people have asked me about your name. When I was patrolling the mountain just now, I met a few more people asking me." The old man said and began to slowly untie his shoelaces.
, the rain outside is getting heavier and heavier, I'm afraid I won't be able to go out again this afternoon.
"Maybe..." the woman answered, her tone full of hesitation.
"You really can't remember it at all?" The old man was a little doubtful of her performance at the moment, always feeling that she was not telling the truth to him.
"Grandpa, I really don't know anything anymore." The woman answered him.
"Okay, maybe there are some things that it would be a good thing to forget." The old man sighed, took off his shoes and changed into slippers.
"Grandpa, you are hungry. I have already prepared the rice. It is in the pot. Eat it while it is hot." The woman said and hurriedly got up and went to the kitchen. She tried her best to hide the unnatural look on her face.
"Xiaomei, come here for dinner." The woman called Xiaomei loudly. The little girl heard it and jumped out of the back room. She was also carrying a grasshopper cage made of grass stalks, which contained
A grasshopper, she was so happy that she forgot about the unpleasantness just now.
The three people sat around the table and ate. The food on the table was very simple, steamed sweet potatoes and pickles, but the three of them ate with gusto.
"Grandpa, I...remembered, I think my name is Xia Ruoxue." The woman finally plucked up the courage and said to the old man.
The old man smiled, picked up the wine glass in front of him, took a sip of wine, and looked at her meaningfully: "Okay, I just remembered. Your relatives seem to care about you."
"They are not my relatives, they are my enemies, grandpa, I think you should know this, otherwise you wouldn't have helped me hide for so long." Ruoxue looked at the old man and said.
"Yes, I saw that those who came to see you were all vicious and did not look like good people at all, so I told them directly that there is no such person." The old man said, his tone full of pride.
"Grandpa, I want to say thank you for taking care of me during this time, but I'm afraid I have to live here for a while. I can't leave until everyone has almost forgotten me," Ruoxue said.
"Well, okay, it takes as long as it takes. I can take Xiaomei to study and help me cook. Not bad, not bad." The old man said and took another sip of wine.
"No, grandpa, I don't want her to take me to study. I want to go up the mountain to play with you." After hearing this, Xiaomei pouted dissatisfiedly.
"Xiaomei, be obedient and follow Auntie. You can learn a lot of scientific knowledge. When the time comes, you can use science to help grandpa protect the forest. Grandpa won't have to go up the mountain so hard every day. Don't you think so?" Grandpa looked at Xiaomei.
, patiently explaining the truth to her.
Xiaomei listened and nodded in understanding.
Ruoxue was silent. The two grandfathers and grandsons in front of them were living here without any worries. I really didn't know what impact his arrival would have on their lives.
She cast her eyes on the window, and the raindrops slapped on the glass, blurring the scenery outside. She couldn't help but recall the scene that day.
That day, maybe I was lucky enough, maybe the perpetrator was merciful, but anyway, I had a close call with death and was discovered by Xiaomei’s grandfather when he was patrolling the mountain. At that time, one of her arms was dislocated and her whole body was injured.
The person was on the verge of dehydration and had a high fever.
Grandpa Xiaomei knew how to massage and restored her dislocated arm to its original position, ending her pain. However, she soon discovered that due to the consequences of suffocation and high fever, she had forgotten many things. The fever subsided.
After that, she forgot who she was and why she came here.
Xiaomei's father was originally a forest ranger, but he was stabbed by a illegal logger during a fight. He eventually died of excessive bleeding because he did not receive timely treatment. Xiaomei's mother left Xiaomei behind after receiving the pension.
Mei ran away and disappeared without a trace, leaving Xiao Mei to depend on her grandfather.
These things made Ruoxue full of admiration for the old man. After she recovered from the illness, she began to teach Xiaomei to learn. What made her feel magical was that when she and Xiaomei learned to read together, many of her scattered memories were constantly picked up.
Just a few days ago, she finally recovered her memory and could recall many things. So one day while her grandfather was out, she took a ride down the mountain to the post office and mailed a courier letter to Chen Mubai.
She also thought that if she could turn back time, she would rather not meet him again, and let the past grudges pass! But there is no if in this world, he and his mother and his - who should be called his wife now
Yes, each of them will have to pay the price for what they have done!
In order to be able to stay here for a few more days, she chose to deceive her grandfather against her will and still pretended to have amnesia. But the old man's eyes were sharp. He had already noticed that Ruoxue's eyes were already bright, and they were as empty as when they were first rescued.
The absent-minded expression was completely different from now. He did not expose her, but chose to wait for her to take the initiative to explain to him.
"Auntie with big eyes, can I call you Auntie Ruoxue now?" Xiaomei's voice brought her thoughts back. Ruoxue looked at this miserable girl, her heart ached. Xiaomei is very smart and cute.
, but was abandoned by her mother. Ruoxue often thought about how cruel this mother must be, not even giving up her own flesh and blood? Or just for the pension, which in her eyes was a huge sum of money, she could
Can flesh and blood and family ties be abandoned?
"Of course, now I have a name, I'm so happy." Ruoxue said, touching her little face.
After lunch, Grandpa lay on the bed and fell asleep. Xiaomei excitedly held a can bottle and stretched it out from the door to catch the rainwater dripping from the eaves. Ruoxue sat on the chair in the kitchen and looked at her
In a daze.
The rain stopped, and Xiaomei couldn't wait to run out. She didn't want to be trapped in this room. Ruoxue didn't trust her and followed her out, but she heard the roar of cars coming from the mountain pass.
Who could it be? She was a little panicked and wanted to go back to the house to ask her grandfather to come out to deal with it, but she was a little embarrassed. He drank some wine at noon and was sleeping soundly now! She hurriedly called Xiaomei: "Xiaomei, come here.
"
Xiaomei stood there and looked at her.
"Xiaomei, if someone comes in a moment, just say that I'm not here, do you hear me?" Ruoxue hurriedly told her.
"I know." Xiaomei agreed crisply, she was already used to this kind of thing.
Ruoxue thought for a while, turned around and hid in the grass behind the house.
This was a black off-road vehicle that stopped suddenly not far from the house. A somewhat familiar voice came to Ruoxue’s ears: “Kid, have you ever seen a beautiful woman here?
Sister? She’s probably in her twenties?”
"No, it's just me and my grandpa here." Xiaomei agreed smoothly.
"Then do you have any relatives at home?" The man asked again. Ruoxue always felt that the voice was somewhat familiar, but she couldn't remember who it was. Her curiosity drove her to move a strip of grass in front of her.
I want to see who this person is.
"No, my father is dead and my mother has run away." Xiaomei replied, a little angry. Why did this person pick out questions that others didn't want to hear?