After a month of rain, it finally stopped in late spring. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Liu Shuangli stood in the west courtyard of the dilapidated Zhishui Villa with his packed bags on his back, looking up at the blue sky and facing the sunlight that he had not seen in January, with a heartfelt smile on his face.

Looking at the sky, blue and cloudless. God, it's really sunny, and she has no reason to stay. So, at this moment, she packed her bags and turned to the gate of the hospital, and was about to step out of the hospital.

Suddenly, in the grassy courtyard in front of me, a small figure ran towards it, and shouted eagerly: "Big brother, wait a minute." ”

Liu Shuangli stopped and saw that the person who came running was Lian'er, a little girl who had lived next to her for a month.

"Big brother, don't go, don't go. The little girl shouted, rushed to the door of the west courtyard, took Liu Shuangli's hand, and begged.

Liu Shuangli smiled, half-squatted down, leveled his head with the little girl, and asked with a smile: "Lian'er, don't you go to the village with your friends to play, why did you come back?"

The little girl said with a half-crying face: "I'm playing with my friends, but big brother, why don't you tell me and leave." When my mother heard that you were leaving, she was anxious to let me rush back, asking my eldest brother not to go, not to go. He said that he had prepared a lot of dishes in the evening, and he wanted his big brother to come and eat with us when he arrived. ”

"Aunt Liu's kindness, I ......" Liu Shuangli sighed lightly.

The little girl kept shaking Liu Shuangli's hand, and before she could finish speaking, she begged again: "Big brother, don't go, don't go, eat with us, okay?"

"Lian'er. Liu Shuangli shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The little girl trembled her lips slightly, with a look of reluctance: "Big brother-"

Liu Shuangli stroked the little girl's long hair, shook his head and said, "Lian'er, this is not my home, I'm just using it temporarily." When the time comes, it is certain to go. ”

The little girl's eyes flashed, and tears flashed in her eyes: "Mom also said that this is not Lian'er's home, but Lian'er and her mother haven't lived for so long." Why can't the big brother?"

Liu Shuangli was dumbfounded for a while, not knowing how to answer the child's innocent question. She was like a little girl, her eyes sparkling. I remembered that the little girl had said that their mother and daughter had come to live in this dilapidated water-stopping villa a year ago. Before that, the mother and daughter had been wandering along the banks of the Yangtze River, living in no fixed place, and staying in each place for as little as one or two days, and at most only two or three months. Living in Zhishui Villa for a year is really something that the little girl has never remembered.

The little girl stretched out her hand to hold Liu Shuangli, and begged reluctantly: "Big brother, don't leave now." My mom and I don't have a home like my big brother, and I heard from my mom that we're going to leave here soon. Big brother just wait, come with us then, okay?"

"Lian'er. Liu Shuangli sighed lightly.

"Big brother, don't you leave first, okay?

Liu Shuangli was embarrassed, facing the little girl's earnest gaze, she couldn't say no, but thinking about it, she couldn't say yes. For more than half a year, although she has been traveling alone on the surface, to be honest, she has never been alone. Because of her traces, people are always paying attention, and whenever she goes, as long as she stops for a while, all kinds of letters of inquiry will suddenly pop up. Each time, she could not have imagined how her next letter would appear in front of her.

Such a simple trip, how dare she walk with people, in case of a mistake, she doesn't know how to explain it to outsiders.

Therefore, Liu Shuangli only hesitated slightly, and then shook his head at the little girl.

"Doesn't the big brother like Lian'er?" the little girl's voice choked with tears.

"It's not. Liu Shuangli immediately denied.

"Then why don't you want to go with Lian'er?"

Liu Shuangli was dumbfounded for a moment, and then paused before replying: "Because I have to leave immediately." ”

"Why do you have to do it right away?" the little girl asked without giving up, shaking Liu Shuangli's hand.

"Because," Liu Shuangli was embarrassed, "because if I don't leave, I won't be able to catch up to the next place." ”

"Where are you going down, big brother?"

"I'm going to ......"

Liu Shuangli looked at the little girl who was about to cry, and was thinking about which place to say, because even she didn't know where her next stop would be.

At this moment, a young woman's voice suddenly shouted from not far away: "Lian'er, don't mess with Brother Yang." ”

"Mom. The little girl purred and reluctantly let go of Liu Shuangli's hand.

In front of the west courtyard, a young woman walked in from outside the door carrying a large basket of vegetables.

The young woman looked no more than twenty-five or sixteen years old, young and beautiful at the same time. Even if she only wears a cloth dress that has been washed and the color is torn, it can't hide her natural beauty at all.

Liu Shuangli blinked as the young woman stepped forward. Even now, even she has seen countless beauties before. Like Sister Ling Xue, she is graceful and beautiful, and like Sobud of the Montibai tribe, she is wild and beautiful. Those beauties are all beauties that can be distinguished at a glance. Only this young woman is so beautiful and natural, at first glance, you don't think how beautiful she is, and her behavior and behavior you think are very ordinary, but once you look closely, you really think she is beautiful, beautiful and natural, beautiful and simple.

Although Liu Shuangli is clever, she is not sharp enough, so she slowly discovered the beauty of the woman and discovered her difference after picking up this young woman several times.

I saw the young woman step forward, pull the little girl with one hand, and then lean over to Liu Shuangli, and said, "Brother Yang, I'm sorry, the little girl is not sensible, you don't have to worry about her." ”

Liu Shuangli shook his head and said, "Aunt Liu, don't say that, Lian'er is very smart and well-behaved, I like her very much." It's just that I'm really inconvenient to follow Aunt Liu and Lian'er. ”

The young woman nodded: "I know this, Brother Yang doesn't have to be embarrassed." Although Dr. Lu entrusted our mother and daughter to take care of Brother Yang's condition, Brother Yang was blessed with God's help, and he was all cured within two days. In the past month, our mother and daughter have not only failed to help Brother Yang, but have been taken care of by Brother Yang in many ways, and we really don't want to go. I heard that Brother Yang is going to leave as soon as the weather is fine, and I am afraid that if I don't thank you again, I will never have a chance to thank you in the future, so I asked Brother Yang to have this meal in the evening and leave tomorrow, how about it?"

Liu Shuangli saw that the young woman was earnest, and it was not good to brush off her kindness, put down the bags on his back, nodded and agreed: "Okay, Aunt Liu has said so, I will postpone it for a day before leaving." ”

"Big brother-" The little girl looked up with a pure little face, and took Liu Shuangli's hand with one hand, calling timidly.

Having agreed to the young woman's invitation, Liu Shuangli could only turn around and go back to the house, put away the bags he had packed, and leave the next day.

Throughout the day, Liu Shuangli didn't leave the courtyard gate, only set up a table under the broken porch, and did what she hadn't stopped doing for a month, with a human skin mask and a clay figurine.

Although the sky has cleared, it has rained for a month, and the muddy floor has already been soaked by the rain, and it will not be able to dry up for a long time.

Under the stone slabs of the courtyard, the ground that no one has stepped on is overgrown with uprooted grass, facing the long-lost sunshine and struggling to raise the blades of grass.

Lian'er, the little girl next door, never went out to play with her friends during the whole day. only guarded Liu Shuangli, for fear that if he couldn't see it, Liu Shuangli would leave them behind.

Several families living in the same courtyard all took advantage of the sunny day, and it was the polder day on the ancient ferry, and went out to exchange and sell things. In the small west courtyard, there are only two children, one older and one young, pinching the clay figures, chatting without a word.

In the previous month's contact, Liu Shuangli had heard a lot about the little girl about her mother and daughter, and if she asked about it intentionally today, many things would be clearer.

The little girl Lian'er, who is nine years old this year, has not known where her father is since she was born, let alone seen her. has been wandering with his mother on both sides of the Yangtze River. The little girl said that in her memory, the years of wandering were gray, and her mother often locked her in the house, and then disappeared for several days. Little girls often go hungry because their mothers don't have enough food left.

I couldn't see my mother for a few days in a row, and sometimes even if I did, it was only for a quarter of an hour or two. The mother brought back the food, comforted her, and then went out again at once, and then she would not see her for a few days.

She didn't know what her mother did for a living, but she had been living with her mother like this. No friends, no playmates. It wasn't until she came here and lived with her mother in this water-stopping villa that her mother didn't lock her up again, and she didn't see each other for a few days in a row, before she saw her mother start to stay with her, quietly doing needlework, and making a living from it.

"Big brother, my mother said that the sky is clear, and we will be leaving soon, so we won't live here. The little girl said sadly, "I don't want to be locked in the house by my mother anymore, I can't see my mother for a few days, no one talks, no one plays, and I spend day after day alone." ”

"Lian'er. Liu Shuangli shook the little girl's hand sympathetically, but he didn't know what to say to comfort her.

When the sun set on the edge of the West Mountain, the little girl's mother, Aunt Liu, finally returned to the polder with a basket full of things. Then he worked in the kitchen for most of the hour, prepared a table of sumptuous food, and invited Liu Shuangli to come over for dinner as promised.

With such a sumptuous food, chicken, duck and fish are all prepared, and the little girl is so happy that she jumps three times in a row. But Liu Shuangli was surprised.

How much does it cost to prepare these foods? Looking at the food on the table, there are a few things, Liu Shuangli even recognizes them, it takes a lot of effort to do them, and it also costs a lot of money. I remember that when I was in Xuanhua at that time, when I lived with Han Gongzi and Ling Xue, Ling Xue saw Han Gongzi bring back these foods from the General Military Mansion, and sighed, saying that she couldn't make it.

But even the eldest girl of Yongding Marquis Han Mansion Ling Xue sighed at the food, but now she is here, and she sees a seemingly ordinary woman making it to entertain guests.

Is there anything wrong with that? (To be continued.) )