?? She took a long breath, looked up at the sky, and felt more insignificance and hopelessness of life.

So, I couldn't help but sigh heavily.

She is not a girl who loves to sigh, even if there are times when she encounters something very painful, she will grit her teeth and persevere.

But today she sighed.

She sighed not because she felt pain, but because of her helplessness, her helplessness about life, her helplessness that she might not be able to fulfill her promise to her younger siblings.

Obviously promised them that she would definitely buy a little donkey, but now, she is likely to break her promise.

Faced with the empty snakeskin bag, she suddenly didn't know what she could do.

What could she do? She couldn't seem to do anything.

She could only watch time slip away, watch the sun rise and set, and then the day would end in such a hurry, and she could find nothing.

At this moment, she seems to be a little girl abandoned by life.

Standing in the dense bushes, facing the tenacious sandalwood and the golden cherry blossoms with wooden thorns like knives, she felt confused and even a little sad.

Perhaps, she needs to vent her suppressed emotions.

Those eighteen-year-old tears, eighteen-year-old shouts, have to release them.

She crouched down and sat on the ground covered with dry fallen leaves, next to small wildflowers that were scurrying upwards, and some tenacious creeping vines.

Life may have given them great resistance, but they can always survive tenaciously.

Xia Hua has always demanded this from herself, no matter how hard and difficult life is, she must grit her teeth and persevere.

However, she now plans to give her persistence a day off, let her nerves that have been in a tense state for a long time relax, and let the tears that have been pressed in the depths of her heart flood once.

She sat on the floor, clasped her hands on her knees, buried her head in it, and tightened her legs with both hands until she could not see a glimmer of light in her eyes.

Then, like a trickle, her tears slowly flowed out of her eyes.

There was no shouting, no howling, only a soft sob, as if she was afraid that someone would hear her, and she cried softly, softly.

Life doesn't open up to him because of who cried. Who doesn't understand this truth?

But sometimes, when a person is strong for a long time, he has to be weak once.

Summer flowers are weak and helpless today, but not pitiful.

She's not pitiful, she just wants to make herself weak for once.

I don't know how long it took......

"Xia Hua, is that you?" Chen Yang stood behind a huge canopy tree, looked through the dense branches and leaves of the tree, looked at the faint figure in the bush, and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Hearing Chen Yang's voice, Xia Hua was stunned, quickly wiped away her tears with her hands, instantly recovered her emotions, and replied in a flat tone: "It's okay, I'm fine." ”

"You're crying?"

Just now when he was digging bamboo shoots by the stream not far away, he already heard faint crying with superhuman hearing.

At that time, he thought that he had heard it wrong, after all, this is a deep mountain, and who would run here to cry if they have nothing to do.

He wondered if he had encountered something unclean.

But when I think about it, it doesn't seem right.

After all, the ghosts, monsters, and other unclean things in the legend don't appear until the night.

How could this blue sky and white day encounter unclean things.

So, he put down his shovel, stood up straight, pricked up his ears, and listened carefully.

After listening for a while, with the superhuman hearing brought by 2's physical ability, he could be sure that the faint crying was indeed a human cry.

Moreover, it's a girl's cry!

Who would weep in such a deep mountain?

There must be some kind of trouble that can't be solved. He thought.

In order to clarify the doubts in his mind, he drove his consciousness and followed the sound to find a person.

That person was not someone else, it was Lu Xiahua who abused her sister.

Chen Yang didn't want to deal with her, but somehow, seeing her huddled in the dense bushes with her knees hugged, he felt inexplicably distressed.

Let's not talk about how she abused her sister, isn't it enough for an eighteen-year-old girl to take care of the food, clothing, housing and transportation of her four younger siblings?

What's more, hasn't he always seen her efforts?

She knew that everyone in the village had received his guidance, but she didn't, but didn't she insist on going into the mountains every day to find mountain pepper?

Although she found very few mountain peppercorns, when did she give up?

Compared to these, she scolded her sister and tore her sister's skirt, so what is it?

But any person will have a temper, not to mention that she herself is just a child.

Although he witnessed her teaching his sister a lesson, didn't he also witness her whole upbringing?

She grew up cautiously and didn't dare to get too close to people.

She worked diligently and did not dare to waste a little time.

She could have gone to the city to work and earn more money, like some girls in the village, but she didn't, and chose to stay at home to take care of her younger siblings.

How bad can she be for such a person?

Listening to Xia Hua's soft sobbing, Chen Yang seemed to be enlightened.

Perhaps, sometimes people always have to witness the tears of others to find out that that person is not Iron Man, not Superman, but an ordinary ordinary person with flesh and blood.

Maybe it was a misunderstanding in the first place. He thought.

Xia Hua usually refuses to even say a few words to others, and works hard every day, if she loses her temper with her sisters, it may be that her sisters have done something that makes her angry.

Children are inevitably mischievous, just like pot heads.

And a little girl who has not fully grown up will inevitably be unable to control her emotions, just like he, an old bachelor, sometimes can't help but scold the crying little Qian.

If a person does not lose his temper, it is terrible, because he will hide all the darkness in his heart and then gather momentum.

After thinking about these things clearly, and then looking at Xia Hua who was still sitting on the ground holding her knees and crying, Chen Yang felt even more distressed.

In the end, she is just an eighteen-year-old girl, she has supported a family at a young age, and she is a sister and a mother pulling four younger brothers and sisters, no matter what era she is, she should be an excellent girl who is widely praised.

It's a pity that she was born in such an era of laughing at poverty and not prostitution.

In this materialistic era, no matter how good you are, as long as you don't have money, few people can afford you.

Of course, this is the dirty thinking of some people, and for Chen Yang and some other people, they value a person's character more than whether he is rich or not.

After sorting out his emotions, Chen Yang ignored the matter of digging bamboo shoots for the time being, took a digging shovel, and walked to the bush where Xia Hua was hiding.

Xia Hua wiped her eyes again, and replied very calmly: "No, I, I'm just a little tired and want to rest here." ”

Chen Yang smiled: "I didn't ask you what you are doing here." ”

Xia Hua was stunned for a moment and didn't squeak again.

She thought that as long as she didn't speak, this person would definitely walk away with interest.

Keeping a distance from people for a long time makes her a little unsociable, she will only smile politely and answer other people's questions politely.

It seems so.

So, she was a little afraid to communicate with people, especially men.

Chen Yang didn't walk away, and was still standing behind the sandalwood.

He said, "Xia Hua, I just saw a big mountain pepper tree over there with a lot of fruits, do you want to pick it?"

Hmm?Xia Hua was a little confused.

Why did he tell me this? He didn't hate me, was he prejudiced against me like everyone else in the village, why did he tell me where there were pepper trees? He lied?

Xia Hua couldn't believe it, after all, she had been treated differently by Chen Yang for a while, and during this time, she could see the villagers picking dozens of catties of mountain peppers with Chen Yang's help every day.

And no matter how hard she tries, she can't catch up with them.

Even, the mountain pepper she picks now can't catch up with Grandma Lu.

Under such a premise, at this time, when she heard Chen Yang say that there was a mountain pepper tree, and it was a mountain pepper tree with a lot of fruits, Xia Hua couldn't believe it for a while.

Chen Yang didn't hear her response, guessing that it was his previous differential treatment of her that made her feel guilty, so he said: "If you don't pick it, then I'll call someone else to pick it, that tree is estimated to have more than 20 catties of mountain pepper, it's a pity to miss it." ”

Twenty pounds? Oh my God, how big a tree does this have to be?

Xia Hua was tempted.

After all, I've been picking mountain peppers for so long, and I've never seen a mountain pepper tree with so many fruits.

Twenty pounds, that's a hundred dollars.

In the past few days, she has not been very lucky, and she can only pick dozens of mountain peppers every day.

But now Chen Yang said that a mountain pepper tree can be sold for a hundred yuan, so it's no wonder that she is not moved.

She quickly stood up and said in a slightly anxious voice: "Don't, I'll pick it, I'll pick it now, where?"

Chen Yang said with a smile: "You go down, walk about twenty meters, there is a small flat land, where there is a big mountain pepper tree, however, the mountain pepper tree is entangled in vines, you have to cut down the vines first." ”

"Well, I'm not afraid. Xia Hua grabbed the snakeskin bag on the ground and was about to go down.

Chen Yang hurriedly said, "You wait a minute." ”

"What's wrong?" Natsuka turned her head to look at the talking sandalwood.

Chen Yang said: "If you go down like this, you may stray into the golden cherry blossom bush, you have to pass under the sandalwood on your right, and then go down." ”

"Oh. Yes. Natsuka turned to the right.

Chen Yang also followed.

Although there is a distance of about ten meters between the two, they can still faintly see each other's figures through the dense shrub branches and leaves.

"And—" Chen Yang said.

But before he finished speaking, he heard a scream from Xia Hua's side.

Summer Flower tripped over a slender and resilient vine.

Originally, a mountain man like her, who has been wandering in the mountains all year round, would not make such a low-level mistake, but she was not full of joy and thought that she would soon see the mountain pepper tree, so she was careless.

carelessly, let the notoriously tenacious red-skinned vine take advantage of the loophole.

She was lying on the ground with her head underneath and her feet on the heights, less than half a meter away from the golden cherry blossom bushes diagonally below.

If it weren't for the friction between her body and the ground, she would most likely slide into the golden cherry blossom bush under the effect of inertia.

Although Jin Sakura is a good thing, it is also a weapon to hurt people.

Its flowers are holy and beautiful, white as snow, and as white as white clouds under the blue sky, they are not stained with a trace of turbidity.

The fruit has fine thorns like wheat mangs, and there is a thick fur inside, but if you remove both of them and wash them all in your mouth, it is also a rare delicacy.

In addition to this, its fruit can also be used in medicine.

After removing the sharp thorns and rough hairs of the fruit, it is mashed and decocted into ointment with water, which can treat the symptoms of spermatozoa, enuresis, frequent urination, collapse and leakage, and diarrhea and diarrhea.

Therefore, it can be said that the golden cherry blossom is a good thing.

However, for ordinary mountain people like Xia Hua who are not greedy and do not need treatment, golden cherry blossoms can only be a bad thing.

Although she also loves beauty and all beautiful things like all the girls in this world, and naturally loves the flowers of the golden cherry blossoms, but as a mountain dweller who is just barely making ends meet, she is not qualified to talk about the spiritual world.

All she knew was that the sharp wooden thorns of the golden cherry blossoms would scratch the skin and pierce into the flesh, so when she entered the mountains, she would always stay away from these big villains.

And at this moment, Jin Sakurako was less than half a meter away from her, arrogantly standing countless wooden thorns, like a monster with teeth and claws, sending out a terrifying 'scream' to her.

Her first reaction was to rejoice.

Thank God for taking care of her, otherwise, if she goes half a meter forward, it is estimated that she will not be able to get up for half a month.

Being pricked by a wooden thorn is nothing, but if you fall into the thorn bush, you don't have to lie down for half a month.

The golden cherry blossoms' wooden thorns are extremely sharp, and the mountain people are often persecuted by them, and their skin is often cut by those seemingly inconspicuous wooden thorns.

Sometimes the thorns are so swollen and painful that they can only be removed by a slender embroidery needle.

Therefore, if they were unfortunate enough to be pricked by the golden cherry blossoms in the mountains, the mountain people would have to endure the pain and work, and then when they returned home, they would find a young man to use a sewing needle to remove the wooden thorns that had broken into the flesh.

The color of the wooden thorns is similar to the color of the flesh, and only young people can see it, and the older mountain people, whose eyesight is impaired, cannot pick out the wooden thorns by themselves.

"Are you alright? Chen Yang looked at the summer flowers that fell to the ground through the bushes and asked.

Seeing that Xia Hua was only less than half a meter away from the golden cherry blossoms, he was also scared into a cold sweat for the rest of his life.

I wanted to run over and pick up Xia Hua, but after thinking about it carefully, I felt that it was inappropriate.

After all, Xia Hua is different from other girls, she is timid, and because she is more good-looking, she has been poisoned by various gossip for a long time, so she lives a difficult life and is more cautious.

Maybe keeping a certain distance from her is a kind of protection for her.

"It's okay, I'm okay. Xia Hua looked at the abrasion palm, and without hesitation, she imprinted the bloody palm on the rotten leaves on the ground, supported her body, curled up her also injured knee, and then stood up.

It hurts. If you fall on the ground, you won't do anything. But it was a steep slope, and she still fell with her head down and her foot in the back.

However, although the wound was painful, she was still glad that she did not fall into the golden cherry bush.

Moreover, she will soon be able to find the mountain pepper tree.

When you think about it, it's a really good day.

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