The courtyard wall covered with vines in my memory, the hibiscus in full bloom, and the big clay tank in the corner that I don't know how many years have raised a few carp...... The familiar scene in my childhood memory suddenly reappeared in front of me like a reproduction.

If it weren't for the fear of leaving a bad impression on her mother, Anna really wanted to rush into the room where she used to live and lie down on the bed to roll over to vent her excitement at the moment.

Suppressing her excitement, Anna followed Xiao Yu into the house, and Xiao Yu smiled and asked her to sit.

There was no one living in the house for some days, there was no boiling water, when Xiao Yu was about to boil water, someone happened to be passing by with a watermelon burden outside the door, went out to buy one, came back to cut it, and beckoned Anna and Xiaoguang to eat.

Watermelon is sweet and silky. Anna ate a piece very gently and stopped, watched Xiaoguang eat, and wiped the watermelon juice leaking from the corner of his mouth with a smile.

Xiao Yu was packing her luggage while talking to Anna, asking her if she was a local and what she did.

Anna hesitated and said, "Teacher Xiao, I am indeed a local...... In fact, I came to find my parents......"

Xiao Yu was stunned and sat down.

"What's going on?"

Anna said that she was separated from her parents when she was a child, and now that she has grown up, she remembers that her hometown is here, so she comes to look for it now.

"How's it going?" Xiao Yu asked with concern.

"I only remember my dad's last name...... I seem to have lived in this area since I was a child......"

Anna glanced at her mother secretly and said in a slurred voice.

"My father's surname is Ann, isn't that your father?"

Xiaoguang held the watermelon and nibbled on it, shouting.

Xiao Yu gently patted his son's head. "What a coincidence?" he pondered, "I don't know of any other family in the vicinity that is also named Ann." Did you go to the police station and ask?"

"I'm going to go......" Anna pushed.

"You go to the police station first and ask, and I will also help you inquire about it, if you know which family surnamed An lost a daughter when she was a child, I will tell you. By the way, where do you live now?"

"I just came, and I'm staying in a hotel for the time being...... Maybe I'll want to rent a house......"

"Okay, then you can rent a house and give me the address, and I will tell you if I have any news. ”

Anna couldn't wait to stay at home right away, but she knew in her heart that she couldn't come in a hurry. So he pretended to thank his mother, sat down for a while, and felt that it was not a good idea to disturb him any longer, so he got up and said goodbye.

Xiao Yu and Xiaoguang sent her to the door, so that she could come and sit often if she had nothing to do. Anna agreed.

……

I didn't expect the first close contact to come so quickly, and it was unexpectedly successful.

Inspired by this, Anna decided to rent a house to live in. When I got back, I asked the people at the hotel. An aunt who was a waitress in it became acquainted with her, and saw that although she was beautiful, she was honest, and went back to the hotel early every night to close the door and sleep, and knew that she came here to look for relatives, so she said that she had an empty room at home that could be rented to her, and it would cost her five yuan a month.

Anna followed her home. Seeing that her family has a simple population and a man working in other places, she and a pair of children who are in middle school at home, and she is even more satisfied that it is not far from her home, so she rented it on the spot. After buying some daily necessities, I have a place to stay.

According to Anna's thoughts, since she is connected with her mother, she can't wait to go to the house every day. But she also knew that it was not appropriate to be so enthusiastic all of a sudden, so for the next period of time, she would go about once or twice a week.

Her husband is not around, Xiao Yu is introverted, not the kind of person who will call friends, nor do she play cards or mahjong, she just reads books at home when she has nothing to do, so she doesn't have any special good friends, she suddenly met Anna, and after a few contacts, she felt that this girl was like a roundworm in her stomach, not only her interests and hobbies were amazingly consistent, but even what she sometimes thought, this girl could guess it, and suddenly she had a sense of closeness like a bosom friend, plus Xiaoguang also liked her, and when she saw her, her sister was long and her sister was short, and soon, she regarded Anna as her own person, knowing that she was not looking for relatives, and she was really anxious for her, and asked around。

In a blink of an eye, August passed, grandma returned, and Xiaoguang kindergarten also opened.

Although the wires and wiring in the kindergarten have been re-arranged, in the first two weeks of school, Anna was still nervous and didn't dare to mention anything to her mother, so she quietly stayed at the edge of the kindergarten from morning to night, always ready to rush in to save people if something went wrong.

Time passed peacefully, and by mid-September, the fire that was supposed to have broken out did not come.

Anna knew that there should be no more fires, and finally let out a long sigh of relief.

……

and her mother Xiao Yu have now become best friends, and the grandmother who came back from her hometown also met Anna, and at first glance she said how she looked so similar to her daughter-in-law, and asked Xiao Yu if she had any sisters who were outcast. Xiao Yu naturally didn't.

After a few contacts, my grandmother also liked Anna, saying that this girl was sensible, and she felt close when she saw her, and after knowing her life experience, she was even more sympathetic and asked her to come to the house often to play. I also care about whether she will have no money to spend when she lives here alone for a long time to find relatives.

Anna couldn't tell her grandmother and mother that she had enough money to last for years. I don't want them to be suspicious, plus my mother is now going to work again, Xiaoguang usually goes to kindergarten during the day, and he is idle alone, and it is really difficult to pass the time.

Anna used to minor in fine arts, because her father owned a clothing brand, and she was also exposed to clothing design for a while, but she only did it for fun, and she didn't do it seriously. This kind of work is not at all. I asked Lao Zhang, the gatekeeper, what else did he recruit, Lao Zhang said that there seemed to be a lack of tea, water, cleaning, errands, and sending samples, all inclusive, in short, doing chores. The aunt who used to do this accidentally broke her leg a few days ago, because the salary was very low, and no new people came. Anna said that she wanted to do it, and asked Lao Zhang to help her talk about it.

Lao Zhang didn't believe it at first. Anna repeatedly assured him that she had moved out of her painful life experience of running out of money to spend now that she had failed to find her relatives, and Lao Zhang believed it and took her over to find Sister Bi, who was in charge.

This eldest sister Bi is an old lathe, very skilled, and an old acquaintance of Anna, who is very good. Of course, I don't know Anna at all now. When I heard it, I was very sympathetic, and I didn't ask anything about the hukou, so I opened my mouth and agreed, asking Anna to come to work tomorrow.

Anna was very happy, and thanked Sister Bi and Lao Zhang again and again before leaving. In the evening, I brought some fruit to the house to eat, and by the way, I mentioned that I was looking for a job. Xiao Yu and grandma are quite happy for her.

The next day, Anna put on her old clothes and went to work.

Although Anna used to be pampered and pampered, and her fingers did not touch the spring water at home, she went out, and she was not a big lady who could not endure hardships. After studying and living abroad for a few years, she also worked on her own, but she didn't work hard to work part-time at the same time like some international students. Later, I went to the mountainous area to teach, but I persevered under various conditions. Now I work as a handyman in this factory, although I was sent like a dog at the beginning, and I was busy all day long, but the eldest sisters in the workshop were very good, seeing that she was young, and hearing about her tragic life, they took good care of her. Sister Bi also taught her a lathe worker in person, saying that when she got started in the future, she could be a lathe worker, so that she could earn more money.

Anna liked the atmosphere very much, and probably because she knew that the factory was later taken over by her father, she naturally had a sense of closeness in her heart, and she gritted her teeth and persevered.

After two weeks on the job, this Sunday, the factory continued to work overtime because of a new batch of orders for work clothes. Anna went over early in the morning, wiped the tables and chairs in the factory director's office, swept the floor, boiled water, took out the garbage, and saw that it was okay, so she went to find Sister Bi.

She has now learned the basics of turning. Sister Bi was teaching her how to put on her sleeves and collar, and was learning in front of the sewing machine, when a woman with fine skin and white flesh walked in and told Anna to go to the post office to get the samples sent by the customer.

This woman is the sister-in-law of the former director who contracted the factory, named Zang Chunlan. It's the cashier. According to the private accounts of the female workers in the workshop, she had a leg with her brother-in-law, the factory director.

This woman seems to have been tired of Anna from the beginning, staring at her when she has nothing to do, and sending her to work. It's not the first time Anna has run to the post office, either. I took the order and went out.

The post office is two or three kilometers away from the factory, and when Anna took a shortcut to pass by a small open park, she suddenly saw that not far ahead, her grandmother was playing in the park with Xiaoguang. Grandma and a few other old ladies she knew sat under a big banyan tree and chatted, and Xiaoguang and a few children were playing with leather balls on the side.

A child kicked the ball out, and it rolled down the road to the opposite side.

Seeing this, Xiaoguang ran out to pick up the ball.

Anna walked towards him, trying to help him pick up the ball.

At this moment, at the corner in front of me, a small car suddenly drove out. The driver seemed to be a little distracted, and at first he didn't notice the small light that had just come out of the side, and drove straight over.

This road belongs to the inner road of the open park, the road is not wide, although there is no barrier at both ends, but there are usually bicycles back and forth, almost no cars will drive here, so grandma did not pay much attention to Xiaoguang.

"Xiaoguang!

Anna shouted and rushed desperately.

Xiaoguang was frightened and stood in the middle of the road, staring blankly at the car that was rushing towards him.

When the car was only seven or eight meters away from Xiaoguang, the driver noticed that there was a child on the road and hurriedly stepped on the brakes. But the speed was too fast at first, and he couldn't brake at all for a while, and the body of the car still rushed towards Xiaoguang.

Anna had already rushed to Xiaoguang's side, and a second before the driver slammed the steering wheel and the side of the car was about to crash into it, she held Xiaoguang and dodged. One side of the head seemed to have been hit by the rearview mirror, and when he landed with a small light, he was dizzy and dizzy, and he actually fainted.

……

Anna woke up to find herself lying on a hospital bed on an intravenous drip. Gauze wrapped around the head and arms.

This is a single room. Quietly.

I'm still a little dizzy, but it's okay, it's not unbearable. The arm moved, and it was normal. I guess it's an extracutaneous abrasion or something.

Anna remembered the scene before she fainted, and was more concerned about Xiaoguang's safety, and was about to sit up, when she suddenly heard the sound of her mother and the doctor talking in the corridor outside the door, and hurriedly lay back and closed her eyes.

The ward door was pushed open, and Anna heard footsteps enter. His eyes opened slightly, and he saw his mother and the doctor come in.

My mother seemed to know the doctor, she looked anxious, and said in a low voice: "Doctor Sun, how is she? Why hasn't she woken up yet? Is the situation serious? She saved our family Xiaoguang and is our benefactor, you must make sure she is okay!"

When Anna heard this, she knew that Xiaoguang was safe, and her heart immediately relaxed.

Seeing that her mother was in a hurry, Anna was about to open her eyes when she heard Dr. Sun say, "Teacher Xiao, don't worry, we will do our best." It should be okay to see the patient. But I don't dare to guarantee 100% of it. After all, the head was hit. After waking up, you may have a headache, dizziness, or even memory loss. It's hard to say specifically, I'll wait until she wakes up to see it. ”

As he spoke, the doctor came over and looked at Anna's eyelids, measured her heart rate, adjusted the drip rate, and let herself know if there was a situation, and walked out.

Anna felt her mother sit on the edge of her bed, stretched out her soft hand, probed her forehead to test her temperature, and a warm current welled up in her heart, remembering that when she was sick before, she also took care of herself like this. I'm a little greedy for this feeling, and I don't want to open my eyes for a while.

Grandma and Hikari seem to have come in as well.

Grandma asked Anna in a low voice, and her tone was very self-reproachful.

Mom sighed and said, "Mom, forget it, don't blame yourself too much." The driver wasn't supposed to be in the park in the first place, saying he was in a hurry to take a shortcut or something. Now I just hope she's okay. If there are any sequelae left, it will be a lifetime affair, and we can't compensate for it. I have already called Guoqiang and said that he will come back as soon as possible. ”

Anna's heart beat faster when she heard her mother's words.

Daddy is coming back, too!

At this moment, a thought suddenly popped into her heart.

Although it is not good to cheat on your parents, maybe this is a great opportunity to send it to yourself. Otherwise, no matter how close the relationship is, it is impossible for her to live at home as an outsider.

Anna no longer hesitated, groaned, and slowly opened her eyes.

"Mom, Sister Anna is awake!"

Xiaoguang, who had been lying on the side of the hospital bed and watching Anna, screamed in surprise.

Xiao Yu, who was comforting her mother-in-law, came over, and when she saw that Anna was really awake, she showed a look of joy, and hurriedly asked her grandmother to inform Dr. Sun.

"Anna, you're finally awake! Great! How are you feeling?" Xiao Yu looked at her with concern.

"I ...... What's going on here......" Anna groaned, "my head still hurts a little......"

Xiao Yu held Anna's hand tightly, "You were hit by a car in order to save my family Xiaoguang." Don't worry, the doctor will cure your ......"

……

Three days later, Anna was allowed to be discharged from the hospital. But her condition doesn't seem to be very stable, and sometimes she has a headache, Xiao Yu is not worried about letting her continue to rent out alone. At her insistence, Anna was cheeky and half-pushed, half-pushing, and finally moved into the house.

Grandma was so grateful to Anna that she had to offer her up. Tidy up the house, make the bed, and make up eggs and walnut brown sugar water for Anna from the night she moved in. Anna lived comfortably at home like a pig for two days, and on the third night, she was telling him a story in bed with Xiaoguangwo, when she suddenly heard a knock on the door outside, and her grandmother went out to open the door, and when she turned around, she shouted: "Xiaoyu, Guoqiang is back!"

Anna heard her mother outside groan, and went out with footsteps.

"Daddy's back!"

Hikari climbed out of bed in surprise and ran out to greet her.

Outside, I heard the sound of my father and my mother talking.

Anna quickly got out of bed and hid behind the door to listen.

Dad and Mom said a few words, and then asked themselves. My mother told her about the situation at the time and said, "I saw that her situation was not very stable, so I didn't worry about letting her live alone, so I simply asked her to move to our house." Guoqiang, it's just right that you're back, she's here to look for relatives, but I haven't heard anything for so long, you know a lot of people, you help her find it, otherwise she's just such a person, looking strange and pitiful......"

The footsteps of the two men got closer and closer, and they seemed to be walking towards their house.

Anna's nervous heart was pounding, and she quickly jumped back to the bed, pulled the quilt and lay back.