Chapter 41: The Damp Heart

It was as if the days had gone back to the way they were.

One day many years ago, a young woman picked up a baby girl and walked into a house owned by a middle-aged man, a bricklayer who usually made a living by work. After the woman came, the middle-aged man first worked hard to live for a while, and the woman often held the baby girl in the open space in front of the house to amuse and dry clothes.

The baby girl was very thin, and often struggled in the middle of the night, and the man became more and more impatient, and at last, he took the baby out of the room and threw her in the small ear room under the gatehouse. On a good day, a woman was seen feeding her baby like a pet through a low wall. Middle-aged men's attitudes towards women are getting worse and worse.

Finally, the woman covered the bruises on her forehead with a thick foundation and led a greasy middle-aged man through the door. The baby's ear house was locked from this day with an old lock.

A year later, after a night rain, the south wall of the ear house was washed away by the roaring rain and muddy water, the wall sank vertically, several wooden pillars on the beams of the eaves were squeezed to deform, and the east wall was torn open by gravity with a basin-sized opening, and the house was about to collapse!

When the sky was bright, someone saw a short figure standing in the house, punching the hole with his fist, no one stepped forward, the girl had white hair and a thin body. When the morning dawned, the middle-aged man's uncle happened to pass by, and when he saw that the girl was about to go out of the house, he hugged the girl and shouted into the courtyard with snot and tears: "My poor child! You are really fateful! O army, you hurry up, the house is about to collapse, why can you still sleep!"

After the departure of her uncle, the girl's life returned to the humid and stuffy state of affairs, day and night.

When she was 5 years old, the girl made her first friend, her name was Qinglian, her grandmother was the sister of her uncle, Aunt Xia, Qinglian's parents worked in the city, and she grew up with her grandmother.

Speaking of Qinglian's grandmother Aunt Xia, she is also a hard-working person, she is 53 years old this year, widowed in her 20s, and has only one daughter, and finally raised her daughter to adulthood, but her daughter fell in love with a foreigner, perhaps because of the inferiority complex of a hard-working single-parent family, her daughter quickly became pregnant, and the foreigner did not marry her daughter openly. It wasn't until after the birth of her little granddaughter that she learned that the foreigner was a fugitive, more than ten years older than her daughter.

After being deeply disappointed in her daughter's life, she put her hopes back on her young granddaughter, who was relieved that she was born with a good skin, and became a person among children at a young age.

When Qinglian was in the second grade, Aunt Xia took Qinglian to rent a house in the countryside in order to save living expenses. But only 5 months later, she suddenly received a telegram and had to rush to her brother with Qinglian in a hurry.

The telegram said that her daughter had an accident in the city, and the stranger immediately smeared oil on the soles of her feet and slipped away alone, and after her daughter was imprisoned, Aunt Lian temporarily fostered Qinglian at her brother's house, and went to the city to see her daughter alone. Who knew that this time was gone, and there was no news from it since.

After the summer vacation, Qinglian wanted to go back to school, but her uncle and grandfather's family saw that Aunt Xia was gone, who was unwilling to bear the daily expenses of this oil bottle, Qinglian had been a good person since she was a child, and she quickly understood her situation. She began to wander around the village, often stealing from place to place in order to fill her belly, and went out day and night. One day, she went into this courtyard. She wondered what she looked like!

Qinglian squatted under the back window of the room for a few days, and when the adults of the family went out, there was a room where there was often movement. Qinglian picked up the stones and clods on the ground, and slammed them on the window pane in waves, and there was a dull sound in the room, as if someone was pounding the wall.

A few days later, Qinglian came again, she squatted under the window, shouted quietly, several times, and the people in the house finally spoke.

Since then, Qinglian's life has become full. She had friends.

Finally, one day, Qinglian sneaked into the courtyard gate, and on a sunny afternoon, she opened the lock and saw her for the first time. Qinglian pinched her nose and pointed to the river not far behind the house, the girl followed Qinglian, walked to the river, washed and put on the clothes stolen by Qinglian, and the two of them walked barefoot to the other side of the river along the reeds by the river.

As soon as they crossed the bridge, Qinglian said that they would worship as sisters, and Xinzi nodded. Qinglian was 9 years old that year, and Xinzi was 8 years old.

They claim to be fatherless and motherless orphans who live by begging all day long, and when Xinzi was 16 years old, they had a good place to go, the Big Brother Nightclub. Here, not only do the girls eat and drink for free, but some of the older brothers will tip them. Life has become so much easier all of a sudden. They think that's what people often call bitterness.

After a few months of such days, suddenly one day, Qinglian came to an acquaintance in a nightclub, this person was Qinglian's cousin, in a hurry, Qinglian pretended not to know him, she said that she was not Qinglian, and Xinzi took the initiative to stand up for her in order to cooperate with her. Uncle finally left in the ecstasy, but it was also from this day on, Qinglian's heart was very uneasy, she kept telling Xinzi not to tell anyone about their past, Xinzi felt that since the name was evidence, what about after the change?

Soon Xinzi lived in an old couple's house, Xinzi volunteered to take care of the old couple's daily life, in order to better the elderly, she found a job as a supermarket tally clerk nearby, and took the initiative to hand over the salary to them. Soon after, Xinzi had her own hukou.

The old couple changed her name to Ayako.

Xinzi moved so fast that Qinglian had to look at her with admiration, but Qinglian searched all around and couldn't find a family that could accommodate her, so she had to ask Caizi to help her think of a way, she told Xinzi that she had a friend who worked in the police station, and there were many places that could be used in the future.

As the saying goes, it is better to be born than to marry, but what she didn't expect was that as soon as Qinglian heard that the other party was a construction worker, she pushed off the marriage without saying a word. Caiko feels that Qinglian is simply not getting along with herself, and there are many ways to change her fate, but no matter which way it is, she always has to pay the due price.

Qinglian is even more addicted to nightclubs, and Xinzi now has a new identity, and she hopes to start a new life. Soon, the village was designated to be demolished, Xinzi's family shared the demolition money, the old couple wanted to live in the relocation community nearby, but Xinzi felt that her parents had worked hard all their lives, and bought a house in the city, and the old man's life in his old age could be better.

Seeing that Xinzi was so filial, the old couple agreed to leave all the things about buying a house to their daughter.

Qinglian soon heard the news that Xinzi had become a rich woman, and she pulled Xinzi to play around, and the relationship between the sisters warmed up again. Soon Xin Xinzi took her parents to the city to see the house, they were very satisfied with the house that Xinzi fancied, and after paying the down payment, the family rented and waited to move to a new house.

At this moment, a man appeared, Xinzi's biological father, he found Xinzi and asked Xinzi to pay for his expenses for raising Xinzi for so many years, and what made Xinzi feel even more desperate was that the woman actually found her with her lover after the man did not succeed.

The woman said that if Xinzi didn't give her money, she would definitely be able to beat Xinzi back to her original shape overnight!

Qinglian said that she knew a few brothers in society, as long as she gave some money, she guaranteed that no one dared to touch them, and then, Qinglian took Xinzi to the underground casino to meet those brothers, and it could have been solved by paying the money, but who knew that Qinglian casually mentioned the matter of demolition, and the speaker had no intention of listening to the heart, so they tied Qinglian at the moment and forced Xinzi to take the money to replace people.

When she returned home, Xinzi had already been frightened, and her adoptive parents thought that she was scared to walk at night, and her adoptive father said that when she bought a house and went to the city, she would use the rest of the money to open a shop for Xinzi, and she would be at the door of her house in the future, and it would be unsafe to walk at night. Watching their hot soup and hot water brought to her, Xinzi felt uneasy in her heart.

This night, Xinzi lay on the bed and thought about it all night, on the one hand, the sisters who shared the suffering, and on the other hand, the adoptive parents who had the grace of her re-existence, Xinzi felt extremely distressed!

Early the next morning, Xinzi still took the passbook to the predetermined location and exchanged the demolition money in the passbook for Qinglian.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is time to hand over the house, and the adoptive parents begin to urge Xinzi to pay the full amount and get the keys to the house. Xinzi had to go out early and return late every day, racking her brains to find a way. It was then that she met Ngawang. Everyone called him Brother Wang at night, he held the big brother in his hand, a big boss, he took the initiative to pursue Xinzi, and soon Xinzi also became his love prisoner under his fierce pursuit.

Although Qinglian hopes that Xinzi will make a large amount of money as soon as possible, so that the matter of buying a house can be solved, then Xinzi's current urgent need can be solved. But gradually, Qinglian felt that it would be better for Ah Wang, a person who had spent more time with each other, to understand each other better. At this time, Xinzi, who was indulged in the beautiful dream woven by Ngawang, had completely ignored these and frantically threw herself into Ngawang's arms.

Soon, Kaoko became pregnant. She thought that she could come to the door with double happiness and marry Ngawang with a Fengzi, but Ngawang mysteriously disappeared after learning that Xinzi was pregnant.

At least that's what Xinzi said to Qinglian. Qinglian felt that Xinzi's grief was completely unnecessary, but when she knew that Xinzi was actually pregnant, she also began to panic. Xinzi began to stay home at night, and the adoptive parents initially thought that she was just working overtime with a heavy workload, so they began to deliver meals to Xinzi, and they were full of hope that their daughter would be able to spare time, pay the money quickly, and the family moved into a new house.