Chloe was tired of crying and fell asleep on Sophia's shoulder.

"I'm sorry, please forgive me......"

"You're sorry Chloe, not me! you need to tell her!"

Fu Zhengyi's tough response made the tears in Sophia's eyes welled up again, and she slowly stood up with the daughter in her arms holding on to the door frame, pursed her lips, and then turned around and walked into the hut.

She wanted to put the daughter in her arms on the bed, but Chloe's hands clutched her clothes, as if she was worried that she would disappear again, and she couldn't pull them apart, and the tears in her eyes fell like beads with broken threads.

Chloe thinks she's the child abandoned by Mommy. For the first time, she would wake up crying every night, and every time she would hug the big teddy bear, bury her little face in the big teddy bear's chest, curl up until dawn, or fall back asleep......"

Sophia covered her mouth and sobbed silently, Fu Zhengyi saw the fingerprints on her arms and shoulders, obviously Chloe had slapped her hard before.

The hut is small, with an old mosquito net propped up by four bamboo poles, and a mat on a single bed.

The three-legged table, the two blackened stools, the windows were not glass, but plastic, and the wind made a sparse noise.

In the early evening of August, the temperature outside had dropped, but the hut was still hot and stuffy.

Pulling the stool over, Fu Zhengyi sat in front of her and stared at her eyes. "Say, Chloe needs an explanation, and I need yours too!"

"Righteousness, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I, I don't know how to explain it to you, I don't know why, it's like the whole person is empty, please forgive me, please forgive me......"

"You don't know why, it's been more than three years, Chloe woke up, you can ask her, and she'll tell you exactly how many days and nights she's been abandoned!"

"I'm sorry Chloe, I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry for everyone who cares about me, I—I don't know how to explain it, I know I shouldn't even ask for forgiveness. The longer I was out of Paris, the more I didn't dare to think about it, and I just floated outside like crazy until I saw the promotional video of the China-Hong Kong Foundation in Hong Kong......"

Fu Zhengyi couldn't understand.

He really couldn't understand it.

As soon as she recovered, she abandoned Chloe and left Paris, went to Spain, Turkey, Israel, then to India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and finally joined the ranks of volunteer teachers in the name of the Englishman Sophie, and came to the cliff village with the most difficult conditions, the harshest environment, and almost isolated, and became a teacher for dozens of children.

"Yi, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I really don't know why, I, I really can't explain it, the longer I'm here, the more I dare not contact you, I don't know how to face you, how to face little Chloe, I don't know how to explain it......"

"I don't know how to explain it? Are you going to leave it alone?"

"Yi, I really don't know what's wrong with me, in the face of the children here, every day my heart feels like it's broken, but I just don't dare to contact the outside world, I just don't dare to think about it......"

"Chloe is seven years old, when she learned that you came here two years ago to become a volunteer teacher, she covered her face and cried, she thought that she was abandoned by you, and she was abandoned forever, she should have regarded her as a little angel Mommy abandoned her for someone else's child, I don't know how to explain it to her, I can't explain it to her! I can't organize the right language, let alone face her innocent eyes, I can only bring her here, come here, and let you explain to her! How can you do this......"

Roaring, roaring, but in exchange for Sophia's saltless choking.

Fu Zhengyi walked out of the hut, the evening breeze hit, a touch of sunset happened to fall on the steps, he sat down and took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit one, looking at the green smoke rising and the feeling of depression in his chest still could not be diluted.

Xi Mengmeng walked over when he lit the second cigarette, and observed his expression up close. "Is that her?"

Fu Zhengyi raised his head blankly, and nodded after a moment.

"It's good to find it, it's good to find it......"

Xi Mengmeng didn't know how to comfort him, looked at the hut with the door closed, hesitated and sat next to him, and told the situation of this village without a match.

After smoking the second cigarette, Fu Zhengyi turned his head and saw that the door of the hut was still closed, and he couldn't help but sigh. "The American named Leo, see?"

"Nope. The villagers said that he had gone to the village on the top of the cliff, and he estimated that he would come down tomorrow......"

Looking up at the cliff, I could barely see the ladders.

Reports of this kind of cliff village in my memory may not appear until ten or twenty years later.

In order to escape the fighting, people had to choose to isolate themselves from the rest of the world.

But the world is now very different, and the village's original advantages will eventually be lost, leaving behind poverty and a hopeless future......

"Let's make a special topic so that everyone can know that in the 21st century, there are still such villages in the southwest, and there are still many people who want to fight against God with their lives......

"I've arranged for a photographer to do it, there is no signal on the mobile phone here, I used a satellite phone to contact some media friends, this will be an explosive news, what age is it, and there is such a village, it's a shame!"

Fu Zhengyi shook his head. "You can't completely shift the blame to the local area, this place is isolated from the world, and it is very difficult to get the villagers of the cliff village to leave the place where they have lived for two or three hundred years, and the saying that it is difficult to leave the homeland is not a joke. We live in big cities, in modern society, but here we don't have telephones, and the cliff villages above may not even have electricity......"

Squeak ......

The door to the hut behind him was pushed open.

Fu Zhengyi turned his head and saw Sophia holding Chloe's hand and walked out, little Chloe's eyes were red and swollen, and when he saw him sitting on the steps, his mouth deflated again, and he sniffed hard, so that the tears in his eyes did not fall.

Xi Mengmeng stood up and raised her hand to say hello. "Hey!"

"I'm sorry for the trouble......"

Xi Mengmeng waved her hand again and again. "No, no, as long as we can be reunited, it is a happy event. The village chief was very happy to learn about the situation, and said that he would order the biggest fire pit in the evening and celebrate it......

A helpless wry smile bloomed on Sophia's mouth, and the last touch of the sunset happened to be reflected on her and Chloe's bodies, and in Xi Mengmeng's eyes, it was like a brilliant picture, perfect and a little dazzling......