Since Grandma Wu and Grandpa Zhang passed away one after another, people in the village have intentionally or unintentionally kept their children away from Chuxiao. Children often don't know how to hide it www.biquge.info and they often show it when adults say and do, so when Chu Xiao went to play with her friends, the friends directly told her that her parents didn't let them play with ghost children. Chu Xiao didn't really understand what a ghost child meant, but she knew that it was definitely not a good word. After being rejected many times, Chu Xiao had no choice but to hang his head, rub his eyes, and go home to find his grandfather.

Feng Yeming was a bricklayer, or "construction worker" in the written language, and Wang Qing would often follow her husband's back, doing things like cement and carrying mud buckets. Because the bricklayers have to run outside the village, the family's fields are mainly taken care of by Feng Jianzhang. The family heard Chu Xiao say that the children in the village did not take her to play, and said that she was very angry after the ghost child, but she could only hold back her anger, adults are always not good at dealing with children, even if they know that what children do is guided by adults, they can't just rely on their own children's words to conflict with others.

In the days that followed, Feng Jianzhang took his granddaughter who had no playmates with him. When he had free time, Feng Jianzhang, who had read some books when he was young, taught his granddaughter to read and play, and when he was working in the field, he found a shady place on the edge of the ridge for his granddaughter to stay there, and then answered with his granddaughter without saying a word.

April is coming again, and the day has come for a new round of ploughing and sowing early rice seeds. Feng Jianzhang took Chu Xiao and drove the old ox to the field south of the river. Although on an April day, the climate here in Chizhou does not allow people to take off their thick coats, but the sun on this day is not small, Feng Jianzhang is so hot that he takes off his torn cotton jacket, and his face is red from the sun on the ridge at the beginning of dawn. The fields on the south side of the stream are connected to the fields, and the ridges are very narrow, and there are no big trees around. Feng Jianzhang was afraid that his granddaughter would be sunburned, so he pointed to the small apricot forest more than 100 meters away and asked Chu Xiao to wait for him there.

The small apricot forest was planted by a family in Shangyang Village, mainly to tell others that this land has an owner, so the forest is not large, about five points of land, but the apricot trees are planted relatively densely. Apricot blossoms will change color with the time of opening, some of the buds on the top of the branches are fresh pink little life, and with the extension of the petals, the red turns from thick to light, light to snow white, the apricot blossoms will not be long away.

This season, the apricot blossoms are gorgeous, and the apricot forest is filled with a faint fragrance. Chu Xiao squatted and walked while picking up the fallen flowers on the ground to play, but she felt bored after playing like this for a while. Chu Xiao remembered that she had secretly watched other children climb trees and pound birds' nests, and she thought that those children who could climb trees were really amazing. Chu Xiao walked to an apricot tree while thinking, probably also wanting to have that enviable ability, she began to climb up the tree with her hands and feet, and finally she actually climbed the high trunk.

However, it is easy to go up the tree and difficult to get off the tree, and after being happy in the tree for a while, Chu Xiao wants to return to the ground, but she doesn't know how to get off her feet. She also felt strange, she didn't know how she had climbed up just now, and she didn't seem to have made much effort, she just felt that she wanted to go up the tree, and then climbed up after a few clicks.

After being stunned for a while, Chu Xiao held the tree trunk on his chest with both hands, and then carefully stepped on the other trunk under his feet, and his body slowly moved towards the main trunk. The branches were a little shaky, and Chu Xiao's upper body was not stable when he changed the trunk he was grasping, and the whole person planted the trunk with a slippery foot.

In a panic, Chu Xiao heard a "thump" sound of shaking branches, and almost at the same time she felt that she was being held, and then in another "thump" sound, she was put down and her feet fell to the ground. Chu Xiao turned around for a moment, and a sister was half-squatting in front of her and looking up at the falling apricot blossom rain, looking like the sister's expression seemed to be very apologetic.

Many years later, every time Chu Xiao recalled this incident, she always had to imagine that sister jumped up and kicked the tree violently, and the sister quickly caught herself in the air while the apricot blossoms rained, and then kicked the tree violently to cushion, and finally took herself back to the ground.

"Does it hurt?" the sister asked softly while gently rubbing Chu Xiao's knee with her right hand. She wore a white sweater with five-point open sleeves, the cuffs of which showed pink sweater sleeves like apricot blossoms, and long white boots on her feet. The chilling willow wind caressed her shoulder-length hair, and her left eyebrow was now hidden in the forehead that was slanted over. She smiled lightly at Chu Xiao, her eyes soaked with a soft sparkle. Although she had exercised a little just now, the sister's face was still slightly pale.

If that sister didn't mention it, Chu Xiao would have forgotten that her knee was knocked when she was just planted. Chu Xiao looked at the sister and shook her head, the sister smiled, and the lines on her face softened even more. Chu Xiao felt that this sister's dress was so novel, she had never seen it, and she had never seen this sister outside the village. Chu Xiao looked at the gentle smiling face of the sister, a pair of dark eyes were shiny, and then she lowered her eyelids a little embarrassed, and her tender little face was very cute.

"Give you something. The elder sister spread out her left hand, and the palm of her hand was a purple drop-shaped jade pendant. The jade was the size of a tinky knuckle, and it was dewy and clear in natural light, glowing with a shimmering purple crystal.

"Don't. Chu Xiao held his chin, shook his head and whispered.

Chu Xiao didn't know jade at that time, and he didn't know how valuable this pendant was. But the family taught that you should not ask for anything given by others unless you have the permission of the elders, so although she likes this beautiful pendant very much, she does not dare to ask for it.

"Wear it, your mom and dad will be happy, and they won't blame you. The sister hung the pendant on Chu Xiao's neck, stuffed the pendant into Chu Xiao's clothes, and then helped Chu Xiao straighten the collar, and the pendant rope was invisible. She smiled and rubbed the thumb of her right hand between Chu Xiao's eyebrows a few times, Chu Xiao didn't know what that sister was doing like this, but she trusted that sister very much, so she didn't dodge.

The sister removed her hand and smiled, "Now you close your eyes." ”

Chu Xiao thought that her sister was playing games with her, so she really closed her eyes. It was only closed for less than two seconds that I heard my grandfather calling me in the distance, and the voice sounded very anxious. Chu Xiao immediately opened his eyes, and the sister was gone, and Xinglin couldn't see anyone when he looked at the side. Chu Xiao couldn't care where the sister went, so she hurriedly ran in the direction of her grandfather's shouting.

"Where did you go? Didn't I tell you to stay in the woods and not run around? I didn't find you for a long time, and no one answered you, and next time I did this, I would be beaten. Feng Jianzhang was sweating profusely, looking anxious and angry, but his tone was quite calm, probably for fear of scaring his granddaughter.

"I didn't run, I'm over there......" Chu Xiao felt very aggrieved, she had been in the woods, and she had just heard her grandfather call herself, and she quickly responded.

"Still lying, learning to lie? I didn't see you in the woods for a long time, and you're still lying!"

"I'm not here, I didn't see you coming to me. ”

"That's weird...... Hold it up. Feng Jianzhang said as he vigorously hugged Chu Xiao to the back of the cow, "Hey, why is the sole of your shoe wet?" Feng Jianzhang took off his granddaughter's small cloth shoes and took a look, and found that the shoes were not wet inside, so he put them back on for his granddaughter. "You're playing in the water? No wonder you're lying. When did you run to play in the water, and why didn't I find you by the stream?"

"No, I don't. Chu Xiao also wondered when the soles of his shoes were wet, obviously he hadn't touched the water.

"Why don't you get wet?" I told you not to play in the water, why are you disobedient......"

The backs of Feng Jianzhang and his granddaughter went farther and farther away, but that sister seemed to have evaporated from the world. There was no place to hide in the apricot grove, unless the sister hid in the tree, but how fast did the movement have to be to go up the tree in the blink of an eye? How light did the movement have to be so as not to make any sound? Everything that Chu Xiao experienced in the apricot grove seemed to be like an illusion, but the family did find that she had a jade pendant around her neck.

The family felt strange after hearing Chu Xiao talk about himself and that sister, especially what made Feng Jianzhang puzzled was that Chu Xiao said that she had been staying in the forest, but why was there no one in the forest when he went to find Chu Xiao? Wang Qing thought that maybe her daughter had met the noble person that the fairy aunt had said before, and this jade pendant should have been given to her daughter as a talisman.