Komatsu was lying on the bed, her face was as pale as snow, and there was still a faint residue of blood foam spit out from coughing at the corner of her mouth, and she shouted softly, "Komatsu." Seeing Komatsu coming over, the corners of the woman's mouth barely squeezed out a smile, and a bitter voice sounded in the dilapidated room, "Come here, come closer." When Komatsu heard this, he sat on the edge of the bed and shouted, "Mother! Seeing that the woman nodded imperceptibly, a wisp of sweetness burst out in her heart.

I only heard the woman say softly, "Child, this year, I have suffered you." Xiao Song shook his head vigorously and was about to speak, but his mother continued, "Since your father left, you have grown up. The young man's body froze almost at that moment, only to hear her continue, "This year, you have taken care of me every day, and I have seen it in my mother's eyes, and I also know that the people in the village are saying that I am crazy because my father is dead, and I beat and scold you every day, and the people who see me even call me a crazy woman, I know it." ”

A ray of sunlight shone through the dilapidated window on the edge of the bed, and the woman's face was invisible in the shade, except for her low voice in the dilapidated room. "Actually, this year, I have often seen your father, especially in recent days, almost every day I can see him as soon as I close my eyes, I know, he is here to call me, he has been telling me, you are a smart child, you will definitely have a future when you grow up. He wants me to take good care of you, he said, he is nearly forty years old, married to me for more than twenty years, and has no children under his knees, until he is almost forty years old, he has you, he regards you as a gift from God to him, he is never willing to beat you and scold you, everything you want, he will try his best to get it for you, even if it is a big price, he will take it for you, sure enough, until he dies, he does it, and even takes his own life. ”

Memories are like a raging river that suddenly bursts its banks, and after breaking through a gap, it rushes unscrupulously. Suddenly, starting from the memory, his father's various figures, movements, voices, and smiles came one after another, hovering in his mind, messy.

When Xiao Song's mind was extremely messy, suddenly his neck tightened, and a strong force came, and his whole person involuntarily fell on the bed, with a sharp pain in his chest at random, and a sharp object pierced into his chest, in the chaos, he instinctively grabbed the sharp object with both hands, and grabbed it tightly, and a gloomy voice suddenly came, "Xiao Song, child, my mother knows that it hasn't been long since I know it, and my mother will take you to find your father, under Jiuquan, you can find him to atone for your sins." Your father didn't fall to his death, you killed him at all, you little brute. Father, I'm coming, I'm here with our children, I'm looking for you. Xiao Song, be good, don't resist, my mother will take you to your father. In the dilapidated thatched hut, even with the rays of the sun, it was still cold and black, the woman's thin and dark hands tightly wrapped around her own son's neck, and the other hand held a pair of embroidery scissors, the scissors were black and shiny, the tip of the scissors had pierced into the young man's warm chest, and a wisp of bright red blood had come out slightly from the place where the tip of the scissors had pierced.

The white clouds and dogs in the world have changed dramatically, humanity is a tiger poison and does not eat children, but in the simple grass house of Peach Blossom Village, the woman's pale face is sandwiched with dark red blood foam at the corner of her mouth, and when Xiao Song turned his head to look, he looked extremely hideous, and his dark and thin hands held a pair of scissors tightly, and the tips of the scissors were piercing into the warm chest of his own son. She muttered to herself, apparently in a state of confusion at the moment. Xiao Song's chest ached, and his body's instinct made him quickly grab the scissors, and at this extremely dangerous life-and-death juncture, he used all the strength in his body to prevent the scissors from piercing in. And at this moment, his biological mother, either returning to the light, or the only thing on her mind before she died, in that thin body, I don't know where the explosion of unprecedented power came from, inch by inch, stabbed the deadly scissors into the undulating chest of her own son.

For a moment, for Komatsu, it was like a year, his neck was tightly clamped, his mother was so tightly clamped, gradually, his face turned red, his breathing became short, and above his chest, there was a sharp pair of scissors, which was stabbing inch by inch, at that moment, he never realized that he was so close to death, one step to the world, one step to hell, at this moment he was struggling between hell and the world. He looked at the withered palm on his chest, once upon a time, this hand was as gentle as the warm breeze of spring, gently brushing his face; This hand is as dexterous as a flying swallow, cutting the clothes that suit him best; This hand is as smart as a roundworm in the stomach and can make his favorite dishes. It's just that at this moment, it has turned into a soul-chasing clutche, a life-seeking scissors.

"Mother!" He shouted with grief and indignation in his heart, can he never go back to the beginning, he can never go back to the past, if I know this, it is better that the person who fell off the cliff and died was me, so that you and Dad ......, he thought stupidly in his heart, and two lines of tears gushed out from the corners of his eyes. He sighed lowly, relaxed, let go of his grip on the scissors, closed his eyes and waited for the moment to pierce his heart. It's just that he closed his eyes for a long time, but he still didn't wait for the expected stab, he opened his eyes, but found that his mother was still the same as before, her eyes were wide open, motionless, and he was overjoyed, "After all, my mother is still reluctant to start." He called out softly, "Mother." He shouted so softly that he was afraid of alarming something, but the woman still did not hear back. Xiao Song was in a hurry, and reached out to help his mother, but he didn't expect that his hand had just touched his mother, and his mother's body fell softly on the bed, and the scissors in her hand "Ding!" With a thud, it fell to the ground, and it was unusually crisp. Komatsu was shocked and shouted loudly, "Mother, mother." But the woman did not hear from herself, but died like this.

Komatsu's father and mother passed away one after another within a year, and this originally beautiful and warm family was shattered in just one year, leaving Komatsu alone as an orphan and miserable in the world. The dead have died, but the living are living in the grief of this life, and after a long, long time, Xiao Song's heart has been difficult to let go of is that his father and mother died because of him, if it weren't for his young and ignorant and noisy to eat pine nuts, his father would not go up the mountain, his father would not go up the mountain, and he would not fall off the cliff because the road was slippery and difficult to walk after the rain, and his mother would not have hated him because of his father's death, and even before he died, he wanted to kill him.

It's hard to imagine that a nine-year-old child has to bear these unbearable pain of life for adults, but the providence is so, all this unbearable pain, are all pressed on this immature shoulder, after Komatsu finished his mother's funeral, began to go up the mountain to cut grass and collect medicine as usual, but the villagers of Peach Blossom Village gradually found that this child became more and more silent, and often ignored when someone talked to him. He was like a ghost, and people often did not see him during the day, and it was only in the middle of the night, through the darkness of the night, that they found some dim light and a low, choked cry that had been so strong in the east of the village that they could not be seen.

Time flies like a white horse, a few years later, Komatsu has gradually grown into a teenager, compared to before, he has become so that all the people who watched him grow up before do not know, if it is not for what he sees day by day, everyone will not believe that this black, thin and silent boy in front of him will be the fair-skinned, lively and lovely Komatsu. Especially the black and smart eyes before, at this moment, there is only a dead silence in the eyes. Most of the villagers in Taohua Village are simple and kind, but when they see him like this, they also think that they are because they lost their parents in childhood and are lonely, so they often send some food and clothing, but when they open the door the next day, they will find that the things they send are all placed at the door. There are also aunts and aunts in the village, who talk to Komatsu when they catch him, but Komatsu is silent, and when they are tired of talking, while they are not paying attention, Komatsu runs away. After a long time, the hearts of the people in the village also faded, and they went with him. Komatsu still goes out early every morning and doesn't come back until it gets dark at night. Almost no one knows where he went or what he did. It's just that every day when it's dark, the shabby thatched hut in the east of the village will be lit up dimly.

In the dark, the wheel of fate was turning, and Komatsu could never have imagined that there would be a person who, in his gloomy and frozen life, would have a touch of warmth like the first sunny day after the snow.

Granny Gu was distressed and tried her best to keep Xiao Song from eating, so she responded to Xiao Song for the first time, and Ye Jianan and the two of them had dinner at Xiao Song's house, taking advantage of Xiao Song's efforts to go out to collect firewood, Gu Mother-in-law asked Ye Jianan to go back, and brought a piece of bacon weighing three catties from home, a few smoked fish, and some vegetables, and when Xiao Song returned home from picking up firewood, what was waiting for him was a bowl of steamed bacon, a bowl of stewed smoked fish, a bowl of fried corn kernels, and a bowl of taro soup. A few simple peasant dishes, in Xiao Song's eyes, but it was extraordinarily warm, he looked up at the sky, it seemed that the family had not had such a sumptuous dinner for a long time. He blinked vigorously and walked inside.

Komatsu ate very slowly, and when Ye Jianan had already finished eating, he had only eaten half of it. Granny Gu and Ye Jianan sat for a while, and when Komatsu finished eating, she also got up and said goodbye. Along the way, Ye Jianan looked at Granny Gu in front of him without saying a word, and when he thought of Xiao Song's cold and lonely eyes, he couldn't help but feel a sinking in his heart. In the next few days, Ye Jianan intentionally or unintentionally asked Qin Yuyin about Xiao Song, but unfortunately Qin Yuyin was still young and not very clear about this kind of thing in the village, but he vaguely knew that Xiao Song's father and mother, when he was alive, had always loved Xiao Song, and he cared for Xiao Song as if he was afraid of falling in his hand, and he was afraid of melting in his mouth. It's just that there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, and people have good and bad luck, and in a year's time, Komatsu's parents passed away one after another, leaving him as an orphan. But Komatsu is stubborn, but he refuses the enthusiastic care of the villagers, and works alone, wearing the stars and the moon, getting up early and working in the dark. was originally a white and childish boy, but in just one year, he has become such a black and thin lonely young man. Ye Jianan sighed deeply, and a different taste welled up in his heart.

The days of winter are very short, it will be dark for most of the afternoon, Qin Yuyin has been going back after dinner at Granny Gu's house recently, and when Granny Gu looked at the sky before it was dark, Ye Jianan volunteered to send Qin Yuyin back, the two of them felt a lot closer after the inexplicable hug on the night of the thirtieth day of the lunar month, except for the slight embarrassment when they met for the first time later, and then it was the same as at the beginning, but when Qin Yuyin looked at Ye Jianan, sometimes her fair little face would suddenly blush.

After almost four months of recuperation, Ye Jianan was finally able to move freely like an ordinary person, but when he recovered, he found that the strength of his physical strength at the beginning no longer existed. At this moment, his strength is only like that of ordinary people, but the previous foundation is still there, relying on his exquisite tricks to deal with a few ordinary strong men, it is not a problem, but if you want to take the head of the enemy among tens of millions of people like at the beginning, it is no longer possible. Thinking of this, even if it was like Ye Jianan's peaceful state of mind at the moment, he couldn't help but feel a little gloomy.

In winter, heavy snow covers the mountain, the mountain road is steep and slippery, not to mention hunting on the mountain, it is to go to the mountain to pick up some dead branches to make firewood, it is also necessary to be extremely careful, fortunately on the south bank of Taohua Village, there is a small river to pass, although the river surface is frozen in winter, but it is only the surface of the river, therefore, in the season of heavy snow to cover the mountain, it is not possible to go up the mountain, then go down to the river, and many people in Taohua Village break the ice and fish on this small river.

Today, Komatsu is fishing on the river, and there are already several fish in his bucket, and it seems that he has been fishing for a while. Suddenly, the fishing line sank, Xiao Song's heart was happy, his wrist was steady, he firmly held the rod, and then his wrist shook, a fat fish flew out of the water with his movements, Xiao Song grabbed it, and his hand sank, heh, good guy, this fish mouth is a horse's hoof, the abdomen is round and the back is bulging, the fish body is faintly golden, between the head and tail, there are about two feet, it is actually an extremely fat carp, Xiao Song's heart is happy, is thinking that if this fish is sold, it is estimated that it can be exchanged for a lot of rice, and he can't help but reach out behind his back and catch the fish, A voice sounded behind his ears, "Brother Song, this fish is good, give it to me." ”

Xiao Song didn't look back, listening to this voice, his brows were already furrowed, and he said coldly, "Zhao Fugui, I have no relationship with you and no reason, why should I give you the fish I caught." "The person behind him is Zhao Fugui. Zhao Fugui has a big body and round shoulders, a thin hair clinging to his head, a pair of triangular eyes squinting, and a ray of fine light from time to time.

Although Zhao Fugui is only twenty years old, in Peach Blossom Village, he is already unknown to everyone and no one knows about it. Zhao's father got this son in Chinese New Year's Eve, spoiled, named Fugui, hoping to be rich and noble in the future, but Zhao Fugui under his father's doting, increasingly stubborn, when his father sent him to study at the age of nine, he thought that Mr. was noisy, so he took advantage of Mr. sleepy, caught a centipede and put it in Mr.'s teacup, poor that year, was sixty years old, the old gentleman with two sideburns flying snow, drank a sip of tea without looking, spat out a centipede in his mouth, and foamed at the mouth in fright, fainted. Since then, Zhao Fugui has become famous, Zhao's father asked Xixi to teach, but when people heard that Zhao Fugui was taught, he left without looking back, Zhao's father thought hard, but Fugui did not think it was a pestle, and snorted coldly. His father was helpless, so he also went with him, so Zhao Fugui wandered every day, did not study, did not work, and played and frolicked all day long. When he was sixteen years old, Zhao's father was still idle every day under the persuasion of his father, and he didn't even take half of his father's persuasion to heart.

Zhao's father was angry, so he locked him in the firewood room, who expected that Zhao Fugui slipped out in a flash when his father brought food in the evening, Zhao's father hurriedly caught up, Fugui picked up the firewood knife on the ground, and slashed it straight, hitting his father's thigh, Zhao Fugui stood in the moonlight, and said coldly, "Old thing, don't worry about the master's affairs anymore." Immediately left, the Zhao family's parents wailed and cried, and Zhao's father even sat on the ground, looking up to the sky and sighing, "I knew it was like this...... In ......the end, the old couple moved out of the house overnight and built a small house next to Zhao's father's cousin Zhao Lingdong's house, and the house where they originally lived was left to Zhao Fugui. It can be said that when Zhao Fugui was sixteen years old, his name spread all over Peach Blossom Village, and since then, he has no scruples, and his actions have become more and more unscrupulous.

Zhao Fugui was furious in his heart, it snowed very early this winter, and he usually didn't save any food, so he took the things in his house in exchange for some sparse fruit and rice grains, and during the New Year, he went to eat one meal or two meals one by one, but such days couldn't last long. At this moment, it has been a few days since I have eaten meat, and at this moment, I saw the unusually fat carp in Komatsu's hand, and I was even more itchy.

Zhao Fugui and Xiao Song, a day of idleness, a day of work, there was no chance to meet, Zhao Fugui just knew this person, at this moment Xiao Song said coldly, he was not annoyed, salivated and continued, "Brother Song, you see that my brother is also so hungry at the moment that his chest is close to the back of his stomach, you can do it and give me this fish." ”