The wind and snow suddenly made a big blow, the sky was full of snow, and it was blown and swirled up, in a white snow field in Peach Blossom Village, the whole world was covered by wind and snow, there were two people, standing for a long time. Qin Yuyin looked back at Ye Jianan, he was dressed in a robe, looking up at the sky, standing in the wind and snow, between his handsome eyebrows, there was infinite loneliness, like the bitterness of being deeply abandoned by everyone, at this moment, Qin Yuyin's soft heart suddenly hurt inexplicably.

"I sometimes think that if I can live in Peach Blossom Village with my mother-in-law and Yuyin, there will be people who will care about you and care about you, even if the life is harder, but what's the big deal, if I can, I'd rather not be in a lonely and pure Xuanqing Sect, Taoist cultivation, what's good, although the practice to the depths, you can ascend to the immortal in one step, Shouyuan is much more than ordinary people, but so what, a hundred years of life, a snap of a finger, grasshoppers are only three seasons, the cicada does not know the spring and autumn, the locust tree is limited to a thousand years, The spirit turtle is not old for ten thousand years, what about my generation, the cold cicada is to the spirit turtle, but for a moment, but for the cold cicada, this half a year is also a lifetime. The longer you live, the more you will be just a living dead, and after a thousand years, you will end up with no more than three feet of loess. I've been practicing since I was a child, even if I can refine the passage door technique, or even the sword for thousands of miles, calling the wind and rain, so what? If I want to practice like a dead heart for hundreds of years, such a feather ascending immortal, such immortality, such immortality, I am not rare, and I don't want it! The voice grew low and barely audible.

Qin Yuyin frowned, listening to Ye Jianan talking to herself that she didn't understand, she looked up, and at the corner of Ye Jianan's eyes, there was clearly a tear falling silently. For a moment, she stood in the snow in a daze, not knowing what to say. In the past few months, she has seen Ye Jianan covered in blood, and when Zhao Lao changed his dressing, how those dense wounds appeared on his body, but even if it hurts, she has never seen him say a word, and she has also seen him laugh and play, his beautiful eyes are bent like shallow crescents, and there is always a playful smile on his face. However, this time, on this night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Brother Ye, who was as strong as steel in Qin Yuyin's eyes, was lonely and weak in the snow.

Ye Jianan, who was floating in the infinite sadness of the past, suddenly felt a pair of soft little hands, holding his arm, and Qin Yuyin's soft voice came from his ears, "Brother Ye......" Without waiting for Qin Yuyin to finish speaking, Ye Jianan pulled his backhand, hugged Qin Yuyin into his arms, and hugged her tightly. He hugged her tightly, he hugged her so tightly, as if he was afraid that the person in his arms would disappear in the next second. In this snow-covered icy snow, a faint fragrance gently comes to the nose.

This New Year, for Ye Jianan, the unusually lively is not usual, because Granny Gu is very kind, between neighbors, there has never been a quarrel, the popularity in Peach Blossom Village is quite good, hundreds of families in Peach Blossom Village, more or less, have received the favor or help of Granny Gu, so at the beginning of the fifth and sixth days of the new year, some villagers in the village began to come to visit Granny Gu with some of their New Year's goods. As a result, Granny Gu's house began to be lively. On this day, Granny Gu's house was rarely free, and Granny Gu looked at the piles of New Year's goods in the corner and worried, "Canaan, take advantage of today's free time, why don't you go and return these things to others with me?" ”

Ye Jianan was stunned for a moment and said, "Mother-in-law, this is also a piece of their heart, you have helped them, they should take advantage of the New Year to bring some heart." ”

Granny Gu bent down, picked up a string of fish with a length of a ruler and said, "These fish were sent by Komatsu in the east of the village, alas, speaking of which, Komatsu is also a hard-working child, his father was in his forties before he was such an only child, but when he was seven or eight years old, his father went up the mountain for a few days, and he was nowhere to be seen, Komatsu and his mother were anxious, and called a few people in the village to go up the mountain to look for it, but found that under a cliff on the mountainside, he saw his father's body, his father's body was distorted, and his head was full of blood, Clutching a handful of pine nuts tightly in his hand, it seems that he fell from the mountain to pick pine nuts. A year later, Komatsu's mother was also depressed and died of illness, so he was left alone as an orphan, alone, hey, a poor child. ”

Ye Jianan responded, "Mother-in-law, stand up for people, when you know that you want to repay your kindness, if you don't repay your kindness, or even be ungrateful, this kind of behavior is different from that of beasts!" In my opinion, they should bring some things to visit you during the New Year's holiday. Ye Jianan was obviously a little disdainful of Granny Gu's thoughts.

When Granny Gu heard this, she was a little unhappy and said, "Canaan, you can't say that, although I have helped them a little, but they are just some small things, why bother to take it to heart, besides, when I helped them, I never thought of asking them to repay, the people in the village are kind and simple, if you are good to him, he will naturally be good to you, but we can't accept each other calmly because we have helped them." ”

Ye Jianan heard Granny Gu say this, and suddenly thought of himself, and his heart was excited, "Mother-in-law, is it also some trivial matter for you to save me?" Granny Gu was stunned and said with a smile, "Silly child, if you are replaced by another person, I will save you when I see you lying on the ground covered in blood." ”

Ye Jianan shook his head and said, "Mother-in-law, with Zhao Lao's eyes, it is impossible not to see that Jianan is originally a person who licks blood from the knife edge of the rivers and lakes, he is seriously injured and dies in the world, you are not afraid that those who are chasing me behind my back will break into Peach Blossom Village and bring disaster to the people in the village?" I'm leaving Peach Blossom Village, so if you don't see it, why bother to find me back again. ”

Granny Gu heard Ye Jianan's almost tearing and even bitter voice, her body was stunned, her warm eyes looked straight at Ye Jianan, for a long time, as usual, a clear voice sounded, "Ganan, if you think of this, I know that you are a good boy." I saved you, it was from my heart, that day I saw you face as pale as paper, lying on the ground with blood all over your body, how could I not save you, and you left silently, not because you were afraid of affecting Peach Blossom Village, you have this courage, you are a good boy, you are so seriously injured, how can your mother-in-law watch you leave Peach Blossom Village and die. She said slowly, "Indeed, as you said, Elder Zhao also talked to me about this matter. Don't worry, your mother-in-law will solve this matter, and your mother-in-law can see that you are a good boy, and you can stay here for as long as you want. ”

"But ......" Ye Jianan was interrupted by Granny Gu before he finished speaking, "Okay, don't think about anything anymore, take these things and follow your mother-in-law to return them to others." The snow came early a few days ago, and everyone was not prepared, don't look at these things, they are also patchwork together, and it is not easy. ”

Ye Jianan carried a large number of New Year's goods, either carrying or carrying, clipping or lifting, and followed Granny Gu and the two to visit from house to house. Until sunset, there was only that string of fish in Ye Jianan's hand. Ye Jianan let out a long sigh of relief, looked at the few grass huts in front of him, and couldn't help muttering in his heart. On this day, he also walked most of Peach Blossom Village, and also walked dozens of households, and the grass house in front of him can be said to be the most dilapidated in Peach Blossom Village, at least the most dilapidated one Ye Jianan has ever seen. The whole yard is a fence wall enclosed with some branches and wooden strips, the gate of the yard is two dilapidated wooden doors, the paint on the wooden door has long fallen off and the original color is not clear, the yard is a few dilapidated grass houses, and after Ye Jianan followed Gu Granny in, he found that this grass house was far more dilapidated than what he saw outside.

The brazier in the room was already cold, Ye Jianan looked into it, there was only a shallow layer of ash in the brazier, and there was a bed directly north of the room, and a thin quilt was neatly stacked on the bed. Ye Jianan looked around and couldn't help but be stunned. This house is located in the shade, the walls are completely made of branches, wood, and thatch, standing in this room, it seems that there is a faint chill into the bone marrow, I really don't know who can live here. Granny Gu shouted a few times, and seeing that no one answered, she said suspiciously, "At this hour, Xiao Song is not at home, where will he go?" ”

Ye Jianan put the fish in his hand in a corner of the room and responded, "Maybe he ran out to play by himself." Suddenly, a cold voice sounded from behind, "Who are you?" Ye Jianan turned around, and what caught his eye was a black and thin boy about twelve or thirteen years old. This little boy was wearing a thin cotton coat, holding a bundle of dead branches in both hands, it seemed that he had just returned from collecting firewood from the mountain, and what caught Ye Jianan's attention the most was that the eyes of this black and thin little boy were filled with the coldness and loneliness that he had been very familiar with, and he once thought that he could never get rid of in himself! Ye Jianan was about to speak, but Granny Gu behind her heard the voice but turned around and said, "Komatsu, it's me, I'll come to see you." ”

The little boy named Xiao Song was stunned, and saw Granny Gu walking out from behind Ye Jianan, he was stunned, Ye Jianan clearly saw the coldness in his eyes, and it melted in an instant, he seemed to be a little shy in front of Granny Gu, and shouted softly, "Mother-in-law." Then he seemed to think of something, looked up at Granny Gu and pointed at Ye Jianan and asked, "Mother-in-law, who is he?" ”

Xiao Matsu's surname is Zhao, his father was old and had a son before his death, and asked the old scholar in the village to take the name, the scholar half drank a little wine, and said slightly drunk, "The heavy snow presses the green pine, and the green pine is straight and straight." At that time, people didn't know Lingyun Mu, and they waited until Lingyun was high. It's better to call it Ling Song. Zhao's father got the name and went home happily, and then took a nickname and called Xiao Song. Komatsu's parents, old and old, are very precious to this son, as long as Komatsu wants to eat something, play or something, they will do everything possible to get it. Gradually, after six or seven years, Komatsu has grown from a baby to a child, with smart eyes, white skin, black hair, and when he speaks, he is even more smart and clever, and he is different from other children in the village.

And one day, Xiao Song, for some reason, was noisy to go to the mountain to pick pine nuts, and just after a rainstorm on the mountain road, muddy and difficult to walk, some rocky slopes, even more slippery and untenable, Xiao Song's father took a look at this precious son, and went up the mountain with a bundle of hemp rope. Then just when Komatsu was looking forward to coming back with a lot of fresh pine nuts, but he didn't see him for three days, Komatsu and his mother were a little anxious, so they went up the mountain to find his father, and the group together with Komatsu and Komatsu, there were seven or eight people, and they went up the mountain.

Xiao Song looked at his mother's pale face from time to time, and in his heart, there were bursts of uneasiness and nervousness, he clenched his fists hard, and there was a wisp of miserable white on his immature knuckles. He secretly swore in his heart that from now on, he would never be so willful again, and he would never play tricks again. He was thinking about it, there was a commotion in the crowd, and those people blocked his vision intentionally or unintentionally, and his mother, who was walking in front of him, suddenly shook her body, and the whole person was soft and slumped, and there was an inexplicable panic, as if there was an invisible hand, tightly grabbing his heart, and she was unspeakably sad. Through his mother's body, he looked over, a man in an indigo shirt, lying quietly on the hillside, under him, there was a blood, shocking!

"No!" Xiao Song suddenly let out a cry, he pushed away the crowd in front of him, and staggered over, the person in the indigo shirt in front of him was his father who went up the mountain to pick pine nuts! For a moment, there was only the sound of birds in the woods and the sound of the mountain wind, and a young child with drooping hair threw himself on his father, howling and weeping, and not far from him there was a woman whose face was as limp as ashes. There were a few villagers with sad faces standing around.

There is an old saying that it takes more than ten years for a girl to grow up, while it often only takes one night for a boy to grow up. After that day, Xiao Song seemed to be a different person, he began to learn to do everything, go up the mountain to cut grass, collect firewood, go home to grow vegetables, cook, a young child, take care of all the big and small affairs of the family, but, before the black and round eyes, but always lowered his eyes, covering the deepest deep sadness. All the villagers in Peach Blossom Village, after that moment of sadness, were glad to find that Komatsu had become so well-behaved and sensible, and there were also many villagers who, after a sigh, helped the poor family from time to time. It's just that after Komatsu came down from the mountain, she became a little unusual, she became silent, often sitting at home alone, silently, just sitting in a daze, or touching the clothes left by his father and silently leaving tears, not saying a word for a day, but she was extremely disgusted with her son who was very distressed before, either she never ignored it, or she spoke ill of her. Later, she didn't even want to eat, and Komatsu went in with the food, often not long after, and then fell out with a bowl of vegetables, and as these meals fell out, there were also a few low curses such as "little beasts, harmful spirits".

Xiao Song knew in his heart that if he hadn't been clamoring to eat pine nuts that day, his father would not have been able to go back like this, so to speak, he killed his father. And his mother, but her heart is also unspeakably bitter. Then half a year later, Xiao Song's mother suddenly contracted a vicious disease, coughing every day, Xiao Song was so anxious that after reading it, Zhao Lao pondered for a long time, after all, he still prescribed a prescription, and after going out, he turned back and whispered to Xiao Song, "Child, do your best, listen to the destiny of heaven." Xiao Song clutched the prescription tightly in his hand and was silent.

After that day, Xiao Song was even busier, getting up to cook for his mother before dawn every day, and then carrying two cold steamed buns in his arms and going up the mountain to cut grass and collect firewood, and then going up the mountain to pick herbs in the afternoon, and not coming back until dark, and then he was busy cooking, although his mother did not eat nine times out of ten times, but he still did not dare to cook for a day, in case his mother wanted to eat that day, in the rare gap, he thought more than once stupidly. At night, Komatsu took advantage of the moonlight to sort out the thatch cut during the day, put the thatch in piles neatly, chopped and bandaged it, and then collected the herbs that were picked back into different categories, and sold them in the small market in the village every three or four days.

Under Komatsu's day and night medicine collection and care, finally his mother's cough was much better. Although there was still a few coughs for a while, it was not a cough all day and night, just when Komatsu was full of hope that God would follow people's wishes, and his mother's cough was so good, God made a joke with him, and one night, Komatsu's mother's condition suddenly recurred, coughing up all night, and later, coughing out, were full of blood red, and failed to survive a few days, regardless of Komatsu's overnight stay with the medicine, finally, when Komatsu was nine years old, his mother also hurried to chase his father.

Maybe it's because people are dying, and their words are good, or maybe it's because of some other reason, before dying, his mother finally opened her mouth and gently called Xiao Song, Xiao Song couldn't believe his ears at first glance, and when his mother raised her voice and shouted again, he ran to his mother's bed in ecstasy. On the side of the bed, a dark and thin hand stretched out tremblingly.