Chapter 1: Flowing Fireflies

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The little firefly squatted by the river, holding a small net in her hand, and kept fishing in the river, still muttering, "Fish, fish, come to the net......"

Her name is Flowing Firefly, the flow of flowing water, the flow of fireflies...... Well, anyway, it's the fireflies of fireflies, and my mother said that when she was born, the fireflies in the yard were like flowing, so my father named her Liuhua.

My mother is in a very bad state today, and she has been lying in bed and has not gotten up.

The old man who lived with her said that fish could replenish her mother's body, and she kept it in mind, and the next morning, at a young age, she quietly got up and ran to the river to catch fish for her mother.

Don't look at her young age, she already knows how to take care of her mother.

But after all, she was young, and her movements were not too coordinated, and she always watched the fish slip away from her net, but there was no way, so angry that she stomped her feet

It was at this moment that she saw a carp slowly swimming towards it from a distance.

She slowed down her movements, lest she scare it away, and when the carp swam up to her, she saw the right moment, reached out, and caught it!

Liuying happily looked at the carp in the net, and now the mother had a fish to eat. The carp was a little dying, and it fluttered slightly in the net.

Hotaru looked at the carp in amazement, it looked very strange, half of the scales were golden, and it looked beautiful in the sun. Liuying couldn't bear it, she couldn't bear to eat such a beautiful carp.

The carp in the net looked at her with a pleading look in his eyes, and Hotaru looked at it in surprise and rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

But still as usual, Liuyi hesitated for a moment, and suddenly found that there were some blood stains on the net. Hotaru looked at the carp in surprise, it was injured?!

Liuyi always felt that it seemed to be able to understand her, so she said softly to it, "Don't move, you're injured, I'll help you with medicine." ”

Liuyi held the net in one hand, fearing that it would die due to lack of water, so she gently lowered the net to the surface of the water, and took out a delicate blue and white medicine bottle from the placket of her clothes with one hand.

"This is my mother's gold sore medicine, and it works very well." She opened the stopper, turned the fish belly over, and gently sprinkled a little on it, only to see that the wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye, and if there were others, she would have been surprised.

"Alright." Hotaru looked at her masterpiece with satisfaction and let the carp out, "You can go, remember to be careful next time, don't get hurt again." ”

The golden carp glanced at her, spat out a beautiful golden bead from its mouth, and bounced it into the palm of the flowing firefly.

Then, with its tail whirling in the water, it departed. Liuying opened her mouth slightly, holding the beads in her hand, but what she thought in her heart was that her mother couldn't eat fish today......

Hotaru's mother was injured by a group of flying people, and she escaped with all her strength, but she was seriously injured for a short time.

Liuying, who was shrunk in her mother's arms, looked at the people behind her, desperately remembering their faces, and at a young age, she had an imperceptible fierceness in her eyes, sooner or later...... Sooner or later, one day...... She's going to ......

"Hotaru, come here." As soon as she entered the door, she heard her mother's call, and she ran to her mother's side with her little short legs, and held her mother's hand in surprise and said, "Mother, you're awake." ”

My mother has been in a coma for several days, and I finally woke up today. The mother's face was a little pale, but the spirit was good, "Firefly, in the future, there will be no mother to accompany you, you have to take care of yourself......"

Liuying's face turned pale, and she hurriedly interrupted her mother's words, "No, no, mother, you are awake now, and you will definitely get better." ”

The mother pinched her little hand and said, "After listening to the mother, the mother knows her own body." As she spoke, she took something out of her bosom and stuffed it into Hotaru's hand.

"Ahem, Firefly, this little bead is my mother's...... Soul beads, you don't need to know what soul beads are, you just need to take them, and this little sword on your neck, this is when you are full moon, your father hung it with his own hands, as long as he sees it, he will definitely know that you are Hotaru'er.

These two things, you must put them away so that they cannot be seen by anyone. When my mother is gone, you will go to ......" My mother's voice became lower and lower, and before the last words were finished, there was no life, and her hands hung down weakly.

Liuying stared blankly at her empty hands, "Mother...... Mother, are you asleep again? My mother is not well-behaved, I just woke up and fell asleep, and Firefly will cook for you. ”

Hotaru stumbled to her feet from the ground and ran outside.

There was an old man with a white beard standing at the door, looking at her with an unbearable expression, "Liuying...... Your mother is gone, and she won't wake up......"

Liuying was still dumbfounded, "How could Grandpa, my mother was still talking to me just now, how could she not wake up, you must be lying to Liuying's ......"

"Silly boy." The old man took her in his arms in distress. Liuying gradually came back to her senses, pulled her grandfather's coat tightly with one hand, and cried bitterly, she had no mother......

The old beggar's grandfather helped her bury her mother on the back mountain, and Liu Ying thought that if she was so close, she could go to see her mother every day, otherwise, how lonely her mother would be alone.

The old beggar looked at it, this girl Liuying, she had no mother at such a young age, she was helpless, she was strange, and half of the food she begged for every day would be diverted to her.

Liuying is a well-behaved child, she feels that she can't let the old beggar grandfather support her every day, and her grandfather is also very hard. So, every day, she would go down the mountain with the old beggar to beg.

Aunt Li, who sells steamed buns in the town, sees her pitiful, and will give her a leftover steamed bun every few days, although it is cold, but Liuying is already very satisfied.

Two years after the death of his mother, the old beggar also died, he accidentally contracted the cold, and they had no money to buy medicine to see the doctor, Liu Ying took care of him every day, but the old beggar grandfather was old and frail, and his begging life over the years also made his body worse and worse, after all, he was no match for the disease, and the old beggar grandfather died of illness.

Over the years, Liuying has always treated the old beggars as her own grandfather, and this time she understands that death means never seeing them again.

She knelt in front of the old beggar's corpse and wept all night, crying until her eyes were swollen. The next day, with a pair of eyes swollen like walnuts, she buried the old beggar not far from her mother.

This time, she was the only one left......

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