Chapter III

The two little girls walked halfway and bumped into another wave of classmates who went to school to check their grades. Hekou Township is neither big nor small, but it is a junior high school, so almost all the half-grown children in the surrounding ten miles and eight villages are from the same school, even if everyone is not familiar with it, it will not be too unfamiliar.

Su Nianzhen has a cold temperament, she is better with familiar people, and she hardly talks much in the face of unfamiliar people. Su Lingling, on the contrary, has always been an eight-sided and exquisite, well-known mouth and good talker, and when she met a classmate of a grade, she naturally had to stop and say a few words.

Su Nianzhen stood quietly on the side, listening to their conversation silently, looking at the youthful and immature faces showing infinite yearning and expectation for the future, and her mood also soared and brisked.

"Su Nianzhen, haven't you heard from your mother yet?" Zhong Yan looked sympathetic, and looked at Su Nianzhen like a kind-hearted girl who found a skinny and homeless stray dog on the side of the road.

Su Nianzhen glanced at her expressionlessly and didn't say a word. But it's inexplicable in my heart, she's in a different class from this girl, and it seems that she hasn't even spoken before, so it can be said that she can't even be considered a general friend, when did she become familiar enough to care about each other's families?

"Oh, it's not early, it's time for dinner, our village is far away, let's go first." Su Lingling saw that the atmosphere was condensed, and hurriedly said goodbye and left.

"Zhenzhen, don't mind......" The two rode their bicycles for a while, seeing that Su Nianzhen had not said a word, Su Lingling thought that she was uncomfortable because of Zhong Yan's words, and couldn't help but comfort with an embarrassed face.

"It's nothing, I'm just weird, I'm not familiar with that Zhong Yan, why did she say something like that."

"It's not because of Su Kun? You're completely lying down, and you're in no trouble. ”

"Su Kun? What's the matter with Guan Sukun? Su Nianzhen looked puzzled, Su Kun was also from Jinghe Village, and she had been in the same class for several years. However, she has always been a lone ranger, she can't get along with her classmates, and she has a cold temperament, so she has nothing to do with Su Kun, just occasionally meeting and nodding.

"I said you're sluggish, aren't you?" Su Lingling secretly shed tears of sympathy for Su Kun, who was secretly urging her to be sad, "Su Kun is infatuated with you, and Zhong Yan has a deep affection for Su Kun, how can you say that she will look at you pleasing to the eye?" ”

"You're kidding, aren't you? I don't have any intersection with Su Kun at all, okay? "I have seen my mother suffer all these years, although I don't know the reason, but I also know that it has something to do with her unknown father. So even at the age when love first blossomed, Su Nianzhen did not have any curiosity and expectations for the opposite sex, but subconsciously rejected and resisted, even Su Kun, who can be regarded as a childhood sweetheart to some extent.

Seeing that Su Lingling wanted to continue making fun with a gossipy face, Su Nianzhen hurriedly changed the topic, not wanting to entangle with her on this point. "It's been a long time since you left school, what are you going to do during this time?"

"It's been so long, of course it's going to be crazy!" Children in rural areas are not in a position to go on graduation trips, and the only way to relax is to stay at home and watch TV, go shopping with close friends to the countryside more than ten miles away to buy a few clothes, or invite friends to hang out. "What about you? If you have time to go to my house to play with me, don't stay at home all the time, good people have to hold back their illness. ”

"I want to try my luck in the county and see if I can find a place to work, but it's okay to stay at home anyway." Before, because of her mother, Su Nianzhen often couldn't even go to school on time, and sometimes she could only study at home for many days in a row. If it weren't for the fact that her grades have always been among the best, it is estimated that the school would have expelled her a long time ago, how would she be allowed to fish for three days and dry nets for two days until the end of the high school entrance examination? So when she was fourteen years old, Su Nianzhen had never even been out of the small Hekou Township, and the farthest place she had ever been to was the Hekou Township Pharmacy where she helped her mother buy medicine.

Now that her mother has been sleeping on the top of a high mountain covered with ice and snow in her [home], and Rhubarb does not need to be accompanied and taken care of from time to time, Su Nianzhen can take a look at the outside world with her own eyes. Whether it is as beautiful as it is depicted in textbooks and news broadcasts, or as dark and desperate as it is told in social and legal newspapers, Su Nianzhen wants to see it with her own eyes and feel it for herself.

"I want to go too!" How can a teenager not be curious about the outside world? It's just that not everyone is as alone as Su Nianzhen. "I'll go home and ask my parents later, Zhenzhen, don't be in a hurry to leave, can you wait for my news tomorrow?"

"Okay, I still have to deal with the affairs of the family, and I won't leave so quickly."

When Su Nianzhen arrived home, it was already dark. Her family's house was built at the foot of a hill far from the village, so it was inconvenient to pull power lines, so her house had no electricity. When she was a child, her mother had been circling her, and later when she was three or four years old, she accidentally discovered the magical "home", and their mother and daughter's life became more colorful, and the demand for electricity has not been high, so they lit candles for more than ten years.

Originally, when my mother was there, even if there was only a faint candlelight in the house at night, because of my mother's company, I only lay quietly in bed in a daze, and I felt very happy. Now that Su Nianzhen is alone, the dark room is so lonely and empty that it is unbearable.

Su Nianzhen asked Rhubarb to stay in the house and watch, and she flashed into the [home]. Compared to the deserted house outside, she still felt more secure at home.

At this time, it was also dark in the [home]. After reading books for so many years, Su Nianzhen boasts that she knows a lot of things, but she still has no clue about this unbelievable [home] that appeared inexplicably. Fortunately, she is not a person who loves to get to the bottom of it, since her mother said that this is a gift from God to herself, then she should be good in her past life and good luck in this life.

Under the reflection of the bright moonlight, the surface of the jasper-like lake in the daytime is like being inlaid with a little diamond, sparkling, sparkling, and beautiful. Su Nianzhen took off her clothes, like a dexterous fish, and jumped into the lake. It's no wonder that rhubarb loves to swim in the lake. The lake water is cool and cool, and the silk lingers in the body, and it is really a wonderful enjoyment to be in the lake.

After soaking enough, tired of swimming, Su Nianzhen went to the shore naked, and went straight to the small nest in [home] - the cave.

There was no electricity in the cave, so Su Nianzhen fumbled in the dark and lit a candle. Compared to the embarrassment of the outside, which was so simple that there was nothing but a basic bed, wardrobe, table and chair, the cave was still like a place for people to live. The mother and daughter of the Su family are both insecure people, and only this [home] that belongs to them alone and no one else can be allowed to enter can bring them some comfort. Therefore, in the early years, when Su's mother had plenty of money, the things she bought were basically kept in this cave.

Sturdy solid wood beds, wardrobes, tables and chairs, thick mattresses, clay pots of various sizes and sizes, and other bits and pieces of daily necessities...... Each one is filled with warm and happy memories of mother and daughter. Su Nianzhen wiped the water on her body, changed into pajamas, and tidied up the "room" with a smile on her face, before she lifted the mosquito net and threw herself on the soft, sun-filled bed.

When I woke up, the sun had already risen high. Su Nianzhen simply cooked a pot of sweet potato porridge, ate the steamed pickled fish and rhubarb beautifully, and began to clean up the belongings. Although she didn't often live outside during this time, in order to hide people's eyes, she still put a lot of things in the house. She left this time, I don't know when she will be able to come back, there are some things that should be put away, it is better to put them away. Otherwise, when she comes back, it is estimated that even the old door panel has been removed and split as firewood.

By the time Su Nianzhen packed the few items in the house and put them in the cave in the [home], the time had already reached noon unconsciously. Seeing that Su Lingling hadn't come at this time, Su Nianzhen sighed secretly in her heart, estimating that she could only go on the road alone on this trip. Su Nianzhen has always been independent, not a person who loves to rely on people, but after all, this is the first time in her life that she has faced the unknown strange world alone, and she can't help but feel a little nervous and uneasy, and it is understandable that she wants to find someone to accompany her.

"Chastity, chastity......"

Hearing Su Lingling's high-pitched shouting, Su Nianzhen was overjoyed, hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks, and walked out briskly.

"What's going on? Did your parents let you go? Su Nianzhen's face was silent, but she was secretly looking forward to it in her heart.

"Haha, I grinded my mom all morning, and finally said to move her!" Su Lingling looked happy, her family conditions were average, and she had a younger brother who was three years younger than her and was about to enter junior high school. Although the parents don't have too heavy patriarchal concepts, if they choose between two children, it is estimated that everything will have to be close to her younger brother. Junior high school is compulsory education, and the burden on the family is not heavy, but if her brother enters high school three years later, everything will be completely different. My younger brother's grades are average, and if he wants to go to a better high school, he will probably have to pay a lot of sponsorship fees, and she may have to go to college at that time, so the family's situation is definitely not optimistic. So when she proposed that she wanted to take advantage of the opportunity of the summer vacation to go to the county seat to find something to do, her parents did not veto, but were worried that it was not safe for the two and a half girls to be alone outside. "My sister-in-law's village is only a few miles away from the county seat, and my dad just called my sister-in-law and said that we will stay at her house first and wait until we find a job."

"Okay, then I have to thank your sister-in-law first...... "It's normal for people to borrow relatives, and I am an outsider who can't be beaten by eight poles, and people can kindly take it in, Su Nianzhen is grateful from the bottom of my heart.