At the familiar entrance of the village, the villagers were waiting on the side of the road. Wang Erli and He Sanmei looked at the welcoming team, feeling a little satisfied, and felt that everyone was really getting better and better.

Some people helped hand over bags, some people helped drag suitcases, and some people came over to support Sanmei. Sanmei felt like she had never been treated before, and she didn't know what was going on.

Sanmei looked at everyone's faces that were not excited, and finally someone in the crowd shed tears and cried uncontrollably, Sanmei shook off her hands that were being supported and forced the crying person to ask questions.

"I said, what the hell is going on in my house? You can't hide it from me, what the hell is going on, what are you crying about? ”

No one answered, only that it was very depressing, so quiet that even the sound of breathing could be heard.

Sanmei began to panic, she was wondering, what was going on? Could it be that my mother-in-law is dead? Or is my father-in-law gone? Sanmei would never have thought of her children.

The women in the crowd finally couldn't control themselves, and several people cried at the same time.

"Mei, something happened to your daughter!"

"It's all my fault, why didn't you go to the laundry that day."

Sanmei listened to the crying voice here, and slowly understood that they seemed to be talking about their daughter.

No, it won't! No, it won't! No way! No way! What can happen to my daughter? These poisonous tongue women are looking forward to my daughter's accident, aren't they?

You crow's beaks!

Sanmei ran home like crazy with her legs open. People ran after her.

Wang Erli kept shouting, "Daughter-in-law, you wait for me." It's going to be fine, don't worry, it's going to be fine. Don't scare yourself. ”

Sanmei shouted her daughter's name loudly, "Niu, Niu, where are you?" Mom is back, come out? ”

Sanmei pushed open the courtyard door, entered the living room, and then checked room by room, but found no trace of her daughter. Didn't get any response. I didn't see my son, nor did I see my father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Sanmei's shouts became louder, and there was fear floating in her voice, she began to worry, why is there no one at home, not even the courtyard door is locked, what is going on? Could it be that something really happened?

Sanmei's tears spurted out, her heart-rending cry scared Wang Erli who rushed in, he looked at his tearful wife, helpless and frightened, and suddenly lost his confidence, did his daughter really have an accident? Did something really happen?

"My great treasure, my precious daughter, my daughter, where are you, what has happened to you? Come out quickly, mom is so worried about you! ”

"Niu, my mother bought you a lot of delicious food, come out, my mother will give it to you." Mom also bought you a lot of beautiful new clothes, can Mom put them on for you? ”

"Mom, Dad, where have you all gone? Why is it that no one is at home? Who told me, where did my chick go? My dear treasure, what has happened to you?"

Sanmei's questions were like snowfall in the cold winter that brought layers of frost to this courtyard, and the strong men also cried and cried. Suddenly, the air was filled with sadness, and the cries of people were everywhere.

Wang Erli looked carefully at the sad faces of the people, listening to the mournful cries, and the sympathetic eyes that people showed to him. He concluded that something had really happened to his daughter. Tears flowed from her back.

But he didn't want to believe that he was getting richer and richer, how could he be unlucky all of a sudden? He fiercely grabbed the hand of a crying woman and asked silently, "Tell me, what's wrong with my girl?" ”

The woman who was asked was a new daughter-in-law who had just married from another village, she looked at Wang Erli's fierce eyes, became afraid, and replied in a low voice with trembling hands, "Brother Erli, your daughter has left." ”

What the? What did you say? It's gone, what does it mean? Who's gone? Wang Erli and Sanmei fell to the ground.

Several women and men helped them up, Sanmei's trembling legs had lost the ability to walk, and a man carried her on her back. Wang Erli was supported by two women.

At the door of Uncle Wang's house, seven or eight children of four or five years old were playing, watching the adults coming in and out, and at the same time looking at the girl lying on the ground in the center of the living room. They were too young to understand what the hell was going on.

Wang Erli pounced and knelt on his threshold. He didn't dare to take a step forward again, he didn't want to face it, he didn't want to see such an ending.

Sanmei saw from a distance the pink princess dress on the ground that she was all too familiar with, which she bought for Niuniu to wear in Jinling's Trade City, and she still remembered Niuniu's appearance when she first wore it.

"Mom, this dress is so beautiful, do I look like a princess? The princess on TV seems to be wearing a dress like this, Mom, you really know how to buy clothes, I'm so beautiful, I'm so beautiful. ”

Daughter Niuniu's words seemed to be in her ears, Sanmei slipped off her back and slowly crawled towards her daughter, she knelt on the ground, kissed Niuniu's body, she kept calling

"Girl, open your eyes and see, Mom is back, Mom will never leave you again, my baby, my Niu, Mom will never go away, Mom will always be with my baby." Mom, never go away again! ”

"Bao, wake up, it's your mother who should go, not you, you went to that world at such a young age, who takes care of you over there, girl, you wait, your mother won't live anymore!"

"Girl, wake up, let mom look at you again!"

Remorse is mixed with tears, despair is accompanied by coldness.

Sanmei stroked Niuniu's cold body over and over again. Calling out to his daughter over and over again.

But no matter how Sanmei shouted, she couldn't hear Niuniu's response after all.

People looked at the grief-stricken Sanmei and Erli, holding their children tightly, rejoicing, fortunately, it happened to them unfortunately, if it was themselves, what should they do? What could be more sad and desperate than the loss of a child?

The tiredness of the past, the impoverished house, the rough hands, and the dark skin, at this moment, facing the two couples in front of them, they feel that they are much happier and luckier.

The night slowly permeated the village, and the intermittent cries could be heard as people lay in their beds, the men sat and smoked cigarettes, and the women tirelessly looked at the faces of the sleeping children.

Think about what you should cherish the most, and what you really have in your life.

What exactly is life?

It's so fragile, so vulnerable.

It's fleeting and you can't see or touch it anymore.

It takes you from a happy paradise to a bottomless hell! It gives you indefinite despair!