Chapter 208: A Tree

In October, the cold wind was cold, and Yan Yu walked alone on the path paved with soft stones with her schoolbag on her back, her head bowed, her lips pursed, and she walked without any expression on her face.

In front of her, a group of children of her age were playing and playing, although the wind was cold, but during the fight, the foreheads of the children were covered with a layer of thin sweat, the children's immature faces were full of smiles, and the crisp voices floated in the clean sky.

Almost all of the happiest things in many people's school days happened after school, and the road from school to home was just a month ago, and she was also a member of that group of children, happy and carefree.

But now she can no longer show that smile on her face, fourteen years old, it is the age of carefree, but she lost everything overnight.

The family is ruined and lonely, let's talk about her current situation!

It was late autumn, but she was wearing extremely thin, a pair of board shoes had lost their original color, the edges of the shoes were glued, the shoes obviously did not fit, the toes were worn holes, and the color of the socks could be vaguely seen.

Clothes can be worn on my sister's, but shoes can't, because her feet are bigger than her sister's, and the clothes Yan Yu wears are always bigger, and in the wind, she looks more and more petite and thin.

That day in the hospital, she fainted, thanks to her sister's classmate Zhou Su taking care of her and helping her deal with the aftermath.

Zhou Su sent her home, and when he left, he told her that she could call him if she had any difficulties in the future, and he would definitely do his best to help her.

Yan Yu said thank you, but after entering the door, she tore up the note with Zhou Su's phone number and threw it into the trash. Although she was grateful to Zhou Su, she hated Nanhua and Nanhua's qiē in her heart.

The cruelty of life lies in. No matter what happens in this world, time will not stop. I can't go back to the past and change what has happened.

Every day someone is born, someone dies, some rejoice, some grieve, some begin with hope, and some fall into despair to see the end...... But no matter what mood you feel at the moment, the sun will still rise the next day and life will go on.

is like Yan Yu, facing the injustice and cruelty of fate. She cried, quarreled, and made trouble, but life still had to go on, going to school, getting out of school, coming home, doing her homework......

Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang couldn't let her go, and often dragged her to the house for dinner. I was afraid that she would think of her grandmother and sister and let her live in their house, but Yanyu politely refused.

No matter how old and dilapidated the house is, it is empty. But it is always loaded with all her good memories, which can give her some imagination and comfort.

At night, she would be curled up in bed alone. It seems that as soon as you open your eyes, you can see the sleeping side face of my sister, which is very clear. It's real, it's close. She could even see the tiny hairs on her sister's face, and the slightly fluttering eyelashes, maybe she just had a nightmare, her sister didn't die, and her grandmother didn't die......

Her home is still there!

It's just that when I get up every day, I always have an inexplicable angina, the house is too cold, empty, lifeless, and desolate.

Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang secretly inquired about Yanyu's mother behind her back, and now they can't count on Gu Shaohua at all, and they didn't show up when their mother died, which shows what a wolf-hearted thing it is.

What's more, he himself is an uneasy master, eating, drinking, and having fun all day long, and being idle, and now that he has money in his hands, he doesn't know what he will do, how can he let Yan Yu suffer with him!

But Yanyu is only fourteen years old this year, living alone and living alone, after all, it is not a long-term solution, not to mention that she will go to the provincial capital to study next year......

Grandma Gu nagged all day long before her death, saying that she didn't ask for much in her life, she just wanted Gu Shaohua to be safe, her two children to be healthy, to be admitted to college, and to have a good home, so that even if she died, she would be famous.

Although she couldn't see the two sisters go to college, this was Grandma Gu's wish, not to mention that Yan Yu's grades were so good, if she was admitted to a key high school with her strength, there would be absolutely no problem.

It's just that whether it is going to high school in a provincial city or going to university in the future, it takes a lot of money, and without family care and support, a 14-year-old girl alone may not even be able to maintain normal expenses, let alone go to school.

Now the only one who can be counted on may be the mother who has remarried, no matter how Yan Yu is her daughter, she has almost never fulfilled her mother's obligations since she was born, and now that Grandma Gu is gone, she should take care of it.

Fortunately, it is said that Yan Yu's biological mother remarried to the city and gave birth to two boys in a row, the family status is stable, and the man is in business, so I heard that life is not bad......

Yan Yu naturally didn't know that Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang Luo were about this, her thin body walked forward in the cold wind, and as soon as she entered the courtyard, she saw a boy standing in the courtyard, it was Nangong Xuanmu.

"What are you doing here?" Seeing Xuanmu, Yan Yu was excited and tense.

She is resentful of Xuanmu, he pursued it so actively before her sister's death, and even found her home several times, why did she not even see his shadow when something happened at this time, but the boy named Zhou Su helped her take care of her sister and grandmother's afterlife.

For Yan Yu's rejection and questioning, Xuan Mu was ashamed.

only said lightly: "I want to see Yanran." ”

Although Yan Yu was annoyed, she still decided to take Xuanmu to see her sister.

He lost a lot of weight, his face was as white as paper, without any color, his deep eyes collapsed, like two soulless and focusless black holes, thin and pale to worry.

Although I don't know what the reason is, but from the way he looks, Yan Yu knows that he is not doing well, maybe his sister's death, his pain is no less than anyone's.

She knows that her sister's favorite was this boy when she was alive, and now that she is dead, she can't see her for the last time, so he must be very guilty!

The town in late autumn is like an overturned dye plate, wrapping the town in a variety of colors, the cold wind is whining, the fallen leaves are fluttering, and there is a quiet and gloomy beauty.

He and Yanran also walked on this path, and it was in this stream that he and Yanran once stopped and stopped, pulled their trouser legs high, and tread water and chatted in the mottled light and shadow.

He remembered that it was the height of summer, it was hot, and they had an unpleasant quarrel and a fierce quarrel.

He came to see her, and it was here that the two of them talked heartily and resolved the misunderstanding...... He took her hand, soft, small, on the winding path, in the summer breeze, in the shade of the dense trees, leisurely walking, secretly hoping to be able to hold her hand for a long time......

Now here again, midsummer turns into late autumn, and there are withered colors as far as the eye can see, and the road is paved with a thick layer of fallen leaves, and the wind is very cold, and the cheeks of the people who are accompanied by the falling leaves hurt, and they hold hands tightly, but now he is the only one left, and his hands are empty.

"It's here!" Yan Yu's footsteps stopped, and under the stout banyan tree, autumn leaves flew.

Arrived? Where? Why can't he see anything, not even a grave, not a tombstone?

"I sprinkled my sister's ashes under this tree...... My sister doesn't like cold graves and doesn't like to sleep in the ground, she said that she wants to be a tree and stay in one place for the rest of her life, watching people chatting in the shade under the tree, watching the small animals around her, so that she will not be lonely! Yan Yu said calmly, her eyes were dead and silent, and her tone was calm, as if she was talking about an extremely ordinary thing.

She remembers that last summer, she and her sister were chatting under this big banyan tree, and somehow mentioned life and death, and she took her sister's words as a joke at the time, but now it is true.

Sometimes when she thinks of this, she will feel very remorseful, regret that she shouldn't have asked such an obscure question at that time, and even wonder if it was because of that sentence at that time that she accidentally angered the heavens, which led to such an ending.

After the death of her sister and grandmother, she would often fall into various memories like this, always trying to find some kind of clue from the bits and pieces of the past, why she suddenly lost her sister and grandmother overnight, and became a lonely orphan.

Xuanmu stood under the tree, watching the thick and lush tree dyed yellow, and it was sad as far as the eye could see.

He remembered that when she was a child, she often dragged him here to dig ant holes with the children in the village, play marbles, and play in the nearby creek when it was hot, when she was wearing two long whips, a white dress, like a little angel falling into the mortal world, and when she smiled, the two small dimples were full of sweet taste, which would make those who watched it also can't help but be happy, and fell into her clear, crooked eyebrows.

He remembered that on a summer night that year, the starry sky was bright, the cicadas were chirping loudly, accompanied by gusts of fresh wind, and the leaves rattled and clattered, and it was under this big banyan tree that they hugged each other and cried.

That day, she gave him all her joys and sorrows for the first time, told her sad life story for the first time, and vented the resentment that had been pressed in her heart for many years for the first time, crying a lot.

He hugged her tightly, and he secretly vowed that from now on he must treat this girl well, stop making her cry, and live happily with her for the rest of his life.

He stroked the thick trunk of the tree, and only felt that his heart was unbearable!

Fate has never been kind to Yan'er, his girl, beautiful and pure, kind and lovely, has never hurt anyone, but she has been miserable all her life, and after her death, she didn't even have a grave or a tombstone, so she disappeared and scattered with the wind, with nowhere to go.

Yan Yu watched Xuanmu crying under the big tree and left in time, she knew that he might have a lot to talk about with his sister.

Although she didn't know what happened between them and why he didn't show up after her sister's accident, she knew that this boy's love for his sister was no less than anyone else in this world.

Under the big banyan tree, the boy was like a soulless sculpture, the autumn leaves were flying, and the fire clouds in the sky were burning, reflecting on the boy's pale face, but they could not light up his dead eyes. (To be continued......)