On a September morning, before the sun rises, mist hangs over the village. Farmers are always used to get up early, and although it is not very bright, the roosters are already crowing and people are already getting up and preparing for the day's work. The smoke of the cooking slowly rose, and the smell of rice wafted from many people's homes.

There is a village courtyard at the foot of Xiaoqingshan Mountain, the yard is very large, the size of three acres of land, all enclosed by the courtyard wall, but there are very few houses inside, a main house with east and west two-compartment houses. The main house also has only three rooms, but the room is very spacious, with a transept room on each side. There is a kitchen and a warehouse behind the main house. There are some vegetable patches divided by the well in the front yard, planted with some seasonal vegetables, but some of the Xihilara's, the vegetables are also a little green and yellow, and they look malnourished, probably because the owner has not taken care of them.

"It's really unlucky, and it's good and it's getting into trouble again. It's really not worry-free. An impatient voice came from the east room, and after a while the door opened, and came out a blue-dressed, slightly chubby woman of about forty years of age, with a very bad face and a look of boredom on her mean face. Walked quickly to the door of the West House, lifted the curtain, pushed open the door and entered the room.

The west room was a little dim, with a shabby bed on the west side of the room, with a coarse cloth bed tent hanging on it, and a table by the window, on which were teapots and cups, but they all looked simple and crude. There is also a small table next to it, where some girls' household toiletries are placed. There is a cage on the east side of the house, and looking at the dilapidated degree of the cage, you can see that there is nothing valuable in the road without opening it.

On the bed lay a little girl of about seven or eight years old, covered with a coarse quilt, lying quietly. The hair is yellow, the face is not good, some are dull and dull, the white lips are chapped and some are peeled, the eyes are closed, and only the wings of the nose are still shaking slightly to find some signs of life.

The woman in blue walked to the bed, her disgusted and sarcastic expression became even more obvious, she pushed the girl lying on the bed with her hand, "Sister Zhu, wake up" Looking at the motionless appearance of the person on the bed, the woman in blue was a little panicked, and pushed again with more force. "Sister Zhu, Sister Zhu, wake up, wake up." Seeing that the girl still didn't move, she put her hand on the tip of the girl's nose, and her trembling hands didn't feel the slight movement. The woman in blue was completely stunned. She hurriedly turned around and walked out, and went out to find someone in a panic, "Old man, old man, where are you?" Come here. His voice trembled a little, "Oh no, no, old man, where are you?" The courtyard resounded with the screams of the woman in blue, and the footsteps of people looking around.

At this time, the sick girl lying on the bed in the West House, her tightly closed eyes and eyelashes trembled slightly, and she slowly opened her eyes. But there was confusion in his eyes, "What's going on?" I wanted to raise my hand, but I found that my arm was weak and weak, and I moved my leg again, and my leg was also weak, and my whole body was lying stiff and flat. This discovery surprised her very much, and the person who was still playing in the mountains and rivers one second was lying like a vegetative person the next second. Looking around again, it was not to the extent of surprise, but shock. The dilapidated houses, the shabby and antique decorations, and the coarse cloth bed tents have reached the point of obsolescence. In the dim light of the room, the old-fashioned room décor was revealed to her eyes. "This, this, where is this?" She looked at the objects around her, looking for something familiar to her, but the fact shocked her again, this was not the place where she once lived, and there was nothing she was familiar with, only the scenes that appeared in the costume TV series appeared in front of her.

The fact that she was too shocked made her sit up despite her weak body, and tried to stand up with her hand on the edge of the bed, but her eyes scanned the hand holding the side of the bed, and she was startled again, small and thin, dry, slender, and bloodless, this was not her hand, and looked at her body again, the appearance of a seven or eight-year-old girl, but it was completely a malnourished body, no different from the body of the African refugee child she had seen before. Seeing a bronze mirror on the dresser, he barely staggered a few steps to the mirror, and the mirror reflected a not very clear image, what kind of person was that, dry and yellow hair, pale face, a pair of eyes under Xi Shu's eyebrows, empty and godless, under a small nose, white lips chapped and peeled, a thin neck under the collarbone protruding, a small body wearing a washed white green dress, this is obviously a child who has not recovered for a long time, not the originally healthy, somewhat chubby, The ruddy face is already an adult, and his name is Lin Zhu.

The impact of the image in the mirror made Lin Zhu take a few steps back, and he sat on the edge of the bed a little stunned. The originally pale face was a little gray again. Before she came back to her senses, she thought about what was going on. There was a loud shout outside the house, and the "old man" frightened her subconsciously into the quilt, lay down again, and pretended to be asleep.

In the courtyard outside the house, the woman in blue was still anxiously searching, and kept shouting, and a man in Ge Yi who was about forty-five years old with a cigarette stick walked in from outside the courtyard: "Come, don't shout, I can hear your voice from the outer courtyard, what's the big deal, I have to shout so loudly." The man in Ge Yi said grumblingly, and he put down his cigarette stick and looked at the woman in blue.

"Oh, what are you going to go around like you don't have anything to do, Sister Zhu is not good again, it looks like it's going to work, you go and see. Maybe I'll have to go find Dr. Zhang. The woman in blue took the man by the hand and walked into the westroom.

"Alright, you let go first," the man wrenched the woman's hand, "don't make a fuss, hasn't she always been like that?" The doctor also said that it is enough to recuperate. ”

"It's not that simple this time, didn't we tell her about it, she got sick when she heard it, and now she's lying there, no movement at all, I pushed her, and there was no response, if it's really bad, then what should I do? I can't explain it when I go back. The woman in blue said anxiously.

"What else do you have to confess? Who to talk to? Now that the matter is a foregone conclusion, she is no longer the eldest lady in the house, and there is no hope of going back, and the house has cut off relations with her. We're just doing our part here. Besides, we're going back in a few days. She had no choice but to resign herself to her fate. The man said nonchalantly, "All right, let's go in and have a look." ”

The man entered the Westinghouse first, followed by the woman in blue. Lin Zhu, who was pretending to be asleep in the house, heard the sound, and his heart missed a beat in fright, for fear that they would see that something was wrong. She also understands her current situation, this is the legendary "crossing", but what bothers her is that she came here in a good manner, and she didn't die in this life, so what will her body become? And it seems to have been worn in ancient times.

Even if she understands the current situation, she has no memory of the original owner, and if she faces someone who is familiar with the original owner, she is found to be too different from before and after, and she may be treated as a monster to be caught, then it will be a big deal.

The sound of the two entering the house was also close, and Lin Zhu continued to pretend to be asleep. The man in Ge Yi and the woman in blue approached the bed, and the woman stepped forward and pushed the person with her eyes closed on the bed, "Sister Zhu, Sister Zhu, wake up, Steward Lin and I have come to see you." The person on the bed still didn't move, and the woman glanced at the man helplessly, but this time she found that Lin Zhu was still breathing, which made her feel a lot more relieved.

"Old man, it seems to be better now. Or I'll ask Dr. Zhang to take a look in a while. The woman looked at the man with some concern.

Ge Yi's man, also known as the woman's Lin Steward, was originally an outer court steward, and more than seven years ago, along with his wife Wang, was sent to this Zhuangzi to take care of the eldest lady who had just been born for a month.

Steward Lin looked at the sleeping man on the bed and couldn't help but think of the incident the night before.

"Old man, what did you mean just now that there was news from the house? Good news or bad news? Wang looked at Steward Lin who had just come back from the town with an anxious expression, "It's news, I went to the town today and received a letter from the house," Steward Lin was a little heavy, "What did the letter say?" Oh, you're going to tell us about it, won't you let us go back? How long are you going to stay in this place? Yes? Wang looked at Steward Lin's silent appearance and was a little flustered, and kept urging.

"We can go back." Steward Lin looked at Wang and said softly.

"Really!?" Wang's voice was full of surprise, "Can we really go back?" It's so good, it's so good, it's really good to finally be able to go back. "Still." Although he was a little incoherent with joy, Wang still noticed that there was something wrong with Steward Lin, "What's wrong with you, are you not happy that you can go back to the house?" ”

"No, of course I'm very happy to be able to go back, but we can go back, Sister Zhu'er can't go back." Steward Lin's voice was a little low, "The mansion said that she had severed her relationship with Sister Zhu, she was no longer the eldest lady in the mansion, and she was not allowed to go back." ”

"What do you mean by that? Don't you let Sister Zhu go back with us, so where is she going? Didn't she say that her mother's side had always disagreed with her past? Wang was a little at a loss, and a little anxious, she didn't want to stay in this small village in the countryside anymore, "The meaning of the house is that this Zhuangzi was originally given to her by her mother, so let her stay here, put her household registration here, and then be here, fending for herself." However, we can't tell Sister Zhu about the things in the house, not at all, it is the chief manager of the house who sent the message, and he specially advised, if Sister Zhu knows about the affairs of the house, then the two of us will not be able to eat and leave. You have to keep your mouth shut, and don't say anything you shouldn't say, do you know the truth? Steward Lin told the Wang family seriously, for fear that if she didn't pay attention and accidentally said something, it would be a big deal.

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