Chapter Ninety-Six: Unspeakable Promises
The child in the man's arms struggled to break free from his father's arms, walked to the woman's side, and wiped away his mother's tears with his tender little hands. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Mother, don't cry, I've seen flowers, and I've seen a lot."
The woman looked up at the child's untouched face and did not know what to say.
Another child walked next to him and asked seriously, "When did you see the flowers?" ”
The child thought for a moment, "In winter, I can see flowers every winter. ”
The other child shook his head, "You lied, my mother said, there are flowers in spring, you said you saw it in winter, where did you see it?" ”
The child turned his head and smiled sweetly at his mother, "Every year during the festival, my mother wears that red jacket, and there are a lot of tweeds on it." ”
When the woman heard her child's words, tears broke down again, and the women behind her also began to sob.
A woman approached and hugged the woman on the ground with red eyes.
"If there is no way, how can there be a mother in this world who is willing to give up her child!"
The man never spoke, he looked at his weeping wife, and then at the children on the side, and suddenly he seemed to notice something, and hurriedly turned around, but when he turned around, he found that there were several men who had long been like him, and the tears did not know when they had fallen.
The one-armed man came over and said to the woman, "Sister-in-law, I know that you are thinking about your children, but have you ever thought that if our children come out of this ghostly sorrow, they may die outside. ”
The woman was stunned and did not know how to answer. In fact, she knows very well that if her child goes out, it is really possible to be like the one-armed man said, but the scene of that day always appears in her mind, and it lingers for a long time.
That evening, she leaned against the door of her house, holding her child who was only a few months old in her arms, and watched the children play at the door.
She only hopes that her children can grow up soon, and they can play happily every day like these children at the door.
But the sudden appearance of a child caused a ripple in her heart.
The child, named Little Stone, was so excited that he was about to go to a new place where he could have food, clothing, and books.
The other children sat around and listened with relish.
At first, the woman thought it was a joke that the child was talking about, so she just listened to it for fun, but gradually even the woman was fascinated by the place that the child described.
What shocked the woman the most was that she saw something familiar in the eyes of the other children, but she had never seen it in the walled city.
The woman's desperate memories finally remembered the feeling called longing.
She lowered her head and looked at the child in her arms, how many times, she fantasized that when her child grew up, she must tell him what the mountains and rivers look like, and what the rivers look like, but it was not until this moment that she suddenly realized that for the outside world, her thousand words are always not as good as the child's own glance.
The ripples in the woman's heart grew stronger and stronger, and eventually turned into waves that spread and swept through the entire city in one day.
All mothers have the same idea, they want their children to be able to cross the mountains and rivers, cross the babbling streams, and see the outside world with their own eyes, instead of being trapped here and dying like themselves.
The woman suddenly raised her head and looked at the one-armed man with a resolute look in her eyes.
"We came here because we were afraid of death, but even so, we will die one day, and when we are gone, have you ever thought about what these children who have never seen mountains and rivers will be like?"
The one-armed man was silent for a moment, and then slowly spoke: "I didn't think about it, and I didn't want to think about it, I just know that life is more important than anything else." Besides, I don't believe there is such a place in this world. ”
"Yes! There must be! A little girl walked out of the crowd, "That place is good, my mother and I will go, and you will go with us too!" ”
The one-armed man looked at the little girl in front of him with a determined face in surprise, he knew best what kind of character his daughter had, and what kind of strong expectations could he have to make his daughter, who was shy and couldn't say half a word when outsiders were present, have such courage?
Liu He on the side looked at the little girl, and was also very surprised, but he didn't expect that the daughter of the one-armed man turned out to be his little sparrow.
The little sparrow walked up to Liu He and gently took Liu He's hand, "Master, you will definitely take us to that place, right?" ”
The child's immature little hand touched his palm, and Liu He only felt a warm current pouring into his palm, which instantly spread throughout his body, making him tremble slightly.
Although Liu He wanted to say it, he couldn't even say the answer that he wasn't sure of, and under the child's expectant eyes, Liu He didn't even have the courage to nod.
The one-armed man was silent for a long time, but he never waited for the answer he wanted. He didn't say anything more, and without any expression on his face, he quietly turned away again.
There are some things in this world that are always a little bit worse, but this little bit makes many people regret it for life.
If the young man was willing to give that answer, even if it was just a nod, maybe he would have let his daughter go with him. I knew that even if the young man said it, it was just a whim, but even then, I would take it seriously.
He kept thinking of his daughter's expectant eyes in his mind, but in fact, he preferred to believe that what the young man said was true.
But the young man was so stingy that he refused to even give a promise, even if that promise didn't even need to be kept.
The one-armed man walked alone, and he glanced to the side, but there was no one around him. The corners of his mouth showed a hint of disdain, could it be that at this time, do you still believe that there can be such a place in this world?
He looked up and squinted at the overcast sky.
Although we are still alive, this world is already dead.
Obviously, he was already cold and discouraged, but a thought suddenly flashed through the one-armed man's mind.
Just one look, I'll just look back.
I can't tell why, I just want to take another look, but this glance makes the one-armed man unable to take his eyes off it.
The well-dressed young man, the young man who had always looked like he was high at first glance, was kneeling in the mud with his head bowed, and the five fingers of the young man had sunk deep into the dirt because of the exertion, as if he wanted to embed himself in the earth.
"How much the world owes you, from today onwards, all of it will be remembered on me alone."