Since that day, Yu Songyuan has been waiting for her to commute to work with her every day. However, he could feel that the little girl did not trust him, was always wary of something, kept a distance from him at all times, and never spoke to him.

The cold snap is coming, the sky is getting more and more wintery, and the temperature drops suddenly. That night, the sky began to fall with snowflakes, and soon the ground was covered with a thick layer of snow, and the sky and the earth were white.

After Yu Songyuan finished his evening self-study, he slowly walked towards the dormitory with his books in his arms. When I walked to the Zuihou row in the teacher's family area, I found that the thin little girl was curled up at the base of the wall under the eaves in the distance. She was no longer hiding somewhere, as she had done in the past, but kept standing up and rubbing her hands, sometimes walking back and forth, standing up and stomping her feet to keep warm.

She is not much taller than her sisters Yu Ya, Yu Xiaohui and Chen Jing, wearing the wide overalls of the school-run garment factory and the factory-issued hat, covering almost half of her small face. On his feet, he wore suede leather shoes worn by adult workers, which was very incongruous. After getting up and walking for a while, he would put his hands in his sleeves and squat at the heel of the wall and wait for him.

Looking at the wall of the family dormitory and the thin figure squatting at the base of the wall from afar, Yu Songyuan's nose was sore, and tears almost fell. Yu Songyuan hurriedly walked over, and when he came to him, he slowed down again so that she could follow.

Seeing Yu Songyuan coming over, the little girl immediately stood up and followed from a distance. It's just that he always keeps a long distance that he can run away at any time, and he looks timid and never talks to him.

Walk through vegetable patches, woods and reeds together. Yu Songyuan deliberately slowed down so that she could watch the flashlight. The girl seemed to sense his kindness, and the distance between the two began to close.

When she walked to the side of the ditch, because it was too dark here, a small bridge made of several large logs was covered with a thin layer of snowflakes, and Yu Songyuan took her up to the small bridge. I wanted to reach out to help her, but she waved her hand, meaning that she could do it.

The bridge deck is very narrow, just two long logs, and the height is uneven. It was too slippery to see the road, so she cautiously walked onto the bridge. Suddenly, his feet slipped, and with an exclamation, he lost his balance and fell under the bridge.

At the last moment, Yu Songyuan, who had been prepared, grabbed her arm with his right hand, lifted her up vigorously, and threw her to his left arm with force. With the strength under their feet, the two finally found their balance again.

It's too dangerous!

Yu Songyuan was taken aback, but the girl felt that it was inappropriate for people to hold it, and struggled to get down. Yu Songyuan said: "If you make trouble again, we will both have to fall down and take a bath!" She was so frightened that she didn't dare to move, and hugged his neck tightly.

Carefully walking across the three- or four-meter-long bridge, Yu Songyuan put her on the ground and asked her, "There was a noise in the satchel just now, let's see if I haven't dropped anything, right?" She shook her head and said nothing.

Returning to the dormitory, Yu Songyuan thought about it from the girl's point of view, and understood everything.

A fourteen or fifteen-year-old little girl, who is lying in her mother's arms and coquettish, has to follow a young man she has never met on a dark night, through a dense forest with towering trees, impermeable reeds and a deep ditch with only a few logs to build a small bridge, and then, living in the so-called "haunted house" that even adults dare not live in, can you imagine the fear in her heart.

Every time he thought of holding her on the bridge, Yu Songyuan wanted to cry. He felt that when he hugged her, it was like holding his niece Yu Xiaohong's thin little body, fluttering, not like a fourteen or fifteen-year-old person at all.

If it were Yu Ya, Chen Jing, and Yu Xiaohui's three younger sisters, or nieces Yu Xiaohong, Yu Xiaomei, and Yu Xiaoyin, what would they do? Yu Songyuan, who was about to be eighteen years old, suddenly had a strong desire to take care of her and protect her in his heart.

Yu Songyuan decided to finish the evening self-study early every day and go there a little earlier to wait for the poor little girl. Never let her be alone again, waiting for him pitifully in the corner of the wall in the cold winter, let alone walk alone on the road that terrifies her and makes her heart palpitate.

He usually studies in the classroom until 22 o'clock, and the end time of the school's evening self-study is 21. The evening shift at the school-run textile mill will definitely end before blackjack. That is, the girl has to squat on the wall of the family dormitory in the cold night wind of winter every day, waiting for him for at least an hour.

So, Yu Songyuan went to the communication room of the school-run factory to check the work and rest time, and sure enough, the night shift ended at 20 o'clock. Yu Songyuan's heart was stung fiercely, it had begun to snow, and now it was about to enter the coldest season in northern Jiangsu. He felt uneasy for a while, and he really wanted to slap his big mouth hard.

What kind of scene is this, a little girl of fourteen or fifteen years old, for the past half a month, just to walk with him, every day in this dark, indifferent, empty night, alone and curled up in the corner for more than two hours.

So, from that day on, every morning, he would move a little in front of the door before he was ready to get the lunch box, so that she had enough time to wash, clean up and keep up with him, not too hurried and embarrassed. Every night, before 20 o'clock, I would leave the classroom with my books in my hand. Walking to the teacher's family area, the girl was almost walking somewhere.

Sometimes, when he walked to the girl before she came, he would deliberately stand on the edge of the vegetable patch and wait for a while, only when she appeared, and then they would return to the dormitory together. Every time he passed by the snow-covered bridge, he would take the initiative to reach out and take her little hand to cross the bridge together.

Slowly, no matter how early or evening, the little girl will not be far away from him. When it is windy and snowy, they will follow him closely. When it comes to difficult sections, they will even pull his clothes tightly.

His kindness, the girl finally felt it slowly. One day, after holding her hand and walking across the bridge, she finally spoke: "Big brother, it's hard for you, my name is Lin Xue, how do you call you." ”

Yu Songyuan said: "You're welcome, my name is Yu Songyuan." I thought you were a little mute, but great, I'll have someone to talk to. ”

"I'm not dumb." Her words actually had a little girl's coquettishness, and Yu Songyuan suddenly felt relieved.

Seeing that she was no longer always hiding from him, he handed her the flashlight with four batteries that Teacher Zhang gave him and said, "I am naturally bold and don't need this." You little hairy girl, if I have something to do that day and you can't wait for me, don't be afraid, you can go back to the dormitory with a flashlight and sing loudly, okay? ”

Who knows, Lin Xue was frightened, and waved her hand back again and again: "No, no, no, Brother Yu, if you don't live in the dormitory if you have something, I'll ...... I don't dare to go back here alone, so I have nowhere to live. ”

"I mean, if I'm in trouble, you can go to the women's dormitory and squeeze in for the night."

She seemed to be crying immediately, and said with a crying and aggrieved voice: "They don't like me, they bully me, they think I'm small, they think I can't work, and they steal my barley seeds and dried potatoes, so that I don't have enough food to eat and starve all the time." In the factory, I only know my master. ”

"Then you can go to your master's house for the night." Yu Songyuan deliberately teased her.

"The master's house is in the county seat, and there is only one room in the house. If there is a place, she will let me live with her, and she will use this hellish place to scare people to death. ”

Yu Songyuan said: "Okay, okay, don't be nervous, I just said what if." Don't worry, I'll be with you every day, so it's okay. ”

Only then did she take the flashlight: "Okay, xiexie, I'll buy a new one and give it back to you when I get paid." ”

"I bought this flashlight and gave it to me by Mr. Zhang, so you can buy my flashlight and let me earn some money."

Lin Xue was amused for the first time.

Once, when Yu Songyuan was waiting for her, he used his hands to remove the thick reeds covering the ridges of the ground, pulled out two large green radishes from the ground, and then leveled the soil and replanted the reeds. The girl happened to arrive, and she was surprised and puzzled to see Yu Songyuan actually get two big robbers from the ground.

Yu Songyuan told her that such a large vegetable plot is from the school, and the Chinese cabbage and radish harvested in autumn every year are buried in the ditch dug haode, covered with soil and reeds, which are not only fresh but also not frozen, and cannot be eaten in winter and spring.

She covered her mouth and sighed, "Really? Wow, then we sent it, there are dishes to eat. After saying that, he was so happy that he clapped his little hands and jumped up. She was talking about "we", Yu Songyuan knew that she was beginning to trust him.

When he arrived at the door of the dormitory, Yu Songyuan washed Luo Bu, knocked on the door and handed one to her, and then reminded: "It's okay to just dig a few occasionally, once the school finds out that the vegetable patch has been stolen, it's over." ”

"I know, Xiexie, you." She said excitedly.

From then on, every night when she went back to the dormitory and passed by the vegetable patch, she would say, "Brother Yu, wait a while." Then he lifted the reeds, pulled out two large robbes from the ground, washed them in the dormitory, and ate them and slept them.

In this way, they formed a tacit understanding, leaving early and returning late, and pairing up. Usually Yu Songyuan walks in front, she is two or three steps away, following behind, becoming the warmest scenery in the school family area in the morning and evening.

In fact, many of these teachers and their families are kind and ordinary people, and they all have deep sympathy for these two children who were indifferently abandoned and forgotten by the school. Now, seeing them supporting each other and helping each other, I feel relieved.

After the first cold snap ended, the temperature began to rise again. On this day, Yu Songyuan finished two classes, and found out that Qin Hong had forgotten to take the chemistry materials given to him during the recess, and the last two classes were chemistry classes, and he needed them, so he hurriedly trotted to the dormitory.

Walking through the dormitory of the teacher's family, I vaguely heard the desperate, fearful, miserable, panicked, and ribless cries that only little girls can have in the dense forest in the distance. There are not many people who usually talk to Yu Songyuan, but as soon as he heard this voice, he felt very familiar.

Something is wrong!

Yu Songyuan hurriedly rushed through the vegetable patch, plunged into the jungle, and when he was about to reach the ditch, his cry was even sharper, chaotic, and desperate, it was the voice of the girl named Lin Xue. He rushed forward desperately, and as he approached the edge of the ditch, he was taken aback by what he saw.

On the opposite side of the ditch, it was the two earth dogs, one white and one gray, who had been defeated by the general, who were standing on the opposite side of the road, looking at the girl majestically. On the other side of the ditch, a slightly larger yellow dog was looking at the other side.

On the ditch, on the wooden bridge made of two large logs side by side, Lin Xue was squatting on the bridge deck, bowing her head and holding her head, crying loudly, and beating the bridge deck with her hands from time to time in despair. Obviously, she just felt a little rushed, and she was unwilling to be buried in the mouth of a vicious dog.

The three vicious dogs, barking loudly from time to time amid the cry of the little girl, were eager to try, and made a look of being ready to pounce at any time, and the situation was about to erupt.