In a glorious life, any bright memory will be unforgettable and fresh.

Do you remember the promise you made to him or her as a child?

――Excerpt from "Essays of Ling Zikai"

My name is Zhang Ayaqi, and I specially returned to the city where I was born, just to find the most precious happy memories of my childhood! After all these years, I don't know if he still remembers me?! Does he remember the promise made to me?

My birth meant the death of my mother, and my father was always busy all day, and he never gave me a birthday......

In the early days, I lived with my grandfather.

Grandpa was a very old-fashioned old man, very patriarchal, and he used to say, "It would be nice to be a grandson!" ”

When I was bullied by other kids, he would say, "Girls are just useless!" ”

I don't take a nap as he asks, he'll spank me hard.

If I accidentally broke the plate, he would scold me......

He has always been so strict with me, and he has raised me like a boy!

Maybe that's when I developed my stubborn character.

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According to my father, my grandmother was a very kind person, but when I was a child, I could only look up at her portrait hanging on the wall at a 45-degree angle.

It seems that in my childhood, there was only darkness and no brilliance; But only when people live in darkness for a long time, the light will be particularly dazzling for her, and she will cherish the memory of the light......

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Grandpa suddenly fell seriously ill and passed away.

Dad was still very busy and didn't have time to take care of me, so he entrusted me to the care of Grandma Xu from the neighborhood.

I once heard my grandfather say that Grandma Xu, who was in the neighborhood, was a good friend of my grandmother when she was young, and the two families had a good relationship, and she had a grandson who was a few months younger than me......

Grandma Xu in the neighborhood is a very kind old man, she treats me the same as his grandson, no, maybe because I am a girl, she should treat me better, more like a granddaughter......

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Grandma Xu's grandson is called Kai.

When I first met him, he seemed to be withdrawn, didn't talk much, always played by himself and didn't spend time with other children, and seemed to be less active at this age......

That day, Grandma Xu took me to him and said to him, "Xiao Kai, this is Ayaqi, you two will play together in the future, you have to take care of her, you know?" ”

He didn't speak, just nodded his head in understanding.

He didn't speak, but it was a silent promise, and from that day on, the two of us were almost inseparable.

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As the days passed, it seemed easier for two lonely hearts to get closer to each other.

He was odd that he only talked a little more when the two of us were together; And I only feel relaxed when I'm with him, and I don't have to think about a lot of things.

Me: "I'm older than you, you should call me sister!" ”

"Don't! I'll call you Xiao Qiqi! How nice it sounds! ”

Me: "Then I'll call you little Kaikai!" ”

"Whatever!"

I was four years old, and he was four years old.

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Adults always say: Childlike words are unscrupulous.

But when it comes to children, some of them are very badly beaten, and some of them are unforgettable.

In the summer, the happiest thing for children is to sit in the shade and lick popsicles, and when they hear the sound of popsicles, little Kaikai runs back to get the money, and I stay and wait, so that the lady who sells popsicles does not leave......

A group of children who had also come to buy popsicles gathered around.

"Oh~oh~, Zhang Ayaqi is a motherless child!"

"Oh~oh~, no one wants a motherless child!"

While screaming and shouting, they threw stones at me......

No matter how I said it, I was a girl, and I was bullied by those children, and I actually shed tears without fighting.

At this time, little Kaikai took the money to buy me popsicles and ran back.

When he saw me crying, he didn't buy a popsicle, but ran over fiercely, grabbed a child who was bullying me, and hit him on the ground, so that the child cried worse than me, and the other children were scared away at once......

Enough of the fight, to help me out of my anger, he pulled me into hiding in the secret base of the two of us.

He wiped away the undried tears from my face with his dirty little black hands, leaving me with a mixture of snot, tears, and dirt.

While wiping, he said to me: "Xiao Qiqi doesn't cry, others don't want you, I want you!" ”

I choked up and said, "You've made me a cat!" ”

"Then I want you too!"

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We hid until late and came home, and of course we were greeted with a reprimand!

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Little Kaikai's mother is a doctor, a military doctor to be precise.

Although I am a doctor, I am never afraid when she gives me injections.

When she smiled at me, she was very gentle and treated me very well, I don't know how my mother feels, but she feels like a mother to me.

She always praised me for being well-behaved and said that I was more sensible than other children.

I asked her if I could call her mother, and she didn't answer me, but asked me if I liked Xiao Kaikai and would I like to be with Xiao Kaikai?

Naturally, I replied yes!

She asked me again if I would like to be her daughter-in-law.

I still say yes!

Then she asked me to find little Kaikai.

She asked me and Xiao Kaikai to kowtow to her three times in front of her, and then asked me to call her mother-in-law in the future!

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We should be considered to have a marriage contract!

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Happy times are always short-lived, and it didn't take long for my dad to be transferred to the south because of work, and I had to separate from my childhood sweetheart......

And this difference is fourteen years!

Today, fourteen years later, I came back here to look for it, but the old houses in my memory have become new high-rises, and I can't find my grandmother, my mother-in-law, or him......