Chapter 37: Salvation
"Oh," the strong fisherman's voice suddenly became smaller, and he said in a dumb voice, "Mother!
"Saving someone's life is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter! Niang look," my curled up body was flattened, and my tangled and messy hair was also pulled away, "Yo, it's a handsome little girl! Xi'er, did she say anything?"
"Mother, she just said," the voice of the strong fishing man made me feel inexplicably safe, "Thank you for saving my life! My family is in the village over there, and I came to fetch firewood, and I fell into the water -- it's gone." ”
"Mother understands, Xi'er, hurry! go and boil hot water, this girl is going to freeze." A warm hand touched my cheek, "Strange and pitiful!"
"Hmm!" A sound of footsteps gradually left, and my consciousness gradually passed, this fishing man's name is Xi'er, he listens to his mother's words, I should have met a good person!
The moment I fell into a coma, I felt the warmth of the hot water, and one last thought came to my mind: now, I can't die!
The sound of rushing water roared in my ears, my breath was full of water, there was no air left in my lungs, and death came suddenly, and it turned out that the feeling of death was suffocation!
I don't want to struggle, death is not terrible for me, it is another beginning for me. Maybe my modern sleeping body is waiting for me to go back!
It's just a little regrettable that I can't tell my grandfather about the emperor's intrigues.
Perhaps, everything in the dark is certain, and what will happen is already predestined, and it is time to leave it to fate......!
As I breathed my last breath, I subconsciously remembered that I had just been saved? Why did I still stay in the water? Didn't I just return to the light, and being saved was just an illusion of my own imagination! his aunt and grandmother, isn't this a lie to myself?!
Indignant and helpless, my body suddenly rose and shook violently, and with the thumping of my back, I felt water flow from my mouth and nostrils.
The moment I coughed and breathed in the fresh air, I was still wondering, imagining that I had been saved again?
"Girl, girl!" said in a kind voice, with a familiar meaning, "This kid has a thin body!
I slipped into the tub and said that I had just choked on the bath water! I was not a hallucination! I was rescued!
"Come, open your mouth, drink ginger soup to go to the cold!" I remember this voice, it was the voice of the mother who caught my Xi'er!
There was a boiling heat in my mouth, and the heat went down my throat to the bottom of my heart, and the warmth flooded to my limbs, and I took a long and deep breath, and slowly opened my eyes while swallowing a spoonful of hot ginger soup.
The woman in front of me was coarsely dressed and had a simple and kind smile on her face, and in a trance, I vaguely saw the appearance of my grandmother.
"Girl, you're awake! My baby said that you fell into the water while collecting firewood, and when I go to ask the official, if a boat docks, I will ask Xi'er to send you home, don't panic!"
"Mother, the fish porridge is ready. Xi'er whispered outside the cabin, and pushed the door open with a "bang".
"Xi'er, don't come in, close the door. Xi'er Niang hurriedly blocked in front of me, and ordered repeatedly, "Leave it aside, my mother will go out and get it by herself." ”
"Mother, put it away. Xi'er, who closed the door, lowered her honest voice, "Then I'll go fishing." ”
"Girl, my Xi'er is a little straight," Xi'er Niang helped me wipe my hair neatly, and then helped me get dressed, "I don't know how to defend men and women, so it's strange for girls." ”
I took a look at the ridiculously large coarse cloth clothes on my body, dry and clean, which should be Xi'erniang's.
Leaning on the simple bedside, Xi'er Niang insisted on feeding me fish porridge with a smile, and her mother's love was overflowing: "Yo, girl, since I was a new daughter-in-law, I have been rare for girls." It's a pity that I'm old! If I really want to have another one, a white and well-behaved person like you, to call me Shengniang, how beautiful it would be!"
This is the rhythm of recognizing a girl? I haven't even figured out who I am, so I dare to recognize my goddaughter, this happy girl, so simple that there are few strings!
It's just that being taken care of by a stranger who met for the first time as a daughter, it would be too hypocritical to say that I wasn't moved, so I began to think about it seriously, or I would give her a goddaughter.
"Mother, the official is going to use fresh fish!" Xi'er shouted softly at the door, not breaking in by herself this time.
"Huh! Niang will come to kill the fish immediately. Xi'er Niang touched my head lovingly, tucked the corners of the quilt, and left, "Xi'er is so smart, remember, there is a sister in the room, can't you go in?"
"Well, mother, Xi'er has something to remember. Xi'er's voice was full of cheers, "I have a sister!
I subconsciously laughed, if suddenly there is a motherly mother and a simple brother, it will be very interesting!
Xi'erniang's ginger soup was full of energy, and I was full of food and clothing, and I slept until noon the next day. It seems that Xi'er Niang, who has lived on the water for many years, does have a hand in rescuing people who fall into the water. I woke up refreshed. Trying to move around in the cabin, I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was nothing uncomfortable.
"Baby, you're awake!" Xi'er Niang pushed the door in, carrying a large bowl of fish porridge, the hot aroma was fragrant, "It's time to eat!"
"What good hair!" Seeing that I ate sweetly, Xi'er Niang happily took a comb to help me comb my ankle-length hair, "Baby, what's your name?"
"I, I'm ......" I hesitated, wondering if telling my name would bring trouble to their simple lives?
"Baby, baby, I think I can see you often in the future," Xi'er Niang didn't care if I said my name, and began to hesitate to herself, "I want to recognize you and be a girl, are you willing?"
Just because I like it simply, I want to see me from time to time in the rest of the years, this sincere emotion is unavoidable! I looked back at Xi'er Niang's eyes that looked at me lovingly, my heart was warm, she made me feel a stable peace, this is the stable life of ordinary people!
"I do. I nodded heavily, stood up, and kowtowed to Xi'erniang three times, "Mother! Actually, my daughter didn't chop wood and fell into the water, but smuggled out of a big family! I would like to be my mother's daughter!"
"Great! girl, my mother combs your hair for you!" Xi'er Niang's hands trembled with joy, helped me comb a neat bun, and put a string of pearl bracelets of different sizes on my hands, "I also once had a girl, but unfortunately it was long gone, if it is still there, it is as big as you...... This is unlucky, don't talk about it! Don't talk about it! This string of beads is a pearl from the mussel that your brother Xi'er fished, do you still like it?"
"Mother, will you choose a name for your daughter?" I stared at the beads on my wrist, perhaps this string of pearls of ordinary color was the most precious thing in this family.