The galaxy just hung quietly, not flowing, not moving, and a few streamers that crossed from time to time looked very conspicuous, but it disappeared in the many stars without waiting for a few more glances, and the starry sky seemed to be exceptionally bright tonight.

After feeding the old man Hong's several horses are surprisingly tired, I don't know where the old man Hong got the horses, all day long looks lazy, but it is very edible, good forage, scraps, scraps, really come not to refuse, since seven years ago after living here, if the old man Hong does not take care of them at home is mine, although there is no pay, but I still do it, just because the satisfied expressions of those horses when eating, simple and even enviable.

Fortunately, there are zongzi brought by Lan'er, and the horse that has been fed to the old man Hong really doesn't have the heart to cook, but it is indeed a waste to take Lan'er's zongzi to satisfy hunger, I don't know if the zongzi is from Aunt You's hand or Lan'er's, the smooth glutinous rice with the candied dates hidden in the shallow taste is surprisingly good, it seems that this zongzi can satisfy everything.

"Squeak"

Lying on the bed, I casually pushed open the window on one side of the bed, and then supported it with a fork rod, and the sudden evening breeze gently made me want to sleep like this, but I couldn't sleep, and I didn't want to sleep, and I habitually pulled out the red rope hanging on my neck, which was very thin, and it felt like a part of my body for a long time, and my fingers slid down with the red rope, and after touching the end of the object, I pulled it out of the single clothes wrapped around my body.

Seeing the strangely shaped key in his hand, he couldn't help but be distracted for a while, and then muttered in his mouth: "Xin'er." ”

Cold, the key in the hand is very cold, but the side that sticks to the palm is very gentle, I don't know what material, but it is very comfortable to pinch, just like Xin'er's hand, which was left when Xin'er was taken away, and it was placed in the palm of my hand.

'I' is the young master of a merchant family, or the second son is more appropriate, and even said to be an adopted child, I can't touch and don't want to contact those family businesses, semi-forced to go out to play, accidental wrecks, or expected wrecks, and it is logical not to go back to the so-called home, and Xin'er is "I" saw outside Qiandeng Town, so she naturally sat on the wooden bridge, holding a box in her hand, without saying a word or smiling, quiet like a carving

After looking at the woman on the wooden bridge for a long time, from noon to dusk, she was motionless like that, and seemed to be more patient than me, and couldn't help asking, "What are you doing here?" ”

"Wait for someone." The woman replied naturally, so naturally that she couldn't find a trace of carving all day.

Hearing the woman's answer, an expected look flashed in her eyes, but she still couldn't help but ask: "Is it family?" ”

The woman turned her head, her snow-white complexion added a hint of weakness, but her eyes were firm and surprising, and there was no trace of hollowness due to sitting for a long time: "Yes." ”

"It's getting dark, why haven't they come yet?" Although the firmness in the woman's eyes surprised me, that kind of weak temperament really made me a little angry, how could her family be like this?

The woman's eyes moved, a warm smile appeared on the corner of her lips, and then she said softly, "It's here." ”

"Huh?" Here it comes? I swept my eyes around, and I couldn't see a single figure on the empty road, not even a living thing, although the forest, the river, and the water and grass were surprisingly beautiful, but the emptiness made me frown, and there were only a handful of people passing by this wooden bridge all day.

After seeing my movements, the warm smile on the woman's soft little face was replaced by a coquettish smile, "Isn't it you, still looking for it." ”

I? Hearing the words of the woman in front of him, he couldn't help but be stunned, is it a joke? Then a wry smile flashed in his eyes, this is really me meddling, looking at the bent eyebrows of the woman in front of me, but there was a sigh in my heart, and the words that had reached my mouth also changed: "Then Miss, how do you know that I will pass from here?" ”

After hearing my words, the corners of the woman's delicate eyebrows frowned, her little face suddenly quieted, and her raised eyebrows and eyes were also flattened: "Call me Xin'er." ”

Seeing the woman in front of me suddenly calm down, her expression couldn't help but stagnate, it seemed that she was really angry, and inexplicably felt a trace of coolness from the words of the woman in front of her, it was really too much like her, this familiar semi-commanding flat tone also made my brows want to wrinkle, and I forced myself to suppress the inexplicable feeling of boredom, and asked again: "Then how would Xin'er know that I was from here?" ”

"I don't know." Xin'er spoke back directly after hearing my words, as if the answer had already been prepared, I don't know if I saw my gradually frowning brows, and said again: "Isn't this waiting?" The slightly curved eyebrows were more happy than a little self-satisfaction.

After listening to the almost child-like reply of the woman in front of me, she couldn't help but twitch on her face, do you want me to entangle with a little girl, why don't you wait if I don't come from here?

"Brother, Xin'er has been waiting for a long time." The sudden blank tone made my calm face soothe.

Looking at Xin'er's weak little face with tiredness, there was an inexplicable feeling of pity in my heart, and I couldn't help but ask: "Are you waiting for me?" ”

"Hmm." Xin'er's thin voice resounded clearly in her ears, and after hearing the reply, her body couldn't help but tremble, "Brother, take me to play." "The faint sound that came out again made my eyes lose my mind, but I woke up, wait for me? Can I also be waited for?

The snow-white little face was calm, there was no expectation, and there was no worry about being rejected, so he just asked naturally, as if it was a habit, his eyes flashed slightly, and then the corners of his lips arced into a smile, and he said softly: "Okay, what does Xin'er want to play?" ”

"Build a house." Xin'er replied without the slightest hesitation.

The little girl-like answer made the corners of my lips smile deeply, and I replied softly, "Well, okay." With that, he wanted to walk towards the forest in the distance.

"Wait."

The voice behind me made me pause, and then I felt a chill in my hand, and just wanted to turn around, I heard Xin'er's voice ringing in my ears: "Pull Xin'er, Xin'er can't see, don't let go." ”

"yes, got it." He responded softly without looking back, just holding a slightly cold little hand and walking towards the forest not far away

Borrowed a long axe from the old man Hong, felling, from beginning to end Xin'er didn't say a word, the cold little hands never seemed to be warm, one day, two days spent together for a long time so long that I was completely accustomed to Xin'er's existence, and even forgot the family in Xin'er's mouth

"Purple Turban, where did you take Xin'er?"

Looking at the key lying quietly in the palm of his hand, he muttered unconsciously, and there was a box left with the key, the box that Xin'er was holding when he first saw Xin'er, if it weren't for this key and the box that had never been opened, he would even think that Xin'er was just a dream, a dream that didn't want to wake up