"Now, Shishi, this is the orphan you paunted for a long time and had to be brought back by your father for adoption?"

A small town outside a big city in northwest Hubei and a remote village outside the town. A small river runs around the village, enclosing half of the village, with fields outside the river and dozens of families "inside" the river. The brick-walled stone courtyard, the red-tiled Zhumen, the world in 2004 was very lively, but this small village is very quiet. In an ordinary small courtyard that is neither poor nor rich, a middle-aged woman opened her eyes wide, looked at her fourteen or fifteen-year-old daughter in front of her, and then looked at the little boy behind her daughter, who was said to have just turned ten years old, holding her daughter's hand and having a lot of doubts and vigilance about everything strange around her.

"Where...... Where is there a girl who has been entangled for a long time...... known as "Shishi", with waist-length hair, black and beautiful, round face, slightly shrugged nose bridge, autumn-like eyes, curved eyebrows, a simple dress, although not very old, but began to show a plump figure, like a white lotus-like right arm is being held by the little boy at this time, like the best shield at the necessary moment, hearing his mother say this, he pouted slightly.

"Besides, Mom......" After being a little embarrassed, the girl quickly took two steps forward and walked to the middle-aged woman, "Don't talk about orphans and orphans, look at him...... How pitiful he is, since his father has agreed to adopt him, in the future, this will also be his home! ”

"Okay, Shishi is really loving, my mother likes it!" The middle-aged woman smiled softly. "Good boy, this will be your home from now on," she said, and looked lovingly at the little boy behind the girl's side, "Come, call Mommy." ”

"I don't want it." The boy frowned, "I have my own mother, why should I recognize you." ”

“……”

The boy who was trapped for several days in a sudden earthquake and still survived alone, not only is his vitality surprisingly tenacious, his temper is also surprisingly stubborn, and in some things, he is even more paranoid and entangled to madness-

"I don't have a sister, so I recognize a sister, I have parents, why should I recognize others!"

The middle-aged woman suddenly understood, and her father negotiated with her daughter for a long time for a long time, and she was unwilling to adopt this poor little child at first.

……

"Now, Ono, Ono, hurry up! Let's go back! It's raining heavily! ”

The sky was gloomy and dark, and below the thick dark clouds was a high weir embankment. On one side of the embankment is a kilometer-long lake surrounded by hills on three sides and an earthen embankment on the other, which is used to release water from the stone pipe channel below to irrigate the farmland during the dry season, and on the other side of the embankment, there are clumps of mugwort about one and a half meters high, and trees that grow tall and low on the slope of the embankment. The fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl stood beside two low trees close together, and shouted eagerly at the teenage boy not far away.

"What's the hurry, sister, hasn't the rain fallen yet......" The little kid hugged his shorts and said impatiently. He didn't wear a shirt, just a pair of shorts all over his body, and he was shirtless, bent over, trying to fold the mugwort with his little arm in front of a half-withered mugwort bush, "Wait until I'll go back first!" ”

He was going to use a pile of mugwort branches to build a small house of his own between two small trees, and then live in it with his sister.

"It's coming, it's coming!" When the girl heard him say this, she was even more anxious. The girl was also wearing only a white blouse and a white skirt, and where she was not wrapped in the dress, she revealed patches of skin as white as snow.

"Wait a little longer!" The little boy replied without looking back. Then, with his left hand, he hugged the broken mugwort, and with his right hand, he began to intensify the destruction of the greenery of the small village.

Three minutes later.

"It's all said, Ono, I should have run home first!" The rain poured from the sky, and although the little boy quickly built a small thatched hut, and borrowed the blue hairband on his sister's head to tie the "roof beam" to the trunk of the tree, and then the sister and brother hid in it together, but, in the face of the crazy heavy rain in summer, the temporary house made of a few mugwort branches obviously could not play a substantial shelter from the rain. So, the siblings hid in the "house" and were drenched by the rainwater that kept leaking from the roof. The elder sister looked at the little boy with pretended dissatisfaction, and said with a hint of resentment. ,

"Ahh The little boy responded with an unceremonious loud sneeze.

"......" The girl who wanted to be angry on purpose just now, all the "resentment" on her face suddenly disappeared.

On a certain day of the month, the little boy will especially miss his real relatives, this situation has been maintained for a year, and these days, it is when his real relatives have left him for a whole year, the little boy dreamed last night and kicked off the quilt, as a result of a headache and runny nose early in the morning, and now he is desperate to run out to play, and catch up with the boy who was drenched in the heavy rain and had survived the earthquake, at this time he looks so weak.

"Ono, you're fine, are you...... Are the headaches better? ”

"Ahh

"Really, I have to come out and run when I'm sick, and I'm drenched now—come, head in, sister hugging you."

“……”

"Are you feeling better?"

"(Hard) sister...... Your nose is gagged by you......"

……

"Sister, is your mother's illness better?"

"Hey......"

“……”

"What's wrong, Ono? Why are you looking at me like that? ”

"It's been three or four years, and every time I say 'your mother,' you have to correct me seriously, and you have to say 'my mother' — but today you ...... Do you say ......"

"Don't say it, Ono, mom ...... her"

"What about the group of people out there who want to enter this ward with some messy broken flowers?"

"I'm not in the mood to see them."

"Yes, where are they here to visit the sick, Mom* wants to 'rob while the fire is on'! Really, when I get out of the bush and blast them away. ”

"Ono ......"

"With their stupid faces, they are also worthy of my sister?"

……

"Ono, that...... My sister is getting married. ”

"Uh...... Don't tell me (marriage partner) is the fat man who came yesterday with an idiotic face, what did you say he was the other day - pot-bellied! ”

"Ono, don't ...... Don't mention that word in the future......"

"Sister, you can't be serious, right?"

"It's true."

"I don't believe it, you give me a reason first, even that idiot can be worthy of you?"

He ...... He's rich......"

"Huh?!"

"Mom...... Mom's (harmony) illness can't be delayed any longer, it really can't be delayed any longer, our family has no money, and we can't afford the surgery fee and the future hospitalization fee...... I...... You know what I mean...... Do you understand? ”

"Sister, let me ask again, are you really serious?"

"Yes."

"If you marry that guy, will you be happy in the future?"

"As long as my mother's illness can be cured, I ......"

……

"Ono, where are you? That one...... My sister is going to get engaged, and it's my sister's wedding in about half a month, can't you come? ”

"I'm out there, and I'm not going home."

"Huh? Ono, what's wrong with you? ”

"For a man, watching his sister have to marry a man he hates and he is completely powerless, this is the biggest shame of my life - the shame of being a man!"

"Ono, you ......"

"One day I will get ahead, I will also have the ability to control a person's destiny, now, I have a big brother who can call the wind and rain, and one day, I will also be famous. Sister, you don't have to worry about me anymore, I don't want to hear your voice anymore. I wish you happiness. ”

……

"Xiao Ye, Xiao Ye, don't answer the phone, you really have something urgent to find you at home!"

"What a, don't bother Lao Tzu, the boss of heaven is going to teach a group of small miscellaneous fish a lesson today, and my brother is changing his clothes!"

"You...... Don't go yet! This way! Your family said that your sister wants to see you at the least! ”

"What ?!!"

……

"Sister! Sister! You can't die, isn't tomorrow your wedding date?! ”

"Ono...... Sister...... Sister is sorry for you, sister can't continue to look at you, you have to ...... It's time to go first......"

"Sister...... That damn driver! ”

"Ono, don't ...... Don't blame the driver...... My sister is leaving, and I don't want to drag ...... Drag others down...... You listen to my sister, it's actually ...... It was my sister who ran the red light by herself, and she couldn't complain about others...... You don't want to ...... My sister doesn't want to really get married...... I hope that my sister's insurance premium can cure my mother's illness - at that moment, maybe this is the ...... What my sister thinks from the bottom of my heart...... So...... Don't blame ...... The driver...... ......"

"Sister! Sister, wake up! You must not close your eyes! Wake up!! Sister! ”

……

At that moment, I blamed neither my sister's sick mother nor the driver who hit my sister, but only ......

Myself.

For the past few years, I can't do anything about everything at home, everything for my relatives, and everything for my sister - myself.

"You used to say, 'I want to live forever, and if I die, what will happen to my dear brother?' Sister, now, really, what should I do? ”

"You used to say: One day, I will see my brother handsome and dashing, and become a big man. Sister, now, for what, why don't you look at me anymore? ”

"The best person in the world has left me, I stretched out my hand, but I can't save anything, I can't do anything but take her statue with me, and hate myself in the past."