Chapter 1 Farewell to the World

A bitter autumn breeze swept by, and the yellow-spotted willow leaves flew off the branches, and before they had time to glance at the lawn on the shore, they fell silently into the dark green and hideous waterhole......

In the cold autumn wind, Zhang Liping, the daughter-in-law of the deputy mayor of the provincial capital, hugged her daughter who was less than one year old, forgot the fatigue, forgot the hunger, forgot the joy of life, and the sorrow of death, and came to this small county town far away from the city, on the bank of the famous Acacia River, stumbling and stumbling.

Oh, what else is there in this world to miss, pursue and dwell?

Parents, sisters? In-laws, husbands? Or is it the small hair of a childhood sweetheart?

What else belongs to me, an unfortunate woman?

Happiness, joy?

Ideals, prospects?

Or is it the minimum right to life?

Zhang Liping tossed these question marks over and over again, pondering and shaking her head;

Shake your head and meditate.

Oh, the only thing worth missing is him - he is a childhood sweetheart who played big childhood hair Xiao Li Gang!

It's Li Gang, who was once so in love and has been in love for a long time!

However, I have already become the daughter-in-law of the Wang family, and I have become the **** woman scolded and abandoned by the Wang family, why should I miss him and beg him to come to the Acacia River for a long time to reunite?

The fruit that falls to the ground can no longer regenerate the branches.

Zhang Liping sadly closed her standard almond eyes distorted by pain, and two strings of sour tears gurgled and dripped down the corners of her mouth, smashing on the baby's face in swaddling clothes.

"Wow-wow——!"

The daughter was frightened, opened her little eyes of fear, and cried vigorously at the top of her throat.

Oh, daughter, don't cry, don't cry!

Liping lowered her head and pressed her face sadly against the child's weak face.

"Stinky girl, she's a fox when she grows up, I don't know who I'm going to fascinate with!"

The mother-in-law's curse was like a drum and thunder, rumbling and beating Liping's eardrums.

On the day my daughter was born, the nurse at the hospital had just reported her gender, and the mother-in-law opened her mouth to say this spell!

Daughter, dear, mother's life is hard, and even with you.

Let's go, leave the Wang family, leave this noisy, cold world that abandoned us, and go with my mother.

Thinking about it, hating it, hating it until it comes back.

When man is free from desire, he has nothing to ask for and nothing to fear.

Zhang Liping, the daughter-in-law of the deputy mayor of the provincial capital Wang, held her infant daughter in her arms and stood silently under the hundred-year-old weeping willows on the bank of the Acacia River.

In late autumn, under the cold moonlight, the willow leaves have long withered and curled up, as if tired of seeing the rushing water of the Acacia River from spring to summer, from autumn to winter, the tide rises and falls, and the tide is quiet and noisy.

The gust of wind blows, and it is ......

The willow leaves scattered away from the branches on which they depended and floated silently into the river, where the water swayed.

The old trunk of the bent tree, cracked through the rough cortex, overflowing with clumps of tear-like slime, stood alone on the riverbank.

Liping leaned against the willow trunk with her back to drive away the pictures of her childhood life that came from time to time......

She didn't want to think about it, or she didn't dare to think about it.

Let it pass forever!

For now, let it end here.

Let the beautiful childhood and happy memories die and die! Die!!

Liping straightened her waist and stood on the steep bank, taking another step, the mother and daughter were about to be buried in the abyss on the bank of the Acacia River, leaving the desolate world she was attached to, resented, and feared forever.

Acacia river, long history, in front of the old weeping willow fluttering with thousands of willow branches, from south to east, forming a sharp turn of about 90 degrees, the years are long, impact out of a cool jade green pool.

The murmuring of the water upstream, flowing in the shallow bottom of the riverbed, teasing the moonlight, shimmering silver waves, very proudly caressing the round pebbles.

As soon as I entered Bitan, it was like a little monk who strayed into the big temple, and he was so frightened that he held his breath and was at a loss, and he held a deep pool of blue and transparent to be more *, solemn and sparse.

Acacia River, this is a seductive and poetic name!

However, when people hear her legend, they know what a poignant, sad, and resentful name it is:

In that long ago, a pair of young men and women who were childhood sweethearts once fell in love with each other here, and the heavens and the earth were allied, and they grew old together.

hateful, the girl's father hated the poor and loved the rich, beat the mandarin ducks, and promised his daughter to outsiders.

The red sedan chair welcomes the pro-family, and the frustrated offspring is forced by the sound of the horn, binds his hands and feet, and falls off the cliff and sinks to the bottom of the pool;

On the night of the candles in the cave room, the girl jumped out of the back window and went straight to the river, chasing the first to go to the post-born porphyry and jumping into the deep pool.

The next day, on the shore of a lonely weeping willow branch, people saw a pair of lovesick birds whispering for a long time.

The villagers all say that the bird is the embodiment of man, and man is the soul of the bird, and the Acacia River has been named since then and passed down from generation to generation......

After that, the weeping willows on the edge of the pond are endless, the old trees are gone, and the new seedlings are replenished.

Therefore, the old weeping willow in front of me, after a hundred years of vicissitudes, is still tenaciously growing.

What a tragic story, is it possible that the tragedy of history will be repeated today?

Liping hugged her daughter in her arms tightly, closed her eyes several times, and looked back a few times, the flat farmland around her, the japonica rice had already been harvested in the second night, and it was even more lonely and desolate.

The mountains in the distance, shrouded in fog, seemed to be shaking faintly......

Ah, at the end of the path leading to the county seat, is there a figure running in this direction?

That figure, that pace, that spirit, is clearly Li Gang!

Liping didn't dare to hesitate, she was afraid that she would hallucinate at this moment, afraid that the illusion would shake her fragile will, gritted her teeth, and raised her right leg desolately——!

"Whoa—whoa——!"

The daughter suddenly burst into her arms and burst into a thunderous cry, earth-shattering!

Liping hesitated, her thin cheeks pressed against the girl's childish face, and sour tears dripped her own flesh and bones.

On a blind date with tears on her face, her daughter smiled, smiling so innocently, so brightly, and so purely, as if she was full of gratitude to her mother for giving her life and a vision for her future life!

Perhaps, people are born to know gratitude and joy?

With the help of the moonlight, Liping looked at her daughter's smiling face for a long time, and suddenly realized that since she had given her daughter a young life, she had no right to deprive her of it without authorization!

Liping has changed her mind, and she decides that if she wants to leave the world, she will leave alone!

She decided to let her poor daughter stay in the world, and let her daughter rely on her own luck to survive, grow, explore, and chase her dreams in this world.

After a long time, Liping raised her head-

Why, Li Gang is still running towards this side?

Is it a phantom? Or a figure?

Can't delay any longer!

Liping took off her coat and shirt and laid it flat at the base of the willow tree, gently placed her daughter on it, lowered her head, and gave her one last long, deep kiss.

Then, she stood up and leaped forward, "Porphy" jumped into the biting cold pool......