The moonlight faded last night, and the morning glow rises.

The sky has just dawned, and the Xinyi Village under the mountain is still shrouded in a long thick fog, and from a distance, the clouds and mist are shrouded, and I thought it was a place where the gods landed in the mortal world.

"Crunch", I don't know which family got up early to open the door of their yard, and then the sound of every household opening the door in the morning came one after another in Xinyi Village, and the crunching sound kept ringing.

Along with the land, there are all kinds of poultry raised by the villagers to greet each other, for a while the east is clucking and mooing, and for a while the west is quacking, and the chickens and dogs are barking, so it is not lively.

It looks normal and harmonious, no different from the new village of the past.

Granny Su walked slowly to the most remote family in Xinyi Village with her little feet on crutches.

There is a reason to say that this place is remote, this family is not far from the only natural lake in Xinyi Village - Xinyi Lake, it is rumored that Xinyi Lake drowned several children who accidentally played here, I heard that the lake was fished all over but not even a corpse - body was fished out, it was very evil, many villagers were afraid that their children would not be obedient to play by Xinyi Lake, and they all moved their homes far away from Xinyi Lake.

In the end, only three or three households still lived near Xinyi Lake, and the family in front of Granny Su was one of them.

Granny Su knocked on the door with her cane leg and said to the people inside through a door.

"Xiaocao, Grandma Su made your favorite snail porridge, don't you start a fire this morning?"

As soon as Granny Su's words fell, a crisp hearty voice like a yellow warbler came from inside.

"Okay, Grandma Su! I'll come to your house to eat porridge in a while! ”

Hearing that the people inside no longer refused their concern as they had in the first few days, Granny Su's heart suddenly relaxed.

In the past few days, Xiaocao has been shrinking into the house and not going out, and Granny Su is worried that she can come over every day to say a few words to her before she can sleep with confidence.

Granny Su was very careful, and suddenly heard that the voice was a little hoarse, this poor child must have quietly hid and cried several times alone, and more pity and distress welled up in her heart.

sighed, Granny Su didn't persuade much, she knew this girl's temperament, and she was most unhappy that others would worry about her.

"Okay, I'll go back first, old woman." After saying that, Granny Su walked to the house on crutches.

Inside the house, Yi Xiaocao squinted her eyes and put on a cold cloth towel, and after listening to the sound of crutches hitting the ground farther and farther away when Granny Su left, she threw the cloth towel into the basin.

In the past few days, Grandma Su has been worried and afraid, for fear that she will do something stupid, her legs and feet are not good, and she is still stunned to come over every day with crutches to talk to her about something and nothing, Yi Xiaocao is very upset.

If...... If Grandpa was still there, he would have scolded her for being so rude, and she couldn't let Grandma Su come in for a cup of tea before leaving.

Yi Xiaocao rewrung out the water of the cloth towel, closed her eyes, and put the cloth towel on her eyelids.

Let Grandma Su come in and see her like this, I'm afraid I'll be even more worried.

After applying the cold compress for a while, Yi Xiaocao stood up and felt that it should be about the same.

Got up and walked to the mirror, Yi Xiaocao wanted to see his mental state, the mirror was a little blurry, remembering that he hadn't cleaned the house for almost ten days, no wonder the mirror was a layer of ash, Yi Xiaocao muttered in his mouth and wiped it with a tissue.

After wiping it clean, the mirror clearly reflected Yi Xiaocao's face, the big eyes were still a little swollen, full of sadness and longing at the moment, and the small nose was also red, and at a glance, he knew that he had just pressed his nose.

Yi Xiaocao's mouth pursed slightly, looking at herself in the mirror who had not been taken care of for a long time, her hair was messy, the tear stains under her eye sockets had been wiped clean, and the swollen eye bubbles had disappeared a lot.

Grandpa is not wrong, the well water in the early morning is the most refreshing, and the effect of reducing swelling is really good.

I thought of the old man again.

Yi Xiaocao sat in front of the mirror in a daze, reaching out and touching the lines on the dresser.

This dresser is the old man personally out of the city to pick the wood, and then he rented a car to pull back to his own yard to do, at that time the old man saw and chop in the yard every day, busy with sweat, and finally did it and happily asked Yi Xiaocao to take credit.

"Xiaocao, how about coming and seeing grandpa's craftsmanship? It's much better than your classmate's house, isn't it? ”

Ever since Yi Xiaocao came home from playing with his classmates and brought up the dresser in his classmate's room to take a good look, the old man secretly remembered it in his heart.

Thinking of his virtue that other people's children have, my granddaughter also has to have, Yi Xiaocao couldn't understand it with tears in her eyes.

She couldn't understand how an old man who had always been very tough could get sick and get sick, and how such a good old man could say that he was gone.

Today is the eighth day that Grandpa has been gone.

Fingers weakly pulled down the eyelids, Yi Xiaocao grinned at himself in the mirror, and looked at the pear vortex on the left corner of his mouth that was hard-pulled out and walked.

Tsk, ugly to death.

Yi Xiaocao no longer forced herself, took a deep breath, and murmured: "Old man, Xiaocao doesn't cry, Xiaocao is good, if you know everything from the ground, just praise me a lot......"

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Granny Su's house.

Granny Su looked at Yi Xiaocao's green face, and she couldn't bear to ask her what she planned to do in the future.

Old man Yi is Xiaocao's only family in this world, and when old man Yi was gone, this girl is now helpless.

The unbearable on Granny Su's face was too obvious, Yi Xiaocao understood in her heart that this was the concern of an elder for a junior, and smiled and comforted Granny Su.

"Grandma Su, don't worry, I have received the admission letter from Fengyang University in Fengcheng, there is no tuition, and my grandfather has left some savings for me, and I also have living expenses,"

After a pause, Yi Xiaocao continued, "I'm also eighteen, and I can still work and study part-time, there are many ways." ”

"Is there a school that doesn't have tuition?"

Granny Su has never been out in Xinyi Village all her life, and she is not interested in the big city of Fengcheng, but she is surprised that she does not have to pay tuition.

Yi Xiaocao scratched her nose embarrassedly and said:

"Because I got a good score in the exam, so good that the school was willing to accept me without tuition."

Compared with explaining to Grandma Su how she reached the score line for tuition-free admission to this school, Yi Xiaocao felt that Grandma Su would understand sooner if she said this.

It's just that he blames himself for being shy.

Granny Su was very happy and proud of her, Xiaocao was also a child she watched grow up, and she gave a thumbs up to praise Yi Xiaocao again and again, applauding non-stop.

Yi Xiaocao's face burned even more.

What Yi Xiaocao didn't tell Granny Su was that she chose to go to Fengcheng, which is so far away from Xinyi Village, to go to college for several reasons, one of the most important of which was to go to Fengcheng to find her fiancé she had never met, and this was also to fulfill her grandfather's last wish: to find a husband and get married.

Previously, when Old Man Yi had a premonition that his time was running out, he took Yi Xiaocao's hand and told her what he had hidden for half his life.

Old man Yi reminisced with cloudy eyes, and he said that eighteen years ago, he went to the town one day to buy wine and drink, and he was dizzy when he drank too much, and when he woke up, he found that it was much late.

So, in order to save time, he took a shortcut that he didn't often walk, and as he walked, he noticed a raised mound of dirt not far away. Where is this mound of dirt, clearly a baby swaddling in the weeds......

This little baby who doesn't cry or make trouble alone in swaddling clothes is Yi Xiaocao.

It turned out that Yi Xiaocao was not the granddaughter of Old Man Yi.

Old man Yi named her "Little Grass" because he found and picked her up in the weeds, and her birthdays over the years were the date when Old Man Yi picked her up.

As soon as she learned about that meeting, Yi Xiaocao suddenly felt that her name and birthday were commemorative.