It was late spring and early summer, and it was the day when the rain was the heaviest.

It was another rainy day, and the dark clouds and drizzle enveloped the whole village in its arms early, like a baby that could not wait to be watered.

As usual, my sister and I had breakfast, and we each wore rain boots and school bags and got ready to go to school.

Seeing my sister standing on the steps and opening a flower umbrella, the rain flowed down the four sides of the umbrella, and there was a sound of mother's ear in the hall in my ears, and in a trance, I got into it with my cat on my waist, and happily pulled my sister's sleeve, and everywhere I looked was a green field, I turned around happily and shouted, "Okay, Mom, let's go!" He followed his sister down the steps.

The stairs are not very high, but they look like 4 or 5 steps.

"One, two, three......" I silently counted the steps I had walked, and followed my sister's steps without hurrying.

My sister was quiet today, quieter than usual, and she walked forward in silence.

The road to school is not very far, but the road is not always easy to walk, like this is passing by a dirt path, very homely, so that the house cannot allow two children who are less than 10 years old to walk side by side at the same time.

There was no way, my sister had to squat down, let me, who was two years younger, lie on her back, hold an umbrella in one hand, and support me in the other, and walked towards the highway with difficulty.

In fact, there is more than one road to the highway, and there is more than one road that is wider and easier to walk!

But this dirt path is better than "near", yes, compared to other flat roads, twists and turns, obviously this dirt path is straight, we love it more.

The rain fell on the umbrella, and under the umbrella was my sister walking one foot deep and one foot shallow, and I was a little proud and worried on my sister's back.

This muddy path, washed away by the rain, became slippery, which made me want to stay on my sister's back for a while, but I was afraid that my sister would be too tired.

Fortunately, the road was not very long, and when I arrived at the main highway, my sister put me down, and she led me and continued to walk towards the school.

My sister and I are not in the same school.

I was still in kindergarten (I went to kindergarten for three years, and I started school at the age of 4, which is considered a relatively late development of intelligence. And my sister is already in first grade.

The kindergarten and elementary school in our town are not located in the same place.

They are separated by a river.

My kindergarten is on the east side of the river, and my sister's elementary school is on the west side of the river.

In terms of the distance from home, my kindergarten should be closer to home, and my sister's primary school should be farther away from home.

So, my sister always sent me to kindergarten before going to her school.

My kindergarten is set up in the middle of the city, so I walk through all kinds of vendors and shops every day to school.

About catching up with the market, that is, on the spot, well, to put it in layman's terms, it is shopping, I think of a set of nursery rhymes that have to be said: "2, 5, 8 to catch the white horse, 1, 3, 9 big stones to go, 4, 6, 7 Guanyin to pray, 9, 10, 11 to go to relatives ......". These are all our local customs there.

At this time, some people wake up unusually early!

When they usually get up, it's not yet dawn, and even the chickens don't crow!

It's unimaginable!

Counting up, today is the 2nd, which is the day to catch up with the White Horse Farm.

Sure enough, before we arrived at the center of Whitehorse, my sister and I met a lot of acquaintances who were ready to go to the scene.

For example, Aunt Wang who carries vegetables, Granny Zhang who carries eggs, and Grandpa Zheng who carries fruits.......

The people in the countryside are very simple and welcoming. It's really not blown!

I was born and raised here, but I have a deep understanding.

Today's aunt, send some vegetables, tomorrow's grandfather, send some eggs, duck eggs, the day after tomorrow which grandmother will send some fruit or something, in our family is no longer strange, although, the family is all kinds of excuses, but can not stop the kindness of the villagers.

They always talk about "it's all next to each other, what are you doing with so much...... you say".

So, every time my mother-in-law (also known as grandma) and my mother would prepare some return gifts and give them to the people in the village.

This back and forth is also commonplace.

The sky was still gray.

The rain is still falling, but it's not as heavy as when I first went out.

The smooth stone pavement on the ground has been washed clean by the rain, and the places where there are gnawing wows have also been filled with rainwater.

Through the noisy crowd, in the distance, I saw that my school was open, and there were many students and parents gathered at the gate.

My school is a public kindergarten.

The kindergarten is surrounded by walls on all sides.

Moreover, the kindergarten is not very large, and the infrastructure inside is also very simple, in addition to a two-storey main road learning place, there is also a small playground.

But on the playground, there is only one slide, and there is no other place for us to play.

My sister led me to the kindergarten gate, waved my hand, signaled me to hurry into the school, and then watched me walk into the guardrail of the school, and then turned to go to school.

I stood on the edge of the guardrail, looking at my sister's back as she was about to disappear, and I felt a little uneasy and wanted to cry.

Even though my eyes were already red, I couldn't help but cry.

Thinking about my sister's silence along the way, I was a little distressed, and I couldn't control it in the end, so I whispered to her, "Sister, it's out of school, remember to pick me up!"

Maybe it's because my voice is more unique, my sister, who has already walked away, turned to look at me outside the noisy crowd and answered me softly, "Okay." ”

I smiled, so happily that I ignored the sadness that flashed in my sister's eyes.

Time flies so fast, and in a blink of an eye, the morning class time has come to an end.

After school, I lay on the edge of the guardrail, waiting for my sister to pick me up and go home for dinner.

The rain has stopped for a while. The sun shone warmly on the ground, and in some places it had dried up, and in some places it still looked like it had been invaded by rain.

After looking at it for a while, I finally saw my sister at the corner of the street.

I happily waved my hand at my sister, like a silent cry, telling her that I was here.

My sister also saw me, she stared at me inexplicably, did not speak, but also waved her hand and motioned for me to come over.

Without stopping for half a minute, I tightened the bag on my shoulder and ran over. happily pulled her sister's little hand tight.

My sister, like the one she saw in the morning, was still very silent.

To my delight, my sister took me to the shop and bought a lot of snacks!

But what made me wonder was that my sister didn't take me home directly, but went to a barren mountain range.

It is said that it is a barren mountain and a wild mountain, but it is not. It's just that I've never been to a place like this, it's surrounded by woods and it's sparsely populated.

On the way, my sister grabbed the bag of snacks in one hand and led me in the other, slowly climbing up the mountain.

Because of the rain in the morning, the ground was covered with water stains, and it was extremely slippery.

The weeds and bushes that pass by occasionally are stained with water droplets.

Some even naughtily climbed onto my sister's trouser legs, but luckily my sister and I were wearing rain boots, otherwise we would have to wet our feet!

Unfortunately, the weather was not beautiful, and the rain fell from the clouds again.

As a result, my sister and I had to find a place to shelter from the rain.

The long trek ended at a cliff.

My first impression of that place, in two words, was terrible!

It was a slope with a bumpy dirt road and a semicircular boulder on top of it.

Boulders are not all solid. The bottom of it looked as if a piece had been dug out by someone, and from my vision, I only felt as if it was about to collapse, which was terrifying.

The rain is getting heavier and heavier.

My sister and I, tired and hungry, ignored the danger and hid in.

Who knows, it is like a water curtain hole, and there is no hole in the hole!

In the cave, the place is spacious, clean and the main thing is that there are no water stains!

Outside the cave, rain pours, forming a natural curtain of water between the water and the cave.

My sister and I seemed to be hiding in a Mongolian tent, excited, scared, and a little proud.

Later, I learned that this place was called Turtle Slope.

Turtle Slope, as the name suggests, is a huge stone slope, named because of its similar appearance to a turtle.

Ignoring anything else, my sister and I sat on the floor, took out the snacks that we had already coveted, and devoured them.

After eating, my sister and I were relatively silent, so we sat cross-legged on the ground and peered aimlessly out of the cave.

Suddenly, there was a bleak feeling of "after the rain in the clear sky and mountains, the weather is late in autumn".

My sister doesn't open up with me, and I don't ask her what happened, we know each other's minds.

After a long time, it was as if time had stood still.

Everything seemed so peaceful, so inconsequential, but only my sister and I understood that fear and loneliness had just come.

And with the loss of time, it will not dissipate, it will only get deeper and deeper.

The rain gradually became less and less heavy.

The water curtain hanging on the stone cave gradually appeared and became less complete.

In the cave, my sister and I had already become numb in our feet, just like my sister's hearts.

"Sister" I don't know if it was because I was too nervous and scared before, or what, but I was a little sleepy.

When my sister saw me pulling her sleeve and staring at her intently, she instantly understood what I wanted to do.

She pulled her bag and placed it on the ground, leaving me to sit and sleep reclining in her arms.

Xu was really sleepy, and after a while I was squinting in my sister's arms.

I don't know how long it has been.

In a daze, I felt someone talking, and I suddenly fell asleep.

I opened my eyes in horror, and sure enough, someone!

Mom, it's Mom who found it!

Later, there must have been a scolding from my mother. It is true that he was not beaten much, but he was punished.

After returning home, my mother scolded and scolded until dinner.

Yes, my mom is a straight-tempered, well, also called a temper tantrum.

Even after dinner, she still had a fire.

No, it was supposed to be my sister's bedtime, but she pulled out two high benches and made my sister and me kneel on them, saying that she wanted us to understand how big the mistakes we made today!

Not only that, but she also took a wooden stick and a pine branch in her hand.

She still muttered "...... If I don't beat you today, you won't know how to be a good person......"

My sister and I were so frightened that we cried, but my mother didn't beat us at all, and we all knocked on the bench. But none of us noticed that.

Perhaps, my sister and I were too loud, and we actually recruited my mother-in-law who lived in the fourth father's house.

At that time, in the countryside, there was a shortage of everything, such as a lack of water, electricity, and even food! It's all normal!

At that time, electricity had just become popular, and candles and kerosene lamps were the most commonly used in rural areas.

People travel at night by the same two things, and the most useful thing is a flashlight, but there are very few. After all, rare things are expensive!

At that time, when my mother-in-law brought my cousin (Yan Yuan) and cousin (Yan Hui) to rescue us, she only used kerosene lamps!

My mother-in-law is a gentle woman. She always speaks softly, giving people a feeling like a spring breeze.

But she's also a pretty strong woman. According to my mother, in the early years, they had a lot of quarrels, and every time it was my mother-in-law who had the upper hand!

Sure enough, as soon as my mother-in-law came, my mother's arrogance instantly became much smaller!

My mother-in-law let my mother liberate my sister and me, and politely poured water for my mother-in-law, and gave food to my cousins and cousins.

In the end, as you can imagine, my mother-in-law went back to sleep with my cousins and cousins who had returned with a full load.

I thought that this was the end of the matter.

But the world is unpredictable!

Some things are really not as simple as we think.