I don't know if they have achieved what they wanted, anyway, I have gradually changed from a hot-blooded child to a forbearing, withdrawn cold child, all the children in the yard are also my enemies, I always play alone in the orphanage grounds, loaming around the attic, cowshed, barn, storeroom, sewing room, wandering like a wild child in the backyard grove and running unrestrained, thinking that it is futile to find me in my idle time, because I can go anywhere, But I always get back to the house on time for dinner.

Wonderful life stories are like bubbles of quicksand, falling asleep hungry and waking up hungry.

In the long-term bad state of life, I was thinner than other children, with a weedy hair growing scattered, a dog nibbling short hair, a cat-like face, a yellow and thin face, wearing extremely asymmetrical clothes, and I found a gray coat wrapped around a thin body from nowhere.

In the words of the dean's grandmother, I am a winter snake, cold-blooded.

But I dare to swear that I am the most beautiful girl in the hospital, and the evidence is that the dean's mother often says that my mother is a fox vixen, and I am also a fox vixen, with thick black eyelashes in my eyes, a little hanging eyes, and two thick and black sword eyebrows, outlining two shocking eyebrow lines. So, as described in the book, the vixen always has a soul-settling eye.

Five things in daily life: eating, sleeping, doing work, fighting, and resigning to fate.

Ghost brother

Even if it is God's favor, I can survive all the way. When I was 16 years old, I had the first difficult brother in my life: Brother Mountain Ghost.

The arrival of the mountain ghost in the orphanage is a bit abrupt, he is 19 years old, older than all of us, it is said that he is a relative of the dean's grandmother who died in the distant family, homeless, helping the hospital with chores, so he is not coded by name and belongs to the supernumerary.

We carry water in rotation, and everyone has to take turns for three days. This is a rule set by the dean's grandmother early on, and these three days happen to be my turn.

The wellhead in the courtyard is too deep, the rope of the well is 100 meters long, and the position of the well water rises and falls regularly with the seasons, and the water level is nearly 100 meters at the lowest. I remember the first time I fetched water, a bucket of water had not been halfway shaken before it was weak, and as soon as I let go, I was almost driven into the well by a wheel, and I was afraid that I would not be able to deal with it.

Today I have to go to the well to fetch water, otherwise Ah Xiang has no way to cook, and having no food to eat is a big deal, and I just have to go hard-headed no matter how scared I am.

I carried the bucket to the platform of the well, and I looked into the well, and it was dark and bottomless. I threw a stone on the ground, and it took me a long time to hear the sound of a stone. I knew I had to overcome the difficulties, so I thought of a way to take out a thick rope and tie it around my waist, and tie the other end of the rope to an old tree on the platform of the well, as a precaution against being driven into the well by a wheel.

I took a deep breath and hoisted the bucket into the well. Although I was mentally prepared for this fetch, I overestimated my ability, and when the bucket of water was shaken halfway, I had exhausted my strength, and I desperately grabbed the rocker and did not dare to let go, because it was even more dangerous to let go, and the heavy rocker was likely to break my ribs.

I panicked, knowing that none of the children in the yard would come to save me, but I still instinctively shouted, "Who will save me, help-"

I was powerless, and I was desperate to let go, when a miracle finally happened, and a strong hand reached out and grabbed the crank, and I sat down on the platform of the well as if I had collapsed, and I saw a man standing in front of me.

He took the crank and in a few strokes lifted the bucket up to the edge of the well.

I looked at him, and he smiled at me with an incomprehensible sense of humility. The sunlight could not penetrate the gaps in the trees, and I smiled gratefully at him.

He is called the mountain ghost, and I call him the ghost brother, and he saved me from danger.

I smiled gratefully, "Thank you, mountain ghost." ”

The mountain ghost didn't say a word, helped me carry the water, and said straightforwardly: "I will help you carry water in the future." ”

I didn't say anything, and I thought, "I'm sick in my head."

Once, when I went up the mountain to fetch firewood and returned to the courtyard, I was dragged down by Niu Bayi and his gang on the edge of the field outside the courtyard, and they shouted: "Aren't you from Mingye? On your knees! ”

The orphanage, even if you bow your head to their bastards today, you will be lowered tomorrow. I was unconvinced and shouted: "It's the deer or the horse that comes out to slip away, you can't kill me today, and tomorrow Lao Tzu will kill you!" ”

"Kill you, cheap you, give us a climb from under the straddle." The children in the orphanage coaxed, and I stood up angrily, pushed away the domineering boy Niu Ba, and the two fought together. The children swarmed up, and I was pressed to the bottom by the stack of arhats, and I thought that my life was ended in the melee. Unexpectedly, a force pushed away by the arhat on my body, and that person was a mountain ghost, between the relatives of the dean's mother, and the boys were stunned and fled in a huff.

Since I was a child, I was a loner master, and I didn't believe in the good from the sky, even if he started to follow me like a door god, I would throw him with a stone and warn him to stay away.

There were so many "coincidental" encounters with the "door god" mountain ghost, he hurriedly ran over, patted his chest with his right hand, straightened, inexplicably knelt on the ground, and begged me: "Please let me follow you." ”

"How can I trust you?"

"I swear by the tablet of my mother. Let me protect you, and I will do whatever you tell me to do. ”

"Jump into that river."

The mountain ghost really jumped into the river. The river is very deep, and it will be dangerous for people who do not understand the nature of water. He really jumped into the water, and he could already see that he would never be able to swim from the posture of going into the water, so he jumped up and sat in the water, and the water splashed more than a person high. He immediately went off the top.

I hurriedly picked up the stick bucket and went into the water, and he grabbed the stick and threw it up.

Fate arranged our combination in such a way that he acted as my "patron saint". He never called me "old cat" or "cat sister" like other children, he was always silent and called "master" when he was in a hurry.

When I had a conflict with another child, he always stepped up and acted as a stick for my revenge.

The mountain ghost has a rough appearance and an absolutely simple heart like paper, and the rough lines and taciturn personality of the green forest heroes can't figure out the depth of his water; In a group of orphans in troubled times, only the mountain ghost brother can't be described as taking care of me, he is simply guarding me like a horse and a horse.

How old is he and how old I am, I once asked him why, and he said that I looked like the little sister he was sold by his parents when he was a child, and he had an inexplicable absolute loyalty to me. Because of my relationship, he is not less affected by other children.

But he was always silent and followed me to deal with the blows of "foreign enemies", and the scum was vigilant against his bare knotted muscles, and he lifted a hundred pounds of firewood without difficulty, and walked two miles without panting; So since his presence, I haven't had any more fights with these scumbags.

The poor days in the orphanage, or rather the hard days, began to get better, for spring was approaching, and the bitter cold of winter was far away. The snow began to melt, and the bitter cold wind was not noticeable.

If the weather is good, my brother and I will go to the mountain stream in the woods together, and the May of this year is unusually quiet and warm, and we can see the sun almost every day. The vegetation of the woods grew very fast, and the forest trees of the orphanage began to show their beauty, and with a slight shake, a patch of green, full of wild flowers. On the secluded path, lush vegetation grows luxuriantly, moss fills the depression in the forest, and we walk one after the other in the shade of the trees.

My favorite place was a big rock in the middle of a stream in the forest. The stone is smooth and dry. Every time we waded barefoot. The stone was just big enough to sit two people - me and the ghost brother, I soaked my feet in the stream, which were red and painful from the winter cold, and the swelling of the feet slowly subsided and showed signs of healing.

When I was soaking my feet, the ghost brother was fishing in the water, and then the ghost brother used a tree branch to cook the fish seriously by the stream, and it was a great gift to be able to enjoy a beautiful meal in the place I liked.

He was a few years older than me, he was often not good at expressing himself, and I was fascinated by the outside world he talked about, and he made me feel unrestrained.

I had a lot of fun with him, he really indulged my rudeness like a sister, and whenever I was lazily lying on the grass with my feet crossed, with a grass in my mouth, squinting and dizzy in the warm sun, he always helped me do the homework required in the yard - collecting firewood, and completing his work.

Whenever I was punished by the dean's mother for no reason in the "black hut", the ghost brother always stood with me at the door like a diehard loyalist, I was angry and bluffed him with a stone, warning him to go back, he always frowned, and rolled away like a pug 3 meters away to "stand guard".

In the eyes of outsiders, I am a grass, and in his eyes, I am a treasure. In our dark orphanage, he is my companion like a god. I cherish the friendship between us, although I have some shortcomings and faults, but the friendship between Brother Ghost and me is silent, and it is the most faithful. Even if I had an awkward or a tantrum, it wouldn't hurt our friendship.

He once said to me without being shocked: "I want to protect the cat for the rest of my life." ”