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In front of the broken temple, a child walked anxiously back and forth, looking into the distance from time to time, the cold wind blowing on his face like a pinprick, but it did not shake his determination to wait.

From time to time, he sighed into his palm, and a cloud of white mist hugged his small palm and dispersed, he hurriedly rubbed his palm vigorously to try to retain this short warmth!

A beautiful little girl in the house leaned against the door frame, wrapped her shabby and unsuitable big cotton jacket tightly and shouted: "Cliff, come in quickly, don't freeze, you can eat the sweet potatoes while they are hot!" Don't care about your sister, who knows where she's going to play crazy again! ”

Xiao Boya watched the sunset gradually set, and the pace of walking back and forth became more and more urgent: "Sister, you eat first, I'll wait for a while, and wait for Luo Xi to come back and eat with her!" ”

He couldn't remember how anxiously it had been, and every time the afterglow had fallen, he could see a figure faintly appear on the rugged mountain road!

Today's time, every minute and every second seems to be particularly long, and Xiaobo Cliff's breath turns into a cloud of white smoke in this cold night, rising and annihilating! Countless times of looking, countless times of disappointment, and the heart gradually deepened with the night!

He couldn't count how many steps he had walked, and looked at the winding and rugged mountain road again, a small figure disappeared in the distance, and before he could speak, a crisp child's voice came, like a nightingale in winter, unreal, but exceptionally good: "Hey, Xiaobo Cliff, come and pick me up!" ”

Fang Cai's worries, irritability, and countless speculations all turned to smoke.

Xiao Boya trotted all the way over, the cold wind blew his cheeks hurt, he turned a deaf ear, ran to her side, hugged the things in her arms, pushed her into the house, there was a bonfire in the house, which would definitely make her stiff and red hands stretch out!

As soon as I entered the house, the warm temperature and the sound of reproach rushed towards me.

"I can't see anyone all day long, where do you go crazy to play? It's getting later and later, Yu Luoxi, you can't come back earlier, so as not to be afraid of Bo Ya and wait for you outside every day! There is no look of being a sister! "The pretty little girl is nagging like an old grandmother!

While counting her, she dug out the hot sweet potatoes from the ashes, and the hot temperature made her have to keep pouring between her hands, and when it was not so hot, she quickly stuffed it into Yu Luoxi's hands!

Xiao Luoxi's face was a little chapped, and her lips cracked with her smile, oozing thin blood strips, the fire was reflected on her hands, and the swollen fingers looked even more red.

She carefully placed the hot sweet potato on her long shirt, "Yuexi, look what I brought!" She took two oil paper packets from Xiao Boya's arms and shook them in front of Xiao Yuexi's face! The eyes seem to be burning with flames, shining and warm, like stars, like the sun!

Xiao Luoxi gently opened the oil paper, and stretched out the contents to the opposite side as if offering treasure: "It's meat, two chicken legs, I compared several vendors, and the one I picked was the biggest!" I ran all the way back in my arms, or is it hot, you smell it, is it fragrant? "The eyes are crooked and smiling, and they are so beautiful!

"Where did you get the money to buy these things?"

"I earned it! Xiao Boya, come and eat together! ”

"You eat one, me and Boya eat one!"

Xiao Luoxi scratched his head embarrassedly, "I won't tell you, I bought four, I was so hungry on the road, I couldn't help it, so I secretly ate two, and it was uncomfortable at this time!" She handed the other oily chicken leg to Xiao Boya's hand and petted his hair!

The perennial downfall makes the two girls look extraordinarily thin, and the only consolation is that the little boy is still fed by them, chubby, cute and tight.

In winter, it is not easy to eat hot sweet potatoes, let alone the fragrant chicken thighs! All three of them had satisfaction on their faces!

Looking at the sweetness of their food, Xiao Luoxi's heart was soft: "In the future, I will definitely not let you suffer a trace of grievance!" She said it solemnly, like an oath, and like a whispered whisper, so that people could not hear it, and I did not know whether she said it to them or to herself.

Only he paused and chewed, and then bit a bite of meat fiercely, his mouth bulging, like a little frog in a lotus pond.

She said that by coincidence, she had to recognize a pawnshop owner, who was addicted to alcohol and always had to drink a few taels every day!

The tavern is very far away, she asked the boss that she was willing to help him drink, the boss said that he was going to the town market to drink on weekdays, the tavern business is very good, only a hundred pots are sold every day, no more than two pots per person, sometimes it can be sold out before noon, so it is about two days to go once, osmanthus brewed thirty yuan a pot! He is willing to give her thirty-five articles!

It takes half a day for Xiao Luoxi to walk to the market, and she asked the whole market, the cheapest osmanthus is brewed in the most remote south of the city, and it costs 20 yuan a pot!

She smelled it and felt the same! The guy said that because the location is not prosperous enough, the price can only be lower, but the wine and the pawnshop owner buy the same thing on weekdays, and they are all purchased from the same brewing hotel, so she can rest assured! In this way, you can earn fifteen wen a day, but the journey is too far, and you can only go out at dawn every day and return with the stars.

In such a half month, I finally made some small money, and I don't have to worry about food and clothing anymore!

Xiao Luoxi saw that they had eaten the meat and said: "I'm a little tired today, go and rest first, don't bother me, there are pastries I bought in that oil paper bag, it looks very good, you taste it, if it's delicious, I'll buy some tomorrow!" She quietly shrunk her hand into her sleeve, got up and patted the dust on her buttocks and walked to the side room of the ruined temple!

The three of them were all staying in the side room, and today she must be really tired when she sees the dust, so Boya and Yuexi are resting by the fire wrapped in shabby quilts!

After a long time, only the sound of crackling fire and heavy breathing could be heard, Xiao Boya called the eldest sister softly, and only a slight breathing was heard in response to him, and he tiptoed up and walked to the side room.

Luo Xi curled up in a ball on the grass near the corner of the wall, his eyebrows locked and stretched out from time to time, as if he was very tired, his little hands were leaking outside, red, and there were a few chilblains on his fingers, and there were slight erosions.

He seems to be suppressing something in his heart, he can't say it, he can't suppress it! He walked over to help her tuck her hand into the quilt, but suddenly his feet slipped, and something sticky stuck to the soles of his shoes, and he bent down, and suddenly the tears broke and fell dripping.

Boya's small body, standing in place for a long time, looking at the sleeping person by the faint light of the outhouse, she was close in front of her, but it seemed that she couldn't reach it with her hand, that feeling of powerlessness tormented him deeply!

In the end, he didn't put her exposed hands into the already shabby quilt.

On the stone bench outside the door, his lips were pursed extremely tightly, and his body couldn't help but tremble at night.

He held the sweet potato skin that he had just taken out of the house tightly, and he probably held it too hard, and the remaining golden liner with the blackened skin overflowed from his fingers, falling on his coat and on his heart.

He was in a sullen pain all over his body, and his indescribable emotions were like beasts screaming to bite and swallow him, but finally there was nowhere to vent, but he could only turn into a low and suppressed moan, and with the tears pouring down, like nectar in spring, sprinkled on the seed buried deep in his heart, let this seed take root and sprout, and spread wantonly in every corner of his body.

I don't know how long it took, he looked up at the starry sky with red eyes, and the stars of this winter night seemed to illuminate all the darkness of his future path.

He stretched out his hand to remove the things on his coat, but the more he wiped it, the dirtier it became, and finally it became a large piece, black and yellow, just like him and her, it was difficult to distinguish each other!

If from that day on, he only thinks that she is a relative, then from today on, she is his own, and he will spare no effort to protect her for the rest of his life, so that she will not go down to the river to fish in the summer, and she will not brave the cold to run and drink in winter, and she will be fed and clothed, and she will always have a happy face on her face.

The next day, before dawn, she went out in a hurry.

Boya, who was still asleep, opened his eyes and sat up in an instant.