On February 12, 1997, in a room on the second floor of a farmhouse compound in a southern town, a 6- or 7-year-old girl on the bed frowned, and her mouth was chanting but she couldn't hear clearly.

"Why do you have strange dreams again, and I don't remember every time I wake up." Mu Yin muttered, looked at the sky, and then it was bright, crawled out of the quilt and shivered, wanted to go back, but held back, took the clothes on the bed, and wore a red cotton jacket outside, before stretching and going downstairs.

"Yinyin got up so early today, it's really good, I'm going to elementary school soon, I should get up early." Because of the old age, the grandparents who woke up early said happily when they saw Muyin who went downstairs.

"Grandpa and grandma early." Mu Yin greeted the two old men, and after saying hello, she went to wash her face and brush her teeth, and looked at the time, it was already 7 o'clock, which was not early.

The ghost makes the god worse, Mu Yin decided to run and exercise after freshening up, God knows that she has been going up the mountain and down the river with her friends since she was a child, and her body is great, but she doesn't like sports, when she stopped panting, Mu Yin felt that she was kicked in the brain by a donkey, how to do something inexplicable today.

Mu Yin, 8 years old this year, lives in a small town in a remote county in Z Province in southern China, which is all mountainous, and it takes seven or eight or nine hours to drive to the city, and the road conditions are very poor.

Her house is an old mud house, which occupies a large area, with a hall house and side houses on both sides.

There are quite a lot of people in the family, grandpa Mu Tong, 59 years old this year, grandma Dongfeng, 57 this year; Uncle Mu Yang, 32 years old this year, is a carpenter, aunt Huang Shan is 31 years old, the two have two sons, the eldest brother Mu Qin is 12 years old, the second brother Mu Li is 9 years old, and an adopted daughter Mu Miao is 9 years old.

The second Mu Song is 29 years old, is an electrical repairer, his wife Zhou Qi is 29 years old, the two are high school classmates, and after getting married, they opened a repair shop in the town, the eldest son Mu Song is 9 years old, and the second daughter is Mu Yin 8 years old, and the two siblings are 20 months apart.

The third Mu Bai is 24 years old and now works in the post office, his wife Zhang Yi is 22 years old, and he has a daughter named Mu Xi, who has just turned one year old.

Such a population family is not uncommon for them, their family is quite harmonious, although the grandparents have a little bit of patriarchy, but it is generally only manifested in pocket money, and other times it is the same.

Muyin is 7 years old (imaginary age, actually 6 years old), and is about to sign up for school, but it's not elementary school, but preschool, well, similar to the existence of kindergarten, but they don't have kindergarten here at this time, only preschool.

In the southern countryside of 97, the school was still a five-year school, but because of the existence of a one-year preschool class, it was similar to a six-year school, in fact, at the beginning, she had to directly enroll in the first grade of primary school.

There are two reasons why Muyin does not go to the first grade directly, one is that she is not old enough, they have to be 7 years old to go to primary school, and the other is that now is not the time, have a good New Year, the Lantern Festival has not yet passed, and the school will start the second semester of the first grade, which is definitely not good.

In addition, there are preschool classes where you can learn pinyin and numbers in advance, resulting in people who enter the first grade directly and cannot keep up with the curriculum, so Muyin can only read preschool first, and it is the kind that is transferred halfway.

I don't know why her parents have to insist on letting her start school now, even if she may have to study for half a year longer than others, of course, she didn't know anything about this Muyin, and she only understood it later.

It's only been a few days since she signed up, and Mu Yin is still very excited, after all, children who have not gone to school are very eager for school, and there can be so many children to play with, and it turns out that she is not so happy after going to school.

On the day of the Lantern Festival, Muyin carried her small schoolbag and followed her mother to the school to register, but in fact, she didn't do anything, just followed her mother to sign up, pay the money, and then receive the book.

After waiting for the start of school two days later, two days later, I put on a small schoolbag again, and it weighed a lot after putting books in it, but when I passed by my peers, Mu Yin still passed by them with her head held high, that was triumphant.

At the beginning of the class, I was still full of motivation, even if it was still quite cold, and Muyin was very talented, and learned everything relatively quickly, whether it was pinyin or numbers, and she was also the most standard one in pinyin, and she was often called by the teacher to demonstrate.

There are fewer preschool courses, and there are 5 kinds, Chinese, mathematics, painting, music, sports, I don't know why, Muyin always has a special feeling of love for painting, and there is an impulse to hold a pen, although the final drawing is a child's graffiti, but it is much better than other children.

"Ahh Woke up from the dream again, with determination and identification on his face, but it was quickly replaced by a daze, Mu Yin scratched his head: "Why is this like this, I still don't remember anything." ”

Thinking like this, he didn't delay, got up, put on his clothes and went downstairs, his feet on the wooden stairs and rattled, "Grandpa and grandma are early." ”

"Early." Seeing my granddaughter get up and get used to it, it's a good thing that the little granddaughter doesn't like to lie in bed recently, although it's already 8 o'clock.

Mu Yin ran out and saw the uncle who was arranging the hoe and preparing to go to the field: "Uncle is early." ”

"Ahh The uncle answered, but he didn't raise his head.

Mu Yin didn't care, ran to the faucet, took his own small towel and put it in the basin, took the tooth cup and his own toothbrush, turned on the faucet to pick up some water, then opened the boiling water bottle and poured some hot water, mixed it and began to wash his face and brush his teeth.

After getting it done, I went to see if I could have breakfast, although they all lived in one house in three rooms, but in fact, they had already separated, the uncle's family, her father's family, and the grandparents followed the uncle's family, well, why she didn't know why she was not an uncle with the uncle.

Their house is the kind of old southern peasant house that occupies a large area, and her house is alone, there are no neighbors on either side, so it is more spacious, and the back mountain is against the mountain, but the back mountain does not completely belong to her family.

They are a mountain village here, and each family has a few hills in addition to a few terraced fields of their own, because there are many mountains, and the main role of the mountains is to cut wood, well, anyway, they are all not very big pine trees and a few other trees, and the animals are said to have wild boars, which she has never seen, but there are some rabbits and pheasants.

Today, Saturday, on holiday, Mu Yin decided to go to the children to play, after washing she went to a friend's house, their village is on the mountain, her family is alone on a mountain, and then the rest of the family in the village is basically on another mountain, that mountain is basically built a house or even a school, the only middle school in their town is in their village, and her family is very lonely.

"Lily, Bailing, I'm coming for you." There was no one at the house, so Muyin went to the middle school to look for someone, and sure enough, she found the two in the garbage dump next to the playground.

Mu Yin immediately ran over happily, there was a big steep slope outside their school playground, and the bottom of the slope looked like a cliff, about three or four meters high. It looks very dangerous, it is used to take out the garbage, and it looks dirty, but the children of the village actually like to play here.