The river is flowing and gurgling. The mountains are shrouded in a drizzle, ethereal and verdant.

In such weather, people are at home doing small work, and rarely go to the field to work. Children who don't go to school go to school are in a certain house, fanning cigarette boxes, picking sticks, and smoking cows...... Exhilaration. The face of the loser is stiff, and he is clamoring to try to win back. The one who won still wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, so he tried his best to hold back the little pride in his heart and provoked the other party to come again. The industrious peasant woman cut the shoe, collected the soles, showed off the insoles, or sewed and mended, or brought the grain to pick up...... Time is never enough for them. The men were busy mending farm tools, kneading linen ropes, weaving baskets, and tying brooms...... The rough hands are particularly dexterous, and the exquisite craftsmanship is never lost to the professional craftsmen.

Suddenly, a bright voice sounded in the smoke and rain: "Hurry, "The Legend of the New White Lady" is about to start!" ”

Immediately, people with TVs threw down their jobs to turn on TVs, and people without TVs moved small benches to run to homes with TVs. The people who had the TV had already moved their TV sets outside, set up shelters to protect themselves from the rain, and found their raincoats to prepare for the swarming neighbors.

Watching your favorite TV series is the most anticipated spice in the boring and monotonous life of a mountain village. The signal in the mountains was unstable, so everyone took turns holding the antenna to look around. The antenna is mounted on a long, thick wooden stick, and after a little time, it makes people's shoulders ache and their backs ache. But the person holding the antenna did not complain, and insisted on standing in a strange position in a strange place until the thick and shining black and white snowflakes became smaller.

The rainy season passed day by day, year by year.

Passing by the door of a peasant household full of people, Fu Xuefeng rubbed into the crowd one by one, stretched out his head to see what was going on, probably because he thought those black and white images were boring, and walked away with his head drooping.

Along the way, I stopped and walked, and it was not until Xiao Duxue's uncomfortable motion sickness passed that she happily walked and played. At the forked intersection, Ye Hanchuan turned left and went back to see his grandparents. Xiao Duxue and Fu Xuefeng turned to the right and walked towards the way home.

When she arrived at the entrance of the village, Xiao Duxue turned a corner and went to Su Shi'an's grave first.

In the wheat field, the stone tombs face the mountains, waiting for the worship of future generations. The grass on the grave is verdant, there are many wild flowers, and the appearance of the loess at the beginning can no longer be seen.

Xiao Duxue knelt down uprightly and kowtowed respectfully. She pulled away the old dead vines in front of the grave and called softly, "Grandpa......" With just one sound, tears flowed. It's been two years, and this sadness has never faded.

"Who makes something stronger than a plasterer, a shipwright, or a carpenter? Gravediggers! Because he built a house that he could live in until the end of the world. ”

Fu Xuefeng drew the gourd in the same way, and also kowtowed three times. Xiao Duxue said thank you in tears.

When I got home, Xiao Lanshu was sorting out the books, and Su Wanyan was picking up red beans.

"I'm back!" Xiao Duxue patted her stomach and said, "Hungry." ”

"Knowing that your motion sickness will empty your stomach, your mother stewed the soup early." Xiao Lanshu put an ancient book bound in thread on a high place, "This kid is Xuefeng?" ”

"Hmm. Xuefeng, this is my father and mother, and you will call them uncle and aunt in the future. ”

Fu Xuefeng shouted clearly: "Dad, Mom." ”

Xiao Duxue hurriedly corrected: "It's not my parents, it's my uncles and aunts." ”

Fu Xuefeng shook his head: "Dad, Mom." ”

Xiao Duxue was helpless: "It's wrong!" Do it all over again. ”

This time, Fu Xuefeng called more sincerely: "Dad, Mom." ”

Su Wanyan smiled: "Let him be, he can call it whatever he wants." ”

Xiao Lanshu also said: "It's just a title, it doesn't matter." ”

Xiao Duxue was unhappy: My brother hasn't called it that yet!

Xiao Lanshu cleared her throat and said, "Dusk Xue, Mu Bai and Xue Feng are all children of our family, you can't favor one over the other. Mu Bai is Mu Bai, Xue Feng is Xue Feng, and their identities are one yard to the other. ”

Xiao Duxue nodded reluctantly.

Fu Xuefeng said flatteringly: "Don't be angry." ”

Xiao Duxue stood still for a few seconds, and the unhappiness in her heart disappeared: "How can I be angry!" After that, you will follow me and call Mom and Dad. Cheap for you! ”

Fu Xuefeng smiled, his smile was clean and bright.

Xiao Lanshu said: "This kid is not stupid. ”

"I heard Aunt Cui say that he used to be a smart and sensible child. Later, I went out to work with others, and I had an accident and hurt my brain, so I became like this. But he's much better now, especially after the fire, he's less manic and less hurtful, and his thinking is much more organized than before. ”

"A poor boy too." Su Wanyan sighed, "I hope his parents have spirits in heaven and bless him more." ”

"Which of you is bigger?" Xiao Lanshu looked at the book and asked casually.

"He's big. Once on his birthday, Aunt Cui invited me to eat longevity noodles, which were particularly delicious, and I remembered them. ”

"But looking at his face, he seems to be younger than you."

Xiao Duxue pursed her lips and said, "Haven't you heard of it? The simpler the person, the more ageless he looks. Xuefeng's world is simpler than ours, and it's normal for him to look smaller than me. ”

Xiao Lanshu kept his eyes on the book: "It's good that you understand this truth." The human heart should not be too complicated, it should be simple. ”

Teach me a lesson! Hum! Xiao Duxue wrung the corners of her clothes uncomfortably.

Su Wanyan said with a smile: "The children have just arrived home and are tired, let them change their clothes and eat." I cleaned up Mu Bai's room, and all the important things were put in the attic. I added a few things to Xuefeng, as well as a few sets of clothes, and slowly filled in the missing ones. You take the snow peak to see it. ”

There seemed to be Yao Mubai's breath in the room, but he hadn't seen him for a long time. Xiao Duxue touched here and looked there, and after standing silently for a while, she said, "Xuefeng, my brother doesn't like others to touch his things. Don't touch it. ”

Fu Xuefeng hugged his things tightly and nodded.

Xiao Duxue picked out some things that Yao Mubai liked and hugged them to the attic.

Su Wanyan and Xiao Lanshu sighed secretly.

The rain stopped and the weather cleared. And when it was evening, the night was like the sea, and the sky was full of stars.

The surface of the pond is like a mirror, and the frogs are tirelessly noisy. In the green rice fields, loaches and eels swim happily and splash softly. In the tall eucalyptus tree, the owl hides in the leaves, its round eyes shining with a faint green light. As soon as a vole poked its head out, a black shadow shot out from high in the sky, followed by the sound of dying and struggling. The drama of the weak and the strong eating is staged day and night, anytime and anywhere.

Xiao Duxue set up a bench in the courtyard dam, put a wooden board for drying grain, and put it together to form a simple cool bed. She took a plate of peaches and pulled Fu Xuefeng to lie down and look at the stars.

Xiao Lanshu and Su Wanyan maintained good habits and went to bed early.

There was a dog barking, and when I heard it, it sounded like a wolf. I listened intently, but there was no movement.

Xiao Duxue nibbled on a peach, pointed to the stars in the sky and said, "Do you know the Cowherd and Vega?" It's that and that. The seven connected like rice spoons are the Big Dipper, which can point in the direction......" she chattered, not caring if others understood it or not.

Fu Xuefeng's eyes followed her fingers back and forth, occasionally nodding or humming.

After eating the peaches, Xiao Duxue took another one and opened her mouth to nibble on it.

"It's uncomfortable to eat too much."

Xiao Duxue put down the peach and said, "You are much more in charge than my mother." She counted the stars in the sky, but she couldn't count them. Counting and counting, she grabbed a handful into the air: "You close your eyes, I'll give you a star." ”

Fu Xuefeng closed her eyes as she said, seeing what kind of fame she was going to make.

"Alright." Xiao Duxue sat cross-legged, her hands interlocked and stretched out in the air. She motioned for Fu Xuefeng to come closer, and carefully exposed a small hole in her tightly buttoned hands: a firefly lay on her palm, flashing with amber light, which made her palm reveal a pink color, as warm as jade.

Fireflies fluttered, trying to fly out of the warm cage. Xiao Duxue opened her hand and released it. "Like it? Like a star? ”

Fu Xuefeng nodded, reached out and held the firefly into his palm again.

"You can't hold it all the time, it's going to die." Xiao Duxue broke his finger and said, "Just as stars only belong to the sky, fireflies belong to nature." Let it go! ”

Fu Xuefeng reluctantly let go. Xiao Duxue scratched his short hair and said, "Good job! I'll find a bottle one day, and we'll go and catch it in the forest in front. When I was a child, my brother used to take me and Hanchuan there. Speaking of Yao Mubai, the enthusiasm in her eyes slowly cooled.

Fu Xuefeng looked at the boundless night sky.

Xiao Duxue lay down again, pointed to a big and bright star in the sky, and said, "I was unhappy before, so grandpa asked me to look at that star." He said that it was a lucky star that only happy people could see. Just make a wish on it and your dreams can become reality. I never promised it, because I knew he was making me happy. ”

Fu Xuefeng clasped his hands together and made a wish in his heart.

"You believe? The gods are very busy, and they don't have time to pay attention to the mundane wishes of mortals. However, if I really want to say that, I hope that in the future, I will open a welfare home to take in those homeless children, give them a warm home, and let them no longer wander. I even had a name for the orphanage, which was 'Dandelion House'. I want the children to be free like dandelions, to go wherever they want, and to live happily in the sun. ”

Fu Xuefeng looked at the bright star and nodded slightly.

Xiao Duxue yawned, followed the stars and blinked for a while, and then fell asleep.

Fu Xuefeng sat quietly, the tenderness in his eyes getting stronger and stronger. He waited for Xiao Duxue to sleep soundly before carrying her to the attic.

The village grew quieter in the dead of night.

The next day, the weather was fine. Xiao Duxue took Fu Xuefeng to play wildly. When someone asked Fu Xuefeng's identity, she said: It is a child adopted by my parents, and they will live in our house in the future. With Yao Mubai as an example, the neighbors were not surprised, but they just felt that the Xiao family was about to get nervous again.