The good girl didn't understand what the old watchman meant, but she also vaguely guessed that he might not come back. He never belonged to this small village, and he should return to the track of his own life.

Later, when the old watcher saw her, he comforted and encouraged her, as long as she went to school well, she could go to his provincial capital to see him in the future.

After more than a year, everyone around her gradually forgot about him, and just when she thought that this person would disappear from her life, he returned.

He returned to the Taoist temple as a staff member of the Religious Affairs Bureau, receiving a meager salary and doing all kinds of chores. Others didn't think he was any different from before, but she felt that he was very different.

He was even more silent, even if it was something that had to be explained, he tried to explain it in writing, and if he could, he would not speak.

Of course, the bigger difference is that they used to get along a little awkwardly. She had heard and seen so many more things than before, and it was no longer that he told her stories, but that she told him stories.

She was frowning, and he just smiled lightly, not touching her head and complimenting her as he used to.

When he looked at her, he always bowed his head slightly and didn't dare to look at her directly. She sometimes spun around mischievously to stare at him, and he always turned his head in a panic.

Gradually, she stopped playing with him, let alone yelling at him to carry her.

In a flash, she graduated from junior high school, her parents asked her to go to the city to work to subsidize the family, and the old-fashioned eldest brother said that she should go to high school and take the college entrance examination.

The good girl knew that her family was not good, and she didn't want her parents to work too hard, and she didn't want him to be disappointed too much, so she enrolled in a vocational and technical school. The tuition fee of this vocational and technical school is not high, she can work and study part-time for one and a half years, and she can solve the tuition fee for one year by herself during the three-year study period.

The old-fashioned eldest brother repeatedly persuaded them, and also offered to fund her school by himself, but they refused to agree.

The reason she didn't agree was that she didn't want to owe him favors, she felt that they were very unequal, and the balance of giving and giving could not be tilted any more.

The reason her parents didn't agree was that they realized that he liked their daughter, and they didn't want her to marry him.

Her parents heard rumors that the old-fashioned eldest brother was sick, and they came to the village because they couldn't survive in the city because they were sick.

Legend has it that his disease is epilepsy, or epilepsy, which may cause him to lose his life when he has a seizure, and will be passed on to the next generation.

Her parents thought that no matter how poor their family was, they could not let their daughter marry a sick person.

The old-fashioned big brother knew that there were such rumors, but he never explained them, and he knew that no one would believe them if he explained them. Who would believe that a good city man would go to the mountains to live in Taoist temples? Even if you don't have epilepsy, you have other unspeakable flaws.

The good girl goes to school in the city, and every time she comes back from vacation, she plays with him and tells him all kinds of new things. He listened quietly, and only when she laughed merrily did his brow stretch a little.

He has long stopped teaching her to read poetry and play chess, but she often uses brain teasers to test him. He always answered wrong, and she punished him, and he let her punish him in those strange ways.

Once, when he got it wrong again, she asked him to stand in the sun with his pillow on his head, and he literally stood under the hot sun on a June afternoon.

She was going to let him into the house in three minutes, but her classmates called her to find something, and the conversation on the phone lasted for half an hour.

When she ran out to find him after talking, he was still standing there. He was drenched in sweat and his lips were dry, burnt. He grinned at her, not blaming her.

She cried "wow", crying heartbreakingly, crying like the grievances of several lives and lifetimes had erupted, crying so much that she forgot what reason she had to cry.

Since then, she has never punished him, never punished him, never took the initiative to look for him, and always blushed and avoided him when she saw him by chance.

After a year and a half of full-time study at the school, the school arranged for them to go to the factory for internships. The factory was in another small city far away, and he went to see her off.

Before getting into the car, she asked: "I teased you during the summer vacation, you can just go into the house by yourself, and you don't want to think about what to do if you get heat stroke?" “

He smiled and asked her: "If I left by myself and didn't accept the punishment, you will be angry, what if you ignore me?" ”

She lowered her head, her voice as low as a mosquito: "I'm not such an unreasonable person...... I'm not going to ignore you...... Thou shalt not ignore me......"

He replied with some excitement: "I'm just afraid that you will ignore me, I will always guard my good sister, as long as you don't hate me!" ”

It was early November 2008, and the two agreed to meet again during the Chinese New Year.

At the end of the year, the factory where she interned had an early Spring Festival holiday, and she returned home on January 18, 2009, which was the twenty-third day of the lunar month.

The old-fashioned eldest brother went to the station to pick her up, and the two bought fragrant wax and stove candy together, ready to send him off. The twenty-third day of the lunar month is a small year, and it is also the day when the god of the stove reports to the heavens.

After he was busy at her house, he prepared a large table of good dishes, and after sending them to Zaojun, he sat down with her family to eat together. She ate happily, her parents were gloomy, and the other relatives were lukewarm.

After the old-fashioned eldest brother returned to the Taoist temple sullenly, her relatives began to persuade her to ignore him anymore. She had a big quarrel with her relatives, and the next day she went to her classmates to avoid the nagging of her family.

Her parents were so anxious to look for her everywhere, and they went to the Taoist temple to ask the old-fashioned eldest brother to help find her. He found her at her fellow scholars and persuaded her to return home.

She left her classmates with him, but refused to return home, so he had to ask her to call first to report her safety and leave her to live in the Taoist temple temporarily.

The twenty-sixth day of the lunar month was her birthday, and she promised him that she would go home obediently for the New Year after her birthday.

There is no custom of eating birthday cakes in the village, so he made her a bowl of longevity noodles with two fried eggs on the noodles. She likes to eat dried tofu, so he buys tofu and rolls and smokes a big bowl of dried tofu for her to eat.

"I like to eat, but I can't eat so much."

"It won't rot for two months in winter, so you can save it as a snack."

"I'm eighteen years old, and eating snacks all day long will ruin the image of a lady......"

He looked in a trance, "You're eighteen?" Unknowingly...... so many years"

Then he said with some excitement: "You can drink when you are eighteen, I will go and find out the good wine hidden by the old master." ”

The wine in the cellar of the old temple is self-brewed glutinous rice wine, which tastes sweet and not strong, but the stamina is quite large.

Because of her simple heart, she was still younger than girls of the same age, and her cheeks were red when she was drunk, but she was slightly drunk, her eyes were half-open and half-squinted, and her eyebrows were full of amorous feelings.

He looked a little stupid, and was afraid that she would catch a cold if she fell asleep on the table, so he asked her to go back to her room to sleep.

She muttered, "I can't walk...... You carry me to ......"

He smiled and carried her, he had carried her many times, the person was still the same person, but his feelings were completely different. Carrying her on her back when she was a child was like carrying a lazy little piglet, and carrying her on her back at the moment is like carrying a volcano.

In the wax moon dripping into ice, he was sweating profusely after walking more than ten steps, and the sweat evaporated to release a stream of heat. The hot air was full of white smoke on his head, and the white smoke finally sent her into the house and helped her to bed.

She spoke to him half-drunk and half-conscious: "My parents said that they would go to work in the factory where they interned soon after the New Year, and they would go to work at their place of work next summer, and I was not allowed to come back......"

He turned to leave, but he looked at her suspiciously, and she said, "They said that as long as I don't see you every two years...... You can break your thoughts......"