It was already dark, and Mo'er's legs and feet were inconvenient, so we found a ruined temple and planned to stay in it for one night. Suddenly it rained heavily, and as soon as it rained, it became cooler.

I found some firewood from outside, and made a fire in the temple, and Mo'er sat next to me to make a fire, and when we talked, Mo'er's stomach screamed a few times, and when I looked at her, she immediately covered her stomach with her hands.

I thought about it, we really haven't eaten for a long time, I didn't expect to encounter so many things along the way, and the dry food has already been eaten. I feel sorry for Mo'er, she always suffers, is always sad, and always hungry with me.

I added a few sticks of firewood to the fire, and then said, "Mo'er, you wait for me here, and I'll go find something to eat." ”

Mo'er said: "It's raining so hard outside, don't go out, just wait until dawn." ”

I knew that Mo'er was already very hungry, and her legs hurt so badly that it was not easy to stay up until dawn. I told her not to worry and just went out.

By the time I came back soaking wet and holding the wild fruit, Mo'er was already asleep. I put the wild fruit aside, tore off the strips of cloth from my clothes, dried it, and bandaged the wounds on my hands, which were full of thorns, and pierced my hands with great difficulty.

"Miss, you're back!" As I was baking the strips of cloth, Mo'er suddenly called me.

I turned around and said, "Why aren't you sleeping?" ”

"If Miss doesn't come back, how dare Mo'er sleep!"

I said, "I've picked some fruit for you, so eat it." ”

Mo'er came over and looked at my hand: "Miss, your hand?" ”

I said it was okay, and then told Mo'er to eat wild fruits.

Mo'er sat and picked up a fruit: "How can Miss have suffered such a crime!" ”

I said, "Mo'er, don't call me Miss anymore, I won't be the eldest lady from the day the Prime Minister's Mansion was destroyed." ”

Mo'er didn't speak, lowered her head and wiped all the wild fruits with her sleeve, until she wiped all the wild fruits, and Mo'er didn't eat a single ......

We set off at dawn in the morning, and when Wu Deqing left, he left a bottle of gold sore medicine for Mo'er, the effect of the gold sore medicine was very good, and Mo'er was already able to walk normally the next day.

Along the way, we walked and rested, and when we were tired, we sat on a big rock and ate wild fruits. Mo'er said that this wild fruit was delicious, I took a bite, in fact, it was sour and astringent, I knew that Mo'er didn't want me to feel that I didn't have it, and besides, we were so hungry that we had nothing to eat.

It took us five days to finally reach Chenjiazhai, and it was already evening when we walked into the village. It's very depressed here, not to mention people, not even a single chicken or duck, I think just like Xuanwu said, they all fled for their lives. It's been two years, and there hasn't been much change here, I remember that Lu Huai and I set up a tent on the lawn in the middle of the village, I remember that we went to the back mountain to fetch water together, I remember that we cooked a big pot of rice together by the tent, and I remember me and Chu Muxiu making a splash on the wooden bridge......

The mountain is the mountain, the tree is the tree, but the people are no longer those people.

I walked to the door of Xuanwu's house, although it was not dark, the door of their house was tightly closed, I approached some stickers on the door and squinted inside, it was pitch black and I couldn't see anything. I thought that Xuanwu would not leave, so I knocked lightly on the door.

"Who?"

A voice came from inside, and I could tell it was Xuanwu, so I shouted loudly inside, "Xuanwu, I'm Sister Ah Candle, I'm here to see you!" ”

Xuanwu, who was hiding at the foot of the wall, immediately opened the door, and I saw that he was wearing rag clothes, he was also eight years old in two years, and he seemed to have grown a lot taller, with two small faces and black girls, staring at me with big eyes. I couldn't speak for a while, and Xuanwu didn't speak, and then Xuanwu looked at me and cried.

I squatted down and put my hand on his shoulder and asked him, "Xuanwu, what are you crying about?" ”

His tears kept falling, and he trembled and said, "I'm afraid that no one else will know if I'm dead." ”

Hearing him say this, my tears fell all of a sudden, and I hugged Xuanwu and said, "Sister Candle will take you away, and she won't let you die." ”

Xuanwu trembled in my arms, he cried more and more, Mo'er patted Xuanwu's back, and his emotions slowly calmed down.

When I walked into Xuanwu's house, it was much more empty than what I saw two years ago, and it could really be described as a house with four walls. Xuanwu said that after his grandmother left, he had no food to eat, so he had to use the tables and chairs at home to exchange some food with others.

Xuanwu led me to sit down, and he took out two boiled sweet potatoes from the pot for me and Mo'er. Maybe it's been left for too long, this sweet potato has become dry and hard, and I haven't eaten it for a long time when I hold it in my hand.

"Sister, you must be hungry after walking for a long time, why don't you eat sweet potatoes?" Xuanwu asked me with big eyes.

I looked at Xuanwu, his whole face was smiling, I don't know how long Xuanwu has been saving this sweet potato in my hand, I don't know if it's his food for a few days, maybe Xuanwu doesn't know that maybe eating this sweet potato will already cause diarrhea.

"Haven't you been here for a long time, and you can't get used to eating sweet potatoes here?"

I said, "No." ”

Then he hurriedly peeled off the sweet potato skin and took a few sharp bites. The sweet potato was so dry that my throat hurt a little when I swallowed it, but I couldn't pat my chest with my hand, and I couldn't show it too obviously.

"Is it delicious?" Xuanwu asked me.

"Okay, it's as delicious as it was!"

After we said a few words, it was getting dark, and Xuanwu picked out a small bag of rice from under the table with a stick, and then handed it to me and said, "I knew that you would come when I wrote the letter, so I specially left half a catty of rice." ”

When Xuanwu handed me the rice, I almost cried again, but seeing Xuanwu smile at me, I held back again.

Mo'er brought a basin of water, I went to collect some firewood, and the three of us gathered around the fire to cook porridge and drink.

Xuanwu said that he still remembered that we used to cook rice in a big pot like this at that time, and he said that it was the best meal he had ever eaten. Xuanwu said to me that the Huns came to fight and robbed the grain and silver in the stockade, and the Huns held big knives in their hands, and the people in the stockade did not dare to resist, so they had to let them all take away the food. They originally thought that the Huns would not come again after coming once, but then they broke into the stockade again and again, and each time they had to steal something. The people in the village were scared, and then they all left, and then the grandmother also died, and only Xuanwu was left in the whole village. Later, every time the Huns came again, he hid under the well, and later the Huns thought that there was no one in the stockade, so they stopped coming, and they hid under the well for a day and a night before they dared to come out.

We talked for a long time, until the porridge was boiled dry, and Mo'er put water in the pot again, and we could drink the porridge.

When I was drinking porridge, Xuanwu asked me, "Why didn't that brother who doesn't like sweet potatoes come with you?" ”

I held a spoon in my hand and hung in the bowl for a long time and couldn't speak, I glanced at Mo'er, Mo'er seemed to understand what I meant, and then turned to Xuanwu and said, "That big brother can't come if he has something important!" “

"Oh."

I saw that Xuanwu seemed a little lost, so I asked him, "That big brother doesn't like to live in your place and doesn't like to eat your sweet potatoes here, why do you still want him to come?" ”

"Actually, the eldest brother is lying, he said that he doesn't like to live on the ground but still sleeps soundly, he says he doesn't like to eat sweet potatoes, but he still eats it at night when he is hungry!"

"How do you know he's eating at night when he's hungry?" I asked him.

"I saw it, big brother secretly got up to eat at night!"

Hearing what Xuanwu said, I actually wanted to laugh a little, I had always thought that his body was made of iron.

"Xuanwu, would you like to go to Huancheng with me?"

Xuanwu squirmed and said, "It's just a little reluctant grandma." ”

I looked up at the moon and said, "I can't bear to kiss my mother." ”

"Sister Candle, is your mother also at the border?"

"She's watching me from heaven."

Xuanwu probably understood what I said, and after a long time he said, "But now that my grandmother is gone, I am helpless, Sister A Candle is Xuanwu's only relative, and I will go wherever Sister A Candle goes in the future." ”

I said, "I might have to take you to Huancheng!" ”

He smiled: "I heard that the people in the village said that Huancheng is prosperous, so Xuanwu doesn't want to see the world, and he can also go to the big brother." ”

I don't want to break Xuanwu's illusions, I don't refute or speak, I don't want to tell him that even if I go to Huancheng, I can't take him to Chu Muxiu.

We plan to stay in Chenjiazhai for one day, and when we get up the next day, the porridge in the pot is all dry. We had to go to the small river in the back mountain to fetch water, and the water in this small river had risen a lot. We brought a big kettle, filled it all to the brim, and when we were about to go back, Xuanwu coldly pushed me into the river.

Xin Hao's water is not very deep, only up to my calf, I was shocked, "Xuanwu, you want to drown me!" ”

Xuanwu and Mo'er stood on it and bent over and smiled: "Anyway, you can't drown, so I should give you a bath!" ”

I saw that their appearance was really hateful, and I ripped him off when Xuanwu was not paying attention, and then Mo'er also came down. Xuanwu splashed me with water, I splashed Mo'er with water, we splashed all the water in the kettle, we were all soaked, and then dragged heavy wet clothes and shoes full of water back to Chenjiazhai.

At night, Xuanwu told me that Mo'er told him to push me down. I asked him why, and he said Mo'er wanted to see if I was still smiling as much as I used to.

I turned my head to look at Mo'er, who was still blowing the fire in the stove with her mouth puffed out, and the bursts of white smoke came out, making Mo'er cough vigorously.

I ran over and crouched down and told Mo'er to go and rest, and the fire soon rose after I had set up all the firewood.

Mo'er said: "Still Miss, you are amazing." ”

I said, "Man should be the center, and the fire should be hollow." ”

Mo'er said that she hadn't seen me smile heartlessly like I did today.