50 years ago in the fishing village, before Nono and his father disappeared

Although life in the fishing village is boring and uneventful, the appearance of new life brings a little joy every time, especially the women in the village, who always run happily to tell each other, as if every child is their own child.

In this year, a little girl was born in the fishing village, she was very beautiful, with a round baby face, round eyes, and eyelashes like small fans. The tip of the nose and the small mouth are also fleshy. As soon as he was born, the first thing the little guy saw was not her mother, but Nono, who was eleven years older than him.

Nuno happened to pass by the girl's house with her father at that time, and saw the girl's mother washing clothes at the door with a big belly, women in the countryside are not as delicate as women in the city, and when they are about to give birth, some will move around, and even do some simple housework.

Nono's own mother was also such a hard-working woman, so Nono couldn't help but look at the girl's mother a few more times, and when the woman who was washing the clothes looked up and saw him, as if there was an omen, her stomach suddenly came with a sharp pain, and the person fell on the edge of the laundry tub at once.

Because there was no one else in the family, the girl's mother had to ask for help from Nuo Nuo's father and son, Nuo Nuo's father was a warm-hearted person, he quickly asked Nuo Nuo to call the village doctor, and he went into the yard to help the woman into the house, however, in order to avoid suspicion, Nuo Nuo's father quickly left again, and went to a few families on the side to find a few women at home to help.

Because of the help of Nono's father and son, the girl was born without danger, but she was born prematurely, and she was about two months before her due date. As for the cause of premature birth, everyone can't figure it out, because usually the girl's mother is fine, and there is nothing abnormal.

When the village doctor picked up the child, he found that the child's bones were not only not hardened, but also that the eyes were closed, the eyelids were glued together, and she couldn't open them at all, and the village doctor didn't dare to use a scalpel to cut it open for her, which would be very dangerous.

In the end, it was little Nono who was more bold, and after he obtained the consent of the girl's mother, he used a small leaf to cut the girl's eyelids, without a trace of harm, black and clear, and the big eyes like pearls slowly opened in front of Nono, as if they were Nono's sister, because the boy himself also had such a pair of clear eyes.

From then on, the girl had her eyes on Nono. As soon as he learned to walk, he became Nono's little heel, and the two were inseparable all day long. The girl's mother was a widow whose husband had recently died, and Nono's father, a widower, was so good to see their two children. The villagers wanted to match the two of them, but Nono's father was unwilling, and the matter was put on hold.

A few years later, the girl grew into a bouncing little girl, with two pigtails, still chasing the 15-year-old Nuno every day, Nuno was sent to school by her father for a few months, the girl didn't even think about tea and dinner, waiting for him to come home, the relationship between the two children is obvious to all.

This life could have gone on forever until they grew up, or became brother and sister, or husband and wife, but the girl's mother remarried and took her away from the fishing village, and Nono and her father disappeared on the lake, and from then on, the two men were separated from each other and never saw each other again.

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Ten years after Nono and her father disappeared, in a two-story house, a fifteen-year-old girl was lying alone on a small bed in front of the window, and the old locust tree could be seen outside the window.

The old locust tree is like the old man in the village, so old that the leaves are about to fall off, and there are still a few pieces left to hang on it, it is not too cold weather, it is estimated that this locust tree should not last next year.

The girl reached out to pluck a leaf, and she felt that the leaf was like the gentle hand of a boy in the past, and when the hands passed over her eyelids, she saw the light. But halfway through the hand, the girl stopped.

'Shall I kill this old locust tree, if I pluck its leaves and cause it to die instantly, then I will not even have the last memory of the past?' ’

Thinking of this, the girl retracted her hand, she did not want to lose the old locust tree, in her memory, when she was very young, when the old locust tree was still full of vitality, there was always a boy climbing between the branches, which brought her happiness, although the boy disappeared later, but the old locust tree became an indispensable puzzle in the depths of her memory.

The fingers moved forward again, this time each fingertip feeling particularly gentle, and the girl carefully stroked the surface of the leaf, as if she were speaking to it with her mind.

There was silence in the room, the door was not locked, and a gap was opened, which the girl had deliberately opened so that she could hear the voices downstairs, the girl's hearing was very good, and from her own room, she could even tell who was talking and walking downstairs?

This also helps her avoid the so-called relatives she will never like.

The fingers were withdrawn to her chest, and the girl heard a footstep that was not slow, and the heel part was trampling very hard, it was the footsteps of her stepfather, the girl quickly closed the window, got up from the bed, ran to the door and banged it, closed the door heavily, and did not forget to lock it from the inside.

The man who was not yet thirty years old walked to the door of the girl's room and was suddenly locked out, the man was not surprised, she had always treated herself like this all these years, especially after her mother died.

The man knew that the girl thought that her mother was killed by herself, and never forgave him, but the man didn't care about this, he felt that as long as he cared enough, one day the girl would open her heart to him, and that was only a matter of time.

After staring at the door silently for a long time, the man moved his steps and walked away, next door was his own room, but he couldn't go back to rest at the moment, there was still a lot of work to be done, the man returned downstairs and silently entered the studio downstairs.

The studio used to be the bedroom used by her wife, the girl's mother, who had been reluctant to live on the second floor in order to take care of the family. But this is only a superficial reason, perhaps, deep down, there are more important reasons why she does not want to share a room with a man.

Shaking his head, the man put aside his unsettling thoughts and began to fiddle with a large pile of things on the table, which was a slimy, disgusting pile of stuff, I don't know where the man got it, and it was still dripping.

The man picked up a little bit of the tools he had bought from the city and had not been out for ten years in order to study the usefulness of the thing. Not far from him, there was a complete skeleton model, like the one placed in the corner of a private clinic, which looked very realistic.