A nightmare is like a shackle, which is forced on the body of Bai Ling, a girl who is only ten years old, for no reason.

For a few days, Bai Ling was confused during the day, her mind was blank, and she was like an empty shell, numb to the extreme. She often doesn't know what she's thinking or what she's doing. At night, Bai Ling was immersed in nightmares, and he often shouted to his father to wake up several times in the night, and then had nightmares as soon as he fell asleep. She sometimes felt like her dad was on her side. Whether it was a dream or a hallucination, she herself couldn't tell. I only remember my father clenched his fists and said, "Ling, don't rely on others, rely on yourself." ”

Seven or eight days passed, and Bai Ling spent it in a drowsiness. In these seven or eight days, the heart of this ten-year-old girl matured as quickly as she was and stepped into the ranks of adults ahead of schedule.

That morning, Bai Ling rummaged through the cabinets to find the folding knife left by her father. When my father was alive, he often carried this knife with him, which brought great convenience to life and became a tool for self-protection.

As soon as Dad found a suitable wicker, he used this knife to cut it off, and collected a lot of less. Dad has a pair of skillful hands, he uses the time at night, the time when the heavy rain cannot plough the land, according to the thickness and length of the wicker, into baskets, baskets, convenient life, save expenses.

This knife is in Dad's hands, and it is still a weapon of self-defense. It was with this knife that he had protected Bai Ling's young life and eliminated a major scourge for the villagers.

Bai Ling remembers the spring of her fifth year. Dad took her to play in the creek outside the village. Suddenly, a large dog quietly pounced on Bai Ling. The quick-eyed father protected his daughter with one hand, and then kicked the dog to the side.

The average domestic dog, when it receives this kick, will turn around and run away. However, this is a mad dog, and not only does it not accept the lesson and runs away, but it makes a crazy counterattack. The mad dog starts attacking Daddy. Dad was unarmed, so he had to hug Bai Ling and dodge. Suddenly, Dad's hand touched a hard object in his pocket. Dad came to the spirit all of a sudden. He held Bai Ling in one hand and reached into his pocket with the other. With just one tap, the sharp knife stretched out.

This mad dog seemed to be the first time it had encountered someone who dared to confront it, and it was probably so ashamed that it jumped more than three feet high and pounced on the top of his father's head. At this time, the father gently placed his daughter on the ground. Instead of dodging, he rushed towards the dog. Aimed at the dog's neck, first with a fierce force, the knife "poofed" into it, and then with a swing of the wrist, it immediately cut the throat of the mad dog.

The blood of that vicious dog sprayed my father in an instant. Before it could scream, it fell to its death.

It turned out that this mad dog had already bitten several people. After the neighbors found out, they all came to visit his father, saying that he had done a great harm to the whole village, as if he was Wu Song who fought tigers in Jingyanggang.

The public security department also came to visit my father, saying that this mad dog had bitten people in several villages and was being pursued with all its might. Unexpectedly, it died at the hands of his father.

"Yushu wow, you don't usually look at how strong your body is. Where did you have the strength to end the life of that mad dog with a single sword? Uncle Wang asked while praising him.

Dad smiled and said, "This is for the children, for Bai Ling." Every parent does this when a child is hurt. There's nothing strange about that. ”

Daddy's love and father's bravery are deeply rooted in Bai Ling's heart.

"Don't rely on others, rely on yourself."

Bai Ling believed her father's words. This is what Dad said to himself in a dream, and there is nothing wrong with listening to Dad. If he had carried this knife with him earlier, he would never have allowed the wicked to do evil, at most, he would have died in the net.

Bai Ling opened the knife and saw that the blade was a little rusty, and she hadn't used it for more than a year. Bai Ling found a whetstone and began to sharpen it. She's going to grind off the rust spots, get it back to its original shape, and get sharp again.

"Click" ......

Bai Ling sharpened a few times, and then tried the blade with her hands. That's how Dad sharpens knives. Although she didn't make a move, her father's every move was firmly imprinted in her mind.

Other people's families favor sons over daughters. Dad treats Bai Ling as a pearl baby. No matter what you do, as long as you can take Bai Ling with you, you will never put her at home, and tell Bai Ling what she has done. Bai Ling has learned a lot of knowledge invisibly, and she is much more mature than children of the same age.

"Ling, what are you doing here?"

Mom saw Bai Ling sharpening the knife, and wiped the blade with her hand from time to time. Looking at her daughter's adult-like movements, she couldn't tell what it was like to be a mother. It's all boys' doing. It's all done by big men. Why did this quiet little girl start fiddling with a knife?

Bai Ling didn't answer her mother's words, but moved out all the things she wanted to say.