When I was twenty years old, I realized that I was a picked up child, and on this day, my adoptive father, who had raised me for nearly twenty years, died.

When I was dying, he called me to the bed, and shivered and took out a delicate brocade bag from under the pillow and gave it to me, explaining the reason for the incident.

My name is Ding Xiaoxi, and I live in the remote and almost isolated village of Wutou between the Huai River and the Qinling Mountains, with only a few dozen families in the village, all of whom are honest farmers.

Twenty years ago, an out-of-town woman came here with a baby in her arms, and it was me. After going from house to house in the village, she finally entrusted me to Ding Laogang, who was my adoptive father.

In those days, there was a famine, and there were people fleeing for food everywhere, and it was not surprising that they could not support their children and give them away.

Ding Laogang is very poor, and he has no hope of marrying a daughter-in-law, someone gave him a healthy and happy male baby, he was naturally overjoyed, and someone finally supported the old age.

After the woman left, in order to support me, Ding Laogang carried me around the village every day, and whoever had a lactating woman, he didn't leave, just to rub a mouthful of milk for me. People see me as pitiful, and they generally don't refuse, and after feeding their own children, they will leave a mouthful of milk for me, so I grew up eating Baijia milk.

Ding Lao Gong didn't have anything to say to me, he usually saved money, and all the money he saved was spent on me, and I was still competitive, becoming the only college student in the history of the village.

Probably because he was afraid that he would leave Ding Laogang after knowing the truth, everyone in the village hid it from me, and he didn't tell it until his adoptive father was about to die.

"This is what the woman left for you, I have never opened it, and I will give it to you; I have fed you for so many years, and I don't ask for anything else, I just hope that you can send me up the mountain. After the adoptive father said this, he stretched out his leg and died.

Despite all these years, the brocade bag is still very bright, with a black lotus flower embroidered on it, which looks a little weird. When the brocade bag was opened, there was only a piece of yellow sheet paper that had changed color, and on it was written a line of words - June 14, the third quarter of the Shen hour. It seems that this is my birthday.

There is another word at the bottom, "spirit", which I don't understand what it means.

According to her adoptive father, the woman was about twenty years old, white and pure, dressed in red, and the most eye-catching thing was that there was a red plum blossom birthmark in the center of her eyebrows.

After handing me over to Ding Laozhuan, she also left a message, saying that she would come back when I turned twenty.

That's all there is to it, and nothing else.

As a filial son, I sent my adoptive father up the mountain and into the ground, and then lived at home. First, I have nowhere to go when the school is on vacation, and second, I want to wait until the day to see if the woman comes, perhaps, she is my biological mother.

I don't have any impression of my biological parents, they didn't raise me, so naturally I have no feelings. However, after my adoptive father left, I had no relatives in this world, and I was lonely, always hoping to have an emotional sustenance.

Time passed in a flash, and in a blink of an eye, it was the fourteenth day of June in the lunar calendar, and I waited at home all day, but until the afternoon, the woman did not appear, but Guo Dajiang came.

Guo Dajiang is my hair child, and he is also a classmate in elementary school, and the relationship between the two of us is quite iron, as soon as he entered the door, he babbled, saying that the fifth aunt in the village jumped the Huai River, and the whole village went to save people.

When I was a child, I ate the milk of the fifth aunt, and I have always been treated as an elder in the family.

Along the way, I heard Guo Dajiang say that the fifth aunt and her man were working outside, and they got along with a woman, sleeping together every day, and the two of them seemed to be together. After she got the news, she cried and made a fuss, but instead she was beaten by his man and jumped into the river in a fit of rage.

I was so anxious that I ran as hard as I could.

The village is on the Huai River, just out of the village, only to see that the river is full of people, men, women and children are coming, shouting. There are several people in the yellow river, including the fifth aunt and her man, who are salvage.

I rushed in and yelled at her man in the water, "Where did my fifth aunt jump into the river?!" ”

It was this guy who forced the fifth aunt to jump into the river, if he wasn't in a hurry to save people, I would have killed him!

Her man cried and floated in the water with a crying voice, "That's where you jumped." Xiaoxi, I really didn't do anything ruthless, why can't she think about it...... mother-in-law"

I didn't have time to listen to him, so I separated the crowd and ran downstream.

The water is flowing, and the fifth aunt will definitely be washed down the river, and there will be ghosts if she can catch it in the same place.

Seeing my actions, everyone reacted and hurriedly followed me downstream.

I threw off my shirt as I ran, calculated that the distance was about the same, and threw myself forward into the water.

The water of the Huai River was very muddy, and I couldn't see anything underwater, so I could only close my eyes and touch the bottom of the river, and my ears were full of the sound of roaring water.

I began to follow the current to search downstream, and after a few ups and downs, I touched and touched, and just when I was about to hold back again, suddenly, I felt a soft body.

"Found it!" I hurriedly floated up, ready to take a breath and go down to catch people.

At this time, my heart sank to the bottom, the fifth aunt had jumped into the river for more than 20 minutes, and it had been delayed for so long just now, I was afraid that I would not be able to save it if I caught it.

I was stunned when I saw that the people in the village were dragging the wet old fifth aunt to the shore.

The fifth aunt was unconscious, her face was blue, and a viscous cyan liquid gushed out of her nose, and she looked hopeless.

Screams and cries erupted on the shore, and people lifted the body of the fifth aunt and ran to the village in a hurry, and in a blink of an eye, it was all gone, leaving only Guo Dajiang.

"Xiaoxi, come up." Guo Dajiang beckoned to me eagerly.

I was stunned, the fifth aunt was fished up by everyone, who is it under the water?

I didn't listen to Guo Dajiang's shouting, took a deep breath, and I got into the water again.

This time I had a definite position, and I quickly touched the body again, clamped it with one hand, and began to float upward.

The body was soft, human-like, without the stiffness of a dead body, which gave me a glimmer of hope that maybe this person was not dead. It's just very strange, this body is very slender, it should be a woman, but it is very difficult to paddle with her, as if something is pulling underneath.

I felt weak for a while, there is a legend of water monkeys in the Huai River, did I encounter that thing? It's a pity that I can't open my eyes in the yellow water, and I can't see anything.

The worries didn't happen, and after exerting all the strength to feed, I finally surfaced and quickly took a greedy gulp of air.

The shore is empty, Guo Zi is gone, there is no one, it seems that he can only rely on himself.

Looking at the bosom again, the head of the body was already out of the water, and the long hair was scattered, covering most of the face, and the exposed parts were bloodless white, but there was no decay at all, and there was no black blue common to drowning people. Her right hand hung over my shoulder, and she wore an emerald jade bracelet on her wrist, oddly shaped like a snake with its head and tail intertwined.

With the thought of saving people, I didn't have time to look closely, and swam to the shore with my body.

Fortunately, it was not far from the river bank, and after a short swim, my feet were on the bottom of the river, and I finally got my feet on the ground. I picked up my body and ran briskly to the shore, ready to see if I could save the man.

The body was out of the water, and the whole picture could already be seen, this was a petite and slender woman, wearing a bright red dress and trousers, with long straight hair, and her head and limbs hanging weakly.

I was not allowed to look closely, and suddenly there was a pulling force behind me, which pulled me in place and spun around in half a circle.

Looking back, my hairs stood on end, and I saw the woman's delicate bare feet side by side, tied by a turquoise chain, and the other end deep into the yellow water. Just now, the pull happened to be to the limit, and the woman's feet and chains tightened, lifting out of the water, making a "sonorous" metal friction sound.

The sound of water in my ears is loud, I am stupid, is it murder?!

Shocked to wake up, I quickly pulled my body up, and then lay it flat on the river beach, so that her body was still soaked in the water, but her face was out of the water, and I was ready to start first aid on the spot.

I taught CPR in school, but although I didn't practice it, I can only use dead horses as live horse doctors.

After recalling the essentials, I held the woman's chin and held her head up so that the trachea was all open and easy to ventilate.

As the head was raised, the long jet-black hair that had fallen over the face parted to reveal a delicate face.

The woman had very white skin, a pointed chin, a small mouth and nose, large eyes, curved and long eyelashes, and a serene demeanor, as if she had just fallen asleep.

My eyes fell on her eyebrows, and I was like a lightning strike, and my brain boomed, and my legs went limp, and I collapsed in the water.

The woman's eyebrows ...... There is a plum blossom birthmark, red as blood!

My adoptive father's words came to mind before he died: Twenty years ago, a woman gave me to him, and that woman was very beautiful, dressed in red, with a red plum blossom birthmark on her eyebrows......

And now the time ...... Around 3:40 p.m., according to the hour, it was exactly 3 o'clock in the afternoon!

"Oh my God!" I stood up in a panic and looked at it with wide eyes, and yes, the red plum blossom birthmark on my white face was particularly eye-catching.

What's going on here?

Could it be that the three minutes of Shen on the paper are not my birthday, but the time when the woman came to me? She said back then, when she came to see me twenty years later, she never imagined that it would be in such a way!

Also, my adoptive father and the people in the village said that when she first brought me, this woman looked about 20 years old, but now she looks about the same age as me, and she doesn't even age at all!

"No!" I roared and threw myself on top of the woman, pressing hard against her chest.

My mind was in a mess, I couldn't comprehend it all, and now I had only one thought - to bring her back to life!