Chapter 1: Birth
Ninety-seven years, Midyear Festival. The sky was terriblely silent, the terrible moonlight appeared and disappeared between a few clouds, the yin wind rolled up piles of burned paper money from the ground, and the roadside was all burning paper, and there were few pedestrians.
This year is a lunar year, and it is a lunar moon and a cloudy day, and at midnight, the nine stars in the sky are aligned to form a lunar time.
At this extremely cloudy time, the delivery room died, stopped in the hospital morgue, covered with white cloth, and the yin wind swept those white cloth sheets and fluttered recklessly.
"Oh, that's pathetic! Not even a single family member accompanying him. "Several nurses on night duty were discussing with each other.
"I don't know where I secretly conceived a wild seed when I am not very old! Don't learn well at a young age! Then there was a mocking laugh.
"Wow, wow, wow!" Suddenly there was a burst of baby crying from the direction of the morgue......
"Let's go, let's see!" Several nurses were still smiling a second ago, and their expressions suddenly changed drastically.
They hurried to the morgue full of corpses, the dim light flickering through the ceiling fan, and they picked up the poor newborn from under the sheets in the direction from which the cry came.
Five years later, in the orphanage, a middle-aged and childless couple sat in the director's office, the woman had tears on her face, and the man comforted, "Okay, Yi'er is gone, you have to come out of there and face life again!" ”
As he spoke, the man thoughtfully wrapped the square scarf around the woman's shoulder.
"Let's go inside! In fact, these children are very pitiful, they have no parents since they were young, and many couples have come to receive their children, but they always feel that they are not biological, and there is a gap between them and their children. Dean Li led them to the courtyard, "I also want them to have a new home that loves them, but sometimes, I am a little worried and afraid of some adopters, so sometimes they are about to be taken away, and I am both happy and a little worried." “
"Check it out! Liu Xia, you don't have to be sad, let's start from scratch, child! The man supported his wife, the woman didn't seem to have completely come out of the pain of losing a child, she said "um" and followed her man and Dean Li into the yard, the yard is full of slides for children to play, seesaws or something, the equipment is relatively complete, but the children in it seem to be unhappy one by one, either in the corner in a daze or with other children snatching toys and bullying other children.
They walked around the orphanage, but there was not a single child who looked at them. Just as they were disappointed and ready to go to the next orphanage, a little boy holding a teddy bear with his head down grabbed their eyes in the corner. The child's facial features look quite upright, his eyes are full of melancholy, the little white shirt is very clean and tidy, not a little dirty like other children, it looks so conspicuous in a group of children, but his face and skin look so white that there is almost no blood, and it doesn't seem to be so gregarious.
"Just him!" Liu Xia excitedly pointed to the boy opposite.
In this way, Zhang Tao and Liu Xia took the child from the orphanage to their second-hand Santana.
"Husband, do you think this child has some shadows of our family's Zhang Yi's childhood?" Liu Xia leaned on Zhang Tao's seat from the back row, and the child sat in the back row with his hands crossed and didn't talk much.
"Hey! Don't say it, it's exactly the same as when Yi'er was a child! Zhang Tao glanced in the rearview mirror and replied as he drove the car.
The car turned left at the intersection in front of them and arrived at Zhang Tao's home, in that era, to be able to live in such a high-rise elevator community, Liu Xia, Zhang Tao and their home conditions should be pretty good.
Zhang Tao opened the door and changed his slippers, and took the leather bag in his wife's hand, but the child was timid and didn't dare to go in, I don't know if he was afraid of life, or he was a little scared looking at the layout in the middle of the living room. In the middle of the living room is a portrait of Zhang Yi, handsome, sunny, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and a pair of black and shiny eyes full of warmth under the slender and thick eyebrows, which does look a little similar to this child.
"Come in, why are you still stunned? This will be your new home from now on! Zhang Tao smiled and said to the child, the child timidly looked at the window next to the living room, with a little fear in his eyes, but he did not speak, and obediently entered the house, and looked at the window from time to time, as if he saw something.
"You're going to stay in my brother's room tonight!" Liu Xia settled the child in the bedroom where Zhang Yi lived before his death, and turned off the lights in the room.
Slept until the middle of the night, "Ah! With the child's frightened shout, the child's low sobs came from the next room.
Liu Xia and Zhang Tao hurriedly stepped on their slippers and hurried to arrive, only to see the child sitting at the head of the bed in horror, drenched in sweat.
"The child is fine, is it a nightmare? Don't be afraid, don't be afraid......" Liu Xia took the child into her arms, gently stroked his head with her hand, and gently comforted him, the child just stared straight at the edge of the bed, and his eyes were full of tears of horror.
"If you're scared, sleep with your mom and dad!" As soon as Zhang Tao's words fell, Liu Xia gave him a blank look.
"Children should learn to be independent, and they will always have to face loneliness and fear alone in the future, let him sleep alone, just leave the light in the room." Liu Xia doesn't seem to agree with Zhang Tao.
When the child finally fell asleep, Zhang Yi's ghost reappeared in the room, and he gently stroked the child's cheek, showing a kind love on his face.
After thirteen years of getting along, Zhang Tao and Liu Xia have gradually accepted the child, and Liu Xia also came out of the pain of losing her child, and they named the child Zhang Long.
The college entrance examination is approaching, Zhang Long has grown into a handsome and handsome young man, and he is like Zhang Yi back then! Zhang Long looks almost exactly like the dead Zhang Yi, like twins.
"Zhang Tao, hurry up and stop that pig's trotter! It's rare for Long Long to return home today! Liu Xia continued to be busy in the kitchen, and her son was going home for dinner, so naturally she had to prepare a little more sumptuously, and she prepared three kinds of meat dishes alone.
"Mom! I am back! As soon as Zhang Long got home, he put his bag on the sofa and sat there directly to watch TV, and Zhang Long has completely integrated into the family in recent years.
"Hey! Hot water has been put away! Let's take a shower and change into clean clothes! Liu Xia urged Zhang Long to take a bath and prepare for dinner.
"Got it, Mom!" Immediately got up, took off the pile of mud stains and sweaty clothes that had been played, and threw them on the ground.