At three o'clock in the morning, the alarm clock at home suddenly rang.

"Ding! Bite! Bite! At first, the exhaustion made me feel that I had crossed from one nightmare to another, until there was no change in my body, and I suddenly woke up to the fact that it was indeed the alarm clock at home that woke me up.

I don't know when, it started to rain outside, the raindrops hit the window, and the hands of the clock were also "ticking, ticking...... and infinite loneliness.

I tossed and turned, and I couldn't sleep anyway.

It wasn't until almost five o'clock that my parents, who were sleeping next door, got up, because my father had said that I wouldn't let too many people go together, so I didn't wake up Ning Yu, but the three of us got up early together to prepare.

While my mother was preparing breakfast, she looked out of the wind window on the top of the back door, and the leaves of the newly grown peach trees in the spring were swaying by the rain, and through the glass, I could only see that the outside was full of moisture.

Mom said sadly: "Otherwise, wait a little longer, it's not easy to walk on the mountain when it rains, and I'll go when the weather is better." ”

Dad looked at me, and I turned to look at him and smiled softly.

Dad immediately shook his head: "Forget it, when the time comes, I will carry her, she is holding the umbrella, we are reluctant to go, we can't delay any longer." ”

It didn't take long for the master to knock on the door, holding an umbrella in his hand and a cloth bag on his back, which looked like he was carrying a lot of things, but he didn't hold an umbrella in his hand.

"Daddy! It's raining outside, why don't you bring an umbrella with you? ”

"It's not in the way, it's drizzling, it's night rain again, it doesn't last long, it stops as soon as it dawns, and I don't have to take an umbrella and drag people down. I don't think you need to bring it, just bring a hat to her.

Besides, let's go out before everyone else gets up. Ye said.

"Huh!" Dad nodded.

Before parting, she tried her best to suppress herself, bit her lip hard, stood beside her father and grandfather, looked at me silently for a while, and asked her with difficulty: "Dad, you said, let me give Niannian to that gentleman, and after that, we won't see her, right?" ”

"Then do you want her to die or do you want her to live?" After hearing this, my mother's tears fell, and she walked away fiercely, not even daring to turn her head back......

Dad was as silent as gold all along.

We walked through the narrow alley next to the old supply and marketing cooperative, and the road kept going forward, and as we walked, the sky gradually dawned.

All the way to the foot of the gourd mountain, a large area of wide coniferous cedar trees quietly grow on both sides of the road up the mountain, the four seasons are a piece of emerald green cedar leaves are wet by the rain, the faint morning light penetrates between the branches and leaves, actually reveals a lot of light, and the faint shadow is mottled on the path ahead......

Dad took my hand, my father took the lead, my father followed behind, and I was behind my father.

The sky was clear, and we breathed in the cool fresh green smell of the cedar trees, and we set out on the path into the mountains.

As soon as I walked into the bushes, a feeling of being watched suddenly came to my mind, and I couldn't help but pause and shiver.

"Master!" I couldn't help but shout.

"What? What do you see? He turned to me and asked.

"Isn't it a little cold?" Dad also asked.

I shook my head and said, "It's not cold, I don't see anything, it's just a little uncomfortable." ”

"It's okay, I didn't see anything, I was suspicious in the mountains and forests, I scared myself the most important, I hurried steadily, and if I couldn't walk, let my dad carry it."

I shook my head and walked on my own, but the sudden tension in my heart still did not disappear, my palms were covered with cold sweat, and my heart seemed to grow grass.

In order not to frighten myself, I looked intently at the road ahead, but the wanderiness I had made into the mountain had disappeared without a trace.

We continued along the road, there was no fork in the road, and my father asked me several times if I wanted to carry it, and I shook my head, as if I was much freer and lighter in the mountains and forests than at home.

The wind has stopped, and the rain has ended.

The sun rising in the east cast onto the little girl through the swaying branches and leaves, and as she walked, the little girl's sickly and pale cheeks slightly blushed a shade of red, as if the sunlight had stolen the best rouge in the world, and applied it all to her face.

No one saw that the three of them had just walked out of the dim cedar forest with their front feet, and in the depths of the woods, a tall black figure stood and took a step forward, and the sun reflected on the man's face.

It was a thin, pale face with death-like loneliness engraved in its eyes.

He was ragged, but his posture was not embarrassed, like the leaves of a cedar tree around him, not in a mess, and he stretched out a hand, and there was a large area of withered flesh on his hand, but just looking at his appearance like smoke was enough to make one imagine the pride with which he had been plump and clear.

The figure stared coldly at the three people in the distance, and stretched out a hand, as if to hold on, and as if to drive away,

In the end, after a long period of relief, he walked up the hill with all three of them......

Finally, when I climbed to the top of the first slope, I couldn't walk, and when I got on my father's back, I asked him in a low voice, "Dad, are we going to the cliff?" ”

"You have to go through a ravine and climb a slope to get there." Dad's voice was still very calm, without a hint of panting, which showed that we hadn't gone too far.

It is said that many people encountered the stone road near the cliff pass, and my father straightened up and said, "Look, the high hillside ahead, we have to climb there, and the middle of the top of that mountain is the cliff pass, where the legendary coffin and Yakou Street are located." ”

Dad's voice is very kind, it is rare to have such a harmony, and there is a taste of comfort in the tone.

After all, it was a twelve- or thirteen-year-old girl walking on the mountain road after the rain, and when he walked to the position of the mountain pass, his father's breathing began to get heavier.

"Daddy......"

"Huh?"

"Let me come down and walk by myself for a while, I'll rest ......"

"No, it's going uphill soon." Before I could finish speaking, my father turned around and interrupted me, and my father didn't say anything more, but continued to carry me on his back, without any intention of letting me down.

Suddenly, there was a "rattling" sound in the woods behind him.

The chirping of a bird as if it had torn its throat was instantly creepy.

"Daddy...... Father...... Did you hear anything? It was his father who was talking to him, and his voice was already faintly trembling.

"Look at your bear, it's just an old jackdaw in the woods who is not willing to be lonely, this is also worth your fuss, it is not as calm as your daughter, alas, I am really ashamed of the master, this ability, I am afraid that no one can inherit it."

"Master, you can pass it on to me, I can guarantee that in the future, I will find another boy from the Ning family to pass it on, and you will not be ashamed of your master." I said with a smile.

"Instead of hoping for the promise of a girl who will be another family sooner or later, I would rather face the master shamelessly." Ye suddenly became a little violent.

"Okay, okay, I'm not going to mention this again." I was saying tightly.

What other family, if you don't like girls, you don't like girls, and if you don't like girls, you don't like girls, and if you don't like other families, I don't need any other families.

"But Dad, you have never seriously taught me anything, what inheritance to talk about." Dad whispered a little angrily, as if talking to himself, he didn't dare to say the complaints in his heart because he was afraid of his temper.

We said this, and we came to the middle of this hillside, my father was really dressed a little, I struggled to say that I wanted to come down, and my father also pushed me down, my lord's eyes were actually a little impatient, but seeing that one of us dared to let go, and one was willing to go, he paused for a while and didn't say anything.

Therefore, between this person and people, it still depends on fate, even if it is a biological father and son, one doesn't like it, even if the other wants to try his best to please and tie up, the effect is not enough.

On this side of the hillside, there are either bud poles or graveyards on both sides of the street lamp, one old, one young and one tired, and the speed of the three of us just matches each other, and no one will be the other.

The slopes of the mountain are steep, and although I am small and frail, I am very dexterous in walking through the mountains and forests.

I walked to the front, and my father helped me walk behind.

At this moment, suddenly there was a rabbit squatting in the middle of the road, and my heart jumped with joy, as if I was going out on a spring outing, and I trotted and pounced.

When he was still two or three meters away from the rabbit, the voice of his father shouting from behind suddenly came: "Don't run, where are you going?" He shouted, and the rabbit, which had been in a sluggish state, instantly seemed to come to life, and its red eyes looked at me carefully, and suddenly, its eyes showed a human-like look, looking at my face tenderly.

I don't know why, but there is a kind of preoccupation all around it, and it seems to be a little sleepy and delicate.

After one glance at me, it ran in one direction, and I followed suit.

"Ning Qiao! Don't run anymore, you're forking in the road, what's that over there? After a while, my father's voice came from behind me, but I was so worried about the gray-white rabbit that was only a few steps away from my eyes that I paid attention to my father's voice.

But after a few steps forward, the rabbit ran a few more steps, and when he saw that I could not keep up, he crouched down and waited, and so on, and so on, and my heart was lifted in the air again.

"Ning Qiao! Don't run. Daddy's voice seemed to be far away.

What have I done?

Only then did he suddenly realize, and then looked at the rabbit in front of him, and it seemed that there was an extra layer of ash in his eyes that could not be brushed away, as if there was an instant of loneliness and desolation.

"Hey!" I answered my father in the loudest voice, but I didn't know that he didn't hear my answer, and vaguely, I suddenly felt dizzy.

When I woke up again, it was the glow that had faded and the night was dark.

I heard only the sound of the stream clanging against the pebbles; The ground was full of cicadas chirping one after another, flickering bright and dark.

Below me was a pile of soft, dry grass, and as soon as I turned my head, I suddenly saw a person standing not far in front of me, a thick loneliness lingering around the tall figure.

Looking at this tall and quiet back, I can't help but feel a sense of loneliness in my heart.

It is the state of "barren and lonely", like an isolated island in the deep sea, a dead leaf on the surface of the lake, and a lonely bird flourishing on the branches.

Thinking like this, there is always a softer corner in my heart that will suppress the panic a little.

"You ......"

Before I finished speaking, I saw the figure turn, and by the dim light, I saw a pair of eyes as scarlet as the rabbit, and there was an indescribable coolness in those eyes, that kind of sadness, as if he had been abandoned by the world.

Then I saw the face, thin and pale, with a deathly loneliness engraved in its eyes.

He doesn't look like the kind of picturesque man in the water town south of the Yangtze River, holding hands with you, not like my usual aesthetics, but I don't think it's very good-looking, and even some gothic demons are gloomy and scary.

He was dressed in old clothes, but they were wispy and tattered, with mud and dust on them, and his hair was slightly better, not dirty, but messy.

Although he was in an embarrassed state, his posture was not embarrassed, his expression was calm, not prosperous or chaotic, and his posture was like smoke......

He took a few steps towards me, exposing himself to the sun, and then stretched out a hand to me, where there was a large area of withered flesh and sharp, black nails.

But for some reason, looking at his withered hands and shiny black nails, I imagined the pride of this man's muscles and bones......

"You, are you ......" I suddenly paused, how to ask, could it be that you hurt people more than 20 years ago...... Stuff?

His hand was still stubbornly stretched not far in front of him, as if it were an invitation, as if it were a temptation.

Not knowing what to say, I lowered my head, and the atmosphere fell silent all of a sudden.

After a while, I heard some noise, and I saw the man hang his hand, bow his head, and be silent for a while.

He suddenly looked up again, and there was a determination on his face, an anger, a hatred......

As if deceived and betrayed, he strode like me, his ragged clothes lifted by the wind, strips of cloth lapping against each other, and the sound of hunting.

I suddenly felt a dangerous aura in my heart, and my reason was instantly occupied by an inexplicable feeling of fear.

A wave of panic struck......

He was so fast, it was only a few breaths, and I didn't even have time to think about how to save myself, his two hands were already stretched out to my neck, but at this moment, the most amazing thing was that I didn't think of fear in my heart, and his other hand, which was intact, was as I imagined, it was a lily-like hand.

At this moment, the lily-like hand was clutching my neck, or rather my life, with the force of death.

The air was thinning, and I didn't struggle at all, I didn't have the determination to die in my head, but I didn't think about the joy of being able to get out of it.

At this moment, my brain has never been so clear.

I calmly looked at the face that was close at hand, except that it was pale, it was still pale.

His eyes calmed down, and the expression on his face seemed to have fallen into an ice cave, losing hope in all things in the world......

I don't know if it's an illusion, but I think at this moment, he is obviously doing things like an executioner, but he is like a wounded beast.

He seemed to be slowly wound by the threads of sorrow, standing alone on those loneliness and sorrow.

"Let go!" A clear voice came, up and down, and seemed to bring the wind and moon with it......

As soon as the strength on my neck was loosened, I didn't have time to collapse, but my dry hand lifted me up, and dizziness hit me in an instant, and my stomach turned upside down......