Chapter 19: Darkness

Li Chun took the body of the white cat that day, stumbled into the woods by the river, dug a pit and buried it, and never left, and slept on the cat's grave all night. He was caught in the dew and the wind was a little feverish the next day, and as a result, he lost a pair of fishing nets, and Li Da beat him on the head and brain, and he was depressed in his heart, and he was injured on his body, and he was seriously ill at the moment. Li Da went to drink, he poured into the cabin alone as if his brains were about to melt, gritted his teeth and endured all the sadness, biting out a mouth full of blood without a single moan, and crawling to the bucket containing water to drink cold water to make his mind a little sober. Just resist it stubbornly.

Although the fever had subsided, he was still a little weak in his hands and feet, and the willow branch pulled him to cry, and he was a little unsteady on his feet, so he sat down on the stone steps of the embankment. He has long hands and long feet, he must be a tall man in the future, and the willow branch is just level with him when he stands, he is silent, he just looks at the willow branch standing in front of him and crying.

The little girl rubbed her eyes with two round fists, and the two buns on top of her head trembled with her sobs, like a pair of cat ears. In a trance, I thought that the little white cat had turned into a human form and came back. His heart softened, he sighed silently, stretched out his hand to hold her, and asked in a low voice, "What are you crying about?" Who bullied you? ”

He's finally taken care of himself. After receiving this encouragement, Liu Zhiwa cried bitterly, and the great grievances rolled in: "Brother Xiaochun, the white sugar cake is gone, they bully the white sugar cake." ”

She hugged his neck and cried breathlessly, and kept saying sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. She spoke intermittently, and Li Chun finally understood what was going on. Liu Zhi went to the kitchen to play with white sugar cakes, and happened to see three cousins catching cats, so the fire of war was ignited again after a long absence.

Although she is brave, she is a half-grown girl after all, her two cousins are in their teens, and the youngest Fu Niu'er is also two years older than her. In the fight, there was a sharp pain in the willow branch, and then she was horrified to find that one of her hands was hanging softly and couldn't do anything, and she cried "Daddy, Mother" and ran to the hall.

And Fu Niu'er already understands very well that everything in this house is finally her own, and the small dried fish that the fat cat eats is also her own. When defending the property of the small dried fish, he was fiercely scratched by the white sugar cake, and the beads of his eyes were almost dug up, and the blood was gushing. Fu Niu'er also cried in great fear to find her mother.

The adults chatting in the hall saw two children running in one after the other, one with his hand dropped, the other with blood paste, Zhang called "my son" and cried, and Li fainted without saying a word as usual. Fortunately, Li was just frail and frightened, and he was fine after taking medicine for a few days. The family was in such a mess, and the Liu family went back to the countryside on the same day, leaving Fu Niu'er to live in Tianshuijing Street, and at the end of the year, everyone went back to Qingliu Village to open an ancestral hall and officially succeed.

After listening, Li Chun touched the willow branch's arm and asked her, "Which side is dislocated?" ”

She sobbed, "My left hand hurt so much." ”

"The next day I found out that the cat couldn't be found, and it must have been scared away. Woo, if I look for it at night, I'll find it, woo. "She dislocated her arm, and after being reset, she was taken to rest, and there was a mess everywhere in the house, so she didn't pay attention to when the white sugar cake was gone.

Li Chun knew in his heart that the two older ones must have been caught and thrown into the well.

"Brother Xiaochun, don't be angry, I shouldn't have asked for it, I didn't take care of it, woo."

Looking at her heartbroken appearance, Li Chunruo, who still had a trace of resentment in his heart before, has now disappeared: "I'm not angry, it's fine, it's running back to me." ”

"Really?!" Willow Branch looked up at him in surprise, her nose was red from crying, and there was still a tear hanging from the tip of her nose.

Li Chun held back the sore point in her heart and touched her bun: "It's true, it's still so white, I'll give it back to its mother." Xiaobai is now living well with his mother. ”

Liu Zhi felt that he was still sad in his heart, and the white sugar cake left with his mother, so he was alone again. So she comforted him: "Brother Xiaochun, don't be sad, you still have me, I will never leave you." She took it for granted, and if she lost the cat he considered a relative, she would accompany him instead of that cat.

Li Chun looked at her solemn expression, he just didn't raise his hand and swear, he wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh, joy and sadness were intertwined, he couldn't figure out what kind of mood this was, he only stroked her tear-stained face, and said softly: "You are stupid." You and I are not a family, maybe I will leave here. ”

When he was sick, he only felt empty in his heart, and a thought gradually condensed in his mind, which was to leave here. Huashi County was not his hometown in the first place, since he was so uncomfortable in this place, it would be better to change places. was originally an orphan, and this Qingshui River streamer is not alive where to go.

Liu Zhi was poured down like a bucket of cold water by his "maybe he will leave", doesn't Brother Xiaochun want to stay here? It's because he lost his only relative, and he can't replace the sugar cake. Willow Branch was extremely uncomfortable by this realization. Although the child was ignorant, she knew Li Chun almost as if she had been held by him in the past few years, and she suddenly found that she might not be so important in his heart, not to mention the sad energy.

"I didn't mean to." Some sadness, some grievances, she could only lie on his shoulder and continue to cry, her little heart was full of "Brother Xiaochun really didn't forgive me". Li Chun was still weak because of her initial recovery from a serious illness, so she just silently let her cry.

Li Chun walked thirty miles for a day, and when he was thirsty, he found a clean ditch and drank it on his stomach, and there were ownerless wild peach trees bearing fluffy fruits, which were not very sweet, but they could be eaten. He picked a bag and walked as he went, and the fluff of the peaches made him itch all over his body, so he found a pond and washed it to get better. Seeing who's melon vines climb out of the wall, the fruit seemed to be beckoning to him, and he didn't pick it for a long time, but found a bunch of prickly fruit on the side of the road. A wild rabbit scurried away in the grass, and he swallowed as he wondered whether the rabbit meat would be roasted or fried.

In the middle of the night, he found an abandoned and uninhabited broken melon shed and lay down, looking at the little starlight leaking from the roof of the straw shed, his heart was calm, and he soon fell asleep.

Aoyagi Village is a beautiful and healthy village. The rice fields are flat, the pond is like a mirror, I know that I can't stop screaming in the trees, a group of dragonflies fly in the sunset, five or six buffaloes are soaking in the pond at the head of the village, and the naughty children are splashing water and playing with each other naked, which is full of a warm picture of pastoral music.