Chapter 8: The Ice Boy
Mingjie finally went to school, in this remote mountain village to go to school, very difficult, the school is far away in a small town outside the mountain, Mingjie and a few friends in the village, go out when the rooster crows, go home when the sun sets, every day to go over this big mountain and deep valley, through several cliffs and wooden bridges, over the mountains and mountains to go far. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Shaoyun, who is as big as Mingjie, because he has no money at home, still stays at home to help his grandmother work and herd cattle, Mingjie lacks a best playmate, so he can only wait until he goes home to chat with Shaoyun and play.
Hard study life, wind and rain, children in the mountains are particularly able to endure hardship, everything is used to it, it seems that they have forgotten the bitterness and tiredness, school has become a part of their life, and Mingjie is more accustomed to it, in leisure time I can also find fun, on the way home, with a few partners who get along better, go up the mountain to catch pheasants, go into the water to catch fish.
In addition to the peaceful life, occasionally I heard rumors that there were people in the neighboring villages who saw ghosts, and for the sake of security, every family was ready to go to a distant small city to worship Buddha and Anning, and participate in a small temple fair. Shaoyun's grandmother specially asked Shaoyun to go to the temple fair to ask for peace, this old man was extremely devout to the gods, and let Shaoyun go to the temple fair to burn incense for the first time. Hearing about this, Mingjie also made an excuse to use the time when he was not going to school to go with Shaoyun, there were many reasons, and his mother couldn't do it, so it was better for him to go and keep him safe.
In the town, there is a temple, I heard that the incense is very prosperous, there are many monks in the temple, and many people in the city will come here to burn incense and worship the Buddha for peace.
Today is just in time for the temple fair, the two children are shuttling and playing in the bustling crowd, burning incense and worshiping the Buddha is someone else's business, and they have nothing to do with it, they just care about playing where they want to go, the most tempting thing for them is naturally those fragrant and attractive snacks, Xiao Shaoyun has no money and can only look at those snacks and swallow saliva.
Xiao Mingjie patted Xiao Shaoyun who was stunned to look at all kinds of snacks behind him, turned around and handed a string of tempting meat skewers to his eyes, as well as sugar gourds, Xiao Shaoyun, who was extremely surprised, took it and shouted in surprise:
"Xiaojie, where did you get the sugar gourd. ”
Xiao Shaoyun's uncontrollable shout, like Mingjie stealing it, kicked him and said, "I bought it myself, eat it, others will definitely make fun of you when they see your stupidity, don't be stunned here." ”
The happy little Shaoyun caught up with Mingjie, and asked while enjoying the delicious food: "Where did you get the money?"
"My grandmother gave it to me, don't tell my mother when I go back!"
Xiao Shaoyun nodded like a chicken pecking rice, he was naturally very happy to eat, his own money, grandma specially explained to buy some paper incense candles to go back.
Suddenly, the crowd in front of him was congested, and many people gathered around, talking about each other, as if something had happened, and the curious Mingjie also stopped, wanting to see but couldn't squeeze in, there were too many people.
Xiao Shaoyun is only concerned about eating now, and he didn't even hear Mingjie talking to him, Mingjie only climbed to a high place, and finally saw a little boy crying and shouting in the crowd, his voice was hoarse, choked and sobbed. Inexplicably, Mingjie felt her heart stinged by the little boy's cry, and her fingers tightly pinched her legs.
From the crying of the child and the discussion of the crowd of onlookers, Mingjie learned that this little child was thrown down by her mother, leaving him alone with a little child, crying for a while, and shouting for a while, his mother was not seen in a hoarse voice. This cry, Mingjie's heart tightened and hurt, the sound stinged the tip of the heart, blinking at him, Mingjie stood for a long time.
The wind was blowing, the wind was sweeping the land with smoke and dust, dark clouds were gradually covering the sky, and heavy rain was coming. The people near the temple began to disperse, and the crowd that had surrounded the crying child began to disperse gradually, only a few people, and the child still had no parents to claim it, it seemed that he was really discarded, and there were such ruthless parents in the world.
Xiao Mingjie walked to the child's side, Lala was crying tired and sobbing, and a layer of frost seemed to be condensed on his cold little hands, as cold as ice cubes. Xiao Mingjie was taken aback, and hurriedly asked:
"Little brother, why are your hands so cold?"
Stretched out his hands and touched his little face, the cute little face was also cold to the bone, even Mingjie couldn't stand it, a pair of bright eyes, flashing with a layer of cold cold, in this midsummer season, why is the child so cold and frosty.
It turned out that some well-wishers had already hugged the child just now, and found that his body was as cold as ice, thinking that he had some terminal illness, and his parents could not raise him before discarding him, and no one dared to touch him after that, for fear of provoking right and wrong. Xiao Mingjie pulled the child, and the surrounding crowd began to talk again, and life was boiling.
"Little brother, I'm so hungry!" The little boy seemed to have a very good impression of Mingjie, stopped crying, flashed a pair of translucent eyes to look at Mingjie, his eyes blinked, and his cute eyelashes were particularly beautiful.
Xiao Mingjie reached out and patted his hair, smiled slightly, and took his cold little hand: "Don't be afraid, I'll take you to eat something delicious." ”
Xiao Shaoyun looked at the sky and said to Mingjie: "It's going to rain, let's run!"
Xiao Mingjie didn't hear Xiao Shaoyun speak at all, pulled the child, walked into a snack bar, took out the few dollars left in his hand, bought a few small fruits, and gave him all the brains, so that he could eat slowly.
Xiao Shaoyun shook his head and asked, "Xiao Jie, can you eat these little fruits?"
Xiao Mingjie only remembered at this time that he could fill up by eating the fruit, but others couldn't, he had no money, and he was worried, the child actually began to eat the fruit with relish, it seemed that he was really hungry, Xiao Mingjie smiled, watching the child eat.
The rain began to fall outside, the noisy temple was quiet, no one cared about this child who was abandoned by his parents, Xiao Mingjie took him, held his cold little hand, stood under the eaves, looked up at the rain and fog, and the temple buildings on the mountain were shrouded in rain and fog.
Xiao Shaoyun looked at the child and asked, "Does your mother really want you?"
It's okay not to mention it, but when I heard that my mother didn't want to be myself, the child opened his throat and cried again, and his voice was drowned out by the louder and louder sound of rain. Xiao Mingjie hugged him, he didn't know how to coax him, if his mother really didn't want him, what could he do, otherwise the child would starve to death.
I don't know how long it took, the crying tired child, lying in Mingjie's small chest, fell asleep like a docile kitten, and the cold body, in the care of Xiao Mingjie, turned blood little by little, and gradually had a warm feeling.
Look closely at this little child, the tear stains have blurred his pure little face, there is still a little mist on the eyelashes, the corners of the red lips, the cute little nose bridge, such a delicate and lovely little boy, why did his family bear to throw him away, thinking of this Mingjie gritted his teeth with hatred, is there really such a ruthless parent in the world?
"Xiao Jie, his mother doesn't want him anymore, don't you want to take it home?" Xiao Shaoyun, who was sitting with his hands on his knees, asked Mingjie.
Staring at the sleeping child, his eyelashes moved slightly, Mingjie felt that the breath on his body was very similar to herself, I don't know why, the child was like her younger brother, and she liked him very much. Ming Jie confirmed that the child had been abandoned and had no one to take care of him, so he had to take him home and nodded.
"Will your mom and dad want him?"
Xiao Mingjie didn't know, and shook his head again, Xiao Shaoyun was right, it was not easy to raise a son at home, and now he was inexplicably taking a child home, and his father and mother were likely to pick up their own skin, and they couldn't help but hesitate, they didn't know how to be good for a while, the child was very pitiful, and he was reluctant to see it, looking at the world in the rain.
The rain world, which was originally misty and dusty, began to blow a strong wind, and the wind blew a few small trees to the ground, and the small trees struggled and swayed in the wind, and the broken branches hit Mingjie's face, faintly painful.
The little boy suddenly woke up from his deep sleep, unaccompanied, and began to cry loudly again, his crying was completely desperate, his little body began to be cold again, and the frightened Xiao Mingjie hurriedly coaxed him and hugged him tightly.
The misty light rain, the autumn wind blowing, it seems to be a little cold, plus relying on his cold little body, Mingjie only feels that this cold pierces the bone marrow, and decides, even if he is crying, he also wants his parents to accept this poor little boy, and he also hopes to have a younger brother, like other children, there are brothers, not to mention that this child is very good, countless times better than other children, at least he is very white, although his face has been stained with tears.
The rain stopped, the sun was already in the west, and the way home was still far away, Xiao Mingjie took the little boy's hand and said:
"Don't cry, little ghost, I'll take you back to my house, no one will abandon you in the future, you will have a new home, come home with me." ”
A pair of cute little eyes looked at Mingjie, moved their bright red little mouth and said, "Really?"
Nodding, Xiao Mingjie stood up, said this to the little boy very seriously and resolutely, the crying little boy wiped his tears, looked at the little brother who was half a head taller than him, and stopped crying, although there were still some sobs, but the child was not so desperate, and grabbed Mingjie's hand tightly.
Xiao Shaoyun was surprised and asked, "Xiao Jie, did you really take him home?"
Xiao Mingjie, who was originally a little self-serving, once he decided to take the little boy home, Xiao Shaoyun could only follow him, what Mingjie said, he would follow what he did, in fact, he also liked this little boy in his heart, and he would have one more playmate in the future, and then Xiao Mingjie took his other little hand.
Stepping into the muddy road, muddy water came into the shoes from the broken soles, but the little boy was wearing a new pair of shoes on his feet, Mingjie smiled happily, pointed to his broken shoes and said to him: "When you go to my house, you can only wear torn clothes and broken shoes, are you afraid?"
The little boy at a young age didn't understand anything, and the little brother wanted to take him home, and he didn't care about anything, and he said happily and innocently: "Don't be afraid!"
Touching his tears, Mingjie and Xiao Shaoyun took the little boy's hand left and right, and ran into the golden sunset that leaked from the cloud peak.
It wasn't until dark that Mingjie and Xiao Shaoyun took the little boy to prepare to return to the village.