In Li Yulian's eyes, her adoptive parents are kind, as kind as a mountain, they only give her what they need, and they never thought that they would have to ask her for anything in return one day. Therefore, she did not feel that she had been an outcast, that they were her biological parents.

Li Yulian took the frame off the wall and stroked the black-and-white photo: "Although my adoptive parents were farmers in the mountains, they were very open-minded, and they never wanted to hide the fact that I was adopted. I was just afraid that I would be hurt in my heart because of this incident, so they chose to tell me everything truthfully when I became an adult. This family photo was also specially asked for by them from Guo's mother. I hang it here just to remind myself that I was once an abandoned child, but society did not abandon me, and I want to be grateful to everyone who has reached out to me in the course of my life. I would especially like to thank my adoptive parents and adoptive parents, who gave me a truly happy and warm home. ”

"Have you ever thought about finding your biological parents? Ever wondered why you were discarded by them? Have you ever resented them in your heart, or imagined what they looked like? Ai Xiang looked at Li Yulian and asked.

Li Yulian shook her head and said seriously: "I have thought about it, and I have also struggled. After graduating from university, I returned to the mid-levels town and started working as a tour guide, often taking tourists up the mountain and immersing myself in the wonderful nature, and this experience made me understand a lot of things. I sometimes wonder that the trees that spread all over the mountains and fields, perhaps because of a gust of wind, or perhaps because of a bird, occasionally brought the seeds of their primordial life here. After that, they took root here, and grew into patches of towering trees, as well as those mountain flowers that bloom everywhere, and all kinds of birds and beasts that enjoy it, and their lives may be because of such and such a coincidence, they have become a member of this mountain, they grow happily here, live happily, why can't I live happily like these vibrant beings? ”

Li Yulian's eyes were full of confidence: "Why should I use my short life to find an answer that is swayed by various subjective ideas?" Maybe those subjective thoughts are just the momentary thoughts of some people, or just a wrong idea of theirs, why should I be affected by that kind of influence and fall into such a subjective mistake and waste my precious life? For me, it doesn't matter where I come from, what I want to do is where I go, and that's what I need to work on all my life. Because it is not up to me to decide where I come from, but it is up to me to choose where I want to go. You tell me? Brother Dragon Boat Festival, do you think my thoughts are right? ”

Ai Xiang looked at Li Yulian who was talking eloquently in front of him and was silent, this once ugly duckling is now stronger than himself, she has completely completed the transformation from the inside out, and has truly become a beautiful swan, a swan that can spread its wings and fly.

Ai Xiang thought in his heart: Xiaolian is right, the question of where I came from, who has been entangled in my heart, is a subjective mistake. Asking for the sake of a wrong question is a mistake in itself, a wrong direction based on a wrong understanding.

What can be found in the end by going in this wrong direction? You may be able to find one answer, and there may be multiple answers, but what impact can these answers have on your own life? Perhaps they are just a matter that has faded with the past time and space, and has long lost its relevance in reality.

Ai Xiang thought: In that case, why can't I let go like Xiaolian? Why do I keep asking questions and refuse to let go? Xiaolian thought too thoroughly, it is not up to me to decide where I come from, but it is up to me to decide where I go.

Ai Xiang took the wooden picture frame from Li Yulian's hand and carefully identified each person in the photo, many of whom were no longer impressed. This group of children is small or large, the younger one has only been born for a short time, and is still held in the arms of the caretaker of the welfare home, and the older one has become a teenager in Yushu Linfeng.

Ai Xiang sat beside Guo's mother, like a little beast ready to fight back or flee in fear and uneasiness, Li Yulian snuggled to the side, and there seemed to be traces of some kind of liquid flowing under her nostrils.

The mystery in Ai Xiang's heart disappeared little by little, and the emotions that had been frozen for a long time were slowly melting: "You are right, we used to be outcasts, but society has not abandoned us, and we ourselves cannot abandon ourselves, nor should we have the psychology of being discarded." We are just a seed of life, with our own efforts and our own destiny, and we do not need to be compassionate. ”

Ai Xiang sighed again: "The tree does not need to ask the wind, ask where the seed that gave birth to it came from, it just hugs the roots of life tightly to the mountain; The flower does not have to ask the bird, where it got its seeds, it can only bloom in the loneliness of the mountains. As long as the tree stretches its branches and leaves grow with the years, and the flowers are gorgeous all their lives, there are always butterflies to accompany them. ”

Li Yulian re-hung the photo frame on the wall behind her: "Let's go, let's go to the private room upstairs and talk while eating." Brother Dragon Boat Festival, there is one thing I haven't figured out, why did the age on your ID card become one year younger? I've become smaller than me. There are some things I don't remember clearly, for example, I don't remember your name, but in my memory you are my brother, I am your sister, and I have only called you one brother, not anyone else, which I will never forget. ”

Ai Xiang's eyes flashed with a trace of tenderness that had disappeared for a long time: "You are also my only sister, the age on the ID card is a mistake made by the person who applied for the certificate, no one cares, and no one cares." Because the exact day I came to this world is already a mystery, and those who know the answer to the mystery may never appear. ”

Ai Xiang and Li Yulian walked out of some heavy memories, they looked at each other, and felt a kind of true family affection that had not been seen for a long time.

"Let's go, my sister might be here." Li Yulian took Ai Xiang upstairs, there are five private rooms upstairs, the lintels of the private rooms are named accordingly, some are simple and some are warm, and the aisle is also decorated with some charcoal paintings, which looks simple and elegant.

Ai Xiang admired these unique decoration styles with great interest, and couldn't help but admire: "Which designer is from this designer, he is really a master, he seems to have moved the beautiful life in the mountains into the city in its original way." ”

Li Yulian smiled and said: "You have won the award, this is neither a designer's design, nor a master's design, it is completely my own graffiti, I forgot to tell you, although I studied tourism in college, but I am particularly fond of art, if it were not for the government's plan to develop the tourism resources of Beishan, I may not have chosen the tourism major, but went to the art college." ”

Ai Xiang looked at Li Yulian beside him with emotion and thought, who can compare the beautiful woman in front of him with the ugly duckling with snot? Time is a magical magician, warmth is the richest and most wonderful color in its hands, only it can turn an ugly duckling into a white swan, and a woman in the mountains into a fairy with outstanding temperament and outstanding talent.

"Sister, here you are." A slightly chubby woman of the same height as Li Yulian stood at the door of the "Mid-Levels Family Hall" and beckoned to them. Judging from their appearance, they really have no similarity, Li Yulian told Ai Xiang that this is her sister Li Yuping, who was also raised by her parents.

Li Yulian looked at Quinoa Yuping and asked, "Did you just arrive?" Li Yuping nodded and said, "Well, I just arrived." I heard the waiter say that you were talking to a friend, so I didn't bother you and went upstairs. ”

Li Yulian looked at her, pointed at Ai Xiang again, and asked with a smile, "Do you know who he is?" ”

Li Yuping smiled and shook her head, Li Yulian said excitedly: "Do you remember the brother I once told you?" ”

Li Yuping remembered it, and said with some surprise: "Well, I still have a little impression, it seems to be called the Dragon Boat Festival, you said that he helped you fight for a steamed bun." Am I right? ”

Li Yulian and Ai Xiang both laughed, and Li Yulian was still immersed in the joy of meeting: "He is the Dragon Boat Festival brother who fought." I can still remember the fat boy crying with blood coming out of his nose, he must have been frightened by his misery. ”

Li Yuping looked at Ai Xiang in front of her: "That must be very scary, he may never dare to rob your things again?" That is the lesson of his blood. ”

Li Yulian laughed: "You really guessed right, not only did he not snatch my things again, but when he saw me walking around, he was afraid that Brother Dragon Boat Festival would beat him again." ”

Li Yulian introduced her sister to Ai Xiang seriously: "She is the sister Li Yuping I told you just now, and she was also raised by her parents." However, her biological parents lived in a village down the hill and gave her up because they wanted to have another boy. Her biological parents gave birth to three girls, so they gave her up for adoption, and her parents had a relative who was a neighbor of Yuping's biological parents, and they discussed it after hearing what the relatives said, and then they took her home, and she was an outcast like the two of us. Li Yulian told Ai Xiang.

A waiter knocked on the door, then stood at the door and bent over to Li Yulian with a smile and asked, "Boss, when are you ready to eat?" Li Yulian ordered: "You can go on now." "Okay, right away, please wait." The waiter agreed, and went downstairs to prepare the set meal.

Li Yulian told Ai Xiang: "When Yuping was admitted to university, she had an illness, and she had no chance to go to college in the future, so she went home to follow her parents to farm and pick tea." She always wanted to go out and see the outside world, and wanted to go out and break through. When I first started my business, I encountered a lot of difficulties, and I didn't have a clear idea and clue about many things, and I couldn't take care of her. ”

Li Yulian sighed: "At that time, I thought that since Yuping had her own ideas, it was okay to go out and have a look, so I persuaded my parents to let her follow the relatives of her biological parents to work in the south. She had never been out of the house, and she was too kind, and under their clever words and partnership, she fell into the trap of a business friend and wife of her relatives at the bottom of the mountain, and almost died in a foreign country. ”

Li Yuping looked at her sister in front of her, her eyes were red: "If my sister hadn't brought me back, my life might have ended." ”

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