When Lin Yingti first met Jiang Xiyue, she was seven years old.

In my memory, she walked on the muddy path with one foot deep and one foot shallow, carrying several convenience bags in her hand, which contained heavy beer, and the narrow plastic bags made her fingers white.

A few women were chatting under the trees at the corner of the street, and they greeted her when they saw her.

"Bought your dad wine again?"

Lin Yingti's eyelids were a little swollen, and it was a little difficult to see people, and it took a long time to identify the source of the sound, but she didn't know what expression to put on to deal with.

"Ouch, it's so pitiful."

"Don't say it, having such a parent on the stall is a sin."

"Who says it's not, but I also have a problem with my brain, and it's one thing whether I can marry in the future."

Yinmu Town is not big, if you don't look carefully on the map, you can't find it at all, there is a canal on the edge of the town, and there are several families scattered by the canal, and Lin Yingti's home is there.

The exterior of her house is also very ordinary, just a two-story house with white brick walls, a courtyard dam at the door, and the gate is red painted, and there are mottled rust on it.

Lin Yingti pushed open the door and walked slowly to the second floor with a limp carrying the bag.

There was a lot of clutter piled up in the hallway on the second floor, and there was hardly any place to stay.

With difficulty, she walked over and unscrewed the handle of one of the doors, revealing the scene inside.

I saw a middle-aged man lying naked on the sofa watching TV, and a somewhat fat middle-aged woman sat next to him.

The woman was wearing a tulle dress, and her fleshy hair was tightened, and she was holding a fan in one hand and a remote control in the other to change the channel, and her mouth was still complaining.

"It's too hot this day, and when I get this money, I have to buy an air conditioner and install it in this house first."

"I have no ambition, and I have air conditioning, this time I got a fat sheep, I don't plan to change hands, just let his parents give money to get people, if things go well, we will directly take the money to go abroad."

Xu is movement of opening the door disturbed the conversation between the two, and the fat woman's expression suddenly became vigilant, and when she turned her head to see that it was Lin Yingti, the whole person relaxed, but there was no good face on her face.

"Coming back so late? Why don't you just die outside, others come to the house to inform us that they may all go faster than you. ”

Lin Yingti's expression was wooden, as if she couldn't respond to her words.

Just took out the cans of cold beer from the bag, then opened one of the bottles, limped up to the man, handed it to him,

The whole process is like a trained reflex.

The man tilted his head and took a large sip of cold beer, and the cold feeling in his throat made the man irritable and in a much better mood.

He casually threw the finished beer can on the ground, grabbed a peanut bean and threw it into his mouth, and said to Lin Yingti: "You go and see the next room, there is not even a fan there, if the little master dies of heat, he won't be able to get the money." ”

"By the way, if there is anything else to eat and drink, you can give him some casually, as long as you don't starve to death."

Lin Yingti picked up the beer bottle that was thrown on the ground, hummed very lowly, and then dragged his legs and paced out slowly.

The next room is a utility room, the area is not large, cramped and oppressive, only the top has a narrow vent, three meters high from the ground,

The room was full of messes, and there was a boy of about seven or eight years old, his hands firmly bound with nylon ropes, and his black hair was slightly wet because of the hot weather.

His eyes were closed, his expression calm, and there was no panic at all.

Lin Yingti felt very strange, it was the first time she had seen someone with such a quiet reaction.

She walked up slowly, her ankles and joints were swollen, and now she squatted down as if she felt pain, and looked curiously at the boy in front of her, who was not much different in age from her.

As if sensing that someone was coming, he slowly opened his eyes and set his eyes on Lin Yingti.

The eyes of the teenager are hardly reminiscent of those of a half-grown child, calm but sharp.

A pair of eyes were extremely dark and heavy, and it was terrifying to see, but for a moment, after seeing the person clearly, those eyes returned to peace, as if everything just now was an illusion.

"Who are you?"

His voice was excellent, and although he had not changed his voice, his tone was much lower than that of children of the same age.

Lin Yingti didn't answer, just stared at his face.

The boy was also looking at her.

The girl in front of her has a pair of extremely beautiful eyes, with black pupils and round eyes like peach apricots.

It's just that those eyes are lifeless, without the slightest brilliance, just staring at themselves intently.

The young man frowned quietly, he seemed to have rarely been looked at so unscrupulously since he was a child.

He looked at the little girl in front of him, who looked about the same age as him, but her eyelids were a little red and swollen, and there was a faint black blue under her eyes, which looked like she had been injured.

There are all kinds of black and blue scars on the hands and legs that are visible to the naked eye.

Her facial features were barely recognizable from that dirty face, and she didn't look like the fat woman she brought him.

"What's your name?"

Lin Yingti shook and didn't speak, then turned around and opened the door and went outside.

“......”

The young man looked at the half-hidden door, his face moved slightly, but after a while, Lin Yingti came back.

She struggled to carry an old fan, but the half-grown little girl held the electric fan taller than herself with her thin arms.

His gaze swept over her apparently problematic left leg, "What's wrong with your leg?" ”

She put it down, bent down and plugged it in, then aimed it at him and began to press the gear button, shaking her head.

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, the young man patiently asked again, "What's your name?" ”

"I don't know."

Lin Yingti's tone was slow, almost spitting out word by word.

She lied, she knew her name.

Although her parents didn't say it, she vaguely remembered that her name should be Lin Yingti.

But it's her secret, and she's afraid of being found out that she remembers her name.

The boy didn't seem to expect her to speak suddenly, and frowned slightly quietly.

However, he didn't continue to wonder why, just said his name.

"My name is Jiang Xiyue."

His voice was clear and cold, like a striking jade, but his tone was very gentle.

Lin Yingti couldn't understand these three words, and she didn't know how to write them, but she firmly remembered the pronunciation.

"Is this your home?"

Lin Yingti nodded.

"And your mom and dad at home?"

Lin Yingti shook her head and nodded again.

Jiang Xiyue frowned and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

“.... I do not know. ”

Jiang Xiyue looked at her face, "You mean you don't know if those two people are your parents?" ”

"Hmm."

Jiang Xiyue was silent for a while, and then slowed down her tone, "Then when did you have an impression of them?" ”

Lin Yingti wrinkled her little face, began to think seriously for the first time, and finally said: "When I was very young. ”

Jiang Xiyue was very patient, "How old were you at that time, could you walk?" ”

Lin Yingti couldn't remember.

"Can you write?"

Lin Yingti shook his head.

"Can you read?"

Lin Yingti shook her head again.

"Didn't they send you to school?"

"Hmm."

Jiang Xiyue was kind and seductive, "Then do you know what they are doing?" ”

"I don't know."

Lin Yingti looked at him, his eyes were clean and clear, but he was too clean, and he had no emotion, so that he was lifeless.

Jiang Xiyue frowned quietly, he knew that she was not lying.

Although this girl looks the same age as him, she has problems with both language and reaction skills, as if she is completely closed off to herself.

Jiang Xiyue didn't ask any more questions, but smiled at Lin Yingti, "Then I'll teach you how to read, okay?" ”

Lin Yingti stopped talking, was silent for a while, and then said slowly: "What can you do if you recognize the words?" ”

Jiang Xiyue looked at him quietly, with a faint pity in her eyes, and replied softly: "You can get out of here." ”

Lin Yingti stopped talking, turned around and went out again.

When she came back, she walked in with another bowl of rice.

A dirty ceramic bowl with a bright red mandarin duck painted on it, with a notch on the rim, holds rice and is covered with slices of greasy fat and black greens.

She put the meal in front of Jiang Xiyue, and then took a few steps back, clasped her knees with her hands, and remained motionless in that position.

Jiang Xiyue was helpless, and shook her tightly tied hand.

Lin Yingti blinked, then stood up again and walked over, picking up the bowl and squatting in front of him.

"Thanks, I can eat it myself, can you help me untie my hands?"

Lin Yingti shook her head, "I'll be beaten, I'm afraid of pain." ”

Jiang Xiyue stopped talking.

Seeing that Lin Yingti insisted on feeding himself, he swept his eyes over the food in the bowl, and frowned lightly without a trace.

Lin Yingti scooped a mouthful of food with a spoon and handed it to his mouth, seeing that he didn't open his mouth, he learned to make an "ah" sound and motioned him to open his mouth.

Jiang Xiyue didn't open her mouth, "I just eat." ”

So Lin Yingti took the dishes in the bowl aside again, scooped a mouthful of white rice and fed it to him.

The rice was a little cold and hard, and it was left over from noon in the kitchen, and the weather was hot, and I don't know how many flies crawled over.

But Jiang Xiyue clearly knew that if he refused to eat, he was afraid that his body would not be able to support his parents to save him.

So he frowned, took the meal with his mouth open, and his good cultivation did not allow him to spit it out, so he could only chew it slowly.

It was the first time that his calm face had the expression that a child of his age should have.

Lin Yingti felt that this strange brother was a little slow to eat, and if she ate so slowly, she would definitely be beaten.

finally finished eating a bowl of rice, and Jiang Xiyue politely thanked him.

Lin Yingti put away the dishes and chopsticks and went to the kitchen to wash the dishes, and when everything was done, it was already past ten o'clock in the evening.

Lin Yingti was about to go to bed, the room where she slept was only separated by a wall from the room where Jiang Xiyue was locked, the same small and dirty, and the sheets that could no longer be seen were crumpled together.

But Lin Yingti likes this room very much, because this room has a window and can see the moon.

She even took it upon herself to push her cot to the window, and although the smell of the yard would waft in through the open window, she was reluctant to close it.

Tonight is a good day.

There hung a moon in the night sky, crooked.

Lin Yingti lay on the bed, turned over, looked at the moon outside the window, and his mind drilled into the face of the person just now.

Her lack of vocabulary in her head made it impossible for her to find the right adjective, and a thought popped into her mind when she looked out the window.

It's a man like the moon.

She remembered the way he looked at her, light and clean, as clear as moonlight.

One glance at it can't help but make people ashamed of themselves.