3 Awakening
The first thing Wujiang saw when she woke up was a window, an unadorned wooden window, bright light penetrated through the window, a little dazzling, she blocked it with her hand, and only after a little adaptation did she see the scenery outside the window, the mountains were layered on top of each other, long and far away, and the top of the mountain was covered with snow.
Not a familiar view.
She was just about to sit up, when she heard the door "creak", plain cotton clothes, and a kind-looking middle-aged woman came in.
"Oh, girl, you're awake." She looked very surprised, "The old man who sent you said that you would wake up in three days, I didn't believe it at first, but I didn't expect you to really wake up!" ”
"Old man?" Wujiang glanced around, it was an ordinary wooden house that was even too simple, "Where is this?" ”
"Jackdaw Village." The woman brought a coat and put it on Wujiang, "The old man who brought you said that he saw you unconscious in the nearby snow-capped mountains and rescued you, and asked us to take care of you when he passed by. ”
"What about the old man?"
"I left three days ago, and I didn't leave my name, so I said goodbye." After speaking, the woman scratched her head, "The old man was in a hurry, and he didn't make it clear. ”
Wujiang listened quietly, and at the end, it was time to thank you.
Getting up and walking out of the house, there was a stream in front of the house, it was cold, but it was not frozen, it flowed slowly around the village, she walked to the stream, bent down, and looked at herself in the water.
A clean face, stretched eyebrows, eyebrows that fly diagonally into the sideburns, a straight nose, and slightly pursed lips with a hint of paleness.
Well?
She frowned, and the people in the water also frowned, she tried to change a position, and the reflection in the water immediately changed a position, she lowered her body a few points, and the underwater reflection also came closer, and finally the whole person leaned down almost against the water, staring at the bottom of the water in a daze, until she stared angrily at her own reflection, and had to admit it......
I have to admit it......
It's an adult's face!
But...... But she's just a child!
No father, no mother, no name and no surname, muddy face, ragged clothes, running around with refugees, fleeing here and there for a while, I don't know where I came from, I don't know where I'm going, I don't know where I'm going, I don't have a meal, I'm hungry and hungry, I'm cold and hungry all the way, my skin is rough and yellow, but the people in the water have fair and translucent skin, delicate as porcelain, and I look like a girl born and raised in a good family!
It seems that it has never experienced wind and frost.
If it weren't for the fact that she vaguely recognized her childhood appearance in the process of glaring at herself, she would almost think that it was who used the Soul Transfer Dafa to make her soul leave her original body and attach it to another rich lady!
But if she looked at this nose and eye carefully, it was indeed herself, but it was a little longer and more delicate, and it looked better than when she was a child, so in summary, Wujiang came to a conclusion.
She was very unfortunate to ...... Amnesia.
I only remember the hard days of being displaced, and then all of a sudden, to the present, I forgot the middle one, well, she thought about it, it should be a good day.
But how can she live a good life, she thought about it, and finally felt that there were two possibilities, first, she saved a certain dignitary by fate, and the dignitary and nobleman helped her get rid of poverty and became rich in order to express her gratitude and give her superior living conditions, and second, which good person who was not long-sighted saw her pitiful and cute, and did good deeds and accumulated virtue to accept her as a righteous daughter, or to do ...... Child bride???
Wujiang fell into deep thinking, going farther and farther on the road of raising a child daughter-in-law, an unmoved face, as if looking at the water surface carefully, but her eyes drifted away, the woman was pushing the door open, but she was stunned, the distant mountains and fresh water were covered with snow, the sunset was slanting, and the stratus clouds were dyed, and this smoke and haze were not as stunning as the people on the riverbank near the flowers and water, and the coarse linen clothes were better than all the graces in the world.
The woman wanted to call her, but she couldn't open her mouth, as if it was not a gentle picture, but the roughness of the fingertips pressed against her chest, and she didn't know why, but she felt her heart pull all the limbs and pound.
It is as if all the smoke and haze in the world are curling, and it is a gentle sheath, wrapped in a sharp knife.
And the knife tilted his head slightly, smiled at her, and suddenly the ice and snow melted, the blood flowed, and a beam of light leaked from the sky.
It was a very short moment, and the woman did not know what she had experienced, as if it were just an illusion, and before she could react, she continued to walk, as if she never stopped.
The people by the water and the reflection are shining together, and the woman can't help asking, girl, what is your name?
She looked back, between the mountains and rivers, the smoke rose from the rooftops, and the wind scattered in the sky.
"Me", the corners of her mouth went up.
"My name is Smoke.
……
The woman said that others called her Aunt Li, she let Wujiang into the house, so as not to blow cold, brought a bowl of porridge from the kitchen, let her warm her stomach first, she wiped her body when she was asleep, the skin of the whole body was fair and tender, flawless, and now look at her hand holding the bowl, slender and tender, I can't help but sigh: "It's really a pair of beautiful hands, I haven't done rough work at a glance, I am a girl from a good family, but why would I be alone in a coma in the snow mountain?" ”
The Borderless Porridge came to his mouth, put it back again, and sighed.
"My family is quite solid, but my father clings to the powerful, and wants to marry me to a dignitary, that person is in his sixties can be my grandfather, it is said that there is a wife in the family plus eighteen concubines, I don't want to marry but there is really no way, I ran away overnight, they found out that I was missing, they sent someone to chase me, I ran into the snow mountain in a panic, kept running and running, and then felt a burst of dizziness, unconscious, and when I woke up, I was here Aunt Li."
Instantly, his eyes turned red.
Aunt Li's sense of justice suddenly rose when she heard this, and she slapped the table with a snapping sound: "We have only one queen in the West, that person is really shameless, how can there be such a ruthless father in the world, although we are poor families, we don't treat our daughters like this!" ”
After speaking, I felt inappropriate, seeing that she was completely bloodless, I couldn't help but feel distressed: "Girl, don't be too sad, maybe your father was confused for a while, and now he regrets it, you sit first, I will let my family slaughter a chicken at night and make a chicken soup for you." ”
Wujiang could see that they were living in poverty, and killing a chicken was definitely not a trivial matter for them, and they didn't have to let them do it when they met, so they hurriedly stopped: "No, no, I'm almost good, I don't have to break the bank." ”
Aunt Li said: "The old man who saved people gave us a lot of silver when he entrusted you to us, so that we can take good care of you, not to mention chickens, even a cow can afford to buy," by the way, she also left a burden, saying that it was your thing, and we didn't open it. ”
At night, Wujiang frowned at this burden.
The baggage was not the jewelry, silver tickets, and red robes in her belly pocket that she had imagined, but all kinds of strange things that she had never even seen.
A tattered black garment, unfolded to see a hole in the left chest, three needles, but much thinner than a sewing needle, a pair of smooth and soft gloves, and a thin transparent thing, spread it flat on the table, it looked very eerie in the dim and constantly flickering light.
Wujiang realizes that things are not as simple as she imagined.
She remembers being taken by traffickers when she was a child, and they branded a strange mark on her right waist with a soldering iron, and then she escaped by luck, and went through hardships to get rid of the track, but the burned place was not treated, and in the process of escaping, it rotted due to all kinds of sweat, rain, rough and dirty fabrics, and then it kept going back and forth, good and rotten, rotten and good, and finally left an unusually twisted and ugly scar, and now this scar is completely gone, not even a trace can be found, and the skin is like a new life.
Not only the scar on the right side of the waist, the back that was whipped by the whip, the leg that was scratched by the stone, can no longer be found, and even the bruised mole on the left side of the collarbone is gone, and the neck is white.
Maybe the scar can still be healed and erased, but how can the innate mole not be seen, as if it were ......
It was as if someone had shed a layer of her skin.
Then she was given a new layer of skin.
Wash away the memories of most of her life and throw them in the barren mountains and mountains.
Wu Jiang looked into the package again, and in addition to the mess of unknown things just now, there were three golden gold leaves lying quietly on it.
didn't have time to think about it, Wujiang suddenly felt a movement under his feet, and instinctively fell to the ground.
The first seven and the last eight, a total of fifteen horses, were approaching three kilometers away, and the speed was very fast.
She didn't know why she reacted the way she did, and she didn't know why she could hear the hooves of horses in the distance, and she could judge the number of three kilometers and the front and back of the horses, all she knew was that they would be in front of her in a moment.
Sure enough, within a moment, those people appeared at the entrance of the village, searched from house to house, and many of them came to Aunt Li's house, with narrow sleeves in strong clothes, looking very capable of fighting.
When they came to the house, they asked if they had seen or taken in the injured girl recently.
Aunt Li's heart was ringing with an alarm bell, thinking that the bad old man in his sixties had come to arrest someone, and immediately denied it: "No." ”
The leader looked around and asked, "Who is that room?" ”
Aunt Li: "It's my girl's." ”
Before she could stop her, the men went over and opened the door, it was pitch black, the lights were lit, the quilt was messy, and the windows were closed: "Where is your girl?" ”
"My girl got married early and went to the next village, I went back to my parents' house a few days ago, and I just went back in the afternoon, you see that this quilt has not had time to put it away."
……
Finally sending those people away, Aunt Li turned back to the room, wondered where the people had gone, walked to the window, and found that the window was closed but not locked, thinking that it must have escaped through the window, she propped up the window, and the night outside the window was dark, without stars and moons, and it was dark.
The road between the mountains and fields is difficult to walk, and the horizontal branches look like ghosts, which is very scary, not to mention that she is a little girl, even if it is a man who is here all the year round, he does not dare to go out late at night, what can he do if he encounters danger.
The more she thought about it, the more worried she became, but she couldn't help it, she closed the window and walked to the quilt prepared for her, her daughter got married, and no one used this quilt pillow for a long time, she put it away again, stuffed it into the cabinet, and finally she wanted to put away the pillow, as soon as she picked it up, she saw a gold leaf under the pillow.
Glittering and beautiful.