"One morning, Aunt Zhen came to me crying.

"As soon as I entered the door, I said, 'Yuhua is dying. ’

I heard a thump in my heart, and then there was a colic, and one foot that had just stepped out of the threshold was like stepping on a pile of soft mud, unable to support the weight of my body, and with a pop, the whole person fell outside the door of the hall.

"I struggled to get up from the ground and asked, 'Aunt Zhen, what is wrong with Yuhua, don't you know how to heal, you will definitely be able to save her, please save her no matter what.' ’

"Aunt Zhen wept silently and said, 'She's not sick, she's not sick. She started her hunger strike a few days ago, and she hasn't eaten rice for four or five days. ’

I ran out of the door in a frenzy, ran into Aunt Zhen's house, and rushed into Yuhua's room.

Yuhua lay motionless on the bed, her face pale, her eyes half-open and half-closed, staring directly at the beams.

When I saw it, my heart was broken, and tears poured out uncontrollably.

"I knelt at the head of Yuhua's bed and shouted softly in a trembling voice: 'Yuhua!'

Yuhua was like a statue on the bed, and there was no reaction.

Looking at Yuhua's lips that were peeled due to dryness, a word suddenly popped into my mind - water.

"Like a frightened deer, I began to look around the house for water, shouting incessantly: 'Water, water, water......'

Aunt Zhen, who had just run to the door, turned around and ran again, and a few seconds later, she came in with a glass of water.

I took the water glass from Aunt Zhen's hand and put it to Yuhua's mouth, her mouth was like a frightened river mussel, and it couldn't be opened. I tilted the glass slowly, and the water that overflowed from the edge of the glass flowed down the closed place of Yuhua's two lips to the corners of my mouth, and then dripped down my cheeks to the pillows on both sides.

"I poured it several times, and it was like this, and the pillow got two big pieces wet.

I sat down on the ground in despair, and the glass fell to the ground with a clatter.

"'Can't let Yuhua die!Can't let Yuhua die!Can't let Yuhua die!' I repeated the same words over and over again in my heart.

At this time, I felt an unprecedented sense of powerlessness, and I thought that I would save Yuhua at all costs, even if I died for her.

"Suddenly, a thought crossed my mind.

I looked back and saw Aunt Zhen standing behind me, puffing tears and her whole face visibly distorted from holding back her tears.

"I said, 'Aunt Zhen, can you go out first, I want to talk to Yuhua alone. ’

After staring at me for a long time, Aunt Zhen turned around and walked to the door, closed the door and left.

"After I listened to Aunt Zhen's footsteps and walked away, I attached to Yuhua's ear and said, 'Yuhua, I know that I have broken your heart, and I also know that you have died of heart. I did that before, but I didn't want to make Aunt Zhen sad, she is the best person in the world except for my mother, I have always regarded her as another mother in my heart, you say, how can you disobey your mother's wishes when you are a son. But I didn't expect that I would hurt you so deeply. Today, I can't let you die under any circumstances, and if you do, I don't want to live. ’

Speaking of this, a few tears rolled down the corners of Yuhua's eyes.

"I lowered my voice and continued, 'Now, I don't care about anything. For your sake, I can only be an ungrateful person and choose to be sorry for Aunt Zhen. In the evening of five days, I will come and take you away. ’

Yuhua's eyes moved, she wanted to look at me, but she was so weak that she couldn't turn her head, but tears kept pouring out of her blurry eyes like spring water.

"Seeing Yuhua's reaction, I struck while the iron was hot and said, 'You have to promise me to eat well, you can't go on like this.' ’

Yuhua blinked, and I understood that she had agreed.

"I helped Aunt Zhen feed Yuhua water and porridge. I got up to leave.

"Aunt Zhen pulled me aside and said, 'Buddha, Aunt Zhen sincerely thank you today. You and Yuhua, don't blame Aunt Zhen, in a special family, I am helpless. You are what I grew up watching, if we are an ordinary family and hand over Yuhua to you, I am 10,000 willing, and 10,000 at ease, but since she entered my family, she is destined to take a different path from others. This kind of path is not something I arranged for her, nor is it something I can choose, but it is related to ...... Forget it, there are some things I really can't explain to you. Buddha generation, can you understand Aunt Zhen and forgive Aunt Zhen?'

I bowed my head, didn't say a word, moved slowly, and stepped out of the door of Aunt Zhen's house.

"Because I don't know what I'm supposed to say. I can understand her and forgive her, but for the sake of Yuhua, I have secretly made up my mind to oppose her with practical actions.

"In five days, I made all kinds of preparations to rescue Yuhua.

"On the night of the fifth day, after the farmer had struck the third watch, the whole village fell silent, like a giant monster sleeping in the dark, without a sound. People are falling asleep.

"I grabbed the ropes and necessary tools that I had prepared in advance and quietly went out the door.

"The opposite door is the gate of Aunt Zhen's house.

"I climbed up to the top of Aunt Zhen's house along the corner between the gate pier and the courtyard wall.

"Along the wall, I came to the house where Yuhua lived.

"Aunt Zhen's house has two tiled houses, three tiled houses on the east, one in the middle is a hall house, one in the north is where Aunt Zhen lives, and one is Aunt Zhen's medicine storehouse. The two small tile houses in the south are opened into one, which is the room where Yuhua lives.

"The two small tiled houses were built against the courtyard wall on the south side, and the back wall of the house was part of the courtyard wall, but it was more than one person higher than the courtyard wall of the rest of the house, and the roof was monopitched. From the back wall, the roof gets lower the closer to the front eaves.

"I followed the brick edge of the tiled gable to the lower middle of the roof, and jumped onto the roof with both hands holding on to the vertical ridge of the lower roof.

"I looked around, and in the darkness there were countless rooftops, one after the other, all over the village, and I couldn't tell where they were, because the roads and laneways were hidden.

I looked down at the three east rooms, which were also dark and quiet, without any movement, and my nervous heart calmed down a little, and my heartbeat slowed down a little.

I tiptoed through the rows of troughs to the center of the roof, counted the number of troughs and the number of tiles arranged in the troughs under my feet, and roughly calculated the intervals between the rafters.

"According to the calculation, I chose the nearest location on the roof where the rafters and purlins might be empty, slowly lifted the tiles, dug up the mud layer with the shovel prepared in advance, and removed the lookout slats.

"There was a square hole in the roof, and the hole was in a square made of two rafters and two purlins, just enough for a man to pass through.

"I looked inside and there was smoke in it, the dust that had leaked from the roof I had just removed.

As the dust slowly cleared, I saw Yuhua stomping her feet anxiously underneath. I knew she didn't dare to speak out, and I didn't know what was going on on the roof, so I could only do it in a hurry.

"I leaned down, knelt on my legs in the two tile grooves, supported the edge of the hole with both hands, put my head into the hole, and called softly: 'Yuhua!'

Yuhua also replied softly: "Buddha Dai, you be careful. ’

As soon as he finished speaking, my left hand slipped, and a piece of rubble under my hand slipped into the house with a thud. ”