From that day on, my mother suddenly became very sick, like the dead leaves on the trees in late autumn, more and more withered and scorched.

Xiao Wu used the money given by the master to find Langzhong for medical treatment and medicine, and the days passed tightly, and the rice in the rice jar bottomed out again.

Xiao Wu's injury was healed, she didn't listen to Qingtian's words, she still entered the mountain, she didn't follow to the distant mountain, she only went to the near mountain that she could return to in two days, and her mother entrusted Aunt Chen. Helped take care of it for one night.

As long as Brother Niu is at home, he will often follow Xiao Wu up the mountain, and she has been driven away several times, and Ah Niu can only follow secretly.

Xiao Wu was climbing the mountain, and when she heard the sound of rustling behind her, she knew that Brother Niu was coming again, "Brother Niu, I saw you, come out quickly."

"Hey, hey, I'm hiding so secret, you can find out?"

In Xiao Wu's mind, Brother Niu is his own brother, looking at Brother Niu who was smirking, he complained: "Brother Niu, it's not easy for you to come back, you should be busy with family affairs, and you should also take a good rest......."

Ah Niu is eight years older than Xiao Wu, and he has reached the age of the first love. When Xiao Wu was a child, Ah Niu liked to play with her, and when he saw her suffering, he felt sad, and helped her in all aspects as much as possible, such as chopping wood and carrying water, and basically took all the work.

Ah Niu doesn't know when he started, he thinks about Xiao Wu more and more, and even has her in his dreams, especially in the past year or so, he has been an apprentice in Fengcheng, and he has been thinking more and more about it. He understands that he has fallen in love with Xiao Wu, but he is afraid that one day, Xiao Wu will be robbed again, after all, the boss of the money said that when Xiao Wu was ten years old, he would take her away.

Dragged the basket on Xiao Wu's back and carried it to himself, Brother Niu had a smile on his face, and said, "A little girl, don't worry about men's business."

Xiao Wu squatted, shaving a four-leaf ginseng, and glanced at the sturdy Brother A Niu, "What's the matter? women can't care about men? This man and woman ...... What's the difference?".

Brother Niu's face suddenly turned red, and he became inexplicably stumbling, "Of course, there is, men have ...... Hi, women can have children, men can't".

Xiao Wu still doesn't understand the affairs of men and women, so naturally she doesn't understand, what did Ah Niu think? She guessed Brother Ah Niu's thoughts, covered her mouth and snickered, and joked with Ah Niu, "Hey, Brother Ah Niu, why is your face so red? Don't you, do you want to marry a daughter-in-law, do you want to? I'll talk to Aunt Chen, marry you a handsome daughter-in-law?"

Ah Niu's face was even redder when he was said, and he was embarrassed and at a loss, and replied in a panic, "If I want to marry, I will ...... Marry you".

Xiao Wu felt that this was a joke of bickering, so she didn't think so at all, and while digging up herbs, she replied: "Clean nonsense, how can there be a brother...... If you let Aunt Chen know, you have to break your legs."

Ah Niu carried the basket on his back and followed behind Xiao Wu, muttering in his mouth, "My mother...... Know, the Way".

Attracted by a small wild ginseng, Xiao Wu was pedaling to the low-lying small wild ginseng, his eyes were full of unexpected light, and Ah Niu's words were scattered in the woods, but they did not float into Xiao Wu's ears.

Because her mother is sick in bed, Xiao Wu can only go to the near mountains, and can only pick some ordinary herbs every time, and will also pick some mushrooms, tree ears, etc., she will dry these mountain medicinal materials, and entrust the villagers who sell medicine into the city to help sell them, and the bits and pieces can also be exchanged for some rice and salt.

After more than a year like this, the little dancer still didn't survive in the end, and it was the coldest winter in the memory of the villagers. On the day of my mother's death, the snow was falling, and there was a white expanse everywhere.

Xiao Wu, who was dressed in linen and filial piety, watched as her mother was packed in a thin coffin and sent into the dirt pit. Xiao Wu cried majestically, darkly, crying and shouting, stretching out her arms to stop her, not letting her mother be buried, she didn't believe her mother, so she left herself like this.

"Mother! mother...... Uncle Ji, please, don't bury my mother, woo woo woo...... Please, please, don't bury ......"

Xiao Wu experienced death for the first time, not to mention that it was the mother who depended on her and gave birth to her and raised her. She felt that the whole world had collapsed, and without her mother, she didn't know what to do in the future?

Pulling Xiao Wu up, Uncle Ji shook her, trying to make her sober up, with tears in his eyes, and shouted: "Xiao Wu, your mother is dead, she can't come back, don't make trouble anymore, you let her go calmly and ......be obedient."

"No, my mother is not dead, she is not gone, ......"

"Pull her away and bury her ......"

"Mother...... Mother",

Unable to break free from the pull of Brother Niu and other partners, Xiao Wu saw that on her mother's coffin, there was a big grave, she cried and struggled, and finally fell in front of the grave, holding two handfuls of new soil in her hands, her eyes were red, tears were like rain, she bit her lips tightly, her mouth was full of blood, and she entered her throat and heart.

Xiao Wu was distressed like a thousand arrows, this tomb separated Xiao Wu and Niang, one inside and one outside, and Yin and Yang were separated from each other.

Aunt Chen's face was full of tears, and she stepped forward to pat Xiao Wu's back, "Good boy, go to your mother, burn some dark paper, let her, in that day, don't live so ......hard again."

Xiao Wu raised her red and swollen teary eyes and looked up at Aunt Chen, there was a bright light in her eyes, and the tears fell together.

Seeing Xiao Wu looking at herself, Aunt Chen wiped her tears with her sleeve distressedly, "The dark paper, it's for your mother, the more money you use over there, the more you burn, your mother, the days over there...... the better".

"Really?"

"Really!"

Xiao Wu hurriedly knelt down and crawled to the grave that had been nailed to the tombstone, and with the help of Aunt Chen, she burned the paper seriously and reverently, crying and chattering.

"Mother! this is Xiao Wu, the money for my mother, my mother has taken it, take the money, go find a good man...... If you heal your disease, you must also heal your legs. Also, my mother for a few days...... I haven't eaten, I must be hungry, so my mother will take the money quickly...... Go eat something delicious, and in the future, taste everything you haven't eaten, don't be reluctant to spend money. When Xiao Wu grows up, she will often send money to her mother, so that her mother can become a rich person, the richest person, Xiao Wu wants her mother to have a big house to live in, beautiful clothes to wear, and someone to wait, so that her mother can just enjoy her happiness...... Mother! Xiao Wu misses Mother, Mother, ......".

Uncle Ji, Aunt Chen, Brother A Niu, and everyone present wiped their tears sadly when they heard these words.

"Poor boy, why is it so bitter!?"

The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and the villagers who came to help sighed and dispersed, Xiao Wu wanted to stay and accompany her mother, and Uncle Ji agreed.

Xiao Wu knelt alone on the snow, silently burning paper, silently crying, lonely and pitiful!

The new graves with bare earth, the burned ground, and the black ash flying all over the sky fell on the white snow, making the world filthy, and after a while, they were all gradually covered with white snow, as if nothing had happened.

Behind the tree not far away, there was Brother Niu, who was not at ease, he silently watched Xiao Wu, and let out a long sigh, drowning in the white world.

The sound of dragging footsteps, accompanied by the sound of coughing and wheezing, Xiao Wu did not look back, and she could hear that it was her father's voice, and practicing martial arts exercised her ear power.

Dad bent over and approached, and suddenly saw Xiao Wu, who was covered with snowflakes all over his body, his face was red from the cold, and he was kneeling in front of the grave in a daze.

Xiao Wu's chest rose and fell, trying her best to restrain her anger, and when she wanted to explode and drive away this ruthless man, she caught a glimpse of her father crying, crying silently, in fact, it was even more sad.

Is he regretting his past?

"Little dancer, take this money, you can take it, over there...... Don't be bitter about yourself. I, Zhen Guang, have been a bastard for most of my life, and I finally owe it...... Your mother and daughter, ahem, ahem...... Even if I die, I will not be able to atone for my sins, so I can only be a cow and a horse in the next life...... I'm going to make it up to you. cough cough cough ...... Little dancer, you know, I'm also bitter in my heart, it's not that I don't want to change, but I just can't help it, you see, I chopped off my fingers, I really want to change ......".

Zhen Guang coughed and wheezing, choked up, and couldn't go on.

Xiao Wu couldn't cry anymore, she still couldn't help but turn around, and saw that the last two fingers of her father's left hand were gone, and at that moment, Xiao Wu's heart full of hatred throbbed violently.

Xiao Wu added the dark paper and whimpered softly: "Before my mother left, she was still shouting...... Zhen Lang, Zhen Lang...... Mother, or ...... Don't worry about Dad".

After hearing this, Dad pounded his hands on the ground and began to cry, "Ah...... I'm sorry for you, I'm sorry! I'm damned...... What are you thinking of me? Fool! You shouldn't ...... Marry me, Zhenzhen, I'm damned, ah......".

The little dancer whose name has long been forgotten was originally called Zhenzhen, and Xiao Wu also knew it.

There was a violent cough, a little blood red sprayed on the snow, and my father vomited blood.

Mother coughed up blood and died, and now that my father is coughing up blood, Xiao Wu suddenly panicked, God just took away a relative, do you want to take away even the last one?

"Daddy!"

Xiao Wu hurriedly rushed forward, trying to hold on to his crumbling father, but his legs were frozen, and he fell to the ground with a "poof".

When Zhen Guang saw it, he hurriedly pounced, hurriedly picked up Xiao Wu, who was not lightly dropped, and shook his hands twice, wanting to hug his daughter, but he felt ashamed in his heart, and finally didn't dare to hug him.

"Are you alright?"

"Dad, are you alright?"

The father and daughter looked at each other, shook their heads, and tears flowed from their eyes.

Dad is the lover who insisted on marrying despite the opposition of her family when she was young, and in this love, what she finally got was a lifetime of pain and sadness.

At the last moment of the little dancer, she dreamed back to her youth and the love time with the scholar Zhen Guang.

At that time, they were concubines with affection, the male was elegant, and the female was beautiful, and they climbed the mountain together to enjoy the flowers and watch the sunrise and moonset......

The young Zhenzhen likes Zhen Guang to her the most, Yin and Yang frustrated reading, she thinks that the voice is better than singing, she also likes it, Zhen Guang tells her the truth in the book, she looks up to him, loves him deeply, and feels that he has light on him, so bright and beautiful!

The beauty of those strong feelings and sweetness was engraved in the heart of the little dancer, and in the last moment of her death, she returned to that moment, she shouted "Zhen Lang" and chased him......

Dad said that he had something to do, but he didn't go home, he no longer had the courage to see the villagers and enter the house, he was like this all his life, he only knew how to escape.

Xiao Wu watched her father, who was staggering and swaying in the wind and snow, and her heart ached.

Brother Niu walked out from behind the tree and looked at Xiao Wu, who was still crying, "Let's go, Xiao Wu, let's go home."

Xiao Wu raised her head and stared at Brother Niu's face, her eyes were full of sadness and gratitude, she didn't speak, she was held by Brother Niu's hand and walked in the direction of home.

Holding the puppet-like sluggish Xiao Wu, Ah Niu was silent all the way, and only after entering the countryside did he speak, "Go to my house, ...... later."

Xiao Wu was expressionless, and interjected in despair, "No! I'll go home", Xiao Wu wants to return to her dilapidated home, as long as there are people, it is still a home.

Ah Niu didn't object, he understood Xiao Wu's stubbornness, silently sent Xiao Wu home, led her to the bedside, helped her take off her boots and socks that had been frozen into ice lumps, helped her lie down, covered her with a quilt, and whispered: "Xiao Wu, you're tired, let's sleep for a while, I'll go out and light the fire, and I'll bring you food later, sleep."

"Hmm"

Seeing Brother Niu close the door and go out, leaving only herself in the house, Xiao Wu looked around, and burst into tears, she was helpless, lonely and frightened like a ghost, enveloping her at once.

It's too cold!

It was so cold that even the birds nested in the nest and couldn't come out, as if they had saved their strength to resist the severe cold, and there was not even a single birdsong, and the whole Qishan was silent.

In this dead silence, Xiao Wu's hand touched the place where her mother had been lying, it was empty, her mother had slept underground, she was crying silently, her eyes had stinged after crying too much, she closed her eyes, thinking about the happy time with her mother......

Thinking about this, Xiao Wu fell asleep, with a pair of young shoulders and a fragile heart, Xiao Wu couldn't bear too much suffering, and she felt extremely tired......

"Xiao Wu...... Xiao Wu"

A man's distant call made her suddenly think of her master, and she suddenly opened her eyes to look for it, and after a trance, she saw that it was Brother Niu in front of her.

Seeing that Xiao Wu woke up, Brother Niu was very happy, and hurriedly opened layer after layer of baggage, and finally revealed a big bowl with a bowl buckled.

"This is my mother, I rolled the noodles for you, and put eggs, Xiao Wu, eat it while it's hot"

The bowl was bubbling with a pungent aroma and heat, and Xiao Wu's stomach rumbled accordingly.

Seeing that Xiao Wu was stunned, Ah Niu urged, "Eat quickly, it will be cold in a while."

"Brother Niu......"

Xiao Wu ate the bowl of noodles with tears, and actually ate it with mixed feelings.

Xiao Wu was only allowed to stay in the house, grieving all over the world for a day, crying and missing her mother, and complaining about the unfairness of fate.

Xiao Wu promised her master to shed less tears, because tears are useless, they will only make her more uncomfortable, and let her make her less meaningless empty lamentation. The book left by the master could not be read, and on the second day of Xiao Wu, he took the wooden sword and went to the mountains to practice the sword, and practiced until he was exhausted.

A few days later, Xiao Wu was able to bring back some pheasants and hares one after another, and secretly put them at the door of Aunt Chen, Uncle Ji, etc., who helped her villagers, which was a little repayment.

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