Chapter 1 Wind Chime Town
Today's wind is still warm, blowing the wind chimes that every household in the town will hang, and the dingdong ringing is non-stop, which is very pleasant.
Today's boy is still lying on time in the grass on the top of the mountain, squinting slightly, facing the evening breeze to peek at the sunset that is about to end.
As the sun faded, the boy stood up and looked out at the peaceful town below, his eyes flashing with love for the town. At this time, the town is already full of smoke, and the playful children are bouncing and laughing to their parents' calls, ready to fill their stomachs. The boy did not seem to be worried about the anxious waiting of his parents at home, and staggered and unhurriedly down the potholed mountain road.
The young man traveled all the way, but when he returned home, he didn't see any other figures in the house, and the young man looked like he had long been used to.
This is the end of the seventeenth summer that the boy has spent here, the boy's name is Yu Nianyi, he was raised by a lonely old couple in the town, but now the old couple has died of illness, leaving the boy alone.
Yu Nian heard the old man say when he was an hour that the people in the town fled here sixteen years ago in order to escape the war, and they died and were injured on the way to escape, and the two sons of the old couple died at the hands of the pursuers on the way. Fortunately, the sky has eyes, and met a white-clothed master, and under the escort of the white-clothed master, everyone was able to safely arrive at a remote place that is deserted at best, and isolated from the world at worst, which is the later town. But for those who want to be stable, isolation may be the ideal destination.
The people asked the superior man, "Where is this?" The master replied: "A long time ago, it was called Wind Chime Town." So everyone took root here, making the originally barren and desolate land into a flat land, and the houses are like a paradise with good fields, beautiful ponds, mulberry and bamboo.
After everyone was settled, the master left, and at the time of parting, he entrusted everyone with a baby.
The old couple who lost their son soon ago were overwhelmed with grief, and saw that the baby didn't think much about it, so they took the baby from the hands of the master, and asked about the life experience of the master's baby, and the master only knew the surname Yu, he was rescued from a group of inhuman bandits, and the baby's birth name was not up in time, and the parents died under the bandits' knife.
This tragic baby is Yu Nianyi.
Yu Nian wrenched his fingers, and counted that he had been seventeen years. When he was fifteen years old, the old couple died of illness, and Yu Nianyi was left with only this wooden house, and Yu Nianyi began to support himself at that time. Before the old couple died, Yu Nianyi asked him several times about his life experience, and the old man only knew that Yu Nianyi was only one of the poor people saved by the master in white in his life, and the master gave the baby the name Nianyi before leaving. The boy came to the world, and the world seemed to give back to the boy only this wooden house and the name Yu Nianyi.
As the boy was about to make a fire, a rapid shout came from the courtyard outside the wooden house.
"Yu Nianyi!
Yu Nianyi put down the firewood that had just been lit in his hand, and went out to look, it turned out to be a child from a nearby family, a girl holding a child in one hand and food in the other, this girl was sixteen or seventeen years old, with a round goose egg face, black eyes, red cheeks, revealing a simple and youthful and lively atmosphere.
"Auntie asked you to deliver food again, thank you Auntie for me, Xiaowan" Yu Nian showed a smile on the corner of her mouth, and stepped forward to take the food. Looking at the girl in front of him and the little boy who couldn't walk steadily, the feeling of coldness in his heart was reduced a lot.
Because of the proximity, when the old couple was alive, they helped each other with the family of the girl who delivered the meal, and the girl and Yu Nianyi also grew up together since childhood, after the death of the old couple, the girl's family took care of Yu Nianyi more carefully.
"Thanks to the firewood you cut up the mountain on weekdays, my father and mother can also save the mountain", the girl subconsciously dialed the green silk and said hurriedly. Growing up together, she knows that Yu Nianyi is a kind-hearted and self-respecting person, and Yu Nianyi's heart hides a strength that his peers can't have.
Although Yu Nianyi has not had everything that ordinary children can have since he was a child, he has never lacked the love from the well-meaning people around him.
Although this town is geographically remote and has less than 100 households, everyone has experienced disputes outside, but fortunately they have encountered the help of the great benefactor to have this hard-won peaceful life, which people cherish very much. I heard the great benefactor say that this place is called Wind Chime Town, and later every family made wind chimes and hung them at home to commemorate this experience. The stronger the wind, the more crisp the wind chimes rang, and this gradually became the creed of every household in this untouched mountain town.
After thanking others for their kindness, Yu Nianyi walked back to his lonely home. There are no parents who take care of their own food, clothing, housing and transportation, there is no toddler, naughty and cute younger brother, and there is no warmth at the dinner table of ordinary people.
The word loneliness is taken apart, there are children, melons and fruits, dogs, mosquitoes and flies, which are enough to support the mouth of the alley in a midsummer evening, full of human feelings. Under the willow canopy of the childish melon, the thin dog chases the butterfly in the deep alley. There are many laughs and smiles in the world, but I have two sideburns to spare. Children, fruits, cats, dogs, flies, and flies are of course lively, but they have nothing to do with you, which is called loneliness.
This monotonous life goes on day in and day out, and it's a bit tedious.
"Am I going to be here for the rest of my life?" Although Yu Nianyi is a little more mature than his peers, he is a simple teenager who has never seen the world after all, and there are still immaturity that belong to young people.
Yu Nian once mustered up the courage to walk out of this remote town on the side of the mountain alone to see the outside world. However, the town is a desolate place with no one within a radius of dozens of miles, and Yu Nian retreated as soon as he didn't go five miles, and he was afraid that he would starve to death and die of thirst on the road if he didn't go out. The body is skinned, and the parents who receive it, although they have no fate to meet their own parents, they can't help but cherish their own lives.
On the other hand, the people of the town, they regard this hard-won peaceful life as a treasure, and they all cherish it very much, and if one person tells them to leave this place, they will definitely fight for their lives with that person! These lovely residents of the town who are willing to be ordinary seem to be planning to pass on the incense here without asking about the world.
Yu Nian stretched out his legs and leaned back on the bed, but his body seemed to be full of exhaustion after not working hard these days.
Yu Nian heard the adults say that the outside world is a cannibalistic world. Demons eat people, people eat people, even the most basic survival is a big problem, compared to the outside world, this is simply a paradise on earth.
"Is the outside world really as chaotic as they tell us? Is it even a luxury to live a life that is too ordinary to be ordinary, too ordinary to be ordinary?"
"And my father and mother, who have no impression of me, what kind of people were they when they were alive?"
"Where is the master who saved me now, and will there be a chance to meet him?"
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The boy longs for someone to break the peace all the time.