I took a month off. Hua Han sent me to the station, and the flute of the train was like a mother crying. The cold winds of winter cover this desolate world. My eyes were blurry.

I got off the train and did another hour of motorcycling. At three o'clock in the afternoon, I came to Cangqiong Village.

A small stream flows through the village, and five or six gray wooden houses line the stream. Dense forests enclose the small village in the middle. I stood on the stone bridge, the smoke gathering in the breeze. Tao Yao squatted by the stream and washed clothes. The stream reflects her figure and the blue sky.

"Taoyao, I'm coming" I came to her.

She was surprised but pretended to be calm: "You know it's late?"

"I thought you wanted to be alone and quiet. ”

"You want to be alone, too?"

I didn't understand what she meant and didn't answer.

"You go and look at the calendar, what time is it? ”

"November 25th"

"I know. ”

She picked up the tub and ordered me to go back with her.

Her sister, a painter, always had a hesitant grief on her face. She was drawing a daisy, smiled at me, and didn't say hello. People are like daisies, fluttering in the wind.

Tao Yao hung her clothes on the bamboo pole, and the sun was warm. She was wearing a white light gauze hanfu, elegant like a noblewoman, and she was like two people before.

"That's my sister, divorced, and came to the countryside to paint by herself. ”

"It's a beautiful place for painting. I said, hand her the clothes.

"It's also great for life"

"Are you going back?"

"Not ready," she replied firmly.

"The notice from White Deer Academy has come down. You should check it out. ”

"Even if I came down, I hadn't been to class for so long, and I was already expelled."

"No, if you can pass the final exam of White Deer Academy, you won't be expelled. ”

"Oh," she said, hanging her clothes on a bamboo pole, "but I don't want to go back"

"I want you back"

She didn't say yes, but told me to go somewhere. A wooden house in the forest. The sunlight shines through the cracks in the house, dappled on the ground.

"You sleep here at night," she said, "don't run around, I'll come to you then." ”

Tao Yao left, and soon came back to sit beside me.

"It's boring," she said.

"Small mountain village in a beautiful setting. ”

"No," she replied crisply.

"Can read books"

"I don't like to read, I'm bored"

"Then come back with me tomorrow."

"I don't want to go back," she replied as she always replied so directly.

She stood up, put her hands behind her back, and looked at me.

"Am I good-looking," she asked.

"Hmm," I nodded.

Tao Yao asked me to sleep with her. I thought she was joking, as she always was, but she quickly hid under my covers.

"Do you like it?" she asked.

"Hmm"

She suddenly pouted, "I really don't know, why do I like you stupid wood." ”

She got out again: "I'll come back to you in the evening." ”

When I fell asleep, Tao Yao slipped into my bed again. That night we were covered with clouds and rain and stayed up all night.

The morning sun came in through the window and through the cracks in the house, and the peach curled in my arms, like a kitten. Blaming me for such an important matter, why didn't you react at all.

I said, "I know you're suffering."

"Then what kind of pain do you say?"

I can't answer, I just believe Tao Yao.

I thought about it, I don't know who established human ethics, and it wasn't us anyway.

I shook my head: "Maybe, we live in a human world after all. ”

She suddenly fell into my arms and cried like someone had her heart drained and struggled in the crook of my arm.

"But my dad died. I did what everyone in the world thought was dirty, but I couldn't get my father. ”

I comforted her and didn't let her touch.

During those days, we barely slept at night.

A month later, I left this place, and I wanted Tao Yao to go with me, and she said to make her think about it. As Orion's motorcycle was about to leave, she suddenly climbed up. Back in the capital, she didn't want to go back to the old house, so we rented the attic of Tingyu Pavilion. I did two days of cleaning and moved all her things in.