"..." I opened my mouth to respond, but turned around to see the shrunken door.
He can't get in without the key, and I can't get out.
The urge to respond, immediately lost interest at this moment.
"Yu'er!" Xuan Cang's voice came from outside again.
The sound is repeated, as if I can't hear the answer, I will keep shouting like this.
I wanted to tell him not to shout, but when I looked back again, I saw his figure, already standing at the door.
"Huh?" I looked at him with some doubts, my pure mind, and there was no fear in my heart because of his appearance.
"Yu'er! Why are you hiding here, don't you go out to play today?" Xuan Cang walked to my side and rubbed my head with a hand in pain.
I looked at him, then pitifully glanced at the door behind him.
"Let's go! I'll take you out!" Xuan Cang smiled and nodded my nose, and raised his left hand slightly. As if my body was being dragged by something, I slowly floated in the air.
"Wow..." I widened my eyes and looked at my floating body curiously.
"Let's go!" Xuan Cang smiled and stretched out his hand to hug me, and then led me, without reaching out to open the door, he walked through the wall directly.
When I went out to play during the day, when my parents were about to go home, Xuan Cang always sent me back the moment before.
He seems to be very accurate about everyone's time. Always be impartial, appear just right, and disappear just before the appearance of outsiders.
There is no friend, but there is one more by my side, which can be by my side when I need it anytime, anywhere.
"Yu'er!" Xuan Cang sat with me on the grass and called me suddenly.
"Huh?" I grabbed the little flower in my hand and looked at him suspiciously.
Xuan Cang stretched out his slender finger and lightly tapped it towards the grass beside me. The grass that I picked almost the same, the next moment it all grows out.
He pointed his finger at the grass next to him, and continued: "Don't go to the ancestral hall tomorrow! Obediently stay with me here!"
"Huh?" I blinked at him without understanding. I didn't understand why he suddenly told me not to go to the ancestral hall.
According to local customs, everyone in the town with their own surname would go to the ancestral hall to gather together for dinner during the holidays.
All women who have not married, even children, will follow the adults to eat in the ancestral hall. Those who don’t come to eat on weekdays can be forgiven, but on the two festivals of Tomb Sweeping Festival and Spring Festival, they are required to come back.
Although I was young at that time, I also knew that the ancestral halls could not be passed by casually, but I could not leave it casually.
"Good!" He patted my head lightly, then reached out and pulled a small wild flower from the ground, and then handed it to me.
I looked down at the words in his hand, curled my brows and hesitated, then reached out and took the small wild flowers.
Early the next morning, the two parents dressed neatly and changed me to a clean and tidy dress. They hugged me and were about to go out.
The aunt next door took his son and went out at this time.
"...Let's go, let's go!" The aunt next door took her son and glanced at us very strangely, then hurriedly urged him, pulling his son and pushing his husband to leave first.
Pulling my parents, I wanted to say hello to them, but when they looked at their weird expressions, they were also puzzled for a while.
"This Ming sister-in-law doesn't know what's going on... Recently, she hid when she saw me!" Mother murmured.
Father glanced at her without saying a word, then reached out and picked me up from the ground.
"Let's go!" Father said to mother.
"Hey! You said... Sister-in-law Ming, do you still hate what we didn't change for him when you said that you want to change the land last time?" The mother followed his father, whispering in her mouth, and turned back to lock the door.
"Don't!" I hadn't spoken, and suddenly shouted two words.
The mother who turned to lock the door was stunned, and the father who was holding me trembled.
My mother shook her hands, looked back at me, and asked in disbelief, "Wh... what? What did you just say?"
I hugged my father's neck with both hands, and said again: "No!"
"Nothing?" Father asked.
"The ancestral hall!" I replied.
Xuan Cang told me not to go to the ancestral hall. Although he didn't tell me the reason, I believed him. Since I can't go, naturally I can't let my parents go!
"Small words! Don't make trouble... Today is Qingming, we can't be absent!" It's rare to hear me say so much at a time, and my parents are also very happy.
The two parents looked at each other and smiled. They ignored me, smiled and hugged me and left.
"No! No! No..." Seeing that my parents didn't listen to me, I had to go to the ancestral hall. Seeing that I couldn't listen, I had to make a big noise, trying to get their attention.
Holding my father, I was a little bit overwhelmed by the quarrel. Had to put me on the ground and reached out and grabbed my shoulders. "Small words! Don't make trouble!"
"Don't go!" Seeing that my father was willing to listen to me, I didn't make any noise anymore, but kept repeating the words not to go.
"... Xiaoyu!" My father twisted his eyebrows slightly, making me a little unhappy.
The mother on the side recovered from the shock and walked over immediately.
"Okay! Xiaoyu! Don't make trouble... Be obedient!" Mother persuaded.
I shook my head and watched my parents repeat: "Don't go! Don't go..."
The two parents were dragged by me at the door, and the toss lasted for half an hour.
The two adults really had no choice but to give up the kind words to persuade me. Turning to helplessly said to his father: "Okay! You go first! I am here looking at this girl..."
"Hey! That's the only way..." Father sighed helplessly. Perhaps it was regret that I was willing to speak, but I didn't want to follow them to the ancestral hall.
As my mother said, my father left me at the door, turned around and walked towards the ancestral hall.
"Dad...Dad..." Watching my father leave, I lifted my foot to follow. But she was held tightly by her mother and refused to let it go.
The strength of a few-year-old child is naturally not an adult’s opponent.
Although I didn't want to, I had to watch my father's figure and gradually disappear before my eyes.
"Yao Yu! What the hell is going on with you girl? I used to be fine if I didn't speak, why do I become so disobedient when I speak?" While my mother taught me, she forcibly pulled me into the house.
I was almost half-lifted by my mother and drew closer to the house, with my feet on the ground in front of me, to keep walking.
"I didn't know what sin was done in my previous life. I gave birth to you, a debt collector!" Mother said, dissatisfied in her tone.
The aunt next door gave birth to sons, and the father's brothers also gave birth to sons.