"Miss, this child..."
Tourmaline, who has always taken care of Gu Peijiu's daily life, looked a little surprised at the young lady who was holding a black-clothed boy who came in a hurry. She recovered and hurried up, "Miss, let me hold it, you..."
As soon as he stepped forward, the strong smell of rust permeated immediately. Even if it was tightly wrapped, the tourmaline could see the rich blood stains on the white clothes of the young lady at a glance, just like the flowers blooming on the other side of Huangquan. .
The girl in the red and white maple clothes took a step back, her brows were cold and her voice was light, "Go get some water, it's hot."
Tourmaline panicked: "Yes."
Is it the blood of the child in your arms? What the hell, could it hurt like this
Tourmaline boils water in the kitchen while wandering. My young lady always loves Jie, but this time...
The steam in the cauldron was boiling, and it had already boiled. The recovered tourmaline filtered the boiling hot water into the wooden basin, put a towel on, and hurriedly walked towards Gu Peijiu's room with the basin in hand.
Opening the bead curtain, Tourmaline subconsciously eased her footsteps and called softly, "Miss?"
But he saw his young lady sitting on the edge of the bed, the handsome young man lying on the soft bed, his face pale, his brows furrowed, his forehead was covered in cold sweat, he tightly pursed his chapped lips, his chest undulating, very painful and uneasy. looks like.
"pain… "
Gu Peijiu gently stroked his forehead with her hand, and nodded to her when she heard the words. Tourmaline put the basin on the shelf aside, and said anxiously, "Miss, this... let me take care of it?"
Gu Peijiu didn't say anything, just looked down slightly, and when she looked at Tourmaline, she saw that the young man's hand was tightly tugging at the corner of his young lady's left sleeve, and the phalanx started to turn blue.
It's like grabbing the only life-saving straw.
Tourmaline is dumb.
"I'll take care of him." Gu Peijiu said, after a while, "Wring out the towel and go get those files."
"… Yes."
Tourmaline complied, wringing out the wet towel in the basin and handing it to Gu Peijiu, turned around and went to get the file. Gu Peijiu left one hand free and let him pull his sleeve, while the other hand folded the wet towel and gently placed it on the boy's forehead.
"It hurts, it hurts."
The boy's voice was hoarse, and he pulled her sleeve tighter.
I just know it hurts.
Gu Peijiu paused for a while, not knowing what was in her heart. In the end, he just silently dipped his fingertips in hot water, and touched the boy's chapped lips, moistening little by little.
She fed him hemostatic pills before, and the wound won't bleed again for the time being, but the pain of tearing the wound was inevitable.
Gu Peijiu's heart suddenly became a little complicated when he thought of the action of the boy who couldn't stop the pill formula before slamming his wound against the corner of the table.
"...Miss, the file is here." Tourmaline, who was holding the file, said carefully, "Put it on the table?"
"Yeah." Gu Peijiu nodded, then got up and wanted to pick up the file. He felt that the people around him wanted to leave, and the boy suddenly seemed to be stimulated, "Don't, don't go—"
Gu Peijiu paused, stopped, and said, "Go and call the doctor at the foot of the mountain and let him take a look at the injury."
"Yes."
Tourmaline is gone.
"...Don't go." The boy's voice was vaguely crying and weak, "...It hurts."
Gu Peijiu looked at her tightly clenched sleeves, her eyes slowly moved up, and finally stopped on the pale face of the boy who was in a coma and kept screaming in pain.
half an hour.
"Well, I'm not leaving."
Gu Peijiu sat down and gently held his hand that was holding her sleeve. The boy's hand was clearly boned, and it was so thin that it made people feel a little distressed.
After she said not to leave, the boy held her hand, and although his brows were frowning because of the pain, his expression became slightly calmer.
Gu Peijiu felt a slight jump in her heart, and she heard the young man whispering softly.
"... Doudou, you... don't let me go."
= =
Xia Ge felt that he was about to die of pain.
It may be that the time for the anesthesia that Su Tan gave her has passed. The poison on the dagger of death will give people a very strong pain, and she is too dead. The wound is now as if someone had sprinkled salt with it. , burning pain.
The pain was so painful that she wanted to wake up, but because of the backlash from the spiritual energy, her head was still buzzing, as if she was half-hanged in the abyss. Mental exhaustion dragged her into a dark abyss of eternal sleep.
Everything seemed bizarre and painful.
Everything in her mind began to become complicated, and some memories of the past, which she deliberately blurred, began to slowly surface.
"What are you doing, Shuangshuang, we should go find something to eat."
"Yeah, Shuangshuang, what shall we eat today?"
The shadow that had been blurred began to slowly become clear again.
She remembers.
She thought she was about to forget.
—Shuangshuang was the name of this body when she first crossed into this world.
Shuangshuang is a little beggar, about six or seven years old. She has a good friend named Doudou. Doudou is older than her, how old she is. Doudou doesn't know how old she is.
The two of them were begging together in a village called Nanming, and they lived a day of worrying about eating one meal every day.
Nanming Village is a very poor village. When Xia Ge passed through, there was a famine. Although Shuangshuang was born with great strength, he was only six or seven years old.
No money, no food, no beauty, nothing, three no children, summer beggars, oh no, she has to say something, she has a friend named Doudou.
At that time, the sky was full of stars, and two girls who had just finished nibbling on the leaves climbed to the top of the dry, crooked-neck tree, trying to blow some wind to calm down, so as to discuss the future life.
Doudou, who just finished eating the leaves of the sycamore: "What do you want to do when you grow up?"
Xia Ge, who had been here for two months, wrapped in his tattered clothes and looked forward to the future with a melancholy face: "Well... I'm probably getting rich, it would be best if I could eat every day. , Although it is a bit difficult now, but dreams always have to have... Or become very powerful, like punching Nanshan Nursing Home and kicking Beihai Kindergarten."
So she can go robbery.
She has been displeased with the local tyrant surnamed Zhu at the head of the village for a long time, but unfortunately there is no hardware.
Well, the more official way of saying it should be... rob the rich to help the poor
Doudou was at a loss: "...Shuangshuang, why are you saying something I don't understand again?"
Xia Ge paused, looked at his thin arms and thin legs, and finally wisely put aside the terrible idea of robbing the rich and helping the poor, and decided to continue to be a friendly socialist successor, and gently talk to Doudou about his own. Dream: "It's a day when you eat and drink spicy food every day, and lick the lids of yogurt and throw them away."
Doudou: "What's the yogurt lid?"
Xia Ge perfunctory: "Delicious."
Although she didn't understand it, Doudou sincerely wished her friend: "Shuangshuang, there will be that day."
- There won't be that day, because there is no Wei X yogurt here, and there is no yogurt lid.
Xia Ge, who received the blessing, was not very happy. Although she couldn't lick and throw one yogurt lid two months ago, if she wanted to, she would have absolutely no problem licking one and throwing one hundred.
But just about three minutes ago, Xia Ge, who used to throw a hundred yogurt lids, tasted the taste of sycamore leaves.
That taste is really... indescribable.
Xia Ge covered his mouth, in order to forget the taste, to care about the inner life of his little friend, and to enrich his boring begging life, Xia Ge asked sullenly, "Then what do Doudou want to do in the future?"
Ah, it seems that two elementary school students are exploring their dreams under the warm red sun of socialism.
Xia Ge covered his mouth full of leaves and looked at his little arm.
Well, in fact, she seems to be in the kindergarten class now.
Doudou looked up at the stars for a while, then whispered for a while, "In the future...I probably hope...to be free forever."
Xia Ge: "???"
How could Doudou have such a high level of life and understanding in such a situation of hunger and cold
Is it too free now
Free to the point that the taste buds began to sink with the leaves of the sycamore.
Xia Ge just wanted to tactfully refute the little fan friend who had just eaten the leaves of the plane tree with him, but heard Doudou's voice faintly, "Shuangshuang, I think it's good for us, although we can't eat, But it's very free. I didn't know what freedom was good for before, but you look at the slaves who were sold, and the girls who were caught as prostitutes. Although they can eat every day, I feel like I don't envy them at all."
Xia Ge paused and said nothing.
Well... since the other party would think so, there is also her reason.
Although the dream of a free little beggar is to be freer, it is indeed full of flaws...
"... Then don't you want to be better?"
Xia Ge still decided to save the country with a curve, and cut in from the side, "Doudou, we are not free at all."
Doudou looked at her as if she didn't understand what she meant.
"It's not only chains and rules that imprison people, but also hunger and poverty." Xia Ge said, "It makes sense, in fact, as long as people live, they will not be truly free..."
Doudou tilted her head to look at her, as if she didn't quite understand.
"Oops, you might understand when I say that—I'll give you a chestnut."
"What will you eat tomorrow?"
Doudou's face wrinkled: "..."
Xia Ge: "Look, we can't even decide what to eat tomorrow, how can this be freedom now?"
This chestnut lift is really appropriate.
What to eat tomorrow is indeed a... very unfree, and they are about to face a very real problem.
Doudou hugged her legs and looked at the bright stars above the night sky. Maybe the realistic proposition that Xia Ge just put forward was too difficult. She decided to ignore this inedible chestnut, "Shuangshuang just said... Want to become very powerful?"
Xia Ge was still worried about tomorrow's breakfast, and lost interest in Zhan Wang's life. Although he wasn't very distracted, he still replied: "Mmmm, it's amazing... Everyone knelt down and called my dad the best."
Seeing Doudou's blank eyes, she obviously didn't understand why Xia Ge liked to be called her father.
… Elementary school students are so troublesome, they don’t understand anything, so let’s reluctantly explain.
Xia Ge paused, "Ah... I mean, I want to become someone who is admired by many powerful people... That's all, the kind that the emperor salutes me when he sees me... Well, it's the kind of person who looks at me. Just the one who shines."
After saying that, Xia Ge sighed.
It was getting dark, and she, the kindergarten senior class, had nothing to do with the primary school students in her daydreams.
"Glittering people?" Doudou wondered, "Will there be shining people?"
Xia Ge: "..." No, wait, it's actually a metaphor...
But Doudou didn't know what to think, her brows stretched out, very happy, "After Shuangshuang has changed so much, will they still glow? Like..."
She thought for a while, then pointed to the sky, "Like those stars?"
Xia Ge: "… "
How to put it, it seems that there is nothing wrong with it, but it is not what you think it is... glowing.
Xia Ge: "No, yes... Become a dazzling person... "
Doudou hasn't been to many places and doesn't know many things. Xia Ge actually thinks Doudou is a little silly.
Silly and a little cute as a primary school student.
Xia Ge thought about it for a while, and decided to find a way to explain it in a way that Doudou understood, "It's just that he has the ability, he's very powerful, and he can be liked by many, many people with his own ability... Even in the crowd, he can be seen at a glance, such a person , is the 'dazzling' person."
"Actually, you're right about the stars." Xia Ge looked up at the sky, melancholy, "It's all beings that people look up to."
Doudou understood this time and laughed, but after thinking about it, she was distressed again, "But if he is so powerful, he has to take care of many, many people? Just like the village chief... But he has to take care of many, many people in the village. Man, he is worried all day long, his hair is falling out, if both of them are like that, they will be very tired, I don't want both of them to fall out, it will be very ugly."
Xia Ge remembered the bald "old" village chief in Nanming Village in his twenties, and paused for a while, and agreed: "...That's right, it's still a little less powerful, anyway, it's good to have enough to eat. "
"alright."
Doudou tilted her head and watched Xia Ge for a while.
"But, Shuangshuang, you say you're not good, why do I think you're shining too?"
Xia Ge looked at himself subconsciously: "..."
Doudou: "I think you are also a dazzling person."
Seeing Doudou's serious look, Xia Ge couldn't help laughing, but his heart still warmed up.
It's really worthless. After living for more than 20 years, I was comforted by a child in the end.
"Since I will shine in your eyes, then I must take good care of you." Xia Ge decided to pretend to be tender, she followed Doudou's tone of voice, "I can't become a star who takes care of many, many people, but I It's Shuangshuang who can take care of Doudou!"
Doudou asked obediently: "Shuangshuang, take a chestnut, what shall we eat tomorrow?"
Xia Ge: "..." This chestnut is not tasty, let it go.
I'm starving to death, and I still boast that I can take care of Doudou, really... Where does the confidence come from.
"Ah! That's right!" The bitter Xia Ge thumped his hands, his eyes lit up, "I know what to eat!"
Doudou looked at her with bright eyes.
"I remember there was a swamp over there..." Xia Ge said, "Let's go there and see?"
The light in Doudou's eyes dimmed immediately, her head turned into a rattle, she grabbed her sleeve, "Don't go, many people are missing there... The villagers say there will be evil spirits that eat people."
Xia Ge: "That's all a lie! I'm very powerful and strong, I believe I can protect you!"
Doudou softly said, "I'm afraid of ghosts."
Xia Ge smiled and rolled his eyes: "It's okay, don't be afraid, I can protect you."
Doudou looked at her eyes, and suddenly lost her mind for a while, maybe she was too hungry, maybe she thought Xia Ge's eyes were very beautiful, Doudou finally pursed her lips and turned her head away, "Then... ."
She whispered, "Shuangshuang, I believe in you."
Xia Ge nodded, patted his chest and said boldly, "Trust me, I'm more powerful than Brother Chun!"
Doudou looked blank: "???" What is Brother Chun
Xia Ge: "...Well, Brother Chun is a very powerful...a shining person."
When Doudou understood, he nodded immediately and said obediently, "Mmmm, Shuangshuang is better than Brother Chun!"
Xia Ge: "..." I don't know why I don't feel like being praised.
In fact, being able to be so confident is mainly because Xia Ge knew that the front of the village was indeed a swamp. The villagers would say that there were evil spirits eating people there. I am afraid that someone accidentally fell into the swamp and did not get up, and died in it.
And what she wants to eat is on the periphery.
It doesn't matter as long as it's on the periphery.
Xia Ge brought Doudou closer to the periphery. The swamp was dark and there were clumps of reeds. Xia Ge squatted on the ground and plucked for a long time, getting mud with one hand, and the stars and moon were bright. Doudou watched her movements curiously. ,after awhile.
"Haha, sure enough!" Xia Ge excitedly showed Doudou the water chestnuts that had been picked up from the ground as a treasure, "I finally don't have to eat the leaves of the sycamore!! Ahhhhhhh!"
There were many reeds and bugs, and Xia Ge was itching and uncomfortable, and sneezed several times in a row.
It was pitch dark all around, and Doudou panicked. Seeing Xia Ge sneezing, she couldn't help laughing. After laughing, she couldn't hold back her curiosity. She looked at the dark ball in Xia Ge, "... what is this?"
"Water chestnuts!" Xia Ge rolled his eyes, "Eat!"
"Wait, I'll look for it again." Xia Ge squatted down again, digging in the reeds for a long time, and finally dug five or six water chestnuts. Xia Ge wanted to dig some more, but after searching for a long time, he couldn't find it. When he arrived, he could only be dragged back by Doudou unwillingly amid the howling of the wild dog.
"Go back quickly, the wild dog is barking, it will be bad if you encounter a wave of evil spirits." Doudou said.
"What is the evil ghost tide?" Xia Ge wiped the water chestnuts with his sleeves and handed one to Doudou, curious as he walked back.
"...It's a very scary thing anyway." Doudou took the water chestnut, and he couldn't describe what the evil ghost tide was, but it was still obviously very scary, so scary that Doudou had lingering fears just thinking about it, "It's... all The evil ghosts gather together at night to eat people, and the villages that encounter the tide of evil ghosts are basically left without bones... Anyway, it is a very scary thing."
She thought for a while and added, "I heard that only dying people and babies can predict when the tide of evil ghosts will come, because they can see ghosts... I heard that wild dogs will bark."
"Isn't this a society that believes in science and Marxism?" Xia Ge took a bite of the water chestnut, and the crunchy taste burst out in his mouth. For a split second, Xia Ge thought he had regained a new life, and in the blink of an eye The evil ghost tide, which violated the laws of science, was thrown aside.
Tears flowed down my face, I finally had a bite of what people eat! Why didn't she think of it before! Regardless of whether he believed in science, brother Chun, or Engels before, now her belief is water chestnuts!
Water chestnuts! !
Never chew that leaf thing again! Eat any more and you'll die! Only by living can one have faith!
Doudou also took a bite, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "It's delicious!"
"Haha, I'll just say it!" Xia Ge got carried away, "This is the belief in life!"
"Faith? What?" Doudou was confused.
Xia Ge let out an "ah" and looked at the water chestnut that had been bitten in half in his hand, "It's... water chestnut."
Doudou understood in seconds: "Water chestnuts are beliefs?"
Xia Ge: "… "
Looking at Doudou's bright eyes, the deep guilt of teaching bad children fills her heart, Xia Ge coughed, "No... No, belief... is that you believe in something powerful, or a certain A powerful person treats the other party as his criterion for doing things..."
Xia Ge, who doesn't know what gods exist in this world, thumped his hand and raised the simplest chestnut, "Just like I sometimes believe in the God of Wealth! Trust him and he will make you rich!"
Doudou still doesn't seem to understand.
Xia Ge was ruthless and sharp, "Anyway, it's what you believe in the most! As long as you believe it in your heart, it will give you strength!"
Doudou looked at her with the water chestnut she took a bite, and her eyes were bright, "That pair is my belief!"
She affirmed her tone, "Shuangshuang can find food. Shuangshuang is very powerful, even more powerful than the village chief. I believe in Shuangshuang the most! Shuangshuang can give me strength!"
Xia Ge: "... "No... Faith is not like this.
And she didn't want to be stronger than the bald village chief at all.
Xia Ge: "Actually, if you have faith, I would recommend God of Wealth..."
Although she did not get rich after believing for so long, she became even poorer.
Xia Ge looked at the water chestnuts in his hand. Maybe the God of Wealth disliked her and abandoned him just for a second, and turned around and believed in water chestnuts.
Therefore, beliefs must be firm, otherwise they will not work at all.
Doudou held the water chestnuts with a firm gaze, "No, I don't believe in the God of Wealth, I believe in Shuangshuang!"
Xia Ge: "… "
If you are so determined to believe in the God of Wealth, you will definitely make a fortune...
No... After so long, Doudou still doesn't understand what faith is
"Hey, look over there, there are actually fireflies!" Xia Ge's eyes lit up, and he changed the subject wisely, "Wait for me here, I'll go catch a few."
Did she just say something as lofty as belief? no? Certainly not! snort!
Xia Ge quickly ripped open his sleeves, wrapped two or three fireflies, and tied them up with twigs, forming a small pouch and handing them to Doudou, "I wanted to catch them for a long time, hehehe."
Doudou took the bag wrapped in fireflies, "It's so bright."
Xia Ge, who had lied to the child but had no guilt at all, laughed, "Yes, it's so bright."
"I like them," said Doudou, who no longer struggled with beliefs. "They are so beautiful."
She thought for a while, and then said, "Actually, I can't remember many things, but I didn't know what liking was before, and it seemed that I did a lot of stupid things. Later, I knew what liking was, and I did a lot of stupid things. The ones you like are driven away."
The voice was a little embarrassed.
Xia Ge thought that a little brat who didn't know anything about beliefs knew what kind of love he liked or not, but he expressed his sympathy: "...Then you are really miserable."
Doudou pursed her lips and smiled, "Well, so I think, if you give me another chance, I will love her well, give her all the freedom, and I will obediently do nothing wrong."
Xia Ge nodded and thought for a while, "Then... I wish you this opportunity?"
Doudou looked at the firefly trapped in the small pouch, the bright light in his eyes seemed to be full of stars, "Well, there will be."
When she was full, Xia Ge felt a little sleepy, she yawned, and hugged the remaining water chestnuts and shrank under the tree with a crooked neck, "I'm sleepy, Doudou."
"Well, the pair should go to bed early."
"… Um."
Indistinctly, Xia Ge heard Doudou's voice whispering in the night wind, "Freedom... No wonder... she likes it."
she? Do Doudou like the girl
I'm a little curious... but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with me, so let's wash and sleep.
In the warm night wind, Xia Ge slept sweetly, but the girl named Doudou quietly untied the bag, and a few fireflies flew lightly from the bag and regained their freedom.
Doudou covered the bag covered with body temperature on his chest, and a gentle color flashed in his innocent eyes.
- This time, she won't do it wrong again.
She should be free if she likes it.
That's what faith is.