"I brought cookies today, do you want to eat them?" Miaomiao shook her backpack.
"Wow!"
"Sister Miaomiao is so great!"
"I want to eat, I want to eat!"
Watching the children eating cookies, Miaomiao secretly wondered if her sins would be alleviated.
Dad and Mom have been letting themselves do things they don't like.
Every week, Miaomiao would suddenly appear in front of the children in the early morning and disappear from the village in the evening.
Every week, Dad would bring out a few strange kids, or women, from the basement.
Every week, under the orders of her father, Miaomiao would take them and follow the villagers to the mountains overnight.
"Dad, who are they and where are they being taken?"
"Those are lost people. We are going to take them home."
Although my father said such things, I actually already knew the truth about this matter.
Don't want to do it, but...
Sister Hua Cong is one of the rare people who stays in the village.
Just after hearing her own voice, Sister Hua Cong chose to believe in herself as soon as she met her.
Every time she smiled at herself, the loneliness and despair behind every smile made Miao Miao unbearably painful.
Miao Miao has been feeling sad about Sister Hua Cong's story, but is unable to change it.
The two forces were biting and quarreling in Miao Miao's heart.
"Sister Huacong, actually...I...I didn't..."
"What I promised you back then was actually just..."
"Then why did you tell me?"
Sister Hua Cong had a calm expression on her face that she had not expected, as if she had known about this a long time ago, she stared into Miao Miao's eyes.
Miaomiao was speechless, "I have... tried hard... but this is really, really difficult..."
"Miaomiao, are you willing?"
Sister Hua Cong wanted to say something, but in the end she pursed her lips, leaving Miaomiao with a meaningful expression.
"I……"
"I……"
What can be said? Miaomiao thought mockingly to herself, what could she do if she was willing or not.
"Miaomiao," Sister Hua Cong's hand touched the back of her hand, her eyes seemed to convey strength, "I have a plan to give us and them one more chance to choose their own lives, okay?"
There is light in my sister's eyes.
Although it has been dimmed for too long, it can still be seen at a glance, that is the light of life.
That is the light of hope.
This kind of light seemed to have not appeared in front of him for a long time.
I want to catch this light, I want to choose this light.
Miaomiao clenched Hua Cong's hand, her eyes gradually turned red, and she nodded heavily.
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"How could you let a child do such a thing!"
Pineapple looked at the boss who seemed to have aged ten years in disbelief.
This is the basement. Under the pale light, everyone is sitting around the filled dark hole, listening to the boss and his wife recount this incredible past event one by one.
The boss lowered his head and made an angry sound while the wife sat aside and wiped her tears.
"Miaomiao went to deliver goods again that day, just to deliver those children." The boss's eyes were dull and straight. "At night, Miaomiao still hadn't come back. We called and found out something had happened."
"Miaomiao took those children and ran away. That's what the village chief told me. While something big happened in the village, Miaomiao ran away with those children. People in the village searched for them all day. Seeing their shadows, we hurried up the mountain, crying and shouting, but we couldn't find our Miaomiao. Since then, we have never seen my Miaomiao again..."
"What big thing happened in the village?" Maple Sugar asked.
The boss shut up and looked at the landlady guiltily.
The landlady wiped away her tears and said, "Three years ago we sent a girl to the mountain. Later, the girl was attracted by a bachelor on the mountain and stayed in the village. The little girl ran away several times, and once she ran here. When the side came, a little girl ran down the mountain with her feet. I wanted to save the girl, but he didn't agree... Later, the girl was caught by the villagers. The villagers told me that that day, the girl ran away again. The men in the village went out to arrest them, so Miaomiao took advantage of the men's absence and left the village with her children. No one knew where they went. The villagers told us that my Miaomiao left directly because she was afraid that we would scold her. She ran away from home, but I think this is definitely not the case. My Miaomiao, she will definitely not..."
The landlady choked up as she spoke, covered her face and lowered her head, her shoulders shook, and she started sobbing again.
