The first thing Wujiang saw when she woke up was a window. It was an unadorned wooden window. The bright light came in from the window, which was a little dazzling. She blocked it with her hand. After a little adaptation, she could see the scenery outside the window clearly. The mountains Layers upon layers, far away, the top of the mountain is covered with white snow.
Not a familiar sight.
She was just about to sit up when she heard the door creak. A middle-aged woman in plain cotton clothes came in with a kind face.
"Oh, girl, you're awake." She looked very surprised. "The old man who sent you here said you would wake up in three days. I didn't believe it at first, but I didn't expect you to really wake up!"
"Old man?" Wujiang glanced around. It was an ordinary or even too simple wooden house, "Where is this?"
"Jackdaw Village." The woman brought a coat and put it on Wujiang. "The old man who sent you here said he saw you unconscious in the nearby snow mountains and saved you. He asked us to take care of you when he passed by."
"Where's the old man?"
"I left three days ago. I didn't even leave my name. I just said goodbye." After saying this, the woman scratched her head and said, "The old man left in a hurry and didn't explain clearly."
Wujiang listened calmly. Finally, it was time to say thank you.
She got up and walked out of the house. There was a stream in front of the house. Although it was cold, it was not frozen. It flowed slowly around the village. She walked to the stream, bent down and looked at herself in the water.
A clean face, stretched eyebrows, eyebrows slanting into the temples, a straight bridge of nose, and slightly pursed lips showing a hint of paleness.
Um?
She frowned, and the people in the water also frowned. She tried to change her posture, and the reflection in the water immediately changed her posture. She lowered her body a few points, and the reflection in the water also came closer, and finally the whole The person leaned down almost to the surface of the water and stared blankly at the bottom. Only when he glared at his own reflection did he have to admit...
Have to admit...
This is such a grown-up face!
But...but she is still just a child!
Without a father or mother, with no name or surname, his face covered with mud, and his clothes in rags, he was running around with the refugees, escaping here and there now, not knowing where he came from or where he was going. He didn't even finish a meal and was hungry. Her skin was yellow and thin, exposed to the rain and sun all the way, and her skin was rough and dark yellow. But the person in the water had fair and translucent skin, as delicate as porcelain. At first glance, she looked like a girl who was born and raised in a good family!
It seems that it has never experienced wind and frost.
If she hadn't vaguely recognized her childhood appearance while glaring at him, she would have almost thought that someone had used the soul-transfer technique to make her soul leave her original body and attach itself to another wealthy lady!
But when she took a closer look at the nose, she found that it was indeed her own. It was just longer, more delicate, and better looking than when she was young. Therefore, based on the above observations, Wujiang came to a conclusion.
She unfortunately... lost her memory.
She only remembered the hard days of being homeless, and then all of a sudden, she forgot about the period in between. Well, she thought about it, it should be a good life.
But how could she live a good life? She thought and thought, and finally felt that there were two possibilities. First, she would save a certain high-ranking official by fate, and the high-ranking official would express his gratitude for helping her get out of poverty and become rich, and give her superior opportunities. Living conditions, secondly, is that some good person with no eyesight sees her as pitiful and cute, does good deeds and makes her an adopted daughter, or... a child bride? ? ?
Wujiang fell into deep thought and walked further and further on the road of child bride. His expressionless face seemed to be squinting at the water, but his eyes were far away. The woman was opening the door, but when she raised her eyes, she was stunned. The fresh water in the distant mountains is covered with white snow, the setting sun is setting, and the clouds are all dyed. However, the haze and haze are not as stunning as the flowers on the river bank shining on the water. The coarse linen and linen clothes are better than all the curls in the world.
The woman wanted to call her, but she couldn't speak. It seemed that it was not a gentle scene, but roughness with fingertips, pressing on her chest. She didn't know why, she just felt her heart touching her limbs, banging. Thumping.
It seems that all the smoke and clouds in the world are like gentle sheaths, wrapping a sharp knife.
The knife tilted its head slightly and smiled at her. Suddenly the ice melted and the snow melted, blood flowed, and a beam of light leaked from the sky.
It was a very short moment. The woman didn't know what she had experienced, as if it was just an illusion. Before she could react, she continued to walk forward, as if she never stopped.
The people and reflections on the waterside complement each other, which is so beautiful. The woman couldn't help but ask, girl, what's your name?
She looked back, between the mountains and rivers, smoke curled up from the roof, and the wind carried it, scattering across the sky.
"Me," the corners of her mouth raised.
"My name is Chui Yan.
…
The woman said that others called her Aunt Li. She let Wujiang into the house to avoid being caught by the wind. She brought a bowl of porridge from the kitchen to warm Wujiang's stomach first. When she fell asleep, she wiped her body and her skin became white and tender. , flawless, and now looking at her hands holding the bowl, which are slender and soft, I can't help but sigh: "What a pair of beautiful hands. It seems that she has never done any rough work. She is a girl from a good family, but why is she comatose alone?" In the snowy mountains?"
The Wujiang porridge reached his mouth, then he put it back and sighed.
"My family is relatively well-off, but my father is clinging to the powerful and wants to marry me to some high-ranking man. That man in his sixties can be my grandfather. It is said that there is a head wife and eighteen concubines in the family. I don't want to marry But there was really nothing I could do, so I ran away overnight. After they found out that I was missing, they sent people to chase me. I ran into the snowy mountains in panic and kept running. Later, I felt dizzy and fell unconscious. When I woke up, there was Aunt Li, you are here."
His eyes turned red instantly.
Aunt Li suddenly felt a sense of justice when she heard that. She always had a kind-hearted look and slapped the table: "We, the Western Kings, only have one queen. That person is so shameless. How can there be such a cruel father in the world? Even though we are Poor families don’t treat their daughters like this!”
After saying that, I felt it was inappropriate. Seeing that her blood was completely gone, I couldn't help but feel distressed: "Girl, don't be too sad. Maybe your father was confused for a while and is regretting it now. You sit down first, and I will let my guy kill me tonight." Just a chicken, I’ll make some chicken soup to replenish you.”
Wujiang could see that they were living in poverty, and killing a chicken was definitely not a trivial matter to them. There was no need for them to do this by chance, so he quickly stopped him: "No, no, no, I'm pretty much better off, so there's no need to spend money."
Aunt Li said: "The old man who saved people gave you a lot of money when he entrusted you to us, so that we can take good care of you. You can't even afford a cow, let alone a chicken." By the way, she also Leave a baggage and say it's yours, but we haven't opened it yet. "
At night, Wujiang frowned at this burden.
The baggage was not the jewelry, silver coins, or red robe she had originally imagined, but all kinds of weird and weird things that she had never seen before.
A shabby black dress, unfolded to reveal a hole on the left chest, three needles, but much thinner than sewing needles, a pair of smooth and soft gloves, and a thin transparent thing, spread out on the table , it looks very eerie under the dim and constantly swaying lights.
Wujiang realized that things were not as simple as she imagined.
She remembered that she was kidnapped by human traffickers when she was a child, and they used a branding iron to brand a strange mark on her right waist. Later, she escaped by chance and went through many hardships before she was able to escape tracking. However, the burns were not treated, and she suffered various injuries during the escape. The rough and dirty fabric rotted due to sweat and rain. Later, it kept getting better and worse, then worse and better again. Finally, it left an abnormally twisted and ugly scar. But now this scar has completely disappeared, not even a little bit. No traces can be found, and the skin feels like new life.
Not only the scars on the right side of the waist, but also the back where the whip was whipped, and the legs scratched by stones, can no longer be found. Even the original mole on the left side of the collarbone has disappeared, and the lower part of the neck is white.
Maybe the scars can be healed and erased, but how could the moles you were born with disappear? It’s like...
It was as if someone had shed a layer of her skin.
Then she was put on a new layer of skin.
Wash away the memory of most of her life and throw it into the wild mountains.
Wujiang looked into the package again, and in addition to the mess of unknown things just now, there were three golden leaves lying quietly on it.
Before he could think about it carefully, Wujiang suddenly felt a strange movement under his feet and instinctively bent his ears to the ground.
Fifteen horses, seven in front and eight behind, were approaching from three kilometers away, going very fast.
She didn't know why she reacted like this, and she didn't know why she could hear the hoofbeats of horses in the distance while lying on the ground, and could also judge three kilometers and the number of horses ahead and behind her. She only knew that they would be in front of her in a moment.
Sure enough, within a moment, those people appeared at the entrance of the village, searching every house, and many of them came to Aunt Li's house. They had strong clothes and narrow sleeves, and looked like they could fight well.
When they came to the house, they asked if they had seen or taken in any injured girl recently.
The alarm bells rang loudly in Aunt Li's heart, thinking that the bad old man in his sixties was here to arrest him, and immediately denied it: "No."
The leader looked around and asked, "Whose room does that belong to?"
Aunt Li: "It belongs to my girl."
Before she could stop her, those people went over and opened the door. The room was dark, lights were lit, the quilt was messy, and the windows were closed: "Where is your girl?"
"My girl got married a long time ago and went to the next village. She went back to her parents' house a few days ago. She just came back in the afternoon. You can see that she hasn't even had time to put away the quilt."
…
After finally sending those people away, Aunt Li returned to the room, wondering where the people had gone. She walked to the window and found that although the window was closed tightly, it was not locked inside. Thinking that she must have escaped through the window, she propped up the window. The night outside the window was deep, starless and moonless, and it was pitch black.
The road between the mountains and fields is difficult to walk, and the slanting branches look like ghosts, which is very scary. Let alone a little girl, even a man who has been here all year round does not dare to go out late at night. What should I do if I encounter danger? .
The more she thought about it, the more worried she became, but there was nothing she could do. She closed the window and walked to the quilt prepared for her. Her daughter was married, and no one had used the quilt and pillow for a long time. She put it away again and stuffed it into the cabinet. , and finally she was about to put away the pillow. As soon as she picked it up, she saw a gold leaf under the pillow.
The golden light is shining and really beautiful.
