On a rainy day, the road was slippery. The woman held the package in her arms tightly with one hand and held the umbrella with the other, struggling to move in the heavy rain, moving bit by bit in the direction of her daughter like an ant.
When passing a noodle stall, a yellow-haired dog suddenly shouted at her. The woman was startled, her umbrella dropped in the mud, and she fell into the river on the side.
Even in the river, she held the package tightly in her arms, as if she was holding on to her only life-saving straw and refused to let go.
Ah Sha saw a tall, gray figure jumping into the river under the dim light of the sky, and pulled the woman up.
That's Zheng Liu.
It turns out that what he said was right, he didn't lie, the thief Zheng Liu really went to save people.
Zheng Liu struggled to pull the woman to the shore. The owner of the stall next to him also breathed a sigh of relief and kicked aside the dog in front of him that had been grinning at the woman. The dog whimpered and looked at it in confusion. Master, I don’t understand why I was kicked.
The noodle stall owner didn't care about his puppy. He scooped a bowl of freshly boiled hot water from the pot and brought it to the woman. After watching the woman cough a few times and come to life, Zheng Liu and the noodle stall owner They all breathed a sigh of relief.
After the woman woke up, she seemed to be in a daze. She did not thank either of them. She stood up holding the wet package in her arms and walked towards Ah Sha's small courtyard with a confused look, muttering in her mouth. She murmured to herself that she wanted to give her daughter her favorite hot white sugar cake. This time, grandma put a lot of sugar.
If you eat more sugar, you won't feel the bitterness, right?
Ah Sha saw that the woman didn't have an umbrella, and like a wet water ghost, she braved the wind and rain all the way to the door of the small courtyard, and asked someone to tell her that she wanted to see her.
What did you say at that time?
See you or not, let her die.
She looked at the woman's pale face and was not angry when she heard what Qingping told her. She just opened her mouth with a stiff and charitable smile and asked Qingping to hand over the white sugar cake that had been broken into a ball in her arms.
She protected the package so carefully all the way, even when it fell into the water.
Then this bag of white sugar cakes, which had gone through wind and rain, stained with sweat, soaked in rain and river water, was soaked and cool, was thrown away without hesitation.
The woman looked at the closed door in front of her for a long time, then turned around and limped away.
On her way home, a relief team sent by the government happened to come to the city to distribute food. People with eyes red from hunger ran to receive the relief porridge with the biggest bowls or pots at home.
The woman was in despair and was knocked into the river by the oncoming crowd.
After this tiring night, she no longer had the strength to struggle. She sank into the fast river without any cry for help, without any splashing, and without any splash.
This was the second time she fell into the river.
It's also the last time.
This time there was no Zheng Liu, no noodle shop owner, no one even saw her fall into the water, no one rescued her.
She was swallowed silently by the rushing river.
Ah Sha stood on the bank where the woman fell into the water, staring blankly at the river she had seen countless times. She subconsciously wanted to jump into the river and give her a hand, but there was a little coldness on her forehead again, and her consciousness I woke up from those past scenes.
A slight chill spread from her cheeks, and A-Shame subconsciously touched her face, which was wet and already covered with tears.
Wang Xiaotai poured her a glass of cold water.
"Fuyao Empress, did she ask you to come to me?"
She asked the question, but she no longer seemed to need the answer to it.
Ah Sha didn't drink water. She looked at Wang Xiaotai, as if she was confiding something, but also seemed to be in deeper confusion, "I thought she didn't want me anymore."
"I really thought she didn't want me long ago."
"How could she...how could she do this!"
Ah Sha shed tears unconsciously and looked at Wang Xiaotai with wide eyes, hoping that she could give him an answer, "Didn't she want me no more? For so many years, no one has come to see me, no one has come to save me..." ··”
"Why is she doing this to me?"
"Aniang..."
"Aniang..."
Ah Sha was lying on the desk and crying sadly, choked with sobs and speechless. She was born beautiful, and even her crying was sad and beautiful. Lying on the desk, she was like a white swan hanging its neck on the lake on a rainy day, facing the water. And according to.
Wang Xiaotai sat there, watching her cry with lowered eyes, admiring the beauty of her pain.
In fact, it was Ah Sha's mother who secretly sent Wang Xiaoti to Ah Sha. She offered her life as a sacrifice, and the ghost god floated to Wang Xiao Tai in confusion, begging her for help, hoping to give her daughter a way out.
Ah Sha slowly raised his head and said, "Did you know? Actually, I don't like eating sugar cakes."
Her voice was hoarse, "I really don't like eating white sugar cakes.
“When I was making sugar cakes at home when I was a child, I could only get half a piece... I just wanted to be like others and eat a whole piece of sugar cake.
"I don't like eating sugar cakes...I just...want to be like others...
“I really don’t like eating white sugar cakes.
"Why would she give me such a thing! I...I don't need it at all!
"Now I am a person without a mother-in-law, mother-in-law, I have no mother-in-law anymore.
"Mother, why?"
She asked Wang Xiaotai painfully.
Wang Xiaotai sighed slightly, stretched out her left hand, gently placed it on the top of Ah Sha's hair, and said softly: "All mortals must die."
"Mortals will take care of themselves..." Ah Sha muttered and took over this sentence.
All men must die.
Mortals will take care of themselves.
"You should think carefully about what name you want to change.
"I'm not a prostitute, Asham, or Lili. Give me a new name and start a new life from now on."
Seeing that Ah Sha had calmed down a little, Wang Xiaotai rubbed the top of Ah Sha's hair and said, "You'll come find me when you think about it..."
"I've thought about it." Ah Xi's eyes were red and swollen, and she grabbed Wang Xiaotai's left sleeve, "Mother, I've thought about it."
"Xiaobao."
"I want to be Xiaobao."
Xiaobao?
Wang Xiaotai frowned, "No surname, no first name, just Xiaobao?"
Ah Sha nodded affirmatively, "Well, it's just Xiaobao.
"That's my favorite name.
"Since I was very young, I have always wanted someone to call me Xiaobao, and I also want to be Xiaobao.
"It's not Lili, it's not Shame, it's just Xiaobao."
In Ah Sha's former village, girls might be called Xiao Hong, Xiao Li, Xiao Mei, Xiao Yue, etc., while boys might be called Da Zhuang, A Yong, A Wei, A Kang, etc.
There are thousands of names in this world, and A-Shame has also seen many other 'little treasures'.
But Ah Sha had never seen his parents call him Xiaobao lovingly.
Xiaobao, Xiaobao, Xiaobao.
My little baby.
This name reveals an aura of love and affection from the inside out. This affectionate title closely links parents and children, but this affectionate title is given to the more favored younger brother.
It's as if only the younger brother can be a Xiaobao, and the elder sister will not be a Xiaobao, not even a Dabao.
Ah Sha wants to be the 'little treasure' that only belongs to his younger brother.
If it were a baby, if it was the baby that parents loved most, many things would be different, right?
"Then Xiaobao."
Seeing Ah Sha's firm eyes, Wang Xiaotai knew that she had made her decision and nodded, "Then from now on, you will be Xiaobao."
"Xiaobao."
Shame, no, it was Xiaobao who nodded vigorously.
Under the sky, the well-known Dingzhou oiran sat on the ground with her hair loose, looking piously at the woman in white clothes in front of her. Her eyes were red and swollen, and there were tears on her face that had not been wiped clean. Her expression was sad, confused, and scared. Attachment.
"Xiaobao." Wang Xiaotai called again.
Xiaobao suddenly felt that her sadness and fear had inexplicably faded away. She seemed to have gained some strength from the name and nodded vigorously.
Here I am.
Xiaobao, I'm here.
Alas, sometimes I always feel wronged, but I never thought that Lili would get half a piece of sugar cake, and her mother might not even have to eat it. But nature is such that people will always feel more pitiful about themselves.
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