Twilight

More than 20 years ago, Qingshui Town was located on the border, poor and backward, as if isolated from the world.One day, a family of three fleeing famine came, the old lady, daughter-in-law and grandson.The three of them didn't know how they came to know about this place, so they came all the way, and lived in a ruined temple in the town as soon as they arrived.Long before the demolition, the temple was full of incense, and the old lady worked diligently, and finally managed to find a place to shelter from the wind and rain among the ruins. She barely survived by helping others. Shan, saw two vagrants in the town, so he took the two children and lived with them. Later, the life of the people in the town gradually improved, and they had some spare money in their hands. Burn some incense in the house and offer two coins of sesame oil. With this income, the old lady raised another disabled orphan.Over time, the reputation has grown, and this temple has become the first choice for children abandoned by people from far and near.

Later, someone came from above and hung a plaque at the entrance of the temple. The temple was transformed into a welfare home. Gradually, some people donated some money. I can read some books.

One night, a man came to the orphanage. The man had a ferocious face, and he carried a three or four-year-old child on his back. The child had a high fever. The man put down the child and a bag of money and left. After seeing so much money, he sent the child to the clinic in the town overnight. The child burned for two days, and the barefoot doctor exhausted his medical skills all his life, and finally rescued the sick child.

More than half a year later, the man came again, still at night, glanced at the child, still didn't say anything, put down the money and left.

The old lady and daughter-in-law were afraid of seeing the man's eyes, so they shrank aside and didn't dare to say a word, but they knew that the man just wanted the child to be well, so they were not so scared, isn't the child well?

After a while, the higher-ups suddenly paid to build a real orphanage outside the town. The old lady and her daughter-in-law moved there with a group of children. The house was still not very spacious, but it was clean and bright, unlike the temple Every now and then, someone would come to burn incense, causing the elderly and children to cough non-stop.A few days after moving here, the man came again. He spoke to the old lady for the first time. The old lady listened in silence, understood what the man meant, and silently recited the Buddha in her heart.

There is a small stream behind the orphanage, and the weather is getting hotter. The children like to play in the stream at noon, catching small fish and crabs. One day, the old lady was drying clothes in the yard, and the two older children came back, angry. Panting that someone was drowning, the old lady and daughter-in-law were startled, and ran to the river to find that the man's child was drowning. After drinking a lot of water, his thin belly swelled up, his body was cold, and he could not be rescued. came back.

The old lady and daughter-in-law did not dare to speak up. Seeing that the man's last confession was coming soon, the two of them were running around the room like ants on a hot pot, and the daughter-in-law suddenly remembered the few gossips she had heard, and her mind was alive , I immediately got an idea, and said to the old lady, there is a ready-made child, and I may be able to deceive the man by taking the risk of using a bag trick. Really?

It turned out that my daughter-in-law once went out to buy vegetables. I heard from the shopkeeper that there was a silly daughter in their neighbor’s house. A few years ago, the silly girl was raped without knowing it. The family is busy and usually doesn’t care about her. A fool, after winter, when the cotton clothes can't cover it, he finds out that his daughter's belly is big, but at that time, she is about to give birth, so she can only give birth.This is a scandal, rumors spread that a silly daughter would not be able to marry, so the child was not born, so they contacted the buyer, and the relatives made a bridge out of it, saying that there was a family in the mountains, and the couple gave birth to several daughters but could not give birth. The son came and wanted to buy a son for the elderly. Later, when the child was born, he was sent to the mountains.But not long ago, that child was sent back again, not because he had brain problems like his idiot mother, but because that family gave birth to his own son, and the bought wild species naturally refused to raise it.

The silly daughter was negotiating a marriage, and suddenly sent back a child, isn't it fatal?

So when the daughter-in-law went over to talk, she agreed and asked her to take the child away quickly.The child was also three or four years old. He was not short but thin. He slept in the firewood pile in the kitchen. It was cold at night. He huddled with a big yellow dog. His daughter-in-law took him back to the orphanage. The child seemed afraid of strangers. She refused to go to sleep and cried so much that the daughter-in-law had no choice but to leave her child behind and hug this wild child who was not cared for. Slowly fell asleep.

Sure enough, the man came again, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law accompanied him to see the child in fear. It was already cold, and the child was sleeping with a hat on, and his chin was tucked into the quilt, only half of his face was exposed. Looking at it, he seemed to be taken care of. Very thoughtful, the man stared at the sleeping child for a long time, but fortunately he didn't see any flaws, both mother-in-law and daughter-in-law broke out in a cold sweat.

After the man left, not long after, some people came from above, bringing some well-dressed women and girls. This group of people was picking and choosing in the orphanage. During the adoption process, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law watched the child being taken away by a couple in the car. The child looked back through the window and kept crying, but both of them breathed a sigh of relief and finally shook off the hot potato.