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The dinner was very satisfying, but Zhou Qingwu accidentally ate too much. Meng Chuxi looked at her and touched her belly, smiling softly: "Go to the yard for some activities to digest food?"

Zhou Qingwu nodded in embarrassment. Today is the fourteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and it was dark outside. The flame of the oil lamp in the room was as big as a bean sprout, and the light in the room was cast through the screen window.The two walked slowly in the yard. On winter nights, this small mountain village was quiet and there was no sound, only the rustling of the feet of the people around them.

At the beginning of the month, on the west mountain, the full moon hangs in the west and pours silver light, reflecting the shadows of the surrounding trees, and the world seems to be covered with a layer of tulle.

This kind of night is too quiet, so that the thoughts in people's minds are more and more rushing, and there is even a kind of deep loneliness.

Meng Chuxi looked at the moon, she hadn't thought about her over there for a long time, but she was inexplicably sad.Just passed out from the museum and came here, and I don't know if the self over there is dead or in a coma.Although she didn't have anything to worry about after her grandfather passed away, if she died, her parents probably wouldn't know about it and wouldn't take care of it. In the end, she might have to trouble her teachers and friends.

She couldn't help but sighed slowly, and Zhou Qingwu, who had been paying attention to her by her side, naturally heard it. She was a little worried when she found that Meng Chuxi's expression was wrong. Why sigh?

Meng Chuxi came back to her senses, she could clearly see the worry in her eyes under the moonlight, she smiled slightly, and turned to look at the moon: "Just looking at it, I just feel a little depressed, it's okay."

Zhou Qingwu looked up at the moon as well, but then she glanced at the side of Meng Chuxi's face. She twirled her clothes with her fingers, and after a moment, she hesitated and gestured: Are you homesick?

People are used to using the moon to place their thoughts. Meng Chuxi looked at the moon and suddenly became depressed. Did he think of something and feel homesick?

Meng Chuxi was a little surprised, looked down at her, and shook her head for a while: "I don't even remember where my home is, who is there, and what should I think about."

Afraid that the little girl would think too much, Meng Chuxi pulled himself together, thought of what he had always wanted to know, and tentatively asked Zhou Qingwu: "Qingwu, we have known each other for more than three months, but I don't know many things about you, so some I want to ask you something, if you feel uncomfortable and don't want to mention it, just tell me and I won't ask, okay?"

Her tone was soft and she stared at Zhou Qingwu seriously with her eyes, asking for her approval.Zhou Qingwu was a little surprised, and immediately guessed what Meng Chuxi was going to ask. He lowered his head to hide the emotion in his eyes, and when he looked up again, the little girl's eyes were clear and calm.

"I heard from Aunt Liu that you were able to speak before, right?" Meng Chuxi has always felt very uncomfortable about Zhou Qingwu's inability to speak, especially these days when she saw that she couldn't defend herself because she couldn't speak, and even felt wronged There is no way to vent the pain, so I can only hold back everything, which makes Meng Chuxi feel very distressed.Since she was not born with a loss of voice, maybe it can be cured. It would be such a joyful thing if such a cute and cute girl could speak.

Even though he was mentally prepared, the light in Zhou Qingwu's eyes dimmed for a moment, but he quickly cheered up and nodded.

"Have you seen a doctor?" Meng Chuxi was a little anxious.

Zhou Qingwu nodded, reached out and wrote "Du" on Meng Chuxi's palm.

"Doctor Du showed it to you, what did he say, is there a way?"

Zhou Qingwu shook his head, pointed to his throat, compared to his heart, and gestured: his throat is fine, he said it was a heart attack.

Speaking of this, her expression was a bit painful. The bloody nightmare of that year followed her like a shadow for a year, and she lived in that nightmare and couldn't get out of it during that year.It's not that no one has asked about that matter, it's just that in the first few months, after waking up from a serious illness, she was in a daze and didn't know where she was stuck.

Later, when she gradually recovered, when she wanted to speak again, she could only make a vague babbling sound, and she couldn't utter a word at all, as if someone was choking her throat and couldn't breathe.She also tried desperately to speak, but in the end her throat was so red and swollen that she couldn't speak.

I still remember that she always tried to make some broken voices at the beginning, but she was disgusted and ridiculed, and after those children tried to imitate her to make that weird voice, she no longer wanted to make a sound. Silence really seemed like a complete loss of voice puppet.

She didn't tell anyone about these pains, because she couldn't speak, and no one had the patience to wait for a mute who was good at expressing with gestures and pictures.So these sad and terrifying past events were all pressed in her heart, rotted and scabbed, and pus and blood ooze from time to time.

In the following time, the two of them began to confide in this painful past in an unsuitable place, but at an exceptionally suitable time.Different from the tearful catharsis of the sufferers in the past, Zhou Qingwu only had quiet gestures and eyes that were enough to make Meng Chuxi feel distressed to the bone, telling about the nightmare that had tormented her for three years.

Because it was too painful, Zhou Qingwu's hand gestures were also very messy. She couldn't express many things with gestures at all. Meng Chuxi watched carefully, and there were many things that she didn't understand.But she just stared at Zhou Qingwu, didn't interrupt, didn't ask what she meant, just quietly accompanied her.

When referring to the scene of her parents' death, her hands trembled violently and her mouth kept opening and closing, as if she wanted to speak, but she couldn't spit out a single word.In the end, she bent her body and kept gesticulating.She repeated it so many times that Meng Chuxi finally understood.

They hid me there, all dead, dead.I can't scream, can't scream.

Meng Chuxi, who originally wanted her to vent out, couldn't bear it any longer. She stepped forward and hugged her in her arms, patting her on the back constantly, with a trembling voice: "I understand, I understand, it's not your fault, Don't blame you, they protected Qingwu, it must be the most comforting thing for them."

Her embrace was not wide, even a little thin, but at this moment, it gave Zhou Qingwu all the sense of security.At this moment, she seemed to be drowning, only Meng Chuxi held her hand, allowing her to breathe.

"I know how desperate they were at that time, and how desperate you were. But at that time, you survived, which was enough to dispel their despair, because they wanted to protect you desperately, and when they were so powerless, they did what they wanted the most. What they did, they must be very happy in the spirit of heaven." She took the trouble to comfort her in her ear, and Zhou Qingwu's trembling body finally calmed down slowly.

She looked up at Meng Chuxi, her eyes were so gentle in the moonlight, there was no pity and sigh she saw in other people's eyes, only eyes full of distress and pity.She has always only known that disgust and indifference can hurt people's hearts, but she doesn't know that tenderness and pity are sharper, so that before she can build a defense in time, she will be defeated.

Her emotions seemed to be completely broken, her body twitched, and a short cry in her throat made her completely unable to control her expression.Because of her grievance and sadness, her mouth was uncontrollably flattened, her eyes blinked and filled with tears, and then fell down her cheeks.

She was crying too hard, she knew she shouldn't but couldn't bear it, she could only grab Meng Chuxi's skirt and bury her head to hide her embarrassment at the moment.

Meng Chuxi's eyes were so sore, she stretched out her hand to hold the back of Zhou Qingwu's head, letting the little girl cry unscrupulously in her arms, even through the thick clothes, she could feel how hard her little girl was crying.

She looked up at the sky, and the bright full moon in her field of vision became blurred. She blinked, and two drops of cool things fell down. She took a breath to see its outline again.Still gently supporting her head with her hands, she whispered in a nasal voice: "Cry, cry out all the pain, and you won't feel bad in the future, and I'm still here."

The person in her arms cried fiercely and for a long time, but apart from the first cry, she didn't make any sound, even her body convulsed from crying, she was so quiet, it broke Meng Chuxi's heart.

When she came to this world, because Zhou Qingwu saved her and was the first person she saw, and the little girl had a hard life, she was obedient and kind, so she wanted to treat her better, and also seek a safe life for herself The place.

But at this moment, Meng Chuxi made a very clear decision, no matter what happens in the future, she will do her best to protect this girl, and she can't let her cry so sad again.

Zhou Qingwu cried for too long, sobbing non-stop at the end, she raised her head from Meng Chuxi's arms, her eyes suddenly felt dark because of lack of oxygen, and she almost fainted due to the lack of strength in her hands and feet.Meng Chuxi's complexion changed, and she quickly supported her. Realizing what was wrong with her, she quickly hugged her and sent her into the room.

Three months of hard work has made her body, which is not bad in the first place, much stronger. Although the little girl has gained some flesh, she is still thin, and it is not difficult to hug her.

Let her sit still for a while, Meng Chuxi hurried to fetch hot water, twisted the hot handkerchief, and carefully wiped her eyes.The red, swollen and dry eyes were instantly relieved by the heat fumigation. Zhou Qingwu was still twitching, but he was embarrassed to let Meng Chuxi do it again, and took the veil to cover his eyes.

"Take a rest, wash up and go to bed when you recover. It's too exhausting to cry today, so don't worry about going to bed early and accumulating food." She teased Zhou Qingwu with a gentle smile in her tone, looking at her embarrassed face The look was distressed and funny, and he didn't tease her anymore.

She can also connect the events of that year. Zhou Qingwu was originally from a wealthy family, and his parents were in the medicinal material business. He was not only famous in Jiangyin County, but also in Jiangning Mansion.

When the two of them took Zhou Qingwu to Pingjiang Mansion with the convoy transporting medicinal materials, they encountered bandits on the road.The people on the convoy were running around, Zhou Qingwu's parents were all killed, and only Zhou Qingwu was hidden by them to escape the catastrophe.All valuable medicinal materials and money were looted, and the convoy was set on fire.

It's just that although the medicinal materials were robbed, Zhou Qingwu's parents didn't leave anything behind. Why did Zhou Qingwu end up living in such a difficult way when he returned to such a remote Zhoujia Village.

Over there Zhou Qingwu was soaking his feet, his eyes were still severely swollen, Meng Chuxi opened his mouth but didn't say anything.

But Zhou Qingwu saw it and pointed at Meng Chuxi: I'm fine, you can ask.

Sitting next to her, Meng Chuxi saw that her mood had eased a lot, so she asked her softly, "Why did you have such a hard time in the end?"

This incident was obviously not as shocking to her as her parents' death. Zhou Qingwu was very calm. She stretched out her hand and gestured slowly: My father and mother had a business partner. After the accident, he took the land deed money from the shop and ran away.

That person and her father were righteous brothers, and they swore to take care of her, but in the end it made her life worse.

If the goods were robbed, they had to pay for it. In the end, they had to pawn the houses and shops in the town and Pingyin County, and all their savings were used to pay off the debts. The only thing left to Zhou Qingwu was the jade pendant that was close to him.

Meng Chuxi didn't say a word, and her face was quite gloomy, obviously pissed off.How could there be such a brazen person, and at this kind of time, when he fell into trouble and betrayed his faith, it was like forcing Zhou Qingwu, an orphan girl, to a desperate road!

After Zhou Qingwu finished speaking, he looked at the water in the basin. She no longer complained about those things, but she still felt a little sad.It's just that I didn't hear Meng Chuxi's voice, but I could clearly feel that her breathing was a little heavy. I turned my head in surprise, but saw the gloomy face of the always gentle and smiling person, his eyes were full of anger, and the distress she saw the most tonight, obviously Very angry.

Strangely, all the sadness in her heart was dispelled by Meng Chuxi's appearance, and she couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, which was especially beautiful.

Meng Chuxi was so angry that she gritted her teeth, but seeing the person smiling so happily, she couldn't help but give her a sideways glance: "You little heartless, my stomach hurts because of you, and you still laugh."

Zhou Qingwu still smiled, Meng Chuxi saw that she was really happy, even the dim light couldn't hide the brilliance on her face, and her eyes softened to reveal a helpless smile.

Zhou Qingwu looked at her with wide eyes, smiling brimmingly and then retracted quite restrainedly, a little bit embarrassed, but still gesturing brightly: You are angry for me, I am very happy.

There were many people who were angry for her when this incident happened, but most of them were angry about how much property Zhuo Baiqian took from the Zhou family. It seemed that such a large sum of money was related to them.And they are not interested in how she, an orphan girl, will be reduced to after undergoing great changes. They prefer to chew on her pain, sigh and shed a few tears and leave contentedly, and they go around as a topic of conversation.

Only the person next to me who has only known each other for more than three months, his face darkened because of loving her, this feeling is completely different.At that time, she didn't need other people's sympathy, she just longed for someone to really care about her, but after losing her parents and Uncle Xu, there was no more.

Aunt Liu cared about her, but she had her own family and her own difficulties, which couldn't make up for her lack of warmth after all.But now Meng Chuxi gave it, so she was very happy.