Happy Life [Rebirth]

When I woke up, my body was a little cold. My first reaction was how could I feel cold, because when I left my body/body as a state of soul, I found that the soul would not feel cold.

My eyes opened a little, and the light flooded in. I closed my eyes before slowly opening them again, and then I felt the heaviness of * again.

"Little Lu."

Someone called me, it was a little girl's voice, I completely opened my eyes, and I saw an eleven or twelve-year-old girl with loose hair looking at me.

The girl approached and stretched out her hand to touch me. Her eyes were full of helplessness and hesitation, and there was a trace of apology. She said, "Xiaolu, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that to you yesterday."

I looked at her and opened my mouth in confusion: "Sister?"

I recognized her, she was my cousin Xia Wanwan, but she was not the right age.

After my cousin was adopted separately from me back then, because the two adopted families were in Jincheng, they still kept in touch. My cousin was three years older than me and was the same year as Tingsheng, so it is absolutely impossible for her to be the little girl now. appearance.

I jumped down and found myself sitting on an old swing, and I looked around again, the vegetation on the ground was decayed and weeds were overgrown, and the surrounding walls were white/powdered and peeled off, showing an old and cold look dilapidated.

I recognized this place, the Home of Happiness, a public welfare institution sponsored by the Fund Management Association.

The staff of this orphanage can be regarded as responsible, but the orphanage is always full of sadness.This is inevitable, because every child here is desperately short of love.In such an environment, even if I only stayed here for half a month, I was impressed.

"Little Lu." Xia Wanwan came over and grabbed my arm, her face was anxious, her eyes were red and she shed tears, "Are you still angry with me? Don't be angry, don't you understand? We only have one other relative in the world!"

I didn't think about it for a while, I thought I was dreaming, seeing Xia Wanwan crying so real and sad, I went to wipe her tears, but my cousin hid away with tears in her mouth, she said: " Your hands are dirty."

Immediately afterwards, the cousin probably felt that this was inappropriate, so she snotted her nose aggrievedly: "My parents said that we should pay attention to hygiene, I didn't mean to dislike you."

Then, I think it was because the cousin mentioned her parents, and now she really cried, because according to the current timeline, our parents died not long ago.

I thought this dream was too real, so I just held my cousin's hand according to my own will, and silently followed my memory to find the toilet in the building. I tiptoed and turned on the faucet to wash my hands and dry my clothes Went to wipe Xia Wanwan's tears.

Xia Wanwan cried for a while, and when she had finished crying, she went to get some toilet paper and blew her nose hard, and then she realized something was wrong.

She asked me, "Why don't you cry?"

I looked at her in silence, Xia Wanwan took a step back, she was always sensitive, I was surprised to hear her hesitantly ask me: "Who... are you?"

I looked at her, and thought this dream was too real, and Xia Wanwan in the dream shouldn't have said such things.

Then I realized - this is probably not a dream.

From my consciousness, the wetness of tears I touched, the warmth of human skin, these realities have surpassed dreams.

So I raised my hand to my mouth and took a bite. My teeth pierced through the soft and warm skin. Then the blood stained my lips and teeth, and then fell to the ground with my hand.

Xia Wanwan backed away again, her eyes brightly frightened, this time she let out a small, short scream, but immediately covered her mouth.

I frowned and let go, thought for a while, and cursed: "Damn, it hurts like hell!"

It turned out that it wasn't that the dream was too real, but that this was the reality. I went back to the time when I was eight years old, and I went back to the time before I was adopted by the Gu family.

Xia Wanwan's scream was short and soft, and did not attract the staff. Her tears seemed to be frightened back by my actions, and she turned around as if to run.

But she still didn't run away.

She ran to tear a long piece of toilet paper, sobbed and held my hand, wrapped the toilet paper around my wound, and pressed to stop the bleeding.

Xia Wanwan said, "Xiao Lu, are you crazy?"

I can only be silent, all this is too surreal, and I was a typical refined egoist and an absolute atheist in my previous life.

Those things that I never believed in have now become true to me, my values ​​and worldview collapsed and disappeared in an instant, and now I can't make any expressions except silence.

Xia Wanwan sniffled, she pressed the wound on my hand with toilet paper in one hand, and led me out with the other hand, and I obediently followed.

My brain is running fast to recall the events of this time period, but it is a pity that people are really forgetful creatures.What's more, I have devoted all my life's obsessions to my relationship with Gu Tingsheng. Now it reminds me of what happened in the orphanage when I was eight years old. I really don't have any memory at all.

Seeing that I was silent, Xia Wanwan said by herself: "Xiaolu, even if you go crazy, I won't abandon you. Don't worry, my sister will take care of you when my parents are gone."

What Xia Wanwan said was very sensible and mature, and it brought back my thoughts of desperately remembering, and I gave her a little bit of attention.It was found that her clothes were wrinkled and not neatly dressed, and her hair was also a little greasy, and the loose hair didn't look good, it was messy and loose.

Then I remembered a little bit. The use of water and electricity in welfare homes is very strictly controlled. Children can not take a hot bath anytime they want. In winter, they can only take a bath once a week. In summer, girls can take it every four days, and boys It is still once a week.

I sighed, after more than ten years of good life, this is like going back to before liberation.

I yelled, "Sister, come here."

Xia Wanwan turned her head to the side with surprise on her face: "You have returned to normal, are you willing to speak?"

Xia Wanwan's statement is a bit exaggerated. Ever since our parents died and we entered the orphanage, I have been silent, but not completely silent.It's just that they only occasionally say a word or two a day, and they exaggerate it into not speaking.

I have nothing to explain, and I really have nothing to explain to Xia Wanwan at this age. Could it be that I told her that I died after living for 26 years, and when I closed my eyes, I went back to being eight years old.In this way, whether Xia Wanwan can understand or not, she will think that I am really crazy.

I just pulled Xia Wanwan to the side of the corridor. There are steps half a person high in the corridor. I let Xia Wanwan sit on the steps, then stood behind her and brushed her hair. Comb it smooth, and then start to braid her.

I braided my hair all the way to the tip, and I asked her, "Wanwan, do you have a hair tie?"

Xia Wanwan was distressed, and said with a wrinkled face, "No." Then she corrected seriously: "If you want to call me sister, you can't call me Wanwan."

I want to say that I am already 26. Calling you an 11-year-old girl sister, I didn’t realize it when I woke up at first, but now I realize that I really can’t open my mouth.But I didn't say it, Xia Wanwan and I both heard a soft laugh immediately after.

A not-so-white and gentle hand stretched out as if it had appeared out of nowhere. In the palm of the hand was a hair tie with shiny decorations. The hair tie was very beautiful. I could tell at a glance that it was worth a lot, even Suspected that the rhinestones were real and not plastic.

Then this hand was a bit rough and the joints were slightly wide, but I looked at this woman along this hand, this time I was really surprised, I recognized this woman, she is Lin Shuzhen, Xia Wanwan's adoptive mother .

I don't remember the date when Xia Wanwan was adopted, but when I saw Lin Shuzhen, I was shocked. I thought it was today, and after Xia Wanwan was adopted and left, I was adopted by the Gu family the next day .

I don't know if my being adopted by the Gu's family started the unfortunate beginning of my life, if so, but I can't bear to part with Gu Tingsheng.Even though this period of adoption was a purposeful and malicious plan of the Gu family, Gu Tingsheng was the only accident in this dark plan.

This is a beautiful and warm accident, he is my luck in my life, and it is also the earliest beginning of my misfortune.

Seeing that Xia Wanwan and I were staring at her blankly, Lin Shuzhen took Xia Wanwan's semi-finished braid from me.

Lin Shuzhen's hands were smarter than mine, and she tied her hair in two or three strokes. Then she smiled, sat next to Xia Wanwan, patted herself, and said, "Come and sit too."

I looked complicated, and instead of sitting next to Lin Shuzhen, I walked up to Xia Wanwan and sat down next to Xia Wanwan. Xia Wanwan naturally stretched out her arms to embrace me. silence.

Lin Shuzhen spoke first, with curiosity in her eyes: "Are you siblings?"

Xia Wanwan looked at her, a little wary, but also a little fond of her, she said in a soft voice, "They are siblings, but they are cousins."

Lin Shuzhen was a little strange: "Cousin and brother went to the orphanage together... Sorry, did something happen to your family?"

Xia Wanwan refused to speak anymore, she wrung her fingers and lowered her head, I found that she was crying a lot, Xia Wanwan sobbed silently again.

I was a little worried, who would like such a child? People who come to orphanages/adopt/adopt/children, children are also a kind of commodity.

Good health is the first requirement, followed by cute appearance and cheerful personality. A crying child who is very sad at every turn is very difficult to be liked by the adopter.

I understand this very well, for me, I don't like to see a face that is always crying.

But Lin Shuzhen and her husband Xia Chaobei are not ordinary people. According to my memory of 26 years, the two of them had ups and downs in their life. Before my death, the two of them had established themselves as Jincheng catering tycoons. .

In addition, the two of them are the most loving couple I have ever met besides my own biological parents.

Lin Shuzhen was sterile, at least when I passed away, both she and Xia Chaobei had only one adopted daughter, Xia Wanwan, and I kept in touch with Xia Wanwan, going to his home.

I have only had a secret love in my life, and I have never been in love with anyone, but I saw the way the husband and wife looked at each other, and I knew it was love.

Because there are three things in a person's life that cannot be hidden, that is, poverty, coughing, and love.