There is a small fishing village by the sea, called Wujia Village.

The location of Wujia Village is very remote, and it is dozens of miles away from the nearest small town. The villagers mainly fish, and some people make a living by planting kelp. In addition, the children often pick up some beautiful shells by the sea , sold to merchants who bought shells at low prices.

That evening, a little girl named Wu Xiaoyun came to the beach to pick up shells.

Wu Xiaoyun is a 15-year-old girl with a timid expression on her pretty dark face. She is short and thin because of malnutrition. She looks only 50 or [-] years old, but her hands are very rough, like [-]. hands of aged peasant woman.

She was carrying an old red plastic bucket, which contained more than a dozen beautiful shells and conch. According to the purchase price of Boss Zhang, these shells and conch can be sold for at least 25 yuan, and maybe even 30 yuan. Parents will be very happy if you can buy some snacks for the younger brother.

Well, pick up a few more and go home. Today is Friday, and my brother is coming back from junior high school in the town. I have to go home and make dinner. If I go home late, my brother will lose his temper, and I will be scolded by my parents.

Wu Xiaoyun looked left and right with his head down, and walked along the beach for a while. His bare feet were pricked several times by broken shells, but he couldn't find any more beautiful shells, not even a decent conch.

Wu Xiaoyun was a little disappointed, she looked up at the red sun like salted egg yolk in the sky, it hung tremblingly on the sea, and it was about to fall.

"Oh, forget it, let's go back." Wu Xiaoyun sighed softly, and was about to turn around and go home when he caught something out of the corner of his eye.

There was a large black rock not far ahead, and behind the rock was exposed...a pale foot?

"Ah—" Wu Xiaoyun screamed and took several steps back in fright.

She stared at the pale foot, feeling her heart pounding and her legs feeling a little weak. Every year, several corpses wash up on the beach near Wujia Village. Could it be that this is also a corpse?Her legs trembled slightly, and she was about to turn around and run, but suddenly her feet stopped.

What if... what if it was a living person?What if he ran away and that person died?

Wu Xiaoyun stood hesitantly for a while, finally got up the courage and decided to go and have a look.She took a deep breath, walked over tremblingly, and looked behind the reef with her head.

Really personal!

It was a young man in his twenties, with his eyes tightly closed, lying prone on a wooden board, his T-shirt and jeans were soaked, his face was pale, and he didn't know whether he was dead or alive.

Wu Xiaoyun swallowed nervously, crouched down boldly, and gently pushed the other party: "Hey, hello!"

The youth remained motionless.

Wu Xiaoyun hesitated for a while, then slowly stretched her fingers under the other's nose, and felt a very weak warm breath with her fingertips, she felt relieved suddenly, and couldn't help but patted her chest lightly, it's okay, it's nothing The drowned ghost was a comatose living person.

Wu Xiaoyun thought for a while, picked up a tattered fishing net on the nearby beach, lightly tied the young man to the wooden board under him, dragged the other end of the fishing net, and walked towards Wujia Village with great effort. .

The young man is of medium height, thin and thin, and not heavy, but Wu Xiaoyun is only a 15-year-old girl after all. She dragged for more than an hour, and finally returned to the village when it was dark.

She had just dragged the man to her yard when she heard a hoarse and rough male voice from inside the house: "Where did the loser go?! Could it be that he went to work in the county like Erya next door? He Grandma, let me see if I don't break her leg!"

Then came the younger brother's impatient voice: "Sister, you really don't cook, I'm starving to death!"

The mother hurriedly coaxed: "Hey boy, calm down, Mom will cook something delicious for you right away."

The father said angrily: "Damn it, that loser is a lazy bone, I think her skin is itchy..."

It's over, it's over, it's about to be beaten again.Wu Xiaoyun stood at a loss for a while, before he forced himself to raise his voice and said, "Dad, Mom, little brother, I'm back."

A middle-aged woman came out of the house and cursed, "Where did you die? Why didn't you come back to cook?"

Wu Xiaoyun didn't dare to make a sound, the middle-aged woman suddenly caught a glimpse of the comatose young man on the ground, after a moment of surprise, she raised her eyebrows and raised her eyebrows: "Who is this man?!"

Wu Xiaoyun said softly: "I saw this man when I was picking shells by the sea, so I dragged him back."

At this time, a black and thin middle-aged man and a twelve-year-old black and fat boy also came out of the house. The middle-aged man glanced at the young man and shouted: "What a dead thing, throw it out!"

Wu Xiaoyun tremblingly said: "Dad, he, he is not dead yet, he is still alive..."

"Is this your fucking business? Throw it out!"

"But, but..." Wu Xiaoyun was anxious and scared, but there was nothing good to do, tears rolled in his eyes.

She was very afraid of this father who was often alcoholic and domestically violent, but this small fishing village was so remote that it was dozens of miles away from the nearest small town. If this poor, half-dead man was thrown out, he might die tomorrow.

She plucked up her courage and begged in a trembling voice: "Dad, why don't you put him in that thatched hut and give him a bowl of water..."

"Stinky girl, what a fucking loser with elbows out!" The middle-aged man didn't bother to listen, and kicked Wu Xiaoyun's stomach severely, and then entered the room cursing.

"I don't have your meal tonight!" The middle-aged woman glared at Wu Xiaoyun, and walked back to the house with the fat, smiling boy.

Wu Xiaoyun clutched his stomach, tears were rolling in his eyes, but he didn't dare to say anything, he could only try his best to drag the fishing net, and slowly dragged the young man to an abandoned thatched hut not far away.

This area used to be a kelp drying yard, and this hut was used for night watch. The price of kelp dropped a lot a few years ago, and many villagers stopped planting kelp. This drying yard was abandoned, and this hut was also abandoned.

There was not even a bed in the thatched hut, only a large pile of wet and dirty thatch. At this time, Wu Xiaoyun had no choice but to spread the thatch on the ground, and then worked hard to get the young man onto it.

"Huh, huh..." She took a breath, scooped up another scoop of water from the water tank outside, and carefully fed it into the young man's mouth.

The young man closed his eyes tightly, as if he didn't feel the slightest bit, and he didn't even swallow. Most of the clear water was spilled on the thatched bed, and he hardly drank anything.

"Hey, why don't you drink water?" Wu Xiaoyun couldn't help feeling a little anxious while holding the water ladle.

At this moment, she accidentally touched the young man's smooth forehead, and then she was taken aback for a moment - the young man's forehead was burning hot, obviously having a high fever.

Wu Xiaoyun didn't care whether he would be scolded by his parents, so he hurried to the east of the village and found Dr. Li, who used to be a barefoot doctor and a township health worker.

Dr. Li is over 60 years old, his hair is all white, but he is very energetic. He put the medicine box on the ground, smoked the dry cigarette, and looked carefully at the unconscious young man: "Yun girl, this young man is not good. People like us here, where did you pick them up?"

After Wu Xiaoyun said everything, Dr. Li sighed: "It may be washed up by the waves, it's his fate."

He put down the tobacco, touched the young man's forehead, lifted his clothes and looked at his shoulders, then pinched his arms and legs, and finally frowned for a long time, before slowly saying: "His shoulder was burned, and it was infected after soaking in water. That's why he had a fever. Also, his left tibia and right ulna were fractured, as well as two broken ribs, if you forcefully drag him back like this, the injury may be even worse."

"This, this... I don't know." Wu Xiaoyun was anxious and guilty, she suddenly remembered something, and quickly took out a stack of crumpled banknotes from her pocket, "This is what I left from selling shells a few times ago, There are still 83 yuan and [-] cents, Doctor Li, please save him."

Dr. Li glanced at her, sighed, and gently pulled out a 20 yuan bill: "Okay, I'll charge the cost of burn ointment and penicillin."

He was born as a barefoot doctor and worked as a township health worker. He is very experienced in bone setting burns. He connected the young man's leg bones and arms in a short time, fixed them with a simple splint, and painted on his shoulders. A thick layer of burn ointment was applied, and an injection of penicillin was also given.

Wu Xiaoyun whispered: "Is that all right?"

Dr. Li stood up and stretched his arms and legs: "Oh, I'm exhausted. It's almost done. Just change the medicine every three days. This young man looks good, so he needs to lie down properly and don't become lame. "

Wu Xiaoyun was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "Thank you, Doctor Li!"

"Okay, okay, don't mess with these useless things. Tsk, a good-looking young man in his twenties is the most likely to get entangled in those love affairs. I guess nine times out of ten it's because of his girlfriend. He was dumped, so he jumped into the sea. After he wakes up, Yun girl, you take him to the town police station, get a temporary ID card, and then contact his family, and that's about it."

"Well, I understand."

After sending Dr. Li away, Wu Xiaoyun brought another half bowl of water to the man to drink.

Under the dim yellow incandescent lamp, the young man's long, dark eyelashes drooped densely, his complexion was pale, and his lips were bloodless, but he still looked very delicate and beautiful, but just like Dr. Li said, this kind of good-looking person The easiest thing to get entangled in love is love, most of them are dumped by their girlfriends, and they jump into the sea when they can't think about it for a while.

Wu Xiaoyun was young, and couldn't figure out what kind of love would make someone jump into the sea. She was afraid of being scolded by her parents, and she didn't dare to stay in the hut for too long, so she left a small bowl of water next to the young man. He sneaked back home by himself.

The house is quiet, and my father, mother, and younger brother should all be asleep.

Wu Xiaoyun breathed a sigh of relief quietly, and tiptoed down to sleep on the dilapidated little bed in the corner of the main room, wrapping the thin quilt lightly.There are only two bedrooms in the family's adobe house, one for her parents and one for her younger brother. She can only build a bed in the corner of the main room, but it doesn't matter if she gets used to it.

……

Thirsty...so thirsty...my throat is on fire...

"Water..." he said hoarsely.

It seemed that someone said something in surprise by his ear, and then his lips touched a cool wetness.

"Gulu Gulu..." He gulped down the life-saving clear water, and because he drank it too fast, he accidentally choked on it, "Cough, cough, cough, cough..."

After coughing for a long time, the young man finally regained consciousness and opened his eyes in a daze.

What came into view was a low, moldy thatched roof, and a dark and thin delicate face. It was a skinny little girl who looked only thirteen or fourteen years old. She was staring into a pair of dark eyes, surprised and unaware. He looked at himself in bewilderment.

The little girl licked her lips and said timidly, "You, are you awake? Do you still want to drink water?"

This is where?Who is this little girl?

The young man wanted to stand up, but felt a sharp pain in his arm, and couldn't help gasping: "Hiss..."

The little girl said anxiously: "Don't, don't get up! Your right hand and left leg are both broken. Dr. Li just connected them for you a few days ago. He said it will take two or three months to heal, and you can't move around."

……I have a fracture?what happened?

The young man looked at the strange little girl in front of him in bewilderment, and tried to turn his somewhat dull brain, but his mind was filled with confusion, as if there were raging fire, loud explosions, and icy seawater sweeping in... The memory was chaotic and fuzzy, as if there were many, many important things, and many, many important people, but he couldn't grasp anything at all.

The little girl looked at him, and said cautiously: "I asked yesterday, and no one jumped into the sea in the nearby villages. Are you from the town? Or from the county? What's your name?"

Where am I from?What is my name?

The young man stared blankly at the little girl, feeling a "buzzing" in his head for a moment, almost panicking, where am I from?What is my name?Where am I from?What is my name?

I don't know how long it took, but he finally managed to grasp some words in his messy mind, then...Xiao Ran...Big Brother...Brother...In those misty memories, it seemed that someone called him that, but he even Can't remember my full name.

The young man rubbed his brows, smiled wryly, "I guess, I should be called...Ran? Aran, Xiaoran...or Brother Ran? I really can't remember."

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