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"Mom, I don't want her, you get me Xinglang, what do you think she is good for? She always stops me from doing this or that, look at other people's Xinglang, the master beats me and knows how to help Hold me down!" The bear boy yelled at home early in the morning, and the content of the yell happened to be related to the person he wanted to monitor.

Du Nan pricked up his ears.

They are now under the shade of a tree near Sun's house. Daniu's Xinglang spread out their broken mat, and the dolls rolled on it immediately, sleeping when they should sleep, practicing crawling when they should practice climbing, and others. Time is no different.

There are other children around the same age. Although they are all girls, children of this age are often gender-neutral, so that Du Nan and the others blend in very naturally.

Sitting on the mat, Du Nan listened to the movements of the Sun family openly.

"What's wrong? Is it wrong to stop you? You are too stubborn, you have to change—" A middle-aged female voice answered her.

"You only know how to talk about me, why didn't you talk about why she didn't stop others when I was beaten?" The girl said bitterly.

"That's right, you're an older sister, my younger sister is being bullied, why don't you know how to protect her?" Hearing what she said, the woman who was still blaming the girl before hesitated for a moment, and then directly changed the object of the lecture.

"I was wrong." This time, it was another child's voice that answered her. Different from the sharp voice of the little girl before, this time the voice was clear, soft and pleasant.

"As a sister, you have to be on the same side outside. You are old and you have to take care of your sister. Even if there is something wrong with her, you have to protect her outside. When you come back, tell us and let the adults handle it." The woman said again .

"Yes." The voice lowered immediately.

"That's right! It's just that she's bad, mother, I don't want her to follow me, bring me the toy you bought for me in the county before, with this novelty, I don't have to worry about no one playing with me!" The girl then screamed again.

"Okay, okay, look at your quick temper, it's all because of your grandma..." Sure enough, every bad child has a bad parent, and the woman quickly forgot that she was still educating her daughter before, and it didn't take long. , the woman probably brought something to her daughter, only to hear her cheering excitedly, not long after, Du Nan saw her running out holding a strange thing, followed by her sister, and there was no such person.

When she went out, she saw them, her little face was darkened, and the little girl ran away with a cold snort.

Just ignoring his defeated opponents, Du Nan just continued to listen to the wall—"Since Xiaotao and the others don't want you to follow, then forget it, she's grown up now, just let her take her younger sister to learn how to be an older sister, maybe she will be much more obedient .” The woman was still talking, this time, only that person remained.

"You go outside to collect firewood, you are too old, it's time to help the house with some work."

So, not long after, a person came out from the courtyard of the Sun family again, carrying a large bamboo basket that was completely inconsistent with his thin body. After going out, the person turned in the opposite direction from where Sun Tao had left before.

The direction leading to the back mountain.

Without even thinking about it, Du Nan urged Xinglang to take him after him.

It is early winter now, and the weather is very cold. Although the sun is still strong, it is extremely cold in the back mountain. The children in the village are reluctant to come to play at this time of year, let alone come to collect firewood.

The work of collecting firewood in this season is usually done by adults, and because of this, when they come over, there are almost no dry branches in the area outside, and they are all picked up by the adults.

Hiding behind a big tree, Du Nan watched the man wander around for a long time, and then continued to walk deeper.

There are not so many dry branches in the deeper places, after all, it costs firewood in winter.

Du Nan watched the man rummaging on the ground bit by bit, occasionally saw dry firewood and threw it into the basket behind him, but it took a whole morning to fill up the basket, let alone fill it up. Du Nan estimated that there was not even a third of the firewood in it.

The man was not discouraged, but continued to search slowly.

The trees became denser as we went deeper, and the road became more and more difficult to walk. The Xinglangs were all carrying people on their backs. Du Nan watched helplessly as the distance between the man's back and them grew farther and farther. One didn't pay attention, and he lost it directly.

The front, back, left and right are all groves that look exactly the same, with big fat dolls on their backs, and Xinglang are stunned in place one by one in ignorance.

Only then did Du Nan realize that the Xinglangs would also get lost.

Fortunately, he wasn't a real kid, looking around, Du Nan found out a direction, and when he was about to direct the Xinglangs to return, the object they had lost suddenly appeared in front of them.

The moment he saw that person, Du Nan held his breath.Stiff all over, he saw the man squatting down, looking at him with bottomless black eyes, and said to him, "So it's you."

Then he saw the other party tilting his head and asking, "You are so young, how did you come here? Are you lost?"

After a long while no one answered, the man smiled again: "By the way, you are too young."

Stiff all over, Du Nan felt the top of his head being gently touched by the other party, so he was forced to take a closer look at the other party's current appearance: the not-so-long hair was tied on the top of the head, tied casually with a cloth belt, In a place like the woods where the sun is not very strong, her skin is fair and her appearance is more and more beautiful, her eyes are dark and bottomless, because the distance is too close, Du Nan can even see the slenderness on his face. There is a thin layer of almost transparent fluff...

Yes, the other party is also a child now.

Taking a deep breath, Du Nan forced himself to breathe evenly. Finally, he felt his body soften inch by inch, but he was hugged by the opponent again unexpectedly. Although he controlled himself and did not exclaim, in order to control his balance, he had to He reached out and gently grabbed the opponent's sleeve.

Then he heard the other party laugh again: "Although this doll looks the biggest, his Xinglang is the smallest. I saw that it was hard for him to carry on his back, so I hugged him. Do you have any opinions?"

He asked everyone except Du Nan.

However, Daniel and the others obviously wouldn't answer him, but the Xinglangs were stunned for a while, seeing that the other party was still looking in their direction for a while, and then realized that the object of his question included themselves.

So, the apricots shook their branches lightly.

Only Xinglang from Du Nan's family was still very worried. The thin branches kept reaching up to Du Nan's feet. Seeing it like this, the man simply hugged Xinglang together.

"You guys together."

"Others follow, I will take you out."

She said, walking in one direction by herself.

It turned out that she looked thin, but she was quite strong - being held in her arms, Du Nan thought to herself.

Along the way, that person didn't speak anymore, she was humming a song, a song that Du Nan had never heard before, the voice was very soft, if it wasn't for Du Nan being held in her arms, the volume could hardly be heard... …

Humming happily, occasionally asking in a soft voice how the other Xinglang is doing, and if he needs his help, that person walks unhurriedly.

It turns out that she is still an enthusiastic person?

But... I always feel that something is wrong, where is it?

Confused, Du Nan was carried down the mountain by the other party.

Before they got home, they bumped into their parents who were looking for them everywhere. When it was time for lunch, the dolls hadn't been brought back by Xinglang, and the parents had already searched the places they often went to.

Knowing that the other party picked them up at the foot of the mountain, the parents including Du Nan's parents were very grateful, especially Du Nan's father, who held the other party's hand and insisted on entertaining the other party for lunch at home.

"I wanted to thank you before. We heard from the girls in the village that when Sun Daya wanted to bully Wuhua, you went to stop her..." His father said gratefully, "But this is not my old lady." Have you scolded directly at the door, the relationship between the two is not very good, and it is difficult for me to go to you to thank you."

"No, you don't have to thank me. Xiaotao did something wrong in the first place. I, I have to go to collect firewood, so I'll go first." The other party whispered, but in the end he broke away from Dad Du's hand and ran away blushing and shy .

Uh... just ran away shyly.

So that sense of incongruity came again.

shy?Is this person of this character?It was obviously not like this when I was with these little kids before?

Let his grandma scold him loudly, Du Nan was thinking about it while sucking.

He simply went through every sentence and every expression of the other person after meeting that person today, twice... After the third time, he finally found that what he thought was inconsistent before was in his mind. where is it.

When that person saw them today, what was the first sentence he said?

"It was you."

At first glance, it sounded like nothing wrong, but it was the root cause that made him feel that something was wrong.The man saw a group of kids and said "So it's you", because it was the first sentence, and it was aimed at a group of kids who didn't understand anything, so the first sentence was what he most likely said in his heart, wasn't it? Who was their... where he thought he was?

If you think about it this way...the other party has already found out that someone is following him?Then he also deliberately walked deep into the mountain, and disappeared in the end?

What is he trying to do?

Du Nan frowned.

It was a bad start, and he was caught by the other party the first time he followed. Du Nan stayed at home for a few days, and then, when he stayed at home until the second day, something happened in the village: including the big girl of the Sun family, several people in the village The girl is lost!The village organized staff to find them in the mountains in the middle of the night. The little girls were trembling with fright, and they were questioned for a long time by the adults. Finally, one baby cried and confessed to the grandma of the Sun family.

It turned out that the eldest sister of the Sun family asked everyone to follow her sister up the mountain, saying that she wanted to monitor whether the other party was lazy, but the other party went deep, and a group of little girls lost her.

Knowing this kind of thing, the villagers scolded the Sun family's big girl, only Du Nan knew it.

Thinking of the person who was obviously different in front of them and in front of the parents, Du Nan shuddered - no, we have to continue to monitor, closely monitor?

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