Deer in deep forest

Chapter 10 Obsessed with Light
The applause sounded, and the fundraising ceremony of the first Hope Primary School in Hetong Town was a complete success.

Gu Yanshu's mother, Lu Wanliang, stood on the small square where the five-star red flag fluttered and said a few words, and suddenly received a phone call, and her secretary reported over there, "Ma'am, something urgent happened at my family, and I'm rushing back On the way, just now... I walked in too much haste, I left... the young master alone in the market..."

The more I talked about the back, the voice of the 1.8-meter tall man became like a mosquito, guilty and afraid, and it was difficult to continue.

The situation of the young master of the Gu family is no different from that of ordinary children. If he is left alone in the downtown area, he may be bullied or trafficked. If the situation is any worse, it may even kill him.

This time when Lu Wanliang went to the countryside to participate in charity activities, she originally wanted to take Gu Yanshu out to relax. The doctor told her not to let the child stay at home all the time, but to take him out to see more. The new comfortable environment will make him relax. Good for his condition.

Lu Wanliang remembered that seeing the good air and beautiful scenery in the countryside, she couldn't walk away, so she asked the secretary to push Gu Yanshu out for a walk, but she didn't expect that something would happen.

Lu Wanliang is the daughter-in-law of the Gu family, who always puts the most emphasis on education. At this time, she yelled at the secretary in front of everyone, her veins popped up, she took off her high heels and ran straight to the road. The clever mayor rode Xiao Moto caught up with her and gave her a ride, sending her to the market.

By the time we arrived, half an hour had passed.

Lu Wanliang got off the car on the opposite side of the road. She looked at the two children who had fallen on the mud in front of her in disbelief. Her son who hadn't spoken for a long time was like a wooden doll. He fell from a cloud and his wheelchair fell over. , The blanket fell into the mud, unprecedented embarrassment, but also unprecedented vividness.

His dark eyes flickered, and he was comforting another sad child who was staring at a dirty candied haws.

Xi Guang wailed: "Candied haws can't be eaten, you should keep them in your mouth first..."

Of course she wasn't crying because of a candied haws. She was so young and couldn't explain clearly why she shed tears for no reason, what was the swelling, sore and painful feeling in her heart, so she had to find a shameful excuse and walk down the steps.

Later, when she grew up, she realized that each of us will encounter our own disasters.

You can't see him sad, wronged, or suffering. Although you can't empathize with him all the time, as long as his life is not so good, you will want to cry.

Lu Wanliang's original plan to stay in Hetong Town for three days was disrupted. She took Gu Yanshu out of the only hotel in the town and moved into Mayor Wu's house, where sweet-scented osmanthus trees were planted around the house.

Mayor Wu is the No. 30 legend, in his [-]s, with braids on his head, he still looks like a peony flower.It is rumored that she is a closed disciple of a Taoist priest in Wudang Mountain. She can go up the mountain to cut firewood, go down to the field to plant rice seedlings, kill pigs, raise chickens, and manage the law and order of a party. She and Lu Wanliang are getting closer and closer.

Fifty paces away from Mayor Wu's house were several thatched cottages of the Lu family.

Lu Wanliang found out about Lu Xiguang's life experience. His father died early due to illness, and his mother went out to work and remarried to a big city along the coast. Now she lives with Uncle Lu Jianxin's family. The child who exists like a burden is naturally not treated. See.If she proposes to adopt this child at that time, Lu Jianxin will probably be very happy.

But she didn't make a hasty decision. Lu Wanliang wanted to test Yanshu's next reaction.

Mayor Wu felt that the Gu family behind Lu Wanliang was an immortal cash cow standing for thousands of years. Taking advantage of the rare opportunity when he came to his own territory, he took Lu Wanliang to visit every day, pointing to those mountains and rivers, and encouraged them to say that they had special characteristics. High investment value.

But Gu Yanshu stayed in the house, unwilling to go out.

In the room where he lived, a wooden window was opened facing the sun. On the window sill was a pot of narcissus, which was kept in a small transparent glass jar, and the bottom was paved with a thick layer of white pebbles.

Before going out, Lu Wanliang pushed the wheelchair to the window and said, "It's cold in the room, we need to get more sun."

The faint sunlight in the early morning pierced through the clouds and projected down from the sky.Gu Yanshu remained silent as always.

Two or three hours later, there was movement in the house of the opposite family, the sound of husband and wife arguing and smashing things, the enamel jar with the red double happiness printed on it was thrown on the door frame, bounced on the edge of the steps and rolled for two times. circle before stopping.

The side door opened quietly, and Xi Guang slipped out, probably accidentally injured by the adult's anger innocently, with a small red bump on his forehead.

Holding a wooden top and a small stick with a piece of string tied to it, she walked alone to the open space in front of the door.

She lowered her head and wrapped the string around the top, then jerked the stick back, causing the top to spin rapidly.With a smile on his face, he continued to work hard, swinging the rope again and again, not letting the spinning top stop.

Through the row of sparse osmanthus trees, Gu Yanshu looked at a very happy child who was playing wholeheartedly.She shouldn't be living well, her clothes are old, and there are a few dark patches on her armpits and shoulders, which are not conspicuous, but you can still find them if you look closely.

Gu Yanshu guessed secretly, but didn't notice how Xiguang got under his nose.

"It's you, come out to play?" Xi Guang's clear eyes were shining, and his round eyes couldn't help looking at the room behind him curiously, "Why do you live in Mayor Wu's house?"

Gu Yanshu didn't speak.

Xiguang was proud of herself, hehe, you little boy, you still want to pretend to be dumb and lie to me!I heard you talking that day!
Xiguang patted his small chest and said, "I can take you to pick up chestnuts and catch crabs, see the tortoises and rabbits raised by Grandpa Qiu's family, and there is a stone here that looks like Guanyin Bodhisattva. Everyone walks there. I like to say goodbye, do you want to go and see it?"

After she finished speaking, she rubbed the bag on her head, frowned, and smiled again: "Don't worry, don't be afraid, if you don't go to the market today, you won't meet those aunts, they are usually busy. Besides, it's not me Are you here, I will protect you!"

Apparently, she herself was still reeling from what happened that day.

Gu Yanshu heard her talk so much, he didn't nod or shake his head, just looked at Xi Guang quietly.

Xi Guang was embarrassed, she blushed and said, "You...you keep looking at me, what...what are you doing?" I got up this morning to brush my teeth and wash my face, and found that the water in the water tank had been drying out overnight, and it was thickened. It was cold, but she gritted her teeth and washed her face.

There should be no dirt on the face.

Xi Guang followed his gaze and noticed the two red lines on his neck.With a grin, he pulled out the pendant hanging around his neck along the red thread.The elk carved out of small wood has a dull color, and it can be seen that it has been a few years old.

Xiguang generously held it in front of Gu Yanshu's eyes, and showed him clearly, "I've been wearing this since I was a child, and I heard from my uncle that it was engraved by my father."

"By the way," Xiguang recalled a big event, "I forgot to tell you, my name is Lu Xiguang, that deer of Little Lu, and I am seven years old this year. What's your name? How old is this year?"

"His name is Yan Shu, and he is two years older than you." Lu Wanliang went back and forth, opened the door and came in, handed a handful of colored candies to Xiguang through the window, and softly coaxed the little girl: "You Wanna play with our Yanshu?"

"Okay," Xi Guang agreed, holding the candy carefully, picked out the most beautiful one and put it in Gu Yanshu's hand, then smiled and said to Lu Wanliang, "Thank you, auntie."

Lu Wanliang noticed her inadvertent behavior and felt even more satisfied.

That night, Lu's family welcomed rare guests, and Lu Jianxin's family entertained Lu Wanliang with great sincerity.

The light from the five-watt incandescent light bulb was dim, and Lu Wanliang casually looked at the furnishings in the house, intentionally or unintentionally, as if visiting, and was not in a hurry to speak, so the people from the Lu family began to beat their hearts.

Xiguang was tired from playing with a group of children, so they went back to their respective homes.There were a few sparse stars in the sky, and the moon was hidden behind the clouds. She couldn't see the road in the dark, and her cloth shoes stepped into the puddles several times, and she was soaked, and the cold air came up from the soles of her feet, making her shiver.

Fearing that Aunt Lu's family would see her, she kept quiet and was about to enter from the kitchen and sneak under the light-leaking window.The voices of adults talking in the room entered her ears unsuspectingly.

Lu Jianxin said: "We really didn't treat her badly for that child! She didn't eat less, she didn't less wear, her father died early, and she didn't leave anything valuable. We have been raising her for free these years. Look at her! Her mother has not heard from her for a long time, and she is living a comfortable life outside, so why would she want to come back to find her daughter in this mountain lump, isn't Xiguang just a fool!"

"She also has a grandmother named Tang Su who teaches at Nanyao and is probably about to retire. A few years ago, Xiguang's mother refused to listen to her advice and fell out with her grandmother. what connection."

"Mrs. Gu, you have absolutely no objection to taking this child away from our family, but don't send him back every few days. We won't take over by then!"

Xi Guang felt even colder, wrapped her clothes tightly around her body, and her hands in her pockets trembled a little.

She looked back at the road she had just walked, it was pitch black, as if it could swallow people up in an instant.She didn't go into the house again, and walked out step by step, groping through a row of sweet-scented osmanthus trees, and came to the back of Mayor Wu's house.

There was still light in the room where Gu Yanshu lived, she guessed that he was not asleep yet, she stood on tiptoe and pushed lightly, and the unlocked glass window opened from the inside.

Gu Yanshu used to have dim light when sleeping, and the light bulb in Mayor Wu's room was too bright, so Lu Wanliang asked someone to find a kerosene lamp, lit it and placed it on the low table not far from the bed, a faint yellow Swipe around.

The old-fashioned carved bed was covered with a thick quilt, and the quilt was bulging. Gu Yanshu also hid half of his face, revealing only a pair of closed eyes, with long and dense eyelashes trembling slightly like butterfly wings, like Is having a nightmare.

It took some effort for Xiguang to crawl into the room, and tiptoed to the bed, lying on the edge of the bed with a distance of two fists, carefully looked at Gu Yanshu.

She was so uncomfortable that she wanted to wake up her little friend to talk to him. Although he often ignored her, children were often gifted and could easily tell who liked them and who hated them.And she could also tell that when Gu Yanshu was with her, he was silent but a little happy.

She thought about it messily, fell asleep, and fell asleep in an awkward position.

Gu Yanshu woke up from the nightmare for countless times. In the dream, hot cigarette butts were pressed into the skin, bloody whip ropes waved in the air, and mother's terrifying screams echoed in the basement. All the images flooded into a strange scene. bright red.

He opened his eyes suddenly with the despair that he couldn't break free from, his headache was splitting, but in front of him lay a little girl who was biting her lip and was soundly asleep.

There were wet tears on her face, it seemed that she had just experienced a heartbreak.Put your ears close, and you can hear her shallow breathing.Everything was completely silent, and the flame of the kerosene lamp flickered twice.

At that moment, Gu Yanshu thought he had been redeemed.

The next day, Lu Wanliang asked him cryptically if he wanted a child like Xi Guang to accompany him.Gu Yanshu nodded.

In fact, he had hesitated. If Xi Guang was brought into a family like the Gu family, it might not be a good thing. Fortune and disaster are unpredictable.But he couldn't help but think selfishly, even if there is suffering in the future, he just needs to protect her.

His grandfather, Gu Changxing, was the Commander of Hades who climbed out of the pile of dead people. When he was young, he fought bloody battles to defend his family and the country. When he was old, he shed his hostility. He practiced Buddhist scriptures and cultivated his body. , People who have been walking in the dark for too long will become obsessed with the light once they meet it.

He seemed to understand but half understood, and he remembered it for a long time for no reason.

What happened next, Xi Guang no longer remembers.

As soon as she wakes up, she breaks away from her original world.The scenery of Hetong Town is constantly regressing. Widow Liu is standing on the side of the road chatting with people, Grandpa Qiu is driving ducks with a cane, and seven or eight children are playing and laughing on the ridges of the field... These pictures, through the black window glass, Passed by her eyes one by one.

Sitting on the leather chair uncomfortably, she vaguely understood that her uncle's family didn't want her anymore, and she was adopted by Gu Yanshu's family.

When his father passed away, Xiguang was still in his infancy, so he really had no memory of him.The night her mother said she was going out to work, Xi Guang watched her leave in a rumbling tricycle, but she didn't cry heartbreakingly.She has been waiting for her mother to come back, but spring, summer, autumn and winter have passed by in turn, and she has begun to grow taller. The image of her mother in her heart has gradually become blurred. She has forgotten her appearance and gradually adapted to life at her uncle's house.

The car bumped, and the strong dizziness washed away the last little sadness in Xi Guang's heart.

In the end, after running around for several days and nights, the car finally stopped.The car door was pulled open from the outside, and the gentle and respectful voice of the butler of Gu's house came.

"Miss, please get out of the car."

From then on, it's another world.

(End of this chapter)