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Xiao Hong: Outcasts

author:Department of Chinese Language and Literature and Chinese

(a)

The water is like the distant sky, floating without bounds, and patches of sunlight float on the water. Adults, children, and the quiet, unhurried boats wrapped in turquoise went in the same direction, one after the other......

A steamed bun-like woman with a bulging belly is looking out of the window alone. Her eyes were like black coals, unable to shine, dim and dull, her mouth open, her arms lying across the edge of the window, looking aimlessly.

Someone knocks on the door, and who will come in? The pale face of a woman who was moved in like a sack full of flour. The man began to talk: "What have you done here? The water has risen so high in just a few hours, don't you see? There must be a way, it's too bad, it's been seven months, and you owe a total of 400 dollars." Mr. Wang will not be able to come back. When the man is not there, of course he has to settle accounts with the woman...... There must be no more ways to do it now. As soon as he straightened his hat and bucketed his sleeves, his clothes were like an empty cloth bag, flat, without wrinkles, but his eyebrows were raised.

The woman carried her belly, and likewise had no expression on her face, and her lips moved: "There will be a way tomorrow." She watched the shopkeeper walk out of the house like a duck with his feet in a figure-eight step under the hem of his robe.

Her belly is not like a steamed bun, it is simply a small basin that is buckled on her belly, no matter how wide the cheongsan is, the small basin is still clearly exposed.

Lying on the bed, her belly was also carried to the bed, looking at the roof of the shed, reflected on the surface of the water by the small river between the roads, shaking amorphously, and with the noisy sound of rushing in from time to time through the window. What kind of baggage has fallen into the water! The child has fallen into the gutter! Continuous, continuous, this sound keeps rising, and this sound is like two walls standing in different directions in the north and south, and there is no chain in between.

"What should I do? I have no home, no friends, where am I going? I only have a new acquaintance, and he doesn't have a home! The water outside is so big, and the dog comes to ask for the room fee, and I don't ......" She seemed to want to go down, like the big water outside, and couldn't help but think: "When I first came here, it was snowing, and now it's time for rain." When I first came here, my stomach was flat, but now it has become like this...... "She touched her stomach with her hand, looking up at the shadow of the water in the ceiling, and the smell of sweat oil between the bedding was emanating

It was dark, and the owner and guests of the inn were all scrambling to carry boxes and pull the children away. Even the people who moved downstairs to the upper floors yesterday morning to avoid the water are gone. The sound of the commotion followed suit. It was just an empty building, one with its doors closed one after the other, and the curtains in the doors hung silently and long, peeking through the glass-embedded places. Only a hawker downstairs, a handyman at an inn, and a sick woman and man stayed with her. The windows of the building opened and closed in a haphazard manner, and the floor was carpeted with dust. It was as desolate as a barracks that had been driven away, and everything was scattered and pitifully disorganized.

The thin smell of water wafted in the air, and the quiet dusk drifted in the air, and the little pigs of unknown families were left here, crying in the water and screaming in despair. The water swirls around it one after another, and the pig is enclosed in the chain of water, like a fly or a mosquito being wound into the spider's web, and the more it struggles, the more it feels that the web is infinitely large. The little pig is lying on the plank, it is only when it is rescued, quiet, and its eyes are shining with hope. The light of hope from the pig's eyes and the hope that people want to eat pork are intertwined to form an unknowable rope.

The pigs were transported to a house over there.

The dusk slowly wears away, and it goes to the dark and dreary night like a valley and a ravine. The tall space of the buildings on both sides is the cliff, and the water here is the mountain stream.

The woman who leaned by the window, every day she was so annoyed that she counted her like a hair, now she avoided her, and was scared away by the mountains here. Fang just watched the pig being transported away, and now she doesn't occupy her heart, but she feels a little cold on her back. When she stepped on the dust of the floor and walked into the bachelor's room, her legs were made of two wooden prosthetic legs, otherwise other people's legs were forcibly attached to her body, and she didn't feel it and was inconvenient.

All night she heard the water in the street singing a song of victory.

People who take the road every day are now taking boats. The road turned into a river, the air turned blue, and the fragile foreign coachmen used to be towing carts, but now they are tugboats. Isn't the sweat they shed the same as ever, with the smell of salty ridges and sour bulkiness.

It has been three days since the Songhua River burst its embankment, and the streets are full of big boats and small boats, some use boxes as boats, some use boards as boats, and many relief boats are shouting, waving yellow flags in their hands.

The woman who lived on the upper floor of the second room was carried by a boat through several narrow rivers with the banks of buildings, and began to run towards the endless sea that shimmered with golden waves. She breathed in the endless air, and for the first time she came into contact with the sun outside the window. The embankment has sunk to the bottom of the water, and the small houses along the road will sleep under the water, and people will squat on the roofs. The little steamboat came and flew like an eagle, and flew again, leaving behind the winding waves of a serpentine formation. The woman's boat approached the waves, and the edge of the boat touched and rubbed against the waves. The boat was spinning in the waves, and the faces of the people on the boat were colorless with horror, and she screamed, and jumped up, wanting to leave the drifting ship and go to land. But where is the land?

The boat was full of people, and all of them were strangers. She caressed her protruding belly with two frightened, melancholy eyes and four fingered hands. The sky is rusty, the sun is rusty, and the wind blowing from the water carries the smell of water, which is also rusty. Only his own stomach is close, not far away, but what is the use of himself?

The wave had passed, and her fingers were still wide open, and she couldn't close them—would she be staying at Fei's house tonight? Why didn't Bellie pick me up and take a fork in the road? Wouldn't it be all the end if she had just flipped over?

Six or seven months into the street, her eyes were clouded, the receptors in her ears were no longer dominant, and she didn't know anything. In her heart, it only felt lively. At the same time, she also clearly examined each ship coming on the opposite side, whether or not Belly had come to pick her up, despite how her eyes were confused.

Her mouth was open, her eyes were staring, and the distant sky and the sun shone widely.

There was a woman standing in a stairwell, and the old woman holding a child in the room guessed: Are you Qin?

Qin began to talk to the housewife, sitting in the circle chair, her winter cotton shoes obviously visible to the housewife. The housewife began to say, "Becky went with you and didn't see it? A line of sight rushed straight to Qin's whole body, and every cell in Qin's body was sweating, nervous, impatient, and she secretly hated herself for why she didn't come late, so that Belly wouldn't even see a shadow there, and turn empty.

Qin went to the window to get some cool air, and the corners of her shabby ragged shirt danced around her knees. By the time Belley and Qin climbed the tiny shadow of the moon around the edge of the pool, it was already night, and only mosquitoes buzzed in the park. They were attached to each other, and the road ahead seemed to be cut off by the mosquitoes, and they rushed through the array of mosquitoes, and through the forest of great trees, and after passing two bridges, they sat down in the pavilion, and their shadows leaned against each other on the railing.

The tall tree, with its treetops knotted together, resembles a large umbrella made of yarn, covering the moon. The wind blows the big umbrella and sways, and the fine moonlight is sprinkled below, and the spring outing girl is crazy! There is the same excitement in Beili's heart and Qin's heart, and this excitement is the same secret.

Qin lives in a lonely state of mind in a hotel, and I don't know what she has driven to where. It's the pain of Berry's stay awake all night last night, and I don't know where she was driven to?

He suffered all night for his newly-known lover Qin, and wanted to pick up Qin to Fei's house on the second day of the embankment, but he was like a broken cradle, unable to hold anything, and did not even have a dime in his pocket. Do you want to get rid of his cotton quilt? where would you want it? He began to take one of his best uniforms out from under the bed and slap the dust. He thought that this time he would be able to use it as a dollar, and the five dimes would buy her food and send it, and the rest of the five dimes would accompany her out on a boat as a fare, so that he didn't have to take a boat to go, didn't he also learn a few tricks to swim in Sun Island? He was carrying the old uniform given by his friend in his armpits, as if he were holding a pearl, and his face was excited. The gold-lettered signboard of a pawnshop is mixed with the signboard of a store and the signboard of a restaurant. In this signboard forest, he recognized which one was a pawnshop, and he laughed, his face smiled. The pawnshop door was closed, and people shouted that Zhengyang River had spoken. He came back and collapsed on the bed, the bed board as hard as a stone chip. He hated himself for why he lost his trouser belt when he went to Qin yesterday. Even if you swim, you don't have to untie your trouser belt and throw it on the side of the road, why are you so excited? He pulled his belt off and whipped himself. Why use five dimes, as long as you have five dimes, can't you also accompany your lover with your pants in your hands? He spent the whole night regretting on the bed board of this stone chip.

In the back room of a restaurant, he looked at the swarm of flies flying on the roof of the shed, the tide insects crawling between the walls, he listened to the sound of the iron spoon cooking vegetables, the sound of wine cups in the canteen in the front room, the sound of dancers rubbing against their dancing clothes, and the sound of begging outside the door, like arrows, like stars in the sky, piercing Beili's heart through the windows embedded in the glass one by one. His eyes glowed red, and he didn't hide at all. The quiet Belli accepted it silently. Is he cowardly? He doesn't know the pain? The sky is flickering, and they all know how Peli's intentions are.

Just like two soldiers who had returned from the front line, as soon as they left the front line, the artillery fire on the front line also left, and Bellie and Qin just sat under the big umbrella and listened to the wind and the sigh of the leaves.

Belley's eyes really couldn't be opened. In order to avoid Qin's awareness, he also covered himself several times, and when he spoke a little earlier, his eyes were a little glazed. As if she understood Belly's intentions, Qin gave Belly a cover: "Then let's go back to sleep." ”

There is a small ditch in front of the park, and the street that jumps over the ditch is not home. They walked towards their home.

(b)

Two long shadows traveling on the ground are gradually fading away. Just like two wild dogs that have just been taken in by their owners, they only return to their owners' houses after eating and sleeping, and the rest are just running and squatting in the streets.

Belle and his newfound lover Qin have been at a friend's house for a week. The week flew by silently. There was a small boat at the corner of the street, and they sat on the board all day. The park was also flooded, there was really nowhere to go, the streets and alleys left and right were also flooded, and their two loving hearts were like water chasing after them. I got closer and closer day by day, and I felt crowded. The two hearts swelled, and they were just like the Songhua River, trying to find an exit to break the embankment and rush out. It's not about wanting to just need.

Day by day, day by day, but the dense positions on the left and right were getting higher and thicker day by day, and the two hearts that were not allowed to walk had to beat wildly in the palms of the two of them.

Belle doesn't live in the back room of the restaurant anymore, she also lives in the non-house, and he and Qin are also separated. Every day when she gets up early, either Beili goes to the inner room to wake up Qin, or Qin gets up early and secretly touches Beili's toes with her fingers. Every day, his feet were lifted to the armrests of the rattan chair, stretched out in a crooked way. Was Belly prepared for this position for Celery's contact, or was the rattan chair too short to let go of his legs? His feet were pinched and turned around in pain, and his body was like a long shrimp bent over, and he came out of the wicker chair, and the rattan chair was thrown there like a shrimp pot. He rubbed his eyes with his hands, he didn't know anything, and his two duck-shaped little feet, lying on the floor, were like awakened ducks, and they didn't know their way. The fish-white sky came in through the glass window, and the sleepy eyes were hazy on the curtains.

Qin's belly became bigger and bigger! From a small basin to a large basin, from an inactive object to a moving object, he couldn't sleep in bed, mosquitoes walked and played on his legs, and the objects in his stomach walked and played in his belly, she simply became a big circus, and everything was played on this scene.

Getting out of bed and dragging the thin cat-like cotton shoes, she went to the outer room, and Belley turned into a long shrimp bent over and got into the shrimp pot. Qin woke him up and showed him his legs, and the small bags on Qin's legs were lined up. If it hadn't been bitten by mosquitoes, she would have mistaken the moss on the stone steps for her legs. Belle stroked it with his hand, his brow furrowed, and he smiled at her again, how his heart tingled! Qin didn't know this, thinking that Belly was trying to incite her with some kind of smile. She forgot the little objects that she had thrown her fingers at and were born in her belly, and she just gestured to clench Belli's toes, and her heart beat as hard as she could.

Mrs. Ying in the inner room pulled Xiao Rong to the kitchen, Xiao Rong first watched the two shrimps coming, and yelled to push them to her mother. Mrs. Ying's eyes didn't know what kind of light was emitting, and she deliberately asked, "You two pinched your feet with your hands, is this an Oriental handshake or a Western-style handshake?"

The four-year-old girl Xiaorong also learned her mother's tone, like a mockery but not a mockery. sang: "Is this Oriental or Western?"

Qin and Beili's eyes were shining like the eyes of a tiger.

Belley's eyes had become diamond for some reason! glowing and hard. Qin has seen such eyes in the last few days, and they have been running all day long, for more than ten days! Sometimes they say hello and walk over, and a short shadow disappears.

In the evening, when Qin and Mrs. Ying were sitting in the house, Mrs. Ying shook her head, with a different smile on her face, and tried her best to euphemize her voice, and Xiang Qin didn't know what to say. Probably because they were seen walking on Central Street during the day.

Qin and Belly still walked around the street, but Belly still had to run with her as she did every day. Qin didn't know why her legs were reluctant to move, and her heart was impatient! The mood of staying in the hotel two weeks ago was about to sprout again, and the smoke on her heart seemed to be covered again not long after it had receded. She played with Belley's buttons with her hands, her eyes drooped, and her head lowered: "I really don't know what this means, we are in rags, and we don't even have the qualifications to walk on the street!"

Belley didn't understand who he was talking to, and he asked slowly and deftly, "What?"

Qin Zai said in his words: "Ying said - you don't walk on the street, you can be casual at home, there are too many people on the street, it's not good-looking! Don't you know? We know a lot of friends on this street, and everybody knows that you live in my house, and if you don't live in my house, I don't care if you look good or not. Qin was fiddling with the buttons.

Belley's eyes were radiating diamond-like light again, and his heart was annoyed like a button on his coat that was being played. He clenched his fists tightly and slammed them into his head. Celery rubbed him. Berry's face flushed, and his heart repented.

"The rich are poor, and the poor are not allowed to fall in love?"

The anxiety in their hearts subsided and they sat on wooden benches on the street. There was only one way for her to feel cold, and she buried her head in the front of Belley's blouse.

After the park was flooded, only one red electric light burned on its own in that uninhabited place. On autumn nights, the red lights are under the dense treetops, and the treetops are heavy, as if they have found fireflies on the still sea, and they laugh, jump, clap their hands, and come and dance to the fireflies every night......

She didn't clap her hands now, she just pressed her stomach and Belly helped her back. When she went up the stairs, her tears were thrown into the darkness.

Fei is a little different from Qin and Beili, and Mrs. Ying's speech last time can prove that it is right or wrong.

Instead of moving away, the house here was left for his mother-in-law to live in, and all the bedding was taken away. Qin slept on the clay kang with a pillow on his burden. After only two nights of sleeping on the clay kang, her stomach hurt terribly. She was lying on the earthen kang, and Belli was no longer on the street, he was squatting on the floor, his chin resting on the edge of the kang, guarding him. These are two young pigeons, two young pigeons that have been folded into the nest. Only these two pigeons get to know each other and really help, because hunger and cold are equal weight on them.

Qin's stomach hurt even more, and she rolled into a clay figure on the earthen kang. Belley didn't wear a hat and ran downstairs, and it was a cold autumn rain outside. After two o'clock, Beili didn't come back, and Qin continued to roll on the clay kang. Outside, the rain was falling heavily. Three o'clock passed, Belley still didn't come back, Qin just wanted to tear her stomach, and she couldn't hear the rain outside.

Belli ran under the tree, the rain ran in the sky, the road paved with stones, the lines of rain flew on it, the rain seemed to crush the stone, and the stone had to resist to the end.

Passing from street to street, from rain to rain, his pockets were still empty, and he was like a water chicken.

Walking through the door, his heart flew upstairs, soothing Qin, something that no one could see. The mad scream of the celery beast shot down from the window, passing through the rows of rain lines, overpowering the sound of the rain, but it was real, firmly fixed, and stuck in Belli's heart like an arrow.

Belle chased upstairs with the arrow, thinking that Qin was finished, and that he was letting out a final scream. Qin's stomach hurt and she was half dazed, and she unconsciously grabbed Beili's hand, and the soil she was clutching on the soil kang matched the rain that Beili was carrying.

Beili's face turned pale, and he thought about the shadow of the one yuan he had just borrowed from Fei to send Qin to the hospital: "Slowly there is a way, in a few days, not busy." And he thought, "Is this what a friend should say? I see, I'm not a friend because I'm not financially unequal." ”

Ren Shiqin howled, he finally left her and went downstairs, and the rain was falling.

Qin's stomach hurt so much that she didn't know what to do, she rolled on the kang like a man, her face was the same as white paper, the pain was a little lighter, she crawled down to the ground, and wanted to drink a glass of water. As soon as I held the teacup in my hand, it hurt so much that it fell to the floor. The cup shattered, and the yellow-faced and big-eyed mother-in-law walked in with the sound, and muttered: "It's too unseemly, we are not a hotel here, anyone lives here." ”

Qin couldn't hear who was talking, so she pressed her stomach against the kang to squeeze small objects out of her belly, this pain was like wringing her intestines, and her intestines seemed to be broken. She was sweating and crying.

Like a ghost, celery was imprisoned in a carriage, passing through the park, passing by the park's circus, and walking through the dark path. Belle hugged her tightly. Now she was only bored with Berry and every pedestrian on the street, and she pulled her hair and struggled in Belly's arms. She hated to fly to the hospital in one step, but the horse was reluctant to move forward, and spun around in the water. Berry began to panic, and his voice was the same as usual: "The water here is very deep, and it will be dangerous to go down the gutter." He jumped into the water, grabbed Ma Bo, and moved forward in the water.

Qin was very impotent in the car, like a dirty burden or a garbage can.

A sad and tragic oppressed figure is reflected under the bright moon, in the autumn light, rendered more tragic and more painful.

The door of the iron fence was closed, there was no electric light at the door, Hesse's, probably the hospital was closed, Belley went to knock on the door, Qin's heart was beating with hope and disappointment.

(c)

The carriage carried her back again, past the park, and past the circus, and Qin's stomach hurt a little lighter. He saw the elephant in the circus, playing with her nose in a clumsy way, and she clearly said to Belli: "You see how good the elephant is." ”

Berry hadn't eaten for a day, and now he saw Qin open like a child, and he was laughing and angry in his heart.

The car was back in its place, and Belli gave the driver all the five dimes he had borrowed. Beili was like a cabbage in a storm, after the wind and rain passed, he helped Qin up the stairs again, he thought to himself, will it be a month later? At that time, he must be able to borrow 15 yuan for the hospitalization. Only then did Beili remember to spread the broken quilt on the kang for Qin. She fell on the quilt, her fingers running through her unkempt hair. Belle took off her soaked shoes, kissed her, and went to the outer room.

There was another groan, and Belley heard it, and rushed to the inner room, and Belley's first sight fell on Qin's body, and Qin's face was as white as a lead pot. He understood that her stomach did not hurt because of the psychological effect, and tried his best to believe what the doctor said, and he couldn't say for another month.

He didn't borrow it, and he didn't plan to, he understood that everything in modern times was only arrogant, and there was no need to be reasonable, so the second time he sent Qin to the hospital, although he didn't have hospitalization fees, Qin ended up being forced to stay in the hospital.

In the third-class maternity room, Qin Mi slept heavily for two days, always dreaming about the carriage spinning in the water. When I woke up in the middle of the night, I was so anxious that sweat soaked through the pillow. She was too tired. As a result, I was mentally tired and didn't care much about anything. For Belli, for everything in the world, it's all the same, and when Belley comes, she sits on a small stool and says a few things that don't matter. As soon as he left, Qin closed her eyes again.

For three days, Qin couldn't sleep at night, her tits were swollen and hard, as if they were full of something, and she only heard her cry that her tits hurt, but I didn't hear her ask about the child.

There are five large beds in the maternity room, three women are sleeping, and there are five small beds on the other side. The nurse pushed one over, close to the woman next to the window, and the other to the other woman. They heard the sound of pushing the cot and put their heads out of the quilt, all with the same irrepressible, novel smile on their faces, as if they saw the little face of their little doll sleeping in the bed. They didn't ask the caretaker a word, blushing shyly, but silently preparing for the first meeting of the little animal they had created.

The third bed nurse walked in Qin's direction, and Qin's heart began to beat, like unexpected news. Hands are shaking: "No! No...... No...... I don't want it!" The mother-child relationship in her voice was like a steel wire that could not be broken by her, and she was trembling all over.

The moonlight of the autumn night was pouring all over the wall, the night was deep, the people were quiet, but the children next door were crying.

The child was born crying for five days, lying on a cold bed, and swarms of mosquitoes swarmed through the air window after the rising water, crawling all over the child's face. He was cold, and he cried all day and all night. Is it cold? Hungry? Who cares about a child who is born without a mother?

The moonlight shone all over the wall, and there was a shadow shining on the wall, and the shadow trembled, and Qin got out of bed, and lay down on the moonlit wall—little baby, don't cry, didn't Mother come to hug you?

The sound of the child's cough moved Qin's face against the wall, and she jumped on the bed, pulling her hair and punching her head. What a selfish thing, how can you not hear thousands of children crying? Thousands of children are starving to death, how can you not see it? Adults who are more useful than children are starving to death, and they themselves are starving to death, this is invisible, what a selfish thing!

Qin, who was asleep, moved again in her dream, and Qin dreamed that Beili went to the bed to pick her up, and ran away, jumping over the wall, and the hospital fee was not paid, and the child was gone. I heard that the child later became a maid for the dean and was beaten to death by the dean. The child was still crying next door, crying for too long, the child was nauseous, Qin was awakened, and rushed out of bed in a panic. She thought the dean was killing her child, but she fainted when she saw a shadow flashing on the wall. The autumn night was lonely, and the snow-white moonlight poured into every room, and the mother's body fell on the floor on this side of the wall. The child over there is crying for his mother, and the love between mother and child is forever separated by only one wall.

A woman in her 30s in a white gown, with white powder on her yellow face and yellow and black spots looming under the powder, sat on the edge of Qin's bed. The woman asked Qin some trivial words in annoyance, and the other women listened sadly.

When Qin saw their faces, she was piercing her heart like a needle. "Please take it and say no more. She covered her head with the quilt, and she couldn't hold it back, what kind of tears were they?

The woman sitting on the edge of the bed said, "No one can bear to have a child, I can't do this thing of separating mother and child." The woman's body twisted.

As if she was being coerced by someone, Qin lifted the quilt on her head, smiled with a smile on her face, tears and smiles condensed: "I am willing, the child is useless, you can take her away." ”

The child slept next door, unaware of the fact that his biological mother had given him to someone else.

The woman got up and went next door, and the nurse told the woman while weeping: "The child has been born for six days, and he has not even seen his mother's face, and he has been crying all day and all night. Alas, for some reason, I heard that the child's father is still very rich! This woman is so strange that she doesn't even want to marry a rich husband. ”

The woman sympathized. The nurse said, "What a cold face this little face, what a child who was born to be pitiful." The child was woken up by their groping, and his face touched the palm of someone else's hand, thinking it was his mother's palm, and he began to cry bitterly.

Half an hour later, the child's future mother stepped on the stone steps of the hospital with a red envelope and a happy face.

The little futon in the baggage was wrapped for the child, and after passing through the passage, in front of the door of the maternity room, and passing by the mother in the maternity room, the child followed the birth and walked down the stone steps.

The mother in the maternity room didn't see anything, only a loud noise!

When Qin told Beili that the child was taken to others, her strong and resolute eyes stunned Beili, and he just listened calmly: "This time we are not in the way, losing a child is the goal of most children to be rescued, and now the current problem is the hospitalization fee."

Belle clenched Qin's hand, and he thought—Qin is a woman of her age, and if she really wants to open it, she must be my faithful companion in the future!"

Every day when Belley walked out of the hospital, the clerk asked him for hospital fees, and Belley had already let go of his determination to have no hospital fees, so he went to the pawnshop with the uniform for the second time to prepare for Qin's discharge from the hospital.

His uniform had long been bitten by rats under the bed, and now there was no hope for even this hopeful uniform.

Belley began to run for five dimes.

Qin has been in the hospital for almost three weeks! The woman who lived in the same room came to stay for a week and left with the child in her arms, and now she is the only one left in the maternity room, and the director does not ask her for hospital fees, but only hopes that she will be discharged from the hospital. But she was discharged from the hospital without money for a car, no jackets, and most importantly, she had no money to rent a house.

Qin lived alone in the maternity room, quiet all night, and she was the only one who enjoyed the swaggering moon shadow of the big tree on the window, walking all over the wall and all over the ground. She remembered that when her mother died, she was still a child, sleeping beside her grandfather, and didn't she also look at the shadow of the tree at the window at night? Now that her grandfather had gone to the grave, she had been away from her hometown for three years, and everything had disappeared after time.

The tree phoenix outside the window sang a quiet tune, and Qin heard the rooster crowing in the courtyard.

The mothers were discharged from the hospital one by one in a car or carriage with their children in their arms, and now Qin is also discharged from the hospital. She had no children or a car, only a street in front of her that asked her to walk, like a barren field for her to open.

Belley guided her like an assistant.

Their shadows, a pair of strong shadows, began to move towards the human forest again.

1933.4.18 Harbin.

(Summer name quietly published in the supplement of Changchun "Datong Daily" from May 6 to 17, 1933 "Datong Club")

Xiao Hong: Outcasts