Chapter 372

Chapter 372

Chapter 372

The winter sun is very good, but it shines on people without the slightest warmth, like a layer of glass, although it is dazzling, it does not have the slightest warmth.

Jiang Yanyan tightened her clothes and looked at the thick snow outside. Jiang Yanyan's face was full of bewilderment. Although her eyes looked ahead, they seemed to be out of focus.

"Mom, come here, it's snowing heavily, look, I drew a little cat on the snow."

"Mom, can you help me build a snowman?"

"Mom, look, my snowball is not round."

"Mom, I don't want a pot, I want a real sled."

"Mother……"

His son's words in his ears seemed to echo in his ears in the past winter.

But everything has gone with the wind.

Hearing the laughter of the neighbor's house next to her ear, she turned her head unconsciously.

I saw the neighbor's house next door, full of festive laughter.

The Spring Festival is here, everyone is back, lively, and reunited.

There was only her, all alone.

During Chinese New Year, when my son was still around, they would go shopping together for Spring Festival couplets, fireworks, candies, new clothes, and his favorite new toys.

So my son likes Chinese New Year very much.

Every year before the Chinese New Year, she prepares a lot of things, such as chicken, duck, fish, vegetables and fruits, salty goods and bacon, etc.

Enough for their mother and son to eat from the [-]th to the [-]th year.

But this year she didn't prepare anything, the oil, salt, sauce and vinegar had bottomed out, and there wasn't even much rice left at home.

Since the time of her son's death, she has not had a good appetite, and she eats very little every day. Sometimes, she doesn't even want to cook at all, and she is muddled every day.

During this period of time, she became very thin and her spirit became muddled.

She likes this feeling, because when she is in a daze, she can see her son running around in front of her, as if he has never left her.

"Yanyan, where are you going?"

At this moment, a person approached and stopped Jiang Yanyan, who was in a trance.

"Second Aunt, I'm going to buy some noodles." Jiang Yanyan was stunned for a while before seeing the person in front of her clearly.

"Yanyan, I think you are not in good spirits. Did you not rest? Go home and rest more. The second aunt told you that there is no obstacle in this world that you cannot overcome. When you are alive, you must look forward and don't look back. , let him pass the past..."

Second Aunt and Jiang Yanyan are not related, it's just because everyone in the same village calls her by that name.

The second aunt is a very kind person, and she is very clear about what happened to Jiang Yanyan, so she has special sympathy for her.

"I went to the town to buy some fish, I'll give you two, you take it home and braise it."

The second aunt was holding a vegetable basket in her hand, which was full of fish. People in Daxia usually like to store food, not to mention that it is almost the Chinese New Year now, so naturally they buy all kinds of food.

"No, Second Aunt, you can keep it for yourself." Jiang Yanyan hurriedly declined after hearing this.

Then stagger away and leave.

Looking at Jiang Yanyan's lonely back with her arms folded, her body bowed, her head lowered, Second Aunt couldn't bear it for a while.

So he shouted: "Yanyan, come to our house for Chinese New Year this year. I told your second uncle, and your second uncle let you come too."

"No, Second Aunt, I'll just live at home by myself. I don't need to trouble you. Go and do your work."

Jiang Yanyan turned sideways when she heard the words, but didn't turn around completely, because she was afraid that the tears on her face would be seen by her second aunt.

"You must come."

The second aunt said a few words of persuasion, but didn't say anything more, turned around and hurried home, it was really too cold outside.

Seeing her second aunt leave, Jiang Yanyan naturally didn't stay any longer and continued walking.

Stepping on the snow, making a creaking sound, all the way forward.

But instead of going to the small shop in the village, she went straight to the river.

At noon at this time, all the children playing on the ice had gone home to eat, leaving only the empty river surface and the traces left after playing on the ice.

There was wood, a sled that hadn't been brought back, and shovels, mining hoes, and buckets, all left by the children. They were expected to come to play in the afternoon, so they didn't take them home.

Jiang Yanyan picked up a mining hoe, looked around, then swung the hoe and smashed it on the ice.

But the ice in the north was too thick, and it was so cold that there was no trace of damage to the entire ice surface except for a trace of ice shavings. Instead, she was so tired that she was out of breath.

Jiang Yanyan sighed helplessly, and then threw the mining hoe aside, but she did not give up, but continued to move forward.

Because she knew that there must be a hole in the ice made by the villagers in order to catch fish.

Sure enough, after walking for about five or six minutes, she saw a hole surrounded by broken ice.

Jiang Yanyan walked to the entrance of the cave and looked at the blue river below, it's so beautiful, she thought.

I looked up at the sky again, it was the same color and beautiful as the bottom of the river.

Jiang Yanyan unbuttoned her clothes, took off her outer jacket, folded them neatly, and put them aside.

"Little Fatty, Mommy is here to accompany you."

Jiang Yanyan had tears in her eyes, but a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. She seemed to see Xiaopang waving to her from a distance.

"Don't worry, don't be afraid, mom will be with you."

After Jiang Yanyan finished speaking, without the slightest hesitation, she jumped into the entrance of the cave in three steps at a time.

The icy river water instantly submerged her, and the biting chill made her body instantly stiff, but it didn't matter, she was not prepared to struggle, and her body fell downward.

The icy river water poured in from her mouth and nose, and the strong suffocation made her whole body seem to be split apart, which was extremely painful, but then the darkness swallowed her up.

She felt that her body seemed to become lighter, and she slowly floated up, as if in a cloud.

In the end, her body lost all contact with this world, and she fell into boundless darkness.

This process seemed to be very short, but also seemed very long. When she regained consciousness, a blue light seemed to appear in front of her eyes.

This is not her illusion, the blue light is the light from the sun shining through the ice and into the river.

So beautiful.

Moreover, the cold and suffocation all disappeared, the body didn't hurt anymore, and the whole person felt light.

She didn't seem to exert any strength, and she floated towards the river.

She looked down at the bottom of her feet, and there was another herself lying in the quiet river.

Oh, it turns out I'm dead.

Jiang Yanyan didn't panic or feel sad, but felt a sense of relief.

Then she was back on the ice.

A voice in her heart told her that after death, one must go to the place where one should go.

But she didn't want to leave yet, she wanted to go home and have a look.

Since people have souls after death, will Xiaopang go home?
Thinking of this, she hurried towards home.

She saw her footprints when she came, winding all the way, and she walked forward along her footprints, but this time, no matter how hard she tried, she could not leave any traces on the snow.

She has a feeling.

It feels like my son is waiting for me at home.
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"Where's my mother?"

Little Fatty searched around the house, but couldn't find anyone, so he couldn't help but feel a little strange.

"Should have just gone out."

Song Ci glanced at the cup on the table, there was still a trace of heat in the cup.

"Then we go out to find her? Or wait for her to come back here?" Little Pang Dun looked at Song Ci.

Song Ci has become his backbone.

Song Ci looked at the furnishings in the room and had a bad feeling.

This is a very ordinary rural house, but it is cleaned very cleanly, and all the things are neatly arranged.

"Does your mother have obsessive-compulsive disorder?" Song Ci asked.

"OCD?"

Xiaopang was a little puzzled when he heard the words, while Cai Dumpling scurried around several rooms in the house, looking around, curious about everything.

"Wow, what a big picture of you and your mom."

"Wow, there is such a big doll."

"Wow, what is this 'four'? Is 'four' a big dinosaur?"

……

"Don't run, don't go back and forth." Song Ci caught the little monkey.

Then he explained to Xiaopangdun: "Obsessive-compulsive disorder means that no matter what you do, you must put it neatly and clean it up."

Little Fatty looked around, with a puzzled look on his face, and Song Ci didn't mention it, so he really didn't pay attention.

"My mother is not like that. She also likes to clean up, but..." Xiaopangdun didn't say too clearly, but Song Ci already understood what he meant.

"Come on, let's go out to find your mother." Hearing this, Song Ci hurried out of the house with Xiaopangdun.

Then, looking at the footprints in the snow in front of the door, it meanders to the right, and then merges into the road, mixing with countless other footprints.

"Go this way."

Song Ci pointed in a direction, and the little fat pier jumped out immediately, Song Ci stopped Cai Dumpling and hurried to follow.

The few people didn't go far when they saw a woman walking towards her in thin clothes. Seeing her calm expression, the cold winter wind didn't seem to affect her in the slightest, Song Ci suddenly understood something.

"Mother."

Little Fatty ran over happily when he saw the person opposite him.

"Little fat."

Seeing her son, Jiang Yanyan was also full of surprises.

Then he bent down and hugged the little fat man who was running over in his arms.

"Mom, woo woo woo..."

Seeing his mother, Xiao Pangdun wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say. His agitated mood finally turned into crying.

"Okay, don't be afraid, little fat, mom is with you, mom is here..." Jiang Yanyan put her arms around her son, but instead of being sad, her face was full of smiles.

"Mom thought I'd never see you again, but I didn't expect to see our chubby again. It's great..."

"Mom, I miss you, I'm back..." Xiaopangdun choked up and said.

But soon, he found something was wrong.

"Mom, what's wrong with you? How did you become like me?" Little Fatty said in horror.

"Because my mother is afraid that you will be too lonely and boring by yourself, so I come to accompany you."

Jiang Yanyan stroked the hair around her ears habitually, and said with a smile.

"You... why are you dead? Are you sick too?" Little Pang Dun asked sadly.

Jiang Yanyan shook her head, and then said: "It doesn't matter if you are sick or not, now mom can accompany you, let's go on the road with you."

"Why...why? Mom, isn't it good to live?"

When Jiang Yanyan heard this, she patted his head and said softly, "It's good to be alive, but mom is too tired."

"I'm sorry." The little fat pier lowered his head when he heard the words, and apologized sadly.

"Why did you say sorry to your mother?" Jiang Yanyan asked in surprise.

"It's all because of me that my mother lives so hard and so tired." Xiaopang said.

"Fool, it's because of you that my mother doesn't feel hard work. Without you, my mother will feel that everything is very hard. This is my mother's life."

At the end of Jiang Yanyan's speech, she could only sigh helplessly.

"Then...Mom, come with me to Taoyuan Village." Little Pang Dun took his mother's hand.

"Taoyuan Village?"

Little Fatty looked back at Song Ci and Cai Dumplings.

The moment Jiang Yanyan saw Song Ci and Cai Jiaozi, she understood what kind of place Taoyuan Village was, and understood the identities of Song Ci and Cai Jiaozi. Song Ci finally made a wish and loaded information rules on herself.

That's why Jiang Yanyan knew his identity at a glance.

"Mr. Song, Master Xingzhe, thank you for taking care of my son."

She bowed slightly and saluted the two of them.

Song Ci sighed and shook his head.

"Why are you doing this? After all, we are still one step late."

"It's not too late, it's just right."

Jiang Yanyan looked down at her son, who was also looking up at her.

The two smiled at each other.

Everything is no longer important.
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"Mom, I ate it, I really ate it..."

Yiyi held a spicy stick, opened her mouth wide, and pretended to eat it, but her eyes squinted at her mother next to her.

The reason why she is like this is because He Hongmei strictly prohibited her from eating these junk foods in the past.

"Eat, don't look at me."

He Hongmei said with a smile, but her heart was full of indescribable sadness. It would be great if she could stay by their side forever.

"Don't go back on your word." Yiyi's face was full of excitement when she heard the words.

"Don't go back on your word, mom keeps her word."

"Okay, ahh..."

Upon hearing this, Yiyi immediately stuffed the spicy strips in her mouth into her mouth, then chewed them twice, then her nose and eyebrows all wrinkled.

"Puff puff...so spicy, so spicy, Dad, I want to drink water, I want to die from the heat..."

Yiyi's eyes were watery from being hot.

"Don't eat, drink some milk." Huang Youguo hurriedly handed her the bottle on the table.

Yiyi took the bottle, immediately leaned back, fell into her mother's arms, and sucked the bottle.

At noon, the family of three had the warmest lunch in a long time.

After eating, He Hongmei took the bowls and chopsticks into the kitchen and didn't wash up, because she wanted to seize every second of her time with her daughter.

The three hugged each other and sat on the sofa, talking to each other.

Mom talked about how cute and obedient Yiyi was when she was young.

Dad talked about how naughty and "bad" Yiyi was when she was young.

Yiyi said that she has loved them since she was in her mother's belly, and has loved them all her life.

In the next life, I will still be their baby and love them.

Love "flows" between them.

Until Yiyi, who was nestled in the arms of the two, suddenly sat up straight.

He waved his little hand towards the empty living room.

Hehe smiled and said, "Brother Yunzhou, sister Caijiaozi..."

The faces of the couple turned pale in an instant.

They are not afraid of treachery, but afraid that their daughter will leave.

(End of this chapter)