Chapter 19 17.uninvited guest

"what!" This evening Duan Xiaomu was embroidering a skirt by the bed by the window.Around her were piles of linen skirts to be embroidered.Suddenly she felt a prickly pain in her right arm where she was threading the needle.She didn't understand what was going on at first.She raised her right arm and looked it over carefully—there were no wounds, not even a pinprick.However, the right arm was getting more and more painful, getting heavier and heavier, and I couldn't lift it up, and it made a gurgling sound as if it was bleeding. The light gradually clustered into circles of blurred halos in Duan Xiaomu's eyes, the skirt on her knees and the needlework in her hands were no longer clear, only her arms were like an air outlet, gushing out all the vitality in her body.Just before Duan Xiaomu passed out, she thought in a flash:

Dear Wanwan, you must be hurt, right? The uninvited guest who opened the door at night was Xiaojiezi.He knocked on the door many times, but no one answered.He opened the door and walked in.This is already a place where he can come and go freely.With the lights on in the room, Duan Xiaomu was lying on the bed with her eyes tightly closed. Fell asleep?Xiaojiezi leaned over and looked at Duan Xiaomu who was lying on the bed at an angle, soundly asleep. This was the first time that Xiaojiezi saw Duan Xiaomu who was asleep.This was also the first time that he took a good, serious look at her.She wasn't on her clumsy crutches with the yellow paint off, she wasn't wobbling like a penguin, she was just lying flat at the moment, in peaceful stillness.He also discovered for the first time that Duan Xiaomu had grown up.She is not the Duan Xiaomu who was so slender that she could be ignored when she was a child.She is not a bang bang hard pin anymore.She was still very thin and not very good-looking.However, the strange thing is that her sunken cheeks are warm red from being roasted by the stove in winter, and her neck is long and slender, like a swan floating on the water to enjoy the sun.Moreover, the quiet life as a believer for more than ten years has covered her with a thick layer of bright color from head to toe, as if she had been coated with sunlight.

He looked at her, and for the first time, he found that she was an attractive woman. He approached her.He saw her slender legs protruding from the thin dress.Her right leg is extraordinarily slender, bent, and hidden under her left leg, shy like a newly grown loofah.He put his right hand on her left leg.Then move up slowly and slowly until the right hand is hidden under her skirt.Is Xiaojiezi at this moment reliving this action because he remembered that when he was 8 years old, he put his hand into her skirt and covered her shriveled belly?Or was he just doing it with an instinct that slowly climbed up?unknown.But it can be seen that Xiaojiezi is a little emotional at this time.He is now facing an extremely kind woman. The kind woman has been kind to him since she was 13 years old. After so many years, she finally made him remember her kindness.His movements were so light that he even used the back of his hand to keep the rough creases of his palm from touching her.For the first time, he seemed to know how to think about others, and he didn't want to wake her up.

Then Xiaojiezi stood up.He is a person who doesn't need much love, and he doesn't like to enjoy any love.What's more, facing Duan Xiaomu again?This sickly girl with the comical shape of a pin. For a person like Xiaojiezi, love is a very long process, boring and boring.He prefers rhythmic activities such as stacking mahjong, or the pleasure of flipping cards when playing poker.He came for something important.That's right, money.He stared at Duan Xiaomu for a while, and decided not to wake her up.At this time, of course, he didn't intend to wake her up, but he felt that there was no need to wake her up.He has come to borrow money many times, and he already knows where the key to the drawer is.So his next move was to walk to the side of the bookcase, pull open the top glass, and then took out the key from a small iron box.He went to the drawer and opened it.

money, money. He stood by the drawer for a moment hesitating, he considered how much he needed. Naturally, the more the better, the more the better. He didn't hesitate any longer, and took all the money, leaving nothing behind.He closed the drawer, put the key back where it was, and he left with the money. After Duan Xiaomu woke up, he found that his right arm was still in pain.She picked up and put down the skirt on her lap, picked it up, put it down, but after all, she couldn't sew a single stitch.The right arm fell down again and again, like a puppet losing its center of gravity.

Several days passed, and her arm still hurt, so Duan Xiaomu had no choice but to send back the dresses that she was eager to finish. She guessed that she might not be able to do this work for a few months.Moreover, she couldn't go to school anymore—she didn't go to university after graduating from high school, but her strong desire to continue studying made her decide to study in a self-study class temporarily and sign up for the exam next year. Now she can't even go to self-study school. If it's an ordinary person who can't lift her arm, even if she can't write in school, she can go to class after all, but Duan Xiaomu is different.Her hands are used for crutches, and she can only walk with her hands and feet, so now she can't even walk to school.

During the three consecutive days of cloudy and rainy weather, Duan Xiaomu could only stay at home, sitting or lying down, reading the Bible and reading books.On the fourth day there was a knock on the door. The visitors were some relatives of the Li family, headed by Grandma Li's son, Aunt Xiaoru's uncle.I don't know why they didn't even attend Granny Li's funeral, they suddenly came here.The kind and gentle Aunt Ru was not there.None of these people had any pleasant colors, and they were all angry.Granny Li's son was nothing like the dead Granny Li. He was a middle-aged man with a rough voice and strong strength.He said that he had just returned to Licheng from other places recently, only to find out that his mother had been dead for many years, and the house Duan Xiaomu lived in was left by Granny Li before her death, so of course it should belong to the Li family.It was precisely to return to this house that he had come.

"You're moving out! The sooner the better." roared. Duan Xiaomu supported his body with his left arm and slowly sat up from the bed.She always knew that her fate was ill-fated, not necessarily that some kind of tragedy was coming, but she never thought that she would lose even this house.This room belongs to Granny Li and hers, it is her and Granny Li's common home.If she leaves here, she will no longer have any belongings.She has been hanging in the air, drifting, but here, but here has taken her in and become her home for ten years.She can't, can't lose the bottom of this little well that belongs to her.You must know that some frogs in the well are satisfied even though they face a corner of the sky above their heads, because for them, there is no quieter place to rest.

"Please, let me stay here, I can't leave here. Please!" This is the first time Duan Xiaomu begged like this since she was a child. Since she was a child, she has always encountered sudden disasters and changes. She couldn't help but exploded like a ticking time bomb.For the first time, she felt that she had the ability to redeem herself, and she wanted to stay in this room no matter what. "No, this house belongs to our family. You are cheating!" He refused to let go.Duan Xiaomu looked at him, how could he be Granny Li's son?The ferocity in his eyebrows and eyes was what Granny Li hated the most during her lifetime.

"Please leave this house to me. I will agree to whatever you ask for." Duan Xiaomu felt that she was extremely pitiful, as if she had been reduced to a dog fighting for bones.But no matter how trivial and humble she became, she still wanted this house. "There is another way. You pay the rent. One thousand yuan per month." He was obviously blackmailing, Duan Xiaomu knew very well, how could this extremely simple old house be worth a thousand yuan.But Duan Xiaomu felt that as long as he could stay in this house, it would be worth the money.The house that I lived with Granny Li is now a priceless treasure to Duan Xiaomu.

"Okay, a thousand dollars." "Well then, listen up. I'll come to get the money tomorrow morning. If not, get out of this house immediately! You have to understand that many people want to rent my house!" The man's complacent look made him even uglier up. They are gone. Duan Xiaomu sat on the bed, looking up at the corner of the sky seen through the window.She slowly moved to the side of the bookcase, took out the key from the brown paper envelope, moved to the front of the drawer, and opened it. At this time, she was surprised to find that there was no penny!The damp drawer was completely empty and contained nothing but the carcass of a dead moth stuck to one corner of the drawer like tea leaves. Duan Xiaomu guessed that Xiaojiezi must have been there, when she was unconscious.She seemed to be able to perceive everything about him, but she still couldn't let herself hate him.She just thought that Xiaojiezi must be in trouble again.She was immediately worried about him.Duan Xiaomu sucked in a breath of cold air, and echoes with a dusty smell came from the empty drawer, echoing her over and over again. Early the next morning, Granny Li's son broke in and asked for money. Duan Xiaomu begged him to give her more time, she must raise money.The man smiled coldly and asked her how much time it was.Duan Xiaomu carefully calculated, even if her arm is healed next week, she has to go to the garment factory to get the skirt to be made, and it will take more than a month to make the skirt, and then send it to the people there to check and accept it, and finally Tell her to go to collect wages, it will take two months anyway. "Two months." Duan Xiaomu said frankly. "Two months? Stop talking nonsense! I'm going to rent it to someone else tomorrow!" Duan Xiaomu kept begging, but the man ignored her, and rushed out the door with his hands.Not long after, four strong men rushed in without knocking, opened the cupboards, and threw the contents into several large cardboard boxes they brought in.After a while, they packed all the things into the box, and then two of them moved the box out, and the other two walked to Duan Xiaomu's bedside.One of them grabbed Duan Xiaomu from the bed like a cat, put it under his arm, and strode towards the door.The other one grabbed Duan Xiaomu's two crutches from the side of the bed and walked towards the door.Duan Xiaomu didn't shout, she felt her body was horizontal like a fish caught in the net, and the world in her eyes was also horizontal. She, pinch her, squeeze her, she will shrink into a ball like a wilted flower, and there will be no more juice. When the man put Duan Xiaomu down, the girl's complexion was pale and her eyes were tightly closed.She was placed on a large cardboard box, and with a clang, someone had locked the door of her house with a new large lock.Then those people left her and the cardboard box and left. When Ji Yan saw Duan Xiaomu, Duan Xiaomu lay curled up on the big cardboard box.It started to rain on Xigendao Street at night, and there was no one on the narrow street, not even a bicycle that was usually parked in the alley.The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the lights were splashed by the raindrops. Only Duan Xiaomu lay motionless on the cardboard box that had been softened and sunken by the rain. Ji Yan never imagined that it would become like this.He just thought that after Du Wanwan inserted the glass sharp knife into his body, Duan Xiaomu in West Gendao Street in Licheng would suffer the same pain.Of course he knew that Duan Xiaomu couldn't even walk without his arms.So he had to rush back to Licheng as soon as possible, because Duan Xiaomu couldn't live normally anymore.So he sent Du Wanwan to the hospital and returned to Licheng immediately.Compared with Du Wanwan, Duan Xiaomu needs more care.He did not expect that Duan Xiaomu was lying on the open street under the heavy rain. Ji Yan carried Duan Xiaomu to the small church on Xigendao Street.She was housed in a room at the back of the church by the old nuns who lived there.She had a fever and was unconscious.After taking the medicine, he still said "let me stay in this house" nonsense. Ji Yan went to the old kindergarten again at night when everyone was sleeping soundly.The swing was still swinging in the misty rain as if it had never stopped.Ji Yan vaguely felt that it was swinging very violently, shaking and shaking, until the day when the swing accident happened.He recalled Du Wanwan's very painful expression at that time, and he recalled that she ran away so afraid of him.Even before that incident, one night, Du Wanwan was crying while swinging on the swing.In fact, it wasn't the first time Ji Yan found her crying on the swing, many times before, she sat on the swing and wept absentmindedly.That day she even threw away her favorite multicolored beads from the swing one after another, and she told him that there are devils.He also thought that a few days ago, he went to Hongye Valley to find Du Wanwan, who was a painter, and planned to lock her in the dark church, and then he used photos of the disabled Duan Xiaomu to stimulate her, hoping that she would be in a huge burden. Feeling guilty, he could face up to Duan Xiaomu's existence and repent for what he had done.He will always remember Duan Xiaomu's sad expression when he opened the door.In the end, he also remembered Du Wanwan holding the glass stubble tightly and inserting it into his body. She abused her body like an enemy's body.It was only then that Ji Yan realized that Du Wanwan had been suffering in the same way.She was originally an obedient girl, but the appearance of Duan Xiaomu caused her to suffer a lot. She felt that the murmur and angina were bothering her, and she didn't understand what was going on, so she had to use her own Finding ways to resist what she perceived as aggression, she finally decided to root out the man who caused her pain.She did, but the whole time she was terrified, she ran away, thinking it was all over and never coming back.These years, she lived in fear, keen and suspicious, she was always worried that Duan Xiaomu would seek revenge on her.Ji Yan thought of Duan Xiaomu again. She was completely different from Du Wanwan. She had no love since she was a child, but she was hurt constantly.She had a heart attack since she was a child, and she knew she was a patient, so she only regarded the faint voice in her ear as a disease.Later, she believed in Christ, which made her think about the good side of everything.So when Du Wanwan appeared in her life, she felt it was a gift, and it was God's arrangement——Du Wanwan was her only relative in this world, and she was her little sister who shared her heart.Of course she wouldn't blame Du Wanwan, she just blamed herself for causing Du Wanwan to suffer unreasonable pain.So the belief in Duan Xiaomu's heart is not revenge but an apology and compensation. Ji Yan suddenly thought, wondering what happened to Du Wanwan's arm lying in Luocheng Hospital. Duan Xiaomu stared at Ji Yan for a long time after waking up.Then she asked: "Ji Yan, every month you come to see me at the end of the month, why did you come suddenly in the middle of the month this time?" "I'm not nervous about the class these days, so I'll come back to see you." Ji Yan replied, he had always concealed the fact that he had found Du Wanwan.If Duan Xiaomu knew that Du Wanwan would not come to see her, she would definitely insist on going to Luocheng to find Du Wanwan.It is definitely not a good thing for them to meet, maybe Duan Wanwan will hurt Duan Xiaomu again, maybe Duan Xiaomu's appearance will cause Duan Wanwan's spirit to suffer a greater blow. Duan Xiaomu didn't speak anymore, she just turned around drastically, turned sideways, and tried to lift her right arm up, trying to touch Ji Yan.Ji Yan saw her straighten and turn her right arm, and he cried out: "Don't move your right arm! It hurts!" Immediately after he shouted it, he felt that he had made a mistake.Duan Xiaomu's right hand looked intact. If Duan Xiaomu didn't say that her right arm was in pain, no one would find anything abnormal about her right arm.And when he shouted like this, it meant that he already knew that her arm was hurting.Then there is only one possibility, that is, he learned about it from Du Wanwan.At this time, Duan Xiaomu smiled bitterly. She obviously moved her right arm on purpose to wait for Ji Yan's words, so she said in a very sure tone: "Ji Yan, you have already found Du Wanwan, haven't you?" Ji Yan didn't speak, but he acquiesced. "She doesn't want to come to see me, does she?" Duan Xiaomu smiled slightly. "But I will persuade her. Don't be sad." Ji Yan replied immediately. "It's okay, I won't blame her, I've already given up the operation. I really want to see her, I just want to see her again. But she will be very unhappy when she comes to see me, and I just want to see her happy, so I don't mind seeing her." .” Duan Xiaomu spoke smoothly and without discomfort. "The disease must be cured." Ji Yan firmly said. "It's not important, Ji Yan, but you have to tell me, what happened to Wanwan?" "Her arm was broken." He felt that it was necessary to lie, and telling Duan Xiaomu the truth would make her even more sad.Besides, he never wanted to describe Du Wanwan as a cold-blooded and brutal woman, that was not Du Wanwan, Du Wanwan was actually a woman who was far more fragile psychologically than Duan Xiaomu. "Is it serious?" Duan Xiaomu asked again. Ji Yan shook his head. "Lie! Ji Yan, I can feel it. My arm hurts." Duan Xiaomu refused to believe it. She tried her best to raise her right arm, but still couldn't. "Xiao Mu, where will you live in the future?" Ji Yan didn't bring up that topic anymore.He is indeed concerned about how Duan Xiaomu will live in the future. "As long as those mother-in-laws are willing to take me in, I will live in the hut behind this church from now on." "But how do you live, you can't go to school." Ji Yan sighed, his worries about Duan Xiaomu are endless, this girl will always live in endless disasters. "It will get better. You, go back and take good care of Wan Wan for my own good. When she gets better, I will get better soon. Really, Ji Yan, go back and take good care of her." Duan Xiaomu stared at Ji Yan with bright eyes, and Ji Yan felt that there seemed to be a deeper meaning in her words. "Take care of her."