Chapter 127 - Let Me Go Home with You!

After meal.

The wife's body was wrapped in bandages and she was wearing a light yellow patterned kimono.

Her long hair was slightly restrained by a bandage wrapped around her head to form a hat.

There is also a tied bow on the corner of the hat bandage.

She clasped her hands on her chest, her eyes curled up in laughter, and stood in front of the wooden house, looking at her husband who was already halfway to the bamboo path.

She raised her hand high and shouted to her husband:

“Have a nice trip~”

The man turned around with a smile, raised his arms to his wife, and said a brief farewell.

He turned around and looked at the clear blue and warm sky, feeling a warm current in his heart.

It's almost noon now. Counting the time spent searching for the midwife, I can probably make it back before sunset.

After thinking about the approximate time, the man walked farther and farther on the bamboo path he and his wife compiled together.

The wife stood in front of the wooden house and watched her husband's back gradually getting smaller. When he was out of sight, she slowly turned around and walked into the wooden house.

The warm room is filled with the atmosphere of the two people's happy life.

The wife looked at the bedding in the room. She walked gently onto the tatami and knelt down on the futon nearby.

Her eyes scanned the room, and a happy smile appeared on her face.

She smiled softly.

Waiting always takes a long time.

"Ah, this is it." The wife was looking at the items in the room when she suddenly noticed a bit of maroon fabric exposed in the corner of the cabinet.

Creak...

She gently opened the cabinet and took out the neatly stacked clothes from it.

When he came into view, he saw a small dark red feather fabric.

"It's his childhood clothes..."

The wife held the dress and smiled slightly, her mind couldn't help but fall into memories.

However, this memory does not seem to be all the good parts like in the memory.

…

ten years ago.

At that time, it was a period of high epidemic incidence.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

"Gu...wuwu..."

As a young girl, she stood in front of a fire, with tears of sadness flowing out of her black eyes. She looked sadly at the flames that kept beating in front of her.

At a young age, she knew clearly that the person lying in the flames was not someone else.

It was her family members who died due to the disease.

"Father...Mother...Brother..." The corners of her eyes were red from crying, her nose was sore, and her stomach was empty, but she still wanted to vomit something.

Family, all dead.

The grief in her heart seemed to drown everything, making her so young that she was so overwhelmed.

For her at a young age, her family was everything to her.

But now, everything about her disappeared in an instant, leaving her alone.

Other people walking around covered their noses with their hands and stayed away from her, for fear that they might also contract some disease.

She just stood in front of the flames in a daze, watching the flames gradually burn out, and watching some people in charge of the cremation come over with cloths wrapped around their faces to clean up the remaining ashes.

She stayed until night and never left.

Until dawn the next day.

She seemed to have just come out of the truth that her family was dead, and left here like a zombie.

She walked aimlessly.

Walk from the river to the street.

From the streets to the fields again.

When she came back to her senses, she suddenly realized that she seemed to have gone too far.

In my hand, I don’t know when there was a small wooden basin.

She came back to her senses, her eyes were swollen from crying and the pain was unbearable. She sat on the path next to the paddy field and put her legs in the paddy field.

"Ahem...!"

Feeling the cool touch of the water, tears could not stop pouring out of her eyes again. She gritted her teeth and lowered her head, tears blurring her vision.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuahah...!!" She cried loudly, covering her face helplessly, feeling extremely confused.

Big tears dripped down her face. She wiped her face with her dirty hands, but she couldn't stop the tears.

It felt like there was a hole in my heart, and tears kept pouring out of that hole.

At this time, she felt a little itching sensation on her feet that were placed in the paddy field.

She sobbed, her red nose twitching, and her eyes swollen from crying looked towards the paddy field.

A group of black tadpoles were wandering around her ankles, looking very happy.

Seeing this, she slowly stood up.

He picked up the wooden barrel on the side, and when he was about to do something, he froze in place again.

Tadpoles have their own families, and their own families...

Her tears seemed to have dried up, and she stared blankly at the blue sky and clouds on the horizon, just frozen in place.

I stuck my feet in the pool, feeling the coolness coming from my ankles, and held the bucket motionless.

At this time.

"Da da da!"

A rush of running sound came faintly from the distance.

"Da da……"

As the sound of running approached, it suddenly slowed down and finally stopped.

The confused girl didn't notice the sound of running behind her. She just stood in the paddy field, holding the barrel in her hand in a daze.

She didn't realize at all that there was a boy with messy hair and dark red clothes looking at her behind her.

The boy who stopped running looked at her.

There was a small white cloth belt slung over the dark red clothes, which contained all his luggage.

The boy looked at the girl's back blankly, and the girl looked blankly at the sky in the distance.

"What are you doing?" There was no highlight in the boy's red pupils. He just stood there and said bluntly to the girl.

The unaware girl was not startled by the boy who suddenly spoke out, but answered blankly:

"The epidemic...killed everyone in the family."

As she spoke, she began to sob again, with a hint of crying in her tone.

"It's lonely being alone."

"So, I want to take the...tadpoles...from the rice fields home."

After saying that, she froze again and stood there blankly.

after a long time.

The sun sets.

The sun gradually sets.

She bent down stiffly and poured the tadpoles in the barrel back into the paddy field.

"Aren't you going to take them home?" the boy's voice came from behind.

He also stood here all day long.

"Well..." she replied: "These children who are forced to leave their families... are very pitiful."

Almost without thinking, the boy looked at the girl's back, his tone was so calm, as if he was describing something that had already been decided:

"Then let me go home with you!"

"Eh...?" She turned back, the tears in her eyes turned into teardrops, and she stared blankly at the boy's expressionless face.

…

"May I have your name?"

"Yuanyi."

"Following the fate of the country."

"Oh! What an awesome name it sounds like!"

…

...Drowsily, she seemed to have fallen asleep while waiting and remembering.

When I woke up again, the faint light coming from the crack in the door represented the current time.

It's already sunset.

"...Aren't you back yet?" She rubbed her groggy eyes, sat up, and looked towards the door.

"It's already sunset."