Four gusts of wind

It's okay, you did your best.

However, the flower died.

So, what do you think this is?

The girl squinted and stroked his face, then handed him a bouquet of flowers, then threw it in front of him. The flowers scattered in the air, fluttered for a while, and then fell to the ground, and then deeply rooted in the soil, blooming extremely brightly.

You see, alive.

But this is not the flower.

In this world, there are many flowers.

I still want it to live.

After a while, when you come across more flowers, you will gradually forget about them.

I don't want to forget.

You'll forget, because you've got to grow up.

Growing up?

He looked at the girl with a sob, and once again had doubts about growing up.

What does it mean to grow up?

You'll understand when you grow up.

After saying that, the girl opened her hands and scattered into countless points of light into the air, leaving him to sit on the grass in confusion.

The sun was dazzling, the mountain wind was hot and dry, and this time, he still didn't get a clear answer.

What does it mean to grow up?

With this question in mind, he closed his eyes, and when he opened them again, he saw an empty room with the book of poems next to his pillow.

"Asleep?".

He patted his head and slowly got up, the sunlight fell through the window, although it was not as dazzling as it was, but it was still difficult to open its eyes when it looked at it. He rubbed his eyes and opened the door, just in time to see his mother walking in, and she was still holding a few books in her hand.

"Mom, what is this?".

"Sent by Xiao Ran." "

"Little Dye?".

He asked, confused.

"Xiao Dye is here?".

"Yes, I just came, I called you for a long time, and you told people that you were here, but I didn't come out for a long time, I just wanted to come and call you, but she handed me these books and left." By the way, what the hell were you doing?".

"I was taking a nap and just woke up. "

"You know how to sleep in one day, school is about to start, and you have finished your winter vacation homework?".

"It's been done a long time ago. "

Seeing that he was sleepy, his mother didn't bother to say more, handed him the book and turned around and left.

He took the thick books and looked at them a few times, walked back to the house with them and placed them next to the poetry book, and then picked up the book and looked at it.

"It's just that I've finished reading this book, so let's send it back to Xiao Ran." "

Muttering a few words, he turned and ran out again.

"Mom, I'm going to find Xiao Ran to return the book." "

"Didn't she just send it?".

"This was borrowed before. "

"Go, go, go, you know to sleep, if you just woke up, run and return it now." "

Listening to his mother's nagging, he didn't pay much attention to it, but rushed to the road that he had walked countless times. Because he was running too fast, the road shook violently in front of him, and he couldn't see clearly.

Running and running, the verses in the poetry collection unconsciously appeared in his mind, they were like anime he had watched, from words to pictures, little by little, and finally different fragments were connected into a finished story.

You have led me through the crowded journey of my day, to the solitude of my twilight.

These verses, and the bright sunshine, really make people feel comfortable.

Walking through the village, getting closer and closer to the little dye house, the poems slowly moved away from his mind, and through the cracks in the house, the little dye house gradually came to mind, accompanied by a very familiar adult tone that scared him very much.

"What do you say you are angry with your child?"

"Am I angry with her or is she angry with me!" I went to junior high school and thought I would dare to get angry with me when I grew up!".

Suddenly, a bad premonition rose in his heart, and this bad premonition made him speed forward. After passing through the last few houses to the square, I saw Xiao Ran's mother sitting in front of the door looking very angry, and there was an old woman next to her who had been persuading her.

"You have to communicate well when you're angry, is there anything you can't say between mother and daughter?"

"Second aunt, do you think she listened to me?"

The voices of the two were very loud, and they could be heard clearly when they reached the square.

"What's wrong?".

Just when neither of them could convince the other, a man from the house next to them looked at them with a puzzled face.

"Akai, you came just in time, Xiao Ran, this child quarreled with her mother and ran away, you hurry up and chase it back." "

Hearing this, he finally sorted out the ins and outs, and ran towards the road out of the village without hesitation.

"Hasn't Xiao Ran always been quite obedient?

"Don't ask, hurry up and chase it!"

"Don't chase, let her run! See where she can run, she won't have to come back when the time comes, and wait for her to come back and see if I don't kill her." "

"Oh, old Yu daughter-in-law, you can't beat it." "

Behind him, the words of those adults were still reaching his ears one by one, and every time he heard a sentence, he became more and more panicked in his heart, and he ran harder and harder.

As he ran, the things around him were rapidly retreating as if they were alive, and as the speed increased, they seemed to turn into countless lines in the afterglow, into lines that he couldn't grasp no matter what.

Running away from the village, the world fell silent, and he couldn't hear anything but the sound of his own heartbeat.

How long he ran, he didn't know, how tired he was, he didn't feel it.

Running to the open space where they used to grill bacon, a girl with a schoolbag could be seen standing in the wind at the intersection, her hair was blown very messy.

"Little Ran!".

He couldn't run anymore, so he could only kneel and scream.

The girl heard his voice and turned back slowly, but it was too far away for him to make out her face.

Just as she turned around, a car just stopped in front of her, and then she lowered her head and got into the car as if it were pressing against a mountain.

Seeing this, he used his last strength to get up and continue running.

Run, keep running, run to the car in front of him, and can no longer be found, he let go of his footsteps and sat on the ground.

After a long time, the sound of the wind was very clear, the sound of the heartbeat was very clear, the sweat slid through the corners of his eyes, and then from the corners of his eyes, and then fell to the ground drop by drop, and he sat there, his mind blank.

"Mao?".

The man chased after him at some point, and when he saw him sitting on the ground like a dead body, he immediately put his hand on his shoulder and gently pulled him up.

"What are you doing sitting here?".

He bowed his head and did not answer.

"Did you see Xiao Ran?".

"Xiao Ran left in the car. "

"What!".

The man was shocked at first, then took out his mobile phone in a panic and started calling.

"Hey, Brother Yun, if you're not in the town, it's fine, you hurry to the gas station to stop it, the child of the old Yu family ran away, hurry up and stop her back." What can she do when she goes out at her age? School will start in a few days, and you can persuade her, yes, yes, she just got in the car, ......."

He didn't know what he should do, what he could do, he looked at his hands numbly, and when the clear texture came into his eyes, he suddenly remembered that he was holding a book of poems in his hand.

"A collection of poems, a collection of poems, a collection of poems by Xiao Ran." "

He looked around in a panic and muttered to himself, the man next to him was frightened by his sudden action and hurriedly asked him what was wrong, he still did not answer, and kept repeating the words of the poem.

After

looking around, there was no poetry book around, he went crazy and ran in the direction of the village, looking for it as he ran, and finally found it in a weed, and then he held it to his chest and leaned against the thorns, and the tears couldn't stop flowing, drop by drop on his hand, as if it was a rainstorm on a sunny day.

The man, unfazed him, followed him and patted him gently on the face when he saw him squatting in the grass and crying bitterly.

"Mao, don't be here, wait for the thorn to be pricked." "

"Hmm. "

He sobbed and stood up, tears blurring his eyes, he couldn't see the man in front of him, and he couldn't see what was under his feet.

"Mao, why did Xiao Ran quarrel with her mother?".

"I don't know. "

Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, the man sighed, then took a cigarette case from his pocket and lit it, patting him on the shoulder.

"It's okay Mao, Xiao Ran is just angry for a while, and he will come back when he is angry, besides, your Uncle Yun is still on it, let's go home first." "

"Hmm. "

He nodded, and then walked forward step by step, for some reason, with each step he felt more and more that Xiao Ran would not come back.