I stood quietly on the path alone. The wind blew by, making the dead wood branches around me rustling, and tiny snow foam kept blowing on my face.

After a while, the hot stuff poured out of his eyes was melted.

The snow water, with a little warmth, fell on the ground drop by drop.

I stood there blankly. I don’t know how long it took, but I heard the sound of Miaoyan coming from the wind. She hurriedly walked here with a few girls. When she saw me standing on this dark path, she hurried over: "Mom, why are you here?"

I looked up and looked at her: "Ah?"

"You haven't come back for a long time, I'm worried it's broken."

“…”

"Why are you standing in this place? Alas, your hands are cold and cold!"

“…”

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

She said, holding my hand and rubbing it continuously for me, and looking at me with wide eyes. Her fingertips were stained with a little warmth, and I seemed to have finally pulled back a little bit of consciousness and looked down at her: "Miaoyan, why are you coming out?"

"I'm waiting for my mother to come back for dinner. After waiting for a long time, the meal is about to get cold."

“…”

"I also asked someone to ask. Uncle King of Iron Cavalry and others said that my mother had come back, but it made me very worried."

She was obviously a child, but now she had an adult expression when speaking and doing things. I looked at her and felt that she could no longer shed tears. Her dry eyes were slightly astringent, and she said softly: "Let's go, let's go back."

She nodded and immediately turned around and ordered the girls behind her: "Go back and put the stove on."

A little girl responded and ran back immediately.

Miaoyan grabbed my hand with one hand and hugged me with the other: "Let's go back quickly, it's cold outside."

I didn't say anything along the way. She was half-held and half-carried back in. The warmth emitted from the stove immediately melted the little bit of snow on my body. The two little girls came up to change my clothes. Miaoyan immediately pulled me to sit at the table and served a bowl of hot soup to my hands.

"Mom, let's drink some hot soup first."

“…”

I couldn't eat anything, and my heart seemed to be stuffed into a big cold stone, and even my breathing felt heavy. But when I heard her earnest voice, I lowered my head and took a sip, and then sipped.

The soup that had just been hot was still steaming, and it burned from my mouth to my heart when I drank it, but after I drank it, I didn’t know where my heart was.

Miaoyan kept looking at me, and she seemed to feel the confused aura on me, and said softly: "Why did I just stand there? I heard from them that I asked me to find an old friend? Did you find it?"

“…”

My hands trembled slightly, and the remaining soup in the bowl was splashed out.

Miaoyan was shocked, hurriedly reached out to take the bowl, took out the handkerchief and wiped it for me: "Mom, is it hot?"

I shook my head: "It's okay, mom is okay."

For some reason, when I arrived in the warm room, my voice became hoarse. Miaoyan was stunned when she heard me talking like this.

"Mom, what's wrong with you?"

“…”

"Didn't my mother have been asking her to go to the inner and outer cities to look for your old friend? I heard that the person sent by my father today has also returned. Have they found it?"

“…”

"Is there any news?"

I just felt that the big stone in my chest was falling heavily, almost shattering my heart and liver. I clenched my fist hard. After I was burned, my somewhat hot tiger's mouth seemed to be torn apart. I said calmly: "There is no news, no news at all."

"Really? That old friend of that mother—"

"I don't know where he went, but since there is no news, he should have left."

“…”

"He left..."

Miaoyan looked at me quietly, not knowing what she saw on my face, but she felt that her breath had sunk. After a while, she whispered: "Well, do you still want to look for him?"

I shook my head: "I won't look for it."

“…”

“Never look for it again.”

“…”

"No news is good news."

“…”

"He must have left, he must have been freed from the shackles of the past and gained freedom."

“…”

"I won't look for it."

“…”

Miaoyan still looked at me quietly. After a long time, she suddenly leaned over and hugged me gently. I also had the chill that had not faded from the outside. Her warm body was tightly pressed against me like this, which made me feel a little trembling. She said softly: "That's good, my mother's old friend must have left and gone to live a good life."

“…”

"Mom, don't worry about it anymore, mom should take good care of herself."

“…”

"Mom looks like this, it's actually because others are worried about you."

I lowered my head and felt her cheeks pressing against my chest, gently rubbing it. The natural sense of intimacy between mother and daughter made my chest feel a little warmer. I reached out and touched her head, gently stroked it, and said, "My Miaoyan is about to get married, and my mother has less and less to worry about."

“…”

"In the future, you will have to worry about your family, you will have children, and your own grandchildren, you will have to worry about them."

Miaoyan said, "But no matter what, I will never forget my mother."

I smiled softly at her.

There seemed to be tears in my eyes, but it could no longer flow.

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That night, I didn't eat anything, and Miaoyan seemed to feel that there was something in my heart that I couldn't bear, and she didn't force me to sleep with me at night because she would get married tomorrow, and in the future, she would rarely have the chance to sleep with me again.

It's very rare, but I also understand in my heart that there is almost no chance.

The two of them took a good shower, and with a faint warmth and fragrance, she got into the quilt and hugged me. Just like when she was a child, she put her face on my chest, and one hand crossed over my waist.

It seems like I'm afraid that someone will take me away.

I smiled and said, "Miaoyan's way of doing this reminds me of the time I was in Jixiang Village in the past."

“…”

"You are always unhonest to sleep at night."

Miaoyan said softly: "I hope so that I will always be at that time."

“…”

"That way, I can be with my mother forever."

“…”

"Aunt Yunxiang and the others are kind to me, and the children in the village are playing with me."

As she said, her breath became a little thicker and she whispered: "Although we were not rich at that time, my mother was busy with the work of the embroiderers every day, and I also had to help twist threads, but so many years have passed, my mother, I think that was my happiest time."

I smiled and said, "How old are you? What are the happiest times?"

“…”

"You have a few decades of good life. In the past few decades, there are still many ups and downs waiting for you. There must be happier times than that, and perhaps there will be difficulties you can't imagine waiting for you."

When she heard me say this, she froze slightly.

I said, "But remember that no matter how turbulent the world is, you have a gentle and kind heart."

"No matter how turbulent the world is, you have a gentle and kind heart." She repeated, then looked up at me: "This is what Mom is, right?"

"..." I was speechless.

Miaoyan said: "When I was rushing around with the Iron Cavalry Uncle Wang, he often talked to me about my mother."

"oh?"

"He said, Mom is a strange woman, and you shouldn't be there in this world."

I couldn't help but smile: "What is this?"

She thought for a while and said, "Uncle Wang of the Iron Cavalry said that my mother's eyes always look forward, but rarely look back, but what she sees is not in front of her."

This is a bit inappropriate.
To be continued...