Chapter 274
My parents weren't very educated, but they thought about my name for a long time.
Finally, my mother looked at the beautiful flowers blooming in spring and named me Song Chunhua (Song Spring Flower).
I am my parents' youngest daughter, and I am their only daughter, so they never boss me around, and unlike other parents in the village, they don't call me a money-loser.
But my parents were old and had experienced ten years of war, so my mother passed away when I was five, and my father went to find my mother when I was nine.
Fortunately, after my mother passed away, my father began to teach me how to support myself. In addition, I am naturally strong, so after my father passed away, I figured things out on my own. Although I stumbled and fell a lot, I was able to survive.
The village children often laugh at me, saying I "eat more than a pig and am stronger than an ox."
I didn't dare to yell back; I could only hide at home and cry secretly. Because they have families, but I don't.
No one will ever hold me or support me again.
I thought life would continue like this, but on New Year's Eve when I was ten, I still had to hold a broom and stand guard in front of the small house left by my parents to prevent those relatives from taking away the house that my parents left me.
Unfortunately, no matter how strong I was, I couldn't stop their barrage of questions. They said I was the one who caused my parents' deaths.
On New Year's Eve when I was ten years old, I had no father, no mother, and no house.
I... have nothing left.
But on that very day, I met him, and I thought he would be my star for life.
"Aren't you going home? It's so cold outside, your family will worry." The twelve-year-old asked me.
I heard him, but I was too scared to look up at him.
He wasn't angry at all; instead, he squatted down and sat with me. He said, "There are wolves at night. If we don't go home soon, we'll get eaten."
His words made me even more scared, but my fear got the better of me and I got a little angry. But it only lasted a second. I sniffed, raised my face and glared at him quickly, then deflated and shrank back, not daring to look at him.
I thought to myself, "He's really dark-skinned, especially against the backdrop of white snow. He looks as dark as a lump of coal."
But his eyes were very bright, as beautiful as the stars in the sky.
"Hurry home," he said again. "I'm going back too."
Hearing that he was leaving because of the "wolves," I muttered, "...I have no home anymore."
He hesitated for a long time before saying, "I don't have a home either, so come home with me. That way we'll both have a home."
The snowy nights in the mountain village in winter are very bright; I could see the bright stars in his eyes as soon as I looked up.
His expression looked a mix of happiness and sadness.
"Okay." I have nowhere else to go; this is my only option.
Wanyue Village is like a man-eating demon, and he and I were ridiculed by ugly and foul mouths in this village.
"This cursed star found a wife who brought death to his parents!" they shouted at me from a distance.
I could vaguely understand what they meant, and their tone didn't sound like they were talking about two living people, but rather like they were talking about two despicable beasts.
I stood there, not knowing what to do. All I could do was cry, but I couldn't cry.
In the past, when I cried, they would only laugh louder and say increasingly hurtful things. But that day, they didn't. That day, I heard their cries of pain.
I opened my eyes and saw him standing in front of me like a hero, holding a bunch of small stones in his arms and throwing them at them.
The bad guys covered their heads and cursed, but before they could even raise their heads and utter a sound, they were frightened by his raised hand and ran far away, covering their heads.
He was really amazing, but I still cried in the end. I cried while watching his back.
Why am I crying? I don't know.
Maybe it's because I have a family again.
He took me home, wiped away my tears, and I saw the stars in his eyes again.
I was protected by my star behind me, and I could clearly see my star growing taller and its shoulders broadening.
I just realized that my star has grown up.
Later, when he was eighteen years old and had grown up, his dark face turned red when he wiped away my tears.
I touched his head and asked him, "Do you have a fever?"
He hopped away like a grasshopper in a field, leaving me with his back turned, and didn't forget to say, "I didn't!"
He's always like this, leaving the good things for me and taking the bad things for himself. Now he's even sick and refuses to see a doctor!
I angrily chased after him and dragged him to see a doctor. There was no doctor in Wanyue Village who could treat patients, so we walked a long way to the town before we found one.
The doctor asked him a lot of questions while treating him. Finally, the doctor smiled and asked me to leave. I was worried that Xingxing wouldn't leave, but Xingxing waved to me, and I turned around and left.
If they don't want me to stay with them, I won't stay with them. I don't care! But—I still eavesdropped at the door.
Unfortunately, I couldn't hear what they said through the door. All I know is that after we got home, Xingxing wasn't as close to me as before.
I don't know why, and he won't say.
But since he's not playing with me anymore, I won't play with him either.
When we went to the fields, he was on one side and I was on the other, and we didn't speak to each other for a long time.
Later, I met a sent-down youth who had come to the countryside.
The educated youth were different from the stars. The stars were black, but the educated youth were white, except that every time he met me, his white skin would turn red.
Nobody told me about those things, so I don't know what it means.
I just vaguely felt that I shouldn't get too close to this educated youth, otherwise I would definitely regret it later.
But trouble always seems to find its way in. That educated youth came to play with White Rabbit milk candy, which was something no one in Wanyue Village could afford at the time.
They talked a lot in the house, and finally, Xingxing, with an increasingly dark face, kicked him out of the door.
He also threw out the bag of White Rabbit milk candy.
The educated youth saw me, and there was something in his eyes that I couldn't understand, but I wasn't interested.
I didn't ask him why he was kicked out, because Xingxing always has a reason for doing things.
But I really want to eat White Rabbit milk candy.
Xingxing seemed to have seen me eating greedily. He turned his head away, seemingly lost in thought. But after secretly watching him for a while, I realized that he seemed to be... wiping away tears!
I was incredibly surprised. "Xingxing, you actually cried!"
“I didn’t,” Xingxing said again.
"I saw it!"
You've misjudged.
"Nonsense! You've cried all the stars out of your eyes!"
"..." He didn't say anything.
I frowned, a little worried. "Are you angry?"
"……No."
"Then why did you ignore me before?"
After I asked that question, he suddenly turned his head to look at me.
Like that fair-skinned educated youth, Xingxing's eyes held something I couldn't understand.
He said, "I'm afraid I can't give you what you want."
His tone was heavy; it was the first time I'd ever seen him like this. But I wasn't afraid; instead, I felt a strange, inexplicable joy.
I met his gaze, my voice trembling with sincerity, influenced by his words, "All I want is to be with Xingxing for the rest of my life."
He laughed, then cried, like a fool.
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