"Nono."
Xiao Yunjian knelt on one knee on the wooden floor, his gray-blue left eye looking particularly deep under the light.
Renault looked up and saw a rare look of fatigue on his face.
"You and Uncle Xu will ride in the same car tomorrow." Xiao Yunjian's voice was soft, but unquestionable.
Renault immediately clenched Youyou's little hand.
Even in her sleep, the girl subconsciously held his fingers back, just like she did every time she encountered danger along the way.
Xiao Yunjian pulled open the clothes on the backs of the two children.
His fingers were cold, and when they touched the eagle tattoo on Renault's back, the boy flinched unconsciously.
The oil lamp cast their shadows on the wall, and the wings of the two eagles overlapped, as if they would take off at any time.
"When you meet again," Xiao Yunjian's fingers gently stroked the tattoo, "you must be able to protect her."
Renault shook his head and held Youyou's hand tighter.
But Xiao Yunjian pried open his fingers, and the wound on the boy's palm hurt.
When the sky was just getting light, Youyou was still sleeping.
Renault was carried into the jeep. Looking back, he saw Xiao Yunjian's figure standing in front of the wooden house gradually being swallowed by the morning mist.
You Ran was carried into another car, and the last thing he saw was the goose yellow bow on the end of her hair.
He tied it for her himself on her birthday.
She will never know that her father said something silently to the back of the receding car.
Renault suddenly clutched the badge on his chest.
He memorized the lip shape of that sentence for twenty-two years.
"Keep watch over me, my little moon."
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