Chapter 252: Where my heart leads me, I will never leave this forested place again
Bai Xiaofang nodded:
"Of course I have lived here. You don't remember anything about your childhood. The yard where my eldest brother lives is our old yard.
Since your eldest brother got married, had children and separated from the family, our family moved out."
After getting a positive answer, Su Mei became more certain that she was the original Su Mei.
Those childhood memories were not true. She was the real daughter of the Su family. Perhaps it was the high fever she had when she was a child that allowed her soul to travel to the afterlife.
No wonder when she was young, her mind was full of memories of the countryside, but she was particularly unfamiliar with the urban parents her teacher talked about.
According to Bai Xiaofang, the original owner lost his childhood memories after having a high fever as a child. So the original owner might have entered Su Mei's body when she died of a high fever.
Did she exchange souls with Su Mei from later generations?
Thinking of this, Su Mei asked Bai Xiaofang again:
"Mom, when I was little, after I woke up from a high fever, did I say anything nonsense, like calling mom or saying some weird things?"
"Why do you always talk about things from your childhood?" Bai Xiaofang obviously hesitated.
Suspicion means there is a problem. Seeing this, Su Mei continued to ask: "Mom, you must ask me to tell you the truth. I just had a headache because of some strange memories in my mind.
Just tell me the truth and let me sort out my thoughts, and my headache will stop. "
"After you got sick, your personality really changed. You used to be well-behaved and sensible, but when you woke up from the illness, you became much more irritable. You also said a lot of nonsense, shouting that you wanted to find your parents, and that you wanted to go to kindergarten, the park, and the playground... In short, you were talking nonsense.
At that time, your father asked a teacher to come and take a look, and the teacher said... " Having said this, Bai Xiaofang suddenly stopped.
Su Mei immediately asked, "What did the master say?"
"He said you were possessed by a ghost." Bai Xiaofang hesitated for a moment, but still told the truth.
Now Su Mei understood. According to this statement, she was almost certain that this was originally her own body.
It is not known whether that gentleman is really powerful or a charlatan who is lying. Su Mei always feels that she should go and meet him, perhaps she can solve the mystery.
So Su Mei asked again:
"Mother, where is the man you invited back then? Can we still find him now?"
"I can't find him." Bai Xiaofang shook her head. "He was a monk. Nine years ago, the country started to clear out temples, and all the monks in the temples were driven down the mountain to return to secular life.
I don’t know where that gentleman came from. Since the founding of New China, the country has been promoting the elimination of the four olds and fortune-telling is no longer allowed, so I didn’t pay attention to where he went. ”
"Okay!" She didn't care if she couldn't find it. She touched her belly and said to Bai Xiaofang coquettishly, "Mom, I'm hungry!"
Since she came through, Su Mei had never acted coquettishly to Bai Xiaofang like this. Now that she had confirmed that this was her real mother, she felt more confident to act coquettishly.
Although Bai Xiaofang couldn't explain why, at this moment, she inexplicably felt that her daughter was much closer to her when she called her. She nodded, stood up immediately, and replied:
"Oh! I forgot about you waking up. My sister-in-law left some food for you. I'll go get it for you.
Your elder brother carried you here in the afternoon. Because it was raining too heavily, I stayed here to accompany you and did not go back.
Your father forced your grandpa to go back, otherwise he would have stayed here and waited for you to wake up, but he was too old to withstand the torture, so we didn't let him.
We need to ask your eldest brother to go tell your grandpa that you are awake, otherwise he will be worried and won't be able to sleep well all night."
As she spoke, Bai Xiaofang walked out.
She went to the yard, and Su Mei heard her shouting in the yard: "Boss Su, get up for a moment, your sister has woken up, go to Grandpa and tell him the news, otherwise he will be worried."
"Hey! Mom, I heard Meimei talking. She's getting dressed. I'll be there right away." Su Shengtang's voice responded from the main room next door.
When Bai Xiaofang came in with a bowl of egg fried rice, sister-in-law Lu Shizhen also put on her clothes and entered Su Mei's room.
After Lu Shizhen entered the house, he came over and touched Su Mei's forehead, and said with a smile: "Fortunately, the fever is gone. Su Mei, you scared our whole family."
"Thank you, sister-in-law. I may be tired after sitting on the train for several days. I'm fine now. You don't have to worry about me. Go to bed early." As she spoke, Su Mei took the meal from Bai Xiaofang and started eating.
Seeing that Su Mei was indeed in better spirits, Lu Shizhen stopped bothering her. He said hello and went back to his room to sleep.
Although Su Mei is not a very nice person, she gets along well with these sisters-in-law.
Of course, it was mainly because the Su family split up early, and Su Mei did not have the opportunity to stay with her sisters-in-law for a long time.
After finishing her meal, Bai Xiaofang went back to the kitchen to put away the dishes, then returned to her room and climbed onto the bed to sleep with Su Mei.
This room is where the little girl from my eldest brother's family sleeps. Su Mei slept here tonight, and the little girl slept in my eldest brother and his wife's room.
Su Mei was not used to sleeping with strangers.
But when she knew Bai Xiaofang was her mother, her mood when lying with her was different, and she took the initiative to squeeze towards Bai Xiaofang.
My heart is filled with the breath of happiness.
"That's great! Mom, I'm back."
"Of course, I miss you every day, but it's a pity that you will only stay at home for twenty days before you have to go to Yanjing again. If you have the ability to stay outside to develop in the future, I'm afraid it will be even harder for me to see you."
When Su Mei said she was back, she meant that she knew she had traveled back from the afterlife, but Bai Xiaofang misunderstood that Su Mei meant she was back from Yanjing.
Su Mei couldn't explain this question, so she just went with the flow and didn't expose it. She took Bai Xiaofang's arm and said:
"When I settle down in Yanjing, I will take you, dad, and grandpa over to me."
"You are so bold, little girl! You want to take Fifth Brother with you, and you also want to take us old guys with you. You will be exhausted if you drag your whole family with you! We won't go, we will just stay at home and farm."
"We'll talk about the future later!" Su Mei didn't argue much. There was no point in arguing. When she had money in the future, bought more yards, and had children, she would tell Bai Xiaofang that she needed someone to take care of the children, and she would not have to go.
Su Mei slept particularly soundly that night.
She was truly no longer an orphan, not in body, mind, or soul.
The next day the weather cleared up, and Su Mei followed Bai Xiaofang back to her own home.
When the sun rose on the third day, Su Mei went out early in the morning with Su Shengxue and Bai Xiaofang. She wanted to look around and try to see if it was possible to awaken more memories.
Su Mei developed a strong sense of belonging to this strange yet vaguely familiar small mountain village.
She was born under the moon, her soul wandered in all directions, and was led by the moonlight to return quietly to her hometown.
I love the moonlight, my heart is towards its brightness, and I cannot leave this light.
She was born in this forest, her soul once wandered everywhere, but it seemed that the forest called her back quietly. She loved this forest, full of green, and from then on, she would never leave this forest.