I wish my friends a happy New Year and wish my friends and family good health, all the best, and happiness.

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The cold wind blew the falling snow, sometimes lifting it up to the sky and sometimes falling down the earth.

The mountains were covered with white, with only the green pines in the deep mountains, and the waves were still tumbling, as if they were about to throw the snow off their bodies.

Since the Japanese devils occupied the Yangjing mine area, there has been a lot of changes. A narrow-distance railway was built and windingly led to the mine.

On the top of the hill to the north of the mine, a few trees that were originally few were cut down and a three-story artillery tower was erected. The road ahead of the mine had been squeezed into the farmland by piled up coal gangue, and there was still foggy heat on the gangue hill.

There are many children picking coal on the slag hill. Whenever a truck of slag is unloaded from the top, the children will flock to grab it.

The stone-shaped stone-shaped stones and small fists rolled in front of them, either twisted their bodies or raised their legs, and the stones rolled down.

Children in the mining area should not carefully recognize coal and gangue, and they will try it out just by touching it with their hands.

A thirteen or four-year-old boy with big eyes flashed, picked up quickly and accurately. When he reached the top of the slag mountain, he almost picked up a basket.

He was about to walk down with a basket on his shoulder when the children suddenly shouted and ran away. Someone shouted, "There is a sling, Xiaomao runs quickly."

Ma Gan is both the He family's tyrant and the supervisor at the wellhead. In order to please the Japanese devils, he even took care of the charcoal farm and often took away the baskets of the children's coal picks.

Because he is thin and used to holding a stick about one meter long in his hand, the children call him "heat rod".

When Xiaomao heard the call from the police, he quickly stepped up his pace and walked down.

Ma Gan called him a few times, but he ignored him, looking back from time to time, just running down.

When Ma Gan was about to catch him, he slipped like a loach. He squatted and slipped down the slag mountain, spinning around the slag. Not only did Ma Gan not catch him, he almost tripped by the slag under his feet.

The children who were looking around laughed, and Ma Gan couldn't help but feel angry and turned around to chase other children.

A slow-running child was caught in the basket. The child struggled to snatch it, but he could not resist the strength of the adults. The basket was snatched away and was kicked. Seeing the slag walking away, he was so anxious that he stamped his feet and cried.

"Why are you crying? I can't cry back." Xiaomao walked over, said with some anger and some contempt.

"Then, that's the new basket, my aunt wants to scold me." Erdan said with tears in his eyes.

Xiaomao died of mother since childhood. Her father encountered water again in the mine. His life was saved, but he broke his leg and could not go down the well to work. There was an old lady at home who was old and didn't care about him.

The hardship of life made Xiaomao sensible early and mature and bolder than other children. Every day he carried the coal he picked to the distant village to sell it, and exchanged some food to maintain his family's life.

Because I have not worn shoes for many years, I walked barefoot and thick calluses were worn on my feet. I didn’t feel hurt when I walked on the cinder and the stones.

Seeing Erdan's pitiful appearance, Xiao Mao comforted helplessly: "Okay, stop wiping his tears, let's find a way to take back this basket."

Erdan sniffed and didn't say anything. He had seen Ma Gan snatched away many children's baskets, but he had never seen anyone take them back.

Seeing that it was time for dinner, Xiaomao accompanied the listless Erdan back. While walking, Xiaomao wanted to distract from this trouble and asked casually: "Erdan, where is your sister, have you gone home?"

When this matter was mentioned, Erdan even felt bitter, shook his head, and said, "I didn't reply. I heard that I had seen her by the forest, but I didn't say it right."

"Then I'll help find it!" Xiaomao paused and said, "I often go out to sell charcoal, maybe I can see it."

Erdan nodded slightly and said, "If you meet me, tell my sister that the uncle beat my aunt up and will not let her get married."

"What should you do if your uncle's waist disease?"

Erdan shook his head, but he didn't know what to do. Zhuanglai fell down, and as he saw the family collapse, he felt miserable and confused.

Xiao Mao knew that Erdan was even more miserable than him. Both his parents died, and his sister Damei relied on his uncle to support him. However, his uncle was injured in the waist a few days ago, and he couldn't afford to hire a doctor, so his injuries became worse and worse.

Although the poor guys help me, everyone’s life is as difficult as they are, how much can they take out?

If it weren't for being forced to do so, Xiao Mao's aunt wouldn't have married Damei, the sixteen-year-old. In fact, she also wanted Damei to leave this family and find a way out.

Of course, the so-called marriage is like a transaction, and it is also a bid for some of the man’s bride gifts.

But Damei had a stubborn temper and didn't like the man from the outside village at all. She plunged into the Hongshui River outside the village. When she was salvaged, she seemed to have died, but she pressed and rubbed her twice and came back to life.

As for people, they have come back to life, but their personality has changed drastically. They have sat or lying in a daze all day long, and they have never said a word.

Early the next morning, my family found that Damei disappeared and I didn’t know where I ran to. Many people moved in front of the village, behind the village, and by the river.

After entering the village, the two children broke up and went home.

Erdan returned home and saw his uncle Sun Hongshan lying on the kang face inside, and moaning weakly.

Xiaohua, a nine-year-old daughter, held her three or four-year-old brother and sat on the bench. The child was so hungry that she cried, so Xiaohua had to stretch out her arms to chew on him.

"Where is my aunt?" Erdan asked Xiaohua.

"I went out to beg for food in the morning, but I haven't come back yet." Xiaohua replied in a low voice with tears in her eyes.

Sun Hongshan turned his face hard and looked at it. After moving his mouth for a few times, he didn't say anything.

Erdan hurriedly helped him turn over and poured a bowl of water for his uncle to drink. Sun Hongshan shook his head and closed his eyes again.

The room was quiet, and only the children sobbed from time to time. It was not until it got dark that my aunt returned home with exhaustion.

Xiao Huaniang secretly stuffed the dish dumplings she wanted to come to Erdan, and then beat him out on an excuse. Then she put a few corners of pancakes in a bowl and soaked them in boiling water, and handed them to her husband.

Sun Hongshan turned his head to look at Xiaohua's thin and yellow face, shook his head gently, and asked, "Xiaohua, are you hungry?"

Xiaohua lowered her head and didn't say anything. Xiaohua's mother used chopsticks to pick up a small corner of pancakes from the bowl, put them in Xiaohua's mouth, and said, "There is still time for a child to eat? Go to bed quickly, you won't be hungry if you fall asleep!"

Xiaohua sat up silently under the stove, because it was warm here. Erdan sneaked in, stuffed her half a dish dumpling, and walked out silently.

Xiaohua's mother urged her husband to eat the pancake soup while it was hot. Sun Hongshan took it a few times and sighed, "Xiaohua's mother, this injury is impossible to cure. Even if I can go down the well, I can't buy a pair of medicine for a class's wages."

"No matter how expensive the medicine is, we have to find a way to cure it. If you have something to do, what should I do with my mother..." Xiao Hua Niang choked up.

"If the injury is healed, it is a disabled person. It's a waste of money. It's better to be early..." Sun Hongshan said and shed tears.

After pausing, he continued to sigh: "I'm sorry, brother. He gave me this life, but Damei... and the second Dan..." He could no longer say anything.

"His father, it's my fault, it shouldn't..." Xiao Hua's mother started crying with a thrust.

"You also want to find a way out for the children - this world -" Sun Hongshan shook his head so sadly that he pushed the bowl to his wife, "You can eat with the children, I can't eat it." After that, he closed his eyes and said nothing again.

Xiao Hua's mother looked at her husband for a while, then turned to look at the two children. Xiao Hua was already asleep while leaning against the stove. The little girl was tired from crying and was sleeping heavily on the kang.

He carried his daughter to the kang, and Xiaohua's mother looked at her thin and yellow face, and tears were like a river opening in the sky, flowing all over her face, dripping onto her clothes and onto Xiaohua's chest.

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It was already midnight, and the mountain wind blew the branches and leaves of the trees, making a buzzing sound. On the snow-covered hillside, leaning against a big tree, hiding in the shadows, who is not the big plum?

But this big plum is no longer the same big plum, and the body has not changed, but the inner consciousness is already Shen Chen.

That's right, he was not dead, his soul flew away, and he experienced a difficult prisoner. When he was liberated again, he possessed himself on Damei who committed suicide by throwing himself into the water.

He had already had the experience of rebirth twice, and even had a brief possession on Chu Jiao. Shen Chen should be very calm and should not lose his composure.

But this rebirth was very strange. The jade pendant was embedded in his (her) chest incredibly, which was really puzzling, and it really took some time to calm down and think seriously.

The dry wild wormwood all over the mountains swayed in the night breeze, wafting scents.

Damei, no, it should be Shen Chen, the fusion memory tells her, "There are jujubes in Shilang Valley, and you can take a bite of sweetness; the wild wormwood in the mountains, and you can smell it and smell it fragrant."

Damei's memory also made Shen Chen know that he had been here before, but it was before the Japanese came.

Ever since the artillery tower was built on Hongshigang in Shilangyu and the people who came to Yelangyu to pick jujubes have been killed and injured, almost no one dared to come here again.

The ghost fire flashed in the distance, and Shen Chen narrowed his eyes slightly. It was the artillery tower on the Hongshigang. It turned out that there were several trees on the hill, and the artillery tower was cut down by the Japanese after the artillery tower was built, making the hill like a big grave.

Traveling through time, possession, rebirth...

No matter how incredible it is, Shen Chen will no longer use any scientific thinking to think about problems.

Based on his awe of the arrangement in the dark, the jade pendant was still there, so he could understand that this was the guidance for him. It would not be for no reason to possess him when he was possessed by Damei.

Chewing pine nuts in his mouth, Chen Chen spit out the broken shells.

Although she was not strong because of her miserable life, she already felt the strangeness of her body's growth and recovery ability after being reborn.

Then start again!

Although a sixteen-year-old girl was a bit unsatisfactory, Chen Chen was confident that he would quickly strengthen his body and be able to take on the responsibilities he was about to begin with with his skills that were in his mind and could continue to upgrade and strengthen.

Chen Chen let out a long breath, slowly stood up, pulled out the small squid from his waist and looked at it.

There are already some rust stains, and the original color cannot be seen in the cloth wrapped around the knife handle. Could it be that the new path starts with this knife?

Putting away the knife, Chen Chen looked at his feet again. It was a broken basket that she had picked up, which had been rewoven with the broken branches, and there were some pine towers inside.

I'm afraid this thing will be a coveted play for a few days. Should it be back to that broken "home"?

Although the aunt said that getting married was like a business, it was just a bride price from the man.

But Chen Chen now figured it out. In that situation, he really couldn't support those mouths. Marrying her out was actually a way out for her.

Marry up! I like beautiful women!

Chen Chen carried the basket, walked through the trees and grass, and walked towards the village.

While leaving, he also complained from time to time: It’s so big, without a formal name, there is a nickname that is too rustic, Damei, it’s gone when it’s big? Look at these hard-earned days, why do you still have to endure patience?

Why? That's right, this is the most rebellious thoughts and thinking of modern people.

Why is it hard to even have enough food to eat? Why can’t I even be bullied? Why... Why... Why... Why is it... Why is it...

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To be continued...