In the small southern town in her hometown, it always rains several times before autumn.

    The damp air has the scent of jasmine, which is cool and sweet.

    Raindrops rolled down along the edge of the umbrella and sank into the dark concrete floor; pedestrians on the street hurried to their destination.

    The water vapor was wiped back and forth by the wiper, and the car windows were foggy, probably because Lu Yongfei turned on the heater.

    On the other side of the phone, the daughter's voice was crisp: "Dad, Dad, did you bring me chocolate?"

    "You must have bought it, you glutton," the woman grabbed the microphone and said to the child: "Lu Miao , Hurry up and finish your radish soup."

    "Oh," the girl just agreed, and immediately asked with her throat: "Dad, when are you coming back?" The microphone was put down, and her mom said, " Stop the noise , your father is driving." Lu Yongfei laughed.

    After a while, the phone picked up again, and the woman said concisely: "My child's father, Lu Miao is waiting for chocolate, come back early."

    He answered repeatedly.

    The rain outside was heavier. As the car drove to the side road, there were a lot fewer pedestrians.

    There is a mahjong hall on the corner of Panhua Road, and business is better on rainy days.

    In the room of less than ten square meters, the people who snorted mentally shouting for the deal, the sound of card shuffling all day long was temporarily cut off by the thin rain curtain.

    After elementary school was over for a long time, Jiang Haoyue did not go home for a long time.

    Carrying a schoolbag, he squatted across the road from the entrance of his store, where there was a simple flowerbed made of cement, and he was paying attention to the snails.

    A snail stuck to the leaf motionlessly.

    Jiang Haoyue wondered if the snail also found him. Because it was in the shell at first, it came out after he saw it.

    He watched, the fleshy brown, limp body of the little snail gradually stretched out, from a little bit to the length of one of his knuckles.

    Its two tentacles stretch very high.

    Jiang Haoyue let out a surprised "Yeah", he seemed to be looking at it.

    The rain bent the leaves, and his small palms arched like eaves to protect the snail from the rain.

    When the car came around the corner, Jiang Haoyue didn't see it at all.

    He saw that the shell of the little snail suddenly became so shiny and shiny, and the leaves were shiny, and then he looked at his hand in a daze.

    The next moment, he was knocked down.

    When the pain hit, Jiang Haoyue was already caught under the wheel.

    The wipers made two "swishes", and there was a illusion of tingling nearby for a second.

    Lu Yongfei rolled down the car window, the rustling rain caught the wind, as if the seal had been uncovered, one after another greeted him on his face.

    Other than that, there was no other sound on the road.

    The sky was terribly cloudy.

    He knew that when he was turning, he must have hit something, and the body shook obviously, and he didn't see what it was.

    After hesitating for a moment, he decided to get out of the car and take a look.

    Lu Yongfei couldn't think that the matter would be so serious—he bumped into a little boy.

    ...

    Jiang Yi led a group of people and rushed to the hospital angrily.

    He was playing cards with people before, and he was lucky today and won some money.

    It was a bit noisy outside. He heard that a child had been hit on the other side of the road. Jiang Yi subconsciously thought of his good son Jiang Haoyue, and glanced at the time on the wall.

    When Jiang Yi rushed out of the store, the ambulance had just left.

    "Who the hell bumped into my child? Who?" Jiang Yi led his brother into the emergency room, as if catching the perpetrator and beating him to death.

    Lu Yongfei sat in the chair in the corner, his brows furrowed, his expression depressed.

    His hair is wet and his coat is also wet.

    Seeing the child's father was about to rush over to punch him, Lu Yongfei's eyes were still in a trance.

    It was a nurse in the hospital who stopped Jiang Yi from beating.

    "Sir, calm down. This is a hospital, not a place for fighting and trouble." The nurse separated the two staff and said to Jiang Yi sternly: "Are you a family member of the little boy? We are going to have an operation here, and you need your signature." "

    Jiang Yi glanced at the informed consent form, clenched his fists, and wanted to rush over to hit Lu Yongfei.

    "Amputation? What does amputation mean?"

    Lu Yongfei did not hide.

    He has been an honest person for most of his life. If something like this happens, he feels more uncomfortable than anyone else, and it is even more impossible to argue with Jiang Yi at this juncture.

    "Brother, I'm really sorry, I know it's useless to say this, but you should sign it first."

    Lu Yongfei looked at Jiang Yi with red eyes, earnestly: "I will be responsible for the follow-up.

    Yes . The child can't wait, he must have the operation soon." The rain continued to fall until midnight, and there was no tendency to stop.

    The operation was done for several hours.

    Jiang Haoyue's life was saved, her left leg was amputated in a high position, and everything below the base of the thigh was gone.

    As soon as the child came out of the operating room, he was sent to the intensive care unit and has not yet been awakened.

    During this period, Lu Yongfei left once and brought Jiang Yi back with a box lunch.

    The hospital can't smoke. Jiang Yi grabbed a cigarette and rubbed it back and forth with his fingers. It was a smoker.

    "Brother, you go out and smoke a

    cigarette . I'll watch it here. And I bought rice, you have some rice." Lu Yongfei knew that talking to Jiang Yi was equivalent to scolding, but he also had to say it.

    After this incident, he owed the Jiang family all his life.

    "Eating? Am I in a fucking mood? Are you in a mood for a change?"

    Jiang Yi raised his hand and waved away the plastic bag that Lu Yongfei had handed over.

    He sat here for a few hours, never wanting to believe that the accident really happened to his son.

    "Jiang Haoyue, he is only nine years old, he is just third grade this year," Jiang Yi clenched his teeth, each word was as heavy as it was squeezed out of his teeth: "He has become..."

    That word is terrible.

    Even the swear word Jiang Yi couldn't say it--how could that word be used on Jiang Haoyue?

    "I can understand, really." Lu Yongfei lowered his head and sighed for a long time: "I have a daughter named Lu Miao, who is eight years old. I understand the feeling of being a father too much. What happened to the child is more serious than what happened to myself. It hurts thousands of times."

    "What's the use of understanding?"

    Jiang Yi sneered, ignoring his feelings: "You have to be responsible, you fucking have to be responsible, or I will find someone to kill you, and your whole family."

    "I know."

    Lu Yongfei raised three fingers, swearing to the sky: "I, Lu Yongfei, will have a son from now on."

Until Lu Miao fell asleep,she didn't eat the chocolate that Lu Yongfei bought for her.

    But this is also very common. Lu Yongfei's job is a driver. He drives his boss, and his commuting time is not stable.

    In the middle of the night, Lu Miao fell asleep and heard her mother talking on the phone in the living room.

    "But this is definitely not our full responsibility... Can we negotiate... How could..."

    "You said so serious... Haven't woken up yet? Not out of danger..." The    voice was intermittent, and my mother seemed to be crying.

    "What kind of evil did you do? It's on this kind of thing."

    "You handle it first, um... we'll discuss it when we come back."

    Lu Miao wanted to cheer up and hear it more clearly, but she was too sleepy and her eyelids struggled a bit. The next closed again.

    When Lu Miao got up the next day, Lu Yongfei was eating breakfast, and Lin Wenfang was standing at the dining table and talking to him.

    "Dad!" She ran over.

    Lu Yongfei touched his daughter's messy little head, and forced a smile at her.

    Lu Miao noticed that her father looked tired with bloodshot eyes in his eyes, so she asked him, "Dad, did you sleep well?"

    "Your father didn't sleep all night." Lin Wenfang sighed softly, holding hands. Putting on her husband's shoulders, pressed for him.

    Lu Yongfei was not at ease and had a bad appetite: "I thought about going to the hospital again after breakfast."

    "What's the use of going?" Lin Wenfang persuaded him: "You have to go to bed later, stop thinking about it. Fortunately, the child woke up. As we said just now, this matter is considered long-term, and God always gives us a chance to make up for it."

    "What kid?" Lu Miao couldn't help but interject.

    With a lot of trouble, Lin Wenfang didn't have time to explain so much to the children for the time being, and drove her to brush her teeth and wash her face: "I'll tell you later. Don't procrastinate here, or you will be late for class again."

    Lu Miao is eight years old this year and she is in the second grade of elementary school.

    In this world, she doesn't understand many things, such as multiplication and division, the meaning of ancient poems, such as why Xiaoming always messes things up, why Xiaohong always says half of the words, let her fill in the next sentence.

    The "car accident and disability" Lin Wenfang told her, Lu Miao has only heard of it in TV dramas.

    In "Yi Lian Yu Meng", Fei Yunfan with thick eyebrows plausibly said to Wang Luping: "You just lost a leg, but Zi Ling has lost her love." The

lines and this TV series, Lu Miao don't understand. However, their family did not lose love, what their family lost was the house.

    Mom and Dad said to her, "We are moving to another place." They promised her that they could raise chickens downstairs in the new house.

    What a fun chicken! Therefore, Lu Miao was not very sad about the move.

    On the day I saw Jiang Haoyue for the first time, Lu Miao wore a yellow skirt.

    She was so active, she jumped up and down to be naughty and mischievous when she was idle. Lin Wenfang didn't like to wear a skirt for her, which was not convenient for washing.

    Occasionally wearing a skirt, Lu Miao was obviously very excited. She secretly pulled the veil under the seat with her left hand, buckled it on the embroidery of the flower, and felt all the threads on the edge of the petals.

    Lin Wenfang saw it, and inevitably came to an education: "Unfortunately, you are in the second grade, and you don't look like a girl."

    Lu Miao was honest.

    "Did you remember what mom taught you to say before?" Lin Wenfang couldn't relax.

    Lu Miao nodded as if pounding garlic: "I remember it."

    Then she turned her head and went into the hospital. While Lu Yongfei and his wife were talking to Jiang Yi, the child spread her feet and ran away again.

    There was a special smell of disinfectant water in the hospital. Lu Miao felt that it smelled better than the soil that was raining outside. In the science class, it was said that disinfectant water was used to kill bacteria.

    There are six beds in each children's ward, and she walks to other people's beds one by one, guessing which child is "Jiang Haoyue" that Mom and Dad said.

    What's more mysterious is that it was really recognized by Lu Miao at a glance.

    The boy lives in the innermost bed of the ward. The window was tightly closed, but he seemed to be still cold, most of his body was wrapped in the bedding, only a bloodless face and a hand hanging from a bottle were exposed.

    The yellow skirt Lu Miao adjusted his skirt, and stood ladyly in front of his bed.

    The sheets are white, and the gauze on the boy's hands is also white.

    The smell of the disinfectant here seems to be much stronger than that in other places, Lu Miao thought: It can kill a lot of bacteria, then he must be the person who loves cleanliness the most in this room.

    When the three parents entered the room, Lu Miao was doing the task assigned to her by Lin Wenfang.

    "Jiang Hao Yue Ge Ge, hello, my name is Lu Miao, second grade elementary school in the southeast this year, eight years old."

    Her pronunciation was sent plate board precisely, enunciate, but also know that the ward can not speak loudly, deliberately Lower the voice.

    Lu Yongfei saw that Jiang Haoyue was sleeping with his eyes closed.He just wanted to rush over to let his daughter stop disturbing the patient to rest. Lin Wenfang quietly pulled him back.  "Forget it, her volume is not loud, he has already woken up if she can wake people up." The couple swept Jiang Yi with the left side of their eyes, and he didn't say anything.

    Lu Miao didn't quite understand, why halfway through her words, the little brother on the bed suddenly closed his eyes.

    She didn't think he didn't like her at all, that sort of thing.

    She thought, maybe this elder brother is sleepy, after all, he is injured and easily sleepy. She often went to class, was sleepy, and suddenly fell asleep.

    "Ge Ge, you have to get better soon, and we will raise chickens together."

    Lu Miao couldn't help but be happy when she talked about chickens.

    Although the little brother went to bed, the words her mother had confessed hadn't been finished yet, so she speeded up her speech intimately.

    "In the future you will have one sister that is me."

    Afraid he forgot who she was, Lu Miao specifically reminded him:. "My name is Lu Miao . You can call me '

Miao Miao.I give you chocolate "

     With this piece of chocolate, she can get two pieces of chocolate at home.

    Lu Miao generously stuffed the chocolate into Jiang Haoyue's hand.

    With his hand hanging on the bottle, she squeezed the fist loosely, she broke his little finger and forcibly gave out her gift.

    This action accidentally pulled the needle tube.

    Jiang Haoyue frowned, thinking that he was pretending to be asleep before, so he had to continue pretending to be.

    On the way home from the hospital, Lu Yongfei asked how Lu Miao recognized Jiang Haoyue.

    "Could it be that you are literate? You can read the name tag beside the hospital bed and recognize the three characters'Jiang Haoyue'?"

    Lu Miao shook his head, and Lu Yongfei and Lin Wenfang looked like "Sure enough."

    "I don't know, I think it is." After racking her brains to explain what that intuition was, Lu Miao thought about it after a long time.

    "In the ward, he is different from others... he looks the best."

  Later, Lu Miao followed her parents to the hospital several times, when Jiang Haoyue was awake.

    Children seem to like to play with children older than themselves, and Lu Miao is no exception, not to mention that she still thinks Jiang Haoyue is very good-looking.

    His eyes were much lighter than hers. They were the foggy brown. Lu Miao thought of the mountains painted in the illustration of the language book. It was far away and quiet.

    Jiang Haoyue was indeed quiet. He could stare at the ceiling without moving, and it was all afternoon. There was no kid at this age like him. In Lin Wenfang's words, this is called "behaved" and "honest". They are all good words. Lu Miao has never been praised like that once.

    Seeing the weather outside was clear, Lu Miao opened the curtains.

    The sun entered the ward, Jiang Haoyue's hair was dyed beautiful blonde.

    Then Lu Miao started chatting with him again: "Ge ge, when will you be better? The hospital can't kick shuttlecock, I want to go out to play."

    "Have you ever assembled a robot? I can pretend it."

    "Ge ge, Do you know Ultraman? I have a five-blood Ultraman game card."

    "Ge ge, can I touch your hair?"

    Jiang Haoyue didn't say much, but Lu Miao said too much, and he still knows how to answer her.

    "Can you stop talking."

    "Oh." Lu Miao shut her mouth angrily.

    Her parents were not there and there was nothing to play in the ward. Lu Miao was slightly shocked by Jiang Haoyue's words. She looked around here and there, and deliberately avoided him.

    By coincidence, she glanced over the trash can beside his bed and found something familiar lying in it.

    Take a closer look, that's right—chocolate! It hasn't been opened at all, her favorite nutty taste.

    Jiang Haoyue threw the chocolate she gave away.

    When Lu Miao went out this morning, she chose for a long time before she made up her mind to bring it to her beautiful little brother. She didn't know that as soon as she gave him off, he just threw it away.

    Lu Miao could hardly think about the chocolates she sent before, the raisin-flavored, crispy-rice-flavored, sandwich...

    "Are you a fool?" She scolded him angrily: "You won't give it to me if you don't eat it?"

    So Jiang Haoyue watched her dig out the piece of chocolate from the trash can.

    "Tear and pull"-smoothly torn open the package.

    "Ka, Ka"-chewed a few mouthfuls in a hurry.

    "Grumbling"-swallowed it.

    She stared at him as she ate, and the first sentence after eating was to ask him: "Is there any more?" On  the final transcript of the first grade of elementary school, the head teacher's positive comment on Lu Miao was "optimistic by nature" , Lin Wenfang felt that a more appropriate evaluation should be "instinctive heartlessness."

    Zaba Zaba recalled the sweetness in his mouth, Lu Miao was angry for about ten seconds at the fact that she finally felt "Jiang Haoyue didn't like her". With a flash of light in her mind, she suddenly thought that if this were the case, every time she came to see Jiang Haoyue in the future, she could have three whole pieces of chocolate.

    Thinking of this, Lu Miao was happy again.

    It was late autumn when Jiang Haoyue was discharged from the hospital.

    Treatment expenses, nutrition expenses, rehabilitation money, money for hiring a caregiver, and other odds and ends, almost emptied Lu Yongfei's family in a few months.

    Jiang Yi is not a good crop. The better Lu Yongfei's attitude is, the more arrogant he will be. The most recent time, he asked Lu Yongfei for mental damage, and the money was given to Jiang Yi, like throwing it into a bottomless pit that was filled with dissatisfaction.

    Lu Yongfei's family sold their house and moved to the next door to the Jiang family.

    It was an illegally built private house, with a total of four floors and more than a dozen households living in it. The rent is cheap, but the environment is a bit worse. The toilets and showers are all shared. Someone at the bottom has set up a large shed to grow vegetables and raise poultry. If they approached, the smell would not smell good. Lu Yongfei promised that Lu Miao’s chicken would be kept there.

    The cost of hiring a caregiver for daily care is too expensive. Lu Yongfei and Lin Wenfang have discussed it before, and when Jiang Haoyue has roughly recovered the ability to take care of himself, they can take time to take care of him.

    Jiang Haoyue's family lives on the second floor of a private house. Although he is fitted with a prosthesis, his rehabilitation training has not been entirely completed.

    So Jiang Yi was in charge of moving the wheelchair, and Lu Yongfei came to carry Jiang Haoyue upstairs.

    Lu Miao also came to help. She held a bucket in her left hand, a washbasin in her arms, followed Lu Yongfei, and walked up the steps step by step.