"Hello."

She waved to the void.

She has done similar actions many times. Although she has never received a verbal response, she knows that there is a person standing less than ten feet away from her!

She didn't know the face of that person.

That person may be the same age as her, maybe older, maybe a mature big sister...

But to her, it didn't matter at all.

With this invisible friend to accompany her, her heart will become very quiet, and she no longer has to work hard to recall things that she can't recall at all, even if it is the same snow scene, she can watch it with relish.

However, something happened today.

The greeting was over, but she didn't feel the presence of that invisible friend at all.

Delusion?

The girl who didn't believe in evil said hello again, but she still didn't feel any fluctuations.

Something big happened!

An ominous premonition came to her mind, and the girl immediately began to look around.

But no matter how she looked, she even looked at the cracks in the rock, but she still couldn't find the trace of the invisible friend.

As if everything in the past was just her illusion.

But she knew.

"That's not an illusion."

The girl sitting in the snow raised her head blankly.

Where did that invisible friend go?

As the sun sets and Cangshan is far away, the snowflakes in the sky become denser and denser.

One of them happened to fall between her eyebrows, she stretched out her hand and gently pressed the eyebrows.

The coolness has penetrated deep into my heart.

She thought, she has probably lost the meaning of life.

The girl lay on her back on the ground, waiting for the heavy snow to bury herself.

……

How big is the world?

Xiao Anlan has thought about this question more than once.

She didn't go much because she couldn't see anything.

If no one holds hands, she will get lost if she walks a little further.

After she really got lost once, she rarely left the home that was said to be very dilapidated.

Therefore, for her, the world is only as big as her home, and even if it were a little wider, it could only include the village where she lived——

Daohe Village!

An Lan has heard this name countless times.

Their family is a farmer in Daohe Village. They have several acres of thin fields. They work from morning to night.

If there is a flood or drought, I can barely eat one meal a day.

hungry.

But when hungry, An Lan never dared to say it.

She said it once in the past, but it turned out to be a stick.

"Eat, eat, eat as much as you can. Besides eating, what else can you do?"

"The cubs of other people's families will already be working in the fields when they are your age. You are blind and blind, so you can't share the family's worries and cause trouble."

Since then, she likes to carry a small bench and sit at the door of the house.

She wants to hear other people's voices.

What she heard the most was the complaint of the aunt next door.

"Damn it, I'm really blind to marry this stinky valley!"

"Xiaoxiaoxiao, besides smiling, can you still make money?"

"I've really lost my longevity in my life. If I knew this earlier, I might as well go to the master's house in the city to be a maid."

When my aunt scolded people, my uncle didn't speak, and my cousin cried.

The crying voice has grown louder.

When my aunt is angry, she will hit her cousin.

"Why are you crying, what's the use of you besides being able to do that kind of work?"

"If you want to be born like the girl next door, Lan, even if you don't do any work, I can give birth to you. Still crying? Cry again, and I'll beat someone."

Miss Lan?

It's talking about her.

Xiao Anlan was confused.

My parents said that she can only eat, and it is useless compared to her cousin, but my aunt also said that my cousin can only work and is useless at all.

So how is it useful?

Would everyone be happy if you swap her with her cousin?

An Lan actually wanted to hear what other people in the village said about her.

But she didn't dare to go too far, she could only take a few steps close, so she didn't hear anything useful.

What she heard was more insults and ridicules to her.

It's nothing, she's used to this kind of thing for a long time. After all, she really can't see, she really can't compare to those who can see.

But there are always some people who go too far. As she walks there, a small stone will suddenly fly over and hit her on the head.

"so bad!"

This frightened her to run back quickly. The head was hit, but it was very painful. It would take several days for the swelling to go down.

After having several similar experiences, An Lan didn't like going out even more.

Anyway, she couldn't do anything, so she might as well just sit in her room in a daze.

But it seems that being in a daze is not so easy.

Not long after the tenth birthday, my father and aunt brought someone back from outside.

Auntie said it was a fortune teller from town.

More than once, she heard her aunt say that the town outside the mountain is a good place where many, many people live.

This fortune teller from a good place sprinkled some water on the ground, made her spread her hands again, and said to her father and aunt:

"It's a sign of longevity, and it's a prosperous life."

Dad laughed: "Then..."

The fortune teller said, "Don't be in a hurry, don't mess with the rules agreed in advance."

Dad hurriedly said, "I understand, I understand, seven or three, you are seven, and I am three."

Auntie immediately shouted, "I can't lose my share!"

Dad said, "There are some."

The fortune teller also laughed: "So I'll contact Master Qian. Master Qian is a decent person and will never treat your daughter badly. You can be regarded as finding a good place for your hard-working daughter."

Dad said, "It's all up to the husband to feed him. I wish him a long life!"

The fortune teller said, "It's easy to talk."

After a while, the fortune-teller and aunt left, leaving only her and her father in the house.

Dad patted her on the shoulder: "At most three months, you will go to the city to live a good life, sleeping on a big wooden bed, covered with quilts, and eating as much as you want when you get there, and there will be servants for you. Commander, you are developed, but don't forget your parents."

An Lan opened her mouth slightly.

Although it's tempting to be full, she doesn't want to go to town.

She was afraid.

"Father, I don't want to go."

This sentence attracted scolding, what an idiot, someone who eats rice, has no eyesight.

He scolded his father and said, "It's up to you whether you go or not. If you don't go, don't eat."

An Lan shivered.

Would you starve to death if you don't eat?

She was afraid, but she didn't want to die, she could only go.

Only then did Dad leave with satisfaction.

That afternoon, she sneaked out of the house secretly. It seemed that she was seen on the road, and many people were talking about her.

This time, there was no scolding. Some people said she was lucky, some said she was a fox.

More people are talking about Mr. Qian in that town.

"I heard the son of the third family working in the town say that the money is over sixty."

"Master, I like tender ones."

"It's for congratulations."

"Who knows, anyway, Miss Lan's family is very promising, a lot of money is indispensable, and she can take care of the family in the future."

"Yo, isn't that Miss Lan? What are you doing out at this time? If you accidentally fall, it will be a big problem."

An Lan was scared away again.

She didn't understand what those people said very well, she just felt inexplicably scared.

In the past, these people were just not very friendly. Today, it sounds like she thinks everyone wants to eat her.

Even though it was such a terrible thing, she couldn't see anything, and she couldn't even find a person who could tell her thoughts.

After another ten days, the whole house was filled with a cheerful atmosphere, and the people in the village outside seemed to be talking louder.

Only An Lan was shrouded in sadness.

She was restless, and finally walked out of the house at night when she heard the cicadas.

She didn't want to run away, because she knew she couldn't run away, she just wanted to walk along the ridge, to a place she had never walked before.

The wind that night was piercingly cool, and the cicadas chirped quickly, as if being driven by something.

An Lan always felt something was wrong.

She has also come out at night before, but she has never felt this strange.

She was a little scared. After walking a distance, she wanted to go back, but when she thought of that home, she felt even more scared.

In the end, fear overcomes fear.

An Lan bit her head and continued to move forward. Just like that, when she came to a turning point, the stick in her hand suddenly emptied.

She grabbed the stick and tried to keep her balance, but her right foot also stepped in the air, and she stumbled and slammed into a hard object.

Before she could figure out what she hit, she fell headfirst.

"Ah, ah, help!"

"Pfft!"

"Grumbling..."

An Lan didn't know what happened at all. She only felt pain all over her body, and a lot of water was pouring into her mouth desperately. Her clothes and body were soaked, and the coolness swallowed her physical strength.