I eat wife cake on the fifteenth of every month

Slightly higher eyebrows, black and deep eyes, she knows that she has oriental blood, not a pure foreigner, she just stands there and makes people look up, her aura is arrogant and domineering, making her admire at a glance.She would tell herself that her Chinese name is Yue Ji, a surname far and far away in the East, but let others call her Countess when her lips were close to hers.

She was angry that she left without saying goodbye twice, but she was also faintly worried about her safety.

With eager expectation, the woman rushed into the evening wind brought by the sunset, and stumbled through the crowd on the endlessly flowing street.

Finally, she threw herself into her arms and grabbed her too.

Just as the woman got out of the car, she threw herself on the car door unsuspectingly. She helped her stabilize her body. The delicate woman in her arms raised her head, her eyes were red like a rabbit.

"Hey, this lady..." She expressed her surprise with a very pure English accent, and even her voice and expression were as she remembered.

However, his tone was as if he saw a stranger.

Yuan Nai looked at her in disbelief, the hand holding her windbreaker couldn't help shaking, tears seemed to be about to fall.

How could she...

"You...don't know...me?" Yuan Nai asked with difficulty, tears were already in her eyes, as if the embankment would collapse in the next moment.

After a month of leaving without saying goodbye, she was frequently awakened by the evening when she woke up that day but she was nowhere to be seen. She left without saying goodbye for two consecutive days, followed by a month-long silence.

The moment she pressed her back against the door, what she thought of was death. She couldn't meet her with a dirty body, because it was a kind of blasphemy.

But... when she finally saw her again, she was clean, but she treated her as if she had never seen her before.

"Sorry, I don't know you." The corner of the woman's lips pursed into a soft smile, she straightened her upright, and was about to let go, but Yuan Nai tightly grabbed the corner of her windbreaker.

"You really don't know me?"

The rare woman who thought she was about to cry in front of her swallowed back her tears at this moment, but the corners of her eyes became redder.

The woman's eyes flickered, and she looked at her with a little apology, without saying a word, but Yuan Nai understood, she insisted on not knowing herself, no matter what she thought, she wanted to break up with herself now.

The woman gently pulled the windbreaker out of her hand, still with an apologetic expression, "sorry."

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Deep in the night is darkness.

In the streets and alleys, the white electric lights are pulled up, and the thin body at the door is also lengthened.

Yue Ji, who had been looking for the whole afternoon, saw a distraught woman at the door.

The jacket and skirt on his body were gray and dirty, and his face was pale without a trace of blood.The small thick heels on the feet rubbed against the dust, and the silk suddenly became old.

She just glanced at Yue Ji indifferently, then missed her shoulder and slowly walked up to the second floor.

Yue Ji pursed her lips and followed behind her. What has this woman experienced?Alia, who went out to find someone, came back on her hind legs, and was relieved to see the figure in front of her.

The woman's feet were walking normally, if Yue Ji hadn't been watching her carefully from behind, she wouldn't have noticed that the woman's right ankle was already swollen!

"Where have you been?" Yue Ji brought Dieda medicinal wine to the table and stood in front of her, the more she looked at her in a state of distress, her frowns became tighter.

Yuan Nai shook his head lightly, but made Yue Ji furious, "What's wrong with you?!"

In the afternoon, without saying a word, I left myself and ran away in a hurry, letting myself look for her all over the street. Do you know that it will make people very worried?

"Xixi, don't ask any more...my sister is just...just a little sad." Yuan Nai raised an ugly smile and looked at her quietly.

"It's really okay." She emphasized again, but buried her head in her arms.

Yue Ji felt powerless for the first time, pursed her lips, squeezed the medicinal wine in her hand and squatted beside her feet, "Cry if you want to cry, lift your feet up."

Yuan Nai refused, and a muffled voice came out from the crook of his arms, "Xixi, later sister will take care of herself later."

Self painted. "

Yue Ji took off her shoes involuntarily, poured wine and painted...

The moonlight was bleak, the cold stars were changing day by day, it was a new day, the sky was getting colder, Yuan Nai returned to her usual gentle and quiet appearance the first time Yue Ji woke up.

"Xixi, are you awake?" She brought the breakfast she made by herself, put it on the table in the room, and asked her to eat it while it was hot.

Yue Ji glanced at her well-affected ankle, and her eyes fell on her face, but unfortunately she put on light makeup today, the rouge color covered up her distraught appearance last night.

What happened to her yesterday, no one knows.

Yue Ji looked at Yuan Nai who came out by herself, pursed her lips, and stopped asking further questions.

Who doesn't have a business of their own?Whether she is willing to say it or not, she has her own reasons.

Yue Ji picked up a piece of bread, took a bite, and saw that Yuan Nai was busy packing things into a food box as big as a millstone, and she put them in layer by layer, all of which were some food and fruit, as well as the lotus flower she liked to eat cake.

Finally, put two joss sticks and some yellow paper money.

"Nai Nai, this is..." Yue Ji sat at the table and watched her put the lid on.

"Xixi, my sister took a day off today, would you like to go with my sister to see her mother?"

This woman's mother...that is, her mother-in-law...

Yue Ji resolutely agreed, threw the bread, followed Yuan Nai into the rickshaw, and came to a mountain top.

The top of the hill is lush and overgrown with weeds. On a half-height grave, there are a few pieces of paper money, and a tombstone stands in front of it, which reads "Tomb of Yuan's wife, Xue Ying"

Compared with other places, there is not much grass on the grave. I am afraid that someone has come to worship in the past three years, but if you think about it carefully, you can guess who it is.

Yuan Nai and Yue Ji cleared the weeds on it before placing the offerings and lighting the incense candles.

Hua Manyi told her that the tombstone should have been erected with the help of friends of the Yuan family, but unfortunately only her mother was there.Even so, Yuan Nai was very grateful to that friend, her parents were still alive, and she was not filial at all after wandering outside for three years.

"Mother, my daughter is back. I haven't seen you for the past three years. My daughter is not filial. My daughter has gone through a lot of things. She is no longer the daughter who always acts like a baby to you..."

Yuan Nai knelt in front and babbled a lot, crying and laughing, when she saw Yue Ji standing aside, she pulled her to let her kneel down with her, "Mother, this is Xixi, a child I picked up, maybe As you often say, everything in life is impermanent, everything comes from the heart, now my daughter has found a new job and can support herself and Xixi, I will live with her in peace and stability in the future, you don't have to worry..."

As for the others, some places are not suitable for her, and some people come and go just passers-by in life, she should look away, so that it won't be so uncomfortable.

Yuan Nai burst into tears as she looked at it. The scenes of the Yuan family in the past seemed like yesterday. Yue Ji took out her handkerchief and wanted to pass it to her to wipe away her tears, but she was forced to kowtow solemnly. Without saying anything, I heard "Yuan Nai" from behind.

Hearing this, she and Yuan Nai looked at each other, it was Hua Manyi.

It seemed that she was also here to worship, Yuan Nai was slightly surprised when she saw her, "Man Yi?"

Hua Manyi changed her usual bright dress, walked up to them in plain color, glanced at the tombstone lightly, finally set her eyes on Yuan Nai and Yue Ji, and motioned for the food box in her hand, "Same as you, I also came to worship Parents, it’s up there, so I won’t bother you.”

At the beginning, Yuan and Hua's families were ransacked at the same time. It is not surprising to see Manyi here. What is rare is that she still remembers this friendship and told each other when she came back.Hua Manyi came here to exchange some pleasantries, Yuan Nai nodded and thanked her softly, then left.

Yuan Nai came to worship for the first time, and he couldn't help himself, so he kept talking until the afternoon.

"Xixi, my sister will be with you forever, okay?" Yuan Nai held Yue Ji and looked at the name of the monument with tears in his eyes, and said in his throat that he was a little dry all afternoon, "You are the only sister."

Yue Ji pursed her lips to put her sadness into her eyes, her heart moved slightly, suddenly she had some reason

Explain why she resolutely left her at the beginning, being as filial as her, perhaps traveling across the ocean was just for the comfort of her soul.

After living here for nearly two months, she more or less understands that the local customs here place more emphasis on resettlement and relocation. She came back alone and had no relatives, not to mention that she suffered a lot of exclusion and discrimination. She understood her anxiety and guilt, In turn, he hugged her delicate body and nodded heavily.

When the two left, Xiaoxiao who was waiting at the foot of the mountain looked towards the exit from time to time.

In the corner of the hill, after the sacrifices were placed, Hua Manyi sat quietly in front of her parents' tombstones. She didn't bow down or speak, but just quietly looked at the grave that had turned into a pile of loess.

She didn't go down the mountain until the sunset was slanting to the west, the cigarette held between her slender knuckles was extinguished, and the incense candle was almost burned out.

What Hua Manyi didn't expect was that shortly after she left, a tall figure came down from the mountain, graceful and indifferent, but bent down and placed a flower in front of the tombstone.

A simple and elegant white lily.