hold you in my arms tonight

Ono was the first child to come to Blue Forest Lane.

She was not born with a disability. On the contrary, she used to be healthy and loved by her parents.When I was two years old, I had a high fever for several days, and after the fever subsided, I became cerebral palsy. After going to various hospitals, I couldn't cure it, which wiped out my parents' love and the only remaining sense of responsibility.

The mother, who was born in a rural area and had never attended a day of school, dared not go against her husband's will, and sold her daughter to Jiang Min after being introduced.She returned home with a small amount of money, for fear that Jiang Min would regret not wanting this child with cerebral palsy.

Maybe in the night after many years, when she thinks of this daughter, she will sigh so much.

Ah Guai once had no friends. Before Xie Yuan and Jiang Xun appeared, Ono was his only partner.

In [-], spring in Liucheng came later than usual. In March, the snow was still thick. It was not until early April that the old city gradually turned white.

In May, it rained heavily for several days.

The urban drainage function of the old city is not good. Lanlin Lane is low-lying, and the rainwater has accumulated for several days, submerged to the calf.After a week, Jiang Xun didn't dry their beds.

The coming of the heavy rain made many people stop going out. Xie Yuan and Jiang Xun had nothing to eat for several days, and their dinner was reduced again and again. The two growing boys were so hungry that they couldn't sleep every night.

During the rainy season, the track of Liucheng Railway Station was cut off by a landslide, all trains could not pass through, and notices were posted on the entire railway station to temporarily suspend operations.

There was no one at the train station, and Ah Guai and Ono found nothing.Yang Neng was very angry that this rainy season made him have no income in several aspects, but he still didn't let Ah Guai and Xiaoye go to other places to beg.There is an unwritten rule among beggars in all cities, and that is the division of regions.Liucheng Railway Station is Yang Neng's territory.

It was rare for the four children to get together during the day, curling up together on the wet bed, and the sound of a group of women playing mahjong came from the room outside.

Ah Guai and Jiang Xun were reading a math book.Xie Yuan bought a small notebook and a pencil before, and he copied down the questions and answers stroke by stroke, and explained them to Jiang Xun and Ah Kuai with extra patience.

Ono stared at the side, and she suddenly grabbed Ah Guai's hand.

Ah Guai didn't look up, his eyes were still on the math book, and he found the blood on his hand after a long time when he stretched out his hand to point to the question in the book.He looked up suddenly and saw Ono with a nosebleed.

Ah Kuai was in a hurry.Xie Yuan came to his senses first, and wiped Xiao Ye's nosebleed with his torn clothes, but he couldn't finish it, the more he wiped, the more the blood flowed.

"She's so hot!" Jiang Xun touched Xiao Ye's forehead, and then touched his own forehead.

Ono still had that smirking expression, and the bloodstains on his face and body looked very funny.Her heels were shaking uncontrollably, and her face was red.

"It seems to be sick," Xie Yuan said.

Ah Guai was very anxious: "What should I do? Xiao Ye has never been like this before, she has never been sick before."

That night, the three boys did not dare to fall asleep, and sat together in the dark watching Ono.

Ono went to bed early, and fell asleep before it was dark.Ah Guai covered her with all the quilts and tucked in the corners of the quilt for her.

In the middle of the night, Ah Kuai touched Xiao Ye's forehead again. The scalding temperature made him almost cry for a moment. He could only look back at Xie Yuan, who had always been calmer: "What to do, it's too hot!"

No matter how calm Xie Yuan was, he was still a child. He hurried over to shake Xiao Ye, trying to wake her up, but found that Xiao Ye hadn't woken up after yelling for a long time.

After a while, Ono slowly began to twitch.

"I'm going to see a doctor," Xie Yuan said.

The monster woke up like a dream, grabbed Jiang Xun's sleeve like a life-saving straw and said, "Jiang Xun, Uncle Yang is your uncle, please tell him well, let him send Xiao Ye to the hospital, okay? Xiao Ye is so good." It's scary, he has to be sent to the hospital, can you tell him about it?"

Before Jiang Xun could speak, Ah Guai grabbed Xie Yuan's sleeve again and said incoherently: "Xie Yuan, you go to Aunt Jiang. Aunt Jiang likes you better. Doesn't she like you the most? She sent Ono to the hospital!"

It was three o'clock in the morning, Xie Yuan and Jiang Xun got up and went out, and found Yang Neng and Jiang Min's bedroom by the light in the yard.

Jiang Xun knocked on the door: "Uncle, Uncle, can you open the door, I have something to tell you!"

No one answered, Jiang Xun made up his mind and continued knocking, the knocking sound was very piercing at night.

After a while, the lights in the room came on, and Yang Neng's cursing voice came from inside.

"Soul calling in the middle of the night?" Yang Neng came out wrapped in pajamas.

"Uncle Yang, Ono has a fever," Xie Yuan said hastily, "It's very serious, I've already fainted, you must see a doctor!"

Yang Neng wanted to laugh when he heard this: "She has cerebral palsy, is she still afraid of burning out? Go back to sleep, you two, don't argue!"

"Uncle, I really can't delay..." Jiang Xun said.

"No money, do you know how much it will cost to go to the hospital?" Yang Neng was irritated when he was woken up in the middle of the night, "I have no money! Go back to bed for me!"

Just as Xie Yuan was about to say something, Ah Guai had already run over.

He had a leg problem, and was so anxious to run that when he ran in front of Yang Neng, he staggered and fell down, hitting the steps with his hand and breaking his skin.

He took advantage of the opportunity to kneel directly in front of Yang Neng, crying and said: "Uncle Yang, Xiaoye can't wake up, she is really dying, she must see a doctor, I beg you, uncle, I will definitely wake up from now on." Make more money, I will also kneel and ask for money at night, you send her to the hospital!"

Ah Guai's voice was cracked, and he said in a low voice, "Please..."

Yang Neng became more irritable, and Jiang Min in the room shouted impatiently: "Stop making noise, go to bed! Are you annoying in the middle of the night? Is the person dead? Come to us when he is dead, and we will bury him directly!"

"Did you hear that? There's no money to send him to the hospital," Yang Neng said, "Go back to sleep."

Jiang Xun said, "Uncle, you can't ignore Xiao Ye..."

Ah Guai grabbed Yang Neng's pants tightly to prevent him from entering the house.He begged hoarsely: "Uncle Yang, save Xiao Ye..."

"I'll see if it's okay tomorrow morning?" Yang Neng yawned, he struggled away from Ah Kuai's hand, and closed the door after returning to the house.

"Help... Ono..."

Ah Kuai leaned on his body halfway, muttering in his mouth: "What about Xiaoye...what about Xiaoye...what about Xiaoye..."

"Ono, what should I do?"

Ah Guai lost all his strength, he was supported by Xie Yuan and Jiang Xun back to the room.

He lay next to Xiao Ye, hugged her into his arms, and muttered: "Xiao Ye, let's sleep and wake up tomorrow, everything will be fine..."

The hour begins to brighten as the first rays of the morning sun rise above the sea level.

Jiang Xun and Xie Yuan opened their eyes and looked at the light outside the window all night. After dawn, the light turned into sunlight.

This is the first sunny day of this rainy season.

Ah Kui got up slowly, touched Xiao Ye's forehead and found that the girl was completely cold.

She survived the coldest winter in [-], but died in the spring of the following year.

Xie Yuan and Jiang Xun approached, and saw Ono's usual smirk on his face, his skin was white and blood red, like an abstract painting.

The monster opened his mouth, lost his voice several times, and could only whimper.He hugged Xiaoye tightly, and after a long time, tears of tearing despair came from Lanlin Lane.

Xie Yuan and Jiang Xun looked at them with red eyes.

Yang Neng and Jiang Min were attracted by the sound of crying. The couple seldom came to this room because they thought it was dirty and cold.

"Is he really dead?" Jiang Min asked.

Yang Neng stepped forward to check his breath and body temperature, and when he was about to take back his hand, his eyes collided with Ah Kuai's.For the first time in his many years of life, he was frightened by the eyes of a half-grown boy.

That look was like that of a beast before it was about to die.

"What are you looking at? I don't know that she will really die," Yang Neng comforted himself, then turned to Jiang Min and said, "Go and tell the street office that our adopted child died. Let's go back to the country and bury him."

Jiang Min nodded awkwardly, and before turning around to go out, he touched Xie Yuan's face and said, "You two don't stay here anymore, it's so scary, don't scare you, go to the yard first."

Xie Yuan and Jiang Xun ignored her and did not move.

Yang Neng hugged Ono.Ah Guai hugged him tightly, it took him a little effort to snatch it up, carried him into the car and planned to go to the countryside for burial.

Ah Guai was still in a daze, and stayed in this position until the afternoon, Xie Yuan and Jiang Xun kept guarding him silently.

"Is Xiaoye not coming back?" Ah Kuai asked suddenly.

Jiang Xun said: "Guai, Xie Yuan and I will be with you from now on. The three of us will always be good friends."

Ah Kuai thought to himself, Ono is really not coming back.

She will never come back.

Ah Guai looked up at this room, the place where he and Ono had lived for many years.

The rainy season is over and the sun has returned to the city.The urban drainage function has also been restored in a series of emergency repairs. Even the accumulated water in Lanlin Lane has been drained from the sewer, and the ground looks like it has been washed.

Liucheng Railway Station started operating again, and strange people began to move from one city to another like migrating animals.

Ah Guai returned to the train station three days later, where his life grew up.

Xie Yuan and Jiang Xun were still wandering in the city.They passed the school district, and kids their own height walked in and out of the school with smiles on their faces.

Xie Yuan and Jiang Xun could only look at each other, and then seek the courage to continue walking from each other's eyes.

At night, Ah Kuai said, "I want to go home with Ono."

Ah Guai said a lot that night, a lot of things that were not like him at all.He said the woman who gave birth to him probably thought he had been dead for many years.He said that Blue Forest Lane is an abyss, and there is no way for one person to get out of the abyss, it takes two people to get out of the abyss.

In the end, he said that he remembered the day when he first came to Lanlin Lane, Ono smiled very well, with dust sticking to the corners of his eyes.

Xie Yuan and Jiang Xun fell asleep after listening to it, and held each other's hands tightly in their sleep.