Meng Yan's Transformation

"Grandpa, Grandpa, look, there's a little kid lying here..." shouted Cuihua, the hunter's granddaughter.

Cuihua and her grandfather Wang Baogui were chasing hares on a dog sled. Cuihua saw little Mengyan who had fainted in the snow.

Wang Baogui hurriedly pulled the reins, got off the dog sled, and picked up Xiao Mengyan...

"Cuihua, go and stew the wild rabbit we caught yesterday!" Wang Baogui said as he put Xiao Mengyan on the kang and wiped her body with snow...

The aroma of stewed rabbit meat wafted into the air, and the fragrance filled the room...A dozen big hunting dogs lay quietly on the big kang opposite, staring with "nervous" eyes at Xiao Mengyan lying on the kang and Wang Baogui who was busy.

Cuihua brought a bowl of delicious stewed rabbit meat. Wang Baogui used a small wooden spoon to scoop a spoonful of broth and carefully fed it to Xiao Mengyan...

The flames in the stove slowly licked the bottom of the pot, the crackling sound of the flames became weaker and weaker, but the aroma of hare meat still continued to bubble out of the iron pot. The kerosene lamp in the house was glowing orange, with faint dots of light, swaying and floating. Cuihua slept like a kitten, snoring slightly, with the corners of her mouth raised, a faint smile on her face, and mumbling from time to time. Some of the hunting dogs lay on their sides, stretched out their limbs, resting their heads on their front paws, dreaming; some curled up their bodies, hugged their tails under their bodies, and fell asleep; some lay on their stomachs, with their front legs stretched out, their hind legs bent, and twisted their heads to make low snoring sounds...

Wang Baogui was sitting next to Xiao Mengyan, dozing off...

The first ray of sunlight in the early morning shone on Xiao Mengyan's face, and she woke up.

Wang Baogui and Cuihua were very happy to see Xiao Mengyan finally woke up.

As soon as Xiao Mengyan woke up, she was eager to go home. She wanted to see her father, mother, sister and brothers immediately. She insisted on leaving despite her weak body. Wang Baogui and Cuihua persuaded Xiao Mengyan to go home, and then they took the dog sled to send her home...

Just arrived home and found that Uncle Ye and his wife have found their home.

Uncle Ye told Zhan Yu and Yun Qing how Xiao Mengyan ran away from home, how they were worriedly looking for her, and how they hoped to bring her back to continue raising her.

After being scolded by Zhan Yu, Xiao Mengyan was taken away by Uncle Ye and his wife while she was sleeping.

When Xiao Mengyan sneaked back again, the sky in the east was just turning pale. She knocked on the door and said, "Dad, Mom, I'm back. Please open the door for me!" She said excitedly. Yunqing was about to open the door in surprise, but was stopped by Zhan Yu, who said, "Your indulgence and pampering of Mengyan will harm her and make her even more unwilling to stay in the Ye family. Just ignore her. She has nowhere to go and will go back obediently..." Yunqing withdrew her hand to open the door with tears in her eyes.

"Dad, Mom, please open the door quickly... Please don't send anyone to me anymore, please..." Xiao Mengyan begged.

Yunqing saw Xiao Mengyan kneeling in front of her house through the crack in the door. Her heart was broken and tears fell like beads from a broken string...

Xiao Mengyan didn’t know how long she knelt, but she couldn’t hold on any longer and she passed away…

The winter mornings in the Great Northern Wilderness were too cold. Little Mengyan was so cold that she shivered and crawled into the firewood stack in the front yard of Song Ergu's house. She wanted to warm her cold body and wait until the daybreak. She believed that her father and mother would definitely open the door for her...

Little Mengyan fell asleep tiredly in the warm haystack. Suddenly, she felt a splitting pain in her head, lost all sleepiness, and jumped out of the haystack.

Xiao Mengyan's face was covered in blood, and she stood in front of Song Ergu in horror.

It turned out that Second Aunt Song got up early, took a two-toothed rake, and came to the firewood pile at home to dig firewood, preparing to make a fire and cook. After a few digs, she accidentally dug into the head of Xiao Mengyan who was sleeping soundly. Fortunately, she didn't dig directly on the top of her head, but dig diagonally to the left side of her forehead...

Aunt Song asked in surprise: "Xiao Mengyan, when did you come back? Why didn't you go home? Why did you hide in my firewood pile?"

Without waiting for Xiao Mengyan to answer, Second Aunt Song hurriedly carried Xiao Mengyan back home and checked the wound. Fortunately, the wound was not very deep, so she simply cleaned and bandaged it. Second Aunt Song listened to Xiao Mengyan's story about how difficult it was to get home, and how her father and mother refused to open the door no matter how much she begged, and that she had to hide in the haystack because it was too cold. Second Aunt Song hugged Xiao Mengyan tightly with tears in her eyes and said comfortingly: "Menyan, you should take good care of your injuries at Second Aunt's house first. Second Aunt will cook a big egg for you. I will go find your father and mother and ask them to apologize to you, and then take you back. It would be best if you could live at Second Aunt's house for a long time, just like your brother Zijie. Whenever you miss your father, mother, brother, and sister, you can see them anytime, so you don't have to go back to the old Ye family..."

Xiao Mengyan lowered her head and said nothing.

"Alas, it seems that Xiao Mengyan still wants to go home. There is really no place like home..."

A few days later, Xiao Mengyan, accompanied by Aunt Song, timidly returned home and stood in front of Zhan Yu and Yun Qing.

Yunqing cried and hugged Xiao Mengyan tightly, as if she was afraid of losing her. Zhan Yu also touched Xiao Mengyan's head lovingly: "You like to suffer at home, so stay here if you want to suffer with us."

From then on, Xiao Mengyan felt that she was the happiest and luckiest child in the world, and she felt very happy...

But little Mengyan began to transform. She became cautious and behaved very well. She was afraid of being disliked by her father, mother, brother and sister, and was afraid that she would be given away by her father and mother again.

Spring came and everything came back to life. Then it was summer. Grass grew and birds flew. Every day, Xiao Mengyan followed her fourth brother Zhan Ziqiang to the Hetao meadow to herd pigs. On the meadow, Xiao Mengyan picked the carnation flowers that her mother liked. There were red, pink, and small yellow flowers whose names she didn't know. They sparkled in the sun, as if someone had sprinkled countless pieces of gold on the green carpet. The dogtail curls she picked were very sour and refreshing, and Xiao Mengyan's teeth were broken after eating them.

Every day when the sun sets, Xiao Mengyan is reluctant to leave and go home with her fourth brother Zhan Ziqiang, driving the pigs home in the afterglow of the sunset. Every day they have a lot of harvests. In the basket there are flowers picked for mom, mushrooms, wild vegetables, and a bucket full of catfish, some yellow and some black. When they go home, they can eat the delicious catfish and wild vegetable soup made by mom...

When Xiao Mengyan first started learning to fish catfish with her fourth brother, she was very reluctant because when she touched the catfish, she felt like she was touching a poisonous snake that her fourth brother had grabbed, which was cool and slippery. So she was very scared and resisted fishing catfish. But when she thought of the delicious catfish and wild vegetable soup and the rewards for completing the fishing task given by her brother, such as: fragrantly roasted corn, locusts, watermelons, tomatoes, and melons from the old man in the production team, and the consequences of her sister not completing the fishing task: her sister was once dissatisfied with her brother going to the river to swim and play, not fishing, but letting her fish for him, so she was lazy and was beaten by her brother with a small tree stick, and was warned not to tell her mother when she got home. Xiao Mengyan became bolder and later liked fishing.

Because Xiao Mengyan is more obedient than her sister Yingying. The brothers are willing to take Xiao Mengyan out to play. When they go to the Hetao to swim, they specially use earth rafts to make a small stool, a small table, and a small bed for Xiao Mengyan. The river water just covers the water grass growing on the earth raft. Xiao Mengyan feels soft when sitting on it, and the clear river water flows through the gaps between her toes, which is very comfortable and pleasant. The earth raft is unique to the Great Northern Wilderness. It is similar to the shape of adobe. The black and sticky garlic soil on the meadow of the Great Northern Wilderness is dug into the shape of adobe with a shovel. The earth raft is full of grass roots. Once it is put into the river, the grass grows wildly.

"Fourth brother, I'm going to pick carnations over there..." Xiao Mengyan saw a field of fiery red carnations from afar and said as she ran. Just as she ran to the fiery red carnations, she was so frightened that she stared with her big eyes and couldn't speak. What she saw was a bloody corpse...