At noon, the sky was clear and the sun was high.

In the small river next to the Renyuan living quarters, Xu Jing struggled and floated quietly in the water, half-opening his eyes to look at the bright white sun through the water curtain, his mouth, ears, eyes and nose were filled with water, and he was no longer alive. consciousness.

In his mindless vision, a figure quickly swam to him like a fish, hugged him from behind, lifted him up, and let his mouth and nose out of the water.

He lowered his head with difficulty, and could only see a pair of hands, a pair of man's hands, with slender joints, calm and powerful.

Xu Jing leaned softly in the man's arms, motionless, still in a semi-conscious state.Compared with other drowning people, he remained somewhat awake.

Suddenly there was a commotion on the shore.

"There, there! The child is there, I saw it!"

"Quick! Go down and save people!"

With a few "plops", several figures immediately jumped into the water, scrambling to swim towards Xu Jing.

Xu Jing was pulled by the arm, held up from under the armpit, and was gently led to paddle to the shore.He turned sideways at this moment, clearly seeing the man who had just started to save him.

The man's long eyelashes were like water plants in the water, his eyelids were half closed, and he couldn't see clearly.Xu Jing was quickly sent ashore, but the man remained in the water, out of Xu Jing's sight.

Xu Jing tried to look back at him, but couldn't.

"Oops, I'm out of breath!" A man shouted anxiously.

Then Xu Jing was turned over, with his abdomen resting on a certain knee, his head drooping, and his back was squeezed vigorously with rough palms.

"Cough, cough, cough!" The river gushed out from Xu Jing's mouth and nose, and his soul and body seemed to fit together at once. Countless sounds entered his ears and went away. Xu Jing lost his last bit of consciousness and fell into a coma.

A long dream wrapped Xu Jing.

Tragic car accidents, newborn babies, quarreling couples, the birth of a baby's younger brother.Scenes and scenes flashed like pantomime, and later, when the child grew up, he was still dull and unresponsive to people. Under the auspices of the child's grandfather, the child was sent to the foster care of his cousin in the countryside.

After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, Xu Jing was awakened by a sharp cry, accompanied by curses.

Xu Jing was so disturbed by the crying that he had a headache and slowly looked for slippers under the dark bed. After searching for a long time, he finally found a pair of simple flip-flops made of shoe soles and cloth strips.

He picked up his slippers and walked slowly outside the house. It was dark outside, and there were still a few stars hanging in the corner of the dark blue sky. It was obviously getting late.

After leaving the mud brick house, there is a grain drying field outside, where Guo Yingzhen is chasing and beating her youngest son, Liang Xiaobao.

"I made you mischievous! I made you disobedient! I made you swim in the river with an adult on your back!" Guo Yingzhen panted while cursing, the bamboo stick in her hand danced like a wind, chasing after the dark Liang Xiaobao in front of her.

Liang Xiaobao hid from one end to the other, but he still couldn't escape the bamboo whip in Guo Yingzhen's hand.He cried so loudly that the skin around his eyes was red and swollen.

Guo Yingzhen forced him to the corner, put one hand on his hip and shouted, "Speak! Do you dare to go into the water?!"

Liang Xiaobao held his head and admitted his mistake, "Don't dare—! Woo!"

"You're so naughty when you're still in preschool!" Guo Yingzhen's bamboo whip didn't stop, "I'll let you play truant again! Do you dare not do your homework?! Do you dare to be naughty?!"

Guo Yingzhen's anger had been accumulating for a long time, and every time under the shadow of heavy whips, she asked with menacing anger.

Liang Xiaobao put his head in his hands and hid while fleeing, crying hoarsely.Guo Yingzhen was already angry, seeing that he dared to run even as soon as he bent down, he couldn't help but get very angry, and he was about to drag his son back with a stride.

Xu Jing just came out of the room and ran into Liang Xiaobao head-on.

Liang Xiaobao turned around and hid behind Xu Jing, Guo Yingzhen jumped into the air, seeing Xu Jing coming out by herself, her eyes widened in surprise, and she paused, "Xiaohe?"

She didn't care about Liang Xiaobao any more, but stretched out her hand to pull Xu Jing, and put his head on his head. Feeling that it wasn't hot, she breathed a sigh of relief and patted his shoulder lightly, "It won't burn."

Guo Yingzhen pulled Xu Jing to sit on the small bamboo chair under the eaves, then turned her head and glared at Liang Xiaobao, "If you don't obey me again, I'll let your father deal with you!"

Liang Xiaobao squatted under the eaves to wipe his tears, his body and legs were covered with red and swollen bruises.

After a while, Liang Guotao, the male owner of the house, came back, glanced at his son who was still sobbing, said nothing, washed his hands and feet and went into the house.

The sky is getting darker, and mosquitoes are flying over like black clouds, which is annoying.Guo Yingzhen lit the wormwood to repel the mosquitoes swiftly, and the eaves were filled with a strong smell of wormwood.

"Mom, it's time to eat." Guo Yingzhen's daughter Liang Ermei shouted from the kitchen.

Soon, the rest of the family came out of the room and sat down at the dining table in the hallway.

An oil lamp was lit on the dining table, emitting a dim yellow light.

Tonight's dinner is placed on the old wooden table, rice with coarse grains, stir-fried sweet potato leaves, fried eggplant, boiled winter melon, salt and pepper, not a bit of meat.

Second Sister Liang served the rice swiftly, one bowl for each person at the table, but when it arrived at Xu Jing's place, there was only half of the bowl.He glanced at it, waited for the others to pick up their bowls, and started eating in silence.

Liang Xiaobao reluctantly stood aside, his dark skin was washed with tears.

Guo Yingzhen became annoyed when she saw her youngest son's listless appearance. She put the chopsticks on the table with a "snap" and raised her eyebrows, "Didn't you eat enough fried pork with bamboo shoots just now?"

Liang Guotao glanced at his son and said calmly, "Go back to the house if you don't want to eat."

The two parents spoke, Liang Xiaobao didn't dare to move, sat down aggrievedly, picked up a bowl of rice.

Liang Guotao looked at Xu Jing who had no sense of presence at the dinner table, and said to Guo Yingzhen: "Ah Zhen, you should watch Xiaohe more these two days, and don't let him run around."

Xu Jing's name in this life is Xu Shenghe, and he is the poor little one who was sent to foster care at his cousin's house.

"I know." Guo Yingzhen nodded.

Seeing that the adults in the family were protecting this fool, Liang Xiaobao became more and more unconvinced.

If this fool hadn't followed him into the river to swim, he wouldn't have been caught at all, let alone such a beating.Thinking of this, he gave Xu Jing a hard look while the adults were not paying attention.

Guo Yingzhen caught a glimpse out of the corner of her eye, and was furious, "Why are you staring? You can stare at people with these eyes?"

Liang Xiaobao had a bottle of oil on his mouth, but he was always afraid of Guo Yingzhen, so he didn't dare to talk to him, so he lowered his head aggrievedly to pick up the rice.

Xu Jing ate his meal quietly throughout the whole process. As usual, he basically didn't add much food, and no one noticed his abnormality.

When everyone put down the bowls and chopsticks, Xu Jing also put down the bowls and chopsticks, sat quietly for a while and then went back to his room.

His room is diagonally opposite to the kitchen across the grain drying field. It was originally a utility room for tools, but it was specially vacated as a room for him after he came.

The window of this room is small, and it is dark all the year round. In the middle of the mud-brick room, there is a plank bed with two benches and a few thin planks. There is a straw mat and a dirty and tattered mattress on the bed. , with a musty smell.

Xu Jing climbed onto the bed, stayed on the bed for a while, and suddenly called out: "Watcher."

A lightly fluorescent cuboid floated quietly in the air. This cuboid was the size of an adult man's palm, with a light golden metal shell on one side and a screen on the other, similar to Xu Jing's cell phone in his previous life.

This is the mimicry of Overwatch.

Seeing the appearance of this small device, Xu Jing said softly: "Turn on the alert, and warn if someone approaches within five meters."

The Watchman buzzed, and the screen showed that the alert was on.

Xu Jing didn't know what this thing was or when it appeared. After waking up in the afternoon, he looked over and over for a long time, and finally found out only a few functions, and the warning function was one of them.

After groping for a while, Xu Jing's young body couldn't bear the exhaustion, and he said: "End the alert." After the watch went dark, he fell into a deep sleep.

The next day Xu Jing was awakened by someone, and the person who came was not polite, and stretched out his hand to pinch Xu Jing's forearm, "Little fool, why don't you get up for dinner?"

Xu Jing's body was so weak that he couldn't dodge the claw. Suddenly, a sharp pain ran down his arm and rushed to his forehead, and all the drowsiness disappeared.He waved away Liang Ermei's hand, frowned and said, "Why are you pinching me?"

"If you pinch you, I will pinch you...ah!" Ermei Liang was dumbfounded. It was the first time that this little fool had come to her house for so long, and it was the first time she had heard him say such a long sentence, "You, you can talk?!"

Xu Jing glanced at her, moved his body, and got out of bed from a place far away from her to put on his shoes.

The room was dark, and neither of them could see the other's expression.

After Liang Ermei followed Xu Jingdeng out of the house, under the bright sunlight after [-] o'clock in the morning, Liang Ermei realized that the face of the person in front of her was not at all dull, and those black and white eyes looked over with an inexplicable expression. temperament.

Ermei Liang didn't bother to trouble Xu Jing, so she turned around and ran to the dining table under the eaves.

Seeing her frightened appearance, Guo Yingzhen was startled too, "Second Sister, what's wrong?"

"Mom, Dad!" Liang Ermei's eyes widened and she swallowed, "The little fool is not stupid anymore!"

"Huh?" Guo Yingzhen looked back at her husband, not quite understanding the meaning of her daughter's words.

Liang Guotao put down the dishes he had just brought out from the kitchen, "I'll go and have a look."

Xu Jing walked over with his rotten slippers on, with a calm expression on his face.

"Xiaohe?" Liang Guotao called out.

Xu Jing greeted him: "Uncle Biao."

Liang Guotao was also surprised. He reached out to touch Xu Jing's forehead and asked tentatively, "Are you really awake? Is there any discomfort on your body?"

Xu Jing replied, "I woke up, there is no discomfort."

Guo Yingzhen also understood, his nephew is really not stupid, how could he know what others were talking about if he left it as usual?

The family looked at each other, unable to tell what it was like.

This little fool lived a foolish life. His family gave Liang Guotao's family [-] catties of grain and ten yuan a month to foster him here.Now that he has suddenly recovered, he doesn't know if the money will still fall into their family in the future.

As the head of the family, Liang Guotao supported Xu Jing's shoulders and asked Xu Jing to sit down in his old seat. He glanced at his wife and said, "Let's eat first, after dinner I will take Xiaohe to the health center."

Several people took their seats. Guo Yingzhen took a look at the rice on the table, reached out and brought over the pot of steamed eggs in the middle, scooped up a large piece for Xu Jing with a spoon, and picked up several chopsticks for him. Eggplant and wax gourd, "Xiaohe eat more point."

Liang Xiaobao was not happy when he saw his mother pick up food for Xu Jing, pouted his mouth, picked up the coarse grain rice mixed with sweet potato and rice in the bowl with his chopsticks, and sent it to his mouth one after another, just refused to eat properly.

The nephew was suddenly not stupid anymore, Guo Yingzhen thought of the family's behavior towards him in the past, feeling uncertain and unhappy.

She caught a glimpse of her youngest son playing with rice, and then remembered that the youngest son went swimming in the river and attracted his silly nephew to follow suit. In the end, she survived the catastrophe and woke up completely, not to mention how bad she felt.

She tapped the tip of her chopsticks on her youngest son's hand, and shouted, "Did I eat too much for you?! Dare to play with the rice?"

Liang Xiaobao shrank from the beating, his mouth was flattened, and tears fell from his eyes silently.

Liang Xiaobao's grandma, Li Yinxiu, saw the little grandson's aggrieved appearance, and scooped up a piece of custard with him, signaling him not to make trouble.

Today, the Liang family's focus is entirely on Xu Jing, Xu Jing is still silent and low-key.

After breakfast, Liang Guotao took Xu Jing to the health center in the living area.

The Renyuan living area is just a small living area, and more than 400 households in the living area rely on such a health center.Compared with the former old doctor who is not good at learning and can only watch common colds and fevers, the new young doctor in the hospital is quite good at it, and everyone trusts him more.

The nephew of the Liang family had been mentally deficient since birth, but suddenly became psychic. The doctor was also very surprised. He listened to his heart sounds and checked Xu Jing's pupils, but he couldn't see anything. He had no choice but to say to Liang Guotao: "Some people That’s right. My nerves didn’t develop well when I was a child, so I might have been conscious at first, but I couldn’t express it, and once I got through it after intense stimulation, I suddenly became smarter.”

"So he's all right now?"

The skinny doctor shook his head, "You guys have to go to a big hospital for an examination. It's hard to tell from the equipment here."

Liang Guotao asked: "Then will he become stupid again?"

"This is unlikely, but this child is a bit malnourished. You'd better give him more eggs after you go back, so that he can supplement his nutrition and promote brain development."

Liang Guotao responded and took Xu Jing back.

He still had to go to work in the fields, and after sending Xu Jing home, he hurried away with his tools.

Li Yinxiu was the only one at home, and she was beating the dried beans on the drying field. The dried pods were crackling, and the beans rolled under the pods, which was very pleasing to the eye.Seeing Xu Jing, she asked Xu Jing to sit under the eaves with a bench, and gave him a bundle of dried bean clips that had been beaten but still had beans and asked him to pick out the beans.

Xu Jing picked up the beans slowly, and the dried beans fell one by one into the porcelain sea bowl, slowly accumulating half of the bowl.

"Grandma!" Liang Xiaobao ran along the road outside the grain drying field, holding something in his hand, he shouted happily, "Grandma, what do you think I brought back?"

Li Yinxiu stood up, hammered her sore waist, and held Liang Xiaobao's small hand with her rough palm, revealing a round green ball the size of a baby's fist, "Let me see, orange?"

"Well, I'll eat it for you."

Li Yinxiu's face was not happy, "Where did you get the oranges, didn't you say you don't want to pick wild ones?"

You can't eat things in the wild. What if you get sick?

"It wasn't picked outside, it was given to me by Uncle Junhua. The orange tree planted in his safe field is fruitful this year!"

The wrinkles on Li Yinxiu's face were stretched out, and she touched her little grandson's head, "Grandma is afraid of sour, grandma won't eat, you eat."

"Then you put it away first, we will eat together when parents come back." Liang Xiaobao stuffed the orange into Li Yinxiu's hand, bounced around and walked out, "Grandma, I'm going out to play."

Xu Jing stood up and followed Liang Xiaobao, staring at Li Yinxiu with distinct black and white eyes, "Grandma, I want to play too."

Li Yinxiu took the oranges and was about to lock them in her room. Hearing what Xu Jing said, she waved her hand, "Go, don't go near the river. Xiaobao, look at brother Xiaohe, don't let him play in the water."

Liang Xiaobao cared about his little friends outside, and when he heard grandma's instructions, he immediately said: "Understood, I won't let him go to the river."

Speaking of Liang Xiaobao bouncing and running out, Xu Jing hurriedly followed behind him.He should have complied with Li Yinxiu, as soon as he ran out of the house, he quickened his pace and didn't care about Xu Jing behind him.

Xu Jing followed him and ran out of Li Yinxiu's sight, stopped, turned a corner, and went to the river, thinking about the man floating in the river.

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