It is hard to imagine that in the tenth year of the 21st century, there are still houses made of pure primitive earth and randomly stacked logs.

It's not just one building. As far as the eye can see, the village located between the mountains and valleys is filled with these one-and-a-half-story small houses.

The extra half floor looks like a attic for storing miscellaneous items.

"It's okay. This is my home from now on."

Feeling the sudden force from his fingertips, how could Li Zehua not know what she was thinking? He smiled and comforted her.

"You really don't mind..."

Shen Wanyi, who had never shown intimacy in public, mustered up the courage to hold his hand from the moment she abandoned the car and hiked into the mountains.

No matter how strong a girl's heart is, she cannot calmly show her negative side to her loved one without reservation.

Destitute or poor are not enough to describe what I saw. If it were someone else, they would probably be scared and run away at the first moment.

Not to mention, there is a frail and sickly burden at home who has to spend all year round in medicine bottles.

Responsibility is not just something you say casually, but something that accumulates bit by bit in your daily life.

"What are you disgusted with? I can only thank God for sending you to me, giving me the opportunity to hold your hand and walk through the rest of my life together."

"Really?"

Hugging Shen Wanyi tightly, feeling the unprecedented warmth emanating from her body, he began to understand something.

Why, before this, she always took one step forward and two steps back when it came to relationships.

She was running away, worried that after seeing all this, she would turn around and leave without mercy. It would be difficult for a normal person to face all this calmly.

It's one thing to just play around, but she is not like that, she is very serious, and coincidentally, so is he.

Li Zehua is very fortunate that in this life, he has enough confidence to calmly deal with all the difficulties and obstacles he faces. If it were him in his previous life.

Do you dare to go on?

He enjoys everything he has now and vows to protect this beauty with his life.

After finally calming the older one down, the younger one starts acting up again.

"Lead the way. Why don't you know the way home?"

Shen Wanqing was somewhat timid about returning home, and she was also afraid that he would see the true scene of her life.

The luxurious dinner party will eventually come to an end and the guests will go their separate ways. It’s time to take off the borrowed gorgeous decorations and be true to yourself. But can you still accept the extreme poverty of your hometown in your heart?
But no matter how she tried to escape, no matter how much she pulled at his clothes and refused to move, Shen Wanqing had to face reality in the end.

Even though you are dressed nicely and have the most expensive electronic luxury goods on the market, you still have to go back to the home you want to escape from but cannot avoid no matter what.

Shen Wanqing felt that the past six months were like a dream. Everything she experienced in the Magic City was too distant. When she woke up, she could hardly distinguish between reality and falsehood.

"Is there no one at home?"

He was so hesitant and procrastinating that it took him more than ten minutes to complete a short journey.

What surprised Li Zehua was that the village seemed to be unpopular. Normally, anyone coming to such a remote place would attract onlookers.

But until I reached the door of my house, I didn't see any movement around me.

Shen Wanqing breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and said quickly: "No one is here. Okay, I've checked, sister, let's go back to the Magic City to celebrate the New Year."

He stared at Li Zehua, as if begging.

"Wanqing, don't be so mad."

Shen Wanyi broke free from the warm embrace, walked forward and pushed the door open. In the dim main room, a few free-range chickens and ducks were eating leisurely on the dirt floor.

He looked up when he heard the noise, but didn't seem to notice anything wrong and continued to look for food in the mud floor of the main room.

Li Zehua followed in and took a look. He didn't think there was anything unusual and accepted it calmly. When he was a child, his family was even poorer than this. At least her house had doors and windows, right?
"There are only two inner rooms. Where do you usually live?"

The house is not big, with a small room on each side. There is not much displayed on them, not even a proper dressing table. There is only a table and a bed on each side.

The only thing in the house that can be called a home appliance is probably the light bulb above my head swaying in the wind.

There is a simple small shed outside the door behind the main room, with wind blowing in from all sides. There is a lot of firewood piled next to a simple stove. This is the place for cooking.

There is a circle of fence around it, which is used to raise chickens and ducks. Now that the weather is cold, they are kept indoors.

What made him curious was that there were two rooms for a family of five, so where did the two sisters usually sleep?

Shen Wanqing couldn't stop him and had to go into the house to take a look. She was sulking at the moment and didn't say anything. She just saw her sister taking out a broom to clean up the debris around the stove, and then she reluctantly pointed behind the door.

Follow the line of sight.

"Bamboo ladder?"

Looking up, he found the dark attic, half a person's height, depressing no matter how he looked at it. However, he did not refuse. Instead, out of strong curiosity, he took out the bamboo ladder and prepared to climb up.

"No, don't go up."

Shen Wanqing tried to stop him with a bitter look on her face, but Li Zehua just laughed, "Is there some big secret hidden in it that you can't show me?"

Shen Wanqing was about to cry, "No, I just can't go up."

As he said this, he wanted to move the bamboo ladder away.

"Pull out these two bamboo stools."

Shen Wanyi cleaned up the debris around the stove and lit the firewood to boil a pot of water. She had just tried to open the thermos, but there was not enough warm water in it.

Wang Fei, who was about to go out and distribute bamboo stools to Zhang Tao who had followed him into the mountains, saw this and tried to stop them.

"No."

Shen Wanqing held on to the bamboo ladder tightly and refused to climb up. Finally, she could not overcome her sister's gaze and had no choice but to take the bamboo stool and go out. She was already eager to escape.

"Come with me and take a look. I'm really curious. I could only live in the attic during the Chinese New Year at my grandmother's house."

Li Zehua climbed up in a few steps. The attic was only half the size of a house, and there was no shelter around it. If he was not careful, he would fall down.

There is an unclosed window on the side close to the outside of the house, and the cold wind blows in. No wonder the house feels so cold.

Fortunately, it was broad daylight and the light was coming in, so we didn't have to move forward in the dark.

There was no way he could stand up straight; given his height, he could only bend over to move.

On one side was a storage room where grain was piled up, with sacks of corn and other food inside. On the other side, he was shocked as soon as he entered the door.

There is such a tiny space, but it is filled with objects and there is no place to stand.

There was an extremely conspicuous mat placed in the middle. On top of the exposed straw, there was a simple layer of hemp straw whose material was unclear, and then covered with a quilt.

It feels quite thin to the touch.

It is hard to imagine how the two sisters managed to survive in the past.

(The above is hard to recall, but it is a pity that it has passed away. I would like to use it to commemorate the beauty that I have missed.)
Feeling the movement behind him, he could no longer hold back, turned around with difficulty, and hugged Shen Wanyi tightly in his arms, "You, do you usually sleep here?"

"Ah."

Shen Wanyi's voice did not convey any emotion, perhaps because she was used to it. Feeling the pity and eagerness in his eyes, she suddenly felt that everything was worth it. "It's not cold, actually. Use this wooden cabinet to block the door.

There won’t be any cold wind blowing in, it’s just that Wanqing doesn’t sleep well and has the habit of kicking off the quilt…”

Li Zehua felt heartbroken and didn't know what to say. He sat on the so-called bed, feeling the thickness of the bedding, and imagining the two sisters huddled in the dark and gloomy attic where they couldn't see their hands in front of them.

Spend the most beautiful and memorable time in your life.

At this moment he regretted not knowing her past earlier.

The cold investigation reports sent back by the subordinates could not describe the real situation at all.

I finally understood why Shen Wanqing was so reluctant to go home. This was a home that couldn't even provide the most basic shelter from the wind and rain.

Being penniless is not scary, what is scary is having no hope. The family only hopes that the sisters will get married early and use the gifts to subsidize another bottomless pit.

The two of them hugged each other tightly, talking about their family situations and expressing their feelings for each other...

"Actually, your situation is better than mine."

Li Zehua always liked to choose words that could arouse empathy to comfort her. When she opened her eyes wide, looking forward to the next words, he would reach out and scratch her cute little dimple.

"When I was born, I hid in my grandmother's house for a few years. Even the doors and windows of the house were removed. The only fat pig that I raised to pay off debts was also taken away...

At least you still have your grandparents to accompany you. My grandpa? Calculate it. He has been dead for more than 50 years. Really, my dad was only 4 years old at that time..."

It is said that men can flatter people to death with their mouths. Li Zehua specifically shared the tragic parts, which made Shen Wanyi completely empathize with him.

The man who could accept and tolerate everything about her, the man who provided her with a shelter from the wind and rain, turned out to have such an unbearable scene. The two hearts were closer than ever before. If she was not worried about Shen Wanqing suddenly barging in, she would even be willing to give him everything she had without reservation.

Just like in the villa in Rongcheng, he was allowed to take whatever he wanted without any scruples...

"Hey, why didn't I see anyone when I entered the village just now? It's almost New Year's Day, are they all out?"

Li Zehua embraced the beauty of the world, leaned against his face which was cold due to the cold wind, and asked curiously.

Shen Wanyi stretched out her slender white little hand and swatted away the malicious big hand. After tidying up her clothes, she gave him a charming look, which frightened the latter so much that he almost jumped up on the spot without caring about anything.

He just heard the sound of chatting in the front yard outside the attic and endured it. He didn't dare to move rashly. He didn't realize before that the noise made by the little girl was not in line with her quiet and innocent appearance.

"After I go back, I have to move out of my rental house. Should I move to Shanghai Bay or Pudong?"

He was in a trance at the moment. Shen Wanyi changed to a comfortable position and lay in his arms. She opened his big hand and counted his fingers for fun. "Today is the big market. We are all in town."

As he spoke, he told him some local customs.

"It's really remote. There are only two big markets a month, and you have to walk more than ten miles of mountain roads to buy daily necessities. But why didn't you tell me earlier? You could have driven directly to the town."

Li Zehua did not go any further, just holding her hand was fine. Shen Wanyi did not refuse either. Since she had completely given herself to him in Rongcheng, she no longer rejected this kind of little interest between lovers.

"I've called my sister. She'll come back with me."

Shen Wanyi said that Li Zehua listened and didn't hear anything wrong at first.

Until I climbed up to the window and saw Shen Wanqing fiddling with her mobile phone out of boredom in the front yard. There was no signal in the mountains, so I couldn't even play games online.

When calling, Chen Xiaomin probably wasn't awake yet. Zhang Tao and Wang Fei would naturally not ignore her, but they had no common topic, so the two grown men could only walk to a place farther away and stare blankly.

"Hmm? You said Wanqing would accompany them back?"

Facing the man's doubtful look, Shen Wanyi covered her mouth and chuckled, "It's another one."

Li Zehua was confused, "How many sisters do you have?"

……

Li Zehua was completely stunned until he saw a person who looked almost exactly like the two sisters Shen Wanyi and Shen Wanqing.

Shen Wanjun, or Zhou Wanjun.

The second daughter of the Shen family, was given up for adoption by Shen Wanyi's parents to be the daughter of her cousin in the town when she was two years old. She took Shen Wanyi's uncle's surname Zhou.

"No wonder one is twenty-one, the other is seventeen, there is a younger brother who is fifteen, and there is also a younger sister who is nineteen."

When they first met, it was obvious that the second sister's family background was much better than the Shen family's. At least she had a cell phone, while the Shen family's parents did not have any decorations worth more than a hundred dollars on their bodies.

Shen Zian, who was already fifteen years old and looked younger than his peers, had a pale face due to malnutrition or illness, and had no valuable items on him.

Perhaps it was a little disrespectful to look at him this way, but that was the reality, and the worn-out clothes, faded from long periods of washing, were clearly larger than his thin frame, and looked very odd to him.

It’s a bit like the clothes Li Zehua picked up from relatives when he was a child. They were never fit, but they were fine as long as they kept him warm.

Shen's parents were very curious and afraid of his sudden appearance. Looking at the gifts piled up in front of the door and the two tall and strong men, Zhang Tao and Wang Fei, who were obviously not good people, they didn't dare to say anything.

Only Shen Wanjun held her sister's arm and looked at her curiously from time to time. It can be seen that the two sisters have a very close relationship.

Li Zehua had a headache facing the Shen family's parents who couldn't even finish a sentence out of three. If he spoke too fast, they wouldn't have time to respond, and if he spoke too slowly, they wouldn't dare to speak.

He has tried very hard to control his emotions, but his long-established temperament of keeping his word is difficult to change. No matter how hard he tries to act like a good boy, it is difficult for him to control his emotions freely.

It would be a lie to say that I wasn't nervous. After all, I lied to a big person and even encouraged Shen Wanqing to stay in Shanghai. No matter what, I had no right to put on airs in front of someone else's parents.

In the end, he had no choice but to call Shen Zian, who was too cowardly to look him in the face, to his side. He still didn't dare to come until Shen Wanqing scolded him, then he timidly took a few steps forward.

Shen Wanqing was naturally not afraid of her mother's angry glare. In the past, when her sister and brother-in-law were not around, she dared to commit crimes against the wind and chased and beat up the matchmaker who stepped into the house.

She even dared to act without authorization and stole the family's passbook, using the money her sister transferred back to pay for tuition. She remembered clearly what her sister told her before she left, that only knowledge can change one's destiny.

Only by leaving the mountains can you live the new life you have always dreamed of.

In the past, when she was at home, she often disliked this burden and made him behave himself when his parents were not around. If it weren't for him, his parents wouldn't always want to sell him for money.

Well, my sister has a decent job in Shanghai and can send money back every month. She is the pillar of the family. My parents dare not treat her casually. What if she gives up on me? What will happen to this family?

My second sister was sent away when she was a child. Although she received some financial support occasionally, she was still a daughter sent away, and her parents had no right to arrange her life.

Shen Zian?
The apple of his parents' eyes. They said they couldn't raise him when he was born. But he has been kept in medicine for so many years and has managed to survive. He has grown up to be quite pretty, just like a little radish. He cries all the time, which is so annoying.

Only she was not close to her uncle, nor loved by her grandmother, and was always worried about by her parents. She started to be matchmade when she was fourteen or fifteen years old, and was promised to whoever gave more money.

At first, her sister took care of her. After her sister went to aviation school, she took care of herself. She was determined not to compromise and was determined to go to college and go far away.

If it weren't for her sister and brother-in-law, she would never want to come back in her life.

"Shen Zian, do you want to live in a big city? Then find the best hospital and the best doctor to cure your health so that you can go to school happily like other children..."

He had thought it through when he came.

Different methods are used to deal with different situations. Shen's parents have never been to school, have never traveled far in their lives, and have never experienced all the prosperity in this world.

It is useless to preach to them, and giving them money directly is even more unacceptable. They do not have enough ability to keep their amazing wealth.

He doesn't say whether his parents are good or bad at home because he has no right to do so. No matter what, the two sisters Shen Wanyi and Shen Wanqing are at least not hungry. Everyone has their ups and downs on the road to growth.

He had no right to interfere with the future of the two sisters, as long as they lived happily.

But he can solve the hidden dangers in life, and the breakthrough lies in Shen Zian, who is the lifeblood of the old couple...

So when he took out the business card of the chief physician of the best hospital in Chengdu, the key to the house near West China University of Medical Sciences in Chengdu, contacted the school he would go to after the New Year, and even arranged for Shen's father to work in Chengdu, he handed it over.

Mr. Shen couldn't hold it in any longer. Even if not for himself, he dared not give up the future hope of the Shen family's only child.

Everything seemed to have changed completely from this moment on. Smiles appeared on the faces of Shen's parents again, but they had almost forgotten how to smile...

"Take good care of yourself at home. If anything happens, call me as soon as possible, okay?"

The happy time was gone in a flash. After lunch, Li Zehua was about to leave. He had shouldered too much in this life. If he wanted to live a superior life, he had to shoulder more responsibilities than others.

No matter how reluctant Shen Wanyi felt, she could only follow him and sing a passage silently.

Behind them, the two sisters Shen Wanqing and Shen Wanjun were fighting over the pink Panda Z10.

"My brother bought it for me, why should I give it to you?"

"I am also a younger sister, the second younger sister, why can't you give it to me?"

"Then you should go by yourself and see if I will pay attention to you."

Shen Wanqing doesn't spoil her. This nominal second sister is not close to her. She only knows how to be a lackey of the eldest sister. She usually treats the eldest sister very well when she has delicious food and she can't even look at her for a second.

Want to grab a smartphone now?
There are no doors!

Shen Wanjun was helpless. She looked at her second-hand, unknown brand keypad phone, then at the extremely beautiful panda in Shen Wanqing's hand, and said helplessly, "Can you just let me play with it for a while? I beg you."

Shen Wanqing rolled her eyes and said, "Okay, then if you call me sister, I'll let you play with my phone, um, for half an hour."

"Tch, impossible."

Shen Wanjun was not happy, but after a while she couldn't help but come closer, "How about an hour?"

Shen Wanqing narrowed her eyes and wanted to laugh, "Then you call first."

Shen Wanjun hesitated for a long time, but finally couldn't escape the temptation of the Panda phone, and lowered her voice and said, "Sister."

"Speak louder, I didn't hear you."

"sister."

"I lied to you, how could I possibly give it to you?"

Shen Wanqing took her cell phone and ran to her sister and brother-in-law, making faces at them, which made Shen Wanjun so angry that she almost exploded.

"Naughty boy, come here and tell you something."

Li Zehua just thought it was funny, so he called her to his side and whispered in her ear: "The village chief's family has arranged two absolutely trustworthy people, and two cars have been left in the town. If there is anything, just let them do it.

When you are coming back after the Chinese New Year, please call me in advance, okay?"

Shen Wanqing smiled and nodded, "Brother, you are so nice."

Before leaving, she whispered, "You must not give her a mobile phone, or she will ignore you in the future."

"Row."

Li Zehua glanced at Shen Wanjun without leaving a trace, and then waved goodbye to everyone... (End of this chapter)