002. Grow up

The weather was getting colder, and it was time to eat. A small food basket slowly slid down the window with a rope, and then a few white things floated in.

"It's snowing." The old slave who handed over the food said in a hoarse voice.

The white snow and the dark surroundings formed a sharp contrast in her eyes.

Snow-white, cold, melted at the moment of falling at her fingertips, which was called snow by the old slave.

That's what's outside, that's what she doesn't know.

She likes it so much.

So she ate the hot food happily. After a full rest for a while, she jumped up and grabbed the window frame. He looked at the white snow outside and stared at the silver-covered world.

At this time, a boy in a blue cotton-padded jacket broke into her eyes unexpectedly. The boy ran over with his feet. When he was sure that no one was following him, he ran over in one breath.

"It's strange that this house doesn't have a door?" The boy scratched the back of his head with his fat little hand and walked around the room, and then muttered doubtfully.

"Oh, there is a window there." The next moment, he was surprised to find a palm-sized window on one wall of the house.

In this way, she saw his figure clearly and remembered his appearance.

The window was not high. He grabbed the window frame with a jump, and then opened his curious eyes and looked inside.

"Ah..."

"Ah..."

When looking in with the window frame, I saw her looking out with the same window frame.

The two faces zoomed in instantly, which was extremely frightening.

So he fell to the ground, and she fell down as well.

"You... are you a human or a ghost..." The boy rubbed his broken buttocks and pointed to the window and asked loudly.

"Shh, don't quarrel." She grabbed the window frame again and stretched out her index finger in front of her lips. After the boy was stunned, she continued to say, "Listen."

The boy turned his head suspiciously and looked behind him, then pricked up his ears to listen carefully, but after a long time, he didn't hear any sound.

"Are you kidding me?" The boy pointed at her angrily, picked up the stone on the ground and threw it at the window, but the stone popped off after hitting the window frame.

"Can't you hear me?" She asked puzzledly, and then smiled proudly and said, "I really heard it."

"Who...who can't hear..." The boy was a little embarrassed by this. He scratched the back of his head and pouted.

"Haha..." She laughed out loud, and then said, "That's so stupid."

"You...you..." The boy angrily picked up a lot of stones on the ground and kept throwing them at the window, while she jumped down directly and sat down casually in a corner.

Those stones were most hit on the window frame or the wall, and some of them flew in and couldn't hurt her at all.

She thought to herself that such a game was much more fun than walking around the wall.

It's just that the boy hasn't been here since that time.

Since then, she has never kept coming and going along the wall. She has another game, which is to put patterns on the ground with the pebbles thrown in by the boy.

Every time she puts out a pattern with the stones thrown in by the boy, she can't help thinking that if she could see him again, and it would be nice if she could play like that again.

I don't know how long it took, and she gradually got tired of swinging stones. She has grown a lot taller, and now she can see the outside from that window without jumping.

So, her after-the-scenes program turned into watching the scenery.

It's just that there is nothing worth seeing in this yard if it doesn't snow.

At this time, she suddenly thought, when will she be able to leave here?

Thinking about it, she heard footsteps from far to near. She knew that the person who came to deliver her food was coming.

She looked at the thin young woman and handed her a bowl of vegetables and a bowl of rice directly, and then said to her, "I've seen the young lady. The maidservant is the new Xiaohuan who is responsible for your three meals."

This is the first time that someone has called her Miss.

She took the meal with a little surprise, and then asked with a smile, "Where's the old man before?"

In her memory, it had always been an old woman who served her food, but she didn't know the old woman's name or how to call her, so she had to call her "old man" casually.

"You're talking about Cai's mother, right? She accidentally fell into the lotus pool on the way back after delivering you food yesterday..." Xiaohuan's face was a little sad, but she tried her best to suppress her emotions and didn't let herself have any gaffe.

She was stunned and then sighed.

That Cai's mother has been delivering food to her since she lived here for so many years...

"Miss, eat quickly. The food will be cold later." Xiaohuan said to her.

She nodded and then began to eat.

The food is very simple. Over the years, it has been all kinds of porridge and fried cabbage. I don't know why I eat it today. It seems to be a little different from before.

After eating, Xiaohuan took the empty bowl she handed over, and then smiled at her and said, "Miss, if you feel bored, I can talk to you for a while."

She was stunned. For the first time in so many years, someone said that she was willing to talk with her.

"Why are you... so kind to me?" She suddenly couldn't believe it, so she asked cautiously.

"Because you are a lady." Xiaohuan's smile is still bright.

"How do you know I'm a lady? Who said I was a lady?" She is not very clear about the meaning of the title "Miss", but she seems to feel very happy to be a "Miss" from Xiaohuan's words.

"That's what Cai's mother said." Xiaohuan said that her eyes were suddenly a little wet, and then Xiaohuan said to her in a trembling voice, "Before Mother Cai left, I was by her side, and she also told me to take good care of you."

She was stunned. Cai's mother, who didn't even know her name and had never seen her appearance, would tell others to take good care of her?