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At that time, Gao Kan had always felt it was strange. He had clearly said that I was just a skinny little monkey, why did my singing sound like Sun Wukong with a halo around him?

Until one day, when we were climbing mountains together to chop firewood, I sang a Yi Mountain Song for him. Suddenly, Gao Kan said to me in shock, "Coca Cola, I found that you are extremely talented in singing."

Then, in order to confirm this shocking discovery, Gao Kan even called his father, whom he hadn't contacted for a long time, asking him to listen to my singing. Afterwards, his father also praised me.

From then on, Gao Kan enjoyed digging into my talent in music.

That was a wonderful time.

I've never been happier in my life than I was that summer.

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I have a stubborn temperament and am not in the group. My friends bully me because I have no parents and always say that I am a monkey that came out of a stone wall. Because of this, I have cried countless times.

On my eighth birthday, my grandfather borrowed a horse from someone else and walked them for an entire day and night, crossing mountains to carry me to Chenchen.

In the morning, after buying me the first piece of cake in my life, Grandfather took me to a two-story building with the words school written on it. He pointed to a man and woman sitting on a bicycle and wearing beautiful clothes, and said to me, "Ni Re, you are actually not an orphan.

I thought at the time that my grandfather was lying to me, that on the front of the twenty-eight permanent bike, with a little bamboo seat on the front beam and a pink and tender doll inside, the wind blew his hat open and one leg kicked the ground, supporting the bicycle, my father bent over to kiss him on the forehead, lovingly covered him up, and the naughty child took off his hat and threw it on the ground.

In the back seat, there was a very pretty young woman wearing fashionable clothes with leather bags and high heels. She jumped off the car, retrieved her hat, put it on the child, who threw it away again, and threatened to hit him, but every time she lovingly picked it up and coaxed him to put it on.

"That's your mom and dad. It's your brother in front of you. They're here to pick up your sister from school." Grandpa said.

So I have parents, and a brother and sister.

At the age of eight, I had never thought that these unfamiliar words, which only existed in textbooks, belonged to me as well.

But I didn't understand why they were together, why I was with my grandfather, why they never looked at me. I asked my grandfather, "Why don't my parents want me?"

Grandfather squatted down and kindly stroked my hair, saying, "When you were young, you were kidnapped and sold by traffickers. You were left in our mountain trenches. Your parents couldn't find you. Now, I'll bring you home."

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I, who knew nothing about the fact that adults would lie, cried when I heard that there was a home to go back to, that my parents could call me, that I was no longer an orphan.

Pappy tied my horse to a tree by the side of the road and led me to the family of three.

"Keeping your head! Little Wu, do you guys still know this kid?" Pappy called out their names and pushed me forward.

I looked curiously at the child in the seat. It was a boy.

The family of three was playing around. When they saw my grandfather and I appear, the couple was stunned. The happy smile on their faces instantly disappeared. Only the brother in the front seat chuckled as he played the game of throwing hats.

Grandfather pushed me, "Ni Re, quickly call your parents."

At that time, I didn't really know how to speak Mandarin. I curled my tongue, felt awkward for a while, then called out 'Dad', but before I could call out the second 'Dad', the grandpa, who said it was my mother's woman, suddenly jumped off the bicycle and covered my mouth.

"You're not allowed to scream!"

Grandfather snatched me over to hug her and said, "Little Wu, why, why aren't you letting your child call you? Don't you know how much this child misses his mother?"

"Family planning has just given us a lot of money," the woman said to her grandfather.

The man on the bicycle seemed to be a bit annoyed, he frowned and said, "Yue Yue, the children are so cold. Take them to eat a meal later and then leave."

The woman's beautiful eyes widened as she angrily scolded him, "What are you eating for? She ate for a whole meal and was discovered. Our family is about to enter the police station!"

She took out a stack of paper money from her purse, took out two paper pieces, and stuffed them into my grandfather's hands. "Uncle, let's go quickly. If someone finds out, it's not good." "When my life is better, I will definitely take her home."

-

As we were talking, school was over, and a girl in a white dress, with two pigtails and a bag with a cartoon character on it, came running from the middle of the children, bouncing and shouting "Mom and Dad."

She is my sister Qian Yang.

At that time, I was wearing shabby clothes and my skin was sunburned black. Due to malnutrition, some of my hair was smaller and even shorter than hers by a head.

The loving look in Wu Yue's eyes when he saw her was a stark contrast to the disdain he had when he saw me.

It was also at that moment that the young me first understood the meaning of the word inferiority.

Qian Yang was carried by a princess and put in the back seat. She pointed curiously at me and Grandfather and asked, "Mom, who are they?"

Wu Yue smiled and said to her, "The person who asked for directions."

Then, he urged Yi Shouzhuo to leave quickly.

Yi Shouzhuo looked at us with a complicated expression. He looked reluctant and pitiful, but more importantly, like Wu Yue, he was anxious to escape immediately. He took out a few bills from his pocket, threw them in front of us, said "sorry", and then rode his bike and ran away frantically.

Qian Yang's giggling voice was carried by the wind into my ears, "Mother, are they begging? Why do you have to pay? "

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In fact, thinking about it now, Qian Yang said those words at that time, without any malicious intent. After all, she was only nine years old then, as ignorant as me, and knew nothing about the world of adults, but I didn't think so at the time.

The image of the family of four leaving stung me deeply, but I have never forgotten it ever since I was eight years old, when it was carved into my heart like a knife.

When Gao Kan brought me back to the Yi Family later on, he also tried to make me feel better towards him. It's a pity that I never called them daddy and mum.

It was their indifference that allowed me, at such a young age, to quickly learn to protect myself.

It was probably from then on that my heart could no longer be gentle, nor would I be kind to others.

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Later on, I would often wonder, if fate had not brought Gao Kan into my life, what would have become of me?

I dare not think.

Without a doubt, Gao Kan's unexpected appearance was a beam of sunlight that the God of Fate casually bestowed upon me. A sharp axe, like Pangu creating the world, broke open my dark and chaotic life and sent me to another bright road.

It was Gao Kan who brought me out of the mountains, allowing me to experience the warmth of being protected by others. Bringing me along became love from legends.

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