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    “Isn’t there a sentence that says so?”

    “It’s rare to be confused.”

    “But I don’t want to be so stupid that I risk my own life. My whole life will end like this without any clarity.”

    “That’s really sad.”

    She said, clearly smiling, but more like crying.

    Xue Xia is a girl born in summer.

    There are less than 100 households in this fishing village near the sea. To go to school, you have to take the earliest bus to the town, which is about a twenty-minute drive.

    Xue Xia doesn’t know who her father is. She was raised by her grandparents.

    Grandpa has been fishing all his life, and his biggest asset is an old fishing boat that has been in operation for more than 40 years. Grandma usually stays at home and supplements the family income by doing handicrafts.

    When he was a child, the genius was bright, and his grandfather had already gotten up to prepare to go to sea. With the lunch box made by his grandmother, Xue Xia would get up quickly after hearing the noise, rub his eyes and run downstairs, rushing to say “be careful on the road” to the other party before he left.

    Then, grandma would serve the porridge to her in a beautiful bowl, sprinkled with chopped green onions, shredded eggs and a few pieces of meat braised until hard.

    Then, grandma would turn on the radio and start sewing while Xue Xia had breakfast.

    The day started like this.

    Day after day, until Xue Xia’s Xiaowu year.

    Grandpa and grandma said they were moving.

    “Moving?” Xue Xia blinked.”Where are you moving to?”

    “The town, we are moving to the town.” Grandma hugged Xue Xia and said to her: “Our land is going to be expropriated, and we are planning to build an ecological park. Alas… No matter what, we Xiaoxia won’t have to get up at five o’clock in the future, and we can sleep well.”

    This is undoubtedly a great joy for children.

    However, Xue Xia did not show any excitement or excitement, because she could feel that her grandmother was sad.

    At that time, the Xue family’s small brick house was filled with a lingering sadness.

    Xue Xia vaguely knew the reason, but didn’t know how to comfort the two old people.

    She could only study harder, get good grades, and try to make them happy instead of just forcing a smile in front of herself.

    That was so uncomfortable.

    Xue Xia thought.

    When Xue Xia graduated from elementary school, things finally settled.

    In less than two years, 70 to 80% of the residents of the fishing village, which originally had about a hundred households, had been relocated, leaving only a few dozen households unwilling to leave. However, Xue Xia knew that it was only a matter of time.

    After loading all the furniture and luggage into the truck, grandpa and grandma took her for a walk to the beach.

    It was the height of the summer heat, with cloudless skies and the sun high in the sky. Grandpa took them along the asphalt road on a tricycle. By the time they finally got to the port, Xue Xia was already covered in sweat.

    But she didn’t complain that she was tired, she just followed the two elders silently, passed by the shoal, and came to the boat that her grandfather was preparing to scrap. It was so worn that most of the paint was peeled off, and the parts had a thick layer of rust.

    At that time, Xue Xia remembered the expression on her grandfather’s face clearly throughout her life.

    It is a kind of melancholy, but also a kind of resignation.

    The three of them had lunch on the boat.

    It’s a rice ball made by grandma herself, filled with meat floss and perilla leaves.

    After eating, Xue Xia walked to the deck.

    She saw her grandfather, who was like a superman, leaning on her grandmother’s shoulder. There were two lines of tears on his face covered with wrinkles and sun spots. Under the scorching sun, they looked like diamonds struck on the sea.

    It’s so bright and so dazzling.

    There is something that can never be found again.

    When Xue Xia realized this, it was the first time she was afraid of separation.

    You can’t see the sea from Wanghai Town.

    In summer, even if you open the windows, you can’t get the sea breeze and taste the salty air.

    Xue Xia was not used to this.

    She had insomnia for most of the summer before she got used to it.

    Later, Xue Xia found out that grandpa and grandma actually had houses in the town.

    But after their mother Xue Lin lost her whereabouts, the two of them never set foot in that room again.

    Regarding her mother, her grandfather and grandmother never mentioned her. Xue Xia could only piece together a vague picture of her mother from the gossips of the neighbors and the gossip of the neighbors after dinner.

    Beautiful, smart, lovable from childhood to adulthood…these are the positives.

    Unfilial, willful, indiscreet, flirting… these are negative.

    Xue Xia sometimes wonders, as if her mother when she was a child and her mother when she grew up are two completely different people.

    Her parents worked hard to bring up Xue Lin and never disliked her because she was a girl. The couple were even afraid that their daughter would be wronged and insisted on not having another child. In a small village with conservative folk customs and relatively conservative ideas, it is easy for people to gossip without a son to carry on the family line.

    However, Xue Xia’s grandmother and grandfather were able to bear all this, and Xue Lin did not let them down. Her grades were always very good, and she even received full scholarships and bursaries from university.

    At that time, except for a few tough-talking relatives, most of the neighbors praised them for being lucky to have raised their daughter so well, and that the best days were yet to come.

    Who would have thought that Xue Lin, who was sent to college by the whole village, would suddenly run home with a pregnant belly one day, shut herself up in the house and refused to see anyone. After giving birth to the child, she ran away without saying a word, completely ignoring her parents and her daughter who was waiting to be fed, and disappeared.

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