Chapter 22.1
Xie Min’s Story – The White Deer’s Never-ending Cry (Part 1)
I remember when she was only 3 years old. Small head, chubby arms, beautiful eyes. Everyone who saw her praised her beauty.
“This little lady is too beautiful! When she grows up, she will be a stunning beauty!”
At that time, I was always happy to hear such words and took pride in them. Tong Sheng had inherited the best genes from me and him. In my eyes, from young, she possessed a beauty that had been stolen from heaven.
What’s more, when she was young, she was also clever and cute.
She was always asking me to carry her, always sticking to me and refusing to let go. This caused her father no small amount of jealousy. But, what could we do? She was another little soul who had sprung from my body. She was the apple of my eye.
I taught mathematics in the village school. Her father was an ordinary worker. We didn’t earn very much, but we were always very happy. In the summer, her father would take her to the river to swim. In winter, our family would sit around the brazier and I would tell her stories.
We were so happy. Every minute, every second, was heaven’s gift. Due to the arrival of our precious Tong Sheng, our ordinary lives became extraordinary.
Thereafter, she grew day by day. Her beauty was as before, but she also started to become rebellious, and there were secrets she was unwilling to share with me.