Chapter 257 Prequel 2
Chapter 257 Prequel 2
When the village chief came back, the child in Shen Yanfeng's arms had not woken up yet, but was no longer making a fuss and was sleeping soundly.
Shen Yanfeng was still running a fever. When the village chief came in, he touched Shen Yanfeng's head first. He was relieved when he found that it was not as hot as before.
The village chief sat beside their bed, looked at the child in Shen Yanfeng's arms, and sighed helplessly.
"This child has always been restless in sleep. I didn't expect that he would be so well behaved next to you."
I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Shen Yanfeng always feels that the way the village chief looks at the child in his arms is the same as the way he looks at himself.
Full of compassion and sadness.
It was not until later that Shen Yanfeng found out that the child's name was Shen Jun. Coincidentally, he and the village chief had the same surname.
But it's nothing strange that everyone in the village has the same surname.
The only difference is that Shen Jun's mother was one of the first college graduates from the village. After studying, she wanted to come back to build her hometown, so she left Shen Jun at her grandmother's house in the city.
Shen Jun's original surname was not Shen, but his mother had a conflict with his father because he stayed in the village to work, and the two divorced.
Shen Jun was awarded to his mother, so he changed his mother's surname.
With no one to take care of him, Shen Jun was taken to the countryside.
Unexpectedly, just two days after he arrived, the village was hit by a flood, and his mother died in the mountains while fighting the flood.
Like Shen Yanfeng, he was picked up by the village chief.
But he is different from Shen Yanfeng because he still has family and someone will come to take him home.
Shen Jun always said so. He had been in the city and had seen much more of the world than Shen Yanfeng.
He always asks to watch TV, go to the amusement park, and eat sausages and popcorn.
But Shen Yanfeng had never heard of these.
He only heard Shen Jun say that these were all very delicious things.
Shen Yanfeng could only imagine how delicious the things Shen Jun was talking about were from his description.
It’s a pity that no matter how much I think about things I’ve never seen, I can never piece together a complete picture in my mind.
Although there is no amusement park in the village, Shen Yanfeng always takes Shen Jun to the mountains to dig wild mushrooms, to the river to catch small fish, and to the village entrance to touch other people's cats.
Shen Jun is a very handsome child. Everyone in the village likes him very much. Everyone who sees him can't help but touch Shen Jun's face.
Unlike Shen Yanfeng, no one likes to touch Shen Yanfeng's head or cheek, but Shen Yanfeng doesn't care about that.
At the same time, he also didn't like others touching Shen Jun's face.
Because in his eyes, Shen Jun's face was very white and soft, and the villagers' hands were always covered with dirt, which would dirty Shen Jun's face.
Besides, Shen Jun doesn't like being touched by others. He likes to be clean and can't stand having dirt on his face.
So whenever someone wanted to touch Shen Jun again, the young Yan Feng would help Shen Jun drive those people away.
Every time this happened, they would scold Shen Yanfeng for being a bastard born by a mother but not raised by her, and say that he was uneducated.
But Shen Yanfeng never cared about these things. As long as Shen Jun was happy, he was willing to do anything.
Because he had never had a friend in the previous few years of his life, Shen Jun was his first friend and the only friend who did not despise him.
They all lived in the village chief's house. The room was originally reserved for the village chief's son who worked in the city, but he rarely came back so the room was given to them.
The village chief's wife looks fierce but is actually a kind-hearted person.
After spending a long time together, Shen Yanfeng realized that she just had a loud voice and spoke without thinking, but she didn't really dislike him.
Otherwise, she wouldn't have let him live in her house and even suggested that he go to school.
Shen Yanfeng liked sleeping in the same bed with Shen Jun because Shen Jun would tell him things about the city that he had never heard before.
He liked listening to it very much, but he also didn't like it very much, because every time he finished listening, Shen Jun would always miss home and his parents.
Every time this happened, Shen Yanfeng didn't know how to comfort him.
Because he also misses his home and his parents very much.
So he could only hold Shen Jun in his arms, patting Shen Jun's back gently like his mother comforting him, and comforting Shen Jun in a clumsy way.
This method always works, Shen Jun will soon stop crying and fall into a deep sleep.
Because every time he cried to the end, Shen Jun would always comfort himself by saying that maybe his father would come to take him home tomorrow.
He still has grandparents, and grandparents-in-law. One day they will come and take him home.
Mr. Shen Jun said this and fell asleep while talking.
But Shen Yanfeng couldn't sleep, because Shen Jun was right, he still had relatives, and his relatives would come to take him away.
But when he left... Shen Yanfeng was left alone again.
So Shen Yanfeng could only pray before going to bed every day that the day would come slower and slower.
He didn't want to lose his good friend so soon.
I don’t know if my prayers worked, but there has been no news from Shen Jun’s relatives.
So Shen Jun, who used to follow him to the mountains to pick mushrooms and play in the stream every day, started to wait at the village entrance every day.
Because the village chief told him that he had sent a letter to his family in the city.
Shen Jun is tired of life here and he is looking forward to reuniting with his family.
Every day he would squat beside the dried-up well at the entrance of the village, just like he used to lie on a tree waiting for his parents to come back.
Shen Jun was waiting there, and Shen Yanfeng stayed beside Shen Jun.
Sometimes when Shen Jun got tired of waiting and wanted to sleep, Shen Yanfeng would use his legs as a pillow for Shen Jun and use his own eyes to replace Shen Jun's eyes.
He heard Shen Jun talk about what his family members looked like, and also showed him a photo, a photo hidden in an amulet that Shen Jun carried with him.
Shen Yanfeng swore that he had memorized the appearance of everyone in his family.
There was a gardenia planted next to the well. After a heavy rain, many trees in the village were washed down, but this gardenia was not.
It still blooms tirelessly, and the fragrance it emits can be smelled even from a long distance.
There are many such gardenias planted in their village, but none of them blooms as beautifully as this one.
When Shen Yanfeng was sleeping with Shen Jun in his arms, he always wondered why the gardenia was so fragrant?
They waited there for a long time but received no news from Shen Jun's family.
The gardenias have almost all withered, and even the bridge that was destroyed by the flood has been repaired and reopened to traffic.
But Shen Jun’s relatives still didn’t come.
Shen Jun began to hide under the quilt and secretly wipe away his tears every night.
Her beautiful eyes turned red from crying, and Shen Yanfeng's heart trembled along with her crying.
Precisely because he had waited before, he could better understand Shen Jun’s current mood.
But he had no choice but to hold Shen Jun and coax him softly.
When his palm patted Shen Jun's back, Shen Yanfeng kept thinking, it would be great if there was someone to accompany him like this at that time.
Shen Yanfeng began to reflect again and wondered if it was because he had always prayed that Shen Jun’s relatives would not come that they really did not come.
So Shen Yanfeng began to pray that they would come quickly.
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