Huo Lindong had a dream. In that dream, he and Ah Wu were two parallel lines that had never intersected.
There was no order from Master Yuanming, so naturally, there was no such thing as his Aunt going to the Jiang family to propose marriage.
The Huo Lindong in the dream was taciturn, occasionally going to the school to study, but spending more time at home.
No, it couldn’t be said that he and Jiang Wu had no intersection at all. They had also met several times.
Ah Wu in the dream was as soft and cute as Ah Wu in reality. She was often being robbed of her snacks by her ‘playmates’ and left alone by the river pond.
That path was the only way between the Diao family’s old house and the Diao family’s pork stall. Huo Lindong would occasionally deliver meals to his busy Uncle and Aunt, so he would sometimes see the lonely figure sitting by the river pond.
In the dream, Huo Lindong felt that the girl was really stupid. Once, he ridiculed Jiang Baozong for trusting his foolish daughter to a group of completely ignorant little devils.
Several times, he had seen that stupid girl tentatively trying to catch a river fish jumping out of the river with her hands. She stood on tiptoes by the river and leaned forward slightly, fearing that she would fall into the river the next second.
But in the dream, Huo Lindong had always been a bystander. He was indifferent to all this. For him, why should he care about the life and death of a strange and stupid girl?
In this way, on that not-so-wide country road, the two of them passed each other countless times.
Finally, one time, the scene that Huo Lindong had imagined countless times in his dream finally happened. The little girl from the Jiang family slipped and fell into the water. When she was found, her body was already bloated.
Hearing this news, Huo Lindong was touched for a second in his dream, but unfortunately, it was only for a second, because to him, Jiang Wu was just a stranger.
On the third day after Jiang Wu’s death, someone from the Xiao family came.
The Huo Lindong in the dream was so happy. He wanted to destroy the Xiao family and destroy the things that the Xiao family had ‘gifted’ to him, so he left with the Xiao family.
In that dream, Huo Lindong was a paranoid and uncontrollable madman. When he destroyed the Xiao family, he also destroyed himself. However, before he killed himself, he left enough property for his Uncle and Aunt.
This world was quite boring for him. It seemed that his existence was just to wait for someone. Unfortunately, he did not wait for the person in this world, so he left early and waited for the next reunion.
When Huo Lindong woke up, his consciousness was still unable to return. He looked at the tent on the top of the bed. The exquisite and complicated patterns embroidered on it made his eyes feel a little sour.
It was obviously just a dream, but it seemed like a real experience.
What was the difference?
Huo Lindong couldn’t help but start thinking about this issue. All the intersections seemed to have started with Master Yuanming’s instructions. Because of Master Yuanming’s words, there was the matter of his Aunt going to Jiang’s house to propose marriage.
It was also the first time since he heard about this incident that he took the initiative to tease the little girl who was always left behind by the river pond.
No, that was not right either.
Huo Lindong told himself in his heart that it was still different.
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