messenger from the wasteland

Chapter 228
Several people played by the river all afternoon and didn't go home until evening.

At night, An lazily leaned against the door of the room, looking at the distant fields through the fence of the small courtyard.

It was her family's field, and there were still some traces left after the autumn harvest.

"I want to grow some fruits over there in the future." An suddenly pointed to a corner of the field and said.

After the first pass, I looked at the direction of An's finger and nodded: "Okay."

"Grow potatoes over there." Ann pointed to a corner and said, she likes to eat potatoes, whether it's mashed potatoes, French fries, potato chips, or the simplest baked potatoes, she likes to eat them all.

"Yeah." Chu then nodded.

"Grow some vegetables over there, and a little rice over there..."

Seeing An pointing at his field like a child, Chu felt an indescribable feeling in his heart, maybe she wanted to laugh, but she couldn't.

"What about the beginning?" Suddenly, An turned around, looked at her and asked.

"Huh?" Chu turned his head puzzled.

"What do you want?" Ann asked with a smile.

At the beginning, I found that her temper has improved a lot, and she is always laughing recently.

"I've never heard you say what you want." Ann leaned against the door and spread her hands.

"You really don't want anything?"

The light in the room was a little dim, and the table was placed on the small table that had not been cleared away after dinner.

Chu Xiang thought for a while, then looked at the countryside outside the door.

"I want to be forgiven."

Forgive by her parents, forgiven by her sister, forgiven by those she killed, forgiven by Hillman, Sakurako, B3068, Lawrence, Mann, Iori, and, Ann.

She knew that this was an excessive request, because she had done things that were not worthy of forgiveness, but if she just thought about it, there should be no problem or anything.

"Huh." A gust of wind blew outside the door, and the wind was very cold, so she tightened her clothes, sat back a little, and leaned against Chu's side.

Maybe after thinking about it, Ann narrowed her eyes and said.

"Then I forgive you."

Forgive you for leaving sooner or later.

Ann is a very smart person, she understands the contract very well, and also understands the deal between her and Chu.

She has always understood that it is impossible for Chu to be with her all the time, and what she said that night at Chu will definitely break her promise.

However, she found that she was not so angry, but took it for granted.

Chu looked at Ann in surprise.

"Humph." An Ze hummed and smiled, and bumped her with his shoulder.

"As compensation, you should hurry up and do more things that make me happy."

"Things that make you happy?" Dumbfounded for the first time, he obviously couldn't understand.

"For example..." An crossed his eyes pointingly, scanning Chu's body up and down.

She should have understood what An meant, and Chu's expression froze, but then, she lowered her head and shook her own hands, and said softly.

"I can."

"Hahaha." An looked at the nervous Chu and laughed loudly: "Okay, I'm just kidding you, I won't force you to do such a thing."

Said, she sat beside Chu, pulled her clothes to wrap herself like a rice dumpling, the weather was really too cold.

"I'm very satisfied." An sighed with a smile, took out a pack of cigarettes from her pocket, and held one in her mouth.

"You are a good person. I have already felt the desire to completely rely on someone, so that kind of thing is no longer so important."

"Crack." The lighter was fired, and the dancing flame ignited the cigarette on An's mouth.

An took a deep breath, then exhaled the smoke lightly, and the smell of the lady's cigarettes slowly dispersed in the room.

After looking at An for a long time, he said softly.

"Smoking is bad for your health."

"You talk like my mother." Ann held a cigarette, murmured to herself with a smile, "It's so annoying."

"This is the last one, and I won't smoke it again in the future."

As she spoke, she flicked the cigarette ash and let the smoke drift away. Her frustrated eyes were covered by the smoke.

Ann is a very smart person, just like she never retains people and things that cannot be retained.

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Two weeks later, Ann held a funeral for her mother. There was a hillside in the village dedicated to burying the dead, and Ann buried her mother in an inconspicuous corner there.

Her mother didn't like the limelight, and as she always said, there was nothing wrong with being alone.

On the day of the funeral, people from almost every household in the village came. Some helped An to watch the night, some helped An to attend the funeral, and some helped An to sprinkle water to clear the way.

In this village with few people, the relationship between people is closer than imagined.

An didn't show any sadness that day, but after her mother was buried, she watched the candlelight in front of the tomb alone for a long time, and was the last one to leave silently until it was almost dawn.

Before leaving, she said one last word to her mother.

"forgive me."

In this world, how many people live to be forgiven by others.

Forgive me for being useless, forgive me for not being good enough, forgive me for not being what you want, forgive me for not being a good person, forgive me for not being what you imagined, forgive me for not being there for you when you needed it around.

And what kind of forgiveness is needed to make people feel relieved.

Perhaps when one asks for forgiveness, there is no possibility of relief.

As for Chu, she didn't come, she is not suitable for mourning, because if there are ghosts in this world, she will make them feel uneasy.

On the third day after Ann's mother was buried, as the villagers expected, it began to snow.

The coldness that had been brewing for a long time fell from the sky, covering this mountain village with few people.

The weather was so cold that An didn't want to go out at all, and he didn't bother to move at first, so the two of them stayed together in the heated room to rest.

Chu held An's childhood comic books and lay on the ground reading them. This was a new hobby she had developed recently.

As for An, the old god was drinking a cup of warm tea on the ground, looking like an elderly old woman.

She's considering quitting her job so she can start planting seeds on her family's field next spring.

Don't look at her like this, she often helped her mother with farm work when she was a child, so there is no problem at all with growing vegetables.

After thinking about it, An wanted to smoke again, but because she had just promised Chu a few days ago that she would quit smoking, so she handed over her current lighter to Chu for safekeeping.

"First time."

Holding the teacup, Ann complained as she looked at Chu who was lying leisurely and reading comics.

"It was you who asked me to quit smoking. Now I am suffering. Should you help me distract myself?"

Hearing An's words, Chu Chu, who was lying there, froze for a moment.

Suddenly, she glanced at the manga in her hand, hesitated for a moment, and sat up from the ground: "Okay."

Just when An was jokingly thinking about how Chu would use to distract herself.

Chu has already moved closer to her side, raised his lips and kissed her cheek.

"Pfft! Cough cough cough!"

Caught off guard, An choked on the water, covered her mouth and coughed violently.

"Is it okay?" Sitting next to An, Chu asked softly with erratic eyes.

Obviously, she picked it up from comics, but she wasn't sure if it was the right thing for her.

"Yes, yes." An blushed and looked away from the door.

It's just that she is suffering from another matter now.

(End of this chapter)