The grass grows in the long acres and the mountains grow in the mountains. The same spring breeze and two emotions.
The grass dies and the frost stands before the snow. Who says that grass and trees are ruthless?
She was sold into the Gu family at the age of nine, and became his maid at the age of fifteen. He taught her to read, teach her to ride a horse, remembered her birthday, would hold her and say "I will never let you leave me."
He would also leave her alone in a side room on their wedding night, would turn away silently when his mother brought her soup, and would choose to protect the dignity of another woman when she needed him most.
Everyone advised her to accept her fate - it was a great blessing for a girl to be able to serve the young master.
Has she accepted her fate?
One ordinary evening, she knelt in front of her head-wife and redeemed herself with twenty taels of silver that she had saved for ten years. When she walked out of Gu's house, she took nothing with her - not even the mutton-fat jade bracelet he gave her.
He searched like crazy for five days and found nothing.
Later, when the war broke out in the Central Plains, she put on a nurse's uniform and stood in front of the operating table on the front line. He crawled out of the sea of blood from the mountain of corpses. When he was carried to the field hospital, he was covered in blood, with bullet holes in his legs and a bayonet wound in his abdomen.
She walked in wearing a mask and carrying a medicine tray, and said in the tone of a nurse to the wounded: "Sir Gu, let me change your medicine."
He held her wrist tightly and called out the name he had been looking for for eight years.
She gently pushed his hand away: "My name is Shen Qingyun. Qingyun's bamboo is bamboo."
From Shen Qinghe to Shen Qingyun, from Shenzhai compound to thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. She spent half her life away from him, and another half her life living on her own.
But, how far can a girl go in troubled times?
