Two children who fell into the abyss found light in each other.
When Chen Xiaoshu was seven years old, his father passed away quietly in the early morning of the first lunar month. In late autumn of the same year, my mother also passed away. Relatives treated him like a ball, kicking him from one house to another, and finally sent him to the Chengxi Orphanage. It was during this darkest moment that he met a girl with a ponytail on the rooftop.
Lin Zhiyi put an extra bun in his drawer every day, peeled the orange into a spiral and divided it into half for him. She taught him to memorize the multiplication tables in a regular manner, and he helped her save money to buy new cards. Together, they found an abandoned newsstand at the end of the old street. They cleaned up the dust, covered it with plastic sheeting, and used the chalk they picked up to write on the wall "Chen Xiaoshu, 9 years old, wants to have a family" and "Lin Zhiyi, 9 years old, wants to be a useful person." They covered the wall with candy paper stars and planted onion seedlings in the backyard, turning this dilapidated corner into a "second home."
The candlelight of the revolving lantern penetrated the rice paper, and the little wire man rode the motorcycle silently around and around. Chen Xiaoshu completed the lamp using the drawings left by his father. The brass bearings rotated more steadily than the original ones. Lin Zhiyi taught him how to solve equation problems, and he helped her face her alcoholic father. The two stars are getting closer and closer.
Many years later, two admission notices were sent to the same county - the Provincial City University and the Provincial City Normal University, seven bus stops away. The green onions on the newsstand are still growing, and the chalk words on the wall are written from nine years old to eighteen years old. The new generation has picked up the chalk and written their names on the wall. Everyone moves forward on this road - the abyss will not disappear, but the light will always leak in through the cracks.
