On February 12, 1997, in a room on the second floor of a farmhouse courtyard in a small town in southern town, the 67-year-old girl on the bed frowned, muttering something but couldn't hear it clearly. Suddenly, the girl opened her eyes, looked around, blinked, and her misty eyes slowly became clear.

"Why do you have a strange dream again? I don't remember every time I wake up." Mu Yin muttered, looking at the sky, it was dawn, and she crawled out of the bed and shivered. She wanted to get back, but she held back, took the clothes and put on the bed, wore a red cotton jacket outside, and then stretched downstairs.

"Yinyin got up so early today. She's so good. She's going to elementary school soon. She should get up early." Grandpa and grandma, who were older and woke up early, said happily when she saw Mu Yin going downstairs.

"Grandpa and grandma are early." Mu Yin greeted the two old men. After saying hello, she went to wash her face and brush her teeth. After looking at the time, it was already 7 o'clock, but it was getting late.

It was a pity that Mu Yin decided to go for a run and exercise after washing up. God knew that she had been going up the mountains and rivers with her friends since she was a child. She was very good at physically, but she didn't like exercise. When she stopped panting, Mu Yin felt that she had been kicked by a donkey in her brain, and why did she do some inexplicable things today?

Mu Yin, 8 years old this year, is in a small town in a remote county in Z Province, southern China. It is all mountainous. It takes seven or eight or nine hours to drive to the city. The road conditions are still very poor.

Her house is a relatively old mud-tiled house, which covers a large area, with the main hall and side houses on both sides.

The family has a large population. Grandpa Mu Tong is 59 years old this year, grandma Dongfeng is 57 years old this year; uncle Mu Yang is 32 years old this year, a carpenter, aunt Huang Shan is 31 years old, and they have two sons, eldest brother Mu Qin is 12 years old, second brother Mu Li is 9 years old, and an adopted daughter Mu Miao is 9 years old.

The second son, Mu Song, is 29 years old, is an electrical appliance repairman, his wife Zhou Qi is 29 years old, and they are high school classmates. After getting married, they opened a repair shop in the town. The eldest son, Mu Yu, is 9 years old, and the second daughter, Mu Yin, is 8 years old. The two siblings are 20 months apart.

The third son, Mu Bai, is 24 years old and now works in the post office. His wife, Zhang Yi, is 22 years old. He has a daughter who has just turned one year old, named Mu Xi.

Such a population family is not uncommon for them. Their families are quite harmonious. Although grandparents prefer boys over girls, they are usually only reflected in pocket money, and are treated equally at other times.

Mu Yin is 7 years old (Xu Sui, actually 6 years old) and is about to sign up for school, but it is not an elementary school, but a preschool class. Uh, it exists similar to a kindergarten, but there is no kindergarten here yet, only a preschool class.

In the southern rural areas in 1997, the school was still in a five-year system, but because of the existence of a one-year preschool class, it was similar to a six-year school. In fact, at the beginning, she had to directly sign up for the first grade of elementary school.

There are two reasons why Mu Yin didn’t go to the first grade directly. One is that she was not old enough. They had to be 7 years old before they could go to elementary school. The other is that it is not the time to spend the New Year well. The Lantern Festival has not passed yet. The school starts to attend the second semester of the first grade, which is definitely not possible.

In addition, there are preschool classes that can learn pinyin and numbers in advance, which leads to people who enter the first grade directly unable to keep up with the courses. So Mu Yin can only study preschool classes first, and it is the kind of class that can be transferred to classes in the middle.

I don’t know why her parents insisted on letting her start school now, even if she might have to study for half a year more than others. Of course, she didn’t know about Mu Yin at all, and she only understood it later.

It was only a few days before she signed up, and Mu Yin was still very excited. After all, children who had never been to school were very eager for school. They could have so many children playing together, but it turned out that they were not so happy after going to school.

On the Lantern Festival, Mu Yin carried her little schoolbag and went to school with her mother. In fact, she did nothing, just signed up with her mother, paid the money, and then received the book.

After waiting for the start of school two days, two days later, I carried a small schoolbag again, and the books were placed inside became much heavier. However, when I passed by my friends of the same age, Mu Yin still walked by them with her head high, and she was so proud.

When I first started, I was still full of motivation. Even though I was quite cold now, and Mu Yin was very talented and learned everything quickly. Whether it was Pinyin or numbers, she was also the most standard pronunciation in Pinyin, and was often called to show off by the teacher.

There are fewer preschool courses, only 5 types, Chinese, mathematics, drawing, music and sports. For some reason, Mu Yin always has a special feeling of love for painting. She has an impulse to hold a pen. Although the last one is to draw children's graffiti, it is much better than other children.

"Ah!" I woke up from my dream again, with determination and identification on my face, but was quickly replaced by a daze. Mu Yin scratched her head: "Why is it like this again? I still remember nothing."

Thinking of this, without delay, he got up, put on his clothes and went downstairs, and stepped on the wooden stairs, making a thud, "Grandpa and grandma."

"Good morning." The two old people got used to seeing their granddaughter getting up. It's a good thing that the younger granddaughter doesn't like to stay in bed lately, although it's already 8 o'clock now.

Mu Yin ran out and saw the uncle who was sorting out the hoe and preparing to go to the field: "Brother, old uncle."

"Ah." Uncle responded without raising his head.

Mu Yin didn't care either, so she went to the faucet, took her small towel and put it in the basin, took a cup and her toothbrush, turned on the faucet and connected some water, then opened the boiling water bottle and poured some hot water, mixed it for a while and started washing your face and brushing your teeth.

After they were done, they went to see if they could have breakfast. Although the three bedrooms lived in the same house, they had already separated. The uncle, her father, and her grandparents followed her uncle's family. Well, she didn't know why she was not the uncle.

Their house is an old farmhouse in the south that covers a large area. Moreover, her house is alone and has no neighbors on both sides, so it is even more spacious. It is backed by the mountain, but the back mountain does not completely belong to her family.

They are a mountain village. In addition to their own terraces, each household has several hills. Because there are many mountains, the main function of the mountain is to chop firewood. Well, anyway, they are all those not very big pine trees and some other trees. It is said that there are wild boars, she has never seen them before, but there are some rabbits and pheasants.

Today was Saturday and holiday, Mu Yin decided to go to the children to play. After washing, she went to her friends' house. The village was all on the hill, and her family was alone on one mountain. Then the other families in the village were basically on another mountain. The mountain was basically built houses and even schools. The only middle school in their town was in their village, and her family was very lonely.

"Lily, Bai Ling, I'm here to find you." There was no one in the two families, so Mu Yin went to the middle school to find someone. Sure enough, they found the two in the garbage dump on the side of the playground.
Chapter completed!