GoodReadAlison nodded and walked forward with Luis.
The last tshe returned here was because her grandmother passed away. The village was far away from the town. After her grandmother passed away, she always stayed at school or went to do part-twork. After all, no one waited for her at hsince then.
She dreamed about her grandmother last night and thought that she didn't take the small box that her grandmother left for her, so she returned here this time.
It was her grandmother's dowry. When Alison was a little kid, Alison's grandmother said that she would give it to Alison when Alison got married.
Alison had seen the things in the box. They were a pair of gold earrings, a gold bracelet and a gold necklace.
When Alison was going to go to high school, her grandmother planned to hock the dowry to a gold shop in the town secretly for her tuition.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtAlison chthat day because the school was out and got the news from a neighbor, so she chased after her grandmother and stopped her grandmother.
Thinking of that, Alison felt sad.
Alison and her mother were kicked out because Alison was a girl. Soon, Alison's father married a new wife. Alison's mother took Alison to turn to Alison's grandmother. Before Alison grew up and could remember her mother's face, her mother was drowned by accident. Alison's grandmother brought Alison up alone.
When Alison was going to go to primary school, her father still hadn't submitted documents for her. Alison's grandmother took her to see her father, but her father refused.
At that time, Alison was only six years old. Facing her father's disgusted gaze, she stood in the narrow corridor. It was the first tthat she understood the meaning of her peers' sarcasm.
Alison's father was reluctant to submitted documents until Alison's grandmother gave him 500 dollars.
Over these years, Alison and her grandmother lived in poverty, but Alison had never thought that she was an orphan.
She had her grandmother and was not an orphan.
Last year, when Alison's teacher took her to see her grandmother in the hospital for the last time, Alison realized that she would be alone in the world.
She had no relatives anymore.
Alison kept silent along the way. Seeing that she almost stepped into a ditch, Luis frowned and pulled her back. "Do you like to walk in the ditch?" She cto sense, looked at him, blinked and thought of what he had said. Only then did she see the ditch.
"I'm sorry. | was lost in thought." Luis glanced at her. Noticing that she was in a bad mood, he changed the topic and said, "Are you hungry?" She shook her head. "I'm not hungry." It took them twenty minutes to walk 1 km.
The sun was bright at noon. When they arrived, Alison's face had turned red because of the heat.
She opened the iron door expertly. After she pushed open the door and walked in, she looked at the vegetable field for a while. She broke a branch and dug out the keys. Only then did she open the house door.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmThe house was made of bricks. The door looked old and was made of wood. The lock of the door was old-fashioned.
No one lived at the house for almost one year. As soon as she opened the door, it smelled of dust.
She pushed open the door, covered her nose and didn't walk in immediately. She turned to look at Luis and said, "It's dirty. Please sit here for a while!" She said as she pulled out a small wooden stool.
Luis didn't sit on the stool but walked into the house with her.
As soon as he walked in, he saw a living room that was less than 20 m. Although it was dusty, it was tidily arranged.
There was a wide wooden stool that was about 1.5 m in length beside a wall, and there was a settee nearby.
In the front, there was a square table that was about one meter wide against another wall. A BW TV set was on the table. A raand a small basket were beside the set.
Above the set, a poster was pasted on the wall. The poster looked so old that maybe the star on the post had passed away.
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