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Chapter one: Childhood * X. g G6 J+ Z) N
Once upon a time, in a small city, not far from Yanz River, lives a happy family by the name of Xia, China's first Empire.
) ]0 o9 m& v( H0 E8 m! TThey led a plain but satisfactory life and the couple had a small little daughter named Qing. She was a indifferent student in school, and in a obscure way, she lives in a world of her own making, even her parents sometimes couldn't understand what she was thinking about.
! o/ T3 C. E6 z7 Q) O$ aShe likes to work with her father in the small field they explored one miles away from their house, she didn't care much about school especially math and science but she can recite almost 100 poems when she was 8 while other children just start to learn how to write. - w/ A/ b M; ~4 W
Besides playing with father in the field and learning Tang poems from him, she spent most of the time walked and lay in long grass listening to distant voices only she can hear, nobody can share this moments with her even her dear Dad. Her mother always talk to her husband like this: " I sometimes have the feeling that she came not from me, but from another place to which she is trying to return." Husband try to comfort her : " You just haunted by the first baby, but please do not think that way, I thought maybe Qing is a gift from her, she is not pretty, she may not smart but I want her happy. I will let her live the way she likes, so do not force her to do anything, please agree with me on this."
3 W1 s5 \3 u1 r# `They lost their first Child by disease, that was a beautiful girl. Two years after, they had a boy but father still wants a girl. On account of which, they had a small dark-skinned girl four years after they lost that beautiful one.
7 t2 F% j0 J2 C* nEven now, I still wondering in myself, how could they be sure my elder sister would be prettier and smarter than me, maybe she grow up to be a ugly looking bad-hearted witch, but I never ask.
( g1 B/ I! x4 V& I( m1 y6 f6 BAnyway, after that conversation between my parents, mother set me free, she then invested all her energy to her dear intelligent son. And let her frustrating litter daughter live like a bird in the forest. At school, I got 100 full score in literature but I almost fail every math exam, that doesn't matter because they do not care anymore, when several teachers suggest a conference with my parents said I was smart in some way and may have poetical, Dad said "thanks for your interest in my daughter, I will encourage her to do better in school, but if she couldn't, it doesn't matter, I want her to be herself". ( [+ @. F' Q3 k7 \# b( l
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