Overwhelmed

Chapter 29

Early the next morning, I came to Bai's house again with the dessert specially prepared by the chef for Xiaoxiao.

There was only class this morning, and when I arrived at Bai's house, she hadn't left yet.

When the dessert was handed to her, Xiaoxiao cheered and trotted over to take it, opened the box and took a bite, then said to me with a smile: "Oh, oh, Mingyuan, can you like girls now? If you can, I will I might as well marry you in the future haha..."

Huh, I haven't really thought about this question.

However, I pinched her cheek and joked, "In this way, you can eat desserts from my chef every day, right?"

Xiaoxiao cast a sideways glance at me, biting a spoon and shaking her head seriously, said, "No, you are actually a pretty good person. Before, I felt that all good men are going to disturb the foundation. If you can return to the broad road of BG , I will definitely be the first to strike first!"

How come the more you say it, the more it seems like that? Hey!

Out of the corner of my eye, I glanced at Big Brother Bai who had been drinking tea silently by the side since just now, and seeing that he didn't seem to care about me and Xiaoxiao's joke, I rubbed my little hair, "Okay, if you don't go to class, you will be late gone."

Xiao Xiao glanced at his watch, then leaned over and whispered to me, "Then you study hard today, this is a unique opportunity, do you think my brother can get out of the mountain so easily?"

It seems that she knows what happened yesterday.

I nodded in embarrassment, watched her leave in a hurry, and when I turned around, Brother Bai also got up from the sofa, "Let's go too."

"Ah."

On the way, it was rare for Brother Bai not to remain silent. It seemed that yesterday I had put the cart before the horse, so he took the initiative to explain to me, "Mingyuan, I hope you can understand what we are here for. I feel the same as you about those things. The children are very pitiful, but this does not conflict with our observation of them. I have no objection to you helping those children, but our first priority now is to let you understand the origin of Zhan Ling's character."

This is the first time he said so many words to me, and I didn't expect it to be because of this reason.Moreover, this is also the first time I have seen him look so serious, which immediately made me feel more stressed.

My face was a little hot. Although I thought about it for a long time last night and realized that my behavior yesterday was very inappropriate, but it still made me a little embarrassed to be pointed out by Brother Bai in person.

"I'm sorry, I will be serious today." I said to Brother Bai in frustration.

There was a warm touch on the top of my head. Brother Bai stroked my head, his voice gradually softened, "It's okay, I will remind you to pay attention today, don't be too nervous."

I looked up and found that he was looking at me with a smile. There was no impatience in his eyes. My heart relaxed and I nodded heavily.

When we came to this orphanage for the second time, the situation here seemed a little different from yesterday.

The children did not go out today, but all played in the yard of the house. The person in charge of the orphanage yesterday had disappeared.

Although I had some doubts in my heart, I still remembered the purpose of today, and turned my attention to those children.

The children here don't seem to be afraid of strangers, and they didn't pay too much attention to the arrival of Big Brother Bai and me. The older eyes turned on us and went to do their own things. He would look at us a few more times, and then run off to play, as if he didn't expect anything from us.

"Don't the children here want to be adopted?" Noticing their attitude, I asked Brother Bai suspiciously.

Normally, when seeing a stranger approaching, children would want to be taken home, right?

Brother Bai shook his head, and there was a hint of heaviness in his voice, "No one will come here to adopt children, and this place will not provide them with the opportunity to be adopted."

Although the scene last night has made me basically sure that the children here are imprisoned here and forced to go out to beg, but there is no hope of being taken home. These children...

It was only then that I noticed the difference between them and normal children. In the eyes of these children, they could not see the slightest hope for life. They seemed to be used to this kind of life, and they were numb to the extreme.

But such a place is indeed enough to make people feel desperate.It should be the same for Zhou Xiao and Zhan Ling who lived in a similar environment as here when they were children.

Thinking of the two characters in the script, I looked at those children again. Big brother Bai said that all the small materials come from reality, so here, will there be children like Zhou Xiao and Zhan Ling who are unyielding to reality? ?

This idea makes me a little bit around the corner.

Brother Bai and I walked around the orphanage.

Because I didn't go out today, most of the children gathered together in twos and threes. I saw some of them clasping hands to keep warm like Brother Bai and I did yesterday, so I couldn't help laughing.

Brother Bai also noticed it, and gave me a half-smile look, then took my hand and stuffed it into his pocket very naturally.

The first time was raw and the second time was familiar, although the heartbeat was a little abnormal, I didn't want to be hypocritical, I curled the corners of my lips, tightened my palms, and peacefully enjoyed the warmth from his palms.

As we walked to the corridor on the second floor, a noise from downstairs caught my attention.

Looking down through the blurred glass, only to find that several children were fighting in groups.

"Can I go down and have a look?" I asked Brother Bai hesitantly, always keeping in mind the purpose of today.

"Let's go. Speaking of which, this is one of the characteristics of this type of orphanage. You can take a look." Brother Bai nodded to me.

When we got downstairs, the children who were fighting had already huffed and left. It seemed that someone had discovered me and Brother Bai.

Only then did I realize that at the place where the previous fight had occurred, a small figure was shrinking on the ground, covering its head and stomach in a ball, until we stood beside him, and did not move.

Brother Bai and I looked at each other, then squatted down, patted the child on the shoulder, and asked cautiously, "Little friend, are you still awake?"

The child moved, and then gradually stretched his body, revealing a dirty little face, looking at me and Brother Bai ignorantly.

I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, fortunately I didn't pass out, otherwise I would have to be sent directly to the hospital.

A pair of slender and beautiful hands helped the child up from the ground, Big Brother Bai also squatted down at some point, and said to me, "Ming Yuan, help me support this child."

I took the child by accident, never expecting that Big Brother Bai would touch this dirty child, just as I was wondering, I saw Big Brother Bai reached out and pressed the child around.

Although the child kept breathing softly, he did not refuse our touch, and just looked at us quietly with a pair of black and white eyes.

Those eyes were clear to the bottom, completely different from his dirty body. For some reason, I suddenly thought of Zhan Ling in Xiaoxiao's pen, and my heart moved, and I paid more and more attention to this child.

"Fortunately, there is no bone injury." After pressing the child around with a solemn expression, Brother Bai showed a relaxed smile and said to us in a low voice.

When he looked up and saw my face, Big Brother Bai was startled for a moment, and then he showed a rare helpless expression, and said to me with a little anger, "Mingyuan, why are you so surprised?" expression?"

As he said this, he lowered his head, his eyelashes fluttered slightly, and he seemed a little sad, and whispered to me, "Could it be that in your eyes, I'm really so unreasonable that I don't even see injured children?" Will you ignore it?"

I was shocked from the bottom of my heart, and shook my head embarrassingly, "No, no, Brother Bai, you misunderstood, I just didn't expect you to do such a thing, after all, you seem to be very clean, that's why I saw you like this." I'm surprised, don't get me wrong!"

Almost without a pause, I hurriedly finished speaking, only then did I realize that the curvature of the corners of Brother Bai's lips seemed to rise a little.

He looked up at me, and there was a smile in his clear eyes, without any sadness.

I couldn't help but choked. I didn't expect Big Brother Bai to make such a joke. After the accident, I felt a little happy. I always felt that this Big Brother Bai seemed to be getting closer.

Brother Bai quickly took out a clean handkerchief from his clothes, and slowly helped the child wipe the blood-stained little face with a serious and focused expression.

The child was leaning on my lap, and Big Brother Bai was also moving closer to wipe the child's face. I could almost feel his sporadic strands of hair occasionally brushing against my cheeks, and an elegant fragrance slowly wafted through my nostrils. Slowly float away.

I unconsciously breathed lightly, looking at his porcelain-like side face, I only felt a strange and unfamiliar slight itching gradually broke out from the bottom of my heart.

The child quickly stood up, thanked us softly, then picked up a dilapidated small bucket filled with a lot of soil not far away, walked to a dead tree, and squatted down again.

It was only then that I realized that his thin figure seemed familiar, and when I was thinking about it, I heard Brother Bai say, "It seems to be the child who was locked up last night."

Although it was early spring, City A, which had four distinct seasons, obviously hadn't recovered from the cold winter. The cold wind was strong, and the child's small body was always staggered.

I still cared about that child's eyes similar to Zhan Ling's. I always felt that I could find the answer I wanted in him today, so I walked towards that child.

Big Brother Bai didn't make a sound to stop me, as if he acquiesced to my behavior.

I squatted beside the child, watching curiously as the child sat under a leeward tree, earnestly scooped up some sticky black sand from a small bucket, and then poured it on the ground, quickly creating a square fence with a rough Then he took out a handful of sand and continued to fiddle with it.

Brother Bai soon joined the crowd watching the child, but he seemed different today, after watching what the child was playing for a while, he smiled and asked the child warmly, "Can I join too? "

The child paused for a moment, looked up at him, and then nodded slightly.

The surprise in my heart can no longer be expressed in words.

After being able to make jokes, does Brother Bai want to experience innocent childlike fun again? !

But no matter how you look at him, he doesn't look like he would play with mud when he was a child, hey = mouth =! !

Was it possessed by some strange thing? ?

I was silently shocked, over there, Big Brother Bai had already folded up part of the cuffs of the windbreaker and inner coat so naturally, and actually stretched out his hand to play with the child.

I blinked my eyes, thought about it, and rolled up my sleeves, joining the army of playing mud.

This is really a novel experience.

I glanced at the one big and one small who were playing quietly. The small one had crooked eyebrows and a focused expression. Although the big one moved smoothly, the things it squeezed out were not much better than the small ones. Occasionally there were bright glimmers in the eyes The passing away made me inexplicably feel that such a big brother Bai is a bit childish that I should never have.

Seeing the kid's playful table connected to the crenelated corridor made by Big Brother Bai, I rubbed the dark sand between my fingers, and finally couldn't help pointing at the semi-finished product and jokingly said to the kid, "Report Commander, may I ask what are we building here?"

Brother Bai glanced at me with a smirk, and then touched the child's hand.

Only then did the child raise his head in a daze, and I asked again, only to see him grinning at me, "The Great Wall, I saw it on the money given by others." The somewhat clumsy corridor, "This is very nice."

I couldn't help laughing, seeing his overflowing joy, finally asked softly, "Do you like these very much?"

The child nodded without hesitation, and said softly, "I like it. I will become a great architect in the future and build many beautiful big houses and the Great Wall."

Although it was a child's talk, the pure joy in his eyes moved my heart, and suddenly I thought that Zhan Ling seemed to have said similar words to Zhou Xiao when he was a child-"I like painting the most, and I will also want to paint in the future." Keep painting and become a great painter.”

"Then, why didn't you resist when you were beaten just now?" I seemed to have some understanding in my heart, I looked at the child who was playing with the dirt again, and asked cautiously, for fear of arousing the child's resentment.

"There are a lot of them,...and, they will be known by the headmaster." As if thinking of something terrible, the child shivered.

"... won't you be angry? If you have a chance in the future, will you want to... call back?" After hesitating for a while, I still didn't use the word "revenge", because I always felt that the word was not suitable for this child.

The most critical question was finally asked, and I nervously waited for the child's answer.

He seemed to be a little puzzled by my excessive questions, and finally moved his eyes from the soil to my face. There was no impurity in his eyes. He picked up a handful of sand and whispered to me, "There is very little time to play. I only need them." That's enough." After speaking, he showed that touching smile again.

The eyes looking at the black sand are full of cherishment and satisfaction, as if looking at the most precious treasure in the world.

I was stunned for a moment, and in the next second, a feeling of enlightenment suddenly flooded my limbs—it turns out that this is the reason why Zhan Ling never hated!

In his heart, he already knew what he really wanted.

Except for that childhood dream, everything else is just a passing cloud in his eyes, so it doesn't matter whether he hates or not!

A strong joy surged in my heart, I looked up at Big Brother Bai, and found that he was looking at me with some approval.

The corners of my lips couldn't help but rise higher and higher, and I showed him a big smile.