She is brighter than the stars

Back when the He family was okay, He Yi wanted to build this place into a small villa, but Deng Min stopped him, worried that people in the village would gossip about it.

In the end, an ordinary cement house was built, but the decoration was no different from that of a bungalow, and a smoke exhaust system was specially installed to facilitate heating in winter.

It has been more than a year since Deng Min was taken to the city for medical treatment. The yard was overgrown with weeds and the house was covered with dust.

The two spent the whole morning cleaning and tidying up the small yard.

Looking at the clean and bright courtyard, Cheng Nian couldn't help sighing: "When we get old, we will find a courtyard like this to live in."

Li Shubai glanced at Cheng Nian, and said meaningfully: "Then there should be a lot of flowers in our yard."

Cheng Nian laughed, hugged Li Shubai's arm, and said sweetly, "Only you can do it."

After a busy morning, both of them were a little hungry and there was no food at home, so they were going to go out to buy some necessities.

As soon as they opened the door and walked out, a dark-skinned little boy who looked about four or five years old and who was often in contact with the sun was standing in front of them holding a stick, with the indignation only towards the enemy on his face, vicious road.

"Who are you? Why did you appear at Grandma Deng's house?"

The boy was wearing an ill-fitting men's vest that covered his knees, with no trousers underneath.I don't know if it's not there, or it's too cold to wear.

On the feet are a pair of worn-out slippers, which can be vaguely identified as pink.

It looks like a girl's shoe, and it's already a bit small, and half of the boy's heel is outside.

Although his face is immature, it is obviously more mature than his peers.A pair of big black eyes are surprisingly bright, like obsidian in the valley that has been moistened by spring water for thousands of years.

Cheng Nian felt inexplicably distressed when he saw the boy who was dressed worse than the scavengers.

She knelt down and said friendlyly, "What's the matter, kid?"

Seeing Cheng Nian approaching, the boy immediately took a step back vigilantly, "Are you here to steal something?"

Cheng Nian's eyes widened suddenly, and he thought to himself, if they are really bad people, is this little boy going to fight him with the wooden root in his hand?
She smiled and took out the key from her pocket to show him, "We are relatives of Grandma Deng."

Seeing the key in Cheng Nian's hand, the boy's frowning slightly relaxed, and he stared at Cheng Nian and Li Shubai suspiciously, "Really?"

"Of course it's true, otherwise I'll open the door for you to see now."

The boy seemed to think for a while, then nodded heavily.

Cheng Nian looked at the boy who looked like an adult in front of him, and said with a smile, "You are really cautious."

In fact, she could completely ignore this kid, but she just thought he was cute.

And he dared to come out to confront them with a wooden stick like this, he should be someone who has feelings for Deng Min.

Seeing that Cheng Nian really opened the door with the key, the boy's vigilance finally relaxed.

He looked at Cheng Nian with some embarrassment, held the stick in his small hand, said sorry coyly, and then spoke with a little expectation.

"Where is Grandma Deng? She said she went to the city to see a doctor. Has the disease been cured?"

Cheng Nian replied: "Maybe it will take a while, do you miss her very much?"

The boy pursed his lower lip, but did not answer Cheng Nian's question, with a hint of worry in his expression.

Cheng Nian knew that he was shy, so he smiled and said, "Don't worry, Grandma Deng will recover soon."

As she spoke, she touched the boy's rough little face, "What's your name?"

The boy became alert again, and said cautiously, "Why are you asking this?"

Cheng Nian was dumbfounded by his sense of crisis, and said patiently: "I'll tell Grandma Deng that you miss her."

Hearing what Cheng Nian said, the boy's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "My name is Yuan Chang."

Cheng Nian asked casually, "Which chang?"

Yuan Chang didn't know how to say it, so he wrote it on the ground with a wooden stick, "Grandma Deng changed it for me, saying that it means there is no hindrance."

Cheng Nianzhong squatted down again, "Then what was your original name?"

Yuan Chang erased the word "Chang" with his feet and wrote "Original Cheng", explaining.

"My mother's surname is Cheng, and she ran away with someone. Grandma Deng said that such a person is not worthy of being a mother, so she changed it for me."

When he said this, Yuan Chang's expression was indifferent, and there was no trace of sadness, not like a child at all.

Cheng Nian looked at Yuan Chang distressedly, and was reluctant to ask further, and replied, "Okay, I told Grandma Deng that Yuan Chang missed her."

Yuan Chang blinked, and said sensiblely: "But don't tell her that I'm waiting for her, or she will come back in a hurry, and it won't be easy for her to see a doctor."

Cheng Nian's nose soured, "Do you come every day?"

"I live there." Yuan Chang pointed to a courtyard next to them with a stick, looked down, and whispered. "But not every day, sometimes my aunt will lock me in the house."

Cheng Nian frowned and said, "Why did you lock yourself up?"

Yuan Chang's small face showed a bit of childish bewilderment, "She said it was because I was disobedient."

Cheng Nian opened his mouth hesitantly, patted his head and said softly, "Okay, I won't tell her."

Yuan Chang smiled at Cheng Nian for the first time, said thank you, and then ran away quickly.

Li Shubai glanced at Yuan Changpaoyuan's back, pulled Cheng Nian up, and hugged her comfortingly.

Cheng Nian lowered his eyebrows and said angrily: "Some people are really not worthy of being parents. They only give birth but not raise them. They are simply animals!"

Feeling that Chu Xingzhi might have scolded him, Cheng Nian hurriedly glanced at Li Shubai again, "I mean someone who did this on purpose."

Li Shubai smiled indifferently, and echoed, "I think so too."

On the way to go shopping, Cheng Nian called Deng Min and learned something about Yuan Chang.

His father was a gangster with no brains, and Yuan Chang was sentenced to life before he was born.The mother is a troubled girl who didn't even know she was pregnant and ran away after birth.

Although Yuan Chang is living at his aunt's house, her aunt has three children and doesn't take care of him at all. In fact, she grew up eating a lot of food.

Deng Min lives next door to them and is the one who takes care of Yuan Chang the most.

Since he was a child, he lived under the fence of others, and it is no wonder that he looks more mature than his peers.

Cheng Nian felt sorry for Yuan Chang, so he bought some snacks for him in the canteen.

She originally wanted to buy a pair of shoes for Yuan Chang, but the canteen only had rice, flour, grain, oil, tobacco, wine and other things, so she had to wait until the next time she went to town to buy them.

When I came back, there were five or six children playing in front of the gate of the nearby courtyard.

Yuan Chang was sitting alone on the pit next to him, scratching the ground with the wooden roots he planned to deal with Cheng Nian and the others, as if he was in another world.

From time to time, he took a quick look at the children, and quickly turned his face away before he was noticed.

A little girl with pigtails wanted to get close to Yuan Chang, but the older child immediately grabbed her.

"Don't play with this wild child without parents."