Personality V: I will save everything

Yes, there is no difference between me and an orphan anyway, so it is only natural for me to live in an orphanage.

But for someone like Henry who has been wandering the streets for years and trying every possible way to survive, has he never thought about seeking shelter in an orphanage?

Of course he had thought about it, but when he saw through the fence those children being beaten and scolded by the caregivers, not having enough to eat every day, and some were even driven to live in the yard, Henry felt as if they were wandering the streets themselves, and there was no difference.

Or it would be better to wander the streets. At least he can go wherever he wants, but once the children in the orphanage choose to escape, they will only be beaten, scolded and confined.

But this orphanage called Sweet Home was different. It was different from all the orphanages Henry had ever visited.

Henry didn't have to do anything. Unlike other children in the orphanage, he didn't have to work and be scolded every day. He could lie on the grass in the garden all day long, except at mealtime when the director would come to call him.

But the more this happened, the more Henry felt something was wrong. While lying on the lawn, Henry kept thinking:

You can get paid for your work, you can get rights by paying taxes, and you can get food by paying money..........

So what price do I have to pay to stay in "paradise"?

Henry wanted to know the answer.

Go and ask the dean directly?

Maybe not.

Because the uncle dean would just smile and touch his head, and then say to him: "Just be a good boy, I will take care of you until you grow up."

This was not the answer Henry wanted. Pretending to be a good boy was too easy for Henry. However, he did not think that he could stay here forever by being a good boy. There must be some price to pay.

Just like the other orphans he had watched through the fences, the children in the orphanage, some of them were not even pretending, they were just good kids, but they were still scolded and beaten.

Besides, when did the director uncle mean when he said "grown up"? Some orphanages he had seen even threw out children as young as 13, saying that they had grown up and could leave.

Henry didn't want to be thrown out. He was already ten years old. In three years, he would be 13 years old. He didn't want to be thrown out. He wanted to prove his worth desperately.

The first thing Henry thought of was to reduce his own consumption. In other words, try not to eat food. As long as he looked easy to feed, he could stay here longer.

Although Henry's stomach would growl with hunger every time he did this, he still tried his best to endure it just to stay here.

But not long after, his dosage was discovered by the dean uncle, who brought him food and said, "Good boy, eat quickly. Not eating well is not the behavior of a good boy."

Henry must be a good boy, because the uncle dean said that if he wants to stay here, he must be a good boy. Henry ate the food obediently.

Since this method doesn't work, we can only think of other ways.

Henry began to try to help Uncle Dean with some things within his ability, such as sweeping the floor or washing dishes.

But gradually Henry found out that it was useless. Although the director condoned his behavior, other children in the orphanage would do the same. Henry's behavior would not attract the director's attention at all.

He must be the one who stands out from the crowd, the most eye-catching and the best-behaved child, so that he will not be thrown away so easily.

"So that's why you thought of going out to do odd jobs?"

"Ah."

Henry did not hide anything and told Jeffrey the answer obediently. Maybe he thought this was also a good boy's behavior.

Henry's idea is also very simple. He is now the only child in the orphanage who can go out to do odd jobs to earn money. He can make money by himself and reduce the expenses of the orphanage. In this way, the director uncle will not throw him out easily...

At the same time, Henry did this for his own selfish reasons. He wanted to save as much money as he could, so that if one day he was thrown onto the street and continued to wander, he would at least have some money to support him for a while.

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the other side,

The matter between Kurt and Kreacher ended with Kreacher saying, "Do you think that guy Serge can beat me?"

Indeed, that guy Servi probably really can't beat Kreacher.

And Kreacher is not someone who is easy to mess with. He is not like those cowardly people who would just hide in the corner when encountering problems. If Servi dares to touch him, Kreacher can twist his head off.

".............." Kurt was silent for a while, and finally came to a conclusion, "Please forget the topic just now..."

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"what?"

Seeing that the quarrel between Kurt and Kreacher had subsided, Jeffrey told Kreacher what he had just learned from Henry.

Kreacher was stunned for a moment, then quickly reacted.

"I already knew what you said. No, I am the one who knows it best."

As Kreacher spoke, he stretched out his right hand and rolled down the sleeve above his right hand, allowing Jeffrey to clearly see the tooth mark, which, even though it had healed, left a faint white mark.

That's what Henry left behind.

It might seem strange, isn't Henry trying so hard to be a good boy? So why did he bite Kreacher? This doesn't look like the behavior of a good boy at all............

The reason is very simple. This mark was actually left when Henry had just arrived at the orphanage not long ago. At that time, something like this happened...

Kreacher saw that Henry was always staying there alone, and wanted him to improve his relationship with other children in the orphanage, so he suggested that they play a game together. What do you think?

Kreacher asked Henry for his opinion, but Henry said he only knew how to play hide and seek, a game he often played with his biological mother when he was a child.

"That's great, then Henry, you can be the ghost!"

After saying that, Kreacher led the other children to flee in all directions, not noticing that Henry, who remained there, said in surprise and bewilderment, "I, I have never been a ghost............"

Kreacher first hid the other children in a place where they were not easy to find, and then he squatted down in a corner. After all, it was a bit too shameless for him as an adult to play hide-and-seek with children, so he deliberately hid in a more exposed place, letting Henry find him first, which would make him happy.

However, the development of things was completely beyond Kreacher's expectations...

The first person Henry discovered was indeed Kreacher. According to the rules of the game, doesn't finding him mean the end of the game?

But in Henry's eyes, it didn't seem like that, because Henry was holding a wooden stick that he had found from somewhere.

"So fun! Let's play hide-and-seek together! So fun!" Henry looks like a child who is happily playing a game, if you ignore the wooden stick in his hand.

Henry raised the stick high and smashed it straight at Kreacher. Kreacher dodged quickly and snatched the stick away.

"Henry, what are you doing? This is dangerous!"

But Henry did not seem to stop his attack. Since the weapon in his hand was lost, he used the only weapon he could find on his body - his teeth.

He bit Kreacher's arm so hard that the wound was so deep that the bone was visible. He had basically bitten off all the flesh.

There was such a big commotion here that the children who had been hiding also rushed over to see what was going on.

However, when they saw the scene in front of them, some older children came up and wanted to attack Henry, but Kreacher stopped them.

Kreacher endured the pain in his arm and gently hugged Henry into his arms, "Good boy, Henry, it's okay, calm down, what happened?"

Henry did not answer him, still biting Kreacher tightly, until Kreacher whispered in his ear, "The game is over."

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"I later found out that Henry's biological mother had also beaten him. That child had never felt what love was since he was born."

It turns out that in Henry's eyes, if you are caught by a ghost while playing hide-and-seek, you will be beaten, and if the ghost catches someone else, it will beat that person.

But Henry was really happy because his mother and uncle dean could play hide-and-seek with him.

That day, Henry finally let go when he heard the game was over. He looked up and gave Uncle Dean a sweet smile, "Uncle Dean, I am really happy to play hide-and-seek with me. I found Uncle Dean."

"Disgusting, isn't it?" Kreacher lit a cigarette, took a deep puff, and continued to say to Jeffrey, "That cowardly woman not only did not stop her husband from swinging his fist at the child, but also took out her anger at domestic violence on the child."

This was not the most distressing part for Kreacher. What really distressed him was that he found out afterwards that Henry also knew that hitting and biting people was wrong, but... "But my mother would only look for me when we were playing hide-and-seek."

Look at how pitiful this child is. He would be happy to receive even the smallest amount of charity.

"Don't you think it's ridiculous? We claim to be civilized and open, but our behavior is worse than that of wild animals in the jungle."

Isn't it true? Isn't Henry the best example? His first half of life was no different from growing up in the jungle. Or, in other words, the beasts in the jungle at least knew to take care of their cubs, but Henry had been struggling to survive since he could remember, whether in that so-called home or on the street.

So now that he had come to Sweet Home, a place that could only be described as "normal," he felt out of place.

"Kreacher..." Geoffrey didn't know how to comfort Kreacher, but what should he say? Can he empathize with him? Geoffrey could actually empathize with what Kreacher said, after all, sometimes humans are really not as good as beasts.

"It's okay, Geoffrey, you don't have to comfort me..." Kreacher took a few deep puffs, threw the cigarette in his hand to the ground and stomped it out, "Those things are already in the past. I just feel sad about my current behavior. After all, Henry will go out to find odd jobs and will try hard to be a good boy. It's just that my love for him is not enough..."

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"Hey, hey, hey, your reaction is too exaggerated. Why are you crying?⊙_⊙"

Kreacher saw that Geoffrey was almost on the verge of tears.

"That's too much. Why are you crying? Stop crying. Others won't know. They might think I bullied you."

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In the unknown corner between Kreacher and Geoffrey......

Kurt was writing furiously, recording in his little notebook...

"It seems that I have something to write again this time......"

What should he write this time? Kurt scratched his head with the end of his pencil.

Kurt looked in the direction of Kreacher. The sunlight just happened to shine on his hair, making it look like it gave Kreacher a layer of light.

Why not name this book "The Saint"...