Chess Game: Villain, place your bets

"for you--"

"Chestnut! Where did you come from?"

"When I go back to my hometown on the weekend, my grandma packed a lot of them for me, and I'll give you some more."

"thanks, thanks!"

It has been almost a year, and the two are completely inseparable good friends.

They agreed to make progress together, go to the same high school together, and in the future they would go to the same university and sign up for the same major, and they would always be classmates.

After their efforts, their ranking improved a lot, and they finally lost the title of "Idiot Duo". Qin Shixuan got twenty-five and Dong Huayu got thirty.

"A small step forward, a big step beyond! Today we have defeated yesterday's us! Persistence, victory is not far away!"

"Hahaha... Go, go, go!"

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Tears flowed from Donghua's eyes, and his whole body was still stiff.

[But why...you left in such a hurry...]

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After school, they passed a temple. Dong Huayu had always been afraid of places like this, but this day he went in to pay homage for the first time. She still felt that this was the luckiest "coincidence". Qin Shixuan happened to be transferred to their class, happened to become her friend, and happened to change her...

She is no longer the dark and painful Dong Huayu. She is the lively and sunny Donghuayu who can also joke with her friends.

She made a pious wish that they could be friends forever. She was really grateful to Qin Shixuan, and she prayed that he would be healthy and safe.

Seeing how serious she was, Qin Shixuan went to pay her respects himself.

He hoped that both of them would make great progress in the next exam and finally be admitted to the ideal high school.

Different Buddha statues represent different meanings, and they are in charge of wealth. The two teenagers didn't care what the Buddha statue represented. They just came up with their own wishes seriously and made themselves very happy.

They took a long way home. The road is full of flowers, and bees and butterflies are busy shuttling among the flowers.

Donghua walked close to the flowers and looked at them.

Those flowers are delicate and beautiful, even a clump of small wild flowers blooms brilliantly.

For the first time, she felt the charm of nature.

How come she hadn't noticed this before?

Dong Huayu turned to look at Qin Shixuan and found that he was gradually becoming transparent.

"Qin Shixuan!"

"what?"

The young man agreed as usual, there was no difference. It turned out that the afterglow of the setting sun shone on him, creating the illusion of being invisible.

She still pulled him to make sure she felt the real sleeve before letting go. She was too afraid that this was a figment of her imagination.

The young man stared directly at the child eating ice cream. He took out the money in his pocket and looked at Dong Huayu expectantly.

"Let's go eat ice cream! I'm treating you. I just have enough money left."

Donghua was dragged to the canteen before he could answer.

In fact, Donghua has no pocket money. Unless it is to buy stationery, her parents will not give her any. When she was a child, she often lied to pay tuition and miscellaneous fees in order to buy some snacks, and was beaten many times. Now her parents don't believe her at all. They told the teacher that Dong Huayu has an IQ problem and will lose it if she brings too much money. She was beaten for paying tuition fees. Call them and they hand it over in person.

The feeling of not being trusted is really uncomfortable.

"Touch one!"

Qin Shixuan knocked the ice cream over, Donghua was startled, and quickly held it steady and "touched the ice" with him.

The ice cream has a jam filling. The outside is not hard or chewy. It has a milky flavor and is very sweet.

She had never eaten such delicious ice cream. She had only seen other children eating it, and she had only bought hard popsicles once, and that was three or four years ago.

"It's delicious! If you like it, I'll bring you here often."

"Thank you..." This must be very expensive, and she didn't have the money to pay him back. Just when she was about to refuse, Qin Shixuan seemed to have guessed what she was thinking, and spoke:

"My mother is afraid that I will spend money indiscriminately and deduct my pocket money. Hey, I haven't finished my meal~ Do you want to make some money with me? I'm just a little tired and a little embarrassed, but we can Buy ice cream and eat it..."

"it is good!"

The two of them started making money by picking up scraps. Now that I really had money, I could buy ice cream. Not only the sticks, but Donghua also tasted the ice cream in the box. Those ice creams looked expensive, but were actually very cheap.

They would go to the trash cans in the surrounding communities every week after school to pick up. Unfortunately, this is the cheapest residential area. Most residents are very frugal, and few people throw away bottles. Old people scavenging are everywhere, and some people are found guilty of picking up bottles. And fight.

They sometimes go to parks and markets where the people are much friendlier, and in downtown areas where there are a lot of cardboard boxes for bottles and cans after the shops close. The scraps they pick up in a week can be sold for about 80 yuan.

Every time, Qin Shixuan bought two ice creams and gave the remaining money to Donghuayu. Donghuayu never knew how much he sold them for. When she asked about the price, Qin Shixuan would say that they always bought ice cream, and the boss had remembered them and gave them a discount every time, so he had so much money left.

What he didn't say was that the ice cream was actually bought with his pocket money, and he would leave the money for the scraps to Dong Huayu. He just used the method of picking up scraps to protect her self-esteem. He wanted to tell her that labor is the most glorious, as long as you are willing to Through labor, we can also live a good life. Even if our parents are not good, it doesn't matter. One day we will become our favorite selves - able to eat whatever we want!

The whole summer passed like this, and in winter Qin Shixuan used the same method to buy her roasted sweet potatoes, and Dong Huayu became a child who can eat sweets.

But the good things didn't last long. One day she came home and found her parents going through her things.

The small rental house is divided into two rooms, the larger one is occupied by parents and the smaller one is occupied by Dong Huayu. It was more like a cabinet than a room, enclosed by thin partitions. The inside was less than two meters long and only half a meter wide, and she lived there huddled for many years. There was no bed, just a rag blanket, barely a place to sleep.

At this moment, my father was standing at the door watching my mother rummaging through Donghua's secret box. Soon my mother found a wad of money, all of which were five or ten yuan in change.

My mother weighed it in her hand and said, "There are only two or three hundred."

"Mom! Don't touch that!" The two turned around. When the father saw it was her, he slapped her to the ground.

"Where did you get the money?! Did you go out and sell it, you slut? You're too young to learn well!" He kicked Donghua three times in the stomach, and tears instantly covered her face.

The father was still angry and yelled at her.

"Is he the pretty boy who walked with you? How shameless!"

"no no……"

Donghua wanted to defend herself, but she was so painful and dizzy that she had no strength at all. She apologized over and over again in her mind, blaming herself for leaving a bad impression on others.

The father kicked him again and went out with the money. When the mother saw him leaving, she spat on the ground and cursed.

"What the hell, I obviously found it, you old bastard!"

She knelt down and gently smoothed Donghua's hair and asked her:

"My dear, do you still have any money?"

Donghua looked at his mother's pale face and couldn't say a word.

Her mother was also angry, pulled her hair and slapped her.

"Useless thing! What a little bitch! Clean up the house for me!"

She left Dong Huayu behind, looked in the mirror again, touched up her makeup and went out. Donghua only saw her back. The hip-hugging skirt showed her perfect body curves. She went to "work the night shift" far away as before.

The only sound in the house was the dripping sound of a broken faucet.

She breathed hard, and the orange street lights outside the window shone in, giving the cold room a little light.

She recalled the TV series Qin Shixuan told her. (Her parents said watching TV would tire her eyes and never let her watch it.)

It is said that a pair of pregnant women gave birth on the same day. They happened to be in the same ward and accidentally carried the wrong child. Many years later, both parents increasingly felt that the child did not look like them, so they both went to the hospital for DNA testing. Report Showing that none of them are biological.

When the two families were at a loss what to do, they saw each other. It happened that both families were here for the examination. They also remembered that their wives had given birth on the same day many years ago, so they examined each other and found that the child was held in the wrong hand. Just changed it back.

Donghua was confused when she heard it, and she asked him what DNA testing was.

Qin Shixuan said that DNA is a special thing that exists in human blood and hair. Based on this thing, we can tell whether there is a blood relationship.

Donghua looked at his mother's dressing table. She was walking in a hurry, and there was a lot of hair on the comb...

Dong Huayu dropped out of school.

Qin Shixuan wanted to go see her after school, but he didn't expect to see her at the school gate.

Dong Huayu was wearing a hat and hiding behind a tree. When he saw Qin Shixuan coming out, he hurriedly gave him a bag.

She stuffed him with more than a hundred yuan (which she had tucked into her diary, and she just managed to escape).

"Please! I know I can't afford it with this little money. I will leave the hair of the three of us with you first, and I will give it to you when I have money!"

"I have an uncle who works in the hospital. I asked him for help, and the results were obtained quickly. But what should you do? Did they beat you? Can you come and stay at my house?"

"No..." Donghua's eyes were dark, and she choked with sobs to decline his kindness.

"You have helped me a lot, thank you... I can hide for a while, but I can't hide forever... I just hope that they are really not my parents, then I will find a way to escape and go far away, don't Get caught by them again!”

"Well, if they are not your parents, go to the police station and call the police first. The police will protect you."

"Yeah. But I can't go out recently..."

"Then I will leave the result list in the same place. You must be careful...wait for my news!"

"Thank you!" Donghua ran home quickly, not wanting her parents to find her sneaking out.