When I traveled through time and became a player, I just wanted to commit suicide

After thinking about it, Li Shanren still felt that Alice had a better future going to the orphanage than following him, and he couldn't delay her.

As a result, Li Shanren began to use his powerful lobbying ability as a liberal arts student and did ideological work for the ignorant little girl for several hours. It was not until Alice reluctantly agreed to him that he slowly came to an end. .

"So, it's settled. I'll take you to the orphanage tomorrow morning. If you don't like it, I can take you to the monastery. But if you sneak away on your own, I won't care about you anymore. I understand. "?" Li Shanren said earnestly.

He was worried that when he got up the next morning, just like today at noon, Alice would leave without saying goodbye and his good intentions would be wasted.

Alice nodded obediently and didn't say anything. She was just a little depressed and seemed to accept her fate.

"Goo~Goo~"

Suddenly, someone's hunger signal sounded softly.

Li Shanren lowered his head and rubbed his belly. It had been a long time since the butternut he ate for lunch. Although the butternut was still quite big, it should have been almost digested by now.

However, those two screams definitely did not come from Li Shanren's stomach, so there was only...

"Are you hungry?" Li Shanren looked at Alice who looked at him innocently.

"Not very hungry either." Alice said.

How could you not be hungry?

Li Shanren estimated that Alice might not have eaten a single bite from morning to now, and she didn't even drink much water.

Looking at her lips, although they still looked pink and tender on the surface, they were actually covered in patches of dry skin, clinging tightly to them, like roses that had dried up due to lack of water.

"You stand up first and stay there for a while."

At Li Shanren's signal, Alice stood up carefully, held the hem of her skirt, and stood quietly aside. Then she watched Li Shanren half-lying on the bed, groping against the brick wall for a while, and then pulled out a piece. Take out a round butter fruit from the loose red stone brick.

"I didn't expect it would end up in your mouth." Li Shanren re-stuffed the bricks and sighed while holding the butter fruit. He remembered part of his original intention of hiding the fruit this morning.

"Sit down, it might be a little dirty. Even if you mind, I can't help it. Just make do with it."

Li Shanren wiped the surface of the butternut with the clean part of the inside of his worn clothes, and then handed it to Alice, who was sitting on the bedclothes again.

Alice hesitated, took the butternut, took a small bite, moistened her lips, and then handed the butternut back with both hands.

"What do you mean? Let me eat?" Li Shanren was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand, "I'm not hungry, you can eat it yourself."

But Alice insisted on handing the butter fruit she took a bite to Li Shanren.

Seeing the little girl's stubborn look, Li Shanren was a little dumbfounded. He smiled helplessly, "Okay, okay."

He took the cream fruit, took a small bite, and then gave it to Alice.

"One bite per person, that's it." Li Shanren said.

Alice nodded vigorously, took a bite of the butter fruit, and handed it back to Li Shanren.

After Li Shanren took a small bite, he gave it back to Alice.

In this way, one big and one small slowly destroyed a four-fist-sized butter fruit, leaving only the stem and a core.

Li Shanren collected the fruit cores as usual, and tried to keep the seeds every time he finished eating the fruit, because he had an immature idea in his mind that maybe those seeds could turn into lush fruit trees again. When the time comes, the master of displaying bad things can live his life lying flat against the fruit trees.

Of course, this idea is a bit fanciful. If planting trees could be so easy, everyone would work as a fruit farmer. Li Shanren's thoughts are nothing more than trying his luck. If he can't plant a tree anyway, he won't. deficit.

If it really happened, for him, it would be a bloody profit without any capital.

For a homeless man who has been hungry for nine meals in three days, there is only one activity after dinner at night - sleeping.

According to Li Shanren, this can effectively reduce the body's basal metabolism and achieve the excellent effect of one serving of food being able to resist hunger for two days. It can be called the most cost-effective way of activity for people lying down.

"By the way, are your knees okay?"

Before he was about to lie down, Li Shanren suddenly remembered that Alice had fallen before. Judging from her actions at that time, she seemed to be injured. If the injury was serious, she had to deal with it quickly to prevent the wound from getting worse.

In this world where living standards are similar to those in the Middle Ages, if a wound is infected, the probability of death is very high, especially for people like them who are homeless and cannot afford a doctor.

Alice pulled up the hem of her skirt slightly, revealing her smooth, jade-like calves, except that her knees were a little scratched, with a little blood oozing out, and some sand and gravel.

"Fortunately, it's just a little scratch. Just wash it with water and it'll be fine."

Li Shanren dug out a water bag from the corner of his bedding. It was said to be a water bag, but it was actually a watertight leather bag with the mouth of the bag simply tied up with a rope.

This is the best water storage item he can find, and other homeless people may not have it.

Li Shanren asked Alice to sit out a little to avoid getting the bedding wet, then untied the rope and carefully poured the water inside onto the wound.

"It might hurt a little, so bear with it and don't touch it with your hands."

As he warned, he rinsed the wound with clean water and carefully cleaned the sand on it.

For adults, this kind of wound may not cause a frown, but for children who have not yet begun to develop, it may be a bit unbearable.

Alice was strong, but she wrinkled her face and said nothing, silently watching Li Shanren clean her.

Soon, Li Shanren cleaned up the scratch. Except for some of the sediment that was too stubborn and had to be cleaned by hand, the rest basically relied on water. I used half a bag of water, which was a bit distressing, although I could still go to the city. The public reservoir has been reinstalled, but for a lazy person, it is quite a "heavy" thing to make an extra trip to the reservoir.

"Want to drink?"

Li Shanren handed the water bag to Alice. Alice shook her head, and Li had to take a sip himself.

At this time, Alice looked at Li Shanren's arm and seemed to find something. She stretched out her petite index finger and gently touched a bruise on her arm.

"Ouch, don't touch it."

Li Shanren, who was putting the water bag back on his bedding, was touched by the injury, and instantly felt a sharp tingling sensation on his arm.

Alice looked up at Li Shanren, with questioning eyes in her blue eyes.

"It's just a beating. I've been used to it since I was a child. It's nothing serious."

Li Shanren said lightly, and then he sat down behind the bed, lying down on his side.

Maybe it was because he had to twist his muscles and bones. After being beaten, he could only lie down with a grin on his face. His whole body felt sore, and every muscle and bone was like a thigh muscle after running crazily for a thousand meters.

"I have to go to bed, you can do whatever you want." Li Shanren said with a breath of cold air.

The moment he lay down completely, he felt a little relaxed.

As soon as he closed his eyes, not long after, a small body that exuded a fragrance similar to blueberries slowly leaned into his arms.

When Li Shanren opened his eyes, he saw Alice lying on her side with her back to him, her silver-gray curly hair hanging down like soft clouds.

"Don't get too close to me. I haven't taken a shower in three days. I have a smell on my body. What if I get it from you? When I go to the orphanage tomorrow, what will happen if people don't want you because of this?" Li Shanren advised.

But after hearing this, Alice continued to lean into his arms.

Yes, this little girl wants to fight against him.

Li Shanren was helpless and had no choice but to say nothing. He closed his eyes slightly, emptied his mind, and tried to fall asleep as quickly as possible to avoid the night being too difficult.

Although this alley has walls on the front, back, left and right to block the wind, it is not indoors after all, and it is still quite cold when the temperature drops late at night.

There was no talking all night until dawn.

In the early morning, on the edge of the eaves extending above the bedding, a drop of transparent dew quietly condensed, swaying in the breeze, and finally broke away from its restraints and fell hastily.

"clatter......"

Li Shanren's eyelids trembled in his sleep, and he woke up slowly. He was not awakened by the dew drops, but... it was time.

There is a faint fragrance similar to blueberry coming from the nose, and there is also a bit of itching feeling.

Li Shanren opened his eyes slightly. Only then did he realize that Alice had turned around at some point and was leaning closely against him. Her hands were restlessly grabbing his clothes, and her silver-gray curly hair was touching his chin. , and his left hand subconsciously hugged the child.

"It seems it was quite cold last night..."

Li Shanren murmured in a low voice that she could sleep like this because little Alice was probably cold last night. Under the guidance of her subconscious mind, she leaned closely against Li Shanren's small heater, which had a more constant body temperature and produced more heat.

This situation further strengthened Li Shanren's determination to send Alice away. If she stayed here with him, the little girl would die.

Just one night of wind and cold was hard for Alice to bear. If she waited until winter, not to mention Alice, Li Shanren would most likely become a frozen corpse on the roadside.

He gently took Alice's hand off, then wiped his face to wipe away the traces left after the dewdrops shattered her body. Then he stood up carefully and crossed Alice's small body.

Standing in the alleyway, Li Shanren thought about it, hesitated for a while, then turned around and squatted down, lifted the bedding slightly, covered the little girl, then took the water bag in the corner of the bedding, and then left with satisfaction. .

Crossing the boundary between sunshine and shadow, walking out of the slightly gloomy alley, it is another new day.

Li Shanren stood in the sun and took a deep breath, as if he could absorb the energy contained in it like a plant.

"Another difficult day..."

He breathed nothing but the northwest wind and sighed with a look of despair, then turned right and walked towards the church.

I didn't give alms yesterday, but I'll probably, maybe, maybe... I'll make up for it today.