When walking on the street, Li Shanren always felt that something was wrong with him, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. It felt like there was something stuck in his teeth. He could lick it with his tongue but couldn't touch it with his hands, which was very uncomfortable. .

After walking for a while, Li Shanren rubbed his shoulders, and suddenly realized what he was doing.

He received a severe beating yesterday, but when he got up this morning...

Li Shanren raised his arm and looked at it, and found that the bruises left last night had disappeared without a trace, and his waist was no longer sore, his legs were no longer painful, and his muscles and bones were all normal, as if he had no physical condition yesterday. He wasn't beaten, everything was just his imagination.

He was a little surprised. As he walked, he kept groping and checking his body like an ape. From time to time, he would jump up and down once or twice, which caused the passers-by nearby to look at him with gradually weird eyes: This dirty homeless man doesn't know how to do it. Crazy?

After many confirmations, Li Shanren was finally sure that the injuries on his body had completely disappeared. Apart from being hungry, his physical condition was even better than before yesterday.

"What's going on? Could it be that holding a little girl to sleep can effectively improve the body's recovery?" Li Shanren thought wildly.

This guess was so ridiculous that Li Shanren didn't even bother to verify it, so he just forgot about it.

However, apart from this conjecture, it is difficult for Li Shanren to think of other possibilities, but in the face of doubts, he has always been open-minded and will not think about things that he cannot understand. For him, what can be more important than eating now? ?

Li Shanren carefully avoided the pedestrians on the street and came to the door of the familiar church.

At this time, a simple alms canopy had been erected under the magnificent church, and a long queue had formed.

Although Li Shanren got up very early, he still came a little late, because some homeless people may have been sleeping nearby and waiting since last night, and maybe the alms workers in the church were there in a hurry as soon as they came out. Already lined up.

Although it didn't come early enough, it wasn't a big problem.

Li Shanren estimated the queue of people and felt that it would be no problem for him to queue up.

Time passed slowly while waiting. After spending more than half an hour in a daze, the queue finally reached Li Shanren.

There was no priest among the people in charge of alms today, only a little nun wrapped in a red, white and blue scarf. Li Shanren had never seen her before. It might be her first time to give alms. When she scooped up the buckwheat porridge with a spoon, she always Shivering slightly, he seemed a little unsteady.

"Put it inside a little bit, and try to hold the upper middle part, so it won't shake easily." Li Shanren reminded him when he saw this. He was very worried that the little nun would shake her hand and pour the porridge back into the big earthen pot. .

When the little nun heard this, she immediately moved the delicate palm that was almost holding the end of the spoon a lot forward. This way, it was indeed much safer.

She glanced at Li Shanren with some gratitude, and poured a large spoonful of buckwheat porridge into the water bag that Li Shanren opened. It was still relatively thick.

Li Shanren thanked him, took a larger piece of black bread from the pile of black bread on the left side of the alms table, and quickly left the team.

Generally speaking, the homeless people who receive alms will eat all the relief food directly on the roadside to avoid anyone coveting and competing for it.

But Li Shanren couldn't do that today, because Alice was still waiting for him, and he had no intention of eating alone.

Li Shanren stuffed the piece of black bread into his thin, worn-out resident's uniform. He held the water bag filled with half a bag of buckwheat porridge tightly with both hands, and glanced around with his peripheral vision in case someone suddenly rushed out to grab it.

Seeing Li Shanren's impeccable defense, the greedy and malicious eyes on him gradually dissipated.

It is not worthwhile to take action against such a vigilant person, because it may cause strong resistance and attract the guards, and then the gain will outweigh the loss.

Although the malice gradually dissipated, Li Shanren did not relax. Instead, he hurriedly squeezed into the crowd and walked back to the dark alley cautiously.

"It's not easy to be a good person. It takes so much energy to bring some food back here." Li Shanren sighed in his heart.

In the alley, under the dim light, a little girl with silver-gray curly hair was sitting on the bed. She seemed to have just woken up and was still a little dazed.

She tried hard to recall what happened yesterday, and quickly remembered everything. Thinking of her inevitable fate, Alice lowered her head slightly, feeling a little lost.

"I brought food back. Here, you eat first."

Li Shanren knelt down and handed Alice the steaming water bag that had been untied.

"There is buckwheat porridge inside. Just put the mouth of the bag to your mouth and drink it. It may be a bit hot, so be careful."

Alice nodded obediently and carefully took the water bag. She held the bottom of the water bag with one hand and grasped the mouth of the water bag with the other hand. She put her face close to the mouth of the bag, opened a small gap, and allowed the relatively thick buckwheat porridge inside to slowly flow in. In the mouth.

Li Shanren took out the piece of black bread from his arms and tore it into small pieces with considerable effort with his hands and nails.

This kind of black bread is one of the staple foods of the bottom farmers, and its ingredients are very complex.

In addition to poor-quality wheat flour, bran, black corn, soybean flour and the like are also added, and there may even be some soil and sand. There is not much nutrition in it. The only advantage is that it is "hard", very hard. I heard that farmers in the countryside sometimes use this thing as a weapon, which is comparable to a hard stone.

Just looking at Li Shanren's face turned red and tearing the crust of the bread hard as if he was constipated, he knew how difficult it was to eat the black bread. Most of the time, he would break it into pieces and mix it into the porridge and eat it together. .

But Li Shanren really couldn't accept the mud mixed in it, so most of the time he would manually tear the bread apart, clean up the mud, and then throw it into the porridge.

After a lot of effort, I finally tore apart the damn piece of black bread.

Li Shanren signaled Alice to stop drinking porridge for a while, took the water bag, threw the black bread slices in one after another, then grabbed the mouth of the bag and shook it to mix it into the buckwheat porridge as evenly as possible, and then continued Pass it back to Alice.

Alice didn't eat much, maybe because she wasn't used to it, or because she had a small appetite.

In short, when Li Shanren took over the water bag, more than half of the buckwheat porridge was left in it. After confirming again and again that Alice no longer wanted to eat, Li Shanren drank all the buckwheat porridge mixed with black bread slices cleanly.

"Let's go, I'll take you to the orphanage."

Li Shanren, who had barely eaten and drank enough, clapped his hands and stood up. He stuffed the water bag back into his clothes and stopped by the public pool to fill it up later.

Although she was still a little reluctant, Alice stood up obediently and followed Li Shanren step by step.

......

The weather is very good today, the sun is warm and not sunny at all, just perfect for going out.

Under this warm sun, Li Shanren is not happy at all. For him, a southerner who has been lashed by the scorching sun all year round, the warm sunshine can only mean one thing, autumn is coming soon, or... .It’s already autumn.

When I went to bed last night, I did feel that it was much colder than when I first came here.

And autumn is here, can winter be far behind?

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