Plane Convenience Store

"I'm sorry, mother, I..." After being reprimanded by her mother, Alice turned pale: "I, I didn't mean to."

The mother's attitude is very gentle, but it only makes Alice feel worse.

She lowered her head guiltily, and at the same time couldn't help observing her father from the corner of her eye, but this observation made her heart skip a beat, because her father's face was completely black.

"Alice, tell me slowly why you didn't use an onion handkerchief this time, have you forgotten what your mother told you?"

"I, I haven't forgotten." Alice said slowly: "I just feel that it hurts too much to wipe my eyes with a handkerchief all the time, so I want to take a break, but after I stop, I keep forgetting..."

Alice was lying for the first time, so she stumbled.

When lying, she has been consciously observing her parents' faces.

As soon as she said this, her father's face was still so dark, and a trace of displeasure flashed across her mother's face.

"Alice, how many times has my mother told you, do you still want to get cured as soon as possible?" The mother said seriously: "You have to wipe your face with a handkerchief for this disease. When all the sick tears are drained, Your illness will be cured, remember? Don’t forget after remembering!”

"But, Mom, I've been crying for so long, but there are still so many tears..." Alice muttered in a low voice, "Can you tell me when will my illness be cured? I want to see it too Brother, I haven't seen him yet!"

Hearing Alice's words, the mother's expression became a little unnatural.

She forced a smile and said, "Soon, soon. As long as you persevere every day, you will recover after a while."

"And, don't you always want to see your brother? As long as you recover from illness, you can play with him every day in the future, and your rooms will be next to each other, mom promises!"

After comforting Alice again and again, the mother held Alice in her arms and patted her on the back.

After a quarter of an hour passed and felt that it was getting late, my mother sent the reluctant Alice back to the attic and locked the door with her own hands.

"Alice, you have to eat well, be obedient, and don't forget to wipe your eyes with an onion handkerchief every day. Next time you come here, Mom and Dad will check your tear box!"

"Well, Mom, I won't forget!"

Alice repeatedly promised.

With Alice's promise, the woman patted Alice's hand protruding from the small window at the bottom of the door, then slowly stood up, and left with the man waiting beside her.

After they left, Alice ran back to the bed and lay down flat.Then she brought a dark object to her ear and began to listen intently.

"Molly, the output of gemstones this time is several times lower than planned, and many orders can't keep up. What should I do?" Teach her a lesson and let her understand what obedience is."

"Alice has grown up, you shouldn't be in such a hurry." Molly said: "Children will be like this when they reach a certain age, isn't our Tom the same? That kid is getting older and he doesn't listen to us. , she was so obedient when she was a child..."

The man and the woman were still talking, but at this moment, the sound of a rumbling carriage came from the headset, covering their conversation.So Alice could only be patient and continue to listen to them.

"I advise you not to be so anxious. Our family's life is so rich because of Alice. The money is endless. Although Alice doesn't know it, she has done a lot for the family. We should be more tolerant to her." Son……"

"I know, but..." The voice here was muffled.

"We are sorry for her." The female voice concluded with this sentence.

The conversation ended here, and Alice understood everything.

She took off the headset, threw it aside, and buried her face in the quilt, crying uncontrollably.

"Woo-oo-mom and dad--"

She kept whining, and for the first time she was glad that the other person staying in the villa was deaf.

Her eyes were dimmed from crying, and the sapphires that were constantly produced cut her face and piled up the snow-white pillow.

Through the moonlight, the pillow full of precious stones emits a faint blue light, emitting dazzling colors under the bright moonlight.

Alice cried and cried, and suddenly touched the pillow, grabbed a handful of gems, lifted them to her chest, let go of them suddenly, and let them fall from mid-air, making a crisp impact with the gems on the pillow .

"Gems! You are gems!"

"Liar, you are all lying to me! You are all big liars!"

Alice growled like this, and soon her eyes filled with tears again.

The overflowing tears kept falling and turned into new gems.

Because the pillow was occupied by gems, sporadic gems began to roll into the quilt, causing pain to Alice.

After crying for a long time, Alice gradually stopped.

Her eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her face was also scratched with light red marks from the sapphires that fell one after another.

Alice touched her face, and there was a little blood on it.

She wiped her face carelessly with an onion handkerchief, and the result was even more painful. She wanted to cry instinctively, but at this moment she could no longer cry, and even her voice was so hoarse that she could no longer cry.

So, choking with sobs, she changed to a normal handkerchief and wiped it again, then groped in the moonlight to find the sapphires in the quilt piece by piece, and threw them on the ground.

After finishing all this, she swept the sapphire on the pillow left and right to the ground, let herself fall heavily on the pillow, and closed her eyes heavily.

She's so tired, she's crying badly, and now, she wants to rest.

At least for one night, she didn't want to think about anything anymore.

……

The next morning, Alice was awakened by the sunlight penetrating into the attic.

She found out the small hand mirror she got from the convenience store and looked at her face with it.

She cried all night last night, and her eyes were swollen.

And because she cried so hard, her face was covered with bloodstains and her hair was very disheveled. In this state, she couldn't see people at all, so she hesitated about what she had planned.

She originally planned to go to the convenience store in a few days to clarify and ask for everyone's help, but crying like this, how could she have the nerve to meet people?

Alice felt that she was ugly in the mirror, and she thought of her parents using her again, so she couldn't help but want to cry again.

However, thinking that the injury on her face would be more serious if she cried again, she forced herself not to shed tears, but she still couldn't help but feel sour.

After Alice washed her face with water and combed her hair, it was time for breakfast.

Today's breakfast has her favorite biscuits, but as usual, the portion is very small, only a few pieces.

Alice finished eating the biscuits without knowing the taste, without the cherishment of the past, and she didn't feel a pity.

Because after going to the convenience store, she can eat many snacks that she could not eat before, and she can eat as much as she wants.

She likes to eat a chocolate bar called 'Pocky' recently, and this chocolate bar alone is much better than the biscuit without filling she is eating now.

After wiping her red-stained face several times with a handkerchief, Alice looked in the mirror and found that the red marks were still as obvious.

Alice wanted to wait two days until the red marks faded before going to the convenience store for help.

But in the afternoon, she couldn't bear it anymore, so she held the hot red stone, and with a thought, she came to the convenience store.

"Alice, what's the matter, is there any result?"

As soon as he saw Alice, Lu Lu asked like this.

"Shopkeeper, thank you for the things you gave me. I have fully figured it out." Alice choked up and said, "You are right, the tears I shed are also valuable to us. They all say that it is sapphire and can be sold for a high price. price."

After answering, Alice raised her head, and Lu Lu saw her red-stained face all at once.

"What happened, Alice? What happened to your face, did they mistreat you?"

Thinking of their previous suggestion, Lu Lu felt a little uneasy.

They advised Alice to cry less, but if Alice's parents were greedy for profit and saw that there were fewer gems, they would inevitably do something excessive to Alice.

"No, they didn't beat me." Alice said wearily, "They just locked me in the attic, the same as before..."

Alice's tone became lower and lower, not at all like the usual cheerful girl.

Seeing this, Lu Lu couldn't help but said: "Now that you understand the truth, what are you ready to do in the future?"

"My parents used me to make money and didn't let me leave the house. To be honest, I'm really sad..." Alice said in a low voice: "I should hate them, but they didn't hurt me, I can't hate ..."

Lu Lu really couldn't empathize with the contradiction Alice said.

But he can understand that he has been deceived by his parents for so many years, and he always thought that they were treating him well.

Once such a fact is revealed, what can be done?

They are selfish, but they are not so bad that people will give up.

Most crucially, Alice is clearly emotionally dependent on her parents.From her short words, Lu Lu could feel that she had a deep emotional dependence on her parents.

This kind of attachment cannot be cut off in a short while, and aside from this, what exactly does Alice think?

After waiting quietly for a while, Lu Lu brought Alice a pack of chocolate bars and asked her to eat some sweets to calm down.

Alice took the chocolate bar, biting it unconsciously.

After killing the fifth chocolate bar, she finally made up her mind and said, "Shopkeeper, you... can you do me a favor?"

"What's the matter, tell me, I will help if I can."

"That's...do you have a way to restore my tears to normal?" Alice paused, pursed her lips and said, "I, I don't want to cry jewel tears anymore! I think, if I stop crying Such strange tears, my parents, can they treat me like a younger brother, like an ordinary girl?"