stagnant water

In the summer of 97, two very strange things happened in M ​​County.One baby boy was thrown at the entrance of the orphanage, and the other was that there really was an orphanage in the local area.A long time later, the elderly grandpa recalled that morning he often stroked his beard and told his tiger-headed grandson about the lively scene at that time.

"Squeak—ah!" The first person to open the door was an aunt wearing a white nightgown. She came to the cooking place in the corridor with dazed eyes, skillfully took out last night's leftovers from her basket, and started cooking for the men and women at home. meal.

"Yo, get up so early." The speaker was a fashionable girl, picking up eggs while talking.

"It's getting late, you see that Sister Liu's house even took out the garbage, tsk tsk tsk." While talking, she gestured for the girl to look at the slightly hidden shop at the end, the girl smiled perfunctorily and did not speak.More and more people came out, and the mothers in the corridor were busy cooking for the family, and they still didn't forget to gossip with the people from other families about how their own cubs were disobedient.The sound of cooking is mixed with the sound of talking.

"Do you know?!" Sister Liu in the aunt's mouth said excitedly to the women in the corridor with the food she brought back from outside.

"What's the matter? What's the matter?" the fashionable girl said in surprise, and at the same time, she didn't forget to stir fry her own eggs.

"Hey, Xiao Li's family eats eggs again, so I want to eat something else."

"Oh, who is like yours, who eats outside food every day~" the aunt said in a strange way, and the fashionable girl blushed and said nothing.

"Humph" Sister Liu glared at her aunt, and said displeasedly: "I don't know which family doesn't want a child, and throws it in front of the house on the street, ouch, what a crime~"

"Really?" "Really?" The mothers stopped when they heard the news.

"Ouch~ Really, I saw it when I went out to throw out the trash. The kid didn't make a fuss at all, just there quietly." Sister Liu said loudly, her slightly red cheeks revealing the intention of sharing the news. joy.

"How does the child look like?" "Is it a boy or a girl?" "Is it disabled?" The mothers asked questions, and the large corridor seemed extremely crowded.

"How dare you look at it, I just looked at the child's face, nothing else is very white!"

"What happened next?" the mothers asked eagerly.

"Later? I knocked on the people in that room and left. I don't dare to mess with this kind of thing." Sister Liu exaggeratedly touched her chest.

The corridor was quiet for a few seconds before being interrupted by children walking out of their respective doors, "Mom, I want to eat eggs." "I don't want to eat leftovers!"......

The mothers suddenly remembered their own breakfast and rushed to prepare it. They couldn't help gossiping and shared the news with their husbands.

After the husband went to work and the children went to school, the mothers sat in the yard of the compound, doing their own things with full of thoughts, and the unusual emotions enveloped the whole yard.

"Cough" the girl made a sound, and everyone looked at her: "Maybe, we can go and see that child?"

"Yes~" "Xiao Li is right~" The mothers put down the things in their hands one after another, patted their trousers, tidied up their clothes, and walked towards the houses on the street.

That morning, if you passed by that street, you would see many old or young women, curious and shy, standing at the house on the street, nervously waiting for the owner of the house to open the door.

Sitting in the yard, Pei Jiao frowned fiercely listening to the chattering sound outside the door, glanced at the innocent looking child who was drinking milk powder in his arms, sighed softly, and ignored the sound outside the door Ready to go back into the house.As soon as he got up, he saw Chen Xialuo walking out wearing her own shirt. The warm demeanor from the sun hitting the man's body soothed Pei Jiao's irritability. Of course, this kind of warmth was only an illusion at the time.

"What's wrong?" Chen Xialuo's voice was lazy and waxy.

"It's okay, you can go to sleep again, you worked hard last night." Pei Jiao's voice had a gentleness that he didn't know.

"Hey, why do you have a child in your arms?" Chen Xialuo said, walking down with a face full of surprise.

Pei Jiao said helplessly: "I was exercising in the yard in the morning, and when I heard a knock on the door, I opened it. Then I saw this little guy at the door."

"Yeah, it's so cute!"

Pei Jiao looked at Chen Xialuo who was teasing the child and knew that he didn't listen to his own words, and said dotingly: "Yes, he is still a little boy, healthy and healthy, I don't know what the parents think, hey... ..”

"It's okay, let's raise it. You see, Yaya doesn't have any friends yet!" Chen Xialuo said happily, looking up at Pei Jiao with excitement.

"Why is it so noisy outside? Ah! There are still people knocking on the door! I'm going to open the door!" Chen Xialuo didn't notice the shock of Pei Jiao's words just now, and went to open the door happily.

"Squeak—ah!" The wooden door was opened, and the woman who was noisy just now suddenly quieted down, looking at the person behind the door inquisitively.

"Ah! There are so many people!" Hearing a nice male voice, everyone was surprised by the appearance of the person before they recovered.With a palm-sized face, fair skin and big twinkling eyes, it is clearly a girl's appearance, but there is no trace of femininity on a man's body. On the contrary, he has the gentle temperament of an ancient gentleman.

so beautiful!The mothers exclaimed in their hearts, but no one spoke.

"What's the matter, everyone? Can you knock on the door?" Pei Jiao came out from behind Chen Xialuo.

Wow!So handsome!There are scars on his face, but he is still very handsome.The mothers were surprised by the appearance of the two, and forgot to reply.

"If you have nothing to do, please go back, we still have some things to deal with." Pei Jiao said with a frown.

The mothers came back to their senses and said anxiously: "Little brother, we heard that you picked up a child here, we want to take a look."

Pei Jiao had a tense face, and was about to refuse when Chen Xialuo interrupted: "Okay, okay, Pei Jiao quickly take the child out! Ah, don't! Come in!"

All the mothers breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Chen Xialuo's agreement. After all, they saw that the face of the man next to him was turning black into coal.

Pei Jiao walked helplessly into the yard, ready to take the child out to show them, but turned around and saw Li Ya squatting in the yard, Pei Jiao smiled slightly, and rubbed his hair when passing him.

When the mothers came in through the gate, they saw a short boy squatting there.

"Yo~ What a good child!" "Yes, yes!" "It's a bit dark." "Hahahahahaha" The mothers teased the little boy waiting to see the baby.The little boy was not affected at all, and he squatted seriously on his horse stance.

There was chatter in the yard, Chen Xialuo smiled and looked at the women who looked at their houses and waited for Pei Jiao to come out.

"Here we come." I don't know who said it, and all the mothers surrounded Pei Jiao.

"Ah! It's really good-looking!" "Yes, yes." "Sister Liu is not lying!"...The chirping voice and being surrounded, Pei Jiao's frown could be pinched to death There were many flies, but he didn't dare to speak loudly for fear of scaring the baby in his arms. He looked up at Chen Xialuo, who was slapping the table with a smile and was unsteady, and Li Ya, who was standing quietly on horseback without looking sideways. I regretted it a hundred times in my heart, why did I meet these two gods?

Chen Xialuo stood up straight and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. After walking two steps, she remembered Pei Jiao's expression and almost laughed again.

"Okay, okay, sisters, let the children go to bed after you finish watching~" Chen Xialuo said as she pushed aside the women surrounding Pei Jiao.

The mothers stopped talking, and the fashionable girl said hesitantly, "Brother, do you two want to raise this child?"

"That's right, that's right, others have delivered it to their door, and we are an orphanage!" Chen Xialuo touched Pei Jiao's shoulder to stop him from speaking, and raised her eyebrows.

"The orphanage?" "What orphanage?" The mothers whispered to the people around them.

"Here," Chen Xialuo raised her head and pointed to Li Ya's position: "You see, that is the child who arrived at the orphanage first."

"But we don't have an orphanage here!" the aunt said doubtfully.

"Hahahaha, our family is called the 'Welfare Institute'." Chen Xialuo said proudly.

Chen Xialuo turned her head and looked at Pei Jiao begging for praise, only to find that his complexion was getting worse and worse, not daring to be presumptuous, and said dying: "Sisters, we really have something to do, why don't you come over later?"

The mothers satisfied their gossip mentality, and nodded in agreement. When they left, they didn't forget to tell them that they were in the staff compound at the end of the street, and asked them to bring their children to play often.

Chen Xialuo didn't forget the glance Pei Jiao turned her head to look at her just now, she nodded in agreement with a guilty face, and sent them to the door and closed it.

Chen Xialuo waited for the sound outside the door to subside, turned around and looked at the man standing in the yard, swallowed her saliva and raised the corner of her mouth with a smile, ran over and hugged Pei Jiao, and said coquettishly: "Good Pei Jiao, I know You want it, right?"

Pei Jiao looked down at the coquettish person hugging him, the anger in his heart silently dissipated, and he sighed helplessly.

Knowing that Pei Jiao was not angry, Chen Xialuo kissed him, and quickly waved to Li Ya, "Duck, duck! Come quickly! Your little follower!"

Li Ya glanced at the excited Chen Xialuo: "Huh." With a look of disdain, he still walked over slowly.

Pei Jiao sat on the stool and showed the baby to Li Ya.

Li Ya looked at the sleeping child in Pei Jiao's arms, couldn't help poking the child's face with his hand, but didn't want the child to wake up, Li Ya was startled by the sound of crying, he was at a loss and forgot to retract his finger.

While the child was crying, his little hand broke free, grabbed Li Ya's hand, slowly lowered his crying, and fell into a deep sleep again.

Chen Xialuo looked at Li Ya's shocked face with a smile, and said softly, "Duck Ya, brother likes you, you have to protect him well~"

Li Ya didn't reply, but just quietly looked at the little hand that grabbed her hand, feeling the warmth of it, and something in her heart gradually warmed up.