Ye Cheng

Qian Xingliang fed the child half a tablet of antipyretics, and placed them on Ye Cheng's bed so that they could sleep together. That night, the child never woke up. When Ye Cheng got up the next day, he saw the child squatting. In a corner of the room, two eyes were wide open, as if they were about to jump over and bite someone at any time.

The weather was fine that day, and Ye Cheng was about to go to work. Qian Xingliang still wanted to send him there as usual, but the child just sat in the corner and seemed to have no intention of leaving. Will be back, so pull him out of the house by force.

When they went back that night, they saw the child squatting opposite the bun shop. According to the owner of the bun shop, when the kid came here for the first time, he felt sorry for him, so he gave two buns. This place is squatting.The boss is okay, if there are any buns left someday, he will give some to the child, if there are no leftovers, there is nothing he can do, after all, he is also a small business.

People in the neighborhood heard that such a child had come, and they also planned to adopt it, but this child was too fierce, looking scary with staring eyes, and no one dared to take it for a while.Once a kind-hearted person sent him to the police station. For some reason, he came back after a few days.

"Let's go, brat, go to uncle's house to sleep?" Qian Xingliang called out half-truthfully, but he didn't expect the kid to follow.

At night when they were eating, Qian Xingliang also made a bowl for the child, and took a bath after the meal, but the child hid far away, but Qian Xingliang caught him and stripped him naked.Qian Xingliang is doing almost all of their housework now. After all, Ye Cheng is still too young. If this dirty ghost climbs into Ye Cheng's bed again, he will probably have to wash the sheets and quilts again in two days.

The next day when Ye Cheng and the others went out, the child squatted opposite the steamed bun shop as usual. Ye Cheng and Qian Xingliang also ate steamed buns in the morning recently. Seeing the child squatting there, Ye Cheng bought three steamed buns with his own money. send it to him.

When taking the bus, Qian Xingliang told Ye Cheng not to be too kind to that child. Neither of them is rich and cannot afford to raise such a child. It is best if the child is willing to leave by himself.

This time Ye Cheng understood, Uncle Qian didn't want to take in this child and wanted him to go.

But instead of leaving by himself, the child became closer and closer to Ye Cheng. One day Ye Cheng was sitting on the side of the road begging for food, and the child came over by himself, not far from Ye Cheng, without saying a word One squat on the ground is one day.

When Qian Xingliang came over to deliver the meal at noon, he was startled when he saw the child: "He found all of this, it belongs to a dog, this is it?"

"This is a meal for one person. You eat it yourself. Don't share it with him. I don't think this is the way to go..." Because he had to rush to work, Qian Xingliang left without saying anything.

After he left, Ye Cheng waved to the child, then put the lid of the lunch box on the ground, put half of the food from the lunch box on the lid, and the child squatted beside him and ate it with his hands.

That night, Qian Xingliang didn't want to let that kid in again, but Ye Cheng looked at the kid outside, tugged at Qian Xingliang's clothes and begged, "Let him in!"

So Qian Xingliang softened again, but he explained that he would ask for leave tomorrow to send the child to the police station. Otherwise, he is a migrant worker, and if people say that he kidnapped the child, he might not be cleared by jumping into the Yellow River.And they don't have the conditions to raise another child at all.

"The two of us asked for money together." Ye Cheng said.

"No, then what will become of me? Uncle Qian will be a real human trafficker by then, and he will be arrested by the police!" Taking in strange children and asking him to ask for money for him, then he, Qian Xingliang, would still fight with the outsiders. What is the difference between criminal gangs?

"Then I'll buy him something to eat." Ye Cheng didn't want Qian Xingliang to send the child away anyway.

"Hey, boy, do you think you are rich? If you want money, don't forget that there is a younger sister in the village. She is not born to your aunt. If you can make money, you have to take care of her." Don't let her be wronged at a relative's house." It was obviously too early to tell a six-year-old child about this issue, and Qian Xingliang was in a daze at the moment.

"Then I'll ask for more in the future." Ye Cheng also remembered that when his mother was there, he hid himself to take care of his younger sister.

"Okay, okay, if you insist on this, you can take care of him during the day, you can decide whether to eat steamed buns or steamed buns for him, and I will take care of his meal and sleeping place at night, but we can make an agreement, how long can we keep him?" How long, if someone can adopt him one day, you have to let him go, and then don't make trouble!"

"Oh." Seeing that Qian Xingliang agreed, Ye Cheng immediately became happy.

"Hello, what's your name?" Qian Xingliang asked while putting the child's dinner in front of him.

"Lu Mingyuan." The child answered vaguely, and just lowered his head to eat. The half boxed lunch at noon probably wasn't full.

"How old are you this year?"

"Five years old." The child looked up at Qian Xingliang. Although the little eyes were not friendly, they were better than before.

"Hey, Ye Cheng, he's only five years old, he's taller than you, come on, let's compare..." Qian Xingliang acted like an old child when he got excited, he insisted on pulling the two well-fed dolls off the dinner table In this comparison, Lu Mingyuan is really taller than Ye Cheng.

"Then tell me, why are you outside alone? Why aren't you with your parents?" Qian Xingliang still hopes to get some information from the child. If he can send it back, he will save the need to raise the child for others. up.

The child hesitated for a long time, but couldn't explain why. Qian Xingliang guessed, probably knowing that the child lost with his mother and was abducted by traffickers on the train. The traffickers on the way treated him badly, so he Taking advantage of the traffickers not paying attention, a person secretly got off the train in this city.

"You're pretty good!"

Later, Qian Xingliang wanted to ask more questions, such as place names, but Lu Mingyuan was still too young at the time, so he couldn't tell why, even how long he sat on the train and when did he get off? , I can't even tell.

From then on, when Ye Cheng went out to beg for food every day, the children had to touch it by themselves. From the house rented by Qian Xingliang to the place where Ye Cheng usually stayed during the day, it was a total of seven stops by bus. For nearly an hour, the child didn't know how long he had walked.

But Qian Xingliang just didn't take him on the bus, and he didn't allow Ye Cheng to buy the ticket for him. Ye Cheng secretly gave him money and told him not to leave in the future and take the bus. But next time, Lu Mingyuan will still rely on himself Walk over with both feet.Ye Cheng had no choice but to let him go first every afternoon, seeing that the time was almost up. When he and Qian Xingliang returned home by bus, Lu Mingyuan was usually already waiting at the door.

These seven stops in this city became the biggest regret in Ye Cheng's life, because he never walked with Lu Mingyuan once.

One day, Ye Cheng was sitting in the shade of a tree, drowsy, when suddenly someone surrounded him. They were two boys about ten years old. They grabbed the coins from Ye Cheng's bowl and stuffed them into their pockets. Ye Cheng Remembering Qian Xingliang's words, he hid aside and watched instead of robbing them.

But Lu Mingyuan quit, he rushed over to hit the two boys who were much taller than him, Ye Cheng couldn't hold back no matter what, but Lu Mingyuan was thrown on the ground by the other party and hit him on the head He punched several times.Ye Cheng went over to push them, but the other party lifted his leg and kicked him into the green belt next to him.

"Hey, Dagang Dahai, what are you doing?" The two big boys here were playing vigorously, when suddenly a little girl's slightly shrill voice sounded, one of the boys shook his hand, and the coins scattered all over the floor.

"If you want to take care of it, if you don't leave, I will beat you!"

"Okay, how dare you not learn well, steal other people's things, and see if Auntie will pick your skin later!"

"If you dare to file a complaint, I'll beat you to death!" That boy was not easy to mess with.

"Kill him and throw him into the river!" Another one echoed from the side.

"You wait." The little girl ran away.

"Hey, I was just joking."

"Come back soon, I'll give him the coin back now, really."

No matter how the two boys yelled, the girl ran away without looking back, and shouted at the corner, "Dad, Dagang Dahai has done something bad again!"

Seeing that the situation was wrong, the two boys hurriedly tried to slip away, but they were still caught by a middle-aged man who rushed over.

"Why are you running? Why are you running? Huh?" The man held a boy in one hand and dragged them back.

"Dad, they just robbed someone of their money." The girl complained.

"Tell me, did you steal someone's money?" The man here was asking, when a couple hurried over from the corner just now: "What's the matter?"

"I don't know either. Meili said that Dagang Dahai robbed other children's money, and I was asking them." Meili's father said.

"Dahai, tell Dad the truth, have you robbed someone of his money?" Another man asked with a stern face.

"No, we're just teasing him." Dahai argued.

"He just robbed us of money! He just robbed us of our money!" Ye Cheng who was robbed kept silent, but Lu Mingyuan yelled louder than anything else, for fear that he would be fooled by that man named Dahai.

"Playing? Is this playing? Huh?" The woman took out Dahai's pocket as she spoke, and took out a handful of coins.

"They also said they would beat me to death and throw me into the river." Meili added.

"What? Throw my beautiful family into the river. If Meili loses a hair, I will throw both of you into the river. Do you believe it?" Meili's father got angry.

"You bastard, how dare you do bad things like others, and even throw your sister into the river, which is a shame for both of you, see if I don't beat you to death today!"

"Return the money to them, let's go back today, these two bastards will have to be taught a lesson." Dahai's father seemed very angry.

"Don't worry, let's see how the child is beaten." Dagang Dahai's mother still had to be more careful, and took the two children to check, and found that apart from Lu Mingyuan's face being beaten black, Ye Cheng His knee was knocked against the curb and the skin was scratched a little, but there was nothing serious about it, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

The two couples hurriedly took out the coins from Outline Dahai's pocket and returned them to Ye Cheng's bowl, and then the man grabbed a handful of coins from his own pocket and put them in, then pulled the two The boy leaves.

"Baby, why do you stay here all day, where is your father?" Meili and her father did not leave in a hurry, he had already noticed these two children, thinking that Qian Xingliang was their father, or a relative or something.

"..." Qian Xingliang told Ye Cheng not to talk to people he didn't know casually, but Lu Mingyuan had no intention of talking to him at all.

"The next time those two boys dare to bully you, you come to uncle, and uncle will teach them a lesson for you." Seeing that Ye Cheng ignored him, the man left a word and left.

"Here, here's the bubble gum." The girl named Meili stuffed two pieces of bubble gum into Ye Cheng's pocket, and ran away with her father.

Ye Cheng knew about bubble gum. When he was sitting on the side of the road, he would often see children walking past him while blowing bubble gum. Qian Xingliang was very kind to him and would often buy him meat, but he never Never bought bubble gum.

It just rained yesterday, and today the air is very clean. Summer is coming soon, and the sun is getting brighter day by day. Ye Cheng and Lu Mingyuan are sitting side by side on the curb, with a broken bowl in front of them. Blowing the bubble gum, blowing and chewing, the two children had fun.