Travel through the city of orcs

"Excuse me, are you my Daddy?"

These childish words made Cheng Chi, who was still smiling, stunned on the spot.

It was only then that Cheng Chi noticed the child's small black ears and tail, as well as the dark green eyes that were exactly the same as Claude's. Isn't this Ian, the child of Lance and Claude?

Ian looked closely at Cheng Chi, with hope shining in his eyes.

At first, Claude told Ian that his Daddy was not in good health, so he could not go to see Daddy until Daddy recovered, so although Ian really wanted to see his Daddy, he still obediently listened to his father's words, Waiting at home for Daddy to recover.

Ian waited and waited, one day passed, three days passed, seven days passed, and Ian never waited for the day when his father took him to meet Daddy.

Ian’s little head was full of doubts. Isn’t Grandpa Barry the most powerful doctor in the town? Last time Jerome went to the jungle to play and was scratched by a wild animal, Grandpa Barry only cured him for seven days. Why is it that my Daddy hasn't healed for so long?

Ian began to ask his father when his Daddy would get better, but his father just rubbed Ian's little head and asked him, wouldn't it be good to just live with Daddy?

Although Dad asked himself this sentence with a smile, Ian felt that it was raining in Dad's eyes, and he couldn't see happiness at all. Although he really wanted to see his Daddy, he also loved it very much. His own father, so Ian hugged his father's arm and said in a low voice, "Ian only needs his father, and Ian will always be with his father."

Then Dad picked Ian up and held him for a long, long time.

Afterwards, Ian never mentioned that he wanted to see Daddy in front of his father again.

To this day, Dad sent the leather boots he made to Violet Town, and little Ian, who stayed at home alone, was watching the ants move in the yard.

Then he was attracted by the excited talking and laughing of the children from a distance. Little Ian ran to the fence, and he saw Jerome walking towards his house with a few friends talking and laughing. Coming over, they all held a beautiful little bag in their hands, and Ian smelled a nice sweet smell.

Jerome saw Ian who was holding on to the fence and looking this way, turned his eyes, and walked up to Ian proudly, "Hey, Ian, what are you doing here?"

Ian let go of his grip on the fence and took a step back, saying in a low voice, "I didn't do anything."

A kid with slender eyes and a fluffy tail behind him said with a strange smile, "What else can Ian do? He must be squatting there to watch the ants move again. He is an idiot who can squat there and watch the ants move all afternoon!"

The child’s words caused the children to burst into laughter, and everyone started to say in unison in a circle, “Oh, Ian is an idiot, Ian is an idiot who likes to watch ants move, Ian is an idiot…”

Ian's face was flushed, and he waved his fists and said hastily, "I, I'm not an idiot!"

But Ian's petty protest was drowned out by the children's teasing, and everyone was still making fun of Ian unscrupulously.

Jerome, who was standing aside, saw Ian biting his lip and felt agitated for no reason, and shouted, "Okay, stop arguing!" After speaking, he lowered his head and opened the paper bag. He took out a candy and handed it to Ian, "Here."

Ian glanced at Jerome who was full of impatience, took another step back, put his hands behind his back, and said stubbornly, "I don't want it."

Jerome, who didn't expect to be rejected, froze for a moment, and reached out to grab Ian, "Why don't you?"

Ian still shook his head, "Father forbids me to take other people's things casually."

Jerome shook the candy in front of Ian, "Don't you want it? A new candy store opened in the town today, and the boss gave each of us a bag of candy. It's delicious."

Ian smelled the scent of candy, subconsciously swallowed, but still shook his head.

Jerome, who was rejected one after another, was also angry, and put away the candy bitterly, "Hmph, don't push me down, you really are an idiot! Let's go!"

The children laughed and said again that Ian was an idiot, so they followed Jerome happily. The little boy with long eyes who followed at the end gave Ian a half-smile, then turned his head and left.

Ian, who was alone again, stood in the yard for a while, and the image of the crystal clear candy in Jerome's hand kept appearing in his mind. Finally, he pursed his lips, opened the wooden door, and walked towards Jerome. Go to the candy store you were talking about.

When Ian walked to the candy store, some children who heard the news and rushed there were waiting in line for the boss to put the candies into paper bags and give them to them.

Ian was stunned when he saw the boss who was smiling warmly and lowering his head to talk to the children from a distance, because he had short black and soft hair. Ian always remembered that he asked his father what Daddy looked like before Dad's answer: Ian's Daddy has soft black hair unique in Topa Town, he has a warm smile, and a pair of smiling eyes.

Ian suddenly felt as if something was about to jump out of his chest, he had never felt this way before.

Ian took a few steps closer, and he watched the black-haired man smilingly pass paper bags to each child, and he watched the children politely thank him and leave.

The children left one by one, and finally Ian was the only one left in front of the window of the candy store.

Ian bit his fingers nervously. He looked at the black-haired man with his head down arranging the candy, and then he saw the man looked up and saw him, and smiled as he stretched out the paper bag out of the window and handed it to him.

Ian couldn't help asking that sentence, how he wished that the man would smile and say yes.

However, since Ian asked that sentence, the man's warm smile disappeared, and he just looked at himself expressionlessly.Ian felt as if something was broken in his heart, and it made him uncomfortable. This feeling was a hundred times worse than watching his little bird, Bei Bei, leave him forever.

Ian resisted his urge to cry, reached out to take the candy in the man's hand, raised his head and put on his cutest smile, and said to the expressionless man, "So you're not, I'm so sorry, sir, thank you candy."

He turned quickly and walked towards the house.

When Ian got home, he hid under the table and buried his face between his legs. Ian thought sadly that he must be an idiot, casually asking people if they were his Daddy.

Cheng Chi watched the child's bright eyes dimmed because of his silence, he lowered his head, and his tail followed suit.

Then he reached out to take the candy in his hand, trying to put on a smiling face, but Cheng Chi knew that his eyes were crying.

Cheng Chi looked at the child holding back tears and apologized to himself with a smile, then thanked himself for the candy, and finally walked out of his sight without looking back.

Cheng Chi raised his hand to stop him, but the rationality in his heart stopped him. After he could no longer see the boy's sad back, Cheng Chi sighed, packed up the candies sullenly, closed the window and went back to the room .

When Lei Boding emerged from the sea, he saw Cheng Chi's extremely depressed face.

Lei Boting smirked and slapped the sea surface with his tail, and the splashed water splashed Cheng Chi all over his head and face.

Cheng Chi also just glanced at Lei Boding, wiped off the splashed water on his face and said nothing, Lei Boting felt that things seemed to be a bit out of order.

He sat down beside Cheng Chi, put his hands on Cheng Chi's shoulders, "Dude, what's the matter? Business is not good?"

Cheng Chi shook his head, "No."

Lei Boding didn't understand now, "Then why are you depressed?"

Cheng Chi sighed, and said sullenly, "I saw that child today."

"Which—" Lei Boding, who subconsciously spoke, realized halfway through the words, and then began to ask, "How did you see it? Claude brought him to you?"

Cheng Chi shook his head, "No, today I was distributing candy samples to the children in the town. He came later, and all the children were gone, so he stood in front of me alone. I didn't realize it at the time , and gave him the candy, who knew the kid asked 'Are you my Daddy'?"

Lei Boting listened seriously, "Then what did you say?"

Cheng Chi was a little helpless, "What else can I say, as soon as he said that, I was dumbfounded, and I didn't know how to answer him at all."

"What happened later?" Lei Boting had a bad feeling.

"I kept silent, because I really didn't know what to say, and then the child took the candy and left. Before leaving, he apologized to me and thanked me for the candy." Cheng Chi is starting to regret it now, " You didn't see his appearance, and you forced yourself to laugh even though you wanted to cry, so what would happen if I answered back then?!"

Lei Boting pursed his lips and patted Cheng Chi's shoulder, and said in a deliberate tone, "Well, I can't say you're wrong, after all, this isn't the usual kid we meet on the street, he calls you Uncle, if you agree, you will agree, if you agree, you will be responsible in the future."

Cheng Chi lowered his head with an annoyed look, "I know, it's just thinking about it that makes me embarrassed, but now when I think of the child's disappointed look, my heart hurts."

Lei Boding had never encountered such a tangled matter, and after thinking for a long time, he didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only say seriously, "You really have to be careful about this matter."

Cheng Chi angrily grabbed a small stone and threw it into the sea, which only caused some small ripples.

Claude got home very late from a trip to Violet, and Ian was already asleep.

Claude walked into Ian's room lightly and came to the bedside to kiss his baby goodnight.

After bowing his head, Claude was stunned. He clearly saw that although the child was asleep, there were still crystal tears on the eyelashes. Claude, who didn't know why Ian was crying, got up in a hurry and lifted the mattress to see See if Ian was injured somewhere, but when Claude's eyes touched Ian's little hand, Claude froze.

Because he saw a candy lying quietly in Ian's palm.