hiding place of the heart

Late autumn weather.The sky is cloudy.

A little foggy.

Just like Wanli's current mood, the 12-year-old is wearing a blue striped jacket, dark blue jeans, and carrying a huge army green travel bag.

Compared with his thin body, the full and huge travel bag is a bit overloaded, and he hasn't eaten since yesterday, so he walks shakyly.

Dirty little hands took out some odds and ends of banknotes and coins from the pockets of his trousers.

"There's only so much money left."He can only buy two steamed buns. He didn't eat yesterday, but how can he let his brother who is two years younger than him go hungry?

"Boss, two buns, I want one with plain stuffing." Wan Li stood in front of the simple breakfast shop set up with a tent, and handed the change to the middle-aged woman who was wearing an apron and who was a bit fat.

Without raising her head, the woman grabbed the money in Wanli's hand, took out the white plastic bag in the apron, and grabbed two snow-white buns from the white steaming foam box.

Wan Li secretly swallowed, took it carefully with both hands, and inhaled the aroma of the steamed stuffed bun through the plastic bag.

"smell good".Putting it into the pocket of the coat like a baby, he ran quickly in the direction he came from.

With the help of neighbor Aunt Lin, Wanli and Wanrui sold the house left by their father to pay off the money owed to their relatives.

"Dad, I'm sorry for you, I sold the house," Wan Li knelt in front of her father's grave, looked at her father's tombstone, and knocked her head heavily.

Wanli once asked her father why she didn't sell the house but borrowed money from relatives to treat her mother.

"I'm afraid that you and Wanrui will have a safe place if we're gone one day."

"Dad, I didn't keep my promise to protect our home, I'm sorry Dad",

Wanli paid off the relatives' money and left enough for the two of them to rent a small house.

But he didn't expect that his father also borrowed usury.

Wan Li was about to pack her clothes and take Wan Rui away from here.Suddenly several burly men broke into the courtyard and kicked down the fence gate

The small yard is covered with gardenia petals, and 10-year-old Wan Rui is playing with a toy car under the gardenia tree.

"Let go of me, bad guy" Wan Rui burst into tears.

"Brother, help"

Hearing Wan Rui's cry, Wan Li put down the clothes in her hands and picked up Wan Rui's toy bullet gun without putting it on her waist.

When Wanli rushed out of the room, he saw a man dressed in black with a strange totem tattooed on his arm, grabbing Wan Rui.

Another man in a floral shirt was sitting on Dad's favorite wicker chair with his legs crossed.

"Who are you, let go of my brother!"

Wan Li ran up and hugged the leg of the man who was holding on to Wan Rui and bit down on it.

"It hurts. Get the hell out of here, little beast."The man groaned in pain, and with a lift of his leg, Wan Li was easily thrown a few meters away.

"Do you know how much your father owes us?" the man sitting on Dad's wicker chair asked. ,

"I heard you sold the house, where's the money?"

"Also, relatives, we have no money."

"Oh? If you don't have any money, then sell your brother. You can get a good price for this tender meat."

"Uncle. We really don't have any money. I will pay you back when I grow up and make money."Wanli's naive thoughts made the men laugh so hard.

"I thought we were stupid. When you grow up and make money, we don't know where we are." The man in the floral shirt stood up and put on the sunglasses in his shirt pocket.

"I can write you an IOU." Wanli got up from the ground and looked at the floral shirt with resolute eyes.

"Don't waste time with me. Go, find a good buyer for the little guy."

"I heard that Boss Lin likes it very much, and he will definitely give you a good price if you sell him."

"That's right, call Boss Lin." They walked out with obscene smiles.

"Brother, help, help!" Wan Rui waved her dirty little hands in Wanli's direction with her little face crying.

The heart-piercing cry made Wanli extremely angry.

"Let go of my brother." Wan Li took out his brother's toy gun from his waist.

"Papapa" actually didn't have any bullets or things that could be fired, because my father was afraid that Wanrui would hurt himself and put away all the bullets.

It may be a conditioned reflex. When the big men heard the sound of a gun being fired, they turned their heads and saw that it was a gun, then hugged their heads and squatted down.

"Papa papa" Wanli raised his gun to make a noise, and ran to grab Wan Rui's hand and ran out of the yard.

"You son of a bitch, stop for me."When the big men came to their senses, Wan Li dragged Wan Rui to hide under Aunt Lin's bed.

Only when it was dark did he dare to come out from Aunt Lin's bed.

The two brothers who came out suddenly from under the bed really frightened Aunt Lin who had just picked up her son.

"Eat slowly, you two will be hungry." Aunt Lin and her 12-year-old son Li Yunzhou said as they looked at the two brothers who were wolfing down at the dining table.

"Aunt Lin is the best," Wan Rui said with a smile with rice grains stuck to the corner of her mouth. "I like the delicious food made by Aunt Lin the most besides the one made by my mother."

"Just your mouth is sweet."Aunt Lin stroked Wan Rui's head lovingly. "Eat more vegetables."

Aunt Lin took a piece of chicken leg and put it in Wan Rui's bowl.

Usually, my son never sweetly praises his cooking skills, he just knows how to eat.

Suddenly being praised, Aunt Lin's smiling eyes became wrinkled.

"Hey, Wanli, just now I saw a few loan sharks walking around your door."Li Yunzhou, who was sitting next to Wanli, used his arms to push and push Wanli, who was eating slowly while holding the rice bowl, said. "Your father also borrowed usury?"

"Well, Aunt Lin sold the house for me, and paid back the money to my relatives, and the rest has to live. I can't give them the money," Wan Li said softly, choking on a mouthful of rice.

That's right, the house is sold, where will Wan Rui and I live?

Thinking of this, Wanli sighed heavily.

"Mom, Wanli and the others have sold the house and have no place to live, so let them stay."Li Yunzhou saw Wanli's thoughts, turned his head and said to his mother.

They have been classmates since kindergarten. Naturally, Wanli's slight frown can see Wanli's careful thinking.

"This... let's talk about it after we eat and eat."Aunt Lin prevaricated Li Yunzhou's questioning, and gave Wanli a piece of chicken leg.

The smart Wanli naturally also saw Aunt Lin's reluctance.They are just neighbors.

Aunt Lin has helped herself too much, they can't stay selfishly and cause trouble for Aunt Lin.

Dad, what you owe is usury money.

If they found out that they and Wan Rui were hiding with Aunt Lin, they would definitely not let Aunt Lin go.

The 12-year-old Wanli easily analyzed the powerful relationship in the middle.

So at night when everyone was sleeping soundly, Wan Li woke up Wan Rui and sneaked into her home, took the packed luggage and just walked out of the door, but was stopped by a figure as tall as herself.

"Wanli, where are you going with your bag?" Li Yunzhou turned on the flashlight and shone it on Wanli's face.

"Yunzhou" was too dazzling for him to see Yunzhou's face, but he had listened to this familiar voice for 12 years.

"Where are you going? Stay at my house! We can still take Wanrui to school together like before and then go to the river to catch fish after school."

"Yun Zhou, we will implicate you, I want to go out with Wan Rui to hide from those loan sharks... I will be back in a while."The last few words were extraordinarily soft.

Wanli didn't even think about coming back, they didn't have parents, relatives all forcefully asked them for the money their father owed them and never cared about their brother's life or death.

They have nothing left to miss.Except this good friend in front of me.

"Come back. Really?"

"real".Children are always easy to cheat.Especially a simple country boy like Li Yunzhou.

"If it's true, pull the hook."

"Lagger" Wanli and Li Yunzhou's little fingers were pulled together, and their thumbs were tightly pressed together.

Neither Li Yunzhou nor Wanli thought that this would be a separation of more than ten years.

Because she is a minor, Wanli did not buy a train ticket.

Wanli could only take Wanrui and jump into the cargo train carriage.

The train wobbled with its whistle, and the wheels and tracks rubbed against each other loudly.

Makes it hard to sleep well.

Wanli and her younger brother are about to start a new life.

A new life, a life without mom and dad.

"Brother, I'm sleepy." Wan Rui held Wan Li's left hand with his right hand and rubbed his fighting eyes.

"Sleep on my shoulder"

"Brother, can we go back? I want to eat the food cooked by Aunt Lin." Wan Rui said suddenly.

"Go back? I don't know if I can go back, at least we can't go back now!".

"Then Li Yunzhe can't tear up my homework."

One day ago, in Wan Rui's class, Li Yunzhe mischievously played Wan Rui's composition in a condescending manner.

"Give it back to me, give me back my book." Wan Rui jumped to reach the composition text in Li Yunzhe's hand, but Li Yunzhe at the same age was half a head taller than Wan Rui.

No matter how hard Wan Rui tried, he still couldn't touch half of the book.

So, the mischievous Li Yunzhe stood on the chair and continued to wave the notebook as if deliberately angry.

Who is Wan Rui, who always complains to the teacher crying, and every time the teacher hits him on the hand.

The more he loves to complain to the teacher, the more he wants to bully him.

The day before yesterday was a math homework, yesterday was a Chinese homework, and today is a composition.

"Wow, Li Yunzhe, I hate you, I want to tell the teacher that you take my notebook." Wan Rui burst into tears again, turned and walked to the teacher's office.

"Wan Rui, you bastard, you know how to report to the teacher, villain" Li Yunzhi shouted at the crying Wan Rui with the lines in the film and television drama, and angrily tore up Wan Rui's notebook, piecemeal Pieces of paper fell like snowflakes.

Unsurprisingly, Li Yunzhe was given a small report by Wan Rui and then slapped by the teacher. Li Yunzhe stood on the podium as punishment and stared viciously at Wan Rui who was afraid to look down at him.

Brat, just wait and see!I will bully you all my life!

When Wanli ran back to the park to find Wanrui, he saw Wanrui being raped. . .The child is under him.

"Give me back my rc plane".The little boy who put Wan Rui under him held up the broken remote control plane and shouted "give me back"

"Brother, it hurts so much!" Wan Rui may have been hurt and cried, "Arm hurts, brother"

"Hey, if you have something to say, don't fight."Wanli took off the backpack on her shoulder and pulled away the two children who were wrestling together on the ground.

Lift them up and help them shake off the dust sticking to their bodies.

"Why bully my brother". The 12-year-old Wanli has one head taller than the 8-year-old Qu Chucheng. Like an older brother, Wanli helped Qu Chucheng remove the dust from his expensive clothes while asking softly with a smile.

Qu Chucheng looked up at Wanli.

Wanli's warm and soft eyes calmed Qu Chucheng who was still angry instantly.

"He broke my remote control plane," he said, holding up the remote control plane with the broken tail in his hand.

Wanli carefully studied the plane for a long time.

The workmanship is very exquisite, much better than the one my father bought for Wan Rui.

Wanli has seen this remote control plane on TV, and it looks very expensive.

"I didn't break it on purpose, it broke as soon as I touched it." Wan Rui's aggrieved expression as she wiped away her tears made Wan Li really uncomfortable.

"I..." Wanli hadn't spoken yet.It was interrupted by a male voice from afar.

"Master, master, we bought the battery and we can play with airplanes." A thin young man in a suit and leather shoes ran towards us in the distance.

"Master, what about this plane..." The young man pointed at the remote control plane in Wanli's hand and looked at the Wanli brothers strangely.

"I'm sorry, my brother didn't damage your plane on purpose, how much will we pay for this?" Wanli said in a very weak way.

Because they spent all their money during the two months of fleeing with Wan Rui.

He really underestimated the consumption level of urban people.

He really can't afford to pay for this plane.

"Compensation?" The young man sneered, "If you sell both of you, you can't afford to pay for this plane. It was sold in the UK, and it's extremely expensive."

"Call your parents to pay for our plane."

"We don't have parents." Wan Li took Wan Rui's hand and looked at the man timidly.

"Hey, you are still lying, believe it or not, I will let the police arrest you."The man threatened Wan Li, and Wan Rui timidly hid behind Wan Li.

"Uncle, I'm sorry, just let us go."Wanli kept repeating these three words.

"I'm sorry, can you spend it as money, let me make a joke. Waiting for today's matter to be endless.",

"Uncle Ou, I don't want to play airplanes anymore, I want to play riding horses."Qu Chucheng, who was left out in the cold, pointed to a father in the distance who treated himself as a big horse for his son to ride around on the grass.

The man's expression was a little embarrassed. He was wearing a new suit today when riding a horse, and the ground in autumn was very cold and his knees would hurt unbearably.

He just wanted to play with this little ancestor, but he didn't think about making this little guy play like a beast.

"Master, let's go home and play, shall we?"Since you want to play, you should kneel and play on the soft European imported carpet by the warm fireplace.

"No, no, I'm going to play here," Qu Chucheng didn't come out for a long time except for home and school to get some fresh air, and it was hard for Steward Ou to go out to play for a while, so how could he go back like this.

"Master, I'm wearing a new suit, just go home and play, I'll let you ride for an hour, okay?"

"No, no, I want him to be my big horse." Qu Chucheng raised his finger and pointed at Wanli. In the world of children, no matter what they do, they will instinctively choose someone they like to do, so he pointed at Wanli. .

The man followed Qu Chucheng's fingers and looked over.The corners of his mouth raised up strangely.

Don't say I bully you, who told you to destroy the young master's toy plane, who told you not to pay for our plane, who told the young master to only want you to be a Malaysian.

"Come and kneel down, what about you?"

The man strode forward and grabbed Wanli by the collar and forced him to kneel on the cold ground.

"If you obediently take care of the plane that my young master broke, I can consider it."

"Really?" Wan Lixin thought it was true and obediently listened to the man's words and knelt in front of Qu Chucheng.

"Come on, young master, I'll carry you up."The man easily picked up Qu Chucheng and rode on Wanli's body, "Be steady and don't fall my young master."

"Oh oh oh, riding a horse."Qu Chucheng, who was riding on Wanli, twisted his body restlessly, and Wanli, who was originally thin and hadn't eaten well for a few days, began to tremble and sway.

Wanli's knees hurt so much on the cold ground.

He crawled slowly around the Trevi Fountain.

One lap, two laps,,,

"Hurry up, Malaysia hurry up"

"Didn't you hear our young master telling you to hurry up?" The man sat on the bench and scolded Wan Li for crawling too slowly.

Wanli exhausted all her strength but tried to keep herself stable so that the person on her back would not fall off.

"I love my new big horse".Qu Chucheng wreaked havoc on Wanli's back even more recklessly. "I want to take him home, he will be my new toy from now on."

Wanli couldn't hear everything, he just felt tired and hungry, and his knees were cold and painful.

He gradually lost his strength.

His head slowly turned to one side and passed out. . . . . .