Found a little sparrow

"Scared alone?" Jiang Gufan held the back of his head, and he acquiesced without saying a word, and covered his legs with a small blanket on the sofa, "Brother is downstairs, cooking breakfast, hungry gone."

The little mute nodded, and jumped off the sofa wrapped in a blanket, as if to follow him down.

"You want to follow brother?" Jiang Gufan asked, the little mute nodded, and stepped forward to grab his left hand.

"All right, put on pants." Jiang Gufan took him into the room and got a pair of pants for him to put on, let him sit on the edge of the bed, and squatted down to roll up his trouser legs.Jiang Gufan realized that he was quite nervous, and he had never done such a thing to others before. Is it because the little mute is so pitiful?Empathy overflowing?

Jiang Gufan first rolled the right side for him and then the left side, and found that there was an injury on his ankle. Although it was an old injury, it was quite large and uncomfortable.Jiang Gufan held his ankle and looked at it. It looked familiar, and then he looked up at the little mute. His eyes were black and shiny, and his eyelashes were quite long.

"Damn!" Jiang Gufan suddenly remembered that this little mute might be the one he carried out from Beipozi.

"Do you know brother?" Jiang Gufan asked, the little mute nodded immediately, grinned at him, and took Jiang Gufan's left hand and placed it on his forehead.The wooden beads made a shallow mark on his forehead, and the little mute pressed his finger on the mark again.

"It's really you." Jiang Gufan thought it was unbelievable, so he only met him once, but he didn't expect the little mute to still remember him.

The little mute nodded again, reached out to hug him, and rubbed happily in his arms.Jiang Gufan also hugged him, and his sympathy for the little mute deepened a bit. Remembering that he was caught in the rain yesterday, and thinking of meeting the little mute at that bend before, an illusion emerged in his mind.

Jiang Gufan asked him to sit on the bed, and asked solemnly, "Did you see me on the road yesterday afternoon?"

Jiang Gufan thought it was unlikely, but at that time the little mute was obviously carrying a sack to go to the town, but the little mute was still there at night, but the sack was thrown at the fork in the road.

The little mute nodded and looked at him, full of joy.

"Are you chasing my car? At a fork in the road?"

The little mute then nodded.

"I don't know where the car went, just wait there?"

The little mute still nodded.

"You haven't come home? Where did you wait until I drove out and chased the car?" Jiang Gufan frowned. It was only two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and it had been raining since six o'clock. Fan didn't pay that much attention when driving, and there was Uncle Liang talking to him, and he didn't see a child sitting at the fork at all.He probably didn't have time to stop it, and then chased back to the bend from the fork in the road.

Seeing the little mute nodding his head, Jiang Gufan couldn't tell what it was like, he just stretched out his hands to hold the little mute's face and squeezed it into a goldfish's mouth before saying, "It's so cold! Are you stupid!"

The little mute smiled with his eyes bent, Xiaojiang Gufan felt sorry for him, and also laughed at himself for not giving up.

"Laughing, I really want to beat you up!" Jiang Gufan let go of him and let him walk out of the room with his pants up, "I can't do that again in the future. When it rains, find a place to shelter from the rain. When it gets dark, you have to go home. I know. ?"

The little mute dragged his trousers with one hand and led him with the other, and walked with a pair of large cotton mops on his feet. It was quite strenuous to walk, but he still nodded seriously.

"Are you hungry? I don't know if it's good after I cooked porridge." Jiang Gufan asked him to stand beside him. The rice cooker in the kitchen was still on, and it seemed that it was not so fast.

Jiang Gufan simply pulled out the plug, "Let's go to the town to eat, I'm too lazy to do it."

The little mute didn't care, anyway, he just had to follow Jiang Gufan.

Jiang Gufan took two coats and let the little mute sit in the back seat. The co-pilot was covered in mud. It looked like he had to wash the car.

Jiang Gufan didn't drive too fast. After all, it rained last night and the road was a bit slippery. Safety should come first.

When we arrived at the town, Jiang Gufan drove around. Breakfast was steamed buns, steamed buns and pasta, so we stopped at the door of a relatively clean shop, went in and ordered some steamed buns and two cups of soy milk.

Jiang Gufan took the food and gave him a piece of money. The boss started looking for Qian Jiang Gufan and asked him, "Boss, do you know where this kid lives?"

The little mute can't speak, such people are rare, someone should know.

The boss looked at the little dumb guy who was sticking to the car window. He was clean and wearing clothes that didn't fit.

The boss shook his head, "I don't think I've seen it before."

"He can't talk, he's quite dirty, and he's been cleaned up now." Jiang Gufan said, the little mute looks good after washing, with big eyes and a thin face.

"Little dumb?" The boss looked at it carefully after hearing it, and it was really true after such a careful look.

"Yes! I picked it up on the road yesterday, and I couldn't explain it when I asked. I'm in a hurry if I haven't gone home all night."

"He is alone." The boss gave him the money.

"Alone? He's not even an adult yet, is he? Fifteen?" Jiang Gufan frowned. A child is still a mute, so why is no one caring?

"I don't know too well, I just heard. After his grandma died, he was alone, and he was afraid to run away when he saw anyone."

"His grandma?"

"Yes, I've been dead for half a year, and the village committee has handled the affairs behind me. I don't know what's going on with this little dumb guy. Anyway, he's alone. You can ask the village committee for details."

"Okay! Thank you!" Jiang Gufan got into the car with food, brought a cup of soy milk and two steamed buns for the little mute, and drove to the village committee.

The village committee is right in the town, and it's only a few steps away. The little dumb buns haven't finished eating yet.Jiang Gufan asked the little mute to get out of the car, and the two walked into the village committee together. Seeing that it was a stranger at the door, the old man got up and asked.

When he saw someone, the little mute reflexively hid behind Jiang Gufan, clutching his arm with both hands, resisting, uneasy!

"It's okay, brother is here." Jiang Gufan comforted him, then turned to the uncle and said, "Uncle, I want to ask about the little mute's family."

"Little dumb?" The uncle was obviously surprised, and asked him, "What did you ask him for?"

"Ask." After Jiang Gufan finished speaking, he dragged the little mute and walked in, and the uncle didn't stop him.

There were only two people in the village committee, a man and a woman, in their thirties, sitting there chatting because there was no one there. Jiang Gufan knocked on the counter in the middle before they stopped.

"May I ask what's the matter?" The man asked, he had no impression of Jiang Gufan, so he probably wasn't from their town.

"I'll just ask him about it." Jiang Gufan sat down on the stool while pressing the little mute's shoulder.

The two looked at the little mute again, and asked, "What's his name?"

"He's dumb." Jiang Gufan said, and the two of them immediately understood.

"Who are you?" the woman asked, the little mute was afraid of strangers and hid from everyone, especially tall men, the woman thought Jiang Gufan was some kind of relative of the little mute.

"It's not someone, I picked it up on the street last night. I just asked someone and said he still has a grandma, but it's gone. I just came here to ask where he lives and who else is in the family, alone Live? You don't care?"

"It's not that we don't care, it's that we can't control it. He won't let us get close." The man explained, "His grandma died half a year ago, and we will handle the affairs behind him."

"I know, I've heard people say it. But he can't speak as a child, so it's easy to get into trouble."

"I know, I know." The man kept nodding, and the village committee was also responsible for what happened to the little mute.

"What about his parents? There's no one else at home?" Jiang Gufan asked again.

"His father has been away for several years and there has been no news. As for the little mute's mother, we are not particularly clear about it."

"what happened?"

The man glanced at the little mute, hesitant to speak, Jiang Gufan patted the little mute on the shoulder, pointed to the small bench in the corner and said, "Where can you go and sit and wait for brother?"

The little mute was a little reluctant, he wanted to stay with the big brother, but the big brother told him to wait there, and the little mute went anyway.Sitting on the small bench, my eyes fell on Jiang Gufan, looking at his face, his hands, his back, his legs... over and over again, enjoying it.

Jiang Gufan smiled at the little mute, then turned his head and continued to ask, "His father just left him at home, and he doesn't care?"

"The little mute's father is well-known here as a lazy eater. He went to a big city to work for a few years and came back without a penny, and he still has to take the money the old man saved through hard work." The man said, his tone full of respect for the little mute's father. disdain. "He has never been married either, and he never got a marriage certificate anyway. The little mute was also brought back six or seven years ago. He looks about eight or nine years old, or maybe ten years old. Anyway, he is thin and small, and he doesn't know how old he is. Then After a while I went to his house to ask. Liu Pingzi said that he found a woman outside, lived with him all the time and gave birth to a son, who is a little mute. But when the woman ran away, Liu Pingzi had to bring the little mute back. But At that time, the little mute was still not dumb and could speak."

"Then why is he dumb?" Jiang Gufan couldn't help but glanced at the little mute. The little mute had made a sound, but the voice was very hoarse, and he yelled desperately.

"He had a high fever and kept coughing. If he didn't check it in time, he burned it out. After that, he stopped talking." The man looked at the little mute, and said, "Liu Pingzi didn't show it to him. He said it was a minor illness. It would be a waste to read it." Money. Neighbors sent him to the hospital, and when the doctor showed him, he found that the little mute had many injuries, and he looked like he had been beaten."

"His father beat him?" Jiang Gufan's face sank all of a sudden. He had a high fever and didn't give him treatment, and he was beaten when his vocal cords were burned?

"Anyway, there are new injuries and old injuries. The word spread in the village all at once. The village committee sent people to go there several times, and Liu Ping ran away after a few times. He said he was going to work, but he never came back and couldn't be contacted. .”

"Didn't call the police?"

"Reported, but the police didn't find anyone. The little mute has been following his grandma, and he disappeared half a year ago. The village committee said that he would be taken to the orphanage in the city, but he hid when he saw anyone. He was very scared. We also Don’t dare to be tough, the psychiatrist said it would irritate him, which is not good for him.”

"He sees a psychiatrist?" Jiang Gufan's mood became even worse. He was trafficked and beaten, and he had a high fever and was not treated, so he beat him?It's really that the bird is big and there are all kinds of forests.

"Yes, the little mute was abducted not long after Liu Pingzi left, and he was brought back half a year later. The injury was serious, and the one who walked was limping, and he was most afraid of life at that time. People ran and cried. Then stayed here. The female psychiatrist came back every two or three months, but since his grandma left, the little mute didn't show her. Just dragging the sack to pick up some bottles and cans Cans are sold, don’t get close to people, and don’t want other people’s things.” The man couldn’t help but look at Jiang Gufan, and asked curiously, “Is the clothes he is wearing yours?”

"It rained last night, and his clothes were so wet that he couldn't wear them." Jiang Gufan returned, couldn't help but lit a cigarette, and passed one to the man.

"I don't think he's afraid of you, but rather clingy to you." The man took the cigarette and said, this was really the first time.

"He was abducted to the city. I met him, and he still remembers." Jiang Gufan also said truthfully, "Can you take me to his house to see?"

"Okay, but noon."

"It's okay, I'll take him shopping and come back at noon." After speaking, Jiang Gufan took the little mute and left.

Jiang Gufan first took the car to an auto repair shop to wash the car, and then took advantage of the empty space of the car wash to ask the little dumb to dispose of it in the sack. Gunny recognized the little mute and praised the little mute for looking good, and gave him an extra ten yuan.

Not to mention how happy the little mute was clutching a dozen or so dollars, he handed it to Jiang Gufan cheerfully. Jiang Gufan wiped his hands with a tissue and rubbed it on his head with a silly look on his face.

"I've never seen him so close to people, and his grandma is not like this." said the uncle who collected garbage.

"He comes here often?" Jiang Gufan asked.

"Come here often. I used to follow his grandma, but he's been alone for the past six months. It's so pitiful."

"It's quite pitiful." Jiang Gufan stretched out his hands and squeezed the little dumb face, reminding him, "Pull up your pants, they will fall off in a while."

The little mute nodded, and lifted his trousers up with both hands, and then held the money in one hand to lift the trousers, while reaching out to hold him with the other hand, he was really clingy.