It takes more than ten minutes to walk.

Before, the Fourth Master used to take the two children by bicycle. But now he can’t. It’s winter and it’s even colder sitting in the car.

I eat breakfast forty minutes in advance. Then I teach my two children to recite poems and ancient Chinese prose at home for half an hour.

It doesn’t matter if you go out after half an hour, or if you jog again. Then the three of us trotted to school.

The bicycle at home was used directly by Chang Qiuyun. She had to get up early and rush back at night, so it was more convenient to have a bicycle.

Danyang ran with her father at first, but later she felt disgusted with Chaoyang's slower running speed and stopped running at all. She made an appointment with Tiedan Gouzi, Xiaocao and the others, gathered at the entrance of the alley, and then several people ran

Went to school together.

The child needs a playmate. Seeing that she was playing well, the fourth master ignored her and just ran slowly with Chaoyang.

It's the same after school. You just need to pick up Chaoyang, leave Danyang alone, and you can run home by yourself.

But that day, Danyang went home a little late.

Lin Yutong just said that he went out to look for her, but this girl came back.

He didn't come back alone, there was a ten-year-old boy with his tail hanging from behind.

This child's face is dirty and he is very thin. It is already the twelfth lunar month, but this child is still wearing a coat. Moreover, the few cotton wool inside has been exposed, and he is still wearing single shoes on his feet, which are already exposed.

On toes.

"Whose child is this?" Lin Yutong called the child in first, "Come in quickly."

Danyang said: "He has been secretly going to our school and eavesdropping outside our classroom. Today he was caught by some boys in our class. Before he could do anything, he fainted. Our teacher gave him hot water to drink

, saying he was hungry, so I gave him all the meat on my body. Then after school...he kept following me, no matter how I asked him to leave, he wouldn't leave..."

Lin Yutong rubbed her daughter's head to express comfort, and then looked at the child, only to see him lowering his head and rubbing his feet uneasily on the ground. She sighed and sent Danyang away: "I'll go find you, Aunt Miao, and I'll wear your iron."

Here’s Brother Dan’s old cotton-padded clothes.” Then he called this kid from an unknown family, “Go and wash it first…”

After washing, Mrs. Miao also came over with clothes.

"What a pity, whose child is this?" she asked enthusiastically, then handed the clothes to Lin Yutong and took a closer look at the child.

The child's face, feet and even legs were all covered with frostbite. I don't know how he survives such a day outside.

Seeing the child like this, he took the child inside without asking any questions, and ate all the food left by Danyang right next to the child.

After he finished eating, Lin Yutong asked: "What is your name? Where are your parents?"

The child gently put down his chopsticks: "My father died, and my mother took me to remarry. I got on the train from Beijing, sat on it for two days, and then got off the train. At the train station, my mother told me to stand.

Don't move, she said, just go to the toilet. But I stood still and waited for my mother for three days, but she didn't come back. The uncles and aunts at the station said that my mother didn't want me anymore, so they sent me to the orphanage.

How could my mother not want me? I didn’t believe it! So I ran out of the orphanage and looked for my mother everywhere. I’ve been looking for my mother for two years..."

Sister-in-law Miao clicked her tongue, tears streaming down her face: "Why is this mother so cruel?"

Lin Yutong thought that this child must be about ten years old. He has been homeless for two years, so he must be seven or eight years old. A child of seven or eight years old has been homeless for two years, but his speech is unusually fluent.

…

She didn't say anything at the time. It wasn't until Sister Miao left that she turned serious and said, "My child, you can leave. I won't dare to keep a child who doesn't tell the truth for a day longer."

The child's eyes widened and he was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses. Then he knelt on the ground with a thud: "Aunt...I..."

"You avoid saying your name, and you avoid saying the names of your parents." Lin Yutong shook his head, "Can you tell me why?"

"I...it's not that I didn't say it. Before my mother left, she only told me that she must not tell anyone her name." He wiped away his tears. "I didn't lie either. My mother did leave.

I don’t know where I went. He gave me to my wet nurse and gave her money to make me her son. But my wet nurse sold me to the mountains and said it was for my own good. I escaped from the mountains.

…”

Lin Yutong frowned: "How old are you? What's your name?"

"My name is Lin Pojun. I was born in Dongyue in the year of the Anti-Japanese War." Lin Pojun said.

Born in 40 or 5 years?

Then it will be the National Day this year.

A child of this age should be able to remember it well. No matter how true or false what he said is, the matter of the wet nurse should be true. The only family that can have a wet nurse is a wealthy family.

If you come from a wealthy family, you have a bad background.

"Where do you usually stay?" Lin Yutong did not dwell on that question and changed the topic.

The child lowered his head again: "...There are many dungeons outside the factory, and I stay in them...I usually eat whatever I pick up, and I eat whatever I want..."

That is to say, they survive by begging.

An eleven-year-old child was sold, ran away, hid, made a living, and even knew how to go to school. Then he cleverly chose a girl who could easily give him breasts and followed him all the way back.

Just as he was about to speak, Fourth Master came back from outside, carrying a cold wind, "I closed the door..." As he spoke, he brushed the snow off his shoulders, "It's starting to rain now, and it looks like it won't stop.

"

On a snowy night in the twelfth lunar month, could Lin Yutong drive a teenage child out?

"Auntie!" The child kowtowed heavily, "Please keep me here. You don't have to give me a full meal, just half a bowl of gruel. I don't want to live in a good place either. Give me a woodshed to live in...what do I need?"

They can all do it..." He looked at the strange morning sun on the side, then looked at the small clothes hanging in the room, and immediately said: "I will also help look after my younger brothers and sisters, and I promise to work more..."

Fourth Master turned his face and looked at Lin Yutong: What's going on?

Lin Yutong said it in Fourth Master's ear.

The fourth master frowned slightly and then looked at the kneeling child.

The child kowtowed again: "Uncle, please. I promise not to eat idle food..."

Danyang's tears were about to fall. She grabbed her father's hand and kept shaking it.

The couple looked at each other and said, no matter what arrangements are made in the future, this child must stay tonight.

There is a Kang bed next to the window in the study room. Tonight, this Kang bed belongs to this child.

The bedding was laid out and he was told where the bathroom was. He didn't need to worry about it.

Judging from the way he eats, he did receive a particularly good family education when he was younger.

There was a warm kang under him, and a soft and warm quilt on his body, with a warm fragrance. He wanted to sleep deeply, but he didn't dare to sleep. The laughter and laughter coming from the room opposite made him burst into tears in an instant.

Came down.

He didn't know why he was crying, he just cried anyway.

He actually didn't lie. His father was indeed dead and his mother was married. His father died of old age. He was very old and had a white beard. His precious grandson always bullied him at home.

Uncle, he only likes his grandson. His mother is his eleventh aunt. After his father died, all the brothers and sisters at home disappeared overnight. She was left to be taken care of by her wet nurse.

Later, she simply gave herself to the wet nurse. The wet nurse told her mother that she had found a man and had already married him, and then life became difficult, so she changed hands and gave herself away to another person. But in fact, she was still greedy for money and did not want to support herself.

He caused trouble for their family. He first escaped and went to the wet nurse's house. He read all the letters from his mother to the wet nurse. She was in this city! It's just that the city was too big and he couldn't find her.

He wanted to keep searching...but it wouldn't work if he kept searching like this...if he kept searching like this, he would die.

He thought that as long as he could find his mother and ask her why, he wouldn't be afraid of anything.

But the moment he fainted, he was scared. Very, very scared!
Chapter completed!