The 52nd melon

The golden sun sets in the west, giving the distant mountains and the sky a golden edge.

The yellow oriole sat quietly at the window, watching the light quietly fade away.

She remembered that when she was a child in the orphanage, every evening when the sun set, she, Song Yichen and Song Qingfeng would climb over the wall to the small courtyard next door.

There was a child in the yard who was about the same age as them, about five or six years old. He was very naughty and didn't do his homework every day. He also watched TV and ate snacks secretly.

When his parents came back, they would teach him a lesson, sometimes by making him stand in the corner, and sometimes by spanking him.

At this time, Huang Ying couldn't help but say, "I have finished all the homework assigned by the teacher!"

Song Yichen would also agree, "I didn't watch TV secretly, nor did I eat snacks secretly!"

——Snacks are not always available in the orphanage.

In the end, Song Qingfeng would conclude: "We all behaved very well... much better than this kid!"

But no matter how well-behaved and sensible they are, they are ultimately abandoned children. While other children are still agonizing over their parents' constant restrictions, not letting them watch TV or eat snacks, they can only sit alone on small benches in the orphanage, waiting for food to be served. Or they can climb over the wall to the courtyard and look enviously at the children with parents.

It feels so good to have mom and dad. It’s like having roots. No matter where I go in the future, I always have a home to return to.

But Huang Ying and the others have no home.

The orphanage was not their home. The director adopted the children only to defraud donations from kind-hearted people, claiming it was to provide the orphans with a better environment to grow up in, but the money ultimately went into the director's pocket.

When Huang Ying was 12 years old, another great philanthropist came to do charity. Huang Ying heard that the man's surname was Lu and he was one of the richest people in Hai City. He brought his two children to sponsor the orphanage.

It was said that this wealthy man was very rich and would donate a lot of money. The dean used this to deceive them, asking them to behave well, get more money, and their lives would become better.

But Huang Ying knew that the dean was lying.

That day, when she and Song Yichen and Song Qingfeng were climbing the wall, she heard that the dean had booked tickets to go abroad and planned to take the money overseas after receiving the donation from the rich man Lu and would no longer care about these orphans.

"They're just a bunch of rip-offs. I thought I could make some money with them, but I didn't expect these rich people are so stingy now!"

The dean angrily spoke into the phone, "We've finally found a sucker this time. Let's use these children to make another fortune. Once the money arrives, we'll go abroad!"

"What about those children?" asked the person on the other end of the phone.

"What are you afraid of? Once the gate is closed, none of them will be able to escape. When the delivery person comes in a couple of days, they'll know we've left. But by then it'll be useless for them to call the police. We've all escaped anyway, hahahahaha~"

The orphanage delivers goods once every three days.

In other words, the dean wanted to starve them to death for three days.

A person may not die after being hungry for three days, but Huang Ying does not want to experience that.

Huang Ying wanted to resist, she wanted to survive.

On the day Mr. Lu brought his children to the orphanage to visit, the children behaved very well, singing and dancing, and were well-behaved and sensible. Mr. Lu was very satisfied with this and almost decided to donate.

Just as Lu Fuhao was about to give the money to the dean, Huang Ying suddenly rushed out, pointing at the dean and shouting, "Uncle! Don't donate the money to the dean. He has already bought a ticket to go abroad and plans to run away after getting the money! He won't use the money on us!"

Everyone was shocked and took the kid's report completely by surprise.

——But this is all the ability a child has. At that time, Huang Ying didn’t understand any tricks and only knew to tell the truth to Mr. Lu directly.

The dean immediately stopped Huang Ying, saying that although the child looked well-behaved and sensible, she was actually mentally unstable and had paranoid delusions. The dean also ordered the staff to drag Huang Ying away. Song Yichen and Song Qingfeng immediately rushed over and stopped the dean.

The two 12-year-old boys who had been suffering from long-term malnutrition were very thin and could not hold down the director's fat body at all. But somehow, at that moment, the other children rushed forward tacitly and pressed down the director together.

Finally, with the help of Song Yichen, Huang Ying found the dean's mobile phone and found the chat records of his corruption.

The "orphanage director's corruption case" was exposed, and the incident caused a sensation across the country, with reporters, media and even government officials coming to the scene.

The director was soon taken away by the police, the orphanage was cleaned up, and the remaining children were sent to other welfare homes.

Huang Ying and the Song brothers were sent to different welfare homes.

The two parties never met again, nor did they leave any contact information.

A few years later, when Huang Ying went to college and bought her own mobile phone, she accidentally got in touch with Song Yichen and Song Qingfeng again.

They followed each other on Weibo, sometimes liking each other's posts, sometimes commenting on them, but that was all.

Huang Ying was never adopted and grew up in an orphanage, receiving financial support from the institution before attending university. Her only wish over the years has been to have a home of her own, a family truly connected to her by blood.

——Huang Ying is no longer at the age where she fantasizes that her parents will come back to pick her up one day, and she has absolutely no hope of being adopted.

But she still sincerely wanted to have a child, which was probably her only connection with the world.

Later, Huang Ying fell in love.

The man treated her very well, caring and attentive. During Huang Ying's internship in her senior year, he would pick her up and drop her off downstairs at the company every day.

The long street was dark, snow was blowing, and the streetlights were dim. But under the lights, there was a man, his ears red from the cold, his eyelids frosted, rubbing his hands together to keep warm while he waited patiently for her.

Huang Ying suddenly remembered that many years ago, she and the brothers Song Yichen and Song Qingfeng climbed over the wall to visit the neighbors.

It’s the same scene.

No matter how late it is, the lights in that house are always on. No matter how far the journey home is, there will always be someone waiting for you when you return.

Huang Ying suddenly felt that she also had a home.

Love, marriage, pregnancy...

Life seems to have been accelerated.

But just when Huang Ying was looking forward to the birth of her child, an accident happened.

Her husband, who once loved her dearly, suddenly failed in his business venture and was on the verge of bankruptcy. The family's financial situation plummeted, and they were faced with a huge debt.

Huang Ying has lived through hard times. Although bankruptcy is hard to endure, they are still young and will eventually get through it if they persist.

But the husband could not accept such a failure, and he drank every day to drown his sorrows.

After drinking, his true nature was exposed.

He began to abuse Huang Ying.

Huang Ying couldn't imagine how this person, who was once as gentle as spring breeze, could become like a devil from hell after drinking?

He punched and kicked Huang Ying, tore her hair, and kicked her in the lower abdomen, almost beating her to death!

At that time, Huang Ying was still pregnant!

She wanted to escape at one point, but she couldn't escape in the end.

The husband spent more and more time drinking, and was even drunk all day long. Whenever he saw Huang Ying, he would find fault with her and beat her to vent his anger!

Huang Ying knew that this couldn't go on.

Just like when she wanted to destroy the director of the orphanage. If someone wants to destroy her, she must take the initiative to destroy the other person!

After a domestic violence incident, Huang Ying gritted her teeth and killed her husband while he was beaten and drunk and sleeping!

Only after stabbing her husband's heart with the knife did Huang Ying feel the exhilarating pleasure of liberation.

From now on, no one will bully her anymore.

No one would kick her child anymore.

After killing her husband, Huang Ying still planned to cover up the crime. The best way was to say that it was all domestic violence and self-defense, that she had accidentally killed her husband, so that she could put all the blame on her husband.

But Huang Ying didn't expect that Song Yichen would come to her house that day.

After leaving the orphanage, Song Yichen's life trajectory was completely different from Huang Ying's.

If Huang Ying hadn't met a scumbag husband, she would have had a good future after graduating from college.

However, Song Yichen and Song Qingfeng were not good at studying. They had an argument with each other and were expelled from school because they were mocked by their classmates as "wild children without parents".

After that, their lives became a mess. The brothers simply left the welfare home early and stopped going to school. They became gangsters in society, wandering around one day here and another day there.

The future will probably be like this, just living one day at a time.

Song Yichen had come to celebrate after learning from Weibo that Huang Ying was pregnant. However, upon entering the room, he saw a man covered in blood on the ground.

Looking at the scars all over Huang Ying's body, Song Yichen quickly understood.

"I'll be fine..."

Huang Ying clutched her eight-month-old belly and muttered to herself, "I...I was just acting in self-defense, just self-defense!"

Song Yichen had been a gangster for so many years that he could tell at a glance that the man's bloody body was impossible to get out without being stabbed more than a dozen times.

"The police won't believe it." Song Yichen said coldly.

When Huang Ying heard this, her legs went limp and she fell to the ground with a thud.

If Song Yichen could see it, how could the police not see it?

She was too naive.

She was very naive when facing the dean ten years ago, and she was still naive when facing her husband ten years later.

She had worked so hard over the years, studying hard, striving to be the best child in the orphanage. But no matter how hard she tried, she was not adopted.

With her own efforts, she was admitted to Hai City University, obtained a good diploma, and even got a pretty good job.

She should have a bright future, where she could have a blood relative as she dreamed of...

In the end it's all in vain.

After working so hard for so long, it's just a joke.

Huang Ying felt as if her world had turned dark. There had never been any light, and it would never light up again.

"How many months until your baby is due?"

Song Yichen's voice suddenly rang in my ears again.

"Two months," Huang Ying's voice was sad. "The doctor said the due date is two months. But my child will probably be sent to an orphanage, right? He'll grow up without family affection, just like us.

"I just hope she doesn't end up in such a heartless orphanage like us."

Huang Ying lowered her head and stroked her pregnant belly.

She had fantasized countless times that she would be a qualified mother and give her child a happy future...but in the end, the child was just like her and had to grow up in an orphanage.

Neither Song Yichen nor Huang Ying spoke anymore, and the room was dead silent.

Song Yichen even went to the balcony, looked at the gloomy street scene of the old city outside, and smoked a cigarette silently.

One, one, and another.

There were only three cigarettes left in Song Yichen's cigarette box. After finishing these three cigarettes, Song Yichen came back and looked at Huang Ying. He took a deep breath.

"Let's pretend it's a burglary and murder case. I broke into your house and killed your husband. Then you just need to identify me as the murderer and everything will be fine."

Huang Ying suddenly looked up, her pupils trembling.

"Song Yichen, are you crazy? This is my own business, do I need you to take the blame for me?"

"Didn't we always do this in the past?" Song Yichen grinned. "You secretly climbed the wall, and Qingfeng and I followed. In the end, we were discovered by the ward's aunt, and we took the blame for you. You exposed the dean, and we helped you pin him down and find evidence. Hasn't it been like this all these years?

"Don't worry, if anything happens, I'll take care of it for you."

The oriole didn't cry at all.

She didn't cry when she was abused by her husband, and she didn't cry when she killed her husband.

But at this moment, her tears burst out like a flood that could no longer be held back.

"Song Yichen, you really don't have to be like this. We've grown up now, and I don't need your help anymore!"

"I don't just want to help you," Song Yichen sighed.

He reached out and gently stroked Huang Ying's belly. That tiny and fragile life was now being nurtured in Huang Ying's belly. In the end, she would become the hope of all of them.

"Huang Ying, we are all orphans, but your child may not be one. Isn't that good? Anyway, things have come to this, there must be someone who is happy, right?"

Back then, when the three of them were in the orphanage, they secretly vowed: even if their parents were not good people, they would be very good parents in the future.

They will always stay with their children, buy them the best toys and the most delicious snacks, and do their best to provide them with the best living environment.

This is a youthful oath and also a beautiful dream.

At this point, Song Yichen knew that this was how his life would be. Even if he had children, they would probably have to wander with him like this for the rest of their lives.

But the yellow warbler is different!

Huang Ying...there's still a chance.

Her children will have the same opportunity.

This is how things were finally settled.

Of course, Song Yichen wasn't just blindly blaming Huang Ying; he also had Song Qingfeng. Chinese law adhered to the principle of presumption of innocence; as long as the police couldn't determine who was the true murderer, they couldn't convict them.

Song Qingfeng also knew about Huang Ying's situation and agreed to help without hesitation. If this plan went smoothly, they would be convicted of theft, with a maximum sentence of three years in prison.

"Maybe, three years later, we can meet again when we get out!" Song Qingfeng laughed, "Huang Ying, your child must call me uncle then!"

"As for my brother..." Song Qingfeng patted Song Yichen's shoulder again, "He must be a godfather, right?"

They were optimistic that the presumption of innocence would be successful. At least, before coming to Hai City Hospital and before the birth of this child, everything was going smoothly.

It was not until the police finally discovered that Song Qingfeng was not at Huang Ying's house that day, and it was confirmed that Song Yichen was the only "murderer".

He broke into a house, killed someone, and stabbed the other person eighteen times... Huang Ying didn't understand the law, but she knew this crime and almost sentenced Song Yichen to death.

So, at the hospital door, Huang Ying was confused.

She would rather Song Yichen turned against her on the spot and said that she was the one who did it. It was originally her who did it, and she was the one who should be punished!

But at the hospital gate, when Song Yichen suddenly went crazy and pounced on her, he was scolding her on the surface, but in fact, he whispered in her ear:

"Huang Ying, be a good mother and raise your child well!"

Lin Cha watched Huang Ying's life.

She should have felt hatred for the murderer, but she really couldn't hate Huang Ying.

The other guests were also silent.

Chenzui was the only guest at the scene who could not hear Lin Cha's inner thoughts. When he learned about Huang Ying from Jiang Mingkai, he was stunned and sighed.

"But in this way, the oriole's emotions are right."

So she walked all the way back to the hospital with guilt in her eyes - guilt towards Song Yichen and Song Qingfeng.

The revelation of the truth should have been a cause for celebration, but no one felt the slightest bit of joy. The guests even thought they should have avoided inviting Officers Liu and Yu to join the group.

What if we just rule it as if innocent until proven guilty?

Isn’t this a “happy ending”?

Liu Mingqian patted Chen Xianzhi and Shen Zui on the shoulders and said, "Telling the truth is not wrong in the first place. There's nothing to blame yourself for. And have you ever thought about what Huang Ying would do?"

Lin Cha went to find Huang Ying.

In the ward, Huang Ying had just finished feeding her baby and coaxed him into falling asleep.

There were many doctors and nurses around. When they heard that Song Yichen could be convicted, they all congratulated Huang Ying.

Everyone was a little surprised to see Lin Cha. Even Huang Ying was surprised. But the doctors and nurses had other things to do. After congratulating Huang Ying, they left.

Lin Cha arrived at Huang Ying's bedside, pondering how to introduce herself. But Huang Ying actually knew her. Officer Liu had just called her, saying they had found irrefutable evidence proving Song Qingfeng's alibi. Combined with Huang Ying's confession, this would essentially make Song Yichen the scapegoat. Song Yichen had coerced Song Qingfeng into perjury and stabbed the victim eighteen times, so he would receive at least life imprisonment, and possibly the death penalty.

Officer Liu also told Huang Ying that she was able to know the truth because of a female star, Lin Cha.

Huang Ying looked up at Lin Cha and said politely, "Hello, I know you. I've seen your variety show. It's very interesting."

Lin Cha hesitated for a while, not knowing how to persuade Huang Ying to surrender.

On the way here, she thought about threatening Huang Ying, saying that if she didn't surrender herself, she would go to the police station to report her.

But when he arrived at the ward and saw Huang Ying's adorable baby, Lin Cha couldn't help but shrink back.

Song Yichen was willing to take the blame, so why should she meddle in other people's business? She just got the melon-eating system by accident. She is not Bao Qingtian and cannot control everything in the world.

It would be fine if the one who escaped this time was an unforgivable murderer, but Huang Ying is obviously not one of them!

She was just... helpless.

Huang Ying saw Lin Cha's dilemma and said, "Wait two more days, okay?"

She seemed to be talking to Lin Cha, but also seemed to be talking to herself, "Let me stay with her for two more days, and I will turn myself in."

Lin Cha was shocked and blurted out, "Won't this child become an orphan?"

Huang Ying gently stroked the child's sleeping cheek and smiled bitterly, "But I can't let Song Yichen take the blame for me! He will die. I can be selfish in some things, but this matter... I can't do this."

Huang Ying still looked at the child tenderly, not looking at Lin Cha, and continued, "When I was in the orphanage before, I always couldn't understand how those parents could give birth to children and not raise them. It's so excessive! My parents must not be good people! Song Yichen's parents must not be good people either, otherwise why would they abandon us in the orphanage and leave us alone?

"But it wasn't until today that I realized, adults, there are many reasons why you have to do so. If I could be with her, I would want to be with her forever! Even if it's just to watch her grow up, I'd be willing to do that."

"But in this world, there are more important things, and more helpless things, like accompanying your child as he grows up." Huang Ying gently held the baby's pink hand, tears as big as beans falling one by one. "Baby, there are many things that I have to do. When you grow up, don't blame me, okay?"

Lin Cha stood stiffly.

She felt that Huang Ying didn't want to talk to her, but just wanted to vent when she met someone and express the thoughts that had been suppressed in her heart for a long time.

But she couldn't help but ask, "Why didn't you call the police? Domestic violence is against the law. You could have called the police!"

"Do you think I didn't call the police?" Huang Ying wiped the tears from her eyes, "But my husband is a very competent husband when he's sober. It's only when he's drunk that he turns into a devil without humanity!

"He behaved so well during those days in police custody! It even made the police suspect I had framed him. Afterwards, the domestic violence case was ruled an internal marital conflict, and we settled out of court. After returning home, he was very docile and kept saying I was wrong. But once he drank, he would beat me even harder!

"He even took me to a private hospital to do a sex test on the fetus, and found out it was a girl. He thought girls were a waste of money, so he forced me to abort the child!

"Of course I didn't agree, so he beat me to death and even kicked me in the stomach! He kicked my child!"

Huang Ying looked at Lin Cha with tears in her eyes and raised her hand. "My little finger lost feeling when he stepped on it while he was beating me. My ribs on my right chest were also broken by him. And my left ear is deaf. All of this was caused by him beating me that night!"

"He forced me to say that our family was broke and couldn't afford to raise a daughter who was a loss-making child. If we didn't abort the baby today, we would have to do it tomorrow. A large hospital wouldn't abort an eight-month-old baby, so we had to go to a private hospital for an induced labor! This child must not be born!"

"I really have no other choice. If I wait until tomorrow, my child will be the one to die! I've waited so long, worked so hard for so long. I really just want a relative who is related to me by blood! She is the most important person in my life! Everyone wants to hurt her!"

Huang Ying was in tears, tears and snot mixed together, she sobbed, but still wiped them away bravely.

Lin Cha is a good listener and handed Huang Ying a tissue at the right time so that she could wipe away all the ugliness on her face.

Huang Ying looked at the baby who was already sleeping soundly in the crib. The crib was filled with small gifts given by the doctors and nurses, making the entire crib warm and lovely.

"I will turn myself in." Huang Ying said solemnly, "If Song Yichen's twin method succeeds, I might not care, but since it fails, I will definitely turn myself in."

"It's just my child..."

Huang Ying gazed at the child on the bed with an extremely gentle look in her eyes. "Although I am an orphan, you are not! Even if I can't be with you, baby, you must believe that there are many people in this world who love you, and many people... who are looking forward to your birth."

Recommend a new book to my friend. If you are interested, you can go and have a look.

Title: Everyone is my target

Author: Wu Yinhua

id:7899052

Fu Changning traveled into a book and received a system, which told her to complete her mission and return home.

Fu Changning: Tell me, what is the mission?

[Host, please give me some strategy: The beautiful and powerful prince; the richest woman's elder sister who is forced to spend her time in the inner chambers; the upright tutor who is unable to change the fate of the country; the millions of people who suffer from natural disasters and wars...]

Fu Changning: You old bastard, what are you doing wishing for? Are you saying that everyone in this book is my target?

【The host can also understand this. 】

Strike!!!

If you insist on showing off this rotten thing, you'll be stuck with it for the rest of your lives.

Fu Changning, who had the ability to reload files infinitely, was in despair. The more he reloaded files, the more wrong things seemed to be.

My family members, who can understand that a lazy office worker is forced to work hard!

In order to achieve the system mission, Fu Changning decided to do something big.

Why do the people suffer? Because of natural disasters! Because those in power only care about that chair.

Why is the world in chaos? In the eyes of the enemy countries, we are all soft persimmons!

She! Fu Changning! Will clean up this ancient world today!

Is it possible for the eldest sister of the richest man to be trapped in the inner house? Women can also stand tall and proud, both in business and in the land!

The Taifu is concerned about the country and the people?

This is a bit difficult.

Don't be afraid, she has a save file!

Wait for her to reload the file and study it a few times.

In short, beauties in troubled times should not make apologies, but beauties in prosperous times are more than just embellishments.

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