Chapter 326 (Catching Bugs)
In order to save the 500 yuan faster, Yunmian, in addition to selling toys, went to the aunt next door's house on Saturdays and Sundays, squatted in front of the big basin in the kitchen, and worked hard to help them wash dishes and chopsticks.
At the end of the day, the aunt would give her more than 80 yuan.
When Yun Mian found Cheng Mu with nearly 700 yuan, Cheng Mu looked at the child's hands that were white and wrinkled from being soaked, and frowned slightly: "Did you really go to wash the dishes?"
Yunmian smiled and said, "Yes!"
"..." Cheng Mu looked at the child's smiling face, but he couldn't smile himself.
Little fool.
How did her parents teach her?
Is he still not smart at the age of 5? If he had this kind of personality, he would have been fooled countless times in his past.
Little Cheng Mu dragged the equally little Yun Mian to the drugstore and forced the clerk to get her a tube of hand ointment. Only then did the two children really start preparing to donate to the children in the welfare home.
Originally, these things should have been done by Zhou Xin. Cheng Mu spent so much money to support him, and his life was bought by Cheng Mu.
But Cheng Mu did not let Zhou Xin know about Yun Mian's existence. Zhou Xin was too idle to look up Yun Mian's information, so Cheng Mu simply went to Yun Mian's door himself and waited for the child to be busy in the small shed.
"Xiao Mu, don't just stand there. Come in and sit down and have a glass of water." Chen Fanghua greeted the stupidly standing child at the door with a smile.
Cheng Mu glanced at the other shed. Yun Mian, who had said she would be out soon before he entered, was still busy inside. Her childish voice could be heard from time to time. It sounded like it would take a while for her to be out.
After a brief hesitation, Cheng Mu put on the most pleasing smile that elders loved the most, walked in obediently, and took the cup of water handed to him by Chen Fanghua with both hands.
"Thank you, Grandma Chen."
Cheng Mu sat next to a low table, looking around the room inconspicuously.
It was even poorer than he had imagined.
But it is very clean. Even if there are cardboard boxes that have not been sold in time, they are neatly sorted and piled in the corner. Although there seems to be a lot of things, it is not messy.
Probably to take special care of the blind Yun Mujin, many things in the house are piled against the wall, leaving some space in the middle so that Yun Mujin can walk without encountering any obstacles.
Cheng Mu could even imagine how this family of four would sit around this small dining table every night, talking and laughing while eating.
That was a scene he would never be able to be in.
"Mianmian, are you okay?" Grandma Chen asked from a distance.
Cheng Mu also turned his head to look over, and saw the child gritting his teeth and dragging a large pile of things as he moved out step by step like a small yellow cow.
Chen Fanghua quickly ran over to take the things from her granddaughter's hand and tapped her forehead in annoyance: "It's so heavy, why didn't you call for help when you couldn't lift it? You're so stubborn at such a young age!"
Yunmian looked up at her grandmother innocently and smiled, and the old lady lost all her temper.
Cheng Mu put down the cup and followed Yun Mian to say goodbye to her family.
"Xiao Mu, please come again next time. Grandma didn't treat you well this time. Next time, let Grandpa Mianmian cook his best dishes for you."
"Okay, thank you Grandma Chen." Cheng Mu nodded with a smile, then grabbed Yun Mianmian's collar and dragged her out in front of the parents.
Yun Mian could only hurriedly say goodbye to her grandmother and get into the car with Cheng Mu. The two children took a car full of "supplies" to the only welfare home in Liucheng.
Blue Sky Welfare Home.
Yun Mian stood aside and listened to the eight-year-old Cheng Mu communicating with ease with the fifty-something director of the welfare home regarding funding and donations. She also heard the system uncle above her head whispering that he wondered if Cheng Mu had forgotten to drink Meng Po soup when he was reincarnated.
Her own thoughts were a little wandering, and all her attention was focused on the welfare home behind the director.
This welfare home is not big, much smaller than the kindergarten she attends. Although the yard is clean, there are many weeds growing everywhere. There are also some play equipment for children, but they are all very old and even have patches of rust.
The welfare home and the laughter and joy Yunmian had imagined were nothing like what she had imagined.
It's very quiet in here, even a little unsettlingly quiet.
There were children in the orphanage and nurses to take care of them, but Yunmian also saw several disabled adults.
They should be adults, Yunmian was not sure, but she felt that they looked much older than children.
The scenes here inexplicably fit in with the hospital in Yunmian’s memory from her previous life.
It's the same in the hospital. Everyone rarely talks. Even if there are a lot of people, the atmosphere is so quiet that it makes people feel a little breathless.
"... Thank you very much for the supplies donated by the two children to our welfare home. Our welfare home has also received a lot of donations from the public in recent days. But those children...after all, they have just arrived in an unfamiliar environment and are not used to it yet. So they are very defensive and repulsive to others. Even if we want to guide them to do a good job in treatment, it is really difficult."
The dean looked embarrassed when he said this, and it was obvious that he no longer regarded Cheng Mu as an eight-year-old child who was easy to fool during the conversation. When he talked about the difficulties he was currently facing, he mostly blurted out the answers.
"Let them move." Cheng Mu raised his eyebrows and said to the dean, "Don't treat them as fragile glass. Give them homework and let them learn knowledge. They should do what normal children should do."
Facing the director's slightly surprised look, the little boy, who was much shorter than him, raised his hand and pointed at a child who was in a daze in the yard, and said with a smile: "I know him, he is a mute, and he was always chased away when he begged. He couldn't get enough money, so he came back to bully me. At that time, I was only 5 years old and the same height as her."
Cheng Mu patted Yunmian's head and told the story in the dean's increasingly serious expression: "He has healthy hands and feet, but he can't speak because he is still the leader of that group of children. He bullies me and the younger children under him who have broken hands and feet. Every punch he throws at us hurts, but he never shows mercy."
"And there was that kid, the thinnest and smallest. He had a broken leg, but he was smart. He knew he couldn't go back, so he tried to cheat money by playing the victim. Before the human traffickers' den was busted, he had secretly saved up nearly three hundred yuan for himself. No one except me noticed."
"There are many other children..." Cheng Mu patted the toys, schoolbags and other things that Yun Mian brought with him and advised the dean with a complicated expression: "The children you see now are not the lucky ones favored by fate. They are wild dogs who can survive in the human traffickers' base camp with broken limbs. They are not unable to adapt to the new environment, but they are unable to adapt to having nothing to do. They cannot accept that after being rescued, they can only be a waste waiting for others to take care of them carefully."
"So you just need to treat them as normal children, teach them to read and write, teach them knowledge and principles, and they will adjust to the rest on their own."
Dean: “…”
After listening to Cheng Mu's words, he could no longer regard Cheng Mu as an ordinary eight-year-old child.
He also understood how to treat the children sent by the police for placement.
They all came from the same place. Cheng Mu has this kind of personality and character, so the other kids probably won't be that fragile either.
After the director figured it out, he asked someone to move the supplies in the car into the orphanage, and invited the two children to stay in the orphanage for a simple lunch. After all, he was their investor, and he couldn't just be perfunctory just because they were children.
Yunmian took out the money from her schoolbag and gave it to the dean, asking him to use the money to buy some candy and snacks to share with everyone.
Yunmian knew very well that she was just there to make up the numbers, so in addition to the six or seven hundred yuan, she also brought to the welfare home the things Yang Bin bought for her that day, the clothes and shoes she had never worn, and all the remaining schoolbags and toys.
On the way out of the welfare home, Cheng Mu looked at the barrage of comments on the screen that were all scolding himself and Yun Mian as fools. He yawned lazily, and when he thought of the 100,000 yuan he had lost, he slapped Yun Mian on the back of the head in annoyance.
Children are troublesome. Not only are they troublesome, they are also prone to spreading stupidity.
Cheng Mu didn't know that he had missed the discussion in the barrage about his impending death.
When he took out the most important money in the list to donate, the countdown to his death had already begun quietly.
But the system knows.
The system also informed Yunmian.
"Mianmian, he's going to die because he wanted to donate to those children with us. In the last week, he didn't come to see these children, nor did he make any donations." The system found it difficult to describe how it felt when it saw this news.
In the last round, Cheng Mu used his own intelligence and golden fingers to avoid death again and again, and grabbed money and luck again and again, step by step becoming the number one, making the whole world a stepping stone under his feet.
But in this round, just because Cheng Mu met Yun Mian, even though he had no other interactions with Yun Mian, he immediately faced the countdown to his death because of a moment of weakness.
This game forces most players to be cold-hearted and hard-hearted, but a player who should have been the coldest and cruelest in the previous round has a completely opposite fate in this round because of Yunmian's slight influence.
Thinking of the conversation with Yun Mian about whether or not to get to know Cheng Mu, the system suddenly felt that Cheng Mu was really a bit pitiful.
In his previous life, he lived for so long, went to school, and later entered society... but he never met anyone who could influence him.
Friends, relatives, classmates, teachers... he has never met any of them.
That's why he could become the flawless number one player, playing everyone in the palm of his hand. The older he gets, the calmer he becomes, and the calmer he becomes, the more indifferent he becomes.
But now, because of a moment of weakness, he will soon die.
Cheng Mu knocked on the car window, came over and asked in confusion: "Xiao Yunmian, why are you daydreaming again? I will buy you ten boxes of Six Walnuts later. You should nourish your brain at such a young age."
He teased the child deliberately, thinking that he would get another angry glare from Yunmian, but the teased child still looked at him blankly, and then his eyes turned red inexplicably, and soon mist appeared in his eyes.
"Brother, I'm sorry, let's go back and get the money back now."
Cheng Mu was stunned for a moment, looking at the tears sliding down Yun Mian's face, and finally remembered his previous ranking. Something in his head buzzed, and his brain went blank.
It seemed like I had accidentally made a fatal mistake.
His order is: money - future - self-esteem - friendship - family.
Money comes first, money is far more important than friendship, and it is even more impossible to pay for temporary sympathy.
So... am I about to die?
Because of a momentary weakness? Because he was infected by Xiao Yunmian's stupid IQ?
Yun Mian raised her hand to wipe away her tears, and dragged Cheng Mu into the car. While wiping her tears, she choked and said firmly: "Brother, don't be afraid. If you can't get it back, then, consider it as me borrowing your money!"
"I'll write you an IOU right now. I won't kill you."
She was afraid that Cheng Mu would be quickly eliminated for violating the rules on the way back to the orphanage, so she simply pried Cheng Mu's hands open and wrote her name and the amount of money owed crookedly on his palm.
When the last stroke came, Yun Mian finally heard from the system uncle that Cheng Mu’s death countdown had been canceled and transferred to herself.
She breathed a sigh of relief, sniffed, wiped her tears, raised her head and smiled at Cheng Mu with curved eyebrows: "Brother Cheng Mu, don't be afraid, being a good person will not go unrewarded."
Mianmian: Double negation is equal to affirmation.
Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
Charon 176 bottles;
I want to eat something 47 bottles;
White 20 bottles;
Keep smiling 10 bottles;
6+7 1 bottle;
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