After walking a few steps, I found that the child at my feet was still following me.
Song Lan frowned, stopped, and looked down at him.
Jiang Mingxi immediately rubbed her hands together and said, "I want a long, long wooden stick."
Song Lan sighed. He couldn't just drown himself in front of the kid. What if the kid imitated him?
Children of this age seem to be curious about everything.
I still remember when my younger brother was this age, he was practicing javelin throwing in the yard, and my younger brother followed suit, and the result was...
In the end, he didn't remember whether his younger brother threw the javelin or not. He only remembered that his mother came over and slapped him, saying that he was a bad guy for throwing the javelin in front of his younger brother.
It’s hard to control what’s in my mind, and I think of that slap in the face.
Why is throwing a javelin in front of your brother considered bad?
He couldn't figure it out.
But my face still seems to hurt from that slap.
Song Lan raised his hand and touched his face where he had been hit.
pity.
Even the mother who always beat him is gone.
Was it because he fell out of the car that his mother and brother died?
Was it because of his bad behavior that he killed his mother and brother?
If he had held on to the car door tightly that day and didn't fall out, would his mother and brother have died?
Grandpa and his brother said that they didn’t blame him and that he did nothing wrong, but he always dreamed of his mother’s death. In the dream, his mother slapped him in the face and said that he was a bad person and had killed his younger brother.
My heart hurts.
Song Lan took a few deep breaths and forced himself not to think about it.
My sight gradually returned to the child next to me.
The child was looking at him anxiously, trying to put on a fake smile, gesturing with his little hands, "This long stick, long~ long~."
Song Lan hummed, raised his eyes and looked around, "There's one over there, I'll pick it up for you."
Song Lan picked up seven or eight of them in one breath, some long and some short, and brought them all to the child.
Jiang Mingxi cheered immediately and picked the thickest and tallest stick from seven or eight sticks.
I couldn't carry it, so I could only drag it, grunting and dragging the wooden stick towards the river.
But the stick he had chosen was too big. After dragging it for a few steps, he ran out of strength. He turned around and shouted to Song Lan, "Brother, can you help me? I want him to go find my mother."
Song Lan frowned.
He glanced toward the river.
There were no adults in the river at all, only a child of six or seven years old who was concentrating on catching fish.
There were some adults not far away, but they seemed to be teachers from the orphanage over there taking the children out to fly kites.
Song Lan didn't want to meddle in other people's business.
But he said he was looking for his mother...
Pursing his lips, Song Lan asked, "Where is your mother?"
Jiang Mingxi pointed to the stream and said, "She's in the river. She might be trapped by rocks. I'm going to pull her out."
Song Lan frowned.
What are you talking about?
What does it mean to be crushed by a rock... Damn!
Song Lan, who was only ten years old, felt a sharp shock in his heart.
His only knowledge made him think of a horrifying fact: Was the child's mother tied up with stones and thrown into the river?
Just like in horror movies, where they tie up stones and throw them into a well?
So scary!
Song Lan asked hurriedly: "Did you see someone take your mother to the river?"
Jiang Mingxi shook his head, "No~"
Then, he lowered his head with raised brows and drooping eyes, and kicked the grass at his feet.
"I didn't see my mother. I couldn't see my mother. My door was closed. My mother was outside."
Song Lan was confused and terrified. It was like what was shown in horror movies, where a child hides in a closet, under a bed, or behind a door, and sees their mother being dragged away...
Tentatively, Song Lan asked, "What is Mom doing outside? Did someone drag her away?"
Jiang Mingxi had tears in her eyes and shook her head, "I don't know, it's such a big rage."
fire?
Isn't Mom in the river? Why is there a fire again?
Frowning, Song Lan squatted down and half-hugged the child, "Is there a fire in your room?"
Jiang Mingxi pursed her lips and shed tears. "The hotel was on fire. I was preparing a birthday present for my brother, a duckling, and it suddenly caught fire. It was a huge fire..."
Talking and talking.
He started crying with a loud "wow".
"I miss my mom, I miss her so much! I want to find my mom! I want to find my mom!"
Song Lan was startled by his crying and suddenly panicked.
I wiped his tears helplessly, wondering if the child's mother had been burned to death. This child...
Is he a child from an orphanage?
Why!
Like him, he has no mother anymore.
But the child is so young, he should try his best to live one more day. It doesn’t seem good to jump into the river at such a young age.
Sighing inwardly, Song Lan coaxed him, "You will definitely find your mother. Don't worry, if you eat well every day, your mother will come to find you."
The child was crying, sobbing, "But it's so dark in the orphanage at night. I can't see any stars. I'm scared."
Song Lan was confused. What the hell were stars?
but……
Glancing at the river beside them, Song Lan coaxed the child, "You know what? The stars in the sky are your mothers on earth. Although your mother hasn't come to find you yet, I can try my best to help you find your star mother first."
Jiang Mingxi forgot to cry after hearing this.
Mom also said that the stars in the sky are the mothers of babies on earth!
This big brother is so awesome!
He actually knows such a high-level secret!
At this moment, Jiang Mingxi was extremely worried. "Then can you find my Star Mother? Don't find the wrong one. Give me someone else's Star Mother."
Seeing that he believed her, Song Lan breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and rubbed his little head, "Don't worry, I'm looking for her. Wait here, I'll go find her."
After saying that, just as he was about to leave, he added, "Children are not allowed to play in the water, understand?"
Jiang Mingxi nodded heavily.
I have full trust in this big brother because my mother also told me that children are not allowed to play in the water.
He is so awesome!
Song Lan picked and chose in the stream and found a very beautiful and round stone. "This is your Star Mother. With this Star Mother, you won't be afraid of the orphanage getting dark at night. Eat well every day, and your mother will definitely come back to find you."
Jiang Mingxi was overjoyed.
He quickly let go of the big wooden stick in his hand, carefully took his Star Mother from Song Lan, put it to his mouth and kissed it.
"Well! The brook has Mother Star, so the brook is not afraid."
Song Lan pinched his little face and was thinking that once the child left, he could jump into the river with peace of mind.
Then the child said, "Big brother, do you have a mother?"
The smile on Song Lan's face disappeared in an instant.
Before dying, he couldn't bear to lie, so he said in frustration, "No."
This is the most words he can say.
After saying that, I wanted to leave.
Jiang Mingxi pulled his hand and said, "Then I also want to give you a Star Mother. Can you come to me tomorrow? I will give you a Star Mother too."
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