In the park.
"I remember that time, you also sat on the swing like this, and you didn't say a word even when you were bullied. Hehe, I once thought you were mute." Tang Duoduo sat happily on the swing, her legs swinging.
Qiao Yu stood behind her and pushed the swing for her.
When Tang Duoduo was 9 years old.
My father died unexpectedly.
When she has free time, Tang Duoduo likes to drag a snakeskin bag as tall as her and pick up bottles and cardboard boxes around.
It can not only earn me some pocket money, but also reduce my mother's burden.
The sky was gloomy that day.
There were few people in the park.
Tang Duoduo took a long wooden stick and stood on tiptoe to search in the trash can.
Put the fished-out mineral water bottles into a snakeskin bag.
She raised her eyes slightly and saw a little boy who looked about her age sitting on a swing not far away. The left side of his body, including the left side of his face, was covered with particularly hideous burn scars.
He was alone, with his little head drooping, sitting on the swing dejectedly, just like the abandoned kittens near her home.
"This..." Tang Duoduo dragged the bag over to him and pointed under the swing. "Can I pick it up?"
The little girl in front of me was a little thin.
The small face has big black eyes that blink like stars in the sky.
Li Yu jumped off the swing, bent down to pick up the bottle and handed it to her.
"Thank you. Why are you here alone? Where are your parents?"
He didn't answer, turned around and sat on the swing, looking down at his toes in silence.
Tang Duoduo put the snakeskin bag on the ground, sat on the swing beside her, swung her legs and started talking to herself.
"You know what? I don't have a dad anymore. Mom said he went to a very far place and he won't be able to come back."
"But it doesn't matter. I still have my mother and sister. When I grow up, I will make a lot of money..."
Li Yu's eyes moved.
So that's it.
His mother is gone too.
Because her father always beat her until her body was covered with bruises after getting drunk.
A month ago.
The mother, unable to bear it any longer, finally left and never came back.
Dad was drunk, his eyes bloodshot, and he smashed things around the house in a rage. He smashed a kettle on the cabinet with a chair, and scalded Li Yu, who was cowering in the corner, so badly that he almost peeled off his skin...
Since that day.
Tang Duoduo sees Li Yu every time she comes to the park.
Chat with him.
But he never opened his mouth.
Tang Duoduo naturally thought Li Yu was a mute...
"Why are you coming out to scare me? Get out of here, this swing is mine."
"Ugly, ugly, you are so bad!"
"Hahaha, hit him."
This day.
Five or six little boys surrounded Li Yu on the swing.
One of the fat guys came up behind Li Yu and pushed him to the ground.
Several people surrounded him and punched and kicked Li Yu, who was curled up on the ground holding his head.
Tang Duoduo clenched the wooden stick in her hand.
I really want to just rush forward.
But they are numerous and powerful.
She definitely can't beat...
Just then.
A police car was coming in this direction.
Tang Duoduo suddenly had an idea and stomped her feet in an exaggerated tone, "Oh no, oh no! The police are coming to catch the bad kids, and you still dare to hit people? Run!"
They are all little brats.
When he heard the police officer's words, his face changed immediately.
The sound of alarms coming from far away.
The group of people immediately scattered like birds and beasts.
Tang Duoduo ran over and helped Li Yu up.
His palms rubbed against the ground, breaking the skin and bleeding.
"I'm telling you, why did you just let them bully you? If you can't beat them, just run away."
Tang Duoduo looked like a little adult, sighing, then took his hand and gently blew away the sand stuck on it.
The warmth blowing on his palm flowed into his heart. Li Yu slowly shook his head, "It doesn't hurt."
Tang Duoduo scratched her head, "So you can talk! Then why did you ignore me before?"
"Why aren't you afraid of me?" Li Yu asked back with his eyes lowered.
These horrible scars on his body.
I feel disgusted even when I see it.
Tang Duoduo blinked her clear eyes. "Because I've seen even scarier things, you know? I once fed a stray kitten. It had no hair and had scars just like you."
"I often saved my own food to feed it, but alas, it still died. When it died, all its wounds were rotten and its body was full of maggots..."
Looking at Li Yu whose face turned pale
Tang Duoduo burst into laughter, "You really believe it! Idiot!"
"Little liar!" There was anger on his little face, and Li Yu looked much more lively than before.
"I saw you were so lifeless all day long, so I wanted to tease you a little."
"Okay, okay, since you're so free, why don't you help me pick up the bottles? I saved you, you have to repay me!"
Tang Duoduo smiled and didn't care whether Li Yu agreed or not.
He pulled him up with one hand and dragged the snakeskin bag with the other, walking excitedly in front.
Li Yu only saw the two pigtails swaying on the back of her round head.
Like her owner, full of life.
......
They became friends.
Every time we met after that was in the park.
We swung on the swings together, picked up bottles, and went to the store to buy popsicles.
Those days.
It's been since my mother left.
This was the happiest time of Li Yu's life.
Until that day.
A turning point in fate has arrived.
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