The strange feeling only lasted for a moment, because Cheng Ze spoke up and interrupted Si Jiu's thoughts.
"Well, is everyone here?"
"Oh, Fourth Brother is back, but Mr. Shen is here too. Fourth Brother said Mr. Shen wants to stay for dinner..." Si Jiu's eyes swept over the dishes that were already prepared in the kitchen. They were very rich and might not be finished, so he said, "Let me help you serve the dishes and set the table."
Second brother usually doesn't cook, and Si Jiu knows this very well.
The reason why I took the trouble to prepare such a large table of dishes today was probably to feed her gluttony.
It would be fine if the guest was someone else, but it had to be Mr. Shen.
Anyway, Sijiu has feelings, and the second brother doesn’t have a good impression of Mr. Shen.
If she really dared to ask her second brother to prepare a few more dishes for Mr. Shen, her second brother would probably be suffocated to death.
So she simply didn't mention it.
"Okay, be careful, leave the hot ones and I'll serve them."
Si Jiu nodded, took two plates of food and walked out.
I was wondering as I walked.
It's really strange. My second brother is a gentle and elegant man. He always treats people gently and politely. I have rarely seen him have a bad relationship with anyone.
Why is it that Mr. Shen and I don't get along?
Could it be that there is a conflict of auras?
But...Mr. Shen seems a little cold.
Sijiu's thoughts were scattered for no reason.
Sijiu grew up in an orphanage. She was an abandoned baby who was left at the door of the orphanage.
This kind of thing can't be said to be common, but it's not uncommon either.
Some children are abandoned because they are born with diseases or disabilities, some because of their gender, and some are even abandoned because the person who gave birth to the child may not have intended to be a mother at all, but just gave birth to the child by accident and then threw it away without hesitation.
It is not clear which type Sijiu belongs to, but at least she is in good health and has all her limbs intact.
The small welfare home where Sijiu works has actually always been in a state of deficit, despite having so many children.
Children who grow up in a happy life may never understand why some children can use a sharpened branch to frame another child, even resulting in blood, just for a piece of candy.
I will never understand why someone would pour cold water into another child's bed in the dead of winter just to increase their chances of being adopted, hoping that the child would get sick and behave badly so that they would have a chance to be chosen by an adoptive family...
Such things are only a small part of the most common evils.
Vicious competition, fighting, exclusion or bullying among children will only take place in secret.
In the eyes of adults, each of them is a well-behaved, sensible and pitiful child.
Sijiu suffered because she looked soft, small and well-behaved, but she had a bad temper, was hard and difficult to deal with.
She is not the one who is bullied, but she is always the one who stands up when she can't stand it anymore.
In fact, children like her are the outliers in an environment like an orphanage.
Fortunately, at that time, she had the protection of Lin Su and Cheng Ze. Otherwise, even if Si Jiu was not bullied, she would definitely be the one ostracized by everyone.
Later, Cheng Yuan and Cheng Yu, who were new to the welfare home, were added. The five children were the five with the best relationship in the welfare home.
So good that more than once someone wanted to adopt one of them, but the chosen one was unwilling to be separated from the other four.
Later they agreed to be a family, and Sijiu foolishly imitated a trick he had seen from somewhere and asked them to become sworn brothers, and then they were ranked according to age. Originally, Cheng Yuan should have been the third, but of course Cheng Yuan said that he actually had a twin brother who died shortly after birth, so he insisted on being the fourth.
Later, the welfare home was once on the verge of collapse and almost went bankrupt.
The director has already started running around, contacting adoptive parents or other welfare agencies for the children.
The tiny six-year-old Si Jiu tightly grasped the little finger of the half-grown boy Lin Su, and with her other hand tightly grabbed Cheng Ze's sleeve. She also seemed to calmly comfort Cheng Yuan and Cheng Yu, two little kids who were only two years older than her.
"It's okay. We won't separate. We won't adopt a family. We'll let the director send us to the next orphanage. We won't separate."
Si Jiu was obviously so scared that tears were about to fall, but he tried desperately to comfort his little friend. It really made people feel sad and soft.
She said this, but she knew very well in her heart that she had no say in all this. When the time really came, they, the children, would have no choice at all.
Lin Su, the oldest among them, was only 13 years old at the time and did not have any say.
Little Sijiu became more and more panicked. He clearly wanted to comfort others, but he burst into tears while speaking. He hugged his eldest brother's neck tightly and choked out sobs, "What should I do? Will we never be able to be together again starting from tomorrow?"
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