Chapter 278: I Miss My Mom
The little girl wiped the tears from her face and looked up at Su Tan. His expression was gentle, but his eyes were filled with worry. For some reason, it reminded her of the scene in her memory.
She choked a little, then quickly lowered her head, her voice a little weak, "I... I just want to look forward."
Su Tan walked up to her, slowly squatted down, and sighed softly, "Just walk a little further and you'll find the moat. You don't even have a lamp in your hand, and the moonlight isn't bright tonight. What if you fall?"
The little girl lowered her head again.
She pursed her lips.
"I...I am..."
Su Tan's expression was still gentle. She looked at the little girl and asked gently, "What's your name? Can I take you home?"
"It's too late now. It's really not safe for a little girl like you to walk outside."
"What if I run into a beggar?"
Hearing about going home, the little girl shrank back suddenly like a frightened bird, and stammered, "No... no need!"
"Sister, thank you, but...but I don't want to go home."
When she said this, tears welled up in her eyes, and she fell down with a plop, and her voice trembled a little.
She has been homeless for a long time.
She didn't want to go home.
Home made her miserable.
She ran away secretly.
When Su Tan saw the other person like this, she didn't know why, but her heart ached a little. She couldn't help but think, if Changle was like this in the future, how heartbroken she would be.
"But you have a home you can't go back to?"
When the little girl heard the words "I have a home but can't go back", she was stunned and her eyes gradually turned red.
She shouldn't have cried in front of strangers.
Nor should I be so thankful for the person in front of me.
But seeing the other person's gentle expression, she couldn't help it.
So much so that my tears became more and more violent.
“Wuwuwu…”
The little girl's breathing was a little rapid and she was almost out of breath from crying.
Su Tan was also a little at a loss. He could only stretch out his hand stiffly and gently pat the little girl's back.
"Stop crying."
The little girl's nose felt sore, and she said aggrievedly: "I'm sorry, sister, I've caused you trouble. I bumped into you and made you listen to these things."
Su Tan just smiled gently.
"I have children too, how could I think you're a nuisance?"
"If you have any grievances in your heart that you want to talk about but don't know where to start, why not tell me and see if there is anything I can do to help you."
Such a gentle person, speaking to her so gently.
According to what her mother had taught the little girl, she should have run away immediately, for fear that she would be targeted by Su Tan, the kidnapper pretending to be a good person.
However, it may have been suppressed for too long.
When the little girl heard this, she couldn't stop crying.
"I……"
"I'm fine..."
After she said it was okay, she raised her head and looked at Su Tan again, and asked cautiously: "Sister, can you walk with me a little further? I want to go to the mountain to take a look."
Su Tan paused. This little girl must have asked this because she saw the lantern in his hand and she had been suppressing her emotions for too long.
Su Tan was not in a hurry to refuse, nor did he agree outright.
She simply squatted down, smiled, and asked, "Can you tell me why you want to go to the mountain?"
"It's so late. There might be wolves, tigers, leopards, poisonous snakes and insects in the mountains. You might even run into bandits. Why are you going up the mountain at this time?"
In fact, if Su Tan wanted to know, he might be able to calculate it himself.
But for the little girl in front of her, she hoped that she would speak herself.
The little girl didn't have any grudges. She had been suppressing her emotions for too long. She was very touched to hear someone willing to talk to her patiently for such a long time and not despise her.
She looks about seven or eight years old now. She looks very young, but she is also very thin.
She choked up and said with grievance and sadness: "Because my mother is there, I want to go to the mountain to take a look."
"My mother...my mother is in the mountains. Before she left, she told me that if I ever miss her, I can go to the mountains with my father to see her."
But Daddy won't come.
Dad won't come with me.
So she sneaked out by herself.
She couldn't go out during the day because someone would be watching her.
She can only come out at night.
Her tears fell down.
"Sister, my mother once said that after she passed away, she would turn into a star in the sky and always protect me."
"She also told me that if I missed her and couldn't go to the mountain to see her, I should go to the window and talk to the brightest star in the sky."
In the past, she always talked to the stars in the sky.
Although she couldn't hear the stars' response, she always felt that the stars must have quietly entered her dreams when she didn't know, but just didn't want to disturb her.
"But I don't see any stars tonight."
"Sister, I don't see any stars tonight."
She didn't see any stars, so she wanted to go to the mountain to take a look. Maybe she would see her mother there?
"I haven't seen my mother for a long time. I almost forgot what she looks like."
The little girl felt very uncomfortable.
Tears fell to the ground one by one.
Su Tan felt a little uncomfortable after hearing this.
Then I heard the little girl continue to say gloomily: "Sister, do you think I am very bad?"
"They all say my mother died because of me."
"But I almost forgot what my mother looks like."
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