The little girl's eyes were moist. Although she didn't understand, she obediently didn't move.
Xia Lan patted her head, put the food she could eat into her small bowl, soaked the rice in warm water, and after preparing everything, she smiled at her.
"Now you can eat! Here's a spoon for you. Use the spoon to scoop it out like this! Don't use your hands."
Xia Lan demonstrated to her how to eat with a spoon. The little girl watched her demonstrate twice, then took the spoon from Xia Lan's hand and clumsily scooped up the rice, imitating Xia Lan's movements.
"clever."
Xia Lan rubbed her head and saw that she was eating faster and faster, and the small bowl was about to be empty. Xia Lan gave her a little more, which made the little girl's eyes sparkle.
Xia Lan stopped feeding her when she could no longer eat.
"Where did you pick up this child?" Qin Yu asked after she finished her work.
"I found him at the hospital. An older woman told me he was an abandoned child," Xia Lan carefully explained to Qin Yu.
She relayed what the aunt had just told her to Qin Yu, and deliberately lowered her voice so the little girl wouldn't hear.
"I was getting some food at school, and I felt it was a waste to throw it away, so I gave it to her!"
Xia Lan said to Qin Yu.
Qin Yu nodded.
"Thank you, Auntie..."
After the little girl finished eating, she walked over to Xia Lan, carefully shook her hand, and smiled at her.
Xia Lan's eyes reddened at the sight of her lovely smile.
"Is there an orphanage in Beijing? Can't we send her to an orphanage? She's such a young child..."
Xia Lan thought of the little girl's timid and cautious appearance. She should have been carefree at that age, but instead she was wandering the streets alone.
Before Qin Yu could speak, the little girl shook her head.
"Wait... Mom."
She was going to wait here for her mother to come and pick her up.
"Your mother? Did your mother abandon you here?"
Xia Lan looked at the girl in disbelief.
The little girl shook her head.
"It's Dad."
She remembered that her father had abandoned her there, and she knew he didn't like her.
"What's your mother's name?"
Xia Lan looked at the little girl and asked.
"My mother's name is... Flower."
The little girl tried very hard to say her mother's name, but she was still a child and didn't know her mother's full name, only that her name contained the character "flower".
"So what's your name?"
Xia Lan looked at the little girl.
"Niu Niu".
The little girl gave Xia Lan a trusting smile, willing to tell her her name.
How old is Niu Niu?
Xia Lan tried to continue asking.
Niu Niu shook her head, clearly not knowing how old she was.
"What are Niu Niu's parents like? And who else is she?"
Xia Lan continued to ask.
"There's a mom, a dad, a brother, and a grandma..."
When her grandmother was mentioned, Niu Niu couldn't help but shudder, and a look of fear appeared on her face whenever her grandmother was brought up.
Xia Lan and Qin Yu exchanged a glance, realizing that they must have been treated unfriendly by their grandmother.
Even knowing all this, Niu Niu still couldn't tell where her home was.
"How about we hand her over to the police? Maybe they can help her find her home?"
Xia Lan looked at Qin Yu, who shook his head.
"Children like this are hard to find."
Qin Yu shook his head and said.
Children like this don't even know where their homes are, so it's not easy for the police to find them.
There are quite a few children who have gone missing like this.
Qin Yu looked at the little girl sitting in the chair playing with her little fingers.
"Moreover, she still has an obsession with her mother and wants to wait for her mother to come and pick her up."
After listening to Qin Yu's analysis, Xia Lan nodded in agreement.
The little girl's eyes lit up when she talked about her mother.
It's clear that she looked forward to her mother coming to pick her up and take her home every day.
They all knew that her mother was unlikely to come to pick her up, but she simply couldn't bring herself to tell her the truth in front of such a child.
That would be too cruel.
Xia Lan and Qin Yu were discussing how to help the little girl when a nurse walked in carrying a tray.
The little girl ran away as soon as she saw her.
"It's that little girl again! I've told her so many times not to come to the patients' wards, but she just won't listen."
The nurse frowned and said with displeasure when she saw the little girl run away.
"Nurse, do you know her?"
"Everyone in our compound knows that when her father brought her mother here, she was already barely alive. She was treated in the hospital for two days, but she still passed away."
The nurse sighed heavily.
“She came over on her mother’s body. After her mother died, her father abandoned them and ran away. There was no one to collect the body.”
"In the end, it was our hospital that collected her mother's body, but this child..."
The nurse pursed her lips.
“We considered taking her to the police station, but the police didn’t know where she lived.”
"Someone wanted to adopt her and took her away, but she ran back to the hospital on her own just two days later!"
"In addition, she was very young, and we couldn't just let her die. Everyone felt sorry for her, so they took turns feeding her and kept her alive. She stayed in the hospital for more than a year."
The nurse's words startled Xia Lan and Qin Yu.
I never imagined the girl's mother was already dead!
"When her mother died, her body was covered in bruises. Everyone said she had been abused before she died and had nowhere to go. Anyway, the two of them, mother and daughter, were quite pitiful..."
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