On the boy's pale and beautiful face, the corners of his mouth hooked up a faint smile, "Are you rich?"

Her expression froze for a moment, and she said with some embarrassment: "This...... It doesn't seem to be. "When I wore it, I only had this suit on my body, and I didn't have a penny in my pocket. Even if there is, she can't buy it even if she has a wallet, and the yuan has to be exchanged for huàn dollars.

"Neither did I. The boy straightened up from the corner and stood up slowly, noticing that he had wounds on his face and legs. Needless to say, this must have been a good thing for the adoptive father!

It was only when she witnessed this scene that she realized what kind of environment this boy was struggling to grow up in, a hateful, intolerant home. A boy's love of math and any other kind of music is met with a beating.

It was a common occurrence for his adoptive father to beat him when he was drunk. When she writes this qiē, she doesn't have much feeling in her heart, and the situation of the characters in the story is different from the impact of a living person. She seems to be able to further understand the mood of a character written by an author.

Su Xiaoqi suddenly felt a kind of sadness, "Does it still hurt?" she couldn't help asking.

The boy was silent, just glancing at her, as if he had some disdain to get care from others.

She reacted and asked a stupid question, unless she was also beaten up, otherwise others would not be in pain, how could she empathize? Because she had nothing to do with herself, she could ask such a question, this was a question that could not solve the problem, so this genius boy probably didn't bother to answer her.

She felt a little more sorry in her heart, and turned to look at the protagonist, "I'll find a way to get the money." She said.

Although the boy looked at her with a skeptical look at the girl's intelligence, he did not refuse her, and still walked with her towards the street shop. Now the two of them are penniless, they have nothing, they are hungry, and the only way they can think of is to sell their labor in exchange for food.

Although one of them is a genius child with a high IQ, and the other is a pseudo-Lori who has received a college education, they have to temporarily sell their labor in order to eat a full meal.

Now she finds that it is not easy for her two children to live in the slums, is this the result of choosing the hard mode when she entered?

Half an hour later, she went from house to house and asked several shops, but they obviously refused and did not want to hire them. The reason is that the boss is not willing to use child labor, but no one wants to use child labor, so how will they survive?

They went to a fast-food restaurant again, and it took her a little bit of talk to convince the owner to let them take part in a sweep and get a quick meal.

"Where are we staying tonight?" she said as she walked outside and stopped, looking at the grey and gloomy sky as if muttering to herself.

She thought about it and said, "No, you're hurt, we've been in the rain again, and we'll get sick overnight outside." "With the night comes security issues.

Her eyes lit up, and she brought the little boy to a boarding inn with her, and said to the proprietress of the inn, "Boss, my brother and I have met the bad guy who kidnapped us, we just escaped from that road, can you take us in for one night?"

The little girl seemed to have just been frightened, and forcibly suppressed the panic, her eyes were glowing with water, and she looked at herself pitifully, and the tender and pleasant sound made the proprietress sympathetic, and she nodded: "God forbid! Poor darling, stay with us tonight." ”

"Son, where do you live?"

"My family is in-" Su Xiaoqi's eyes flashed: "In a big white mansion on a hillside, there is a vineyard nearby, my father takes me hunting every year, ten days ago, our family was on a cruise ship, my brother took me to play under the cabin, and then I met a group of very fierce bad guys inside who arrested us, and we were separated from our parents and taken off the ship......

"My brother and I were brought here blindfolded in the car and stayed in a room for days until they climbed out of the window without noticing. ”

She wiped her tears and said, "Look, my brother is covered with wounds ......"

In terms of interpersonal communication, it has always been a girl's strength, not to mention that Su Xiaoqi is an out-and-out pseudo-Lori. The little girl's cry aroused great sympathy from the proprietress and she said, "You have to call the police, don't be afraid, I will inform your parents!"

That night, Su Xiaoqi and the male protagonist Allen were taken care of excellently. During the whole process, the boy didn't say a word, just watched Su Xiaoqi perform, went to the proprietress to arrange a room for them, and closed the door.

The boy lay on a bed opposite him and laughed lowly, "Your lie is very shoddy, aren't you afraid of wearing a tie?"

"But, it's more dangerous to sleep on the streets on a night like this," she exhaled and said, "I'm sure we're from England and want to find missing persons, and the police won't check the information of the missing people for a while and find this town, and as for the cruise ship flights, will the children remember that thing?"

The little boy shrugged his shoulders noncommittally, turned his head, and looked at the little girl in front of him, who rarely spoke to his peers and was easily aware of the kindness and malice of others.

This little girl, for example, actually developed a sense of protection for him, although she didn't realize it herself, she had accepted him as her own.

But this lie is easy to debunk. He said, "Have you thought of a countermeasure?"

"I don't intend to lie to people for the rest of my life. She smiled and said, "Besides, the injuries on your body are not fake, if they are discovered, I have another way." ”

She and the little boy stayed at the hostess for two days, the enthusiastic proprietress called the police, made a record at the police station, according to the information provided by Su Xiaoqi, the two children came from abroad on a cruise ship, from Su Xiaoqi's mouth said the characteristics of several ports, they speculated that the ship came from the United Kingdom.

Su Xiaoqi took the initiative to pull Alan to take on the cleaning and cooking of the room for the landlord, she was sweet and polite, which made the proprietress like the brother and sister.

After a week, the billing manager of the inn suddenly became hospitalized, and the proprietress had to consider going to the other four inns in town to collect rent from the tenants one by one.

She suddenly had an idea. "Don't worry," she said, "Aunt Camilla, I'll take care of this. You say I'm the niece of this uncle. ”

In the evening, Su Xiaoqi helped out in the inn restaurant, and when she was halfway through dinner, she announced to the tenants: "Gentlemen, can you listen to me about something?"

The tenants stopped talking and stared at her. "My uncle, he...... He felt a little dizzy. Now he is in the hospital, and the doctors are going to observe him. Therefore, until he was discharged from the hospital, I collected the rent. After dinner, I was waiting for you in the living room. ”

"Will he be cured?" asked one tenant.

"Oh, of course. The little girl said, "The condition is not serious. ”

After dinner, the tenants came to the living room one after another to hand over the week's rent to her.

"I hope your uncle recovers soon, the child ......"

"If there's anything you want me to help with, please don't hesitate to say ......"

"You're such a good boy and can help your uncle with his worries......"

Things went more smoothly than she expected. Most of the guests were sympathetic to her and were willing to lend a helping hand to the girl.

Su Xiaoqi took out the envelope and put it on the hostess's desk, "This is this week's rent." ”

The proprietress glared at her in surprise, "Got it all done?"

She nodded.

"You took it?"

"Yes, ma'am. ”

"Let me think about it. She opened the envelope and carefully counted the money. She watched as Aunt Camilla registered the income in a notebook.

Then Aunt Camilla frowned and said, "Olic is the toll administrator in our town, he works for our largest employer, Moore, and his body has developed liver damage, and he is not fit to move around now......"

She said to herself, "What about the rent of the other inns? He should collect the rent of four more inns at the moment. ”

"I think," Su Xiaoqi said, "I can go out and collect rent." ”

Aunt Camilla looked at her in disbelief, "Good luck to you, little girl." ”

A month has passed. When Su Xiaoqi walked upstairs to the office of the real boss of Moore Company with a letter bag full of rent, the boss glared at her strangely and said, "Why are you here?"

"Now it's up to me to collect it every week. Su Xiaoqi replied.

After watching him count the money, he recorded the income in a large account book. He said, "I have to admit, little girl, you did surprise me. In fact, this is the first time that the entire month's rent has been collected quickly. ”

Su Xiaoqi just smiled, as a white-collar worker with the appearance of Lori, she knew how to use this advantage to deal with those people, and received the rent quickly, and she could find a suitable excuse every time.

"I'll let you try it for a month," he said, "and we'll talk about it when it's due." ”

"Thank you, sir, thank you so much. ”

"Wait," he handed her $50, "it's yours." ”

These words made her excited, "Thank you. ”

Su Xiaoqi held the $50 as if she had tasted a bright future. In this way, she can earn money from her labor income.

"So, my brother and I can continue to stay at your inn?" she asked eagerly.

He had heard what had happened to the siblings, and if he drove them out of the inn and into the street, the town's public opinion would be very unfavorable to him. He made up his mind.

"Yes, you will be responsible for the rent of the four inns in the town during the probationary period. He said.

Su Xiaoqi smiled sincerely, great! Not only does she have a job now, but she also has a place to stay.

She returned to the room of the boarding house and saw the boy sitting on the bed, flipping through a book in his hand. In the eyes of outsiders, they are a pair of brother and sister, and no one knows that he is the protagonist who was picked up by her halfway.

"Alan, we could have stayed here for a long time. She jumped onto the bed and happily hugged the pillow. Age has suddenly become so young, she now looks like a real Lori.

"Yes. Alan replied unhurriedly, and the usually indifferent boy raised his head and looked at the girl he had picked up.