It was a cold winter night, with goose-feather snow in the sky, and the pedestrians on the road were tightly wrapped and hurried, and no one wanted to linger on this cold street for long.

However, there is a thin and thin figure here, shuttling through the streets, between the corridors of various districts.

"Hello, do you have any garbage to take out?" asked the little girl politely.

"Xiao Miao, here you are, take it, this bag is bottles and waste paper, and these two bags are garbage. The kind-hearted Aunt Chen sorted the garbage and handed it to Gao Xiaomiao.

"Thank you, Aunt Chen. ”

Gao Xiaomiao, twelve years old this year, her parents died in a car accident when she was ten years old, and since then she has been adopted by the uncle's family, so it is logical that the parents' accident insurance claims are collected by the uncle's family for Gao Xiaomiao, and when Gao Xiaomiao was adopted, the uncle's family promised to use the money to raise the child well for her to go to school.

In the first year, Gao Xiaomiao's life was quite good, eating, drinking, and schooling, the uncle and aunt were good to her, but the good times did not last long, after all, they were not biological, the attitude of the uncle and aunt towards Gao Xiaomiao was getting worse and worse, especially the aunt, Gao Xiaomiao could be described as harsh, Gao Xiaomiao often ate the last meal and did not eat the next meal, the uncle's family has an elder brother and a younger sister, and the brother and sister often bully her when they see that their mother does not want to see Gao Xiaomiao.

However, Gao Xiaomiao, who is still just a child, is extremely strong, she did not bow to the injustice of life, let alone succumb to the miserable life.

One morning, Gao Xiaomiao met an old man picking up waste on the way home from school, and heard the old man say that the garbage she picked up could be exchanged for money, Gao Xiaomiao was very excited, and followed the old man to the scrap yard.

The garbage picked up on the first day was exchanged for two yuan, Gao Xiaomiao bought two buns, and one dollar was hidden in her pocket, the long-lost satiety made her extremely satisfied, and every day after that, Gao Xiaomiao went out early and returned late, she could earn two or three yuan a day, and she could earn five yuan when she was more, and this part-time job made her life more fulfilling, and she had no time to think about those sad things, slowly, her "small business" The money she earned went from two or three yuan a day to twelve or thirteen yuan, although it was not a lot of money, but it was enough for her not to go hungry anymore.

"Gao Xiaomiao, you stop!" Wu Xinyi, the head teacher, stopped her fiercely: "Where are you going to make it so dirty?

Gao Xiaomiao didn't cry, but glanced at Wu Xinyi arrogantly and turned around and stood at the door of the classroom.

"Gao Xiaomiao, yesterday my mother said that if you dare to go back in a stinky manner, I will kick you out of the Gao family. Gao Minhong said arrogantly.

"Didn't you want to drive me away a long time ago?" Gao Xiaomiao said disdainfully.

"Brother is coming back today, let him clean you up in a while!" Gao Minhong turned around and went back to the classroom.

Gao Minxin is the only son of the uncle's family, five years older than Gao Minhong, and now attends a boarding high school, and he goes home after school every Friday, and today happens to be Friday.

In the evening, Gao Xiaomiao came back from picking up the garbage and had already had dinner at her uncle's house, of course, no one would leave her food, and at this time, the family was happily listening to Gao Minxin tell interesting stories about the campus.

"Gao Xiaomiao, you made the house stinky again, hurry up and take a bath!" the aunt roared angrily, then turned her head to look at her son's husband, and her face immediately changed from the shrew scolding street mode to the good wife and mother mode.

Gao Xiaomiao has to wash the family's clothes every day after going home and taking a bath, and she has to do her homework after washing.

This night, Gao Xiaomiao was writing her homework when Gao Minxin suddenly broke in.

"Brother, it's so late, do you have something to do with coming to my room?" Gao Xiaomiao put down her pen and asked, in fact, she was very unkind to her in her heart.

"Here, don't say brother, I don't think about you. Gao Minxin took out a piece of chocolate and handed it to Gao Xiaomiao.

"Thank you, brother. The last time Gao Xiaomiao ate chocolate was a few years ago, when her parents were alive, she happily took the chocolate.

"Open it and taste it?"

"Hmm. Gao Xiaomiao took a big bite of the chocolate, the long-lost taste, the sweet taste of the chocolate slid into her throat, and she loved the taste very much: "Brother, it's delicious." ”

"Eat more if it's delicious. Gao Minxin had a cold smile on his face.

"Uh-huh. "Another bite.

Suddenly, Gao Minxin closed the door and hugged Gao Xiaomiao from behind.

"Ahh

"If you eat my chocolate, you have to give something in return, right?!" Gao Minxin said as he hugged Gao Xiaomiao to the bed.

"You let go!" Twelve-year-old Gao Xiaomiao didn't know what Gao Minxin was going to do to herself, thinking that she would be pressed on the bed and beaten again, the Gao family lived in an old-fashioned building with two floors, and the whole family lived in the upstairs room, only Gao Xiaomiao lived in the utility room at the back door downstairs, unless she went out to shout, no one could hear her in the house.

Gao Minxin pressed Gao Xiaomiao down on the bed, and kissed Gao Xiaomiao's cheek and neck, Gao Xiaomiao was nauseous, and instantly got goosebumps, she instinctively resisted, and kicked her feet all the way.

"Whew!" After a miserable scream, Gao Minxin jumped up holding the position where he was peeing.

Gao Xiaomiao picked up the pencil sharpener knife on the table and pointed it at Gao Minxin and said angrily: "Get out!"

Since then, Gao Xiaomiao has locked the door of the utility room every time before going to bed.

"Gao Xiaomiao, where are you going?" Gao Minhong was wearing a new dress, and deliberately dangled in front of Gao Xiaomiao proudly.

"You can't take care of it. ”

Unexpectedly, Gao Xiaomiao didn't even look at her, Gao Minhong shouted angrily: "You dirty and smelly buns!

"I like myself!" Gao Xiaomiao said and prepared to go out.

"You should go out and try it!" Gao Minxin suddenly appeared to block Gao Xiaomiao's way, looking fierce and vicious.

"Why don't you let me go out!" Gao Xiaomiao was angry.

"Just because I'm your brother!"

Gao Xiaomiao suddenly rushed forward hard, pushed down Gao Minxin, and was about to rush out of the door, only to hear Gao Minhong screaming and calling her brother, and when she looked up, Gao Xiaomiao was scared stupid, and Gao Minxin fell to the ground with blood stains.

"Mommy!Mom!" filled the room with Gao Minhong's shrill and piercing voice.

Gao Xiaomiao was so frightened that she didn't know what to do, so she just stood there motionless.

"Smack!" suddenly came from a stinging pain on his face, and then it hurt hotly, Gao Xiaomiao covered her face and cried.

"You little bastard! You turned against you! Now you dare to hit someone!?" The aunt was very heavy, and directly beat Gao Xiaomiao, and then she didn't listen to what she said.

Gao Xiaomiao's life after that can be imagined, insulting and beating have become commonplace, in the past, she was given one or two normal meals a day, but now she only gives some leftovers every day. School supplies, some of the clothes worn are old clothes given by well-wishers when collecting garbage, and some are torn clothes that Gao Minhong doesn't want, although Gao Minhong is smaller than her, but Gao Xiaomiao is skinny, she can wear most of the small clothes, the Gao family did not dare to drive Gao Xiaomiao out of the pressure of social public opinion, and paid her tuition every semester, when it came to spending money for her, her aunt always scolded her for being a broom star or something, how ugly it sounded, and the uncle turned a blind eye.

This life did not improve until high school.

After graduating from high school, Gao Xiaomiao chose Bincheng University in order to stay away from her uncle's family, and in the summer vacation of the year she graduated from high school, Gao Minxin became a family because she made a local woman pregnant and married her son.

In the second year after Gao Xiaomiao left her uncle's house, her aunt cut off all the financial support for her, saying that her parents' insurance claims had been used up, and she would let her figure out her own way for the future tuition and living expenses, and then there was no follow-up, of course, after that, Gao Xiaomiao never had any contact with the Gao family, and she also knew that her parents' insurance claims were a huge amount of money, and she only spent a dime a dozen in that kind of life, but she didn't want to care about these anymore, fortunately, Gao Xiaomiao worked and studied since the first day of college, plus the money she saved by picking up rags when she was a child, she finally survived the four years of college and officially stepped into societyAfter some hard work, he also became a small white-collar worker in the metropolis, and he gained a firm foothold in Bincheng.