I don't know why, listening to Niuniu talking to her grandmother like this, I suddenly felt an inexplicable bitterness, who has life spared? The old man wiped his tears and hugged his granddaughter. None of the people around me stopped because of the touching scene staged here, and perhaps, I was the only one who witnessed their touching.

I sat down to the old man to chat, the old man told me that her daughter married out and gave birth to Niuniu by her to lead, the husband and wife came to Kunming many years ago to work, Niuniu followed her to live in the countryside, but three years ago the daughter and son-in-law suddenly lost contact, she took Niuniu to Kunming to find, asked around or no news, in Kunming for three years. Niuniu also rose from three years old to six years old, in the past three years, she took Niuniu to sleep in the streets and alleys, and later a Kunming person who did a flower business took in the old man, the old man took Niuniu to live in the earthen house of the flower field, and helped the owner watch the flower field at night, and usually took some of the remaining flowers out to sell.

Kunming's flower trading market is mainly in the middle of the night, one or two o'clock in the morning major merchants began to unify the delivery to all parts of the country, in the morning flower exchange delivery place can pick up a lot of flowers that others do not want, are dropped when the delivery or not very good. The old man brings Niuniu here every day to pick up flowers, and then find a flyover or square to sit on the ground and set up a stall, this kind of business, in order to maintain the life of the grandparents and grandchildren.

Sitting next to the old man, he looked at Niuniu, who was holding flowers and selling them not far away, and asked softly, "Niuniu is six years old, isn't she?

The old man sighed and said: "There is no money to go to school at all, the kindergarten costs thousands of yuan a month, and the two of us sell it for dozens of yuan a day, so we can only buy two books for Niuniu to see for herself, I don't know much literacy, it would be good if I found her parents, I have been missing for three years, and I don't know what happened." ”

I sat in the square and looked around, raised my hand to summon Niuniu to come over, Niuniu came to me with flowers and asked, "What's wrong with my brother?"

I motioned for Niuniu to sit on my lap, chatted with her and asked, "Niuniu, tell me, how do you usually sell flowers?"

Niuniu looked at me with big eyes and said to me: "I just went over and asked them if they wanted it, but ......" Niuniu said very aggrievedly: "Many people have driven me away...... Do you hate my dirty clothes?"

I hugged Niuniu and said: "No, they don't dislike your clothes for being dirty, let's change the way, when you greet other brothers, sisters, uncles and aunts, tell them first, everyone can only spend one yuan to buy a flower, not more, remember, you must tell them that you can only buy one." ”

Niuniu looked at me incomprehensibly and asked, "Why?"

I touched Niuniu's head and said, "Go try it, it might sell out quickly." ”

Xiao Niu Niu didn't believe it yet, got up and walked under the overpass again, looking back at me while walking, I made an encouraging expression to her, signaling her to do what I said, Xiao Niu Niu is not afraid to talk to strangers, it may be that she has been selling flowers all year round, my eyes have not left her, about ten minutes later, she took a bouquet of flowers sold, especially happy to run back, surprised and asked: "Why did my brother sell so fast?"

I touched her head and said with a smile: "In the future, you can sell like this every day, everyone can only buy one flower, not more." ”

"But ......" Xiao Niuniu asked very incomprehensibly: "Isn't it that the more I buy, the faster I sell, a person sells a flower, why do I sell faster than usual?"

In fact, this involves a psychology, when we see a child approaching with flowers, the first reaction is not to be entangled, to drive her away, because we don't know how much money will be "blackmailed" by this child, so we don't even want to give her a chance to finish, I asked the little girl to go and say to the guest, can only buy a flower, a dollar! A dollar is really nothing for people nowadays, and when I see such a cute little girl begging to spend a dollar to buy a flower, I am sure that the vast majority of people are willing to give generously.

That night, I sat under the overpass and chatted with the old man for a long time, listening to her tell the story of Niuniu, and was completely moved.

I left the contact information of the old man, she only has an old man's mobile phone, and I don't know anything about WeChat, I secretly took a few photos of their backs leaving.

When I got home, I realized that I had forgotten the couple necklace I was going to return to Jing Yao, and I didn't say hello to anyone when I left the dinner early, and I didn't know if Cheng Jia's courtship was successful, so I comforted myself and told myself that it didn't have much to do with me.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Lin Yifei came back, she came back with a heavy suitcase, I didn't see her for three days, I felt that she was even more haggard, I was sitting in the living room smoking, and when I saw Lin Yifei entering the door, I quickly put out the cigarette in the ashtray, ran to the balcony and opened the window, apologized and said: "I'm really sorry, I didn't know you were coming back, I smoked in the living room......"

"It doesn't matter. Lin Yifei put the suitcase at the door, and said when she changed her shoes: "Can you help me pull the suitcase? ”

I helped Lin Yifei pull the suitcase back to the bedroom, and asked casually, "Are you back home?"

"Nope. Lin Yifei said with a sense of exhaustion: "I want to go home, I bought a ticket at the train station, and when I was waiting for the train, I asked myself what I could do when I went home, and what was the point of going back? ”

"Are you feeling better now?"

Lin Yifei shook her head, sat on the sofa in the living room and said: "I may not be saved, I am too pessimistic, too resentful of the world, I don't like the unspoken rules of the workplace, and I can't find a way to escape, I'm desperate." ”

I picked up my phone and handed it to her and said, "Look at this." ”

Lin Yifei took the phone from my hand, glanced at the screen and asked, "Who is this? Why are you showing me this?"

"That little girl's name is Niuniu, she is six years old this year......" I told Lin Yifei what I saw and heard tonight, and then expressed my feelings and said: "Before I saw her, I also resented the world, why was she so unfriendly to me, my high school classmates had such poor academic performance, and now they are all better than me, what did I do wrong?" I don't understand why I should bear this, I saw Niu Niu under the overpass tonight, and I realized that the sadness I did was just that I thought it was sad, there are many people in this world who are more difficult than us, but we don't hear their complaints, isn't our own complaint a hypocrisy?"

Lin Yifei looked at me stupidly, and after a long time, she asked, "Tomorrow...... Can you take me to see them?"