"Ah, Dad, where are we going?" asked Xiaofeng.

"Go to Zhengzhou, hurry up and cook, and go to bed early after eating. Lao Li said impatiently.

Xiaofeng hurriedly took the pot to the outside water pipe to pick up half a pot of water, put it on the induction cooker and boiled it. The second-hand induction cooker is almost unusable, the power is often cut off, and the power is small, and it takes nearly an hour to boil half a pot of water.

After waking up the next morning, Lao Li simply cooked some food, and after they finished eating, they began to clean up. said that it was to clean up, and there was nothing to clean up, Lao Li was still that hemp bag, and stuffed the futon or something, their bedding had been very dirty for a long time, but Lao Li was still reluctant to replace it with a new one, and he didn't take the pots and pans or anything, not because it was not easy to bring, mainly because it was too old and almost unusable.

Lao Li put his ID card and bank card in his pocket, and put a few hundred yuan of change in his outer pocket. He already has almost 200,000 yuan on his bank card, all of which are his savings in the past few years, to be precise, earned by two little guys for him. Lao Li plans to work for another two years, and when he has saved enough three or four hundred thousand, when the two children are also older, he will sell them in the ravine, and take the money home to build a house and marry his daughter-in-law.

After arriving at the train station, Lao Li still only bought one ticket, because the two little guys usually don't eat well and can't keep up with nutrition, so now they are not even one meter tall. Although Xiaoyu is more than four years old, Xiaofeng is also more than five years old.

After coming to Zhengzhou, Lao Li still found an urban village in the city, he didn't want to go to the suburbs anymore, although the rent is cheap, but far away from the city, there are few people, the key is that the rural people are xenophobic, or live in the urban area comfortably, the urban village has a foreign population, poor public security, it is an ideal place to live.

Lao Li still took them around begging, and they gradually got to know the nearby roads, knew the name of the place where they lived, and learned to take the bus.

Lao Li saw that the two of them had grown up now and knew the road, so he warned them not to go too far, and if they didn't remember the road, just take a taxi back, and let them go out to beg together in the future, and he would not follow him anymore.

It's summer in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Xiaofeng and Xiaoyu went out to beg after lunch. As they walked around, they called out to their uncles and aunts for some money, and although most of them turned a blind eye to them, there were occasional well-wishers who put some change in their bowls. They didn't fight back, scolded and didn't fight back, and tirelessly looked at others with pitiful eyes, hoping that others would give them some money, because they knew that if they got less money on this day, it would be a beating.

When it was almost evening, they came to the gate of a school and did not leave, because they knew that when the sun was about to set, it was the time when the students were about to leave school, and there were many people at that time, and there were many parents who picked up the students at the door, so they could ask for more money.

They knelt at the school gate for a while, and the parents who were waiting to pick up the students at the door came in twos and threes, and when they saw them, someone would occasionally give them some change, and they would quickly say thank you.

After about half an hour, the students were almost finished, and there were no parents to pick up the students at the door, Xiaofeng decided to wait a little longer, and when it was dark, he went straight home.

After a while, a few sloppy male students walked out of the school, and a few of them chatted with each other as they walked.

"Damn, didn't you just turn in your homework? The old class actually left us until the last day of duty, and I was so angry. ”

"It's not, especially the slut of the squad leader, who actually went to complain to the old class, and waited for the next time he was alone, our brother educated him. ”

"Okay, don't talk about it, do you have any money? ”

"What's the matter, there's no computer at home, so what's wrong with not letting you play?"

"There is a computer at home, but my parents are strict, how can there be an Internet café at ease, let's team up to play League of Legends, and we must be on gold tonight." ”

"Do you have any money?"

"Let's just get together, let's take out all the money on our bodies, and count to see if it's enough. ”

As he spoke, several people took out the money on their bodies, counted it, and it was only more than fifty yuan.

"Damn, what do you do with this money, you don't need an ID card for the Internet café at night, fifteen yuan for one person, and we have ninety yuan for six people, which is still a lot worse, what should I do, boss?" said a yellow-haired student.

"You guys, you guys know how to buy snacks every day, so you don't know how to save money to go online, and you patronize your mouth every day. The ban-headed student, known as the boss, said.

"Big brother, please give us some money, we haven't eaten for a day, we're so hungry. Xiaoyu came to them and pleaded.

"Get out of the way, we don't have any money. The yellow-haired student impatiently pushed away the light rain.

"Wait a minute. The boss suddenly stopped Xiaoyu, rolled his eyes, squatted down and said kindly: "Have you been begging for a day?"

"Yes, big brother, what's wrong?" Xiaoyu said puzzled.

"Alas, you two are so pitiful, so let's do it, you probably heard it just now, we don't have much money on us, but we have money at home. You two follow us, and I'll go home and ask my parents for money for you, okay?" The boss touched Xiaoyu's head and said amiably.

The second monk in the back was confused, looking at the boss with an incredible head, and the yellow-haired student covered his mouth with his hand and leaned in the ear of another student and said, "What's wrong with the boss today, has he changed sex?"

"I don't know what kind of medicine he sells in his gourd, and besides, my brother's money is not enough, so he might go and ask for money for these two to ask for food? The student whispered.

Xiaoyu didn't speak, looked at Xiaofeng, Xiaofeng came over and said, "Thank you so much, big brother, let's go with you." ”

"Okay, let's go. The boss smiled, stood up and glanced at the people behind him, motioned for them to follow, and then took the lead and walked forward.

They walked to a small dilapidated alley behind the school, and the boss looked around at the lack of people, and said to the younger brother behind, "Hold them down." ”

The younger brothers understood, and directly pounced on them and pressed them to the ground. The boss of the board said proudly: "They have been asking for a day's food, they must have money on them, search for me, and we will have money to go online, and we can also buy Coke and snacks, hurry up and search." ”

As he spoke, he took the lead in searching the two of them, and sure enough, he found more than 100 yuan in change from his pocket.

"Do not take our money, I beg you do not take our money. Xiaofeng lay on the ground, beating and begging the other party.

"Haha, get rich. The boss of the board inch smashed the money on the palm of his hand, and he couldn't close his mouth happily.

After a few students drove the two of them, Xiao Feng went crazy to grab the money in the hands of the boss, and the boss kicked Xiao Feng against the wall and said fiercely: "Do you dare to rob me, beat me to death, stinky beggar." ”

Several younger brothers immediately punched and kicked Xiao Feng, Xiao Yu was crying beside him, pulling them, and said: Don't fight, please don't fight, please don't fight, you return the money to us, otherwise we will be beaten when we go back. ”

The boss kicked Xiaoyu away, and said viciously: "Go back and be beaten? Let you taste the taste of being beaten now." After speaking, he kicked Xiaoyu in the stomach again, and Xiaoyu couldn't stand up straight after being beaten, but he still crawled to pull the students who beat Xiaofeng, and he was hit several times when he pulled.

Several students were tired, so they stopped one after another, and the boss waved his hand and said, "Let's go, brothers, go online." And he took them with him.

There was only a small wind covered in bruises and a light rain with a blue nose and swollen face on the ground.

Xiaofeng lay on the ground motionless, Xiaoyu cried and shouted to pull him, and finally pulled Xiaofeng up, Xiaofeng sat on the ground motionless and in a daze like a fool.

Xiaoyu stopped crying, and sat on the ground with him. Their fear of Lao Li is deep in their bones, they don't care that they are beaten, they only care that their money is all robbed. They don't dare to go home, they don't have a penny, and when they get home, they have to be beaten again, they have no food, they have to sleep outside, they would rather let those students beat them again, as long as they can give them back.

It was almost dark, and after an afternoon of overcast, the temperature dropped as the sun went down, and it finally began to rain.

Seeing that it was raining, Xiaofeng pulled up Xiaoyu without saying a word, and walked towards the road with his broken bowl. Fortunately, their bowls were not broken, they didn't know that the money they were robbed of could buy a lot of bowls, they only knew that if the bowls were gone, they would definitely be beaten to death by Lao Li.

The rain became heavier and heavier, drenching the two of them to a soaked body, and Xiaofeng took Xiaoyu around looking for shelter from the rain.

They didn't feel that they had been drenched for a long time, their fear of Lao Li outweighed everything, it was not far from home, but they didn't dare to go home, so they walked blankly, they came to the door of a supermarket, hid under the eaves to avoid the rain, the supermarket owner saw them and drove them away like flies.

On a stormy night, two little beggars huddled under the damp bridge, the little girl had a high fever, and the little boy who was covered in bruises took off his only coat and put it on the little girl, and hugged her tightly.

"Brother Xiaofeng, when we grow up, I'll marry you, okay? I just don't know, can I live to grow up. ”

"Xiaoyu, don't talk nonsense, you will be fine, even if you die, I will always be with you. ”

A childhood promise is a lifelong promise.

They live and die together, and they are in the same boat through thick and thin.