In winter, Ellen is covered in snow, and the branches of the trees are pressed with heavy white snow, shaking off from time to time. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The tall cedars are hung with small golden bells, and countless small colored stripes are tied with various trinkets and small gifts.

The lights flickered and glowed warmly.

The snow is long, and people come and go.

Small footprints in the snow spread all the way.

Qianling staggered and fell to the snow, unable to get up again.

After a few days of aimless spinning, she was cold and hungry, and her whole body was shivering.

Snowflakes fell, covering her in layers, almost drowning her entirely.

I vaguely felt that people around her were surrounding her, and it seemed that someone was talking to her, but she couldn't hear anything clearly.

So sleepy...... I'm so hungry......

Her eyelashes drooped slightly, and she closed her eyes tiredly.

It's better to just go to sleep.

Early morning.

A ray of morning light slanted through the window, and the air was filled with the faint scent of flowers.

Qianling frowned, and her clear amber eyes opened slightly.

She looked around, the small room was dimly lit, and six three-bunk beds were crammed together.

The patched white jacket on her body was nowhere to be found, and she got out of bed and walked slowly to the door in some shabby and thin clothes.

A small courtyard, full of roses, fragrant.

Outside the door, a group of children were playing and grabbing, some were whistling excitedly, and some were screaming.

Later, Qianling learned that it was a shelter, and because it was full of roses, people called it the Rose Garden.

Most of the children in this shelter are young and homeless, but there are also some people with disabilities, homeless people, and lonely elderly people.

A skinny woman is the administrator here, and she's always screaming and yelling at the kids.

The children here are very fond of fighting, because no one cares, except for the so-called "visits" of the superiors once every few months, they rarely see the thin woman.

On the day of the visit, the children are given a delicious meal, a hearty meal of meat, salads, a variety of desserts, and sometimes a new beautiful dress, albeit for a while, which will have to be taken away when the leaders leave.

Every day the children have a designated place to clean and their own clothes to wash, so the houses in the Rose Garden are always clean and tidy.

Here, the older, or the taller, stronger kids, always have enough pride and capital to bully the thin or young kids.

Therefore, in the Rose Garden, it is often the area where one child has to clean a few or even a dozen children, and it is always a child who has to wash several large pots of clothes.

Children who are bullied tend to be submissive, because resisting will only lead to more excessive bullying and even beatings.

Qianling is not treated well by children here.

A ten-year-old child who still has no wings is rare even in such a shelter.

The children, led by Tiger Boy, gradually began to play tricks on Qianling.

Because she is one of the few children who dares to resist.

Compared to those children who can't fight back and scold and don't fight back, bullying her seems to be more interesting.

Caterpillars squirmed between clothes, clothes and sheets torn into strips, and they fell asleep in the cold winter night and were woken up by a basin of cold water......

There were so many things like this that there were even more times when a crowd would surround her and beat her.

It's probably just one of the games to pass the time of boredom, but the kids still enjoy it.

On that day, several children led by Tiger Boy surrounded Qianling as usual, first mocking and provoking, and then starting to move.

Qianling didn't intend to ignore them, but when she saw that they were talking more and more, she even pushed and grabbed her hair, and as soon as she put the basin in her hand, she grabbed a hand and bit it hard!

"Ahh

"You, you dare to bite me!" Tiger Boy looked at the deep tooth marks on his hand and was bloody, and tears suddenly burst into his eyes.

"Hit me!" Tiger Boy blew his arms and glared at his beard.

Several boys jumped up and punched and kicked.

Qianling squatted on the ground to protect her head, feeling her fists raining down, biting her lip.

The action suddenly stopped.

She looked up in surprise, only to see the boys around her fall to the ground with blue noses and swollen faces.

"A group of scum, what kind of ability is it to bully women. The voice was tender and cold.

The brown-haired boy stood in front of her, his face full of arrogance, he looked about the same height as her, he looked very thin, but he seemed to be quite powerful.

Seeing her crouching on the ground and staring blankly at him, the boy reached out and helped her up.

"Are you alright?" the boy looked at her, and finally his eyes fell on the small pointed tiger teeth in her mouth, and his eyes were strange, "...... It's amazing. ”

Qianling scratched her hair embarrassedly: "Who let them always bully me......"

"How often do they bully you?" the boy frowned.

"Hmm......" she suddenly remembered, looking up at him curiously, "You're from the Rose Garden too, how come I haven't seen you before?"

"I'm not here sometimes, you're new here, and of course you haven't seen me. ”

"Not here......? What are you going to do when you eat and sleep?" Qianling tilted her head.

"Hey, of course I have my way. The boy looked a little smug.

"I'm Linchuan, what's your name?" he looked at her earnestly.

"Qianling. A smile appeared on his gray face, like a glimmer of sunshine behind a dark cloud.

He looked at her stunned, reached out and patted her shoulder solemnly, and then gave a thumbs up to himself, grinning:

"From now on, you can follow me. ”

After getting to know Linchuan, Qianling's life was a little better.

Although all kinds of ridicule and teasing are still there, at least when Linchuan was in the Rose Garden, no one dared to bully her blatantly.

Sometimes, though, she was genuinely curious about what he was doing when he wasn't in the Rose Garden.

"I'm working. He tore off a leaf and played with it.

"Work?" Qianling sat on the trunk of the tree and shook her legs, looking at him with wide eyes of curiosity.

"Like being a newsboy delivering newspapers, helping the store run errands or something, the money earned can be used to buy food to fill your stomach. ”

The meal in the Rose Garden is vegetable porridge day after day, which is actually a bowl of soup with a few grains of rice, and most of these children are malnourished when they eat it all day long.

"I'm going to get out of this place someday. Lin Chuan looked up at the golden light of the sunset on the horizon, and his voice was firm as if he had made a vow.

Qianling looked at him with a somewhat envious tone: "I also want to work, but ......"

She looked at the emptiness behind her, and hung her head in frustration.

Whether it's running errands or delivering newspapers, not only does the lack of wings affect her speed, but she can't go up many high-rise buildings at all.

"Uh...... Don't be too discouraged, there must be work that you don't need to fly to do. He reassured.

"Well, I'll look for it on the street tomorrow, and if I can find a job and save money, one day I can leave here and live on my own......"

She looked at the rosy sunset in the sky, her hands clenched silently.

The thought of one day being able to leave here and start a new life made her so excited that she couldn't sleep.

Maybe it's the hope that burns in my heart, like a light in the night.

Although it is still so far away, it is so real and so clear.

She ran forward step by step, gradually learning to grit her teeth and persevere, never giving up.

Linchuan mobilized his gang of "brothers", searched everywhere, and finally found a job that did not require flying.

A busy life begins.

Every night, a tired Qianling returned to her small bed, and carefully put the few copper coins she earned today into the piggy bank by the starlight outside the window, and then carefully hid them.

In the Rose Garden, children who are caught saving money without permission will not only be confiscated, but may also be severely criticized or even beaten.

One copper coin, two copper coins, piled up in a small piggy bank, and the seeds of hope grew day by day.

Qianling was wrapped in a thin quilt, and the snoring of the children on the top bunk was in her ears.

She looked out the window at the faintly twinkling starlight,

Say goodnight to yourself.