Fifteen years ago, twelve-year-old Lu Yu already knew what it was to observe words and feelings, but even so, he still couldn't do what he wanted.

His father, Lu Guqing, was a world-class architect admired by everyone, and he played the role of architect well, but he failed in his duties as husband and father. He was so immersed in his own world that he was so obsessed with architecture that he forgot about his wife and his children, and his mother died of a frustration. At that time, Lu Yu, who was still young, was grief-stricken in the face of his mother's death, and gradually became alienated from his father, but his father did not seem to feel the rift between father and son, and just blindly forced him to be an excellent child in his Lu Guqing's mind.

A few years later, his father remarried, and Lu Yu didn't understand how a person could so easily forget the person who had been in bed with him for seven years, and wouldn't he have palpitations when he looked back at the newcomer sleeping next to him in a midnight dream. But no matter what Lu Yu thinks, this is already an established fact, and all he can do is accept the facts.

His stepmother, Ke Qiao, is a gorgeous woman, but also a woman who is inconsistent, she only talks sweetly in front of his father, but she is extremely disgusted with Lu Yu, and of course this disgust is only shown when the two of them are together. For example, she would beat him hard with a rattan, and his father would only care about him when he saw the injury, but even if she cared, she would have already made excuses. Not long after they got married, Ke Qiao's lower belly became more and more prominent, and he knew that in the future, there would be one more person to share his father with. He didn't have too many emotions, he was alone in this world anyway, and he had been like this since his mother died.

That day, as usual on Saturdays and Sundays, he locked himself in his room, and his father warned him to stay away from Cojo, because she had fallen once before her, but she had to be pushed by Lu Yu. But what was different from usual was that Ke Qiao asked him to accompany her to the hospital for a check-up, and Lu Yu agreed, because he heard from his father that she was about to give birth, and if there was any situation, he would take her to the hospital immediately. He didn't like Ke Qiao anymore, but that little life was innocent.

He slept in the car and woke up with no idea where he had been taken.

"Where is this?"

"You don't want to go home again. Lu Yu, you are a smart child, Lu Guqing, me, and the child in my belly, we are a family, you are the superfluous one, do you understand?"

"He's my dad. ”

"He has only legal responsibilities to you, and in his heart he just treats you as a child living under the same roof. Do you want to make a bet with me, believe it or not, even if you get lost, your dad won't come looking for you. Ke Qiao's beautiful face smiled like a flower when he said this, but it was extremely distorted in Lu Yu's eyes.

Ke Qiao left, she didn't take Lu Yu with her, in fact, it was not difficult for Lu Zhen to find a way back, but he didn't do it, just like Ke Qiao said, he also wanted to know if his father would come to him. He stayed where he was for a day, pretending to be deaf and dumb whenever anyone spoke to him, and the next day he was taken to an orphanage called Guiyeyuan.

"He seemed to be mute. ”

"We'll try to find his parents. Several policemen said to the aunt who returned to the courtyard before leaving.

Although Guiye Courtyard is in the middle of the city, it is terrifyingly quiet. Lu Yu was taken to a room, and his aunt thought he was deaf, so she pointed to the bed and signaled that he could sleep on it. The environment of the house is still good, there is no one in the house, and I don't know where the children have gone. At this time, the two cleaning aunts chatted outside the house.

"I heard in the office just now that Shen Youxia's parents have come again?" said one of them.

"Yes, they've been here four or five times, and Shen Youxia won't go with them. Come to think of it, it's been fifteen years, and no one will feel comfortable in their hearts. ”

"Shen Youxia's temperament has always been like this, if he refuses you, it will be useless to put a knife on his neck. ”

"Seriously, with the current situation of Guiye Courtyard, if you can go, you should go as much as possible, and you may not know where to eat and sleep in the future. ”

"yes, hey, it's really hard for these kids. ”

"Hey, isn't this the one who came here today, why don't you go to dinner yet?" one of the aunts found Lu Yu and said to him, and then, as if remembering that he couldn't hear, she wiped the soapy water on the apron on her body, pulled him and left.

Lu Yu was taken to a spacious and bright classroom, there were many children sitting on the ground, but none of them were normal, Lu Yu gasped, and a chill rose from his heart. In the corner, a child about the same age as him watched him and let out a strange cry, Lu Yu avoided his gaze and found a place to cover himself and sit.

Two aunts came in with a large pot and a small pot, the big pot was a pot of porridge mixed with a little greens, and the small pot was vegetables, shredded potatoes. Lu Yu's meal was shocking, the children and aunts who were in a slightly better situation beat the food and brought it to them, and the children and aunts who were in a slightly worse situation took turns to pick it up and feed it, and the feeding speed was like cramming, and there was no chewing process at all. This scene made Lu Yu stunned.

One of the aunts said, "I can finally rest for the day after today, and I'm really tired." ”

Another replied, "It's been a long time since we've had a volunteer in our hospital, and it's been a really hard day." ”

"Eh, what about Shen Youxia?"

In the office, his parents came again. A voice replied.

"Then who will deliver food to Gu Liuying?"

A child with a disability in both legs sat in a wheelchair and raised his hand while eating, and replied, "I, me, me, and he told me to send it." ”

"Then I'll put it here, and you can bring it to her later." ”

"This Gu Liuying is ten years old, so why doesn't autism get a little better? What if she really loses her in the Ye Courtyard like this? ”

"Isn't there Shen Youxia then? He protects Gu Liuying the most. An aunt said with a smile.

"It's not clear, in case this Shen Youxia goes with his parents......"

Lu Yu put down the dishes and chopsticks and walked out of the classroom after eating, he walked in the courtyard downstairs, and when he passed by the big window of the office, he saw five people in the office, one was the dean of Guiye Academy, two middle-aged men and women should be a couple, the woman was still holding a child in her hands, and there was a tall boy in front of them, this boy was Shen Youxia as the aunts said? Lu Yu thought to himself, and couldn't help but stand by the window and look at it for a while.

"Okay, I promise, but I have one condition. Shen Youxia said.

"We promise you whatever the conditions. The middle-aged man nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice, and wiped the tears from his eyes.

"I'm going to take Hotaru with me. ”

"This ......" The middle-aged man looked embarrassed and looked at the middle-aged woman again.

The child in the middle-aged woman's arms began to cry again, and she patted him gently with her hand.

"You don't have to worry about all her food and clothing, you just need to give her a home. Shen Youxia's expression was indifferent, and he couldn't hear a trace of emotion.

"That's not what I meant. The middle-aged man said a little crampedly.

The child still couldn't stop crying, and the middle-aged woman lost her patience: "Okay, okay, promise." ”

Lu Yu left, is there really not a slightly normal and healthy child in this courtyard except for this Shen Youxia? Why would parents bear to abandon their own flesh and blood? Lu Yu thought.

He wandered around the courtyard of Guiye, and went around to the right side of the main embrace, and in the distance he saw that the disabled child had just handed the meal to a little girl, but she did not eat, but only looked at the disabled child, and the disabled child seemed to explain something to her, and finally she sat down and ate quietly.

That is Gu Liuying, who is autistic? Lu Yu once saw a report about autism on TV, calling this kind of child "star child", like a star in the sky, one person and one world, twinkling alone. Don't know what her world is like?

Lu Yu looked at Gu Liuying from afar, she looked so thin and small, she only ate half a bowl of rice.

When she had finished her meal, she sat down under the crumpled old banyan tree, playing with a pile of rocks under the tree. Sometimes a butterfly flies in front of her eyes, she gets up and laughs and says something to it and makes a "goodbye" gesture, sometimes she picks up an unknown little bug from the ground and puts it in the palm of her hand and places it on her pile of stones, in short, she always behaves strangely.

Lu Yu couldn't suppress his curiosity about her, he wanted to know what was going on in her alone world?

For several days, it was the disabled child who brought her food, and Lu Yu would hide behind the old banyan tree after every meal to secretly look at her, listen to what she said and see what she did, she didn't talk much, and intermittently, but he could always listen to a few words, she would ask "did you come to me" when she saw butterflies flying by, and she would always help them up when she saw the flowers on the flower bed next to her being bent by the dew...... Lu Yu began to feel as if her world was a paradise. She also likes to pile up stones, repeating them again and again, but the stones she piles are not completely disorganized, she uses the intertwined places of the old banyan tree as the base, and changes dozens or even hundreds of different patterns on it.

Is this modeling? Lu Yu couldn't help but think in his heart, he had seen his father do this many times, and felt that it was too familiar, Lu Yu looked at her model carefully, delicate and original, she was really talented in this area.

Lu Yu looked at her like this, and suddenly, he hoped that she could know him.