Chapter 370: Uncle Dumb and His Children
Therefore, in this world, Li's melodious singing path was unfavorable, until the two of them were kicked out of a nightclub at that time.
Under the dim street lamp, in the flying snowflakes, sixteen-year-old Li Youyang patted Li Yiyi, whose face was red from the cold, and said with a self-deprecating smile: "Yiyi, let's go back, why doesn't anyone want to listen to a song we sing?"
"However, we didn't have nothing to gain this night, at least there was more"
Li Youyang spread out his palm, and there were many crumpled banknotes with a denomination of five cents a piece, as well as coins.
"About twenty or thirty dollars, Yiyi, do you like it? If you like it, we'll pay it back tomorrow." ”
"Don't brother, let's not come out tomorrow, because this is all money given by others, and they all treat us as beggars, if you take this kind of money every day, I don't think you will be happy, and I will not be happy. ”
"Haha! Yes, Yiyi, what you said is so good! Those who give us money may be kind, but if you earn such money every day, my brother will really be very unhappy, and you will also suffer. Although we want to do our best to earn some tuition for your sister Xiaoying to go to college in the future, at least I have to listen to you sing and earn it in a dignified manner. So, since the road of selling and singing doesn't work, we won't come tomorrow, my brother has hands and feet, and I think I can find other jobs to help you raise money for Sister Xiaoying!"
"Hmm!"
At that time, Li Youyang didn't care how much the 9-year-old Li Yiyi could understand, anyway, after this incident, he didn't want to continue singing, because although he was born in an orphanage, Aunt Xie took care of them really well, although the conditions could not be compared to too many people, but at least they could have enough food and clothing. And let them be fully educated and have a normal child's childhood.
In the orphanage, Li Youyang, Li Yiyi, and Chen Ying actually had a very happy childhood, and they didn't have any tragic experience of begging, so at this time, once he was regarded as a beggar by others, his innate strong self-esteem simply did not allow him to haunt such occasions again.
So. It's not so much that he is talking to 9-year-old Li Yiyi, but rather to himself, that's right, Chen Ying is about to be admitted to university, Li Youyang doesn't want Aunt Xie to work so hard anymore, and wants to save Chen Ying's first year's tuition through his own efforts, but the tuition is tuition, and dignity is dignity. What happened to Li Youyang at that time was, in the final analysis, a realistic version of the story that was not a smacking food, but it was just one night. On the road of music, Li Youyang really retreated completely.
Reality gave him a hard blow in a different way at the beginning, so that all his enthusiasm for practicing the piano in the orphanage at that time came to naught, isn't it just to raise tuition for Chen Ying, why suffer this hardship and suffer from the eyes of others? It is more dignified than this to go to the construction site to move bricks.
Therefore, thinking of Li Youyang's little hand that dragged up without saying a word, and with a heroic momentum that his brother would move bricks tomorrow, the brother and sister walked back against the wind and snow.
But sometimes life is so wonderful. When you are hesitating, when you are desperate for something. You'll always meet the right people on your journey!
There is no doubt that Li Youyang and Li Yiyi met the right person, that person is the dumb uncle he called and the five children of the dumb uncle.
On the corner of the street, in front of a low, abandoned color steel house, a middle-aged man with a face full of vicissitudes is carrying five children. Three girls and two boys, they are not big, and they are the same age as Li Yiyi, or even younger. Six people are happily building a snowman, and on the broken tricycle next to the snowman are the scraps that the dumb uncle has collected or picked up after a hard day's work.
Turn the corner. Li Youyang, who was pushing the stereo and holding Li Yiyi, met them unexpectedly!
Dumb uncle, not tall, with a vicissitudes of life, a slightly fat figure, and a very ordinary appearance, but he can be remembered at first sight. Just like the young Li Youyang has been very impressed by this person recently, Li Youyang doesn't know when the dumb uncle came to Cannes, as if he suddenly appeared in the recent month, but he clearly remembers this person.
A middle-aged man, five children, a broken tricycle, a simple foothold, and a full of scraps, some of which were recovered by the dumb uncle shaking a rattle, and some who picked up the waste with the children, this is indeed impressive.
But the most impressive thing is that whenever Li Youyang sees them on the street, the dumb uncle just keeps gesturing, or babbling and talking to his children, as the name suggests, the dumb uncle is indeed a mute.
Let's talk about his children, three girls, two boys, and even when they first appeared in Cannes, they also alarmed the old-fashioned Aunt Xie, who once found the door of the dumb uncle's house, planning to welcome the five children into the orphanage through normal channels.
Because from the communication with the children and the gestures of the dumb uncle, Aunt Xie learned that some of the five children were abandoned by their parents, and some were orphans who lost their parents.
For example, the twin sisters are said to have been abandoned by a minor couple who can't afford to raise them, and even when the younger sister Sakura was rescued by the dumb uncle, it was also such a cold winter, a small hand has been severely frostbitten, and the dumb uncle had to take Sakura to have an amputation when he found them a few years ago, and at the same time, he spent his last savings because of Sakura's treatment, and even sold the only small house, so as to start a life of scavenging and wandering in various cities.
This is the story of the twins Xiaoice and Sakura.
Another girl among the five children is named Xiao Yang, the name chosen by the dumb uncle. It means that I hope that this girl can grow up like a little poplar. Without him, according to the description of the dumb uncle and the testimony of many people, Xiao Yang's fate is even more tragic, and even said that it is magnificent, her parents protected her with their own flesh and blood at the last moment of a great disaster, leaving the hope of life to their daughter, and the two went to another world together! It happened that the dumb uncle walked through that disaster, and then Xiao Yang began to rely on the dumb uncle and the two of them until Xiaoice and Sakura joined, and then there were Xiaohu and Xiaoqiang one after another.
Unlike the Xiaoice Sakura sisters, some bad habits in this world are actually no different from those on earth, and if there are no physical defects, the average family will not abandon boys.
Xiaohu and Xiaoqiang are boys, but they have also been abandoned, the reason is very simple, Xiaohu has congenital epilepsy, and Xiaoqiang is born with intellectual retardation!
However, no matter what the experience of these children was like or what it was, Uncle Dumb still took it all on his own with his weak body at that time, so after learning about the cause and effect of all the things, Uncle Dumb and his children touched Aunt Xie very greatly. So he took the initiative to ask that all five children be taken to the orphanage.
But in the end, none of the five children were willing to come to the orphanage, and after many years of mutual affection, they had inseparable feelings with the dumb uncle, and at the same time, the dumb uncle did not want to be separated from the children like this. This is like no matter how great the glory and wealth are, it can't be worth a blood-related flesh and blood separation!
Although Uncle Dumb and the children are not related by blood, Li Youyang at that time was already able to understand that this was a great emotion that was better than a relative, just like between him and Li Yiyi, Chen Ying and Aunt Xie. (To be continued.) )
PS: Well, it's a foreshadowing for one or several songs