6 February 1999.

Early morning.

The weather is slightly cool, and spring is strong.

Natsuki rode the tram to buy a basket of steamed buns on the street, and after eating, he rode the tram around the orphanage.

Before he knew it, he stopped outside the bars where he first met the little girl.

At this time, the children were eating in the cafeteria, and the courtyard was very empty, with only a few staff on duty clocking in and entering the orphanage.

In the past few days, Xia Shu has borrowed money from dozens of gangsters, large and small, in line with the idea of rain and dew, and even those bad organizations in colleges and universities.

Since then, he has left a mysterious legend in H City:

[The return of the king of soldiers, unifying black and white! ] 】

There are even many small organizations and bad teenagers who were beaten by Xia Shu and were convinced, and they wanted to follow Xia Shu and create a great cause.

But Natsuki took the money and left, not giving them a chance to take the oath at all.

After borrowing the money, Xia Shu went to apply for a fake certificate, and the name of the certificate was still filled in Mo Yi.

But H City is that big.

People in the gray area know each other.

Therefore, Xia Shu had just completed the fake certificate on the front foot, and his name on the back foot was remembered by the bosses, and warned his subordinates not to provoke a cross-river dragon named "Mo Yi".

Natsuki didn't care about that.

Anyway, he used Mo Yi's name, what does this have to do with his Xia Shu?

But after having money, Xia Shu, who was originally looking for a job, suddenly found that he didn't seem to need a job, because the price in 99 was very low, and 10,000 yuan was considered a well-off family.

As long as he doesn't spend money indiscriminately, even if he goes to the restaurant every day, this money is enough for him to live for a long time.

Subsequently, Natsuki used a fake certificate to rent a house near the orphanage, and also bought a tram to travel, and began his life in the orphanage.

Usually he stays in the house and doesn't go anywhere to read idle books, so he honestly recovers his energy and tries not to affect the current history as much as possible.

But only two days later, he missed the girl he met at the orphanage a few days ago.

He hasn't been back for the past few days.

But every time he looked at the orphanage in the dark, he could see a small figure on the iron railing—she had been waiting for him to appear.

Thinking about it like this, Natsuki's heart couldn't help but feel guilty.

He said he was going to see her.

But he broke his promise......

So—

After breakfast today, at the risk of being discovered by the night elder, Natsuki came to the iron railing of the orphanage and waited for the child to appear.

It didn't take long.

He saw a pink figure walking out of the courtyard building, and it was the little girl.

As soon as she came out, her eyes looked at the iron railing.

Then his body trembled, and then he ran towards Natsuki like the wind, as if he was afraid that Natsuki would disappear if he took one step too slowly.

"You...... There you are! ”

The little girl panted with her arms on her legs.

"Well, next time you don't have to run in such a hurry, be careful."

Natsuki said softly.

"Uh-huh!"

"I bought it for you."

Natsuki handed over a bottle of hot milk.

Because it's early in the morning, it's easy to have diarrhea if you drink cold.

So when he was waiting here, he deliberately warmed it up with energy.

Although energy is important to Natsuki now.

But—

It's just a bottle of hot milk, and it's wasteful, and it's not a lot anyway.

"Thank you."

The little girl took the milk happily, and then, as if remembering something, said, "I have something for you too!" ”

Natsuki looked over curiously, only to see the little girl holding a bottle in one hand and fumbling in her pocket with the other, and quickly took out a folded piece of paper from it.

She placed the bottle on the ground, carefully unfolded the paper, and said with a bright smile on her face, "Do you like it or not...... I wanted to give it to you two days ago, but you didn't come, but it's okay, it's good that you came. ”

Natsuki took it and looked at it, and it seemed to be a painting on the paper:

The young man in the painting is holding a black railing with both hands and a shallow smile on his face, with a blue sky and white clouds in the background, and birds soaring.

Let's be honest......

The little girl drew very abstractly.

Natsuki also recognized this as him through a combination of iron railings and encounters.

But if outsiders come to see it, they may say that this person is a labor prisoner, and he is singing "Tears in the Iron Window" at this time.

After all, the black iron railing is too misleading.

"I love it, thank you."

Natsuki put the painting away and said sincerely.

It doesn't matter if it's good-looking or not, but he did receive the little girl's heart.

"If you like it."

The little girl picked up the bottle from the ground and said shyly: "I can't draw well, not as good as our art teacher, but I'm studying hard, I'll draw another one for you another day, it's definitely better than this one!" ”

"This one is good."

"What's your name, big brother?"

The little girl's topic changed quickly, and it seemed to be a question that had been thought of a long time ago.

Natsuki thought about it, but in the end he didn't say his real name.

He was afraid that after he said it and the old man knew about it, his future self would be forced to change his name.

"My name is Mo Yi."

"Brother Mo Yi, my name is Ning Xiaoyu, you can call me Xiaoyu."

"Hmm."

Xia Shu nodded, thinking about the name Ning Xiaoyu in his heart, but unfortunately he didn't have any impression.

This shows that after Xia Shu remembered, Ning Xiaoyu was no longer in the orphanage.

Otherwise, he would have remembered that there was this girl in the courtyard.

But that's fine.

This also means that in a few years, she will be adopted, and she will not have to stay in this orphanage.

"How old are you?"

"I'm eleven years old!"

"Eleven......year-old"

Natsuki was thoughtful.

He secretly said in his heart: "Ten years older than me, I am 17 this year, so in the original time and space, you should already be 28, right?" ”

This age is about the same as Zhiyao.

But Zhiyao seems to be older than her, and she's almost 29 this year, right?

Maybe you can ask Zhiyao when you go back, she should have some impression of Xiaoyu.

"Brother Mo Yi, are you in a hurry to leave today?"

"There's no hurry."

"Can you come in and play? I can show you around our orphanage...... There's a rockery in the back with water and little goldfish, and I can take you to see them! ”

Xiao Yu said in a milky voice, and at the same time pointed behind her with her white and tender fingers, the location of the rockery.

Natsuki naturally knows about the rockery.

It seems that the rockery was built in nine years, and it has begun to be put into use at this time, and the appearance is pleasing to the eye.

But by the time he could remember, the rockery was already dilapidated.

The plastic on it has fallen off, and the circulating water has stopped flowing, not to mention the little goldfish, and even the wild grass has grown taller than the current Xiaoyu.