Bangkok.

Arched stone slab bridge.

The pedestrians on the road did not stop for the old man who was knocked to the ground.

Since the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis, everyone has been in danger, and everyone has no time to care about the lives of others, only desperately looking for a job!

The figure of hurrying away is the best footnote of their life.

"Uncle, are you alright!?"

Regardless of whether the old man understood Chinese or not, Qi Yuan couldn't care about the numbing pain coming from the Tianling Gai, and quickly helped the old man up.

"You two kids, why are you running so fast, I'm about to knock this old bone apart!"

The old man actually spoke Chinese, which surprised Xiaojie and Qi Yuan!

Qi Yuan and Xiaojie supported the old man left and right, for fear that the old man would fall again.

"Stop!"

The trafficker shouted with sticks in his hands.

The place where Qi Yuan and Xiaojie stood was a little higher, on a raised stone bridge.

Following the sound, I saw the traffickers chasing them again.

Suddenly, the little faces of the two turned pale with fright!

Qi Yuan and Xiaojie wanted to run away, but they found that their arms were being grabbed by something.

When they turned around, it was the old man who grabbed their arms.

"Uncle, there are bad people chasing us! You just let us go! Thank you! Qi Yuan said.

The pleading eyes of the two little boys touched the old man, "Come! Come with me! ”

The old man also saw the human trafficker, and there was a light in his eyes, which was the confidence of the strong.

However, the glorious light in those eyes disappeared in an instant.

"Humph! If the old man had been more than 20 years younger, you hateful human traffickers would have been planted here today. ”

Heroes Twilight!

The old man eventually gave up on the idea of fighting the bad guys head-on.

Before Xiaojie and Qi Yuan could react, the old man was already pulling them towards the depths of an alley.

Despite the staggering of the old man, they hid in a crowded grocery store before the traffickers caught up.

"Kids, you're safe!" The old man's tone of voice carried a hint of the spirit of a strong man.

The light in the room had been turned on by the old man, and the dimness was suddenly replaced by light.

Xiao Jie and Qi Yuan subconsciously covered their eyes because the light was too exciting.

"Grandpa, thank you so much!"

"Thank you, old man!"

Qi Yuan and Xiaojie said some words of gratitude to the old man.

Spent a quarter of an hour in this grocery store.

The danger has passed, Qi Yuan and Xiaojie were about to say goodbye to the old man, but they didn't expect the old man to speak:

"You must have been trafficked! If you don't mind, you can stay with me first, because I'm short of two guys in the grocery store. ”

The old man has lived for most of his life, and decades of life experience tell him:

These two kids have run into transnational human traffickers!

The old man saw the predicament of the two children.

Even though he didn't need a boy at his little grocery store, he was determined to keep his two children behind.

The two of them are young and wandering in a foreign country, just thinking about it makes people unbearable!

Qi Yuan and Xiao Jie had nowhere to go, and they glanced at each other and nodded at the old man's proposal.

★★★

At this time, it was already dawning in Bangkok, but the light inside the grocery store was lit by electric lights, giving the illusion that the land outside was still shrouded in darkness.

The old man took two small horses and asked the two little boys to sit down.

Last night, when the old man saw the tired expressions of the two children, he didn't ask anything more, and directly let the children sleep.

At this time, seeing the two children's full expressions, he began to introduce himself:

"The old man's name is Ou Yu, and he is an old overseas Chinese who has lived in Thailand for more than 50 years, children, what about you?"

After sitting down, Xiao Jie really saw the appearance of the old man clearly, the angular Chinese face, the scar on the left cheek bone and the heavy wrinkles on the forehead all made people feel that this was an old man who had gone through vicissitudes.

"My name is Qi Yuan, I am 8 years old this year, this is my younger brother I just recognized, his name is Wen Jie, he is 5 years old this year. We were both trafficked here. ”

When Qi Yuan introduced himself, Xiaojie nodded at the old man.

In the next time, it was basically the old man talking, and Xiaojie and Qi Yuan listening.

It turned out that the old man Ou Yu was an anti-. Japanese soldiers, in the early years here to fight against the Japanese army, after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, he married a local Thai woman, although the two lived happily after marriage, but they did not have a child for various reasons.

My wife passed away 2 years ago, and in the past 2 years, Ou Yu has been living alone.

"Alas! is old, and there is no one who will die in old age! Alas! ”

The old man lit a cigarette and exhaled a large smoke, which just covered half of his face and set off his loneliness.

After listening to Old Man Ou Yu's narration, Qi Yuan spoke:

"Grandpa Ouyu, if you don't dislike it, you will be our grandfather in the future, and we will take care of you!"

"In the future, you will be our grandfather, and we will raise you to be fat for nothing!"

For 5-year-old Xiaojie, his vocabulary is limited, but fortunately, his memory is very strong, and he vaguely remembered a word that his "second aunt" said - white and fat, so he said it casually.

Xiao Jie's words actually amused the old man and Qi Yuan at the same time.

"Good! From now on, you two will be my own grandchildren! ”

As he spoke, Old Man Ou Yu hugged Xiaojie and Qi Yuan in his arms.

The sudden happiness and joy surged into the heart of the old man, and a warm current surged into his eyes, and the old man who had not cried for 2 years was in tears!

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

A knock on the door interrupted the mood of the trio.

"Lao Ou, why don't you open the door yet!"

The one who knocked on the door was an old man, also an overseas Chinese.

In the past two years, he often played chess with Ou Yu.

In fact, the old man was also afraid that Ou Yu would be too lonely to live alone, and the old man thought that his daily arrival could more or less alleviate Ou Yu's loneliness.

Today, the old man showed up at the door of the grocery store on time.

But he was surprised to find that the grocery store had not yet opened.

Ou Yu opened the door and said in a tone twice as high as usual:

"Old Mitou, come, let me introduce you, these are the two grandsons I just recognized."

Lao Mitou was puzzled at first, but after listening to Ou Yu's explanation, his eyes lit up, "Old Ou, you made money this time!" I envy you now! Haha~"

Qi Yuan and Wen Jie also laughed.

Today, the old man Ou Yu is not open, and the whole day is spent in laughter.

In the next few months, with the help of Xiaojie and Qi Yuan at the grocery store, Old Man Ou Yu and Old Mitou could spend the whole day playing chess.

The time came to August 27, 1997, which was a very special day for Xiaojie, and his desire to play football was germinated on this day.

After becoming a star, he has said on many occasions, "It was Dennis Bergkamp who put me on the path of football!" He's my idol forever! ”

Opposite the grocery store is a small restaurant.

A slightly dilapidated television was showing Leicester City's home game against Arsenal during the 1997-98 Premier League season.

The cheers from inside the restaurant quickly caught Jay's attention, and he couldn't understand why people were cheering at the TV screen.

His gaze then turned to the television screen, trying to see it.

Five-year-old Xiaojie is a mountain girl who doesn't know what football is.

But when he saw a man dressed in yellow No. 10 in the picture, kicking a black and white sphere "miraculously", he felt his blood boiling.

At this time, Xiaojie searched his intestines and scraped his stomach, and the only thing that came to mind was a word that his father often hung on his lips - miraculous!

In a few months, Xiaojie has been able to basically understand Thai.

After all, a child's ability to accept a foreign language is very talented!

He pricked up his ears and faintly heard the voice on the TV screen:

In the 89th minute of the game, Arsenal's No. 10 Bergkamp suddenly cut in from the left rib of the Lites City penalty area, he received a pass from his teammates, unloaded the ball in the air with his right foot, shook the ball in the air with his left foot, and then touched the ball with his right foot and left foot in the air to completely shake off the opposing defender, and pushed the goal with his left foot.

It took him just four touches to send the ball into the opposition goal. It's incredible! The Ice Prince! It was a great goal! ”

Although Xiaojie couldn't understand what the commentator was saying, he was already shocked by the performance of the man wearing the No. 10 jersey!

Ice Prince, Xiao Jie remembered this name for the first time.