On the day Wei Xiaoche's college entrance examination results came down, after dinner, his uncle and aunt transferred all his parents' property to him, and his uncle and aunt have been keeping it for Wei Xiaoche as guardians for the past two years, although at the beginning of next month, Wei Xiaoche will only turn eighteen years old, but he was still given it on this day, which also means that he will be an adult in the future!

This summer, Wei Xiaoche did not return to Dingzhou, and it will be a long time before he returns when school starts, so this time he also wants to accompany his uncle and aunt who have taken care of him for two years.

He has been learning taekwondo since he was a child, and he also passed the second rank of the black belt two years ago, although he has not taken the exam since then, nor has he participated in competitions, but Wei Xiaoche insists on going to the gym to practice as long as he is on vacation in order to maintain a good state.

And the gym he went to recently opened a branch near the elementary school. Wei Xiaoche's strength is obvious to all, knowing that he has just finished the college entrance examination, they asked him to be a coach to help deal with emergencies.

It happened that Wei Xiaoche wanted to find a part-time job during the holidays, so he naturally became the coach of the branch hall.

The people who study in the branch hall are some children who have no foundation, and most of them are because their parents go to work in the summer vacation, and no one takes them, so cram school has become a place for children.

There are always a variety of cram schools in the vicinity of the school, and this street is no exception, and in order to attract parents to send their children in, almost no matter what is taught, each home will have a very large floor-to-ceiling window that can see the situation inside.

Every day when Wei Xiaoche rides to work, he passes by the morning market, which sells all kinds of things, breakfast, vegetables, fruits, and even flowers and clothes.

Every day, when the market was about to close, the crowd dispersed, and the vendors began to put away their stalls, throwing some not very good vegetables and fruits on the side of the road, and the sanitation workers would pick them up.

At first, he didn't pay attention, but after a week or so, he could always see a dirty child, picking and picking behind the vendors every day when the market was closed, picking up and putting the good-looking and edible ones into his schoolbag, and it could be seen that the schoolbag was also picked up.

After operating for a while, the business of the gym was not very good, and there were not many people who signed up to study, so in order to attract more people to sign up, the gym prepared an open class at the door.

On the day of the open class, many parents of the children came to watch, and for a while, a large crowd gathered outside the gym.

Wei Xiaoche, who has grown to 1.88 meters, wears a white taekwondo uniform and gives lessons to the children, Wei Xiaoche is very easy-going in class, so the children like him very much and listen to him.

And after the whole class, what Wei Xiaoche did the most was to half-kneel on the ground, correct their movements, tie the belt that fell off, and hardly stood up in the whole class.

Wei Xiaoche finished class, felt very tired, just sat aside to rest, a few girls and mothers came to ask him for contact information or something, he was sent to the place to sign up, just when he was about to get off work, he saw the child picking up things in the morning market.

The kid was very cautious, and when he saw that the teacher who taught taekwondo just now was looking at him, he turned around and ran away, so that until now, Wei Xiaoche didn't tell if he was a boy or a girl.

It wasn't until the next day, when he was in class, that he saw the child standing out of the window, watching them go to class, and from time to time he made a few gestures, and then he saw that he was a boy.

Unlike when he was seen before, he had a rope tied around his waist, which seemed out of place with the dirty clothes he was wearing.

Wei Xiaoche could see at a glance that it was the belt on the taekwondo uniform that he thought, and when Wei Xiaoche got out of class, he saw that the little boy was gone again.

In the following days, the little boy could be seen in class every day, and the little boy slipped away quietly before he got out of class, as if he was afraid of being discovered.

So on the afternoon of the rest, Wei Xiaoche came to the gym at the end of class to see if he could meet him, when he arrived, the little boy unexpectedly lay in front of the window and watched, Wei Xiaoche bought a few lollipops in the store near the cram school, and walked over to him and said, "Do you want to learn?" ”

The boy seemed to be frightened, he trembled with fright, quickly looked back, recognized it as the teacher in the classroom, and was about to run, but was grabbed by Wei Xiaoche: "You don't have to be afraid, I'm the coach here, I just watch you come every day, just ask you!" ”

Seeing that the boy did not answer, he asked again, "Do you eat candy?" ”

The little boy seemed to have been caught, and he kept thinking about whether he couldn't watch outside, whether he had to pay money when he saw outside, and what if he didn't have any money. So he stood there honestly, and he could see that he was scared, and he didn't speak.

"Okay!" As he spoke, Wei Xiaoche opened a lollipop and put it in his mouth, but a child is a child after all, staring at the lollipop the whole time, so he opened the other one and gave it to him: "That!" ”

This time, the little boy picked it up and put it in his mouth, but a piece of candy made a sound of chirping.

After a while, the children in the gym got out of class and were picked up by the parents outside the door, and only the two of them were left.

The sun basked for a day, so the summer evening was still a little hot, the sun slowly set the mountain, the dividing line between sunlight and shadow just fell on Wei Xiaoche's shoulders, the little boy because he was small, all his body was in a cool place, and Wei Xiaoche's head was all exposed to the sun, so they chatted about one big and one small.

Wei Xiaoche saw that his candy had been eaten, and the stick was still biting in his mouth, so he stuffed the remaining sugar in his hand into the pocket of his clothes and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Xiao Yi." The boy finally spoke, though it sounded like a mosquito.

"Xiao Yi...... Where do you live? I'll send you home in a moment! ”

"No, you don't! I'm not a child! This time it was a little louder.

Wei Xiaoche looked at this little little dot with a hint of a smile and asked him, "Then how old are you?" ”

“...... Nine-and-a-half-year-old. As he spoke, he finally took out the lollipop stick from his mouth.

"Did you go to school?" Wei Xiaoche looked at this nine-year-old little boy who had to be counted as half a year, and felt a little funny.

"No, it's useless!"

"Why is it useless?" Wei Xiaoche was a little puzzled by his answer, how could such a young child have such an idea.

"It's just useless!" The little boy shouted loudly.

After saying this, he ran away, Wei Xiaoche followed the direction of the little boy's run, saw him walking and playing along the way, and then saw him running into a yard. Wei Xiaoche saw that there was an elderly grandmother in the house, who was holding a basin of water and asking him to wash his hands, thinking that it was his family, so he went back with confidence.

When he was in class the next day, Wei Xiaoche didn't see the little boy named Xiao Yi for a long time, and for several days, he found that his little figure still didn't appear outside the window. Later, on the day of rest, I went to the old grandmother's house.

The whole building has a total of three floors, and the first floor has a small courtyard, a typical old building. This side is going to be relocated, so even if all the people in the building have moved away, they have not sold the house, so there are not many people in the whole building.

Wei Xiaoche stood outside the courtyard and saw an old man with gray hair drying something.

Wei Xiaoche gently pushed open the iron gate in the courtyard, the door should be very old, and when he opened the door, he squeaked, and then said, "Hello grandma!" ”

I heard a sound: the old woman turned around and asked, "Who are you looking for?" The old woman asked, holding the basket of dried vegetables.

"I'm looking for Xiao Yi!"

"Who are you? What do you ask Xiao Yi for? Grandma put down the basket and suddenly became vigilant.

Seeing her movements, Wei Xiaoche knew that she should have been misunderstood, so he explained: "Grandma, I'm not a bad person, I'm a teacher in the gym, I see that he always goes to see it, I haven't been there for the past two days, come and see him!" ”

When Grandma heard him speak, she took off her guard: "Ah! Xiao Yi said that he has been watching and teaching boxing for the past few days, and it is you! Come, come, sit! Knowing that he was the brother Xiao Yi told the sugar, he gave his little stool to Wei Xiaoche after speaking, and took a small stool from the corner.

"When Xiao Yi was young, I was almost taken away, so my attitude is not very good, I'm sorry!"

Wei Xiaoche was not very surprised, after all, it was not uncommon for a child of his age to be a target when he was outside every day.

After Wei Xiaoche sat down, he saw that several silk bags next to him were full of empty water bottles, and a few of them fell sporadically outside.

The old grandmother looked at Wei Xiaoche and said, "These are all picked up by him, and he put them here for me, so it's more convenient to sell them...... Xiao Yi's house is upstairs, and he is usually outside. ”

"Aren't you his family?" Wei Xiaoche always thought she was Xiao Yi's grandmother.

"No, I just look at him pitiful and let him come to eat every day!"

"What about his parents? ...... Don't be afraid, I just want to inquire about him. ”

"What parents does he have! His parents have not been back since he was six years old, and he doesn't know where his parents have gone. When his mother was pregnant with him, his father was arrested for drug use, and after he was released, his family quarreled every day, and then I didn't know what happened, the child picked up food every day outside, picked up bottles and sold them for money, sometimes picked up too much, and some people forced him, he was always bullied, and the child suffered a lot of crimes! ”

"Then he doesn't go to school?" Hearing her say that Wei Xiaoche was a little surprised.

"How do you go to school! He can't even eat, how can he afford to go to school! He really likes to read books or something, and he doesn't know how he recognizes the words, and sometimes he picks up more bottles, so he changes two books in the tattered place, but it's a baby. ”

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This afternoon, Wei Xiaoche helped the old man with his work, and asked about Xiao Yi's situation, so he left early for fear of colliding with Xiao Yi. After returning home, I called my cousin in the city and asked Xiao Yi what to do in this situation.

"In general, in this case, you should go to the police station, first investigate whether his parents have died, if not, register the missing person, and then see what about the child, and generally send it to a relative's house for foster care...... If you don't have relatives, it should be an aid station, a welfare home, or something! Eighty percent of the children you are talking about are going to be sent to welfare homes! ”

After understanding the situation, he kept hesitating whether to help him, thinking that he didn't want anyone to help him, and I didn't know if he liked to go to the welfare home, and if he went to the welfare home, he would become better?

Early the next morning, Wei Xiaoche went to the morning market, and just saw Xiao Yi waiting for the market to close, he was squatting in the corner of the entrance, and quietly walked over.

"Xiao Yi, are you here?"

Xiao Yi heard from his grandmother that he had asked about his situation, so when he heard his voice, he was about to leave again, and Wei Xiaoche shouted at him from behind: "I want to have breakfast, do you want to go together?" ”

At this time every morning, looking at all kinds of breakfast, it was the time when Xiao Yi was the hungriest, Xiao Yi knew that this person was not a bad person, so he turned around and asked, "What to eat?" ”