Chapter 182: The Devil's Bend (3)
At noon the next day, the girl and her mother sat side by side on a bench under the school building.
The girl took out the lunch box from her school bag and opened it, and two handmade sandwiches were neatly arranged inside.
"I'm really not worried that you're home alone, so it's good to come out and relax," said the girl, looking at her numb and hollow-eyed mother, "How about trying the sandwich I made in the morning?" ”
The woman's eyes suddenly lit up, staring at the back not far away, and she stood up suddenly: "Lotte... That's my Lotte..."
She ran up to the strange boy in front of her, and she couldn't hear her daughter's call at all:
"Mom, that's not my brother! My brother is gone......" The girl chased after her mother helplessly, and the food in the lunch box was scattered all over the ground.
The girl accompanied her mentally unstable mother back home, and couldn't help but sigh as she sat back in front of the computer and began to refresh the post.
The man sitting in the living room was very engaged in fiddling with the two wooden strips in his hand, fixing them into the shape of a cross, tying them with ropes, and finally gluing the folded colored paper to the shelf, and a simple kite appeared in front of him.
"Ah, it's a kite," the girl said in surprise, "I remember that every spring our family would go out to the countryside and fly kites." ”
As she spoke, the girl fell into a memory, and the beautiful memories of the past lingered in her mind, and she murmured, "How good we were before......"
At this moment, the woman came out of the bedroom, clutching a homemade leaflet with words denouncing the responsibility of the road builders.
"You go and make two hundred copies of this." She handed the flyer to her husband.
The man nodded, and the movement at hand did not stop.
"I told you to make a copy, didn't you hear?" The woman snatched the kite from her husband's hand and folded it so hard that the kite fell apart.
"What are you doing? This is Rakuten's favorite! The man glared at his wife, feeling that she was completely unreasonable.
"Le genius doesn't like these!" The woman angrily threw the broken kite on the ground, "Can't you do something useful for your son?" ”
The girl picked up the kite on the ground, and rubbed the broken wound of the kite distressedly, "Mom, brother, he... He's gone, and now it's useless to do anything, brother, he won't come back to life. ”
"Your mother thinks the most important thing is not to bring Lotte back to life, but to whose fault Lotte died." The man hit the nail on the head.
The girl bit her pale lip and said, "However, everyone knows that my brother suffered an accident, and no one will be responsible for it!" ”
"Enough!" The woman suddenly shouted angrily, "You don't love him, only I think about him......"
"Let her go." The man waved his hand, slipped the leaflet to the girl, picked up the beer on the table himself, and took a few sips.
Her mother's attitude may have chilled her, and the girl's father gradually became numb to this negative atmosphere, and he was drunk all day.
The girl meets Mr. X disguised as a reporter downstairs in her apartment. Star Swirl didn't know why he was here, could it be that he couldn't wait for him, and he was a little anxious?
"Miss Yin Lehan, can I disturb you for a while?" Mr. X, who appeared in front of the door of the apartment, was dressed in a black trench coat and looked very eye-catching.
"You're a journalist?" The girl frowned slightly at the badge hanging on his chest, and it seemed that the pressure that reporters had brought her a lot of recently.
"Don't be nervous, I'm just trying to find out how you've been doing." Mr. X smiled slightly at her.
This smile seems to make the sunlight suddenly break through the clouds and cast a light around the girl in an instant, gentle and free.
"I ......" the girl seemed to let go of some mustard, pursed her lips and said, "Mom, she has been immersed in sadness, and I am a little worried about her. ”
"Actually, I also saw your mother's post on the Internet," Mr. X said, "and she still believes that the responsibility for the accident lies with the road builder." ”
"Yes, she is in pain, probably because she wants to find someone to bear it together......" The girl's expression was gloomy, "In my mother's heart, there has always been only her brother, and my brother is all she has." She doesn't care what we become. ”
Looking at the girl's emaciated back fading away, Mr. X stood thoughtfully in place and did not follow.
"What are you thinking?" Star Swirl muttered to herself, "Looks like the disguised reporter was a failure, didn't you find anything?" ”
The girl sat in the school classroom in a reluctant, and her classmates cast sympathetic glances at her.
Even the head teacher said to her softly: "Le Han, why is your face so bad, if you are not feeling well, you should go home and rest." ”
The misfortune of her teenage brother has become a household name, as images of her mother denouncing responsibility for road construction have been in the news in K City for three days in a row.
When the girl returned home from school, her father was nowhere to be seen, and who knows where he had gone to hide from her mother.
The coffee table is covered with banknotes, which definitely looks like a lot of money, which is shocking.
"Where did you get so much money?" The girl was surprised.
The woman was holding a stack of banknotes in her hand and said ecstatically: "Do you know, someone contacted me today, saying that they read my post on the Internet and helped Lotte publish a book." ”
"What?!" The girl did not understand her mother's meaning at all.
"I want the whole country to know what a wonderful kid Lotte is," she said, with irrepressible ecstasy, "It's great, there will be a lot of pictures of Lotte attached to it at that time...... "The woman was still chattering, immersed in her own world.
The girl saw an IOU in a pile of banknotes, and when she picked it up, she saw that the total amount of the loan was 100,000 yuan, and the interest was ridiculously high.
"Why did you do this to me?!" The girl looks angrily at her mother, only to find that there is no self in her world at all.
"Bell bell... Ringbell..."I suddenly remembered the sound of the bell in my ear, it was him who came!
Although it was not unexpected, a faint smile appeared on the corner of Star Swirl's mouth, and the long-lost figure finally appeared in front of her.
She was pretty sure it wasn't in a dream, it was reality.
"You called me?" Clotho had a smile on his face.
"Who are you?" The girl looked at him in surprise and found that the door to the room had not been opened, so how did the person who suddenly appeared in front of her come in?
"You can see me as a righteous partner," Clotho's cool voice added a chill to the surroundings, "If you have any wishes, tell me about it, and I will help you make it happen." ”