"Lu Yao, your mother is dead."

“......”

Lu Yao's head went blank for a moment, but quickly returned to normal. She didn't say a word and hung up the phone.

How sad is that...... This so-called father, when he said the news of his wife's death, was still cold and mechanical, as if he was talking about a completely irrelevant outsider.

The streets are lit up everywhere, and red lanterns are hung all over the streets. The corners of Lu Yao's mouth hooked.

Tell yourself the news on Chinese New Year's Eve, Lu Qingyun will really find the right time~

But that's okay.

Lu Yao walked on the street indifferently, the street in the afternoon was actually quite deserted, everyone gathered at home to be busy with the Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, where is there time to wave outside like her~

The joy of the New Year has been squeezed into the world, Lu Yao occasionally saw people on the street hurrying home with large bags of things, everyone's face was smiling, and they were carrying new clothes in their hands.

Lu Yao muttered: "Cut, isn't it just new clothes, I'm so rich, I can buy new clothes at any time, I can wear new clothes every day, it's nothing~"

Lu Yao glanced at his watch, it was already four o'clock, and the early family was already eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner at this time. She touched her stomach and felt that she was not too hungry, so she planned to wave it for a while, otherwise...... She didn't know where to go.

For nearly ten years, she has spent the New Year by herself, and it is really not interesting to go back, but it is estimated that the guy will call in a while......

"The fool is calling~ The fool is calling~" Lu Yao's special mobile phone rang, the voice was very loud, and the content was very arrogant.

"......" Lu Yao was silent for a moment. It's really Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived!

She took out her mobile phone and saw the words "Uncle Bai" beating on the screen, and the corners of her forehead jumped suddenly. She's so annoying.

This guy doesn't know what his identity is, he suddenly appeared next to Lu Yao a few years ago, saying that he was her mother's old friend, and helped her solve a big problem she encountered at the time, and then he has been helping her, and he doesn't ask for anything in return like Lei Feng!

If it weren't for this uncle's dislike of her, it really didn't look like a fake, Lu Yao even suspected that this guy wanted to have a year-old love with him! So year after year, Lu Yao gradually accepted the existence of such a person around him.

However, Uncle Bai usually doesn't look for her, and only when she has trouble for him to solve or he has something for her to do--the latter situation has not yet appeared, it is Lu Yao's own obscenity--the two of them will come into contact.

In addition, Uncle Bai invites Lu Yao, who has no one to hurt, to have a Chinese New Year's Eve meal with him on Chinese New Year's Eve day every year, which can be regarded as two lonely people huddling together to keep warm. But Lu Yao would refuse every time, saying that he had a large group of fox friends and dog friends to accompany him, so you can go alone!

So many thoughts flashed through Lu Yao's mind for a moment, but in reality, he hung up the phone very neatly.

Then the phone rang again. Lu Yao rolled his eyes and continued to hang. Ring again, hang again.

"OK~" Lu Yao stuffed the phone back into his pocket. It's been three times, and according to the uncle's habits, it's only three times, and he shouldn't call again.

Sure enough, Lu Yao, who didn't hear the bell again, was very comfortable and breathed a sigh of relief. Phew, she's finally clean!

In fact, it's not that she really has an appointment, after all, although Lu Yao looks like a fairy, she has a poisonous tongue and a tricky tongue, and her temper is irritable and hot, so let alone a boyfriend, she doesn't even have a female friend!

Lu Yao is used to being alone all year round, and she feels that she shouldn't be used to the scene of eating warmly with others, so no matter how Uncle Bai invites her, she firmly refuses.

Possible...... In this way, she won't give herself an illusory sense of happiness as if she has a home.

Lu Yao, who no one believes, only loves himself the most, and he is unwilling to let himself be hurt, even if it is a little possibility. So she shrunk herself in her shell and built a high wall outside to protect herself.

That's the only way to ...... so as not to get hurt. If she would lose it later, she would rather never have it.

The stubborn and stubborn Lu Yao has time to have this strange and paranoid idea, she stays in the horns of the bull and is unwilling to come out, and no one can pull her.

Lu Yao continued to walk aimlessly down the street, the sun gradually set, the light of the setting sun sprinkled on the street, everything dyed with a layer of gold, a very warm but unreal color.

Lu Yao, who had quieted down, inevitably thought of that incident.

He's dead.

He's dead.

He's dead.

How did he die?

Sick and dead? Or finally can't stand it anymore and commit suicide?

When did you die?

Just now? Morning? Or yesterday?

Did you leave any words before you died?

Is there anything you want to say to me? Did you call me by name? Still can't forget Lu Qingyun's scumbag?

Is it painful to die?

Did you cry? She's such a quiet person, even if she cries, she won't move, right? Or did you stubbornly not shed a single tear until you died?

He's dead.

He's dead.

He's dead.

Lu Yao thought about it so much, but the loudest voice in his head was still the word "dead".

It's dead. I'm finally dead.

Lu Yao didn't feel much sad, but he just felt a feeling of suffocation and couldn't think.

She had been living alone since she was very young, and only had a little memory of living with that woman when she was younger, so she was not very sad about that woman's death, and even felt relieved for her.

Instead of suffering from depression every day, it is better to die and be free.

It's just that......

It's just that...... Lu Yao's fists clenched unconsciously.

...... Does she really care about me at all?

She is relieved when she dies, have you ever thought about how I should face Lu Qingyun's bastard next, how should I face the mother and son who wish she had died so early and occupied the position of the main head of the Lu family? She's real...... Don't you care about me at all?

Lu Yao's eyes were red, but he couldn't shed tears. She knew when she was very young that crying was useless, that was something that only the weak would do, so over the years, no matter how sad things she encountered, no matter how lonely she was, she never shed a single tear.

Because...... It's useless.

Tears are only useful when someone around you feels sorry for you. What's the use of crying for someone like her? Who to cry to?

Lu Yao's head was a little dizzy, she stopped and shook her head, but she heard a faint angry cheer in the nearby alley.

"Why don't you die?!"

“!!!” Lu Yao's head instantly sobered. Her eyes lit up, and she pulled her legs and walked towards the source of the sound.

A man was punching and kicking an unidentified humanoid crunched up on the ground, accompanied by a vicious verbal attack: "Why did Lao Tzu run into such a disgusting thing as you during the Chinese New Year?" What a bad luck! ”

It seemed to be a child on the ground, his whole body was dirty, and he let this man beat him without saying a word, not to mention fighting back, not even begging for mercy. It's like...... Completely gave up on their own.

Lu Yao crossed his arms in the corner next to him and watched all this coldly, and did not make any next move.

The man continued to curse and beat people as if he was taking the opportunity to vent all the grievances and resentment he had been suffering all along.

"Lao Tzu has lost all his gambling money, and I don't know how to explain to that tigress when I go back, do you dare to ask me for money? Hmm, little beggar? Did you tell you not to come out for the New Year and get bad luck on others? Lao Tzu counted the money today because he was contaminated with the bad luck of you beggar! ”

"Kick you away, and dare to come up and hug your thighs? Do you have to beat you up before you know it's wrong?! His grandmother's knows to look for me! Just know to find me! Lao Tzu really poured eight lifetimes of mold before he met you people, and one by one he knew to be angry with me!"

The little beggar on the ground did not say a word from beginning to end, no matter how badly he was beaten, he did not scream, nor did he resist and run away, looking lifeless.

The way he looks makes that one even angrier when he sees it!" Hey, I'm going to play dead here, right? Okay, Lao Tzu will fulfill you! ”

As he spoke, the man looked around, brought a brick, and was about to smash it on the little beggar's head on the ground.

The boy looked at the man's hideous face groggily and did not dodge.

That's it, this brick can be completely liberated by itself. So be it, come on......

“!!!”

"Boom!"

The little beggar and the man were suddenly stunned at the same time, for a small, white and flawless hand grasped the wrist of the man holding the brick.

The man turned his head and saw a little girl who was two heads shorter than himself, although she still looked very immature, but the absolute beauty of elegance in the future could already be vaguely seen from this face.

The little girl's expression was very cold, and she said in a disdainful tone: "Uncle, my people, you dare to move?"

Man: "???"

Little beggar: "......"

The man was still stunned, Lu Yao didn't give him time to react, the other hand took his brick and threw it on the ground, and the other hand grabbed the man's wrist and gave him a crisp over-the-shoulder fall.

This time it was not light, and the man directly turned on the wailing mode. However, Lu Yao didn't seem to hear it, and he didn't hesitate to reward him with more than a dozen kicks in a row, the kind that can hurt people's internal organs every kick, super fierce - Lu Yao has been practicing martial arts for nearly ten years, sanda boxing karate, anything.

has been beating people so much that he doesn't even have the strength to wail, Lu Yao exhaled, and his expression seemed to be a little happy.

She clapped her hands, straightened her clothes, walked over to the little beggar, who had gotten up on his own and cowered in the corner, and crouched down.

"Little beggar, you shouldn't have any family, right?"

"......" The little beggar did not speak, his dirty face and a pair of big eyes were unusually bright, and the emotions in it were very complicated, but he was not afraid.

Seeing that he didn't answer, Lu Yao felt that he was acquiescing, and continued to himself: "Coincidentally, I just became an orphan today~ In this case, if you don't dislike it, let's make do with it?"

“......”

Lu Yao put away his cynical smile and stretched out his hand to this little beggar who didn't even know his gender, and said word by word.

"You...... Come with me or not? ”