Kan Tao pursed his lips, did not speak, lowered his head and picked up the water cup to drink. As soon as the glass was placed to his mouth, he frowned.

"It's brushed, that's it, uh, this cup is a little old, and it's just a little yellow." I explained with a little trepidation. Kan Tao looked up at me and didn't speak. He touched the rim of the cup with his lips, quickly dodged away, and then, leaning in again, smacking it, and putting it down. I watched all of this from the sidelines, and I had an indescribable feeling in my heart.

When my mother came back from the kitchen, she said to Kan Tao, who was sitting at the table, "What do you want to eat at noon?" Before I could speak, Kan Tao spoke: "Auntie, don't bother, anything." "What~ is it okay? Then I won't do it. Well, there is no food in that house anyway, you two say, you two say that I can buy it. After my mother finished speaking, she rubbed her hands, took the small black purse from the back of the door, and waited for us to announce the name of the dish.

Kan Tao said several times in a row, but I rejected them, and I suddenly looked up and said to my mother, "Buns." "Buns?" My mother was obviously surprised, she looked at Kan Tao, and Kan Tao looked at me again: "Buns? Does auntie steam buns? I bowed my head and took a sip of water and nodded, "Not bad." Kan Tao was very happy and said that he loves to eat noodles made at home. So, the mother went downstairs with the little black purse.

After my mother went downstairs, Kan Tao and I sat in a small room, and the sunlight was shining through the cracks in the window, and the light could still see the dust jumping in the air. Kan Tao stood up and looked around in the already limited space.

"Cao Muxi, this house has been in this house for many, many years, right?" I didn't even raise my head, so I bowed my head and said, "Well, I guess, you have to call grandpa." ”

"You were born here?"

"yes, I didn't hear from my mom. I didn't ask either. Anyway, for as long as I can remember, it's here. ”

"Well, then you go to Cao's house to live with your father, and your mother lives alone?" I was stunned for a moment, and then I snorted.

Kan Tao sighed to himself: "It's quite pitiful. ”

"What did you say?" I didn't hear it clearly, to be exact, I wasn't sure that Kan Tao said the word pity, so I wanted to ask again to show confirmation. As a result, Kan Tao did not answer my question.

"Huh? Isn't there a big mirror that you have on top of it? It's hanging on the wall. Why didn't I see you in your house? ”

"There was one before the mirror, when I was a child, I played shuttlecock kicking, naughty, kicked the mirror and broke it. As for the photos, no. ”

"No photos?" I nodded. It took a long time for Kan Tao to retract his mouth that had opened wide in surprise. If Kan Tao hadn't asked about the photo, I wouldn't have realized that not only did I not have a fixed image that I could recall when I was a child, but I also didn't have a photo with my mother. Later, the only image of my mother on my phone turned out to be my mother on the eve of her critical illness, with a nasal tube in her nose, lying on a hospital bed describing a withered appearance. This irreparable time also became a pain in my mother's thinking in the later period.

"Cao Muxi, I, I want to ask you something. That, you don't have to answer, I just want to ask. Kan Tao's sudden pause in his question made me panic. Maybe subconsciously, I seem to know what Kan Tao's question is about. I originally wanted to cut off Kan Tao's question, but who knows, what did I reply to at that time? Perhaps, having been at the same table for several years, I still know Kan Tao a little. If you can't ask the answer now, you will also ask for clarification in the future, so it doesn't hurt to be straightforward.

"Ahem, then I'll ask. I'll start with that, and you can't be angry after I'm done. ”

"Then you better not ask, maybe I will stab you again?" I joked.

"Cao Muxi, don't bring this." Kan Tao said seriously.

I smiled, turned the cup in my hand, and said briefly, "Just ask." I'm not angry. ”

"May I ask? Ahem, that's it, there's one thing I'm curious about and don't understand. That, that is, your father's family is so rich, why are you and your mother so poor? No, I don't mean poor, I mean, downcast? Oops, it's not, I just mean that, difficult? Ah~ I don't know how to describe it. ”

"Miserable, isn't it?" Kan Tao put away the tangled expression on his face and nodded. It was quiet, and it felt like tables and chairs were waiting for my answer. It's a pity that I'm truly speechless.

"I don't know." I answered this very well, because I answered, and I didn't lie. If you dig deeper, then everything is caused by the dark identity, and it is undoubtedly my parents who caused all this to happen. However, I did not have the right to choose my parents and my origin, and all this could not be changed in the booklet of fate. Then, I, a victim, can only accept it when I occasionally complain.

Kan Tao seemed to have doubts about my answer, but he couldn't ask any more, he opened his mouth, but swallowed the words anyway. Just as Kan Tao was trying to break the embarrassment and find the next topic, his mother returned. She pushed open the door, threw a few apples on the table, told us to eat, and hurried to the kitchen to knead the dough.

Kan Tao looked at the apple, then looked up at me again: "Can I eat it?" ”

Actually, there is a reason why Kan Tao asked this sentence.

I noticed it when my mother came in with a bag of apples. 5 apples, not much, but it may be the amount of fruit in the mother's 2 to 3 months, and it may even be that this value is not reached. Because, when my mother took down her wallet to buy vegetables in Xiaolou, I caught a glimpse of the money in the wallet, there was no whole ticket, it was all zero, presumably, if it weren't for me and Kan Tao arriving today, that little money would be enough for my mother to last a long time.

In fact, for a short time after I entered the Cao family, I was puzzled about why my father didn't give my mother child support. After all, I am under the age of eighteen, whether it is reasonable or legal, my father has the responsibility to raise me, besides, he is not without money, he scattered his pocket money to me and my mother, neither of us is like this, or if I give money, I will not necessarily set foot in the door of the Cao family. But I never asked my mother about it, and I didn't discuss my background in public, which was the only condition for my mother and I to retain the last affection we had with each other.

I nodded, Kan Tao looked around and saw that there were no knives, so he picked up two apples and went to the kitchen to wash. As the owner of the house, I was supposed to wash the apples to entertain the guests, but I was indifferent, and when I saw Kan Tao's hand touching the doorknob, I called out to him: "I don't eat it, you can just wash one." Kan Tao put one back.

After he went out, I heard footsteps leading from the house to the kitchen, and suddenly my heart felt so heavy that I couldn't tell the congestion.