"You are?"

Fortunately, there are still many people who remember her appearance. An aunt who was passing by was about to go out to buy groceries, recognized Xu Xiaoxiao, and kindly took her home.

"Xiaoxiao, why are you waiting here in your patient's clothes?"

Xu Xiaoxiao: "It's a long story······ I was chased by a 'dog'······"

"Poor boy, there are many dogs in this area! Do you remember Uncle Wang who lived across the street from your house? I was bitten by a dog a month ago, and it turned out to be gone. Tsk, the death was so ugly that his children were scared and cried. You're lucky, just a little frightened and scratched······ By the way, have you been vaccinated? ”

“······” Xu Xiaoxiao touched her nose and let the kind aunt check up and down to see if there were any obvious wounds on her body, "I was not bitten, the doctor said that there was no need to fight, and I was allowed to come back after the examination." ”

"Then why don't you return your clothes, such thin clothes······"

"Boss, let's see who's coming from your house!"

Ms. Xu is holding a large kitchen knife, struggling to pick the meat from the pig's thigh bone. Hearing someone call her, she cut the stout and hard-to-cut leg bones in two with a sharp and quick knife, and threw them all into the iron bucket to stew. Inside is a fragrant snow-white bone broth, tumbling and boiling.

"! The king of heaven is here, don't bother the old lady to make money! Ms. Xu muttered loudly, but she still wiped the greasy blood on her hands on her apron without relenting, and walked out quickly.

At this time, it is not yet time to eat, and there is nothing extra in the store except for neat tables and chairs. A young girl with her back to her sat down with an aunt. "Auntie, thank you for bringing me back. You sit down and drink some water. ”

Xu Xiaoxiao poured a cup of tea for her kind aunt and put it on the table.

"No, no, I still have to go grocery shopping. Otherwise, the good dishes will be snatched away by those old things. I won't sit down. Lady of the hostess! Your baby girl is back! The aunt waved her hand, carrying the vegetable basket to leave, and when she left, she poured Xu Xiaoxiao tea for her and drank it all. Well, the tea poured by Shinoxiao is still so delicious! ”

"Xiaoxiao?" Ms. Xu's surprised but delighted voice came from behind her.

"Mom!"

Xu Xiaoxiao wanted to rush up and hug Ms. Xu, but Ms. Xu put a finger against her forehead, and Xu Xiaoxiao's long arm was wide open and stopped at a distance of Ms. Xu's arm.

"Stinky girl, didn't I just tell you to contact you by phone, don't come back casually? And... What's the deal with your outfit? Are you injured and hospitalized? ”

Xu Xiaoxiao: Ms. Xu is really full of energy as always! The voice is excellent!

"Are the injuries serious?"

"Where's the injury?"

"Oops! You want to kill me! Say it! ”

"Mom, you've asked so many questions, which one do you want your daughter to answer?" Xu Xiaoxiao smiled and took off Ms. Xu's finger against her head and held it gently. "If you don't get hurt, it's ······"

Xu Xiaoxiao thought of the kind aunt who scolded those stray 'dogs' for her for a long time after she said in retaliation that she was chased by a 'dog'. It was the first time she knew that scolding people could be so artistic, like Tianjin Allegro's humor and making people laugh. When she arrived at the door of the noodle restaurant, the kind aunt closed her mouth unsatisfied, believing that if it wasn't for the short journey, she might have heard more interesting swearing.

"Speak quickly!" Ms. Xu obviously didn't have much patience, and her thick eyebrows were frowning. "If you don't say anything more, I'll beat you!"

"Uh, hit by a car?" Xu Xiaoxiao was still thinking about how to hide it, her whispered and weak words were as intense as a huge meteorite falling from the sky to Ms. Xu, and it happened to hit her baby soup pot.

"What!"

"No, no, no, I was chased by a 'dog'······" Xu Xiaoxiao hurriedly waved his hand and decided to explain according to the set of rhetoric that deceived the kind aunt, after all, once born and twice cooked, maybe he would believe it if he talked too much. "That's right, I was hit by a car first, and then I was chased by a dog when I was discharged from the hospital!"

Ms. Xu clasped her hands on her chest and looked at Xu Xiaoxiao with a look of deceit. A palm slapped on the table, "Xu Xiaoxiao!" It's best to be honest with your mother! Your little action of lying is clear!

finally appeased Ms. Xu, and Xu Xiaoxiao was pushed home by her again.

"It's almost time for dinner, I'm going back to see the store. You can take care of yourself at home, preferably like a human being! ”

Ms. Xu hurriedly took out a few clothes from the bedroom, threw them into Xu Xiaoxiao's hand, and then rushed out without stopping. Wind and fire, as if you never know tiredness.

Xu Xiaoxiao's soft gaze watched Ms. Xu disappear into the alley. Her family lives in a small courtyard house, in front of which is a simple tin house, where Ms. Xu owns a noodle restaurant. Next to it is the grandmother's house, and there are more than a dozen courtyard houses in an alley that belong to her, each of which has been rented out by her, and there are people living in it. Although located in a crowded urban village, the longevity and tranquility of the alley belonging to the ancient city has never been broken. In fact, her life is much better than that of children born in urban villages, at least Ms. Xu gave her a childhood full of security.

It's probably carefree.

Xu Xiaoxiao did not rush to clean up his body, but looked at the scenery in the yard. The courtyard is not too big, but the terrain is the best, sitting in the north and facing south, warm in winter and cool in summer. In the summer, you can enjoy the hall style. Air conditioning fans or something, it's not necessary for people who live in a courtyard at all.

On the left side of the courtyard is an ancient well, and she remembers when she was a child, she and Ms. Xu placed a wooden stick at the mouth of the well, and a thick straw rope was tied to the middle of the stick. Under the rope is a bamboo basket soaked in the cool and sweet water of the well. When she was a child, Ms. Xu would often buy vegetables and fruits in the summer and put them in the ice. According to Ms. Xu, this well is like a natural refrigerator, which keeps it fresh and cools down without using water and electricity.

On the blue-gray masonry, she painted childish and ridiculous pictures. As if she couldn't get enough of it, her eyes focused and her fingers brushed lightly over it. When she saw countless horizontal lines drawn with sharp weapons on a piece of low masonry, her eyes were sharp and sad.

Before her stepfather came, she had her own room, and she and Ms. Xu lived together, and although the noodle restaurant was small, the money she earned could still make them worry about food and clothing. She and her mother spent six, seven springs, summers, autumns and winters here... One day after that, a pair of annoying siblings moved in and took everything from her... The vulgar man, with a drunken and vulgar appearance, staggered into the courtyard. As soon as he entered the door, he lay on Ms. Xu's fragrant bed, rubbing his feet and throwing two tattered stinky shoes aside. The mud spots on his shoes were thrown everywhere, he didn't even wear socks, and his feet were smelly and black.

Xu Xiaoxiao shrank in fear, and the small sound of movement was heard by him. So he sat up, tried to open a pair of cloudy eyes, and said with a wicked smile, "Good girl, you are so beautiful." Go and bring a basin of water to wash your father's feet... Hiccup..."

Burping, the fat body lay there, like a pile of rotten flesh, exuding a rotten and stinking smell.

Xu Xiaoxiao hid behind her mother for no reason, looking at Ms. Xu expectantly with big eyes. How she hoped that Ms. Xu could stand in front of her as usual, "Who dares to bully the old lady's daughter!" See if the old lady doesn't chop him into minced meat! "Grab the heaviest machete from the kitchen and drive out these bad guys who have taken over the magpie's nest!

The man's thick eyebrows were horizontal, with a hideous half of his scarred face, pointing to Xu Xiaoxiao and Ms. Xu's position. "If you don't hurry up, Lao Tzu will kill you two little sluts!"

"Xiaoxiao, go ahead. Bring him a basin of water and wash his feet. Ms. Xu's voice was no longer full of energy, with a deep sense of weakness and frustration.

But Xu Xiaoxiao couldn't hear it, she was too young to understand anything.

"I... I don't want it! ”

"If you don't do it, I'll lose you!" Ms. Xu's voice was full of coldness, as if she usually treats those guests who eat noodles without paying, blunt and ruthless.

The mother's almost heartless words kept echoing in her ears, and the sister and brother at the door looked at her mocking at the same time, teasing her that she would lose Ms. Xu's love in the future.

"Your mother doesn't like you anymore, little wild seed!"

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It was also since then that she began to live a life of starvation. The stepfather is a person who gambles and loves to drink, and when he has no money, he will run to Ms. Xu's noodle shop to grab money and go out in style, and the sisters and brothers who stay at home will often join forces to bully her. And Ms. Xu has to rely on a small noodle restaurant to support a large family, and her life is more tiring than before.

She also lost her patience and attention to Xu Xiaoxiao, and when she ignored her, Xu Xiaoxiao was bullied and scolded by the pair of sisters and brothers, and the scars on her body only increased, and often the old injuries did not heal, and the new injuries were added. Even if they don't want to wear bad clothes all day long, they can only wash their clothes and clean their rooms.

She had cried with Ms. Xu many times, begging her to drive these villains out, but Ms. Xu uncharacteristically no longer protected her, just silently hugged her, and caressed her thin back with warm palms, until Xu Xiaoxiao cried so tired that she fell asleep. This extremely tough woman will carry her back to the small bed that belongs to Xu Xiaoxiao.

When Ms. Xu, the only one in the world who protects her, has also changed, Xu Xiaoxiao has been looking forward to growing taller and being able to leave this home and never come back. Every day, she would lean against the wall and compare her height, carving a mark on the masonry. On days when there is no high, she is extremely lost and not happy at all, and when she is taller than before, she will become happy and happy again, even if the villain trio tosses her, she will not feel sad.

During the summer vacation after the end of the third year of junior high school, Ms. Xu called her into her room. secretly gave her a thousand yuan, "Xiaoxiao, you don't belong here, you will be the golden phoenix that is going to fly out of the pheasant's nest." Mom is sure of this, so she will provide for you to go to school, but only until you go to high school, and you will have to rely on yourself in the future······"

In this way, she was ruthlessly kicked out by her biological mother as a minor. In Xu Xiaoxiao's heart, she has always complained about Ms. Xu, between her stepfather and her biological daughter, she chose her stepfather who has always disliked her but has to rely on her to support her.

After Xu Xiaoxiao dropped out of school in his previous life, he secretly ran back a few times. From a distance, I saw the warm lights in the courtyard, the iron door wide open, Ms. Xu and her stepfather Xue Chen, sitting around a table to eat, the warm picture was like a bone spur. The stem was in her soft heart, and as soon as it beat, blood splattered out.

She turned away in despair, and there was no one in the world who cared about her anymore. How difficult would it be for a girl to live with a girl who didn't graduate from high school? Xu Xiaoxiao has experienced it, but she has forgotten it because of Wei Lingyun's conditional kindness to her. Before she met Wei Lingyun, she was always alone, and she endured countless blank eyes and calculations. The arrogance of her body was shattered, and it was also when she was most desperate that Wei Lingyun stood in front of her and stretched out his hand to her······

He squatted in front of her, a pair of inky jade-like eyes with a commodity-like gaze, no lewdness or sympathy or other human emotions, and some were just robot-like analysis and scrutiny. He treats Xu Xiaoxiao as a bet made when he is bored, and he is not interested in anything on the gambling table except for money.

He said to her personally, "Can you agree to my request now?" You need money, and I need people······"

Xu Xiaoxiao kept thinking that even if Wei Lingyun killed her at that time, she would not have a trace of complaints. When a person is in the most desperate, even if there is a sea of swords and fires in front of her, as long as the other party can give her a little hope, she will not hesitate to step over! Cast on him!