The sound and smile of his parents have long been deeply rooted in his heart, and there will never be any possibility to rub them away.

Leaving the cemetery, Xia Chenghao never looked back, just stared at the road ahead. He knew that if it was already hidden in his heart, it didn't matter if he didn't look back, and if it needed to be forgotten, it would be useless to face it every day.

On the way back, the mysterious big-mouthed man who appeared at the mouth of the alley a few days ago reappeared, leaving some 200 tin yuan in Aunt Huang's hand and then disappeared like the wind.

Aunt Huang took her two children back to her home, sighing from time to time, "How can such two children live in the future?" ”

What she said about life was not about eating, there was something else that bothered her even more.

At dinner, Aunt Huang told Xia Chenghao with a heavy face that the entire community and the police station in the jurisdiction could not find the citizen files of their entire family.

"Is it important?" Xia Chenghao didn't quite understand what the so-called "citizen" meant, and how could he prove it.

Aunt Huang gave Xia Chenghao a piece of meat that she was never willing to eat, and said kindly: "For the people of Zion, it is very important. People who don't have citizens can't be buried even if they die, and I don't know why your parents can make an exception this time. ”

"If you don't have a citizen file, you won't be able to live in the house behind the alley when it's built. And neither of you can go to school, you can't study. ”

The rice balls that Xia Chenghao fed to his mouth inadvertently fell to the ground, and his intuition told him that trouble was coming. I thought I didn't go to school because my father quit his job from school, but it doesn't seem to be the reason, the real problem is that he doesn't have citizenship.

He reached out and touched the back of his neck, where there was a string of numbers he couldn't see and a barcode. I heard my father and mother say that this may be my identity, but it was a whisper in private, and I never told Xia Chenghao about it.

Then, now he has become what adults often call a "black market" household registration, and he cannot enjoy civil rights in any country in Griess.

"Don't worry, the government will figure it out." Aunt Huang hurried to comfort the poor boy.

Aunt Huang's can obviously only be regarded as a consolation, since the community and the police station can't find it, what else can the government do? Xia Chenghao is young, but he can understand one thing completely, the community and the police station represent the government to some extent.

Xiaoya cried loudly again, she saw the seriousness of the matter from her brother's current performance, everything is a matter of observation, and her reference standard is her brother, and her brother's face is her mood barometer.

In front of Aunt Huang, Xia Chenghao would not shed tears or tears, but silently patted An Xiaoya and kept comforting.

In the dead of night, An Xiaoya was tired of crying, closed her red and swollen eyes and fell asleep. Xia Chenghao stared at the ceiling with his eyes open, the road ahead began to make people desperate, I hope all this is a dream, and when he wakes up, he can see the smile of his parents as before.

Maybe if you wake up early tomorrow, you can smell the thick aroma of food in the air, and tomorrow is just a new day after today, not another world completely different from today.

But fantasies are all deceitful, and too many strange things have happened this winter.

Next to him was An Xiaoya, who was already asleep, but Xia Chenghao couldn't sleep, his mind was full of memories of his parents' voices and smiles, thinking about the home he was about to lose, and his chest was about to suffocate like a big stone.

The gentlemen and ladies of the community discussed all night, and finally came to the decision that they thought was more correct, to send the two poor children to an orphanage, and now they could not manage their future, or at least they could earn a living there.

In the middle of the night, the neighbors who didn't want to disperse didn't know who talked about Xia Jin and Shu Xumin first.

The first to speak was a woman, who lowered her voice and asked the people present, "What are these two people doing?" ”

"I've lived in the alley for so many years, and I'm still friendly, but life always seems to be unsatisfactory." Almost everyone agrees with this point of view, and the Xia family does not leave a deep impression on the neighborhood, but it is not bad.

After the accident at Xia's house, many people stared to see what would happen in the yard, and there have been people coming in and out for the past two days, and careful people have found a problem, "People died, the police took a lot of things away from the house, and they didn't let the children go back to live, I always felt a little strange." ”

"In these years, the society is not peaceful, so it's better to ask less." Everyone has a fear of things, not to mention that it still involves human life.

People who observe the Xia family a lot on weekdays said: "I went to work in the school for a while a few years ago, why did I suddenly get dismissed?" It also looks like a literate person. ”

"Xia Jin can do anything, that Shu Xumin also wants to be proficient in everything, saying that he knows a lot of foreign languages!" This is the first time Xia Chenghao has heard others talk openly about his adoptive parents.

Someone resigned: "This man! Let's talk about luck, maybe they are unlucky, and they meet the world again......"

Someone sighed: "I died too suddenly, and the two of them went together." ”

Someone sighed: "It doesn't matter if they go, it's just that it's too pitiful to leave these two children, one is seven years old and the other is more than three years old, and the rest of the days will be difficult." ”

The old man asked mysteriously, "Didn't you say that someone gave money today?" ”

Aunt Huang didn't shy away from this matter, the money was originally for the children, "I don't know either, just a man blocked there, and stuffed 200 tin yuan to me like a thief, saying that it was for the children." ”

Someone hurriedly tried to figure out: "Then you didn't say who it was?" ”

"I think, it should be Xia Jin or Shu Xumin's old friend, right? Otherwise, who would send money for no reason? "It's a woman's voice.

The old man said sophistically: "It doesn't seem to be a rich man, only two hundred." ”

Aunt Huang shook her head and said, "No, you guessed wrong, he looks like a rich man, he is very particular about dressing in all aspects, he should have experienced something a moment ago, he was covered with blood, and his fine clothes were torn......

Xia Chenghao also saw this clearly at the time, but he didn't have a good impression of the man, and the grief of his parents' death was not on others.

Someone asked in a low voice: "I really don't understand who this Xia family couple is dating?" ”

Aunt Huang's gaze swept over everyone's faces, they were all a little sleepy, and then looked at the time past three o'clock in the morning, "Forget it, everyone has gone, so let's not talk about this." Everyone's gone! Go back to rest early, these two children will be sent to Mary's Orphanage, and Dean Ding and we are also familiar with each other. ”

Seeing that everyone did not hesitate, she reminded again: "Disperse!" ”

Xia Chenghao heard every sentence clearly, but he didn't be curious anymore, he just listened quietly, and the words of the neighbors and his sister's snoring were gently mixed.

The next morning, the community workers came, and the car with the sign of Mary Orphanage took Xia Chenghao and An Xiaoya away.