Under the dim street lamp, on the dark park bench, Han Duo and I sat on the park bench, she was on the left, I was on the right, and the two were silent for a long time.

"Hungry don't ......" I handed over a rice ball, no, it was a piece of sushi to be exact. It was raining, I was hungry and cold, and there happened to be a sushi restaurant nearby, so I packed a few cylinders of sushi along the way.

Han Duo's whole body was soaked, and the long hair that was tied up had been loosened, and he was wiping it with a tissue. Seeing the sushi I handed over, her eyes suddenly showed a complicated feeling, looking at the sushi in her hand, and sighed faintly

Thinking of her nickname, I couldn't help but joke and said, "Why, do you think you're eating your companion and can't eat it?" ”

She showed a look of remembrance, a kind of seeing through the vicissitudes of the world. Suddenly, she turned her head and asked, "Hey, do you know why my nickname is Mi Li?" ”

"Why?" I was confused by this inexplicable question, but I couldn't help but blurt out a question to her

Han Duo looked at the moonlight and sighed faintly: "I remember, one year, the locusts were very panicked, the price of rice and meat in the city skyrocketed, and almost all the grain was eaten up by the locusts. The already bitter days in the courtyard were even more difficult. At the dinner table, not to mention meat, many children rely on their older brothers and sisters to dig up some wild vegetables and come back to fight their hunger. ”

"I remember one time, a kind person gave the orphanage three catties of rice, and Lan's mother boiled the rice into gruel at one time and beckoned the child to bring the bowl up. However, many big brothers and big sisters don't move with their bowls. Because, Mother Lan didn't drink it, and they didn't dare to drink it. Han Duo said, tears already appeared on his face: "Later, Mother Lan said, I drink it, and I drink it too." In front of us, she picked up the spoon and scooped herself into a bowl. But I clearly saw that all she drank was rice soup, and she didn't touch a single rice. ”

"I was ignorant, I ate the most, and the pot was scooped up by hungry children, and I was still not satisfied. My sensible brother and sister gave me all their porridge. That porridge was the happiest and most sloppy one I ate, and my little face was full of rice grains. ”

"So, they gave you the nickname of Millet Grains, right?" It seems like it's supposed to be a funny story, but I can't make fun of it.

Han Duo hummed softly and said, "The name Mi Li has been with me for a long time since then, and it will follow me through my life." Because this name represents the time I love the most, and the person I love the most. ”

"The environment of the orphanage should be quite bitter!" I handed over a tissue and wiped away Han Duo's tears. But Han Duo didn't answer, he actually took out a cigarette from my pocket and lit one himself.

But after Han Duo exhaled a puff of smoke, with a cry, she continued: "Have you seen Tong Yuanwan's previous dormitory? Two large tiled houses, with more than two dozen children crammed together. In the summer, the children take straw mats to sleep in the compound. In the winter, we had to rely on a coal stove for heating. However, Lan's mother didn't dare to nail the windows too hard, for fear that the children in the house would be poisoned. As soon as the cold wind outside blew in, everyone shivered with cold, and they could only rely on a few people to hug each other to keep warm. In winter, the children in Tongyuan Bay will have frostbite on their feet and hands. Lan's mother saw it in her eyes and felt pain in her heart, so she could only do more work and use the money she earned to supplement the daily necessities in the hospital."

"And we children, we all sensibly went to the street to pick up newspapers, picked up bottles and cans to sell at the garbage station, and for a few cents a jar, my brothers and sisters were chased by the owner of the restaurant with dogs, and beaten by beggars outside...... Woo, I saw with my own eyes a big brother who was chased by a dog and rushed out of the road, only to be hit by a car and killed, woo"

Han Duo threw herself into my arms again and cried, she cried and said: "I hate it so much, I hate myself for being incompetent, I hate why I didn't have the ability I have now, I don't have the ability I have now, and I can't help my brothers and sisters." ”

My heart was so clogged that tears flowed out. Half of it was because it was uncomfortable after listening to Han Duo's words, and the other half was painful. When Han Duo was crying, his hand kept beating my chest vigorously, and the pain was almost out of breath.

"Eh, millet grains, that Chen Xiao's son ......." I shifted the topic to Chen Xiao's son Chen Zhi, and I still wanted to persuade Han Duo not to meddle in this matter. Unexpectedly, Han Duo suddenly asked me at this time: "Haisheng, do you know why the name of the orphanage is called Tong Yuanwan?"

"Is it a child, fate, a harbor?" I take it literally

"Yes......" Han Duo nodded fiercely, stood up, and wiped away his tears with his back to me.

"Every child in our Tongyuan Bay has the same fate, we are all homeless children. Tongyuan Bay gave us a sense of home and a harbor that we could rely on. Since fate brings each of our orphans together, then none of us can give up on anyone......"

"I swear that I will not give up every younger brother and sister in Tongyuanwan, even if I die, I will never give up on them." Han Duo's voice was stubborn, and both small hands clenched into fists

In the cold night wind, she stood on this silent and uninhabited park path, and the night rendered her more fragile and weaker. But in my heart, her body became tall again, and that peacock-like pride bloomed in her again.

No matter how lonely the night is, no matter how dark the sky is, it can't stop your dazzling light.

Han Duo (millet grains), night, because of you.

"Mi Li, let's go! I'll take you back to the orphanage first, and then we'll investigate the case tomorrow," I stepped forward and draped my almost dry coat over her trembling shoulders.

I know that when she told me so much, she told me not to stop her. Since I can't stop it, I can only do my last part.

Han Duo was silent, slowly walking on the road with me, her face regained its previous blandness, the trace of exhaustion, the weakness of leaking, as if it was just a trance of clouds and smoke, which had never appeared.

I escorted her all the way, and it didn't take long to walk to Ye Liang's restaurant, and when I was about to reach the gate of Tongyuan Bay, Han Duo and I couldn't help but be stunned.

There were suddenly a lot of policemen at the door of Tongyuan Bay, and there were also funeral parlor cars, and intermittent cries came from the courtyard, which made my and Han Duo's hearts suddenly shake.

Don't...... Did Aunt Lan pass away?

Han Duo couldn't wait to rush into the courtyard, and I followed. When we walked through the bustling crowd and into the courtyard, Han Duo was stunned like a soulless puppet.

She covered her face with her hands, and her eyes leaked disbelief. It's like in a movie, the protagonist can't accept the expression when he sees his dead relatives.

"Xinxin ......" Finally, Han Duo couldn't suppress the grief and indignation in his heart, and cried bitterly and pounced on the child who was about to be carried away.

On the stretcher carried by the funeral home staff, there was a little girl who was about ten years old, the same one Han Duo and I met on the road, her name was Xinxin, when I first met her, her thigh had not been bitten by a wolf dog.

When I pushed Han Duo away and saw Xinxin's death clearly, at this moment, my scalp was numb, and my heart was cold.

Xinxin on the stretcher, the part of the Yin Hall is also ridiculously black, and there is also a hole about five centimeters in size on her Tianling cover, and there are white grains on the edge of the hole. This way of death is exactly the same as Chen Zhi's.

"Shin Shin...... Woo" Han Duo threw himself on the stretcher, holding the cold corpse in pain. Aunt Lan and the children of Tong Yuanwan were around, with tears in their eyes and sad expressions.

And I, at the moment, did not have the slightest sadness. Some are just stormy seas. It seems that this matter is getting more and more difficult, and the death of a child can be dismissed as a vendetta. But what about the two......

The heart was pounding and pounding, and the ominous premonition was getting stronger and stronger. I felt like Han Duo and I had fallen into a huge whirlpool, and darkness was approaching us step by step. Maybe if you're not careful, you'll never recover.

Author's Note: (When I was seventeen years old, I saw a beggar child take a bottle of unfinished wine from a guest in a restaurant, and the boss chased him out.) Then the little beggar ran in a panic and was finally hit by a car and died. I still remember the scene when he died in front of me. If, a friend who reads a book, which one is a restaurant owner, who is in business, when you meet a child beggar, the cans are worthless, you can give it, or send them some food to send them away, although everyone is running for life, they are tired, they are all diligent and thrifty, and it is not easy to live, but it is easier for us to make money than them, a little money, we pay kindness, and there will be blessings. ）