Later, he learned that the so-called contagion was that those shrewd adults specially broke their hands and feet in order to make money, and some children were healthy at the beginning.

When Zhilu said this, he and she were placed in a small room, where he was taught how to shine his shoes, and someone taught her to string beads and weave.

They never saw the people in black again, one of them shining shoes for others, the other putting on trinkets, and just like that, they survived tenaciously in the cracks of the city, and sometimes he seemed to see those people in black clothes, a certain face, a certain expression, like them, but they were not wearing the black clothes.

These people will give him more money, but he doesn't want it, in his eyes, he can earn as much as he can, he wants to save this money, save it to buy a wheelchair for his sister, or save too much, buy a big house.

Sister, he called her sister, he didn't know how old she was, she had lost her voice, but her size grew like a knot after the men in black were gone, and he called her sister, and then saw her smile warmly.

In the smile, there is no resistance at the beginning.

But he always remembered that she had said at the beginning that she had a home and that she wanted to go home. She is different from him, he has no parents in the first place, if it weren't for those adults with ill intentions, he would have lost his life a long time ago, and she, a child who used to have a home and then went missing, he always remembered to help her find a home, and that belief was as firm as buying a house and buying a wheelchair.

On that day, they were still setting up a stall in front of McKenzie, but a strange woman came, she was wrapped tightly all over her body, as if she was afraid of the cold of winter, she didn't shine her shoes, usually, she shines her shoes here first, and then goes to her sister to buy jewelry.

A customer once said when he smiled at him after polishing his shoes and then pulled him to his sister to buy jewelry: "Little one, you are very good at sales, very good at business." ”

He hadn't read a book, so he didn't know what he meant by selling sales, but he vaguely felt that he was praising him, so he bared his white teeth and smiled.

That time, he first pulled the tightly wrapped woman to shine her shoes, but she didn't look at him, and walked straight to his sister's stall, she stood, staring at her sister with her eyes, and one of his heartbeats was about to come out, he thought that it was his sister's relatives who found her, and since he was rescued by the man in black, he has been looking for the whereabouts of his sister's relatives, handing out leaflets, and asking about every guest he has not seen.

But the strange woman, after looking at her sister for a long time, just shook her head, picked a string of beads at random, dropped the money and left, without making too many stops.

He was disappointed, but it wasn't.

The days are getting more and more comfortable, he often basks in the sun, holding his sister's hand and telling jokes, this month they have saved more than 600 yuan, it won't be long before you can buy a big wheelchair for your sister, don't have to work as hard as now.

As for him, he doesn't need a wheelchair, he can even ride a bicycle that sells balloons next to him, and the balloon vendor said, "Kid, you don't look like a cripple at all when you ride a bicycle."

Therefore, having a bicycle of his own became his second wish.

Because he can replace running, he is more and more serious about making money, and that day his sister looked at the person who came out of McKenzie with envy, and when he was holding the cone in his hand, he said to buy it, but his sister stopped him.

He knew what his sister was worried about, it was just a cone, and he felt that he could fully fulfill his sister's wish.

After sending his sister home, he worked hard to walk his two tangled and tortuous legs, limping to the cottage fast food restaurant step by step, and bought a vanilla-flavored cone, he didn't know if his sister liked to eat it, he felt that his sister would like this taste, such a taste, exactly the same as the taste on his sister's body.

However, when he returned home, there was no trace of his sister.

The whole room was quiet and empty, and the small house that the people in black gave them became warm and comfortable with the efforts of the two people, but there was no shadow of my sister in the warm light, and the meal in the kitchen was only half done, the dishes had just been cut, and the kitchen knife was thrown aside at will, but my sister was gone.

He called his sister's name like crazy - Guan Xue, after he was rescued by the man in black, he only knew some simple words, her name was written on his hand by her stroke by stroke, he usually called her sister, but he always remembered her name.

Their neighbors were two old scavengers, at this time, the two old men had not yet returned home, he was helpless inside and out of the search many times, his eyes were stunned to look at the house, the vanilla-flavored ice cream in his hand slipped down.

My sister is gone.

My sister was gone, and the words were repeated three times in his mind, like a thunderbolt from the sky, he got up from the ground in one go, his movements were unprecedentedly smooth, and he ran towards the door in a panic, he would rather at this time his sister came out of a corner outside with a smile and told him, I'm here.

However, none.

He walked out of the narrow alley, out of the narrow street, and looked at the busy road for a long time, and a voice in his head kept telling him that she hadn't gone far, that she was somewhere on the side, or that she had already returned home and had prepared a table of food waiting for him.

dragged his tired body home, there was still no shadow of his sister at home, he had looked for everything, he took his sister to the moat, the house was being built around the moat, he once said to his sister that when he had money in the future, he would buy a house around this moat, and the scenery here was the most beautiful place in Ningcheng.

He took his sister to the elementary school, junior high school and high school, he told her that he had not read books systematically, but only recognized a few words, and he walked through the rows of school buildings, through the playground he had always longed for, through the wanton youth of the children, and there was no shadow of his sister in it.

He walked through the downtown area, walked through the vegetable market, walked through the street, walked past the door of McKenzie where they often set up stalls - even found it inside, including the small supermarket next to it, he always hoped that as soon as he pushed the door open, he could see his sister inside, quietly and warmly smiling, I am here.

But again and again the hope turned into disappointment, he frantically searched for three days, all the people who knew him did not remember her, the head of the man dressed in black once came to his stall, he asked her about her movements, and described her appearance in detail.

In order to make them beg for more money, those adults never gave them enough food, at that time, he always secretly left half of the ration for her to eat, and then watched her gobble it up with a satisfied face.

It wasn't until later, when the men in black came down from the sky, that they were freed from the hands of the devils, and the men in black were stunned when they looked at the twenty or thirty infected disabled children, and he always remembered the surprised expression on the head of the man in black, and he wondered a little mischievously, was that head stupid? Or are they afraid of being infected?

It stands to reason that the head of the man in black has also seen them, and his lodging and his work have all been arranged by them, but unfortunately the man has no impression of her.

Three days later, he found out that she had really disappeared from his life, that there was no news, that there was little hope, and that the strangest thing was that the vendors around him had never seen her, as if she really never existed.

He was in pain, including the head of the man in black, who suspected that he was fantasizing or taking some kind of drug, but he didn't, he remembered her clearly, remembered her smile, remembered her sparkling eyes, remembered buying her wheelchair, remembered her "I want to go home".

For three days, he could not remember how many walks, how many shoes he had worn out, how many blisters had blistered on his feet, and the hope of finding her was getting slimmer, and on the fourth day, when he set out to find her, he was horrified to find that he could no longer remember what she looked like.

He tapped his head vigorously, trying to recall the clues in this way, but her face was as clear as water, and a mist covered her face, and she couldn't see anything clearly.

"If you have anything in the future, you can come to me according to the address on that money."

This sentence appeared in his mind like a magic spell, and he went crazy to find the old man's head that day, which read: Dr. Tian's outpatient department, No. 31 Flower Street.

The face of a bland man comes to mind, that man! That man might be able to help him! He had seen his sister, and as long as he admitted his sister's existence, then what he said was not a fantasy, and he could ask those who were dressed in black for help!

He ran out of the door as quickly as he could, his face full of hope that he had never seen before.