Chapter 139: Hound Gully, the Wanderer's House
Alice stood up, because she was displeased with the answer she had received as always, and replied in a long voice, "Yes...... Dr. Pemby. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
The girl walked past the doctor and opened the door.
Outside the door stood a little boy who looked up at Alice, "I should have forgotten, Alice." ”
The girl didn't speak, leaned sideways to make way for him.
The doctor stood up, looked directly at the little boy, and said in a gentle and magnetic voice: "Charlie, your father has been sentenced to life imprisonment, he killed your mother, your mother always beats you, now let's forget everything, okay?"
"The past is gone, Charlie. ”
Alice walked out and closed the door, and the doctor's words came faintly.
"They're not your family, they've never been...... Now you're home, Charlie. Relax, you're floating...... Listen, they're all gone......"
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Walking a few streets out of the subway station, Roger stood at the entrance of the nursing home with his back on his back, looking at the two-story building surrounded by iron fences.
The long windows and mottled walls make the sanatorium look like it was in the same era as the small cottage where his family lived.
There was a sign hanging on the iron fence, which was as dirty and dilapidated as the building.
Roger struggled to make out the words on the sign: "Hound Gully, Home of the Wanderer...... What kind of nonsense is this, is this really a sanatorium and not an orphanage?"
"There's a reason for that," Caroline explained, standing behind her brother, "and the average street child is taken in by an orphanage. And those who are mentally stimulated, orphanages and psychiatric hospitals are reluctant to receive ... I heard that the children were adopted by Dr. Angus Pemby......"
"Oh, unexpectedly, he is a good person. The boy touched his chin, "I'll just say that a well-known psychiatrist shouldn't be too poor." ”
Caroline gave her brother a blank look and pushed open the somewhat rotten mahogany door.
The old lady had also come to see Alice a few times, and knew the rules here, that the gate would not be locked until nightfall.
Roger was a little surprised, this is to allow the children in the nursing home to come and go at will?
Following Caroline's footsteps into the Wanderer's House, the first impression of the hall on the boy was that of depression.
Dark wallpaper covered all the walls, the narrow windows on either side of the door didn't let in enough sunlight to illuminate the whole house, and the two dim light bulbs on the roof had to stay on during the day.
On the right, there are many bookcases against the wall, but the books are scattered and piled up on the ground, and on the left, a few shabby-dressed children are squatting on the floor and quietly playing with broken toys, and behind them there is a small pitiful fireplace, and above is a framed photograph.
A neatly dressed middle-aged man with a beard and glasses sits on a stool and takes a photo with several children.
Roger commented on the decoration of the house: "This is a good place chosen by Aunt Elizabeth? Not to mention the lack of lighting, there are two pillars standing in the hall, are you afraid that the roof will accidentally fall... And this hygienic environment, dirty and messy, if you don't get sick, you have to be contagious......"
Caroline didn't bother to take care of the chatter, and walked inside, and around the corner of the cloister was Alice's room.
But the door of her house was open, and no one was inside.
The small room was empty, except for a bed, and only a small wardrobe stood in the corner, but there was a window in the wall, which made it much brighter than the cloister.
Roger picked up the papers scattered on the bed, sat down and looked at them, each with a rather abstract painting.
The boy sighed with admiration: "To be able to paint like this, you also need artistic talent......"
Caroline leaned over and looked down at the graffiti-like portrait, "What is this? a monkey in a top hat, a donkey playing with a yo-yo, a lizard with four eyebrows, and... Hair dryers stacked on top of each other?"
"You're not bad either... None of the four paintings is right. Roger was amused.
The Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Fried Neck Dragon, and finally the one is a mushroom forest, which Roger can easily identify by his features after seeing Alice in Wonderland.
After waiting for Alice for a while, it seemed that no one in the house realized that there were two more uninvited guests.
This made Roger's impression of the sanatorium even worse: "There can't be no other adults here besides the doctor, right......? What about the caregivers? What about the cleaners?"
Caroline replied with some uncertainty: "As far as I know, there is only one person in charge of Dr. Pemby, who takes care of so many children, how can he have spare money to hire others...... It is estimated that his only income now is the treatment fee paid to him by our family for the treatment of Alice. ”
The boy patted his head speechlessly, this doctor is quite capable of fooling, and the ecstasy soup made his family stunned...... Which regular large-scale nursing home is not better than this broken ground.
Roger rolled his eyes and pulled his sister out of Alice's room, "You know where the doctor's room is, take me there." ”
"Why are you trying to trouble him?" Caroline smiled with interest as she heard the subtle change in her brother's tone.
Roger raised his eyebrows: "What's the matter... Do you think it's good for Alice to stay here?"
"Of course not, I'd love to have you beat Dr. Pemby in the ass. The old lady raised her eyebrows at the boy with a dark belly: "Although the good deeds I said before are true, but when I see him, I am disgusted in my heart." ”
Caroline's senses have always been acute.
Roger pinched his fingers, and it seemed that he could still "ask" something unexpected from this doctor today.
However, before he could go far, he bumped into Alice around the corner.
"Caroline, Roger, oh my God, why are you here?" she hugged her siblings in surprise, "I just happened to be going to the high street to get medicine, you guys should come with me." ”
Roger's eyes narrowed slightly, although this strong expression of feelings was indeed an improvement over the previous indifferent fugue world, but the collapse and despair under the haggard face had not had time to hide.
This girl seems to be in unimaginable pain just now.
Alice couldn't help but pull the two of them towards the door, and the happiness in her tone made it difficult for Roger to put aside the trouble of going to the doctor.
Anyway, there is still a long time, so there is no hurry at this time.
I followed the two girls slowly, and when I crossed the street, I encountered a red light.
Roger didn't bother with it, he had the ability to hit it!
Alice hurriedly stopped the boy: "Lamp, wait for the lamp!"
Roger looked back at the girl in wonder, Intel used this classic music in ninety-two?