"Ahem!"

A cough came from one of the houses inside.

"Dark!" a middle-aged man's voice, his voice weak, coughed twice, "Are you back?"

"Yes, father!" replied the thin boy, named Dark, toward the house.

Darker gently stroked his sister's brown hair, making the already messy hair even worse: "I'll go see my father, you eat first." ”

"Brother, I'll wait for you to eat together. Diana looked at her brother.

"Good!" said Duck grinning.

Duck got up and walked to the house inside, lifted the curtain sewn with rotten linen clothes, and said, "Father, are you feeling better today?"

There is a bed and a small round table in the house, which are said to be beds and tables, but in fact they are made of wooden planks, crudely put together, and look crumbling.

There was a middle-aged man lying on the bed, with a large skeleton but as thin as skin and bones, and a small oil lamp was lit on the small round table next to the bed, which reflected the middle-aged man's bloodless face and godless eyes.

"Ahem, the same old look, it doesn't get better. The middle-aged man shook his hand slightly.

Duck approached the edge of the bed and sat down on it, the bed creaking. Duck took out the white steamed bun, put it in his father's hand, and said, "Father, eat something!"

Then he shouted to his sister outside, "Diana, pour a glass of water for Father." ”

The middle-aged man raised his hand with difficulty, took the white steamed bun, and took a hard bite: "Hmm!

"Have you found a job? How can you have the money to buy white steamed buns?" the father swallowed the steamed buns and chattered: "Earn money, save some flowers, and keep some for backup." In fact, black steamed buns can also be eaten, and no one will die of hunger. ”

Duck lowered his head: "Father, I didn't get a job, he ...... They said I didn't have the strength, I was too slow to move things, and no one wanted me. ”

The father was stunned: "Then where did you get the money?" ”

"Meet a kind man today!" Duck's head lowered, "for me!"

"How can there be so many well-wishers in this world? When the father heard this, he was furious and said in a stern tone, "Are you stealing other people's money again?"

Duck doesn't start, doesn't speak.

"How many times have I told you, you can't steal, you can't steal...... Ahem. The father coughed violently, "My father will never steal or rob in his life, no matter how poor he is, he can't steal, and he can't steal from starvation......"

"We're going to starve to death!" Duck yelled, interrupting his father.

"They don't want me, they're going to kill us!" Duck cried out, "How old is my sister?, why is it that other people's sisters are so clean, never hungry, and live so happily, like princesses!...... Forget about starvation!"

"They'd rather give it to the dog than give it to us!" Duck suppressed his cry, and his sister next door was sobbing.

"It's the father who is useless! It's the father who is useless. The father's eyes were red, and his heart was pierced by his son's words, and he blamed himself vigorously, "Dark, we don't steal, we don't steal." We'll get better, and when my father gets better, he'll get better. ”

"The Goddess will bless us!" the father said, lying on the bed, and did not forget to make a gesture of prayer at the mention of the Goddess.

"Where is the goddess, the goddess of bullshit!" said Duck angrily, "We are all going to starve to death, where is the goddess?"

The last sentence was shouted out by Duck, with endless resentment.

"Dak, you...... It is forbidden to insult the goddess. The father stopped, and then muttered, "I hope the goddess forgives, the child is not sensible." ”

Duck wiped away a handful of tears, took out the money bag he had stolen from Donner, stopped crying and said: "This is the money given by the good Samaritan, there is a lot of money in it, I will go to the doctor tomorrow to see you, I don't ask the goddess, I have begged for decades." I've been sick for two years now, and I haven't seen any better, it's useless!"

Duck calmly poured out the money, as if he had never quarreled with his father, and said calmly: "Look, there are a lot of copper coins here, and more than twenty silver coins, and when you are cured, we will not starve." ”

"Why are you stealing so much money?" the father was stunned and pointed at Duck in a daze.

Dark, as if he hadn't heard, picked up the gold coin and asked, "By the way, father, what do you think this thing is?"

"Gold coins! Ahem! It's gold coins. The middle-aged man's eyes widened, "You're going to be killed, Dark, do you know how much a gold coin is? ”

"In the past, if you stole a few copper coins from others, it would be forgotten, others were merciful, you would be beaten at most, this is a gold coin!" The father was angry and said anxiously: "Ahem, go and return it to others, ask for forgiveness, if you are found, you will be beaten to death, Duck." ”

"It's okay!" Duck looked relaxed, "I followed them to the restaurant, they weren't from Manhill City, they couldn't find me." ”

"Ahem, are you going, are you going, are you going, ......" The father coughed and covered his mouth, and when he opened it, he coughed up blood.

"Father, don't get excited!" Duck was a little flustered when he saw this. Since he was a child, his father has always been the pillar of the family, and he will not be afraid even if the sky falls.

When my father wasn't sick, I and my sister would never go hungry.

Now seeing my father coughing up blood, I was suddenly a little at a loss. Duck had no other thoughts, he just wanted his father to get better, and as long as his father's illness was cured, he believed that he would never go hungry again.

"You go, give the money back, cough, ask for forgiveness. The father seemed a little exhausted, and his voice was a little quieter: "If you don't go, I'd rather die than be healed." ”

"Good!" said Dark, hurrying down and bringing water to his father, "Come, father, drink some water." ”

Father, don't overdo it, won't drink!

Duck pleaded, "Father, you drink water first." I'll go and pay it back, and I'll ask for the good man's forgiveness, okay, I'll go tomorrow morning. ”

Seeing that his son agreed, the middle-aged man asked his son to feed him water.

The middle-aged man drank the water and seemed to be in a stable mood, but he looked very tired and did not speak, but just waved his hand.

Duck pursed his lips and looked at his father's emaciated pale face, turned his head and walked out of the room.

The next day, early in the morning, I came to the restaurant where Donner lived and knelt there.

Passers-by looked sideways and pointed. Duck seems to have a slight reputation in Manhill City, and several passers-by in the city recognize him.

Of course, this reputation does not seem to be very good, and those pedestrians do not use words such as thieves, rats, and dirty.

It wasn't long before Donner and the others got up and walked out of the room to the second floor, still sitting by the window and preparing breakfast.

The anomaly below quickly attracted the Donners, and Matthew's sharp eyes immediately recognized Dark.

"Chief, you see, it's the kid you saved and stole your money. Matthew pointed down.

Donner stuck his head out to see if it was.

"Go see what's going on?" Donner thought for a moment.