In Zero One's opinion, fate seems to be a fierce opponent that Jingshu can never defeat.

She works hard to change the status quo, but every time her life improves a little, an invisible big hand will always slap her in the face.

Jingshu couldn't work during the period of recuperation, and the school also asked for leave, after learning that she was currently unable to move, the head teacher asked a few classmates to help hand over the exercises needed for the final review to Lingling, and she helped bring them back to Jingshu.

Lingling is too young to do odd jobs, so she usually stays at home to take care of Jingshu.

The twins and the big fat and the second are all out to find a way to make some money to support the needs of the six people.

Jingshu's injury recovered quickly, her physical fitness was good, and Lingling also gave her various massages every day, so after almost a month of recuperation, she was finally able to run and jump.

His leg was almost broken before, although Jingshu could still walk, but when he walked, his heart hurt, and now he can't see any traces of injury.

She gradually returned to her previous life, commuting to and from school and working part-time, but the fun of cartoons for her six children could never be found again.

After the owner of the disc shop moved out, Jing Shu hadn't seen him for a long time.

The old town was completely started after a month and a half, and during that time, every time they went to and from school to work, Jingshu and others could hear the sound of the operation of construction equipment coming from the once lively alley, but now the sound is not good, but from morning to night, it has not stopped for a moment.

Soon, Jingshu ushered in his first summer vacation.

The work to do in the summer vacation is still a part-time job, but this kind of summer job earns more than the usual part-time job after school.

During the day, I help sell things outside, and at night I go home to write summer homework with the children I have made an appointment with.

Thirty yuan for one subject, two language and mathematics subjects, and sixty yuan for a child, in order to expand business goals, Jingshu will also take the time to go to the bookstore to secretly read books, and learn the content of the third or even fourth grade by himself.

This kind of daily schedule of work that barely squeezes out room for food does make everyone's life better, at least not to be hungry and full as before, but it does affect a child's body.

Sometimes the other children wanted her to rest and rest, but Jingshu couldn't be idle, so she ran out whenever she was free, and came back at night tired and sweaty.

One night at dinner, Lingling suddenly said with some fear: "That...... When I went out to dry my clothes today, I saw an uncle with a full beard and messy hair dangling around our house. ”

Listening to her description, Jingshu and the twins both knew who it was.

The younger brother smiled: "Don't worry, uncle is not a bad person, it was the uncle who brought us here when we were looking for a house before, this place has been abandoned for a long time, there is no one to live in, we just moved in, and it doesn't cost a penny!" ”

"That's right," Jingshu sandwiched a baby cabbage for Lingling, "Don't be afraid, don't think too much, but well, when you're home alone, you still have to be careful, remember to lock the doors and windows, don't open the door for others easily, understand?" ”

Lingling nodded, "Hmm." ”

The little girl's voice was timid, and she knew that she was still a little scared by looking at her expression.

Perhaps she hadn't come out of the shadow that the bastard dean had created for her before, and Lingling was very afraid of the opposite sex except for those close to her.

The day after tomorrow is Lingling's birthday, and Jingshu has been counting the days, planning to buy her something that a little girl likes.

Jing Shu is looking at a good-looking dress, after all, little girls will like this cute Lori dress.

The price was about 100 yuan, and Jing Shu made up a hundred from his piggy box and discussed with the other four boys to surprise Lingling.

So on the day of their birthday, early in the morning, they sneaked out of the house, according to the previous agreement, Jingshu went to buy skirt packaging, twins went to order cakes, and Da Fat and Xiaoer went to buy KFC that Lingling had always wanted to eat.

The prospect of leaving left a note for Lingling, lying that she was going to go out to work with other people, so that when she suddenly came back at noon, she would be full of surprises!

The small dress shop is in the center of the city, and it takes two hours for Jingshu to walk back and forth, but the girl who travels all the year round doesn't think that the two-hour journey will be long, she just complains very much about why she can't fly, if only she could be faster.

And beside her, there was a white-haired child with long flowing hair who was also walking quietly.

The golden vertical pupils moved with Jingshu's figure, and unconsciously, Zero Yi found that he seemed to have been with the girl for a long time.

Originally, he only stayed for a while, observing the behavior of the human cub to satisfy his curiosity, but when he suddenly came back to his senses, it seemed that even he had forgotten the time.

He has become accustomed to following Jing Shu, watching her every move, and also used to lying on her at night, listening to the girl's voice gently telling stories to Lingling, and then falling asleep together, and also accustomed to accompanying her to do all kinds of interesting little activities.

The bed in the new residence was left by the family that had died before, and Jingshu and they put on the blanket again, which was much larger than the previous narrow wooden bed, which was much larger for the two children.

Jing Shu would sleep with Lingling in her arms, but what she didn't know was that there was a white-haired child behind her who would sleep with her.

*

After buying the skirt, Jingshu packed it in a gift carton and hurried back.

After arriving at the place agreed with the other four, the big fat Xiaoer and the twins had been waiting for a long time.

The cake ordered by the twins is very small, after all, the funds are limited, and the big fat and the second buy a single meal, because it is only prepared for Lingling alone, and there are still dishes at home, which can be hot and eaten together at noon.

"You're hot and sweaty." The elder brother took out a piece of paper from his pocket and gave it to Jingshu: "Wipe it quickly, there are still forty minutes, we don't have to be in such a hurry." ”

Jing Shu thanked and wiped the sweat off her face, her little face was slightly red from the sun, and her childishness did not retreat, looking a little cute.

Zero One stood beside her, and couldn't help but reach out and poke her face.

But poke not?? move, because he is just air to Jingshu.

With some disappointed eyes, the white-haired child pouted, pulled the hem of Jingshu's clothes unhappily, and slowly walked back with her.

Towards noon, the sun shone down on the earth, gilding the small houses hidden in the woods.

The dirt path was paved with leaves, the wind was blowing and the birds were chirping, and everything seemed to be the same as before.

Jing Shuzheng and the four of them joked about Lingling's expression that she might show later, "Will you be moved to cry in my arms?" Her eyes lit up, and she teased in passing—"After all, it's impossible to pounce on you stinky men." ”

The elder brother of the twins quickly shook his head and said, "I don't stink, Ah Sheng stinks, I take a bath every day, and he doesn't even wash his feet." ”

The younger brother retorted with a red face: "...... Not really! I washed it last night! ”

The elder brother nodded calmly, "Yes, it was just last night." ”

Brother: "......"

Laughter rang out among the children, and in their teasing of each other, they finally walked home.

The door of the house was closed, and the rope hanging in front of the door was exactly the same as before leaving, and there was no change in position, so it seemed that Lingling should not have come out, and no one had entered.

Jing Shu quietly opened the door with the key and crept in with the four of them.

However, the moment they first stepped into the room, everyone was stunned.

Because—

The furniture in the room was a mess and staggered, as if someone had turned it over after they had gone.

The armrests of the sofa were scratched, they were new, and perhaps someone had pierced them with their fingernails not long ago, trying to hold on to it, but still couldn't escape the fate of being dragged away.

On the floor were broken plates, and clothes that had just been washed but had not had time to dry.

Jing Shu froze in place, his sensitive nose smelled a strong smell of blood, this smell came from the bathroom, even if it was covered with a large amount of shower gel, it still couldn't hide its almost suffocating rust smell.

It was as if my feet were filled with lead, and every step I took required a lot of strength.

From the door to the bathroom, Jing Shu never felt that this journey would be so long.

When she saw the little girl who was lying in the blood and was still saying good morning sweetly by the bedside in the morning, the fact that she had been unwilling to think about it, did not dare to think about it, and was terrified still completely shattered all her hopes.

- Lingling is dead.

With tears on his face and a pained expression, a knife stuck in his chest, surrounded by shattered bottles of shower gel and a field of blood-stained water.

The gift bag in his hand gradually slipped to the ground, just like the heart of all the children who was broken by someone.

It just hits the eyes and brain, and it makes people unable to think.

- What's going on?

Jing Shu thought to himself, it's okay in the morning, isn't it?

How could it suddenly be like this?

She walked up to the girl and wanted to hug her, maybe it was the high temperature in the summer, and the child's body at this time still had a faint residual temperature.

Quiet as if asleep.

- If only I was asleep.

Jingshu knelt beside her and hugged the child tightly.

Lingling's thin body is very light, light like a feather, and it doesn't weigh much in her hand.

It was as if the heart had been split in half by a huge valve.

Those torrents that are constantly converging are blocked by the valves, and they cannot go down, but can only accumulate more and more.

Jingshu knew that when facing this situation, at this moment, a normal person should be crying, sad, and shouting that name loudly.

But Jingshu found that she couldn't cry or scream, not because she wasn't sad, but because she was-

Maybe I can't even express my crying, and the pale and weak tears can't be recovered.

She picked up Lingling's body and slowly, under everyone's painful eyes, walked to the sofa in the living room.

The younger brother of the twins has been covered with tears after a short period of mental fragmentation, and although the elder brother is forced to calm down, the hatred and pain in his eyes continue to torment his mind.

The food in the big fat and small second-hand also fell to the ground, intertwined with the scattered debris.

*

"He's not gone yet." Jing Shu put the little girl's body on the sofa, pulled out the knife, and held it tightly in his hand.

The voice was hoarse and flat, and the girl's dark gaze fell on the door.

There are traces of pulling in front of the gate.

Lingling may want to open the door and escape, but she is very obedient and knows that Jingshu and they will lock the doors and windows when they are not there, so when she unlocks it, she wastes a little time and is caught back by the people chasing behind her.

"When you're home alone, you still have to be careful, remember to lock the doors and windows, and don't open the door for others easily, understand?"

"Hmm." The girl nodded obediently.

- She's so obedient.

Jing Shu thought, it would be nice if he wasn't so obedient occasionally.

"When I first came back, the rope left in front of the door didn't change its position." She said quietly: "The windows are locked from the inside, and it is impossible for anyone to enter through the windows." ”

Therefore, the murderer, perhaps, from the beginning, stayed in this house.

The windows were closed, and even after killing someone, the man didn't leave.

"He's hiding here." Jing Shu's eyes gradually filled with a layer of hatred, bloodshot surged, maybe she thought of something, her voice trembled, and said, "It's our negligence." ”

Negligence from the beginning led to this tragedy.

Why is this house on hold?

Because of a tragic case, the murderer is on the run and has not been caught.

So, where did the murderer flee?

It's been so long, and there has been no news, like the world has evaporated.

Perhaps, he has never left this room, so no matter how much he looks outside, he can't find it.

And the so-called sound of a pair of boots walking in it was actually accidentally transmitted by the murderer hiding here. After scaring away the people nearby, his movement became more convenient.

Jing Shu held the knife tightly, turned his head, and stared carefully from room to room, not letting go of any corner.

The twin brother also glanced around with a cold face, and he held the scissors in his hand, which seemed to be hard to crush.

Finally, behind the kitchen cupboard, Jingshu saw the passage that was hidden by the wooden planks.

It had been closed so well that no one would have seen that there was a secret passage hidden behind it.

And just now, the murderer was probably in a hurry to dodge, and it was not completely closed.

So he clenched the knife, Jing Shu took it away expressionlessly, and walked in.

*

It wasn't dark inside, there was a faint glow shining on it, and the smell of decay and dampness carried a disgusting stench.

It's like an old secret passage, and there are some dynastic artifacts in it.

And after walking more than a dozen steps, the back of the bearded uncle he had seen before appeared on the smelly bed around the corner.

He didn't expect that a girl would find out if he sneaked into the house to steal something once in a while, so he had to kill her in a hurry!

There wasn't much in the kitchen, and he only found a can.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, the uncle who was eating canned food paused, and then, in horror, he turned around and met the five pairs of pupils behind him that were covered by pain and hatred.

*

The murderer of a murderous murder has finally been found after a few years.

But when the police arrived at the scene, the man was already dead.

The police were called by twins, who were thirteen years old, and behind the twins, two twelve-year-old boys and a seven-year-old girl, with the girl holding the body of another child in her arms.

The five of them were silent.

There was a dead silence on everyone's face, like a puppet with a lost soul, silent.

*

For Jingshu, this is the first summer vacation she has had, and it is also the most memorable.

The money for Lingling's burial was collected with the help of the uncles at the police station, and it didn't rain that day, the weather was sunny, the sky was blue and white, and the girl in a cute little dress was buried next to her parents.

Jingshu stood in front of the grave for a long time, so long that everyone around her gradually left her.

Even if he killed a murderer who is on the run, before the court decides the case, he is still only a suspect, and the murderer who killed his children is a murderer with conclusive evidence.

Da Fat and Xiao Er were on the news because of this incident, and they were found by their parents who had been separated for many years.

The fact that the two children who were abducted by human traffickers have now been unexpectedly recovered, is a great relief to everyone.

However, the two children don't want to leave, even if they are wandering, they also have the happiness of relying on their friends, not to mention that they are involved in a murder, but unfortunately the gray temples and almost crying eyes of their biological parents make them unable to ignore it.

So the twins took everything and took the initiative to admit that the man was killed by their brothers and had nothing to do with anyone else, so after Lingling was buried, the twins were sent to a labor camp.

Six children.

One passed away forever, two went to labor camp, and two had to return to their biological parents. The last one left behind also seems to be forever trapped in the summer vacation of the year when he was seven years old.

On an old street paved with bluestone paved roads, Jing Shu stood in place, quietly staring at the backs of the five people who were gradually moving away, perhaps just like being left at the door of the welfare home by his adoptive parents two years ago.

In the end, she was the only one left.

This summer vacation was unforgettable.

Jing Shu lowered her eyes and smiled helplessly, the setting sun stretched her shadow, like a silent big hand gently caressing her head at the end of the shadow.

Then, suddenly, she crouched down, buried her head in the crook of her arm, and trembled.

The white-haired child, who witnessed everything, heard the choked cry of the girl next to him.

"It hurts."

These two suddenly sounded in my heart.

It seemed to remind Zero Yi of the previous night in the hospital, she was also like this, crying suppressedly, but without the despair at the moment.

A tear fell to the ground.

Zero One was stunned, feeling the wet water marks on his cheeks.

For a while, I was at a loss.

Because, he even shed tears.

*

"I'm still here."

He wanted to tell her, "I'm still here." ”

But the words of the white-haired child could not be heard.

He wanted to hug her, but even if he hugged her tightly, the air-like child could not give her the slightest comfort.

Endless sadness and loss welled up in my heart, constantly squeezing that beating heart.

“…… You're not alone. ”

The white-haired child's nose is sour, and the golden vertical pupils reflect the girl's curled figure: "I'm by your side." ”

He called her name: "Shushu ......"

"I'm here."

He'll always be there.

Accompany her in this game of fate until the end of the world.