This pancake fruit is really not in vain.

From this child's mouth, we already know that Xiao Xuan's brother is a mouse.

And no one knew that the mouse was dead, and they all thought that the mouse had left the city, because the mouse had come to this place a year ago, and had wandered here.

Homeless people usually have no fixed place to live, and sometimes they may stay in one place for a long time.

And Xiao Xuan didn't know that the mouse was dead, and he could even meet with the mouse every night.

The kid thought Xiao Xuan was lying, because he couldn't see the mouse, and only Xiao Xuan could see the mouse.

I asked the kid again: "The mouse came to this urban village a year ago, and Xiao Xuan came with him?" Are the two of them brothers? ”

The child nodded, and shook his head again: "Xiao Xuan came with the mouse, but they are not brothers." ”

Song Xiaotian and I suddenly couldn't understand.

Xiao Xuan and the mouse are not brothers, so how did he come with the mouse?

Moreover, if Xiao Xuan wandered to this urban village with the mouse, then who was the old man who came to pick up Xiao Xuan last night?

Isn't that Xiao Xuan's grandfather?

When we asked further, the kid shook his head and said he didn't know.

In fact, he and Xiao Xuan don't have much friendship, they usually go to pick up bottles and sell them together.

This child is also pitiful, his parents are divorced, he has been working outside, he comes back once in two or three years, he usually lives with his grandmother, and his grandmother is not in good health.

I saw that he had finished eating the pancakes and seemed to be unsatisfied, so I went to buy him another one.

I asked him why he didn't eat it, and he said he took it back to his grandmother, but his grandmother hadn't eaten it.

I went and bought another one and brought it back to him, so that he could take us to Xiaoxuan's house.

Xiao Xuan's house is not far away, it is near here.

He took us there, but before he arrived, he pointed to a short distance ahead and told us to go by ourselves, and he had to go back to cook for his grandmother.

I nodded, and took two hundred yuan in cash from Song Xiaotian to him, and my cash was stolen by that mouse.

The kid didn't dare take it, but I could tell he wanted it.

I stuffed it directly into his pocket and told him, "Go back and study hard, only study can change your fate." ”

He said thank you to me and went back with the money.

It's an alley, and the houses on both sides are quite dilapidated.

Xiao Xuan's house is on the first floor, and the windows are all papier-mâché.

At the door, he was lying on a small bench, writing.

I can't imagine that there is such a poor place in a big city.

A few meters away, we waved at him.

When he saw us, he ran straight over.

"It's you, how do you know I live here?" He looked at me and Song Xiaotian innocently.

I smiled and handed him the potato chips I bought: "We are passing by, come to play with you, this is for you." ”

He swallowed, but didn't answer, and said, "I can't spend any more money, it's so expensive, I know, it costs seven dollars." ”

I asked him how he knew it cost seven dollars.

"Because my brother bought it for me, this thing is delicious, and my brother said it's called potato chips." He rubbed his hands, but still didn't answer.

I tore open the bag and handed it to him: "You can eat, and I won't charge you money, we are older than your brother, you can also call us brother." ”

He took it, eating cautiously, but soon smiled.

This stuff is really delicious.

"Xiao Xuan, that old man last night, is it your grandfather?" I asked him.

He nodded.

"That's your own grandfather?" I asked again.

He shook his head and said no.

"Not your own grandfather? So how do you live together? "I'm curious.

He wiped his mouth and said, "My brother and I walked a long way from our hometown to the big city, but we didn't have a place to live, and we were often bullied, and my grandfather was very good to us." ”

"He gave us a place to live, so we had a home."

Xiao Xuan is eight years old and has poor expression skills, but we can still understand.

Both he and the mouse were taken in by the blind old man.

"Xiao Xuan, your brother, is it your own brother?" Song Xiaotian asked.

Xiao Xuan shook his head: "I didn't know my brother before, but he was very good to me." ”

"You don't know him, so how did you come from your hometown with him, does your family know?" I then asked.

His mood suddenly fluctuated, and he looked up at us: "I don't have a family, my dad is in jail, and then my mom is gone, my grandfather is dead, and my relatives treat me badly." ”

Song Xiaotian and I were stunned when we heard this.

This kid ...... So miserable.

We sighed, and we roughly understood his background.

This Xiao Xuan, his father was in prison, and then his mother may have remarried, and he didn't take him away, so he lived with his own grandfather, but his own grandfather also passed away, so he could only live with his relatives.

However, his relatives treated him badly, and during this period he met the mouse, and the mouse secretly took him away, wandered all the way to the urban village of Lanjiang City, and was finally taken in by the blind old man.

"Do you miss your mother?" Song Xiaotian asked him.

Xiao Xuan nodded, in fact, he already wanted to cry a little, but he didn't cry out, and said, "I saw other people's mothers who could buy them delicious food, and I was also very distressed and wanted to cry." ”

When I heard this, I couldn't help but feel sore in my cheeks.

"Are you crying?" Song Xiaotian asked again.

Xiao Xuan was stunned for a long time, his eyes revealed numbness and helplessness, and he looked at us: "No, I'm holding it." ”

I turned my head, sniffed, and breathed in again, barely holding back my tears.

This kid is only eight or nine years old, and he can hold it back, but I can't hold it back.

That mouse is also a wanderer, I guess the mouse took Xiao Xuan away because he thought that Xiao Xuan was the same as him and had no family.

After he took Xiao Xuan away, he treated Xiao Xuan as his own, and he might be better to this younger brother who was not related by blood than to himself.

I now understand why he is still stealing things after he dies, he is actually stealing things for Xiao Xuan.

Now that the mouse is dead, if Xiao Xuan knows the truth, it will be too cruel for him to be young.

"Xiao Xuan, your brother...... Does it come to you every night? I asked him.

He nodded, and was about to speak, when a voice interrupted him.

"Xiao Xuan!"

It was the blind old man who came out of the house.

When Xiao Xuan heard the shout, he immediately replied.

"Xiao Xuan, it's time to eat, come back to eat."

"I'll be right back!"

Xiao Xuan looked at us and said thank you: "When I grow up and earn money, I will buy it for you, my current money has to be kept for school, my brother said that I have to go to school to see my mother, so I can't buy it for you now." ”

"I'll go back to dinner first, goodbye."

He waved at us and ran back home.

The blind old man was still standing there, looking in this direction.

He seemed to know we were coming.