The little girl named Alido stood timidly beside the soft chair, looking at everything in the house with cautious and curious eyes, many things in the house that she had never seen since she was born ten years ago, and she had never imagined that there would be such a cool residence in this land covered by heat waves and water vapor all year round.

It may be that the little girl knows that her body is very dirty, even if Shi Cheng repeatedly asks her to sit down, she just shakes her head and stands motionless beside the soft chair, insisting on not wanting to sit down.

Shi Cheng was helpless, so he moved a small stool from the storage room next door, and the little girl finally sat down after hesitating for a while.

"Your arm must be medicated. So that the wound will be healed. Shi Cheng said while comparing the paintings, he pointed to the medicine bag in his hand, "It may hurt a little, endure it and it will pass quickly." ”

At first, the little girl waved her hand and thanked and refused, but after Shi Cheng scared her that her arm would break if she didn't apply the medicine well, she took the initiative to stretch out her arm in fear and stopped talking.

Shi Cheng clamped a piece of cotton cloth with a wooden clip, and wiped it on the little girl's injured arm with the cotton cloth dipped in the potion, Alido's dark and thin little face quickly wrinkled, and the little girl's big eyes became tearful, but to Shi Cheng's surprise, Alido's character was very strong, and he gritted his teeth and endured the stinging sensation of the potion applied to the wound.

When he was taking the medicine, Shi Cheng kept chatting with Alido, firstly to divert her attention, and secondly, to learn more about the little girl's life experience.

In the process of chatting, Shi Cheng also learned more about Alido's life experience.

It turned out that this little girl was not a hired hand on the estate, nor was she the daughter of any hired worker on the estate. Alido has been working as a laborer in a local chamber of commerce on the outskirts of Kenbin City, which is called the Mushroom Fruit Shop. There is cooperation with the Lin family manor, and the manor will regularly send washed fruits to the manor every day, and by the way, he will assist in some of the strength work in the manor, and recently due to the large number of foreign guests in Kenbin City, the chamber of commerce is short of manpower, so little Alido was also sent to the door by the owner's envoy, naturally, according to the agreement between the vegetable and fruit shop and the manor, Alido also sent the breakfast to Shi Cheng and the three of them by the way when sending fruits.

During the conversation, Shi Cheng and Tie Mian learned that little Alido's parents also worked in the mushroom field vegetable and fruit shop, and Tie Mian was a little puzzled, since his parents were also in the same chamber of commerce, why didn't they come forward to protect their daughter when someone bullied Alido?

After listening to little Alido tearfully and whispered a few words of explanation, Shi Cheng and Tie Mian figured out that the little girl not only had to bear the work of going out to deliver goods, but she also had to clean vegetables and fruits in the Chamber of Commerce, take care of the water stove and other duties to do, but because the workload in the Chamber of Commerce was too large these days, the owner was as strict as ever, and finally yesterday, Little Alido was tired and slept for a while while while taking care of the water stove, and did not add firewood in time. In the end, he was beaten with a wooden plank by the angry steward in charge of the water furnace room, and he was also whipped on the arm by a nurse.

Little Alido's tears flowed more and more, and she cowered when she entered the door, and she gradually became more talkative without saying a word, and Shi Cheng, who had been asking questions before, was silent.

Shi Cheng listened quietly to the little girl's cry, wiped her wounds, and then took out a wrapping cloth from the medicine bag placed on the wooden table in the living room, and carefully tied it to the wound on the little girl's thin arm.

"What about your parents, didn't they come out to say a few words for you?" Tie Mian asked, his mastery of Chu Ze was limited to some simple everyday words, and Shi Cheng needed to translate in the middle, so Shi Cheng used Chu Ze to help him ask this question again.

Alido's eyes darkened, she lowered her little head, whispered a few words to herself, and then fell silent.

"What did she say?" Iron Mask asked.

Shi Cheng sighed, "Her parents didn't dare to stand up to the steward, so when she was dragged to the yard by the steward to beat, her parents kept watching from a distance and didn't do anything." When I was chatting with this child earlier, I heard her say that she also has a younger brother and a younger sister at home, who may be much younger than her, so I guess her parents don't want to lose their jobs because of this, so that they can't support the family. Although it is said that it is not because others have suffered, do not persuade others to be kind, but in any case, it is a little ...... that one's own flesh and blood are beaten like this but do not move Alas. ”

Iron Mask asked softly: "You'd better not think about people for the better, there will be ten pairs of parents and 100 pairs of parents who love their children and trust their children, but do you dare to say that this is also the case among 1,000 pairs and 10,000 pairs of parents?" ”

Shi Cheng's hand that was bandaging the little girl stopped, his hand seemed to tremble slightly, and after the silence and suppressed silence lasted for a short time, Shi Cheng lowered his head, and while continuing to bandage, he said in a muffled voice: "Maybe." ”

Iron Mask didn't say anything more.

"All right, kid." Shi Cheng finished bandaging Alido, stood up, he took out a small wooden box from the medicine bag, and stuffed it into Alido's hand, "Uncle wrapped the cloth belt for you tomorrow and then unpack, otherwise the wound will not be good, there must be other injuries on your body, uncle is inconvenient to give you medicine, after you go back, you do it yourself or ask your parents to help, rub the ointment in this small wooden box on the wound, sleep well at night, and you will feel much better tomorrow." ”

Alido hurriedly shook her little head, her big black eyes became tearful again, she hurriedly stretched out her little hand and pushed the box in front of Shi Cheng, thanking and refusing, but Shi Cheng hardened again, and scared the little girl again with the argument that her arm would be broken if she didn't apply medicine, and finally forced little Alido to accept the ointment.

Little Alido stood up and stammered in a childish voice: "Thank you, two brothers, I have been bothering you for a long time today, the steward is still waiting for me to go back, I will leave, may the Holy Venerable bless you." ”

Shi Cheng looked at the little girl's crumbling little body, sighed, took out six Tongbao copper plates from his coat pocket, and stuffed them into the pocket of Alido, who looked panicked.

"You rest here for two quarters of an hour before leaving, otherwise with your child's physical state, I'm really afraid that you will fall halfway, and when you go back, tell your host that the guests of the Lin family manor see that you are clever, and leave you to clean the garden, this is a tip paid to you, you quietly leave two copper plates, and leave the rest to you in charge, and he will not show you a face because you go back late."

Seeing that little Alido was still unwilling to accept the copper plates, Shi Cheng had no choice but to raise his face and "threaten" her again: "If you don't bring these copper plates back, do you want to be beaten and whipped after you go back?" ”

When the little girl heard this, she shivered, shrunk her head like a rain-soaked chick, and no longer refused.

She sat back on the small stool, and did not refuse Shi Cheng's offer to let her rest for two quarters of an hour, Alido was young but knew in her heart that her body was almost at its limit.

Seeing that Alido agreed, Shi Cheng said, "You don't have to worry about your uncle giving too much, I should have paid you more tips if you moved such a big basket in." ”

Iron Mask walked to the dining table, wanting to find some water for Alido to drink, and after looking around, he found that the remaining drinking water in the kettle had been drunk by Wu Neng, who was now paralyzed upstairs.

Iron Mask set his sights on the basket that Alido had brought, and he was going to take some fruit from it for the little girl.

When Tie Mian opened the basket and was about to take away a plum fruit and a citrus fruit from the Northern Rainforest Continent to give to the little girl, his eyes were attracted by the big cold jar.

"This is ......" Iron Mask took out a porcelain bowl from a cabinet not far away, then opened the jar and poured out some of the contents inside.

After the things were poured out, Tie Mian found that the contents of the jar were cold drinks, and the body of the jar was specially designed to keep the cold drinks warm for a longer time.

"This feels a lot better than fruit...... Iron Mask took a wooden bowl from the cabinet that was much lighter than a porcelain bowl, and then poured more than half a bowl of cold drinks into it, he took an orange in his hand, and brought the two things to Alido.

"There is no water, see if this can be given to the child."

Shi Cheng glanced at the wooden bowl, frowned slightly, and asked, "Can you usually drink milk, do you feel unwell?" ”

Alido replied in a low voice, "When the proprietor used to marry the second lady, he rewarded us once. ”

"Okay, then drink some milk ice, this thing is cold, you must drink it slowly, don't worry."

"Brother, this ....."

"Okay, just drink, look at what your lips have become like."

Alido held the wooden bowl and kept thanking Shi Cheng, the little pearl in the corner of her eye fell into the bowl with a snap, she carefully brought the bowl to her mouth, and looked at the juice custard in the bowl with blurred tears in her eyes, and gently sent a small sip to her mouth, a cold and sweet feeling quickly spread in her mouth, and a small bud in the little girl's heart that had withered for a long time seemed to raise her head again under the moisture of this small sip of custard.

After sipping several times like a chicken pecking rice, Alido raised his head a little embarrassed, raised the small wooden bowl up, and said, "Brother, you can drink it too, Alido is enough, this sweet and cold milk must be very expensive." ”

"You just drink it." Shi Cheng smiled and shook his head, "We still have it there, drink it slowly, this thing is cold, and your stomach may not be able to stand it if you drink it quickly." ”

After the little guy drank the milk ice in small sips, she resolutely stopped asking for the oranges handed over by Tiemian, she jumped down from the small stool, forcibly pressed her reluctant heart, and ran to the gate.

"Don't you want to rest for a while?" Shi Cheng asked, "There is something else to eat here, if you are hungry, you can also eat something at our place." ”

"No, thank you, two brothers, Alido has never met such a good person as you before, I must go back quickly, may the Holy Lord bless you."

After the little girl left, Shi Cheng thought for a while, but still took out the pen and paper, he decided to write a letter and ask the family of the manor to bring it to Bukitazawa later.

"What are you going to write?" Iron Mask asked.

"Write a letter to Bukitazer and talk to him about Alido."

"Are you not going to let that kid come over tomorrow?"

"No, on the contrary, I wish this kid had come and brought us breakfast for the rest of the month." Shi Cheng looked at the somewhat surprised Iron Mask and explained, "This child is not from the manor, even if she is not allowed to bring us breakfast, she will be ordered by their owner to go to someone else's house to deliver things, at least we will be better to this child, right?" I would ask Bukit Zek to change the cold drink to be delivered in the evening, and the jar was not light at first glance, and I estimated that it would take up half the weight of the whole basket. ”

Tie Mian was silent for a while, and said, "It's okay, but whether we should report it to the official, it's not the old era, and hiring children to work is a violation of the law." ”

"I'm afraid not here, I just suddenly thought of an article I read, which said that in Northern Rainforest, the recruitment of child labor is commonplace, and if you go to report to the official, the local government may still think that you have a problem with your brain."

Iron Mask didn't say anything more, "Do you have any other plans for today?" He asked.

"After eating for a while, let's go for a stroll on the street to see if we can find out the news related to the Kenbin Forbidden Area, Lao Wu will let him rest at home today, today's increase can make him toss a lot, and let him slowly adapt to it. In the evening, Xu Fengshi asked me to talk about the pill business, and the price of the Fruit Wood Chamber of Commerce was not low, so let's save more money, and it will be smoother when we arrive in Wei. ”