At the same time, Pigeon Pond City, Zijin Villa District.

In the basement of a large villa, more than a dozen children are locked in cages welded out of steel bars.

There is no innocence in the eyes of every child, only horror of the world.

Zhu Amu is the oldest boy here, and he is already ten years old this year. He couldn't remember how long he had been here, but he knew that he had come home from school one afternoon a long time ago. His mother came to pick him up from school.

Then, an old man smiled and pointed at himself in the distance. Then came two strong men and said to their mothers:

"Hello, my old man wants to invite you to sit in the house, my old man's name is Zhou Jiansheng. Presumably you will sell a face. ”

When the mother heard this, she didn't know what to say to the two men, and then she knelt on the ground and cried for mercy, crying and kowtowing. I hope I can let myself go. At that time, Zhu Amu didn't understand what this meant, but he knew that they dragged themselves and their mother's hair and were forcibly dragged into the car.

Then, he and his mother were separated, and he no longer knew where his mother was. And he was locked in a cage in this basement.

Then, I understood what it meant to go to the house and sit down......

A cruel life begins.

The silver-haired old man often walked in naked, treated the other children in the house 'like that', and said, "As long as you are obedient, you will not be beaten, and when you grow up and become rough, I will let you go." ”

Everyone is very obedient.

When I first came here, I saw many children being beaten and not allowed to eat, so I did the same. Then get used to it; I started looking forward to it, hoping that I could grow up soon......

I want to become an adult.

Wants to get out of here.

I want to see my mother.

I want to go home.

I haven't done my homework yet......

One day, one of the older children in the basement was thirteen years old. His lips began to grow some little fluffy beard, and we all envied him for growing up.

But he was terrified and tried to find a way every day, plucking out those little fluffs one by one.

One day, he cried and told us:

"If you can't grow up, you must not grow up, he's a liar, and when he grows up, he won't let us out at all."

"He doesn't like it anymore when he grows up, but when he leaves here, he will tell the secrets of this place. And he wants to keep such a secret, and he doesn't want others to know the secret here...... So, we will all die, and when we grow up, we will die. ”

"When I first came, I had an older sister who had grown up and they were going to take her out of here. She was reluctant to leave, and she said she would die if she left...... Then, they literally killed her. I heard them say with my own ears: Before they are dead, dig out the liver and kidneys, and drain the blood. If you are half dead, you can still sell a little, but if you are completely dead, you can't sell a penny...... The lord handed over these grown children to us to deal with, this is a reward for us, how long can we wait until one grows up, but we can't waste it like this. ”

He said what he saw and heard.

Then, one day, Zhu Amu saw the fierce strong man walking in with a smile, and said to the big brother with a knife as sharp and gentle, "Let's go, your parents are here to pick you up." You'll be free in the future! ”

Took him away.

As the elder brother was leaving, he looked back at all of us, and said in a voiceless voice:

"Goodbye."

“……”

I'm ten years old.

Probably a little precocious.

Zhu Amu touched some small, slightly hard fluff on his lips and muttered:

"I've grown up too......"

So, Zhu Amu turned around, looked at a little sister who came in last week, and told her the story.

The little sister was only six years old, and her eyes were shining and she played with the rag doll in her hand, and retorted very seriously:

"You lied to me. Grandpa Zhou was very good to me, and my parents didn't buy me rag dolls. Grandpa Zhou bought it for me. ”

Zhu Amu smiled and said, "Well, I lied to you. ”

Perhaps, such ignorance is also happiness.

It is too painful to wait for many years, to die every day.

But if we can live in a scam for many years, even if we only know the truth at the last minute, it is better than us.

I don't know why, I've been here for a long time, but it's much more mature.

Then the boy in another cage said:

"All of us are going to die here, right?"

Zhu Amu did not speak.

The boy said, "I'm a little scared...... My grandmother said that during the Qingming Festival, you should burn paper for your dead family members, otherwise the soul will have no clothes to wear and nothing to eat. My family doesn't know where I'm going yet, they must be in a hurry. If I die and they don't burn paper for me on Qingming Festival, what should I do below? ”

Innocent worry, but it does not reveal the fear of death.

Maybe it's because of this world, and the general view of death is extremely indifferent.

Maybe it's because all the kids are prepared......

Children are innocent, but in fact, they are far smarter than adults imagine.

Zhu Amu didn't know how to answer, and asked curiously, "How did you get in?" ”

The boy said, "My dad was a careless man. He took me out of town to fish, and he concentrated on fishing, and I stood behind him to help him mix the bait. Then a hand covered my mouth and dragged me away. I shouted but couldn't make a sound, I punched and kicked, but I could only struggle in the air. I could only see my father's back getting farther and farther away, and he didn't know I had been taken away......"

As he spoke.

A child suddenly looked at the high window:

"Huh?"

"There's a card floating in!"

The children in the basement were excited, and they all put their hands out of the cage and jumped to reach the small card that slowly floated in through the window.

They are curious about everything in the outside world.

When it rains, you want to reach out and touch the raindrops.

When it snows, you want to reach out and touch the snowflakes.

Even when the wind blows, you want to touch the gentle wind.

This is the only opportunity to reach out to the outside world.

What's more, at this moment, under the reflection of the moonlight, a card reflecting the afterglow of the moon slowly slipped in through the gap in the window.

"Mine!"

"Mine!"

"I caught it!"

The six-year-old girl who had just come in was excitedly holding the cardboard card and jumping happily.

Everyone stretched their heads over, looked curiously, and looked enviously.

"Oops, but what's written on it?"

Zhu Amu's eyes widened: "Sister, show it to me!" ”

"Whoa!"

Zhu Amu took the card, one side of the card was as black as ink, and there was a fingertip-sized picture in the center-

A full moon.

That's a sign.

Zhu Amu turned over and looked at the front, and four big characters came into view - eliminate violence and peace!