Persuasion must be to be persuaded, although Anna's condition has stabilized, but after all, she has just been discharged from the hospital for a long time, and it is not good to cry.

After touching his brother's little head that said that he was a little silly and stupid and understood everything, Leon put down the newspaper in his hand, got up and left the second bedroom, and walked towards Anna's room.

This old house in Veterans Lane is not the original home of the four Lyon siblings, but the old house allocated to them after the military department forcibly withheld part of the pension, and they are almost five times the age of Lyon.

The old house as a whole is old and dilapidated, the lighting is average, there is not even a toilet, except for the small living room connected to the kitchen, only a master bedroom and a second bedroom remain.

The smaller second bedroom has always been occupied by Leon, and the so-called Anna's room is actually the master bedroom shared by her two siblings.

"Squeak"

With the jerky hoarse cry of the old doorman, Leon pushed the door and walked into the master bedroom, and at first glance he saw his sister lying on the futon sobbing.

Like the second bedroom where Leon lived, this small master bedroom also had only a single bed, and William and Melanie could barely sleep when they were young, and when the two tricksters grew up a little, it seemed a little cramped.

So Leon picked up some planks and bricks from the outside, added a section to the original old bed, and put on the mattress and his parents' old clothes, hoping that his younger siblings could sleep more comfortably, but because of the material problem, the part that was built out was a little unstable, and the bed board was easy to shake.

And Anna was lying on this part of the bed at this time, and with every muffled sob, the newly built half of the bed swayed twice, and even her ass swayed, and with the sobbing sound twisted and twisted, it looked really funny, and made Leon puff.

"Brother! You're still laughing! ”

After hearing Leon's sullen laughter, Anna, who was lying on the bed, suddenly became even more angry, and played a very rare role, and the two white and tender feet kicked twice in the void, and then couldn't help but complain:

"You're used to it! When they were mischievous before, you always stopped me from fighting! Now they're all starting to stuff horse manure into people's mouths! You can still laugh! ”

"Forehead ......"

Embarrassed to explain what he was laughing at, Leon took the initiative to look away, and while looking at the furnishings in the room, he said to the left and right:

"I just don't think it's okay to just spank them, but you have to let them know why they're being beaten, or don't make them think they're right to be beaten.

If you don't believe it, look at William, he has already summed up his experience as to how many times he will be spanked by you after making a mess, so he still has to be reasonable to prove it. ”

"But they won't listen to you until they've been beaten!"

Anna, who has always been gentle in front of Leon and almost never expresses her opinions, is extremely strong in educating her younger siblings.

After rubbing her tears with the back of her hand, she turned around after stopping her sobs, pouted and argued unconvinced:

"You usually don't take them with much effort, you don't know how annoying they are!

It's not that Melanie doesn't understand right and wrong, but she thinks that she can fool the past by playing tricks! William is even more worrisome, although he is not very aggressive, but his ideas are always strange, like ...... It's like ......"

After being there for a long time, and not coming up with words that could describe her brother's peculiar brain circuit, the sick girl was so angry that she hammered the bed board and directly concluded:

"Anyway, it's to be managed! If you don't care about it, it's too late! ”

"Uh-huh, tube! Be sure to manage! I won't stop next time! ”

After echoing twice, Leon walked over and sat down on the edge of the bed, and while reaching out to caress his sister's back, he comforted softly:

"But you might as well think on the bright side, although the two of them are indeed naughty, they have never bullied people, and it was not all their problem in the past...... Well...... Think about it. ”

After recalling the situation he remembered a few times, Leon said with a slightly complicated expression:

"This time they caused trouble, because someone said that you can't come back; Last time, I was in a hurry to play a game, and a child scolded William for being a wild child; Last time, it was to stop the little fat man named Jack from bullying people;

The next time, I went to the dock to work as a stevedore, and I was driven away because my strength was too small, and some people gossiped in the alley; Before that, it seemed that you coughed too loudly at night, and the neighbor was resting, and you were said to be a tuberculosis ghost......"

The more they recalled the two little mischiefs, the more uncomfortable Leon and Anna's expressions became.

I didn't think much about it before, but now that I look at it, although the two little ones are very naughty, they almost always cause trouble for a reason, so it is not so much that the two of them are "naughty", but that they are also trying to maintain this fragile little family in their own way.

If I had been an older brother (sister), I could have been a little more powerful and stopped some malice from life for them, maybe the two little ones wouldn't have to be so "naughty", and they could be two lively and innocent ordinary children happily......

"Don't think about it yet."

After looking at the tears in his sister's eyes, Leon, who found that the more he persuaded the situation, quickly changed the topic, reached out and picked up a yellowed old photo album from the shelf at the bedside, hugged Anna's thin shoulders and comforted:

"My brother now has a public position in the police department, and when he becomes a regular at the end of the year, he can still let William and them go to school for free, and they don't have to fight with the children in the alley anymore. So let it pass! Our family will definitely get better and better in the future......

By the way, the last time we looked at the photo album together, it was more than two years ago when I had a high fever, and it happened that it was not too late today, if you didn't feel unwell, then accompany me to look through it? ”

"Hmmm......"

Following Leon's strength, she tilted her body and gently leaned on his shoulder, Anna, whose eyes were slightly red, took the album, stroked the broken cardboard shell with nostalgia, and then opened the album and gently flipped it.

"This is when my mother was young."

Opening the first page of the album and pointing to a faded group photo, a beautiful woman in military dress with eyebrows and eyes similar to Leon's, and a heroic face, Anna explained softly:

"When I was young, my mother and I ...... As I told us, this is a picture of her when she was admitted to the mechanic academy and was assigned to the gunsmith adjustment class, and then this is her father's ......"

Anna's soft fingertips lifted up and tapped at a tall, handsome dark-haired man with a gentle smile in the corner of the back row.

"My father and mother were classmates, but after graduation, they were drafted into the same army, and they gradually became familiar with each other, and then they had ...... You, and then the next year I had ......"

As Anna gently flipped through the photo album, looking at the strange man and woman, from acquaintance to love, and finally each wearing a dress and a wedding dress, embracing each other with happy tears in a chapel, Leon's mood also became better.

Different from the cold and cruel reality, the happy moments frozen in the album seem so warm, even if the color fades seriously due to time, it does not affect the brilliance and dazzling of some smiles in the slightest.

Saying...... When Anna was young, did she turn out to be such a lively child?

The enviable happiness in the album continued, looking at the little blonde girl in the photo who was smiling brightly, Leon couldn't help but reach over and gently touch Little Anna's bright blonde hair.

In his memory, Anna, except for the soft smile and nod to himself, all that was left was the cough that covered her lips when she was sick, and the frown that furrowed from time to time, Leon had never seen his sister smile so happily...... So what was it that robbed her smile?

Seeing that the two little ones hadn't appeared yet, but they had already turned over most of the photo albums, the self-evident answer suddenly came to mind, and a chilling cold chill climbed up and quietly grabbed Leon's heart.

"That...... It occurred to me that there was still some work to be done! ”

Because he clearly knew that the incomparably beautiful family in the album would face a cruel end in the end, Leon's body couldn't help but stiffen slightly, and while he was annoyed why he came up with such a stupid idea to look at the album, he said to Anna apologetically:

"Why don't we see this first? You're tired today, so let's get some rest! ”

"Hmmm......"

The thin girl replied softly, as if she hadn't noticed Leon's abnormality, and directly closed the photo album in her hand, chuckling and nodding the tip of her chin.

However, when Leon fled away, she did not get up, but reopened the heavy old photo album and slowly turned to the last page.

On the back cover of the album, which was already yellowed, where it should have been reserved for the most important photo, there was an old torn photograph glued to it.

The person who tore the photograph seemed to be very forceful, even rubbing the shards very hard, causing many of the cracks in the photograph to warp, and even though they seemed to have been carefully treated, they still could not be completely flattened, and even the face of the portrait was not very complete.

In this strange photo, the couple, who have appeared many times in the front of the album and are now dead for six years, are still smiling happily at the camera and hugging each other under a sign with the words "Family Portrait" written in flowers.

However, in front of them were not two men, two women, four brothers and sisters, but only a child about eight or nine years old, who was holding the hands of his father and mother left and right, and smiled extremely happily at the camera.

Stretching out her finger and touching the child's face in the photo, flattening the upturned part of the crack, revealing her bright blonde hair of the same color as her mother, Anna couldn't help but bite her lip hard when she looked at the smiling face on the girl's face that made her feel very unfamiliar.

Then, as if she had made up her mind, she scraped off the glued fragments with her fingernails, and then found a matchbox and a small bucket in the house, and threw the fragments into the bucket.

After turning her head reluctantly, Anna struck a match, lit a ball of cotton wool and threw it into the bucket, burning the last photo of her parents with herself directly to the black ash at the bottom of the bucket!

……

Not...... Yesterday there was something I seemed to have forgotten to do.

I don't know what happened after I left last night, as a social animal with no vacation, Leon got up from his small bed as soon as it was dawn.

After taking out the straw paper used as a memo and looking at it, he was a little helpless to find that yesterday because he was worried about reminding Anna of the sad thing, he slipped away in advance halfway through the photo, and left the matter of asking her to confirm his birthday directly behind.

The current word...... She and the two little ones shouldn't have woken up yet, right? Then I'd better wait until I come back in the evening and ask!

Looking at the still dark master bedroom, Leon shook his head and gave up the current intention to ask, instead holding a stack of old newspapers, softly pushed the door and left the house, walking on the way to work.

Well? What about coffee stalls?

When he reached a similar position as a few days ago, Leon was a little surprised to find that the temperature was very suitable for the coffee stall to open, but the profiteer with the same name as Char's department store did not come to the stall today.

After walking around the two nearby streets without seeing any sign of Old Charle, Leon finally gave up on the half-price coffee he had promised, and walked to another stall across the street with a drooping face, ordering the cheapest cup of coffee.

I have to say that although the old Char's coffee stall is dead and the thief who returns the things to the door, the "consumption experience" is indeed first-class good, and other coffee stalls really can't compare.

Sighing rather regretfully, Leon was about to get up to leave when he caught a glimpse of a somewhat familiar face at the next table after he had finished drinking the somewhat hot coffee in two sips.

The man...... Seems to be a regular customer of old Charl?

After recognizing the face and making sure he was not mistaken, Leon hesitated briefly and walked briskly.

"Hello, excuse me."

After reaching out and pointing across the street, before Leon could open his mouth to say his question, the regular customer suddenly raised his eyebrows, and actually spoke first:

"Ouch! Isn't this the son-in-law chosen by the old Charles? ”

？？？

What? I drank his coffee a few times, and I paid for it, how could I still be his son-in-law?

Looking at Leon, who was confused by his own shouting, the familiar customer, who was about fifty years old, laughed twice, briefly explained the origin of this title, and then asked with a smile:

"You are talking to me because you want to ask old Charles why he didn't show up today, right? I really know that! ”

After beckoning Leon to sit down as well, the familiar customer in his fifties continued:

"I met him last night, it seems that his daughter-in-law joined forces with others to do business, but accidentally entered the joint set of others, and seemed to have lost a lot of money, so angry that she smoked it on the spot.

Although his daughter-in-law was lucky, she was rescued by a kind young man passing by, and nothing major happened, but it is estimated that she will have to raise her for more than half a month.

Old Charles told me that he had to take care of his daughter-in-law, and by the way, he would seek justice from those people, and he would definitely not be able to go out of the stall these days. ”

“……”

Trade...... Quilted ...... Lose a lot of money...... was so angry that he twitched on the spot...... was also saved by a kind young man passing by...... How does this sound familiar?

After listening to what happened to the other "Lady Char", Leon couldn't help but scratch the back of his head a little awkwardly, feeling that the coincidences in this world were a bit too outrageous.

To be reasonable, if I went to the hydraulic company to steal information, it can also be regarded as a kind of "passing by", then what happened to these two Mrs. Char is really not bad at all.

As for whether these two Mrs. Charles could be the same, and this old Charr who bought coffee on the street, could it be the Charle of Charles......

How is this possible?

After thinking about the possibility of such a strange coincidence, Leon couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth and laughed at himself fiercely in his heart.

I met an uncle who sold coffee at a street stall, and it turned out to be the top three richest people in the royal capital, and then when I went out on a field mission yesterday, I happened to save the life of the rich lady, but I heard from others this morning that the rich man seemed to be interested in choosing himself as his son-in-law and inheriting the department stores he opened all over the royal capital......

It's nonsense, I really thought you were the protagonist!