In order to fill her stomach, the girl secretly hid a bag of bread in her clothes. She wanted to quietly take the bread out of the store before the store manager found out. But before she could leave, the store manager stopped her.

The store manager took her to the office and told her to call her parents. She kept her head down when she did something wrong, she refused to give her name, and she didn't want to contact her parents.

Seeing her young age, the manager's wife not only forgave her for her mistakes, but also gave her bread. She walked out of the store with the bread and a little girl was waiting for her outside.

She handed the bread to her sister, who, like her, hadn't eaten for a day. In fact, it is not that she is reluctant to contact her parents, because she herself does not know where her parents are.

She walked home with her sister, not so much as a van parked under the bridge, and not long ago, their mother suddenly disappeared from the house, and her father quit the rented house and took them to the city to find her mother.

However, a few days ago, Dad parked the car under the bridge and left without a word. Dad's departure was as quiet as Mom's, and he never returned.

After her father said goodbye without saying goodbye, Xiao Li and her sister have been living under the bridge, and in the past few days, she has been taking care of her sister and waiting for her father to come back.

There was no place to wash under the bridge, so she took her sister to the park to wash her hair, but the tap water was too cold, and her sister was always yelling at the cold, and they slept in the car at night, in order to relieve hunger, Xiao Li would laugh and tell her sister fairy tales.

In the past few days of living under the bridge, Xiao Li found that there were two boys who were always passing by not far away, and one of them was always staring at them, but every time he was just watching from a distance.

On this day, Xiao Li went out to look for food, and when her sister woke up, she found that her sister was gone, and her sister cried and called her sister under the bridge, and the two boys passing by happened to be.

Seeing this scene, the two boys walked over, but they were a little overwhelmed by the crying girl. Fortunately, Xiao Li rushed back, and her sister stopped crying and threw herself into her arms. She couldn't find food outside, and tonight, she and her sister were going to be hungry all night.

Perhaps they heard their sister's murmur before leaving, and that night, the two boys took the initiative to come under the bridge.

The boys brought a whole box of chicken legs, and she was a little timid to accept the kindness of strangers easily.

However, the younger sister took the chicken legs, and their dinner was finally settled today. Xiao Li didn't know that this box of chicken legs was actually specially prepared for them by the boy.

Unlike the two sisters, the boy Xiaoyong has a warm home. Xiao Yong has a pair of parents who are in the prime of life, and he also has a younger sister who has just started school. His parents opened a small restaurant on the street, and their lives were not rich, but they were enough to worry about food and clothing.

Xiao Yong is always followed by a tall and strong boy, Ah Zhi, and the two of them are both classmates and friends.

Ah Zhi lives with his divorced mother, but Ah Chi's mother often does not return home for several days. Xiao Yong knew Ah Zhi's situation, so he often took Ah Zhi to his house for dinner, and Xiao Yong's parents didn't say anything, and would cook an extra meal to entertain Ah Zhi every time.

The location where the two sisters live is right next to their way home from school. Xiao Yong silently observed them for several days, and also understood that they were abandoned by their parents.

So at dinner that night, he lied and said he was hungry and asked his mother to cook an extra meal. He secretly packed the chicken legs made by his mother, and then lied that he was going to send Ah Zhi home.

Under the cover of a series of lies, Xiao Yong asked Ah Zhi to deliver the chicken legs to the two sisters.

The next day, Xiao Yong and his sister went out to school, and on the way they saw the girl under the bridge again, Xiao Yong understood that the girl was going out to find food, he took a look at it from a distance, and then left with his sister.

At lunchtime, Yong remembered the girl who lived under the bridge, who left the bread as a staple food and secretly put it in a crisper bag. When he got out of school, he was running back, and he wanted to give the bread in his hand to the girl.

However, when Xiao Yong arrives there, he finds that they are in trouble. A couple of delinquent teenagers found the van and kicked the sisters out of the van, where they played around as if it were ownerless.

Xiao Li and his sister watched from a distance, and they were weak and had no way to resist.

The bad boy had no intention of stopping at all, and in the end, she could only leave temporarily with her sister.

When leaving, her sister told Xiao Li that she was very hungry and asked her when her father would come back, but she didn't answer, just led her sister forward.

Xiao Yong walked after the sisters for a while, and then asked Ah Zhi to hand over the bread to them. At the moment when the other party took the bread, Xiao Yong and Xiao Li looked at each other at close range for the first time. Looking at Xiao Li's desperate and helpless eyes, Xiao Yong made a bold decision.

The place where you can eat is not anywhere else, it can only be Xiao Yong's own small restaurant. She brought the two sisters to her home and asked her mother to cook something for them. Dad said, "Let's make something to eat." ”

Ten minutes later, Xiao Yong's mother cooked a table of meals for the children, and Xiao Li and his sister took a big meal, they hadn't eaten a good meal like this for a long time.

At this time, Xiaoyong's mother asked, "Why don't you go home?" Won't your family be worried? ”

Xiao Li was silent by these questions, she didn't know how to answer, she didn't want to admit that she no longer had a home, and she didn't want to believe that she had lost her family.

As if seeing her embarrassment, Xiao Yong's mother didn't continue to ask. After eating, she said goodbye to Xiaoyong's family, and then walked under the bridge with her sister.

They returned to the van, which was already dirty and messy, and all their belongings had been taken by the delinquent teenagers, and their father still hadn't returned.

That night, it was raining heavily outside, but Xiao Li couldn't sleep, because she had a premonition that her father would never come back, and she didn't know what she would do in the future.

She rushed into the rain alone, running without any purpose, dense raindrops falling from the sky, and what the raindrops could not wash away was her sadness and helplessness.

These days, she has been pretending to be strong in front of her sister, and she can only expose her vulnerability at this moment. As an older sister, it's easy for her to forget that she's only a ten-year-old herself.

The next afternoon, she and her sister were wandering by the river, and once again met two boys who were returning home from school. Xiao Yong asked them why they were by the river, and my sister replied that they were looking for Rainbow Cloud, and it is said that as long as you make a wish on Rainbow Cloud, any wish can come true, and as long as you find Rainbow Cloud, my parents will come back.

The younger sister began to tell the story of the rainbow cloud, and Xiao Li also fell into memories with the younger sister's narration. At that time, she had a complete home, and their parents were by their side.

At that time, a family of four came to the beach for a vacation, and rainbow clouds appeared in the sky at the end of the ocean, and those clouds of various colors were the most beautiful scenery she and her sister had ever seen, and that period of time when their parents were still alive was the warmest memory in the hearts of the sisters.

And now, they want to find the rainbow cloud, and they are looking forward to the rainbow cloud to bring back their parents. That night, Xiao Li and his sister were taken to the restaurant by Xiao Yong again, and Xiao Yong's mother still cooked a lot of food, and also made a big bowl of meatballs.

In fact, Xiao Yong's mother had long guessed that Xiao Li and his sister were abandoned by their parents, but in order to take care of the feelings of the two girls, Xiao Yong's mother never exposed it to her face, Xiao Yong's mother said to Xiao Li: "I'll sleep here tonight, okay?" It's okay. As he spoke, he touched Xiao Li's head.

Xiao Li agreed at first, but finally said, "We are going back tonight, maybe Dad is coming back." ”

Xiaoyong's mother said: "If you have difficulties, remember to come to me." ”

The next day, Xiao Yong and Ah Zhi skipped class. In order for Xiao Li and his sister to make their wish come true, the boys decide to go with them to find Rainbow Cloud. However, they went to many places where there was water, but they did not find the rainbow cloud as they wished.

My sister was a little unwilling, she said that as long as she went to the beach, she could see the rainbow clouds, and her sister also firmly believed that as long as she went to the beach, her parents would be able to return to them, and her sister said: I said that my parents were not there. ”

My sister said, "Why? You said they were there. ”

In the afternoon, they returned to the bridge, where the delinquent teenagers were smashing the van, which was devastated and deprived of their last place of refuge.

In the end, they were taken to the hotel by Xiao Yong again. Although she was a little dissatisfied with Xiao Yong's willful skipping class, her mother still took in the two sisters.

That night, Xiao Li and his sister finally took a hot bath after a long absence, their clothes were already stinking, and Xiao Yong's mother bought them new pajamas, because there were only two bedrooms, and the five children slept in one house.

In the middle of the night, Xiao Li was awakened by the sound of heated conversations, Xiao Yong's parents were arguing outside, they were considering whether to take in Xiao Li and the two sisters, but they were not very rich and could not raise two more children, and the only option left for the couple seemed to be to send the two sisters to a children's welfare home.

Xiao Li listened to the adult's conversation silently, and she also secretly accepted the result, at this time she didn't know that Xiao Yong next to her was also listening silently like her.

The next morning, Xiao Li was woken up by her sister, who still wanted to go to the beach and was still looking forward to finding rainbow clouds on the beach, so she asked her sister not to make trouble unreasonably.

At this time, Xiao Yong suddenly said: "Then let's go, let's go there together,"

Xiao Yong took a sum of money from the cash drawer, and the four children boarded the train to a distant place, and their destination was the seaside, where the younger sister said they could meet their parents.

Xiao Li and his sister came to the place of memory, they had seen the rainbow cloud here, but now that they have revisited the old place, the rainbow cloud they were looking forward to did not appear.

In order to wait for the rainbow cloud to appear, they went to see the dolphins together. Because the legend has it that dolphins can also grant wishes, they sat in the dolphinarium for an afternoon.

Xiao Li vaguely remembered that her family had also been here at that time, but at that time she only cared about watching the dolphins, but forgot to make a wish to the dolphins.

Time passed slowly, and until evening, they still did not see the rainbow clouds. They walked together on the beach and walked along the coastline for a long time, but they didn't see the rainbow clouds in the end, and their parents didn't come back.

Xiao Li stopped at a place on the beach, where she and her sister had also come, and her mother had brought them here, and her mother had sung a nice nursery rhyme at that time.

The sea is so wide and big!

The moon rises, the sun sets,

The boat swayed on the sea,

I want to see the outside world.

After returning from the beach, Xiao Li and his sister came under the bridge again, but by this time the van had been discovered by the police, who took the sisters to the police station.

After establishing the fact that they had been abandoned, the police called people from the welfare institution, and the sisters were taken away by the staff and will also live in a children's welfare home thereafter.

They may always live in a welfare home, or they may be adopted by different families, and their future will be varied, but they will not grow up happily in a complete family.

At the moment when the car drove away, Xiao Yong suddenly chased after him, he felt a sense of apology in his heart, because he didn't help Xiao Li and his sister find the rainbow cloud, he didn't understand why Xiao Li would take his sister to wander outside, and he didn't understand why they were also children, why their lives would be completely different, Xiao Yong chased for a long time, but in the end the car still drove farther and farther.

However, because of Xiao Yong's chase, Xiao Li and his sister finally saw the rainbow cloud that they had been thinking about.

The two of them kept shouting at the rainbow cloud, "Mom and Dad, come back soon, we miss you so much." ”

At the end of the story, Xiao Yong's small restaurant is turned into a children's canteen. Xiao Yong's parents put up a note outside the door saying that elementary school students and younger were free and that they were willing to provide free food to the abandoned children. And this is the end of the story as a pair of wandering siblings walk into the store.

This is based on a true story, which is a spontaneous social activity among the people in Japan. In order to provide poor children and their parents with a free hot meal. Gradually, it is also open to the elderly and other citizens in the community.

Hiroko Kondo, who originally founded the children's cafeteria, is a dental hygienist who runs a vegetable shop in her spare time. By chance, she learned that there are still many children in Japan who do not have three meals a day, and she came up with the idea of opening a free cafeteria for these children.

She opened up part of the vegetable shop as a children's canteen to provide food for poor families or children who eat alone, and each meal is served for a small fee or free of charge. (Mapo tofu, Chinese salad, egg soup, almond tofu.) Children are free, adults are 300 yen. ）

Slowly, some parents came here to eat, and more and more volunteers joined them.

After the children have eaten, the university volunteers will also help them with their homework. Nearby well-wishers will also donate some food to help enrich the dishes in the canteen and make the children's nutrition more balanced.

After Hiroko Kondo's children's cafeteria was exposed by the media in Japan, more caring people followed suit and opened such children's canteens in various parts of the country.

According to the "Children's Cafeteria Safety and Safety Improvement Committee" on April 3, 2018, there are more than 2,000 such facilities nationwide, all of which are privately owned.

However, it is very difficult to sustain this kind of free or cheap food provided by volunteers. Even if they are only open for one or two days a week, lack of funding and food sources are a dilemma for children's canteens.

In addition to funding, food safety is also a big hidden danger.

Fortunately, although the children's canteen is mainly operated independently, local governments have gradually given varying degrees of support.

When it comes to poverty, it's often easy to boil it down to something that should be addressed at the government level. However, the Japanese children's cafeteria has attracted the support of the whole society because of the attention of the enthusiastic people. As a result, the Government has paid more attention to and actively addressed the problem of child poverty.