Author: Bai Xia

After Hua Ling finished speaking, she continued to wash her clothes. His fingers were thin and slender, white and clean, but he worked in a decent manner without any sense of unfamiliarity, which showed that he often did this.

He was surrounded by children's tattered and dirty clothes, piled as high as a hill, but he was not impatient at all. Tao Yue'er understood that Hua Ling was a person who was cold on the outside and hot on the inside. This was reflected in the care he gave the children

You can see it when cooking and feeding.

Tao Yue'er sat aside with nothing to do and could only stare at him.

She noticed that his profile became more and more beautiful as she looked at it. Usually, a stunning appearance would become dazzling after being looked at for a long time, and she would gradually feel bored, but not Hua Ling. He was the type who was happy at first sight, but also stunned after looking at it for a long time.

His skin is too fair, and he is completely different from the children in this hospital who are infected with the epidemic. He does not look like someone who has an infectious disease, so why does he stay here?

Tao Yue'er was about to ask him, but Hua Ling got the better of her and asked, "What are you still doing here?"

Hua Ling stopped what she was doing and looked back at her.

"...Huh?" Tao Yuer'er was stunned.

Hua Ling raised her chin towards the door and said, "If you don't want to die, leave here. If you want to die, go back to the dark room and wait for your death. Don't stay here and delay my work."

Tao Yue'er was frightened by the coldness in his eyes, fearing that he would really let her go back to that house again, so she wiped her face carelessly and quickly and ran to the front yard. But halfway through, she suddenly

He stopped again and turned back.

Hua Ling raised her head and looked at her with confusion and impatience: "Why are you back again?"

Tao Yue'er hesitated and hesitated for a while before saying: "Well... although I haven't died yet and am about to die, I'm still very happy to get to know you before I die!"

"..." Hua Ling looked blank and didn't answer her. But looking at her eyes, she didn't seem very happy either.

He didn't seem happy to meet her at all.

Under great pressure, Tao Yue'er added: "I'm a dumb person and can't speak well. Don't be angry...Although I may not live much longer, I still want to know, your surname is Hua and your name is Ling.

Which spirit is it? Is it the spirit of Reiki, or something else? I have no other intention, I just want to set up a memorial tablet for you. In this life, apart from my grandparents, you are the best to me..."

"..."

Hua Ling was even more speechless.

Has he ever been nice to her? Could it be that he was nice to her by preventing her from dying once, giving her a hand, and pulling her up from the mud?

Then she is too easy to dismiss!

Tao Yue'er scratched her head and said sheepishly: "Since I was a child, others have been reluctant to talk to me. They all think I am unlucky and say I will damage their luck. Are you willing to bring me back?

, it is a great kindness for me to have a roof over my head."

"..."

This woman looks very young, but she really...has never received any love at all.

"The Lingren's Ling." Hua Ling, who was unprecedented and never wanted to talk to others, answered her question.

He didn't even want to talk to a living person, let alone a dying person.

Hua Ling showed some kindness, and Tao Yue'er seemed to have opened up a chatterbox, asking one after another: "Where is this place? Why are these children... sick?"

Hua Ling was silent for a moment. She didn't want to talk to her, but seeing her eyes full of expectation and curiosity, she couldn't bear it, so she slowly said: "This is the epidemic center under the Salesian Bureau. There is an epidemic in the Salesian Bureau."

The children will be locked up here and then left to die."

"That's it... what about you? You are clean, refined, and look untainted by the world. You don't look like an orphan, but like a noble son raised by a wealthy family. Why are you here helping the orphans wash and cook?"

Tao Yue'er couldn't stop talking, and Hua Ling completely lost her face.

He glanced at her coldly and said, "I have no obligation to tell you this." After saying that, he immediately looked away and concentrated on the work in hand. Tao Yue'er could clearly sense the complete disgust and contempt.

If he stayed any longer, he might put him in a dark room again, so he could only sneak away quickly.

Tao Yue'er returned to the courtyard. The gate was only a few feet away from her. Seeing that it was getting closer and closer, she unconsciously slowed down. The children were chasing and playing under the trees. Except for the sores on their bodies, the others

They are no different from children in the outside world. The smiles on their faces are even purer than many adults in the outside world, without a trace of worldly worries.

They were even happier than she had been as a child.

What was her childhood like?

Although she lives in a slum, as long as she is among people, there will be comparisons and disappointments. There are also three, six or nine grades in the slums. And her family is the lowest grade.

She is always looked down upon by others.

But here, they are all the same. They are all children without a father or a mother. They are all infected with the epidemic and will die soon. They... are the ones who will never be bullied. Because life can't get any more miserable.

.

But they don’t realize that they are miserable. They only know that they have food to eat, clothes to wear, they can see the sunshine, smell the fragrance of flowers, and live day by day. Without the expectation and stubbornness for the future, what they have now is

Becoming more alive and happy day by day.

A smile unconsciously appeared on Tao Yue'er's lips.

She actually didn't want to leave here, but she didn't realize it yet.

"Why……"

Another sigh sounded from behind, and Tao Yue'er turned around as if she had been struck by a ghost, only to realize that this sigh came from the little girl behind her.

Next to the long table under the tree, a little girl was wiping the dishes. Tao Yue'er recognized her as the last child named 'Ayin' who came out of the room.

"What are you doing?" Tao Yue'er walked over and asked her.

The little girl raised her head, glanced at Tao Yue'er, her eyes bursting with strange light, and said, "I'm cleaning the dishes for my friends. Their dishes haven't been washed for a long time."

Tao Yue'er looked at the bowl in her hand. It was a rice bowl made of iron. It was uneven and worn. It had obviously been used for a long time.

Tao Yu'er looked at the tree hole again. The tree hole was naturally carved into a cupboard, and everyone's bowls and chopsticks were piled up in a disorderly manner. The bowls and chopsticks were dripping wet, as if the children had just messed around after washing themselves.

The feet are put in. Although it is messy, it still has the atmosphere of human beings.

The bowl next to Ayin is for those with empty seats.

"Why are these bowls put out when no one is using them?" Tao Yue'er was puzzled.

"In this case, it will be as if they have never left." Ayin wiped it, raised the bowl in her hand, and said, "Look, this is what A Sheng uses for eating. She likes to bite the edge of the rice bowl when she has a toothache.

Already."

When Tao Yue'er heard the name 'A Sheng', she felt a chill running down her spine for no apparent reason. Looking at the bowl again, there was indeed a circle of tooth marks on the edge.

She suddenly remembered the way Asheng was clawing at her with his teeth bared in the dark room. If he bit her... the consequences would be really disastrous.

"The Asheng you are talking about...is the child in the dark room?" Tao Yuer'er asked uncertainly.

A Yin nodded vigorously: "A Sheng does live in a dark room."

"She's dead!" Tao Yue'er said in surprise: "Can't all these empty seats and bowls and chopsticks be used by ghosts?"
Chapter completed!