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015 The Shoeshine Boy's Past

Later, he learned that the so-called infection was caused by smart adults who deliberately mutilated their hands and feet in order to make money. Some children were healthy at the beginning.

When he knew this, he and she were placed in a small room, and he was taught to shine shoes, and she was taught to bead and knit.

They never saw those people in black clothes again. One of them was shining shoes for others, and the other was displaying trinkets. In this way, they survived tenaciously in the crevices of the city. Sometimes, he seemed to see them again.

Those people in black clothes have a certain face and a certain expression that looks like them, but they are not wearing the black clothes.

These people will give him more money, but he doesn't want it. In his eyes, he can charge as much as he can earn. He wants to save the money to buy a wheelchair for his sister, or if he saves too much,

Buy a big house.

Sister, he called her sister. He didn't know how old she was. She had lost her voice, but her size had grown like a joint after the people in black clothes left. He called her sister, and then saw her warmth.

smile.

The initial resistance was no longer in the smile.

But he will always remember that she said at the beginning that she has a family and she wants to go home. She is different from him. He lost his parents at the beginning. If it weren't for those adults with ulterior motives, he would have lost his life long ago.

She was a child who originally had a home and then got lost. He always remembered to help her find a home. His belief was as firm as buying a house or a wheelchair.

That day, they still set up a stall in front of McKenzie, but a strange woman came. Her whole body was wrapped tightly, as if she was afraid of the cold winter. She didn't have her shoes polished, which was usually the case.

I'll polish my shoes here first, and then go to my sister's place to buy accessories.

Once a customer watched him with a smile after polishing his leather shoes and then took him to his sister's place to buy accessories and said: "Little guy, you are very good at selling and doing business."

He had never read a book and didn't know what promotion meant, but he vaguely felt that it was a compliment, so he showed his white teeth and smiled.

That time, he first took the tightly wrapped woman to polish her shoes, but she didn't even look at him, and went straight to her sister's stall. She stood, staring at her sister, and his heart beat fast.

When he came out, he thought that his sister's relatives had found her. Since being rescued by the men in black clothes, he had been searching for the whereabouts of his sister's relatives, handing out flyers and asking every guest he had never met.

But the strange woman, after looking at her sister for a long time, just shook her head, randomly picked a string of beads, dropped the money and left without stopping too much.

To his great disappointment, it turned out not to be the case.

The days are getting more and more comfortable. He often basks in the sun, holds his sister's hand and tells jokes. This month they have saved more than 600 yuan. It won't be long before they can buy a baby for his sister.

With a big wheelchair, you don’t have to work as hard as now.

As for him, he doesn't need a wheelchair. He can even ride the bicycle that sells balloons next to him well. The balloon seller said, "Son, you don't look like a cripple at all when you ride the bicycle."

Therefore, having a bicycle of his own became his second wish.

Because he could replace running, he became more serious about making money. That day, when his sister looked at the man coming out of McKenzie with envy and the cone in his hand, he said to buy it, but she held him back.

he.

He knew what his sister was worried about. It was just a cone, and he felt that he could fully satisfy his sister's wish.

After sending his sister home, he limped toward the fake fast food restaurant with his two tangled and twisted legs and bought a vanilla-flavored cone. He didn't know if his sister liked it.

He loves to eat, and he thinks his sister will definitely like the taste. This taste is exactly the same as the taste on her sister.

However, when he returned home, there was no sign of his sister.

The whole room was quiet and empty. The small house given to them by the people in black clothes became warm and comfortable with the efforts of the two people. However, there was no shadow of the sister under the warm light, and the meals in the kitchen were only cooked.

Halfway through, the vegetables had just been cut and the kitchen knife was casually thrown aside, but my sister disappeared.

He called his sister's name - Guan Xue like crazy. After he was rescued by the man in black clothes, he only recognized some simple words. Her name was written on his hand one by one by her. He usually

I always call her sister, but I always remember her name.

Their neighbors were two old scavengers. At this time, the two old men had not returned home. He was at a loss and searched inside and outside many times. He stared blankly at the house, and the vanilla-flavored ice cream in his hand responded.

slide.

My sister is missing.

His sister was gone. These words were repeated three times in his mind. Like a bolt from the blue, he got up from the ground in one fell swoop. His movements were smoother than ever before, and he ran out of the door in a panic. He would rather have his sister at this time.

He walked out with a smile from a corner outside and told him that I was here.

However, there are none.

He walked out of the narrow alley, walked out of the narrow street, and stared at the busy road for a long time. There was a voice in his head telling himself that she hadn't gone far, and she was somewhere on the side.

A place, or she had already returned home and had prepared a table of meals waiting for him.

Dragging his tired body back home, there was still no sign of his sister at home. He looked everywhere. He took his sister to the moat where houses were being built around the moat. He once told his sister that he would have money in the future.

Now, I have to buy a house around this moat. The scenery here is the most beautiful place in Ningcheng.

He took his sister to the elementary school, junior high school and high school. He told her that he did not read the books systematically, but only recognized a few words. He walked through the rows of teaching buildings and passed through the places he had always longed for.

In the playground, through the children's wanton youth, there is no trace of my sister.

He walked through the downtown area, through the market, through the streets, and past the door of McKenzie where they often set up stalls - he even looked inside, including the small supermarket next to it. He always hoped that he would be there as soon as he opened the door.

You can see my sister inside, smiling quietly and warmly, and I am here.

But his hopes turned into disappointment again and again. He searched frantically for three days. No one who knew him remembered her. The leader of the man in black clothes once came to his stall. He asked her

Asked about her movements and described her appearance in detail.

In order for them to beg for more money, the adults never gave them enough to eat. At that time, he would always secretly leave half of the rations and give them to her, and then watch her devour them with a satisfied look on his face.

It was not until later that those people in black clothes descended from the sky that they were freed from the hands of the devils. The people in black clothes were stunned when they looked at the twenty or thirty children with contagious disabilities. He would always remember those people.

The leader of the men in black clothes had a surprised expression. He wondered mischievously, was the leader scared out of his wits? Or were they afraid of being infected?

Logically speaking, the leader of the man in black clothes had also met them, and his accommodation and work were all arranged by them. Unfortunately, that man had no impression of her at all.

Three days later, he discovered that she had really disappeared from his life, with no news and little hope. The strangest thing was that the vendors around him said they had never seen her, as if she had never existed.

Same.

He was in pain, including the leader of the man in black, who suspected that he was imagining or taking some kind of drug, but he didn't. He clearly remembered her, her smile, and her pair of eyes.

With her bright eyes, I remember buying her a wheelchair and remembering her words "I want to go home."

In three days, he couldn't remember how much he walked, how many shoes he wore out, and how many blisters he got on his feet. The hope of finding her became increasingly slim. When he set out to find her on the fourth day, he was horrified.

He discovered that he no longer remembered her appearance.

He banged his head hard, trying to recall the clues in this way, but her face was like water, and her face was covered with mist, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

"If anything happens in the future, you can come to me at the address on the money."

This sentence appeared in his mind like a curse, and he frantically found the old man's head that day. It read clearly on it: Dr. Tian's Clinic, No. 31, Flower Street.

A plain man's face appeared in his mind, that man! That man might be able to help him! He had seen his sister. As long as he acknowledged her existence, then what he said was not a fantasy, and he could find those in black clothes.

Someone helped!
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