The afternoon sun was strong, there was no wind in the air, and the weather was extremely hot.
Ning Tao was eating a bowl of fried rice noodles in a rice noodle shop while looking at the community across the road.
This community is called Xingfu Community. There are more than a dozen brick-concrete buildings standing on a small piece of land. There is very little greening, many walls have cracks, and the construction quality is poor.
Xingfu Community is the resettlement community for the villagers in the village that Jiang Yilong demolished. Jiang Yilong demolished their homes, but only gave them a pitiful compensation for the demolition, and then coaxed them to use their savings to buy a house in Xingfu Community. House of. From this purchase and sale, Jiang Yilong made a lot of money, but the villagers suffered a lot.
A girl walked into the snack shop and ordered a bowl of rice noodles.
Ning Tao glanced at the girl. The girl is about eighteen or nineteen years old, with an elegant and delicate face, especially a pair of dark eyes. She was wearing a thin cotton T-shirt and a pair of very short hot pants. Her white thighs were exposed to the air, and her whole body exuded youthful vitality and alluring factors.
The girl glared at Ning Tao fiercely, as if she was dissatisfied with him looking at her.
Ning Tao withdrew his gaze, got up and went to pay the boss who was cooking rice noodles. When the boss gave him change, he secretly said in his heart: "It's not an option to continue like this. I only have a few hundred dollars in savings, and the clinic is not profitable, but I have to eat, and I have to find a way to make money." "
"Little brother, doesn't it taste delicious?" The owner of the snack shop couldn't help but ask when he saw Ning Tao's sad face.
Ning Tao put away the change given by the boss and said casually: "No, it tastes good. Just get busy."
The owner of the snack shop said politely: "Okay, come and take care of my business in the future."
Ning Tao returned to the dining table where he had just sat, but when he was about to get his small medicine box, he found that his small medicine box was missing, and the girl was also missing. He followed the road outside the store, but it was empty, not even a ghost.
At this time, the owner of the snack shop came over with a bowl of cooked rice noodles, with a surprised expression on his face, "Where is the person?"
Ning Tao asked: "Boss, do you know the girl just now?"
The owner of the snack shop said depressedly: "I don't know you. I'm so unlucky. You can't even joke like this. Is it easy to run a small business like this?"
This is a thief.
Ning Tao's nose moved and he quickly locked on the girl's scent. He walked out of the snack bar and followed the scent left by the girl.
This is a suburb of a mountain city, in a remote location, with roads but no buses. The girl came here on foot without any transportation. Just based on these two points, Ning Tao could tell that she lived nearby, and not too far away.
Under the scorching sun, Ning Tao was dizzy and angry, "I'm so poor and you still steal from me. If I catch you, I have to let you enjoy sunbathing!"
More than ten minutes later, the road reached the end, and a dilapidated two-story building came into Ning Tao's sight. In front of the building is a courtyard, and a large rusty iron gate. On the lintel of the iron gate hangs a plaque that reads "Sunshine Orphanage".
The girl's scent entered the iron gate, and her scent was everywhere in the yard and building.
"Is she an orphan?" This situation surprised Ning Tao, and he reached out and knocked on the door.
Boom, boom, boom!
Ning Tao knocked on the door without much force, but the old iron door made a loud sound.
"Who is it?" came a childish voice, and there was the sound of slippers walking.
The iron door opened, and a little girl stood behind the door and looked at Ning Tao with curious eyes. The little girl was about six or seven years old. She was wearing a large boy's sweatshirt that almost covered her entire body, and her face was dirty.
"Uncle, who are you looking for?" the little girl asked in a childish voice.
Ning Tao squatted in front of the little girl with a smile on his face, "What's your name, little sister?"
The little girl said: "My name is Li Xiaoyu, I am six years old this year."
Ning Tao gently touched Li Xiaoyu's head and said gently: "Xiaoyu is so good. I'm looking for a big sister. She has a pair of beautiful eyes. She lives here. Xiaoyu, can you take me to find her? ?”
Li Xiaoyu tilted her head and said, "Uncle, are you looking for Sister Su Ya?"
Ning Tao smiled and said, "Well, I'm just looking for Sister Su Ya."
Li Xiaoyu said: "Uncle, come in, I will take you there."
Ning Tao entered the door, and Li Xiaoyu pushed the iron door with her little hands to close it, but she was too small and struggled to push it.
"Let me help you." Ning Tao reached out and helped Li Xiaoyu close the big iron door.
Li Xiaoyu led the way and said, "Uncle, this is an orphanage. We are all orphans. Please donate some money to us..." She looked back at Ning Tao and then added, "No money. Clothes and food are fine too.”
Xiaoyu's eyes made Ning Tao feel speechless, "Uncle will buy Xiaoyu some candy later."
Li Xiaoyulu smiled happily, "Thank you, uncle, I want to eat potato chips and chocolate! Friends, come out quickly, an uncle is coming to see us and wants to buy us candies!"
She is so generous, she started calling her friends before she even used the candy.
A large group of children ran out of different rooms and surrounded Ning Tao in a blink of an eye. They all stretched out their dirty little hands to ask for candy. They are all very young, the youngest is only three or four years old, and the oldest is only ten years old. Their clothes were torn and dirty, and one little boy was even wearing a girl's skirt. He looked so pitiful.
Ning Tao felt sour. He took out all the money he had and put it into Li Xiaoyu's hand. "Uncle, I only have so much. I'll give it all to you. Use it to buy delicious food for your friends." ”
"Uncle, you are so kind. Thank you uncle. I will take uncle to find Sister Su Ya first." Li Xiaoyu's little mouth was very sweet. She tightly held the one hundred and ten yuan in her hand, and then led Ning Tao to Walk to a tile-roofed house on one side of the building.
A large group of children followed, making noisy noises and jumping up and down. It was more fun than Children's Day.
When approaching the tile-roofed house, Ning Tao raised his head and glanced at the rooftop of the building, but he only glanced at it. When Li Xiaoyu opened the door of the tile-roofed house and entered the house, he followed him in.
Entering the room, Ning Tao saw a woman lying on the bed. She was about sixty years old. Her face was pale and her hair was greasy. She probably hadn't washed it for a long time. On a small table next to the bed was a bowl of brown medicinal soup and a sand pot for boiling medicine, which contained most of the can of medicinal residue. There are also a pile of boxes of Western medicine on the small table, as well as a plastic work card with her photo and name on it. Her name is Zhou Yufeng, and she is the director of Sunshine Orphanage.
There was an electric fan placed in the corner of the room. It was fanning loudly, but the room was still very hot. The most valuable thing in the whole house is probably a Changhong brand TV, but it is not LCD, it is old and worn out, and there are a few flies living on the dirty screen.
Zhou Yufeng closed her eyes and didn't seem to notice anyone coming into the room.
The girl is not in this room.
Ning Tao's eyes fell on Zhou Yufeng's face. In his sight, Zhou Yufeng's body was surrounded by a cloud of colorful energy, with different colors corresponding to different organs. Hundreds of smells also flooded into his nostrils, including the smell emanating from Zhou Yufeng's internal organs.
Just with this look and smell, Ning Tao had grasped Zhou Yufeng's condition in just a few seconds. She had cirrhosis of the liver and symptoms of ascites. With this kind of disease, she could still survive if she could afford to go to a big hospital for a liver transplant, but she obviously did not have such financial conditions.
"It's strange. Sister Su Ya was in the house just now. Where did she go?" Li Xiaoyu looked left and right with a strange expression on her face.
Ning Tao said: "Your sister Su Ya is on the rooftop. Go and tell her that I want to talk to her." Then he added, "Well, you ask her to bring my box, and I can give it to her." Aunt Zhou treats illnesses.”
Li Xiaoyu asked curiously: "Uncle, are you a doctor?"
Ning Tao smiled and nodded, "Well, go quickly."
"Uncle, can you cure the dean's mother-in-law?" Li Xiaoyu asked again.
Ning Tao said: "Yes, go quickly."
"Great, I'll call Sister Su Ya right away!" Li Xiaoyu turned around and ran out of the door.
Ning Tao came to the bedside and subconsciously wanted to take out the bamboo slips of the account book for Zhou Yufeng to test the merits of his kindness. Then he remembered that the bamboo slips of the account book were packed in the small medicine box and had been stolen by the beautiful female thief named Su Ya. .
At this time, Zhou Yufeng, who was lying on the bed, slowly opened her eyes. She looked at Ning Tao and said in a weak voice: "Young man, I heard the conversation between you and Xiaoyu... ahem..."
Ning Tao came to the bedside and said with concern: "Auntie, please slow down, don't worry about anything, I'm not a bad person."
"Su Ya is not a bad girl... She, she stole things for the children in the orphanage... Don't sue her... Don't hurt her... I beg you..." Zhou Yufeng struggled to get up.
Ning Tao quickly reached out and pressed her shoulder, "Auntie, don't worry, I won't hurt her, please don't worry."
In fact, there was no need for Zhou Yufeng to put in good words for Su Ya, Ning Tao had already made his own judgment based on what he saw and felt in this orphanage. The girl named Su Ya stole things not for herself, but for the poor children in the orphanage and the bedridden Dean Zhou. She was a kind-hearted "robber".
"Uncle, I found Sister Su Ya!" Li Xiaoyu ran in from the door, with an expression on her face as if she had completed an important task.
Ning Tao turned around and saw not only Li Xiaoyu but also Su Ya. She was the girl she met in the snack shop. She stood outside the door, holding his small medicine box in her hand, her face looking a little nervous.
"You..." Su Ya wanted to say something, but only one word came out.
"Auntie, please take a rest first. Su Ya and I will go out and have a chat and then come back." Ning Tao walked towards Su Ya.
Zhou Yufeng sighed and said nothing.
"Uncle, can I go to the canteen with my friends to buy candies?" Li Xiaoyu asked, following Ning Tao's footsteps.
Ning Tao reached out and patted her little head, and said with a smile: "Of course."
Li Xiaoyu ran away.
Su Ya nagged, "You just know how to eat. Be careful when crossing the road."
Li Xiaoyu turned around and stuck out her tongue at Su Ya, "Just a little bit!"
Ning Tao was amused by her, but for some reason he felt heavy in his heart.