After so many years, whether before or after he came back, Ye Qingxuan always felt that Avalon was a place where ghosts were seen. Because you can encounter anything here.
For example, some unwanted pasts, and a naked man running around in the middle of the night...
But what happened today was beyond his acceptance. It's not that his mental endurance is too low, but that Lao Fei's level is too high!
Over the years, Lao Fei has brought back money, dirty oil lamps, unopened bottles, brass cups with unknown black stains, old rings, and tattered books written in unknown languages. , a pottery basin with a chip, jewelry that would cause auditory hallucinations when worn... Ye Qingxuan all assumed that this was Lao Fei's extensive hobby, and then he threw it away.
—But what do you mean by bringing back a big, lively person? !
Under the silent moonlight, the alley was exceptionally quiet.
Ye Qingxuan stared blankly at the child in front of him. The dirty kid was wearing a tattered skirt, and it could be vaguely seen that it was white. But now the sling on his shoulders was almost short and turned into a ball of rags.
It looked like she had been beaten. There were bruises and scars on her face, and wounds on her exposed calves. She was being chased by someone, and she was in a panic.
Seeing Ye Qingxuan looking at her, she stubbornly raised her head and glared at him, her trembling eyes full of unwillingness to admit defeat.
The moonlight shone on them, and their white hair shone like silver.
"Yo, cousin."
Ye Qingxuan looked at the child he had met once, and struggled to squeeze out a smile: "Long time no see."
The little girl stared at him, opened and closed her lips for a moment, but said nothing, biting them tightly.
"The child is missing!"
"Look again! I saw her running around here with my own eyes!"
Someone banged the iron rod in his hand: "She can't run far!"
In the distance, there are noisy voices approaching, like running and searching, a broken sound.
There seemed to be many people chasing each other outside, but it was silent here. Lao Fei impatiently pressed against Ye Qingxuan's body, motioning for him to stop being verbose and hurry up.
Ye Qingxuan understood. When he stared at the girl, his eyes were complicated.
"May I have your name?"
Under his gaze, the little girl bit her lip and stubbornly refused to speak. It wasn't until Ye Qingxuan was about to give up that he heard a weak voice.
"...Bai Xi."
"My name is Ye Qingxuan." He stretched out his hand: "Follow me."
The boy held her wrist and felt that her wrist was thin and slender. The little girl didn't resist, and only a slight tremor could tell that she was afraid.
—He is a child after all.
Ye Qingxuan thought to himself.
…
The next day.
"There is a kid with white hair like you, who is here to join your distant cousin?"
Seton looked at him coldly: "Because the travel expenses are all lost, how many days may I have to stay here?"
"Uh, sorry, because there really isn't..."
"Where are the people?" Seton interrupted.
Ye Qingxuan was immediately under great pressure. After mumbling for a long time, he waved behind him, so Lao Fei excitedly grabbed the little girl's clothes and dragged her out.
She was no longer dirty. After taking a bath, her wounds were bandaged and she was wearing Ye Qingxuan's old clothes. Her sleeves and trouser legs were rolled up, making her even slimmer.
Her original white hair was covered by the fedora hat Ye Qingxuan returned to her. Now with her head lowered, she looked like a child from a poor family, with low self-esteem and insignificance. When Seton looked at him, he just remained silent and said nothing.
Like a well-behaved, quiet child, so pitiful... How strange! Ye Qingxuan didn’t believe it!
The scar on his hand bitten by this naughty kid last night has not healed yet.
This kid lowered his eyes because her eyes were piercing, as if she was ready to find fault with anyone at any time. She didn't speak because she had gunpowder in her mouth, and every word she spoke seemed like a provocation.
She looks cute, but her personality is definitely not likable.
If she was really allowed to mess around, Seton would have sent her to the intensive care unit in Whitechapel before she had even finished three sentences...
Seton looked at her, but remained silent, as if thinking. Next to him, Ye Qingxuan wiped his sweat anxiously, waiting for the verdict.
After a long time, Seton said coldly: "Look after your people."
"Eh?" Ye Qingxuan was a little surprised. He thought he would be kicked out.
"Just like you, I only care about food. If I don't have money, I'll leave if I can't do the work."
Seton's voice had no warmth: "Kid, this is not a shelter. So, remember: there will be no next time."
"Yes, yes! Good, good!"
Ye Qingxuan breathed a sigh of relief, wiped his cold sweat, and flattered him wildly: The uncle can see thousands of miles away, and the candle shines on Avalon. Sooner or later, he will be powerful in the world, and he will unify the Anglo-Saxon Empire... It makes Seton very annoying.
At the end, Seton only said: "She's not your cousin, right?"
"..." Ye Qingxuan was stunned.
"Lao Fei brought her back yesterday, and I saw it."
Seton turned around and left, leaving his last words coldly: "—I don't know what those gangsters wanted to do with her, but don't cause trouble for me."
Ye Qingxuan's heart skipped a beat, and before he could say anything, he heard his voice going away:
"If you died in the store, it would be very troublesome to collect the bodies."
Well, Ye Qingxuan believed that he must have said this sincerely.
Thinking of this, he sighed and turned to look at Bai Xi, only to find her lying on the counter, looking at the clock curiously. Only at this time she was like a child, quiet and quiet.
Well, as long as you ignore her hand that reached into the counter...
Snapped!
Ye Qingxuan slapped her sneaky hand away: "Theft is prohibited."
"Tch, don't think I can't tell what your purpose is." Bai Xi looked at him sideways: "You and that...that big black guy must be trying to kidnap me, right?!"
When talking about the big guy, she carefully poked her head in case Seton heard him.
Looking at her appearance, Ye Qingxuan couldn't help but sigh: "Look at you, you don't have a few ounces of flesh on your body. Even if I kidnap you, where can I abduct you?"
"Then I don't know, some people have bad intentions!"
Bai Xi looked wary.
Hello! You are obviously the one with evil intentions! Who just reached out and wanted to steal something! I'm saving you! save you! It doesn't matter if you stole something, but after being discovered by Seton, you will definitely be sent to the intensive care unit!
I don’t know why, but this little girl is a hedgehog! It was the same last night. In order to get her to take a bath and change a bandage, Ye Qingxuan even tried to dry her lips, but it didn't work.
She always felt that Ye Qingxuan was trying to spy on her...
In the end, Ye Qingxuan had no choice but to help her lock the attic door, pull out the ladder, and run behind the front desk to lay the floor.
After not sleeping all night, he heard various little noises upstairs and knew that she was planning to escape, but there was nowhere for her to escape.
In the early morning, she finally fell asleep, not having sex, but curled up in the corner, huddled with Lao Fei. She would rather trust the silent old Fei than people.
Maybe it's because it won't hurt you.
Thinking of this, Ye Qingxuan felt a little sad. What happened to her that made her like this. It was precisely because he knew how difficult and painful the life of wandering was that he could tolerate Bai Xi's weird temper. At least, she's not as... annoying as she was before.
"Hello!"
Bai Xi sat behind the counter and looked at him, biting into the bread that belonged to Ye Qingxuan.
Hearing her rude voice, Ye Qingxuan suddenly had a headache: "You should call me cousin... As you just heard, there is a need for a handyman here. Mr. Seton talks very little, but he is a good man. Sooner or later I have to leave. Yes, if you work harder, you can stay here."
He paused and told her: "At least I don't have to live that kind of deceptive life anymore."
“…”
Bai Xi seemed to be irritated, like a cat squirming, but he didn't say anything, just chewed his bread to vent his anger. It wasn't until she finished eating all of Ye Qingxuan's breakfast that she stopped with lingering anger and stared at Ye Qingxuan without saying a word.
"What's wrong?"
Ye Qingxuan, who was cleaning the floor, was stared at by her and felt uncomfortable all over.
Bai Xi bit her lip, hesitated to speak, and finally made a voice, asking reluctantly: "Why did you save me?"
"You asked me to save you."
"Stop joking! I will never say that to you to beg you!"
Bai Xi was irritated. She glared at him and gritted her teeth angrily: "Nothing good has happened since I met you. I was chased every day and even lost all my money. I don't need you anymore! Let a little girl be grateful to you. Are you very proud? Do you think I will be grateful to you for saving me! You just want to find some vanity in me, right? Do you really want to enjoy the feeling of a little girl thanking you? Let me tell you, no way !”
“…”
Ye Qingxuan was stunned. He was a little frustrated, not because he was sad, but because he didn't expect that she would think so.
"I didn't actually want you to be grateful to me, really."
He was a little embarrassed and helpless, and couldn't help but sigh: "Did you know? Someone saved me when I was in the most embarrassing situation. He gave me food, let me take a bath, and stayed in a small town to survive. Until now. And it gave me the truth on how to continue living."
He thought of the priest's serious expression and couldn't help but laugh nostalgically: "He told me that people's words do not necessarily come from the mouth, because some words can be seen in the eyes."
“…”
Bai Xi bit her lip and didn't say anything. She just glared at him, as if she wanted to pierce his hypocritical mask and see through his sinister intentions.
"He told me that when he saw me for the first time, I was standing in the mud with a ferocious look on my face, and my eyes were provocative and thorny. I guess it was just like you now, right?"
He stared into the girl's eyes, looking at her anger, indifference, disgust, as well as the fear and scars hidden in the deepest part of her eyes:
"That look is saying, help me..."