Jura took out a bunch of keys and opened the door with a click.
Du Dian looked at the slowly opening room, knowing that this would be the place where he would live for some time to come.
"Dean, come in." Jula took out a pair of adult cotton shoes from the small cabinet next to the door, and deliberately shook them in front of Du Di'an, as if to make him happy, "These are uncle's shoes, you first Wear it, before the curfew at night, I will take you to buy a new pair."
Du Dian was stunned for a moment, and then he was relieved, yes, one of the conditions for adopting a child is that he must be married, that is to say, he has a nominal father who has not been masked.
He consciously took off the dirty rough shoes on his feet. The rough shoes carved a few painful red marks on his feet. When he stepped on the clean cotton shoes, he felt a comfortable feeling.
"Come on, I'll take you to wash first." Jula said enthusiastically.
Du Dian thought he could take a bath comfortably, but saw that she just soaked the towel with warm water, then wrung it dry, and wiped her face and arms for herself. This way of bathing was exactly the same as that of the orphanage.
It's just that the color of the water is much purer.
Du Dian didn't know that in this world, including the nobles, they all use this "dry cleaning" method to bathe. People's general perceptions believe that water will weaken the body's functions and reduce disease resistance. Even the most Nobles who love cleanliness only wash once or twice a year.
After washing, Jula asked Du Dian to familiarize himself with everywhere at home, and he took the coarse clothes that Du Dian replaced.
Du Dian walked around the room. As he expected, he didn't see any technological items, not even a simple wind-up alarm clock. Moreover, he also saw an item that he only saw in fairy tales. The old-fashioned loom, he remembered, the setting of that fairy tale seemed to be the European Middle Ages, before the age of steam.
Although a single textile machine cannot determine anything, Du Dian thought of everything he had seen in the past few months, and he was convinced that the civilization of this post-disaster world should have just developed to the Bronze Age before steam, and he had just learned to use metal.
This discovery caused him to have certain thoughts in his heart...
In the evening, the sky was getting darker and the air was getting colder. It seemed that it was going to rain again.
Worried that Du Dian was afraid of the dark, Zhu La lit the oil lamp early, and the dim light swayed on Du Di'an's face. Every time she saw it, Zhu La felt amazing, it was so fair, even whiter than her complexion.
"It's going to rain, hasn't uncle come back yet?" Du Dian glanced out the window and said.
Zhu La smiled, thinking that this is a good boy, and said: "Uncle has been rushing to make a batch of goods these days, and he won't come back at night. Are you hungry? I'll make whatever you want to eat."
"Eat whatever you have."
"You're such a good boy, then I'll let you try mom's cooking, I'm sure you'll like it." Jura said confidently.
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In a blink of an eye, a month passed.
Du Dian has already met the nominal father, named Gray. He is a tall and thin middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance. He has the same personality as Jura. He treats people gently. He is a "tailor" by profession. The textile machine at home is his. For the workbench, when it comes to the "black snow season", the goods will be brought home to make, after all, there are no charcoal and coal stoves in the factory.
The matter of Jula's adoption of the child was obviously discussed by them. When he saw Du Dian at home for the first time, his expression was the same as that of the adults in the orphanage, full of surprise. When it came to any other problems, he was so satisfied that he couldn't hold back his smile for several days.
night.
The storm that is common in the rainy season came again, and the rain fell on the ground.
Du Dian, who was sleeping in his own small room, opened his eyes in vain and sat up suddenly, only to realize that it was just a nightmare, and then he felt that his whole body was drenched in cold sweat, and his clothes were sticking to his skin with sweat, which made him feel uncomfortable. He shook his clothes , suddenly felt a rush of urination, and immediately got out of bed, put on shoes, and gently opened the door, only to find that there was a dim yellow light on under the door of the room of the Jula couple diagonally opposite the door, and couldn't help being startled .
It's so late, they haven't slept yet
Du Dian suddenly jumped twice in his heart, and he didn't know what he was thinking in his mind, and he approached the past unconsciously.
The building materials of this world obviously did not consider the sound insulation effect, at least the Jula's house did not, and the subtle sound came from the room.
"Are you really going to do this?" It was Jura's voice, with some hesitation.
"I know, you like this child very much, and I like this child very much. To be honest, I don't want to part with it either, but this is a rare opportunity. If he can be favored by Miss Ivy's family, we can move into the business. There, we'll find better jobs, and if you feel lonely, we'll adopt another child, it's affordable anyway."
"It's not about money. I'm worried. If Du Dian marries into Ivy's house, the child will not talk and will be bullied. They are people from two worlds. When I saw a doctor, I saw those who married into big families. The lives of the children are similar to those of servants, and some are worse than servants."
There was silence in the room for a while, and Gray's voice continued, "Jula, you should think this way, he was originally an orphan in a slum, if it was not us, but adopted by another serf family, his life would be worse than that of a servant , and can live the life of a servant in Ivy's house, I don't know how many others I can envy."
"But… "
"Okay, that's the decision on this matter, whether it can be done or not is still the same thing."
The room fell silent.
The little figure at the door also fell silent, his little hands clenched into fists, and then slowly loosened, turned around, as if dragging his body, and returned to his room, even the previous The urge to urinate is usually forgotten.
Sitting on the bed, Du Dian listened to the pattering rain outside the window, and suddenly felt a great pain in his heart. Although he had always placed the Juras and his wife as nominal parents, the meticulous care of the Juras and his wife this month made him He was very moved, and there was a little more warmth in his heart, but he didn't expect that the world would once again, like a mockery, break some of the soft beauty in his heart.
In the dead of night, he suddenly felt very lonely.
He suddenly missed his father and mother who were knowledgeable, strict and gentle to him, and his sister who always liked to pinch his ears.
Why, why did the incompetent self stay behind? !
He clenched his fists, but his heart felt powerless. After an unknown amount of time, an idea slowly emerged in his heart. Since... he will never see his parents and sister again, let this strange world return to himself. Look familiar!
No one knows that on this rainy night, the gears of history slowly turn and move forward in the chest of this inconspicuous little figure in the darkness.