The girl ignored Xie Fei. She lowered her head again, holding the thin bamboo in her hand and wrote. Xie Fei could only see her long curled eyelashes fanning up and down like two rows of fans.
It's so beautiful, Xie Fei couldn't help but exclaimed in his heart.
"Why are you here alone? The children in the orphanage are all going to share the gifts, aren't you going?"
"… "
"Today's gifts are great. There are cute dolls, colorful water pens, delicious snacks, and beautiful little dresses... all girls like. Are you really not going?"
"… "
As if she hadn't heard it, she repeated the numbers on the ground to herself.
Xie Fei is really not very good at finding topics. He glanced at the little girl who kept writing "Seventeen" crookedly on the ground, paused, and asked, pretending not to know, "Is Seventeen your name?"
The little girl's writing hand paused, and after a while, she pursed her lips and shook her head gently.
Xie Fei smiled slightly, broke a small bamboo from the side, and learned her name to write on the ground: "My name is Xie Fei, what is your name?"
The little girl stared blankly at his every move. Two unfamiliar words quickly appeared on the ground. They were different from the numbers she was crawling around like earthworms. They were two neat and beautiful words. Her eyes were immediately attracted. , After a while, he raised his head and looked straight at Xie Fei.
Curious, shocked, and somewhat ashamed.
Xie Fei looked into her eyes again, they were really beautiful, like shining black gems, clear and clean, with the innocence of a little girl, and the precociousness and melancholy of a little adult.
"You know, it's not very useful to practice writing on the ground with a small bamboo, because it's too soft and too thin, it's not good for your finger development, and you're holding the pen in the wrong way, so it's easy It causes the finger bones to deform." Xie Fei smiled and flicked the small bamboo lightly, and then said, "If you want to write well, you need to practice with a pen."
The little girl's beautiful eyes flashed, and then she lowered her eyes in disappointment, pursed her lips and did not speak, the small bamboo in her hand was slightly deformed by her slightly tightened small hand.
"I don't have a pen." She lowered her head and her voice was muffled, small, and soft like hers.
Xie Fei's heart softened suddenly, looking at her small lump on the ground, he could lift her up with one hand, but at the age of nearly five years old, he looked like a lump under three years old. Suddenly a little distressed.
Taking a deep look at her drooping head, Xie Fei couldn't help raising his hand and gently rubbing the top of her hair, and said with a warm smile, "Let's go, little mushroom."
The hand above her head was large and gentle, and she couldn't help froze. The next moment she recovered, she wanted to avoid it, but the thought flashed, and her eyes were slightly moist.
She was reluctant, reluctant to leave this warm feeling. In her memory, only when she was very young was she so tenderly hugged by the dean's mother a few times. Later, she came to the orphanage who was younger than her. A child who is even more coquettish, since then no one has treated her so gently.
A crystal teardrop fell on his face, gently dripped to the ground, and a small dark flower bloomed.
Xie Fei was stunned for a moment, the hand rubbing her hair stopped, and after a while, it gently moved to her face, wiped away the tears little by little, and sighed: "Why are you crying, do you want to flood the little mushroom? ?"
The little girl couldn't hold back, and she smiled with tears in her eyes. On her thin face, this smile was not good-looking, even a little ugly, but her eyes seemed to be full of stars and curved like crescent moons. It captured Xie Fei's eyes in an instant, and the faintly visible little dimples at the corners of his mouth were even more sweet to the heart.
so cute.
Xie Fei's cold eyes were also stained with a bit of a smile, and he was about to speak, the little girl was soft and gluttonous with this strange voice: "I'm not a little mushroom, my name is Jiaru, Xu Jiaru ."
His expression was serious when he spoke, and he looked even cuter.
Xie Fei nodded, raised his eyebrows slightly and smiled: "But I like to call you little mushroom."
Xu Jiaru pouted and stopped talking. Xie Fei stretched out his hand and poked her cheek, and laughed quietly in his heart - heh, he's not big, but he has a good temper.
When she couldn't help but wave her fingers, Xie Fei withdrew her hand one step ahead. He stood up and bent down, stretched out his hand to her, and said with a smile, "Let's go, if you don't go back, there will be no paper and pen."
Xu Jiaru raised his head slightly and looked at Xie Fei. He stood in front of him against the light, and his whole body exuded a radiance like jade. His skin was white and almost transparent, exactly like the angel in her dream.
He was wearing beautiful and outrageous clothes, just like the dress worn by the prince in a fairy tale.
His eyes were the most beautiful she had ever seen since she grew up, and he was looking at himself tenderly at the moment.
His black hair was as soft as a cloud in the sky, shining brightly in the sun, completely different from her dry and messy hair.
He was so tall that even the tallest Xu Xiaosi in the orphanage could only look up to him.
He spoke in a nice voice, and she wouldn't get bored even listening to him all the time.
The smile on his face was very warm, and he couldn't help laughing when he looked at him.
…
Xu Jia couldn't help but stretched out her hand and put it on his palm, a warm feeling came from her palm, watching him slowly wrapping her small hand and big palm, clean and delicate, in stark contrast to her yellowish and thin hand, she felt a little bit. Bewildered, he lowered his head.
Xie Fei led her back, Xu Jiaru followed him step by step, and soon arrived at the gate of the courtyard.
The laughter of the children in the room could be heard far away, and Xie Fei had heard it for a long time. The closer they got to the door, the more rigid the little hand they held in their hands. When they reached the steps, Xu Jiaru lowered his head and stopped moving. .
Xie Fei glanced down at her, Xu Jiaru's small body stood a little helpless, because she lowered her head, Xie Fei couldn't see her expression, only a small back of her head.
Turning to the side and touching her head with the other hand, Xie Fei said softly, "If we don't go in, we will let people pass things out by the window, okay?"
Xu Jiaru raised her head and glanced at him, her eyes were a little red, she didn't answer, she just pursed her lips and nodded.
When he came to the window, Xu Jiaru was not as high as the window sill, and he was completely blocked by the wall. Xie Fei glanced at the group of children who were chatting around Li Ting, and his cold eyes flashed without a trace. Taunting, he opened his mouth and said, "Secretary Li, get me a set of pen and paper."
Li Ting immediately said, "Yes." Then he got up and took a set of pen and paper and walked towards the window.
Surrounded by Li Ting, the children who had just been talking abruptly turned their heads and looked over there. They looked in shock at the boy who was not much older than them outside the window, and felt annoyed in their hearts.
Actually pleasing the wrong person, that boy is the real decider!
Xie Fei didn't even look at the children who were staring at him. He held a pen and paper in one hand and Xu Jiaru in the other, and walked straight to the stone table under the banyan tree. He first put Xu Jiaru on the stool and sat next to her. Sitting down side by side, while rolling the pencil with the pencil sharpener, he whispered: "This pencil sharpener is very sharp, be careful when using it in the future, you know?"
Xu Jiaru watched his every move curiously, nodded obediently and replied, "Yes."
"Here." Xie Fei handed her the pencil, and held a pencil to show her, "Hold the pen like I do and learn from me."
Xu Jiaru clumsily followed the study with the pen. It took two or three tries before holding the pencil firmly. After a few weird looks, he frowned and looked at Xie Fei, and whispered, "I'm holding it, is that so?"
Xie Fei nodded and smiled: "That's it, the little mushroom is really smart."
Xu Jiaru smiled shyly and happily, but did not speak.
Xie Fei opened the book and pushed it in front of her, got up and walked behind her, wrapped her arms around her chest from behind, propped up the edge of the table with one hand, and covered her pen holding hand with the other, leaning against her ear and said softly, "Come on, I will teach you to write."
Xu Jiaru was taken aback by the sudden hug, her back was stiff and straight, and the surrounding air was filled with a good smell, she didn't know what it was, but she could feel it, it was sweet, just Like candy eaten long ago.
His hand involuntarily followed his rhythm, writing stroke by stroke on the notebook, not the crooked numbers he wrote, but the beautiful and indescribable font.
Gradually, Xu Jiaru's body relaxed, her eyes were shining brightly at the beautiful words on the book, and the smile on the corner of her mouth became wider and wider.
She heard his clear and pleasant voice ringing in her ears, very gentle: "This is Jiaru, this is Xie Fei."
"Jiaru..." Xu Jiaru gently touched the slightly bumpy font on the notebook with her left hand, said slowly, paused, then touched the font next to her, raised her head and looked at Xie Fei, "Xie Fei..."
"Well, you and me, Jiaru and Xie Fei." Xie Fei nodded with a smile.
Hearing this, Xu Jiaru frowned and smiled sweetly: "It's so beautiful."
I don't know if she is talking about good-looking people or good-looking characters, or both.
Xie Fei took Xu Jiaru to practice for a while and then let her practice on her own. He sat beside him and pointed out a few sentences. At the beginning, when she was writing, the gesture of holding a pen changed to that of holding a small bamboo. After correcting it several times, she gradually got used to it.
Before I knew it, I had already written a whole article. Although it was not as good-looking as when Xie Fei took her to write it, it was much prettier than the twisted earthworm body she had before. again and again.
Xie Fei was infected by her, and smiled brightly. Looking at her smiling face, he hesitated and finally said the purpose of this trip: "Little Mushroom, will you go home with brother Fei?"
Xu Jiaru was startled and looked at Xie Fei in disbelief. Although she was only five years old, she didn't understand the meaning of this sentence in the orphanage. This meant that she would have a home from now on. Brother Fei, who loves her and loves her, has beautiful clothes, and will have unfinished meals. He will not be hungry, will not be bullied, and will not often hide in bed in the middle of the night and cry quietly...
However, is she really okay? So many people who came to adopt/adopt children in the past like children who can talk, laugh and act like a coquettish, cute and well-behaved child. , no one wants to adopt him at all.
When she had already given up and planned to stay in the orphanage forever, someone suddenly appeared, and he said that he would go home with him.
Family…
Xu Jiaru's big eyes were filled with hot tears, blurring her vision and Xie Fei's face, but Xie Fei's face in her heart became clearer and clearer, if... If she went home with him, she would Of course willing.
She puffed out her cheeks and pursed her lips, and said in a gruff voice, "Okay..."
Seeing Xu Jiaru's stupid and cute appearance, Xie Fei couldn't help laughing lowly, rubbing her hair while joking: "I don't want you anymore when I cry, I don't want a crying mushroom."
Hearing this, Xu Jiaru immediately stopped crying. While trying to hold back her tears, she hiccupped and choked, "I don't cry anymore, I... I'm a mushroom that loves to laugh."
As she said that, she wiped away tears with her fists clenched, panting and twitching the corners of her mouth, trying her best to raise her face, her expression was extraordinarily cute.
After trying several times, she finally showed an ugly smile. She excitedly stretched out her little hand and grabbed Xie Fei's sleeve tightly, pointed to her face and said in a milky voice: "Look at you, I laughed, You can't leave me."
That look of anticipation and fear on his face really made Xie Fei's heart cuddly. He nodded affirmatively: "Well, this little mushroom smiles so beautifully. Brother Fei doesn't want and can't want her."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Xu Jiaru grinning, crying and laughing in the next second, looking at him with bright eyes: "Brother Fei is the best brother."
"Okay, brother Fei is going to discuss with the dean's mother about taking you home, are you going?" Xie Fei asked softly while wiping her tears.
Xu Jiaru shook his head, glanced at the children peeping at the door of the house, and whispered, "I don't like them..."
"Okay." Xie Fei nodded, "Then you should be here to practice calligraphy and wait for me, don't run around."
Xu Jiaru nodded obediently and agreed.
After a few simple instructions, Xie Fei got up and went to the house. As soon as he stepped in, everyone's eyes came over, especially the older children, whose eyes were hot and scary.
Xie Fei went straight to the seat and sat down, looking at Li Ting with cold eyes, and said lightly: "Secretary Li, the gifts are finished."
Li Ting nodded and replied, "Yes, Mr. Xie."
"Okay, let's talk about business now." Xie Fei nodded, turned to look at Dean Xu, and said, "President Xu, can I ask the children to go out first, I have something to talk to you about. "
Dean Xu is also experienced in many battles. Hearing that, she knew what Xie Fei wanted to talk about, and she immediately ordered happily: "Little Si, you go out with your younger brothers and sisters to play, Dean's mother and distinguished guests have a relationship. talk about things.”
Xu Xiaosi answered obediently, and took the other children out. When the door was closed, he thought he had a sneak peek at Xie Fei. He knew that the important thing the director's mother said must be about adopting/raising children. He has experienced the incident no less than ten times in the orphanage. The first, second and third students in front of him have all left, and he is the oldest in the whole hospital.
He will be fifteen years old in a few months this year, the nine-year compulsory education is almost over, and his grades are not good. This is almost his last chance. If he is not adopted again, he must leave the orphanage. Go out and do odd jobs to support yourself.
Although I performed well today, only that Secretary Li was watching. This President Xie seemed to have gone out early, and he also met Xu Shiqi. Seeing how the two got along under the banyan tree just now, the atmosphere seemed quite good. , Thinking of it this way, isn't Xu Shiqi's chance much greater
No, absolutely not!
Xu Shiqi just turned five years old this year, she still has ten years to wait, but she can't wait, she has to think of a way.
Thinking like this, the group has returned to the bedroom, Xu Xiaosi sat on his bed, glanced quietly at the corner over there, and came up with an idea.
Over there, Xu Xiaoliu was bringing his own group of people to surround the group of people of the crucifix generation, holding a small bamboo basket in his right hand, and shouting: "Be conscious of yourself, hand over all the gifts, let's choose I'll give you the rest."
The children of the cross generation shivered and clung to each other, the oldest Xu Shisan looked at the sneering people with a heavy expression, and asked in a deep voice, "It's not impossible for us to hand over the gifts, each of us chose two Three things, we keep a favorite…”
Xu Xiaoliu smiled coldly and said directly: "Impossible, hand over everything to me, otherwise don't blame me for having people searched."
"No matter what it is on weekdays, after we hand it over to you, there is no scrap left, and I often starve and freeze. Today, you don't let us leave a thing, and we will never give it to you." Xu Sixteen, who was hiding behind Xu Thirteen, gritted his teeth and said with righteous indignation.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, Xu Xiaoliu grabbed his hair and pulled him out and fell to the ground. Then Xu Xiaoqi and Xu Xiaoba held down one hand and ripped off his clothes in two or three strokes.
Xu Shisan watched this scene anxiously. He wanted to step forward to help, but as soon as he stepped on his left foot, he was frightened back by Xu Xiaoliu's cold eyes.
The children of the cross generation hid behind Xu Shisan without daring to say a word, and just watched Xu Shishi struggling to be stripped and searched.
Xu Xiaoqi handed the loot to Xu Xiaoliu, Xu Xiaoliu glanced at it and put it in the basket, lifted his foot and kicked Xu Shiliu's butt hard, looked at the people in the corner and said, "Who else doesn't agree? Come out."
The dozen or so children shook their heads with pale faces, Xu Shisan sighed helplessly, and took the lead in handing over their belongings, and the other children followed reluctantly.
After Xu Xiaoliu finished scavenging things, he led his children happily towards Xu Xiaosi. As he got closer, he found that Xu Xiaosi was looking for things everywhere and dismantled his bed and cabinet. Liu asked suspiciously, "little fourth brother, what are you looking for?"
Xu Xiaosi said anxiously, "The dean's mother asked us to get the wishful Jade Buddha and disappeared."
"What?!" Xu Xiaoliu said in shock.
This Jade Buddha was obtained by the dean's mother at the monastery for them, and it was the only one. Although it is not worth a thousand pieces of gold, it is also very valuable to their orphanage. Besides, the most important thing about this Ruyi Jade Buddha is not its value, but its function. It is because he wears this jade Buddha day and night that he was adopted/raised even at such an old age. But now, this important jade Buddha has disappeared. How can Xu Xiaoliu not be shocked or anxious
At that moment, Xu Xiaoliu said with a bitter face: "Little Fourth Brother, isn't this Ruyi Jade Buddha not leaving you day and night, how did you lose it?"
"Didn't I help the dean's mother with the farm work yesterday? When I came back, I was stinky and sweaty. I couldn't help but went to take a shower. When I came back and lay on the bed, I thought about it, but I found out that the Jade Buddha was gone." Xu Xiaosi explained angrily.
"That's what I lost in the house today. It must be done by my own people." Xu Xiaoliu looked at the cross-generation child who dared to be angry and dared not speak, and asked in a low voice with a serious face, "Little fourth brother, you Could it be that they did it to get revenge on us?"
"They?" Xu Xiaosi frowned, "They don't have the guts, do they?"
Xu Xiaoliu shook his head and said in a low voice, "Knowing people, knowing faces, but not hearts, as the saying goes, rabbits bite people when they are in a hurry. They have been oppressed by us and starved and frozen all day, and I can't stand it either. Besides, today is here again. The honored guest wants to adopt/raise a child, and it is impossible to say that someone is arrogant and wants to take your chance."
"You're right." Xu Xiaosi nodded.
"Well, let's search one by one to see who..."
Saying that, Xu Xiaoliu waved his hand to signal others to come over, and was about to instruct everyone to do something. At this moment, Dean Xu brought Xu Jiaru, Xie Fei and others in.
"Wait a minute, my dear, I'll pack Seventeen's things right away." Dean Xu said with a smile, but the speed didn't slow down. He walked to Xu Jiaru's bed in three or two and started packing.
Everyone in the room watched this scene in astonishment, and they all reacted after a while. This is Xu Shiqi being adopted/adopted. For a while, everyone's hearts were mixed, and all of them were working hard to please Xu Shi today. Qi didn't do anything, and if luck came, he couldn't stop it.
Everyone was overshadowed, but no one noticed the malicious smile that crossed Xu Xiaosi's eyes.
Just as Dean Xu was packing Xu Jiaru's clothes, there was a bang, and a jade Buddha fell from the clothes to the ground. Dean Xu was about to pick it up, but Xu Xiaosi, who was always paying attention, picked it up first. He exclaimed, "Isn't this the Ruyi Jade Buddha I lost?"
Hearing Xu Xiaosi's voice, Xu Xiaoliu also took a look and said, "It really is!"
As she said that, she glanced at the clothes in Dean Xu's hand in confusion, and said hesitantly, "Just why did it fall out of Xu Shiqi's clothes?"
After a pause, she continued, "Could it be that Xu Shiqi stole your Ruyi Jade Buddha?"
Dean Xu looked at the two in confusion and asked, "What are you talking about stealing or not, why am I a little confused by what you said?"
Xu Xiaosi looked at Xu Jiaru who was at the door in embarrassment, lowered his eyes and said, "President's mother, I couldn't find the Ruyi Jade Buddha you gave me before, but I didn't expect it to fall out of Seventeen's clothes. Out… "
His voice was not too loud or too small, and it happened that everyone in the room could hear it. Although he did not directly say that Xu Jiaru stole his Jade Buddha, his words were expressing this meaning. In an instant, everyone in the room looked at him. He looked at Xu Jiaru strangely and contemptuously, and whispered, "No wonder she was adopted/adopted today, so she stole the Ruyi Jade Buddha."
"I really can't tell that she is this kind of person. She looks good and cute, but she has dirty hands and feet, tsk tsk tsk."
"It's this kind of person who is the easiest to steal, because everyone won't suspect her at all."
"That's right, I lost a new goose-yellow dress, and she probably stole it."
"As soon as you said it, I remembered. I seem to have seen a yellow dress in her closet before..."