Flower Moon

Chapter 8 Nice to meet you
After Hua Ling finished speaking, she continued to wash the clothes.His fingers are slender and slender, white and clean, but he looks decent when he does his work, without any sense of unfamiliarity, it can be seen that he often does this in normal times.

All around him were children's tattered and dirty clothes, piled up as high as a hill, but he was not at all impatient.Tao Yueer understood that Hua Ling was a person who was cold outside and hot inside, which was evident from his careful cooking and feeding for the children.

Tao Yue'er sat aside, having nothing to do, she could only stare at him.

She found that his profile became more and more beautiful the more he looked at it.Generally, the stunning appearance will be dazzling after a long time, and gradually feel bored, but Hua Ling doesn't.He belongs to the type of love at first sight, but also stunned after a long time.

The skin is too fair, which is completely different from the children who are full of diseases in this hospital.He doesn't look like someone with an infectious disease, so why should he stay here?

Tao Yue'er was about to ask him, but Hua Ling preempted her and asked, "What are you still doing here?"

Hua Ling stopped what she was doing and looked back at her.

"...Huh?" Tao Yue'er was stunned.

Hua Ling raised her chin in the direction of the door and said, "If you don't want to die, leave here, if you want to die, go back to the dark room and wait to die. Don't stand here and delay my work."

Tao Yue'er was startled by the coldness in his eyes, afraid that he would really let her go back to that room, so she wiped her face carelessly and quickly, and ran to the front yard.But when she was halfway there, she suddenly stopped and turned back.

Hua Ling raised her head, looked at her suspiciously and impatiently: "Why are you back again?"

Tao Yue'er faltered and hesitated for a while before saying, "Well...Although I didn't die and I was about to die, I'm still very happy to know you before I die!"

"..." Hua Ling looked numb and didn't answer her.But looking at the eyes, it seems that he is not very happy.

He didn't seem at all happy to meet her.

Under the tremendous pressure, Tao Yue'er said again: "I'm stupid, I don't know how to speak, don't be angry... Although I may not live long, I still want to know, your surname is Hua, and your name is Ling. Which spirit is it? Is it the spirit of aura, or something else? I have no other intentions, I just want to set up a memorial tablet for you. In this life, except for grandpa and grandma, you are the best to me..."

"..."

Hua Ling was even more speechless.

When had he ever been nice to her?Could it be that preventing her from dying once, giving her a hand, and pulling her up from the mud, was it good for her?
Then she is too easy to pass!
Tao Yue'er scratched her head, and said embarrassedly: "Since I was a child, other people have been unwilling to talk to me. They all thought I was unlucky and said that I would hurt their luck. Are you willing to bring me back?" , Let me have a piece of tile to settle down, it is already a great kindness."

"..."

This woman looks quite old, but she really...has never received a single bit of love.

"Actor's Ling." For the first time, Hua Ling, who never wanted to talk too much with others, answered her question.

He didn't even want to talk to a living person, let alone she was a dying person.

Hua Ling showed a little kindness, and Tao Yueer seemed to have opened up a chatterbox, asking one after another: "Where is this place? Why do these children... get sick?"

Hua Ling was silent for a moment, she didn't want to talk to her at first, but she couldn't bear to see her eyes filled with expectation and curiosity, so she said slowly: "This is the epidemic center under the Salesian Bureau. The Salesian Bureau has an epidemic disease. The child will be locked here, and then, wait to die."

"Is that so... What about you? You are clean and refined, and you look untainted. You don't look like an orphan, but rather a noble son raised by a wealthy family. Why do you help the orphan wash and cook here?"

Tao Yue'er went on and on, and Hua Ling completely lost her good face.

He glanced at her coldly and said, "I have no obligation to tell you this." After speaking, he immediately looked away and concentrated on the work in hand.The complete disgust and contempt made Tao Yue'er clearly feel that if she stayed any longer, she might be imprisoned in the small dark room by him again, so she could only slip away quickly.

When Tao Yue'er returned to the courtyard, the gate was only a few feet away from her. Seeing that it was getting closer, she unconsciously slowed down her pace.The children were chasing and fighting under the tree. Except for the rotten sores on their bodies, they were no different from the children in the outside world.The smiles on their faces are even purer than many adults outside, without any trace of worldly troubles.

They were even happier than when she was a child.

What was her childhood like?

Although she lives in a slum, as long as she is in the crowd, there will be comparisons and loss, and the slums are divided into different classes.And their family is the lowest class.

She was always looked down upon.

And here, they're all the same.They are all children without father and mother, they all have the disease, and they will all die soon.They... are the ones who will never be bullied.Because life couldn't be any worse.

But they are also unaware of their own misery.They only know that they have food to eat, clothes to wear, can see the sun, smell the fragrance of flowers, and can live day by day.Without the anticipation and stubbornness for the future, the present days become lively and happy day by day.

The corner of Tao Yue'er's mouth raised a smile unconsciously.

She didn't really want to leave here, but she didn't realize it yet.

"Hey……"

Another sigh sounded behind her, and Tao Yueer turned around like a ghost, only to realize that the sigh came from the little girl behind her.

At the long table under the tree, a little girl was wiping the dishes. Tao Yue'er recognized her as the last child named 'A Yin' who came out of the room.

"What are you doing?" Tao Yue'er walked over and asked her.

The little girl raised her head, glanced at Tao Yue'er, her eyes burst into a strange brilliance, and said, "I'm cleaning the bowls for my friends, and their bowls haven't been washed for a long time."

Tao Yue'er looked at the bowl in her hand, it was a rice bowl made of iron, the top was uneven and dilapidated.Apparently it took a long time.

Tao Yu'er looked at the tree hole again, the tree hole was naturally hewn into a cupboard, and everyone's dishes and chopsticks were piled up in a mess.The dishes and chopsticks were dripping wet, as if those children put them in hastily after washing them.Although chaotic, it is also a world of smoke and fire.

The bowl next to Ah Yin is for those who have vacant seats.

"No one is using these bowls, why are they still being displayed?" Tao Yue'er was puzzled.

"In this case, it's as if they never left." A Yin wiped it, raised the bowl in her hand, and said, "Look, this is what A Sheng eats. She likes to bite the edge of the rice bowl when she has a toothache." gone."

When Tao Yue'er heard the name 'A Sheng', she felt chills down her spine for no reason.Looking at the bowl again, there is indeed a circle of tooth marks around the edge.

She suddenly remembered how A Sheng Zhang Yawu scratched her in the dark room. If she bit herself...the consequences would be unimaginable.

"A Sheng you're talking about...is he a child in a dark room?" Tao Yue'er asked uncertainly.

A Yin nodded vigorously: "A Sheng does live in a dark room."

"She's already dead!" Tao Yue'er said in surprise, "These vacant seats, bowls and chopsticks can't be all..." Are they for ghosts?

(End of this chapter)