Qingben beauty

Chapter 7 What a beautiful boy!

For half a month, I worked hard to learn what they said and everything I could learn.

Every day at dawn, we crawled out of the sleeping place under the bridge hole, and went to a place where no one was there to wash our faces. The monkey got me some toothbrushes that were about to lose their hair, and taught me to brush my teeth with a toothbrush. Then we'll go to some breakfast place and wait outside.

If some guests left without finishing their meal, the monkey would let the youngest six-year-old boy in, take the leftover food and run away.

If we are unlucky and there is no residue at all, Datou will take us back to a place with water, drink enough water first, and then divide our work.

Some went to rummage through the trash cans, while others went to beg under the bridge.

Big head, monkey, and four other children. Among the seven children in our group, I am the only girl, and I am the thinnest and the most pitiful looking.

So, it fell to me to beg for money under the bridge.

I don't have to do anything, just kneel at the entrance of the bridge hole, where everyone who enters and exits can see it, with my head bowed, exposing my well-articulated neck and shoulders, and kneeling with red eyes.

People at that time were far less wealthy than they are now, but they were not as suspicious as they are now. Some people would always throw a coin or two every day.

After all, there will be a few dollars a day.

This is already a huge sum of money for me.

However, I don't have the slightest bit of self-sufficiency.

Not only because the lunches and dinners of our seven children are mostly in this money, but also because the monkey will hide and stare at me from time to time.

When we divided the work, Datou would take the two youngest children to dig through the trash cans, while Monkey took the other two children who were smarter than us to the street.

After a while, the monkey would come back to see me.

I know that once the monkey finds out that I hide money privately, his smiling face will immediately become ferocious and terrifyingly vicious.

Not only will he make me lose this last habitat, he might also...

I remember that on the second day I joined, a child occasionally mentioned that one of their former companions had disappeared, and the big head immediately yelled at him.

Later, I got acquainted with the child and asked him quietly. He said that the companion hid some money and bought a meat bun to eat. After the monkey found out, he beat him half to death, and then the companion disappeared. .

After more than half a month, I knew what the monkeys were doing on the street.

That day, the summer rainstorm suddenly fell, and the place where I knelt was the slope under the bridge. The rain was so heavy that it flooded the place below.

I could only get up and walk to the slightly higher ground outside the bridge hole.

When I walked up to the top, I could hear men shouting angrily from the street, and a group of people shouted: "Catch the thief! Catch the thief!"

I poked my head over and saw the monkey running lifelessly ahead. The two children behind him were not as big as him, nor could they run as fast as him. After running after him for a short time, they were caught by those adults.

Someone called those two children Brother Monkey, and Monkey didn't even turn his head. He just glanced at me when he passed by the bridge, then turned around and ran away under the bridge.

The arresting adult slapped the child on the face and scolded him angrily, "You dare to steal my money!"

"These kids often steal money around here."

"That's right, no one cares about it. You can't learn well at such a young age."

"Send it to the police station."

I watched those people carrying the two children while scolding and walking, and I couldn't help feeling scared.

I don't know where the police station is, but I know that those two children did something wrong, and those people will definitely not send them to a good place.

"Not only these two, but there is also a girl over there who has been begging under the bridge for more than half a month, right? Send them together!" Amidst the noise, someone shouted.

I was so frightened that I turned my head and ran away. I didn't dare to run to the place where I usually sleep, so I ran to the place where the big head went.

At this time, the big head would usually dig through the trash can outside the house with the faucet.

When I ran over, I saw Datou taking the two children to hide from the rain under the eaves.

But before I got there, the monkey appeared next to Datou, and without knowing what to say, the four of them turned around and ran away at the same time.

I was left alone in the alley.

I was drenched in the rain, watching their backs disappear into the rain curtain.

The weather is hot, but my heart is cold.

Monkey and Datou disappeared, and a middle-aged man with a red armband appeared at the bridgehead.

I dare not kneel and beg anymore, nor dare I go to the breakfast shop to grab other people's leftover food.

I learned from the big head and started to rummage through the trash can.

From the trash can, I dug out a pair of Jiefang shoes that fell off and tripped open, dug out the cardboard, dug out a few ragged clothes, and dug out some edible things.

I left that bridge and started exploring around.

After walking for a few days, I reached the edge of the city.

At that time, the city of Xiangcheng was far smaller than it is now. There were vegetable fields, wilderness, and vibrant wild land in the outskirts of the city.

I found cardboard and built a shed in a place where a lot of stones were piled up.

In the early morning, I would first look around to see what edible wild vegetables were available, and when the sun was bright, I would go to the city to pick up garbage. Occasionally, seeing no one around, I would kneel down and beg for a few cents.

I usually don't beg for too long. If I have a dime, enough to buy two steamed buns, I will leave. Moreover, I change places every day.

In this way, I rummaged through the trash can for more than a month, picked up a lot of things, and built my little shed.

Every day I just think about how to find food and drink to survive. I didn't pay attention to how long it took until the autumn wind blows, the autumn rain falls, and the weather suddenly turns cold, and I realize that the autumn is already deep.

Winter is not far away.

However, I didn't have thick clothes to wear, and when I was walking on the street, I was shivering with cold when I was blown by the wind.

I know I can't survive the winter with my shed alone.

After an autumn rain and the temperature plummeted again, I climbed out of the shed and walked towards the bridge.

After hiding for so long, I still have to find a way to find the big head and the monkey.

After all, they are older than me and have spent more time in the city than I. They should know how to survive the winter.

When I walked to the bridge, I found that the person with the red armband was gone, but there was no one under the bridge. I searched the surrounding alleys, but found no one.

I was a little discouraged and wanted to go back when I heard the voice of a monkey.

Monkey's voice was full of laughter, but his tone was cold and said: "Good boy, play dirty with us!"

Then I heard a child's voice that was as clear as jade: "I said, I will not be a thief! I..."

A crisp snap interrupted his voice.

I shrank my body behind the wall and peeked around secretly.

At a corner of the alley, the monkey and the big head surrounded a child about five or six years old. The monkey raised its hand high and drew an arc in the air.

There was another crisp sound, and the monkey slapped the child's face aside.

The child's face was turned towards me.

When I saw it, I blinked my eyelids twice more.

I have never seen such a beautiful child!
Those dark eyes, that oval face, those delicate facial features are more beautiful than the lucky dolls on New Year pictures.

And that white and tender skin that seems to be able to pinch water!
At first glance, it is made of white rice and fine noodles!

(End of this chapter)