Flowers bloom silently

Chapter 396 Extra Story: The Forgotten Corner (1)

An orphanage in country S.

This day was the coldest winter day that Xiao Miao could remember. It snowed all day, and the snow in the whole city was half a meter thicker, but her clothes were still thin. Standing in the biting cold wind, her whole body People trembled so that they could not walk steadily.Her short, fluffy hair was already soaked in snow water, and her scalp was numb from the cold. She felt that her whole brain was so frozen that she lost the ability to think, and it was empty inside.

She was carrying an old bamboo basket, which contained more than half of the basket of small handicrafts. She lowered her head and looked at the unsold small handicrafts. Ten steps up to the old five-story building.

Standing outside the red door with peeling paint, she was about to raise her frozen left hand to ring the doorbell, but the door was opened from the inside, and a fat old man came out from the inside. He was from the street next door. The owner of a toy store, his toys are reprocessed second-hand goods, most of which come from orphanages, and the business is said to be very good.He came here every few days to get goods, but this time he left empty-handed.

The old man's complexion was ugly, as if he was mad at someone, his fleshy face was flushed with blood, and his nostrils were spraying with anger, before he stepped out of the room and bumped into the little meow standing by the door , that amount knocked down the thin and thin little cat at once.

"Don't you have eyes?" The old man didn't know his mistake and blamed Xiao Miao. His roar scared the already weak Xiao Miao into shivering. He didn't care about the small handicrafts scattered all over the floor, so he sat down on the base of the wall and didn't dare to move. .

The old man squinted at the timid little meow, snorted uninterestedly, moved his fat body slowly down the stairs, and headed towards the next street.

"Oh, hell-" The old man didn't go far, when there was a sharp cursing sound from the door, it was the voice of Mrs. Sige, the dean. "Damn it, who the hell dropped the money-making gadgets all over the floor, oh my god, they all broke. Damn you bastard, why are you still standing there, why don't you pick them up for me stand up?"

"...Sorry ma'am, I was hit, I'll pick it up right away..." Xiao Miao tremblingly climbed away from the cold wall, and quickly picked up the artifacts scattered on the ground back into the basket.

"There's so much left?!" Looking down at the half-filled basket with small handicrafts, Mrs. Sig, who was wearing a fluffy thermal coat with red lips, frowned, and the creases on her face deepened. , "It's still early, what are you doing back?"

Being asked such a question, Xiao Miao didn't have the courage to look up at Mrs. Sige. She stared at the other's pair of polished black leather shoes with lowered eyes. It took a long time for her dry throat to make a hoarse voice: "The sky is gone!" It's dark and it's snowing so hard everyone's on their way and no one wants to stop and buy these dolls...Mrs Sig, I'm so cold can I come in? The weather will be fine tomorrow and I'll be sure to sell More, you can definitely earn more money..."

"Really, everyone has worked so hard to make these things and expect to sell them for money to eat? Without money, you let everyone drink northwest wind? Don't you need to eat? I kindly take you in. You must know how to be grateful and be more grateful. You need to be diligent, what you said are all excuses, you will be punished if you run back if you can’t finish the task.” Mrs. Sige doesn’t care about this, how lazy these brats are these days, earning less and less money, If you don't give color, she can't expect anything.

Xiao Miao's aggrieved mouth was flattened, and tears were about to fall.She couldn't stand the cold, and she would rather be punished and go into the house to avoid the more fierce snowstorm outside.

She got up with the packed basket and stood shivering in front of Mrs. Sig. The wind in the corridor was very strong. She wrapped her thin but loose clothes with one hand to prevent the cold wind from entering the clothes.

Mrs. Sig glanced at Little Meow, who was so cold and purple all over, thinking that she was still counting on this brat to make money for her, and it wouldn't be worth it if she just froze to death like this.

"Come in, there will be no dinner if you don't complete the goal, this is the rule, you know!"

Mrs. Sige finally let her into the house, and Xiao Miao nodded gratefully. As long as she can enter the house to avoid the wind and snow, it doesn't matter if she misses a meal.

She walked past Mrs. Sig with the basket, walked through the small reception hall at a normal speed, and climbed the stairs leading to the third floor until she reached the bend in the stairs, and Mrs. Sig could not see her. She breathed a sigh of relief, ran upstairs as fast as she could, and went straight to the room on the far right of the corridor.

Twenty bunk beds are arranged in a small room, and there is only a passage between the beds that is enough for an adult to walk around. Xiao Miao’s bed is at the innermost position near the window. She ran close to it and put the basket At the foot of the bed, a quilt that was not too thick was pulled and wrapped tightly around her body...

Xiao Miao slept drowsily all night, and her trouser waist was tightened again, and now her body was suffering from hunger after being warmed up. She drank half a bowl of porridge for breakfast, and then went out to sell porridge. In the evening, the piece of hard bread that she took out for lunch was snatched by a ferocious homeless man when she took it out to eat. She and every child here have a bad life and eat less But they are ordered to work like cattle and horses. Everyone is starving and starving day after day. They only hope that one day they will be adopted by the adults who come and come home to have clothes and food. day.Xiao Miao has been in this orphanage for two years, and the good news of being adopted has not happened to her so far. If she wants to continue like this, she may not be able to hold on.

This reminded her of Peter who was locked in the confinement room last month. The scrawny boy who was a year older than him was arrested because he couldn't stand the hellish life here and wanted to escape, and then he was locked in the confinement room. in a horrible dark room, and then... there was no more... He was not seen again, and the older children whispered about it, that he starved to death in that room, and then Being sacked and disposed of like rubbish had happened before, and Mrs Sig and her people had gotten pretty good at it.

Thinking of this, Xiao Miao, who was nestled in her back, couldn't help shivering, her slowly opening eyes were blurred with tears.

"Hey?" When she was wiping her tears, someone pushed her, and there was a big meowing voice, and she had come back.

Xiao Miao poked her head out of the quilt with her grass nest-like head, only to find that the lights in the room were dark, and everyone had come back and fell asleep at some point.Through the faint light coming in from the window, she saw Da Miao sitting on the bed next door wrapped in a quilt, and the hand that pushed her protruding from the quilt was holding a piece of bread.

Seeing the bread, Xiao Miao's eyes shone brightly. She hurriedly reached out from under the quilt to take the bread, and ate it hungrily.

"Slow down!" Big Miao's voice was very low, for fear of waking up other people around her. She was even more afraid that someone would wake up and find out what was going on here, and the bread she stole was only enough to share with Little Miao. Share, that inability to do anything can make the atmosphere incredibly awkward.

Little Miao was so hungry that she was about to pass out. She couldn't listen to Da Miao's words, so she swallowed the whole bread in two or three bites. Although she was still not full, it could save her life and help her She went through the toughest times.

(End of this chapter)