"After midnight, the knight will protect the princess and patrol the streets together. The sanitation worker who adopted the abandoned baby seems to wait until all the businesses in the commercial street close before going out to clean the house every day."
Comparing the absurd nightmare fairy tale with the reality one by one, Han Fei continued to flip through the photo album.
As the girl grew older, her congenital mental illness became more and more serious. Sometimes she could not control herself and would do things that were difficult for ordinary people to understand. The merchants on the street hated her very much, thinking that this madman had delayed their life.
Business.
It’s all about living. There is no need for others to pay a price for an irrelevant person. The sanitation worker also understands this very well. In order to prevent his daughter from getting into trouble, he has always been with the girl, just like when he first adopted the baby girl, he used his own
The body is not strong enough to protect its children.
The girl is growing up, and the sanitation worker is getting older. The photos in the album become clearer, but the people in the photos become older and tired.
But no matter how hard and tiring they are, the father and daughter will always smile when taking pictures. This is the gift they leave to their world.
My adopted daughter is always quiet and "docile" when she is around the sanitation workers, but once she is left alone at home or is away from the sanitation workers for too long, she becomes irritable and extremely aggressive.
Some debt bills in the box seemed to explain the problem. The adopted daughter did not want to be locked up at home. She ran out to find sanitation workers, and was bullied and chased by merchants. Many times she needed to call the police and have the police take her away.
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"On February 19, I scared the customers who were queuing up at the milk tea shop, which seriously affected the business of the milk tea shop. I owe 300 yuan in debt."
"On February 25th, I was looking at clothes outside the window of a clothing store. I was kicked out and refused to leave. I struggled with the waiter and gouged the waiter's face. I owe 800 yuan, but I have paid 315 yuan."
"On March 16, I stole the leftover food from the guests and tried to escape after being caught. It seriously affected the guests' dining. I owe the hotel three hundred yuan."
"On April 1st, he suddenly rushed into the street, frightened the waiting customers, and owed the hotel, fruit shop, and milk tea shop fifty yuan each."
"April 29th..."
The family didn't have much money at all, so the sanitation worker's savings were all used to buy medicines for his adopted daughter. He couldn't afford to pay for the damages claimed by others, so he had to write an IOU.
Even in a nightmare, those IOUs are still clear. The person who wrote the IOUs is not prepared to default on the debt. He is always thinking about paying back the money.
"The initial IOUs were normal, but some of the later IOUs looked more like the merchants were teaming up to drive the father and daughter away. Almost as long as the sanitation workers were not at home, the crazy daughter would leave the house. This was very abnormal. It felt weird.
It seemed like someone was deliberately luring her out, unlocking the door for her, then letting her cause trouble on the street, and finally putting all the blame on her."
Unknowingly, Han Fei reached the end of the album. The fire destroyed many photos. The last photo Han Fei could see was taken in the wooden shed.
The wooden shed was exactly the same as the shed on the west side of Ping'an Street. The rickety and thin old man stood by the bed, braiding his grown-up daughter's hair.
Looking at the photo carefully, Han Fei paid attention to the windows and door locks: "There seems to be a third person in the photo?"
Half of a boy's head was exposed on the window sill of the wooden shed. He looked like the little boy Han Fei had just seen.
It's just that the boy in the photo was fair and fair, with no stains on his face, and his skin was so tender that it looked like you could squeeze water out of it. The little boy Han Fei saw on the west side of the street had dry, sallow skin and a dirty face.
"Two families with very different identities appeared in a photo. The little boy was lying on the window sill of the girl's house and peeking at something? Every time the sanitation workers were not at home, were they the two brothers who took care of the mentally ill?
A girl with a disease is released from home?”
"The girl adopted by the sanitation workers has mental problems. She cannot communicate with the sanitation workers normally, so she is actually wronged every time?"
"The brothers said that their family was originally the manager of this street. Did they want to use this method to drive away the father and daughter? Or is this just a simple prank by the two brothers?"
The merchants are leasing the shops on Ping An Street. Whether it is a lame sanitation worker or a girl with mental problems, it may affect their business, so they and the street managers are on the same side.
"There are many ways to drive people away, but why did the shed burn down in the end? Was it an accidental fire, or was it malicious arson?"
The most desperate part of this nightmare is that the fire burned reality and death paved the new safe street.
There were footsteps outside the secret room, and the players also came in.
"It came very quickly." Han Fei put away the photo album and entered the deepest part of the burned room, hoping to find the princess's "glass slipper".
After cleaning away the ashes on the wall, Han Fei found a small compartment behind a burnt bed board, which contained a variety of girls' shoes and clothing.
These seem to be made by sanitation workers themselves for their daughters. Some of the shoes are shiny, and some have cute doll heads sewn on them. Each pair of shoes is full of father's love.
"Princess's dressing room?"
There are several words written crookedly on the wall of the cubicle, among which the word "hat" is written incorrectly.
Just seeing these, Han Fei could already imagine the scene in the photo. Two people who were afraid of the outside world were hiding in this simple wooden shed. The daughter was lying on the bed, excitedly watching her father make beautiful things for herself.
Clothes and shoes, and then couldn’t wait to try them on with a pure smile on his face.
Flawed souls nestle together, and the dim light shines on them, making them shine.
"The princess's glass slipper should be here."
There are many shoes in the compartment, ranging from baby girls to little girls, and then to girls. Shoes of various sizes are piled together, which is all the love a father has for his daughter.
"The crystal slippers are the key to Cinderella's transformation into a princess. The crystal slippers of the sanitation worker's adopted daughter must be her most important pair of shoes, and they are also the shoes that changed her life."
Squatting in front of the cubicle, Han Fei rummaged for a long time and found a pair of unique shoes.
The shoe was larger than any other pair in the compartment and was stained with bright bits of debris and various well-preserved cartoon stickers.
Sanitation workers rarely spend money to buy stickers. Most of them pick up leftovers from other people's play. Therefore, the stickers collected by my adopted daughter are basically in tatters. Those that are well-preserved are regarded by her as the most precious treasures and she does not want to part with them.
Use. But this pair of shoes is covered with complete cartoon stickers.
"It's unlikely that a sanitation worker would use his daughter's treasure to make shoes. Besides, these shoes are very big..." Han Fei picked up the big shoes and asked, "Could these shoes be made by my adopted daughter for the sanitation workers? Crystal slippers.
He turned Cinderella into a princess; he was adopted by a sanitation worker and an abandoned baby with mental illness became the princess of Ping An Street."
The abandoned baby is the princess, the ever-present black knight is the sanitation worker, the golden pumpkin carriage is the sanitation garbage truck, and the tall and majestic black horse is the black stray cat they once fed on the street corner.
The adoptive father, who had nothing, tried his best to make his daughter's world full of color.
The fate of the abandoned baby changed because of the sanitation workers, and her glass slipper was the love of her adoptive father.
In this fire-burned garbage house, the little princess's cloakroom brought Han Fei some feelings he had never experienced before.
The preview information for the first volume of the physical book "One Happy Community" will finally be available to you before the year!
The peripheral designs of the first volume include:
1 "I Have an Adventure House" 2023 latest extra booklet,
2. Healing game inside and outside world raster card,
3. Han Fei’s metal imitation enamel puzzle badges (eventually all badges can be assembled into a black box),
4. Three character cards with voices (paper character cards are given when you buy the book, and pvc upgraded character cards can be purchased by yourself)
There are also 500 autographed copies of air conditioners waiting for you!
"One Happy Community" will be officially available for pre-sale in the official self-operated store of Taobao Dimension Library in the next year. The pre-heating link is now available, and you can add it to your shopping cart in advance as needed. This is a pre-sale, so don't miss it.
Directions:
I wish you all a happy new year and all the best!
This chapter has been completed!