Ruosheng felt that she had been floating. Her body was uncontrollable and floating everywhere, as if she had no weight at all. Along the way, she saw many familiar faces, but they seemed unable to see her. She struggled desperately to cry out. Their names, but they couldn't be called out.
"Mommy mommy……"
Li Li stood by the bed. He watched Ruosheng twisting and turning. Big beads of sweat kept rolling down his forehead. Li Li shed tears anxiously.
Wow. He is so scared. His mother is still awake the whole time.
"Stop crying...it's so noisy...um. It's okay. It's okay. Your mother is okay. She'll be fine soon."
The room was originally small, but Li Li kept crying. Liu Yanyun couldn't help but have a hint of impatience on her face, and she wanted to scold Li Li with a cold face. However, she was pinched hard by her mother who was standing aside. In an instant Her face immediately became kind and friendly.
"But...but..."
With tears in his eyes, he looked at the people in front of him. His black and white eyes were full of worry.
He bit his lip stubbornly. He was so worried about his mother. She felt so hot.
He knew he should send his mother to the hospital. But...but they...
Li Li had no choice but to lower her head.
He knew they wouldn't take his mother to the hospital. They could take her home. It was good to keep him and her out in the rain on the street.
"Li Li, be good. It's okay. Your mother will be fine soon."
Liu Yue'e looked at Li Li with a smile on her face. Her big hand covered with oily smoke patted Li Li's head lightly. Li Li reflexively avoided it with eyes full of disgust.
Although he is only a child, children's intuition is often the most accurate.
His intuition told him that these people were not good people. He still remembered how they bullied him and his mother before.
"Okay. Okay. What are you doing here? Everyone go back to sleep."
Old man Liu was sitting at the door smoking a dry pipe with an impatient expression on his face. After saying that, he knocked on his pipe and turned around and went aside to rest.
Mother and daughter Liu Yanyun quickly went back to their rooms to sleep.
Li Li was left standing blankly in front of the bed, holding Ruosheng's hand tightly with her small hands. Tears were crying in her eyes but they never came out.
He kept telling himself that he was already a man and that he wanted to protect his mother.
Don't cry. You must be strong and brave.
In the dream, the always warm little hands were holding her tightly. Ruosheng desperately thought about who this was, but her mind went blank and she couldn't think of anything.
It's obviously very familiar, but I just can't remember it.
"Mom, don't be afraid. Li Li will protect you. You sleep well. Li Li will watch over you. Mom, be good. It will be fine when you wake up."
Holding Ruosheng's hand tightly, Li Li whispered in her ear. His eyelids kept fighting and he felt so sleepy.
But he couldn't sleep. He couldn't sleep. He had to guard his mother.
The night is getting deeper and deeper. Li Li has not slept for a long time. Sleepiness gradually comes. Li Li curled up and sat on the edge of the bed and tried hard to open his eyes. But his eyelids became heavier and heavier. Gradually...
He fell asleep slowly...
"Well……"
She slowly woke up from her dream. Ruosheng felt her head hurt. She pinched her temples hard and finally felt better.
It felt like something was pressing down on him. At first glance, he saw that half of Li Li's body was lying on his body, while the other side was hanging in the air. A small hand was holding his hand tightly.
I carefully carried him to the bed. It seemed that the little guy was really tired. He just turned around and quickly fell asleep again.
Looking at his sleeping face, Ruosheng couldn't help but raise the corners of her mouth slightly.
It's just...just where is she.
Looking around, the dark little room looked a bit familiar. There was a rotten and moldy smell floating around. It was hard to tell what it felt like. Ruosheng couldn't help feeling nauseous.
"This is."
It seems that I have been to this place before. In other words, this place looks very familiar. But...but where is this place?
The sky was still a little dark. The room was pitch black. The only small window was blocked tightly. There was no light in the room.
For a long time, Ruosheng's eyes fell on the wall behind the door and saw a few mottled marks on it.
Ruosheng quickly jumped off the bed. She looked at the marks on the wall in disbelief. She couldn't help but reached out and touched it. A smile couldn't help but appear on her lips.
"Oh my God. This is...this is my room."
Her fingers kept rubbing the mottled wall. A layer of white dust fell from the old and decayed wall, dirtying Ruosheng's hands.
But she was very happy in her heart.
Yes. This is her room. The room she lived in since she was a child. She spent her teenage years in this room.
These mottled marks were painted by herself based on the walls.
Touching the wall, you can even feel the faint warmth on it. It feels like you have gone back many, many years ago. She was here at that time.
Thinking about what to eat tomorrow. Thinking about how to find food that can fill the stomachs of myself and my father.
My thoughts at that time were so simple. I just thought about three meals a day every day.
"No. Why am I here?"
Ruosheng couldn't help but indulge in the memories of the past. Suddenly she remembered.
How could she be in this place? This place no longer belongs to her. This... this is her place. How could she be here?
"Oh my god. Could it be... could it be..."
Suddenly Ruosheng thought that she seemed to have fainted in the rain. Could it be that her father rescued her?
Because apart from her father, she didn't believe that the mother and daughter would save her. In this case, only her father could do it.
Although he has become unrecognizable to me over the years, but...but after all, he is his father.
"Li Li. Li Li, wake up quickly... wake up quickly..."
There were so many questions in her mind that she wanted to know. Now she only had Li Li left to ask.
After all, she fainted at the time, but Li Li was still conscious. And he was just a child. She believed that Li Li didn't have the ability to move him here.
She desperately wanted to know if her father had saved her.
"Well...Mom...Mom is not afraid...not afraid of Li Li protecting you."
In his sleep, Li Li twisted his body and clenched his fists tightly. He mumbled and shouted. Then he turned around and continued to sleep.
Ruosheng was a little reluctant to see Li Li dozing off. But...but she really wanted to know whether her father saved her.
"Li Li, don't sleep anymore. Wake up quickly. Wake up quickly."
Shaking Li Li gently, Ruosheng couldn't help but raise her voice.
"What's the noise? Do you want anyone to sleep?"
Suddenly the door was kicked open. Old Liu was seen standing at the door with a dark face and staring at Ruosheng displeasedly.
Suddenly Ruosheng was startled and couldn't help but shrink back.
"Dad...I.I'm sorry. I didn't mean it,"
Looking nervously at Old Liu Ruosheng, he apologized hurriedly.
She didn't know what was wrong with her. She started to be afraid when she saw her father.
Looking at Old Man Liu's dark face, the little excitement that had just surged in an instant disappeared without a trace.
"Hmph. He's not dead yet. Get out of here when daybreak comes."
With a dark face, Old Man Liu glanced at Ruosheng and said fiercely when he saw that she was awake.
"Dad...I..."
Ruosheng sat on the bed blankly and looked at Old Man Liu. His face was full of disgust, as if he hated himself very much. Ruosheng couldn't help but feel at a loss.
"Hmph. I don't have a daughter like you. Don't call me daddy. Why don't you die soon? Get out of here as soon as you wake up. Don't occupy my place."
Old Man Liu looked at Ruosheng with disgust. It seemed as if she was not his daughter at all but a bed bug or a cockroach or something.
Looking at his face full of disgust, Ruosheng's eyes couldn't help but fill with tears. She pinched her nails tightly with both hands and pinched them deeply into her palms. But she didn't feel any pain at all.
Instead, the corners of his mouth involuntarily raised into a sarcastic smile.
Yes. Yes. I am so stupid.
How could he have thought that he would save him? He had long wished that he would die early.
Ever since the mother and daughter entered the door, no matter what he did, it was wrong in his opinion. He had long wished he could disappear from this world.
The only time he would think of himself was when he asked him for money. Other times, he would not remember that he had such a daughter at all.
"Your place. I remember I bought it with money."
Clenching her fists tightly, Ruosheng's eyes flashed with a trace of stubbornness.
Yes. Since he doesn't care about himself and doesn't regard her as his daughter at all, then why should he regard him as his father?
He kept saying that this was his house. But he should not forget that back then they could not even pay the rent and were almost evicted by the landlord.
It was she and Li Xi who went out to work together to make money. And then...then they bought this place.
"Snapped.'
A crisp slap broke the tranquility of the morning.
Ruosheng covered her face and raised her head to look at Old Man Liu. She saw his red eyes staring at her. His withered hands kept shaking. He looked like a hungry wolf ready to eat her at any time.
"You hit me. Why did you hit me?"
Ruosheng looked at him with hatred in her eyes.
Yes. At this moment, he is no longer her father.
He is just a person without a conscience. He has worked hard to make money for so many years and I don’t know how many gambling debts he has helped him pay off. But he...but he actually...actually asked himself to die...
The little bit of family affection that remained in Ruosheng's heart evaporated in an instant.