It's already October, and it's slowly getting dark earlier and earlier.
Su Xiaoli leaned against the wall and looked up at the sky. The sun had already set on the horizon, and an orange afterglow sprinkled in the sky, creating a faint glow.
"Little girl, can I ask you a favor..." An old voice sounded next to Su Xiaoli.
"What??" Su Xiaoli lowered his head and looked around him. He saw an old woman in ragged clothes and an old man carrying a load standing next to her. Their cloudy eyes were looking at her eagerly.
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"My wife and I came here to look for our son..." The old woman covered the holes in her clothes with some embarrassment, and slowly said to Su Xiaoli: "My son has been working here for several years.
Since I didn’t go home anymore, my wife and I had no income at home, so we thought about coming over to join him..."
"Unexpectedly, after we arrived, our son and daughter-in-law didn't recognize us. After scolding us, they kicked us out. Now we don't have a penny on us. My wife and I haven't eaten for several days.
Come on, little girl, can you buy us some food??"
The old woman choked out her words while wiping her tears with the corner of her clothes.
Su Xiaoli blinked and looked at them seriously.
The clothes they wore looked old and dirty, and there were holes in many places. The faces of the two old people were dry and wrinkled, and they looked almost skinny. Their feet were wearing rag shoes, cloth shoes.
It was covered in dust and the edges were all worn away.
"Well, I still have some bread in my schoolbag, give it to you!" Seeing how pitiful they were, Su Xiaoli quickly took off the schoolbag on his back, opened it, took out the bread from it, and handed it to the two old people.
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"Thank you... thank you..." The old lady reached out and took the bread that Su Xiaoli handed her, lowered her head and looked at it carefully, then tremblingly returned it to Su Xiaoli and said: "Little girl, these are yours
Bread should not be cheap... We two old people are so old, how can we be embarrassed to eat children's snacks... Just take it and save it for when you are hungry. Just... can you give it to us?
The old couple bought a steamed bun..."
"It's okay, it's not expensive. You guys eat first, and I'll buy you something else to eat." Su Xiaoli waved his hands towards the two of them, then looked around and said, "There's something over there.
The food in this restaurant is quite delicious. My brother often takes me to eat there, so I’ll take you to eat there.”
"No, no need." The old lady quickly waved her hand and said, "Why do I have the nerve to ask you to spend money? We, the old couple, just need to eat a steamed bun and drink some water."
"It's not expensive, really, that restaurant is cheap and delicious!" Su Xiaoli blinked and smiled at the old lady: "Besides, it's just a meal, it's really not expensive."
"But we, the old couple, are so shabbily dressed that we are really embarrassed to go into the store to eat..." The old lady said a little embarrassedly: "There is a shop selling steamed buns in the alley over there. Little girl, can you take us to buy some?
A steamed bun?"
"Ah?" Su Xiaoli was stunned for a moment, then reached out and took out ten dollars from his pocket and said, "No, I have to wait for my brother here, or I will give you money and you can go buy it yourself."
