Children who have lived a hard life are easy to coax. A piece of candy or a grasshopper can make them happy for a long time.
For Tongtong, a huggable bear that feels good in hand is undoubtedly the best choice as a best friend. She can eat, sleep, and clasp rice with her.
The little girl's liveliness and cheerfulness dispelled Fang Ju's uneasy mood, making her temporarily forget her sorrow.
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The next day, the sky was hazy.
Liu Sihai rode on his newly bought bicycle and ran towards the south of the city. The cold wind of late autumn turned his fingers red, and a rose in front of the bicycle was as red as fire.
The street lights were dim and there were only a few uniformed cleaners starting a hard day.
The words "Xiaoju Breakfast Shop" appeared in front of my eyes, and the weak light reflected on Fang Ju's thin and sallow face, revealing endless hard work and sadness.
The little girl Tongtong opened her eyes half-closed, yawned and put the stools one by one.
On a cold late autumn morning, the silent love between mother and daughter warms the heart.
After tying up the car, he picked up the roses and placed them on the corner of the table.
Now is not the time to be courteous. Rolling up your sleeves and getting to work is obviously in line with the current atmosphere.
Daughter Tongtong didn't know whether it was because she didn't wake up or the things she bought yesterday had an effect. She rarely called him a bad guy, nor did she run to protect her mother in a panic.
When Fang Ju saw him, her busy movements paused for a moment, but without saying anything, she lowered her head and continued working.
Of course Liu Sihai could not let go. After he recovered, he was not considered strong, but compared to children and women, he was still strong.
With a table in one hand and a chair in the other, I worked hard to arrange the tables inside and outside the house neatly, so that the little Douding who got up early had nothing to do.
After setting the table, he was not idle. Pedestrians began to appear on the street one after another, and most of them came out to buy breakfast.
Fang Ju's breakfast shop was doing well, and within a short time, more than a dozen customers came to the door.
She was busy bringing people steamed buns, serving porridge, and scooping out fried dough sticks from the pot.
"Let me do it."
Liu Sihai took the big spoon from her hand, took out a big spoon, and filled the big bowls on the table one by one.
Xiao Douding, who had nothing to do, had been waiting for a long time. He brought a full bowl of porridge and carefully delivered it to the customer's table.
Fortunately, the store is not very large, so although the little girl walked slower, she did not waste time.
After working hard for several hours, the sky was bright and Liu Sihai was very tired.
He couldn't imagine how these two women survived. For nearly three hours, the three of them kept spinning.
Even the little Tongtong didn't take a break for three hours. She worked as a waiter from beginning to end and kept moving, which made Liu Sihai feel a little distressed.
Little Tongtong's fifth birthday has not passed yet. If you really count, she is only four years old.
Whose four-year-old child can get up so early to help his mother with work, and his performance is no worse than that of an adult.
Hundreds of people came and went, but the little girl didn't miss a delivery.
It is absolutely true that the children of the poor will become rich early.
The morning business was basically over. Fang Ju reactivated her busy and numb nerves and looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar man in front of her.
His eyes were full of pity and tenderness. Looking along his gaze, he happened to see his daughter drinking porridge at the side.
The little girl seemed to notice the gazes of the two people, put down the little spoon in her hand, turned around, and smiled at the two people.
Fang Ju gave her daughter the same warm smile, let her eat well, and then turned her attention to Liu Sihai.
After looking at it for a long time, Liu Sihai also felt a little uncomfortable and showed a shy smile that belonged to a big boy.
He scratched his head and seemed to have thought of something. He glanced at the position of the rose, and sure enough, it was taken away by someone's hand.
"I lost the flower. I'll bring it to you tomorrow."
Fang Ju didn't answer him immediately and remained silent for a while, feeling increasingly unfamiliar with the man in front of her.
As Liu Sihai's ex-wife, her four years of miserable life made her think that she had completely understood Liu Sihai's true face.
Today, Liu Sihai showed a gentle side, a side she had never seen before. This made her both frightened and surprised, and she didn't even know how to face it.
"You..., what do you want to do?"
I hesitated for a long time before I asked this question.
Liu Sihai did not choose to do it all at once. He knew that he could not eat hot tofu in a hurry, so he had to take his time and melt away the defensive wall Fang Ju had built up against her little by little.
"Me? I'm here to help you and atone for my sins. When your life gets better or you find your next home, I will naturally not show up again."
"You don't need to atone. We are divorced. You are you and I am me. If you have any money left, you should take it back and live a good life."
As she said that, she walked straight into the house without any intention of dragging her feet. She must have already made plans and decided to break up with him completely.
Liu Sihai had no time to stop her with words. In desperation, he took her hand.
Her hands were like rough hemp ropes, numb and numb, which was far different from the delicate jade hands.
However, it was these hands that raised a child under the most extreme conditions, prevented a bad gambler from dying suddenly at the gambling table, and made a young and ignorant girl become a woman in her own right.
Fang Ju instinctively pulled away her hands, turned around, squatted on the ground, and covered her head with her hands, leaving only her back exposed.
It's funny to say that she is a master when it comes to domestic violence and has rich experience.
Only by knowing how to take a beating can the injury be minimized.
The little girl thought he was going to hit her mother again, so she immediately put down the bowl, spread her short legs, ran over, opened her hands, blocked Fang Ju, raised her young face, and shouted firmly: "No.
Hit mom."
Everything happened in a flash of lightning. Liu Sihai took back his hand that was frozen in the air and showed a distressed expression.
Soon, he changed his mind. The adults were very wary, and the children couldn't hold grudges all the time.
So he knelt down, put the little girl's little hand in his palm, and whispered softly: "Tongtong, good boy, your father is a good father now, a good father who will only make you and your mother happy."
The little girl was about to cry when she thought she was going to be beaten, so she was in the mood to listen to him.
So the nice words he said were equivalent to ogling a blind man and were completely in vain.
Fang Ju realized her gaffe, stood up slowly, held the little girl in her arms and comforted her softly.
"Tongtong is good, Tongtong doesn't cry."
Then he said to Liu Sihai: "You know in your heart that she is not your child."
As soon as the words came out of her mouth, she instantly regretted them.
I don’t regret saying this, but I regret not saying it in front of my daughter.
"Even if we divorce, her name is Liu Yutong and she will always be my Liu Sihai's daughter. No one can change this." Liu Sihai reconciled for her and continued, "As for money, Quan should take care of it.
The support I give to my daughter will be paid regularly every month from now on."