lcionline Chapter 288 The Boy in the Shabby House
Chapter 288 The Boy in the Shabby House
In a shabby little house, a boy was using his tender little hands to laboriously wipe the face of his mother, Zhang Xiaoyu, who was lying on the bed.
Zhang Xiaoyu lay quietly, like a lifeless beautiful doll. Even so, her beauty was breathtaking!
Zhang Xiaoyu became ill due to her husband's disappearance and was hit by a truck on her way to find her husband. Fortunately, death did not take her soul, but turned her into a paralyzed vegetable. Now she can only rely on the care of her seven-year-old son to barely survive.
The hut was dark and damp, with mottled walls, and exuded a stale smell.
The sunlight came in with difficulty through the small window, but it could only illuminate a corner of the room.
Outside the window, the narrow alley was filled with debris. Wild cats were foraging in the corners, making faint calls, which added a bit of desolation.
The boy's name is Jiang Xiaoxiao, and his eyes reveal a maturity and determination beyond his age.
His father disappeared when he was still young and left him and his mother to struggle in this cruel world.
The grandparents, who they could rely on, were killed in an accident. It seemed as if fate had played cruel jokes on this small family one after another.
Every morning, when the first ray of sunlight shines into the cabin, Xiaoxiao will gently get up, make the bed for his mother, and then go out to pick up trash.
The cold wind howled in the streets, blowing the garbage everywhere. The bare trees on the roadside shivered in the cold wind.
Xiaoxiao's small figure shuttled through the streets and alleys, searching for every piece of waste that might be valuable.
His hands were often cut and his clothes were always dirty, but he never complained.
Sometimes, Xiaoxiao would encounter some naughty children who would laugh at him and call him a little beggar.
He lowered his head silently, biting his lips tightly to prevent tears from falling.
He knew that he couldn't cry because he had to be strong and take good care of his mother. The surrounding buildings were dilapidated and the graffiti on the walls looked so gloomy.
After returning home, Xiaoxiao will sort out the waste he picked up and take it to the waste collection station to sell it.
He would carefully save the little income he earned and use it to buy necessary medicines and food for his mother.
Seeing how pitiful he was at such a young age, the lady at the garbage station often gave him some food and paid him double the price for the waste. But even so, it could only solve his basic problem of food and clothing!
Every night, he would sit by his mother's bed and tell her about his day.
"Mom, I picked up a very beautiful bottle today." Xiaoxiao's eyes were sparkling, as if the bottle was the most precious treasure in the world.
He gently held his mother's hand, feeling the faint warmth, as if he was holding the whole world.
He rubbed his little face against his mother's face, feeling the warm maternal love, and his eyes flashed with an incomparable satisfaction!
Sometimes, Xiaoxiao would sing to her mother, and her childish voice would echo in the little house, as if it could penetrate the darkness and bring a touch of warmth. "Twinkle, twinkle little star, the sky is full of little stars..."
Although Zhang Xiaoyu could not respond, Xiaoxiao felt that his mother must be able to hear his singing.
must be able to!
Because he believes!
Whenever night falls,
Whenever there is a thunderstorm,
Whenever the cold wind howls,
Every day when the weather is cold,
This young boy would curl up in his mother's arms, muttering to himself,
"Dad, where are you? I miss you so much! I'm so scared..."
……
The next morning, the sun shone through the dim hut, quickly driving away the darkness.
Jiang Xiaoxiao opened his eyes, rubbed his big eyes, sat up from his mother's arms, and when he saw his mother's face, he kissed her gently.
"Good morning, Mom! Today is Sunday, I'll have an hour to myself!"
Then he quietly stood up from his mother's arms and walked off the bed.
Outside the hut,
I picked up a small plastic basin with a thin layer of dew in it.
This water is enough for him to wash up in the morning!
After washing himself a little, he hurried into the shabby house and started to cook breakfast. He skillfully picked up the rice cooker, filled it with a bowl of water and a handful of rice, plugged in the electricity, and started to cook porridge!
Jiang Xiaoxiao bowed slightly to the rice cooker.
"Thank you, Uncle Li! When I become successful in the future, I will definitely come back to repay you!"
This is a sentence he says every day to thank the electrician uncle!
This rice cooker was given to him by a kind electrician, who even secretly helped him connect the electricity!
Unfortunately, the electrician was not in good health and had a sick mother at home, so he could only do his best to help Jiang Xiaoxiao.
What's strange is that with today's power grid technology, it should be discovered quickly that he was stealing electricity, but in the past year, no one has bothered him!
Jiang Xiaoxiao didn’t understand all this, he only knew that Uncle Li helped them and gave them light!
An hour later, Jiang Xiaoxiao fed the porridge into her mother's mouth little by little.
Although Zhang Xiaoyu became a vegetable, she still had the instinctive eating movements, which shocked the attending doctor at the time!
It also made Jiang Xiaoxiao understand that her mother would definitely recover in the near future!
When her family saw that Zhang Xiaoyu had turned into a vegetable, they chose to abandon them. At first, they gave her some money, but then they never showed up again.
Zhang Xiaoyu's mother and father, Jiang Xiaoxiao's grandparents, could not accept this fact for a while. They were so sad that they suffered a heart attack and passed away.
The whole world seems to be against this young boy!
But he is very strong!
After cleaning up everything, he walked outside the dilapidated house, moved out a stool, sat at the door, looked towards the entrance of the alley, his eyes fixed there, as if he was expecting something!
An hour later, the small body returned to the dilapidated house with disappointment, leaving only four deep dents.
He picked up a bag, paused at the door for a moment, and looked back at the room.
"Mom, I'm leaving! I'll bring you some buns for lunch!"
What he didn't know was that in the dark corner of the alley, a pair of vicious eyes were staring at his young body!
"hey-hey…"
A man walked out from the darkness in the corner. Seeing Jiang Xiaoxiao leaving, he rushed into the small shabby house. As soon as he opened the door, he saw an incredibly beautiful woman lying on the bed with her beautiful eyes closed!
"What a beautiful person! Even if she is a vegetable, I still dare not desecrate her?
But I have been single for more than 30 years. Even looking at an old sow makes me feel excited, let alone a woman of your level!
My little beauty, here I come! Your brother is here to pamper you!"