Li Qian's voice was a little soft. She looked at him carefully and said cautiously: "Thank you, uncle..."
Xu Zhan looked dazed and muttered, "Li Qianqian..." and then asked, "Who are the people in the family?"
Li Qian was a little scared and glanced at Xu Zhan with "Ah...", thinking that this homeless man was not a bad person, and then cautiously replied: "Aunt and grandma..."
Aunt and grandma...
She is not his daughter. Something happened in his family and he has no relatives except his wife, so this Li Qian is not his daughter.
I originally had a glimmer of hope, but now my hope is gone, and I feel extremely disappointed, even lost.
"……Let's go back!"
Xu Zhan sat down tiredly.
"uncle……"
Li Qian didn't leave, staring at Xu Zhan, a little curious and a little scared.
There was so much water on the chair and it was so cold. Didn't he feel it?
Li Qian rubbed her hands and breathed a sigh of relief, waiting for this strange uncle to answer her.
Xu Zhan didn't speak anymore. He wanted to be quiet and sit here alone.
The little girl didn't give up and looked at the homeless man, who looked tired and unshaven. Upon closer inspection, he looked quite handsome.
"Uncle, are you in trouble?"
"Um……"
I don’t know why, but I couldn’t bear to reject the little girl and said yes to her.
Seeing that she answered her, the little girl was a little happy. She took a step forward on her legs and asked Xu Zhan, "Uncle, can you take me back? My legs hurt..."
Xu Zhan looked at her, waiting expectantly for his answer.
He still had to find his daughter and contact his brothers, so he had no time to help her.
However, if she doesn't help her, she may really not be able to go back. Those students were too harsh just now.
"Uncle, can you help me?..."
Afraid that Xu Zhan wouldn't be willing, Li Qian's voice sounded a bit pleading.
"How far away is your home?"
Xu Zhan felt compassion. It was getting dark. If the little girl didn't go back, her family would be worried.
Li Qian pointed to the street where the group of students walked in the distance: "It's very close..."
Xu Zhan stood up, shook the snow off his body, and asked, "Can I leave?"
Li Qian was a little surprised. Unexpectedly, Uncle Wei really agreed, and a smile appeared on his face, "Okay... I can go..."
Xu Zhan helped her up with his hands. The little girl had a hard time walking, and the snow was too deep, so she frowned every step she took.
The leg was broken. Xu Zhan had no choice but to stop and said to her: "You lie on my back and I will carry you. Hurry up."
"Ah..." Li Qian didn't dare.
Xu Zhan was thinking about his daughter and didn't want to waste time. His tone was a little cold, "Hurry up, don't delay things."
Li Qian responded aggrievedly.
"Forehead……"
He lay obediently on Uncle Wei's back.
Lying on Xu Zhan's back, the little girl hugged him tightly, but her heart felt extremely warm.
She has never been carried by a man before when she was so old. When she was very young, her mother would carry her every time she got sick.
She longed to be carried by her father.
However, her mother often told her that she had no father.
She believed it at first, until one time she saw her mother secretly crying while holding a photo of a man.
She wanted to take a closer look, but her mother noticed and put the photo away.
She asked her mother, who said that was not her father.
From that moment on, she knew that she had a father and that her mother had lied to her.
However, she is already ten years old. If she has a father, why doesn't he come back?
She was in a car accident a year ago and her father didn't come back either. She was lying on the operating bed, hurting a lot, but she wasn't afraid. She was looking forward to her father coming back.
Looking forward and looking forward, I didn’t look forward to my father, but I looked forward to the bad news that my mother was gone.
She stood in front of her mother's operating bed and watched her mother lying quietly, motionless, and then being covered with a white sheet by the doctor.
She didn't cry, she knew her mother would be sad when she saw it.
Later, she was sent to an orphanage, where she didn't like to talk. Her friends bullied her, snatched her toys and food, and were beaten.
She told the dean that she was not allowed to eat as a punishment, and then she ran away without anyone looking for her.
One day she was so hungry that she was seen by her aunt while digging through trash cans on the street.
The aunt took her home and sent her to school.
Today she was bullied by Wang Ziyao and Sun Luojia. Wang Ziyao and Sun Luojia found the little bully Li Qiming. If it weren't for the blame uncle, she would have been beaten badly.
The strange uncle seemed to be in trouble. He was sitting alone in the snow, looking very pitiful.
Maybe he has no home, no place to live, no one to talk to.
The aunt is a nice person and a grandma, so she lied to the weird uncle that her leg hurt, and tricked him into going back, asking her aunt to keep him for one night, otherwise he would freeze to death in such a cold weather.
Xu Zhan felt that the little girl seemed to be eager to be carried on his back, and his arms hugged her tighter and tighter.
"Um...Li, Qian...you live with grandma and aunt? Where are your parents?"
"Mom and Dad..."
Li Qian felt a little sad when she thought of her parents. She didn't have parents, but she just didn't want others to know.
She usually told people that her parents went out of town and were busy with work and rarely came back.
Uncle Wei was not a bad person, so she was wondering whether to tell him.
"What's wrong, your parents won't want you anymore, right?"
Li Qian hurriedly explained, "No?"
"Yeah?"
"My mother is gone...Dad...Dad is no longer here either..."
She originally wanted to say that her father would be back soon, but when she thought about her mother being gone, what would he do if he came back? Now that she has a grandma and an aunt, she doesn't need it anymore...
So, dad, just think of it as dead!
Xu Zhan's chest felt tight and he was a little worried. He was also a poor child.
"What happened to my parents?"
"Well, there was a car accident..."
Li Qian can now accept the fact that her mother left her. She is already very optimistic, so when she said this, although she was sad, she was not sad.
"Uncle Strange...you have also encountered something sad. Have you lost your home?"
"Me too, my home is gone and my daughter can't be found..."
Xu Zhan's chest hurt so much that he couldn't breathe.
"Uncle, you can't find your daughter? How old is she? I'll help you find her. My aunt is a teacher, so I'll ask her to help you find her..."
Li Qian couldn't help but feel a little worried.
She has a grandmother and an aunt, but her uncle is more pitiful than her and has nothing.
Xu Zhan smiled bitterly. This girl couldn't protect herself, but she was worried for him.
Seeing that Xu Zhan didn't speak, Li Qian felt a little sad and became quiet.
The snow had stopped, and after walking for about ten minutes, we arrived at the street Li Qian was talking about.
This is a relatively dilapidated old community. According to the normal time limit, it should be demolished. Because there is no place to resettle the poor residents nearby, the government department is planning to delay it for a few more years.
"Uncle Wei, put me down so I can leave..."
"You can leave but why should I carry it for so long?"
"Aren't I worried that my aunt will scold me if she sees it?"
"Why?"
"My aunt doesn't allow me to fight with others, it's very cruel..."
"Are you fighting with someone else? You were obviously beaten."
"it's the same……"
After getting off Xu Zhan's back, the little girl couldn't wait to make a shushing gesture towards Xu Zhan as soon as she stood firm.
"What's wrong?"
Xu Zhan felt a little strange. When he arrived at the door of his house, the little girl did not go upstairs, but instead acted strangely.
"Something's wrong today..."
After saying that, Li Qian walked upstairs while holding on to the wall, and gave instructions to Xu Zhan behind him.
"...You are following behind, slower!"
This is an old-fashioned building with one floor. The stairs are dark, the sensor light is broken and it's getting dark, so it's not very clear.
"What's wrong?"
Xu Zhan was a little curious and asked behind Li Qian.
"No lights on..."
Li Qian answered casually that in the past, the lights at home were always on and grandma's voice could be heard from far away, but tonight it was deserted.
Just as he arrived at the door, Li Qian stood at the door as if he was shocked by something.
Xu Zhan also walked up and followed Li Qian's gaze.
The door is open, and everything in the hall can be seen clearly through the window.
There was nothing in the room, just some old furniture, a sofa with peeling leather, a glass coffee table, a few tea sets, and an old-fashioned TV.
Sitting on the sofa was an old man with gray hair and a dry and thin body. There was a girl lying on the old man's lap.
The girl is in her twenties and wears a long down jacket with three-quarter-heeled sheepskin pony boots, which is very fashionable.
The girl was crying, and the old man looked helpless, stroking the girl's back tiredly to comfort her.
Seeing Li Qian coming back with a strange man behind him, the old man was obviously a little embarrassed and patted the girl on the back to indicate that someone was coming.
Seeing this scene, Li Qian cried.
The little girl threw away her schoolbag, ignored the injury on her leg, and rushed into the house crying.
"Aunt...grandma...wuwu...what's going on?..."
Her sky has fallen, her mother is gone, and her aunt is her mother. It doesn't matter if she is hurt, bullied, or looked down upon.
However, grandma cannot be injured, and aunt cannot be injured.
Now when she came home and saw her aunt and grandma crying, her heart was completely broken, so she cried in fear.
"Read it! The child is back, okay, okay..."
Grandma wiped her dim eyes and opened her dry mouth at Xu Zhan at the door.
"……Who are you?"
She felt that this man seemed a bit familiar. She had seen him somewhere before, but she couldn't remember it for a while.
Jiang Nian raised his head from grandma's lap, wiped his tears, tried to calm down his emotions, and then touched Li Qian who was lying on grandma's lap.
"Grandma is so anxious when she comes back so late..."
Although reproachful, his tone was full of worry.
When Xu Zhan saw Jiang Nian, it was like meeting his wife for the first time. He waved his hand awkwardly, "...It seems that I came at the wrong time..."
"Hello...come in and sit down!"
Although the man who came was unshaven and did not look like a good person, Jiang Nian still greeted him politely.
Jiang Nian felt that this person seemed familiar, as if he had seen him somewhere.
"It still doesn't work. I originally sent Li Qian back."
Xu Zhan didn't want to go in. What was he going to do after all? If it weren't for Li Qian, he wouldn't be here at all.
"You are a guest when you come. It would be rude not to enter the house. My child, come in and sit..."
Grandma stood up from the sofa with a dry mouth and looked at him seriously.
"Mom...can you see clearly? Don't talk nonsense. I am over thirty..."
Jiang Nian somewhat blamed his mother for not having good eyesight but talking too much and calling everyone a child.
"You child, your mother and I are already seventy, and he is thirty, why should I call him a child? Besides, I think this man is destined to my family, he is like your brother..."
Her brother-in-law and sister passed away many years ago. She knew that her mother cared about her, but she couldn't say it like this. She was inevitably a little angry.
"Mom... Then you can't scream randomly."
Grandma was not angry, and asked with a smile: "What's the matter? I can't just call the child. You ask if she is angry?... Are you still laughing?"
Xu Zhan couldn't laugh or cry.
Li Qian was happy. If grandma called her a weird uncle, what would she be?
granddaughter?
"Grandma, it's strange that uncle won't be angry..." Li Qian ran to the door and pulled Xu Zhan, asking Xu Zhan in a familiar manner.
"Uncle Wei, you won't be angry, will you?"
Before Xu Zhan spoke, grandma said seriously:
"Angry? Why are you angry? Young people can't be angry. Only grandma can be angry. Don't call me weird Xuxu. Even if your biological father comes back in the future, I will have to call you that."
Li Qian got angry, glared at grandma, and pouted.
"Grandma...didn't you tell me that I don't have a father? My father is dead..."
"Bah, bah, bah...you kid, you can't talk nonsense."
Grandma spat several mouthfuls in succession and slapped her mouth to remove the mold.
Xu Zhan was a little confused. Didn't Li Qian mean his father...
"...Grandma..." Xu Zhan called the old man affectionately, "...Well, what happened to Li Qian's father?"
Jiang Nian was impatient. Why could his mother and anyone else bring this matter out? Isn't this a big deal?
Just as Jiang Nian was about to stop her, grandma patted her and said, "It's a long story... Grandma will tell you slowly..."
"Mom..." Jiang Nian was a little unhappy. The things he encountered today were annoying enough, but his mother still acted like this regardless of the occasion or person.
"What's wrong?" Grandma's tone was a little serious.
"You can also ask others if they agree. Maybe others still have something to do?"
Grandma imitated what Li Qian said just now, "Weird sorghum, do you agree or not? Why don't you sit down for a while?"
Jiang Nian looked helpless, "My mother is old and acts like a child sometimes. Don't mind..."
The first time she explained to a strange man, Jiang Nian was a little confused and embarrassed for a long time. This man always made her feel very familiar, the kind of familiarity that melted into her bones.
Seeing that her mother liked this ruinous man, she didn't want to make her mother sad.
"It's okay, old man! ... Just like a child!"
Xu Zhan didn't mind.
However, regarding Li Qian's father, he must know, if, if, if, Li Qian is really his daughter...
Xu Zhan prayed silently in his heart, even if he was afraid of losing everything, even if he was afraid of not recognizing each other anymore, he just needed to stay by her side.
And he must figure this out after dinner.
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