Chapter 606: The prayer of paper cranes
Chapter 606: The Prayer of the Thousand Paper Cranes
Recalling that past event, her voice gradually became deeper.
The fists, kicks and bad words from that time seemed to have returned. They mocked her as a pig, shameless, unruly and competed with the older children for meat buns. They called her trash and told her why she didn't die...
Every word touches my heart.
Suddenly, she felt a slight warmth on her shoulders, and a man embraced her into a warm embrace. "Xiao Ling," Li Lei kissed the top of her hair and said pitifully, "You have suffered."
Her eyes were red, and she turned her head to look at the blooming flowers in the garden.
It was here, on this road, that they forced her to kneel down and eat the dirt from the ground. Children are more cruel than adults. They pulled her hair and slapped her. Even more outrageous, a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old asked her to take off her clothes for everyone to see when she was only seven or eight years old.
Fortunately, she fought hard and was as fierce as a young wolf.
Although they never really took off her clothes, it was common for her to be beaten, eat dirt, and have stones thrown at her.
Whenever she escorted the bruised meat bun to her sister's ward, she would pause at the door of the room, arrange her clothes and long hair, wipe away the blood on her face, and cover her palm prints.
Then, with a nonchalant smile, he gave the meat buns to his sister Xiaoyu.
Xia Yu sometimes gets confused, staring at her sister’s face or somewhere on her body: “Sister, did you get into a fight with someone?”
"No," Xia Ling always said, "I'm so powerful, who dares to bully me?...You mean the scratch on my wrist? It's okay, I accidentally fell when I was going down the steps."
Then Xia Yu would nod: "Yes, sister is so awesome." Then she smiled happily, "I like eating meat buns the most. Sister, can you bring me meat buns every day?"
Looking at her sister who had been in bed for a long time and was rarely happy, the little Xia Ling also nodded heavily.
Until later, the sisters were adopted by Pei Ziheng, and Xia Ling had a falling out with that man and was imprisoned.
Xia Yu came to see her, her eyes flashing with malice and pleasure: "Sister, do you know..."
In the small garden of the orphanage.
Porch.
Xia Ling raised her head from Li Lei's arms and pointed at the building not far away: "Li Lei, did you see it? That building... is the window..."
Li Lei looked towards where she was pointing. It was an old small building with a closed window. It was so dark that he couldn't tell what was inside.
"That room is Xia Yu's ward." Xia Ling said, "She could lie by the window and see those big kids beating me. In fact, she could see it every day. This was her favorite entertainment every morning. Without it, "One." Recalling what her sister said to her with evil eyes flashing during the year she was imprisoned, she is still heartbroken, "Xia Yu doesn't like eating meat buns at all. She begged me to get them every morning because... she…"
Her voice was choked up and she couldn't continue speaking.
Li Lei had already understood what she didn't say. Xiao Ling worked so hard to grab the buns for her sister, but what the vicious sister wanted to see in her heart was to see her get beaten!
How terrible.
Li Lei's expression was tense, he only regretted that he didn't know Xiao Ling at that time and couldn't protect her from the wind and rain. "Just wait," he said to Xia Ling, "I will pay back those debts from those who have harmed you one by one."
Xia Ling shook her head and held his hand, "You are by my side, that's enough." She once doubted life, wondering if treating others with all her heart and soul would only result in scars in the end? Xia Yu is, so is Pei Ziheng...
She didn't understand what she had done wrong.
Just when she was desperate for life, fortunately, she met Li Lei.
He is her salvation.
“It’s good that you’re by my side.” she repeated in a murmur.
"I will always be here." Li Lei's voice was gentle and reassuring. He held her hand tightly, really wanting to hold it like this and never let go for the rest of his life.
The sun is shining brightly in the orphanage, and the air is filled with the chirping of cicadas and the fragrance of flowers in midsummer.
The two of them walked slowly along the corridor and came to the dormitory where she had lived when she was a child. Every brick and tile inside is still the same. There is a water cup on the table with the old number "17" on it. That is her cup. It can be seen that this place is cleaned every day and is spotless.
There are two more things -
A booklet recording her life, which contains a large number of her deeds and photos during her time in the orphanage.
A very large glass jar with many colorful paper cranes in it.
Li Lei took out the brochure, flipped it through, and said, "It says here that when many fans come over, they will throw a paper crane into the jar, with their blessings and wishes written on the paper crane."
Hearing what he said, Xia Ling took out a blue paper crane and carefully opened it to look at it. Sure enough, there was a line of words written in black pen on the inside of the paper: Xiao Ling in heaven, want happiness.
She opened a few more, some were for blessings, and some were folded by children in the same hospital, asking her spirit in heaven to protect them from being adopted by good families. She looked at the handwriting full of longing and smiled bitterly. Even she herself did not fall into a good family - the Pei family seemed to be beautiful, but only she knew the turbulence and suffering and humiliation in the middle.
Li Lei saw her looking at those prayers for a long time, but he might have misunderstood them.
“When we get married in the future, let’s adopt some children.” He said softly. Xiao Ling seems to like children very much. Is it painful for her to be unable to have children?
She was slightly startled before saying, "Okay." Li Lei... likes children very much, right? This was not the first time adoption had been mentioned to her. Xia Ling felt a dull pain in her heart. She could no longer have children, but she still stayed with him selfishly. After all, she owed him.
Thinking about this, I felt a little heavy and put down the paper cranes.
Li Lei carefully folded the paper cranes back for her and put them back into the glass jar. The two stayed in the room for a while, then left and continued walking forward.
This orphanage is very old. After many renovations, it looks mottled with vicissitudes of life, but it has a sense of beauty that remains intact. Because of the celebrity sisters Xia Ling and Xia Yu, a sightseeing route has been opened in the courtyard. From time to time, you will see signs with labels such as "Xia Ling's duty station", "Xia Ling practices singing" place”…and so on.
They walked to a small garden.
Hide under a clump of iris, a light-colored signboard is engraved in beautiful gilded fonts - "The place where Xia Ling and Pei Ziheng first met." ]
She stopped, feeling a little mixed for a moment.
Li Lei also stood still, feeling as if a thorn had suddenly been pierced in his heart. He lowered his eyes slightly to prevent her from seeing the look in his eyes. After a long while, he asked in a low voice: "Is this where it was at the beginning?"
(End of this chapter)