Chapter 606 The Blessing of the Thousand Paper Cranes

Recalling that past event, her voice gradually deepened.

The fists, kicks and bad words from that time seem to have returned. They laughed at her as a pig, shameless, unruly and competing with older children for meat buns, called her trash, and told her not to die...

Every word touches the heart.

Suddenly, she felt a slight warmth on her shoulders, and a man hugged 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.

Back then, it was here, on this road, that they forced her to kneel down and eat the dirt on the ground. Children were more cruel than adults. They pulled her hair, slapped her face, and what was even more extreme, a boy of fifteen or sixteen years old, asked her to strip naked 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, being beaten, eating dirt, and having stones thrown at her were commonplace.

Whenever she escorted the meat buns to her younger sister's ward with scars, she would pause at the door to arrange her clothes and long hair, and wipe off the blood on her face indiscriminately to cover the palm marks.

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 down the steps."

Then Xia Yu would nod: "That's right, my sister is so good." She smiled happily, "I like meat buns the most, sister, can you bring me meat buns every day?"

Looking at her sister who had been bedridden for a long time and was rarely happy, the little Xia Ling also nodded heavily.

It was not until later that the two 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.

Corridor.

Xia Ling raised her head from Li Lei's embrace, and pointed to the building not far away: "Li Lei, have you seen that building...is that 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 can lie down by the window and see the group of older children beating me. In fact, she can see it every day. This is her favorite entertainment every morning. One." Recalling what her younger sister said to her with vicious eyes flashing in the year of imprisonment, she is still heartbroken, "Xia Yu doesn't like meat buns at all, she begged me to get buns every morning because... …she……"

Her voice was choked and she couldn't go on.

However, Li Lei already understood what she didn't say, that Xiao Ling worked so hard to grab the buns for her younger sister, and that vicious younger sister was looking forward to seeing her get beaten!

How terrible.

Li Lei's expression tightened, 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, "It's enough for you to be by my side."

She once doubted life and wondered 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 to have you 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 chronicling 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 inside.

Li Lei took out the pamphlet and flipped through it, saying, "It says that many fans will throw a paper crane into the jar when they come over, and their blessings and wishes are written on the paper crane."

When Xia Ling heard what he said, she 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 with blessings, and a few 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 wryly. Even she herself did not fall into any good family—the Pei family seemed to be beautiful, but only she knew about the turbulent waves and how much suffering and humiliation.

Li Lei saw her looking at those prayers for a long time, but he might have made a mistake.

"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 like 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 up in the courtyard, and signs will be seen from time to time, with signs such as "Xia Ling is on duty", "Xia Ling practices singing." place”…and so on.

They walked to a small garden.

Under a clump of iris, there is a light-colored signboard, 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?"