Fallen grid shop

Chapter 110 The Temperature of Home
Lu Yiming didn't expect that the child was very well-behaved.

After following him home, the child just squatted quietly in the corner.Lu Yiming gave him the clothes he wore when he was a child, and started chatting with him.

"What's your name? Where is your home?"

The child looked at him and whispered, "I have no name and no home."

Lu Yiming squeezed his heart, looked at the child's cold and red feet, and handed him a pair of shoes.

"Put it on. From now on, don't go home with anyone casually, and don't run around anymore. From now on, this is your home. I'm Dad, and you'll be called Mantou from now on. You won't die of hunger if you're called Mantou."

Mantou nodded, and put the shoes on his feet awkwardly.Looking around, he felt that it was extremely warm here.

The days calmed down, as if returning to the way life should have been.Lu Yiming gradually got used to such a peaceful life.Every day when I wake up and see the steamed buns, I feel full of motivation to live.

"He can't live without me."

Lu Yiming told himself over and over again.Only in the evening, Lu Yiming would take out the pendant and stare at it for a long time, and Mantou would accompany him by his side without saying a word.

"Mantou, do you have anything you want to do?"

Mantou tilted his head and thought for a while, then laughed.

"read!"

Lu Yiming put away the pendant, turned his head to look at the longing look on Mantou's face, and said softly, "Let's go, Dad will teach you to read."

It was the first time for Lu Yiming to teach a child to read like this, but Mantou is very smart and learns very quickly.Lu Yiming watched him seriously writing, and couldn't help but pat his head.

"Mantou, can you promise Dad two things?"

"What's the matter, Dad?"

Mantou looked up at him.

"First, you are not allowed to steal things like your father. This is not a glorious thing. Once you do something bad, you will never be blessed by God."

Mantou nodded obediently, and Lu Yiming smiled in satisfaction.

"Secondly, if someone asks about Dad outside, you just say that you don't know me. But you have to deny everything that has anything to do with me."

This time, Mantou didn't nod obediently.He bowed his head in silence and said nothing.

"Mantou, why don't you talk?"

Mantou looked at Lu Yiming in front of him, his eyes were red.

"Dad, why don't you let me recognize you?"

Lu Yiming pondered for a moment, then said seriously: "Because Dad is a bad person, if you say you know Dad, Dad will be arrested, and you will be arrested too."

"But Mantou thinks Dad is the best person in the world."

Lu Yiming squatted beside Mantou, and said seriously: "Mantou, Dad is the one who did bad things. Dad hopes that you can grow up healthy and happy like other children, instead of hiding here all day like Dad. Outside There are many wonderful people and things waiting for you to meet.”

Hearing what Lu Yiming said, Mantou lowered his head and muttered softly: "But I don't want to go outside, I just want to live with my father forever."

forever.Mantou never thought of eternity before, but since he came to this dilapidated and dark house, and since he met Lu Yiming, he longed for eternity.

In Mantou's heart, as long as Lu Yiming is around, it will be forever.

"Dad, if I promise you, will you stay with me forever?"

When Lu Yiming heard Mantou's sudden innocent question, he laughed and nodded.

"Yes, as long as Mantou agrees to Dad, Dad will always be by your side and grow up with you."

Mantou really believed in such words at the time, and has always believed in it.

Until one ordinary night that couldn't be more ordinary, Lu Yiming put the pendant in his hand, went out as usual, and never came back.

"dad."

Mantou woke up from sleep several times, looking at the empty room, not knowing what to do.

Finally, on the third day after Lu Yiming disappeared, Mantou decided to go out and have a look.But unexpectedly, Mantou saw his dead body not far from the door.

It was a lying corpse with its head facing the opposite direction of the house. The corpse was still well preserved due to the cold.Looking at the familiar but cold face, Mantou fell to the ground.

Luoxue had already covered his body with a thick layer, and it looked like he had been dead for a long time.

Mantou only felt the incomparable bitterness of the tears flowing into his mouth.He gritted his teeth, tried hard to suppress his tears, and buried the corpse in front of him with fistfuls of snow with his red hands that were already frozen.

From then on, Mantou knew that the home he managed to have had disappeared again.

"dad."

Mantou stood up, called Lu Yiming at last, and stumbled towards the distance.

He didn't know where to go or what to do.The winter in Aurora City is always so long, he took out the pendant and looked at it, not knowing the future direction.

"Mantou, there are many wonderful people and things waiting for you to meet in the future."

Mantou smiled wryly when he remembered what Lu Yiming had said before.

"The future? Where is it? Am I destined to be the one without a home?"

There were small snowflakes in the sky again, and Mantou looked up, only to feel that the snowflakes fell on his face, which was bone-piercing and icy cold.

"Go further afield. Meet that wonderful person."

Mantou wiped away her tears and hung the pendant around her neck.The road ahead was still a vast expanse of whiteness, but Mantou kept walking.

By the Luoxing Lake, Lulu looked at the steamed bun beside her, and stretched out her cat's paw.

"Sister Lulu, what are you doing?"

"Five high fives, kid, don't worry, I, Detective Lulu, will help you find the truth of the matter! Then I'll find you a home."

Mantou looked at Lulu's smile, stretched out his little hand, and patted on it.

"Help me find his murderer, nothing else is needed. I want to leave this city, go outside and find a way to live alone. I want to see the wonderful people and things my father said .”

Lulu nodded, suddenly took out two fishhooks, and handed him one.

"How about fishing with me before you go? Let's compete, and tomorrow we'll have a whole fish feast!"

"Okay~"

Mantou smiled innocently, took the fishing rod, and looked at Lulu: "But it's such a dark day, I can't see clearly at all."

"It's okay, I have a solution."

Lulu smiled at him mysteriously, turned around and walked into the store.

In the checkered shop, Luo Luozheng was flipping through the handwriting of the previous keepsake, when suddenly Lulu rushed in from the door and hugged her.

"Luoluo~"

Feeling something was wrong, Luoluo pushed her head away.

"What are you asking me to do again?"

"So Luoluo, we want to go fishing by Luoxing Lake."

Lulu blinked aggrievedly.

"Now?"

"Yeah, so."

Luoluo stood up abruptly, picked up the notes and walked towards the study.

"No way, Ye Mingzhu is not a toy!"

"But Mantou is leaving tomorrow, so Luoluo, you just meet our request~"

Luoluo turned her back to Lulu, turned around, and put a bunch of big beads into Lulu's arms with a depressed face.

"Take it, take it, I can't stand you."

(End of this chapter)