Sorry, I'm dirty!

There are no secrets in this small town.

When she was young, Ye Li didn't understand why she couldn't see her father and why she never came home?

Mom told her, be good, and Dad will come back.

Ye Li, who had just caught a grasshopper, believed it was true, quickly washed off the mud on her body, and quietly asked her mother to braid her horns.No more fuss, no more fussing, took my sister's hand and said in a childlike voice: "Sister, let's be good, and Dad will show up!"

Ye Ling and Ye Li are twins. Ye Ling came out early, so she is naturally the older sister.However, she was several months behind Ye Li in learning to walk and talk, and she didn't have her aura in her body.Ye Li went out to ride the rocking car with her brother next door. Ye Ling was still drooling with her fingers in her mouth and walking unsteadily. Sometimes her mother shook her head, blaming herself for choosing the wrong name.

But Ye Ling is very obedient, especially to his sister.

Ye Ling was chewing on the molar stick in her mouth, and her little hands became sticky with saliva. Instead, she held Ye Li's hand and nodded solemnly: "Well, sit here, sit here, sit here, don't make noise. .”

The two little children just sat obediently in the big house, neither watching cartoons nor arguing for their mother to hug them.

But dad still didn't come back.

When the mother and the nanny took the small bowls, they said apologetically, "Dad is busy with work, shall we eat first?" Ye Li finally couldn't help crying "Wow!", very, very sad.Ye Ling didn't understand why her younger sister was crying. She comforted her while eating the meal fed by the nanny and auntie: "My younger sister doesn't cry, my older sister blows."

Ye Li was still crying, she thought, her mother lied to her.

When they reached the age when they could hold hands and go out to buy popsicles, their mother took them to the playground to play.When they were tired from playing, Ye Li volunteered to buy water for them.

There was a car parked not far from the canteen in the playground, and Ye Li knew it was her father's car.She danced happily, and wanted to go up and rub her father's shoulder to tell him that she had learned a song, and the teacher in the early education class rapped very well.

Her short legs ran forward recklessly. She was afraid that if she ran too slowly, the car would drive away, and her father would disappear again.

Before she had run far, she saw a beautiful elder sister coming down from the car. Her father held her waist and smiled softly at her.Ye Li stopped slowly, watching the scene with wide eyes.

"Father..." Ye Li was a little scared, her voice was small.

The pretty sister saw her, pulled her father over, and gave her a piece of chocolate: "Hi, Ye Li, I'm your father's friend."

Ye Li backed away timidly, her father smiled helplessly, rubbed her head with a big palm, and looked at her with such loving eyes for the first time: "Ye Li, call me Auntie."

Ye Li only felt the warmth on the top of her head. The sun shone on her father's side face, and the light blurred his coldness. There was only a tall, handsome man with a good smell on his body, but such a father was so strange.

She pursed her lips tightly and frowned, like a little adult, vigilant all over.

And then what?Later, my mother and the beautiful aunt were wrestling together, saying unsavory words, my father was protecting the beautiful aunt tightly, and my sister was crying beside her...

Sweaty palms softened the chocolate in his hand, and the wrapping paper was no longer smooth and flat.Ye Li peeled it off carefully, put it to her mouth and licked it.

At this time, Ye Li knew for the first time that chocolate also has a bitter taste.

She thought, Dad lied to her.

Within a day, rumors spread throughout the small town.There is no secret that can be concealed before it is buried.

Dad still didn't come back, and mother turned from moaning to wine and mahjong. Ye Li didn't like to stay in this smoky house, and she liked to go to brother Baiqiu's house next door to play.

Brother Bai Qiu's mother would always wash fruit for her to eat, and his father would bring her toys, and would deliberately rub her face with beard dregs. They were always very happy, and little Ye Li thought they were family members, right? .Whenever she wanted to go back to her cold home, Ye Li envied Brother Bai Qiu very much, even a little bit jealous.

After a while, a little boy came to Bai Qiu's brother's house.

The little boy was very good-looking. At that time, Ye Li, who was short of words, only knew that good-looking was the most admirable adjective.Brother Bai Qiu introduced in front of them proudly: "This is my younger brother, Bai Cen."

Bai Cen was a bit shy, always hiding behind Brother Bai Qiu and pulling his clothes.The children were playing like crazy, and he just squatted quietly in the corner. When Bai Qiu remembered him, Bai Cen grinned, shook his numb legs, and took the initiative to hold Bai Qiu's hand back. Home.

Ye Li found that Bai Cen looked better when he smiled.

Bai Qiu has reached the age of school, Bai Cen seems to be very attached to him, he gets up early every day, swings his legs on the chair and shakes his head to have breakfast with his brother.When school was over in the afternoon, I regularly squatted at the intersection that my brother must pass. Seeing him from a distance, my small body stumbled and ran, throwing myself into Bai Qiu's arms.

The adults told Bai Cen many times to wait at home, but he just didn't listen.

At that age, boys are like monkeys, rolling in the mud and running wildly in the alley all day long.Therefore, a child who looks fair, clean and well-behaved may not be very popular, but Bai Cen is.

The little overlords around always bully Bai Cen when Bai Qiu is not around, firstly because of xenophobic psychology, and secondly because they challenge the authority.They would scare him with earthworms, give Bai Cen Oreos stuffed with toothpaste, and flee away without looking for him when playing hide-and-seek... Bai Cen never complained about these things to others, which made those The little overlords are even more excited.

Many times, with that lonely look in her eyes, Ye Li would feel that Bai Cen was very pitiful.

But that's not the case.

I don't know what's going on like crazy, a little neighbor boy said he knew Bai Cen's secret, and kept chasing after Bai Cen's ass and asked, "You were picked?"

Bai Cen ignored him as if he didn't hear him.Still playing by myself, watching the ants move with relish.

The little boy refused to let go, and his voice became louder: "Did you be picked up?"

No one responded.

Bai Cen's cold violence annoyed the little boy, he dragged Bai Cen up with great effort, and when he saw Bai Cen's face, he was irritated again.With a cold face, Bai Cen rolled his eyes at him: "What's none of your business?"

Now the little boy was completely angry: "No one wants you!"

"Father doesn't want you, and mom doesn't want you either! Uncle Bai picked you up because he thought you were pitiful!"

"No one will like you!"

"Look, none of my friends in the yard like to play with you!"

Bai Cen looked around, and ruthlessly threw the little boy to the ground.The little boy was stunned when he fell to the ground. He didn't expect Bai Cen, who is usually weak and easy to bully, to be so fierce today, leaving no room for him.

But he forgot that today he is alone.

The little boy's eyes were red from being beaten by Bai Cen, and he rushed forward to punch him.The moves learned from the cartoons were all fists and legs, and Bai Cen was taller than him, so how could he be beaten up so easily.

And he forgot that Bai Cen lived in the orphanage for so long, and he really saw the weak and the strong.

Ye Li secretly hid behind the pillar, watching them punch and kick each other, and then Bai Cen pushed hard, and unfortunately, a tooth that just erupted in the little boy was smashed.

Blood was pouring from his mouth. The little boy stayed where he was when he saw this scene for the first time. After Bai Cen realized it, he was crying so hard...

He fell to the ground by himself, weeping and convulsing, looking extremely pitiful.When the adults heard the sound and rushed over, the little boy with a broken tooth was at a loss, while Bai Cen was crying and coughing, out of breath, and asked the Bai family's parents with tears: "Did I really get picked?"

Now the Bai family's parents and the little boy's parents exchanged a look, knowing the cause of the matter clearly.In the eyes of the adults in the neighborhood, Bai Cen has always been a good baby, and the little boy is also famous for his skin.But after all, he broke his tooth, and the other party's parents didn't want to let it go, so they argued a few words.

The little boy faltered and said that it was Bai Cen who beat him first, but Bai Cen just cried and didn't answer.When the Bai family's parents saw this situation, they couldn't bear to scold them. They were all at this point, and it didn't matter who made the first move.

But who knows, Ye Li, who had been secretly hiding behind the pillar, stood up at this moment, insisting that the little boy scolded Bai Cen first, and he was the one who did it first.

The little boy's parents knew what kind of virtue their son was, and Ye Li, a witness, spoke up, and the scene suddenly became a little awkward.After the Bai family's parents and the little boy's parents apologized without much thought, the matter was over.

Later, Bai Qiu spoke again in front of the children, saying, "Whoever bullies my younger brother, I will definitely trouble him!"

From then on, none of the children dared to bully Bai Cen secretly.

Ye Li also squatted on the ground and asked Bai Cen, "Don't you have parents?"

Bai Cen glanced at her and fell silent.

Ye Li said to herself: "I have parents, but it's like not having parents."

Bai Cen tilted his head with a puzzled expression.

As Ye Li talked, she felt sad, tears welling in her eyes: "None of us have parents."

"so poor."

Bai Cen quietly waited for Ye Li to cry, then gently rubbed her hair: "It's okay, we can live well without parents."

"I have a brother, you have a sister, and the two of us drove away the bad guys together."

"You can still play together, how happy it is."

The precocious Bai Cen comforts the precocious Ye Li, like a big brother, with incomparable gentleness.

They're all the same people, and they're kids with a united front.

Ye Li felt that Bai Cen's palm was warmer than her father's.