thirty

Surrounded by four adult men, the half-grown child was instinctively afraid, hugged his younger brother tightly in his arms, bit his lips and hesitated for a long time, looked at Shen Xian, "No."

Shi Lei frowned, "Then what's your relationship with her?"

"I...I don't know," the child said in a low voice, trembling slightly, "They will take us out in turn to ask for money."

"Okay, there's nothing more to ask." Shen Xian looked at the two policemen, "Please send them to the hospital, we suspect that these two children have been abused..."

Shi Lei interrupted him suddenly, "Son, why is your brother sleeping all the time?"

Everyone's eyes fell on the younger child. The sound near the commercial street was chaotic, and they went through such a complicated toss. The poor child's sleep quality must be too good.

——Shen Xian, who was suffering from neurasthenia, was very envious.

"Not good!" A policeman suddenly shouted, "Isn't it because he was given medicine? Hey, kid, did your brother take something before going to bed? Or was he injected with some kind of medicine?"

The older child looked down at his younger brother, and stared at him blankly, "He kept crying, and they gave him a sugar pill, and then my younger brother fell asleep."

"Damn it!" the police cursed, and said to the other person, "I have to send them to check immediately, those human traffickers are scum with no conscience!"

The police car rushed the two children to a nearby hospital. After a detailed examination, Shen Xian received the medical report with a gloomy expression: long-term abuse, malnutrition, and the youngest child lacked a cornea.

"It was removed?" Shi Lei asked the doctor in a low voice, "Isn't it born with a disability? Isn't it not allowed to remove a living body? What's going on?"

The doctor was a little sad when he saw such a report, and sighed, "The domestic cornea market is in great demand. Many patients can't wait for donated corneas from formal channels until they die, so it also stimulates the black market business. I heard that a pair of eyes Corneas can be bought on the black market for 40 yuan, and they don’t need to be matched, so there will be traffickers abducting children to sell corneas, and such cases have been found before.”

"Damn, what a beast!" Shen Xian threw the medical examination report heavily on the table, turned around and walked outside, "I'll go and see those two unlucky children."

There are obviously two beds in the tidy ward, but the two children are huddled on one bed. The younger child has woken up and is playing on his elder brother's lap. The child is about three or four years old and speaks like a baby. Yes, I washed it and changed into a small hospital gown, limp like a radish head.

Shen Xian walked over, sat on the edge of the bed, pinched his face with each hand, and asked viciously, "Little things, are you hungry?"

"Woo..." The child was suddenly pinched miserably, and sobbing, he slipped into his brother's arms.

"Don't touch me!" The elder brother was very tough, pushing away Shen Xian's hand and hugging the younger brother tightly.

"Tsk," Shen Xian was disgusted by the children, and his heart was very hurt. He looked at them condescendingly, "Every day, how many people line up to be pinched in the face by this son, do you know?"

The elder brother glared at him uncooperatively, "No one likes being pinched in the face!"

"Well, you can still have it," Shi Lei smiled and stood beside Shen Xian, "For example, me, God knows how long it has been since he looked at me with such love."

Shen Xian laughed loudly, stretched out his hand, "Come on, baby, give me a pinch."

Shi Lei leaned over his face with a smile, Shen Xian twisted it hard, and pushed his head away in disgust, "Sure enough, the feel is far worse."

"Don't be so fond of the new and dislike the old!" Shi Lei moaned, rubbing his face.

The two children sat on the bed and watched the two adults next to them speak more childish words than children, and were deeply speechless.

Shi Lei sat on the other side of the bed, took out two boxes of milk from behind, and put them in front of the two children with a flattering smile, "Uncle brought something delicious."

The elder brother looked at his hand longingly, licked his lips, swallowed hard, and turned his head suddenly, "I won't be bought by you!"

Shi Lei tempted to make a big mistake, inserted the milk tube in frustration, and passed it to the two children, "It's not a bribe, okay, don't be afraid, drink it quickly, it has just been heated, don't get cold."

The child got out of his brother's arms, and turned to look in Shi Lei's direction blankly, "Is it good?"

His left eye is still wrapped with gauze. When the cornea was removed, the vitreous body of the retina was damaged and flowed out, resulting in the removal of the eyeball. The eye was black. Shen Xian was worried that it would cause irritation to another child, so he asked the doctor to keep him eyes covered.

Shi Lei brought the tube to his mouth, rubbed the child's soft hair, and said with a smile, "It's delicious, very, very delicious."

The child took a sip cautiously, with surprise on his face, grabbed the box with both hands, and drank it in big gulps. Seeing how tempting he was drinking, the elder brother couldn't help becoming greedy, and looked at the other box of milk in Shi Lei's hand.

Shen Xian snatched the milk away, and snorted, "Who just said that you won't be bribed?"

The duck that reached its mouth flew away, and my brother choked. He greedily stared at the milk in his hand for ten seconds, then turned his head vigorously, "Hmph!"

Shen Xian's evil taste of bullying the weak was aroused, he shook the box in his hand, and with the other hand he raised the child's thin pointed chin, and smiled evilly, "Smile for uncle, uncle buys you milk."

The elder brother immediately put on a more serious face.

"Okay, stop bullying the kids," Shi Lei smiled and patted Shen Xian on the shoulder.

So both children got milk, the older child was arrogant and awkward, which made Shen Xian extremely unfulfilling, so he went to rub the other one, smiling and kneading the child's small earlobe, and Shen Xian took a pair of The standard strange expression on the face.

"Hey, look at Shitou, this child still has two moles on his earlobe," Shen Xian said as if he had discovered a new world.

Shi Lei looked over with a smile, a light flashed in his mind, he jumped up suddenly, "Ah!"

"Ah?" Shen Xian looked idiotic, "Are you suffering from epilepsy?"

"No, no," Shi Lei's smile disappeared, he looked at the child in disbelief, and murmured, "Four years old, abducted, with two moles on his ears... Are you Tongtong?"

The child happily drank the milk without any reaction.

The elder brother stared at him vigilantly, and held his younger brother tightly in his arms.

"Do you suspect that he is Tongtong?" Shen Xian frowned, "How could it be such a coincidence?"

Shi Lei thought for a while, guessing that the child is too young, and basically has no memory of the past, so he asked the elder brother, "Are you... biological brothers?"

The elder brother hesitated for a long time, then whispered, "No, he arrived earlier than me."

Shi Lei and Shen Xian looked at each other, it was already late at night, Shi Lei coaxed the children to lie down to sleep, turned off the lights, and walked out of the ward with Shen Xian.

Sitting on the bench in the corridor, Shen Xian asked, "How sure are you?"

Shi Lei shook his head, Tong Tong was already in college when he was born, and he hadn't had much contact with him. He only remembered that Li Hong said that he had two small moles on his earlobes, such marks are relatively rare.

"Let's do a paternity test," Shen Xian said indifferently, "Let's find the child for your teacher, and you've got nothing on your mind."

"En," Shi Lei nodded, took him into his arms, and the two walked out of the hospital side by side.

Early the next morning, she went to the identification center for a DNA test. Li Hong was very excited when she saw the child, and tears kept streaming down her cheeks.

Shi Lei's heart was pierced, probably, no matter whether it succeeds or not, this is Li Hong's last hope.

Before the appraisal result came out, Shi Lei took the child to Li Hong's ward, sat on the bedside with him in his arms, pointed at the person on the bed, and said with a smile, "Tongtong, call me mom."

The child looked at him blankly, "Mom?"

"Yes, she is your mother," Shi Lei induced him with a smile, "You were born from her belly, hurry up, call, don't be afraid."

Li Hong had been sick on the bed for a long time, her complexion was very bad, she looked a little scary, the child shrank into Shi Lei's arms, and whispered, "Mom."

Li Hong choked for breath, tears fell down again immediately, he tried his best to raise his finger to the child's eyes, his expression was very anxious, Shi Lei understood, put the child's little hand into her hand, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, Tongtong has a bit of corneal inflammation, the doctor applied ointment, and it will be fine soon."

Li Hong nodded weakly, looked at the child lovingly, and refused to let go.

She has limited energy, this time she had to hold on for a long time to see Tongtong, and soon fell asleep again, Shi Lei carried the child out of the ward, Li Huang chased him out, "Brother!"

"Huh?" Shi Lei turned around, "What's the matter?"

"That..." Li Huang stood in front of him with his head bowed, and whispered, "...Thank you for arranging work for me."

Shi Lei laughed, "You're welcome, you have to work hard yourself, learn more from your seniors in the unit, and when you encounter different problems, you should consult others and don't cause trouble."

"I know, that..." Li Huang raised his head hesitantly, "...Brother, Christmas is coming soon, can I spend Christmas Eve with you?"

Shi Lei remained silent for a few seconds, then smiled apologetically, "This won't work, Ah Huang, brother has a lover, we want to live with him."

Li Huang suddenly fell down, "...Oh."

Seeing his disappointed eyes, Shi Lei sighed, and said calmly, "Ah Huang, you are still young and don't understand many things, so you will mistake dependence for love. When you grow up, you will meet someone who truly loves you." Only then will you know what love is, understand?"

Li Huang didn't expect Shi Lei to say that, and immediately blushed, and murmured anxiously, "You already know?"

"I don't know anything," Shi Lei smiled, "Do you understand what I mean?"

Li Huang's eye circles turned red. Although the two of them didn't point out clearly, they both conveyed their intentions. He was rejected before confessing. The bitter taste in it made his whole heart bitter, so he clenched his teeth tightly. lower lip, and nodded with difficulty, "...um."