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Yu Zhou is very good at making up stories.

When she can't sleep for a long time, Yu Zhou always coaxes her to sleep, telling strange stories one after another, Tang Seng rides three horses, Snow White turns into a dwarf, although it is weird, Yu Zhou can always tell Find out why.

Later, the homeless man who lived in the basement gave the brothers and sister a nearly new fairy tale book, which he picked up when cleaning up old books in the library, and specially brought it back for Jiujiu.Jiujiu likes it very much. The cover is a beautiful mermaid sitting on a stone. There is a story in the book called "Bronze Pig".

A ragged waif meets a brass pig in Florence.The bronze pig is an ancient sculpture. The homeless wanderer fell asleep on the back of the copper pig. In the middle of the night, the copper pig suddenly moved.It said to the child: "Sit tight, I'm going to run!"Children ride on its back through the streets of Florence until they enter the art gallery.The art gallery is full of sculptures and paintings, and the waifs are dazzled and shocked by these frozen but lifelike human creations.

The child thanked the copper pig, and the copper pig said, I can only run when an innocent child sits on my back, and I thank you too.

When Yu Zhou told this story to Jiu Jiu, he was always scared.He was afraid that this was just a sweet dream of a waif, just like the little match girl, the hard-hearted God only allowed poor children to have a dream of fullness and happiness before they died.

Halfway through the story, he had already figured out how to change the tragedy into a comedy.Turning to the last page, he stopped.Leaning against him for a long time, holding his head up and waiting for the next sentence, he couldn't help asking for a while, "He died the next day, didn't he?"

"...No." Yu Zhou stroked Jiujiu's soft hair. The development of this story was beyond his expectation. "He suffered a lot and later became a famous painter."

I love this story for a long time.She always takes the slide in the park, and when she slides down, she opens her arms and shouts at Yu Zhou: "Brother! Bronze pig!"

Yu Zhou followed her from below: "Bronze pig!"

It's like a code word.Both brothers and sisters thought that everything in the story would come true: Someone suffered a lot, but he always got his wish in the end.

Who doesn't like a story with a happy ending.The same goes for Yu Zhou.From the time when Ji Chunyue and Wen Feng fell into the "trap", Yu Zhou has survived alone for more than 20 years.The couple in front of them don't know what will happen in the past 20 years, this blank part is suitable for Yu Zhou to weave their dreams.

According to Yu Zhou, Attorney Huang has found his grandma.He was picked up by a well-meaning couple from out of town. A few years later, he returned to the city full of neem trees. The couple took him to the police station, where blood was drawn, tested, compared, and finally reunited with his relatives.The old man is healthy and healthy, and the young lawyer is also healthy and healthy. Their only regret is that they lost Ji Chunyue and Wen Feng, but they also believe that one day, those who disappeared in the "trap" will come back.

Ji Chunyue stopped crying, she grabbed Yu Zhou and repeatedly asked about the young man's condition.

Wen Feng said, "How do you know so much?"

"Photo." Yu Zhou said, "Attorney Huang has always kept a photo in his wallet, which is the one next to the TV cabinet at your home."

"It's true, it's true!" Ji Chunyue was ecstatic, holding onto Wen Feng's hand, "Wen Feng, he's still alive! He's waiting for us to go back!"

Wen Feng actually didn't quite believe it.But as long as he could calm his wife down and stop giving up on herself, he didn't continue to ask, and he didn't plan to get into it.Looking at Yu Zhou, apart from doubts that have not been completely eliminated, there is also a trace of gratitude.

Only then did Yu Zhou dare to meet Wen Feng's gaze.He is a kind outsider, and he deserves Wen Feng's gratitude, not resentment.

Thanks.Wen Feng hugged Ji Chunyue who was crying, and said silently to Yu Zhou.

The island was too small, Yu Zhou walked around, and finally came to the corner farthest from Ji Chunyue and Wen Feng.Jiang Xiao was comforting Ji Chunyue and Wen Feng, Yu Zhou felt that there was no place for him there.

Fan Xing followed behind him, wherever he went, Fan Xing followed him.

The dull pain had disappeared, and Yu Zhou simply sat on the shore.What had just happened made him dazed, but the constant discomfort from the dull pain continued.He looked at the blue-black ocean and covered his eyes.He suddenly missed him for a long time, she was the only relative in the world, only she would never despise himself - only her, Yu Zhou could always face it calmly.Tears flowed into his mouth, Yu Zhou remembered that he was crying while eating noodles after learning about Xie Bai's deceit, frightened and worried for a long time, and wiped his tears with his feet.

A four-year-old child still cannot understand the complexity of the world.But she understood Yu Zhou's sadness.

Yu Zhou cried for a while, when he heard rustling sounds behind him.The silver tail covered with cold scales circled Yu Zhou, and Fan Xing immediately sat behind him, wrapping his four arms around him.

This is very strange.Yu Zhou stopped crying, and wiped away his tears: "...your clothes are torn again."

Fan Xing: "Are you still in the mood to joke?"

Yu Zhou sniffled: "What can I do if I'm not joking?"

Fan Xing said that this is not a complete form, but now he is a huge monster, completely different from normal humans.Yu Zhou was not afraid before, and he is even less afraid now.He caressed Fan Xing's thick arm. The arm did not turn into a vine, it was in the shape of a human muscle.Compared with Fan Xing's, a human's hand is as small as a baby's.

He slowly relaxed himself and leaned against Fan Xing's arms.The temperature of Fan Xing's left chest was still very high, and Yu Zhou heard the sound of his heart beating.

Fan Xing lowered his head, looking at Yu Zhou in his arms.He suddenly wondered if Yu Zhou felt the same way when he hugged him for a long time.In the face of a life that is thousands of times weaker than oneself, it is an instinct to protect it.He lowered his head slightly, his breath brushing Yu Zhou's hair.Yu Zhou looked up at Fan Xing, his eyes were like those of a child.

Fan Xing suddenly understood at this moment that the human instinct he had longed for for a long time, the quality that proved that he could break away from the identity of a "monster" and become a "human", was obtained from Yu Zhou.

There is only one thought in his mind: do his best to protect the person in his arms.

"She hugged me." Yu Zhou said softly, "My mother, she hugged me."

Fan Xing didn't intend to tell Yu Zhou, he once told Ji Chunyue that if he saw Yu Zhou, please give Ji Chunyue a hug. "She has always liked you very much." Fan Xing said.

"...Wen Feng doesn't like me." Yu Zhou's eyes were red, he straightened up suddenly, and took out tools like wire and wrenches from his backpack.They were all the things he picked up in Fu Yuncong's city, all of his abilities.He threw all the tools into the sea.

Fan Xing caressed his back lightly, Yu Zhou kept panting, he tried not to cry, and he didn't let Fan Xing see his tears.

"You may have known it a long time ago. It's not a secret." Yu Zhou said suddenly, "Jiu Jiu is the child I picked up."

Yu Zhou, 19, gave up on applying for an official ID card and ran out of the police station.The film police knew that he had no money, so they gave him 30 yuan to eat.Yu Zhou only bought steamed stuffed buns and slept under the bridge all night.

The next day, he decided to return to his old business, bought a subway ticket for three yuan, and squeezed onto the subway during rush hour.

The first person he stole that day was Xie Bai.

Xie Bai clamped Yu Zhou's hand, took him to the terminal, and gave him a scolding.Yu Zhou failed to escape and was caught by Xie Bai, but instead of taking him to the police station, Xie Bai invited him to a meal instead.

The food is hot pot, and you can order vegetables and meat.Yu Zhou couldn't let go at first, but later he convinced himself: He must be trying to draw something from me, but what can I draw for him?He smashed the cans, ate meat and drank beer, and asked Xie Bai what his intentions were with a drunken face.

Xie Baizai looked at him carefully, and said with a smile: I will make friends with you.

Yu Zhou had never made such a high-level friend.Xie Bai was handsome and gentle, Yu Zhou's heart fluttered like a kitten in spring when he finished eating.

He hopped lightly home.Of course he has a home, although it is just a dilapidated small shed in the waste collection station, but Yu Zhou carefully repairs it every rainy season.Before the junkyard was bulldozed, he had a secure home.

A few scavengers surrounded the gate of the waste station, and there was an equally black thing beside the dirty black wall.

Yu Zhou leaned over to look, just in time to see someone lift the small black quilt, and snorted: "It's a girl."

The child under the quilt just cried out at this time, and the voice was unusually loud.

Everyone was startled: "So energetic!"

But even the spirit, no one wants it.

It was late at night, and people dispersed one after another.Yu Zhou reeked of alcohol and stood there in a daze.The child's face turned blue from crying, and he was in a hurry, not knowing how to calm her down.Brother Yao, who was familiar with Yu Zhou at the buying station, came back on a tricycle and saw Yu Zhou walking home with the child in his arms.

"What are you going to do?" Brother Yao asked.

"I support her." Yu Zhou said, "I have money." He took out the 16 yuan and [-] cents that he had with him.

Brother Yao: "Zhouwa, you're drunk and chattering."

Yu Zhou just repeated: "I want to raise her."

Brother Yao laughed at him loudly, but Yu Zhou ignored him.He took the child away, dug out his childhood clothes, and put them loosely on the child.

The people in the purchasing station knew that he had done a stupid thing, and they all came to make fun of him.Halfway through laughing, each of them pointed out: buying milk powder, buying diapers, crying like this is hungry, crying like that is uncomfortable... The woman taught him how to hold the baby, and the man added a guardrail to Yu Zhou's small bed with nails and wood .You have to do this, you have to do that, people are talking all over the place: Do you think raising a child is easy?

Some people advised him: If you don’t sell it, forget it, someone will definitely buy it.

Yu Zhou was in a hurry and used other people's porridge to feed the little girl who was crying from hunger.

He would not sell the child, nor would he lose her anywhere else.When bending down to check the child's situation, the little girl with thin black hair grabbed Yu Zhou's fingers.The child's tender fingers are like green shoots, with almost no strength, and a pair of black eyes are rolling around. In her eyes, 19-year-old Yu Zhou is two thin shadows.

Since then, Yu Zhou has another family member, and he decided to call her: Jiu Jiu.

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The author has something to say:

The story written in this chapter is Hans Christian Andersen's "Bronze Pig", a fairy tale that I like very, very much.