Fallen grid shop

Chapter 108 Troubled Lulu

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

"I don't even have money for food, how can I afford it?"

Lulu raised her forehead: "Don't you have even a very small wish?"

Mantou blinked at Lulu, tilted his head and thought about it, then nodded.

"Then I have it."

"what?"

Lulu's eyes were shining, staring anxiously at the mantou.He suddenly gave Lulu a big smile.

"My wish has come true, that is, to stay here."

Lulu's gossip heart is completely dead.

"My damn curiosity."

She screamed secretly.

Mantou, who was humming a ditty in front of her, didn't seem to care about her behavior, and was happily washing the dishes.That satisfied smile is no different from other children who get candy.

Lulu smiled, turned and walked out.

"Luoluo, I give up."

Luoluo looked at Lulu beside her with a depressed expression, and handed her a book.

"Curiosity killed the cat?"

Looking at the title of the book, Lulu instantly lost the idea of ​​finishing the book.She threw the book away and asked Luoluo: "Luoluo, aren't you curious about what happened to him before?"

"I've read it all, and there's nothing to know."

"When I didn't ask."

She finally calmed down for a few moments.But it didn't take long for her to entangle her again.

"So Luoluo, just tell me, I want to know too."

Luoluo rummaged through the grid behind her, took out the pendant from the steamed bun, and placed it in front of Lulu.

"Go and ask him yourself tonight. I wanted to return Mantou when he came to ask me. I really can't stand your clingy little cat."

Lulu chuckled, and picked up the pendant.

In the middle of the night, Luoluo fell into a drowsy sleep, as if someone was staring at her in a trance.

She was startled, and sat up with her eyes wide open, only to realize that it was Lulu beside her, who hadn't slept all this time.

"Lulu, what are you doing, you don't sleep at night?"

"I'm waiting for Mantou to go out, but why is he sleeping so deeply today, it seems like he won't go out"

Luoluo looked at her helplessly.

"Then you go to sleep."

"No, I can't sleep if I don't know what secret past he has, and what if he suddenly wakes up and goes out!"

"It's hopeless, I really lost to you."

Luoluo rubbed her head, got up and went to the kitchen to drink water.

Maybe Mantou wants to open up, or maybe he has adapted to the life in the store.From that day on, he never went to Luoxing Lake again.

This tortured Lulu enough.By the early morning of the fourth day, she was already haggard with dark circles under her eyes.

"Luoluo, I'm dying. It's been four days and I can't take it anymore. See if I've lost weight recently."

Looking at the haggard Lulu in front of her, Luoluo didn't know what to say.

"This kid, what is he thinking in his head?"

As soon as the words fell, Mantou jumped out from behind her, blinked and asked, "Sister Lulu, did you call me just now?"

Lulu took a deep breath, she felt that sooner or later she would be scared to death by this brat.Unexpectedly, Luo Luo accepted his words, and hummed lightly.

"She has something she wants to tell you. It's been a few days. Don't look at her usually arrogant, but she is actually reserved."

"That's it." Mantou blinked his big eyes, "Sister Lulu, don't be shy, I'll tell you if you want to know anything."

Lulu looked at Luoluo who was flipping the book without lifting her head, and then looked at his steamed bun, her face twitched.

"I"

"Sister Lulu, tell me."

Mantou was already sitting next to the desk, and put a piece of fruit candy into his mouth.

"I"

"Speak quickly."

"I, I picked up something a few days ago, I don't know if it's yours."

Lulu said this sentence faster and faster, and her voice became smaller and smaller.

She slowly took out the pendant from her pocket, not daring to look into Mantou's eyes, and gently placed it in front of Mantou.

The whole house fell silent.

Mantou looked at the pendant in front of him, and didn't speak for a long time.

There was the sound of tears dripping on the table.

With a slight "thank you", it exploded in the whole room.

Lulu raised her hand a few times to touch his little head, but finally took it back.

That was the quietest day since Mantou came to this store, and it was also the most deserted day in this store in the past few days.

The stars at night lit up again, and Mantou sat by the Luoxing Lake after a long absence, holding the pendant in his hand, staring blankly at the faint light it emitted.

Lulu came over from behind Mantou and sat beside him quietly without looking at him.

"Little devil, I'm sorry, I lied to you. I didn't pick up that pendant but"

Before Lulu finished speaking, Mantou interrupted him. He showed a big smile at Lulu, and then lowered his head again.

"I know. I lost it myself. I haven't found it after searching for a long time recently, so I want to stay here until I find it. In fact, I did all the cleaning to find it. Thank you, sister Lulu, thank you You found it for me, and it means a lot to me."

"Is it what you were born wearing?"

"It was given to me by my adoptive father, and it is my baby."

Lulu glanced at the steamed bun beside her, stretched out her hand and rubbed his head, and didn't say anything more.

"My adoptive father was a thief. When I was seven years old, I met my adoptive father at the door of a steamed stuffed bun shop. He just stole a bag of steamed stuffed buns and ran out, hiding next to the trash can I was digging through."

"At that time, I had been wandering for 7 years, and I always saw such scenes. No one told me what to do and what not to do. Living was my only belief at that time."

"He made a gesture with me at the time, asking me to help him, and he would give me half of the buns. So I was shaken. Looking at the few strong men chasing in front of me, even though I was kicked by them a few times , I still helped him conceal his whereabouts."

"So he proposed that you follow him?"

"No, I asked to go home with him. I think he is very capable, so I want to follow him."

"There was also a lot of snow that day. I had no shoes, only a few rags that didn't fit from a trash can. I chased him for several blocks, and in the end, he looked at my red feet from the cold. , With a soft heart, he picked me up and took me home."

"Sounds like a nice guy, feels very gentle."

Lulu looked sideways at Mantou who had hung the pendant around her neck again and asked him.

Mantou paused, looked at the stars in the sky, and smiled.

"But that man, although capable, is still very poor. But compared to me who has no home, he has a house where he can hide his head, and he is already very rich. That was the first time I really felt Feel what is called home. I just felt that everything in that house was so beautiful and so warm.”

Mantou's smile grew stronger, but his eyes were a little moist.Lulu knew that he was sad when he thought of the past.

"The mantou, if you don't want to say it, don't say it anymore."

(End of this chapter)