Chapter 145: Chapter 145

She waited for a good while and observed the girl.

The girl’s clothes were patched over patched, her shoes were worn out, her toes sticking out, all covered in wounds.

She had nothing on her, her face was dirty. She fed her some water and grape juice, and now her eyes were rolling around, showing signs of waking up.

"Little girl, wake up!" Bai Ruxue gently pushed along her arm.

A call saw the frail little girl wake up, her eyes opened, first confusedly looking around, then reacting, looking towards Bai Ruxue.

"Little girl, how did you faint here all by yourself? Where’s your family?" Bai Ruxue was curious and couldn’t help asking more.

"I... my mom and dad are both dead. I’m here to seek refuge with my grandparents... Mom told me that they are in Pingyang Town, but I have searched for two days and couldn’t find them! I followed the address, but the people there said they didn’t know my mom..." The little girl saw it was just a gentle and pretty big sister, so she spoke without much defense.

But her voice was very small and weak, lacking strength.

Bai Ruxue watched the weak and almost fainting girl and took out a bun from her space, and also took out a chicken leg and handed it to her.

"Eat first, then speak slowly! No hurry!" Bai Ruxue said, patting the girl’s back.

The girl looked at the big white bun, her eyes widened, and upon seeing the fragrant chicken leg, she felt revived. The aroma hit her nose, making her feel energized.

She didn’t care and reached out, took the bun and chicken leg, and started eating rapidly.

As the food entered her mouth, the sweet taste made her whole body shiver comfortably.

She’s from Chenxi County. After her parents passed away, everything at home was taken by her uncle, but he didn’t take her away!

The eight-year-old girl was left alone, recalling her mom’s words, saying her grandma lived in Pingyang Town. So the little girl set out for Pingyang Town.

When she came, she wasn’t tall enough, so the bus conductor didn’t charge her. She managed to ride over.

She searched in Pingyang Town, following the address her mom mentioned, looking for many days. During those days, she endured hunger and cold weather, as fickle as a stepmother’s face, sometimes cold, sometimes warm.

Every day she lived by begging, wandering in Pingyang Town for half a month, finally finding her grandmother’s house, but the people there unanimously said they didn’t know her mom.

The little girl cried and made a scene, but the family ended up kicking her out.

And so today, the little girl had nowhere to go. As she walked, she reached here and couldn’t walk anymore and fainted.

"Eat slowly! No one’s going to take it from you!" Bai Ruxue watched her with heartache for a while and took out the grape juice she didn’t finish earlier from the bamboo basket and handed it to her, "Drink some water while eating! Don’t choke!"

"Thank you, sister!" The little girl looked at Bai Ruxue with tears in her eyes.

Bai Ruxue looked at the little girl’s dirty hands and face, but couldn’t help it. She had to let her eat her fill first.

Not until the big bun and chicken leg were eaten did the little girl pat her belly and burp satisfied, though she drank all the grape juice afterward.

Bai Ruxue knew this little girl would have diarrhea later, but compared to an empty stomach, she thought not being hungry was better.

"Alright! Finished eating and drinking, tell me, what are you planning to do?" Bai Ruxue said.

"I still want to find that family; that old lady is clearly my grandma, she looks a lot like my mom, but just won’t admit it. They don’t want to take me in, that’s why they won’t admit it! I still have to try to find them, I have no other relatives!" The eight-year-old child, with no relatives and being rejected by her grandmother’s family, had such a firm will, which was rare.

"You said yourself, it’s because they don’t want to take you in, that’s why they won’t admit it. What’s the use of going again?" Bai Ruxue asked.

"But they are mom’s relatives, which makes them my relatives too. I only have them now; they have the responsibility to adopt me!" The little girl lifted her head, her thinking clear.

"Haven’t you ever gone with your mom to your grandma’s house?" Bai Ruxue was puzzled; a daughter who married and had a child should have visited her parental home, right?

"My mom eloped with my dad, and since getting married until now, she has never been back to grandma’s house!" The little girl said, "My mom said she truly loved my dad, but my grandparents wanted to marry her off to someone else, so they eloped!" Get full chapters from novel⚑fire.net

Bai Ruxue understood, no wonder the girl’s grandma didn’t accept her, so that’s how it was.

"Then it’s no use going; if they insist on not taking you in, what will you do? How about coming home with me first, then we’ll plan from there!" Bai Ruxue looked at the little girl and couldn’t leave her alone in this wasteland. Anyway, she could afford to feed one more little girl, so it would be an act of kindness.

"Fairy Sister! Are you going to take me in? Really? Can you decide that? I... I don’t eat much, that was only because you gave it all to me, and my hands are dirty, so no one else would eat what was left over... Also, I’m very capable of doing chores! Really!" The little girl spoke incessantly with excitement.

"Alright, alright! Let’s get up and go home!" Bai Ruxue found it amusing, this little girl was quite funny! She seemed smart and should get along well with Xiao Xia.

"Okay! Going home! Going home!" Having eaten, the little girl gained strength and jumped up happily.

But when Bai Ruxue got on the bicycle, she didn’t see the little girl getting on.

Looking back, the little girl was readying her running stance, staring hard at Bai Ruxue.

"Get on!" Bai Ruxue looked at her with amusement and said.

"Fairy Sister, I’ll just run alongside your bike, I don’t need to ride. I’m really fast!" But the little girl felt a bit guilty saying this.

Her feet were actually sore, hardly able to run much.

Her soles were probably blistered, but to not make the Fairy Sister upset, she couldn’t sit on the bike; she couldn’t tire the sister out.

Otherwise, what if she didn’t take her in? She’d have to continue begging, living cold and hungry.

"Get on quickly! I don’t like disobedient kids!" Bai Ruxue pretended to be angry.

"Got it, Fairy Sister, don’t be mad, I’ll get on right away!" The little girl hurried forward and obediently sat down.

"Fairy Sister, I’m well-behaved, and I’m light, right? If you get tired, I can get down for a bit!" The little girl was really talkative, chattering away.

Bai Ruxue pedaled the bicycle and casually asked.

"Sister, my name is Dong Sihan; I’m from Chenxi County, I’m eight years old, and was in the second grade of elementary school in Chenxi County before...but after my parents passed, I started a wandering life..." The little girl’s voice gradually turned somber, "My uncle took everything my parents left me but left me alone, that’s why I came looking for my grandparents..."

All the way, Bai Ruxue listened to the little girl’s story, and inwardly criticized, the grandparents wanted to sell her mom for a high price, yet she eloped with someone, hadn’t contacted for ten years, and at death made her daughter seek refuge; what were they thinking, was she so confident her parents would accept her as if she were their daughter?