Chapter 84 Can Mr. Clown also write love letters (23)
Fourteen years ago, Simon was the father of a three-year-old child.
His wife, Tawanna, has not been in good health since giving birth to the child, but she did her best to take care of the child. However, for a period of time, her illness was very serious and she needed to stay in bed often.
Mason, who is only three years old, is not very sensible either, but he can feel fear and loneliness.
Simon rarely goes home. He works outside all year round. He has no relationship with his wife and has a very indifferent relationship with his children. He was going out to discuss business that day. Looking at the children squatting in the courtyard and counting ants, he suddenly had a sudden idea and decided Take your kids for a walk.
Everyone was looking forward to the performance of the acrobatic troupe, so there were many people on the street that day.
Simon said to the child: "There are so many people here, remember, you can't leave my side, be careful not to get lost."
Mason blinked and grabbed his father's hand, "Father, hold on to me, so I won't get lost."
Simon smiled and said, "You are quite smart."
This child looked very similar to Tawanna, with red hair and green eyes, so Simon had no feelings for this child before.
But after all, this child is also his son, and he will not treat this child harshly.
But some things really seem to be destined. Perhaps in the words of the person who wrote the story, it is a sense of fate.
There was a commotion from a corner of the street.
It was a three or four-year-old girl from a poor family. She cried and said to her father: "Don't sell me! Father! Don't sell me!"
In this era, many poor people survived, and selling children was nothing new.
Simon had seen a lot of such things. He didn't intend to care about it at first, but when he heard the young girl's voice, maybe it was because he thought of his son, or maybe it was because the girl's crying look was particularly disturbing. Sympathetic, he walked over for the first time and took care of this nosy matter.
The girl’s father was an alcoholic. Seeing that Simon was dressed as an aristocrat, he should be easy to mess with, but he got drunk and pushed Simon arrogantly, “This is my family matter, I can’t even afford to eat, how can I feed her? It’s better to sell her, at least she won’t starve to death!”
Simon has a distinguished status. How has he ever been pushed around like this?
He loosened his grip on his son's hand, tightened his fist, and then hit the drunkard.
The lively street was even more crowded with people, who crowded over to see what was going on.
The drunkard couldn't beat Simon and fell to the ground.
Simon took out a few gold coins from his pocket and threw them to the drunkard, "You should live like a human being."
The girl stared blankly at her tall uncle. This majestic figure also left a mark in her heart.
Even though she is still young, her childhood memories may be blurred when she grows up, but if fate allows them to meet again, they will definitely have new stories.
When Simon looked back again, he found that the red-haired boy had disappeared.
In such a short period of time, the child seemed to have disappeared out of thin air. No matter how long Simon asked the master to look for him, there was still no news about the child.
It is also because of this incident that the smooth marriage relationship between Tawanna and Simon has become tense. Once they meet, Tawanna and Simon will definitely quarrel, and the voices urging them to have another heir are even less likely to come true. .
During those three years, the acrobatic troupe has traveled to many towns. Mason has always been detained in the small acrobatic troupe. He is exquisite and cute, and he can definitely be sold for a good price. However, the wind is tight and his features are too obvious, so the acrobatic troupe has never found a good opportunity to sell him.
So this test lasted until the age of six.
Mason huddled in the corner of the dungeon, watching different children come in, and then watching them being taken out. The only thing that remained unchanged was that he seemed to be left here forever.
On a certain day, another child was thrown into the dungeon.
He was very disobedient, so he had many wounds on his body, but his eyes were full of stubbornness. After being thrown in, he wanted to rush out again. He yelled and let me go, and held him with one hand.
"Shh - don't do this."
A boy with red hair and green eyes, dressed in gray, said with a dusty face: "If you make them angry, they will transform you into an actor in a freak show."
"What is a freak show?"
"Maybe it's your legs, maybe your hands, or somewhere else on your body. They'll put you in a bottle, or they'll put you in animal fur to transform you into something strange. Put it on the stage and make the audience laugh.”
The boy who had just arrived shivered, a chill running through his bones.
In the process of abducting children, these human traffickers will inevitably encounter unexpected situations sometimes, causing inevitable losses. Children with defects will definitely not be sold at a good price, so they can only use this method to attract more people. Audiences make money.
The new boy hugged himself. He thought that he could not go home, and thought of the horror here. He couldn't help crying. After a while, he asked the red-haired and green-eyed boy: "My name is Dix, your name is What?”
The boy smiled, the sun shining brightly on his dirty face, "My name is Mason."
They were the only two children in the dungeon at that time, and of course they became good friends who talked about everything.
Dix took out the book hidden in his pocket. He had just bought a book before he was abducted. This book was not discovered by those people, maybe they didn't care if they found it.
Dix said: "Do you see it?"
Mason nodded happily, but when he took the book down, Dix stretched out his hand and said: "You took it wrong, the book should be held like this."
"I'm sorry..." Mason's ears were red and he felt embarrassed.
Dix said: "You can't read?"
Mason lowered his head, shook his head, and whispered: "I don't know."
He has been locked up here since he was three years old. Maybe someone taught him to write when he was three years old, but he has forgotten it.
"It doesn't matter, I'll read it to you." What Dix was reading was the story of Mr. Puppet. His family was from an ordinary family, and his parents were just ordinary people. However, his father could read and taught Dix how to read, so Dix was a child of the same age. Li has always had a sense of superiority.
After listening to the story, Mason's eyes sparkled, "Just like Mr. Puppet has a companion, Dicks, I now have you as a friend."
"You're right, we are good friends!" Dix touched his hair and smiled: "Mason, look, we have the same hair color and our eye colors are also very similar. This must be fate! ”
They all have red hair, but Mason's hair is slightly curly. Their eyes are green, but Mason's eyes are slightly lighter. Maybe he has been locked in a dark dungeon all year round, so the color is lighter. .
(End of chapter)