Chapter 68 Little adults and big children
"Yakko, Sakurako, I'm scared!"
Yukimura Aoihua held the cupboard and shouted with a trembling voice.
Ping Yingzi stood on the cupboard, looking down at her frightened face, and said expressionlessly: "I'm not afraid, what are you afraid of?"
"I'm afraid you'll fall." Xuecun Kuihua said.
"You are an adult, you can't be afraid." Ping Yingzi raised her head and continued to scrape the ceiling with the shovel: "Other adults are not as timid as you."
Yukimura Aoi couldn't help but lick her thumb. Her long hair was messy and she asked with confusion: "What are the other adults like?"
"Take my father as an example. He can drink, bring food, scold and hit people. He looks like he is not afraid of anything." She said casually while digging at the ceiling: "My fists are very painful, and my slaps are also painful." If it hurts, he will also use belts, clothes drying racks, tea cups, etc. as weapons.”
"Eh...is that so...then I don't want to be an adult, adults are so scary." Yukimura Aoihana said.
Ping Yingzi sighed and said helplessly: "You are already an adult. Have you seen the scratches on the wall? You are taller than the toilet door frame. You are an adult among adults."
"Sir?" Xuecun Kuihua tilted her head, feeling a little hard to understand.
"Idiot." Hira Sakurako said.
Yukimura Sunflower wasn't angry either, she just giggled.
Ping Yingzi stopped paying attention to her and concentrated on carving on the ceiling. At dusk, they cleaned off the wall coverings on the floor, lay side by side on the cloth, and looked up at the ceiling. The setting sun slanted in through the window, and the light and shadow painted two faces on the ceiling.
Snow Village Sunflower happily pointed at the ceiling and shouted like a child: "That's me! That's you! Exactly the same!"
"Yeah."
Ping Yingzi's pupils reflected the gilded light spots: "This is us."
Memories suddenly came flooding back, and she still remembered the day she was knocked unconscious by her father. After waking up, she heard her father questioning the doctor in confusion, asking her why she couldn't speak normally like her peers and admire her father like her peers, but she had to make him angry... The doctor said she had high-functioning autism. She didn't know what it meant, but by the look in her father's eyes, she knew it was her problem.
They all said, 'Hira Sakurako is as cold as a robot'; they also said, 'Hira Sakurako doesn't regard us as friends at all'; even her father said, 'You have always looked down on me, right? ’, ‘Do you think it’s embarrassing to have such an alcoholic father? ’
She didn't know how to answer, she just said 'yes', 'yes', 'yes'.
Gradually, she became afraid to go out and leave her little kitchen. But her father would drag her out from under the kitchen wall every night, question her like crazy, and yell at her - hallucinations began to appear before her eyes, and the outside world became a dangerous place.
Thick mane grew on my father's face, his teeth became sharper and sharper, and his eyes glowed with a ferocious red light. She couldn't stay any longer. She felt that sooner or later she would die and she could only run away.
But she didn't dare to go out. The world outside the door had turned into a dark forest. The corridors were full of thorns, dead branches like ghost claws protruded from the windows, insects crawled in the darkness, and monsters were hidden everywhere.
Besides, where could she escape to?
Until one day, she saw a rental advertisement under the leftover lunch box: a dream residence near Sunshine City, full of sunshine, free water and electricity for new guests, and only need low rent to live in a large shopping mall. Get a warm little home.
Ping Yingzi was moved. She stole her father's money, used a landline phone to call for door-to-door mailing, packed herself into a suitcase with food, water and a screwdriver. The courier loaded the suitcase into the car and mailed it to the mailroom of the Sugamo apartment building. She sneaked out in the middle of the night and ran through the alleys with her suitcase covered, like a turtle escaping with its shell on its back. As long as there are pedestrians passing by, she will shrink into the box in a hurry.
She found a public phone booth and dialed the number on the wrinkled rental advertisement. The landlord doesn't care who she is or whether she has proof of identity. As long as she can receive the rent, everything else doesn't matter.
When the rental was delivered, they didn't even meet each other. They just left the rent and door keys at the agreed location.
In this way, Ping Yingzi finally had a new home.
She is very satisfied. The new home is small, so she feels safe. Sunlight can be seen from the only window, and the advertisement is not a lie. It turns out that a warm place with low rent actually exists.
But just having a home is not enough, she must make money. Without money, she would starve to death at home.
For this reason, she had to go out on an adventure, cover her suitcase and travel through the terrifying steel forest, going door to door to steal newspapers and advertisements from other people's doors. This was precious information to her.
She searched for jobs that she could do in a large number of newspapers and advertisements. She secretly went to the phone booth late at night and made hopeful calls, only to be disappointed again and again.
She lived frugally every day, and the savings she stole from her father's house became less and less.
Thinking of this, Hira Sakurako turned her head and looked at the side face of Yukimura Sunflower.
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She still remembered the night they first met, standing on the suitcase and talking on the phone on tiptoes. Snow Village Sunflower jumped out of nowhere, wearing a hospital gown. She stared at herself against the glass, her cheeks squeezed like a pig's head.
"Hey, have you seen my sister?" Xuecun Kuihua asked.
She was so frightened that she shrank back into the box, her heart pounding. After waiting for a long time, she quietly opened a crack and looked outside. Xuecun Sunflower was lying next to the suitcase, tilting her head and looking at her.
"I'm so hungry, can you give me something to eat?" Xuecun Kuihua asked again.
She is very beautiful, with a fair face, a straight nose, and big eyes, like a stray cat. He is obviously an adult, but his tone of voice is like a five or six year old kid.
"I don't have much food left," Hira Sakurako whispered, "I'm also very hungry."
"Ah, is that so," said Yukimura Sunflower, "Then wait for me."
After saying that, she stood up and ran away barefoot. Ping Yingzi took the opportunity to escape and ran back to the apartment with her suitcase on her back. Just when she was still in shock, the shouts of Xuecun Kuihua came from downstairs.
Many people in the apartment building were alarmed. They saw a beautiful woman holding an open fruit basket and yelling. Someone had a bad idea and went downstairs to grab the woman and try to drag her away.
"Where are you!!" Xuecun Sunflower struggled and yelled: "I'm bringing food!!"
Ping Yingzi saw this scene through the window, and she shouted "The police are coming" to scare away the bad guys. Snow Village Sunflower also saw her and ran all the way upstairs. Hira Sakurako opened a crack in the door and waved to her, and Yukimura Aoihana ran over like a puppy running amok.
"I can only take you in for one night," Ping Yingzi said with a straight face, "You should go back to your home early tomorrow morning."
(End of chapter)