This actor is full of tricks.

The girl's home is in an old community in the corner of the county town. There are only two buildings in this community. Looking from the outside, there is no sign of life on the balconies of many rooms.

Lin Jue looked around the community. For some reason, this community always gave him a very depressing feeling, but he didn't find anything unusual in his true eyes.

"Is it because the whole county is so gloomy that it has affected my mood?"

Lin Jue walked while observing carefully, not missing any corner.

There's nothing strange about it, except that it's unpopular.

"Uncle, we're here." The little girl's voice brought Lin Jue back to his senses. She took Lin Jue to the first floor of a building and took out the key from her bag.

The door lock was a little rusty, and the girl inserted the key and turned it for a long time before finally opening the door.

As soon as the door opened, an indescribable smell came out, like the smell of soaked Chinese medicinal herbs mixed with mold.

"Dad, I met a kind uncle today. He said he would take away all the bottles I picked up."

The girl pushed open the door and skipped in. Lin Jue followed her. The house was very small, with only one room. It was very dark and the girl didn't turn on the lights, perhaps because she had no money to pay the electricity bill.

On the left side of the door was a pile of plastic bottles and cardboard, the result of the girl's hard work for several days.

On the right was a bunk bed with a middle-aged man lying on the lower bunk. The man was lying flat and stiff with a thin blanket covering him. After hearing the girl's voice, he raised his head with difficulty and looked towards the door.

When he saw Lin Jue following behind the girl, the man was obviously stunned and said helplessly: "Yaya, didn't Daddy tell you not to bring strangers back?"

"Uncle is not a bad man. He even took me to eat mutton soup." The girl ran over with the packaged mutton soup and handed it to the man as if it were a treasure: "Look, Dad, uncle also bought you a portion."

The man stared at the bowl of mutton soup, then gave Lin Jue an apologetic smile: "Sorry, the child is still young and naive."

The meaning of the words is very clear. Children are ignorant but adults should be sensible. He does not welcome the arrival of strangers. After all, no one wants a stranger to come to their home rashly, and he still looks like this now.

"It's okay, Yaya is very well behaved. I have a child, a boy who is eight years older than Yaya. I haven't seen him for a while. Seeing Yaya today was like seeing my own child. As a father, I can't bear to see my child suffer. I just wanted to help Yaya. I don't have any other intentions."

Lin Jue pulled Liao Fan out and portrayed himself as a father. As both are fathers, the distance between the two should be shortened.

He sincerely wanted to help the poor child Yaya, so it wasn't really a lie.

The man's expression eased a little, but he still didn't let his guard down completely. After all, there was no such thing as good things without a reason in this world. Especially during the time he was paralyzed, he had become accustomed to the fickleness of human nature. Those who used to be his brothers now treated him like a plague and stayed away from him.

This is true even for friends with whom we have an emotional foundation, let alone a stranger with whom we have no relationship.

Yaya was smart enough to notice that the atmosphere between the two was a little awkward, so she took the initiative to change the subject: "Uncle, please find a place to sit for a while. After I help Dad finish his meal, I'll help you collect the bottles."

"Okay." Lin Jue nodded and found a stool to sit down. As soon as he sat down, he noticed that there seemed to be a pattern on the wall at the head of the man's bed.

He hadn't seen it from his high position just now, but now that he sat down, he could clearly see it. It was a red pattern, outlined in a circle with four rune-like objects in the middle, guarding a strange font. It looked like some kind of small formation.

However, Lin Jue did not rush to ask, but sat quietly.

Yaya put the mutton soup on the bedside table beside her, and then tried with some difficulty to help the man up and lean him against the wall.

But she was too young, and the man couldn't move his whole body, which meant that all his weight was on Yaya's arms. Every movement required the little girl to use all her strength.

"Let me do it." Lin Jue stood up from the stool and moved over.

The man's expression showed some resistance and shame. How could a middle-aged man be willing to show such an unbearable side of himself to a stranger?

Although the man has been paralyzed in bed for many years, there is no strange smell on his body, and he even has very few moles. It seems that Yaya takes good care of her father.

Lin Jue helped the man up and gently leaned him against the wall. He considerately stuffed a pillow between the man's waist and the wall and praised him, "Ya Ya is indeed very sensible. You have educated her very well."

"Sometimes, I wish she wasn't so sensible." The man smiled bitterly. It was hard for a father to accept that his child, at an age when she should be innocent and romantic, had to suffer with him.

"After all the hardship comes happiness. One day, things will get better." Lin Jue comforted her and returned to his chair.

Yaya carefully opened the lid of the takeaway box, fed the man a mouthful with a spoon, and asked expectantly, "Dad, is it delicious?"

"Delicious! As long as Yaya feeds it, Dad thinks it's delicious." The aroma of mutton filled his taste buds, and the man's expression softened. He nodded at Lin Jue to express his gratitude.

Lin Jue looked at the heartwarming scene between the father and daughter, and for some reason he recalled his previous life's experiences when he was young. Some fathers do not know how to appreciate the blessings they have and destroy their happy families with their own hands, while some fathers do not reduce their love for their children even when they are in adversity.

He was silent for a long time, then suddenly asked, "Is Yaya going to elementary school?"

"You have seen the conditions at home. Where will we get the money to send our children to school..." The man's face was gloomy and he looked at Yaya with eyes full of heartache.

Although Yaya never said it, he knew that his daughter really wanted to go to school. There was a primary school not far from the community. Whenever the bell rang, he could always see Yaya staring blankly in the direction of the school.

Lin Jue knew that there was no compulsory education in this world. Even for elementary school, the annual tuition and miscellaneous fees were close to 10,000 yuan, which was unaffordable for this family.

"I can support Yaya to go to school until she finishes college."

Lin Jue's words startled the man, and he even forgot to swallow the mutton in his mouth. Yaya turned her head to look at Lin Jue, her big watery eyes blooming with longing.

But then, the light in the little girl's eyes dimmed little by little, and she shook her head: "I still have to take care of my dad."

Lin Jue had already thought of everything: "I will hire a nurse to take care of your father. You can go to school peacefully and stop picking up bottles. That's not something you should do at your age."

(End of this chapter)