After a long pause, the child angrily put his hands on his hips and said to Ling Xiao, "I don't want to be friends with you! Who knows if you're a good person or a bad person! The teacher said that anyone who's always loitering on someone's roof is definitely not a good person!"

"Hey! Get your facts straight! I'm sitting up here right now! How am I not a good person? Besides, if you really listened to your teacher, you wouldn't have argued with your dad! And have you ever seen a bad guy as good-looking as me? If I'm this good-looking, why would I need to be a bad guy? I'm clearly a good guy!" Ling Xiao was so angry that he even used half of his Shanghainese.

"Hmm..." The little guy sucked his fingers, thought hard for a moment, then ran to the base of the wall, grabbed something, and ran back, handing it to Ling Xiao with his little hand.

Ling Xiao saw that the little guy was holding a wildflower in his dirty hands.

He pursed his lips, wondering what to do; he didn't really want to accept...

Seeing that Ling Xiao wasn't taking it, the little guy strained forward to reach it, saying anxiously, "Why aren't you taking it? Have you changed your mind? Don't you want to be friends with me anymore?"

The little guy was almost in tears. Why were they all like this? They all promised to be his friends, but then they all stopped liking him and wouldn't play with him anymore!

Ling Xiao changed his posture, bent down, and took the dirty wildflower.

How to describe this scene? In Ling Xiao's own words, it was like a monkey trying to catch the moon, but for the little guy, it was like a celestial maiden descending to earth.

The handsome older brother sitting on the wall took his token and became his only friend. He didn't mind that he cried, didn't mind that he was noisy, and didn't mind that he was dirty and a bad kid who would run away from home. He thought to himself, "Good brother." The little guy tightened his grip on the lollipop.

"I...I'm called Li Cu...Big brother, what's your name?" the little guy introduced himself earnestly.

"What?" Ling Xiao's gaze left the wildflowers, and he carefully examined the child. He smiled wryly, thinking that none of the characters in novels were superfluous.

"I said my name is Li Cu!" Li Cu shouted at Ling Xiao, making a megaphone shape with his hand.

“I heard you! Little Pear! My name is Ling Xiao! You can call me Brother Ling Xiao!” Ling Xiao also imitated him, saying each word clearly.

Li Cu smiled at him, tears welling up in her eyes as she smiled, but she muttered to herself, "I'm not a little pressure."

"Dinner's ready! What are you doing up there?" Xie Yuhua called out to Ling Xiao from the courtyard.

"I've made a friend." Ling Xiao seemed quite happy, and then said to Li Cu, "Little Pear, don't be afraid, he's my family."

Li Cu nodded. When Xie Yuhua opened the door, she saw a dirty child. His clothes were relatively clean, but his face and hands were covered in grime, like a little kitten. Xie Yuhua even wanted to close the door.

"Hello, brother." Upon hearing Ling Xiao's words, Li Cu hurriedly greeted Xie Yuhua.

Jieyuhua nodded, smiled politely at him, and gave Ling Xiao a look. Ling Xiao let her in directly and told Li Chu to wash his hands and have dinner together.

"What's wrong with you? How could you bring someone else's child to our house? How worried his parents must be if they find out their child is missing? Hurry up, I'll have someone take him back." Xie Yuhua was unusually angry.

“He ran away from home after arguing with his father, so of course he can’t go back.”

Hearing this, Xie Yuhua became even angrier: "Running away from home? If you knew, you should have coaxed him to the police station! You've wasted so much time..."

"Don't worry, the fact that this child could run here means his home isn't far. This child is pitiful; it seems his parents don't care much about him, and no one has come looking for him for so long." Ling Xiao told him to calm down.

The same goes for Jieyuhua Siding. How far could a child that age run? This area is full of courtyard houses; if you call out, someone will respond. And this child even ran away in front of his father, yet they still didn't look for him...

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