“Well, I’m Vivian’s friend who happened toe over to y.”


    Arlo is a criminal police officer, because the case requires him to know some daily signnguage, so he can read what she is gesturing.


    “So you’re Vivian’s sister’s friend, I just heard them mention you guys.”


    The girl continued gesturing, a smile on her face.


    That smile was extraordinarily bright, unadulterated by a hint of impurity, innocent enough to make people like it irresistibly.


    “I’m Arlo, what’s your name?”


    He walked up to her and asked.


    “My name is Aurora.”


    Aurora introduced herself and smiled.


    “Aurora, what are you doing dawdling, hurry up and wash these nkets for me too.”


    At that moment, a plump woman came not far away, pointed at Aurora with a fierce face and scolded her angrily.


    Arlo noticed that she was holding nkets in her arms, and judging from the color of the nkets, it was at least three nkets.


    Not to mention that today is the first day of the New Year, just a day of more than ten degrees below zero, even the reservoir is thickly iced, and only the area for washing clothes was cracked with ice, so that you can wash clothes.


    This woman let her wash so many clothes and nkets for a girl!


    Arlo, who has always been quiet, couldn’t help but speak up and said, “Shouldn’t you be visiting your family on the first day of the year? Why do you let a girl do so muchundry?”


    In the countryside, people live in self-built houses, with their own houses, and on the first day of the New Year, they will go door to door to pay their respects.


    But the girl named Aurora’s green cotton jacket was washed white and had several patches on it.


    He did not expect that there were still people wearing such clothes in this age.


    The woman left several nkets beside Aurora and red at Arlo, “Mind your own business.”


    After that, she pointed at Aurora, “Wash it for me, you hear me?”


    Aurora nodded and gave Arlo a meaningful nce, then looked down and continued washing clothes.


    Arlo stood aside smoking a cigarette, silent, just quietly listening to the sound of the water and the sound of the mallet.


    In a short while, Aurora finished washing the clothes in arge basin, and began to take the nket a little bit of washing.


    The nket was so thick and heavy that she couldn’t even carry it after it got wet, and her feet slipped and she nearly fell into the water.


    “Watch out.”


    The agile Arlo stepped forward and grabbed her by the arm, “Are you okay?”


    The girl nearly fell into the reservoir, her face pale with fear, but turned around and smiled brightly at Arlo, shaking her head.


    She dropped the nket and gestured to Arlo, “Arlo is it? Thank you, brother Arlo.”


    A silent “Brother Arlo” messed up Arlo’s heart.


    He threw the cigarette butt aside and said to Aurora, “Let me help you.”


    “No, the water is too cold …”


    Aurora was gesturing, but Arlo had already rolled up his sleeves and took the water-soaked nket from her hands, which had be heavy.


    He knew the water was cold, but when he really touched the cold water, he realized that the river water was cold and biting.


    As he got closer, he also clearly noticed that Aurora’s hands were full of frostbite and cracks, very poor.


    Arlo did not understand how there could be such a poor little girl when it was already the 21st century.


    H.


    He wrung out the water, put the nket on the te, Aurora smiled at him, and then appliedundry detergent, using a mallet to knock the nket hard, but because Arlo stood too close, directly sshed him all over the foam.


    Aurora watched and couldn’t help but stare, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to do that. You … you’d better stand farther away.”


    She pointed to the spot where Arlo was standing just now, said.


    Arlo looked down, looked at the ssh of foam on his pants leg, couldn’t help himself, “It’s okay.”


    He stepped aside, not to interfere with herundry.


    Perhaps out of a sense of police duty, he worried that she washed too heavy clothes will identally fall into the river, so he waited until she finished washing clothes, just when he was ready to leave, and then found the little girl’srge basin full of clothes, are piled up into a small mountain, she simply can not hold.


    “Let me help you.”


    Arlo stepped forward to help Aurora, only to see her put the two nkets back on the clean te and walk off again, alone, with arge tray in her stride.


    From the river to the top, there is a small uphill, snowy icy road, she wore a pair of boots, very non-slip.


    She was already walking up, but she slipped and fell.


    The whole person, along with arge basin piece from the slope slipped down, a good mess.


    Seeing this, Arlo immediately ran over and squeezed her arm with his palm, pulling her up, “Are you okay?”


    Aurora did not look at Arlo, but stared at the clothes scattered from the basin, stained with a little mud, she huffed and picked up the clothes, and stubbornly picked up the clothes and turned around and walked to the river in front of the stone b, sat down, and washed again.


    She did not say anything, but Arlo saw her raise her hand from time to time to wipe tears, the heart is very unpleasant.


    But there are thousands of poor people in the world, and how can he pity them?


    Arlo wrinkled his brow and finally turned around and left.


    When he returned to Vivian’s house, the vige people who had “gathered” had all left.


    Morris was still chopping wood, and Vivian brought him a cup of hot tea to drink.


    When she saw Arloing, she asked, “Where have you been? I thought you were lost and was going to look for you.”


    “Nothing, just looking around.”


    Arlo suddenly thought of the other side and said, “I just happened to see a little mute over there.”


    “Oh, you said Aurora ah? That little girl is quite pathetic. The family wanted to abandon her mother, but because her mother was pregnant with Aurora, and the public security intervention, Aurora’s family was reluctant to support her mother and father.”


    “Aurora could not speak after she was born and did not know she was mute until she was three years old. The Cheng family was angry and furious, they wanted to throw it away but could not, so they had to keep it. Then her mother died, Aurora’s father took another wife, and her stepmother often scolded her. s …”


    Vivian shook his head andmented, “quite a hard life a girl.”


    Even though the life is hard, but as an outsider, and no rtives, Vivian naturally can not intervene in their family matters.


    The sweaty Morris holding hot tea, slowly sip, gaze cold stare at Arlo, the corner of the lips hooked up a seemingly absent arc.


    The seemingly smiling expression, which happened to be seen by Arlo, in turn, Arlo’s eyebrows were averted and he went straight away.


    “Take a break, you’ve chopped enough firewood to burn for a month.”


    Vivian felt guilty.


    After all, on the first day of the New Year, Morris came over to y and actually let him chop wood.


    It’s a bit hard to say.


    “It’s okay.”


    Morris handed the cup to Vivian, “I’ll finish chopping the firewood.”


    “No need …”


    Vivian still wanted to say something, but saw Morris turned around and took a piece of wood, put it on the ground, and was about to swing the axe when he turned back to Vivian and said, “Stand away, it’s dangerous.”N?velDrama.Org owns ? this.