"Father?"
The courtyard was very quiet. Curious, Dandan called out for her father a few times. Seeing that no one responded, she pouted her lips in grievance.
It turned out that her father was also not here.
Just as she was about to leave, she heard movement coming from one of the locked rooms.
When she was young, her father loved to play hide-and-seek with her!
The playful Dandan thought that her father was hiding inside and waiting for her to find him!
At that moment, he tiptoed over.
"Bang!" Then, there was a burst of crying outside.
Lin Mengya was startled and quickly looked through the crack of the door.
So she was the daughter of Second Old Master Gan.
The little girl who was saved by a freak combination of factors.
"Why are you here?"
She couldn't hear what was going on outside clearly. Now that she saw him, she realized that it was Dandan who was pestering her to enter the courtyard.
She couldn't help but feel disappointed.
She had thought that Yu's men had found their way here!
Dan Dan slowly got up and clumsily patted the dust off her clothes.
A pair of big eyes looked towards the door, as if thinking about where the voice came from.
"I'm inside. Do you remember me?"
She patted the door to signal him to come in.
Although her current situation was due to Second Old Master Gan's love for her, she was still in a good mood.
But she really couldn't bear to vent her anger on this little girl who didn't know anything.
"Red Bean Crisp!"
The little girl suddenly pounced on the door with a grin.
Actually, she had fallen because she had used too much strength.
"Slow down! Don't hurt yourself again. "Lin Mengya shook her head.
Alas, she couldn't even protect herself, so how could she have the time to worry about others?
"Come out and play!"
Dandan liked her a lot.
Speaking of which, although this girl's mind wasn't complete, she knew right from wrong better than her father.
Lin Mengya sighed softly.
"I'm inside, so I can't play with you. Hurry up and leave. If your father sees this, he might be angry with you."
Unfortunately, her advice had no effect on Dandan at all.
The little girl kept smiling sweetly at her.
At first, he didn't understand why he couldn't see her, but later on, he treated looking at her through the crack of the door as a novel game.
Lin Mengya was so annoyed that she ignored her.
He stood not far away, quietly thinking about what he should do next.
"Here!"
After more than ten minutes, a sweet maltose was suddenly stuffed in through the gap of the door.
Just when Lin Mengya was about to decline, her stomach protested against it.
However, no matter how thick-skinned she was, she wouldn't eat a child's snack.
Shaking her head, she pushed the candy back.
"You eat, I'm not hungry."
"No, you eat!"
Dandan was very insistent.
In the end, she anxiously explained, "Nanny, no, I'm hungry!"
It took Lin Mengya some time to understand what Dandan was trying to say.
She was basically saying that her wet nurse didn't know about this piece of candy, and if she didn't eat it, she would definitely be hungry.
Lin Mengya had no choice but to accept it.
The maltose was sweet and delicious. Although it couldn't fill her up, it could at least provide her with the energy her body needed.
At the same time, she also felt curious.
How could a little girl like Dandan, who was raised by Second Old Master Gan like the apple of his eye, know that she would go hungry?
"Dandan?"
She's light.
She gently knocked on the door.
The little girl was probably tired of standing, so she sat on the ground and knocked on the door cheerfully, just like Lin Mengya.
Lin Mengya also sat down cross-legged and patiently communicated with the person outside through the narrow gap of the door.
"Does your wet nurse treat you well?"
She spoke slowly so that the other party could understand her.
Outside the door, Dandan thought for a while and then shook her head carefully. But then, she quickly nodded to make up for it as if it was a conditioned reflex.
Lin Mengya couldn't help frowning.
No.
For a child with defects like Dandan, developing such a habit often meant that she had to practice much more than ordinary people.
But Dandan's previous shake of the head was enough to show her true thoughts.
She couldn't help thinking of a possibility.
"She's not good, is she? She doesn't give you anything to eat, so you hide the candy behind her back, is that right? "
The little girl outside the door was a little nervous.
She began to look left and right, her mouth also muttering something, but no one knew what she was muttering.
Lin Mengya immediately comforted her in a soft voice.
Through the gap of the door, she stretched out three fingers with difficulty.
"Don't be afraid, I'm the only one here. There's no wet nurse."
Dandan held her fingers tightly.
Her little hand, which still had the sweet taste of maltose, became cold.
They didn't continue to talk.
It was not until a long time later that Dandan spoke softly.
"No, Hei, I'm hungry."
The wet nurse didn't treat her badly at the beginning.
After she was nine years old, she gradually grew up and became more lively.
At that age, children were naughty after all.
However, the nanny, who was already greedy, had exhausted her patience because she had to deal with an ignorant and foolish child all day long.
But Second Old Master Gan attached great importance to this child.
She didn't dare to leave obvious marks on Dandan's body, so she chose to lock her in a small dark room to make her "obedient".
At first, Dandan would cry.
So the wet nurse wouldn't give her food all day.
In this way, as long as the door was closed, her weak voice would not be heard by anyone.
In the end, even when the wet nurse was not in a good mood, she would deliberately starve her and lock her in the room alone to vent her anger by abusing her.
It was hard to imagine that these things lasted for several years.
So that her ability to express herself remained at the age of nine years old.
Lin Mengya was a doctor and a mother at the same time.
When she was young, there were also such children sent to the hospital.
It could be said that there were few healthy children like her.
And the dean's mother would patiently teach them to speak.
After thousands of times of training, the children could at least express their meaning with difficulty.
In fact, children like Dandan could at least communicate with others through postnatal correction and education.
It was a pity that her wet nurse had destroyed this child's slim hope.
Lin Mengya felt a little regretful.
At the same time, she had a worse impression of Second Old Master Gan.
As Dandan's father, he not only didn't protect the young Dandan when she needed it.
Moreover, he had to take on the responsibility of an innocent person like her.
This person was obviously trying to shirk responsibility!
He didn't deserve sympathy at all. Dandan just suffered.
"Have you ever told others?"
Although she felt a little more sympathy for Dandan, she would never do her duty for others.
She was sharp enough to find some suspicious points from Dandan's story.
Even if Second Old Master Gan trusted the wet nurse, she might not be able to cover the truth with one hand.
After all, there would be other people who took care of Dandan who knew the inside story.
But thinking of what happened in the kitchen that day, she felt that maybe Dandan was not the only wet nurse who had evil intentions towards Dandan.
"No! Xiaoyan, it hurts! "
Dandan let go of her hand and imitated a "pinching" gesture on her waist.
She shook her little head. Obviously, she remembered it deeply.
"Xiaoyan? Is it the maid who took care of you? "She asked.
Dandan nodded and continued to hold her fingers.
"Did you tell your father?"
Dandan's eyes suddenly dimmed.
"Father, I don't understand."
In fact, not only her father, but most of the people in the family didn't understand what she meant.
Every time she tried to complain to her father, he didn't understand.
He even asked the wet nurse.
Every time at this time, Dandan's intention would be seen through by the wet nurse, and then she would continue to be "educated".
In this vicious cycle, she had an obvious resistance to "communication".
Therefore, she liked the person in the room.
For so many years, she was the only one who would listen to her patiently.
Dandan couldn't express such complicated feelings, so she just clenched her palm and held the same three slender fingers.
"Come out and play?"
She tilted her little head.
It was so tiring to look at people like this!
Lin Mengya shook her head with a wry smile.
"No, I'm locked up and can't come out to play with you for the time being."
Dandan could empathize with her.
She held her little head and felt a little worried.
The wet nurse disappeared last night. She was released by the wet nurse every time.
Now that the wet nurse was not here, how could the person inside come out?
It was dusk.
Lin Mengya looked at the little girl who was frowning at the door and felt relieved.
"Dandan, you go back first. If you can, can you bring me a few more candies tomorrow? "
"Okay!"
The little girl smiled and agreed immediately.
Lin Mengya, who had calmed down, thought clearly.
Second Master Gan couldn't bear to kill her, but he didn't dare to push her too hard.
Otherwise, he would become the second wet nurse, which was extremely disadvantageous to Dandan.
Therefore, he could only slowly torture her.
In this case, she would waste her time with him.
Yu would definitely find her, and she believed that it was only a matter of time.
Since her life was not in danger, she would just starve for a few times. She would just take it as a diet!
Dandan left reluctantly.
Before she left, she even carefully touched these three fingers.
When she was locked up in the small dark room, she always hoped that someone could find her and be saved from the darkness and loneliness.
Unfortunately, no one cared about her.
Therefore, even if it was only three fingers, she cherished them very much.
"I, will, will, come to you tomorrow!"
Stuttering, Dandan actually said the first long sentence in her life.
Lin Mengya couldn't help but feel happy for her.
Her eyes were gentle, and her words seemed to be warm.
"Okay, I'll wait for you."
No matter what her relationship with the Gan family was, at least at this moment, she saw a pure and sincere heart.
Second Master Gan, who had been looking for his daughter everywhere, hurried here. As expected, he found his precious daughter outside the courtyard.
He breathed a sigh of relief, then frowned and came up to ask why she ran around.
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