When Yan Beicheng pulled Lin Chu out of the car, the cold wind woke him up. Only then did Lin Chu realize that they were already at the entrance of the orphanage.
"I don't have the key to the orphanage. It's too late now," Lin Chu said. He didn't want to disturb the old principal.
"We'll leave in a while. There's no need to disturb the old principal," Yan Beicheng said. He held Lin Chu's hand and walked to the back of the orphanage.
Through the not-so-tall wall, they saw the tall and strong old locust tree inside. What was buried under it was the thing that the two of them had buried together back then.
Not long after she was buried, she was taken away by the Lin family, so they hadn't dug it up until now. They didn't know what the other party had buried.
Just as they were looking, a figure flashed by. Looking over, it was actually Yan Beicheng. He stepped onto the wall and grabbed the top of the wall with his arm. With just one push, he easily climbed up.
He could climb over the wall when he was 15 years old. Now that he was much taller than that, the wall was even easier for him.
Yan Beicheng squatted on the wall and seemed to have thought of something. He jumped down again and patted the dust off his palms. He said to Lin Chu, "I'll carry you up."
Lin Chu looked at the high wall and then at him.
"I'll protect you and not let you get hurt." Yan Beicheng gently pinched her waist twice.
Lin Chu's face turned slightly red. Fortunately, the lighting wasn't very good. It was dark, so she couldn't see it.
She just felt like she was doing something bad. It was quite exciting. It was as if she had returned to when she was mischievous when she was young.
Even though she was like this now, when she was mischievous when she was young, even the old principal couldn't do anything about it.
It was still quite cold at night. She rubbed her hands and said, "Come on!"
Yan Beicheng burst into laughter. He grabbed her waist and lifted her up.
Lin Chu was quite hardworking. She climbed up using both her hands and feet. The main strength was used by Yan Beicheng, so it didn't take much effort for her to carry her.
When she climbed up the wall, Yan Beicheng said, "Wait there. Don't go down first."
Then, she saw Yan Beicheng easily jump up and jump into the courtyard.
He clapped his hands and stretched out his arms towards Lin Chu. "Jump down, I'll catch you."
This time, Lin Chu didn't hesitate at all. As soon as Yan Beicheng finished speaking, he jumped into Yan Beicheng's arms and was hugged tightly.
Yan Beicheng chuckled and kissed the top of her cold hair. "You should have hesitated for a moment. Why did you jump just like that? Aren't you afraid?"
"You said you would catch me. What am I afraid of?" Lin Chu raised his head. He looked as if it was a matter of course, and his big eyes were sparkling with trust.
On this cold night, it warmed Yan Beicheng's heart. When she lifted her head, he kissed her lips.
Lin Chu blushed. After a long time, he let go of her and whispered, "Are you going to dig out the things we buried before?"
When he said that, Lin Chu still felt that fate was very strange.
Why was the big brother she had met when she was young Yan Beicheng?
Moreover, she even fell in love with the little brother from her childhood. That was something he had never thought about when he was young.
Ever since she went to the Lin family and lost contact with the little brother, she never expected to meet him again.
But in the Lin family, every time she was beaten up by Su Changxin, she would hide in her room and think about the time in the orphanage. What she thought about the most was the time when she played with the little brother.
That time was really the happiest time for her.
Every time she cried and felt sad, she would think about that time and tell herself that the little brother wasn't around, but he must be encouraging her. She didn't dare to think about the old director's loving face. Every time she thought about it, she would cry even harder. She only dared to think about the little brother's smiling face.
It was also like that that supported her and told herself that she would go back to find the little brother in the future. Thinking about how anxious the little brother would be when she suddenly disappeared. She kept telling herself like that, and that was how she survived in the Lin family.
But she didn't expect that after so many twists and turns, they would meet again after more than ten years and even become lovers.
When she played with the little brother when she was young, he was so much older than her. In her eyes, he was like an adult. As for lovers, she had never thought about it.
Yan Beicheng grunted and let go of her. In the end, when he reached behind him, Lin Chu realized that he had a small shovel with a short handle.
"When did you bring it with you?" Lin Chu said in surprise. This man was simply too unusual.
"When I went to the study to look for that photo, I remembered that I wanted to dig something, so I brought it along," Yan Beicheng explained and pulled Lin Chu to the old locust tree.
When they found the place to bury something, they started digging.
Back then, the two of them were young, and Yan Beicheng sneaked over the wall to meet Lin Chu. So at that time, the two of them decided to bury something. Lin Chu was the one who found a toy shovel.
With such a trashy thing, the two of them dug for the whole afternoon and did nothing else. Even then, they didn't dig very deep. So even though the shovel Yan Beicheng had wasn't big, it was enough to deal with this.
After digging for a while, they found a hard iron box.
Lin Chu took it out. This box was the same as the one from more than ten years ago. At that time, the fruit candy wasn't actually delicious, but because people's overall lives weren't good, they liked this kind of fruit candy very much. They could only eat it during the New Year. This iron box also had a strong sense of age. There was even a photo of a female celebrity who was popular at that time but was now buried in the sand.
Because it had been a long time, the box was a little rusty. Lin Chu couldn't open it for a long time, so he stuffed the iron box into Yan Beicheng's hands. "Quickly open it and take a look."
Yan Beicheng also tried a few times. In the end, he gritted his teeth and opened the box with great difficulty.
Lin Chu took out his phone and opened the flashlight app on his phone. The light behind the phone lit up.
There were two small bags inside. One was Lin Chu's, and the other was Yan Beicheng's.
Back then, the two of them had agreed to put their things in the small cloth bag. Neither of them could see the other. Then, they would put them in the iron box together and bury them.
Lin Chu first picked up his small cloth bag and opened it. Inside were two dolls holding hands.
"So this is what you put in." Yan Beicheng's pleasant voice sounded warmly with a hint of a smile.
Lin Chu nodded. "I remember that in the handicraft class, I learned to make simple dolls with gloves. It's easy to make. It's something that I can learn at my age."
The dolls in Lin Chu's hands were made with white thread gloves. Now, the color of the gloves had turned yellow. The gloves were stuffed with cotton and the palm was tied into two. The top part was the doll's head and the bottom part was the body. The thumb was cut off. The index and little fingers were the doll's arms, and the middle and ring fingers were the legs. He used a black watercolor pen to draw two curved eyes on the doll's face. He also added a small dot, which was the doll's mouth.
But because it had been buried here for more than ten years, it had been exposed to the sun and rain all year round. The color had long faded, and the doll's facial features were naturally gone.
"I sewed the hands of the two dolls together. At that time, I thought that I would be holding hands with the big brother," Lin Chu said with a smile.
Now, she looked at the two dolls. They were very simple and ugly. They could barely be seen as human. But at that time, she felt that she had done a great job.
Yan Beicheng raised his eyebrows. This doll was too simple. It didn't even have any symbolic hair or clothes. At least it was painted on.
"Which one is you, and which one is me?" Yan Beicheng came over and asked.
"This small one is me, and the big one is you." Lin Chu held a doll in each hand and waved it at Yan Beicheng.
Indeed, there was a difference in size between the two dolls.
"You were quite smart when you were young," Yan Beicheng said with a smile. "The dolls were cut corners, so they were differentiated by size."
"I was only six years old then! It's already not bad to be able to make it like this. "Lin Chu wasn't convinced. She lowered her head and looked at the doll. She liked it very much. It was very memorable.
The old director had kept all her things in the orphanage for her. However, there weren't many things, and there wasn't much that could be kept. There was even less to remember when she went to the Lin family.
"Bring this back and put it up," Yan Beicheng said. "It's a symbol of our childhood love."
Lin Chu: "Uh …"
She just wanted to make a souvenir. She didn't expect him to be so thick-skinned.
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