Chapter 26-Worksite Nights and Troubled Consciences: Xiao Xiaoxiao’s New Life, Human Warmth, and the Weight of a Lie

The two black boys with steel pipes were off work. The two of them walked up to Xiao Xiaoxiao and consoled him, “Don’t be sad. It’ll be fine in a while. Let’s go. We’ll sleep in that room.”

Xiao Xiaoxiao followed their fingers and looked at the building. It was just like the place he slept last night. It had just been built, and there were many clothes on the four-sided opening of the window.

Xiao Xiaoxiao followed them into the building. The floor was full of bricks and blocks of wood. They went up to the fourth floor and turned into a room. The room wasn’t big, and there were two cold mats on the ground. There was a cardboard box piled up on a wooden board at the corner of the wall. There was half a box of instant noodles in the box.There were three lunch boxes next to the cardboard box, two pairs of chopsticks.

Xiao Xiaoxiao placed his bag in the corner and let out a long sigh. Finally, he found a place to rest.

The canteen was made of bricks on the side of the construction site. Xiao Xiaoxiao had prepared half a catty of rice and a dish. The dish was a single winter melon soup. There were several thick winter melon blocks floating in the clear water, and several oily spots on the surface of the water.