Jula took out a bunch of keys and opened the door with a click.

Dudian looked at the slowly open room and knew that this would be the place where he would live for some time in the future.

"Dian, come in." Jura took out a pair of adult cotton shoes from the small cabinet next to the door, and deliberately shook them in front of Dudian's eyes, as if to make him happy. "This is uncle's shoes. You can wear them first. Before the curfew in the evening, I will take you to buy a pair of new ones."

Dudian was slightly stunned for a moment, and then felt relieved. One of the conditions for adopting a child was that he had to be married, which means that he had a nominal father who had not been masked.

He consciously took off his dirty thick-lined shoes, and the rough shoes carved a few painful red marks on his feet. When he stepped on the clean cotton shoes, he felt a comfortable feeling.

"Come on, I'll take you to wash first." Jura said enthusiastically.

Dudian thought she could take a comfortable bath, but saw that she just soaked a towel in warm water, wringed it out, and wiped her face and arms. This way of bathing was exactly the same as an orphanage.

It's just that the color of water is much purer.

Dudian didn't know that in this world, including the nobles, they use this kind of "dry cleaning" method to bathe. People's general perceptions think that water will weaken the human body's function and reduce the ability to resist disease. Even the nobles who love cleanest will only wash once or twice a year.

After washing, Jura asked Dudian to get familiar with him everywhere at home, and took the coarse cloth clothes that Dudian had replaced for treatment.

Dudian walked around the house, as he expected, and did not see any technological items, not even a simple clockwork alarm clock, and he also saw an old-fashioned textile machine that he had only seen in fairy tales. He remembered that the background of the fairy tale seemed to be in the medieval European era, and it had not yet entered the steam era.

Although a single textile machine cannot determine anything, Dudian thought of everything he had seen in the past few months and was convinced that the level of civilization in this post-disaster world should have just developed into the Bronze Age before steam and had just learned to use metals.

This discovery made some thoughts emerge in his heart...

In the evening, the sky became darker and the air became a little colder, and it seemed that it was going to rain again.

Jura was worried that Dudian was afraid of darkness, so she lit the oil lamp early, and the dim light swayed on Dudian's face. Every time she saw it, Jura felt awesome. It was so white, even whiter than her skin.

"It's going to rain. Haven't uncle come back yet?" Dudian said with a look out the window.

Jula smiled, thinking that this is such a good boy, and said, "Uncle has been rushing to make a batch of goods these days. I won't come back tonight. Are you hungry? I'll make whatever you want to eat."

“Eat whatever you have.”

"What a good boy, let you taste your mother's skills and make sure you like to eat it." Jura said confidently.

...

...

In a blink of an eye, a month passed.

Dudian had already met the nominal father, Grey, a tall and thin middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance, a similar personality to Jura, and a gentle attitude to others. He was a "tailor" in his job. The textile machine at home was his workbench. When it was the "black snow season", he would bring the goods to his home to make. After all, there was no charcoal or coal stove in the factory.

They obviously discussed the adoption of Jura's children. When they first came home and saw Dudian, his expression was as surprised as the adults in the orphanage. When they knew that Dudian had no other problems except autism, he was so satisfied that he couldn't stop his smile for several days.

night.

The common storm in the rainy season is coming again, and the rain is drizzling.

Dudian, who was sleeping in his small room, opened his eyes in vain and sat up suddenly. He realized that it was just a nightmare just now. Then he felt that his whole body was soaked in cold sweat, and his clothes were stuck to his skin with sweat, which made him feel a little uncomfortable. He shook his clothes and suddenly felt a urge to pee. He got out of bed, put on his shoes, and gently pulled the door open, but found that there was a dim light under the crack of the Jura and his wife's room, diagonally opposite. He couldn't help but be stunned.

So late, they haven't slept yet?

Du Di'an suddenly jumped twice in his heart, and he didn't know what he was thinking, and he unknowingly approached the past.

The architectural materials of this world obviously have not considered sound insulation. At least not from Jura's house, subtle sounds came from the room.

"Do you really want to do this?" This was Jura's voice, with a little hesitation.

"I know, you like this child very much, and I like it very much. To be honest, I can't bear to leave it. However, this is a rare opportunity. If he can be noticed by the lady of the Ivy family, we can move into the commercial area. There, we will find a better job. If you feel lonely, we will adopt another child, which can be afforded anyway."

"It's not a matter of money. I'm worried that if Dudian marrys Ivy's house, this child will be bullied if he doesn't like talking. They are completely from two worlds. When I was seeing a doctor, I saw those children who married into a big family. They lived similar to servants, and some were not as good as servants."

After a moment of silence in the room, Gray's voice continued to sound, "Julah, you should think so. He was an orphan from a slum. If it were not for us, he was adopted by other serf families, and he would not live as good as a servant. And he could live a servant's life at Ivy's house. I don't know how many others could envy."

"But……"

"Okay, this matter has been decided like this. Whether it can be done or not is the same."

The room was silent.

The small figure at the door also became silent. His hands clenched into fists, then slowly loosened them, turned around, as if he was dragging his body, and returned to his room, even forgot about his previous urge to urinate.

Sitting on the bed, Dudian suddenly felt a pain in his heart as he listened to the drizzle outside the window. Although he had always placed the Juras on his nominal parents, the meticulous care of the Juras this month made him very moved and there was a little warmth in his heart. But he didn't expect that this world once again broke some of the soft beauty in his heart like a mockery.

When it was late at night, he suddenly felt very lonely.

Suddenly, I miss my father and mother who are knowledgeable and harsh and gentle to him, and my sister who always likes to pinch her ears.

Why, why is the incompetent self left behind?!

He clenched his fists, but his heart was very powerless. I don’t know how long it took, an idea slowly emerged in his heart. Since... he will never see his parents and sister again, let this strange world return to the familiar appearance he once knew!

No one knows that on this rainy night, the gears of history slowly rotate and move forward in the chest of this inconspicuous little figure in the darkness.

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Chapter completed!