The memories were not interrupted.
The scene flickered again, and I found myself in a new place.
My clothes were tattered and ragged, yet looked quite clean on the surface.
I looked slightly older.
The first time I met Big Sister, I had been at most two years old.
Now, I should have been a little over two.
Ye Qingxian had taken me away when I was three.
In other words, I would still spend nearly a year with her.
An alley filled with odds and ends seemed to be the base where I had been staying lately.
"Come on, repeat after me. You—" She was very patient. A character was written on the paper, and she pointed at it while teaching me its pronunciation.
She now seriously suspected that it wasn't that I couldn't speak, but that I simply had never learned how.
I tilted my head and studied her with my big eyes, seemingly unable to understand what she was doing at all.
This expression, which should have been adorable, had happened more than once.
Whenever she saw it, there was only the faintest trace of collapse in her eyes.
"Just read after me."
"You! You can't keep staying silent all day..."
She was beginning to suspect again that perhaps I had been born unable to speak, which was why I had been abandoned as a disabled child.
After all, no matter how beautiful a child was, a mute was still a mute.
Many people simply didn't want children born with disabilities.
Listening to her words, I tilted my head again, as expected, utterly unable to understand what she meant.
Suddenly, her emotions collapsed, and she seemed ready to give up.
Could this really be a complete idiot?
"Don't go to the Welfare Institute lately. The people there