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Chapter 335

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"Anna..."

Like Li Ang in the memory, after calling out the name of the girl in front of her, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma only felt that the exhaustion all over her body retreated suddenly like a tide, and even her shoulders, which felt as if they were pressing down with a thousand pounds of weight, suddenly became light.

However, what replaced it was not happiness and joy from the bottom of her heart, but a lingering pain and shame.

"I lost my job..."

After saying this dejectedly, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma... or rather, the former Li Ang, explained with a face full of annoyance:

"I really didn't slack off, but I could only carry about half the amount of others. The foreman only paid me half a month's salary and told me not to go to the pier tomorrow. I..."

"You've already done very well."

The dim yellow oil lamp and the girl's gentle footsteps approached together. After a warm hug, words of comfort without any blame sounded in Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's ear.

"Big brother, this is not your fault. I know, you must have already done your best. I left dinner for you tonight, hurry into the house, eat well and have a good rest..."

"I..."

"Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma?"

The confused whisper in her ear and the heat coming from her palm pulled Auntie Auntie Ai Ma out of this memory that didn't belong to her.

After shaking her head blankly, looking at Li Ang, whose eyes were a bit confused, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, who had come back to her senses, said apologetically:

"Sorry, I just now... um... should have seen your past memories."

Looking at the white brick under her feet that was glowing slightly with fluorescence, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma said softly:

"If I'm not mistaken, if two people step on the same brick, the person who steps on it later seems to see the memory of the first person."

"Li Ang, if you mind, I actually..."

"It's okay, look."

After recalling the experience of losing his job carrying bags at the pier for the first time, secretly finding a place to cry, and then being comforted by Anna's gentle words, Li Ang smiled a little embarrassedly.

"In my memories, there shouldn't be anything too unpresentable. And if you hadn't saved Anna when you were in the hospital back then, these memories would also... um... anyway, if looking at my memories can help you pass the Black and White Bridge, then I won't mind."

"Thank you..."

Holding Li Ang's warm and powerful palm, warmed by his frank and enthusiastic emotions all the way from her hand to her heart, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's palm finally stopped being slightly cold, and a little blood color appeared on her pale face again.

After confirming that she was ready, Li Ang, who still had one foot outside the bridge, clenched his fists, then lifted his other foot and stood completely on the Black and White Bridge.

White brick, also a brick representing happiness.

And Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, who had received Li Ang's promise, also regained her courage and followed him, stepping both feet onto the bridge.

"Big brother!"

This time, what appeared in front of Auntie Auntie Ai Ma was Li Ang's younger brother, who looked tiger-headed and brainy, very cute, but always had a serious face, looking like a little adult.

At this moment, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, or rather Li Ang in the memory, was standing next to a wall, staring blankly at the nails on the wall, and William, who was standing side by side with Li Ang by the wall, was looking up and asking seriously:

"Big brother, are you sick?"

Li Ang is sick this time?

After hearing Li Ang's brother's question, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma couldn't help but be slightly startled.

Shouldn't be? Li Ang stepped on a white block, this should be a happy memory, right?

And Li Ang in the memory seemed to have the same confusion as Auntie Auntie Ai Ma. After shaking his body slightly, Li Ang said with a face full of confusion:

"No, I've been a bit tired lately, but there shouldn't be any problem with my body."

"Don't lie to me!"

After looking at Li Ang seriously, and then looking down at himself, William, who looked like a little adult, also shook his body, then frowned and said seriously:

"If you're not sick, why is that place so..."

"Cough, cough, cough! Cough, cough, cough, cough!"

Coughing violently with the loudest voice in his life, and forcibly waking Auntie Auntie Ai Ma up from his own memories, Li Ang, who didn't expect that the memory of the brothers "releasing water" by the wall would also be captured by the Black and White Bridge, said to Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, who was a bit dazed, with a face full of embarrassment:

"Well, I just thought about it. Although I don't mind sharing my memories with you, Senior, but... er... but some situations are special... so... er... so can I filter the content first, and then you step on it?"

Through the palms that were still held tightly together, after feeling the embarrassment surging in Li Ang's heart that was enough to make people dig out a large flat floor with their toes, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, who had come back to her senses, also understood and knew what scene she had just seen.

After recalling that strange but unusually real touch, Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's fair face couldn't help but flush suddenly, and even her shiny little earlobes were stained with a blush, and then she hurriedly turned her head away.

"O... okay..."

"..."

Damn it! I said why was my luck so good this time, two white blocks in a row, it turned out to be waiting for me here!

After cursing his damn luck, Li Ang took a deep breath and took the third step.

White block, still a white block.

This time it was Melanie. Although she was naughty and loved to cause trouble, most of the time, she was still a little cotton-padded jacket that was warm enough.

And the beautiful memory related to her was that he sold newspapers and got caught in a freezing rain, and had a high fever the next day. Anna ran out to buy medicine for him, while Melanie took William to dig out a few crow nests, wanting to supplement his body for his fever.

Um... it was actually pretty good up to this point, but it's a pity that in the following week, his house was crazily attacked by a group of furious crows. From the door to the windowsill, everywhere was covered with half-dry and half-thin bird poop.

When he recovered from his illness and took a shovel to clean it up, those grayish-white dry bird poops had accumulated more than two fingers thick. He had to hit it with a hammer before he could pick it off. He picked it for three or four days before he barely cleaned it up.

For this, he can only say... although a certain little cotton-padded jacket is warm enough when it's warm, it's also really leaking when it should leak...

After watching this warm but ridiculous memory, Li Ang couldn't help but shake his head helplessly, then squeezed Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma's palm hard, signaling that there was nothing to avoid this time, and she could step on it.

However, Li Ang squeezed it several times, but Senior Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, who was left behind, did not continue to take steps and remained silent. A grief that almost overflowed rushed into Li Ang's heart along the palms they held tightly together.

"Auntie Auntie Ai Ma, my daughter..."

Following that grief that almost split his heart in half, Li Ang only felt his ears ache slightly, and a call full of sadness and slight resentment, but also full of worry and reluctance, trembled into his eardrum.

"Six years... how have you been?"

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