Dark King 2

Hearing their words, Du Di'an's eyes flashed, but he remained silent.

"What a pity. Di'an has a poor mind. Otherwise, with his appearance and physique, he would definitely be chosen by those people," Barton suddenly sighed after chatting for a while. He glanced at Du Di'an and said regretfully.

The other children looked at Du Di'an, who showed no reaction, and all shook their heads and sighed.

They had already agreed that no matter who was adopted, they would do their best to come back and help the remaining people. Just in terms of appearance, Du Di'an was undoubtedly the most likely to be adopted. However, having a problem with his mind was even more serious than having a physical problem. For example, the child whose half of his face was covered with fleshy bumps, although he looked terrifying, had sound hands and feet and a normal IQ. At least he could do manual labor and find a job.

"Hmph, a bunch of disabled things still want to compete with us for the chance of being adopted," sneered a thin child sitting nearby when he heard Barton and the others' words.

His words immediately attracted the attention of others. For a moment, disdainful and disgusted looks were cast on Du Di'an, Barton, and the others.

Compared with the deformed children, those of them who were physically sound but abandoned had a stronger sense of resentment in their hearts.

Du Di'an glanced at these people indifferently and said nothing. Although he was also a child, having seen a lot, he had a depth of mind that many adults did not possess.

In the eyes of these people, his appearance was just "stupid and dull."

"Look at this fool. He doesn't even understand when he's being scolded."

"What a mentally disabled guy. No wonder he was abandoned!"

"Still want to be adopted? Just wait obediently to be sent to the mine to mine after turning thirteen!"

These children did not hide their contempt and disgust at all and even took pleasure in it.

At this moment, the food was served. The middle-aged woman who brought them here softly喝道, "Be quiet. Don't you want to eat?"

Hearing this, the arrogance of these children subsided. They looked innocent, as if nothing had happened just now.

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The next day.

The silver-gray dark clouds gradually spread out, and the sunlight shone on the slums.

During the disaster rainy season, this was a rare and fine sunny day.

Coincidentally, today was also a long-awaited big day for the children of Meishan Orphanage — Adoption Day!

All the families that had made prior appointments came to the orphanage on this day to choose the children they were satisfied with.

Early in the morning, Du Di'an got up on time. Although there was no alarm clock in this world, his biological clock had never been wrong. After getting up, he tidied up his quilt, washed his face and mouth with the well water that had been simply filtered. He picked up another set of coarse cloth clothes beside the pillow that had been washed until they turned white. Just as he was about to change into them, he suddenly felt a soft small ball inside. He took it out and saw that it was a purple handkerchief crumpled into a ball.

Du Di'an was slightly stunned and couldn't help but think of the little girl who led him to this orphanage on that cold dark night. It was a pity that it was so dark that he couldn't see her appearance clearly. During the three months he had been in the orphanage, he naturally knew that those who could afford such exquisite fabric were definitely the upper-class people in the outer district.

There were still black stains left on the handkerchief from wiping his face, which couldn't be washed off.

After being silent for a while, Du Di'an put the handkerchief into his arms, then changed his clothes and rushed to the open space outside the orphanage.

Although there was only one pair of parents in his heart, he had to make himself be adopted as soon as possible. If a child was not adopted by the age of thirteen, the orphanage would give up raising him and send him to the mine controlled by the "Meishan Coal Mine Chamber of Commerce" behind Meishan Orphanage to mine coal, becoming a permanently free laborer until he died of exhaustion or old age, and would never have the chance to see the light of day again.

Just like Du Di'an, on this day, all the children in the orphanage "dressed up" for the occasion. They all washed themselves clean and put on the clothes that they had been reluctant to wear for a long time. These clothes were all the coarse cloth clothes distributed when they first entered the orphanage.

If your body smells bad, no one will want to get close to you.

This was what Auntie Dai had told them.

Looking around, in front of the sandy ground soaked by the accumulated rain in front of the orphanage, there was a large group of children, but they were faintly divided into two camps: the physically sound and the deformed.

After all the children stood in their places, the adults who came to adopt them, led by Auntie Dai and other caregivers of the orphanage, came in front of the children and sized up this group of orphans who might become their children.

"Hello, uncles and aunts."

Under Auntie Dai's instruction, except for Du Di'an and a few other deformed children who couldn't speak, all the other children obediently greeted them. Their bright black eyes were full of innocence, and they looked at the adults with longing and hope on their faces. This eager gaze made some adults feel sad and couldn't bear it.

Soon, Du Di'an, who was thin but tall in stature, became the target of all the adults' attention. His pale complexion as white as snow was really eye-catching, and his temperament was completely different from that of the children around him. The adults couldn't exactly say what was different, but they just felt that this child was very calm and had an air of nobility. That's right, it was an air of nobility.

This surprised many adults. They didn't expect that there would be such an outstanding child in the orphanage in the slums.

For a moment, many adults were tempted.