With both feet stretched in front, one of them was bare.
The shoe that was thrown away was thrown into the river with thin ice.
After walking for a while, my socks were worn out and a layer of black mud was accumulated in the soles of my feet. The wound on the soles of my feet was still bleeding. Fortunately, someone was carrying it on his back and there was no need to walk by himself.
The sky was gloomy and it seemed to be raining.
A huge hole was torn during the fight, hanging on his body with breathlessness, unable to cover the wind, and the cold penetrated into his clothes.
He had no choice but to hold her tightly, his chest pressed against her back, trying to keep a little warmth in the cold wind.
"Sister Chaowu..."
She just entrusted him up.
The two had already walked a long way, and the Children's Welfare Home was right in front of them.
Someone was waiting at the gate of the welfare home, holding his arms with his hands, dressed in thin clothes, but he was calm and careless in the howling cold wind.
"Are you fighting again?"
"Um."
"I lost my shoes and my clothes were torn. I can't be bullied all the time... Haven't I fought back?"
She carried him on her back and explained to him: "There are older children."
"Oh, there's nothing I can do. Come in, go to the health room to treat the wound on your feet first."
"Um."
Lying on the bed in the health care room, the ceiling on the head was spliced with square composite plates, which turned yellowed under the influence of time.
He looked at the ceiling, and the two of them poked their heads out from the side to look at him.
"I'm going to disinfect the wound. If it hurts, shout it out and don't move around. Bell, press his feet."
"Um."
I don’t know how long I waited, but the pain I expected when the alcohol cotton touched the wound never came.
He turned his head, but found that the two people who were originally standing next to the hospital bed had disappeared.
"Ling...Teacher..."
The light and shadow change, the ward disappears, and there is a dim room in front of you.
"……Dream?"
Looking at the old furniture in the corner of the room, Zong Gu was stunned for a while and his consciousness slowly returned.
"pain……"
His head was aching and was so heavy that it was difficult to operate, but he still realized that this was not his room.
Familiar and unfamiliar, without windows, it should be an idle room on the first floor.
Soya rolled over and saw Akane Kirino who was sleeping in another quilt. She quickly remembered what happened last night.
"By the way... she and I are both drunk."
Looking at the red marks that had not yet faded on her forehead, the scene before she was drunk also reappeared in his mind.
At that time, she had just climbed in front of him:
"Does it feel like kissing? I know...because I..."
Dong!
Before she finished speaking, her arms softened, her body lay down without warning, and her forehead slammed on the floor.
"It hurts...wuwuwu..."
He wanted to help her up, but he fell down and fell into the wine all over the floor. He couldn't get up several times, so he lay down and decided to take a break before trying.
And he had no impression of what happened afterwards.
"And then have you slept until now..."
Soya sat for a while, and the drowsiness in his head finally faded. He looked at Akane Kirino who was still sleeping, and got up and left the room.
It is still sunny today, and there is a bright light outside, indicating that it is getting late.
When he arrived at the living room, he looked at the clock on the wall, and the hour hand was between X and XI.
"It's already past ten o'clock..."
Today is not a weekend, he is absent.
Zong Gu was stunned for a while and suddenly heard a sound of footsteps.
He poked his head out in the corridor, and Kirino Keiko, who was standing at the door of the room where he had been sleeping all night, also saw him immediately.
"I just said why is Zonggu missing?"
She pulled up the sliding door and asked her daughter to continue sleeping, "How about it, what's the feeling of being a hangover for the first time?"
“…”
Zong Gu was a little ashamed.
"Feel sorry."
Kirino Keiko laughed a few times and waved her hand again.
"Okay, don't care too much. The first time I drink fruit wine, this is the case. Because it tastes good, it tastes very comfortable, and I can't feel the smell of wine, so I will drink too much without realizing it... But this is a powerful way to use it.
It’s made of wine.”
She walked towards him, stopped again before she got completely close, raised her hand and waved her nose.
"It smells so strong that Soya should take a shower again."
"Um……"
"Didn't you feel anything when you taste the green plum wine?"
“…”
Zong Gu was silent.
How should he speak, saying that he actually drank two big glasses in one breath?
Fortunately, Kirino Keiko didn't care much about the details, but talked about how she tried her best to move her two drunken children to the guest room and let them lie honestly in the bedding.
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"I came over directly when I received the call from the bell, and then I saw Soya holding Akane lying on the floor of the utility room."
"……Yeah."
"Zonggu is a steady child, and his mother is very curious about the reasons why you drink."
She walked towards the kitchen and signaled Soya to follow, "Is it Akane's meaning?"
"It's almost the same."
Soya told him what he still remembered. After hearing this, Kirino Keiko looked back at him.
"Although the main responsibility is Akane, if Soya agreed from the beginning, it would not be like this now."
"Well... I'm not very interested in alcohol after all."
"How can I run an izakaya from now on?"
“…”
Zong Gu covered his forehead and said, "It hurts."
Kirino Keiko stared at him for a while, but she didn't know whether it was true or not.
"I cooked some quenching soup, and it happened to be cold. There is no way to recover immediately, but at least it can make your head and stomach feel much better."
"Yeah...thank you."
When he came to the kitchen, he drank the slightly bitter hangover soup, and Zong Gu's stomach started to scream quickly.
"I'll prepare lunch." Kirino Keiko said, "Soya first washes the smell of wine on her body. After lunch, go to bed for a while."
He shook his head, drank a whole bowl of quenching soup, and then said, "I'm going to school in the afternoon."
"Go to school?" Kirino Keiko looked at him in surprise, "Is it okay?"
"It's almost done..."
Zong Gu held the dining table. Although his body was still a little heavy, he was almost completely awake in his spirit.
"Don't force it."
"It's fine."
He didn't want to force himself, but he just experienced several emergencies - he was called by Noma Nan to deal with the spirit incident during class - his attendance rate was already a bit dangerous.
The absence this morning is irreparable, but rushing back to school before the lunch break is over, it should be considered that he has been there for a long time...
"All right."
Kirino Keiko looked at him a few more times, but didn't persuade him, just asked him to take a shower first and see if his daughter was about to wake up.
"OK."
When he arrived at the room where he had been sleeping all night, Zong Gu opened the sliding door and the smell of alcohol came towards him.
"How much did she drink..."
Last night, when he found Akane Kirino in the utility room, she was already drunk and unconscious. God knows how many cups of green plum wine she had drunk at that time.
...Of course, the smell of alcohol in the room would become so strong that he also made considerable contributions.
Walking to the bedding, Akane Kirino was buried in her pillow, still sleeping deeply, wearing yesterday's uniform.
Zong Gu squatted down, touched her face with his fingers, and his eyes fell on her slightly open lips again.
"Fortunately, she fell down first..."
It was hard for him to deny that at that time, he had no thoughts at all.
Alcohol will suppress rationality, and he doesn't want to drink any more.
......
At noon, when Soya was dragging his heavy body out, Akane Kirino was still sleeping deeply and still not waking up.
I arrived at school and it was the time when the lunch break was about to end.
Most of the students in Class A have returned to the classroom. When they saw Zong Gu appearing at the door of the classroom, they were talking for a while.
"Hey, have you heard that: Zong Gu spent the night at a rich woman's house last night and was only released yet..."
"Hey, no?"
"Otherwise, how could this be the case? I've seen it a lot."
“…”
Zong Gu glanced a few times and couldn't see who was talking nonsense at once, so he ignored it.
He walked into the classroom, and Yoshikawa and Asakiri were both watching him. The former only discovered that he and Akane Kirino were not awake when they came to school together this morning.
"Songya, are you okay... Has Akane come to school together?"
"I'm fine. She's still sleeping, Miss Kirino takes care of her in the old house." Soya said to Yoshikawa.
When he was about to return to his seat, he remembered another thing.
"I dreamed of a bell."
“…”
He looked at him at Wuling and nodded slightly.
Soya returned to his seat, Fushimi turned around and spoke, and Chairman Kinoshita Masato soon found him.
"Zonggu, you were absent in the morning."
"Um."
"Because I came here before the lunch break, you are attending normally this afternoon. I will also tell him about Teacher Shibasaki."
"Thank you, I've helped a lot."
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【Small theater related to or without the text】
Kinoshita Masaji: To be honest, I actually considered making Soya's attendance rate lower and then staying for one year.
Zong Gu: Then I will pick up your sister.
Kinoshita Masashita: Sorry!
[After there will be such a small theater, which will be posted on the book circle. I hope everyone can be more active and speak freely.]