The rising sun gradually rises, spreading the still tender sunshine. It has not yet reached the point where people feel hot, but it is warm.
After standing at the entrance of the Children's Welfare Home for a while, Zong Gu was about to say something to Chao Wuling when suddenly a figure came out of it. It was a middle-aged woman with long hair.
The two looked over together. Although they were a little older than two years ago, Zong Gu immediately recognized each other and his lips moved.
"Teacher Dansheng..."
She also recognized the two children at the door, and walked faster and faster, so she simply started jogging.
"Fangming! Ling!"
She hugged Zong Gu, let go, and looked at him left and right, then grabbed his arm tightly, and was unwilling to move his gaze for a second.
"Where have you been?"
"teacher……"
Saeko Dansheng, like the former Oritsuko, is one of the life teachers of Aoye Children's Welfare Institute. She is in her forties, and is not as young and beautiful as Oritsuko, but she is the second mother in the hearts of many children in the welfare institute.
She hadn't seen her for more than two years, and she seemed to have collapsed apart, and she had to raise her head when she saw him.
Zong Gu understood that he was growing too fast.
"Sorry, teacher..."
He took a step forward, hugged her for a while before letting go.
"I'm back."
Saeko Danyu stared at him for a while before looking at Aokiri beside her.
"Ling, you're back, too."
"teacher."
"Did Ling find Fangming?"
She looked at Zong Gu, grabbed his hand, and nodded, "Yes."
"That's great...I didn't expect that I could see you two again."
Saeko Danyu touched her head and held the hands of both of them, "Come in first."
Walking into the main building of the Children's Welfare Home, Zong Gu looked around and saw that everything in front of him seemed to have not changed at all, but it was different from before.
When passing the hall, the three met several children who looked less than ten years old.
"Teacher Dansheng--"
The young children greeted Saeko Danso, and then looked at him and Asukiri motionlessly. Their faces were either cold or curious, all of which were faces that Soya had never seen before.
It should be the child who was sent here in the past two years, he thought.
After passing through the hall and taking the two to their offices, when Saeko Danyu spoke again, the person she asked was Soya.
"Where has Fangming been going in the past two years? You suddenly disappeared, and even contacted relatives, they said they didn't know. Everyone thought you were kidnapped."
She was just an ordinary person. Zong Gu did not want to cause trouble for her, so he did not mention Huang Quan and the other world related to it.
On the way here, he had already made up a set of rhetoric.
"I was taken over by my father's former friend and stayed in Kinki. I was in a hurry and I didn't have time to tell everyone."
"Kinki... Is Yoshiaki's father's friend?" Saeko Danyu didn't have much doubts, but just complained that he shouldn't leave without saying a word.
"Uncle said that he will deal with matters in the welfare home and relatives, so that I don't have to worry about it..."
"——So Fangming didn't even say hello? Someone was willing to give Fangming a home, and the teacher was very happy, but at least I had to know about it." Saeko Dansheng still missed his farewell without saying goodbye.
“I’m really sorry…”
"After Fangming disappeared, everyone was worried that the teacher in the welfare home was looking for you everywhere nearby like crazy. Whenever he had time, he would send flyers near the station to find your whereabouts. Because Fangming disappeared so suddenly.
”
"sorry……"
It was originally written, and Zong Gu did not refute it for a while.
His eyes fell on Asukiri, who was on the side, and Saeko Danyu added: "Before Lin left the welfare home, she was crying for Fangming all day."
“…”
It was only then that he was really surprised.
Looking at Chao Wuling, she said nothing, didn't look at him, just pretending that she didn't hear it.
"Does Suzu still live with Miss Shinobu?" asked Saeko Danyu.
"Before it was." At Mizure glanced at Soya, "I met Aki in Kyoto later and now I live with him."
"Is that right... you are still the same as before, inseparable, and you are together everywhere you go."
Saeko Dansheng looked at the two and suddenly asked, "Does Fangmei plan to marry Ling?"
"...Teacher, it's too early to say this."
She did not refute, but nodded according to his intention:
"That's right. Although I believe in Fangming and Ling, marriage is a very important thing and must be carefully considered. There are many children here who are thrown over by irresponsible parents who have been married and irresponsible.
”
“You are talking about…”
After sighing, Saeko Danyu asked some other things she cared about.
"After that being said, Fang Ming is seventeen years old this year? Are you still in school?"
"Yes. I went to a high school next to Lake Biwa, and Lin was with me."
"Is Lake Biwa? It's such a good place... Miss Orange, what job is she doing now? It's really rare for people as young as her to be teachers in the welfare home. When I first came, I thought she couldn't hold on for long.
I didn’t expect to do it for more than ten years.”
"Teacher Juicy's words... are in retirement..."
"What?"
"No... she is now living in Kyoto, and I don't know very well what she is doing."
Saeko Dansu didn't have much free time. After chatting for a few words, she was called out by a child. It seemed that the children who were playing in the hall had just started fighting.
She lets the two of them be at will, stay in the office or stroll around in the welfare home.
Soya said he wanted to sit in the office for a while.
"Is what the teacher just said true?"
Chao Wuling squatted down in front of a pot of green plants, reached out to touch the wide leaves, "What."
"Things that Ling shed tears for me."
She didn't look back, "Yeah."
Zonggu looked at her side face, "I haven't seen Ling crying yet."
She looked over and said, "Do you want to see it?"
"I don't want to." Soya shook his head, "If possible, I hope Ling will never cry."
He turned to Wuling again, and nodded after a while.
"Um."
After a while, a burst of hurried footsteps rang out of the office.
"Fangming!"
Another familiar welfare home teacher came here.
Soya stood up and smiled, "Gao Morita, long time no see."
He was waiting here to say hello to the welfare home staff who had taken care of him.
"I heard that Fang Ming is back?"
"Fangming and Ling are back?"
The two of them stayed in the office for more than half an hour and met many familiar people. They said the same reason for disappearance over and over again and again, and Zong Gu almost believed it to be true.
"If you are now, you live in Shiga's Koko City..."
"My father's friend's surname is Kirino, who runs an izakaya. I occasionally go over to help."
"Mr. Juicy's current situation? I don't know much about it..."
In addition to the staff of the welfare home, some children heard that Sonogu and Aoburi were back, and they also came to say hello to them.
After the age of sixteen, if you fail to get into a public high school, you have to leave the welfare home and work to make a living by yourself. Therefore, there are few people left in the same age, all of whom are girls.
"What does a high school look like in Kinki?"
"Is Kinki in Kyoto? I haven't been to Kyoto yet. It would be great if I could go to Kyoto for study tours. I want to go to Kiyomizu Temple to see... is it too far?"
"Fangming and Ling still live together? Have you dated? Will you get married in the future?"
While chatting, my former companion took the two of them to wander around the children's welfare home.
“Nothing has changed here.”
"There is not much change. But everyone has changed."
"That's natural, not an elderly person. I also think Fangming is taller and more handsome than before. Only Ling seems to have no changes at all, but her small body, her small chest... it hurts.
”
Zong Gu first went to the room he and Chaowuling had lived in and took a look.
After Zong Gu disappeared and Ao Muri left the welfare home, the room was redistributed, and now one of the girls who accompanied him lived.
Apart from evacuating a bed, the appearance of the room did not change much, and there were even stickers left by him behind the door.
"Fangming's things didn't move much, and most of them were still in the room. Do you want to take them away?"
"My stuff?"
She dragged a familiar box from under the bed, "For example, clothes and books, they are all here."
During that poor period, he had no much stuff.
Zong Gu squatted down and looked around for a while, then shook his head again, "No need. If you think you have space, throw it away."
"Then keep putting it here."
Another girl next to her laughed, "Bongzi must use Fangming's clothes as a side dish."
"Don't talk nonsense!... Do you want one?"
"OK."
"I said you..."
Zong Gu turned his head and paused.
A few children who had never seen before were leaning out at the door, avoiding his sight, and whispered to ask the familiar sister who was the high school brother and the junior high school sister.
"They are also children who came out of the welfare home. Now they are back to visit everyone."
"Visit...no gift?"
"Hey, Sa too, you're too ignorant."
Zong Gu was stunned for a moment.
He didn't prepare any gifts because he didn't think he was a person who came back from outside.
But he was already the one who came back from outside.
"Sorry, I forgot."
Zong Gu smiled at the children and looked at several companions, "I want to go to the mall to buy some gifts, so you can also get them for me."
"Is there any of us?"
"certainly."
"Then let's go."
After saying hello to the teacher, several people left the children's welfare home and walked towards the station.
"Do you want to buy it at the Central Station? By the way, today is the last day of the Qixi Festival, and it must be very lively there." One of the girls said.
"That's too far." Another girl shook her head, "We are not going shopping. The teacher said just now that we will go back before noon."
"What's the matter? Fang Ming is here, the teacher will definitely not be angry."
“That’s true.”
"Don't always use me as a shield..."
"Who makes teachers like Fang Ming the most?"
Having said that, they didn't go too far.
I took a tram stop and went to the nearest mall. Zong Gu and the girls were temporarily separated to choose the boy's gifts, while Chao Muling was pulled by them to choose the girls' gifts.
"No matter what age a boy, he should not be able to refuse the mecha..."
Zong Gu walked around the toy area and picked among a bunch of mecha toys.
Whether he wants to or not, in children's welfare homes, children's toys are circulating, and he chooses different toys as much as possible.
The more and more models and mechas were piled up in the cart, and Zong Gu felt that it was not enough, so he walked through one row of shelves and got into another row of shelves.
“——Songya?”
He stopped and looked at the female salesperson in the mall who suddenly spoke, and was also stunned for a moment.
"Nanai?"
"It's Fang Ming..."
She smiled and immediately walked closer, "It's really you, aren't you kidnapped? Why have you been missing for so long?"
“It’s a long story…”
Soguchi made a long story short, and skillfully repeated the words he had said countless times.
“So that’s how it is.”
Nana nodded slowly, and complained a little, "I liked Fang Ming at that time. You suddenly disappeared without any news. I was sad for half a year and didn't come out."
Soya just smiled, "Sorry."
"I just saw Renmi and the others. Did they come with Fangming?"
"Well, I want to buy some gifts for everyone in the welfare home. They are here to help."
"Yeah."
"Is Nana working in the mall now?"
"Yes." Nana shrugged her shoulders, "Who made me not get into the prefecture high school entrance exam? I moved out of the welfare home last year and now I live with Chihui. By the way, our apartment is nearby, I want to
Come and sit down?"
Sonoya smiled, "Next time."
"All right."
The two chatted for a few more times, and when they saw a middle-aged man who looked like a supervisor, he was paying attention to this place. Sonogu reminded him quietly, and Nana didn't talk to him more.
"I won't bother you..."
Soya pushes the shopping cart and continues forward.
"Who was that handsome guy just now?"
Nana turned her head and a female colleague came over at some point. She bent over and pretended to be sorting out the shelves, while her eyes were staring at Soya who was choosing toys.
"friend."
"Average friend?"
“I used to live in the same children’s welfare home.”
"Is that true, I really can't see..."
"Of course I can't tell." Nana shook her hair, "He is the lucky one to be adopted, and he is also very good, and I am just a fool who has no adoption and cannot get into high school. We are people from two worlds.
”
The female colleague looked at her and said after a while: "But you look pretty good at talking."
"It just looks like he's doing that to everyone."
Nana walked towards the shelves on the other side.
"When I was in the welfare home, no girl could become ambiguous with him, but no one could think of getting closer to him... except for the loli who couldn't grow up."
"Loli?"
The female colleague was unclear, and Nana had disappeared between the shelves.
After looking at Zong Gu who was still bent down to pick up toys, she returned to her work area.
Several girls walked towards each other with laughter, pushing a shopping cart full of various dolls, leading a small girl who looked like she was a junior high school student.
"Um... Loli?"
Scandal her at Wuling.
"Fangming--"
Zong Gu raised his head and several people came over with the cart.
"By the way, are we buying too much... these should cost a lot of money."
"Money is not a problem." Sonogu looked at the two carts that were almost full, "I'm afraid that there will be too many to get it."
Putting the last toy in the shopping cart, he said, "Let's go back by taxi."
After checking the bill and leaving the mall, Zong Gu picked up the two heaviest bags, and the smaller bags were carried by several girls in turn.
Two taxis were called. To facilitate checkout, Zong Gu and Chao Muling each took one, and the gifts were put into the trunk.
Before he drove far, Zong Gu suddenly signaled the driver to stop on the side of the road for a while.
"Please wait a moment."
The car stopped on the side of the road, he got out and got into the bookstore on the side of the road.
The two girls who were riding with him were watching in the car, "What else do Fangming want to buy? Books?"
"Cartoons, boys like to read that kind of thing. A comic can keep them quiet for at least half an hour."
A little while later, Zong Gu came out with two bags.
"Wow... how much did you buy."
"There are at least dozens of books."
"Is Fangming's adoptive father actually a rich man?"
"Fangming said it was the money he made himself."
"I want to go with Fangming."
"Suddenly, I want to."
Putting the comics in the trunk, Soya returned to the passenger seat and sat down, looking back at the two of them.
"What are you laughing at?"
"Can Fangmei take us to Kinki?"
"cannot."
"Look, I'm laughing at Yoko's whimsical thoughts."
"I'm laughing at Inmi too."
Zong Gu also smiled and turned back.
The other taxi did not stop and wait, so when they returned to the welfare home, Chao Wuling and others were already carrying their things in.
After moving the toys and comics down, Soya asked the two girls to wait at the door and transport them by himself.
Looking at his back, Yoko sighed, "I still like Fang Ming."
Renmi didn't say anything, but nodded.
"But it's only until you like it."
"Hey, I want to marry Fangming and have children and live a lifetime together."
Yoko glanced at Inmi, "Really?"
"Just joking."
"really……"
Renmi bent down and carried the bag containing the comics. She found it was too heavy and put it down again.
"That guy is a little more mature than before, and feels more attractive...but it has become even worse in some aspects."
Yoko continued: "I am used to ambiguity and never give my sincerity. I doubt whether he really likes girls... He and Ling can't see much of the feeling of a couple, but it's the same as before."
"Even if I can date Fangming, I will feel insecure."
"I really want to see what it looks like when he really likes someone..."
After a while, Zong Gu, who had put down his things, walked out, and several children were following him.
"Wow... Sa Tai didn't dare to talk to Fangming just now."
“Correled by money.”
"Corroded... Fangming!"
Sonoya looked over, "What?"
"Even I have corroded!"
“…what did you say.”
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