The sun's shadow moves westward, and it's still early.
Although it was already April, the breeze was still a little chill.
“…”
After walking for a while, he distanced himself from his fellow travelers, raised his head to Wuling, and found that he had stopped and turned around to wait for her.
She speeds up and follows him.
"I'm still a little uncomfortable." Sonoya said.
"Um."
"The county center is too far from the children's welfare home." He was wearing the black county center uniform that he had just put on his body a few days ago, and his schoolbag was also changed, and he was carried on the other hand. "You have to take the bus when you come and go back,
It takes more than an hour to go on the road every day.”
“Not too far.”
“Isn’t this far?”
He nodded at Wuling, "Just get used to it."
After looking at the sailor suit on her body, Zong Gu looked forward again.
"When I first saw the bell, I thought it was a middle school student... In a blink of an eye, I became a middle school student myself, and the bell still looks like this."
He paused for a moment, looked at the horizon and sighed.
"Time flies."
“…”
The young man pretended to be old and made her want to laugh a little, but if she really laughed, it would cause him to be dissatisfied. At this age, even he became much more sensitive than before, and he cared about other people's sight.
and evaluation.
"Um."
"After these days, I feel pretty good. Let's go and see which clubs can join tomorrow." Soya said again, "Anyway, there is nothing to do when I go back too early. Yoko and Inmi seem to have plans, and today they both
Didn't go back with us."
He nodded at Wuling, "Okay."
“The bus stops very far.”
"Um."
After crossing the intersection and walking for a while, the two of them arrived at the bus platform near the middle school, waiting for the bus to the children's welfare home.
"——Little Bandian, are you really a middle school student?"
He glanced at Wuling and ignored it.
Before they came, there were already several students in the same uniforms waiting on the platform. One or two of them looked a little familiar, but they seemed to be classmates.
"Hey, I'm talking to you."
A hand reached towards her, but she was caught halfway through.
"Can't you tell?" Soya quickly let go of the man's wrist and blocked Aokiri's face again. "If you remember correctly, you are Kobayakawa from our class."
"Who are you?"
The other party rubbed his wrist and looked at him a few times, "You are so tall, you are from the first grade?"
Zong Gu looked at him, "Type A, Zong Gu Fang Ai."
"Sotani?" Kobayakawa looked at his companion around, "Is there anyone in our class?"
"It's from our class, and the girls around me have been talking about him these days." One of the boys said, "It seems to be a child from an orphanage, and so is the little guy next to him."
“…”
Zong Gu frowned, "It's a children's welfare home."
"That's what I called before. Because it was not very nice, it was changed to the so-called 'children's welfare home'. Isn't it the same thing?" the man said again.
Zong Gu glanced at him.
Ignorance child.
Even when I go to middle school, I am still as naive as primary school students and will not care about other people's feelings.
He didn't want to pay attention to it anymore, so he pulled Chao Wuling to stand aside.
"But now, there are also parents who directly throw their children into orphanages."
Several boys on the other side started to talk again.
"My neighbor's son was unwilling to take care of him after giving birth to a child. His wife ran away with another man, and then threw the six-year-old daughter to the orphanage, and went to make steel balls all day long..."
"It's so bad."
"But there is nothing we can do about this. After all, how can a big man take care of his children?"
"Well, don't you have a baby at the beginning."
"This... don't tell me!"
After arguing for a while, someone suddenly remembered the reason for talking about this topic.
"What's the name over there?... By the way, Zong Gu, are you an orphan? Or have you been abandoned by your biological parents?"
“…”
Zong Gu turned his head and glanced at him expressionlessly.
"Wow...the eyes are so scary."
"You poked someone's sore spot."
"Sorry."
After staring at the other party for a while, Zong Gu retracted his gaze and whispered to Chao Wuling: "Even if you go to middle school, there will still be such people."
"Yeah." She responded and grabbed his hand.
Seeing the bus coming from afar, Zong Gu felt a little relieved.
"Is that little girl his sister?"
"No... they don't seem to have the same surname."
"Where are they holding hands, girlfriend?"
"Who knows."
"I'll go and ask."
Yu Guang saw someone coming over, Zong Gu couldn't help sighing and frowned even tighter.
It’s okay if you are ignorant, but you still have a ghost, it’s really troublesome.
"Your sister?" The person who came over was Kobayakawa, who was in the same class as them.
"no."
"girlfriend?"
Zong Gu turned his head to look at him without answering: "Is there anything you have to do?"
"Just a little curious." Kobayakawa shrugged, "At the time, where is your orphanage? I don't seem to have heard of any such institution nearby."
"It's a children's welfare home." Looking at the bus that was more than ten meters away, Soya explained patiently, "In Aoba District."
"Hello--"
Kobayakawa turned his head and looked at his companion, "Is there an orphanage in Aoba District?"
"I don't know."
"I haven't heard of it." Kobayakawa turned around, "You're not lying to me, are you."
Soya looked at the bus getting closer and closer, "Because there is no orphanage there, only Aoba Children's Welfare Home."
"I said...you care so much about the word 'orphan', is it really an orphan?"
Zong Gu moved his eyes, "Yes."
Kobayakawa leaned forward and looked at Aokiri beside him, "You are also alone..."
Before she could answer, a fist hit her face, quickly enlarged in front of her eyes, and directly knocked him to the ground.
"Um!"
The bus has stopped.
A kick made Kobayakawa roll on the ground for a while, and Soya followed him again, and stopped again when he was about to hit him in the face, and then kicked him in the stomach.
"ah……"
The fallen little Hayakawa bowed his body, bent like shrimps, moaning constantly. The boys on the other side were stunned, and no one dared to step closer.
"Get on the car." Soya said to Chaomuling.
She boarded the bus and found an empty seat in the back row to sit down.
Soya also turned around and stood at the car door, looking at Kobayakawa and his companions expressionlessly.
No one dares to get in the car.
After a while, the door finally closed and the bus restarted.
The car body shook, and Zong Gu grabbed the handrail and walked to Chao Wuling to sit down.
"You're fighting again."
"Um."
His emotions have not yet calmed down, but he has calmed down a lot in his heart, "I can't help it."
He looked at him at Mizure, "I don't care."
She could see that he couldn't help but act because Kobayakawa offended her.
Zong Gu looked out the window and the bus had started, and soon left several students who had not boarded the platform behind.
"I care."
Chao Wuling didn't say anything, leaned against his shoulder.
Stop and stop and continue the bus.
Some people got in the car, some got out, and drove towards Aoba District in the north of Sendai City.
Because he has just started commuting by bus recently, he always unconsciously worried that he has been on the station and is extremely sensitive to site information.
"Um."
Chao Wuling also stood up and grabbed his arm.
Pressing the drop-off button, the two waited for a while, the bus slowed down and stopped at the platform.
After getting off the bus, the Children's Welfare Home is not far away.
“…”
Zong Gu took a breath and suddenly felt a little nervous.
"Are we back too early?"
He glanced at Wuling and understood that he was worried that the teacher of the welfare home would know about the fight just now, but he was embarrassed to say it outright.
"It's fine."
"Um……"
As soon as she walked into the welfare home, she ran into life teacher Saeko Dansheng, and Soya subconsciously avoided her sight.
"Fangming--"
But she even called him.
The two stopped, "Teacher Dansheng..."
"I've been back so early."
"Yes."
"Are you still used to it these days?"
Zong Gu looked at Chao Wuling beside him and nodded to say that he was used to it.
"Where is Yoko and the others? Didn't they come back with you?"
"Yoko and Hitomi have both joined the club, and I don't know what others say."
Saeko Dansheng nodded, and Soya Gang breathed a sigh of relief, and she said again: "Fangming comes with me."
“…”
Already know?
He was a little depressed and did not reveal it. He carried the schoolbag in his hand, "I want to put the things back first."
Saeko Danyu wanted to speak but stopped, but she didn't say anything.
"OK."
Back at the room on the second floor, Zong Gu put down his schoolbag and sat on the bed for a while.
"Has Fang Ming fought again?"
“…”
He raised his head and looked at the other girl who lived together, "How did Nana see it?"
"Hmph."
Nana lay on the edge of the upper bunk, and the collar drooped down, "I can see all the thoughts of Fang Ming."
His eyes swept across her chest intentionally or unintentionally, Zong Gu felt a little hot, but he turned his eyes away.
"Canna can tell that Teacher Dansheng is angry?"
"The teacher is not here." The girl lay down even lower, "Do you want me to go over and ask Fangming for some?"
"Forget it." Sogo took a deep breath, stood up, took off his coat and threw it on the bed, "I'm over."
Pick.
The door opened and closed, Nana fell back to the bed, looking at the ceiling close to Chi Chi.
"I'm peeking..."
She pulled the collar of her chest and became stunned again, and her hands fell down unconsciously.
"Oops……"
The shock when touched made Nana's body shake and also made her come to her senses.
Although there is no sense of existence, there are still others in the room.
She lay down to the edge again and looked at the girl sitting on her lower bunk.
"bell."
He raised his head to Wuling, with no expression on his face, as if he only realized that she was lying on it at this time.
"Ling and Fangming came back very early today, it's quite far away from the county center."
"I'm back after school."
"Didn't join the club?"
"Don't Nana come back now?"
Even earlier than her and Sonogu.
Nana lay down and her eyes fell on the black uniform on the lower bunk opposite.
"My school is incomparable to you... I don't want to stay in school, I'm back as soon as I'm done."
She climbed out of bed and picked up Sonoya's uniform coat.
“The uniforms in the county…”
Watching her put on his coat, she pursed her lower lip at Mizuling.
"The smell of Fangming..."
Nana lowered her head and sniffed.
On the other side, Soya came to the office, and Saeko Danyu was making a phone call.
Holding the microphone, she gestured to him to wait a moment with her eyes.
Soya felt that the phone call was here to complain. While pretending not to care, he was extremely concerned about Saeko Dansheng's expression.
For the children in the welfare home, Mr. Dansheng, who is already in his forties, is like another mother. And her mother has never only had a gentle and tolerant side, and she is the same.
He was "fortunate" to experience the thunderous wrath of this mother several times.
“…”
He was very nervous. After a while, Zong Gu noticed that another teacher next to him was looking at him with a smile.
"Teacher Orange..."
The Orange Emperor, who looks only in his twenties, is the youngest life teacher in the Children's Welfare Institute and is also very beautiful. He has been like this since he first came here a few years ago.
She held her chin and said, "Didn't Fangming go to middle school? She came back very early today."
"I came back right after school."
"real?"
“…”
Does Teacher Ju also know?
“…Okay, I get it.”
After putting down the phone, Saeko Danyu did not speak directly, but stared at him for a while.
I know this way...
Or would it be better to take the initiative to admit your mistakes?
Zong Gu organized the reason he couldn't help but take action in his heart, trying to make the brewing thunder slightly subside.
Just tell the truth, he thought.
"Fang Akira has grown up." Saeko Danso suddenly spoke.
"Eh?" Zong Gu was stunned.
"It's time for you to move out of the girls' room." Saeko Danyu said, "In that room, except Yoshiaki, there are all girls. I think about it, there are Suzu, Nana and..."
In a daze, Soya added another roommate's name, "Chenghui."
"Is it Qianhui? I always thought it was Yoko... By the way, it was Qianhui."
He grew too fast, Saeko Danyu had to look up at him.
"Before Fangming went to school, I should have asked you to change rooms, but I have been busy completing the admission procedures for you recently. I really can't take time, so I have been delaying it until now."
"so……"
"Fang Akira will move out today." Saeko Danyu said, "From today, Fang Akira will be able to live in the double room on the third floor."
Zong Gu was stunned for a while, but he never expected that he would be called because of this.
But he was not too surprised, after all, this is how the children's rooms have been arranged in the welfare home.
"I see."
Moved to the double room on the third floor... I don’t know who my roommate will be in the future.
Several names of boys of the same age popped up in my mind, each of which made Zong Gu frown.
Isn't there anyone who is as mature as him?
"Let's go."
He came to his senses and found that the person who wanted to go with him was Emperor Ju.
"Teacher Orange?"
"I'll make arrangements." She said to Saeko Danyu, "It just so happened that I'm looking for something to do."
Saeko Danyu didn't think much, "Please, please."
Emperor Ju smiled slightly and pushed him on Zong Gu's back, asking him to lead the way in front.
If Saeko Dansheng plays the role of a mother in the children's welfare home, the young face of the Oritsuko is like a college student, then she is more like an older sister;
A smile often hangs on her face - at least he has never seen her angry before - and with a beautiful face, she can always attract many attentions.
Zong Gu didn't have any special feelings for her, but some boys of the same age or older in the welfare home were fascinated by her and often made some extraordinary actions to try to attract her attention, although they usually only attracted Dansheng.
Saeko's thunderous wrath.
For him, the more special thing about Orange Emperor is his intimate relationship with Ling.
He looked cold to everyone, but he trusted her very much. He heard from other teachers that the two of them also came to the children's welfare home together.
Their ages were as mysterious as they were, he thought again.
"What are Fang Ming thinking?" Emperor Ju asked suddenly.
Zong Gu's expression remained unchanged, "I was wondering why the teacher came to the Children's Welfare Home?"
Emperor Ju didn't feel abrupt at all and replied, "I just wanted to find a place to stay for a while."
"After a while..."
It has been several years since he entered the children's welfare home.
"How old is the teacher this year?"
"Fang Ming is really rude when he actually asked about the age of a young woman."
"Feel sorry."
"If Fangming can guess Ling's age, I will tell you."
"Twelve years old?"
"it's a pity."
"Thirteen years old?"
"Is Fangming still a guess like this? There is only one chance."
"All right."
Back to the room on the second floor, Chie from Nana's middle school has already returned.
"Fangming...ah, Teacher Ju."
Qianhui was squeezing Nana's uniform. Soya didn't care when he first looked at it, but then he realized that it was his uniform.
"Hey, don't tear my clothes."
"Press her for me!"
Nana, who had been resisting, opened her arms to Soya, "If it was Yoshiaki, it would be fine."
Qianhui took the opportunity to pull off the sleeve on one side, "Don't be in heat here..."
Nana began to fight to the death again.
Emperor Ju didn't care about the two girls' fights and looked at their room, "Fangming doesn't seem to have much stuff."
"Only some clothes. By the way, there are some books under the bed."
"Then start cleaning up."
Zong Gu responded, then dragged out the cardboard box under the bed.
Chie and Nana stopped fighting and looked at him up and down: "What are Fang Ming doing?"
“Move out.”
“Eh?”
The two were stunned at the same time.
"Why……"
"Because Yoshimi is already a middle school student." said the Hokage Emperor. "Nana and Chie are also cleaning up. This room is for other children to live in. You also have to go upstairs to stay in a double room."
The two looked at each other, feeling happy and reluctant.
"That Fangming..."
"Fangming and Ling will continue to live in the same room."