25. Bullying
When Anwen came up again, Shen Ling was still taking a bath in the bathroom, and he helped Shen Ling make the bed when he was fine.
Shen Ling washed for more than half an hour, and after washing, he changed into clean and refreshing clothes and walked out, and the millet mouse was also washed by him and stood on his head. Seeing that An Wen was helping him sort out his things, Shen Ling walked over and grabbed An Wen's arm that didn't stop.
Shen Ling's hair was still wet and sticking to his face, and the water dripped down his hair on An Wen's arm, An Wen raised his head, not understanding what Shen Ling was going to do. Shen Ling held back for a long time, and finally spit out the word "Xie" from his mouth. He hadn't spoken for so long that he had forgotten how to speak.
An Wen grinned and said, "No thanks, we will all live together in the future and take care of each other." β
An Wen found that although Shen Ling's skin was a little darker, his facial features were quite good-looking, and then he saw the little fat standing on top of Shen Ling's head, his face twitched, and he took a step back.
Shen Ling grabbed the little fat from the top of his head, took a newly collared dry towel and sat on the table next to him to wipe it. After the hair on Xiaopang's body dried a little, it lit up its white fluff at An Wen, who had been standing curiously behind Shen Ling and looking at him, although it was still a little gray.
"Your little mouse is white, and it's pretty cute." Anwen said.
Chubby was immediately caught by Anwen's words, waving his two little paws and chirping.
Stupid mortals! (β―β΅β‘β²)β―οΈ΅β»ββ»
"But you'd better keep an eye on it, orphans are not allowed to keep pets in the yard, and if the life teacher finds out, it will be thrown away immediately. Everyone else in our dormitory is easy to say, but Xiao Yan, who slept on your bed, has a broken mouth, so you should pay attention. β
Shen Ling nodded, and gently smoothed the hair on the chubby back.
Ever since he left Linus River Town, Chubby had been with him, and now that it was his only relative, he wouldn't let it be.
After An Wen helped Shen Ling tidy up a qiΔ together, it was already close to the time for afternoon dinner, An Wen asked Shen Ling to bring the lunch box and go to the canteen on the first floor of another building together.
In order not to let others find out about Xiaopang, Shen Ling left it in the room. He had always found that Chubby could understand human language, so he told him not to run around before following Anwen away.
On the way, Anwen briefly introduced the situation in the orphanage to Shen Ling, this orphanage only accepts male orphans, and female orphans in the city are generally sent to the church's monastery. There are not many children in the orphanage, only about 30, and three of them are disabled. These orphans are usually abandoned or their parents leave their children alone and are awarded to orphanages by court ruling.
Soon they arrived at the canteen of the orphanage, the canteen was not large, and there were only two windows for cooking. From the window to the entrance, there are about a dozen rows of fixed blue tables and chairs.
Because there was no one in the breakfast cafeteria they came to, the two quickly got to dinner, and An Wen took Shen Ling to eat and found a table to sit down.
Shen Ling looked at the white pile of mud-like things on the plate, and he didn't have any appetite.
In the time of wandering, Shen Ling had eaten this kind of thing many times. This kind of puree-like food is called a nutrient, which has no taste, fills the stomach, and is said to provide the basic nutrients that the human body needs. But this nutrient of the worst grade is quite unpalatable, and there is a very heavy smell of industrial plastic in the mouth.
"Don't worry, you don't eat this every day." An Wen comforted Shen Ling, but it was obvious that he was not very satisfied with today's food either, frowning and stuffing it into his mouth one by one.
Boys of all sizes slowly came to the cafeteria, and soon the cafeteria was full.
Shen Ling always felt that a gaze had fallen on him, and he looked up and found that every orphan who passed by where he was sitting had to look sideways at him.
"It's like that for every newcomer." An Wen comforted Shen Ling and said, "It's good that everyone gets used to it in two days." β
At this time, an Asian child who was as thin as a hemp stick, looked very young, and had no facial features to grow, sat next to An Wen with a lunch box, and asked him with a grin, "The one next to you is the new orphan?" What's his name? β
"Shen Ling." Anwen replied.
The child smiled, poked his head over and said to Shen Ling, "My name is Xiao Yan, and I also live in dormitory 503. β
Shen Ling lowered his head, didn't look at Xiao Yan and didn't speak.
Xiao Yan didn't care about his cold ass with a hot face, he simply sat next to Shen Ling with his lunch box and chatted with him.
"I tell you, don't be afraid to come here, everyone is the same, no father or mother or father and mother don't want it. However, there are actually a lot of factions in the courtyard, and you must keep a low profile at ordinary times, but don't step on the thunder. Xiao Yan lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "The first thing in the courtyard that can't be offended is the Magic Mountain, that guy will go out next year, and he will be fierce, but he usually doesn't come to the canteen, and the little orphans bring him food to eat." And then there is the skinny monkey next to him who rises to power by patting him on the back, they are from the white faction, and the average white orphan here takes refuge in them. β
Xiao Yan stretched out his hand, cautiously pointed in the direction of the edge of the cafeteria, and said, "Then there are the black people, there are few black people, only three orphans. They are all big orphans, and they fight especially hard. However, they generally do not come into contact with others, as long as they are careful not to offend them. β
"And then there's our Asians, there are no more and no less, but none of us can be at the helm." Xiao Yan squinted his eyebrows and smiled at Shen Ling and said, "I heard that you are a homeless child, and the homeless children are very violent, why don't you take us at the helm and support us?" β
Shen Ling paused for a moment and glanced sideways at Xiao Yan.
"Just kidding, don't mind." Xiao Yan hurriedly waved his hand, "You are too thin like this, you must be beaten." As if he remembered something, he covered his mouth and laughed for a long time.
An Wen glared at Xiao Yan and said, "Don't talk nonsense. β
Xiao Yan stuck out his tongue and lowered his head to scoop two mouthfuls of nutrients.
Because there are more and more orphans, there is a commotion in the canteen. Suddenly, I didn't know what was happening, as if someone gave a silent order, and the entire cafeteria fell silent for a moment.
Shen Ling looked up and found that everyone's eyes were focused on the door of the cafeteria, he also looked towards the door and saw a tall white man wearing a white shirt and jeans walking in.
The man has a regular short black hair, white and transparent skin, narrow eyebrows and eyes, a high nose bridge, and his facial features look sharp and handsome. His face was cold, and his whole body exuded a cold aura that was unapproachable. But he looked very thin, and his oversized white shirt was loosely covered by his body, and he didn't look like a particularly fierce man.
"Oh my God, why did he come back today!" Xiao Yan trembled and muttered, "No, I will never go back to the dormitory today!" β
Extremely curious, Shen Ling couldn't help but ask, "Is he?" β
"Neil Joyt, we're in the same dorm. I advise you not to mess with him, he is a madman who has killed people! β
"Don't talk nonsense." Anwen refuted Xiao Yan and said, "Neier people are very good, but they don't like to talk, don't be afraid." The latter sentence he said to Shen Ling.
Xiao Yan said disdainfully: "Cut, Anwen, you still tell Shen Ling the truth, don't know if Shen Ling was stabbed to death by someone else with a knife." β
"Xiao Yan, shut your mouth and eat honestly, okay?" An Wen scolded Xiao Yan and said to Shen Ling, "Neil is actually a very good person, as long as you don't mess with him, he won't do anything drastic." β
"If you mess with him, he'll drag you to death. He's just a madman, and no one can stop him when he's crazy. Xiao Yan added a few words awkwardly.
An Wen glared at Xiao Yan again, Xiao Yan covered his mouth and smiled with a grin.
Shen Ling glanced at Neil more. In fact, he remembered what Xiao Yan said to him, although this orphanage is not big, and the faction is quite complicated, but to sum up, no one should be provoked, just be a man with your tail between your legs. Shen Ling felt that he shouldn't be guilty of messing with this person named Neil Joyt, so he lowered his head and continued to eat.
After eating and washing the lunch box, Anwen took Shen Ling back to the dormitory. He babbled a lot of precautions with Shen Ling.
"Teacher Hailun will take you to the hospital for a check-up tomorrow morning, and she should take you to the basic college in the afternoon, don't be afraid, listen to her more, just don't ask anything." In the end, Anwen hesitated, but still explained Neil's situation to Shen Ling, "Neil's mother has a history of mental illness, but Neil is a normal person. He usually stays at the Mecha Technical Academy, and it is rare for him to come back once. He is a genius in mecha mechanics, he is only interested in mecha and parts, he usually doesn't like to talk, you don't care too much about Xiao Yan's words, his mouth is broken. β
Shen Ling nodded to show that he understood, but he could tell from An Wen's flickering eyes that he was hiding something from him.
Xiao Yan didn't go back to the dormitory at night, but Neil came back to sleep.
Anwen briefly introduced Neil and Shen Ling, but both of them were silent, Anwen touched his nose and turned to go about his own business.
Shen Ling fed Chubby with a little nutrient that he had left behind, and Chubby very reluctantly ate the food that Shen Ling had left for him.
Giving this kind of stuff to a small pet is simply pet abuse. T^T
Shen Ling put Xiaopang on the pillow, it has been more than half a year, Xiaopang has not grown at all, in fact, this is very inconsistent with the growth law of Mickey Mouse, generally Mickey Mouse can grow as big as a ball in half a year. Shen Ling thought to himself that it must be because he ate too poorly that the millet rats were malnourished and did not grow up.
The lights went out at eleven o'clock in the dormitory, and after the lights went out, Shen Ling lay on the bed with his eyes open, he hadn't slept in a comfortable bed for more than half a year, Shen Ling, who had been covered with a soft quilt, suddenly felt a little uncomfortable, and fell asleep after a long time with his eyes open, but his sleep was still very light this night.
The next morning, as Anwen said, Teacher Helen took Shen Ling to the hospital for an examination, there were very few people in the hospital, and the results of the examination came out in an hour, Shen Ling was an ordinary person, very healthy, and had no other symptoms.
After doing the inspection, Helen dragged Shen Ling to a simple barber shop, and after the barber cut Shen Ling with a dog-gnawed hairstyle, Helen took Shen Ling to the basic college non-stop.
I met with the prefects of the foundation college and took a round of exams. The prefect said to Helen with a look of embarrassment: "His foundation is very poor, and he may need to start learning from the first grade. β
Helen didn't have much hope for Shen Ling's cultural level, but she didn't expect it to be so bad, and finally she and the head of the grade finalized the class for Shen Ling, filled out a few papers, and took Shen Ling to the first-grade classroom located at the bottom of the teaching building.
Shen Ling's face changed when he was pushed into this little class by Teacher Helen, all the children in this class were about five or six years old, and as soon as Shen Ling came in, he was as conspicuous as a big rooster in a group of chicks.
The female teacher of the short class, a big fat man with glasses and a very strict sΓΉ, asked Shen Ling to sit on the last empty seat in the first row. As soon as Shen Ling sat down, she asked Shen Ling to stand up and introduce herself.
Shen Ling's face turned red with shame, and finally under the fat teacher's repeated orders, Shen Ling still stood up and said simply: "I...... My name is Shen Ling. Then he sat down at once, buried his head in his arms, and did not dare to lift it.
The fat teacher let out a hen-like "clucking" laugh, and the little classmates in the short class laughed along for some reason.
On this day, Shen Ling almost kept his head buried in his arm.
When I returned to the orphanage after school in the afternoon, I don't know who publicized Shen Ling's class in the first-grade class. When he went to the cafeteria to eat, a group of people pointed at Shen Ling and laughed, and several older white children even ran to the long table where Shen Ling was sitting and taunted him.
The big white orphan with a pockmarked face pinched his nose and pretended to say, "Report to the teacher, I peed my pants." There was another burst of laughter.
Shen Ling didn't want to pay attention to these people, but the more he listened, the more ashamed he became, the more ashamed he became, the more angry he became, and finally ran out of the cafeteria without finishing the meal.
The next days spent in the orphanage were just as terrible as this day, during the day in the basic college with a group of chirping dwarfs, the fat girl teacher seemed to be deliberately targeting Shen Ling, and he had to call Shen Ling's name to answer any question, and when he couldn't answer, he let out a hen-like "giggle" laugh.
In the afternoon, when I returned to the orphanage, I was ridiculed by the group of orphans.
From the taunts of his skin color to the fact that his hair was cut like a dog's gnaw, to the things he took to class in the dwarf class.
The other children at the orphanage seem to have found a very interesting pastime to pass the boring time in the yard. And Shen Ling, who only had patience, went back and forth between the basic academy and the orphanage in silence every day, not in contact with other people.
The more he endured and retreated, the higher the level of ridicule and ridicule became. Later, not only the old orphans laughed at Shen Ling, but even the young orphans dared to speak ill of him in front of Shen Ling.
And those elderly orphans elevated ridicule and ridicule to bullying.
Shen Ling, who was maliciously locked in the public toilet and poured a bucket of cold water on his head, sat on the ground with his legs straight against the door panel, and looked out from the small skylight of the toilet with his eyes blank.
The summer rain was about to fall, and the sky outside was gray.
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After a week of nutrient menus, the cafeteria was finally replaced with fruit salad, bread, and steak.
Shen Ling, who was hiding in the corner of the cafeteria to eat, secretly kept a whole piece of meat steak, because Xiao Pang had been too thin recently, so he decided to keep the meat chop to add a little nutrition to Xiao Pang.
Probably because Shen Ling has been bullied so much recently, although An Wen still greets and talks to Shen Ling normally, he has gradually stopped going to the cafeteria to eat with him.
In the orphanage, no one is really a good person, and these orphans who know the trend of avoiding harm better than other children all know one truth in their hearts - protect an orphan who is bullied, then he is likely to become the next target.
After eating, Shen Ling wrapped the meat steak with a paper towel and prepared to leave, but was blocked by a tall figure at the door.
Shen Ling raised his head and saw a fierce and vicious face, his heart sank, and he took a step back.
"He's the new Asian orphan." The orphan with the sharp-beaked monkey cheeks standing next to the male-faced man said.
Shen Ling knew this sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked orphan, who was the sycophant who Xiao Yan had told him about following the fiercest orphan in the orphanage, Demon Mountain.
"The orphan in the nursery class?" The male-faced man snorted.
"That's him."
The male-faced man said to Shen Ling with ill intentions: "Little friend, I see that you have wrapped up the meat steak. If you don't like to eat it, can you let your brother eat it for you? β
Shen Ling grabbed the meat chop wrapped in a paper towel in his hand and took a step back.
"Hey, newcomer, it's your honor that Lord Magic Mountain wants something from you, you can bring it quickly." The thin monkey said that he was about to start grabbing Shen Ling's things.
Shen Ling pushed him away and ran away from him.
In the next few days, Shen Ling went to the cafeteria and ran back to the dormitory immediately, afraid that he would meet the two people of Moshan and Skinny Monkey again.
But there are some things, even if Shen Ling wants to hide, he still can't hide, and what should come is always coming.
A few days later, Shen Ling, who had returned from the Basic Academy, found that the locked box belonging to him had been pried on, and the only few clothes in it had been thrown on the ground, as dirty as the quilt and sheets that he had also thrown on the ground. His desk and chair were toppled to the floor, textbooks and notebooks were shredded, and scraps of paper were scattered all over the room.
Standing at the door and seeing Shen Ling, he was stunned, he immediately thought of the little fat he left in the dormitory, and the worry in his heart was infinitely magnified. He flipped through the quilt and pillow that fell on the ground, and searched for a long time but didn't find Chubby's figure.
The rest of the dormitory also came back one after another, and the first to come back was Neil, who hadn't been back for a long time. He glanced at Shen Ling, didn't say anything, walked into the dormitory with an expressionless face, sat on his bed, took out his own book and read it to himself.
Then An Wen and Xiao Yan also came back, and they were surprised to see that the room was messed up. An Wen silently helped Shen Ling clean up, Xiao Yan scratched his head, and said a word intentionally or unintentionally.
"I just heard the sound of little mice in their dormitory in Magic Mountain, and I heard that that person in Magic Mountain likes to abuse animals......
Shen Ling's action of lifting the quilt with a low waist immediately stopped, he threw away the things in his hand, and rushed out of the dormitory like crazy.
After Shen Ling ran out, Neil put down the book and picked up the water cup on the desk to get a glass of water to drink. Suddenly, his eyes were drawn to an open notebook on the ground.
On the page spread out in the notebook, the name of a planet was densely written in the lingua franca of the Empire.
Kamilia.