CHAPTER XXXI
My hometown, Niel, is a city with plenty of sunlight. The spring and autumn seasons here are always very long, the summer is very short, and at the turn of spring and summer, it is vigorously hot for ten days, even if it is over.
Winter? Winters here never snow.
The day I was abandoned was the winter solstice of that year. When the superintendent's mother found me in the mailbox at the entrance of the orphanage, it was already afternoon. She went out early in the morning to meet with the donors, and when she returned home in the afternoon, she had just reached the gate of the hospital when she heard a low whimper from the mailbox next to her.
It was a cry for help from me, cold and hungry.
When I was older, the dean's mother told me about this. She recalled the shock, how could such a young child endure a morning of hunger and cold?
We don't know that.
I was taken in by her in an orphanage, and with her surname Sue, I was the nineteenth child there, and she named me Lantin, which was my original name.
Occasionally, the dean's mother would pull me to talk to me.
She said that being strong is a good character, but Lanting, a crying child, has candy.
Maybe, but I don't care.
I grew up here, and other children are looking forward to being taken in by well-wishers, having a new family, a room of their own, and a future with more possibilities in the long run.
I never thought about that.
No, it's not like never thought about it. It's just that I feel at a loss for what to do with the smiles of those unfamiliar faces. I hate to look at them like they're inspecting the goods, and I hate to smile at them with a fake sweet smile, and they like smiling children.
I became a nail in the coffin of the orphanage, and in the long run, a burden to the orphanage. For a long time, I was thinking about my own way out.
The way out that I came up with was reading.
There is a local Ann consortium that has built the best school in the city, Nier Academy, a direct school that covers all stages from kindergarten to university. Almost all of the students here come from the wealthy district of Niel North City, which is a veritable aristocratic school.
Ahn was led by a generous philanthropist. Every year, we carry out charity activities for orphanages in the city, and sponsor qualified orphans to study in this school, and students who maintain excellent grades during the school can be sent to Kyoto Friendship School, that is, Beiyuan College.
I wasn't a talented student, but I worked hard to become a student at Neil College. In order to maintain the full honor score and submit to study abroad, I put in more effort.
As you can see, I succeeded.
"You're amazing, Susu." Yuichi Fujisawa said,
I smiled.
"Wait, I'll give you a new bottle of medicine first."
"Hmm." Yuichi Fujisawa changed his posture, "I'm sorry for you." ”
I stepped on the sheets, walked past him, and quickly changed into a new bottle of medicine.
"Are you feeling better?" I went back to him, got close to him, pressed my forehead against him, and felt his body temperature.
"Would you like to take a break?"
"Thanks to you, I'm much better." He said.
"But you're still burning."
"What about your life in the courtyard? You haven't talked about those lives, your dean's mother, your friends. Ignoring my protests, he whispered, "Tell me more about you." ”
Yes...... Annoying.
I sighed and resigned myself to my previous position and lay down.
After a pause, I said, "Over the years in the orphanage, my relationship with other people can only be said to be salty and indifferent. The relationship with the dean's mother is also not very good. However, there is a person who can be called a friend. ”
Su Xiao was born a few years later than me, she is the dean's biological daughter, and no one knows who her father is. She was born at dawn and was originally called dawn, but when she learned to write her own name, she always couldn't write the word "whisk" in her name, and this word was removed by the dean's mother.
The dean's mother didn't care about her, her mind was never on studying, every time the test paper was smashed by me, and occasionally I was asked to be a parent, I was wearing the uniform of Niel College's high school, pretending to be her mature and steady sister to rescue her.
How to rescue?
It's actually simple.
Su Xiao's homeroom teacher is a very emotional young teacher. When she was asked to be a parent for the first time, she straightened her back and told her homeroom teacher that her mother was not just her mother, but the mother of the children in the entire orphanage. Her mother's job is to feed and clothe the children in the hospital, so that every child can find a family of their own. This job is selfless and hard, and if she is allowed to spend half a day running to school, one child will miss a happy family, and the whole hospital may lose a financial aid. What kind of person would be ruthless enough to do such a thing?
Then, let me, the so-called most reliable and stern big sister in the whole hospital, appear on the stage, and cooperate with her to perform a scene of "eldest sister is like a mother", and finally she cried and admitted her mistake and said that she would never do it again.
Later, when this happened again, her homeroom teacher contacted me directly to take her away. I think it's my uniform that is more trusted by her homeroom teacher than my acting skills.
I acted with her in front of the homeroom teacher, and she helped me keep dinner for supper when I stayed in school. In those years, she was the closest person I was to in the orphanage.
"Actually, I don't know if we're friends or not." I say.
Yuichi Fujisawa's hand rubbed between my hair, and it was a moment before he spoke.
"You said before that you wanted to hear my story."
He bowed his head and breathed on my forehead, as if he had dropped a kiss there.
"Next, it's Fujisawa storytelling time."