Chapter 24: A New Beginning in Life
Seeing that the dotted lines drilled out of the pores around his body constituted a strange object, Zhang Longchu couldn't help but widen his eyes, and thought with his mouth open: "What's the matter, how could the strange thing come out of my body, ah, is this the legendary 'complete fit', the strange object and the holder can become one..."
He was thinking wildly when he suddenly heard the mobile phone ringing next to the bed, touched it casually, saw the number of his temporary guardian, and hurriedly answered the passage: "Good morning, Ms. Isadour." ”
"Good morning Long Chu, are you up now, I'll be outside your door soon." Isa Dur said with a smile on her phone.
"Oh, yes, I, well, I'm now, um..." Zhang Longchu hurriedly ran into the bathroom in a panic, and saw from the mirror that the image of the strange world behind him had disappeared, and quietly breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm up now, and I'm about to brush my teeth." ”
"Okay, then you can come out directly after you wash up," Isadour said in an unusually solemn tone on the phone, "I have something very important for you to discuss." ”
"Well, yes ma'am, I'll see you later." Zhang Longchu didn't hear the strangeness in Isadour's words, and thought that she was going to talk to him about returning to school and going to live in an orphanage, so he said casually.
After hanging up the phone, Zhang Longchu hurriedly washed his face, brushed his teeth, took out the toolbox from the living room, glued the strap at the head of the bed to the wooden box harvested from the old chessboard again, and remade his own wooden backpack.
After rinsing his mouth, he wiped his mouth, threw a few textbooks and the two humanoid chess pieces he had newly created last night into his wooden backpack, straddled the backpack diagonally, walked to the backlit wall on the west side of the bedroom, and pushed the closet open to open a hidden closet.
Looking at the faint moist mist gushing out from behind the closet and the lush plants planted in the fertile black soil, Zhang Longchu was stunned for a long time, with a complicated look on his face, muttering to himself, "Goodbye, you cute and damn little babies...", reached out and turned off the beige sun lamp on the top of the closet and the humidifier that constantly emitted water mist on the cupboard wall.
After closing the closet again, pushing the closet to cover his 'weed farm', Zhang Longchu patted his cheeks, lifted his spirits, and hurriedly ran downstairs.
After exiting, he saw that Isadul's car was already waiting outside the door, he hurriedly jumped down the stairs in three or two steps, pulled the car door, and got into the car, "Good morning, Ms. Isabel, have you been waiting for a long time, sorry, I'm a little late to get out."
Let's go now, and while Orange Street is safest at this time of the morning, it is also important to prevent drunks who don't return home at night. ”
Hearing this, Isador nodded with a smile, and while starting the car, she asked, "What do you want to eat in the morning, Long Chu?" ”
"Anything goes, Lady Isadour, I've never been a picky eater." Zhang Longchu shrugged his shoulders and replied with a smile.
"Then have a little home-style breakfast, pancakes, omelettes and bacon juice, there are a couple of wives I know in the Green community who have opened a family restaurant, and it tastes great." Isadour thought for a moment and suggested.
The location of the Green Community and Antun Middle School in Los Angeles is one east and one west, Zhang Longchu took out his mobile phone and looked at the time and said: "Of course the home-cooked breakfast is good, but aren't we going to resume school today, it's almost 9 o'clock now, if you go to the Green Community..."
"Long Chu, there have been some changes in the plan, and we are not in a hurry to help you return to school today," Isador interrupted Zhang Longchu's words with a deep groan, and said in an unusually solemn tone: "I have some very, very important questions, I want to ask your opinion?" ”
"What, what's the problem, ma'am?" Infected by the solemn atmosphere in the car in an instant, Zhang Longchu asked with some confusion and nervousness.
"I had planned to go to the restaurant and let you think carefully and patiently while you have breakfast, and then answer them," Isadour hesitated for a moment and said, "But since you are asking now, I suddenly feel that it is not bad to strike while the iron is hot, let you listen to your instincts, and answer directly."
Child, what is your impression of me? ”
"Well, a serious federal official," I didn't expect Isadour to let herself answer this question, Zhang Longchu opened his mouth, and said while thinking: "More kind and warmer than me, well, than the guardianship officer of the 'Child Rights Protection Bureau' that I came into contact with before."
Also, I have a lot of courage to drive across Orange Street, and the other dishes are delicious, in addition to being a competent professional woman, I should still be a good wife and mother, and that's about it. ”
"What do you think if a good wife and mother wants to adopt you and become your mother?" Issadour asked in a soft tone, but when this soft voice fell into Zhang Longchu's ears, it was like countless thunderbolts exploding in his ears.
In fact, there are many couples in the Millican Federation who choose to adopt children because they do not want to have children on their own, have medical fertility difficulties, and simply want to show good intentions.
But more than 70% of these well-meaning people hope that the adoption partner should not be more than 5 years old, in an age group that is not very memorable;
More than 60% of the remaining 30% of adopters want the adoptee to be no older than 10 years old;
More tolerant couples may relax the age to 12 or even 14 years old, and once the age exceeds 14 years old, it is basically no longer cared for, and the only role in the adoption process is to be counted as one of the options when someone comes to choose an adoption.
Zhang Longchu went in and out of the orphanage a few times, naturally knew the joints, he originally thought that this time he was sent to the orphanage with a dull and suffocating atmosphere, and the children lived according to their age and physical strength, adhering to the order of 'big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp', if he could barely endure it, he would endure it until he reached the age of 18.
When the time comes, if you have the opportunity to go to college, you will go to study, and if you don't, you will become a mercenary who licks blood from the knife edge, and try to see if you can break into a new world with the world of strange things and the ability to transform into beasts;
If you can't bear it, you will escape, and after doing odd jobs to make some money, you will go directly to the frontier of the plane to venture out to find opportunities, but you didn't expect that before you were sent to the orphanage, your temporary guardian actually took the initiative to adopt her.
The precocious Zhang Longchu has ambitions that his peers do not have, but he also has a caution beyond his age, knowing very well that the more potential he has, the more he cannot show it when he is weak.
Taoguang is obscure, gradually emitting light little by little, until it has the strength that cannot be underestimated by anyone or any force, and then showing the hole cards is the practice of smart people.
What's more, after Isador clearly expressed her wish, from the eyes she looked at her, Zhang Longchu clearly read the love that can only be found in the eyes of her dead biological mother and adoptive mother Lola, so she couldn't help but move in her heart.
However, being adopted is a major event related to the fate of his life after all, and after calming down from extreme surprise, Zhang Longchu said in a mature tone: "Ahhh, Ms. Isadour, do you know what you are talking about, adopting a child is not a simple matter..."
Seeing that he was obviously a teenager, but he looked like a middle-aged man in his thirties, Isadour interrupted with a smile: "Long Chu, I have been working in the 'Children's Rights Protection Bureau' for 25 years, and I have served as a temporary guardian for tens of thousands of adult children, of course, I know that adopting a child is a very serious matter for both the adopter and the adoptee.
I had a good communication with my husband last night, but I didn't expect him to find out that I have different feelings for you than the general guardianship object, and said that I have been talking about you almost all about you after returning home recently, and through my description of you, he thinks you are a wonderful child, and he is willing to trust my judgment and welcome you to be a member of our family. ”
"Oh, Lady Isadour, don't you think it's too hasty, I, well, maybe I'm not as good as you think," Zhang Longchu stammered.
"You're still a child, of course you'll make mistakes," Isadure interrupted Zhang Longchu's words with a smile, "It's our adult responsibility to guide you to become better and better, now you just need to answer, are you willing to be my family, my child?" ”
Hearing this, Zhang Longchu opened his mouth and faced Isadour's eyes full of hope and love, for some reason his eyes slowly turned red, he hesitated for a moment, and after countless thoughts flashed in his mind, he lowered his head and said softly: "Yes, I am willing..."
"Thank you, thank you for answering Yes, my child..."Hearing this answer, Isadour's eyes turned red inexplicably, and she reached out and shook Zhang Longchu's palm, and said seriously: "Then from now on, you won't call me Ms. anymore, just call my name Kelly, or Mom, okay?" ”
Zhang Longchu couldn't say the word 'mother', so he could only lower his head and reply, "Okay, Kelly." Fortunately, in Millican, who advocated the freedom of individuality, it was common for a rebellious teenager in adolescence to call his parents by their names in Nissan life, and his words were not rude.