Preface Chapter 20: The Thousand Roots of the Otherworldly Continent (5)

Xu Xin caught a train and a shuttle bus to the city before finally arriving at the place the other party said.

This is a modern and enlightened middle school, now is the lunch break, many children have come out of the school in groups, three or five groups to the opposite milk tea shop, after entering the store, there is no need to say more, just greet the boss a "old look", the boss brought a bunch of things with a smile on his face, and did not forget to care: "I came early today, is it physical education class?"

"Yes, boss!" the student replied as if he was familiar with the boss.

Xu Xin led a child who was about eleven or twelve years old, standing at the gate of the school, dressed like he looked out of place in the city, they just stood aside, and many jumping students cast meaningful looks.

That kind of look pierced Xu Xin's body, and she seemed to understand it extraordinarily, but she didn't respond, but took Xiaoxing's hand and retreated a little bit. Hiding is a truth she has understood since she was a child, but it seems that the child does not understand very much, when Xu Xin pulled her to the narrator, she stubbornly wanted to see those beautiful brothers and sisters, and was unwilling to retreat.

Xu Xin pulled hard and dragged her towards herself, almost causing her to stumble and fall to the ground, but looking at her mother's gradually gloomy face, she had to stand up quickly, for fear of upsetting her mother.

"Mom, what are we waiting for here?" Little Star tightened the heavy schoolbag she was carrying, which contained her favorite and cleanest set of clothes, some books, bacon that Mom made at home, and HelloKitty's toy cat, which was stuffed with a full bag, and she was a little struggling.

But she seems to be accustomed to such a weight, and she shares the strength with her shoulders in exchange for it, but she doesn't open her mouth to shout a word of weight or pain.

It was only after standing at the school gate for a long time that she finally couldn't help but ask her mother curiously, she thought that her mother hadn't heard it just now, and she asked again: "Mom, ...... we?"

"You can't shut up, what are you arguing about!"

But before she could ask the whole sentence, Xu Xin reprimanded her in a low voice.

Maybe he didn't have a bottom in his heart, Xu Xin looked at the time on his mobile phone several times, and the expression on his face gradually changed from the initial calmness to a little impatient. She opened the call log, her finger resting on a local phone number, hesitated for a moment, and put it down.

What if the fight is made at this time, and the matter is delayed, and others regret it? Xu Xin gave himself a tranquilizer, even if he didn't come, the money for the fare had already been reimbursed in advance, and he and Xiaoxing An An could go back alive, but if he came, if he was so frivolous, he might leave a bad image for others, so let's wait!

Half an hour passed, and the students went back one after another, wondering why the mother and daughter had been waiting outside.

The security guard at the changing of the guard at the school glanced at them and walked over with a baton.

"Hey, what are you two doing here? The gate is not blocked here, you go over and wait!" The security guard waved his hand and pointed to a place a little more to the side, but it was also more inconspicuous, Xu Xin was afraid that if he was in that place, he would not be able to wait for the person he wanted to wait.

"Let's wait for someone to come and go to school, you let us wait, just wait for a while, okay?" Xu Xin subconsciously apologized.

"Are you going into the school looking for someone?" the security guard tilted his head, and if so, he wasn't going to let them in to find someone unless he called someone out to see them.

"I'm here to read, uncle. Before Xu Xin could speak, the child blinked his eyes and said in advance.

As soon as these words came out, the security guard was a little amused.

And he is not to blame for that.

Yucai Secondary School is the best school in the region. What does it mean to be a good school? It's either expensive or hard to get into. It's no wonder that he judges people by his appearance, I've really seen too many parents, in order for their children to enter this middle school, they go one after another to give gifts and pack red envelopes, and there are also crying fathers and calling mothers to make trouble, and in the end, the blame comes down, or he didn't stop people, aren't you looking for something to do?

Looking for a job as a security guard, it was originally to be idle, but in the end, not only could you not be idle, but you couldn't get money, and you did it in vain.

Looking at the outfits of these two people, it doesn't look like they can spend money on education, so there is only the latter possibility. It is estimated that he knows a rich relative, this is going to make trouble, he has been staring at it for a while, and he has never seen anyone, I'm afraid the other party doesn't want to see him, so he can't sit idly by, if something really happens, who is responsible?

"You, are you here to study?" he simply squatted in front of Xiaoxing and held her hand on his shoulder: "You tell your uncle, do you have any relatives at school?"

Xiaoxing shook his head politely: "Uncle, I don't know. ”

The security guard smiled, directly took Xiaoxing's hand, held the bag on her back, and led her to the side: "Then uncle will take you to the side and wait, you won't be allowed to stay here for a long time." ”

The security guard's voice was still very gentle, this time, Xu Xin was a little weak, after all, the other party was so polite, and he shouldn't make trouble, so he sighed, and pulled Xiaoxing to prepare to retreat.

At this moment, a gray and black car slid to the school gate and stopped, and the security guard also saw a lot of famous brands, and his eyesight was good, so he quickly squatted down and ran to the side to ask.

The car door was opened, and a middle-aged man walked out, with a big belly and poop, and at first glance he was a person who couldn't afford to offend.

The security guard approached: "Who are you?"

The middle-aged man pointed to the mother and daughter, who were attracted by the movement just now, and were stopping in place to look this way, took a cigarette and handed it to the security guard, and then said, "I'm here to send the child to school." ”

"They?" the security guard seemed to be a little caught off guard, but he still picked up his cigarette very sensibly, and hurriedly went to greet the mother and daughter who were just about to leave here: "You said earlier, if that's the case, won't I invite you into the house and wait?"

Saying that, he didn't forget to help Xiaoxing help the heavy and abnormal backpack, he was still a little surprised to help him once, it was much heavier than he imagined, and the first time he exerted his strength, it was empty, and he made up for it later.

The air conditioner in the security room has been blowing for a long time, and it is not as good as a child.

The mother and daughter walked up, and the security guard greeted the parking position inside, and then ran back to open the gate, leaving only the three of them to look at each other astringently.

Xu Xin seemed a little cramped, but when the child was in front of her, she patted her head and pointed to the middle-aged man in front of her.

"Come, Star, call Daddy!"

Little Star looked up at the incomparably tall man, and seemed to mentally search for everything about the word daddy, but in the end to no avail.

She shrank timidly behind Xu Xin, and murmured, "Dad?"

Before Xiaoxing's brain recovered from that "father", people had already fallen into a fairy tale dream.

The uncle, who was called Mr. Li by her mother, personally showed her what a real father should look like.

When she was very young, she seemed to know that there was a man, and in her memory, she always avoided him from afar, and as for why she hid, why her mother also hid with her, she didn't remember, and she couldn't think of why.

There were only bits and pieces of those things, she didn't have the ability to bead them into threads, a lot of things, she didn't know what it meant, in her little world, it was just something based on some cartoons and scolding from adults, and those clips only taught her two things.

What you can't do, what you will get beaten, and what you like is like HelloKitty's toy in your school bag.

In her shallow cognition, she didn't even know why she followed "Dad", and she didn't know why she went to school, but her mother was no longer around.

To be honest, she doesn't even know what the role of "mother" is supposed to do.

Now, even if she was to be asked to beg for food, she would think that all children of her age would go to the streets to sell matches like Cinderella.

"Dad" and her mother took her to the school to report first, and the teacher handed her a payment receipt to her hand, telling her that she would have a holiday tomorrow and that she could come to class next Monday.

That sense of security permeated half of her childhood.

She still remembers her primary school teacher, when there was still that school in the village, a big thatched hut with tables scattered and scattered, and Mr. Jinjin was singing from the podium.

"Little Swallow ~ Wear flower clothes ~ Come here every spring ~ I asked Swallow why did you come ~ Swallow said ......"

She felt that Teacher Jinjin in a white dress was simply a fairy, how could she be so good-looking, that text, she memorized it very quickly, and in the end, she always hummed.

Ms. Tsutsu is really different, she is clean, beautiful, she looks good when she smiles, and the feeling of the whole village is different, as if seeing her, the little star sees the moon, not like seeing other people in the village, she is naturally a little resistant to that kind of face.

It was also from that time that she felt that all the teachers in the world were great heroes and great, even if she was wronged by her mother, she would sue Teacher Jinjin, and sometimes, she even hoped that Teacher Jinjin could manage her mother and help her talk.

But there doesn't always seem to be such an opportunity.

Later, there was no chance, Teacher Jinjin left, when Teacher Jinjin left, it was her saddest time, their group of children, seemed to think it was just a winter vacation, but they didn't expect it, but they didn't come back for a long time, along with the big thatched hut that was broken, it was also demolished in one night.

There is a policy in the city, the rural primary school has been banned, everyone has to go to school in the city, and Xu Xin doesn't count on the nine-kilometer road.

Later, somehow, I suddenly said that I could go to school, or in the city, there was a father, and he took you to school, and my mother said so.

Mom also said that children have a lot of fathers, and the more they grow up, the more fathers they have, and you will know in the future.

Xiaoxing wrote down that if it was his father and the teacher said it, he would have to be obedient.

So, later, this father took their mother and daughter directly to a hotel next to the school.

The three of them entered the house, and Dad instructed Little Star: "Xingxing, you just watch TV here for a while, and Dad chats with Mom for a while, be obedient." ”

Little Star nodded, and Dad played her favorite HelloKitty cartoon.

Xiaoxing's attention is all on cartoons, she didn't have the opportunity to watch such a big TV before, she stared at it for a while, and she didn't move, and her mother's voice occasionally came from the room, "Dad~Dad~", she thought, Mom is really right, Mom should also have a lot of dads, she is already an adult. Thinking about it, she continued to watch cartoons.

So, my father said goodbye to my mother with a smile on his face, and then took me into my father's house.

This is the first time she has seen such a home, when she enters the house, she has to take off her shoes, Xiaoxing is cramped, a little reluctant, she is a little afraid that her mud socks will be seen by her father.

Li Ming quickly noticed the anomaly, he smiled, put the schoolbag he was carrying on the ground casually, then squatted down and pulled the little star over, and changed him into a pair of large-sized slippers.

"There are no things for the children at home for the time being, when you pack up, let's go out and buy something to eat first, my good girl." ”

At this time, Xiaoxing seriously observed the middle-aged man in front of him. Her kindness seemed to release her usual shyness a little bit, and wearing glasses always reminded her of the polite math teacher, who was a teacher, and should be great.

Shanghai at night has a very special feeling. Whether it is a local or a foreigner, it seems that they are willing to go out for a walk, the locals are stalking, the strangers look at the world, under the bright lights, comfort the heart that has been lost due to struggle, and know the lower level of life in the city, which is also an incentive for themselves.

Eat a barbecue on the side of the park, drink two cans of beer, the cold wind blows, I don't know if I am sober or drunk.

Maozui occupies a table alone, if he hadn't ordered a lot of dishes, the boss could have earned, and it is estimated that he would have been invited to the eighteenth generation of his ancestors a long time ago.

The young man, who looked to be in his twenties, had a beard, unkempt hair, and a little casual, with one arm on the table and the other a half-conscious head, and some figures flashed in his eyes. He reached out and grabbed the figures, and when he grabbed them, they all scattered, and when he looked again, the people changed, some of their skin stretched out, and they became Hulks as tall as buildings, and some of them put on armor and danced with their bells and danced, and they seemed to be really drunk.

He smiled to himself, called out to the boss, and walked to the beach.

"Uncle, your wallet!" Suddenly, a crisp voice sounded behind him.

As soon as he turned around, he saw several little girls, he reached out to take the wallet that one of the little girls stretched out, but he didn't catch anything, but he kept saying, "Thank you~"

The little girl was stunned, and she didn't know why she said you, but she still stuffed her wallet into the strange uncle in front of her, and then turned her head back and took her father's hand and walked away.

The cat's mouth was stunned in place, and the moment the little girl turned around, he seemed to see a pair of starry eyes, so beautiful, he seemed to wake up instantly.

He stared at the girl's distant back, because of the previous stumbling, maintaining a posture of about to fall but retracted, his eyes stared straight at the little girl, and his eyes were not blurred, people should be willing to wake up, and it was easy to wake up. The cat's mouth stared at her, and the braids that gradually faded away and jumped up and down made his heart warm.

"Thank you~" he began to repeat.

It's just that, in the eyes of outsiders, he is more like a madman, and the muttering in his mouth is confirming this.