[Comprehensive Yingmei] Pengwen walks readers

"Flip a coin, head to school, and tail to stay at home." Tessie and Barnes sat cross-legged on the bed, holding a penny, very serious.

Barnes wanted to yawn, but held back, and nodded, "Oh."

Tessie flicked her thumb and the coin flipped up and was caught by Barnes with both hands before falling back to the bed.

"Positive." Barnes announced the result.

Tessie stared at the coin, then quickly snatched it from Barnes' palm: "This time it doesn't count."

"..." Barnes was basically at a loss for words, "Tessie, you have tossed the coin nearly 20 times, and it is of no use other than proving probability."

Tessie played dumb: "Ah, so many times?"

Barnes simply put the coins away: "You just don't want to go to school, do you?"

Tessie's eyes were evasive: "No, I don't, I love studying, I like reading so much..."

"You don't want to go to school, but why do you toss so many coins?" Barnes leaned forward and looked at Tessie, "If you really don't want to, just make up your mind to refuse, why do you have to give me money by tossing coins?" How about an excuse?"

Tessie picked at the bed sheet silently, and after a while she replied sullenly: "...Because it was requested by Papa Kallman, I'm afraid he will be sad."

Although Barnes has amnesia, he can also understand the pressure of facing the expectations of others. He said: "Then you weigh it, making Kallman sad or going to school, which one makes you more painful?"

Tessie thought about it silently, and said, "...I'd better go to school."

Barnes watched Tessie put on her shoes with a slumped head, and got up to change: "Are you going to church now?"

"Ah... I have to go now, otherwise my determination will be wiped out by tomorrow."

Barnes wanted to laugh, she also knew her own laziness.

"What about you, are you going?" Tessie was halfway through her coat, as if she suddenly remembered, Barnes leaned against the wall, with his hands hanging naturally in front of his body, and said very relaxedly: "I'm going out to prepare for the time." Much shorter than you."

Tessie was buttoning up her windbreaker, and when she heard him say that, she turned around and glared: "Am I tired of getting ready before going out? I don't even wear heavy makeup!"

Even though a certain killer lost his memory, he was still very sensitive to danger, so he wisely did not respond.

Tessie mumbled to comb her hair. Her long golden brown hair was curled into big waves and hung behind her. Combing her hair every day required a lot of patience so as not to hurt herself.

Barnes picked up a book on the bedside table and turned to the page with the bookmark: "Have you finished reading Notes from Underground?"

"Yeah." Tessie was applying liquid foundation, "It's too tiring to finish reading Dostoyevsky's book in one sitting, let's read other books first to change your mind."

"...So you started reading "Quiet River Don"?" Barnes raised his eyebrows, "This whole set of books can make a grown man faint."

"I'm a fast reader." Tessie spread the foundation evenly, "I always feel like I've read everything before and then get started."

Barnes flipped two pages at random: "Three days before Our Lady's Day, Gregory and his wife went to plow the fields... What is this book about?"

"The life of a Cossack." Tessie pursed her lips, letting the color of the lipstick even out, "His love, his career, his honor... In short, just read it, don't think about it while reading it, think about it after reading it .”

Barnes put the book back, got up and buttoned his shirt: "You really don't look like a bastard..."

"I don't think I'm supposed to be a bastard, either." Tessie checked her outfit one last time. "I'm supposed to be a...uh, what?"

"You should be a student." Barnes put on a black jacket, "Let's go, take our eldest to school."

Bishop Luo's Catholic Church is not like a church.It's more like a big villa here, relying on the river, without the Gothic spire of the church, but with a heavy wooden gate.Barnes pushed it away effortlessly.

The hall is very spacious, and the glass windows are painted glass windows as she imagined, which describe the story of the Virgin and the Son.A pipe organ was placed on the altar in the front, and the center was vacant, which seemed to be a vacant performance position for the choir.A wooden cross stands on the wall, and rows of benches are lined up among them.

A girl with long black hair was lighting candles in front of the altar with her back to them. When she heard the door open, she turned her head and smiled politely at Tessie.

"Come to the bishop for confession? Or prayer?"

"No." Tessie put her hands in the pockets of her windbreaker, "Is there a relief home here, where you can take classes?"

The black-haired girl froze for a moment, and said, "Yes, there is a small classroom in the Relief Home, and the bishop is in the confessional. I'll invite the bishop over first, please wait a moment."

She opened the side door and went away, and Tessie turned to look at Barnes, who was looking at the stained glass window.

"You know how I'm feeling right now?" Tessie asked, and Barnes looked at her and shook his head. Tessie put his hand out of his pocket, raised his index finger, and swayed from side to side to beat. There was a song, a... Chinese song."

"You can speak Chinese?" Barnes frowned.

"You know Russian, why can't I speak Chinese?" Tessie bared her teeth, "It's also amnesia, why can't I learn a foreign language without a teacher?"

"Have you lost your memory?" Barnes asked back, "You just have doubts about your muddled past."

Tessie puffed up her cheeks like a puffer fish: "Maybe I was forgotten and tampered with memory?"

Barnes: "...wait a minute, what is it?"

Tessie rightfully said, "Forget it's a spell."

Barnes tilted his head: "Do you know magic?"

"That's right, I'm an outstanding Hogwarts graduate." Tessie said triumphantly, and then she and Barnes fell silent at the same time.

…………

"...What is Hogwarts???" they asked in unison.

Tessie covered her head and desperately recalled, Barnes twitched the corners of her mouth, "Well, I believe you have amnesia."

"No, no, the scariest thing is that I unconsciously said things that I shouldn't know, and I can't even control myself!" Tessie wailed, and Barnes leaned over silently and hugged hug her shoulders.

"Uh...did I disturb you?" Bishop Luo saw them leaning together when he opened the side door, Tessie raised her head and wiped the corner of her eyes and said, "No, good day, Bishop Roshman."

"Good day, Miss Tessie, and this Mr. Barnes." Bishop Luo nodded to them with a smile, and the black-haired girl stood obediently behind him, "I heard old Kallman mention you."

Tessie's heart turned, and Barnes poked her quietly in the back, and he also realized that something was wrong.

Tessie was about to answer, when she looked up and saw the countdown on the heads of Bishop Luo and the girl beside him, her words choked in her throat.

strangeness.

The life span on Bishop Luo's head was walking unhurriedly, at a normal speed, and the eight-digit number represented that Bishop Luo had only one year to live.After all, Roshman was already a gray-haired old man, so he wouldn't be surprised if Tessie died violently in front of her today.

But the life of the girl behind him is only one year, which is very interesting. Compared with Bishop Luo's life span, Tessie found that this girl may die one day earlier than Bishop Luo, no more, no less, just one day.

Tessie narrowed her eyes and nodded at the black-haired girl: "Do I have the honor to know the name of this beautiful young lady?"

The black-haired girl was taken aback for a moment, then laughed happily: "My name is Linda, Linda Becker."

Bishop Luo clapped his hands and said, "Okay, after introducing each other, let me ask, Miss Tessie, are you coming to our charity home for class?"

"Yes," Tessie said, and pulled Barnes forward, who had a look of indifference and hesitation, "is he too old to read?"

"It stands to reason that only minors can go to school...but if it's you, it should be fine." He folded his hands on his chest, "Are you brothers and sisters?"

"Yes!" Tessie said immediately, "half-siblings!"

Barnes gave her a speechless look.

Linda didn't seem to believe it, but Bishop Luo nodded kindly: "Okay, then, children, I will take you to the relief home to have a look."

The Relief House is on the second floor of the church. Bishop Luo lives here. There is also a small library next to the bedroom. There are several boys of different ages in the library who are reading. They heard footsteps and looked up and saw Tessie They were ushered in with different expressions, some were excited, some showed uncomfortable contempt, some were just looking at the show, and there was a familiar face among them, smiling like an angel ignorantly up.It was the blond boy who was taken away by Bishop Luo at the entrance of the Kalman store. Tessie had only carefully looked at his appearance today. The blond boy looked very innocent. Ensi's fierceness is different from gentleness.

At first glance, this relief home is indeed a normal place to teach homeless children, but Tessie and Barnes always feel that something is wrong here.

"There are new members joining us today, they are Tessie and Barnes." Bishop Luo introduced them to the boys with a smile, "Since Linda is already here, you don't have any special excitement when you see the girl Alright, boys?"

A well-built boy laughed wildly.Barnes frowned and gave him a cold look, and the boy stared back unwillingly.

"Then how about introducing yourself to them?" Bishop Luo suggested, "Alan, you will be the first."

The blond boy who was named was very flustered. He stood up with his hands tied, and said very stiffly, "I, my name is Alan, Alan Shi, Steiner."

"Alan stutters a bit," Linda said in a barely audible voice behind Tessie. "He's very shy. But he's a nice guy."

Tessie doesn't reject making friends with such a cutie: "Hello, Alan, we met in front of Papa Kalman's shop, do you remember me?"

"Remember, remember." He said, his face was already red.

"He blushes when he talks to girls a lot, and he blushes when he talks to some boys... It's better to say that he blushes when he talks to anyone." Linda was still whispering.

"Alex," said the burly guy nonchalantly.

Tessie nodded at him dryly.

Alex obviously felt insulted, he wanted to stand up, Bishop Luo stopped him: "Calm down, Alex, forget what I told you?"

Alex sat down angrily, flipping through the "Don Quixote" in his hand vigorously as if venting his anger.

It didn't take too long for the boys to be introduced one by one, and then Bishop Luo arranged a place for Tessie: "You can talk to Alan more, Alan likes to make new friends."

Seriously?Tessie looked at Alan's burning appearance, looked at Bishop Luo suspiciously, and walked over obediently, and sat next to him. Barnes sat down next to Tessie silently, and passed the bookshelf next to him. Pick up an American Tragedy online.

"Hey Alan." Tessie looked at the book in his hand, "So the class here...is for everyone to read?"

"No, more than that." Allen moved in the opposite direction uncomfortably, "The bishop will talk and talk about the content inside, let us point and comment."

Tessie snorted: "Comments? Is it the kind of free communication or reading comprehension according to the bishop's thinking?"

"I don't know, understand—"

"It doesn't matter, anyway, I can definitely get through." Tessie waved her hand, "What are you reading now?"

Allen was a little shy: "I'm not good at reading, reading. I can only read simple..."

"The Wizard of Oz." Tessie smiled, "It's good, I like this book very much."

Allen looked down at Dorothy on the cover, and also smiled: "Really, really?"

"Yeah, I like the Scarecrow. He has always had a brain and can use it, but he is not confident." Tessie asked casually, "What about you?"

"Lion, lion." Allen said, his eyes brightened, "Courage has always been in his heart, heart."

Barnes glanced up at him from the book.

Tessie didn't take the book, just glanced back and forth on the bookshelf, and then a funny smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "Hey, why can the bishop even get "How the Steel Was Tempered", just don't buy a few copies of "The Scarlet Letter?" "Woolen cloth?"

Following her gaze, Barnes was also taken aback: "Why is there that book?"

Allen said seriously: "No, bishop, don't let us see Hawthorne."

"Yeah, yeah, after all, the church was hacked." Tessie said absently, then got up and pulled out a copy of "How the Steel Was Tempered". After opening it, she cursed in a low voice in disappointment.

"The Russian version has an English cover. I suspect that Bishop Luo thinks no one here wants to read this." She tossed the book despondently to Barnes, who caught it securely, flipped it open and quickly read it. After reading the congratulations on the title page, he looked up at Tessie: "Want to see it?"

Tessie shrugged: "Since there is, let's see what the so-called 'evil country' is promoting...Although I have a hunch that I may have read this book."

"I'll translate it for you." Barnes made a decision in just two seconds.

Tessie looked sideways at him, then smiled slowly.

"Okay." She smiled and moved quickly.

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