Withered

"Mr. Brown, I'm terribly sorry, but I have to tell you about this." The principal of St. Teresa's School sat on the sofa at Brown's house and said, "Nosley can't come to school."

Mr. Brown nodded with a stiff face. He had already guessed it, because this was the third time that Nosley was dismissed by the school, and the reason was exactly the same——

"Your kid always scares little kids, although I know Nosri doesn't mean it, oh poor Nosri, God bless him, it's just that a lot of kids don't want to come to school because of him, it's a Big question."

The headmaster stood up, took off his hat, exposed his half-bald head, bowed to Mr. Brown, and said: "Well, then, I will take my leave first."

He walked out of the garden of Brown's house, looked back, saw Nosley's hideous face covered with scars at the window on the second floor, turned his head quickly, shook his head, sighed, and whispered: "The devil may Just look like this?"

Suddenly a woman's voice came from behind: "You are the devil!" It turned out to be Bessie, with a broom in her hand, she patted the headmaster, and cursed: "You old bastard who deserves to go to hell!"

The headmaster jumped up while protecting his suit. He ran in a panic, while Bessie chased after him and beat him with a broom until he screamed.

In front of the window on the second floor, Lina stood next to Nosley, pointed to the scene downstairs with a smile, and said, "It's like driving a donkey, right? Nosley?"

"No, I think Bald Donkey is much cuter than him, that fat shameless old man." Leah also said with a smile.

A smile finally appeared on Nosri's face, but it scared Lina enough. Although she thought she loved him, the scar on his face was really an unavoidable problem.

Liya sighed and said, "What about Nosley's future studies?"

"What should I do?" Lina glared at Lia, thinking that Nosri finally laughed, but Lia brought up this matter again, and Lia suddenly realized that it was inappropriate to mention this matter at this time, so she covered her mouth , staring at her beautiful eyes, suddenly thought of something, and hurried to the bedroom with her skirt on, saying, "I thought of it, I thought of it."

She took some books from her bedroom, including the required textbooks for school, and said, "Look, Lina, we forgot our books!"

Brown’s family used to hire a tutor for a period of time (now they can’t afford it due to economic reasons). The teacher was a very kind woman. Before she left, she gave them a few books. The sisters have flipped through it many times, and Leah can even tell what the content of any page is.

Lina and Nosri squatted down and opened the book. She had a look of joy on her face: "We can teach Nosri to read these books!"

"Yeah, let the school go to hell." Leah said excitedly.

They were going to teach Knowsley the books together after supper.It is a pity that Mrs. Brown found out about Bessie's reckless behavior towards the principal. Mrs. Brown was very angry. She took out a letter and threw it to Bessie, shouting: "You want me to receive this letter again? You Look, this letter is a letter refusing to marry you! Take a good look! Take a good look!"

Mr. Brown put his arms around his wife quickly and said, "My dear, don't be angry, my dear..."

Leah next to her hurried over to caress Mrs. Brown's back and said, "But Mom, the principal is really going too far."

Mrs. Brown leaned on the sofa with one hand and her forehead with the other, and said, "Oh, I've had enough. Your eldest sister has humiliated our family by making her unable to marry herself because of her own behavior, Lina, Li Ya, think about it, if you have such a sister, can you still get married?"

Leah rolled her eyes, and Lina said quickly, "No, Mom, don't talk about this right now, you look like you need a break."

Nosley stood by and didn't speak. He knew that the elder sister received the letter of resignation after the elder sister stood up for her. That time, the carpenter's daughter laughed at his face, which looked like the roughest bark she had ever seen. In the evening, Bessie took Lina and Leah to beat her up. At that time, the elder sister had just talked about the wedding, and her husband's family hurriedly sent a letter that night. No one here dared to laugh at Northley in front of the Browns, and of course no one dared to propose marriage to Bessie Brown.

Mrs. Brown took a long breath and said, "I can't support you forever. For the sake of your sisters, Bessie, please review your behavior."

Bessie hung her head and said, "Yes, Mother."

At night, a lamp was lit in Bessie's room, and the sisters were sitting there doing handwork. This was the work that Mrs. Brown asked them to complete today. Nosley opened the door and walked in quietly. Bessie looked up first. Seeing him, he smiled and said, "Nosri, you look a little sad."

Lina and Liya also put down their work to look at Nosri, but from Nosri's bad face, it was not obvious that he had any special emotions.

"I..." Before Nosley finished speaking, Bessie said while doing handwork, "No, if you want to say 'I'm sorry', then don't say it. You know, no matter the result I'll do it anyway, won't I?"

Lina smiled and said: "Yes, Nosri, it's a pity that I can't teach you to read tonight, let's start tomorrow night, okay?"

"Okay." Nosley nodded, bit his lips, and finally left the room of his sisters and returned to his own room. He couldn't sleep, and there were bursts of thunder outside the window. He quickly got up and opened the window , looking at the lightning flashed in the distant sky.

Nosri propped his chin up and looked at the distant sky, feeling very comfortable. He likes the dark night, especially the night with thunder and lightning, because the night is the best mask. As for why it is a night with thunder and lightning, he himself does not understand. , probably because the thunder and lightning are trying to break through this mask, of course, they will never be able to break through, it is in vain.

Tonight, he really wanted to go to his own secret base—it was a clock tower near St. Terse’s School. The clock tower was tall, dilapidated and old. On the most terrible day in Harder Town, because of the raging black death, the clock tower was used to store corpses, and finally burned down collectively. The tower now only has a burnt appearance, and no one wants to visit it.

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Come on, pretentious~~~~~~~ Even if it is the exam month~~~~~ I will take the Western Economics exam tomorrow~~~~~ I will update happily~~~