The orphanage looks old. The writing on the sign is as mottled as the railing of the iron gate. The red brick wall is covered with dry creepers, and the grass in the small yard is covered with a layer of snow that has thawed and then frozen hard.

The town is very remote, and the children's welfare home doesn't even have a security guard.Shen Yao rang the doorbell, and after waiting for a while, someone came out. It was a boy of sixteen or seventeen.

The boy stared at Shen Yao for a few seconds, then suddenly turned his head and shouted: "Brother Yao is back!"

This howl was so shocking that even someone from the building opposite was looking out.

Shen Yao didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and knocked on the iron railing, "Excuse me, Mr. Wang Erhu, can you please open the door first?"

"I'm sorry, Brother Yao, I'm just, um, I'm so excited!" Wang Erhu laughed straight, and opened the door to let Shen Yao in, only then did he notice Zhou Zheng behind Shen Yao, "Brother Yao, he was hired by you to move." Is it from a box?"

Zhou Zheng: "...?"

Shen Yao: "..."

Zhou Zheng pointed to his nose in disbelief and asked, "Do you look like me?"

"It's not like that, but it's even more impossible for my brother to carry boxes, so you can be the only one." Wang Erhu scratched the back of his head and asked, "Generally, when a big brother goes out, he is followed by a little brother who does errands?"

Shen Yao held back his laughter and was about to go crazy.

Zhou Zheng's face was greener than when he was wearing the green headphones provided by the organizer of the Asian Invitational Tournament.

Wang Erhu looked at the faces of the two, and muttered: "It's always played like this on TV."

"He is my boss, and you still count on him for your brother's salary." Shen Yao smiled and pushed Wang Erhu's shoulder, "Okay, let's go in first."

When Shen Yao spoke, Wang Erhu stopped worrying about Zhou Zheng's identity, and stretched out his hand to help Shen Yao carry the suitcase, "Brother, there is this one... Uh, boss brother, please walk slowly, the teacher said the floor is slippery."

At this time, the front door of the orphanage opened, and a group of children rushed out with no clothes on.

"You guys also slow down." Shen Yao bent down to pick up a four or five-year-old boy, and reprimanded him with a straight face, "Next time you come out, remember to put on your clothes. It's very cold. Do you miss the needle injection technique of the nurses in the town hospital?"

The little boy blinked his eyes, Zhou Zheng thought he would cry from fright, but he didn't expect the child to giggle in a blink of an eye.

"..." Shen Yao was speechless for a while, "I'll tell you a joke, right?"

The little boy blinked his big eyes and nodded, he looked like a real kid.

Zhou Zheng turned his face away to suppress a smile, and finally suppressed it. He turned his head and looked at Shen Yao surrounded by a group of brats, and felt that the cold and hard temperament on his body melted a lot.

Although there are still few good words in his mouth.

... The parents neglected the eldest son and squeezed the eldest son's hard-earned money. It is probably because he watched too many TV shows with his mother when he was a child, and his brain was soaked in dog blood.

Zhou Zheng resolutely abandoned his family ethics drama, which was full of gossip, and walked in with Shen Yao swaggeringly.

There are only two adults in the Sunshine Children's Welfare Institute, a director surnamed Lin and a nurse surnamed Zhang, both female.

Dean Lin is in his 60s, and when he smiles, there are obvious wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and he looks very friendly; Teacher Zhang is only in his forties, divorced in the early years, and now concentrates on taking care of children, and has never remarried.

Shen Yao had said hello in advance, saying that he would bring a colleague who worked with him back for the New Year. The room he used to live in had been cleaned up early, and Dean Lin came out to welcome him, holding Shen Yao's hand and chattering non-stop. It was the mother who cared about her son whom she hadn't seen for a long time, and asked him carefully about his studies and life.

When Dean Lin asked how his grades were, Shen Yao couldn't hold back anymore, and quickly changed the subject, "Teacher, where does he live tonight?" Shen Yao pointed at Zhou Zheng, "Why don't you let him sleep on the street?"

Zhou Zheng: "Meow meow?"

Why am I always the one who's hurt?

"Oh, yes, little boy, your room is still reserved for you. I told the big cow in your room that he will not come back in the future, and Mr. Zhou can live in the vacant bed." Dean Lin remembered now. There was another guest. She turned to Zhou Zheng and stretched out her hand, "It's just that the bed is a bit narrower, but at least it's cleaner than the guest house outside. I'm sorry for Mr. Zhou."

"It's okay, I don't choose, I can sleep in a thatched cottage, don't mention that you have a bed here." Zhou Zheng shook hands with her, talking nonsense with Shen Yao's white eyes, not only did his conscience not hurt, he even followed Shen Yao happily Called "Teacher", "What is the relationship between me and Shen Yu? His family is my family. Teacher Lin can call me by my name, and I will call him 'Mr.' for more students."

Dean Lin was stunned for a moment, and replied "OK".

A twelve or thirteen-year-old girl poked her head out from the kitchen, was stunned when she saw Zhou Zheng, and asked Shen Yao with a smile: "Brother Yao, our family has run out of rice, maybe there is not enough to eat."

Shen Yao also smiled: "If there is not enough rice, let my colleague go to the town to eat by himself, and then come back to make a shop on the floor after eating."

Zhou Zheng: "???"

Zhou happened to be wronged, but Zhou Zheng didn't say anything.

Dean Lin came here to raise children at the age of 30. She is not married yet, but she has never eaten pork or seen pigs running. She always feels that the atmosphere between Zhou Zheng and Shen Yu is not right.

She looked at Zhou Zheng suspiciously. Zhou Zheng pretended not to notice, doing what he should do, asking what he should ask, which made Dean Lin a little embarrassed.

"Don't just stand there, it's almost time for dinner." Dean Lin dealt with Zhou Zheng's questions, and urged Shen Yao to help Zhou Zheng carry the suitcase to the room.

As soon as the three large boxes entered the room, the small room suddenly became more crowded.

Shen Yao distributed gifts to the children, and then went to the kitchen to help Dean Lin and Teacher Zhang prepare dinner.

Surrounded by several older children, Zhou Zheng sat down in the small activity room on the second floor. Some younger children watched from a distance, a little curious, but they didn't dare to approach.

The small activity room is really small, less than [-] square meters in total. There are some dolls, small balls, and shelves for putting things against the wall, which looks very crowded; things look old, but they are tidy It is very clean, and it can be seen that the two teachers here are very careful people.

Zhou Zheng was sitting on a small sofa with a few children in middle school. On the coffee table in the middle was a fruit plate with some chocolates in it.

"The kids in your family are quite shy." Zhou Zheng glanced at the sign on the wrapping paper, and recognized that Shen Yao bought it after finishing PAI. He grabbed a few chocolate balls and teased the kids who were poking around the corner. , the child swallowed his saliva, Ren Zhouzheng couldn't get over it no matter how teased he was.

"Isn't it?" Comrade Wang Erhu crossed his legs, took out a piece of chocolate from the plate, carefully peeled off the candy wrapper and put it in his mouth, "Our place is small, people in the town can't see you when you look up, the most vivid face They are from the surrounding villages, so they can be familiar!"

Wang Erhu deliberately waved the wrapping paper with some chocolate residues on it to the children at the door. The children looked at each other and rushed over to divide up the chocolate in Zhou Zheng's hand.

Zhou Zheng also peeled a piece of chocolate, thinking that children are easy to get along with, and he can't say anything from Dean Lin's tricks. He doesn't need to ask here, and Comrade Wang Erhu can pour out a bucket of beans first.

Like now.

With Wang Erhu's good start, other children poured beans out, and even the story of "I was blocked in the alley by the older children in elementary school to collect protection fees, and my brother appeared like a god" wanted to write eight hundred words on the spot. short essay.

Zhou Zheng knocked on his knee while listening, those Shen Yao in his boyhood that he had never seen before gradually came alive in the children's words.

He seemed to see a teenager in a white T-shirt beating up a few children who called them "no father and no mother", casually wiped the bruises on his face, and dragged the bullied younger brothers and sisters back to the orphanage—— go home.

Wang Erhu sighed while talking: "We are a small place, so there are not many children here, no matter whether they send children or adopt them. There are quite a lot of older brothers and sisters who have been admitted to university and never come back. It’s good for Mr. Lin to send a text message... In fact, when Brother Yao received the admission letter from Tsinghua University, we were also afraid that he would never come back again. I hid the notice and the bus ticket, but I almost delayed Brother Yao to report to school, and was scolded by the dean and teacher."

Xiaopang is a four or five-year-old boy who can laugh when Shen Yao scolds him. He was only three years old when Shen Yao was admitted to university.

Zhou Zheng laughed: "Okay, the kid has a bright future."

It turned out that not only the dean, but even these little kids thought that Shen Yao was honestly studying in Tsinghua University.

They were [-]% unaware of Shen Yao's loan sharking.

Who knows how Shen Yao explained the sudden huge sum of money to the two teachers.

Zhou Zheng seized the opportunity to direct the topic to the question he wanted to know the most, "I heard from the boss that Shen Yao has a younger brother who is seriously ill. He came out to work because he treated his younger brother. How is his younger brother now?"

The room suddenly fell silent.

The younger children looked at their brothers and sisters in a daze, but the older ones pursed their lips and lowered their heads without saying a word. Two children even had red eyes.

Zhou Zheng felt a "thump" in his heart, feeling a bad premonition, and he tentatively asked, "Is that child still in the hospital?"

Wang Erhu stared at the fruit plate in a daze for a while, wiped his face, and said hoarsely: "You are talking about Zhang Qi...he died of leukemia."

"Will you still visit Zhang Qi when you come back this time?"

Dean Lin asked as he put the freshly cooked sweet and sour pork ribs on a plate.

Shen Yao helped the dean sprinkle a circle of white sesame seeds on the ribs, "Go, I haven't seen it for almost two years, that kid must now want to know what rank I have put his number in."

When people are lying in the hospital, they always think about their game account, but now they are not sure what it will be like to be bored in the sky. Shen Yao feels that if he doesn't go to see it, Zhang Qi should give him a dream.

"Really, you kids, what's so interesting about computers?" Dean Lin said reproachfully, but with a smile on his face, "You were also spoiled by that kid... What's so interesting about computers? I remember that you used to take a detour when you saw Internet cafes before. In the end, you took the computer department in college, and I thought you reported the wrong major at the time."

"I think it's pretty good. My current job is also related to computers, so it's not bad." Shen Yao handed the plate to the little girl who was waiting aside.

"What do you do now? You've been a real kid since you were a child, so don't be fooled."

"It's related to software. This industry is a new industry and makes a lot of money."

Game software is also software, and e-sports is indeed an "emerging industry", there is nothing wrong with it.

The little girl was jumping and running out with a plate, Shen Yao shouted "Don't fall down" from behind, cut up two carrot flowers, and placed them next to the last plate of stir-fried broccoli for decoration.

The broccoli was brought out by another girl, and the girls arranged the table and chopsticks in a short while with quick hands and feet.

Shen Yao was about to go upstairs to ask Zhou Zheng and the others to come down for dinner, when Dean Lin suddenly asked: "When you came back today, did you see a woman?"

Shen Yao was taken aback.

Dean Lin added: "50 years old, very thin, wearing a cotton jacket."

Shen Yao remembered the woman he met on the road just now, and asked suspiciously: "I've seen it before, what's the matter?"

"Do you know that she..." Dean Lin hesitated to speak, and finally said nothing, sighed, "Forget it, she is a poor person, but her man and son are really nothing. Chinese New Year is coming soon, People from the surrounding villages will bring things, sell them at the morning market, and buy some new year’s goods to go back. If you meet them...don’t get too close.”

Shen Yao was at a loss, Dean Lin's words were ambiguous, he didn't know what to ask, so he just nodded to show that he listened, and turned upstairs.

Dean Lin stared at the leftover carrots on the chopping board, and Teacher Zhang patted her on the shoulder, "Don't think so much, it's all fate."

"What fate?" Dean Lin smiled wryly, "Is it fate that almost killed his son?"

Upstairs Zhou Zheng and Wang Erhu didn't know what they said, and they started arguing.

"Didn't I just say something? I didn't beat you or scold you. Your elder brother scolds people much harder than I do." Seeing that he couldn't tame this brat, Zhou Zheng simply moved out of the mountain of Shen Yao to suppress him.

Wang Erhu retorted straightforwardly: "My brother's swearing is nice, but your swearing will only make people want to beat you."

Zhou Zheng: "..."

Now even a kid can watch people order food?

"Little brother, let me ask you, do you play chicken?" Zhou Zheng smiled patiently, reminding himself in his heart that this is his wife's family, so he has to obey.

"Playing! But I can only go to the Internet cafe occasionally for half an hour, and after Brother Da Niu and Brother Yao go to college, no one will accompany me." Wang Erhu slapped his thigh, his eyes lit up, "Why, You play too? Compete for two rounds? But you have to hold on for a while, don’t die without giving me a head hahahaha! I told you that Big Niu often does this! He basically depends on me for his points! "

Zhou Zheng: "...Oh."

Give you a head?

Tell me who your father is, lest you be scared to death.

Zhou Zheng gritted his back molars and kept smiling: "Play, I'm very good at playing."

"Really?" Wang Erhu dubiously said, "It would be nice to have my brother? Can you get a headshot at 600 meters? How many times have you eaten chicken?"

"..." Zhou Zheng finally understood who influenced Shen Yao's face blindness.

Players who play PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds don't know what the top masters look like. I'm afraid he's not playing a stand-alone version of a zombie game without a network cable.

Zhou Zheng raised his legs and pretended to be a wolf with a big tail, raised his chin, and said proudly: "Your brother was made to cry by me, do you believe it or not?"

"Ghosts believe it! Which onion are you?" Wang Erhu immediately said to Zhou Zheng that his nose was not his nose and his eyes were not eyes, and even his teeth were filled with deep disdain. Why are you crying? Just rely on you?"

"Me? I'm not the Jade Emperor or the Tathagata Buddha. I'm your brother's boyfriend." Zhou Zheng said angrily, "The kind who will get married and get a certificate in the future, understand?"

"Oh, I understand." Wang Erhu nodded suddenly, and warmly held Zhou Zheng's hand, "Sister-in-law!"

Zhou Zheng was confused by the quadratic function.

He rubbed his ears, smiled calmly and said, "...Little brother Erhu, call again? It was too windy just now, I couldn't hear what you said clearly."

"Where does the wind come from?" Wang Erhu scratched the back of his head for a long time but couldn't find where the wind was. "Although the house in our orphanage is a bit old, it doesn't leak..."

Zhou Zheng deeply realized his mistake.

But Comrade Erhu is a real person, "Sister-in-law" asked him to call again, and Wang Erhu really called again: "Sister-in-law!"

Zhou Zheng's breath got stuck in his throat and he almost choked himself to death.

Especially seeing Shen Yao who was covering his mouth at the door and almost lying down laughing, the feeling of suffocation reached its peak.

Maybe this is the legendary five elements restraining each other.

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Zhou Zheng: What can I do?I am also very desperate!

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