luck on thursday

"Joe, this is your new family."

The kind middle-aged dean of the orphanage pushed Mr. Joe Lunn in front of the middle-aged couple, rubbed his soft black hair and said, "Hurry up and call, so that Uncle Benjamin and Aunt Carrie will take you home of."

"It looks a bit old," Benjamin looked at Joe carefully, "but it's good, you can go to school with Orenba."

"I said before that I want someone younger." Carrie touched Joe's hair with a smile, "But if it's Joe, ten years old is not a problem."

When going through the handover procedures, the dean carefully looked at the adoption materials submitted by the couple.

House, scooter, health certificate, marriage certificate, odds and ends of real estate materials... To be honest, such conditions can be considered good wherever they are placed.

Joe can finally enter a new family and start a new life.

Maybe he can forget about those sad things in the past and live a good life-he was too bored in the orphanage.

Sometimes a rare plate of chowder was cooked in the kitchen, and a small plate was given to all the children.

The children were very happy, and Joe smiled a rare way. He was a good-looking boy with big, round blue eyes slightly curved.

Yet he laughed and laughed and began to cry, and again stood silently eating in a corner without saying a word.

He still misses his family members who passed away.

The dean went through all the materials and sent them to specialized personnel for review.

A hint of doubt arose in her heart, and she pretended to ask curiously: "I see that the two are in good health, and they even have a biological boy at home... Then why did you come to adopt our Joe?"

The answer to this question has long been sorted out and placed on the table.

Aunt Carrie, who had fine lines at the corners of her eyes, touched her eyes and sighed with some regret: "Oulumba feels that he is too lonely, and wants a friend of the same age to accompany him. This is not something our husband and wife just thought about. I have been thinking about it for two or three years, and I think I am fully prepared."

It sounded like there was no problem at all, and the dean asked a few more questions to feel relieved.

She bent slightly to look into Joe's eyes: "Joe? What do you think?"

The boy stubbornly straightened his back, and tried to open his eyes wide to look up, to see the eyes of the person in front of him. He didn't seem to be smiling at all. Carrie couldn't stand his gaze, and took a step back hesitantly.

Joe nodded, silently accepted the dean's arrangement, and followed the family into the car.Through the gray car window, he saw the dean leading a group of children standing at the entrance of the orphanage, waving at him through the car window.

Benjamin, who was driving, looked at the reaction of the newly adopted child in the rearview mirror, and said with a smile, "Isn't Joe reluctant to part with everyone in the orphanage?"

Qiao Mo was silent, but nodded slightly.

His clear blue eyes were clouded with the same gray mist, and the city's gray building shadows left lingering reflections.The street trees swept back one by one,

"Our house is not far from here. In fact, it's only three streets away. Joe will come whenever he wants. Auntie will show you the way."

Carrie, who was sitting next to him, enthusiastically took out a handful of biscuits from the drawer in the front seat of the car, touched a packet and put it in Joe's hand.

The car drove into the yard, and the three got out of the car. Benjamin opened the door first: "We have prepared a room for Joe. Although it is not very big, it is very clean. Joe can have his own room in the future."

Joe raised his head silently, his eyes widened in surprise, and after a long time, he whispered thank you.

Before he went through the living room to see his exclusive room, he heard a thump, thump, thump, thump, thump on the wooden stairs. A boy ran down the stairs flicking his big slippers, and almost slipped.

When Carrie saw her, she rushed forward distressedly, and yelled, "Oh, Oulumba, why did you run down without socks?

"Go, go, what about that? Is it here?"

The boy reached out to grab Joe's sleeve, grabbed it, but didn't pull it, Olumba became angry instantly, and shouted loudly: "Come and see the room my parents prepared for you!"

He pushed open the door of the utility room and pointed to a small bed inside: "You will sleep here from now on."

Joe looked around, the utility room was full of dust, and there were still traces in the corners that were not cleaned up last time.

There are no tables and chairs, no wardrobe, not even a lamp, it doesn't look like a place to live.

The couple were a little embarrassed, Cary hesitated for a moment, and still coaxed her beloved young son in a soft voice: "Olumba, Joe doesn't live here."

The boy frowned vigilantly: "Then where does he live? Could it be my room?!" His voice suddenly became sharp, appearing delicate and mean.

Carrie panicked instantly, and said quickly: "How could that be! We will definitely not touch your room!"

"Then where does he live?" Orenba asked persistently.

"Isn't your game room very spacious? There is a small room for Joe, and it won't disturb you..."

"what!"

Olumba's voice was like a rooster whose neck was pinched: "That's my playroom! Don't give it to him! Why do you want to move my territory!"

The couple comforted each other up and down for a while, before they managed to get his consent.

That night, Joe lived in a small room off the playroom.

Very small, with only a simple set of furniture.

He hummed in a low voice, took out a rag and wiped the dusty furniture until the boy next door knocked hard on his door until it was loud.

"Hey!" Olumba yelled, "Come out! Why are you still inside after eating!"

Joe opened the door, and Euromba took a step back in disbelief.

"Why are you so dirty?!"

"Eurumba! Joe! It's time to eat!" At this moment, the voice of dinner came from below.

Aurumba moved a little away from Joe, and said: "You like cleaning so much, just wipe the playroom, otherwise people will think that we have treated you badly."

Carrie ran up from the first floor, her shovel still in hand: "Boys, I made your favorite muffins today, come down!"

When she turned her head and saw that Joe's clothes were dirty, she shouted in surprise, "Oh my God! How did you get so dirty, Joe! Go take a bath!"

When he came out of the shower, the family had already sat at the dining table intimately, sharing freshly baked sweet muffins.Thankfully, there's also an extra spot at the dining table.

He was just in time to hear Eulumba calling out to his mother in a mysterious tone: "...Joe is so dirty because he was lying on the floor just now! He said he wanted to wipe the playroom floor!"

Carrie said in surprise: "What a hardworking child, thank you for your hard work, Joe, it's not easy to take care of everything in such a big game room.

Startled, Joe nodded and agreed to the matter. He lowered his head and ate the muffin in silence. The syrup was very sweet.

After dinner, it happened to be a rest time for the family. Carrie and Benjamin made an appointment to watch the home theater. When Joe wanted to go back to his small room and tidy up a few clothes, Euromba stopped him.

Olumba is a circle bigger than him. When standing in front of Joe, he looks petite and has little flesh all over his body.

Eulumba said, "Where are you going?"

Joe doesn't like the master's boy very much, but it's better to stay in this family's house temporarily to avoid disputes.He hesitated for a moment and said, "I want to go up and sort things out."

"Clean up your things." Olumba was not afraid of being overheard by his parents, pointing to the second floor, "Don't clean up, just mop the floor, you've left dirty footprints on the second floor, I can't help it Get down!"

Qiao was taken aback, and he quickly argued, "I just finished eating..."

He paused and whispered, "Okay, I'll go now."

When Joe squatted on the second floor to wipe the floor, the couple had just finished watching the movie and came out of the room talking and laughing.

He had never seen a movie before, so he couldn't help but stop his hands and raised his head to listen to their story in anticipation.

In a blink of an eye, Carrie saw Joe in the corner dragging a rag to wipe the floor.

Joe was still wearing his old clothes when he first arrived, and the hem of the clothes was stained with conspicuous dust.Carrie walked forward with a cry of surprise, and carefully looked at the clean and bright wooden floor that Joe had polished.

Seeing that it was Carrie and the others coming, Joe's beautiful blue eyes lit up slightly, hoping they could see more clearly, and it would be best to praise his labor.The young boy raised his face and looked at Carrie expectantly.

"Joe is really a good boy, the dean is right."

Jo said nothing, and watched them go downstairs.He barely concealed his anxiety and panic, and began to carefully polish the grain of the wooden floor with a rag.

...No one praised him, and Joe waited for a long time until the sound from downstairs faded away.

When they went out the next day, the couple remembered this incident and wanted to give him a little reward.

"A good kid should be rewarded," Carrie laughed. "Does Joe want anything?"

Joe froze for a moment, with a sullen face, not knowing what to say.

He doesn't seem to have anything he wants, and there is nothing bad in life other than having no goals.

Joe suddenly found that he hadn't done anything during this period of time. He just nestled in his small room every day, being a ghost that only appeared in fairy tale books, and coming out to eat regularly. His life was boring and boring.

"...I want to go to school." He said with his head down.

Carrie couldn't hear what he was saying for a moment, she still smiled and bent slightly to listen to him: "What does Joe want?"

Joe raised his head sharply, and replied firmly in a slightly louder voice: "I want to go to school!"

However, the couple in front of them got stuck, and Benjamin stroked the stubble on his chin hesitantly, and glanced at Carrie, who also looked back. The adults seemed to be using their eyes to communicate something that Joe couldn't understand.

Carrie nodded slowly, prolonging the gap between each word, appearing to speak at a particularly slow speed: "Yes, go to school, it's time to go to school."

There was Eulumba's cry behind her, and the woman turned around in surprise, catching the young son who rushed over.

On the contrary, Benjamin made the decision faster. He touched Joe's black hair and said, "Then go to school. The public schools in the neighborhood don't need much tuition..."

"go to school?"

Euronba pushed his mother away, walked up to Joe aggressively, and glared at him, "He wants to go to school too?!"

"Of course Joe is going to school, he is still at school age, do you want him to go to the same school as you..."

"No! He goes to the public school!" Eulumba stood in front of Joe, almost like the shadow of a mountain pressing down, "I don't want him to go to the same school as me!"

"Olumba!" Carrie never expected that her son would say such words.

Joe turned his head and opened his eyes wide: "Can I go to the same school as him?"

Carrie sighed a long time, hesitated a bit: "But Orenba went to a different school, and there was an entrance exam, after all, Joe..."

"He goes to the same school as me?!"

"Where's Joe? Do you want to try?" Benjamin asked.

"Okay, I'll try my best."

The author has something to say: Thank you for the two mines of the yogurt cherub!Jinjiang's automatic thank you is not very easy to use again, which made Orz of the salted fish author Fofo