Longmen Memoirs

Chen Mo was sure that she had seen him, but she didn't make a sound.

She tilted her head and glanced in Ms. Theresa's direction. Chen Mo saw her thoughts from her eyes, and she was about to raise her hand just now.

Chen Mo shook his head hastily. He didn't know how effective this approach would be, but he didn't want to be taken out alone by Ms. Kamiya tomorrow to educate him.

Shameful.

But she understood Chen Mo's thoughts.

She slowly put her hands back in front of her, tilted her head slightly and blinked in Chen Mo's direction, as if she had reached an agreement, without even giving Chen Mo a chance to refuse.

A hint of teasing appeared in the red eyes, and a smile suddenly appeared on the calm face, a shallow and somewhat sly smile.

Chen Mo didn't dare to look any further, so he stretched out his hand and carefully pulled the door open.

On the way back, Chen Mo kept telling himself that everything that had just happened was just an illusion, an illusion caused by him staying among the brats for too long.

But...it's too much like him, too much like what he used to be.

He was fearful and looking forward to it, and could not calm down the complicated emotions that appeared in his heart for a long time.

After returning to the bed in the bedroom, as soon as he closed his eyes, his mind was filled with the shallow and sly smile just now.

Chen Mo had insomnia.

When you are about to accept the fact and regard yourself as a child, suddenly one day a person similar to you appears, your kind... She is imprisoned in this young body like you, she can Understand your thoughts and understand your meaning, and you can finally find someone who can talk to you without having to imitate the noisy brats of several years old.

But you can't tell whether it's your illusion or reality, because you know that such a person will not appear, but you still can't help but hope that such a person will appear.

The mixed emotions carried over into the next day, when Ms. Teresa introduced her name to the children at the orphanage during morning class.

—Talulah.

Chapter 13 Tallulah

The morning of September 1078, 9 in the Crystal Era

There is a new friend in the orphanage.

Ms. Theresa stepped into the classroom door. She clapped her hands and the noisy classroom fell silent.

"Okay, don't make any noise, I have something to announce to everyone today."

The children fell silent and looked at Ms. Theresa.

Ms. Theresa nodded with satisfaction, pretending to be mysterious.

"It's a new friend."

She waved in the direction of the door.

"come in."

As her words fell, a girl wearing a black and white skirt walked into the classroom door, with white long sleeves and a red bow tie at the collar. She had short silver hair, and under the short hair was a slightly cold and immature face. .

Ms. Teresa placed her left hand lightly on the girl's back.

"Her name is Tallulah, please don't bully her." Ms. Theresa's voice became louder and warned: "Do you understand?"

"understood……"

child【%

The young and high-pitched voice echoed in the classroom.Curious eyes have been focused on the cute little girl next to Ms. Theresa. For them, it is a new and interesting thing for them to have another child they have never seen before in the orphanage.

Chen Mo didn't have much surprise or curiosity in his heart, but he couldn't help but focus on this girl again.

Among the child's immature and serious answers, only Chen Mo and her remained silent and silent, just like the sudden appearance of blue among a bunch of red balloons, which was dazzling and incompatible with the surroundings.

Tallulah's eyes lightly swept across the classroom, as if looking for something. Chen Mo saw such an intention from those red eyes, so the last intention stayed on him.

Their eyes met briefly in the air.

"I found you!" A flash of surprise flashed in his red eyes, and Chen Mo seemed to hear someone saying this in his ear.

He lifted the book on the table and turned his head silently, covering his sight as if he was guilty.

He began to regret why he had made such a reckless decision last night, and now such a decision was irreversible.

"Let me see... you just sit, um..."

Ms. Theresa looked around the classroom, as if deciding where to place this new kid. The children suddenly became excited, and some even consciously squeezed in to make a space available. .

Instead of being placed next to her as expected, Tallulah was finally placed at the end of the classroom. Her deskmate was the weak Philin girl that Chen Mo had met some time ago.

Chen Mo breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and glanced quietly, and then the eyes met his again.

Chen Mo felt uncomfortable the whole morning, because he always felt someone's eyes staring at him from behind, making him always want to turn his head suspiciously.

But this situation did not last long and he fell asleep during class in the morning.

Ms. Teranza has a gentle and magnetic voice. She is the best music teacher in the orphanage, but Chen Mo thinks that she is not suitable to be a teacher because her gentle and gentle voice always makes him want to sleep.

Ms. Teranza was very considerate and did not wake her up. It would be better to say that her too gentle temper made her unable to bear and unaccustomed to do such cruel things.

But Ms. Kamiya was never polite to every child in the orphanage.

Before the morning class ended, Chen Mo was dragged out of the classroom by his ears by Ms. Kamiya who was passing by the door of the small classroom. He was punished to stand outside the classroom door amid a burst of laughter, but even so, he was still tired from time to time. He would rub his eyes and yawn.

Finally, Chen Mo couldn't bear it anymore and secretly left the classroom on the second floor before get out of class was over and returned to his dormitory.

Tallulah stayed in the orphanage, but Chen Mo noticed that her eyes would be on him from time to time. Chen Mo didn't know what she wanted to do. She never came to him, and Chen Mo didn't want to ask. idea.

In the orphanage, they were all observing each other, but they didn't have any interactions or even say a single word.

This situation lasted for about two weeks.

In fact, she is not a difficult person, she is just a little indifferent. Perhaps due to her past life experience, she subconsciously becomes cautious and follows every step when she makes every move and speaks every word.

In the orphanage, she always seemed out of place. Thanks to her rather cute face, in fact, if she wanted to, she could quickly blend in here.

But she didn't.

There was always a distant indifference on her face, perhaps a bit of arrogance, which did not change even when she faced the nuns.

It's not that she is ungrateful. On the contrary, she is more well-behaved and polite than most of the children here, but this makes people feel alienated, as if there is always something between them.

Through some polite rejections and some polite distance, he seemed like an outsider.

She is mostly quiet and rarely talks, but if you want to get in touch with her further, you will often lose the courage when you see her eyes.

His cold eyes and face that never showed a smile kept most people away.

Courage is a rare thing in this orphanage.

No one likes to try their best to please another person. Even if the other person doesn't want to talk to her, he still wants to be around her. She undoubtedly has a cute and even exquisite appearance, but all of this is not too important to the child. thing.

The coldness on her face made people reluctant to contact her. Over time, she became the isolated person in this small group, but it looked like this, but it also seemed like she was isolating everyone.

She would not play with the children, discuss innocent topics with them, or play pretending to be a kid.

It doesn't cry or laugh. It's as quiet and delicate as a lifeless doll, but the doll doesn't move, eat, or look at [/+

But Chen Mo just felt like she was a doll, a lifeless doll, a doll that no one wanted in an orphanage.

There's no kid to pick it up and take it home.

Chen Mo could often see her sitting alone on the bench next to the dining table, holding a spoon in her small hand and carefully driving the carrots to the edge of the plate bit by bit.

She often sat on the steps in front of the orphanage, looking at the children playing under the swings, but there was no trace of longing in her eyes.

If she said that she was looking over there because she wanted to participate in the fun, Chen Mo would not believe it. Her gaze was more like that of a person, looking at the farce of another group of fools. She slightly raised the corner of her mouth, feeling that they were really interesting. little fool.

He also arrogantly felt that he was different from them and that he was superior to them. Naturally, he would not join in the games played by idiots and laugh stupidly with them.

Although she looked one year younger than him, the look in her eyes made Chen Mo couldn't help but wonder if there was a soul exactly like his in that thin body.

absurd!funny!Delusion!

But as time went by, Chen Mo became more and more sure of the possibility of this conjecture, and he began to avoid contact and encounters with her as much as possible, in order to reduce the possibility of this absurd possibility in his mind.

But in the following days, this conjecture was gradually rejected by him.

How can a person avoid another person as much as possible, especially in such a small orphanage? There are always various reasons to encounter.

Chapter 14 Light Rain

The weekend of September 1078, 9 in the Crystal Age

The weather is very bad today. In the morning, you can see dark clouds hanging over Longmen.

So in the afternoon, light rain began to fall from the sky.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the children playing under the swing who were reluctant to enter the house ran back to the house dejectedly amidst Ms. Kamiya's stern scolding.

Rain dripped down from the eaves at the entrance of the orphanage. They stood in rows on the steps at the entrance of the orphanage. Ms. Kamiya scolded them while holding a towel while roughly wiping their wet faces and hair.

There is no child in the orphanage who is not afraid of Ms. Kamiya. Even Chen Mo can't help but feel frightened when facing Ms. Kamiya's serious gaze, let alone a group of ignorant brats.

All the children in the orphanage hid in the house, looking at the rain outside and the increasingly dark clouds in the sky. The white tall buildings in Longmen City in the distance were vaguely visible in the rain and fog.

The little black leather boots stayed in the middle of the wooden stairs. Tallulah's red eyes glanced at the children in the hall below, scanning them one by one.

She didn't find the person she wanted to find.

She originally thought he would be here, after all, he pretended to be so similar, but she didn't find the figure she wanted to find here.

The owner of the little leather boots turned around and walked back to the second floor.

In the small attic on the third floor of the orphanage.

This room is used to store the unwanted things in the orphanage that are reluctant to throw away. In a remote and poor orphanage like this, there are always many broken things that are not used but are reluctant to be thrown away, so some of them are Placed here.

The lock on the attic had been broken for a long time, and he probably had forgotten about it, so no one had ever repaired it. When he found this place, Chen Mo was pleasantly surprised, because he finally had a quiet place of his own to rest all those extra things in his heart. mood.

Just like the Room of Requirement in Harry Potter, you only need to turn around the painting three times to get a room where no one will be disturbed.

He also found the same place in the orphanage.

It's a pity that he is not Harry, Hermione, and Ron, and he has not experienced those absurd and bizarre adventure stories. This is not Hogwarts, there is no wonderful magic, and there is no white-bearded old Dumbledore who likes sweets.

Harry can still go back to Uncle Vernon's house at the end of the semester. There is Aunt Petunia who speaks mean words but cares about him deep down, and Cousin Dudley who always bullied him when he was a child but will support him in times of crisis.

He still has places to go and his own relatives.

When he felt aggrieved and sad, Ron would drive a flying car to pick him up. When he thought no one would remember his birthday, Hagrid would always remember to prepare a cake for him. Although Hagrid’s cake was unpalatable and ugly, he still feel happy.

He also has Sirius, the Dursleys, the Gryffindor seniors and sisters, Quidditch, magic, Hegwig, and Kinga who is enough to live in Gringotts for the rest of his life. Long.

He could stay at Hogwarts until he grew up.

Chen Mo had nothing, except for the scarred police badge, they left nothing behind, and he couldn't find where he was going after leaving the orphanage.

He was taken to the orphanage in the summer by a bus that left the resettlement camp, and he never saw the bus come back.

Chen Mo was sitting in front of the lattice skylight windowsill of the attic, with an open book under his elbow - "A Brief History of the Yan Kingdom".Holding his head and staring out the window at the tall city buildings in the distance in the rain and fog, imagining that the day he stepped into them, he would stay somewhere in this city, and what would he do, running for life?Trying to survive?Live better?

Chen Mo's thoughts became more and more divergent. He even thought about all the things he would encounter after getting married, but he clearly didn't even think about who he would live with.

The door was gently pushed open at this moment.

A small black leather shoe stepped on the light dust on the old attic floor.

The owner of the leather shoes stepped very lightly, as if he didn't want to be noticed.

She stood at the door, staring at the back of the little boy sitting by the window, a smile slowly appeared on her lips, and she walked softly behind him.

"What are you looking at?"

A curious and immature child's voice rang in Chen Mo's ears. The sudden sound woke Chen Mo up, and the girl in a wedding dress that appeared in his mind was like a mirror, shattering and disappearing.

Chen Mo, who was startled, turned his head sharply.

Tallulah stood beside him, looking curiously at the book Chen Mo had opened under his elbow. Her short silver hair was only a dozen centimeters away from his face, and it was soft and bright.

Seemingly noticing Chen Mo's gaze, she turned her head. When she was very close, Chen Mo saw clearly those red eyes, which were as magnificent and dazzling as the most flawless rubies in the world. His young and surprised face was reflected in the eyes.

Then, the face of the girl in the wedding dress suddenly became clear in my mind, but she looked much younger, like a child.

"Did I scare you?" Tallulah asked softly.

Chen Mo came back to his senses, shook his head to dispel the fantasy in his mind, and instantly distanced himself.