Longmen Memoirs

Chen Mo told her these stories, but she remembered them for her whole life.

No.16 Chapter Chen/Tower Half

Thanks to the appearance of Tallulah, Chen Mo finally seemed to have a vent to express a lot of things that he had been holding back in his heart, and he could not control himself. But because of this, they became one of the few two people in the orphanage. An outcast guy.

But Chen Mo didn't care, because in the beginning, he rarely had much interaction with the orphans, and he was really not suitable to pretend to be a child, even though he was actually very talented in this area.

But who likes being trapped in a child's body?

Chen Mo saw hope in Tallulah, and sometimes even thought that if this relationship with her could continue to develop until they left the orphanage, maybe he would marry her and form a new family [*

And once people come up with similar ideas, they will inevitably have too many irrelevant fantasies.

Chen Mo was always full of curiosity about the horns on her head and the tail behind her, while Tallulah was also puzzled by the fact that Chen Mo had no racial characteristics at all.Many times, she even tried to find something in Chen Mo that could prove his race, but there was none.

In fact, it existed, but it was hidden very deep, and she had never found it.

Chen Mo had to admit that he was cultivating her as his future wife and was full of hope for his future life. Day after day, he looked forward to Tallulah growing up as soon as possible and becoming what he expected.

Maybe one day in the future he will really be able to take a temporary residence in that magnificent and prosperous city in the distance.

But later it turned out that this was indeed his fantasy, an unattainable and unrealistic fantasy. The result was that they never saw each other again for many years.

By the time we see her again, Tallulah has become a future that Chen Mo can never imagine.

If she thought about it, she should be the culprit who led her to this path in the first place. At that time, she didn't know what she would become in the future.

They are all confused about the future and try to describe the future they can reach as far as possible. However, there are always so many deviations and accidents in life, and these deviations and accidents lead them to the future. different paths.

Then after passing by each other again and again, they gradually drifted away.

In this small orphanage, everyone is looking forward to the day when they grow up, old enough to walk into the edge of the new city, and touch with their hands the longings and desires hidden deep in their eyes.

This is a group of children who have lost their "home". The orphanage took them in, so they became children here.

There are always endless topics to talk about in the orphanage, but the boring life day after day will eventually make people tired and lazy. The only thing worth celebrating is the birthday every year.

On her birthday, even the serious and rigid Ms. Kamiya's always tense face will soften. The fat Ms. Lan Min will prepare a big cake on her birthday, a sweet cake. It has become the most anticipated food for children. Although the cakes made by Ms. Lan Min always have a strange taste, even then, they will be sold out.

That was the happiest day in the orphanage. Every corner of the orphanage was filled with laughter and laughter. Ms. Theresa would take all the children to sing "Happybirithday to you" and "Jingles bell" on the old bellows piano. The sound of the piano floats far away in the night sky along with the immature children's voices.

Birthdays are a unified time. In fact, most of them can no longer remember when their birthdays are, so God's birthday has become a day shared by them.

But there are still people who remember, remember the day of their birthday in the past, remember the Longmen two years ago, remember the smiling faces, remember the birthday cake that belongs to only one of them.

No need to share, no need to be sad, and no need to worry, someone will prepare for this day early, and all you have to do is blow out the candles, make one childish wish after another in another growing day, and wait for him to grow up As I mature, I realize how naive I was in the past.

So Chen Mo still remembers that on this day last year, the singing became louder and darker, and finally turned into a low-pitched cry.

The nuns want to give the orphans a home as much as possible, make their lives as complete as possible, and give them a warm childhood as much as possible, but even so, to be cruel, for them To me, this place will never compare to the place in my memory.

But memories will become thinner as time goes by, just like now, in the songs that are getting farther and farther away, there is no trace of them dimming.

They are a group of unfortunate people, but also a group of lucky people. They lost their homes and were homeless in Longmen, but the orphanage took them back into its embrace.

June 1078, 12, Crystalline Era

Christmas, thanks to the large number of immigrants and cultural influence in Longmen, this non-traditional festival of Yanguo is very popular in Longmen.

In Chen Mo's memory, Christmas has never left him with a very good memory.

Two years ago today, the man did not keep his promise and opened the door. They prepared an afternoon dinner yesterday. When passing by the Christmas tree with colored lights on the street, she excitedly told herself that she would prepare a surprise for him. .

But now, there is no longer the woman beside Chen Mo who is carrying vegetables and holding his hand while walking on the street home in the light snow.

That man would no longer gently open the door to his house and show himself a silly smile.

They lay together in the soil of Longmen East District, leaving themselves alone in this cold and snowy night.

Christmas in the past years when the orphanage was a monastery was completely different from now. At least then it was much more solemn and pious. Now, it is more like a small Christmas celebration held in an elementary school class.

The ceiling board in the orphanage hall is hung with colorful ribbons, and the Christmas tree decorated with sequins and golden bells is placed in the corner of the wall. A dozen children are surrounding it, hanging the trinkets and cards they have prepared on the tree.

The Christmas tree and ribbons were used last year. They were a bit old and covered with dust. Ms. Teresa found the fake fir trees from somewhere. It took the children and the nuns a whole morning to drag them out of the warehouse in disgrace. After cleaning, place it in the lobby.

The walls were painted with snow and red-nosed elk in chalk, but next to the snow and the elk there were various images that did not match the scenery, such as cars, buildings, red flowers, carrots... and even a crooked pattern of the Guards Bureau.

Ms. Ai Xi is a very clever person. During the day, under the leadership of Ms. Ai Xi, the children drew all the things they thought were most beautiful.

Snow is floating quietly under the black sky.

The city in the distance from the orphanage is still brightly lit, and it is definitely more lively than here, but for the children here, it is too far away, and they cannot share the lively atmosphere there.

But maybe, today's orphanages don't need that kind of excitement.

No.17 Merry Christmas Chen Mo

June 1078, 10, Crystalline Era

The ground of the orphanage was covered with a thin layer of snow.

Chen Mo squatted by the pool in the front yard, with a plastic bucket filled with warm water beside him. He held a rag in his hand while wiping the dusty ribbons on the ground that had just been taken out of the warehouse.

This is the task assigned to him by Ms. Kamiya. Not far away, several children were busy doing the same thing as him around the fake fir tree placed on the ground. More children were helping in the orphanage. Ms. Ai Xi was drawing patterns on the wall, placing tableware, handing out chalk and paints, and some of them had gotten into the kitchen. From time to time, Ms. Lan Min would be heard exclaiming in a thick, strong soprano voice from the direction of the kitchen. Come.

The fat lady must be even more troubled now, Chen Mo thought to himself.

The older children and younger children in the orphanage were busy together, and the swing in the courtyard was rarely left out by the children.

Chen Mo crumpled the ribbon in his hand into a ball, washed it in a bucket, then dragged it out again and put it on the ground. In the cold winter, his little hands were red and steaming.

"Guess who I am?"

Chen Mo's vision suddenly turned dark, and someone reached out from behind to cover his eyes.

"Stop it, Tallulah."

Chen Mo reached out and pulled down the hand covering his eyes. He turned his head while squatting on the ground. Tallulah took her hand back and put it behind her back, stepping on the snow in the courtyard with her small leather shoes.

"Why do you pull such a silly trick?"

"It's very interesting." Tallulah replied, making a dissatisfied expression: "It's just that your reaction is not right at all."

"Then what should I do?"

"Be a little more surprised." Tallulah said. She raised her hands and pulled the corners of Chen Mo's mouth. She pulled Chen Mo's mouth into an ugly smile.

"like this."

"No, it's not shrimp." Chen Mo said vaguely.

Tallulah had a happy smile on her face and squeezed it hard in her hands.

"It's even more scary if you don't have Angzi here." Tallulah imitated Chen Mo's words and said.

Chen Mo put down the rag in his hand, with a dark face, stretched out his hands to grab Talulah's wrists, and pulled her hands off his face.

"Why are you here alone?" Chen Mo asked.

"Looking for you," Tallulah said.

"Ms. Kamiya didn't arrange a job for you?" Chen Mo was a little surprised.

"What job?" Tallulah lowered her head and looked at Chen Mo and asked.

"No."

She said obediently and deliberately with her hands behind her back.

Chen Mo remembered that Ms. Kamiya had never asked Tallulah to do anything.

He sighed enviously.

"That's so nice of you."

"Ok?"

"I also need to wash these ribbons. They will be useful in the afternoon." Chen Mo turned his head and picked up the rag he threw on the ground. "You know, it's Christmas."

Tallulah squatted next to Chen Mo holding her little skirt. She was wearing children's white cotton stockings and a thick pink and white cotton coat. The cotton coat had a hood with white wool. After the wind blew, The wool on the hat will flutter gently.

"I know it's Christmas." She put her hands on her knees. "The streets will be filled with Christmas trees and beautiful lights."

she said, pointing to the Christmas tree there, surrounded by several children.

"It's exactly the same as the one over there. Do you want to celebrate Christmas too?"

"Why not?" Chen Mo raised the corner of his mouth.

"Has Christmas been celebrated here before?"

"Last year...why did you have so many questions? If you don't want to help, stop dangling in front of me." Chen Mo wiped the ribbon on the ground angrily.

"Did you do it on purpose?"

He felt that Tallulah did this on purpose, and the purpose was to make him embarrassed. It seemed that she would be happy to see him embarrassed.

But Chen Mo didn't know that Tallulah was really curious about Christmas, because the Christmas in her memory shouldn't have so much laughter, nor should it be so lively, nor should it be so simple.

Christmas is a time when several well-dressed people sit in front of a long dining table in a spacious room under bright crystal lamps and gorgeous decorations. The dining table holds a luxurious and sumptuous dinner. They finish the food in front of them in silence and pay attention to etiquette. , pay attention to your manners, pay attention to your dining order and the placement of each tableware.

"It's so boring!" Tallulah curled her lips and tilted her head.

After a few seconds, she quietly turned around and found that Chen Mo didn't look at him, nor did he come to comfort her, but just focused on the movements of his hands.

"Idiot," she muttered under her breath.

His eyes fell on the sewage flowing on the ground, and he suddenly stretched out ten fingers.

"Chen Mo!" Tallulah shouted.

Chen Mo turned his head.

"watch out!!!"

Chen Mo's face was covered with water stains from Talulah's splash, and he was stunned.

Tallulah kept waving, and couldn't help but laugh when she saw Chen Mo's stiff and embarrassed face.

"Hahaha...you are so stupid."

"You..." Chen Mo's face was stiff, and the stiff expression on his young face looked a little funny.

Children who are bullied may cry or retaliate.

Chen Mo wisely chose the latter.

He looked at the culprit who was making a fool of himself, stayed for a second, and pinched the rag in his hand hard.

"Come and try too..."

He grinned ferociously and stretched out his wet palms to pinch Tallulah's hateful yet lovely face.

"You can't catch me!"

Tallulah stood up, avoided Chen Mo's palm, and continued to wave the water stains between her fingers towards Chen Mo.

"Don't try to escape!"

"Why are you so stupid."

Why are you so stupid, why do you want to catch up with me, why can't you learn not to give up, Chen Mo.

Under the warm winter sunshine, Chen Mo chased the happily smiling Tallulah, leaving messy footprints one after another on the shallow snow in the courtyard.

"Just hang it there."

"Ah."

"We can do it in the afternoon." Chen Mo said.

Tallulah helped him hang the ribbons on the wooden railing at the entrance of the orphanage. The washed ribbons reflected bright colors in the sun and fluttered with the gentle cold wind.

"Chen Mo, do you have any gifts you want for Christmas?"

Chen Mo leaned on the railing with both hands. Tallulah turned her head and asked him. The girl's silver hair swayed gently in the wind along with the fluttering ribbons.

"Gift..." Chen Mo paused and thought about it, but he didn't expect what he wanted.