Longmen Memoirs

June 1078, 12, Crystalline Era.

Chen Mo received the best Christmas gift in his life, but his life is too short now, only eight years, but he still stubbornly believes that this will be the best gift in his life.

It snowed heavily last night, and the orphanage courtyard was filled with a thick layer of snow. The children got up early. The joy and excitement last night kept them excited until they fell asleep very late, but children of this age always There is endless energy.

Ms. Teranza led several children to shovel a conspicuous path in the orphanage courtyard.

But they couldn't help but run around on the snow, sinking their shoes deeply into the snow, picking up the snow on the ground and chasing each other, and found ice cubes condensed by the pool. The crystal ice cubes surprised the children. His eyes reflected the dazzling sunlight from the sky.

Looking through the ice is another strange and novel world.

Several children happily built snowmen with small shovels. The snow during the day yesterday was too light, which prevented them from playing so much, but today, they made up for it.

Ms. Teranza just smiled and let them do whatever they wanted. She really couldn't be as strict and decisive as Ms. Kamiya.

Seeing the young and cute faces and excited expressions of these children, she couldn't bear to ruin it all.

The small palms were red from the snow, and the face huddled under the cotton-padded coat and woolen hat was flushed. The hot breath he exhaled was like streaks of white mist in the cold winter.

The car just ran over the thick snow on the road, leaving two long indentations full of tire marks, and stopped at the entrance of the orphanage.

Catch everyone's attention and curiosity.

There were thin traces of snow on the door pole of the big iron door. When the children opened the door, there was a crunching sound, and the snow on the iron door fell at their feet.

Chen Mo rarely stayed in bed. Today, Ms. Kamiya thoughtfully did not come to wake up the children in the orphanage. The warm sunshine in the winter morning fell through the glass and fell on his sheets, making him too comfortable to get up.

In the old days, he and Tallulah would meet before breakfast and often stay together all day long.

He would not admit that because of Tallulah's words yesterday, he, a man who thought he was mature, inevitably fell into ridiculous fantasies and did not fall asleep until late at night.

Chen Mo found Tallulah in the corridor on the second floor.

He opened the door sleepily and walked not far, when he saw her under the window sill in front of the stairs. The small flower window was covered with animal stickers that Ms. Essie and the children had made yesterday.

"Good morning, Tallulah." Chen Mo waved.

Tallulah looked out the window. Outside the window was a plain white sky after the heavy snow at night. The branches of the tall oak tree in front of the orphanage lawn were packed with snow. The snow fell on the swing hanging below. The small The swing bench was stained with a thick layer of white.

She looked out the window and bit her lip tightly. Chen Mo had never seen such entangled and conflicting emotions in her.

In the past, in the eyes of others, she was a cold and polite child, perhaps called precocious, but in Chen Mo's eyes, she was a lively and cheerful guy, who occasionally had all kinds of bad tastes and likes Playing tricks on people.

Chen Mo followed her gaze and looked over.

A narrow path was cleared in the snow in the courtyard of the orphanage, and the children opened the large iron gate in front of the courtyard.

There were two people standing outside the iron gate, and behind them was a black car that looked expensive.

Wearing a brown coat and a long scarf, the tall *** under the winter sun, with his tall and straight figure and well-matched clothes, his uniqueness and noble temperament can be seen at a glance.

He held a little blue-haired girl in one hand, and held a leather glove that he had taken off in the other.

The little girl was looking around, seeming to be looking for something.

The children did not dare to get too close to this man who made them feel uneasy and strange. They gathered behind Ms. Theresa and curiously poked their heads out to look at the two strange outsiders.

"Who are you?" Ms. Teranza didn't know him. She asked carefully and without being rude, holding the child behind her back with one hand.

"My surname is Wei." The man said politely.

"Mr. Wei?"

"Ms. Theresa Jemin?" he asked, smiling gently: "I wonder if I recognized the wrong person."

"Mr. Wei, do you know me?"

"I was a member of your audience, and I was deeply impressed by the bass part of your performance at the Leitania Samo concert five years ago."

"Ah!" Ms. Teranza covered her slightly open mouth with her hand in surprise, but soon she realized her impoliteness.

"What you said is already in the past."

"But we can't deny that the past is also a part of your life, right?" The man said: "Why don't you continue to develop on the road of music after graduating from the Schumann Institute of Art? You have great potential, but you chose to work at the peak of your career. Come to this orphanage and become a nun.”

Ms. Teranza opened her mouth, a hint of darkness flashed in her eyes.

"Please forgive my presumption." The man obviously noticed this abnormality and said apologetically.

"There are many choices in life, and there are always unknown reasons behind each choice. Not everyone will go on the path they originally planned. Surprises and turns are exactly what life should be about."

"Mr. Wei is right." Ms. Terangsa became a little more affectionate towards the strange man in front of her.

She glanced at the little girl held by the man.

"What brings you here?"

The man gently pulled the little girl next to him.

"She is my niece." The man said, looking at the building in the orphanage: "I have another niece, and she lives here now."

"Are you here to take her back?"

"She's clamoring to come." The man looked at the little girl next to him. Wen Yue's oblique reminder sounded in his mind, and he said with some helplessness and doting: "I can't help it."

"So that's how it is." Ms. Telangsha had some understanding in her heart, but she did not choose to ask. Every family has its own helplessness, let alone the person in front of her who is obviously an extraordinary person.

She had had frequent contact with similar people in the past, so she naturally understood some of the bitterness and darkness in them.

"I contacted your dean, Ms. Theresa." The man explained, "Can you please take this child in?"

"Mr. Wei, why don't you go in and see your niece? She must miss you very much."

"No, I think I am one of the people she least wants to see right now." The man sighed: "I still have a lot of work to deal with, and I will come to pick her up in the afternoon."

"Ok."

Ms. Teranza led the little girl into the big iron gate of the orphanage.

The man looked at their backs, took out a cigarette from his arms, lit it, and leaned quietly in front of the car.

Maybe it's fate, or maybe it's just how fate should be.

The man raised his head. He had a sense as sharp as a beast. The moment he raised his head, Chen Mo met his eyes.It would be better to say that what he was looking at was not himself, but Tallulah beside him.

At such a long distance, Chen Mo could still feel that he saw himself and Tallulah.

"Tallulah...?" Chen Mo turned around and wanted to ask something.

But when he turned his head, he realized that Tallulah had withdrawn her gaze and left the window.

【Is it a relative? 】

Chen Mo took one last look at the man below.

If he could be called a "human being", Chen Mo had already accepted this reality, but he was too far away from the human being in his impression. He looked like a man with a lion's head and long orange horns on his head.

He exhaled a thick puff of smoke. As the smoke filled the air, Chen Mo quickly looked away, failing to see the fleeting smile on the lion's face and the guilt hidden in the smile.

Ms. Teranza led the little girl through the small square outside the orphanage, and the children followed behind. The small square was the territory of this group of children, including the swing under the oak tree. They left a series of footprints on the snow.

Finally, Ms. Kamiya stopped her at the door, and they gathered at the door to discuss.

The little girl was always looking around, and it seemed that everything here was full of attraction to her, especially the swing full of snow and the unfinished snowman beside the swing. The snowman wore a crooked Santa hat on his head. .

Chapter 20 Her surname is also Chen: Despicable Me

It took a long time for Chen Mo to understand what everything that happened today meant to him, but by then, all of it had become an unchangeable memory.

Not long after, Ms. Teresa found Tallulah.

That was the first time Chen Mo saw Tallulah losing her temper like a child.

She locked herself in the room, no matter how gently Ms. Theresa persuaded her at the door, it was of no avail. Finally, the helpless Ms. Theresa found Chen Mo.

In their eyes, Chen Mo was the only person in the entire orphanage who seemed to have a good relationship with Tallulah, but would it be useful if he tried to persuade her himself.

"Xiao Mo, you and Tallulah have always had a good relationship. Can I ask you to bring her out?"

Ms. Theresa asked Chen Mo who was standing behind her at the door of Tallulah.

"Ms. Theresa, are they Tallulah's relatives?"

No matter how much they pretend to be, no matter how hard they try to believe it, what is fake is still fake after all, and the nuns are not real relatives after all.

"Have you seen everything? Xiao Mo." Ms. Theresa asked.

"Really? Right?"

Perhaps even Chen Mo himself knew the urgency in his words.

"They are Tallulah's relatives."

Chen Mo suddenly felt empty and funny.But he still couldn't help but want to ask and know the answer, even though he could clearly see everything.

It's like you forgot to bring an umbrella during a heavy rain and had to hide under the eaves of a convenience store on the street, staring blankly at the gray sky and the rainwater splashing on your trousers under the eaves. At this time, suddenly something around you A person like you came, and she was also in a state of embarrassment due to the sudden heavy rain.

You suddenly felt a lot more balanced in your heart, thinking, it turns out that there are other unlucky people like you.

But at this time, another person suddenly walked out of the heavy rain. She was carrying an umbrella, so they walked home together holding an umbrella.

You are still hiding under the eaves alone and embarrassed, because you know that no one will hand you an umbrella at this time.

Chen Mo laughed at his own greed while secretly cursing his own selfishness. Do you think everyone in the world is the same as you? Do you think you have found someone who is just like you?

"But she clearly has her own relatives and was sent here anyway." Chen Mo said in a low voice.

He just felt unbearable and unwilling for Tallulah, and he also felt pitiful and ridiculous for himself.

"But they are here to see her now." Ms. Theresa touched Chen Mo's head: "I am also your relative."

"Should I be happy for her? Lady Teresa."

But why can't I be happy?

"I hope you will." Ms. Theresa put down her hand: "Because you are best friends, right? Xiao Mo."

Chen Mo became a lobbyist, walked to the door bravely, stretched out his hand and knocked on the door.

He actually didn't want to come.

He had to admit his selfishness. He selfishly hoped to keep Tallulah by his side, but the soul in his body told him rationally that what he did was wrong. He couldn't do it. He shouldn't be so selfish. .

"No, no, let her go away, I don't want to see her!!!"

Tallulah's roar came from inside the door.

"It's not Ms. Lesa, it's me, Tallulah, please open the door, please?"

The roar inside the door stopped. After a long time, Tallulah quietly opened a crack in the door, pulled Chen Mo in before he could react, and closed the door again.

Chen Mo didn't expect that Tallulah's thin body would have such a huge power hidden in it, so that before the slender arms pulled him in, he couldn't even react at all and fell to the floor of the room.

Different from the orphans' rooms, Tallulah has her own room in the orphanage. Although it is not big, it is enough to make the children feel envious.

It was precisely because of this that Chen Mo could vaguely feel the difference between Tallulah and his own group of orphans. Especially after today, this feeling almost became a reality.

Before Chen Mo could say anything, the slamming of the door was heard from behind. Tallulah leaned against the door, as if on guard against something.

But there is nothing to beware of in this orphanage.

The only reason why she was so abnormal today was the girl brought in by Ms. Teranza. Why should a thin girl be worthy of Tallulah's "efforts" to guard against her.

She wasn't being defensive, she just suddenly remembered that she didn't know what to say when they met.

With her short silver hair scattered, Tallulah's body leaning against the door gradually relaxed, as if she had lost all strength, and slowly slid down the door until she sat in front of Chen Mo with her legs bent.

They were all sitting on the ground. She looked at Chen Mo, the corners of her red eyes were a little moist, but she still held back and couldn't let the contents flow out of her eyes.

Chen Mo had never seen such a weak side of her, she lost all her defenses, like a young deer lost in the forest, lost its direction and wandered hesitantly.

Chen Mo had such an illusion, because most children would show the appearance in front of Tallulah. This is not surprising, but when this appearance appears on Tallulah, it makes people feel weird, because most of the time, Chen Mo Subconsciously, he regarded her as a "person" like himself, while ignoring the fact that she was a child.

What's funny is that, as a despicable person, I spent my days and nights hoping that she would grow up enough to marry me.

Chen Mo has no experience of comforting anyone. The only time he did it was to make people cry.

But he still had to do it, because Tallulah, who was sitting in front of him, also expected him to do so.

"Is it because of the person Ms. Teresa brought back today?" Chen Mo asked in a low voice.

When he finished speaking, Tallulah didn't respond.