[Comprehensive British and American] Painting ghosts

Shen Yanzhou quickly found the orphanage according to the geographical location provided by Dippet.

Since the Muggle world is going through the Second World War, there is a dilapidated look everywhere.As for social welfare institutions such as orphanages, one can imagine how difficult it is in such a world.

Shen Yanzhou pushed open the dilapidated metal gate in the courtyard of the orphanage, and the metal rubbed against each other to make a toothache creaking sound.The ground was littered with rotting wood, and rusty green moss grew everywhere.

"That child grew up here?" Shen Yanzhou frowned slightly, this is not a good place for a child to be enlightened.

He knocked on the wooden door of the house, and the dull knock echoed in the slightly damp and cold air in the early morning.

The door was quickly opened, and a small head poked out from behind the door. It was a little girl with a dirty face.She raised her head and looked at Shen Yanzhou, who was standing behind the door in a well-dressed dress, her big eyes were not bright at all.

"Who's knocking on the door!" A woman's voice suddenly came from the room, full of impatience.

"An uncle." The little girl was startled, and replied timidly.

Following a burst of hurried footsteps, the woman came in front of Shen Yanzhou.She is not young, skinny, and looks a bit mean.When she saw Shen Yanzhou standing at the door with a decent smile on her face, her meanness also turned into flattery.

She welcomed Shen Yanzhou in hastily: "I'm sorry, the children are mischievous, and the house is very messy... Are you going to have sex? Or are you going to subsidize the orphanage? You know, in this world, raising these It's too difficult for a child..."

From his appearance, one can tell that this person is either rich or noble. It is impossible for such a person to visit the orphanage for no reason.

"It's like this." Shen Yanzhou casually glanced at the few children hiding in the corner. They were wearing shabby clothes and even had bruises on their bodies. "I'm looking for a kid named Tom Riddle who has been admitted to our school and I'm here to take him shopping for the things he needs to go to school."

Shen Yanzhou noticed that when he said the name, the expression of the woman in front of him changed obviously, it was a look of disgust mixed with a little fear.

"Tom?" Mrs. Cole looked as if she had swallowed a fly. "The little madman?"

"Is there any problem?" Shen Yanzhou frowned. The nickname "little lunatic" sounded uncomfortable to him.

Mrs. Cole didn't realize that her words were wrong, she just frowned and said: "Sir, we have many children here, Cody, Gavin, and Billy are all very cute and smart, did you get the name wrong? ?”

Shen Yanzhou probably saw the attitude of the orphanage leader towards Tom, and he asked, "Don't you like Tom?"

Mrs. Cole showed a secretive expression: "That child is very cunning, he likes to bully other children, steal things... he is simply the son of the devil. He should not belong here, but should be a madhouse. If you want to accept students, We have a lot of kids here who want to go to school…”

Steal?Shen Yanzhou raised his eyebrows: "I want to see Tom, can you please show me the way?"

When Mrs. Cole saw that Shen Yanzhou ignored her several times to promote other children, as if she had made up her mind to only want Tom, her face immediately changed: "Tom is being punished for confinement, and no one is allowed to see him."

Shen Yanzhou wanted to say something more, but Mrs. Cole had already shown that she wanted to chase someone away.

In desperation, he raised his head and stared at Mrs. Cole's eyes. In the depths of his pupils, there seemed to be ink welling up, converging into the word "confusion".

With the power of the Lord of the Rings, Shen Yanzhou no longer needs to use the Tianyan pen to cast spells all the time. To some extent, the compatibility between him and the Tianyan pen has reached a critical point. is one.

Mrs. Cole is a typical outsider, but she was firmly controlled with almost no struggle, and stiffly led Shen Yanzhou to the door of Tom's room.

Shen Yanzhou opened the door, his gaze was immediately attracted by the boy sitting on the bed.

The boy also seemed to be startled by the visitor who opened the door suddenly, and his alert eyes instantly fell on Shen Yanzhou, even with hostility.Even as a child, he could see that his facial features were very beautiful, but his eyes were full of negative emotions.He was sitting by the window, but there seemed to be no light in the room, and he himself was like a light absorber, swallowing all the light in his dark eyes.

Shen Yanzhou gently closed the door, walked to the bed opposite Tom and sat down.

The boy's eyes never left him. When he sat down, the boy couldn't wait to speak, but his tone was full of hostility: "You are the one called by Mrs. Cole, right? You want to put me in the madhouse go."

Shen Yanzhou paused, looked into the boy's dark eyes, and said seriously: "No, Tom, no one is going to send you to the madhouse."

"Then what are you here for?" Adoption?Don't joke, Tom Riddle didn't think he was the kind of kid who would be adopted, he knew how others saw him, monster, demon, lunatic, freak.

"I'll take you to school." Shen Yanzhou said.

Tom stood up suddenly, with anger in his eyes: "Ha, you think you can deceive me like this? Go to school? Go to the kind of school that puts students in cells? You liar!"

Shen Yanzhou was taken aback by the boy's sudden outburst. He looked at Tom who couldn't restrain his anger, sighed softly, and showed a smile that he thought was the most friendly to coax the child:

"You misunderstood, Tom." Shen Yanzhou said softly. "I think you should have received the acceptance letter from Hogwarts... If you haven't seen it, maybe your dean has put it away. I think you should know that you are an extraordinary child , right? Haven't you ever discovered something different about yourself from others when you grow up so old?"

Tom's body was visibly stiff: "I don't know what you're talking about, sir."

The child's trust in strangers is too low, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.Shen Yanzhou stretched out his hand, and black mist floated from his fingertips, slowly condensing into a little black rabbit in the air.

The little rabbit was condensed like ink, so vivid that it even jumped onto Tom's hand.Before Tom could be surprised, the rabbit turned into black mist again and dissipated in the air.

Looking at the astonished Tom, Shen Yanzhou smiled and said, "You also have such power, don't you? Not everyone can do this."

"You...you are different from them," Tom said hesitantly.

"You are different from them, you are a wizard." Shen Yanzhou said.

"You mean, I do have special abilities that ordinary people don't have?" Tom's black eyes fixed on Shen Yanzhou's hand, which turned into a scene he had never seen before. He had an intuition that the person in front of him This person will open the door to a new world for him.

"Yes, Tom, this is a talent that few people have." Shen Yanzhou said.

Tom's eyes instantly became extremely frenzied and excited. At that moment, Shen Yanzhou even felt that he saw a wild beast awakened. He frowned, wondering if his feeling was an illusion.

"I'm a professor from Hogwarts. Hogwarts is a school of magic. You can think it's the best school of magic in the world." Shen Yanzhou said.

"Have I been admitted to this school?" Although he basically knew the answer, Tom still wanted to hear the answer from the professor in front of him who was incompatible with the surrounding environment. His eyes were full of paranoid stubbornness.

"Yes." Although Shen Yanzhou felt that this child was not as cute as he imagined, but with no experience in dealing with children, he had no choice but to pamper this child. "However, I don't think Hogwarts wants its students to be thieves. Before going to Hogwarts, I hope you can return the things you took from others. Okay?"

"No." To Shen Yanzhou's surprise, the child refused the request without hesitation. "That's my prize, and I deserve it."

Shen Yanzhou sighed helplessly, stood up, and reached out to open the cupboard next to the bed.

His clothes were caught by a pair of small hands.

"I don't allow you to take my things!" Tom showed a fierce expression on his face, he was guarding his territory like a roaring lion cub.

Shen Yanzhou reached out and touched Tom's hair, and tore his hands off his clothes.

Tom was surprised to find that the moment the professor's hand touched his hair, he couldn't move, as if bound in place by some invisible shackles.

He watched helplessly as Shen Yanzhou opened the cabinet, and took out his spoils from the interlayer of the cabinet.

A spool, a silver thimble, a tarnished harmonica... Tom watched as Shen Yanzhou took out these treasures he had finally obtained one by one and put them on the table. The anger in his eyes could no longer be suppressed.

"These used to be your things, but now, they are my trophies." Shen Yanzhou looked at the boy's angry distorted face and sighed. "What you get from bullying the weak will always be taken away by the stronger. So, you have to study hard." He patted the boy's head again, and Tom found that he could move.

But he didn't immediately rush forward to grab back his things, the anger in his eyes slowly subsided, and those eyes turned into a pool of stagnant water that covered everything up again.After a long time, he showed a polite and gentle smile: "Yes, professor, I will study hard."

"Good boy." Shen Yanzhou put away the spoils, and led Tom out of the room.

Behind him, Tom's stagnant dark eyes stared at his back. Under the whitewashed calm, anger, helplessness, excitement, desire and ambition grew ferociously and crazily like poisonous vines.

The author has something to say: Tian Yanbi: Are you happy bullying a child?

Shen Yanzhou: I am very happy

Tianyanbi: Is this why you always bully me?

Shen Yanzhou: Oh my dear, don't put gold on your face. How old are you? Don't you have a b-number yourself?

Tianyanbi: ...my love for you has come to an end