Soul knot

In the early morning of the second day, the milky aroma of steamed buns wafted out of the kitchen.

Lu Yudong rubbed his sleepy eyes, got out of the bed, walked to the kitchen door with bare feet, slippers, and messy hair.

Manzhu was standing in the kitchen cleaning something. She casually put on a dark narrow-sleeved gown over her thin inner garment. Her long, smooth hair was simply loose. The steamer on the induction cooker behind her was steaming when she suddenly heard movement outside the house. Then he turned around and took a look.

Lu Yudong tilted his head and winked at Manzhu.

"It'll be fine in 2 more minutes. Go and wash up." Manzhu said, continuing to clean the soybean milk machine in his hand.

Lu Yudong nodded and walked into the bathroom next to him.

The position of the mouthwash cup has been moved, but the two toothbrushes, one blue and one purple, are still quietly next to each other, and even the toothpaste is put in it, just like at home in the past, regardless of each other.

After brushing his teeth and washing his face, Lu Yudong combed a ponytail, wiped his dry little hands on the sides of his pajama pants, and walked out of the bathroom.

On the coffee table are steamed milk buns, a plate of hot sauce, a boiled egg and two bowls of warm soy milk.

Manzhu sat on the sofa and waited for her.

She tiptoed forward, moved a small bench, sat down opposite Manzhu, and reached out to pick up the soybean milk bowl.

Manzhu smiled and said, "After eating, change your clothes, and I will take you to report to school."

Lu Yudong tilted his head: "Can I go to school?"

"I asked for you just now, and you can report for duty today." Manzhu said, and glanced at the pink schoolbag on the shoe cabinet at the door, "I put all the stationery in it for you, you are a junior high school student."

"Yeah." Lu Yudong took a sip of soy milk, put down the bowl, picked up the steamed buns and chopsticks, and ate with the hot sauce.

Manzhu peeled the eggs for her on the side, and gently placed them in the steamed bun bowl.

Lu Yudong suddenly felt that the tip of her nose was sore, and the circles of her eyes were slightly red. She reached out to pick up the shelled egg, bit off the half of it, and couldn't help sniffling.

Manzhu was stunned for a moment, and quickly asked: "Do you not like to eat?"

Lu Yudong shook his head hastily, with a mouth full of white and egg yolk, he mumbled: "Before going to school every day, my father would peel an egg for me..."

The child who usually doesn't cry or coax him can't tell whether he wants to cry or laugh at this moment, and the expression that seems to be choked is also a bit ugly.

Manzhu didn't know why, her heart seemed to be pulled by something, and she was at a loss for a while.

Lu Yudong raised his sleeve and wiped away his tears, stopped crying, just swallowed what was in his mouth, looked up at Manzhu, and said seriously: "Auntie Manzhu, you are the only one in this world, except mom and dad. The best people..."

Manzhu has always felt that children are noisy. In the past, any monster child who dared to cry in front of her and quarrel with her ears would be scolded by her loudly.

But the child in front of him lost his parents at a young age, and he didn't even have time to see him off on the last journey, and he had to hide all his grief and longing in his heart, neither crying nor coaxing, and not embarrassing anyone.It hurts to be sensible.

Because of this, she wanted to give Lu Yudong a brand new life from the very beginning.

At the beginning, it was because he was afraid that the child would think about others when he saw things, so he didn't take anything from the child's original home, and everything was newly bought.

It has to be said that this made her owe a lot of debt. Fortunately, she is confident, even if she really repays the loan in installments for hundreds of years, forgive that guy.

It's just a child's family affection since childhood, how can it be so easy to fade away?

She opened her mouth and stopped talking for a while, but she didn't know how to comfort her.

Finally, he got up and walked to Lu Yudong's side and squatted down, looked at him at the same level, and joked with a smile: "Do I look old?"

Lu Yudong didn't expect Manzhu to ask such a question, so he was stunned for a while, and it took him a long time to realize that she cared about that title.

She blinked nervously, bit her lower lip and swallowed, and tentatively changed her words: "Manzhu... sister?"

"Good boy." Manzhu smiled brightly. As soon as she stood up, the child gently grabbed her sleeve.

Young children are ignorant of the world, and the people in front of them are the whole world.

"Then... Sister Manzhu." She tugged on Manzhu's sleeve lightly, her eyes were as sensitive as a wounded kitten, "Can I follow you all the time?"

Manzhu smiled, reached out and gently rubbed the broken hair on Lu Yudong's forehead, and said with a smile, "Of course."

Lu Yudong let go of his hand, his eyes were full of joy.

A child who doesn't feel safe is always afraid of being abandoned by others, but she doesn't know that the person in front of her has already locked her, even if she wants to run away one day, she will never be able to escape.

After breakfast, Lu Yudong changed into a brand new set of clothes, which were still a little too big, but better than too small.

When going downstairs, Manzhu said: "By the way, I'm not familiar with the registration. Someone will take you into the school later. You met him..."

"I'll be obedient." Lu Yudong hurriedly replied.

Manzhu shook his head: "When you see him, you should call him uncle."

Lu Yudong realized that he thought he was being smart, so he blushed for a moment, lowered his head, and replied, "Okay!"

Wenhai Experimental Middle School is a junior high school with one of the highest enrollment rates in Yuanchuan.

Lu Yudong followed Manzhu from the community, and it took about [-] minutes to walk all the way here. During the [-] minutes, she carefully wrote down the landmark buildings along the way, as if she was afraid that she would not find her way home after school .

Under the flyover outside the school gate, a tall guy with a black hooded sweater on his upper body, blue gray jeans on his lower body, long hair tied in a low ponytail behind his head, is at this moment with his hands in his pockets, squinting his narrow eyes , yawning boredly.

Manjula landed and Lu Yudong walked behind the man, said "Hello", and patted him on the shoulder.

"Grass!" The man was taken aback suddenly, turned around and glared at Man Zhu, then heaved a sigh of relief and said with lingering fear, "Scare me!"

Turning around at this moment, Lu Yudong realized that it was a man.

Although the man has long hair, his appearance and temperament are not feminine at all. On the contrary, he is very sunny and handsome, which is not inferior to those popular stars on TV.

It's just that he speaks foolishly, and there is a terrifying scar on the left neck, which is half hidden in the collar, which adds a little bit of a naughty temperament, giving people a feeling of being unreliable.

"This can scare you." Manzhu looked disgusted.

Mu Shenshan spread his hands: "Who told you to walk without breath now?"

God knows that with his cultivation base, his sensitivity to monster energy is already extremely high, but suddenly he was approached by a person with monster power silently, and he knew how scary it was with his toes.

Lu Yudong, who didn't know the truth, tilted his head in doubt.

Walk without breath?Does it mean low breathing?It was the first time she heard someone describe walking quietly like that.

"Bring some next time." Manzhu said, pulling Lu Yudong forward, "Lu Yudong will trouble you first."

"Okay, okay, don't worry, let's go." Mu Shenshan said, looking down at the child in front of him, squinting and smiling, "Lu Yudong, right? My name is Mu, Chaomu's Mu, come with me , I will take you to see your head teacher."

Manzhu gently pushed Lu Yudong: "Go with Uncle Mu."

Lu Yudong came back to his senses, looked up at Mu Shenshan, and said in a childish voice, "Thank you, Uncle Mu."

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and waved to Manzhu: "Goodbye, Sister Manzhu!"

Mu Shenshan's footsteps leading the way obviously stagnated for a moment, he turned his head and glanced at Manzhu, only to see a smug smile on the corner of Manzhu's mouth, as if announcing a phased victory.

Good guy, he's obviously several hundred years older than him, how can he pretend to be tender with a human child here?

Lu Yudong naturally didn't understand what the adults were thinking, but he only knew that after leaving Manzhu, his insecure heart became uncomfortable again.

Carrying her small schoolbag, she timidly followed behind Mu Shenshan, walked through the deserted playground, entered the teaching area where classes were in progress, and after finding the head teacher, she was taken to the Academic Affairs Office to complete the enrollment procedures.

In the end, she saw that Mu Shenshan had paid the book fee for her, and she couldn't help being surprised.

When the head teacher left the office for a short while, Lu Yudong pulled Mu Shenshan's sleeve, raised his head and said in a low voice, "Uncle Mu, did Sister Manzhu give you the book fee in advance, or did you pay for it for me?"

After hearing this, Mu Shenshan didn't care and said: "Not much, don't tell her."

Anyway, no matter who it is from, it will be plucked from him in the end. It is impossible to get back before Manzhu's income is stable.

Lu Yudong didn't know the reason, but simply felt that it was inappropriate for a man to be so indistinguishable from Manzhu, so he insisted in a low voice: "I'll go back and talk to Sister Manzhu."

"Don't!" Mu Shenshan hurriedly pulled Lu Yudong aside and sat down, "It's not easy for you, Sister Manzhu, she... She spent a lot of money for you recently, and she doesn't have a lot of money. If you forget the tuition, let her forget it." Come on, I'll go out, don't put too much pressure on her."

Putting pressure on Manzhu, isn't it putting pressure on yourself?Looking back, she thought that he had asked a child to help her collect debts, but when his temper came up, he couldn't bear it.

Now junior high schools don’t charge any money, and the textbook fee for one semester is more than 500 yuan, which should be used as a gift for the children.

Lu Yudong hesitated for a while, then raised his head and said seriously: "Then, Uncle Mu, is this money I owe you, okay? When I have money, I will definitely pay it back to you as soon as possible!"

"Huh?" Mu Shenshan once suspected that he had heard it wrong.

Lu Yudong pinched his fingers and asked, "Is it not possible?"

No matter how old you are, you really want to argue with a little girl whose parents have died and who just entered junior high school about the few hundred dollars, and it's really ugly to say it.

Mu Shenshan wanted to refuse, but Lu Yudong's eyes were very serious and sincere, so he changed his words: "It's okay... I'm not in a hurry, so you don't have to be in a hurry."

"Thank you, Uncle Mu!" Lu Yudong smiled cutely.

Mu Shenshan coughed lightly: "Little sister, let's discuss it."

"Huh?" Lu Yudong couldn't help being puzzled.

"Give me a younger name?" Mu Shenshan said.

Lu Yudong thought for a while, remembered Manzhu's words, shook his calf on the chair, raised his eyes and said seriously: "Uncle Mu."

Mu Shenshan: "..."

Well, somewhat younger.

After class, teacher Mo, the head teacher, brought Lu Yudong to the class, and Mu Shenshan left first.

Lu Yudong was a little shy of strangers, so he lowered his head and walked to the seat arranged by the head teacher to sit down. He found a thick new notebook from his schoolbag, turned to the last page, and wrote a line——I owe my little uncle 545 yuan, and pay it back as soon as possible.

The female tablemate at the side met and couldn't help asking: "Is this the book fee?"

Lu Yudong froze for a moment, then nodded.

The deskmate was puzzled: "Aren't adults paying for this? Why do you have to pay it back?"

Lu Yudong lowered his head and said softly, "I have to pay it back."

It must be paid back.

The deskmate didn't ask any more questions, just opened the first page of his Chinese document and pushed it in front of Lu Yudong.

As soon as Lu Yudong raised his eyes, he saw the name on the book——Zhang Ziyun.

This is the name of the deskmate.

Zhang Ziyun gave Lu Yudong a good-looking smile. Her thin shoulder-length hair made her thin face look even more delicate. She looked up at the three words "Lu Yudong" that had not been erased on the blackboard, and said, "Your name is so real." Sounds good, have you missed your homework? If there is anything you don’t understand, you can ask me directly.”

"Well, thank you." Lu Yudong responded in a low voice.

"You're welcome, are you a day student or a boarding student?" Zhang Ziyun asked.

"I'm going to read." Lu Yudong said, and took out the walk-reading card in the pencil case.

"That's great, I don't have to ask Zhang Hao to bring me food in the future!" Zhang Ziyun said, whispering about the rules that boarding students are not allowed to leave the school gate at will, saying that the food in the school cafeteria is not good, and then talking about what's outside What tastes best.

Lu Yudong thought, Zhang Ziyun was good-looking and confident in his speech, he must be the kind of student that parents and teachers would like.

It's different from a child like her who is pushed around by relatives after losing her parents.

On the first day of school, although he missed a lot of homework and couldn't understand some of them, Lu Yudong still took notes very carefully, marked all the things he didn't understand, thinking about asking the teacher when he had time.

At noon, she followed Zhang Ziyun to the school cafeteria, only to realize that she had no money for a meal card.

Zhang Ziyun saw the embarrassment of the tablemate, so he paid for an extra meal: "I will lend you the two meals today, and you bring the money with you tomorrow. I will accompany you to apply for a meal card, and you will pay me back."

"Okay." Lu Yudong nodded.

That day, after evening self-study and school, Lu Yudong took ten yuan from Zhang Ziyun and promised to bring her breakfast outside tomorrow morning.

Carrying her heavy schoolbag on her back, she lowered her head and followed the other chatting and laughing day students out of the school gate. She was thinking about the way home in her little head when she caught a glimpse of a familiar skirt.

As soon as he raised his head, he bumped into Manzhu's gentle eyes.

She thought that it was so late that no one should come to pick her up.

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Children's possessiveness, many times even the old goblins don't understand it. This is the same reason that the old goblins like to pretend to be tender, and children don't understand it.

*感谢在2020-10-1504:17:12~2020-10-1604:04:50期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

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