luck on thursday

When the entrance exam time came, they sent Joe to take the exam in person. Carrie told him worriedly: "It doesn't matter if you fail the exam. Joe doesn't need to be nervous. It's a big deal that we don't go to school here. The public schools in the community are also very good."

"Yeah." Joe grabbed the pen and responded softly.

When it's time for the exam, the bell rings.

The children came out of the examination room, Joe was the last one, with his hands in the pockets of his black coat, his head bowed in frustration, he didn't think he could get into this school.

Because the questions were difficult, when he was in the orphanage, he went to the same public school that Oulumba said in the morning that he was "promising", so the amount of questions was obviously not enough.

He walked along the crowd to the school gate, hoping sullenly that even if the grades were not up to standard, they would be a little better.

...At least he won't be pointed at by the host's boy and ridiculed, and he will have no future.

Walking out of the school gate, Joe looked around, surrounded by parents who came to pick up the students who took the exam. He looked around carefully for several times, but he didn't see Benjamin and his wife who agreed to pick him up.

The children were picked up one by one, and Joe was alone in a daze at the dark streetlights, while men like security guards patrolled the school gate.

When I was tired from standing, I just walked for a while; when I was tired from walking, I had to squat on the ground and grasp the collar of the coat tightly.

The sky gradually weakened, and the street lamps began to light up one after another. At this time, the bell rang in the school, and the students dismissed get out of class. For a moment, laughter seeped from the school wall like water, and the wrought iron gate opened, and the crowd poured out.

And then Joe saw them at last!

They drove that familiar car from afar without haste, and parked in an open space outside the school gate. The two people in the car got out of the car and walked towards the school gate.

Joe's eyes lit up slowly, he scratched his hair, moved his toes a little shyly, and waited for the adults to come up to him and take him away.

However, they didn't wait, only a boy ran out from the wrought iron gate and stood in front of them. The couple smiled and patted him on the shoulder, bent down and asked something.

They didn't see Joe standing not far away, and walked straight towards the car.

Qiao Mu stared at them in a daze as they turned their backs to him and were about to get in the car to go home. Suddenly, his eyes turned red, and he rushed over recklessly, opened the door and got in under everyone's surprised eyes.

The first person to react was Oulumba, who frowned and said, "Why are you still here? Shouldn't you have finished the exam long ago?!"

Instead, Benjamin and his wife suddenly realized, and Carrie was a little embarrassed: "It's our problem. We forgot that Joe had an exam this afternoon, and we didn't have time to take him back."

Carrie apologized to herself, and went to press the car radio while talking, intending to listen to the broadcast: "Next time, Joe, you should call my number instead of standing there alone..."

Benjamin drove proficiently and glanced at the rear through the rearview mirror. Joe was turning his head to look out the window, and after listening to Carrie's words, he said hello obediently.

But no one saw that the sockets of Joe's eyes were half red, and there were no tears or voices, and even the slightest sob was swallowed forcefully by himself.

No one will care about these anymore.

……

To everyone's surprise, Joe passed the minimum score. When he got the envelope from the mailbox, Orenba was full of disbelief: "Give it to me! It's impossible! How could you..."

Joe nimbly dodged his attack, squatted behind the sofa and opened the envelope, seeing the acceptance notice, he rarely smiled.

Carrie came out with a tray of black tea, just in time to see Joe handing over the admission notice to Benjamin, she also felt a little unbelievable: "Joe...was admitted?"

Benjamin put down the newspaper and nodded: "I passed the exam."

"Impossible, this is impossible! How did he pass the exam right away?!"

Olumba yelled angrily. He wanted to grab Joe's sleeve, but the boy slipped across the other side of the sofa and ran to the second floor where there was no one. : "Did you cheat! You must have peeked at other people's test papers!"

"I didn't!" Joe rebutted him in a clear voice.

"You must have peeked at it, otherwise how could you pass the exam? Those teachers in public schools, what kind of shit do they teach..."

"Eurumba!"

There was a mother's cry from below, and Carrie stood under the stairs, unable to see what was going on on the second floor.

"Joe passed the exam, you should congratulate him." Carrie raised her voice, "Talk to him about the school?"

School?Tell him what school!After Joe came, the whole class was talking about him!

"Hey, Eulumba, do you know the new boy?"

Orenba's classmate hooked his neck and asked with a smile. People passing by around him pricked up their ears curiously, trying to dig out some useful information from the boy.

The latter pulled him away impatiently, and the man didn't care much: "I saw you get out of a car this morning, is he a relative of your family?"

Olumba snorted through his nasal cavity: "A relative?! How can I have such a poor relative! That is a poor boy. My parents just adopted him recently. I don't know where he stepped on to get in."

Another classmate couldn't bear it, leaned over and asked curiously: "But your family doesn't lack children?"

Orenba pretended not to care, and waved at the man, "Because my parents think I'm too boring to be alone, so I specially picked him up to play with me!"

"Wow!!!"

"Then, what if your parents like him more, what will you do?" A classmate asked a silly question, and Oulumba pushed him back a few steps.

"How is it possible. I have already told my parents that whenever I get bored, I will throw him back to the orphanage!"

"Wow!!!"

Everyone was unanimously amazed, and what's more, they began to ask cryptically, how to get one from the orphanage to be a playmate.

Just when Orenba wanted to show off the knowledge he had acquired, all voices suddenly disappeared in the air.All eyes turned away from Olumba, and looked at the transfer students who walked in from the outside holding books.

That transfer is very good-looking, with a fair face and blue eyes like a gentle sea. When he looks at you, he can see immature silence and tolerance.

Behaving like a well-educated little prince, but Eulumba says he came out of an orphanage...

"Hey," the classmate who asked at the beginning poked Olumba and whispered, "His name is Joe, right?"

"What do you call him!" said Orenba gruffly.

Qiao's foundation is naturally not as good as that of the students who have been studying in private, but he is only in the middle class in this class.

It doesn't matter, children at this age don't care about their grades, they pay more attention to the appearance of their faces.

When Joe walked across the back of the classroom with his books in his arms, someone would sneak a glance at him, planning to ask him out for ice cream after school or something.

But the new transfer student always opened his beautiful blue eyes, waved his hands and said that he had something to do, and got on the car home with a simple little black bag on his back.

That fat boy, Orumba, would squeeze over and squeeze the very popular transfer student into a corner to sit.

Joe was anxious to get home because he had a lot of work to do and new lessons to make up.

Olumba gave him all the jobs assigned by the adults, and Joe knew that he was dependent on others, so naturally he had no room to refuse.

Fortunately, the master doesn't judge him harshly, they will give him delicious food and a warm bed... that's enough.

Today was exactly the same as usual. After mopping the floor, Joe ran to the garage to take a shower for Benjamin's car. When he came out, he was extremely exhausted, and he just wanted to fall down on his own small bed and fall asleep.

But no, he still tried his best to stand in front of the couple, opened his bright blue eyes, and pointed to the floor he had worked so hard to mop up, in exchange for praise from the host.

"The mopping was great! Joe was great!"

Carrie said with a smile, turned her head and complained to Benjamin: "If only Orenba was half as well-behaved as Joe, we don't have to worry about whether he lives well in the boarding school."

"It'll be all right if you don't get used to him so much." Benjamin shook the newspaper and cast a casual glance at Joe.

"You're used to it too, don't just say I'm alone."

"I see you'd like Joe to be your son, so tell him that."

"Who wouldn't want Joe to be so industrious. Wouldn't you, Joe?"

Carrie turned around contentedly, picked up a bag of unopened biscuits from the coffee table and stuffed them into Joe's hands: "This is a reward, and Joe must do a good job in the future. We like obedient children the most."

Joe responded simply: "Okay." He silently looked at the sign on the package.

This brand is called Fitz's Department Store, a well-known department store chain, which has many novel candy snacks that Joe has never seen in his life.

The last time Joe was in Fitz's, when Mom was around, the family went shopping and bought Joe a small bag of sweet maple bars.

The little boy once held a lollipop happily as if he was three years old, but he didn't expect that he could still see the familiar logo now.

"Thank you." He finally squeezed out a sentence between his teeth, in exchange for Carrie's gentle smile and Benjamin's slightly perfunctory pat on the shoulder.

"We like Joe best." Carrie smiled amicably, as if watching something she loved.

Young boys get what they want, like the value of being in this home.

Although it is a bit tiring to do some housework, at least the host is very satisfied.

Joe smiled a little embarrassedly. Unexpectedly, just after the corner of the stairwell on the second floor, a figure flashed by.

Before he came back to his senses, he was pulled over by Olumba and threatened viciously: "Be careful, they belong to my parents, not yours!"

Joe didn't keep up with his jumping thoughts: "They are your parents..."

"...They don't like you! Don't get carried away!"

Olumba kicked his knee angrily, and Joe staggered back a few steps, bumped his head against the railing in the stairwell, and sat on the ground with a pale face.

The adults below heard the movement and went up the stairs one after another, asking the children what happened.

"Joe!" Carrie screamed, rushing over to support the boy who was staggering a bit. "What's wrong? Hit the stairs?"

The hand that pinched Joe's arm was extremely strong. Joe's pinched arm hurt, and he subconsciously twitched back in panic, but was held firmly by Carrie.Benjamin frowned, still holding the unfinished newspaper in his hand, Eulumba howled aggrievedly, and Benjamin pressed his shoulder.

"father!"

Benjamin said succinctly: "Can anyone tell me what's going on now?"

"Joe hit the railing by himself, and I wanted to help him, but he wouldn't let me!" Olumba puffed up his chest and said confidently.

The boy whose arm was grabbed was silent and did not respond. Carrie and Benjamin looked at each other silently, and beckoned Olumba to come over: "You should remind Joe that the floor here is a bit slippery."

"...He pushed me."

The boy who had been silent all this time suddenly spoke in a low voice, obviously still in some pain, and he breathed in continuously while speaking, which sounded even more pitiful.

"How is it possible!" Carrie seemed a little unbelievable, and she suddenly squeezed the hand holding Joe's arm, "Is the floor slippery, and Joe forgot all of a sudden?"

Obviously he did it, but if no one sees it, then there is no evidence; without evidence, it cannot be said.

Joe looked up at her with a small face, expressionless, but his back was thin, his skin was pale, and he looked extremely helpless.For a moment in a trance, he remembered a little boy knocked on the ground, and was hugged by his mother distressedly, and then encouraged him to stand up slowly.

The fat boy seemed to be a little guilty, his whole face flushed, he turned around and ran back to his room in the blink of an eye, the door was closed with a loud bang.

"Eurumba!"

When Carrie saw her youngest son running away, she panicked for a moment, followed Olumba and chased into the room.

The rest of the people watched them leave, and finally Benjamin lowered his head and looked at the boy.

He sighed helplessly: "Joe... I hope you can understand, Olumba is spoiled by his mother... He didn't mean it."

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Thanks to the little angel who threw mines: 1 yogurts;

Thanks to the little angel of irrigation nutrient solution: 5 bottles of Oreo Big Devil;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!