Chapter 2057
The rest of my eyes caught a glimpse of Fu Shen Yan, who didn’t take it to heart, standing in place and waiting for me, naturally extending a hand, gesturing for me to take him.
I pursed my lips and smiled, lifted my feet towards him and walked over, just as I handed him my hand, Four Seasons and Zhian suddenly stood out, looking up at us both with a serious face.
“What, you guys are going too?” I asked tentatively.
“Hmm.” Zhian nodded, “Where my sister is, I’ll be there, I’ll protect her.”
The seriousness with which he said it was really gentle to the heart.
“How can my Zhi’an be so understanding~” I couldn’t help but reach out and give Zhi’an an encouraging pat on the shoulder.
Between siblings, the heart that doesn’t stray is all about getting along when they’re young, and there’s no reason to spoil the fun when Zhian has that heart.
Looking up again, he and Four Seasons looked at each other and smiled at each other, “Needless to say, Zhi’an wants to protect An Xin, you want to protect your younger siblings, right?”
“Hehehe~” Four Seasons curled her eyes with a smile, as if there was starlight shining in her eyes, kind and familiar.
I had no choice but to take them all with me, as I couldn’t favour one over the other.
The only children left in the pile were the dots. Although the children were not old, they were carved out of the same mold as Shen Yu, and once An Xin and the others went outside, they held up the model aeroplane in their hands and went after them.
The children all rushed, Shen Yu and Sang Yun of course also can not sit still.
In the end, when Fu Shen Yan left, it turned into a small family night out, dragging the family along, lively.
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It was already 10pm when we arrived at the orphanage.
The children in the orphanage had basically gone to bed, leaving only the ones Chen Yi had brought back from abroad, waiting in a classroom on purpose.
The four words “human experimentation” gave me a feeling of danger, and I thought that the children involved in the experiment would be completely disfigured, so I was doing psychological construction after getting off the bus, and I had to behave in a calm manner in order to give the children a good example.
However, when we walked into the classroom, the scene was surprising.
In the old classroom, a dozen half-grown children of varying ages were lined up in two rows, dressed in uniform white hospital gowns, but indeed clean, without a trace of trauma, and with faces that didn’t look tortured or depressed, except for some fear at the sight of a stranger.
I was relieved that this was a blessing among misfortunes.
Fu Shen Yan walked up to the podium and gave a brief sweeping glance from above, then asked Chen Yi, “Have you investigated all the backgrounds?”
“Yes.” Chen Yi responded respectfully, “The orphanage in M saved most of the information, only these, which were of unknown origin, so they were sent here temporarily.”
Fu Shen Yan had little reaction after listening, his deep eyes narrowed slightly as he fell into thought.
The large classroom was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, and the ragged gasps those children made because they were nervous were especially noticeable.
An Xin, who has always been bold and was seeing so many children for the first time, took advantage of the gap in Fu Shen Yan’s thinking to suddenly get out from behind me and walk towards the children.
I subconsciously wanted to reach out and stop her, but when I saw her curious face, I didn’t say anything.
Luckily, Zhi’an was quick to react and immediately ran forward, holding her sister’s hand and accompanying her as she took a good look at the children one by one.
The first row were all around the same age as Dot, slightly more youthful and timid, so An Xin took a quick glance and skipped right past them, quickly pulling Zhi’an towards the second row.
When she passed the skinniest child, An Xin suddenly stopped, her big watery eyes staring hard at the child.
After looking for a while, she took out a lollipop from her pocket and handed it to the child, “Here, eat it.”
Chapter 2058
The fleshy hand hung in the air, but the person opposite had no intention of accepting it.
It was only then that I raised my spirits to look closely at the boy, and for a moment, shifting my eyes, I was surprised that something felt familiar, but when I settled down, it didn’t. Perhaps it was because the boy’s cheeks were too thin, and the malnourished face was more visually striking than the faint familiarity.
The lab was an orphanage in disguise, and a mini-society, where the natural rule of the underdog continues everywhere, and this boy was by and large the one trapped at the bottom of the pile, the one who was always being oppressed.
An Xin has compassion at heart and knows how to sympathise with the weak, and as a mother, I am glad.
Worried that the boy was afraid to take orders because he didn’t have an adult, she gently spoke out to remind him, “Eat, it’s okay.”
At the sound of the voice, the boy looked up at me, his eyes had a different calmness than those of his peers, and just by looking at him, I could tell that he was a man with a story to tell.
An experimental subject used to being ordered around should be nodding submissively at the moment, thanking the gift with his eyes, yet this boy was not.
He looked at me calmly for a few seconds, then withdrew his gaze and jerked one hand up to where An Xin’s neck was flush.
Zhi’an instantly pulled An Xin back a step and blocked her with a solemn little face, “What are you doing!?”
The boy’s hand was still hanging in mid-air, with no intention of withdrawing it, and his face was expressionless, and the atmosphere was extraordinarily tense against Zhi’an.
But An Xin was oblivious to all this, calmly straightened his clothes and reverted to the ground and bounced twice.
This bounce, a little something suddenly fell off the shoulder.
An Xin picked it up and took it in her hand, excitedly handed it to Zhi’an and said with a smile, “Look brother, little brother is going to help An Xin with this! Not to hurt An Xin!”
In her hand, was a candy wrapper.
An Xin, like Zhi An, liked to eat sweet things, but neither we, nor Shen Yu, allowed her to eat too much, so the ghost sprite fought with us every day, either taking the goodies by the hand or secretly, hiding them and then secretly eating them when we were out of sight.
The one you’re holding in your hand is probably the one you ate before you left home, but you were afraid of being discovered, so you secretly hid it in your shirt collar.
It was a false alarm.
The other party was harmless, so she took a step back.
An Xin then handed the lollipop over again, smiling and bending her long eyelashes, “Thank you! Now you can eat candy! This is my favorite lollipop, it’s delicious!”
The boy didn’t refuse and took it with no expression.
An Xin watched him take the lollipop in his hand and smiled contentedly.
At this point Fu Shen Yan had a decision, “Keep them all and sponsor them until adulthood in the name of your wife.”
Chen Yi nodded in response, “Yes.”
Fu Shen Yan nodded slightly, turned his eyes towards the middle of the classroom and called out, “Zhi An, bring your sister here.”
At the word, Zhi’an immediately took An Xin’s hand and led her back.
When he reached Fu Shen Yan, Zhi An said respectfully, “Father, I have brought my sister back.”
“Mm.” Fu Shen Yan nodded, then looked at An Xin and indifferently lifted his lips, “From now on, no one is allowed to approach strangers without the permission of mother and me, can you do that?”