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In her vision, she still remembered that under the osmanthus tree, in order to protect her companions in the orphanage, she used the sword skills that she had secretly trained for a long time and beat the gangsters away.
It seemed like from then on, I swung the sword to protect the people around me.
Following her memory, Xia Yi walked through the city and came to the Chunfeng Orphanage.
Just as Kate said, Chunfeng Orphanage has been renovated and is no longer as shabby as she remembered.
At the door of the orphanage, a nun was cleaning with a broom.
Xia Yi opened her eyes wide and subconsciously called out her name, "Teacher Martha..."
This was the teacher who had taken care of her in her memory.
When Martha heard the voice, she raised her head, a little surprised, and stared at Xia Yi for a while. Her expression changed slightly, and she took the initiative to step forward and walked in front of Xia Yi.
09 Children in the orphanage
Xia Yi was shocked when she saw Martha walking towards her.
Could it be...
Has Teacher Martha recognized me?
This time, she was a little overwhelmed.
I have been away from Chunfeng Orphanage for so many years and have never been back. I don’t know what to say.
Just as Xia Yi stood there, hesitating, Martha had already walked up to her, smiled, and then saluted.
"You are Miss Lawrence, right? Good afternoon. I didn't expect that you would visit the Spring Breeze Orphanage on behalf of the Lawrence family. Please allow me to express my gratitude to the children of the Spring Breeze Orphanage."
"what……"
Xia Yi looked back.
On a car not far away was the Lawrence family emblem.
The Lawrence family has always been supporting the Chunfeng Orphanage. As a teacher, how could Martha not recognize the Lawrence family?
At this moment, the expression on Martha's face was not as kind and gentle as Xia Yi remembered when she treated children, but rather polite and distant.
This made Xia Yi feel sad.
I returned to the orphanage I had always missed, but I was completely different from before...
But she was helpless. She couldn't possibly tell the truth to Martha now.
In front of Martha, Xia Yi forced himself to suppress his inner turmoil and displayed the etiquette of an outstanding aristocrat.
"Good afternoon. I'm Xia Yi Lawrence from the Lawrence family. My uncle is busy, but he's been concerned about the situation at the Spring Breeze Orphanage, so he sent me here to visit the children on behalf of my uncle."
Xia Yi gave the reason that she had already thought of in advance.
Her current identity is that she is a distant relative of Kate Lawrence.
"I see, Miss Xia Yi, you are most welcome, please follow me."
Martha invited Xia Yi to enter Chunfeng Orphanage.
Afterwards, she gave orders to the coachman and the guards accompanying him to go somewhere else to rest first.
She doesn't want anyone to disturb her.
"Speaking of which, Miss Xia Yi, have you seen me before?" Martha suddenly asked curiously, "Before, I seemed to hear you calling my name just now..."
"Ah? That's... ahem, I know a little about Chunfeng Orphanage. I know that you are a teacher here and you are very popular among the children." Xia Yi quickly made up an excuse.
"Is that so? You are really flattering me."
"By the way, Sister Martha, I hope you don't tell other people here that I am from the Lawrence family. I don't really want to be treated specially. I just want to see the children's truest state."
"No problem," Martha agreed.
Under the guidance, Xia Yi walked through the gate and returned to Chunfeng Orphanage again. A sense of familiarity emerged in her.
Chunfeng Orphanage is not too big and has adopted quite a few orphans.
It can be seen that the Lawrence family is indeed following Lucia's instructions. Many places that seemed shabby have been completely renovated. The environment here is much better than before.
The oldest children adopted into Chunfeng Orphanage are around ten years old.
When the children here have certain abilities, they will leave the orphanage. If they have excellent learning abilities, they can apply for financial aid from the local government to pursue their studies.
However, these are still a minority. Most of them will go out into society to make a living at the right age. After all, Chunfeng Orphanage cannot take care of the children here for their entire lives.
Of course, occasionally some rich people or nobles would come here to adopt children.
For the orphans here, it is an opportunity to change their lives that many people are longing for.
For example, Xia Yi was once spotted by the Schubert family.
It has been more than ten years since I left the orphanage. It is impossible for my former friends to stay in the orphanage. They should have left here and gone their separate ways.
The children she saw now were all unfamiliar faces.
"Hey, is there anyone else coming to Chunfeng Orphanage?" Xia Yi asked curiously.
In front of her, a young man walked by with several children, and they were playing football together on the playground.
After all, in my impression, not many people were willing to come to Chunfeng Orphanage, and the teachers at that time were too busy to handle all the children.
"Miss Xia Yi, those are adventurers," Martha explained. "Compared to the past, Chunfeng Orphanage has undergone many changes. With sufficient financial support, we also have a certain amount of expenses. We cooperate with the Adventurer's Association, issue tasks, and recruit people to help. With the help of these adventurers, some bad people with ill intentions dare not come to cause trouble casually."
"I see, this place is really better than before."
Xia Yi listened and felt very relieved.
I remember that in the past, there were some bad thugs who enjoyed bullying the children in Chunfeng Orphanage.
But the teachers in the orphanage were helpless. They had no fighting power, and the orphanage was so poor that it was almost a problem to feed the children. It was impossible to hire others to solve these problems.
It was at that time that Wright decided to learn swordsmanship to protect everyone.
I have to say that everything will be different after you have money. Many difficulties in the past are nothing now.
"This time..."
Martha looked at the clock in the square and frowned.
"What's wrong, Sister Martha?" Xia Yi asked.
"Excuse me, Miss Xia Yi, it's almost time for the children to go to class. I'll go and tell them to study on their own today."
"It's okay, Sister Martha, go to class first and don't delay the children."
"But……"
"It's okay, Sister Martha. Just let me walk around by myself. If I get into trouble, I believe the children will be happy to help me."
Hearing this, Martha smiled and said, "Okay, Miss Xia Yi, since you said so, I will obey your order. If you have any questions, you can always find the staff of our Chunfeng Orphanage and explain your identity."
"Yeah." Xia Yi nodded.
Then, Martha bowed to Xia Yi, left, and went to teach the children.
In Xia Yi's memory, Teacher Martha taught the younger children how to read and write. It should be the same now, right?
"Although the Spring Breeze Orphanage has been renovated, the overall layout has not changed much. According to my memory, I shouldn't get lost."
Xia Yi walked around Chunfeng Orphanage alone.
……
"Sister! Sister!"
A little girl in her early teens stood in front of Xia Yi and grabbed her arm.
"Sister, we are in trouble, can you help us?"
"what's wrong?"
"We are short of one person, very urgently, and my sister is perfect!"
"Oh, okay."
"Thank you sister!"
The little girl smiled sweetly and pulled Xia Yi to the room where the children were gathered. It seemed that the children were doing some big activities, like they were playing some role-playing games, with props all over the floor...
"Hey, that's not right!"
Suddenly, Xia Yi's face began to turn slightly red.
After realizing what the children were doing, she felt so ashamed that she almost wanted to escape.
No, this really won’t work!!
10 Do you understand me? (Monthly ticket plus more)
"Sister, sister! We are performing a play and we are short of one person!" the little girl said to Xia Yi.
"me……"
Xia Yi really wants to refuse now.
Because she seemed to understand what these kids were playing.
One of the boys was holding a paper weapon, the paint on the outside of which was exactly the same as the Holy Sword Gurum.
There is also a small throne, and there are many people next to it acting as dragon guards.
This is clearly the scene of the human swordsman challenging the silver dragon queen!
For Xia Yi, this is simply the ultimate social death!
"Who is this sister?" asked the child who was playing the sword master.
"I don't know. She seems to be an adventurer who came to help our Chunfeng Orphanage. I saw her talking and laughing with Teacher Martha before! So I pulled her over. Don't you think this sister is very suitable?"
The children gathered around and stared at Xia Yi.