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More than a dozen children in the room rubbed their sleepy eyes and sat up from their beds.
"Is it snowing outside?"
“Lots of snow”
"I saw it last year. It's nothing special."
"Alright, alright, stop chatting and get changed! Let's go eat!"
Yamaoka Miyoshi continued to tap the edge of the bed with his cane, the sound becoming more and more urgent.
In Xiao Qiansui's impression, Aunt Yamaoka would come to wake everyone up like this every day, and then urge everyone to change clothes and go to the cafeteria to eat together.
Aunt Yamaoka was the one who ate the most, she ate five big bowls of rice, so everyone secretly said that Yamaoka Miyoshi was very fat.
Xiao Chitose looked at Yamaoka Miyoshi and found that she was staring at her as she walked towards him.
"Change your clothes, did you hear me?" Yamaoka Miyoshi frowned.
"." Xiao Qiansui just stared at her without saying anything.
"Forget it. You've been a taciturn person since childhood. I don't bother to care about you."
Yamaoka Sanji shook his head and turned to face the other children in the room. He tapped the edge of the bed with his cane and urged them loudly, "Eat, eat! Change your clothes quickly! Do you hear me? Don't make me remind you three times! Watch out for a beating!"
After repeated urging and the threat of a cane, the children finally became more alert.
They quickly jumped out of bed, changed their clothes, and quickly lined up.
Chitose was a little slow. After the last boy changed his clothes, he was afraid of being beaten and ran out in a hurry, while she was still struggling with which button to button.
Yamaoka Sanyoshi walked up to her, his face full of impatience:
"Why are you so slow again? Okay, okay, let go of your hands and feet, I'll help you. Let go of your hands and feet! Do you hear me?!"
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She buttoned up Xiao Qiansui roughly, mumbling, "Really? This orphanage couldn't afford to support so many children, but they picked you up. Not only that, but you're sick. Look at you, you're already six years old. The director has been trying to cure your illness and buy medicine for you. Not only can't she buy meat, she can't even pay me."
She fastened the last button with force, "You are just a burden, do you understand?"
Xiao Qiansui lowered his head and dared not speak.
"I really don't know what they picked you up for. You're a thousand years old, and what name did that kid Shu give you? I don't think you'll live past seven years old."
After that, she pushed Xiao Qiansui's thin back and said, "Okay, hurry up, go line up outside."
Xiao Qiansui looked back at her.
Unexpectedly, Yamaoka Sanji glared at me and said, "Why are you looking at me? Do you want to eat me? I'm telling you, consumptive bastard, if your dean can't pay me next month, then I won't have to take care of you annoying brats anymore!"
Xiao Qiansui didn't say anything else, but just walked out of the room silently and went to the end of the line of children.
When the little boys at the end saw her approaching, they consciously stood a little further away from her, and then they smiled and chatted with each other.
Xiao Qiansui put his hands behind his back and lowered his head.
After Miyoshi Yamaoka counted the number of people, the children lined up and walked happily towards the restaurant.
Breakfast was a simple white rice porridge with pickles, a few slices of toast, and an ear of corn.
Chitose was at the end of the line. When she stood in front of Yamaoka Miyoshi with her plate, unfortunately, the toast was gone, only a little bit of pickles was left, and only the smallest piece of corn was left.
"Don't blame me today. You got up last and were the last in line."
Sanji Yamaoka made her a bowl of rice porridge, gave her the smallest piece of corn, waved his hand and sent her away.
Xiao Chitose found a corner in the cafeteria and sat down.
Unlike other children who started eating directly, she first smoothed her skirt, then put her hands together in front of the food in front of her, thanked the food, and then started eating.
She still remembered what Brother Tree had said to her.
Take a sip of white rice porridge, eat a small bite of corn, and then eat it with the few pickles.
To be honest, it doesn't taste good.
It was far inferior to the candies that Brother Shu brought her when he came back from the city.
In the past, she would always hang around Brother Tree.
When Brother Tree came back, she asked him for candy. One was not enough, she asked for two, three, and more, and Brother Tree would give her every time.
But I haven't eaten candy for a long time.
Not only was there no candy, but even the bacon that was originally part of the orphanage’s breakfast was gone.
The older children said that the orphanage had become poor.
Became poor. Why?
Aunt Yamaoka told everyone that the director had spent all the money of the welfare home on her own medical treatment.
This sentence has been circulating among people for a long time.
People spread the word and even said that their heart disease might be transmitted to them.
Xiao Qiansui didn't know why, and she couldn't refute it herself.
After breakfast and studying, it is time for outdoor activities.
It's snowing heavily today and everyone is looking forward to running out and playing.
As soon as it was time to go outdoors, a dozen children rushed out of the classroom and ran to the playground in the yard to play in the snow.
Xiao Qiansui saw everyone gathered together.
For some reason, she felt a little envious and she wanted to be together too.
She tried to get closer, but was hit by a snowball.
"Go away! You have a contagious disease!"
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"Yes! There is an infectious disease, go and play by yourself!"
Xiao Qiansui was stunned for a moment and stood there.
But because of this moment of daze, she was hit by several more snowballs.
"Go away! Go away!"
"You are not welcome!"
Xiao Qiansui stared at the snowball on his body and couldn't tell what this feeling was.
It’s just that my eyes are sore, my heart is empty, and I feel very uncomfortable.
She was about to turn around, but another snowball hit the hat that Brother Tree had knitted for her.
She couldn't help herself, so she grabbed a handful of snow from the ground and threw it at the first little boy who threw a snowball at her.
Coincidentally, there was a small stone in the snow she grabbed, which hit the person on the other side's head.
Xiao Qiansui saw the boy being hit by him, covering his head in pain, and blood was flowing from his forehead.
She took a step back in fear.
"you"
The boy spread his hands and saw the blood on his forehead. The other party seemed angry, bent down again, grabbed a piece of snow, and threw it at her again.
Xiao Qiansui quickly raised his hands to protect his head and hid in his arms.
She couldn't see what was happening outside, but the other side kept throwing snowballs at her.
She also heard someone on the other side say, "Let's get rid of the infectious disease together! Get rid of the infectious disease!"
Next, countless snowballs flew onto her head.
Accompanied by countless laughter and playfulness around.
Her hat was getting dirty, so she took it off and held it over her heart.
But the boy saw that she was easy to bully, so he approached her and poked her with a stick, trying to drive her away. He also pulled other children to join in the commotion, repeating in unison, "Go away!", "Go away!", "You are not welcome!"
Xiao Qiansui couldn't stand it for a moment and rushed over angrily, but was pinned down in the snow by several older boys.
The skin on her face was freezing cold as it touched the ice and snow.
She also saw the cotton hat that Brother Shu gave her fell to the ground and was being stepped on by them carelessly.
Xiao Qiansui was so angry that he wanted to stand up angrily, but he was held down by several people and could not move at all.
She struggled as hard as she could, but she couldn't move.
Every attempt ended in failure.
"Really? You couldn't win but still insisted on fighting with those brats. Look at you. Now you have a heart attack and you have one less dose of medicine to take."
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"Say something, you."
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"Forget it, you're just a dullard. Come here, it's really annoying to change your clothes, and I have to wash them again. I think you should just leave by yourself, so you don't have to stay here and suffer. Your parents don't want you, and this orphanage can't accommodate you. Tsk, I can tell from the first glance that you're a disaster star, and you'll be unlucky wherever you go."
At dinner time in the evening, Chitose did not go to the cafeteria.
Instead, he walked alone to the century-old red pine tree in the courtyard.
She was squatting alone, hugging her legs, on the huge roots of an old red pine tree.
The little girl looked at the sky and the snow in Otaru.
The sky was a little dark, and what he held in his hand was a dirty hat.
Xiao Qiansui stared at the hat in his hand and tried to scrape the dirt off the cotton hat with his fingers, but he could not scrape it clean.
Accompanying the irritability in my heart are countless sadness and loss.
She didn't know how to explain it to Brother Tree.
Brother Tree clearly told me to cherish it, but I broke it.
The more I scraped off the cotton hat, the dirtier it became, and the fluff inside was damaged.