IPT 8

Chapter 8

 

Although Shen Qianqian was sad, he still ate the whole yamba, and did not let go of the crumbs stuck to his fingers. The feeling of being full made him feel a lot better, and he picked up a doll on the bed and kissed it.

 

It was a dark brown ragdoll bear with mottled and sparse fluff on its body, and the mesh cloth underneath was faintly visible. An arm was missing, and the left ear was off the line,  that ear hung on the side of the head.

 

Shen Qianqian carried the bear behind him and walked out of the house. He is afraid to take his toys to the welfare home as the senior students might snatch it out, so he only came here to play for a while.

 

His toys were afraid to be taken to the welfare home, and they would be snatched away by the senior students, so he only came here to play for a while.

 

He started a one-man shootout between those pieces of metal. From time to time, he shot to the left, quickly retracted his head, and pulled his hat and ear protector to his mouth as a walkie-talkie: “I rush out, you cover me.” Sometimes he wriggled and crawled on the ground, tossing from side to side to dodge the dense bullets that were invisible.

 

He played for a while and then secretly went to look at the seniors, until he found that they had left the junkyard, and then ran over as fast as he could.

 

Once a day, a drone transporting the garbage comes and an unmanned forklift transports the garbage into the processing room. The senior students had already turned over the surface garbage, and Shen Qianqian walked with a small stick to pull around, but he didn’t get anything. Disappointed, he slipped down the garbage mountain, returned to the office disappointed, put away the doll Bear, closed the door, and returned to the welfare home disappointed.

 

In fact, walking through the middle of the abandoned town can save a lot of distance, but all of them dig out the metal mesh next to it after digging through the garbage dump, and then walk around the town along the net before leaving.

 

Although the children of the Angel Welfare Home love the garbage dump, they are also afraid of the Mixin Town next to the garbage dump. There are also many ghost stories about this abandoned town, which is about four to six compared to the backyard of the welfare home.

 

The reason why the story about it is not as prominent is because most of the children have never been there. And some scenes cannot be imagined as they are not as intuitive as the backyard of the welfare home.

 

Shen Qianqian was not afraid of the backyard of the welfare home. He didn’t know what the ghost in the backyard looked like, but the ghost would never hit him or rob him of food, so why should he be afraid?

 

But Shen Qianqian was afraid of this ruined town.

Those black windows, dimly lit rooms, and empty streets will make him panic, and he can’t help but want to run away.

He didn’t understand why he was afraid of this, and he didn’t understand that it was his fear of loneliness, of death.

 

Shen Qianqian is in fear, but at the same time full of curiosity about the abandoned town.

As he walked along the metal mesh towards the orphanage, he would quickly turn his head to look at it and look at it again.

He could see the houses across the street through the gaps in the houses, the metal signs embedded in the walls, the iron carved benches fixed to the outside of the shops, and the smooth cement brick sidewalks.

 

Although the objects that rushed into his sight were covered with dust, they still looked beautiful in their original appearance, more beautiful than the welfare home, and more beautiful than the town of Keko that others talked about, and he couldn’t help but imagine what this place was like in the first place.

 

It’s just that if he sees too much, he will be afraid, so he will retract his gaze and hurry forward.

 

Shen Qianqian walked back to the welfare home, but instead of immediately burrowing through the hole next to the water house, he hunched his back over the fence at the gate of the welfare home, carefully searching for his lost glass ball on the way.

 

It took him a long time to collect these six, and he would give it to his brother the next time he came to the welfare home.

 

Shen Qianqian said too much to others, even if he was secretly thinking about it, he naturally changed the title of Chu Ya from that person, the eldest child at the top of the clouds, to his elder brother.

 

Although this section of the road is unobstructed, there is a thick layer of dust on both sides of the road, and it is not easy to find the glass balls when they sink in. He took the stick and flicked it around. When he finally found one, and as soon as he happily put it in his pocket, he heard a loud shout from behind him: “Who is that?”

 

Shen Qianqian shuddered, slowly turned his head, and saw a manager standing in the front yard, pointing at him through the railing.

 

He was about to run, and the manager shouted again: “Stand still!”

 

Shen Qiy did not dare to move in a half-lunge forward, but raised his hand to cover his face, and only a pair of eyes appeared from between his fingers.

 

The manager angrily opened the door, grabbed his back collar, and carried him back.

 

“I haven’t changed my teachings, you’re very thick-skinned. I only caught you once in the morning, and now you’re slipping out again.”

 

Shen Qianqian stood on his two toes and took turns to touch the ground. He tried to save himself: “Actually, you recognized the wrong person, I am not Shen Qianqian.” 

 

The management slapped the hand that was covering his face away: “How did you get out?”

 

Shen Qianqian covered his mouth closed and did not say a word.

 

He had also been caught a few times when he had sneaked out of the hole before, and he knew that he couldn’t tell that iron-clad thing no matter what, otherwise he would never get out again, and he would be avenged by the senior students.

 

“I am asking you, how did you get out when this gate is locked?”

 

Shen Qianqian blinked, still not saying a word.

 

It was the chief manager who was asking Shen Qianqian, and the other managers who passed by greeted him: “Chief Chen.” Their eyes fell on Shen Qianqian’s face and smiled: “Yo, you were caught again?”

 

“Yes, I got caught again, hehe.” Shen Qianqian answered up a little embarrassed.

 

“You have to check the lock later, it may not be closed sometimes, or these cheeky people will slip out.” Manager Chen said.

 

“Okay, I’ll check.”

 

In the onlookers of a group of small class students, Shen Qianqian was locked up in the punishment room again.

 

“I’m going to be let out before dinner, right? Right? I’ll eat until dinner, right? Shen Qianqian asked up close to the crack in the door and asked loudly.

 

Manager Chen ignored him, only drove a group of small class students, and the footsteps and voices slowly moved away.

 

Shen Qianqian was up alone in the punishment room, but he was not in a hurry or impatient. He took out the scarf and wrapped it around himself. He stroked it gently with affection and took a self-portrait against the window glass. Finally, he sits down in the corner and sniffs the chocolate in his pocket.

 

The children in the same dormitory would also come to talk to him under the window from time to time, in addition to Lin Duozhi, there were also Tang Yuanyuan and Chen Hongliang.

 

“Did you just feed your puppy?” Lin Duozhi asked.

Shen Qianqian leaned on the window railing: “No, I didn’t find it.”

Tang Yuanyuan asked, “Have you looked on the bottom of the bed?”

“I’ve looked for it.” Shen Qianqian thought for a moment: “It also scratched the sofa.”

“What about the toilets? What about the water room?”

Shen Qianqian said: “There is no toilet and water room there, it drilled out of the hole and ran, it ran fast.”

Chen Hongliang looked up at Shen Qianqian: “I think it should be a quantum beast, and it has been retracted by the sentry guide.”

“Ahh Isn’t it Quanummon the duck? The quantum beast in Lily’s adventures is a duck.” Shen Qianqian and Lin Duozhi hurriedly corrected, “The duck is the quantum beast.”

Tang Yuanyuan: “We don’t have a sentinel guide here, only Yunding does.”

“Yes, the senior class said there are in the town of Keko.”

“Nope.”

“Yes.” Chen Hongliang’s big voice lit up.

 

Tang Yuanyuan and Chen Hongliang argued for a few words, and then scuffled together. Shen Qianqian looked at the window bar for a while, and continued to chat with Lin Duozhi.

 

“How long are you going to be locked up this time?” Lin Duozhi asked.

Shen Qianqian shook his head: “I don’t know.”

“Will they let you out for dinner?”

Shen Qianqian was a little dazed: “I don’t know either.”

 

“Ahh…”

 

Lin Duozhi pointed out: “Then I’ll go back first, our class is going to the entertainment room to watch TV soon.”

 

“Watch TV, ooooh, we can watch TV today.” Shen Qianqian sighed and stomped his feet in annoyance, and the stool he was on was staggered, “I can’t see it, I can’t watch TV here.”

 

Lin Duozhi turned his head to look at the people who were still fighting: “I’m going to watch TV.”

The two children, who were originally pulling each other’s hair, immediately separated: “Will there be a cartoon today?”

Tang Yuanyuan had a shaggy hair: “I want to watch the tenth episode of Lily’s adventures, and there will be quantum beasts in it.”

Chen Hongliang: “I also want to watch Lily’s adventures.”

“I love Lily’s duck quantummon so much.”

“I like it too.”

 

Shen Qianqian held on the window railing and watched them go back to the classroom with envy, as if a kitten was scratching in his heart.

There is only one TV in the orphanage, which they can watch on once a week by each class. Although the cartoons are played over and over again, the children are still looking forward to it.

 

However, Shen Qianqian is not too regrettable, After all, although he was locked up and couldn’t watch TV, he finally found a glass ball.

 

Shen Qianqian stood in the corner, boredly playing with the glass ball, reciting lines from cartoons, occasionally glancing at the sky and the black earth suspended overhead.

 

“…… Spiritual attack, quantum beast attack……”

 

When Shen Qianqian looked at the sky again, it was already pitch black. The street light fell on his face through the window lattice, making his skin pale and his long, curly eyelashes pale as well. The night in the abyss was even hotter, and he shrank in the corner of the wall shivering, his breath was white mist.

 

He hadn’t been let out at dinnertime, but now he was past his worst hunger, and he felt cold, so cold that his bones were chilling. He pulled a chocolate from his pocket and put it in his mouth with a shiver, making a creaking sound as he chewed it.

 

Shen Qianqian was eating chocolate, tied around his scarf, and looked at the thick black sky. Although he couldn’t see Yunding anymore, he felt that his brother must be lying on a soft bed now, covered with a thick quilt, telling the story in the cartoon with the other older children in the Yunding Welfare Home.

 

The water heater rumbled, and the people surrounding the machine let out a long sigh of relief.

 

“After a whole day, I finally fixed this thing, and there is hot water in the courtyard here.” A manager is relieved.

The management next to him began to pack up the tools: “No way, this accessory is only available in Yunding, and I have reported it many times, but there is no response at all.” By the way, do you know why the Ministry of Materials suddenly sent us spare parts?

“Why?” Others asked.

“I accompanied the young master Chu of the inspection team to wash his hands, and I was originally a little worried that he would get angry after being frozen. As a result, he didn’t say anything, just washed his hands with cold water several times, but after leaving the water room, he talked to someone, and his expression and tone were not very good. Others asked, “What did he say?”

“He walked in front, and his voice was not loud, I didn’t listen carefully, only heard the word water heater spoken.”

“That should be his reason, so the material department immediately sent us the accessories.”

……

 

Several managers left the water room and walked through the playground in whispers. Chief Chen looked at the black and hollow teaching building, suddenly paused, and changed his face: “Oops!”

“What’s wrong?”

“I repaired the water heater for an afternoon and forgot to turn one off!”