2052, Thirty Years Of Sleep

"Teacher Li, what are you afraid of?" The little girl in front of her tilted her head slightly and blinked.

"What?" Li Xiuyang was stunned. The next moment she felt like she was electrocuted, and her intuition told her that something was wrong.

She is not Ruan Zhen's teacher. She is mainly responsible for teaching first and third grade mathematics on weekdays. But there are only so many students in San Roman. She has been able to call every student by name and English name after working here for less than a year.

In her impression, Ruan Zhen is a lively and cheerful girl who is occasionally a little reckless. More than once in the office, she heard the fourth-grade teacher, Teacher Jiang, say something like, "This little girl is very smart, but she is too careless."

Moreover, the third-grade classroom is right next to the fourth grade. She often encounters Ruan Zhen playing with her classmates in the corridor after class or during class.

Li Xiuyang thought that she was familiar enough with the other party, but now this girl made her feel extremely strange.

"teacher?"

Hearing the voice, Li Xiuyang took a step back almost subconsciously, holding his hands in front of him, "You...what did you say?"

"Ruan Zhen" put her hands behind her back, with a hint of curiosity on her young face: "I just want to go to Teacher Shannon to ask a question, Teacher, why are you so nervous?"

"I...I..." Li Xiuyang felt stiff all over and hesitated a few times, but could not speak.

She immediately realized something, her expression became stern, and her voice suddenly rose: "Stop asking these boring questions, I want you to go back to class, are you deaf?"

Li Xiuyang wanted to reach out to grab Ruan Zhen, but as soon as he stretched out his hand halfway, he was frightened and retracted when the other party raised his head and glanced calmly.

This look... doesn't have any respect, no awe, only curiosity about the answer to the question, and a touch of pity... This is by no means the look a student should have when looking at a teacher, but a "strong" look. "The weak" are looking at the "weak".

Li Xiuyang never thought that he would be frightened by the eyes of a little girl. Countless complex emotions suddenly surged in his heart, and finally turned into anger: "Stop asking incomprehensible questions, and don't question the teacher! You just need to know me It’s for your own good! Now, immediately! Immediately! Get back to class!”

If he were an ordinary student, if he saw his teacher being so angry, he would have been so frightened that he would have run away crying. However, Ruan Zhen was still like that, with a calm and scary expression on her face.

Li Xiuyang suddenly felt a strong sense of powerlessness...and fear.

She suddenly wanted to escape from here, escape home, escape to a place where she could not see this little girl named "Ruan Zhen"...

"I know." Just when she was about to collapse, the other party spoke again, and her voice became very soft, like a teacher comforting a student: "I know, I know what you are afraid of."

"What?" Li Xiuyang suspected that he heard wrongly.

"You already... don't need to be afraid anymore, I will go and figure everything out."

The tender childish voice seemed to have some kind of magic power, which made Li Xiuyang's heart calm down inexplicably: "Really...really?"

After saying this, she suddenly realized that she had developed a certain sense of "dependence" on the little girl in front of her.

"Of course it's true." Ruan Zhen walked forward slowly and gently took Li Xiuyang's finger.

Li Xiuyang squatted down almost subconsciously, without any thoughts of resistance in his heart.

"Now, please tell me, is Ms. Shannon in the principal's office?"

"Should...should be there."

"Okay, thank you. You can go back to work and leave the rest to me."

Ruan Zhen gently stroked Li Xiuyang's head with a gentle tone.

...

Outside the school, a dessert shop.

"Brother, why isn't my dad here yet?" After finishing the last donut, Ruan Zhen touched her round belly and looked out the door with a somewhat dissatisfied expression.

Yan Muyun forced out a kind smile: "Hey, didn't you just say that your father will be here for another half an hour? It's only been ten minutes now."

"Didn't you just say twenty minutes?"

"Ah haha, yes, twenty minutes, twenty minutes, then there are ten minutes left, let's wait a little longer. See what else you want to eat, brother's treat."

"I can't eat any more. I can't eat any more." Ruan Zhen rolled her eyes and her body went limp, almost sliding under the table.

Yan Muyun was a bit dumbfounded: "Get up quickly, the ground is dirty. Soon your father will see that it's time to tell you something."

This is an exaggerated movement unique to children to express emotions, and they will only do this in front of people they are familiar with. It can be seen that Yan Muyun has successfully "captured" the little guy's heart.

Well, it is estimated that 80% of this is due to the little cake.

Ruan Zhen arched her body slightly upward, and then began to mutter: "So slow, so slow, so slow, so slow, so slow..."

Yan Muyun helplessly held his forehead, picked up his cell phone and was about to ask Ye Buyu what step he had taken, when he happened to receive a message.

Ye Zi: {The principal's office on the third floor. }

A few seconds later, there was another message.

{hurry up. }

Yan Muyun replied: {Are you in danger? }

Leaf: {No. }

After a brief pause, there was another one soon.

{Call the police. }

Yan Muyun suddenly stood up, his movements were a bit large, and the chair behind him fell to the ground with a loud "bang" sound.

"I won't say anything anymore." The little girl was startled and quickly covered her mouth with her hands, shrinking into a ball timidly.

"I'm not angry with you." Yan Muyun smiled apologetically and stretched out his hand towards her: "Your father just sent a message suddenly, saying that he couldn't come. He'd wait until you get out of school in the afternoon. Let me drop you off first. Go back to school."

"Ah? Why is this like this!" Ruan Zhen jumped up all of a sudden, her face tense: "The first class is about to end! Dad is a big idiot!"

Yan Muyun held her hand and persuaded her while walking out of the store: "Your father also wants to make money to support the family, so be tolerant to him. Although you missed a class, you gained a lot of small cakes and sweets." It's a trap, right? Just forgive him. It's over when it's over. Don't mention it again when you get home, otherwise it will only make everyone unhappy."

"Oh..." the little guy responded gloomily.

The two arrived at the school gate and were stopped by the guard.

"What's wrong with you guys? You've been in class for so long..."

"Sorry, there won't be a next time." Yan Muyun looked at the other party with a smile, a golden light flashing in his eyes.

The doorman subconsciously took a few steps back, tripping over the steps behind him and sitting on the ground. The second half of the words was stuck in my throat, and I couldn't speak, and my face turned red.

Yan Muyun and Ruan Zhen walked into the campus hand in hand.

"Brother, what's wrong with the guard uncle?"

"It's nothing, maybe my foot slipped."

"Just send it here. Teacher Shannon doesn't allow adults from outside to enter the school."

"It's okay. You see, the guard uncle didn't stop me, right?"

Ruan Zhen looked back and saw that the guard was still sitting on the ground in the same position as before, motionless and looking straight in the direction outside the school gate.

"Brother, why didn't the guard uncle stand up when he fell?"

"Maybe I'm tired and need to rest for a while."

"oh."

"Where is your classroom?"

"It's on the second floor...we're here!"

Yan Muyun let go of his hand, smiled and waved goodbye to the little girl: "Bye, go back to class."

"Yeah!" Ruan Zhen trotted all the way to the classroom door and suddenly turned around: "Brother, next time dad invites you to dinner, remember to come!"

"If he invites me." Yan Muyun gave a thumbs up.

Ruan Zhen carefully pushed open the classroom door, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

On the podium is Teacher Sam, who is funny and never speaks loudly. He is one of the students' favorite teachers.

"Jenny, you should pay attention to your diet." Sure enough, Teacher Sam was not angry, but instead joked with a smile.

The students in the class burst into laughter. Ruan Zhen scratched her head in embarrassment and ran back to her seat to sit down.

Although she didn’t know how Teacher Sam knew, she secretly made up her mind to listen to her teacher’s words and never eat so many desserts again.

Well...I'll never eat so many desserts at once again!