I don't like talking, nor do I like listening, but I can't control my ears. Even if I cover them, I can still hear everyone making noise, so I can only listen, but everyone says I don't listen.
The yard is the only welfare institution in the town, and the people in the yard all seem to have heavy hearts. The children often cry, and the adults frequently comfort them loudly in frustration. They say loudly, "Don't cry, don't cry, mom and dad are gone, stop looking for them." I find it strange why comfort has to be loud. Maybe it's to make sure all the children in the yard can hear? Then why not call everyone over to say it together?
I don't know, this sentence sounds very sad, but it's very real. So I call it comforting words.
Usually, when I get up, everyone is still asleep. I don't know why, but every time it's time to get up, my head feels very sleepy, so sleepy that it's unbearable. When I wake up again, quite some time has passed... The adults say I'm a bad child because I always sleep in, but I really don't do it on purpose. I only learned when I grew up that not eating breakfast can make a person very weak. But I'm already weak enough; I can't get any weaker, right? Thinking about it carefully, it even seems a bit cost-effective~
I like reading, and the books in the welfare institution are probably the most interesting things there. The director brings everyone together to learn to read every Thursday, which is also the time everyone hates the most. The director is very strict but very serious. At least that's what I think. Everyone likes to play some small games during reading class, like judge, thief, and police. If you draw the corresponding identity, you have to play the corresponding role. Of course, you have to play secretly; otherwise, you will be scolded by the director. The way the director scolds is the most serious expression I've ever seen. She stares at the child who made a mistake, her eyebrows furrowed, her mouth twisted, gently rolling...
The welfare institution is also called an orphanage; this is what A-Duo told me. A-Duo said that the people in the orphanage are all lonely, and I couldn't agree more because A-Duo is my only friend and also my sister. This is not important; anyway, she is my friend. I will always help her when she is in trouble.
Of course, when I met A-Duo, I had already left the welfare institution.
Leaving the welfare institution was a big event in my life; I almost died because of it...
On the day I left, the weather was bad, and it was a day with reading class, so it should have been Thursday. This is what I speculated later when A-Duo asked me. That Thursday's reading class was boring; in fact, all the reading classes that month were boring. I had read all the books in the welfare institution, unless someone secretly hid the books.
What had I read? "Boule de Suif," the complete works of Maupassant, "Sherlock Holmes," "Red October," and "Border Town," among others. Too many, I read desperately, hoping that one day I could return to the world and stir up a revolutionary wave, punishing all the orphans who made noise in the morning and at night. So the director's reading class became dull; I had already understood the characters she was teaching us from the books.
So, there was nothing interesting left, and I was going to leave. Ji Xianlin said this is called being carefree. I also think this is carefree; I wonder why wine and carefree are put together. Is it saying that everyone should drink first and then take off their clothes? Wow, just thinking about it is exciting.
When I was preparing to leave, I reported to the director that I needed to go to the bathroom. After using the bathroom, I walked straight out the front door. The guard asked me what I was doing, and I said I was going to the bathroom. He just said "oh" and continued to doze off. Just like that, I left the yard.