Chapter 75 - Doll (1/2)

Su Min suspected Ming Ming was just not in his room.

Ming Ming gave him a different feeling compared to the other children. He had his own thoughts that no one in his world seemed to understand.

Yan Jing Cai asked: “But how would we know where Ming Ming is? Unless we run into him or ask the director.”

“The orphanage is only this big so how can we not find him?” Xu Yixiang interjected: “I don’t want to stay here anymore. Let’s hurry and leave.”

If she knew that something like this would happen, she would have stopped Yan Jing Cai from coming here. This way, she also wouldn’t have come and things like this wouldn’t have happened.

Su Min said: “Let’s leave this place first.”

They were lucky. As soon as they left the corridor, footsteps could be heard coming up the stairs and the old director soon appeared.

The old director was surprised: “You’re all awake. Going to have breakfast?”

“No, no.” Yan Jing Cai quickly waved his hand, “We’re going back to sleep so we won’t eat.”

The excuse was very reasonable.

The old director disagreed: “It’s not healthy skipping breakfast. You should eat first and then sleep.”

Xu Yixiang immediately yawned.

Yan Jing Cai saw this and quickly rushed over while acting concerned: “Sleepy?”

He turned and said: “You see director? We’re used to sleeping until noon, so we won’t be having breakfast.”

The old director nodded reluctantly: “Okay then.”

Yan Jing Cai and Xu Yixiang breathed a sigh of relief but they then saw him turn over to Su Min and say with a smile: “You should come down with me to eat. We’ve prepared your favourites.”

Su Min was flattered: “………..I’m also pretty sleepy.”

“What sleepy?” The director said with frustration: “Hurry and come down with me. Xiao Chen has already prepared it for you.”

If he didn’t mention Xiao Chen it would have been fine, but now that his name was mentioned he wanted to refuse even more.

Su Min rubbed his eyes, “Director, I didn’t sleep well last night. Do you see my dark circles? I want to go and sleep a little more.”

The old director came over to look and saw that there really were dark circles.

He thought for a moment and said: “Okay then, you can go and sleep. Don’t waste time and sleep well.”

Yang Jing Cai felt that the old director was a little biased.

Why was he so concerned about Su Min? But it was scary being cared for by him so he would rather not say anything.

With the old director there, they couldn’t go anywhere and could only hurry back to their room.

When it was noon, Su Min finally decided to go downstairs.

There was no one there. He didn’t know where the old director was, and Xiao Chen was probably cooking in the kitchen. There wasn’t much to see there, and he didn’t have any intention to check.

Su Min used this opportunity to walk around the orphanage, but he didn’t see anyone.

“Looking for something?”

Hearing the old director’s voice, Su Min turned around, “It’s nothing. Just looking at the places and reminiscing.”

He pointed to the toy in front of the building. It was a very old-fashioned slide. The colour had already faded revealing the grey and white undertones and it had accumulated a lot of dust. You could tell instantly it wasn’t used for a long time.

Su Min felt more and more certain about his guess.

He asked: “Ming Ming and the others don’t play with this?”

“They do.” The old director reached out to touch it, “Children love this the most. They would spend lots of time on it.”

If that was the case, then why were there so much dust?

Su Min felt that something was off with his response. It didn’t match with the current situation.

He felt that the director was strange. The children had become like that, but he still actedn as if it was normal.

Yan Jing Cai’s should suddenly rang out from upstairs: “Su Min, my phone is broken. Come back and take a look at it.”

Xu Yixiang also shouted: “Hurry and come fix it!”

Su Min: “………..”

He didn’t know how to fix phones so what was the point of going back to look at it.

But seeing that the two of them were shouting more and more loudly, Su Min could only say: “Director, I’ll go take a look.”

The director didn’t notice anything wrong: “Okay, it’s also almost time to eat.”

When he returned to the second floor, Su Min was surrounded by Yan Jing Cai and Xu Yixiang, “Are you okay?”

“How could I not be okay?”

Xu Yixiang said: “You were alone with the director for so long, we didn’t know if anything happened, so we called out to you.”

Su Min said: “Your excuse was great.”

Yan Jing Cai laughed: “Right? Aren’t we clever?”

Su Min: “……………”

“We still need to go down later.” Su Min reminded them, “The director just told me it was almost time for lunch.”

The two of them became nervous again, “Are we going to eat again?”

As soon as food was mentioned, they would panic.

Before Su Min could answer, knocking came from the door followed by the old director’s voice: “Come out for lunch.”

Xu Yixiang: “………..”

Yan Jing Cai: “…………”

Such great timing. As soon as they mentioned it, he had come to call them out to eat. The director must be very free since all he’s doing is calling them out to eat.

The three of them came downstairs and saw that the dishes were already served on the table.

This time there were only four servings, and none for the children. Su Min as usual had more in front of him. From the looks of it, it didn’t look strange.

The old director moved his chopsticks, “Let’s eat.”

Today the rice was no longer normal rice. They were rice that Han Qinqin was buried in. They could eat it before, but it couldn’t be eaten now.

But dumping the food out in front of the director was something that they can’t do.

Su Min changed the subject: “Why aren’t the other children eating? I would like to see them.”