Wen Xu neatly folded the painter that Xiaoyuan gave him, and asked the teacher for a book by the way, and put the painting in it.

"Xiaoyuan..." Wen Xu stroked the title page of the book and spoke to Duan Chenyi.

"This kid seems to have a talent for drawing."

Duan Chenyi hummed, "I have a younger sister who is studying abroad to study painting. If there is a chance, I will introduce her and Xiaoyuan to get to know each other."

"Alright." Wen Xu nodded, "We can't let such a good talent of hers go to waste."

"anyway…"

"Xiaoyuan is very beautiful, and her paintings are also very good-looking. She also has a good personality, but why does she have no friends?"

Just as Wen Xu was thinking, a somewhat familiar voice came from behind him.

"Because everyone heard that Xiao Yuan is the daughter of a murderer, so they didn't want to play with her."

At some point, Zhu Wang stood behind Wen Xu and explained.

"Xiaoyuan just came here some time ago. Some classmates heard the teachers discussing her former family at the door of the office, and then it spread like this."

"The teacher said that Xiaoyuan's mother left early, and her father drank and gambled all the year round. Once debt collectors came to their house, Xiaoyuan's father accidentally killed one of them."

"Later her father was sentenced, and her house was taken to pay off the debt."

"Xiaoyuan's relatives said she was a bastard, and they were unwilling to take her in, so Xiaoyuan was sent here."

When Zhu Wang talked about this matter with Wen, it was like talking about what to do tonight.The expression on his face was very flat, not at all like the rational expression that a ten-year-old boy would show.

Wen Xu suddenly felt a little scalp tingling.

"Really?", he confirmed with his opening and wishing.

"I don't know." Zhu Wang shook his head, his voice a little depressed, "I just heard it. But even if it's not true, if it's spread by word of mouth, even if it's false, it will become true in the end, right?"

Wen Xu hummed, thinking about the fact that he was rumored on the forum before, his mood became inexplicably complicated.

Zhu Wang thought for a while, and then continued: "Most of the people here are children, and it's normal for them not to have the ability to judge things by themselves. And it's normal for everyone to be afraid of things like murderers."

"You know so much?" Duan Chenyi lowered his head, looked at the kid in front of him and asked, "Why are you telling us this?"

Zhu Wang smiled at Duan Chenyi, "You asked me why? Because that pretty brother next to you wants to know."

Wen Xu, who was called "Beautiful Brother", was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

"Ah... that's what I really want to know. Thank you, we just hope that Xiaoyuan can have a chance to make friends, nothing else."

"Is that so?" Zhu Wang nodded thoughtfully, "But I have other intentions."

As soon as these words came out, both Wen Xu and Duan Chenyi were shocked.

Duan Chenyi subconsciously stood in front of Wen Xu, "What do you mean?"

Zhu Wang snorted, "Brother, do you care about that pretty brother behind you?"

"Don't talk so much nonsense." The corners of Duan Chenyi's mouth twitched, he raised his hand and patted Zhu Wang's head, "Don't do this with me, just say what you have to say."

"Well..." Zhu Wang shook his head and took a step back.Then he explained while following his messy hairstyle just now.

"Today is my birthday and I just made a wish."

"Xiao Yuan is the person I like, so the wish I made is that Xiao Yuan can make friends."

"Brother, you are volunteers. If I have something I want, you will work hard to help me achieve it today, right?"

Because many children came to the orphanage after being abandoned by their parents, the number of lonely and eccentric children here is not small.

Most people, including teachers, have become accustomed to this kind of students and even become numb to them.

And Xiaoyuan, naturally became a member of the "numbed".

Zhu Wang also thought so at the beginning.

His first impression of Xiao Yuan was: pretty, quiet, and timid.

Zhu Wang often sees Xiao Yuan alone, even if well-meaning classmates ask her to play with her, she often has no time to speak to others, because other people supplement her later.

"Oh, Xiaoyuan doesn't like talking to people very much, come and play with us." Something like that.

Hope itself thinks so.

He felt that he and Xiaoyuan should not have any intersection.

Until that cleanliness, Zhu Wang found the painting that accidentally fell out under Xiao Yuan's table.

It was a picture of the whole class playing together. After a little identification, Zhu Wang could see that it was a picture of everyone celebrating a classmate's birthday last time.

On one side of the painting, Xiao Yuan painted herself on it.

By her side, there are good friends who laugh with her.

But... Zhu Wangming clearly remembers that at that birthday party, Xiao Yuan said that she was not feeling well and ran to the infirmary, and then never came back.

Since then, Zhu Wang began to observe Xiao Yuan's every move.

He found this girl... It seems that she is not as withdrawn as she thought.

On the contrary, Zhu Wang suddenly felt that Xiao Yuan seemed quite cute.

Then, in Xiaoyuan's paintings, the number of wishes appearing less and less.

Xiaoyuan is looking at the picture and painting seriously, and Zhuwang is watching her seriously behind Xiaowang.

"I hope that Xiaoyuan's friends will not only exist in her own paintings."

Zhu Wang smiled, took a step closer to Duan Chenyi, and caught emotions similar to his own in his eyes.

"So... brother volunteer, can I ask for your help?"

"I hope you can help Xiaoyuan make friends."

Lin Qirui looked at the three people in front of him and suddenly realized.

"It turns out that the three of you just got together to talk about this. I thought something happened."

Duan Chenyi hummed, "Anyway, the situation is like this. You took over this volunteer activity, and we hope you can join in."

"It's simple." Lin Qirui smiled confidently, "Doesn't Xiao Yuan like painting? How about we start from her preferences and let her open her heart slowly?"

Duan Chenyi raised his eyebrows, "For example?"

"Uh... Let me think about it, we, each of us draw a picture for Xiaoyuan to see. You see, people who are as good at drawing as she are must not be able to bear people of our level holding ugly paintings in front of us.Dangling in front of her, right?"

"At that time... she will see that one or two of us are so ugly, she will definitely not be able to help but want to help us modify it, right? In this way, we can find opportunities to talk to her, and then we can take the opportunity to make her open up.My heart is open."

Duan Chenyi shook his head, "Rejection sounds unreliable."

Wen Xu echoed: "No, have you ever seen a teacher who opens up to the students? Anyway, I haven't seen..."

Zhu Wang hummed, "According to Xiao Yuan's personality, she is definitely not the kind of person who would interfere in other people's paintings. And...she rarely shows her painting skills in front of everyone, most of the time she is aloneQuiet Mimi's painting in the corner."

"You said... she seldom draws in front of other people?" Wen Xu said as if he had captured some key information: "I have a good idea."

"Then now, children, please take out your brushes and paper. Let's use a brush to draw on the paper the feeling after attending the wishing birthday party today!"

Lin Qirui stood on the podium, relying on the goodwill of passers-by who had just become the "Kid King", he successfully led the children in the class to pick up brushes and paint together.

"Brother Xiaolin! Can I add you to the painting?"

"I want it too, I want it too... so if the painting is good, can Brother Xiaolin come and play with us often in the future?"

"Hahaha... Don't worry, kids, draw first, and you will be rewarded as long as you finish drawing."

Wen Xu stood at the door, looking at Lin Qirui on the podium.After looking up and down for a while, Wen Xu turned to Duan Chenyi and commented.

"I think your brother is quite suitable to be a teacher for children. Why don't you let him apply for a preschool education major in the future? Or go to the establishment examination, and the iron rice bowl is guaranteed."

Duan Chenyi smiled wryly, "No, he told me that he wants to learn materials and build airplanes when he grows up."

Wen Xu: "..."

"Perhaps you have heard of the four major tiankengs in biochemical ring materials? Don't you persuade him?"

Duan Chenyi paused, "What do you want to persuade him to do? You have to go through some pitfalls and hardships in life to know."

Wen Xu nodded and said, "Yes, I agree with you." After that, he silently lit a piece of wax for Lin Qirui in his heart.

The two just stood at the door and chatted for a while. After half an hour, most of the children, including Xiaoyuan, had finished their paintings.

And Wen Xu just saw the timing when Xiao Yuan was going to fold up his painting and run away, and called Xiao Yuan out in advance before that.

Xiaoyuan was a little caught off guard by Wen Xu's disturbance. She paused for a few seconds, glanced around, and when she noticed that no one was looking at her, she turned her painting upside down on her desktopsuperior.

When she came out to meet Wen Xu, Xiao Yuan still had that timid look.

"What...what's wrong?" She carefully looked at Wen Xu and Duan Chenyi, but she still couldn't let go of her guard, "You asked me to come out...Is it because you don't like the paintings I gave you?"

Hearing her words, Wen Xu couldn't help feeling sorry for the little girl in front of him.

The hand that wanted to rub Xiaoyuan's head hung in the air for a long time, but it didn't come down in the end.

Wen Xu withdrew his hand calmly, smiled and said: "No, we like your paintings very much. As a thank you, we bought you a brand new set of brushes as a gift, I hope you like it."

As he said that, Wen Xu took out a bag of markers of various colors from behind him, plus a liner and a pencil, and thoughtfully matched blank albums of several sizes.

"Thank you for your paintings, we think your paintings are very beautiful. I hope you can accept these."

After seeing the painting tools in front of her, Xiaoyuan's eyes lit up visibly.

When he spoke, his voice trembled a little, "I... can I really accept these?"

"Of course." Wen Xu smiled, and asked Duan Chenyi to pack all the paintbrushes into a delicate and beautiful new schoolbag.

Wen Xu asked Xiao Yuan while holding the heavy schoolbag.

"Promise us, you will never give up painting, okay? Please keep going."

Xiao Yuan was stunned for a while in shock, and when she realized again, she looked at Wen Xu and Duan Chenyi with tears in her eyes.

Then, the timidity in her pupils was exhausted, and all emotions were replaced by firmness.

"Okay, I promise you."

When Xiaoyuan put her schoolbag back in her dormitory and returned to the classroom, she suddenly found that the painting she had placed on the table upside down had disappeared.

Eh?

A flash of panic flashed in Xiaoyuan's eyes, and just as she was about to look around, she suddenly heard Lin Qirui standing on the podium speak.

"This painting is very good. I didn't write my name on it at the time. May I ask which kid's it is?"

Like telepathy, Xiao Yuan followed the voice and looked over.Then she saw her own painting, which was held by Lin Qirui and showed it to the whole class.

Xiaoyuan's pupils contracted slightly, and her heart began to beat violently.

That... is her painting.

It depicts myself in the fantasy world, celebrating my birthday with my classmates...

She had never shown this kind of painting to anyone else.

Xiaoyuan froze in place, her head turned a little white.

And just when she was in a daze, she suddenly heard the evaluation of her paintings from the people around her.

"Wow, who drew this? It's great."

"Really, it seems like it's the first time I've seen a classmate in our class draw so well, who is it?"

In the next second, Xiaoyuan felt the person who was standing beside her get up.

Zhu Wang got up unhurriedly and raised his hand, "Teacher, I drew this painting."

After hearing Zhu Wang's answer, Xiao Yuan panicked instantly.

After hesitating for a moment, Xiao Yuan plucked up the courage and stood up, with a trembling tone.

"No... no, that painting was drawn by me. Zhu Zhu, you must have admitted your mistake..."

After hearing Xiaoyuan's answer, Zhu Wang thought for a while, and then replied with a smile: "Ah, it seems to be, I must have admitted a mistake. This painting was drawn by Xiaoyuan, and the painting is very good."

All the students present were shocked.

"Xiao...Xiao Yuan drew it?"

Before some students who were relatively slow could react, Lin Qirui suddenly said: "Oh, it was drawn by Xiaoyuan. She is very good at drawing. I hope all the students can learn from Xiaoyuan."

After Lin Qirui finished speaking, the other students rushed towards Xiao Yuan.

"Xiao Yuan, did you really draw this? Can you teach me how to draw?"

"You are amazing, Xiaoyuan... Can you draw a kitten on my book, I can't draw well..."

"Xiao Yuan! Why didn't you say that you were so good at drawing before? Let's participate in the next blackboard newspaper!"

Xiaoyuan, who had been neglected by everyone for a long time, suddenly received so many people's attention, she waved her hand in a panic with ecstasy, "That... everyone, come one by one, I, I willtaught."

When it was time for volunteer activities, Wen Xu stood at the door of the classroom.Before leaving, he looked at Xiaoyuan surrounded by the crowd, turned around and asked Zhuwang.

"When you said in the classroom that the painting was your own, weren't you afraid of being hated by Xiao Yuan?"

"Don't be afraid." Zhu Wang smiled heartlessly.

"The teacher told me a few days ago that an adopter wanted to take me home. I went to find out. I like that family very much."

Zhu Wang looked down at the tip of his shoe, his tone a bit dull.

"If nothing else happens, today should be my last birthday here."

"My wish is that Xiaoyuan can find her good friend." Zhu Wang looked up and saw Xiaoyuan who was smiling rarely in the classroom, surrounded by everyone.

This time, she no longer has to weave her lonely dreams alone in the corner.

"Thank you for your help, my wish has come true."

When she came out of the orphanage and sat on top of Duan Chenyi's co-pilot.Wen Xu has always felt that his heart is stuffy, as if something is blocked, which makes him feel a little breathless for no reason.

When Duan Chenyi was about to set off and drive back, he broke the silence in the car by speaking.

"This volunteer activity... seems quite meaningful."

Wen Xu hummed, "It's the first time I do this kind of thing, and it feels good."

Duan Chenyi hummed, "In my impression, you have always been the kind of person who is too lazy to meddle in the affairs of strangers."

"So I've always wanted to know, why did you go to help Xiaoyuan?"

Wen Xu smiled, "Actually, there is no other reason, I think that child is quite similar to my former self."

Duan Chenyi looked at him and answered seriously.

"Really? But I don't think it looks like it at all."

"Wen Xu is Wen Xu. You are unique to me."

As soon as he said this, Wen Xu suddenly felt that the temperature inside the car seemed to rise a bit.He avoided Duan Chenyi's gaze a little uncomfortable.

"You, why are you saying this all of a sudden? It's so strange..."

Before Duan Chenyi could answer, Lin Qirui, who was sitting in the back seat of the car, kicked Duan Chenyi's chair unbearably.

"Brother, don't forget that I'm still here..."

The proper atmosphere was interrupted, and Duan Chenyi turned his head and warned in a bit of displeasure.

"You pay 1,000 for washing the dirty car. Next time you intervene in the conversation between adults, you can take your student card and take the subway for me."

Lin Qirui: "..."

Impressed.

🙂