Douding class.

Zheng Yuanyuan was still in shock. She sat beside the fire in a daze, her eyes red and tears welling up in them.

Qi Mi sat next to her and patted her on the back, comforting her that everything was fine.

Yu Jiaojiao seemed accustomed to this. She stood beside Zheng Yuanyuan, holding a whole bag of tissues, pulling out tissues one by one to wipe her tears. "Mom, don't cry. Just don't go near the kitchen again."

Zheng Yuanyuan choked out a "hmm".

Qi Mi took the tissue from Yu Jiaojiao's hand and said, "Go play, I'm here."

Yu Jiaojiao glanced at Zheng Yuanyuan worriedly, and when she nodded, she reluctantly left. "Then Mom, call me if you need anything."

"Um."

After Yu Jiaojiao left, only Zheng Yuanyuan and Qi Mi were left by the fire.

Unable to control her emotions, she covered her mouth and sobbed softly, "I'm sorry, Teacher Qi... I'm really useless. I'm sorry, I'm so stupid."

Qi Mi smiled and shook his head, raising his hand to smooth the hair off her cheek. "Why are you so stupid? If it weren't for you taking care of these kids, I wouldn't even be able to leave. You're really great. Stop crying."

Zheng Yuanyuan sniffed and wiped away her tears: "Well, I'll be fine soon..."

Qi Mi nodded and waited for her to calm down.

The two were silent.

Qi Mi looked at her and couldn't help but recall the time when he first met Zheng Yuanyuan.

At that time, she had just ended her identity as a doomsday player and went to kindergarten without knowing anything. It was thanks to the patient teaching of Zheng Yuanyuan, the main teacher, that she gradually learned many skills in taking care of people.

Zheng Yuanyuan is really the gentlest person she has ever met. She is very patient with everyone and rarely gets angry.

Later, she learned that Zheng Yuanyuan actually had a good background. She was a well-educated, well-mannered daughter from a wealthy family. She had been the apple of her parents' eyes since she was little, never having to do any housework, let alone cooking or doing chores. The reason she became a kindergarten teacher and a single mother was because of a scumbag in her youth.

After all, she is a flower in a greenhouse and is easily deceived. When she was in college, Zheng Yuanyuan was deceived by a boy and her parents were furious about it. At that time, she was still in the love-brained period. In order to pursue love, she disobeyed her parents for the first time, secretly married the poor boy, and broke off relations with her parents.

Later, just like a fairy tale shattered, the boy got tired of her and filed for divorce.

Zheng Yuanyuan was stubborn and felt ashamed to go home, so she never told her parents about this. She became a kindergarten teacher and raised Yu Jiaojiao alone.

In a sense, Qi's fans also admire her.

If it were her, she might not be able to raise the child so calmly.

"Teacher Qi?" At this time, Zheng Yuanyuan's big, blinking eyes brought Qi Mi back to his senses.

Qi Mi smiled at her, and suddenly thought of Yu Jiaojiao's painting. She asked, "Oh, I saw that Yu Jiaojiao's painting in the corridor is gone. What happened?"

"Oh, it's here with me." Zheng Yuanyuan sniffed and took out the neatly folded painting from her pocket. "I felt a little scared looking at it, so I put it away."

Qi Mi took it, unfolded the painting, and said with a smile: "This painting is a treasure, you should hang it up."

Zheng Yuanyuan looked up: "Baby? What do you mean?"

"Your precious daughter's drawing is really a ghost-exorcising talisman..." Qi Mi took out his mobile phone, pulled out the photos from the album and showed them to her, "This time when I went out, thanks to this drawing, I was able to get it out of the hands of so many ghosts."

Zheng Yuanyuan's heart skipped a beat: "Are there still ghosts in the apocalypse?"

Qi Mi: "You can't say it's a ghost...it's just a kind of dark matter. These things are very common in apocalyptic environments."

Zheng Yuanyuan said "oh" as if she understood, and stood up: "Then I'll put it up now."

"Don't worry about this minute." Qi Mi reached out and held her back. "I'm just curious, how did Yu Jiaojiao draw this kind of talisman?"

Zheng Yuanyuan sat back down in silence, thought for a moment, and replied, "My grandfather must have taught her... The last time I took her back to my hometown in the countryside, she kept playing with her great-grandfather. My grandfather is considered a well-known semi-immortal in the village. He seemed to have said that Jiaojiao had great potential in this area. I just listened casually at the time, but I didn't expect that the little girl could already draw talismans."

Having said that, they both looked at Yu Jiaojiao at the same time.

Qi Mi suddenly remembered that Yu Jiaojiao seemed to have been mentioning ghosts since the end of the world, so he subconsciously glanced at the window: "Could it be that the child saw something from the beginning? But we didn't pay attention to it."

"Will it?" Zheng Yuanyuan stared at her and shrank back.

This invisible thing is the most frightening.

At this time, Du Rui suddenly pushed the door open, scaring Zheng Yuanyuan so much that she trembled again.

Du Rui didn't understand what was going on. He stood at the door in a daze: "What's wrong?"

Qi Mi smiled and patted Zheng Yuanyuan's shoulder: "It's okay, it's just a blind guess."

Du Rui didn't ask any more questions, and said, "The dishes are ready, please clean up the table."

"OK!"

Qi Mi immediately stood up and directed the little ones to follow Zheng Yuanyuan out to wash their hands and prepare for dinner. She stayed behind to arrange all the desks and chairs in the classroom side by side.

Suddenly she felt a little person walking in. She turned around and saw it was Xiao Langyu.

Xiao Langyu silently helped her move the small stool.

Qi Mi walked over and took it: "Let the teacher do it, go find Teacher Zheng to wash your hands, and come back to eat."

"Let me help you fix it first." Little Langyu raised his head, his eyes smiling like crescent moons.

Qi Mi looked so adorable that she couldn't help but gently pinch his chubby face, and her voice unconsciously carried a hint of pampering: "Okay~"

A few minutes later, the two of them were ready.

Qi Mi brushed the dust off his hands and picked up little Langyu.

A trace of panic flashed in Xiao Langyu's eyes, and his whole body tensed up at that moment: "Qi, Teacher Qi, I can walk by myself."

He had finally calmed down, but now his face suddenly turned red again.

But Qi's fans deliberately joked: "Ah, are you still shy?"

"I, I'm hot." Xiao Langyu held his face with both hands.

At this time, the children came back from the bathroom one after another. Seeing little Langyu hanging on Qi Mi again, Zhao Yize immediately exclaimed, "Teacher Qi, why are you holding this kid again?"

Qi Mi smiled awkwardly, thinking about how to appease this jealous child. Suddenly, little Langyu hugged her with his little arms, rested his little head on her shoulder, and said in a baby voice, "Teacher Qi, I want to wash my hands and eat."

As he said this, he gave Zhao Yize a smug smile that looked particularly provocative.

Zhao Yizhe: “!”

Zhao Yizhe was petrified on the spot.

"Okay, teacher will take you to wash." Qi Mi was completely unaware of the subtle emotions between the two kids. After comforting Zhao Yize, he carried Xiao Langyu out of the classroom.

Wu Muchen passed by Qi Mi and glanced at the little person in her arms.

Turning around, I saw Zhao Yize clenching his fists and baring his teeth, like a little monster about to transform. I walked over and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhao Yize puffed up his face angrily: "Wu Muchen, I have an enemy!"

Wu Muchen was silent for two seconds, not wanting to ask any more questions, and walked away silently: "Oh."

When Qi Mi brought little Langyu back, the children were already sitting in a row.

On the table was a plate of stir-fried shredded potatoes, sliced ​​carrots, and pickled cabbage with vinegar. There was also a sliced ​​pork soup, which was quite nutritious. The sliced ​​pork was from a mutant lion. Qi Mi and Eva had eaten some, but after finding nothing interesting, they brought some over. Du Rui didn't ask, so she didn't say anything either. It tasted just like beef anyway.

Qi Mi picked up little Langyu and sat him on a chair, which happened to be right across from Zhao Yize.

Zhao Yize stared at Xiao Langyu angrily while chewing his food.

Little Langyu scoffed and was about to pick up the cabbage in front of him with chopsticks when he suddenly heard Zhao Yize shout, "Teacher Du, I want to eat cabbage!"

This roar frightened Du Rui so much that he trembled. He looked at Zhao Yize speechlessly and adjusted his glasses: "...Don't be so loud, the teacher can hear you."

Du Rui stood up and picked up the pickled cabbage, and gave him some. He had just put the plate back in its place and hadn't sat down when he heard Zhao Yize shout again: "I want to eat carrots!"

Du Rui: “…”

Du Rui stood up and saw little Langyu eating a carrot happily. He didn't feel comfortable taking it away. He paused, turned his head and looked at Zhao Yize's straight eyes. He immediately understood that the two boys were competing with each other, so he sat back in his seat quietly and ignored them.

Seeing that they had almost finished eating, Qi Mi went to pick a few apples as dessert.

"Okay, everyone has almost finished eating. I have something to tell you." Qi Mi clapped his hands while standing on the podium.

At once, dozens of eyes, big and small, looked over at the scene.

"I drove back a tourist bus today. We will leave the kindergarten in a few days and go to the next mission location, so everyone should behave well recently." Qi Mi instructed.

Upon hearing this, Yang Shengzhuang chewed a few bites of food and swallowed them, stretching his neck. "What? So, has our mission as the 'Guarding the Beans Squad' been completed?"

Qi Mi: "Not yet. Your mission will be completed only when we set off."

Yu Jiaojiao: "Teacher Qi, a few days later?"

Qi Mi thought about it. Today she had to clean the vehicle and repair the generator, tomorrow she had to find tools and materials, and the day after tomorrow she had to design and modify the bus... It should be about a week.

Wang Xiaohu raised his hand and asked, "What if we leave here and Mom and Dad come back and can't find us?"

"No, mom and dad can find you no matter where you are." Qi Mi comforted.

"Teacher, it's been so long, why hasn't the sun risen yet? When will my parents be able to come back?"

"My grandparents won't be able to come back either?"

"Teacher Qi, do mom and the others not want us anymore?"

…

For a moment, the situation got out of control again.

In the children’s understanding, a week is about as long as a year. They haven’t seen their parents for so many days and nights, and their eyes are all red.

Even the always brave and naughty Wang Xiaohu wiped his tears and sniffed: "I, I miss my mom and dad..."

"I miss them, too."

"I want to go home."

"Mom—I want Mom—"

Du Rui and Zheng Yuanyuan immediately put down their chopsticks and hugged them to comfort them.

Qi Mi looked down and his throat suddenly tightened.

These little kids are only four or five years old, and they are all the apple of their parents' eyes. Usually, their parents dare not even let go of their little hands. But now, they have inexplicably entered this dangerous apocalypse. Not only can they not see their families, but it is already amazing that they have been able to endure it until now.

Qi Mi choked up and pulled the corner of his mouth: "You are really great, you are all great little heroes... Your parents will definitely be proud of you."

Upon hearing the praise, the kids who had been suppressing their emotions for a long time could no longer hold back and burst into tears.

Xiao Langyu and Wu Muchen were stunned, feeling out of place sitting there. They looked to the left and saw the child crying. They looked to the right and saw the child crying too. They had no choice but to jump off the chair silently.

The two of them moved in unison, both with their hands in their pockets, with an expression that said, "Why are these kids so troublesome?" They stood at the door like outsiders.

Little Langyu looked at Zhao Yize, who was crying so hard that he was blowing bubbles of snot, and couldn't help but reflect on his previous childish behavior... As a result, when he turned around, he saw Qi Mi holding Wu Muchen and comforting him in a gentle voice. Wu Muchen seemed to raise an eyebrow at him proudly.

Xiao Langyu: “…”