Chapter 15 Chapter 15 [My child is growing up healthily...
"Are you not going to the cafeteria again today?"
Deng Yuliang looked at his transfer student deskmate, and when he saw that his complexion was obviously much rosier than before, he clicked his tongue sincerely.
"Tsk tsk tsk, the food in the teachers' cafeteria is definitely better than the big pot meals in our student cafeteria. You've been eating this for over a month, right? You look a lot fatter."
Actually, I haven't gained weight, but I do look much healthier than when I first transferred to this school.
Other students in the class who didn't have much interaction with Li Zhuo might not be aware of this, but as the deskmate who spent the most time with him, Deng Yuliang knew this process best.
Before the transfer student even arrived, he had already learned a lot of inside information from his relatives. For example, the transfer student's previous school was a very famous and highly selective international school...
I heard that he is a rich young master!
It's so strange! Someone actually transferred from an international school in a big city to an ordinary public school like this? They must have done something really serious!
In fact, it seems not to be the case.
Because Lao Zhang had given him advance instructions, on Li Zhuo's first day, Deng Yuliang kept chatting with the new classmate on various topics, took the initiative to take him to the cafeteria, introduced the school and class, and so on.
Under his aggressive approach, Li Zhuo slowly started talking to him. Yes, even then, he still wouldn't take the initiative to communicate with other students.
Deng Yuliang observed carefully and found that this person seemed to be a "learning machine". No matter how worried or depressed he was after class, he would immediately enter the concentration mode as soon as he entered the class, as if he had switched to a different personality.
He's also very disciplined. If the teacher tells him he has to hand in his phone, he does. If the teacher tells him he's not allowed to bring food into the dorm, he doesn't bring any food and actually eats outside before coming in. It's... weird.
Someone who knows a little about psychology should be able to interpret and analyze Li Zhuo at different levels. For example, his "learning machine" state is actually a typical dissociative state and a traumatic behavior.
But Deng Yuliang was too young and had no experience in this area. He simply found it difficult to understand.
The first two months of school passed like this. The transfer student was like a robot, eating and attending classes mechanically, and his grades were indeed steadily improving.
Deng Yuliang thought that the next two years would go on like this, until one day, this "learning machine" was late for class for the first time, and then he was picked up by the mysterious psychology teacher.
Early the next morning, he saw with his own eyes the teacher carrying a thermos and waiting for someone downstairs of the men's dormitory.
Needless to say, that scene was particularly eye-catching.
Someone who'd been watching had noticed that the man in the glasses would wait downstairs with a thermos. He'd ignore anyone who approached him, gazing upstairs like a wooden stake, more like an NPC than a game NPC.
This state will not be unlocked until Li Zhuo appears, and when he sees Li Zhuo's expression and eyes... they are so passionate that it's creepy.
Many people say that he must be the young master of Hai City. Does he bring his family’s housekeeper and servants to school?
And then... his deskmate never went to the student cafeteria again, and his three meals a day were taken care of by the new psychology teacher.
I don’t know how good the food is in the teachers’ cafeteria. His pale-faced classmate looked better and better after eating there for a few days.
One day during lunch break, Deng Yuliang saw him bringing back a few oranges, and he shamelessly asked for one.
You know what, it tasted really sweet. Later, he looked at the blue label carefully and found that just one orange cost more than a hundred yuan.
Why don't you just rob it?
It’s so damn expensive!
Of course, the jokes about servants and butlers are all rumors. According to what Deng Yuliang heard from relatives, Teacher Mo is very generous. These two people should be relatives, right?
He tried to find out, but couldn't get a single word out.
This new transfer student has a strong sense of boundaries, or perhaps he values his privacy too much.
He never talks about his past and family, and most of the time he just listens silently. Even if you ask him to talk, he will just say that there is nothing to say.
He is a loner and introvert. He rarely joins in conversations in the classroom or dormitory. Even happy events like a month-long vacation don't make him happy at all.
There seemed to be a layer of transparent membrane around him, or rather, it was no longer a membrane that would break with a poke, but more like a thick wall of air.
“Am I fat?”
Li Zhuo took Deng Yuliang's joke seriously and pinched his face and arms.
"I seem to be a little fatter than before."
"You're such a fool! I was just saying that... You call that fat! You're making me want to die." Deng Yuliang collected his scattered thoughts and laughed. "Seriously, tomorrow's the day off!"
Li Zhuo nodded calmly, put the capped pen into the pencil case, closed the textbooks and exercise books spread out on the table one by one, and took out the textbook for the next class from the desk.
"I know."
“…”
After the second class, it was time for physical exercises. Li Zhuo followed the bustling flow of people through the long corridor and walked past the half-open door of the psychological counseling room. In just two seconds, his eyes met with the familiar man inside.
In Li Zhuo's field of vision, Teacher Mo was sitting in front of the computer, working on some unknown task. However, in his invisible field of vision, a small ball of light was closely watching his every move.
【Okay, the target has left.】
The next second, the half-open door slowly closed, the curtains were drawn tightly, and the figure in the office disappeared instantly.
The next time this figure appeared, it was on the rooftop of a rooftop, facing the area where Li Zhuo's class was. Looking down from that height, it looked like a group of small ants.
[The pressure cooker on the stove should be turned off in three minutes. This will make the base soup richer.]
【It is speculated that the soaked bamboo shoots...】
[…]
Mo Liang's eyes were fixed on one of the little ants. Seeing that its complexion was much rosier than when they first met, he felt an unprecedented sense of accomplishment. This made him much more delighted than the results he had achieved in the laboratory in the past.
Did you see that?
My child is growing up healthily...
*
Unlike other enthusiastic students in Class 10, Li Zhuo really had no expectations for the holiday.
Other students can go home during the holidays to eat, drink and chat with their families, but what about him?
Facing the "new house" that was so empty that he could hear the echo when he spoke, Li Zhuo felt that the two-day vacation was too long.
Li Zhuo couldn't remember how he spent the first two monthly holidays. He only remembered that the house was a bit cold and that the noodle shop outside the community was expensive and the food was unpalatable.
During dinner in the evening, he casually talked about the topic of vacation with Teacher Mo, and the latter naturally asked about the address of Li Zhuo's new house.
"Oh...it's still a bit far from school. How about you stay at my place during your holidays?"
Although Mr. Mo spoke in a questioning tone, his attitude was as if the matter had already been decided.
“I’ve always wanted to say this…”
"Didn't you say that the clothes hanging on the dormitory balcony are always lost? From now on, wash them directly at my place and hang them here. There's a washing machine anyway."
Li Zhuo wanted to ask if this would be too much trouble, but suddenly he remembered that he seemed to have said the same thing more than once in the past month.
At first, I had one meal at Teacher Mo's house, then two or three meals, and gradually it became three meals a day.
Because the line for the dormitory bathroom was too crowded, Mr. Mo offered to wash up in his place to save time. After a couple of times, his toothbrush, toothpaste, mouthwash cup, and face towel appeared on the bathroom shelf...
Because there was a water outage in the dormitory, he took a shower in Teacher Mo's apartment. The shower area had separate dry and wet areas, and the water heater could precisely control the water temperature. It was much more comfortable than the public bathhouse in the school dormitory where one had to queue up.
And now, Teacher Mo suggested that the clothes, bed sheets and quilt covers that were taken off on a daily basis could be left with him for washing and drying. It seemed that before anyone knew it, there were more and more things related to Li Zhuo in this apartment.
If someone who doesn’t know the situation walks in and takes a look, they would think this is Li Zhuo’s home.
All these changes happened imperceptibly. When Li Zhuo noticed them, he just felt that he was really lucky to have met such a good teacher.
“………”
"That's it."
Teacher Mo's gentle tone unconsciously became the tone the teacher used when speaking to students.
"Isn't it the perfect time for a month-long holiday? Why not take advantage of this time to go out for a walk? It's getting hotter and hotter lately, so it's time to change into some summer clothes."
Mo Liang meant to buy a new one, but Li Zhuo didn't understand this at the time, so he responded naturally.
"Then I'll go back to that house tomorrow after the holiday to get my luggage. I still have a lot of my summer clothes in it."
Mo Liang smiled but didn't explain.
He has plenty of ways and tricks to make his children accept the new clothes he buys.
For example, the system’s recommendation line: He’s already bought it, the tag has been removed, and it can’t be returned. You can’t let him wear clothes that don’t fit, right?
Just thinking about his own children wearing the clothes he bought, as if they were marked as his own, a part of Mo Liang's true self couldn't help but become active.
He had to warn them:
【Quiet--】
*
The change of seasons always happens inadvertently. The students in school changed their clothes from single clothes and jackets to short-sleeved shirts, there were a lot more ice creams in the canteen, and the sun outside the window at noon became hotter and hotter.
When Li Zhuo received the Children's Day gift from Mo Liang, he didn't react at first. After a while, when he realized that it was his gift, he was stunned.
"I'm not a child anymore."
He tried to explain to Mo Liang that this kind of festival was celebrated by kindergarten children and it was not his turn to celebrate it.
"Think about it, I'm seventeen this year, and in a few months I'll be eighteen...this, this..."
"Then what? Is it not allowed?" Mo Liang didn't think anything was wrong. He continued, "I checked, and the country hasn't issued any such regulations..."
“…”
So under the other person's serious gaze, Li Zhuo silently accepted the first Children's Day gift in his life.
The huge gift box was filled with many exquisitely packaged boxes. He opened a few of them at random and found a combination of snacks and building toys that children would like, as well as a brand new watch.
——It just so happened that the strap of Li Zhuo’s watch was worn out and broken two days ago, leaving his wrist empty.
Putting the new watch on his wrist, Li Zhuo raised his hand and shook it. He didn't feel uncomfortable at all, as if it was meant to be on his hand.
"Where was I last time?"
Li Zhuo did not have to go back to the classroom during lunch break. The reason given to the public was that the transfer student needed counseling from a psychology teacher, which was indeed the case.
All those things that were piling up in his heart, those things that he couldn't tell his classmates, and he didn't know how to say them, those good things and those bad things, suddenly became easy to say out loud in Teacher Mo's infinitely tolerant eyes.
Last time, he spoke in general terms about the Li family's situation, much of which he had heard from the Li family's domestic servants and even from Li's father and mother.
The Li couple told Li Zhuo more than once how exhausted they were looking for him, how they had to run around and how they couldn't eat, and how Li Xuan, who was only five years old at the time, comforted them and accompanied them in the search.
During the more than ten years that Li Zhuo was missing, Li Xuan had always been by their side, fulfilling the companionship obligation that a son should fulfill.
Even if you raise a dog, you will develop feelings for it after living with it for so many years, let alone a living person?
What's more, Li Xuan is so smart.
According to the domestic servants, Li Xuan was a well-known child prodigy who had shown amazing talent since childhood. The versatile boy skipped several grades in elementary school and was the youngest college entrance examination candidate at the time, bringing a lot of honor to the entire Li family.
Outside of school, he also had an exceptionally keen business sense, and the Li family's subsequent investment ventures relied on his casual remarks to catch the wave of opportunities.
Li Xuan is too perfect, both in terms of emotional value and honor value, and can even bring huge and tangible benefits to the Li family.
From this moment on, he is my biological son.
"Teacher Mo, didn't you praise me for my rapid academic progress last time?" Li Zhuo sighed softly, "That's because you haven't met Li Xuan. He finished all his university courses before he was sixteen..."
Li Zhuo thought that Teacher Mo would admire or question him, but nothing happened.
The man opposite had a very subtle expression: "So you study hard just to catch up with him?"
Li Zhuo nodded first, then shook his head.
Mo Liang still had a gentle and harmless expression on his face, and asked in a normal tone, as if expressing his concern for him, "Would you be happier if he died?"
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