The dean's mother was very troubled by this and had to take Qin Zhen to the dean's office.

"You, what are you doing in the middle of the night?"

Qin Zhen blinked innocently: "I'm hungry, so I'm just cracking a walnut. What's wrong with that?"

Qin Zhen said this and took out a walnut given to them by the volunteers from her clothes bag.

The director's mother looked at the walnut and choked: "Then why did you have to smash it next to Xiaojun's bed?"

"Because I don't want to dirty my bed."

Qin Zhen was not right but was very confident.

Dean’s mother: “…”

She had a headache. Qin Zhen was obviously a very obedient child. How come she had become a troublemaker among troublemakers?

"You're like this, many adoptive families won't consider you, you know?"

The director's mother said earnestly.

Qin Zhen's expression turned serious, and she asked, "Do I really have to have a father and a mother?"

"What?" The dean's mother was stunned when she heard this, and for a moment she couldn't react to what Qin Zhen meant.

Qin Zhen raised her head and looked straight into the eyes of the dean's mother: "They don't want me anymore, and I don't want them anymore."

"They are not good, but your new parents will definitely treat you well. Dean Mom promises you that she will choose the family that is most suitable for you."

Qin Zhen shook her head: "I am my parents' biological child. They can abandon me. Why should my new parents be nice to a stranger who has no relationship with me?"

"Not everyone is like this, Zhenzhen, you see, even though you are not my child, I still love you very much."

"Well, I love you too, Dean Mom, so let me stay. I will help you with things and take care of you in the future. Just you is enough for me."

The director's mother cried until her eyes were red, but she didn't know how to persuade a child who had already given up hope.

All she could do was hug Qin Zhen in her arms and cry silently.

Only little Qin Zhen was strong enough not to cry.

When she learned to resist, she knew that she had grown up and could take care of herself.

Maybe it was because the sight of Qin Zhen holding up the stone at the head of the bed and smiling slightly was too terrifying. After this incident, no one in the welfare home dared to cause trouble for Qin Zhen and her friends anymore.

However, although they felt that Qin Zhen was terrible and fearful of her, they also isolated Qin Zhen and the others with even greater disgust.

Qin Zhen was always accompanied by the little girl, but this was enough for her.

She and the little girl seemed to have grown up overnight after experiencing this incident.

They will no longer be like other children in the welfare home who only know how to play wildly. When volunteers take them out to play, they will pick up trash and sell it for money.

She would help the director of the welfare home and everyone else, and would save the toys and candies that everyone gave her and then exchange them for change.

The grandmother who collected scrap felt sorry for them and gave them a little extra money every time.

She and her friends saved money bit by bit in this way.

Everyone in the welfare home was adopted one by one.

Especially when the adoptive family found out that they were being bullied by the little devil Qin Zhen here, they felt even more sorry for them.

Qin Zhen and her friends became the only two children in the welfare home who were ignored by everyone.

Because they have a bad reputation, one is violent and the other is a vixen who "seduces the male owner".

They grew up slowly in the orphanage, watching other children come and go around them.

They rely on each other and are each other's most important family members.

The director's mother was very sad and helpless about this.

But fortunately, Qin Zhen worked hard to improve herself.

She was a good student. In the first and second grades, the difference in grades among students was not that big, so Qin Zhen was not particularly outstanding.

However, Qin Zhen, a third-grader, won third place in the National Mathematical Olympiad.

Everyone was then surprised to realize Qin Zhen's talent in learning.

The situation of my friend is completely different from that of Qin Zhen, because she has a serious imbalance in her performance.

Her Chinese grades are always the best, but in subjects like math, she is always at the bottom.

Even if Qin Zhen gave her after-school tutoring every day, it wouldn't work.

This situation becomes more obvious when students reach junior high school.

Based on the overall results, Qin Zhen was in the top ten in the grade, but her friends were outside the top 200.

The little girl’s only worry at that time was her grades.

Qin Zhen’s worry at that time was how to help her friends improve their grades.

Just when they thought that the days would go on peacefully.

The dean's mother fell down.

And this time after she fell, she never got up again.

When Qin Zhen was fifteen years old, they sent their mother, the director, away.

Qin Zhen, who hadn't cried for many years, secretly shed tears that night.

The new director was not very friendly. She cared more about the younger children than the older ones like them.

Qin Zhen and the others had no complaints about this.

The days seem to have not changed at all, yet everything seems to have changed.

It was not until after the high school entrance exam that the new director found them and said, "It is already very difficult for the orphanage to support daily expenses. As for high school, I am afraid the orphanage cannot afford to let you continue your studies."

In fact, Qin Zhen had already vaguely felt it.

Old welfare homes like theirs have been receiving less and less funding. Although there is some subsidy, it is not enough.

The facilities and equipment are outdated and very old, and even the roof sometimes leaks.

The dean had hired a repairman before, but because he didn't have the money to renovate the entire roof, he could only have someone do a rough job of plastering it over.

If it weren't for compulsory education, Qin Zhen and her classmates might not even have the chance to finish junior high school.

But over the years, Qin Zhen and her friends saved some money little by little.

only--

"Zhenzhen, have you thought about the future?"

After talking to the dean, Qin Zhen heard her friend take the initiative to ask a question.

"Well, let's finish high school together, apply to a university in the capital, leave here, and go out and see the world."

However, Qin Zhen's words were not recognized by her friends.

"Eighteen years old."

"What?" Qin Zhen didn't understand why her friend suddenly said this.

"According to the rules of the welfare home, we can't stay here after we turn 18. I'm one year older than you, so I turned 18 when I was a sophomore in high school."

"It's okay. We can study and work part-time at the same time. We can save up enough money to live on campus. We can also..."

"Zhenzhen, I don't want to read anymore."

"What?" Qin Zhen had a lot of things to say, but was confused by her friend's "I don't want to".

She didn't understand why fate always liked to play tricks on the unfortunate people.

Obviously, they have worked hard to grow up, but they are still easily knocked down by reality.

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