Chapter 390: – The Cute Children
The game of eagle catching little chicks ended. Lin Jin was a bit tired so she plopped down on the steps beside her and looked at the children gathering around her with a smile.
To be honest, Lin Jin actually didn’t like kids, especially those spoiled by their parents who thought they were little emperors wherever they went. Although they might look innocent, they could really anger people to death. In addition to the inaction of the parents, ever since Lin Jin had met a few kids like that, she had started to really dislike children.
However, today, she actually felt like kids were truly little angels!
Even though they were a bit noisy, these kids, no matter how bad her mood was, just being with them would make her feel as if her soul had been cleansed.
"Fatty, come here" Lin Jin waved at the first little boy she met on the second floor, a chubby little guy. "Come introduce everyone to sister, okay?"
"Okay, okay!" This chubby was probably the fattest child in the whole orphanage. He was only five, but his cheeks were so chubby they squeezed his eyes into narrow slits. Though being all chubby made him irresistibly cute, Lin Jin liked him the most among all the kids.
He waddled over to Lin Jin and used his chubby hand to point at the children and introduce them to Lin Jin: "She's Hua Hua, he's Xiao Bai, and he's Little Mute..."
Why do they all seem like nicknames? The corner of Lin Jin's mouth twitched a bit, but she didn't interrupt Little Chubby. Anyway, if the seven children gave her their names all at once, she wouldn't remember them so she might as well remember their nicknames.
Lin Jin made sure to remember the little boy who seemed the most lifeless. The boy’s name was Xiao Bai. During the game, he barely moved and didn't show much expression. There was not much spirit in his eyes. If one were to describe him using the language of novels, then he would be like someone whose soul had been lost.
The other two shy looking girls from before were now very close to Lin Jin after the game. The smiles on their faces were not much different from the other children, sweet and soothing. Only this boy seemed to have some psychological issues.
"Xiao Bai, come here for a moment" Lin Jin waved at Xiao Bai, who was standing at the back, and gently smiled at him. "Come, let big sister give you a hug, okay?"
Xiao Bai’s whole body trembled a bit. He lifted his head, his look carried some inexplicable wariness. But his friends beside him kept pushing him towards Lin Jin, so he had no choice but to walk up to her.
"Want a lollipop?" Lin Jin once again pulled a lollipop out of her pockets and handed it to him.
Xiao Bai shook his head. He stayed silent and had his head down, nervously rubbing his clothes with his fingers.
Lin Jin furrowed her brow slightly and glanced at Fatty beside her, who quickly explained: "Xiao Bai can't speak. It's like he was born unable to speak."
Mute?
"Then do you guys normally bully Xiao Bai?" Lin Jin sweetly smiled and used her hand to pat Fatty’s head.
"No way! He's our big brother."
Big brother?
Fatty looked at least five years old, but Xiao Bai appeared short and skinny. Lin Jin initially thought he was no older than four, but it turned out that Xiao Bai was actually older than Fatty?
"How old is Xiao Bai?"
"Seven" Because Xiao Bai couldn’t speak, Fatty kept helping explain. "He'll be going to school next year. The director found a good school for him."
"Fatty’s such a good boy" Lin Jin handed the lollipop Xiao Bai didn’t want to Fatty. Fatty immediately took it and happily stuffed it into his pocket.
Since Xiao Bai was completely unwilling to interact with Lin Jin, she didn't force him or anything. She just patted him on the shoulder, warmly smiled, and stuffed some candy from her pocket into his. Then she glanced at her phone and realized that even though it felt like just a moment, it was already three o'clock.
"Let's take a break. What do you guys want to play later?" Lin Jin happily held a loli in one arm and a shota in the other. Feeling the loli and shota’s soft body, the smile on her face was almost about to sprout a flower. She glanced at Wu Min beside her, who was affectionately holding two lolis, and couldn't help but feel that Wu Min was heading down the path of becoming a lolicon.
"Let's chat?!" Fatty stood behind Lin Jin, flatteringly massaging her shoulders. Without any hesitation at all, he asked "Big sister, which of the big brothers is your boyfriend?"
"None of the two big brothers are sister’s boyfriend" Lin Jin turned around and flicked Fatty’s nose with her finger. "So, when you say chat, you just want to know if sister has a boyfriend, huh?"
"Yeah, yeah! Big sister is so pretty. If big sister doesn’t have a boyfriend, can I marry big sister when I grow up?"
Lin Jin almost wanted to agree. Anyways, Fatty was only five and would forget about this by the time he grew up. However, she remembered the advice from online saying not to casually make promises with the children…
"By then, big sister will be around forty years old, right? Maybe I would already be a mom." Lin Jin gently rejected.
What the hell’s with mom?
Zhu Dong, who had always thought Lin Jin was a femboy, was stunned for a bit. The camera currently filming the scene even shook slightly. The completely bewildered Zhu Dong glanced at Lin Jin and kept feeling like the current Lin Jin was no different from a normal girl. But Lin Jin was a boy!
The group of children gathered around Lin Jin and Wu Min and started asking them all sorts of strange questions. Initially, the questions were nonsensical, stuff like when Lin Jin would have a child, or if Lin Jin would take them away or something. But later on, the questions became more realistic.
"Big sister, our director said he's not feeling well. Will he not want us anymore?"
"Big sister, when we go out in the future, can we make a lot of money? I want to earn money so all the younger brothers and sisters here can eat a bit better."
"Big sister, I heard that other’s orphanages have good food, good places to live, and they also have a lot of kind hearted people visiting them. Why doesn’t our orphanage have people coming to play with us?"
Lin Jin was a bit overwhelmed and had no idea how to answer their questions, so she kept giving vague responses. Fortunately, the children didn't notice and continued to happily gather around her.
After chatting for a bit, they played another game of hide and seek. At around five o'clock, the kids were called back for dinner and Lin Jin and her group decided to leave.
Before leaving, Fatty and the other kids clung to Lin Jin and Wu Min’s clothes, looking up and asking them: "Big sister, will you come again?"
"I'll come back every day at two in the afternoon to spend two to three hours with you guys~"
Watching the children cheer as they left, Lin Jin felt a bit down. She suddenly understood why someone online said: "If you don't truly care, then don't disturb the children's lives."
Although Lin Jin could promise to visit them every day now, what about in the future?
Lin Jin worriedly looked at Wu Min. Wu Min also helplessly shook his head towards Lin Jin, unsure of what to say.