Chapter 403: – Then isn’t it normal for you to not want me anymore
Fatty left, the two year old who had previously been reserved also left. Even though it was just two kids who were gone, Lin Jin couldn’t figure out why, but it felt like the entire atmosphere in the welfare institute seemed a bit depressing.
Maybe it was because Fatty was the leader of the children here? With the leader gone, the other children didn’t seem to know what to do.
Lin Jin felt like she should take on the role of the children’s leader, rather than wait for another leader to emerge from among the children.
So after she finished teaching Yufei the ballet contents for the day, she went up to the second floor and gathered the children to play.
Regarding playing with children, Lin Jin actually didn’t have experience with this type of thing. When she was little, she at most just took a few kids to run around. When she played with the children last time, Wu Min was also there to help. But now, as the lone adult leading a group of children, she really didn’t know what they should play.
Still, it was better to gather them together first.
She rounded up seven or eight physically healthy children, found a square table, and got everyone to sit around it. Then, Lin Jin began to ask.
“What do you guys want to play?”
“Watch pleasant goat and big bad wolf.”
The group of children shouted in unison.
...
Cooperate a little, okay?
Lin Jin raised her head and glanced up at the big screen showing Pleasant Goat and Big Bad Wolf, and the corners of her mouth twitched a little.
Maybe it was true. For these children who were cooped up inside and basically never went out, watching cartoons might really be their favorite thing to do.
So Lin Jin immediately made up her mind. Then let’s all watch together!
After watching cartoons with the children for half an hour, Lin Jin slipped away and went to where Qiu Yufei was practicing dance.
At this time, it wasn’t just Yufei alone. There were also two younger girls standing by the side, clumsily imitating Yufei’s movements.
“Do you two also want to learn to dance?”
The two girls looked about four years old, which should be old enough to learn dancing.
“Yeah!” The two girls weren’t as pretty as Qiu Yufei, but at four years old, no matter what they looked like, they were still cute.
“Then let’s do it together,” Lin Jin gently smiled.
Since it was just her alone today, Lin Jin wasn’t feeling particularly enthusiastic, at least she was not as spirited as before. Thus, she was a bit absentminded.
"Teacher Lin Jin? Why do you look like you're in a bad mood?" Qiu Yufei sat down beside Lin Jin, lightly panting as she took a break. She had keenly noticed Lin Jin's mood and cautiously asked, "Is it because you’re coming to the orphanage every day, so you feel a bit tired?"
"That’s a part of the reason." Lin Jin gently smiled and stroked Yufei’s head "Mainly it’s because my two friends didn’t come."
"Are they not going to come anymore?" Yufei asked with wide eyes. "That Zhu Dong brother is really handsome. A lot of the kids here like him. If he stops coming, they’ll be sad."
"Then what about Brother Wu Min?" Lin Jin also knew Zhu Dong was quite popular among the children, but she was more curious how they felt about Wu Min. "Isn't Brother Wu Min pretty handsome too?"
"Umm..."
Qiu Yufei pressed her finger against her lower lip, thought for a moment, and only then did she give her verdict on Wu Min: "As for Brother Wu Min, he’s big and tall, not as handsome as brother Zhu Dong. But I heard the younger brother and sisters say that brother Wu Min is really patient."
"The younger brothers and sisters are often unreasonable, but brother Wu Min never gets angry."
"Then what if they stop coming in the future?" Lin Jin asked tentatively.
She actually hadn’t interacted much with Wu Min or Zhu Dong. Normally, they would just exchange a few words occasionally.
"If they stop coming, the younger brothers and sisters will be really sad," Qiu Yufei's expression immediately drooped, her face full of unhappiness. "Will Teacher Lin not come in the future too?"
"That's not what I meant," Lin Jin quickly shook her head to deny it and explained "Brother Wu Min and brother Zhu Dong were tricked by me into coming here. They’re normally very busy, so they might come a lot less in the future. As for me, I’ll keep coming for at least two years straight!"
Lin Jin made a peace sign to her.
“Ah, then it’s a promise!” Qiu Yufei immediately became excited. She hugged Lin Jin’s arm and chattered about her dance practice over the past few days.
Something like how her legs are sore every day after she wakes up. How she can now press her legs all the way to her head. How because of practicing dance, she had recently become a foodie and could eat two bowls of rice per meal.
She sounded as if it was really impressive.
Lin Jin was all smiles as she responded to Qiu Yufei’s words. She lazily stretched, yawning as she pulled her phone out of her pocket.
“Want to watch the video of your welfare institute?”
“Ah?”
"It's the stuff that Brother Zhu Dong was filming. We uploaded it online, you're in it too," Lin Jin handed the phone to Yufei, smiling as she helped her open the video.
Qiu Yufei seriously nodded, her face looking all solemn. She thought this was some super special video.
Then she realized that aside from the slightly heavy beginning, the video was mostly clips of Brother Wu Min, Brother Zhu Dong, and Sister Lin Jin interacting with the children. After that, there was a scene from Lin Jin’s perspective, playing Eagle Catching Chicks, teaching Yufei how to dance, and so on.
"This little girl is so pretty and cute!"
"Begging for adoption instructions!"
"Welfare Institute: Weebs cannot adopt girls."
A Site was where Lin Jin’s video was the most popular. In just one day, it had already garnered tens of thousands of views and even made it to the site's main page. With more people watching, there were also more barrage comments. All kinds of comments were flying across the screen.
Qiu Yufei noticed that when she appeared in the video, most of the comments were about how cute and pretty she was.
“Sister, this person says he wants to marry you.” Qiu Yufei suddenly paused the video, pointed at a comment and looked up at Lin Jin “Sister, are you going to marry him? He said he’ll marry you, then adopt me and let you be my mom~”
Lin Jin's expression darkened. As the person who uploaded the video, she had already deleted all the inappropriate comments, but she didn’t expect another one to pop up here.
Qiu Yufei didn’t get an answer from Lin Jin and continued talking to herself: “Hmm, that seems to be good too. If you were my mom, I'd definitely dance really well in the future.”
“No, don’t think too much. I can be your sister, but I’m a bit too young to be your mom.” Lin Jin couldn’t imagine her at eighteen years old having a six year old daughter.
If that were the case, people might think Lin Jin was from the ancient times, the kind where girls got married at the age of twelve…
How terrifying.
“In the future, don’t think of me being your mom, just sister is good…”
“Oh, but as a sister, isn’t it normal for you to not want me anymore?” Qiu Yufei tilted her head and asked.
What was normal about that?