An Huaixu didn’t know how he walked out of the house.
When he came back to his senses, he found himself standing in the yard with a cigarette in his mouth for a long time.
His hands and feet were ice-cold from the night breeze, but it still couldn’t outweigh the coldness in his heart.
He admitted that when he heard Shi Yun say the words “abandoned by his biological parents,” anger instantly consumed all his reason.
Not towards Shi Yun, but towards the people who took Shi Yun away back then, or even himself, who indirectly caused this result.
An Huaixu looked up at the starry sky, as if this would reverse his pain.
He held the cigarette between his fingers, forgetting to put it in his mouth for a moment.
When the flame burned to the cigarette butt, the stinging pain called back his senses, and he extinguished it and threw it into the trash can.
“Buzz, buzz—”
An Huaixu sat on the steps, took out the phone that vibrated twice from his pocket, and swiped through the messages one by one.
His fingers paused on the Wei Tie push for a moment, and he clicked in as if possessed.
It was that “Tun Tun” again.
[Tun Tun: Teacher An is so handsome, so gentle! (Smile) (Flower) (Heart)]
Half-hearted praise.
Just as An Huaixu was about to add him to the blacklist, An Mingli’s message popped up.
[An Mingli: Your live broadcast state wasn’t right today, did you forget to take your medicine again?]
[An Mingli: The psychologist said you’re just getting better, you can’t stop taking the medicine!]
An Huaixu didn’t reply, but suddenly thought of something, reopened Wei Tie, and logged into his long-unused account.
He edited a few words and posted a “budding tree” photo taken today.
After doing all this, he took a deep breath, dispersed the smell of smoke on his body, and returned to the house.
Lin Xia in City A was leading her team and working overtime.
Aside from anything else, today’s Shi Yun’s live broadcast kept them busy.
It was nothing more than An-Shi interacting as if no one else was around, which was criticized by netizens who couldn’t stand it as “straight men acting hard for traffic” for a while, and as “An Huaixu’s scumbag behavior, a disgrace to the entertainment industry” for a while, successfully triggering waves of public opinion one after another.
Even though Lin Xia was effortless in handling this kind of matter, she still couldn’t withstand the clamor of voices.
Lin Xia quickly finished handling these matters, and just as she waved her hand to let the employees get off work, she opened her phone, and a Wei Tie posted just now almost made her eyes split.
[An Huaixu: Ripe. (Picture)]
In the comments:
[Sweet AS Guardian: (Ears) I don’t understand, what’s ripe?]
[Big Mouth Wow Ga, who loves AS the most: (Ears) Ripe to where?]
[Huai Zhi Yi Xu: (Ears) Don’t sleep, everyone, get up and ship!]
[An Huaixu’s Wife Fan: I’m crying, can’t I just unstan!]
Lin Xia closed her eyes and passed out without being able to catch her breath.
The next day.
The number of people in the live broadcast room was higher than usual, because last night, not only did An Huaixu post on Weibo, but the baby variety show also took advantage of the heat to officially announce Shi Yun as a permanent NPC.
As soon as the Wei Tie was posted, various fans quickly pushed the entry of “Teacher Shi” to the top of the trending searches.
After that, the team added another wave of heat to the labels of “Six Wolves and One Rabbit” and the CP pairing “An-Shi is too sweet,” successfully dominating the top three trending searches, and leading the baby variety show to jump to the top of the variety show rankings at an unstoppable speed.
Wei Tie was lively like New Year, in reality—
Shi Yun, who was sleeping sprawled on the bed, was awakened by the noise coming from the outside filming crew, and stared at the ceiling with a dazed expression for a while.
When the sleepiness slowly faded, he stretched his body, got up with a chicken coop head.
Learning from the previous example, he specially changed his clothes, and stood in front of the mirror to examine himself twice before going out to wash up.
Outside, in addition to the follow-up teacher, he also saw a familiar person – Ani.
Shi Yun sluggishly remembered the message that Director Lin sent him before going to bed last night:
[Director Lin: The number of people in the live broadcast room will definitely explode tomorrow, you don’t need to be nervous, just work as usual as before, and be the most authentic self.]
[Director Lin: I discussed it with them, and just in case, I’m sending you an assistant to observe the direction of the barrage in real time by your side, and remind you if necessary.]
Shi Yun didn’t expect Director Lin to call Ani over, he thought it would be another colleague from the data team.
Ani was very happy to see him, holding up her phone in one hand and waving the other, pointing to the location of the kitchen.
Shi Yun suspiciously looked towards the kitchen with a toothbrush in his mouth, and found An Huaixu holding the drowsy An Shuqi, busying with something in it.
An Huaixu noticed his gaze and greeted him first: “You’re up.”
Shi Yun nodded, brushed his teeth and washed his face in a hurry, ran back to the room to put on perfume, and hurried back to take over An Shuqi.
An Shuqi was a bit grumpy today, frowning and humming twice, and hugged Shi Yun’s neck and didn’t move.
Shi Yun patted his back and whispered: “Huaixu Brother, breakfast
ready?”
Shi Yun looked at An Huaixu,” Is your shoulder okay?”
An Huaixu was silent for two seconds and nodded.
Last night, when he returned to the room, he couldn’t calm down for a long time. He tossed and turned in bed and woke up occasionally.
Shi Yun glanced at the camera, tilted his head and leaned close to An Huaixu’s ear, whispering:
“Does your wound hurt too much? Let’s go to the clinic at the kindergarten later.”
Too close, An Huaixu felt itchy in his ears, and turned his head unnaturally to get the eggs, changing the subject:
“Seven minutes or fully cooked?”
Almost in the next second, Shi Yun blurted out the answer he had already expected: “Seven minutes!”
An Huaixu curled his lips: “Okay, you go out first.”
An Shuqi just woke up leisurely and rubbed against Shi Yun coquettishly.
Shi Yun coaxed him to wash up.
At the same time, Ani, who was standing next to the follow-up teacher, was so excited that she almost crushed her phone.
She didn’t hear it wrong, did she? Teacher Shi just called Teacher An ‘Huaixu Brother’!
Not only Ani, but the barrage also exploded:
[Morning, my sleepiness was instantly swept away by these two!]
[Teacher Shi didn’t wear a vest and shorts, I don’t allow it, go back and start over!]
[Is this the Teacher Shi on the trending search? He’s a bit handsome.]
[I came here after hearing the name, is this the couple who act like no one else is around?]
[An Huaixu]
After breakfast, the group came to the kindergarten.
Shi Yun went to the break room to find Director Lin.
An Huaixu took An Shuqi to the small class to clean up.
Ani and Cai Zhen huddled together.
Cai Zhen held a half-eaten meat bun in her left hand and an egg in her right hand, and said in surprise: “Really?”
Ani snorted: “I saw it with my own eyes, how can it be fake?!”
Cai Zhen resentfully: “Okay, you’ve followed enough, it’s my turn!”
Ani: “Dream on!”
Shi Yun entered the break room, didn’t know what he said to Director Lin, and soon walked out with a pink card in his hand.
He passed by Ani and the two who were playing, and greeted them kindly.
Cai Zhen was really scared by Shi Yun last time and had a psychological shadow, so that she was a bit stimulated when she heard his voice now, and stood upright subconsciously:
“T-Teacher Shi, where are you going?”
Shi Yun shook the card at his fingertips: “Going on a mission.”
The three teams arrived one after another, and Director Zhang took advantage of the fact that the other children hadn’t arrived yet, and limped out to announce the task:
“Today is ‘Parents’ Day’.
This morning, only Teacher Qi and Teacher Pin, Teacher Jiang have one class, and then please prepare each class for the activity at 10:30 in the afternoon, and remember to keep it a surprise.
Before that, the teachers with free periods need to send the activity notice to each parent.”
Director Zhang took out red, green, and pink cards and distributed them to them.
An Huaixu looked at the card with the name “Lucky” and frowned in confusion.
Lucky doesn’t have any family, who should this card be sent to?
An Huaixu raised his head and looked around as if sensing something, and suddenly realized that Shi Yun, who used to wander around the periphery, had never appeared from beginning to end today.
Where did he go?
An Huaixu silently put away the card and continued to clean the small class.
At eight o’clock, all the children sat neatly in the room and started today’s classes.
An Huaixu and the other teachers left the kindergarten one after another.
At the same time, Shi Yun took the crew’s tricycle to the vicinity of Sancun Market.
In the distance, a black SUV with “Hope Kindergarten” sticker drove over and stopped in front of Shi Yun.
Shi Yun stepped forward and opened the car door.
Inside the car, a kind-looking woman with red eyes greeted him friendly and said softly: “You are Teacher Shi.”
Shi Yun nodded, politely introduced himself, and then invited her and her husband to get on the tricycle:
“It’s getting late, the roads in the village are not easy to walk, let’s go back home first.”
Ms. Wang obviously already knew the arrangement and didn’t say much.
She followed Shi Yun and took the tricycle, slowly entering the village.
An Huaixu was fast, and in just half an hour, he had reduced the eight cards in his hand to two.
He asked the passing villagers for directions to Lin Yun’s house.
The villagers enthusiastically led him to the entrance of Lin Yun’s house.
On the way, An Huaixu learned that Lin Yun’s mother was suffering from illness, and her father accidentally lost an arm in a fire, unable to complete farming work.
In recent years, in addition to the subsidies from the village, Lin Yun’s mother would weave some baskets and sell them at the market.
In addition to helping his wife set up a stall, Lin Yun’s father would occasionally do some light work in the vegetable garden and pick up waste paper shells near the garbage dump in the east of the village.
In short, their family lived very frugally.
The villager sighed: “Misfortune always comes to the weakest, Lin Yun was originally a very lively girl, but unfortunately had a high fever two years ago, and didn’t seek medical treatment in time, which resulted in her being a bit—”
The villager couldn’t bear it and didn’t continue.
The two chatted casually for a few words, and the villager stood at the intersection and pointed to a small low house at the end:
“That’s it.”
An Huaixu thanked him and quickly walked to the yard.
Just right, Lin Yun’s father was arranging paper shells in the yard.
Hearing footsteps, he glanced subconsciously and said in surprise: “It’s you!”
An Huaixu didn’t expect that the one-armed uncle he saw at the market last time was Lin Yun’s father.
Lin Yun’s father invited him to sit in the house.
An Huaixu was originally going to leave after sending the card, but seeing that the person was so enthusiastic, he didn’t refuse and followed Lin’s father into the house.
There were only a few simple wooden benches in Lin Yun’s house, and the rest of the corners were piled with various branches, which were obviously used for weaving.
Lin’s mother heard the sound and came out leaning on the door frame.
Lin’s mother was sallow, her lips were pale, and even half of her hair was white. She said weakly: “Teacher An, please, please sit down.”
“Thank you, no need.” An Huaixu took out Lin Yun’s card from his pocket and handed it to Lin’s father.
Lin’s father looked at it for a few times and said a little embarrassedly: “Yunyun’s mother and I… won’t go, right?”
An Huaixu knew their concerns, but he was the worst at persuading people, paused for a second, and directly abandoned the roundabout plan, and said bluntly: “Lin Yun is very good, unless you are willing to give up.”
After saying that, he turned and walked out the door.
On the screen:
[An Huaixu would never have bothered to say this before.
He would just complete the task and leave, but today… this person seems to have really changed.]
[Was he influenced by Teacher Shi?]
[A certain Shi fan, stop gilding your faces, disgusting!]
[To be honest, this kind of An Huaixu really reminds me of Teacher Shi… (I’m a true fan of An Huaixu, don’t hit me)]
An Huaixu stood at the entrance of Lin Yun’s house and found that the scenery in this area was very familiar, similar to what he saw on the roof last night.
He didn’t rush to find someone to ask for directions, but walked forward for a while based on his feelings.
After turning two corners, he stepped onto the path that he often used to send Lucky home.
Soon after, Lucky’s house appeared in front of him.
Looking at the empty courtyard, An Huaixu’s heart sank.
Could it be that he was overthinking?
But in the next second, a figure rushing out of the house quickly denied his thoughts.
Shi Yun waved to him and shouted loudly: “Huaixu Brother, you’re finally here!”
Immediately afterwards, a man and a woman came out behind him, looking at him curiously.
An Huaixu curled his lips, and his pace changed from walking fast to jogging.
He heard his own voice calling: “Shi Yun.”
Inside the kindergarten, after the first class, the children were so happy to hear that there would be games to play at ten o’clock, and they started circling the three teachers.
Wei Zhiyu pressed his strange head: “Don’t be happy too early, you can only play games if you complete the task!”
Guai Guai was still excited: “What is it?”
The three teachers smiled and distributed a bunch of balloons, colored flags that hadn’t been strung together, and paper flowers that needed to be folded.
The children carried small chairs, sat in the yard, and seriously started working under the guidance of Jiang Song and Qi Guang.
Wei Zhiyu had other tasks.
He followed two staff members to the entrance of the kindergarten, pulled the power strip and plugged in the hair dryer, set up the red air bag, and then put the signs and chairs prepared by the crew in the parent waiting area.
He stood a little further away and admired his results with satisfaction.
The follow-up teacher stood behind him and gave a long shot, and even if Wei Zhiyu couldn’t see the barrage, he liked to interact with the camera: “These children will definitely be shocked!”
Just then, he heard footsteps behind him and a sentence:
“Excuse me… has the activity started?”
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