Chapter 15

He knocked on the door first, and sure enough, he heard Chen Li’s voice, “Who is it?”

“Hello, Auntie, I’m Mo Xiaobai, Ling Mo’s classmate!”

As soon as Chen Li heard the name, she remembered what her son had said, that he and Ling Mo were a team, and her face immediately turned sour.

She didn’t dare to make Ling Mo uncomfortable anymore, but she couldn’t let him and other classmates gang up on Li Yuanhang. Besides, Ling Mo was just going to wash his clothes, he shouldn’t be able to hear.

“Ling Mo is a little unwell, you should come back another day.”

At this time, the man upstairs was working late again and came home. He saw Mo Xiaobai standing in the hallway talking through the door and couldn’t help but frown.

The last time the head teacher and the director of the Academic Affairs Office left, they also met this man.

“This family is really something, they make the child talk through the door. What can’t they say to the child with the door open?”

Qu Yun smiled foolishly at the man and continued to ask through the door, “Is Ling Mo seriously ill?”

“Classmate, you should just go back! Ling Mo has a fever, it’s not convenient for him to talk to you!”

Feeling Chen Li’s strong displeasure, Qu Yun touched his chin. It was probably Li Yuanhang who snitched, so Chen Li didn’t want him to associate with Ling Mo, right? But he still had to deliver the food to him, and Qu Yun didn’t believe that Ling Mo had eaten dinner.

He glanced upstairs and decided to try his luck.

He went up and knocked on the door, politely asking, “Is anyone home?”

The door opened, and it was the man who had just come home from work and walked past Qu Yun.

“What’s wrong?”

“Hello, Uncle, I want to borrow your window to see if I can deliver some food to my classmate. His aunt said he’s sick, but she won’t let me go in to see him…”

The advantage of being fat is that it makes people believe you easily, especially since this man also heard Chen Li say through the door that the child named Ling Mo was sick, but she didn’t open the door to talk to the child face-to-face. Her attitude made people feel uncomfortable no matter how you thought about it.

“Okay, come in. Do you know which room your classmate is in?”

“I know, thank you, Uncle. Uncle, do you have a rope I can borrow? That way I can lower the thermos.”

The man immediately understood what Qu Yun wanted to do.

“Okay, I’ll go find one for you. There’s a clothes pole on the balcony, you can use it to knock on your classmate’s window.”

“Uncle, you’re so kind!”

Ling Mo heard the sound of knocking on the window, he stuck his head out, tilted his body, and looked up. He saw Qu Yun lying on his head, grinning foolishly, his eyes shining brightly in the night.

“How are you there?” Ling Mo asked in a low voice.

“My mom told me to bring you some food, your aunt won’t let me in.”

Ling Mo’s brows furrowed, and he immediately guessed what Chen Li was thinking. He whispered, “She needs a good lesson.”

At this time, the man found a basket. Qu Yun saw it and almost burst into laughter.

He had one at his house when he was little. If the floor wasn’t too high, they would use a rope to tie a basket and send it down. The milkman would put the milk in the basket and then pull the basket up.

Qu Yun put the thermos in the basket, and the man personally helped lower the basket, saying as he lowered it, “There’s a lot of food in here!”

Qu Yun scratched his head and whispered, “My mom is afraid that Ling Mo won’t eat enough…”

The man immediately remembered what he heard the two teacher-like people say at the door of Chen Li’s house when he got off work that day, something about how Li Yuanhang’s room could fit another bed but they made the other child live in the storage room.

The layout of the upstairs and downstairs was the same. The room the man was in was originally the storage room, and he thought it was a pity, so he turned it into a small study.

But such a small space, even for a child to live in, how depressing!

Ling Mo took the thermos, said “Thank you,” and made a gesture to go back quickly. Qu Yun then retracted his head.

“Uncle, thank you so much this time? I don’t know your last name.”

“My last name is Jiang.”

“Uncle Jiang, you’re such a good person!”

Uncle Jiang smiled, “Okay, next time if that woman downstairs won’t let you see your classmate, just come upstairs and find me. I’ll send whatever you want to your classmate from here.”

“Thank you, Uncle! Goodbye, Uncle!”

When they went downstairs, Qu Yun ran into Liang Ru and immediately told her in detail what Chen Li had said.

Liang Ru snorted when she heard this, then touched Qu Yun’s head and said, “Good, good, you did a good job today.”

Seeing her son’s simple-minded look, it was hard to believe that he had used his brain to deliver food to Ling Mo.

But he didn’t know the twists and turns in Qu Yun’s heart at the moment.

His mission was to get close to Ling Mo, gain his trust, and then guide him to believe that everything in this world was just created by him based on his memories. But Chen Li wouldn’t let him into Ling Mo’s house, which was hindering his mission.

No, no. How could you not give someone like that a taste of their own medicine? It’s not fun to not cause trouble!

Qu Yun tugged on Liang Ru’s sleeve and said, “Mom – “

“What’s wrong?”

“Shouldn’t we call our head teacher, Teacher Huang? Teacher Huang said that she needs to know everything about Ling Mo.” Qu Yun said seriously.

This was a reminder for Liang Ru.

After all, she was another child’s parent, and it would be a bit abrupt and inappropriate to go to Chen Li’s place and say that she wanted to see Ling Mo. But it was normal for Teacher Huang to go for a home visit after hearing that Ling Mo was sick.

So half an hour later, Teacher Huang, who had heard that Ling Mo was seriously ill, rode her bicycle to Chen Li’s house.

“Teacher Huang, why are you here? Did my Yuanhang cause trouble at school again?”

“No, I heard from other students’ parents that Ling Mo is sick, and he’s very sick. I’m very worried, so I came here to see him!”

Chen Li’s face immediately turned awkward.

The excuse she had made up was actually taken seriously, and it was even reported to the head teacher!

That Mo Xiaobai is really nosy!

Chen Li smiled and said, “This… this is a misunderstanding, right? Ling Mo is doing his homework in his room!”

“Really? Can I take a look at him?” Teacher Huang was still worried.

“Okay, you can take a look at him. Last time you and Director Lin came, you said that the room we arranged for the child was too simple, and we reflected on it and decided to improve it. It’s just that the child’s father won’t be back for a while, and I’m a woman, I can’t do it alone, so I just let the child make do for now. Teacher Huang, don’t misunderstand when you see it.”

Chen Li knocked on Ling Mo’s door, Teacher Huang saw Ling Mo standing there, and he didn’t look sick, so she finally felt relieved.

“Eating?”

With no clothes hanging to block the view, the small room was in full view. Teacher Huang saw the thermos on Ling Mo’s desk at a glance.

“Yeah.” Ling Mo nodded.

Teacher Huang looked at Chen Li and said with a hint of suspicion, “How come… Ling Mo is eating from a thermos?”

Chen Li’s face changed, and she immediately pulled Ling Mo over, putting her arm around his shoulder, looking very close, and said, “Because Xiaomo came back a little late today, so I put the food in a thermos, so he can eat it hot when he comes back!”

Chen Li squeezed Ling Mo’s shoulder hard, signaling him not to say anything. Ling Mo lowered his head and smiled, but unfortunately, Chen Li didn’t see.

“Although you… neglected Ling Mo a little bit before, you’re finally getting the hang of it.”

“Well, it’s so late, Teacher Huang, you should go home early, you have to teach the children tomorrow.”

“Okay, I’ll go back first. Ling Mo, if anything happens, tell the teacher.”

Chen Li smiled awkwardly. She saw Teacher Huang to the door and exchanged a few pleasantries.

“You’re finally paying attention to the child.”

“Of course, we’ll do better in the future!”

Just then, the door upstairs opened, and a man’s voice came, “Teacher, are you talking about the child who lives in the storage room?”

Teacher Huang looked up and said, “Yes, that’s my student, his name is Ling Mo.”

“Then I have to say something about this family. They let the child live in the storage room, and when his classmate came to find him, she shut the door on him, didn’t even open the door, and said that the kid named Ling Mo was sick and told him to go back. As a result, Ling Mo’s classmate was very worried, so he went to my house and used my milk basket to send the thermos down from the window!”

Chen Li’s face immediately turned ugly.

Teacher Huang looked at her in surprise, “No way? Didn’t you say you left the food for Ling Mo? How come it’s now the classmate who sent it over?”

Chen Li immediately shouted, “Sir, are you mistaken? Or did you hear wrong?”

“How could I hear wrong? Ling Mo’s classmate was the one who was lying on the window of my storage room and sent the thermos down! He also told me that he was worried that his classmate wouldn’t have dinner!”

Teacher Huang’s anger rose.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Chen Li quickly said, “Sir, we don’t have much interaction on a daily basis. If you can’t tell the situation, don’t just talk nonsense!”

“I’m talking nonsense? Then how about one day I call that little fatso over, and we confront each other, and I’ll write a special interview for your family? You can’t be accused of child abuse, but isn’t emotional neglect and differential treatment a form of cold violence?”

“Spec… special interview…”

Ling Mo was standing behind Chen Li, looking at her back, smiling faintly.