Nightmare Light

Chapter 96 The Orphanage Back Then
In the courtyard in front of the orphanage building, a pregnant woman held her waist with one hand and a rolling pin with the other.

After glaring at the scattered children, she turned her head and looked Lin Wang up and down: "How are you going to find a wife in the future when you grow so tall?"

Lin Wang's face was filled with black lines, but before he could open his mouth, the conversation was interrupted by the female teacher next to him who spoke very quickly:

"Dean Shen, why are you so anxious about this? Lin Wang is from the north, and all the girls there are this tall!"

"Oh!" Dean Shen nodded as if suddenly realizing something, but then suddenly froze, "That's not right. They're all so tall, how can they get married?"

"..." Lin Wang's face trembled, and he quickly changed the subject, "Dean Shen, I came back this time because I want to..."

"Eat first." Dean Shen interrupted Lin Wang with great momentum, "We can talk about it after dinner if there's anything."

"Ah?" Lin Wang was stunned for a moment. "Eat?"

"Of course you have to eat first when you get home." Dean Shen looked at Lin Wang and said in a matter-of-fact tone, "How can a child not eat when he gets home?"

"……I see."

"So go wash your hands now, and then come and help me make dumplings." Dean Shen waved his hand, "We need to make 500 dumplings in total, and you'll be responsible for 400."

"Where are you and Sister Azhe?"

"Teacher Liu is responsible for the 100, and I'm responsible for the cheering."

……

After a busy and extremely noisy, but steaming and homely meal, Lin Wang felt that his emotions had calmed down a lot.

After dinner, Azhe took the children back to their rooms, and Dean Shen took Lin Wang into his office.

The headmistress, with a bulging belly, sat down on a chair and took a few breaths: "Oh, it's so tiring to walk with such a heavy burden."

"Giving birth to a life is a difficult yet wonderful process." Lin Wang said as he sat down opposite Dean Shen.

Suddenly, at a certain moment, Lin Wang felt his mind was in a trance.

His intuition told him that he seemed to have overlooked something very important.

But he thought hard for a long time and still couldn't remember.

Never mind, maybe I was just distracted.

Lin Wang shook his head and looked at Dean Shen: "Dean Shen, I came back this time because I want to know something about my life experience."

"Your life experience..." Dean Shen pondered for a moment, then adjusted her sitting position. She stared at Lin Wang and moved closer to him. "What did you know?"

She really knows something!
Lin Wang's heart trembled. He looked at Dean Shen and said slowly, "All of them."

"Everything..." Dean Shen was silent for a moment, shook his head, and looked out the window. "I can only tell you the part after you entered the orphanage."

“That’s been a big part of me growing up.”

"But this is only a small part of your life story." Dean Shen said softly, "You grew up in an orphanage. Most of the things are your own personal experiences. You remember them very clearly. You don't need me to explain them."

No, actually I don’t know…

Lin Wang muttered to himself.

He had a vague feeling that Dean Shen was hiding something, but it was true that his childhood in an orphanage was indeed his personal experience.

So he got straight to the point: "What about before entering the orphanage?"

"Silly boy, how would I know what happened before?"

"..."

Dean Shen's tone suddenly turned serious. "But there was something strange about 'that moment' when you entered the orphanage."

She held her waist and stood up with some difficulty, walked to the huge filing cabinet beside her and started searching inside.

After a while, Dean Shen took out an old notebook from it, opened it and started flipping through it.

Lin Wang stood up and stared at the dean.

"Visitor records, purchase records, renovation records... Why did I put your admission records and purchase records together?"

Lin Wang broke out in a cold sweat.

"Aha! Found it!" Dean Shen cheered, flipping open a page in the notebook and showing it to Lin Wang. "Look!"

Lin Wang paused, then slowly turned his gaze to the notebook.

On the night of March 86, 3th year of the Federal Calendar, the temple priest Tan Mingzhe brought a healthy baby boy named Lin Wang.

In the early morning of March 3, Tan Mingzhe visited and left a wooden box for Lin Wang.

Lin Wang's gaze remained fixed on the word "temple" for a long time. Then he raised his head and said, "That wooden box... I have no impression of it at all."

"Dean Chen was still the dean at that time, so I didn't know anything about the wooden box." Dean Shen shook his head. "Son, is this box important?"

Lin Wang shook his head. "I don't know what's in that box, but I imagine it must be quite important for a priest to come and visit again after just a few hours."

Lin Wang pointed to the two visiting times written in the notebook and said, "From the description, the time difference between these two times is at most five or six hours."

"I'll help you find it."

"Thank you."

"Kid, what are you talking about?" Dean Shen held his waist and patted Lin Wang gently with his other hand. "When are you going to the temple?"

"Let's go now." Lin Wang said in a decisive tone.

"I'll go...I'll ask Teacher Liu to take you there."

……

Half an hour later, at the gate of the temple in the city.

"...Sister Azhe, isn't the distance you're delivering... a little too far?"

Lin Wang looked at the carefree female teacher in front of him, feeling somewhat speechless.

"Dean Shen said that we, as a family, must pay attention to our own children's affairs!" Ah Zhe waved his hand carelessly, "Besides! Our Dean Shen said! Let me help you find a wife!"

“…I don’t need to worry about this!” Lin Wang’s forehead veins bulged.

"That won't do! Dean Shen said that we, as parents, have to worry about our own children's affairs! Look at that girl, she's pretty... look at her figure... that waist..."

"How can you see your waist when you weigh over 200 pounds?"

"Look, that girl over there isn't bad either! Look how pretty she is... Ah, she's coming towards us!"

The Saint walked up to Lin Wang and Azhe, expressionless: "Mr. Lin, the Bishop invites you."

"Hey? Do you two know each other?" Liu Azhe blinked.

"Miss Saint, we meet again."

"Mr. Lin, you are a good friend of the temple, so you can just address me by my first name." Sen said seriously and solemnly. He glanced at Azhe again, and his expression suddenly changed. "This lady..."

"I'm Lin Wang's friend! I just brought him here!" Ah Zhe laughed, "I'm leaving first!"

After saying that, without waiting for Lin Wang to speak, he waved to the two of them, turned around, got into a taxi, and drove away.

Lin Wang shook his head: "Don't mind, she was my 'senior sister' when I was a child in the orphanage, and she is still a teacher in the orphanage."

"That's a very special lady." Sen nodded and regained his calm expression.

"Sister Azhe has a bit of a strange personality, but she is actually a very warm-hearted person," said Lin Wang.

"No, that's not what I meant." Mori shook his head. "What I meant was: she's not afraid of me."

"She has a carefree personality, so it's normal for her to not be afraid of you, right?"

"That's not the case." The Saint shook her head. "I'm a Saint, living deep in the temple all year round. The aura around me is so strong that normal people would naturally feel awe and fear when they see me."

"But the lady just now, when she saw me, her reaction was like seeing a clerk in a store."

"I think you're overthinking it." Lin Wang waved his hand. "She's just a heartless older sister. Other than that, there's nothing special about her."

"Really?" Sen said nothing and walked towards the temple with Lin Wang. "I hope so."

(End of this chapter)