Insufficient balance

  Zheng Feng and Ya Tou's bed is on the upper berth. After settling Zheng Feng in bed.

  The girl said softly to him: "Good boy, go to bed early." Then she turned around and left.

  "Uh-huh."

  Zheng Feng knew that his sister had something to see the principal, so he obediently replied. After seeing his sister leave the room, he immediately shrank his little head into the quilt, because he didn't dare look at others in the dormitory.

  He only felt that every time the young lady left and he was alone, the eyes of others in the room would change completely, it was a gaze that made him very fearful.

  Zheng Feng didn't understand why this was happening. He had been following behind Lian'er's back all day, without any contact with them, so he shouldn't have been disliked.

  At first, he thought it was just him and his sister who didn't get along with them, so they weren't happy. When he naively took the initiative to find a big brother on the lower bunk bed to play with, something unforgettable happened. That brother suddenly had red eyes, raised his hands and forcefully choked his neck.

  At that time, he only felt black in front of his eyes, and his whole body was powerless. The unprecedented fear spread in his heart. Although his mouth was open, he couldn't shout out loud, and the last thought left in his mind before he fainted from suffocation was: Sister Ya Tou, save me.

  He didn't remember what happened afterwards. The next day when he woke up, the first thing he saw was Ya Tou sister tightly hugging him. After that, he never saw that brother who practiced alchemy again, and his room changed from 16 people to 15.

  Just like Zheng Feng thought, after Ya Tou left, the silence in the room was not broken, but everyone, including the children who were still asleep a moment ago, suddenly opened their eyes and looked at the trembling figure curled up in the quilt.

  All that can be seen in their eyes are: hatred, resentment, jealousy, envy, madness and so on. They are all screaming madly in their hearts, why can he live here so carefree? Why can he just play every day? Why doesn't he worry about his own safety? Why doesn't he worry about food? Why can he "dominate" here without any skills, and no one dares to offend him?

  They actually all knew the answer very well. Because of Ya Tou's existence!

  He has never experienced what real pain is, what he's going through now is nothing. Our hearts are in a thousand times more pain than his.

  Below Zheng Feng, a boy looked up with eyes full of resentment. Every time he saw Zheng Feng reveal a smile, he almost lost control of himself and wanted to rush up and tear that smile to shreds.

  What is laughter? The boy didn't know before. But when he remembered that there was still half a month left, he knew he must be laughing and laughing very happily. Other children in the room were the same, they all burst out laughing when they remembered that there was still half a month left.

  Zheng Feng in the quilt heard these gloomy laughs, and his body couldn't stop trembling. The only thought in his heart was: Sister Ya Tou, please come back soon.

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  After Ya Tou left the room, she slowly walked towards the principal's office. She knew that the principal had called her over to give a definite answer to her request, and the empire had given its reply. She was afraid that the reply would not be what she had hoped for, which made her feel anxious and flustered.

  Actually, Ya Tou is different from many children in the orphanage. Her age can be considered the oldest among the children in the orphanage, because she is not an abandoned baby, but a child who was abandoned by her parents after she became aware of things. She herself knew that her parents could no longer afford to raise her, so they sent her here.

  Ya Tou's mind is different from the children in this orphanage, probably because she entered at an older age. At that time, she had already begun to understand things and hadn't been completely brainwashed by the monks of the orphanage. Many things the monks instilled in her were only selectively accepted by her. It's not just Ya Tou who is like this.

  Other orphanages in the empire also had children of similar age to Hei who successively appeared with this problem. After discovering this issue, the Empire immediately revised its adoption clause, changing the first article from "children cannot be older than five years" to "children cannot be older than three years and have an independent consciousness."

  But the girls were still left behind.

  Five years ago, a little girl of just over five years old was sent by her parents to the Imperial Capital Orphanage.

  Why her parents didn't want her, Ya Tou knew. Because after her mother gave birth to a younger brother, the family could only afford to raise one child. Ya Tou's father was a male chauvinist who thought girls were useless and would eventually get married anyway, so boys were definitely better.

  Maybe in the future, I can pass the Beast Soul test and become a Beast Soul Master, that would be glorious. So, ignoring Yaotou's mother's opposition, they want to send Yaotou to an orphanage.

  I don't know if Yatou's father knew about her talent in Beast Soul, he would still be so happy to make this decision, I'm afraid his heart has already started bleeding.

  A talented Beastmaster is not something that ordinary people can understand, it's an existence that an empire must cultivate with all its might. If a Beastmaster has already become a powerful entity, then for the empire, it's no longer a question of whether to cultivate or not, but an existence that must be appeased.

  The poor man's child is early to take charge, a 5-year-old girl also understands her father's meaning and the family's situation, if the family doesn't send her away, they can't afford to raise her younger brother.

  For her younger brother, Ya Tou herself had personally held him in her arms before he came to the orphanage. He was chubby and very cute, at that time, the happiest thing for her was to hold her crying brother in her arms, rocking him back and forth, humming a lullaby until he fell asleep.

  How can I not want a younger brother? So she didn't object at all, and was willingly sent to the orphanage by her father. The only thing she regretted was that she could no longer coax her younger brother to sleep.

  Not long after Ya Tou was sent in, Xiao Xiu picked up Zheng Feng at the gate of the orphanage.

  At that time, Ya Tou was still in a low mood thinking of her brother, and seeing Zheng Feng who was still a baby with a chubby face was very cute, especially when he cried, his voice was particularly similar to her brother's.

  At that moment, Ya Tou rushed over like she had discovered a "new continent", snatching Zheng Feng from Xiao Xiu's hands and taking care of him herself.

  Xiao Xiu couldn't help but laugh and scold: "I'm telling you, little girl, to me the sound of a baby crying all sounds the same, whether it's a boy or a girl I really can't tell them apart. What do you mean by 'looks like' or 'doesn't look like', especially when you say he looks just like your younger brother, that's clearly just your imagination."

  The girl doesn't care what Xiao Xiu says, she says it looks like that, then it looks like that.

  After asking Xiao Xiu if the child had a name, Ya Tou was very disappointed and angrily said to Xiao Xiu: "The director is really annoying, why did he help someone else's brother come up with a name so quickly? That doesn't count, I want to start again. You are Ya Tou's younger brother, so let's just call you 'Ya Di'."

  Xiao Xi didn't care what Ya Tou said, a good name isn't something that can be changed just by saying so. Most importantly, if he really did change the name again, wouldn't that be equivalent to admitting that the original name was terrible and had no taste? That's something Xiao Xi, who loved saving face, absolutely couldn't do.

  Luckily, Xiao Xiu persisted, otherwise there would be no Zheng Feng today, only "Younger Brother".

  The reason why Ya Tou wanted to help Zheng Feng come up with a name was that she didn't know what her younger brother's name was, and she feared that their father would forget to give him one, just like he did with her. Ya Tou's father was very lazy, as evidenced by the fact that he couldn't even be bothered to give her a proper name, instead always calling her "Ya Tou" at home; if her younger brother ended up in the same situation, it would be too pitiful.

  Ya Tou had long been accustomed to being called this name by her father. So when she first arrived at the orphanage, when the director asked her what her name was, Ya Tou's response was: "My name is Ya Tou."

  Xiao Xiu felt helpless about this, but later on, after shouting it out loud a few times, he also thought the name was quite easy to pronounce.

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