Strange to say.

What does the dead woman's waist being held by other children have to do with Lorna?

But for some reason, when Lorna saw this scene, she felt sour in her heart...even she didn't know what was so sour.

Lorna put those inexplicable emotions behind her mind, looked at the little girl carefully, and asked doubtfully: "Hey, who is this? Why have I never seen her before?"

Dinisha's reaction now was very strange. She was very nervous, as if she was a thief. She hid the little girl behind her and said harshly: "It has nothing to do with you, don't ask."

Dinisa's reaction made Lorna even more confused, and when she was confused, her thoughts were easily distorted. She thought about it over and over, and suddenly took a breath, her eyes looked like she had seen a ghost: "Could this be...

Your daughter?! Hey! When did you get married? Why didn’t I know!"

"Are you crazy..." Seeing that she couldn't hide anymore, Dinisha generously took out the little girl behind her and introduced her, "Here, let me introduce you to her. This is Candy, I adopted her.

One of the children. Candy, this is mine...well...she is mine..."

Candy opened her eyes wide and asked tentatively: "Is she yours?..."

Dinisha suddenly found that it was not easy to explain Lorna's identity, because when she got along with children like Candy, she would not reveal her true identity, or even tell them her name.

The children only know that there is an old gentleman who is a storyteller and a big sister who sells pillows. They often come to deliver delicious food, take them out to play, and help them go to school.

This is not about doing good deeds anonymously, but to protect the children. Dinisha doesn't want them to feel that they are being given alms by big shots. Being anonymous like this can reduce their psychological burden.

Although Lorna is not a very famous person, it would be somewhat harmful if the children knew her name and it spread out and was heard.

"Uh...she's mine...she's mine..." Dinisa hesitated for a long time, then suddenly thought of Lorna's nonsense just now, and with an idea, she hugged Lorna's shoulders and smiled.

Said, "Candy, this is my daughter, please call her Nana."

"Boom!..." Lorna's heart seemed to be hit by something, and its beating became more violent than ever before. Unspeakable throbbing surged through every corner of her body, and the girl's heart surged.

Dinisha was taller than Lorna, and Lorna needed to look up. She stared blankly at Dinisha's side face, her vision blurred sometimes, feeling that time suddenly became so far away, and sometimes clear, even her heroic jawline.

See clearly.

"Dong...dong...dong..." As the heart beats violently, a sense of happiness that comes from nowhere fills the whole body, like a warm ocean current spreading in the heart. It is a sweetness that has been lost for too long.

feel.

There were slight waves in Lorna's eyes, her eyes kept wandering from side to side, her face was flushed like a ripe apple, and her mouth was knotted. She wanted to scold Dinisa for talking nonsense, but she couldn't.

Like a boat lost in the tide, the blush had spread from the cheeks to the corners of the eyes and brows, and he just lowered his head and said nothing.

Neither Candy nor Dinisha noticed Lorna's strangeness. Candy tilted her head and asked curiously: "Sister, are you married?"

Dinisha had a smile on her face, but she was already scolding her in her heart. She thought: Old thief Sting, I will take advantage of you today!

She admitted bravely: "Yes, yes, does my daughter look like me?"

Candy looked at the faces of the two people carefully, but couldn't see the slightest similarity.

But she was very obedient and followed Dinisha's words: "Yeah, it's very similar! Then I will call you big sister from now on, and this one little sister! Hello, little sister, I am Candy, nice to meet you.

~"

Lorna was in a daze now and didn't hear Candy's words at all. It wasn't until Dinisha secretly poked her waist with her elbow that she woke up as if from a dream: "Ah...hello."

Candy said with emotion: "I envy you so much! My mother died when I was very young. Although Elda's mother was very kind to me later, but...well...it may not be a good thing to say.

..But she is not a real mother after all. So, every time I see other people with their mothers, I feel very envious."

Lorna pursed her lips and smiled helplessly. She really wanted to tell Candy: Yes, I am the same as you.

On an autumn night that was getting colder, two lonely little souls met in the royal city. They were close to one big soul, like two incomplete little flames, and finally found their way home.

...

After they first met, the three of them visited stalls at the trade market together.

The reasons for Dinisha's appearance here are similar to those of other passers-by. Firstly, she brought candies for a walk and played with her. Secondly, winter is coming and she needs to prepare some winter food in advance.

Finally, the three of them bought a variety of nuts, oats, dried meat, dry food, etc. that could be stored for a long time, rented a carriage, and transported the large and small packages to No. 24 Frost Snow Lane.

Arriving at No. 24 Frosty Lane, Lorna was immediately frightened as soon as she walked in and put down her things - Oh my goodness, hundreds of children ran out of each room yelling and running towards this side, shouting and acting coquettishly as they ran.

"Sister", seeing Dinisha is like seeing a treasure.

After a while, Dinisha's legs and waist were covered with "human-shaped pendants", and a flexible little ghost head was already hugging Dinisha's shoulders and back, laughing and rubbing his forehead on the back of her head, and laughter came one after another:

"Sister! I miss you so much!"

"Sister! I got perfect marks in the kingdom history class today! Please praise me!"

"So much delicious food, yeah! My sister is the best!"

...

Dinisha was unable to move, but she had a smile on her face. She pointed to the goods on the ground and said to Erda who came up to her with a smile: "I bought some food for the winter and brought it back, but one trip may not be enough. By that time

You have to work hard to go to the market a few more times."

"Look what you said, you are the one who is doing the hard work. Children, stop making trouble and come and move things together. After moving, you can take a shower one by one. We have to get up early to go to school tomorrow." Erda rushed to gather in Dini.

The children around Sha helped her out.

After putting the grain into the warehouse and putting the children to bed, Erda came out, nodded to Dinisha and Lorna and said with a smile: "Ms. Dinisha, I thank you for taking care of me again... Hey

,Who is this?"

The children have now gone back to the house to sleep, and there is nothing to hide from Elda. Dinisha directly introduced: "This is Lorna Finn Regnom, a friend of mine."

For some reason, Lorna felt a little empty when Dinisha introduced her like this.

Erda looked very respectful: "It turns out you are the daughter of a royal noble. Hello."

"Hello, hello, you're welcome." Lorna looked around and asked curiously, "Where is this place? Why are there so many children?"

Dinisha was familiar with the road, took the lead into a room, sat down in the living room, and said: "These children are all local orphans in the royal city."

"Orphans?" Lorna suddenly felt confused, "In a place like the Royal City, if anyone comes out, they will be rich, how can there be orphans?"

Dinisha smiled slightly and said meaningfully: "It is precisely because the royal city is full of wealthy families that these children will be abandoned. The richer you are, the more choices you have. If these children were from civilian families in other cities,

Once you are born, you may be nurtured, but in an aristocratic family it is completely the opposite."

"These children were abandoned for various reasons. It may be that they have an unsightly birthmark on their body. It may be that they did not learn to speak when they were one year old, which makes people feel that they are not smart. It may also be that they are weak and do not have a healthy body. And

Or it may be an illegitimate child, and the noble is unwilling to admit his relationship with the child..."

"It's like a piece of bread that has been left overnight. It's not very fresh, but civilians will choose to eat it, because for them, it would be a pity to throw away this piece of stale bread. They can still eat it if they make do."

"But the nobles are different. They have too many choices. If a piece of bread is not very fresh, they can just throw it away and get a fresher piece. Because they have the ability to obtain thousands of fresh pieces of bread, there is no need to

Putting so much thought into a piece of stale bread.”

Lorna pursed her lips and said hesitantly: "But... this cannot be compared with bread. One is food and the other is life. How can they be compared like this?"

Erda brought two cups of brown sugar water to the two distinguished guests, and said with a smile: "Just because they are life, we should treat them kindly. I am just a commoner, I can take care of people, but I can't do business. At the beginning

When I was a child, I only adopted two or three children and could barely make ends meet."

"But later on, I adopted more and more children, and my life became more and more miserable. I could hardly open the pot. It was Lord Dinisha and Lord Yuanwen who found us one after another. They not only supported our lives, but also bought 24 Frost Snow Lane.

Let the children live here and pay for their studies."

"Without these two adults, I really don't know what kind of life these children would be living today..."

When Erda said this, she secretly wiped away the tears of gratitude from the corners of her eyes.

After hearing this, Lorna looked at Dinisha, her eyes full of awe and longing: "I heard from your servant that you often don't go home for more than ten days... So are you always here to take care of the children?"

Dinisha said bluntly: "No, I just come here once in a while. If I don't go home for more than ten days... I should be shaking dice and drinking in the pub."

"Oh." Lorna rolled her eyes, and the admiration she had just risen suddenly collapsed.

Lorna thought for a while and continued to ask: "You just said, how much does it usually cost to send children to school?"

Lorna has been going to school with royal heirs such as Solandel, Bolton and Andre since she was a child. The tuition and other expenses are all paid by the family and they never ask questions. It is normal not to know.

Erda answered truthfully: "For schools in the royal city, calculated on a semester basis, the half-year tuition fee is 500 silver moons per person."

Although Lorna is not very smart, she can still do the most basic arithmetic. She was a little surprised when she heard: "500 silver moons in half a year, 1,000 silver moons in a year, can be counted as 1 gold moon. I just saw this here

There are at least one or two hundred children, which is one or two hundred golden moons!

"This is just the tuition fee, not counting various living expenses and so on..." Lorna looked at Dinisha in surprise, "Is your salary so high? I remember my dad's personal annual salary as the "Provincial Governor"

Just 100 gold moons."

Dinisha smiled: "My annual salary is not that high, it is only half of your father's. Yuanwen is mainly responsible for the tuition. I usually just drink some wine anyway, and there is no other use for keeping the money. When will the salary be paid?

If you get it, give it to Erda, it will also help Yuanwen reduce his stress."

After hearing this, Lorna did not hesitate at all. She directly opened her small purse, took out her wallet and put it in front of Erda. She smiled innocently: "There are 10 gold moons in here, which are my pocket money for the second half of the year. You

Take it and use it! This way, 10 more children can study for a year~"

"No, no, no...this is inappropriate..." Lorna was someone she just met today, and Elda didn't dare to accept her money.

Dinisha smiled knowingly, touched Lorna's little head, and said softly: "Take it, don't let this child's good intentions go down."

When Lorna's head was touched, she felt warm in her heart. She unconsciously leaned against Dinisa, with a sweet smile on her face.

Respect is worse than obedience, Dinisha said so, Erda did not refuse anymore, put the money away, and expressed her gratitude to Lorna: "Good Samaritan, I thank you on behalf of the children!"

Suddenly, Lorna thought of something and asked with some worry: "Speaking of which, those who can study in the royal city are basically the children of nobles. If they, common people children, are sponsored to study, will they be discriminated against by teachers and bullied by classmates in school?

?”

Dinisha nodded without thinking: "Yes, definitely. Commoner children who receive financial aid to go to school are never welcome in school. First, they have no backing and can easily be bullied."

"Secondly, compared with those aristocratic students who have a relaxed mentality, commoner children know that their opportunity to study is hard-won, so they will work very hard, and their results will often overwhelm aristocratic students, making others jealous."

Erda sighed and added: "Our little head was bullied today... The other person is the son of a provincial official. Just because he ranked first in the class in the weekly test, that person pulled the little head down.

He was beaten so severely in the toilet that his eyes were blackened, and he was forced to drink urine. If he refused to drink, the man would push his head into the urine pool. When he came back, he smelled bad, ugh..."

"Bang!" Lorna couldn't see this kind of thing the most, and she was so angry that she slammed the table: "There is such a person?! Who is he? I will help you teach him a lesson!"

Dinisha said calmly: "No, I went out at 6 o'clock this morning to deal with this matter."

Lorna asked: "Did you hit that man?"

Dinisha shook her head: "No."

Lorna was puzzled: "Then how did you deal with it?"

Dinisha: "I threw him into the pit."

"Pfft!" Lorna didn't expect Dinisha to be so cruel. She laughed and said, "What happened next? If you do this kind of thing in school, the teacher won't ignore it, right?"

Dinisha: "Teacher, it's up to you, just bring the guards to arrest me."

Lorna: "What then?"

Dinisha: "I threw them into the pit too."

Lorna: "Did that person's father come to trouble you? His father, the provincial official."

Dinisha: "Yes, when his father learned that his son had been thrown into a manure pit, he rushed to the school without stopping. He also brought a team of 100 people to support the scene and threatened to behead me."

Lorna: "And you threw him into the pit too?"

Dinisha: "No, when he saw me, he was so scared that he jumped into the pit."
Chapter completed!