Elder brother's garrison

"Follow the instructions carefully."

"Hmm..." Aunt Mei seemed quite satisfied with Xiao Bai's composed and confident reaction. She nodded. "What did you just tell Xu An that you wanted to see me for?"

"The girl who shared a dorm room with me is gone," Xiaobai said.

"Oh? Is that so?" Aunt Mei's words seemed to carry a hint of surprise, but Xiao Bai clearly saw a touch of mockery in her eyes.

really……

Miao Yan's disappearance is inextricably linked to Aunt Mei.

It's highly likely that Aunt Mei gave the order.

Do you know where she is?

"Who knows? The girl who couldn't be sold for a good price was probably assigned to another factory," Aunt Mei said. "What, is she very important to you?"

"We did stay together for two days, after all," Xiaobai said.

Aunt Mei smiled and gazed at Xiaobai for a while.

After a while.

Aunt Mei suddenly smiled.

Her wrinkles were etched on her face, and her smile was no longer kind; instead, it looked somewhat ferocious.

Chapter 3708 The Last Day

Aunt Mei eventually found Miao Yan and brought her back.

Although it's unclear why Meryl Streep smiled at Xiao Bai, after Xiao Bai expressed his regret, Meryl Streep and the tall women around her returned to her office.

Then, less than half an hour later...

The campus gates were pushed open once again, and Miao Yan, looking travel-worn, exhausted, and with a gloomy expression, was brought in by several tall, burly men who appeared to be dormitory supervisors and thrown onto the lobby floor.

With a thud, Miao Yan staggered and fell to the ground.

The burly men who brought Miao Yan in acted as if they were unloading cargo, dumping her here before leaving without looking back.

As Xiaobai watched the burly men leave, she stepped forward, squatted down, and helped Miao Yan up from the ground.

"How are you feeling?"

"..."

When Xiaobai helped Miao Yan up, he could clearly feel through her clothes that Miao Yan's body was slightly warm and trembling, and even the muscles in her arms were twitching slightly, as if she had just done some extremely strenuous physical labor.

Xiaobai frowned slightly as she sensed the weakness emanating from Miao Yan's body.

Although the children in the school do a lot of work, it is mostly repetitive labor that requires endurance and wears down their spirit and will. At most, the work makes people feel tired and hopeless, and then they just collapse on the ground and don't want to think about anything anymore.

But Miao Yan's physical reaction... the work she had just done was clearly beyond what her body could currently handle.

Xiao Bai even wondered if Miao Yan would have fallen seriously ill from exhaustion if he had come out to look for her a few hours later.

"..." Miao Yan's hands trembled slightly as she gently pressed them against Xiao Bai's arm, her face pale as she gasped for breath, "I...I'm fine..."

"Let's go back to the dorm first," Xiaobai said softly to Miao Yan after looking around.

"..." Miao Yan exhaled and leaned gently against Xiao Bai.

Miao Yan's legs were trembling, and walking seemed to be a difficult task for her. Xiao Bai could only put his arm around Miao Yan's waist, using his own body as support to help her walk back to the dormitory.

Every step back to the dormitory was an ordeal for Miao Yan, but fortunately, the dormitory area did not require going upstairs, and Miao Yan finally arrived at the dormitory door relatively smoothly.

When Xiaobai arrived at the dormitory entrance, she immediately saw a familiar dormitory manager standing there.

The dormitory supervisor turned his head and saw Xiaobai. He opened his eyes slightly, then swallowed nervously.

"You're back, come in." Gao Yang, the dormitory manager, opened the dormitory door.

Xiao Bai and Miao Yan silently walked inside.

Gao Yang followed him into the dormitory and closed the door behind him.

After the door was closed, only three people remained in the room.

Gao Yang let out a long sigh. He watched as Xiao Bai helped Miao Yan onto the bed, his face growing increasingly tense and frightened. Then, he knelt down on the ground with a thud, pitifully begging Xiao Bai for mercy.

"Grandma, Grandma... I really didn't know about what happened today. I only found out now that she's been sent away..."

Gao Yang looked aggrieved and scared, as if he was afraid that Xiao Bai would punish him for this.

After helping Miao Yan onto the bed, Xiao Bai looked at her lying on the bed, so weak that she couldn't even open her mouth to speak. Xiao Bai sighed and said to Gao Yang.

"So, it really was Aunt Mei who secretly sent her away?"

"Well, I don't know, but usually personnel changes are discussed with the dormitory manager..."

"It seems so."

Xiao Bai nodded, sat down next to Miao Yan, and gently rubbed Miao Yan's thigh, trying to relieve some of the pressure on her trembling thigh.

“Since it was Aunt Mei who did it, then it has nothing to do with you. You don’t need to worry about it,” Xiao Bai said to Gao Yang. “But I’m a little curious, where was Miao Yan sent? And what happened to her there?”

“Um, she…she should have been…sent to another factory in the village.” Gao Yang looked up, swallowed nervously, and said slowly.

"Oh? Miao Yan also told me something similar, what do the other factories in this village do?"

“The campus we’re in now is generally inhabited by kids who are above average in appearance. These kids can be sold for money, so they won’t be subjected to too much exploitative manual labor…” Gao Yang said cautiously, looking up at Miao Yan on the bed. “But it’s not necessarily the case for those kids below average… Kids who are destined not to fetch a good price are sent to factories that only use them as cheap labor. The manual labor they’re sent to is at an adult level, so it’s no wonder that kids can’t handle it…”

"So that's where Miao Yan was sent." Xiao Bai looked at Miao Yan on the bed, his eyes fixed on the black grime on her body, and rubbed it with his hand.

Xiaobai brought the black, granular object from her fingertip to her nose and sniffed it.

...Is this coal?

"Miao Yan is actually quite pretty," Xiao Bai said, putting down her hand and asking Gao Yang. "She is a bit thin, but aren't all the kids in this school like that?"

"Well, I don't know either, but she was probably sent away because of health problems..." Gao Yang thought for a while with difficulty, "After all, it seems that Brother Gao Le submitted her hospital diagnosis report. For someone with internal diseases like this, um... she should..."

"Okay, I understand." Xiaobai nodded gently and breathed a sigh of relief.

At this point, it's pointless to discuss why Miao Yan was secretly sent to another factory.

After all, since it was Aunt Mei who gave the order, this matter must be related to Aunt Mei's personal grudges to some extent... Although she pretended to be indifferent to Miao Yan on the surface, she was actually very concerned about her behind the scenes.

This incident... well... was it a wake-up call? Or a punishment?

However… on another note, Aunt Mei's decision to bring Miao Yan back was a bit too hasty. She brought her back the moment she asked, as if Miao Yan had been waiting for her all along…

Xiao Bai fell silent after thinking about this.

Xiaobai stopped thinking about it and looked at Gao Yang, who was kneeling on the ground.

Gao Yang seemed to have not gotten up since he entered the room.

"Get up, it's just Miao Yan and me here," Xiao Bai said to Gao Yang. "Thank you for your hard work today."

"No, no, it's not hard work, it's not hard work!" Gao Yang quickly stood up, grinning nervously at Xiao Bai, "Um, that...Grandma..."

"Ok?"

"I heard you made quite a name for yourself at the auction, and now the whole campus... no, the whole village is talking about you... Does that mean you're about to take action? Well, then I..."

"..." Xiao Bai stared silently at Gao Yang.

"I was too talkative, I was too talkative!" Gao Yang immediately realized his mistake, quickly slapped himself twice, and then forced a smile that looked more like a grimace. "I'll get out of here right now!"

Gao Yang left quickly, and the dormitory fell silent.

Xiao Bai withdrew her gaze and looked at Miao Yan beside her.

It must be said that although the human race lacks endurance and physical strength, its recovery ability is quite strong.

After lying in bed for a while, the paleness on Miao Yan's face began to fade. She gently reached out and took Xiao Bai's wrist, looking at Xiao Bai with a blank expression.

"You...you went to the auction..." Miao Yan asked softly.

“Yes.” Xiaobai nodded.

"...Is the price good?"

"Ah."

"Then...then are you going to training...?" Miao Yan said softly, "I...I heard that the children who are sold have to go for training..."

“Yes, but I didn’t go.” Xiaobai shook her head. “They gave me a day to come back and keep you company.”

"..." Miao Yan didn't answer immediately. She just lay on the bed, panting, looking exhausted, her eyes staring blankly at the ceiling. "Tomorrow... tomorrow..."

Everything will be clear tomorrow.

"result……"

Miao Yan murmured softly, her eyes brightening for a moment, but then quickly dimming again.

Xiao Bai reached out and touched Miao Yan's forehead.

"...Would you like something to eat? I have some cookies, or you can have something else if you'd like," Xiaobai asked Miaoyan.

"..." Miao Yan shook her head, a rare occurrence for her. She looked at Xiao Bai with complicated emotions and said softly, "...I'm not hungry."

"Oh……"

"Could you... could you come up here for a moment?" Miao Yan tugged at Xiao Bai's wrist and asked him softly.

Miao Yan's voice was as weak as a mosquito's buzz. Her eyes were filled not only with exhaustion but also with the pain of parting and a complex longing.

It's like a toddler on their first day of kindergarten, reluctant to leave their mother's embrace, clinging desperately to her clothes.

Miao Yan seems to have developed a great deal of dependence on Xiao Bai during these few days, and finds it difficult to part with him.

"Me? I could..."

Xiaobai was stunned for a moment. She first glanced at the closed dormitory door, then looked at Miao Yan, and finally bent down to take off her shoes, climbed onto the bed, and came to Miao Yan's side.

Miao Yan didn't speak. She simply buried her face between Xiao Bai's thighs, then reached out her weak hand and pulled Xiao Bai down to lie down.

Xiao Bai is different from the other children here.

The children here are withered and thin, their bodies dirty and their clothes tattered, while Little White is like a swan, her body soft and sweet, her skin clean and white, and her clothes spotless.

Miao Yan snuggled into Xiao Bai's arms, hugged his waist, and trembled slightly as she felt the warmth and scent emanating from him.

"Miss Miao Yan, don't be afraid."

Xiao Bai stroked Miao Yan's head and whispered.

"...Thank you..." Miao Yan whispered in Xiao Bai's ear, "...I...I will never forget you..."

"I will never forget you, Miss Miao Yan," Xiao Bai said softly to Miao Yan with her eyes closed. "I will never forget you."

“…” Miao Yan closed her eyes.

Miao Yan is asleep.

She held Xiaobai in her arms, and like a baby, she peacefully drifted off to sleep.

Chapter 3709 Principal's Office

No one bothered Xiaobai and Miaoyan all afternoon.

Until night fell.

The campus was unusually quiet tonight. Although the windows of the room where Xiaobai and Miaoyan were located were all sealed with cement and wooden boards, a tranquil and profound atmosphere could still be clearly seen seeping into the room through the gaps in the wooden boards.

After resting for an afternoon, Miao Yan's physical condition had clearly improved a lot.

Perhaps because she had slept all afternoon, Miao Yan was not sleepy during the night. She kept her head on Xiao Bai's arm, closed her eyes, and breathed evenly, drifting into a state between sleep and wakefulness.

The tranquil atmosphere did not last long.

The campus buildings are somewhat old, and the sound insulation is not very good.

Occasionally, suppressed cries of children could be heard from the large classroom next door.

The cries initially rose in the oppressive darkness, then gradually spread like an infection. However, the cries were soon interrupted by a series of hurried and abrupt footsteps, followed by the loud banging of doors being opened in the classrooms from which the cries had originated.

The men's impatient shouts and malicious threats echoed down the corridor, carrying far and wide. Most of the children's cries were silenced by these shouts, but occasionally there were still those who couldn't control their crying. Those cries were eventually dragged out of the classroom amidst screams and cries of pain. Amid the men's cursing, the cries struggled to be pulled far, far away, until finally, with a loud bang, the iron door of the solitary confinement room slammed shut, and the crying completely disappeared at the end of the corridor.

The corridor returned to silence.

Xiaobai lay in bed, listening to the sounds around her, and she sighed softly.

However, not long after Xiaobai sighed, some more troubles occurred in the quiet night.