Chapter 1223: Isn’t it the wrong time?

Life is gradually getting back on track.

In fact, Lingge couldn’t really explain what the so-called right track should be like. If life is unchanging and everyone walks on a fixed path, then they can naturally be sure that the path is the right track. But if you understand it from this perspective, then the young man should still be a pastor at Tianxin Church. Being a teacher is not the right track in life that he has chosen for himself.

He felt relieved when he thought about it. The right path is not the path you must take, but the path you can accept. Most of the variables in life are like a storm, violent and sudden. As long as you don’t deviate too much from your goal, it doesn’t matter if you occasionally hold an umbrella to avoid the rain. Just like when Metien worked hard to learn the knowledge of pharmacists in the past, he never thought that he would succeed his brother and become a pastor of Tianxin Church, right?

He began to like this kind of life. Perhaps he was born to be a teacher, more suitable than anyone else. He was serious and meticulous. He would check the lesson plan again and again before each class to ensure that his class was interesting enough and could guide the children to think. He was gentle and patient. He did not show any impatience even with the clumsiest students, but he did not allow them to be distracted during class or play games with some over-age students. He knew that he was facing a group of war orphans, perhaps the most sensitive and vulnerable people in the world, but he never shied away from mentioning war in his class. He talked about the process of human civilization development, which was the process of advancing with war, but not every war brought progress, nor was every war necessary. You should learn to distinguish which wars are to defend all the indispensable rights that humans have when they are born into this world, and which wars are just out of the selfish desires of ambitious people.

Faced with such a complex topic, the children always seem to understand it vaguely, but it doesn’t matter. Linger believes that they will eventually understand it, because time is especially tolerant to them. When they enter this school, they no longer have the pressure of life, and they only need to focus on thinking about their future. This may be the extra compensation from fate for them after losing everything.

These children who have experienced the pain of war have a lonely and stubborn character in their bones. They are always like hedgehogs, keeping people at a distance. But they have not lost all their emotions. They can still distinguish who is insincere and who is really good to them. Therefore, although they were a little reserved at the beginning, or even timid, and did not dare to raise their hands to speak in class, as time passed, they gradually regained the feeling of being children. That immature but energetic attitude makes people feel full of hope.

For some reason, Lingge became the most popular teacher among them. Although other teachers were also very good, such as Saint Charia, who taught them astrology and philosophy. She had a very gentle tone and often told them some interesting stories during class. Occasionally, she would bring her own lambs to the classroom to play with everyone. However, when the children encountered problems, they were still used to holding the thick astrology textbook and looking for Teacher Lingge, asking him to tell them the specific position of the star in the night sky and the meaning of the name of the star. Teacher Shesta, who taught them potion and magical botany, had a very pleasant voice and an enviable elegant temperament. From time to time, she would bring everyone some handmade snacks, but the children were reluctant to eat them. Instead, they would go to Pastor Lingge after class to share with him, which made the young people’s table always full of snacks and desserts. There was also Teacher Xinuo, who taught them mathematics, physics, horse riding, and even gardening. She was versatile. Although she was very beautiful, her temperament was very easy-going, and she always made people want to get close to her. Her physical education class was the most popular course because they could experience the interesting wind flower ball. The teacher’s heroic appearance on the court is also impressive, but once the young man appears on the court, the children will be attracted to him. Even if the former repeatedly emphasizes that he actually can’t play the flute, they must play a game with him, which makes Teacher Xino laugh and cry.

“Lingge is really popular among the kids.” After similar situations happened repeatedly, Saint Charity said this unintentionally one time at the dinner table. Her eyes kept poking at the young man. It was unknown whether it was an illusion or not, but the latter actually felt a little jealous, an emotion rarely seen in a shepherdess.

Maybe he was jealous of me because I was popular with the kids? He couldn’t be jealous of the kids, could he? No, that was impossible.

“Maybe it’s because of his physique?” The lady boss excitedly proposed a guess: “Some people are born to be liked by children. If Ling Ge has this physique, I’m not surprised at all.”

“This statement is too unscientific… uh, too irrational.”

Xinuo paused for a moment and continued, “I think it’s because of personality. There are two kinds of people in this world that children love: those who are worthy of their admiration and worship, and those who can play with them. Lingge’s personality is somewhere in between. He has a serious and mature side that makes them admire him, and an easy-going and considerate side that makes them feel close to him. Naturally, he is more popular with them.”

This statement… unexpectedly is quite scientific, and the fact that it was proposed by Shino makes it more convincing. As we all know, Shino is also very popular with children, although most of them are girls, such as Chloe from Regrum Town and Katara from Ash Rangers. Well, should she be considered half of this type of person?

“It’s obviously my credit.”

Yieta held a piece of white bread in both hands and ate it in small bites like a squirrel, muttering, “It’s because I told them a lot about Lingge, that’s why they admire you so much.”

It turns out it was you who did this.

Lingge couldn’t help but glared at Miss Angel. He was also wondering why he always heard all kinds of weird rumors from his students when he chatted with them, such as “Teacher Lingge killed ten vampires with one hand”, “Teacher Lingge is a game master” or “Teacher Lingge has multiple girlfriends”. The young people just thought it was a joke between children and didn’t take it seriously. After all the fuss, it turned out that it was Yieta who spread the rumors behind the scenes and was complacent about it, taking credit for it.

Initially, this girl was sent to school so that she could get in touch with the outside world and not stay in her windmill tower room all day long as a homebody. Unexpectedly, she made full use of her intellectual advantages and blended in with a group of children like a duck in water. They almost regarded her as their peers – I don’t know whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. Another person who played well with the children was Alice. The game console she mastered was indeed a killer for young children who were not familiar with the world. However, because she repeatedly disrupted the order in class, she had been listed as a key target for Ringer to monitor. Every time she came to class, Saint Xia Liya would be there.

As a pure and lovely travel fairy, Shemy became a good friend of the children without much effort. Her carefree personality also infected many people and made them smile again – it would be even better if she didn’t urge them to skip classes all day. Gloria was not only elusive, but also liked to argue with Lingge in class once she was in the state of the White Night personality. Sometimes, even if Saint Shallia was watching from behind, she would still bite the bullet and go against the young people. People who didn’t know would think that Lingge had some deep hatred with her.

On the other hand, Leticia was still the same as before, and was very resistant to contact with other peers. Or rather, she never considered herself to be a “child”. Instead, she disliked her classmates for being too childish and refused to play with them. There was only one situation in which she was willing to take the initiative to contact these “childish ghosts”, and that was when copying homework.

After all, the consequences of not being able to finish homework are still terrible, so terrible that she would rather do the thing she least wants to do than face her grandmother’s gloomy face.

The person she envied the most now was Medien, because the precocious girl had already completed the study plan set for her by her brother, sister Xiaoxia and the boss’s wife with her own diligence and hard work. Now she had her own business and was transforming into a mature adult. She didn’t need to go to school for continuing education courses, and she didn’t need to worry about what to do if she didn’t finish her homework before going to bed every night like her.

Little did she know that Metien was also envious of her friends, envious of them being able to study happily with everyone in school, while she could only stare blankly at the empty Tianxin Church. At first, Michelle and the others would occasionally come to visit, play games, and listen to sermons, and Kadora would come to pray on time every day. But as time went by, they went to the church less and less frequently, and in the past few days they had not appeared at all. Metien vaguely guessed that perhaps there was some major action within the Liberators Front, so she could only suppress her restless heart and not interfere with her friends’ choices.

Ling said that everyone has their own choices, some are firm, some are hesitant. The firm ones sometimes go to a dead end, and the hesitant ones sometimes turn around, which is their destiny. As a priest, I only have the qualifications to guide and enlighten, but not to make decisions for others, because that is not allowed by the goddess. But most people can’t do this. No matter who they are, they feel that they have the qualifications to interfere with the fate of others, either by emotional coercion or by profit, following their own heart and wanting to do what others want. People like this often don’t get the results they want.

When I thought about it this way, I suddenly felt that it is really difficult to be a qualified pastor.

Father and brother, can I really catch up with them?

The girl absentmindedly scooped a spoonful of creamy soup and put it into her mouth, but she couldn’t taste it at all. Only the sorrow of growing up and the troubles of her youth were slowly fermenting and spreading on the tip of her tongue, and finally brewed into a long sigh: “Alas.”

This sigh seemed so abrupt at the table that everyone looked at the person who sighed. Lingge even asked his sister with concern: “What’s wrong, Metien, are you worried about something?”

“Huh? This…”

Metien didn’t expect that her sigh would come out so naturally, even before she realized it. Facing the concerned and worried eyes, she was in a dilemma. If she told them her troubles honestly, they would definitely help her solve them. But in that case, Metien would still be just a little girl who hadn’t grown up and had to rely on her brothers and sisters for help in everything. If she kept it a secret, there was really no need to tell them, and it would only make everyone more worried.

She suddenly understood the former Lingge a little.

The brother was obviously a very gentle person, and he looked very nice when he smiled, but he always acted cold and kept people at a distance. At first, the girl thought that the death of his adoptive father had dealt him such a heavy blow that he closed his heart and was unwilling to communicate with the outside world. It was not until then that she realized that this might be another kind of growth.
A rather cruel kind of growth that no one wants to experience.

The girl blinked and her eyes stayed on her brother for a long time, which made Lingge misunderstand that Meitian’s worries were related to him. He thought carefully, could it be that he had been focusing on the school and students recently and had not cared about his sister for too long, making her feel neglected? But Meitian was shy and embarrassed to say it out loud, so she hesitated?

It has to be said that he accidentally guessed the truth – at least part of the truth.

No matter whether Metien has reached adulthood, how mature she has become, or even if she has her own career, in her brother’s eyes, she is still that little, timid girl who needs his protection.

It’s decided! Starting tomorrow, I’ll finish school one period earlier and spend all my free time with Metien!

Linger made the decision without hesitation. It was not even difficult for him. He was going to announce the good news on the spot to make Medien happy. Well, Leticia would be happy too. Maybe he should exclude her from the list of people being dismissed from school and let her stay to make up for the lessons?

Just as the young man was wondering whether this was necessary, the door of the hotel was suddenly pushed open.

Few people came to visit at this time, mainly because there were not many outsiders on Yunjing Sky Island, and when dinner time came, even the most crazy people would come back to eat honestly under the iron fist of Saint Shallia. Therefore, the identity of this visitor was worth curious about.

Everyone ignored Metien’s matter for a moment and looked over, only to see standing outside the door… a silly-looking stone guard?

Well, that stone spirit guard was obviously not a real visitor, but just a guide. After scratching its big round head, it consciously stepped aside, allowing the real visitor to appear in everyone’s sight.

It is a pair that everyone is familiar with: Mickey and Kadora.

“Well.”

Being stared at by everyone, the boy subconsciously shrank his neck. It was his first time to come to the Goblin Inn during dinner time. The large crowd in front of him made him feel very stressed. “Maybe I came at the wrong time?”

Give me some meow