Chapter 608 Dawn (14)
Chapter 608 Dawn (14)
"Alright, then I'll test you," Teacher Chen said with a smile. "What is 1 + 6?"
"7."
"What about 6+7?"
"13."
"13+6?"
"19."
Teacher Chen paused slightly.
What surprised him was not that Yan Zhen could answer, but that her answers were almost always spoken off the cuff without the slightest hesitation.
He then asked a few more simple multiplication and division questions, gradually increasing in difficulty, until Yan Zhen was stumped by a problem involving "36 x 75".
Seeing Yan Zhen's troubled expression, Teacher Chen smiled and said, "Alright, you've passed the math test."
He turned around and took out a blank sheet of paper and a pencil: "Write down the 26 letters from memory."
Yan Zhen took it and began to write on the coffee table.
It took Yan Zhen three minutes to finish writing the letters.
Teacher Chen frowned as he looked at the crooked handwriting, but after reading it and finding no mistakes, he nodded repeatedly.
"Can you write your own name?"
Yan Zhen nodded: "Yes."
She picked up her pen and wrote her name again. The character "言" was written normally, but the character "臻" was drawn as if it were a picture, and she wrote it as big and long as the character "言".
"Not bad, not bad," said Teacher Chen, his gaze towards Jing Chen becoming appreciative. "You're a very good teacher. Let her join the first grade class after the New Year."
Hearing this, Jing Chen smiled and said, "Thank you, Teacher Chen."
As Jingchen left Teacher Chen's house, the smile on his face disappeared.
He led Yan Zhen to a secluded spot, then suddenly stopped and squatted down in front of her, scrutinizing her sharply from head to toe.
Yan Zhen paused slightly under his scrutinizing gaze.
She knew that her behavior just now had made Jing Chen suspect that she might have also come into this world with memories.
"Zhenzhen?" Jingchen called out to her.
"what?"
Are you Yan Zhen?
"Yes."
Jing Chen was taken aback.
Before he could react, Yan Zhen asked, "Are you the older brother?"
Jing Chen: "..."
Did she think she was playing a game with her?
Jing Chen was silent for a moment, then asked directly, "I didn't teach you those things, so why do you know them?"
"study."
"Where did you learn that?"
"At home," Yan Zhen said, "on TV."
Hearing her say that, Jingchen remembered when she first came to his house, he would play children's educational DVDs for her to watch when he was a child in order to help her pass the time. They included the 26 letters of the alphabet and simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Jing Chen asked again, "Then why do you know how to write your name?"
He never taught her to write.
Speaking of this, Yan Zhen sighed like a little adult: "Household registration book, can't talk, gets lost, tell the police."
From these keywords, Jingchen pieced together her original intention for learning to write her name—because she couldn't speak, she was worried that if she got lost one day, she wouldn't be able to tell the police her identity, so she learned to write her own name.
Realizing this, Jingchen felt a pang of sadness, but also dispelled her doubts.
"You're such a clever little devil." Jing Chen pinched her cheek. "I didn't even think of that, but you did."
Yan Zhen put his hands on his hips, raised his chin, and said smugly, "I'm smart!"
"Yes, you're the smartest!" Jing Chen picked her up. "Tonight, we'll make braised pork for our little genius!"
Back home, Jingchen immediately went into the kitchen and got busy.
After washing, cutting, and blanching the pork belly, Jingchen discovered that they had run out of dark soy sauce.
He dried his hands, took off his apron, and prepared to go out to the convenience store outside the residential area to buy dark soy sauce.
Yan Zhen was watching TV in the living room when she saw Jing Chen looking like he was about to go out. She asked, "Where are you going?"
"We've run out of dark soy sauce at home, I'm going out to buy a bottle."
"I'll go!" Yan Zhen volunteered. "I'll buy it."
Jingchen thought for a moment. The convenience store wasn't far away; it was time to let the child get some exercise.
He took out a ten-yuan note from his pocket: "Go ahead, buy it and come back. It's cold, don't linger outside."
"it is good."
Yan Zhen took the money, picked up his coat, put it on, and quickly went out the door.
Jing Chen was still worried, so he immediately followed Yan Zhen out after she left.
Seeing Yan Zhen head straight for the convenience store after leaving the house, and when she met Wang Xiaomin on the way who invited her to play together, she politely declined without being distracted. Jing Chen found it amusing and thought, "As expected of Yan Zhen, she has always had such strong initiative and focus since she was a child."
Following Yan Zhen to the convenience store, Jing Chen hid behind a tree a few dozen meters away and waited.
Two minutes later, Yan Zhen came out of the convenience store carrying a bottle of soy sauce in one hand and the change in the other, with a lollipop in his mouth.
At that moment, someone patted Jing Chen on the shoulder from behind.
Jing Chen immediately turned around; it was a neighbor from the building.
"Xiao Chen, what are you doing hiding here so suspiciously?"
Jing Chen smiled and said, "I'm waiting for my sister. She went to the convenience store to buy soy sauce."
The neighbor, who was also a parent, immediately understood Jingchen's meaning: "You don't trust her to go out shopping by herself?"
"correct."
"You've really put a lot of thought into this..."
The two chatted casually for a few minutes, and then the neighbor asked, "Why hasn't your sister come out yet?"
Jing Chen turned around, but before he could say "You're out," his expression hardened.
Yan Zhen, who had come out of the convenience store more than ten seconds ago, was nowhere to be seen.
Did he go back to the convenience store again?
Jingchen didn't dare gamble on the odds, so he quickly ran to the convenience store, pushed open the door, and went inside.
The shop owner greeted him, "Xiao Chen, what would you like to buy?"
Jing Chen quickly glanced around the store and, not seeing Yan Zhen, his heart started racing: "Isn't my sister here?"
"I just left, and I bought a bottle of dark soy sauce here..."
Before the shop owner could finish speaking, Jing Chen turned and rushed out of the store, quickly surveying the surroundings before finally settling his gaze on a narrow alley next to the store.
The alley is located in a low-lying area, and there were still small puddles on the ground that hadn't evaporated after a rain a couple of days ago.
A series of slightly messy wet shoe prints were left in the alley at this time, and judging from the shoe prints, there were at least two adults.
The person just left—
Jing Chen quickly followed the footprints.
The neighbor who had been chatting with Jing Chen earlier also realized something was wrong and rushed to the alley entrance: "Xiao Chen..."
"Call the police for me!"
Jingchen left those words behind and rushed into the depths of the alley without looking back.
The Jing family lost a child.
The news spread like wildfire throughout the neighborhood.
At this moment, Yan Zhen's hands were tied behind his back, his eyes were covered, and he was put into a burlap sack.
She never expected to be so unlucky. She just went out to buy a bottle of dark soy sauce, and as soon as she left the convenience store, a pair of hands reached out from the alley, covered her mouth and nose, and kidnapped her.
Her body is too weak now, and even if she struggles and resists desperately, it's like tickling an adult.
She was stuffed into a sack and thrown onto a vehicle. She simply stopped struggling and lay there motionless.
After an unknown amount of time, a slightly anxious man's voice came from the car: "Why isn't this girl moving? Could she have suffocated?"
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