Get off work and become a magical girl

Chapter 37 Umbrella
The rain was getting worse and the slanting wind continued. Although Lin Xiaolu was holding an umbrella, raindrops still fell on her body from time to time.

After a while, the crowd at the school gate had already passed the peak of gathering.

There are only about 10 minutes left before the start of the parent-teacher meeting, and most of the parents of the students are already in place, and they even start chatting with each other in the classroom.

After the other students guided their parents to the classroom, they also made their own choices. Some children who travel by themselves on weekdays will go home as usual, while others will gather in the library or gymnasium, waiting for the end of the parent-teacher meeting.

The playground and the open space outside the teaching building are empty. After all, no one wants to get in the rain.

The crowd at the door became thinner, and there were only three or two students waiting for their parents with umbrellas like Lin Xiaolu.Seeing that there was no one there, the security guard at the door also walked out of the security room, and dutifully closed the door, leaving only the side entrance and exit for pedestrians to pass through.

Lin Yun still didn't come.

The rain is getting heavier.

Lin Xiaolu took out her mobile phone and looked at her previous message records. The reply of the word "definitely" is so conspicuous.

She remembered when her mother was still around.

Anya is a freelancer, and her daily schedule is much more flexible than that of Lin Yun, so she always attends parent-teacher meetings.

Compared with Lin Yun's rigorous style of time planning, An Ya is much more casual. It is common for her to step on time and be late, and she always fools her with a haha.If it really made Lin Xiaolu angry, for example, when she completely misunderstood the time of the parent-teacher meeting, she would buy a lot of snacks and toys, and then take Lin Xiaolu to the amusement park. She: "Lulu is the most sensible, can you forgive mom?"

"Don't leave tacit understanding on this kind of thing."

Memories of the past flashed before her eyes, Lin Xiaolu looked at the torrential rain and muttered to herself.

She felt that she should not care whether Lin Yun fulfilled the agreement.

Anyway, it was just a parent meeting, and no one came to attend it for the past two years, so she didn't think there was any problem.

Rather, if I hadn't told Lin Yun about the parents' meeting today, I would be the same as in previous years, explaining the situation at home to the class teacher truthfully, and then I could ignore the parents' meeting and go home early from school.

If I go home early now, maybe I can still catch up with the animation show in the afternoon. The new series of magical girl animations have already been performed to the tenth episode, right?
Speaking of which, since she really became a magical girl, she has no time to watch animation.

Does she really need to be so concerned about the parent meeting now?
As for that man, she had already been disappointed in him, and she didn't have any trust in him. Whether she came or not, it was impossible for her to have any emotional turmoil.

I am standing here now, just because she brought up the parent meeting on my own initiative, and if I don't take a look, it will seem irresponsible, and it is an act out of a sense of responsibility.

Whether he was late or missed the appointment, it was all his business, and it had no effect on him.

Wait for the parent-teacher meeting to start. If he hasn't arrived yet, turn around and leave.As for the shift number, edit a text message and send it over.

Lin Xiaolu thought blankly.

But no matter what she thought, that figure never appeared at the school gate.

Even if she focused on the phone screen and wanted to pass the time by refreshing social media, Lin Xiaolu still felt uneasy, and her eyes would glance at the school gate from time to time.

The last student who stayed there waited for his mother. The edges of the two umbrellas met, and the mother and child under the umbrellas were chatting and laughing.

Lin Xiaolu stamped her feet, and the heels of her shoes kept hitting the ground, causing splashes, making a "squeak, squeak, squeak" sound.

"Is it true that you won't come?"

As soon as she said this, as if to prove something, a piece of music suddenly sounded, the melody was pleasant, but under the sound quality of the campus radio, it sounded like a thunderous explosion, pulling Lin Xiaolu back from her thoughts Reality.

This melody is very familiar to the students of Xizhao Middle School, it is the bell for class.

Today, when the schedule has changed, this is a sign of the beginning of the parent meeting.

……

……

Lin Yun ran in the rain.

There was no suspense about the outcome of the battle. He who was able to kill the pupa alone, it was not difficult to defeat the chrysalis.

It's just because the place of the battle is a high-speed train, and the continuous changes in space make it difficult for him to use silk threads to fight quickly. If he rashly uses more powerful moves such as masterpieces, it may affect other passengers in the car, and finally he has to pick up his own. The basic magic skills that have long been a little rusty.

In this case, even though he had already dealt with the bug with the fastest speed, he was still a few steps slower than usual.

After the light rail tram stopped, perhaps it was because it was the first time to fight outside the blockade of the Different Policy Bureau, so this time when the beast was defeated, there were many spectators around, and it took a long time to drive these people away from the beast. him some time.

In the end, he contacted Hongsi and explained the situation to the Bureau of Different Strategies. He avoided the crowds who were constantly taking pictures, and took the air route directly to the vicinity of Xizhao Middle School.

As always, he found a small alley, walked out of it after recovering, and Lin Yun ran towards his destination.

Because he left in a hurry, he also threw the umbrella on the tram, so he could only squint his eyes in the pouring rain.

The wound on his face was still oozing blood, which was scratched by glass shards when he broke out of the car window before, exposed to the splashing rainwater, there was an indescribable stinging pain.

This kind of pain is nothing to him, and what he really cares about is time: there is no doubt that he is late.

It has already passed the start time of the parent meeting before landing, and at this time it is just a remedy after a dead sheep, wishful thinking that it can be faster and faster.

However, deep down in his heart, he also knew that Lin Xiaolu might not be waiting for him there.

Originally, it was he who asked to come to the parent-teacher meeting, but Lin Xiaolu may not be very active about it; plus the weather is so bad, even if she arrives at school, she may just be self-satisfied.

Just take it as self-satisfaction.

He explained himself in this way, saw the gate of Xizhao Middle School in the heavy rain, and then quickened his pace again, passing through the human-shaped passage on the side.

Standing at the school gate, he panted heavily, looking around at the flower bed, looking in vain for the imaginary figure.But, he ended up with nothing.

There is no one here, and Lin Xiaolu is naturally not here.

Looking at the empty flower bed, Lin Yun's heart gradually sank: Even if he was prepared, he would still feel sad when facing this scene.

The panting drifted in the rain, unable to take away the low emotions in my heart.He didn't want to make excuses, and the fact that he didn't make it on time was a fact.

Just thinking about his daughter's face, and thinking about the expression she would show because he missed the appointment, he felt a pang of guilt.

screwed up again.

Thinking of this, he stood there in a state of embarrassment, feeling somewhat at a loss for a while.He knew that he could still catch up with the parents' meeting when he entered the teaching building, but the greatest significance of this trip has become empty talk.

Not long after, Lin Yun stretched out his hand silently, and touched the mobile phone in his pocket with his wet fingertips: at least he had to ask where the class was.

——"Why did you make it like this?"

Some familiar voices suddenly came from behind Lin Yun, and his hands were in the air.

Turning around, she saw Lin Xiaolu holding an umbrella, leaning against the pillar next to the gate, looking at him in bewilderment.

"Lulu..." He opened his mouth, but found that his voice was a little hoarse.

"It was too late, 10 minutes late."

Lin Xiaolu drooped her eyelids, raised her hand to reveal the floodlighted phone screen, and the electronic clock in the center showed the time: "It's already four forty."

Lin Yun failed to answer, he tried to pull a smile on his face to express his apology, but the unfamiliar expression management was not enough for him to make such a delicate expression, and finally he could only raise the corners of his mouth weirdly.

Regarding Lin Yun's series of strange movements, Lin Xiaolu didn't bother him, but looked at his distressed appearance, pointed at his face that was still bleeding, and repeated her own question: "Why did you make it like this? "

"On the way, the light rail tram encountered a little accident, and it suddenly stopped running halfway through..." Lin Yun explained.

"Remnant beast?" Lin Xiaolu's words left him speechless.

"Cough, no."

He didn't want Lin Xiaolu to realize that he and Delphinium were in the same place at that time, so he coughed a little stiffly: "The existence of such a dangerous beast, why do you want to think in this direction?"

"Because the Luoming line was attacked by beasts, it was said on the news." Lin Xiaolu paused, then pointed to her mobile phone, "Did you come here by this light rail train?"

"No, I fell from a bicycle on the road."

Lin Yun tried his best to appear as nonchalant as possible: "The tram was out of service, so I could only sweep a bicycle from the side of the road."

"Let's stop with lame lies." Lin Xiaolu said in a muffled voice.

The stiff smile squeezed out by the man in front of her gradually overlapped with the playful smile of her mother when she was occasionally late in her memory.

When she ran away from home, he went to a classmate's house, and the haggard and exhausted state was the most embarrassing appearance in her memory.But today he looked even more embarrassing: not only was his usual neat suit completely soaked, but his usually neatly combed hair was also stuck to his forehead like a pot lid, and the small wounds on his face were even more unbearable.

Seeing the man who usually looks like a professional elite turned into this, Lin Xiaolu felt that she should want to laugh, but for some reason, she just felt a little sour now.Because she suddenly realized that adults are often not as calm as they appear on the surface.

Looking at this man whom she was very familiar with but alienated from, for the first time, she felt that his rigid and silent shell was cracked, and she glimpsed something more real from it.

It was what she longed for in the past, and it was something that she had never thought about now.It seems that I really understand him a little because of this.

So she relaxed, stretched her frowning brows, and raised her arms:
"Catch it."

She handed out the umbrella in her hand.

"Ok?"

Lin Yun was slightly stunned, staring blankly at the umbrella that Lin Xiaolu handed out, and took it hesitantly: "This means..."

"I held it and stood at the school gate for half an hour."

Lin Xiaolu turned her face away, avoiding Lin Yun's sight: "Help me hit it, I'm tired of lifting."

She handed over the umbrella in this way, stood beside Lin Yun naturally, and hid under the umbrella.Stretching his sore arms, he shook off his rain-soaked cuffs.

After a while, seeing that Lin Yun still hadn't acted, she raised her head dissatisfied: "What are you still standing here for? Isn't there a parent-teacher meeting?"

"Parents' meeting, yes, parents' meeting."

At this moment, Lin Yun only felt as if a warm current flowed into his heart, joyful and somewhat relieved.Holding the umbrella tightly, he followed Lin Xiaolu towards the teaching building.

Just like this, the father and daughter held an umbrella together and walked towards the classroom in the rain.

The black umbrella swayed slightly in the downpour, maintaining the small space it covered, and slowly disappeared into the rain curtain.

There was thunder in the sky, and the rain fell in gusts in the wind.

The water-logged road surface was full of water waves, and a snail was submerged in the puddle. The slow speed prevented it from getting out of it, and it could only retract weakly into the shell, waiting for the soon-to-be-death.

At this moment, under the eaves, a hand reached out, gently picked the snail out of the water, and placed it on the ground beside it.

After the owner of the hand finished this task, he took a few steps back and returned to a place where he would not be exposed to the rain.

Xia Liang squatted there alone.

With a somewhat gratified smile on her face, she quietly watched Lin Xiaolu and Lin Yun disappear into the distance, but when they disappeared, her face showed a bit of loneliness.

I stared blankly at the snail stretching out its tentacles from the shell again and crawling slowly.For no reason, she thought of the night when she falsely claimed to run away from home and stay at Lin Xiaolu's house.

Or it could be said that he wanted to chat, but after listening to Lin Xiaolu's confession, he said the words out of emotion.

It was a sentence that was spoken, but did not dare to amplify it, for fear of revealing his true heart:

"I really... envy you."

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