Blue Star, Rong City.
The autumn wind was bleak, and as evening approached, the sky darkened.
A gust of wind occasionally swept across the road, making the lightly dressed pedestrians shiver.
The sun was about to set on the horizon, and the golden sunset dyed the streets red.
Suddenly, a loud bell rang out from the quiet school not far away.
After the bell faded, the classrooms that had been filled with the sound of reading became noisy. Through the windows, one could see the teacher at the podium leave after assigning homework, while the young elementary school students giggled as they packed up the textbooks on their desks.
"Zhou Tongtong, I haven't seen those two kittens in ages. How have they been lately?" Short-haired girl Wang Duoduo asked her good friend as she put her textbooks into her schoolbag and prepared to leave.
Zhou Tongtong had just slung her schoolbag over her shoulder. Hearing Wang Duoduo ask about Little White Cat and Little Black Cat, she answered with a cheerful smile.
"Little White and Little Black are still the same as ever. They eat and sleep, sleep and eat, and they've both gotten quite a bit fatter."
The two girls chatted about the kittens as they walked out of the classroom and headed toward the school gate.
Looking down at the entire campus from high above, one could see countless students streaming out of the classrooms, packed together as densely as ants.
At dismissal time, the school security guards were extremely busy, maintaining order at the gate.
Parents who had been waiting eagerly stood on tiptoe, searching for their children.
When they spotted their children, smiles immediately bloomed across their faces.
Xia Qing waited at the school gate for a while before quickly spotting her daughter running toward her