After waiting for about fifteen minutes, Xia Qing finally saw a small figure bouncing over from the direction of the teaching building.
Zhou Tongtong carried a little schoolbag with cartoon patterns on it. Her tied-up ponytail swayed behind her, and she clutched a withered leaf she had picked up.
"Mommy."
She ran up to Xia Qing, tilted up her little face, and looked at her with bright, sparkling eyes. Her voice held a hint of excitement.
"On my way to dump the trash just now, I met a few pigeons. They told me it was going to rain soon, so we had to hurry home."
Hearing this, Xia Qing smiled and reached out to smooth the loose hair over her daughter's forehead. She took a helmet from the basket and handed it over. "Then we'd better hurry."
Zhou Tongtong happily accepted the helmet and climbed onto the back seat of the electric scooter on tiptoe.
Xia Qing held her securely. Only after she had sat down did Xia Qing climb into the driver's seat and twist the handlebar.
With a buzz, the electric scooter merged into the stream of vehicles rushing home.
On the school roof, several chubby white pigeons cocked their heads and watched the mother and daughter disappear into the distance.
Only after that small figure vanished around the street corner did they flap their wings and fly down from the roof.
They skimmed low over the sports field and flew toward the cafeteria... The wind was growing stronger, and it seemed rain would fall the very next second.
They had to hurry beneath the cafeteria's eaves. Otherwise, once the rain came down, all the feathers on their bodies would be soaked, turning them into "drowned pigeons."
Su Yue and Wang Jiao had also finished packing up in