Leopard Tooth

Li Jianrui couldn't help but wryly smiled, and thought, "What kind of reward is this? And from Zheng Qing's point of view, there seems to be a follow-up, I don't know what it is."

The two of them chatted with each other like this.

In the distant sky, dark clouds slowly floated over. Li Jianrui stretched out his hand out of the car window, threw away the cigarette butt, and then exhaled heavily.

Zheng Qing looked down at the sky: "It was fine just now, but now it's going to rain. The weather forecast didn't say anything in the morning. It's really unreliable."

Li Jianrui smiled: "Haven't you heard of it: the weather forecast is reliable, sows can climb trees! Haha"

After speaking, there were bits and pieces of rain on the car window.He took a deep breath, feeling the strong smell of rain in the air, which made him feel very comfortable.

Fortunately, the rain did not show signs of intensification. The raindrops gathered into a stream on the front window, and the different forks eventually converged into a rain curtain, covering the sight.

Zheng Qing turned on the windshield wipers: "It's a free car wash." Then she reached out and pressed the button on the car to raise the windows on both sides to avoid washing the inside of the car as well.

Passing through the downtown area, passing through the urban-rural junction, the car drove onto a small road, which was the only road leading to the orphanage in NJ.At the intersection just now, Li Jianrui saw a tattered road sign, half of the white paint on it had been blown and rained, and he recognized it from the mottled handwriting, which vaguely read: NJ City Welfare Institute.typeface.

The road is very narrow, with only two lanes, allowing two cars to drive in opposite directions.But looking at the weeds on the side of the road, some of them had grown to the height of a person, Li Jianrui felt that this place was desolate enough, probably few people would come here.

As if knowing what he was thinking, Zheng Qing said: "Few people come here usually. There is a truck that brings in food every week. There is nothing fresh. Even if there is, it will be rotten after a week, or it has already rotted." Yes. The truck will leave after unloading the food. I heard it belongs to the city government."

Then Li Jianrui saw a stop sign. There was an iron sign on an iron pole, and the writing on it could no longer be read clearly.Standing alone by the side of the road, there are relatively few weeds beside it, probably it has been cleared by someone.

Zheng Qing said: "Apart from the dean's car, this bus is the only one left. There are three buses a day, but in my impression, there are at most two buses a day. In typhoon weather, they don't even come. This is the only means of transportation for the orphanage." .”

"So, if someone is sick, can the dean have to drive him to the city?" Li Jianrui asked with a frown.

"Hehe, it depends on the dean's mood. Anyway, they are orphans. Even if they die, no one will care, right." Zheng Qing's voice was tinged with sadness.

Li Jianrui does not accept this statement, "How can you say that! They are still children!"

Zheng Qing shook her head, then glanced at Li Jianrui and said, "It's different, you haven't stayed in an orphanage, so you don't understand. I can only tell you: no matter what kind of child you are, once you enter the orphanage, you are no longer a child." .I want to remind you that it is best not to treat them as children!"

Li Jianrui didn't understand, but since Zheng Qing was born in an orphanage, she naturally had her reasons, and he had better follow her advice.Because he felt a hint of danger from Zheng Qing's words.

The car finally arrived at the orphanage. The gray-white wall on the outside had fallen off a lot due to years of disrepair, exposing the green bricks inside.

The gate made of iron fences is ajar, and from the outside, you can clearly see children playing in twos and threes inside.Farther away, there are several old-fashioned three-story buildings, boxy three-story buildings with sharp edges and corners.

There is an arched sign on the door that says "NJ City Children's Welfare Institute".

Zheng Qing honked the horn, and after waiting for a while, an old man with white hair and stooped body came slowly and opened the iron gate.He never looked up at them all the time.

However, when Li Jianrui saw the children inside, they all stopped when they heard the sound of the car horn, and Qiqi turned their heads to look at the gate.

Zheng Qing said with a bitter smile: "I'm going to disappoint them. They must have thought that someone came to adopt the child."

Then the car was slowly driven in. When the children saw the familiar faces in the car window, most of them showed disappointed expressions.

Zheng Qing drove the car to a building and stopped.After getting out of the car, he turned around and waved to the children: "Hello!"

The children followed her example and waved their hands and shouted, "Hello, Sister Zheng Qing!"

Zheng Qing put her hands next to her mouth, pretended to be a trumpet, and shouted in a louder voice: "You have worked hard!"

The children followed suit and shouted: "Serve sister Zheng Qing!"

When Li Jianrui got out of the car, seeing this scene, he felt very familiar, and then remembered: Isn't this the slogan that the army shouted when welcoming the chief inspector!It's just that Zheng Qing replaced all the lines with her own, which is really a spoof.

"It seems that you are very popular here, haha" Li Jianrui said.

Zheng Qing looked at the children in the distance, smiled, and said in a low voice: "If you often bring some toys or snacks to visit them, you will be as welcome as me."

He could hear the coldness in Zheng Qing's words. Although she was smiling, there was a different feeling in her voice besides the inherent calmness.Maybe it's some unhappiness buried deep in the memory, or something else.

She said: "Let's go, I'll take you to meet the dean. You chat with her, and I'll get things."

On the way, Li Jianrui had learned that Zheng Qing had a separate room here.

Because she often visits the children here, and the bus time here is not fixed, almost every time she comes, she has to spend the night in the NJ Children’s Welfare Institute, so she discussed with the director, and will regularly donate to the NJ Children’s Welfare Institute in the future , and this donation will be directly handed over to the dean himself, and she missed the time when she lived here, so the dean agreed to allocate a separate room for her.

Li Jianrui could tell that this was renting a room in disguise, and the tenant basically didn't live here, so it wouldn't cause any trouble.It is estimated that the regular donations to the dean have also become Zheng Qing's donations to the dean, not to the NJ Children's Welfare Institute.

The so-called donation is just another fancy name for rent.

After Zheng Qing got this room, she spent a lot of time and energy digging a secret hole under the bed in the room to bury the evidence.Li Jianrui still remembers the difficult expression on her face when she talked about digging holes.It was the first time he saw such an expression, so he was deeply impressed.

It's still raining, but it's not heavy, it's a drizzle.

On the old wooden double doors, the glass windows are as clean as a mirror.Zheng Qing was the first to push the door and enter.Li Jianrui followed behind, looking at the dim corridor, where the dim incandescent lamps radiated a faint light in the long corridor.