warm sun admiration

Chapter 287 The Man Surnamed Bai 1
After more than 20 years, the orphanage has been renovated inside and out. The house is several floors higher than before, the exterior walls are covered with tiles, and there are not only trees but also flowers on the playground.It was much better than the broken bricks and tiles she remembered, but compared to the metropolis, it still seemed outdated.

She remembered that when she was pregnant with Wanqing, the dean called her and said that the government had allocated funds to rebuild the orphanage, which was very beautiful, and asked her to come back and take a look.But she was inconvenient at that time, so she said she would come back later.After this, it will be 20 years later...

Thinking of the kind smile of the old dean, Xu Kewei couldn't help but wet his eyes.She wiped the corners of her eyes and walked to the security office. The security guard immediately got up when he saw someone, but seeing her distinctive dress and temperament, he opened his mouth but was speechless.

"I want to see your dean." Xu Kewei said, wiping the corners of her eyes with a tissue, "I grew up here before."

The security guard nodded blankly, and while guiding her to the dean's office, he thought: Seeing how rich she is dressed, could it be that she has made a fortune and wants to donate to the welfare home?

The dean's office is in the same position as it was 20 years ago, but the facilities are much better...and only for 20 years ago.

Xu Kewei walked to the door of the office and saw an old man over half a century old and two women in their thirties washing their hands for a child.The child was covered in dust, his face was stained with tears, and he whimpered that someone beat him.

Xu Kewei remembered that when she was a child, she also fought with others.She came here early, about five years old.She has no memory of what happened before that. Her earliest memory is when she first arrived at the orphanage, she cried and looked for her mother. The child who arrived first told her that her mother didn't want her anymore, otherwise she wouldn't be here.

Of course she fought with the other party. After the fight, she ran out of the gate of the orphanage alone, carrying a small hand-stitched cloth bag, and walked along the outer wall of the orphanage, trying to walk all the way home.While walking, she encountered a wooden cart pulling coal, and she wanted to climb on it, thinking that it would be faster to take a car.

Later, it was the dean who brought her back. He washed her face and hands, comforted her gently, and took her to sleep with her at night.

Xu Kewei recalled the past, and stood there in a daze without making a sound. The people in the office found her and asked suspiciously, "Who are you, what's the matter?" Are you here to look for the child?Or adopt a child?
Xu Kewei came back to her senses, lowered her head and wiped the corners of her eyes: "My surname is Xu, I grew up here before, and I called in the morning."

"Oh..." A woman suddenly realized, "I answered the call!"

The old man next to him is the current dean. He immediately called her in, told her to sit down, and persuaded the crying boy: "Stop crying, Xiaojie and the others are misbehaving. The teacher and I will punish them. You have to Be good, don't fight with others in the future, if someone bullies you, you should tell the dean and the teacher..."

It took a few minutes to coax the child, and the dean asked someone to take him down before sitting down to chat with Xu Kewei.

This dean has been a teacher here for a long time, and also taught Xu Kewei, but Xu Kewei is not very impressed.When the two talked to each other, they both remembered, and recalled the past with a lot of emotion.The dean naturally asked her how she had been in these years, and Xu Kewei summed up the experiences of these years in a few words in front of him, even in front of her relatives.

"I got married at the age of 22, and gave birth to a daughter at the age of 23. My husband was a college student. As a result, he was married and had a child when he was in college. Later, when someone came to our door, we divorced... I brought I lived with my daughter, and then got sick again, and my life was not well-off, so I didn’t send money here.”

"Are we still thinking about that little money?" said the dean, "You don't send the money, why don't you write a letter? Both Dean Shen and I are afraid that something will happen to you, but it's not easy to ask, lest you think it's yours. We want money... Hey, when Dean Shen left, he still missed you."

"I miss her too..." Xu Kewei asked, "Where is she buried? I want to visit her."

"Okay, I'll take you to find her family first."

Xu Kewei nodded, followed him to the staff dormitory, and found the couple of the Shen family who were making medicine for their children.The flu has been severe recently, and the school believes in traditional Chinese medicine. If there is nothing to do, they will boil some syrup for the children to strengthen their immunity.

Xu Kewei smelled the smell of medicine, and the memory flooded back.She was also like this when she was a child. How could the orphanage have money to buy medicine?As soon as the seasons change, or when a child shows signs of a cold, Dean Shen immediately goes up the mountain to dig herbs according to the folk prescription, brings them back and cooks them in a pot, and then one child pours some.At the beginning, no one liked to drink it, but later they drank it, because they usually had nothing good to eat, so they ate it as a rare candy snack.

Hey, it was so pitiful at that time.

Dean Shen's son and daughter-in-law are older than Xu Kewei, and the daughter-in-law is also an orphan here, and she often took everyone to play games when she was young.Although we haven't seen each other for more than 20 years and are unfamiliar with each other, we can quickly get close when we mention the past.

Everyone saw that it was getting late, so they took Xu Kewei to visit the grave and chatted while walking.

Now remote counties also advocate cremation. Although there are still many burials in Yongning, Dean Shen is paid by the state, so he naturally responded to the call of the state.Her son and daughter-in-law were very sad, but there was nothing they could do.

Xu Kewei looked at Dean Shen's loving smile on the tombstone, and while burning incense, she thought: If I die, I will be cremated. All ashes return to ashes, and dust returns to dust...

Suddenly a gust of cold wind blew, she shook her body, opened her eyes to look at the tombstone, and saw that Dean Shen's smile seemed to be a little bigger than before, she couldn't help a burst of scalp numbness, and almost fainted.

Xu Kewei took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "Dean Shen...I'm late." Recalling Dean Shen's care and kindness to her, she couldn't help but talk about herself, still concise, but compared to I just said a few more words to the current dean, "I remarried last year, and now my husband is very good, Dean Shen, don't worry about me. My daughter is in college. I will bring her to see you when I have time. ..."

After sweeping the tomb and returning home, Xu Kewei asked about the financial situation of the orphanage and said, "My current husband is in business. If he is asked to support some welfare work, he will definitely agree."

"Don't!" The dean hurriedly stopped him. Looking at her clothes, he guessed that her husband hadn't just exploded into wealth, and he probably had a big career. "If you want to, just send some things for the children. Don't let your husband make any big moves. The higher ups are greedy! After they know about it, there are not many who use it on the children in the end..."

The dean said, with tears streaming down his face: "When Dean Shen was alive, he often said that if those people were cleaner, our children could all go to high school and college. Why is it like this? Those people have black hearts and no Children without a mother are pitiful enough, but they also want to cheat..."

Xu Kewei also thought this way.The orphanage is a government agency, and the donations don't go directly to the orphanage, there are still procedures...

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about that." The dean wiped away tears, suddenly remembered something, and asked Dean Shen's son, "I remember someone came looking for someone two years ago, is it just Xiao Xu? "

(End of this chapter)