The world of film and television begins from childhood

Dean Xie didn’t know what kind of suffering Xiao Ming had gone through, but the fact that Xiao Ming had changed from being a little withdrawn before to being what he is now must be related to his adoptive family.

Zhou Chen didn't care, and was even a little grateful to that family. Although he was an orphan, he didn't ask to choose a rich family, but at least he had to choose a kind family. It was okay to suffer a little, but at least he could see hope.

But if he was adopted by an unreliable family, it would not be a good thing.

Although there is only one word difference between "biological children" and "non-biological children", the meanings they represent are different.

It is extremely rare for parents to treat their non-biological children as their own, especially in this era of restlessness, it is even more difficult to do so.

To be honest, it is better to stay in the welfare home than to be adopted by an unreliable family. Even though life is hard, Zhou Chen can endure it.

Dean Xie did pity Zhou Chen, but which child in the welfare home was not pitiful? Some physically disabled children were even more pitiful than Zhou Chen.

As the director of the welfare home, Xie Yajing cannot take care of every child. She can only help the children to the best of her ability.

The day passed quickly and Zhou Chen ate with the group.

Dinner was very ordinary rice porridge, but there was a little less rice, and some steamed buns, wowotou and the like.

Although the food was very ordinary, the children were all very happy to eat it. For these children, being able to have a full meal was the most satisfying thing.

After dinner, Zhou Chen, under the guidance of the teacher, returned to his residence with other children.

A room of less than ten square meters was home to more than a dozen children, all sleeping on very old iron bunk beds.

Zhou Chen didn't care much. After finding his bed, he lay down on it.

He likes to enjoy life, but he needs the conditions to do so. He had lived a hard life when he was a child, so even though the living conditions in the welfare home were poor, he was able to adapt to it.

The little fat boy Pangdun lived in the bed next to Zhou Chen, but after Zhou Chen's glare, he became much more obedient, at least he didn't dare to bully Zhou Chen anymore.

Life in the orphanage is boring. Unless there are special circumstances, the children in the orphanage are not allowed to leave.

Zhou Chen was not in a hurry to leave. He still wanted to find out where this place was, what era it was, and what TV series it was...

A few days later, Zhou Chen finally knew what he wanted to know.

It was almost the same as what he had judged. It was indeed the 96s, and it was at that. The place where they were was the only children’s welfare home in Daishan County, Zhejiang Province.

As for his name, he also found out, it was Xiao Ming, but his surname was He, He Xiao Ming.

The name He Xiaoming, plus Daishan County, Children's Welfare Institute, these keywords added together, Zhou Chen couldn't help but feel a sense of familiarity.

He compared the names with the TV series he had watched before traveling through time, but he didn't find any matching information. However, he was sure that he had seen similar places and names in a TV series, otherwise they wouldn't be so familiar to him.

For a moment, he couldn't remember which TV series the character was from. After all, he had never seen a similar TV series before traveling to this world.

The last time he watched the drama was many years ago. No matter how good his memory was, it was difficult for him to recall some insignificant character names all at once.

Since he couldn't remember it for the moment, Zhou Chen didn't worry too much about it. It was important to know which TV series it was, but for now, how to survive was his top priority.

There are very few activities in the welfare home. Most of the time they play and only a small part of the time they study. Sometimes the adults will take them for a walk around the neighborhood, but they won’t go far.

Anyway, over the past few days, the farthest place Zhou Chen had been to was a small park less than one kilometer away from the welfare home.

Zhou Chen couldn't help but shudder when he thought about having to live in the orphanage for many years if no one adopted him.

He could endure loneliness, but he couldn't stand the same life every day, especially having to pretend to be a child in front of so many people.

Also, if he continues to eat the orphanage's meals, he will probably never be able to reach his original physical fitness even when he reaches adulthood.

After all, he was an adult in his previous times of traveling through time. After traveling through time, if it was his real body, then there would be no need to say more. If it was a possession, the system would directly transform the original body to reach his physical fitness level.

But he is a child now and the system cannot be modified. He can only train and grow slowly on his own.

If you want to become strong, exercise is important, but what is more important is to have adequate nutrition. After all, children can only grow rapidly if they have adequate nutrition.

But the food in the welfare home was not enough to provide Zhou Chen with the nutrition he needed for exercise.

If he wasn't too young, he really wanted to escape from the orphanage. With his abilities, living alone was better than staying in the orphanage.

But he is only six years old now, and even if he wants to, he doesn't have the ability. If he really runs away alone, he might be kidnapped by human traffickers.

Without leaving the orphanage, I can’t even plan for the future.

He is six years old now. Given the situation in the welfare home, with so many children older than him not going to school, he probably won't have the chance to go to primary school.

"The best outcome is to be adopted by a good family."

Zhou Chen quickly figured out his current situation. If he wanted to live a better and freer life, the best choice was to leave the welfare home.

But to be honest, he really didn't have much hope for those adoptive families, so he was very conflicted.

There is really nothing much to say about life in the welfare home. Several months pass in the blink of an eye. Apart from learning some knowledge every day, most of the time is spent doing the same thing.

No cell phone, no computer, no internet...

Such days were really torturous. At the beginning, Zhou Chen was not able to adapt to it. This was completely different from the world he had experienced before.

But after all, he had lived for more than a hundred years, so he gradually adapted to the situation. Then he began to calm down and study medicine.

He had already memorized the Zhou family's medical books from the previous world, but he had not yet fully mastered them. Now that he had time, he began to study them.

In the eyes of others, Zhou Chen was still the same as before. Whether in class or playtime, he would hide in a corner alone, and no one knew what he was doing.

Dean Xie was the only one who knew that Zhou Chen was normal. He talked to Zhou Chen several times and asked him to integrate into the group and play with other children.

But Zhou Chen only agreed verbally but did not put it into action. He really didn't want to play house games with these kids.

Over time, Dean Xie no longer asked about it, but every night she would call Zhou Chen over.

Because during this period, Zhou Chen deliberately showed his superior intelligence, which surprised Dean Xie. He bought a lot of books for him, taught him privately, and said that he wanted to send him to school.

Zhou Chen could feel Dean Xie's concern for him, but Dean Xie had to manage the welfare home, so it was impossible for him to be nice to just him. It was already not easy for him to spare some time to be with him.

A few days ago, Dean Xie bought a gift for Zhou Chen, a set of Go.

For several consecutive nights, Dean Xie taught Zhou Chen how to play Go, which made Zhou Chen very helpless.

He knows how to play Go, although he's not that good at it, but it's really hard for him to pretend he has never played it before.

But he was still very grateful to Dean Xie, the only person in the welfare home who was kind to him and cared about him.

Zhou Chen had been in the welfare home for several months. During this time, he saw several groups of adults who wanted to adopt children, but in the end, only two children were taken away.

On the one hand, it is because these children did not meet the expectations of the adults, and on the other hand, it is because Director Xie has many requirements. She does not want a situation like Xiao Ming, who was taken away and then returned, to happen again, because this would cause great psychological trauma to the child.

It was because of her caution and carefulness that several groups of adults who wanted to adopt children failed to take the children away.

But these have nothing to do with Zhou Chen.

He regarded himself as an outsider. Every time he saw the adoptive parents appear, the children were nervous and expectant, and tried their best to show off, which made him feel really uncomfortable.

In his last life, he opened a rehabilitation center. The children there were very pitiful, but most of them were accompanied by their parents, so they were relatively happy in terms of their relatives.

But these children in the welfare home are so miserable. They don’t have any relatives. They are like goods and can only wait for others to pick them.

In this strange world, it's nice to have someone who cares about you, so Zhou Chen gradually calmed down and lived a stable life every day. After all, he is still young, so even if he has any ideas, it won't be too late to do them after a few years.

It is this system task that has not shown any signs of appearing yet, which makes Zhou Chen very worried.

The thing people fear most is having no goals. Even though Zhou Chen has lived for so many years, he still needs a goal.

More importantly, if he doesn't trigger the task, he can't complete it. If he fails to complete the task, he won't be able to leave this world and return to his own world.

It was another sunny day. Zhou Chen was sitting alone in a corner with a table. He was bored and took out the Go board given by the dean and played chess with himself.

Xie Yajing sat in the office, prepared the information of the children in the welfare home, and waited patiently.

Through contact, a couple will come to the welfare home to see the children today. If there is a suitable one, they will choose to adopt one.

She heard from the government that the people who adopted the child this time really wanted to adopt, and their conditions were not bad. They were a well-educated couple.

The man is a university professor and the woman is a high school teacher. The couple are nearly 40 years old, but they have no children after more than ten years of marriage, so they thought about adopting one.

One of the couple is a university professor and the other is a high school teacher. In Xie Yajing's opinion, this means that their family conditions are very good. With such a high level of education, their quality must be very high as well.

If we could really adopt a child from their welfare home, it would definitely be a very good place for the child.

So today she carefully prepared the information of all the children, even those with disabilities. Although the possibility of them being adopted was very small, she still held out a glimmer of hope.

Her biggest wish is to find a suitable family for all the children in the welfare home. This was her mother's wish and now it is also her wish.

A few kilometers away from the welfare home, a van was driving. In addition to the driver, there was a middle-aged couple sitting in the car.

"Old Zhou, it's almost time. I wonder if there will be a suitable child this time?"

The person who was speaking was the woman in the middle-aged couple. She looked to be in her thirties and was dressed simply, but she had a beautiful face and good temperament.

Sun Yi looked at her husband and felt very guilty. She had been married to Zhou Guofu for fifteen years, but had never given birth to a child for him. This was her dereliction of duty as a wife.

In fact, it’s not that she had never been pregnant. She was pregnant once many years ago, but due to an accident, she had a miscarriage. Since then, no matter how hard they tried, they could not get pregnant again, and it dragged on for more than ten years.

They have a very good relationship. Even though they have not had children for more than ten years, Zhou Guofu, as her husband, has never said a word to her.

Although her husband didn't say anything, Sun Yi couldn't pretend that she knew nothing. She knew very well how much her husband loved children. Every time she saw her husband teasing the children of relatives and friends, his happy look on his face, it broke her heart.

Over the years, they have been examined in many large hospitals, and the results were all bad. As she got older, Sun Yi knew that it was impossible for her to have children again.

So she thought of the method of adoption. At first, Zhou Guofu was a little tempted, but considering her, he pretended not to care and did not need to adopt.

But she had been with Zhou Guofu for more than ten years, so how could she not understand her husband? She knew that her husband was concerned about her, so she said that she wanted a child, and finally Zhou Guofu agreed.

The two then began to discuss how to adopt, after all, they had never encountered such a thing before.

Her initial idea was to adopt a child from a relative's family, but her husband Zhou Guofu felt that this would cause trouble in the future.

Anyway, they are not your biological children, and there is not much difference between having some blood relationship and having no blood relationship. Although adopting an orphan is troublesome, it can also reduce unnecessary conflicts among relatives in the future.

So in the end the two decided to adopt a younger child. Because they had a higher level of education, they also had certain requirements for the adopted child.

Don’t accept those with unknown origins, those with relatives at home, and those with problems…

In short, they had a lot of requirements, and most of the children in welfare homes did not meet their requirements. They spent more than a year and spent a lot of money, but still could not find a suitable one after visiting several welfare homes.

This time they came to Daishan, they heard that there was a welfare home in Daishan, so they wanted to try their luck. They first contacted the people in the welfare home, and then chartered a car to come and observe.

Although they went to many welfare homes and failed to find a suitable child, Zhou Guofu and Sun Yi were still very patient.

They have endured all these years, and they can afford to wait a little longer.

They really want to have a child, but if they can't find one that suits them, they would rather not adopt. This is what they have agreed on.

Zhou Guofu and Sun Yi live in Yong City, not far from Daishan. Zhou Guofu is a professor at a university in Yong City, and Sun Yi is a Chinese teacher at a key high school.

The two have been married for fifteen years and have always been very loving, but the only thing that worries them is that they don't have children.

Yong City is not far from Daishan, so they took a special leave today and chartered a car to come here.

"Sir, Madam, we will be at the Daishan County Welfare Home soon."

The driver was quite familiar with the route, and when they were almost there, he reminded Zhou Guofu and Sun Yi.

Zhou Guofu immediately said, "Master, let's stop at the entrance of the welfare home. We'll have to trouble you to wait for us for a while."

"no problem."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 398: Adopters, Go defeat

As soon as the van arrived at the gate of the welfare home, the director Xie Yajing came out with the teachers to greet them.

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Sun, hello, I am the director of the welfare home."

Seeing Zhou Guofu and Sun Yi, who had extraordinary temperament, Xie Yajing immediately went up to them and greeted them very politely.

She already knew that one of them was a professor and the other was a high school teacher, so when she addressed Sun Yi, she simply called her Teacher Sun.

Zhou Guofu and Sun Yi also hurriedly greeted him: "Hello, Dean Xie, we are really sorry to trouble you this time."

Xie Yajing said, "It's not a bother. We are very grateful that you have come from so far away to support the work of our welfare home. Mr. Zhou, Mrs. Zhou, let's go in, let's go to my office first, and I will introduce you to our welfare home and the children."

Zhou Guofu and Sun Yi looked at each other, and then Sun Yi said, "Okay, let's go in."

Zhou Guofu and Sun Yi followed Xie Yajing into the welfare home. It was now the time for the children to have free time. They quickly glanced at the children playing in the open space. If this trip went well, they would probably take one of these children away.

When they arrived at Xie Yajing's office, there were only three of them in the office. Xie Yajing did not beat around the bush and directly asked about the doubts in her mind.

"Mr. Zhou, Mr. Sun, I already know about your situation, but I'm very confused. A family like yours can go to a better institution to adopt a child. Why did you come to our welfare home?"

During this period, there were a large number of orphans in the country, which led to a large number of welfare homes, and there were naturally differences among them.

After all, Daishan is just a county town, and their welfare home is very ordinary, which is definitely far inferior to those in big cities.

Zhou Guofu didn't say anything, but Sun Yi spoke first.