The whole car was filled with stuff. I sat in the passenger seat and Xiao Tingting drove. The cool Q7 slowly drove out of the parking lot and drove arrogantly on the wide street.
"Tingting. Where are we going?" After walking for half an hour, I saw the car going up the third ring road. I said with some confusion: "This doesn't seem to be the way to the company."
"Who said we were going to the company?" Xiao Tingting's face lost the fawning look before. She chuckled at me and said, "Let's go to Wufeng Village."
"Wufeng Village." I was a little confused. I had been in Fuzhou for seven or eight years and I didn't know this place at all.
"You've never heard of it, right?" Xiao Tingting smiled softly at me and said, "Then just wait and see. I'll call you when the time comes."
"Six Nights of Romance" update - fastest, full text | Hand-typed Xiao Tingting said that and then concentrated on driving. I scooped up a piece of information about Jiangshan Beauty Game that the vice president put in the car. I browsed boredly. Although the car was broken. But at least the navigation system is installed. So I am not worried about Xiao Tingting getting lost.
After getting off the Third Ring Road and walking for almost 40 minutes, Xiao Tingting's speed slowed down and finally stopped in front of a dilapidated compound.
"We're here." Xiao Tingting pointed to the courtyard and said calmly.
I frowned. This compound is located alone at the foot of a hill. The dilapidated bricks and low shrubs are intertwined. It is messy. It may be that the building is older. The outer wall of the compound has long fallen off. If I hadn't seen people walking around in the courtyard, I would have thought that this place would have been abandoned a long time ago. There is a pile of rubble at the gate. Next to the pile of rubble, there is a rusty sign saying "Wufeng Sunset Courtyard".
Xiao Tingting didn't look much. After getting out of the car, she opened the trunk and took out all the large and small bags inside.
She was busy. A figure flashed in the courtyard, but an aunt in her fifties, wearing simple clothes, walked out of it. When she was still a few meters away from us, the aunt greeted us in less than standard Mandarin: "Two." Boss. You are from Haitian Network Technology Co., Ltd., right?"
I was slightly startled. Could it be that this aunt is an expert hermit? She can tell our identities at a glance.
I didn't say anything. The little girl lifted her hair from her forehead with her hands. She smiled at her aunt and said, "Hello, aunt. I am Xiao Tingting from Haitian Network Technology Co., Ltd. and Zui Hongchen Charitable Foundation. I have contacted you this morning. of."
"Oh oh oh. I can remember your voice." Auntie's weather-beaten face was suddenly filled with a smile. Then she walked quickly to Xiao Tingting: "You said you would come today. You didn't expect it to come so fast. We didn't know anything. Ready."
"Auntie, we are all our own people. Why are you so polite?" Xiao Tingting is familiar with herself wherever she goes. After greeting her warmly, she pointed at me and said: "This is our Haitian Network Technology Co., Ltd. After my boss, Yu Wang, heard about the situation of our Wufeng Sunset Hospital, he took time out of his busy schedule and insisted on telling me that "Fifth Literature" is the fastest updated, and he called me to say New Year's greetings to the elderly."
"Oh, hello, Mr. Yu." Auntie looked at me with respect in her eyes. She nervously said to me, "Our little Sunset Courtyard can get special care from you. I'm really grateful." Not enough."
"Uh... Auntie, you... you're welcome." I heard my aunt say this. My old face turned red and I stammered. I was kept in the dark from beginning to end. If Xiao Tingting hadn't brought me here, this would have happened. I'm afraid I will never visit any Sunset Garden in my life.
"Auntie, do you have a trolley here? It's hard to move so many things." Xiao Tingting seemed to notice my confusion and changed the topic.
"Oh, I just came to say hello to you. You wait for me to get off. I'll call someone to help." With that, the aunt hurried back to the compound.
"Tingting. What's going on?" I ran to the trunk and asked depressedly while helping Xiao Tingting unload her things.
"You still can't tell." Xiao Tingting chuckled and said, "The Spring Festival is approaching. On behalf of the company, we are here to express condolences to the lonely elderly people. It's that simple."
"How...how do you know there is a nursing home here?" I said in confusion.
"It seems that you definitely didn't care about this information before." Xiao Tingting rolled her eyes at me and said: "Wufeng Sunset Yard was funded and established by local kind people. A fixed amount of money was invested every month. It is said that it was used as a shelter during its heyday. There are more than 200 orphaned elderly people. Later, the kind-hearted man unfortunately went bankrupt in business. Wufeng Xiyang Home gradually declined. Now it only adopts 50 or 60 people."
"Ah." I, an ordinary citizen, have no time to care about these things. But I heard that kind-hearted people funded the establishment of nursing homes. I was also in awe: "The kind-hearted people you said can't continue to fund it. The government departments don't care."
"This nursing home is a non-governmental organization. Although it is recognized by the government, the little minimum guarantee is simply not enough." Xiao Tingting's eyes turned slightly red. She sighed: "I heard that the elderly here every I only have thirty yuan of pocket money a month. I can only eat half a bowl of rice for each meal. I usually can’t be sent to the hospital in time when I get sick... ugh.”
"How could this happen?" I frowned and said, "Don't all nursing homes charge fees? Besides, these old people don't have sons."
"Charge. Most people don't have the ability to work. How to charge
Ah." Xiao Tingting rolled her eyes at me depressingly: "Can you be smarter? If you have a son, they will live in such a shabby nursing home."
"Uh..." I lost my temper after being scolded by Xiao Tingting. Think about it. If you really can't stay with the elderly due to work or other reasons, even if you send them to a nursing home, you have to choose a place with good conditions. This Wu The conditions of Feng Xiyang Yuan are really... extremely bad.
While we were talking, several aunts in their forties or fifties came out of the courtyard, pushing carts in their hands. They spoke in Fuzhou dialect that we couldn't understand, and they pushed the things we brought in in a lively manner.
"These are local villagers, equivalent to volunteers in society." Xiao Tingting explained to me. Then she took me and these volunteers to move things to the storage room on the second floor.
After finishing the work, I didn't know what to do. But Xiao Tingting didn't show up at all. She didn't mind that the old man was dirty. She followed the volunteers and helped some elderly people with limited mobility out of the room. Then she helped remove and wash the sheets. She was very busy. Very happy.
Maybe those old people regarded me as a person of great status, so no one wanted to get close to me. They chatted in local dialect and I couldn't get in the conversation. Although I am not a very sensitive person, I have never been a very sensitive person. I felt a terrible loneliness in their eyes.
"Mr. Yu, are you feeling bored?" The atmosphere in the nursing home was a bit depressing. I was about to find a place to smoke a cigarette. An elderly man in his eighties stood behind me with a cane.
"It's not boring. It's not boring." I stood up in a panic and moved a chair from the side: "Old man, please sit down."
"Thank you." The old man smiled at me. After sitting down, he said: "Don't blame those old brothers and sisters for ignoring you. The long period of loneliness has made them a little closed. It will take a long time to melt this barrier. "
"It's not strange. Of course it's not strange." I shook my head with a wry smile: "I'm not even afraid of your laughter. This is my first time in a nursing home. I don't know what I should do."
"Yes. There is a first time for everything. Just get used to it in the future." The old man scooped out a five-yuan pack of Gutian cigarettes from his pocket. He handed one to me and said, "But having said that, with you It is really rare for someone at such an age to take the initiative to care for us. This kind of spirit is really rare."
"You...are flattering." I took the cigarette with a guilty conscience and lowered my head.
Maybe it was my humble attitude that won the old man's approval. Or maybe the old man hadn't communicated with outsiders for a long time. After smoking half of the cigarette, the old man spoke again: "Let me tell you a story."
"Yeah." I listened carefully.
There was a trace of reminiscence in the old man's cloudy eyes: "I don't know if you ever felt like this when you were a child. When you walk at night, you always feel like there are a pair of eyes staring at you from behind. You always feel like someone is following you... and then you look back. But you can't see anything. The more this happens, the more you murmur in your heart. You think, those ghosts are weird, they might come out at some point and kill you."
The old man said it funny. I nodded quickly: "You are right. I'm afraid most people are like this when they were young."
"Yes." The old man nodded and smiled: "Later, my old mother told me. She said that everyone has three lights. One is on the top of the head and the other two are on the shoulders. These are people's [ Sanwei Zhenhuo]. When we walk at night, no matter what sound you hear, don’t look back. The light will not go out. As long as the light is on, no matter how fierce the monsters are, no monsters will dare to approach you."
I didn't say anything. I had seen such legends in supernatural novels before.
"I listened to my mother's words, and when I walked at night, I was no longer afraid." When the old man said this, he changed the subject and said, "Mr. Yu, what kind of job do you think I should have done when I was young. "
"Uh..." I was stunned for a moment. I subconsciously guessed: "Entrepreneur."
"Haha. You really can't guess it." The old man laughed and said, "Let me tell you. When I was young, I was a member of the Fujian Provincial Swimming Team."
I:"……"
To be honest, I feel a little sick. There are thousands of professions in the world. It would be strange if I could guess them.
"My grades were very good back then. When cars were not popular in China, I owned a private car. Haha. After a competition, I was driving tired and collided with a truck on the opposite side. I was the best on the passenger side. My friend died on the spot. Although I survived, my left leg suffered a comminuted fracture, which also made me say goodbye to my favorite career."
"Ah" I felt nervous. The importance of legs to normal people is self-evident, let alone to a strong swimmer.
I secretly felt sorry for the old man in my heart. But what surprised me was that when the old man said this, except for a little nostalgia for the past, there was no trace of sadness on his face.
