Chapter 395: Days in the orphanage, the Zhou family and his wife
"Good boy, I'm sorry for you."
Dean Xie didn't know what Xiao Ming had suffered, but it must have something to do with the adoptive family that made Xiao Ming change from a slightly withdrawn person to what he is now.
Zhou Chen didn't care, and he was even a little grateful to that family. Although he was an orphan, he didn't want to choose a rich family, but at least he had to choose a kind family. It would be okay if he was in trouble, but at least he could see hope.
But if you are adopted by an unreliable family, that would not be a good thing.
Although there is only one word difference between biological and non-biological, they represent different meanings.
It is absolutely rare to be able to regard a child who is not your biological child as your biological parent, especially in this age of impetuous people, it is even more difficult to achieve this.
To be honest, it is better to stay in an orphanage than to be adopted by an unreliable family. Even if life is difficult, Zhou Chen can endure it.
Dean Xie does pity Zhou Chen, but which child in the orphanage is not pitiful? Some children with physical disabilities are 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 within her own ability.
The day passed quickly, and Zhou Chen had dinner with the large army.
Dinner is a very ordinary rice porridge, but there is a little less rice, and some steamed buns, steamed buns and the like.
Although the food is very ordinary, the children eat it happily. For these children, having a full meal is the most satisfying thing.
After eating, Zhou Chen, led by the teacher, returned to the place where he lived with other children.
A room of less than ten square meters accommodates more than a dozen children. They are all made of very old iron bunk beds.
Zhou Chen was not particular about it. After finding his own bed, he lay down on it.
He likes to enjoy, but he must have the conditions to do so. He also lived a hard life when he was a child, so even if the living conditions in the orphanage are very poor, he can adapt to it.
Fatty Fatty lived in the bed next to Zhou Chen's, but after Zhou Chen's glare, he became a lot more honest, and 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 the orphanage.
Zhou Chen was not in a hurry to go out, 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 similar to what he had guessed. It was indeed the 1990s, and it was still 1996. The place where it was located 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 Xiaoming.
The name He Xiaoming, coupled with the keywords of Daishan County and Children's Welfare Home, made Zhou Chen involuntarily feel a sense of familiarity.
Comparing the TV series he watched before traveling, he didn't find a match, but he was certain that he must have seen similar places and names in some TV series, otherwise he wouldn't be so familiar with them.
For a moment, he couldn't remember which TV series he was a character in. After all, he had never seen a similar TV series before traveling through this world.
The last time he binge-watched a TV series was many years ago, and no matter how good his memory was, it would be difficult for him to recall some innocuous character names at once.
Since he couldn't remember it for a while, Zhou Chen didn't get too entangled. 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 orphanage. Most of the time is spent playing, and only a small amount of time is spent studying. Sometimes adults will take them around for a walk, but they will not go far.
Anyway, after a few days, the farthest place Zhou Chen went to was a small park less than one kilometer away from the orphanage.
Zhou Chen couldn't help but shudder when he thought that if no one adopted him, he would continue to live in the orphanage for many more years.
He could endure loneliness, but he couldn't bear to live the same life every day, especially when he had to face so many people pretending to be children.
Also, if he continues to follow the food provided by the orphanage, I am afraid that even if he becomes an adult, he will not be able to achieve his original physical fitness.
After all, he was an adult in the previous time travels. After the time travel, if it is the real body, then needless to say, if it is possessed, the system will directly transform the original body to reach his physical level.
But now that he is a child, the system cannot be modified. He can only slowly exercise and grow by himself.
If you want your body to become strong, exercise is very important, but more importantly, nutrition must keep up. After all, children can only grow rapidly if their nutrition keeps up.
But the food in the welfare home was simply not enough to provide the nutrients Zhou Chen needed for exercise.
If it weren't for the fact that he was too young now, he really wanted to escape from the orphanage. With his ability, living alone would be better than staying in the orphanage.
It's just that at the age of six, even if he has the will, he doesn't have the ability. If he really runs out alone, he might be abducted by human traffickers.
Until you leave the orphanage, you can't even plan for the future.
Now he is six years old. According to the situation in the orphanage, so many children older than him do not go to school. I am afraid that he will not have the chance to go to elementary school.
"The best outcome is to be adopted by a good family."
Zhou Chen quickly understood his current situation. If he wanted to live a better and freer life, the best choice was to leave the orphanage.
But to be honest, he really didn't have much hope for those adoptive families, so he was very confused.
There is really nothing to say about the life in the orphanage. A few months passed by in the blink of an eye. Apart from learning some knowledge every day, most of the time I spent doing the same thing.
No mobile phone, no computer, no internet...
Such days were really torturous. At the beginning, Zhou Chen was very uncomfortable with it. This world was completely different from the world he had experienced before.
But after all, he was a man who had lived for more than a hundred years, so he gradually adapted to it, and then he began to settle down and study medical skills.
He had already memorized the family medical books of the Zhou family in the previous world, but he had not yet fully comprehended them. Now that he had time, he began to study them.
In the eyes of others, Zhou Chen is still the same as before. Whether in class or during play time, he always hides in the corner alone, and no one knows what he is doing.
Dean Xie, the only one who knew that Zhou Chen was normal, also talked to Zhou Chen several times and asked him to integrate into the children and play with them.
But Zhou Chen agreed verbally but did not take any actual actions. He really didn't want to play house games with these children.
As time passed, Dean Xie stopped asking questions, but she would call Zhou Chen over every night.
Because during this period, under Zhou Chen's deliberate manipulation, he showed his superhuman intelligence, which greatly surprised Dean Xie. He bought a lot of books for him, taught him privately, and even said that he wanted to give him a gift.
Go to school and study.
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 kind to him alone. It was not easy to spare some time to spend with him.
A few days ago, Dean Xie bought a gift for Zhou Chen, a set of Go.
For several nights in a row, Dean Xie taught Zhou Chen how to play Go, which made Zhou Chen very helpless.
He can play Go himself, and although he is not very good at it, it is really difficult for him to pretend that he has never played Go before.
However, he was still very grateful to Dean Xie, who was the only person in the orphanage who treated him well and cared about him.
Zhou Chen has been in the orphanage for several months. During this time, Zhou Chen 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 Dean Xie has many requirements. She does not want a situation like Xiao Ming to be taken away and returned again, because this will have a negative impact on the children.
It will cause great psychological trauma.
It was precisely because of her prudence and caution that several groups of adults who adopted children failed to take away the children.
But these have nothing to do with Zhou Chen.
He regarded himself as an outsider. Every time he saw the children showing nervousness and anticipation and trying their best to show off their adopted children, he felt really uncomfortable.
In the last world, he opened a rehabilitation center. The children there were very pitiful, but most of them were accompanied by their parents, and they were relatively happy in terms of relatives.
But these children in the orphanage are really miserable. They don't have any relatives. They are like goods, waiting for others to pick them.
In this strange world, it's good to have someone who cares about you, so Zhou Chen gradually calmed down and lived peacefully every day. Anyway, he was still young, so even if he had any ideas, it wouldn't be too late to do them in a few years.
There is no sign of this system task appearing until now, which makes Zhou Chen very troubled.
What people fear most is not having a goal. Even if Zhou Chen has lived for so many years, he still has a goal.
More importantly, he cannot complete the task without triggering it, and if he cannot complete the task, he cannot leave this world and return to his own world.
It was another sunny day. Zhou Chen was sitting alone in the corner. There was a table here. He was bored and took out the Go chess given by the dean and played chess with himself.
Xie Yajing was sitting in the office, preparing the information for the children in the welfare home and waiting patiently.
Through contact, a couple will come to the orphanage today to see the children. If there is a suitable one, they will choose to adopt one and take it away.
She heard from people in the government that the people adopting this time really wanted to adopt, and the conditions were pretty good. They were a highly educated couple.
The man is a university professor and the woman is a high school teacher. The couple is nearly forty years old. However, they have been married for more than ten years and have no children, so they want to adopt one.
One of the couple is a university professor and the other is a high school teacher. In Xie Yajing's opinion, the family conditions are very good, and with such a high education, the quality must be very high.
If you can really adopt a child from their orphanage, it will definitely be a very good place for the child.
So she carefully prepared the information of all the children today. Even those children with disabilities, she did not let them go. Although the possibility of them being adopted was very small, she also had a glimmer of hope.
Her biggest wish is to find a suitable family for all the children in the orphanage. This was her mother's wish, and it is also her wish now.
A few kilometers away from the orphanage, a van was driving. In addition to the driver, there was also a middle-aged couple sitting in the van.
"Lao Zhou, we are arriving soon. I wonder if there will be a suitable child this time?"
The speaker was the woman in a middle-aged couple. The woman looked to be in her thirties and was dressed simply, but she had a beautiful appearance and a good temperament.
Sun Yi looked at her husband and felt very guilty. She had been married to Zhou Guofu for fifteen years, but she had never given birth to a son and a half for him. This was her fault as a wife.
In fact, it was not that she had never been pregnant, but she had been pregnant once many years ago, but an accident resulted in a miscarriage. Since then, no matter how hard they tried, they could not get pregnant again, and the delay lasted for more than ten years.
They have a very good relationship as husband and wife. Even though they have had no children for more than ten years, her husband Zhou Guofu has never said a word to her.
But her husband didn't tell her, but Sun Yi couldn't pretend not to know anything. She knew very well how much her husband loved children. Every time she saw her husband playing with the children of relatives and friends, his happy and loving expression made her heartache.
Like a knife cutting.
They had undergone examinations in many major hospitals over the years, but the results were all negative. As age changed, Sun Yi knew that it was impossible for her to have another child.
So she thought of the adoption method. At first, Zhou Guofu was a little tempted, but considering her, he still 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 worried about her, so she said that she wanted a child, and finally Zhou Guofu agreed.
Then the two began to discuss how to adopt. After all, they had never been exposed to such a thing.
Her initial idea was to adopt a child from a relative's home, but her husband Zhou Guofu felt that this would be more troublesome in the future.
Anyway, they are not their biological children. There is actually not much difference between being somewhat related by blood and not being related by blood. Adopting an orphan, although troublesome, can reduce unnecessary conflicts between relatives in the future.
So in the end, the two decided to adopt a younger child. Because the education level was relatively high, they also had certain requirements for the adopted child.
Don’t want those with unknown origins, don’t want those with relatives at home, don’t want those with problems...
In short, they have many requirements, and most of the children in the orphanage do not meet their requirements. It took more than a year and a lot of money to find several orphanages, but none of them found a suitable one.
When they came to Daishan this time, they also heard that there was an orphanage in Daishan, so they wanted to try their luck. They first contacted the people at the orphanage and then chartered a car to come over for observation.
Although they visited many orphanages but could not find a suitable child, Zhou Guofu and Sun Yi were still very patient.
After all these years, they could afford to wait a little longer.
For them, they really sincerely want a child, but if they can't find one they like, they would rather not adopt it. This is what the couple has agreed upon together.
Zhou Guofu and Sun Yi live in Yong City, not far from Daishan. Zhou Guofu is a university 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. Their only problem is that they have no children.
Yong City is not far from Daishan, so they asked for leave today and chartered a car to come here.
"Sir, Madam, we will be at the Daishan County Welfare Institute soon."
The driver was quite familiar with the route. When he was about to arrive, he reminded Zhou Guofu and Sun Yi.
Zhou Guofu immediately said: "Master, just stop at the entrance of the orphanage. I'd like to trouble you to wait for us later."
