Holding an umbrella, Chen Ge entered the city in the rain. He didn't know whether he was doing it for the mission, or if he wanted to help the woman, maybe both.
Taking a bus to Hanjiang Orphanage, although it was already past the visiting time, Chen Ge knew the caretaker for various reasons and was also familiar with a teacher at the orphanage who took care of Fan Yu.
After waiting outside the door for a few minutes, Chen Ge was taken into the welfare home by the teacher.
"Are you here to pick up Fan Yu? The child's condition has improved a lot now, and he doesn't know what happened. He no longer shuts himself in the hut, and starts trying to communicate with others. The paintings he draws are not that good.
It's scary. In addition to black and red, he also started to use other colors." The teacher was very happy, and she kept praising Fan Yu.
Chen Ge didn't know if Fan Yu's change had something to do with the painter from the ghost school. It might be that his heart was opened, or maybe the painter sneaked out and met Fan Yu after leaving the ghost school.
Everything is possible, the painter himself is an unpredictable existence.
"I came here because of other things." Chen Ge entered the house with the teacher. He put away his umbrella and took out the photo from his backpack: "Can you take me to see the dean? I have something very important.
You have to ask him something."
"The director has gone home. You can ask me. There is nothing in this orphanage that I don't know."
"What I want to know is what happened ten years ago. At that time, this welfare home was still a private orphanage. You were probably still in school at that time, right?"
"Ten years ago?" The teacher thought for a while and said, "How about you ask the janitor. He is our longest-serving employee. He was the janitor when it was still a private orphanage.
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"Okay." Chen Ge invited the caretaker into the house. He handed the photo to the old man: "Do you have any impression of this boy?"
"You don't even have a face, how do you want me to see it?" The janitor held the photo in front of his eyes, his wrinkles squeezed together: "Who can remember clearly what happened ten years ago?"
"If you think about it carefully, was there a girl with poor memory in the orphanage at that time? This boy should be the girl's best friend."
Hearing Chen Ge's words, the wrinkles on the gatekeeper's face deepened. He thought for a while and suddenly patted Chen Ge's arm: "There seems to be such a girl! Let me see the photo again!"
The caretaker held the photo in both hands and looked at it again and again for a long time: "I still can't remember this boy, but I have an impression of the girl you mentioned. She was abandoned by her parents when she was very young. It is said that the reason for the abandonment was her brain.
He was born with insufficient functions, poor memory, careless in doing things, and very stupid."
"Congenital cerebral insufficiency?" This was still a new term to Chen Ge, and it was the first time he heard it.
"I've also heard that the girl is very handsome and well-behaved, but she always forgets things. Many children have been adopted, but she has been staying in the orphanage." The caretaker slowly recalled more details.
Many things: "From the age of two or three until she was a teenager, she lived in an orphanage for more than ten years. Maybe because she missed the best time for treatment, the girl's illness became more and more serious."
"In the beginning, she could still remember the names of her friends and teachers. With the teacher's training, she could not only take care of herself, but also help with some things. Although this girl has a bad memory, she is very diligent and never gets bullied.
She talked back, so the orphanage acquiesced in allowing her to stay and help."
"But who knew that her condition would get worse and worse later on. She could not even remember faces clearly. She only retained the most basic living abilities and could not do more complicated things."
"She is already old and cannot help with anything. She still needs others to take care of her. Gradually, everyone's attitude towards her changed."
"The children in this private orphanage are not very old, but she stood out. Later, I didn't know what the leaders of the orphanage thought. Knowing that the girl had a poor memory, they asked her to guard the gate with me."
"The leader said that he wanted to find something for her to do so that she would not become a useless person in the future, but I always felt that what the leader really meant was to give up on her and even hope that she would get lost." At this point, the janitor sighed.
tone.
"I hope he gets lost? How did you know that the hospital had this intention?" If this is the case, then the nature has completely changed. Chen Ge thinks that Fang Yu's change may have started from that time.
"The hospital always arranged some tasks for me to deliver distant items. I ran around, leaving her alone to look after the door. One time when I came back, the girl was not at the door or in the room. I ran around the orphanage.
, and finally found her under a big tree in the back hill."
"I was very angry at the time and asked her why she was running around. She said there was a kite flying very high."
"I was really scared. Fortunately, the kite hung on the tree in the end and did not fly far." Even after so many years, the uncle still sighed when he thought about it. That girl left a deep impression on him.
"Uncle, when she was guarding the door with you, did any boys come to accompany her? Maybe he was very enthusiastic towards her?"
"No, she has always been alone."
"This is difficult." Chen Ge looked at the photo in his hand, recalling the conversation just now, trying to find clues that he missed: "Uncle, you just said that Fang Yu saw a kite when he lost his way for the first time, so he chased her
According to her personality, she shouldn't run around, but why would she chase a kite when she sees it? Does she like kites very much? Could this kite be some kind of signal? "
"Then you're overthinking." The uncle was about to say something when he suddenly opened his eyes wide: "By the way! Kite! There used to be a boy in the orphanage who had a good relationship with Fang Yu, and that boy was a talker.
, seems to be suffering from some kind of disease, and always likes to say the same words over and over again. It’s fine for you the first time, but everyone will get bored hearing those things every day.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "So that boy found Fang Yu?"
"Yes, Fang Yu has a very bad memory. She will forget the things that boys say repeatedly the next day, and it will be like the first day every time." With Chen Ge's prompting, the uncle finally remembered some of the past.
Thing: "They should be considered friends, but their fates are different. Fang Yu's illness is getting worse and worse, but the boy's illness gradually becomes normal as he grows older. But even if the boy becomes normal, he still likes to be with Fang Yu.
At the same time, he is three years older than Fang Yu, and he will be the first to attack anyone who bullies Fang Yu."
"But what does this have to do with kites? Where is that boy now?" Chen Ge felt that the ghost he was looking for was that boy.
"I forgot which year it was, the teacher took the children from the orphanage on a spring outing. They were flying kites next to a reservoir in the eastern suburbs. The kite of the boy and Fang Yu fell into the woods. They went in to look for it, and then the boy
He disappeared, and we only found the unconscious Fang Yu.”
"Missing?" Chen Ge frowned. If the boy disappeared, then his clues would be lost.
"After Fang Yu woke up, we asked her, and she said that she and the boy went into the woods to look for a kite, and saw a path leading to a house full of flowers, and there were many children laughing there. The kite fell.
On the fence of the house, when they went to get the kite, a group of unknown children grabbed them and tried to drag them into the house. The boy pushed Fang Yu out at the last moment, and then he took the initiative to close the door.
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Others may not feel anything like what the uncle said, but Chen Ge is different. He has been to the flower-filled hut next to the Dongjiao Reservoir before!
He was in elementary school at that time and had just moved from the eastern suburbs to the western suburbs for a year.
His parents had always strictly prohibited him from going to the eastern suburbs of Hanjiang, but that day was an outing organized by the school.
Also at the Dongjiao Reservoir, I also saw the house in the woods full of flowers and children's laughter.
Chen Ge was able to escape that time entirely because he took a puppet he made with him. Inside that puppet lived Director Luo's daughter, who is now the guardian spirit of New Century Park.
"It should be the same place!"
Chen Ge didn't expect that Fang Yu and the boy had also been there. Their past and his own had an intersection.
"The items drawn this time don't seem that simple." Chen Ge picked up his backpack, but he was not impulsive: "You two, I still need you to do me a favor."
"You tell me." The teacher had a good impression of Chen Ge and felt that Chen Ge was a very caring person.
"Can you find the boy's information? I have a date here, it may be his birthday." Chen Ge flipped through the photo, and December 21 was written on the back of the photo.
"I'll try my best, but don't have too much hope."
"Sorry to trouble you." After Chen Ge said goodbye to the teacher and the janitor, he opened his umbrella and ran out of the orphanage with his backpack.
"It's not too late to avenge the grudges I had in elementary school."
Without stopping, he took a taxi to the Dongjiao Reservoir.
"Every time I come to remote places like the eastern suburbs, the weather is very bad. It's either raining or windy."
The taxi took Chen Ge outside the reservoir and fled quickly. He walked alone on the roadside for a long time holding an umbrella.
My memories from childhood are a bit fuzzy, but fortunately not much has changed here.
The river flowed quietly, raindrops fell on the body, and the surroundings were pitch black. Because Chen Ge had Yin Pupil, he did not turn on the light, as if he was integrated with the darkness.
"I remember entering this forest."
Chen Ge didn't know what had happened near the reservoir over the years. The place had become more desolate than before. All the original residents had moved away, and the woods were connected to the mountains behind.
After pressing the switch of the repeater and opening the comic book to summon the headless female ghost and the stench, Chen Ge entered the forest.
The rain fell on the leaves, and the sound of ticking sounded in my ears. It seemed that the inside of the jungle and the outside seemed to be two different worlds.