Xie Yan put her down from his back and asked, "Can you leave by yourself?"
"..." The legs are still a little weak.
She tried to take two steps, but she could barely walk, "It's okay."
"Then let's go."
"Um!"
Isn't he here to do free volunteer work? I'm a little worried.
She has a very clear understanding of herself and is not cut out for work.
She walked very slowly. Xie Yan thought she was still feeling unwell, so he came back to support her and said, "The road is not good, so walk slowly."
"oh."
The two entered the orphanage together.
This is not the first time Xin Gan has come to the orphanage. Her parents often do charity work, and she has also been there several times, including a nursing home and an orphanage once.
But... this orphanage is completely different from what she remembered.
desolate.
old.
The yard is not small, but there are no play equipment. There are only a few children in simple clothes playing games such as throwing sandbags and kicking shuttlecocks.
When a little girl saw Xie Yan with sharp eyes, she immediately threw away her shuttlecock and ran over, "Uncle Xie! Uncle Xie, you are finally here. We miss you so much."
"..." Xingan noticed that when the child ran over, his legs were a little sloping.
She was obviously very familiar with Xie Yan and rushed to his legs. Xie Yan had already bent down and picked her up. When the other children heard the noise and saw Xie Yan, they also threw their toys and ran around.
come over.
"Thank you, uncle. Thank you, uncle. Have you been very busy recently? You haven't come to see us for a long time."
"Yes, yes, we all miss you."
"Xiaohua thought the most. She secretly cried a few times at night. The dean asked her to call you, but she refused to call you because she was afraid of disturbing you at work."
Xie Yan's smile was so gentle. He pinched the little girl's face in his arms and said, "Next time you miss me, call me. I can't see you when I'm busy. I'll call you back when I'm not busy. Don't be secretive."
Crying, a girl who cries is not pretty."
The little girl shyly got into his arms.
She turned around and saw her heart being squeezed out by the children. She blinked and said, "Uncle Xie, is that beautiful aunt your girlfriend?"
"..." Only then did Xie Yan think of Xin Gan. He glanced at Xin Gan and said quickly, "No."
"Really!"
The little girl whispered, "This is my first time seeing my uncle bring someone here."
"It just happened to happen."
"oh!"
Xie Yan touched her hair and asked, "Where's the dean's aunt?"
"He's doing our laundry."
Xie Yan coaxed a few children to play for a while, and then walked to a remote room in a familiar way. Xin Ge quickly followed. She looked at Xie Yan and hesitated to speak.
"Just say what you want to say."
"Are all the children here...all sick?"
Just now she stood outside the crowd and took a quick look, and saw almost no normal children. The little girl named Xiaohua had bad legs, there was another girl who was missing her right hand, and there was a little boy who must have cerebral palsy.
They looked stupid and stupid, and there were also people wearing hearing aids, people in wheelchairs, people with cleft lips and palates... In short, there were all kinds of people, but she didn't see any healthy ones.
"Well, they are all sick children."
Xie Yan pursed his lips and felt a little heavy, "Occasionally, healthy children will come, but healthy children can be adopted quickly. These unhealthy children... no one is willing to adopt them, so they have been kept in the orphanage.
Some of the kids have been here since they were born and are still here.”
Xinggan let out a breath, "Were they abandoned by their parents?"
"Most of the time, after some children were born, they were found to be unhealthy, and some parents were worried that they would be a drag on the family, so they chose to abandon them."
He was puzzled, "Nowadays, prenatal check-ups can detect many problems."
"Can you believe it? It's the 21st century, but pregnant women in some remote areas don't even go to the hospital once from the time they find out they're pregnant to the time they give birth, let alone a prenatal check-up. In some places, they even give birth at home.
Find a midwife. In this case, some deformed babies will be born.
Those places are considered remote areas, and in some cases the annual income of a family is less than 10,000 yuan."
"..." "Almost all these children's diseases require a lot of money to be cured, and the treatment may not be good. Therefore, almost no one there will go bankrupt to save a seriously ill child. After all, it is better to have a healthy child."
The cost of children is lower.
These sick children were abandoned.
Some people with a good conscience will bring their children to a big city and leave them there, hoping that some kind-hearted people will show up and the children will be able to save their lives.
There are also some heartless people who just throw their children into the mountains and forests and let them fend for themselves."
"..." Hearing this, an outsider was very angry, "How come there are so many ignorant and irresponsible people!"
Xie Yan smiled helplessly.
During the conversation.
Xie Yan has arrived at the laundry room. In fact, the so-called laundry room is a small temporary space in the yard, with only three walls and a green tile roof, several square meters in size, without any decoration, not even the walls.
They haven't been scraped, and the red bricks are all exposed. The ground is a little better, at least it's paved with cement.
There is a semi-automatic washing machine in the laundry room with several large red round basins. One basin is filled with dirty clothes, and the other basins are filled with clean water.
When they entered, a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her forties was putting the dried clothes into clean water and throwing them again before spinning them dry and hanging them out.
Hearing the noise, the woman looked up and saw Xie Yan and Xin Gan, she quickly stood up, "Xie Yan?
Don't you work the night shift? I thought you should come over in the afternoon. This is..." "My friend, Xiao Xingan."
Xie Yan introduced his sweetheart, "This is the director of the welfare home. His surname is Zhang. You can just call him Sister Zhang."
"Hello, Sister Zhang."
"Okay, okay."
The dean smiled very kindly.
I didn't understand, so I asked, "Sister Zhang, how hard it is for you to wash clothes like this, why don't you just buy a fully automatic washing machine, so that you don't have to pour water so hard."
"Children's skin, the clothes they wear every day are like gray mouse skin. It can't be washed clean in a fully automatic washing machine. Just put it in the washing machine and stir it two or three times, and then pour it twice with clean water and it will be clean."
So that’s it.
This was the first time she saw a dean doing such rough work himself.
She was in awe, "Does Sister Zhang wash like this every day?"
"yes."
Sister Zhang scratched her head and said with some embarrassment, "As the dean, I am incompetent and cannot give these children a good life, so I can only settle for the next best thing and make sure they are well fed and clothed."
"Are you out of money again?"
Sister Zhang smiled bitterly.
Xie Yan sighed, took out his bank card from his pocket and put it into her hand.