When Zhang Ran first entered Xicheng, he asked He Yong to stop the car and started wandering around. He was still very familiar with Xicheng before, but now he couldn't recognize it.
Tall buildings now stand where there used to be large tracts of farmland.
Xicheng is not big, at least it is much smaller than other cities of the same level.
After wandering around for about half an hour, Zhang Ran got in the car again and arrived at the original address of the welfare home.
He had not originally planned to come here again. After all, the place had been moved away thirty years ago, leaving only old houses.
So the first few times he passed through Xicheng, he didn't come to take a look.
However, after meeting Gong Nan and passing through Xicheng again, Zhang Ran's heart couldn't help but feel like he was remembering those days.
The former welfare home was in the suburbs of Xicheng, but there were some residential communities around it, but they were very few. The former residential communities were not called communities. It was more appropriate to call them family buildings.
However, when Zhang Ran came here again, he was involuntarily stunned for a moment and asked He Yong to drive around here. At this time, the nearby area had become the office location of the district government.
Office buildings built by the district government stand tall here, not to mention the surrounding environment. The originally narrow and crowded driveway is now much wider, with flowers, plants, and trees all in order.
It can be said that it is completely different from what Zhang Ran imagined.
After going around in a circle, Zhang Ran asked He Yong to find a place to park the car, and then walked towards the original welfare home.
But soon, Zhang Ran stood blankly in front of an old compound, looking at the house number that was still shabby but could be seen that someone had taken care of it.
The key was not this, but the voices of some children coming from inside, which made Zhang Ran feel a little dazed for a moment.
This is... ... ..
"What do you do? What are you doing standing here?" Just when Zhang Ran was in a daze, a rough but vigilant voice thought about it.
Zhang Ran came back to his senses and saw an old man in his sixties, but he had a strong build and a loud voice, and he didn't look like an old man at all.
Zhang Ran touched his pocket and found that he had no cigarettes, so he could only ask He Yong for a pack of cigarettes, and then walked over with a smile.
"I just came over to take a look. I remember wasn't this place closed long ago? Why is it open again now?" Zhang Ran handed over the cigarette and asked with a smile.
When the old man heard what he said, the vigilance in his eyes instantly disappeared. However, he did not take the cigarette he handed over. He just said: "It has been reopened for seven years, but it has been more than thirty years since it closed. Well, how did you know?"
Zhang Ran took back his cigarette and said with a smile: "I said I left this orphanage, do you believe it?"
"That's nonsense, how old are you?" The old man obviously didn't believe it.
Zhang Ran sighed and said: "I knew you would say that, but I really went out from here."
Seeing that Zhang Ran didn't look like he was lying, the old man became a little suspicious, "Did you really go out from here?"
Zhang Ran smiled and said: "Why did I lie to you? Are there any benefits?"
"Then what was the name of the former director of the orphanage here?" the old man asked.
"Chen Guifang." Zhang Ran replied directly.
"Are you really that? What's your name?" the old man said.
Zhang Ran smiled and said: "Does my name make sense? Things have changed here."
"I'm looking for someone to ask if anyone knows you. What if you lied?" the old man asked.
Zhang Rangang laughed and shook his head, then realized, "You said someone knows me? Could this be..."
"Just tell me your name, don't ask so many questions." The old man was a little dissatisfied.
Zhang Ran took a deep breath and said, "My name is Zhang Ran. People in the welfare home used to call me either Xiao Ran or Brother Ran."
Hearing this, the old man didn't say much nonsense. He directly picked up the phone in the duty room and called it. He talked for a while before hanging up. ,
Then he looked at Zhang Ran with some surprise, "Are you really from the former orphanage? How old are you this year?"
"More than fifty, just a little younger than you, brother." Zhang Ran didn't know what was going on at this time, and he was a little excited.
He was not excited to see his old friends from the orphanage, because in the entire orphanage, there were only three people he really recognized.
One is Gong Nan, who is considered his younger brother, and the other is the dean and an eldest sister.
Gong Nan didn't say much, because Zhang Ran recognized some things, but the dean and the eldest sister were recognized and respected by him from the bottom of his heart.
Zhang Ran had heard many debates about human nature being good and being inherently evil before, but it seemed that no one could convince anyone.
Zhang Ran doesn't understand this kind of philosophy, nor does he know who is right and who is wrong.
But when he saw the eldest sister and the dean, Zhang Ran naturally had the idea that human nature is good, because these two people are really naturally kind.
The dean may be older, and Zhang Ran doesn't know her past and doesn't make too many judgments, but since the eldest sister was admitted to the hospital, everyone was only five or six years old at that time. Although Zhang Ran was very young, he Since he was born, he has recorded events, so he can see everything clearly.
At that time, he had never thought that there were actually people who were born so kind.
This was also the first time that a reborn person like Zhang Ran was willing to call someone who was still a child at the time eldest sister.
Compared with other children, Zhang Ran respects this person the most. It is precisely because he knows more and understands more that he understands how rare such a person is.
After waiting for almost ten minutes, Zhang Ran saw an old lady with steady steps walking over quickly, followed by a young girl who looked to be in her twenties.
"Xiaoran, Xiaoran." Far away, I heard the old lady shouting.
Zhang Ran looked at the old lady and was a little dazed for a moment, but he quickly recognized that this was really his eldest sister.
In fact, when he knew that someone had reopened this place, he guessed that it would be the eldest sister. Only someone like the eldest sister would do such a thankless thing in this era.
"Sister." Zhang Ran's voice had a subtle tremor.
While talking, Zhang Ran also walked quickly from the guard room, and this time the old guard didn't stop him.
Feilan looked at Zhang Ran, who was still young, and could see the shadow of Zhang Ran's past on his face.
"Xiao Ran, is it really you?" Fei Lan looked at Zhang Ran in disbelief.
Zhang Ran smiled and said: "Of course it's me. I just look younger. Sister, you look much older after so many years."
As soon as these words came out, the old man was unhappy, "Why are you so old? Xiaolan looks very young, okay?"