Holding an umbrella, Chen Ge entered the city in the rain. He didn't know if he was on a mission or if he wanted to help the woman, maybe both.
We drove to the Hanjiang Welfare Institute. Although the visit time had passed, due to various reasons, Chen Ge knew the uncle who was the gatekeeper, and was also very familiar with a welfare home teacher who took care of Fan Yu.
After waiting outside the door for a few minutes, Chen Ge was taken into the orphanage by the teacher.
"Are you here to pick up Fan Yu? The child's condition is much better now, and he doesn't know what happened. He stopped locking himself in the hut and began to try to communicate with others, and his paintings were not so good. It's scary, besides black and red, he also started to use other colors." The teacher was very happy, and she kept complimenting Fan Yu.
Chen Ge didn't know if Fan Yu's change had anything to do with the painters of the psychic ghost school. Maybe the knot was opened, or maybe the painter secretly walked out the door after leaving the psychic ghost school and met Fan Yu.
Everything is possible, the painter himself is an unpredictable existence.
"I came this time because of other things." Chen Ge entered the house with the teacher, he put away the umbrella and took out the photo from his backpack: "Can you take me to see the dean, I have a very important Something to ask him."
"The dean has already gone home. You can ask me. There is nothing in the welfare home that I don't know about."
"What I want to know is what happened ten years ago. At that time, this orphanage was still a private orphanage. You should still be in school, right?"
"Ten years ago?" The teacher thought about it for a while: "Why don't you go and ask the janitor. He is our longest-serving employee here. When it was a private orphanage, he was the janitor. "
"Okay." Chen Ge invited the janitor into the house, and he handed the photo to the old man: "Do you have an impression of this boy?"
"You don't have a face, what do you want me to look at?" The doorman took the photo in front of his eyes, and the wrinkles were crowded together: "Who can remember what happened ten years ago?"
"Think about it carefully. Was there a girl with a 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. After thinking for a while, he suddenly patted Chen Ge's arm: "It seems that there is such a girl! Let me see the photo again!"
The gatekeeper held the photo in both hands and looked at it repeatedly 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. Congenital insufficiency, poor memory, lost things, and people are very stupid."
"Congenital insufficiency of brain function?" This is still a new term for Chen Ge, and this is the first time he has heard it.
"I also heard that the girl is very handsome and well-behaved, but she is always forgetful. Many children have been adopted, and she is the only one who has been staying in the orphanage." The janitor slowly recalled more A lot of 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 treatment time, the girl's illness became more and more serious."
"At the beginning, she could remember the names of friends and teachers around her. With the teacher's training, she could not only take care of herself, but also help to do some things. Although this girl has a bad memory, she is very diligent and never gets bullied. She retaliated, so the orphanage tacitly allowed her to stay and help."
"But who knows that her situation has gotten worse and worse. She can't even remember her face. She only retains the most basic life skills, and she can't do anything more complicated."
"She's too old, she can't help anything, and she still needs others to take care of her. Gradually, everyone's attitude towards her has changed."
"The children in this private orphanage are not very big, so she is very conspicuous. Later, I don't know what the leaders of the orphanage thought. Knowing that the girl has a poor memory, she asked her to watch the door with me."
"The leader said that he wanted to find something for her to do, and he couldn't make her a waste in the future, but I always felt that the leader's true meaning was to give up her, and even hoped that she would get lost." Having said this, the janitor sighed. tone.
"I hope he gets lost? How do you see that the hospital has this intention?" If this is the case, then the nature has completely changed. Chen Ge thinks that Fang Yu's change may have started at that time.
"The hospital always arranged some missions for me to send far-off items. I ran everywhere, leaving her alone to watch the door. When I came back, the girl was not at the door or in the house, so I ran around the orphanage. , and finally found her under a big tree in the back mountain."
"I was very angry and asked her why she was running around and she said there was a kite flying very high."
"I was really scared. Fortunately, the kite finally hung on the tree and didn't fly far." Even after so many years, the uncle still sighed in retrospect. The girl left a deep impression on him.
"Master, when she was watching the door with you, did any boys come to accompany her? Maybe they were very enthusiastic about her?"
"No, she's always been alone."
"This is difficult." Chen Ge looked at the photo in his hand, recalled the conversation just now, and tried to find clues that he had missed: "Master, you just said that Fang Yu lost the first time he saw a kite, so he chased after him. In the past, according to her character, she should not run around, but why does she chase after a kite when she sees it? Does she like kites very much? Could this kite be some kind of signal?"
"Then you think too much." The uncle was about to say something when his eyes suddenly widened: "Right! Kite! There used to be a boy in the orphanage who had a good relationship with Fang Yu, and that boy was a chatterbox. It seems that he also suffers from some kind of disease, and he always likes to say the same things over and over again. It’s okay if you listen to it the first time, but every day you listen to those things, everyone will get bored.”
"So that boy found Fang Yu?"
"Yes, Fang Yu's memory is very poor. She will forget the things that the boy repeatedly said the next day, every time it's like the first day." With Chen Ge's prompt, the uncle finally remembered some of the past. Matter: "They should be friends, but their lives are different. Fang Yu's illness is getting worse and worse, while the boy's illness grows with age and gradually becomes normal. But even if the boy is normal, he still likes to be with Fang Yu. Together, he is three years older than Fang Yu, whoever bullies Fang Yu will be the first to rush up."
"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 the boy.
"I forgot which year it was. The teacher took the children from the orphanage on a spring outing. Everyone flew kites next to a reservoir in the eastern suburbs. The boy and Fang Yu's kite fell into the woods. They went to look for them, and then the boy It disappeared, and we only found Fang Yu who was unconscious."
"Missing?" Chen Ge frowned, if the boy disappeared, his clues would be cut off.
"When 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, where there were many children laughing. The kite fell. On the fence of the house, when they went to fetch kites, a group of children they didn't know grabbed them and tried to drag them into the house. The boy pushed Fang Yu out at the last moment, and he closed the door voluntarily. "
Uncle's words may sound like nothing to others, but Chen Ge is different. He has been to the hut full of flowers next to the Dongjiao Reservoir before!
At that time, he was in elementary school and had just moved from the eastern suburbs to the western suburbs for a year.
His parents had been strictly forbidding him to go to the eastern suburbs of Hanjiang, but that day was an outing organized by the school.
It was also in the Dongjiao Reservoir, and also saw the house full of flowers and children's laughter in the woods.
Chen Ge was able to escape the catastrophe that time, entirely because he carried a puppet he made with himself. In that puppet lived Director Luo's daughter, who is now the guardian spirit of New Century Park.
"Should be the same place!"
Chen Ge didn't expect Fang Yu and the boy to have been there too. Their past and his past had a point of intersection.
"The items drawn this time don't seem to be that simple." Chen Ge mentioned the backpack, but he was not impulsive: "You two, I need you to do me a favor."
"Tell me." The teacher was very fond 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 get your hopes up."
"Excuse me." After saying goodbye to the teacher and the janitor, Chen Ge opened his umbrella and ran out of the orphanage with his backpack.
"It's not too late to report the revenge in elementary school."
Without stopping, he took a taxi to the Dongjiao Reservoir.
"Every time I come to these remote places in the eastern suburbs, the weather is bad, it's raining or windy."
The taxi took Chen Ge to the outside of the reservoir and quickly fled. He walked by the roadside alone for a long time with an umbrella.
My childhood memories are a little fuzzy, but fortunately not much has changed here.
The river flowed quietly, raindrops fell on his body, and the surroundings were pitch black. Because Chen Ge had yin pupils, he didn't turn on the lights either, as if he had merged with the darkness.
"I remember entering this forest."
Chen Ge didn't know what happened near the reservoir over the years. The place has become more desolate than before, the original residents have all moved away, and the forest is also connected to the back mountain.
Pressing the switch of the repeater, opening the comic book and calling out the headless ghost and the stench, Chen Ge entered the forest.
The rain fell on the leaves, the sound of tick-tock sounded in my ears, and the jungle and the outside seemed to be two worlds.