The branch of St. Anthony's Orphanage in Xinfa District covers an area of about 100 acres and has its own orchard, vegetable garden and arable farmland.
Land in Xinfa District is easier to obtain than in the other old urban areas. Therefore, the orphanage in Xinfa District is much larger than the main orphanage in the West District.
There are also industries such as bakeries and flour mills. "Love the World" bread has always sold well because of its charitable connotation.
Lu Ming came to Anthony Orphanage with Bizhu. Bizhu was still dressed as a "Ming girl", wearing a black tight leather jacket and leather pants, an elegant orange-red lace-up windbreaker, and a black gauze hat with dark red flowers. The front of the hat was pulled down very low, and her whole pretty face seemed to be covered by the black gauze.
The supervision of orphanages is not strict nowadays, and the government does not have specific data on orphans in privately funded orphanages, and nothing can be seen from the relevant reports.
Under the premise of not alerting the suspects, normal investigations were conducted through official channels. For example, a prosecutor had an acquaintance in the Xinfa District Charity Bureau. Through him, the prosecutor used the excuse of counting the number of orphans in Xinfa District to obtain the statistical data of the entry and exit of the St. Anthony Xinfa District Orphanage in recent years, but nothing could be found.
Lu Ming simply brought Bizhu to St. Anthony's Orphanage and adopted a child under the pretext of foster care.
Lu Ming does not need to hide his identity. He is a lawyer at Wang-Lu Law Firm in Beiguan Town.
The staff who contacted Lu Ming did not have any special reaction.
After all, Lu Ming's fame is limited to the judicial circle. Ordinary people may not be able to win a lawsuit in their lifetime, and no one will care whether he is a lawyer or not.
Moreover, Xinfa District belongs to the urban area after all. Although it is the newest district with many new immigrants and was developed from a satellite town like Beiguan, it is already an urban area after all. In the eyes of people in Xinfa District, Beiguan seems a bit like a rural area.
The lower you are in the social class, the stronger this sense of superiority is. After all, as an individual, you have no capital to compare with others and can only rely on the region to increase your confidence and courage.
But a lawyer is still a lawyer. No matter how badly a lawyer is doing, as long as he has not been suspended, it means he can still survive, and his income is still much higher than that of ordinary people.
Therefore, the staff did not neglect Lu Ming.
When the staff member received the 2,000 yuan check from Lu Ming, his eyes widened and he stood up quickly: "Mr. Lu, let me ask our vice president to talk to you in person! She knows more about all the children and will help you choose the right cute baby."
Lu Ming was stunned. He had no intention of meeting the senior management of the orphanage. He just wanted to bring Bizhu here to familiarize herself with the layout. At night, Bizhu would come here and go to the director's office or the file room to look for clues.
But obviously, today's life has gradually confused the specific meaning of the amount of money.
Come to think of it, it is reasonable for the vice president to receive someone who donated 2,000 yuan to adopt a child. After all, he is a potential big charity client.
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The vice-president was an old lady named Wang. I wondered if she was the old witch who beat the little girl severely as mentioned by Dazhong.
He is thin and skinny, but unlike Li Guan's kind face, Dean Wang has a pointed face and monkey cheeks, especially with his bright red lips, which gives him a creepy witch-like feeling.
The vice president's office had an inner room, which was dimly visible and filled with metal cabinets with many drawers for storing files. Lu Ming looked at it for a few more times and then looked at Bizhu, but Bizhu had her hat pulled down low, so they couldn't make eye contact. But he thought that Bizhu would remember this place.
This time, Biju didn't need me to summon her. She appeared on her own in the morning and wanted to continue listening to the tape, but I brought her here first.
"Mr. Lu, are you going to adopt a child at your age?" Dean Wang looked at the application form with some suspicion.
Lu Ming sighed, "There are several concubines in the family, but there has been no movement. So, I want to get a lucky charm. Isn't there a saying in the old days? If the first child in the family has a strong destiny, more children will come one after another, and those evil spirits will be scared away."
“Haha, yes, yes…” Dean Wang smiled, but it was obvious that he might be thinking, you need to see a doctor, idiot!
Looking at the concubine of Lawyer Lu next to her, she doesn't like to show her face and is obviously very reluctant to adopt a child.
After thinking for a while, Dean Wang smiled and said, "Lawyer Lu, please sit down for a while. I will bring some children to show you."
Not long after Dean Wang went out, he brought in some small figures. Lu Ming couldn't help but frown. There were six or seven girls aged five, six, seven or eight years old, but they were all very young and cute, and it was obvious that they were all beauties.
Moreover, there is only one Central Continent person. Most of them are mixed-race from foreign countries, such as the Western Regions or Southeast Asia. Their skin is not that dark and they all wear their national costumes. There is also a little guy wearing a kimono. He is very handsome, but there is a big red mark on his face, which seems to be a birthmark, and looks a bit scary.
At Dean Wang's gesture, the children all bowed in unison, their childish voices very pleasant to hear. "Hello, sir! Hello, madam!"
Lu Ming frowned slightly. Dean Wang probably has no good intentions. He chose girls for himself. They should be pretty when they grow up. Are you giving them away for adoption? Or are you selling them as child brides
Of course, it was probably because she heard that he had several concubines at a young age, and although she could not see the face of this concubine, she could feel that she was a great beauty. Therefore, she felt that he must like clean and obedient girls, and that she did not necessarily have any dirty thoughts.
"Okay, you can go out now?!" Dean Wang waved his hand, and the girls filed out again.
"The relationship between father and daughter also depends on chemistry. Mr. Lu, did your eyes light up just now? Did you feel that this was your daughter in your previous life?"
Lu Ming shook his head: "No."
Dean Wang smiled and said, "It's okay. I can help Mr. Lu choose another group, but these few are the smartest and prettiest among us, and they are all strong."
He picked up a few files that the staff had placed on the table when they brought the girls in.
She handed it over and said with a smile, "Take a look first. They are all very lucky. For example, the mixed-blood baby seemed to be the accidental birth of a rich man and a black slave in his family. He was abandoned right after birth. When he was brought here, his body was blue and people thought he would not survive."
Lu Ming flipped through the files casually, preparing to find an excuse to meet the dean and see what was going on in the dean's office.
Bizhu suddenly stretched out her slender fingers in black lace gloves and pointed at the file that Lu Ming was flipping through, and whispered, "Master, I want her."
Lu Ming took a look and saw that it was the Japanese girl with the birthmark on her face. In the file, her name was Kuroki Saori, she was 5 years old, and her family had moved to Donghai a long time ago. Last year, a large family including her grandparents had an accident while boating on the river, and the whole family died. She happened to be sent to kindergarten because she was not popular with her family, so she escaped. She didn't seem to have many relatives in Japan, and her family was poor. It was said that the boat accident was caused by her grandfather, so the already small family property was compensated to the victims, and she was sent to this orphanage.
He looked at Bizhu in surprise, but thought that since Bizhu took the initiative to ask for this little girl, there must be something strange going on.